Obama: The Washington Old-Boy Network Is A McCain "Staff Meeting"
This video, of Obama hammering McCain on the economy in Nevada, shows how dramatically the race has shifted amid the financial crisis:
Obama keeps hitting McCain on his claim that "the fundamentals of our economy are strong," and, in what sounds like a suggestion that McCain is befuddled, repeats a now-standard stump line: "They sent him back a few hours later to clean up his remarks."
Obama also quoted McCain's vow to take on the "old boys' network" in Washington, adding:
The ol' boy network? In the McCain campaign, that's called a staff meeting.
Only days ago it seemed like Obama was constantly on the defense. It's kind of extraordinary how much the financial crisis' shifting of the political environment, combined with McCain's ill-timed "fundamentals" gaffe, has made it possible for Obama to grab the offensive -- and on such favorable turf, too.
But McCain is now making as aggressive a grab for the populist mantle as he did for the change mantle, so a lot still rides on the still-unsettled question of whether Obama can succeed in owning the economy as his issue.
Best damn line I think I've ever heard a politician say.
September 17, 2008 6:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
agree, its so witty, Obama should keep up that line.
Palin Slams Hillary For Her No Show
September 17, 2008 6:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
Any line gets stale. Save it for a debate... don't run it into the ground.
September 17, 2008 9:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
"Best damn line I think I've ever heard a politician say."
I agree, but:
"They sent him back a few hours later to clean up his remarks."
is the coup de grace. Unbridled contempt. How does Johnnie boy respond to that? Especially since it is true?
McBush, stick a fork in 'im.
September 17, 2008 7:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yes -- he has to grab the offensive and never let it go. And he's got to keep McShame from getting away with a new round of lies about his "relationship" with Wall Street.
September 17, 2008 6:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ok. I'm on the offensive:
These craven miscreants will stop at nothing to besmirch themselves, their campaign, and our nation itself in their unbridled, unethical, and immoral pursuit of power!
I have had it!
And don't call me a Fundamental either!
I am a person!
I reject and denounce being called a Fundamental.
I call on the mcShame campaign to apologize to Americans for calling them Fundamentals.
Add your voice here:
http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/09/i-denounce-and-reject-being-ca.php
September 17, 2008 7:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
If you have kids, that makes them your Harmonics!
September 17, 2008 7:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
I love that line. They need to keep repeating it. It's short, funny and very biting.
September 17, 2008 6:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
yes, it's concise. it's a terrific sound bite.
obama needs more of those. concise works for him.
sometimes he rambles a bit too long and his one-liners get lost in his wordiness. this line is going to stick around for awhile.
September 17, 2008 6:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
Agreed. It's a label and it should be able to stick.
September 17, 2008 6:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
That's a soundbite we can believe in. Keep it in every speech for now on.
September 17, 2008 6:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
It sounds like something like Biden would think of. If he's able put his brand of rhetorical punch to Obama's nuance, they'll be a very potent team.
September 17, 2008 6:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
I know. The next weeks are going to be fun!
September 17, 2008 6:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
Keep hammering. We will eventually pin McCain down to what he is. Right now he is a moving target, pin him and get him.
September 17, 2008 6:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
If the faltering delivery of McCain's newly-cast Populist message in MIchigan today is any indicator, then nothing but doom is on the horizon for his campaign.
And glad of it I am.
September 17, 2008 6:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
The Punditry on Hardball was taking McLiar to task for shuffling his cue cards, and not really seeming to give a shit.
September 17, 2008 6:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
Moments like this I think McCain is truly lost. He just goes through the motions, with increasingly less grasp of what it's all supposed to accomplish.
September 17, 2008 6:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
He has not been seriously pressed on much of it. He had to go on The View to get questions of substance. Get a real reporter in there who does not remember Vietnam and let 'er rip.
September 17, 2008 6:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
Excellent point. The financial meltdown this week is giving him no room to fall back on the POW routine.
September 17, 2008 6:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
It kinda seems like McCain is aimlessly walking around with a bucket on his head while his advisers watch. If he gets close to running into a wall, they run over and turn him around real quick... but occasionally they don't get there in time, and he smacks head-first into reality and makes a fool out of himself.
September 17, 2008 8:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yes, what in the hell was that?
September 17, 2008 6:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
He's finally realizing that he's just a second banana to Sarah Palin.
Seriously, he sold his soul for this and look what comes out of it--Sarah "I can see Russia" Palin--she's the star and he's taking on the Zeppo Marx role.
September 17, 2008 6:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
I don't think he'd mind her being the star at this point, if said stardom shone just as brightly as it did even three days ago. It's dimming, and it's dimming fast; leaving an ever more harsh light to be fixed upon McGrampy and all his many inadequacies.
September 17, 2008 6:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
And he has been the superstar for so long - it's gotta hurt. It is (and I am not trying to poke at his age) something that happens as we get older - women especially are used to fading into the background - and it ain't fun.
September 17, 2008 7:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
Except for the fact that this is really the first week since the world was introduced to McHockeymom that McCain has stepped out into the foreground, as it were. Before the tide of slime his campaign initiated two weeks ago, the MSM was steadfast in covering for his, um, Senior Moments and his generally sluggish campaigning style, but now that the Palin Phenomenon star is falling fast they seem slightly uneasy in according him anything like the same deference.
