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Obama Campaign: McCain Attack "Angry And Hyper-Partisan"
Here's the response, from Obama campaign spokesperson Bill Burton, to John McCain's broadside today blaming Obama for the collapse of the bailout package in the House:
"This is a moment of national crisis, and today's inaction in Congress as well as the angry and hyper-partisan statement released by the McCain campaign are exactly why the American people are disgusted with Washington. Now is the time for Democrats and Republicans to join together and act in a way that prevents an economic catastrophe. Every American should be outraged that an era of greed and irresponsibility on Wall Street and Washington has led us to this point, but now that we are here, the stability of our entire economy depends on us taking immediate action to ease this crisis."
And so the A-word -- "angry" -- makes its appearance. McCain's assault has given the Obama campaign an opening to go after McCain while still spotlighting him as the one who dragged the dialog into the mud with partisan political attacks at a moment of national crisis.
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McCain needs to wear this this failure around his neck like giant clock Flavor Flav wears.
September 29, 2008 5:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
Figures this works before I proofread. . .
September 29, 2008 5:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
Your words engender memories of the burning tires they used to put around people's necks back during South Africa's violent emergence from Apartheid rule.
Can't for the life of me remember the sobriquet by which they were referred. I'm getting old.
September 29, 2008 9:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
necklace
September 29, 2008 10:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
"necklace"
'Keel-haul' might be a better fate for McBush given his penchant for wearing Navy hats. LOL
September 29, 2008 10:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
Kind of like the scarlet letter. Only the "A" stands for "anger."
Though I suppose it could also stand for the original meaning, too.
September 29, 2008 5:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think an albatross would be better..like in Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
September 29, 2008 5:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
Need I even say it? Rope-a-dope.
September 29, 2008 7:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
Is there such a thing as having too much ammo to hit the opponent with?
Because I think we're getting to that point pretty quickly here.
September 29, 2008 5:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
I was just thinking that "angry" is would be a good meme to stick on McCain. Glad to hear that world used.
September 29, 2008 5:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
I can't understand for a second what made the McCain camp think their statement was a good idea.
Then again, I can say that for probably every move the McCain camp has made. So, yeah...
September 29, 2008 5:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well done. Once again I am pleasantly surprised by the tone and language of a response from the Obama campaign, which manages to chastise and challenge without descending to the same level of nastiness. Surely, SURELY, there are people who are responding positively to this.
September 29, 2008 5:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
Seconded. I'm glad to see them responding rapidly, too.
September 29, 2008 5:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
McCain live on CNN.com
September 29, 2008 5:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
He blames Obama and the Dems, and then says "now is not time to point blame." Jerk.
September 29, 2008 5:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
Sort of in the spirit of the House leader don't you think?
September 29, 2008 5:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
Go to the TPM home page. Josh has Pelosi's floor speech up.
If that speech is too mean for you, I sincerely suggest you go join a knitting circle or something.
It cracks me up that the Big Tough Daddy Republicans are soooo intimidated by a woman in her 60s. Wusses.
September 29, 2008 5:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
If she had followed that by saying no one should blame anyone for how we got here, then yeah it would be the same.
September 29, 2008 5:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
Fogu, you and your Republican heroes just but the whine in the word WHINERS today.
I've never seen more waaahhh waaahhh waaahhh from such a bunch of snot-nosed snivelers.
Change the name of your party to the W party... Whimper and Whine...
You and your part look like a bunch of mama's boy Nero's, sniveling while Rome burns...
HYPOCRITES!
September 29, 2008 6:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
This whiny "don't blame us, blame madame speaker" coming from the fucking party of rub-your-nose-in-it when things are going so well passing their partisan agenda and getting us into this fucking mess the last 8 years. My how thin-skinned they've become and my how the pacifier fits so well in those pieholes, you fucking babies.
Take your trolling and choke the fuck on it, fogu. You're an asshat of the greatest magnitude and I can't wait to hear your sobbing from here when election day rolls around and your grandpa gets spanked so hard in a massive landslide that you decide to carve out your eyes with a spoon.
Playing your fucking fiddle while Rome burns. Amazing.
Assclown.
September 29, 2008 7:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
See, now that's what I wanted to hear Obama say during the debates.
And, that's why I'm glad that Obama has proven himself a better man than I.
GObama!
September 30, 2008 1:04 AM | Reply | Permalink
I'm going to get "angry" if you guys don't post this video:
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/220700.php
Looks like the most fun of the day... on a day when we need some laughs. :)
John
September 29, 2008 5:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
I assume Bill Burton also read Pelosi the Riot Act.
