New McCain Robo-Slime Hits Obama's Ties To Rezko, Blames Dems For Financial Crisis
The tide of McCain robo-slime keeps rising. The latest McCain robocall hits Obama over his "20 year" friendship with "convicted felon" Tony Rezko, saying he helped Obama buy his "mansion" in a "swanky" neighborhood.
For good measure, the call blames the entire financial meltdown on the Democrats' two years of control over Congress.
"Since the Democrats took control of Congress only two years ago they have driven our economy into the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression," says the call, which was reported to us by readers in Ohio, Wisconsin, Colorado, and North Carolina.
Here's audio:
Script:
Hello, I'm calling for John McCain and the RNC because you need to know that Barack Obama and convicted felon Tony Rezko have been friends for almost 20 years. Rezko donated and raised thousands of dollars of political contributions for Obama. And Rezko helped Obama buy his $1.6 million mansion in a swanky Chicago neighborhood. Obama needs to come clean on this deal before the election so that the voters can judge whether Obama received monetary benefits from these Rezko favors.And since the Democrats took control of Congress only two years ago they have driven our economy into the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. And what's their solution to the problem? To spread more of our wealth around by raising our taxes and giving it to those who don't pay a single penny of federal income tax.
With friends and priorities like these Barack Obama and his Democrat allies lack the judgment to lead our country. This call is paid for by the Republican National Committee and McCain-Palin 2008 at 866-558-5591.
As I've noted before, these calls no longer make news. McCain weathered the initial fusillade of bad press that greeted his initial wave of robo-slime, and the big news orgs lost interest. Now McCain can keep pumping out the robo-slime at ever slimier levels without paying any kind of price for it in the national media.
Oh, for God's sake.
They may as well start labeling their own feces with Obama's name and start throwing it at passersby to see who they can fool.
October 29, 2008 2:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
I love it when they do this kind of crap. For every dipshit they convince to vote for McCain with these calls there's 50 independents that get so pissed at the childishness they either won't vote at all or may even vote for Obama in protest.
Bring it, bitch!
October 29, 2008 2:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
My father is one of them. Life long independent that usually leans Republican (likes less government).
Was voting McCain all the way until the Palin mess turned ugly. Then began to question it. When the campaign just turned ugly and hateful, he said enough.
He voted Tuesday for Obama.
In North Carolina.
October 29, 2008 2:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
Bless him, and you, too.
Somebody (reading too many blogs today) just called it the "Palin Effect."
October 29, 2008 3:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
Co-sign
And thanks for your reader's post with the great pictures.
:)
October 29, 2008 3:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
The thing is, they're doing this to Democratic-leaning households. This isn't a GOTV effort.
Anyone who's got a moment to check would see where our contributions have ended up over the past decade. The state Democratic party has a list where rank households from solid Dem to solid Rep. One would assume the Reps, with their "superior" historical GOTV effort, would have the same. They know who we are and how we vote.
The object is to try to turn off Democrats.
Well, I've got one thing to say. Just keep those calls and mailers coming to my house, 'cuz you're wasting money, McSlime.
October 29, 2008 4:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
MCWar is suffering from dementia.
October 29, 2008 2:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
Palin has a new ethics complaint filed against her filed by a citizen:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/10/28/cbsnews_investigates/main4554071.shtml
October 29, 2008 2:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
Is it the 4th of Nov yet?
October 29, 2008 2:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
LOL!
I'm sorry, all I can do is laugh at this. The Democrats wrecked the economy in just 2 years? And the Repugs had nothing to do with it even though they totally ran the country - wouldn't even let Democrats in Congress read bills or vote on them half the time - for over 6 years, but it's the Democrats' fault?
Excuse me - ROFLMAO!
October 29, 2008 2:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
This is totally OT, but I thought that you would enjoy this story. I was listening to an interview with a group of AA in St Louis that was on "All Things Considered" yeterday afternoon, and of course the questions turned to the presidential race. This group of folks were giving really indepth, thoughtful answers to the question of what they thought about Obama's candidacy and likelihood of him being our next president and one man chuckled and said, "You know, me and my friends have always joked that there are two things a black man can never be: a white man and the President. Well, Michael Jackson has proved us wrong on one part, and Barack Obama is about to prove us wrong on the other part."
I LOVED that line! :-)
October 29, 2008 2:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
LOL!
O that is good - o damn. LMAO!!!!!
October 29, 2008 2:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
I got this today on my phone here in the office. What a joke.