The only thing McCain can do if these trends continue is resort to the open deployment of some foul and debased strategem . . . coughRacecough . . . left over from the Democratic primaries. The MSM put up with it from Clinton, but I think they'll be less likely to shepherd it if it's coming from Methuselah and Marge Gunderson.
If things go really bad, he may end up climbing into the audience at one of those town halls to punch the lights out of perceived smart alecks ("Uhhh, Senator McCain, I don't see what North Vietnamese prisons have to do with these bailouts" "I'll show you bailouts. Come here, y'little bastard!")
September 17, 2008 7:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
interesting article from a former McCain supporter:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0908/13541.html
September 17, 2008 8:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hey! Lay off Zeppo!
September 18, 2008 9:06 AM | Reply | Permalink
Is that VA poll an outlier? Man that sure doesnt fit in the trend ....
September 17, 2008 6:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
'A Misouri voter' a couple of threads ago answered this. He was saying that the difference is partly do to poll semantics, likely voters vs. registered voters. I didn't check it out but it seems sound.
September 17, 2008 6:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
It's my understanding that a "likely voter" is one who has voted in the last 2 elections. Therefore, the young and newly registered aren't counted.
September 17, 2008 7:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
I like the way he said "...they sent him back..." indicating McPuppet strings are in the hands of the old boy network. Indicating McLame has no clue.
Obama hammering McCain on the economy in Nevada, shows how dramatically the race has shifted amid the financial crisis
Greg,
I think you're right. Unless there is another major national development- god forbid an attack or a scam connecting a candidate- this is a major turning point this election. When Wall Steet slips 1000 points in three days, when three major firms collapse in three days, people pay attention.
This could well be one of those moments we'll look back at the end of this election.
September 17, 2008 6:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
Agreed. Sarahcuda allowed them to ride the Zombie Train one more time around the room, crashing it right into Lehman Bros and AIG.
If we follow the shamelessness arc, there is no reason not to assign a full 50-50 chance that the GOP will swap Palin and McCain 'ere it's over. I say this because I see no evidence that either of them are actually making the campaign's decisions.
In other words, much like the current criminal enterprise poseing as a presidency.
September 17, 2008 6:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
I hope so, but don't underestimate the short attention span of the public. The economy has been crappy all throughout this. Yes, the bank collapses brought it to the forefront again, but it could just as easily slip into the background if things calm down in the markets.
September 17, 2008 6:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
Once McCain took the lead in national polls, Wall Street began to melt down. Perhaps investors are worried about a McCain/Palin administration.
September 17, 2008 6:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
Here is the link to Chris Matthews chewing up former potential Republican VP Eric Cantor today on his show. (fast forward to 2:42)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/26761964#26761964
September 17, 2008 6:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
Thanks, I haven't laughed outloud at work for awhile now.
September 17, 2008 6:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
Cantor is a weasal. You can tell from his answers he, in truth, does not give a shit about any of it. He is a bully who belives the number of people who maintain an argument is evidence FOR the argument.
September 17, 2008 6:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
Saw Richardson this morning. He has his pluses but making the economic case for Obama isn't one of them. Get Wexler out there on all the shows!
September 17, 2008 6:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
Bring back Ari Melber!
September 17, 2008 7:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
Wexler is an ass wipe. It's that attitude that converted me from a republican. Idiots like that abound.
September 17, 2008 6:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm guessing you meant Cantor, yes?
September 17, 2008 9:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
I was just going to write about this. Matthews is tearing this idiot a new one and it's beautiful. I loved how Cantor wouldn't support the Republicans. Matthews had him beat to rights.
September 17, 2008 7:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
"Where's the president? He's pulling one of these Katrina's again." Wow! There was no point on even having Wexler on there because it was Chris vs. the Republican thug.
September 17, 2008 7:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
I saw this live. What a beautiful thing. I truly enjoyed it.
September 17, 2008 6:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
Great line ! Wonder if it was off the cuff and impromptu ?
September 17, 2008 6:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
Obama has had to adjust his delivery for the general election, find his voice so to say. I think he's found it. He seems so comfortable (confident) up there at the podium, and his delivery is very casual.
September 17, 2008 6:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
McCain's gonna lose it soon. After blowing his lid over Fiorina to the veneer peeling off his ridiculous VP pick to the hands-off Bush economy thrashing about, it's been a bad, bad week for Johnny Mac. Oh, and on top of a succession of days of columnists and reporters finally getting off the tire swing and calling McCain a dishonorable, lying sack of crap.
John McCain is going to freaking lose it one of these days. And it's going to be glorious.
September 17, 2008 6:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
And I got the DVD recorder, the TiVo and even my old VCR ready to record it.
September 17, 2008 6:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
I only pray it happens during one of the debates.
September 17, 2008 6:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
He and Sarahcuda both suffer from chronic Underthebussitis. Don't they have any real friends and supporters? Carly practically did a strip-tease and BANG! She's a goner!
Who will be left to shill?
September 17, 2008 6:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
Underthebussitis: What made Fiorina disappeared.
September 17, 2008 6:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm really, really curious what the debates are going to turn out like.
Obama wasn't so great at the TV debate format during the primaries, so it seems like if McCain can keep his stuff together during the debates they'll be an instant win for him... but can he do that?