No you say? Hmmm, that would be becasue of partisan politics would it?
Bwhahaha
September 29, 2008 5:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
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September 29, 2008 5:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
Why do you need to respond at all? Just go away if you don't like it. 'Kay?
September 29, 2008 5:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oh yeah? Well:
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September 29, 2008 5:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
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Happy?
September 29, 2008 5:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
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September 29, 2008 5:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
I am. I prefer reading this bullshit out of you because it's significantly more coherent than that other tripe you post.
September 29, 2008 5:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
Take two aspirin.
September 29, 2008 5:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
...whiner
September 29, 2008 6:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
Second'd
September 29, 2008 5:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
I want to join:
But ultimately, what the bailout does is help those who are concerned about the health care reform that is needed to help shore up the economy– Helping the — Oh, it’s got to be about job creation too. Shoring up our economy and putting it back on the right track. So health care reform and reducing taxes and reining in spending has got to accompany tax reductions and tax relief for Americans. And trade we’ve got to see trade as opportunity, not as a competitive scary thing. But 1 in 5 jobs being created in the trade sector today. We’ve got to look at that as more opportunity. All those things under the umbrella of job creation. This bailout is a part of that.
September 29, 2008 5:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
I couldn't agree more!
September 29, 2008 5:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
At least she means well.
September 29, 2008 5:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
It's gonna be kind of a long eight years for you, isn't it?
September 29, 2008 10:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
my friends its sen.obama fault the gas price skyrocketed,its sen.obama fault that congress rejected the $700 billion dollars bailout,its sen.obama fault that the foreclosures of homes is on the rise,i take next mcbush gonna say its sen.obama fault that russia bombed out georgia!!!!whut a fuckin idiot mccain and steve schmidt is!!!
September 29, 2008 5:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
What a powerful guy that Obama. Who knew.
My brother tried to lay the Pelosi caused the failure on me a while ago. I told him that I sure wouldn't want a congressman who would vote against the national interest because some woman gave a speech that hurt his feelings. It stopped him cold.
September 29, 2008 5:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
Wait. I thought you all said the bailout was too big a rush?
So apparently you now agree with the majority of Republicans.
Strange days indeed.
September 29, 2008 5:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
You realize that 2/3rds of the Republicans voted against the proposal.
September 29, 2008 5:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
Exactly. They delayed or killed it. Many if not most people on this board thought there was too much of a rush. TPM Obamites and the Republicans are of one mind.
September 29, 2008 5:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well, if they had a reasonable explanation for their vote, don't you think they would say what it was rather than "hurt feelings?" I don't know whether passage of the bill is ultimately a good thing or not, but I DO know that if I had cast a vote for or against it, I'd have had a better reason for it than that.
September 29, 2008 5:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
My thought exactly. If you are going to cast a vote that will drop the stock market 9+ you better have a darn good reason. If you do, great, express it. If you don't you are just being irresponsible. Hurt feelings is not a good reason to drop the market 9+ percent. Even someone as foggy as fogu2 should be able to see that.
September 29, 2008 5:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
hey fogu2 and dumbbilc is back on the map by the way fogu2 u should spell it out oilbama like your right wing buddy dumbbil c!!!!
September 29, 2008 5:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
Is he suspending his campaign yet?
September 29, 2008 5:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
Who? Fogu2?
September 29, 2008 5:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
We should be so lucky. On both accounts.
September 29, 2008 6:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
Angry and hyperpartisan and hysterical.
And the Republicans are such delicate wilting little flowers that big bad meany Nancy Pelosi was able to scare them.
boo!
September 29, 2008 5:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
Bizzare. More Bizzare.
John McCain. Insanity. Same Difference
September 29, 2008 5:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
And unfortunately for mcCain, the public sees him as attacking Obama more than vice versa, so McCain's attacks will just get trapped in the "Yeah, there he goes again. Can't really say anything on his own except attack Obama" theme.
September 29, 2008 5:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
Obama is hovering around 50%. McCain is in the low 40s. There is no way in hell that McCain can win unless he, or something, knocks Obama down. It is pretty clear that nothing McCain says is going to work. If Brian Williams doesn't catch Obama with the proverbial live boy or dead girl this race is over.
That said, the next year could be a nightmare for a whole lot of people. We really need to install some grownups in Congress.