September 17, 2008 6:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm wait for the coup de grace ... Keating 5 and Mccain's role in it. I suspect it will come out when both sides are hot and heavy firing vollies back and forth. Obama's gonna give McCain a broadside he'll never forget and sink his hopes at the same time.
September 17, 2008 6:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
I wish the crowd wouldn't boo. The people booing at McCain's rallies don't make him look good at all. I'm sure that feeling is the same for someone who isn't already tuned into Obama's applause and contrast lines.
I love the "staff meeting" line.
September 17, 2008 6:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
I am so pleased to see the momentum shifting back in Barack Obama's favor. His negative but pointed attacks are working against McCain. I hope Barack continues to stay on offense.
September 17, 2008 6:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
You all have to admit, this is novel for a 21st century Presidential campaign: Three whole days where the entire focus has been on an actual matter of substance.
Pinch me, I'm dreaming.
September 17, 2008 6:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
Enjoy it while you can. I'm sure we'll be talking about arugula soon enough.
September 17, 2008 6:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
No, you're not. Three full days of substance.
September 17, 2008 6:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
Except for a segment on CNN on how Palin's style of glasses are on two months back order.
September 17, 2008 6:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
Or as SNL pointed out "Tina Fey" glasses.
September 17, 2008 6:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
The designer is Japanese. I just don't get why Sarah can't find glasses designed by an American? The hard-working American designers of eye wear are suffering and she supports someone in Asia? WTF.
September 17, 2008 6:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
lol
September 17, 2008 7:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
The Great GOP Hissy Fit since the convention has really illuminated the differences, not only in approach ("fundamentally strong") but also in substance ("How many homes does he own?").
The GOP is asking to be rewarded for electoral failure. A man of honor would step aside at this point.
September 17, 2008 6:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
McCain's Man of Honor days . . . if they were ever real . . . are long, long gone.
September 17, 2008 7:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
I fully believe mcShame has a death wish.
September 17, 2008 10:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
Zing!
He's Barack on the Attack, baby!
September 17, 2008 6:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
Barackarate, baby!
September 17, 2008 6:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
He's hitting his stride at just right time. Of course John McCain is making it awfully easy. I'm curious how this Palin email thing will turn out.
September 17, 2008 6:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
I want to hear Palin cry foul, and how dare others read her private emails. People like Dick Cheney.
September 17, 2008 7:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
The "staff meeting" line is brilliant.
Obama, bumaye! Obama, bumaye!
September 17, 2008 6:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
McCain is going to take on the Good Ol' Boys (GOBs)? as in gobs and gobs of money... yeah right. He is the quintessential GOB... he married a woman with gobs and gobs of money...
September 17, 2008 6:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
Greg, no offense, but IMO, you and a lot of other people consistently underestimate Barack Obama and have from the start.
September 17, 2008 6:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
The question must be asked: what dreadful idea will the GOP roll out in response, understanding they would need to top Sarahcuda? Or is their crusty barrel finally at bottom?
Not that it will matter. Obama wisely bides his time. I am amazed by that "spine of steel" Joe Biden talks about. He has not wavered, and we're going to be going with him, though some will go kicking and screaming. A dear friend refers to him as the School Principal of the Country.
I'm with you, Tena, and I've been there since Iowa.
September 17, 2008 6:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah, I know baby, and that's why I love you.
Well that and your kick ass comment style.
;)
September 17, 2008 6:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
I love you too!
September 17, 2008 7:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
Group hug!! :)
September 17, 2008 7:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
Kumbaya, my friends, Kumbaya!
September 17, 2008 7:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
Wait for me!
September 17, 2008 7:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
He's picking fights on his terms, not McCain's.
September 17, 2008 6:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
CBS/NYT poll:
Obama 48%, McCain 43%
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/09/17/opinion/polls/main4456249.shtml
Palin Bounce, R.I.P.
September 17, 2008 6:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
Zing!
BTW, I'm still laughing over the "TIVO, VCR.." etc remark from above.....
September 17, 2008 6:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
What can I tell you?
McCain losing it on live TV is the ultimate Kodak moment!
September 17, 2008 6:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
In what is America, 17% say Palin is well qualified and 75% say she will help win the election.
September 17, 2008 6:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
You do a bit of a disservice to the people who responded.
17% said she was picked because she was qualified, and 75% said she was picked because she could help win the election.
And how about this:
Looks like women aren't as stupid as the McCain thought we were. Who'd a thought it?
September 17, 2008 6:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
My bad. That makes me feel better.
September 17, 2008 6:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
And let me just clarify that:
September 17, 2008 6:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
BWAAAAAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
This calls for a:
GLOATgloatGLOATgloatGLOATgloatGLOATgloatGLOATgloat...
September 17, 2008 6:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
Exactly. Moreover, these three days have shown when it's about serious issues, no one cares what she thinks, where she is or what she'll say.
The news of financial turmoil kinda put her in her place.
September 17, 2008 6:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
Allowing Tina Fey's skit to sink as the definitive image of who she is.
September 17, 2008 6:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think the Tina Fey skit was devastating for Palin. I really do. The dead-on delivery, the voice, the appearance...
"And I can see Russia!"
September 17, 2008 7:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
...and I believe its just God hugging us closer.
September 17, 2008 7:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
I really think someone should ask about the point you made above. Governor Palin, why do you hate American workers so much?
September 17, 2008 7:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
And the tanning bed she had installed in the Gov mansion, where was that made?
September 17, 2008 7:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
So, you know, global warming... think globally, but act locally... like sitting in your own tanning bed...
Thanks, I'll be here all week.
September 17, 2008 8:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
It was.
In the same way that Stephen Colbert stood there with Bush sitting mere feet away and totally made it clear that he had no clothes.
I will forever revere Colbert for that. D.C. was horrified and it was so beautiful.
Fey did a dead on perfect Palin. Perfect.
September 17, 2008 7:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
yes, his great line about facts having a liberal bias--so damn funny--and true.
September 17, 2008 7:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yep. Tina was amazing and Sarah Palin was irreversibly defined in a matter of seconds.
"I can see Russia..."
"I don't know what Bush Doctrine..."
"God is hugging us closer..."
"Alaska's capital of crystal meth..."
I also think The View interview also has long term affect. The women on the volunteered to be serious journalists for a few minutes and volunteered well.
September 17, 2008 7:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
Whem one considers the demographics of those who watch The View, this is one of the Top 5 bad moments for McCain.
September 17, 2008 7:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
I want to hear someone ask Palin about the economy. I'd bet her answers would also be fodder for SNL.
September 17, 2008 8:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah man, I saw the clip and I was amazed. Those women sliced and diced McCain and then sauteed him right up. WOW! And who watches that show? The babes led the way for MSM! I do believe that if Walters had said one more word to McCain he would have flipped out right there. Did you see the look on his face?
And one more thing - I am sick and tired of MSM finding one of the 200 or less women that were Clinton supporters that have switched to McCain because of Palin and putting them in the news like there are nearly millions of them out there. What a load of crap.
September 17, 2008 8:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
Do those polls even cover the last 3 days? I don't think ANY poll released this week will cover what has happened this week. You usually don't see the trend until next week. It will be interesting to say the least...
September 17, 2008 7:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
This is the line of the campaign. The Big O was on fire today. Joe Biden was also doing his thing. Check out this quote from my man Joe:
All of a sudden it’s my goodness there’s greed on Wall Street, my goodness we need common sense regulation,” Biden said.
“Look, if John cares so much about this now, where was he a week ago?” Biden asked. “Where was he a month ago? Where was he 5 years ago? I’ll tell you where he was, he was bragging to the folks on Wall Street, to the executives who now he calls ‘greedy.’ He was bragging to them how we’re going to shred the regulation that fetters them, that ties them down.”
Brutal just brutal. Rock On Barack and Joe.
September 17, 2008 6:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
All of a sudden it’s my goodness there’s greed on Wall Street, my goodness we need common sense regulation,” Biden said.
link please
September 17, 2008 6:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
Here's a longer clip from The Jed Report - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKbJQKFP5mA
Right after the "Staff meeting" quip Obama hit him with this (to paraphrase) - "John McCain is so angry at the greedy corporate interests on Wall St. that he's going to punish them with $200B in tax cuts and if they're not careful he'll give them even more tax cuts for shipping jobs overseas".
September 17, 2008 6:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
I want to smack Cantor, what a ass.
September 17, 2008 6:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
You have to give it to Cantor, he sure knows how to stick to his talking points.
September 17, 2008 6:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
Can't wait for the debates. It'll be like the road runner and Wile E Coyote. Wile E McCain will be running in place in midair as he falls off the cliff.
Beep beep Barack
September 17, 2008 6:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
This really is an awesome line.
Have I said lately how much I love this guy, Barack Obama?
:)
September 17, 2008 6:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
Have I said how much I love you, lately?
September 17, 2008 8:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
Reminds me of "Oh Brother Where Art Thou". This could be a scene from the ol' boys meeting in St. Paul:
Pappy O"Daniel: "We need a shot in the arm. You hear me boys? In the bleepdamn arm! Election held tomorrow, that son of ***** Stokes would win it in a walk!"
Junior O'Daniel: "Well' he's the reform candidate, Daddy."
Pappy O"Daniel: "Yeah."
Junior O'Daniel: "A lot of people like that reform. Maybe we should get us some."
Pappy O"Daniel: "I'll reform you, you soft-headed son of a *****. How we gonna run reform when we're the damn incumbent? Is that the best idea you boys can come up with? Reform?! Weepin' jesus on the cross. That's it! You may as well start drafting my concession speech right now."
Pappy's Staff: "Okay, Pappy."
Pappy O"Daniel: "I'm just making a point you stupid son of a *****. Give me back that hat! Hurry up!"
Pappy's Staff: "Pappy's just makin' a point."
Pappy O"Daniel: "Shut up!"
September 17, 2008 6:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah. Charles Durning is awesome as Papa O'Daniel.
September 17, 2008 6:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
O god yes. I do love that movie so much - it's my favorite Coen Bros. movie. The first time we rented it, we watched it back to back twice. Then I watched it again the next day.
When he comes dancing across the stage at the end - O I do love that movie so.
"My hair!" Clooney has never been better.
September 17, 2008 6:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
Agreed. One of the best from the Coen Bros.
Tim Blake Nelson was great too.