September 29, 2008 5:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
Incumbents are in for a blood bath. Seriously, even dyed in the wool backwoods Carolina mountain people republicans are starting see that this dog don't hunt, this coon don't kill, this fart don't stink nice, this (insert random southernism). When the anger trickles down farther than the right's economics then it's trouble.
September 29, 2008 7:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
I might not vote for McCain.
September 29, 2008 5:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
McCain who?
September 29, 2008 5:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
You know. That angry guy.
Johnny Drama, I think they've taken to calling him.
September 29, 2008 5:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
Drama is the best character on the show. Now Ari, he's definitely angry, and my idol.
September 29, 2008 5:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
Obama still refuses to state a position or a plan.
He...just...doesn't...get...it.
September 29, 2008 5:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
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September 29, 2008 5:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
Tell me more. :P
September 29, 2008 5:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
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September 29, 2008 5:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
LOL!
September 29, 2008 6:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ironically, for McCain A does stand for adultry as well ;).
September 29, 2008 5:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
Word is that the GOP vote was a result of a power struggle between Boehner and Canter.
September 29, 2008 5:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
I can see that. Cantor thinks he's hot shit since he's been on teevee a lot since the convention.
Isn't he afraid that he'll make boehner cry? I mean, the republicans are so in touch with their feelings today, they tanked the market because somebody's grandma was mean to them.
September 29, 2008 5:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yes, by firelight. I saw this in a D.H. Lawrence movie. They were both oiled.
September 29, 2008 10:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
YES!!!!!!
Push the old bastard's buttons! Accuse him of being a hot-head! Steal his cookie and grind it in the dirt!
I've been waiting for this one. Couldn't have come at a better time.
September 29, 2008 5:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
Just becasue you say some iss i Muslim it doesn't mean they actually are, does it? I dunno, maybe it does. Confusing.
September 29, 2008 5:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
Drink! His! MILKSHAKE!!! Drink it up!!!
Should we start the 'McCain Public Meltdown' Clock now?
September 29, 2008 5:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
Is milkshake a euphemism for, um, well anyway I can certainly see Obama drinking McCain's "milkshake" through his, um, "straw".
September 29, 2008 5:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
LOL!
Nancy Pelosi simply laid the situation out for everyone in her speech. The Repugs are whiny little titty babies who refuse to own their failure. But the whole country knows it belongs to them. And now they don't want to fix it because Mean Nancy hurt their widdle feewings.
They just torpedoed what was left of their party.
September 29, 2008 5:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
You were the one who thought they were acting too fast.
Were you wrong then or now?
September 29, 2008 5:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
...crybaby
September 29, 2008 9:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
DRINK IT UP OBAMA!
September 29, 2008 5:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
You need to get out more, so you can realize common movie references. In this way you'll realize that you just made a pro-Obama statement.
September 29, 2008 5:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
fogu2
Seems you don't get it. Obama doesn't have too cause McCain already did. It's his baby now...he owns the financial meltdown.
Obama will tell everyone his plan once McCain capitulates. There can only be one chef and as long as McCain claims to be the one with the solution, he gets the kudos and oh shits that go with the title. And the responsibility if it works or if it collapses.
September 29, 2008 5:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
And when an agreement is signed and the market soars you will give McCain the credit. Cool.
September 29, 2008 5:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
If you would, please post one link describing what McCain has said or done, publicly or among fellow legislators, that has had any impact whatsoever on Capitol Hill.
He is like an old drunk uncle at a family reunion that wanders around telling stories with no plots and jokes with no punchlines while assuming people want him around.
McCain/Palin '08 A Lesson in Senility
September 29, 2008 6:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
Great analogy
September 29, 2008 10:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
In the real world, it's called set-up for failure
September 29, 2008 5:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
McCain showed no leadership on this bill. You can argue all you want that it is better that it didn't pass (although investors surely disagree); however, that McCain openly proclaimed that he had guided his party by forming a coalition that would pass the bailout mere hours before the house GOP torpedoed the bill proves HE HAS NO SUPPORT even in his own party. HE HAS NO LEADERSHIP among those who have been around him for 26 years, he is a lame duck candidate. Get Palin out there!
September 29, 2008 5:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
It is only fitting that the final disaster in a long string of disasters all brought on by 8 years of rule by the law breaking hyper-political incompetent bastards of the Bush administration and the GOP would occur while Bush is still 'in office'. And right before the election.
And the Republicans steal out the back door and sneak around to the front door to scream Throw the bums out! putting up a angry senile old fart with a inbred hillbilly campaign director and a clueless 'hockey Mom' to rescue us from 8 years of damage by the guy they picked over McCain in 2000. No thanks.