September 17, 2008 7:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
God yes, but who wasn't? Everyone was perfect, even the damn bloodhound.
LOL
September 17, 2008 7:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
Now if we can get them to carry Palin and McCain out on the beam as the crowd cheers.
September 17, 2008 7:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
"Well, I don't want Fop, goddamn it! I'm a Dapper Dan man!"
"Watch your language, young feller, this is a public market. Now if you want Dapper Dan, I can order it for you, have it in a couple of weeks."
"Well, ain't this place a geographical oddity. Two weeks from everywhere!"
September 17, 2008 11:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
Obama's on the offense because the turf is issues. When he is able to talk policy he is in his comfort zone - he is more fluid, more aggressive, more convincing.
September 17, 2008 6:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah, it sure is good that the current events happen to miraculously coincide with the completely arbitrary strategy that Obama devised by throwing darts.
September 17, 2008 6:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
The current events didn't just happen miraculously. You'd have to be a complete fool or republican to miss it. I saw this happening last year and made a prediction to my workmates in January that the market would tank under 10,000 by the time the elections were held. There's only 6 to 7 weeks to the election and it only needs to drop 600 points.
September 17, 2008 7:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
There's a heavy dose of snark in Roo's comment. Snark by the truckload, in fact.
September 17, 2008 7:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
Isn't that how McCain picked his VP? He was throwing SOMETHING at the wall to see what stuck, anyhow.
September 17, 2008 7:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
If you have any republican friends who still think John McCain is right and think we are a nation of whiners...you have to send them this clip.
It really needs to go viral to give video proof that John McCain and his crony lobbyist staff are completely clueless.
Check it out and pass it on:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ng1yXgyY8Uo
September 17, 2008 6:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
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September 17, 2008 7:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
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September 17, 2008 7:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
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September 17, 2008 7:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
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September 17, 2008 7:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
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September 17, 2008 7:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
When the moment is right, you'll be ready...
Get out now, my girlfriend is coming later tonight.
September 17, 2008 7:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
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September 17, 2008 7:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
Thank you for make me spit my dinner...
September 17, 2008 7:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
Wow. Thank you so much for providing me this wonderful opportunity. You are just another piece of evidence of why this economy is fundamentally strong.
September 17, 2008 7:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
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September 17, 2008 7:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm speechless.
ROFLMAO!!!!
September 17, 2008 7:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
Bugs said it best:
What a maroooon!
September 17, 2008 7:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
They blocked this guy once already.
September 17, 2008 8:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
TERENCE HUNT, AP White House Correspondent
September 17, 2008 7:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ah.
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That calls for this:
http://punditkitchen.com/2008/09/05/political-pictures-barack-obama-chill-out-got-this/
September 17, 2008 7:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
Thank god, I was missing that image.
It should be installed on the front page of TPM until election night.
That's a commitment you can believe in.
September 17, 2008 7:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
These craven miscreants will stop at nothing to besmirch themselves, their campaign, and our nation itself in their unbridled, unethical, and immoral pursuit of power!
I have had it!
And don't call me a Fundamental either!
I am a person!
I reject and denounce being called a Fundamental.
I call on the mcShame campaign to apologize to Americans for calling them Fundamentals.
Add your voice here:
http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/09/i-denounce-and-reject-being-ca.php
September 17, 2008 7:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
Off topic. I was wondering, how is a fucking baroness(Lynn Forester de Rothschild) allowed to call anyone an "elitist". What a smoldering piece of shit. Well, like my church going grandmother used to say - "Kick rocks motherfucker!!" Good Riddance.
September 17, 2008 7:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
The real definition of "Irony", period.
September 17, 2008 7:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
I really do not understand the whole Geraldine Ferraro twisted stump of the Democratic party. It's all about entitlement. Lynn Forester de Poopydrawers makes a poor victim when it comes to claims of elitism.
Obama beat them, and they are not happy about it, all six of them.
September 17, 2008 7:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
As I posted earlier today, Obama should put up an ad for the rust belt with an image on her (foreign) English estate and the voice over saying: this is McCain's base.
September 17, 2008 7:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
Nailed it.
September 17, 2008 7:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
You know, all people hear or see is "Rothschild."
No one gets past that and I betcha they all just think: Another rich person for McCain.
September 17, 2008 7:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
It's all part of turning our Republic into an aristocracy... for the rich and titled.
September 17, 2008 7:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
McCain/Palin: We give you a choice, you can eat cake or moose.
September 17, 2008 7:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
Further off topic, but I just watched the Matthews/Cantor bit on the later Hardball.
The pitch in Mr. Cantor's voice gives it all away. And whatever the issues, Matthews nailed it: the GOP is asking to be rewarded for failure, and now the GOP has a serious case of the Notmees!
This deep denial, born of attachment to magic-thinking, is being sorely tested.
When will it finally break?
September 17, 2008 7:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
Like it, Love It. Keep it up Barack!
September 17, 2008 7:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
What a gorgeous avatar!
September 17, 2008 7:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
Makes me want a piece of Fruit Stripe gum! Remember that?
September 17, 2008 9:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
OMG!!! I hadn't seen that in years!
September 17, 2008 9:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
Cool Zebra!
September 17, 2008 7:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
That is one cool avatar!
September 17, 2008 7:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
Breaking news, everyone!
For those that we're begging for it, here it is...
A new Obama ad hitting McCain over Social Security:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oV9GZUtCgPc&
According to Politico it's running in Michigan.
September 17, 2008 7:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
Can we please slam them for calling us Fundamentals?
September 17, 2008 7:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
They need to run that in Florida now!
September 17, 2008 7:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
Bend over folks...here it comes again
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/dd9aa390-84d6-11dd-b148-0000779fd18c.html?nclick_check=1
September 17, 2008 7:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
The repubs have sunk the ship of state!
September 17, 2008 7:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
In 12 short (relatively - it's felt much longer) years.
The Democrats held the majority for the preceding 40 years. We never came close to running the ship of state onto the rocks - though the Carter years were tough.
September 17, 2008 7:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
After WWII to the early seventies we had the greatest growth of entitlement (eg HUD, GI Bill, etc etc)and regulation and yet we experieced long sustained growth. And it wasn't until Reagan and deregulation that we began with S&L debacle and now end with this.
September 17, 2008 7:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
It is stunning how history repeats. During that 40 years, the GOP was on the wrong side of all the seminal issues, from civil rights to tax policy to regulation. It set the Old Sooth back a likewise 40 years.
Just as they are wrong on all the issues of our time. The GOP gets it back in the 1990s, and we get Gingrich/Livingston which leads dreadfully to Hastert (any RPGer is terrified of this name; it sounds too much like "Hastur").
Then cometh the Neocon Empire of 9/11...
There is so much we do not still know. Most, if not all, of the illegal liberty-stripping activity persists through this moment.
No cake will the predidency be for Dear Obama, but he's really the country's only hope.
September 17, 2008 7:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
He is the hope but we are the change we have been waiting for.
September 17, 2008 7:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
It's like THE check bounced, that one check that causes a whole mess of vendors to tack on THEIR fees, causing MORE checks to bounce...
We will be selling off military equipment to pay it off. $600 billion per year in defense is not a budget. It's a sickness. And I love Obama when he reminds us the military is under civilian control.
However, now the military is stuffed with Peter Pace crusaders, and that's going to take some serious roach killer.
I have no bloody idea if Obama can help. That he does not lie to tell what he will try to do means he's the only one presently qualified to run.
September 17, 2008 7:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
really good point.
When McCain changed his interpretation of fundamentals being strong, and then say he meant the workers.
Another hypocritical statement, considering how do American workers benefit fundamentally by purchasing foreign goods
September 17, 2008 7:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
Roll on Team Obama!
We're gonna win Ohio too!
September 17, 2008 7:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
Damn right!
September 17, 2008 7:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
Obama finally hits with a Social Security ad and it's a doozy - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oV9GZUtCgPc
September 17, 2008 7:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
Perfect. Perfect. Perfect. Obama in Florida in next few days.
I like that that they showed the three dates he voted in favor. It's all about the credibility versus the lies of McCain's ads.
September 17, 2008 7:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
Let me add another perfect to that!
That ad is excellent.
And whenever Obama cites a McCain vote or position he'll list the bill # and vote date.
September 17, 2008 7:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
The cost of producing an ad: $5,000
The cost of running the ad: $15,000
The cost of making an attack ad that is based on facts instead of lies and smears: priceless.
September 17, 2008 7:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
And that's attacking we can believe in.
September 17, 2008 8:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
There it is. Thats the kicker. Bravo!
September 17, 2008 8:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oh Jonze - I am in love with you! Thank you for that link. That ad is what I have been waiting for. I know my brother and my friends are thinking of me and laughing when they see that. I went BALLISTIC when I heard about that scheme to turn SS over to the stock market a couple of years ago. I still bring it up every now and then just to bitch.
Do you think Obama has a direct connection to my thoughts?
September 17, 2008 9:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
Greg lmao, Mccain's aggression is less organized than a soup sandwich in tsunami. Yeh he is trying to grab at populism bu 26 years and the ole boy club (a real sticker) says otherwise. He has MSM types saying WTF? Isnt this mister dereg. So yes he may try to grab at something that is the complete antithesis of his career, however, as of right now he is failing badly with idiots like Fiorina and Ealkin taking away any argument he makes by focus on blackberries and ego about who can run company.
September 17, 2008 7:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
This has probably been reported here, nonetheless it's worth posting again - Obama's ad on equal pay for equal work - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xIZtXq7JiE
September 17, 2008 7:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
People are TOTALLY forgetting that Obama started this offensive the day after 9/11. However, this economic crisis kind of put the offensive into overdrive.
September 17, 2008 7:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
The Social Security ad is the "change we need" to help put Pennsylvania and Florida away into the Obama column!!!
September 17, 2008 7:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
He's been waiting for the right moment. McCain is flailing and the press is on the attack. McCain ready for another flip flop?
September 17, 2008 7:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
The Republican Dream now realized - national socialism in one country
September 17, 2008 7:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
And meanwhile Obama was taking more money from Fannie and Freddie execs than anyone in the Senate except Dodd.
September 17, 2008 7:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
There, there...
http://distractible.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/temper-tantrum.jpg
September 17, 2008 7:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
Your unsourced, undocumented and implausible argument has convinced me of Obama's evilness.
Thanks, Robby, you're my hero!