September 29, 2008 5:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
I want the McCain meltdown clock!!! Build it. It can track his nut breakouts!!!!
September 29, 2008 5:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
McCain couldn't even bring his Arizona colleagues over. NONE of the Arizona GOP reps voted for the bill. I would love to see him blame the Dems or Obama or Pelosi for this.
September 29, 2008 5:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
So the real question is where is this country standing?
I wasn't in favor of this bill - but really - what do I know? I thought greater minds and cooler heads would prevail. Will we really not be able to use our credit cards? ooooh noooo! buy a house? Are there people out there today that couldn't buy a car because of this? I want to hear from them. I keep hearing all this anecdotal (sp) stuff about people not being able to borrow to make payroll but I'm not sure I believe it.Here is the thing - what if these repub- whiny babies actually did us a favor? After all look at the haste after 9/11, the dough we shelled out after Katrina- every time this administration pulls something this fast- we lose.
And I don't know how it became the dems problem they should have taken a deep breath instead of rushing in to what really looks like a no win position.
September 29, 2008 6:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
It's time for another Timeout for Johnny McCain. There's a blankie for you, please curl up, and when you wake up again and are ready to be nice, you might get some juice and crackers. But no more tantrums, or the Timeout will just get longer.
September 29, 2008 6:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
Am I the only one who finds fogo2's avatar racist?
September 29, 2008 6:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
You aer not the only one... and that is its intended purpose.
September 29, 2008 7:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
Plain English so you understand FUCK YOU FOGU
September 29, 2008 6:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
...whiner
September 29, 2008 7:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
I actually run a small (very small) business and it is actually on Main Street. While I have not asked for any additional credit (I actually don't want more credit but that is a different discussion) but I have absolutely no doubt that if I asked my banker for something more than a branded can cooler I'd get laughed out of her office. There is no money at the bank and not much money in the hands of the consumer! I hear about budgets now more than I have in all my years as an independent retailer.
September 29, 2008 7:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
My sense is that we are starting to see the anger in Republican circles at having McCain be the nominee. His choice of Palin sure showed a lack of judgment. Judgement that he touts as his advantage. What makes them angrier is that every time Palin opens her mouth McCain has to go in and pull her foot out of it. It is distracting him and his campaign. They can't seem to keep a lid on it. Who would have thought McCain would have turned into such a piss poor candidate? I saw it when he sold his soul to Bush on torture. Too bad the Republican party didn't.
September 29, 2008 7:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
perceptive....
September 29, 2008 7:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
by blaming Pelosi, which is so transparently false and stupid, you're saying that you and your kind are moral cowards for not doing the "right" thing, and you're also hiding behind her skirts
funny how you suck coming and going
I said goodbye!
September 29, 2008 7:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
Really, cjop, you're right. McCain and his idiot staff are making Romney and sons look like statesmen geniuses and Huckabee look like the reincarnation of Will Rogers and Ronald Reagan (which actually would be a Jekyll and Hyde).
September 29, 2008 7:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
Can everyone agree on one thing....McCain's first wife, the one that escaped from the black-hearted bastard and got a load of Cindy's cash made the smartest move possible - how the hell could anyone live with McCain and his selfish malicious and contemptible bullshit?
No wonder Cindy has had a history of drug addiction.
September 29, 2008 10:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
History? I think she's back on it. Every time I see her, she looks like she's in a trance. Notice, too -- they never touch each other or show any affection for each. that's why I love to see Barack and Michelle together.
September 30, 2008 12:54 AM | Reply | Permalink
Increase the JOHN MCENROE AD BUYS
We need to push John McCain = John McEnroe
John McEnroe is quick to anger and tantrum. Recently,he stars in a series of ads that feature this temper and his readiness to boil over to destructive effect.
see:
and
Capitalize on an existing "brand" of someone with severe anger management issues to subsconciously reinforce this personality type is dangerous. This trait is easily ascribed to and associated with John McCain in the public consciousness. All without any direct critiques by the democratic campaign.
September 29, 2008 10:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
It will be interesting if someone writes a tell all book about the McCain campaign. "Then Johnny went batsh*t when he found out that Palin was really that dumb..."
Think how much more interesting it would be than the equivalent for the Obama campaign. "We had a meeting and planned ways to register more voters and to get them to vote. Then we went out and worked the plan..."
September 30, 2008 4:50 AM | Reply | Permalink