September 17, 2008 7:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
James Johnson, former CEO of Fannie Mae and current Obama advisor, has cost us many tens of billions of dollars we can’t afford.
Franklin Raines, former CEO of Fannie Mae and current Obama advisor, has cost us many tens of billions of dollars we can’t afford.
September 17, 2008 7:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
Fannie and Freddie money is from EMPLOYEES which is no big deal.
September 17, 2008 7:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
E v e r y d a y . . . . I l o v e i t . . . . FINISH HIM! :)
September 17, 2008 7:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
The finishing will be a day by day whittling that will leave McCain, Palin, and GOP weeping.
September 17, 2008 7:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
Death by a thousand cuts! Lady MacDeath too.
September 17, 2008 9:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
Dammit!
Come on, Red Sox!
September 17, 2008 7:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
Are they canvassing for Obama?
September 17, 2008 7:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think McCain/Pahlin made a fundamental (oops) tactical error by taking on the media so aggressively. Yes, it played to their base (like the values voter who got ripped off for 50K by the hooker) at the convention but I really think it pissed a lot of the talking head types off. Then, right after attacking the media, McCain practically dared them to call him on the "Thanks, but no thanks" BS.
Before the assault on the media, he would have skated on most of this stuff. Now, they're all turning against him.
September 17, 2008 8:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
Palin's dis of the government helping keep AIG afloat when McCain supported it (after he was against it) is another grand opening for Obama.
September 17, 2008 8:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
She can see Japan from there.
September 17, 2008 8:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well, given those Ab Fab glasses, I wouldn't doubt it.
September 17, 2008 8:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
Isn't she Asian? Pa-Lin?
September 17, 2008 8:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think it's Pay-lin ... capitalism!
September 17, 2008 10:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oh my gawd. Juat saw a clip from from the McCain/Palin townhall. She is sooooo not ready for WH and being even remotely capable of dealing with being in the position of power of this country.
September 17, 2008 8:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
You know it's going well for Obama when the trolls basically disappear.
September 17, 2008 8:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yes, I've noticed that. The ones that do appear are on automatic, as they are probably software anyway.
For the honest GOP political junkies, this has to be a kick in the teeth. You could see it during the last week's Lipstick Lament: howdya get excited about a campaign based on a empty cavity of ideas that begins to lie?
James Carville is of the opinion that barring some Obama gaffe, McMuleMuffins lost this election with the "fundamentals are strong."
September 17, 2008 8:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
They are back to the point that drove them to pick Palin in the hopes it would be a game changer. So what now? Go uber-Rove? I think so.
September 17, 2008 8:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
What McSame was really trying to say was that the fundamentals of our economy smell strong.
I was wondering where that odor was coming from!
September 17, 2008 8:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
could it be the smell of teen spirit?
September 17, 2008 8:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
And a comment on the current wall street situation from Kurt and company:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPQR-OsH0RQ
September 17, 2008 8:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
smell of SULPHUR!
September 17, 2008 11:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
Damn did McCain's staff outsource his talking points to the Daily Show writers?
Or are they so busy tryin' to figger out how much their 401's have tanked they ain't watchin' one of the oldest boys of the old boys network in Washington?
September 17, 2008 8:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well, now that they have lost so much in their stock, their hope for early retirement is selling their book about their insider experience of a losing experience.
September 17, 2008 8:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
I meant "experience in a losing election."
But are you experienced?
And Rothschild is coming up on CNN. This is going to be...precious.
September 17, 2008 8:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
Campbell Brown is so trying not to tear her apart.
September 17, 2008 8:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
Move over, rover,
Let Jimi take over!
September 17, 2008 8:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
Jimi/Janis '08
September 17, 2008 8:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
Campaign Tag: "Freedom's just another word for nothinng left to lose."
September 17, 2008 8:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
We need to hear more of this. McCain makes stuff up when attacks Obama and 52% of the population believe him. Obama can tell the truth about McCain, truth that will make you laugh because it's so absurd, tell it over and over, but how many people will recognize that truth as a another reason McCain is not fit to be president. He has no interest in governing. His interest is getting control for his friends and he's sold his soul to do it.
September 17, 2008 8:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
Before this week, I had thought that the big media types felt that it was in their best interest to manufacture the illusion of this being a close contest to keep people tuning in.
But those folks certainly have more money invested than I do . . . and they can also smell blood in the water.
When you get cancer you don't WANT to go to your good ol' boy buddy who skated through a Grenadan Med school. You want an expert.
And so on . . .
September 17, 2008 8:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
ABC News took McCain to task on his flip flop on deregulation!
September 17, 2008 8:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
Here's a vid of the segment - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWI35eNnDOw
September 17, 2008 9:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
Can you trust him?
September 17, 2008 9:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
Aw hell no!
September 17, 2008 9:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
Very refreshing.
September 17, 2008 9:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
Death Bed Conversion!
September 17, 2008 9:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
The fact that McCain would even utter the phrase "old boys network" tells me someone over there isn't thinking straight.
September 17, 2008 9:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
unless straight means flailing about aimlessly.
September 17, 2008 9:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
Off topic I don't know, but this is from "The Commendatore Scene" Don Giovanni. Just think of McCain as Giovanni being visited by the ghost of MSM.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dK1_vm0FMAU&feature=related
September 17, 2008 9:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
Rich! Doddering old fool. Put him out to pasture.
September 17, 2008 10:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
SUSA poll of NM, BO leads by 8 52-44.
http://www.surveyusa.com/client/PollReport.aspx?g=edc4d070-fb0f-43a8-b19c-6b32c3ad36f7
September 17, 2008 9:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think NM and CO are Obama's.
September 17, 2008 9:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
NYTimes has Obama at 48 and mcShame at 43:
"The contest appears to be roughly where it was before the two conventions and before the vice presidential selections: Mr. Obama has the support of 48 percent of registered voters, compared with 43 percent for Mr. McCain, a difference within the poll’s margin of sampling error, and statistically unchanged from the tally in the last New York Times/CBS News Poll in mid-August."
Right on the Times webpage. Front Page or here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/18/us/politics/18poll.html?hp
September 17, 2008 9:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
Is it me or are we TROLL-FREE today?
Shortage of NEOCON talking point to ass-parrot back in our faces....so it's all quiet on the western front.
September 17, 2008 9:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
It is really telling. Even the software 'bots can't stomach the lies.
"Fundamentals are strong" will go down in history.
September 17, 2008 9:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hit with too many attacks all together!
POW! POW! POW!
September 17, 2008 9:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
As Wall Steet implodes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VH2nQHPs4aA
September 17, 2008 9:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
Or as a Repub operative might see it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OG3PnQ3tgzY&feature=related
September 17, 2008 9:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
And qwhat should we keep in mind? Cohen puts things in perspective.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTwr7CLT5aU
September 17, 2008 9:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
I wonder how much play this Zapatero story will get in the MSM. Either McCain thinks the Spanish Prime Minister could be one of America's 'enemies', or he simply didn't know who he was being asked about (a blank spot one would expect from Sarah Palin at this point).
My guess; He thought he was being asked about the Zapatistas.
(what, you got a better theory?)
September 17, 2008 10:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
It's sure gonna get international play! He looks like a doddering fool! Or else a foolish warmonger!
I can't wait for the debates!
September 17, 2008 10:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
McLame must think Spain and Cuba are aligned because they both speak Spanish. And they both have relations with Czechloslavakia.
September 17, 2008 11:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
Whar is the story? I haven't hear anything about Zapatero and McCain.
September 17, 2008 10:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/217702.php
Essentially he seemed to be conflating Zapatero with such eevil enemies of freedom's land as Castro and Chavez by seeming reluctant to say whether he would ever meet with him as President.
He looks bad no matter which way you read it.
September 17, 2008 10:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hey, so what you wanted the Spanish Aramada to kick England's butt, and change Western History as we know it?
September 17, 2008 10:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
Gosh, I never expected the Spanish Inquisition!
September 18, 2008 1:22 AM | Reply | Permalink
This week has been McCain's worst of the campaign. It's amazing what happens to these guys when the pressure is on and they have to start talking issues. Melt. Down.
Pufferfish
September 17, 2008 10:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
And here comrd the Rovian lash.
September 17, 2008 10:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
Debates! He'll melt down......
September 17, 2008 10:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
New Survey USA poll out of New Mexico ...Obama 52 and Mccain 44...this is great news, bottom line Obama hold Kerry states and with New Mex and Iowa he needs just one more state from CO, VA, NC, OH, FL, MO, IN and Neveda would tie it up at 269. Still work to do no doubt about but things are looking better
September 17, 2008 10:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oh franklyn got it further up, my bad
September 17, 2008 10:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think he's pissed she's the star and he's the old fool behind her carrying her purse. And he's LOSING. How long before she dumps him from the ticket?
September 17, 2008 11:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
I like that:
"smoldering piece of shit."
she must have thought the McSame-Lipstick campaign slogan was: "Country Club FIRST!"
September 17, 2008 11:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
IMO, the McLame campaign's fatal mistake was the transparent and repeated lies -- especially Palin's "thanks but no thanks" combined with his stupid denials of her earmark history.
Once the "LIARS" meme stuck, it totally destroyed his previously impenetrable "Honorable John" armor -- and let him defenseless against this week's events.
When tyrants tremble sick with fear
And hear their death knells ringing
When friends rejoyce both far and near
How can I keep from singing?
- traditional Quaker hymn
...maybe there is a god, after all,
LK
September 18, 2008 1:33 AM | Reply | Permalink
Any day you can make people laugh at your opponent is a good day. JFK was a master at this, and Obama is learning. Some of the barbs fell flat, but the ones he scored on will be repeated at water coolers all over the country.
September 18, 2008 2:09 AM | Reply | Permalink
oh my GOD! Chris Matthews was awesome!!!!! Thank you Wexler, you are an awesome surrogate!!!
September 18, 2008 9:00 AM | Reply | Permalink
randomname - the link to the Biden quotes I quoted above:
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/09/biden-launches.html
September 18, 2008 9:04 AM | Reply | Permalink
Cue McCain age discrimination ad. You think they don't have one? They will, just to stir up the elderly base.
September 18, 2008 9:19 AM | Reply | Permalink
This is a line that people will like -- whoever came up with it should get a raise or a Cabinet position or something.
September 18, 2008 1:16 PM | Reply | Permalink