October 29, 2008 2:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
Charles Keating is a convicted felon, as is G. Gordon Libby.
Sarah Palin worked for a convicted felon Ted Stevens from 2003-2005 and has publicly praised him on numerous occasions.
October 29, 2008 2:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
*Liddy.
I just got finished reading the Libby Dole's latest smear and the cease and desist order delivered to her...
October 29, 2008 2:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
Or maybe you were thinking of Scooter Libby?
That works too!
October 29, 2008 2:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
I've read where Hagan's camp is preparing to seek such an order, but not that it's been issued by a court or delivered to Dole.
Got a link? Thanks.
October 29, 2008 3:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
Found it, the Charlotte Observer: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/597/story/286120.html
October 29, 2008 3:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ah. It's a cease-and-desist letter, not a court order. Hagan is threatening to seek a court order if the ads aren't pulled within 24 hours.
October 29, 2008 3:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
yeah, you're right. It's a threat.
October 29, 2008 3:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
Looks like they've hit one of Hagan's nerves.
October 29, 2008 3:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
Where do they get this line?
The only times I have heard this have been from the Republicans. Is Faux News putting this out?
October 29, 2008 2:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
It's a riff on Reagan's Earned Income Credit.
That's all it is - they are just lying about it.
October 29, 2008 2:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
Exactly right. They're trying to make the EITC sound like welfare -- yet another cynical ploy to feed on racial tension and resentment.
Never mind that workers who don't owe federal income tax pay 7.65 percent right off the top in payroll taxes, a higher percentage than people earning over $100,000 or whatever the Social Security cutoff is. Never mind that these workers are paying state and local sales taxes and, directly or indirectly, property taxes. And never mind that McShame himself proposed to make his health care tax credit sham refundable, too.
October 29, 2008 2:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
All the blatant lies aside, is it not important that the most senior member of McCain's own party in Congress is a convicted felon? One with especially close ties to his VP pick?
October 29, 2008 2:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
Indeed it is.
Plus she has her own problems in Alaska and they are multiplying.
She's so fucked, but she's going to walk away with over $150,000 in clothes, jewelry, bags, shoes, etc.
October 29, 2008 2:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
Lovely parting gifts...
October 29, 2008 2:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oh no!
Remember, Caribou Barbie said her threads would be donated "back to charity."
"Back" to charity?
Laughing my ass off!
October 29, 2008 3:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
I’m like elonepb’s dad. I supported McCain through the primaries. My wife and I even contributed the max to his primary campaign. On November 4, however, we’ll be voting for Obama/Biden . . . in Virginia. Why? Well, I think Ann Applebaum put it best in yesterday’s WaPo:
“The larger point, though, is that if I’m not voting for McCain — and, after a long struggle, I’ve realized that I can’t — maybe it’s worth explaining why, for I suspect there are other independent voters who feel the same. Particularly because it’s not his campaign, disjointed though that has been, that finally repulses me: It’s his rapidly deteriorating, increasingly anti-intellectual, no longer even recognizably conservative Republican Party. His problems are not technical; they do not have to do with ads, fundraising or tactics, as some have suggested. They are institutional; they have to do with his colleagues, advisers and supporters.”
There are millions of rational, intelligent Republicans who will troop to the voting booth in this election to vote for McCain/Palin — simply because they’re Republicans. The wingnuts don’t constitute a majority of the Republican Party but they have power and influence disproportionate to their numbers. In my mind, this makes the intelligent majority of Republicans nothing but enablers of the crazies, and therefore guilty by association, just like those accused of aiding and abetting a criminal enterprise.
Maybe the Obama campaign ought to respond with a robo call of it’s own pointing out the 26-year association between McCain and another felon — Senator Ted Stevens.
October 29, 2008 2:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
Co-fucking-sign. The "rational" Repugs who sit idly by and don't say anything are ENABLERS! Pure and simple. WTF do they think is gonna happen? Rush, Hannity, Palin, et. al. are just gonna go away?
Who's living in la la land now...?
October 29, 2008 3:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
Wow that is an awesome comment.
I've been saying this for awhile - I wish you and other sane conservatives would form a viable opposition party - we need it.
The extreme right wing of the party really intends to win this battle for the Repug Party and if it does, the Repug Party will be marginalized.
Please either take your party back and build it into something that is viable - or form a new one. I want viable opposition - it's good for us. What we have now is not viable - it's too extreme to be viable for anything other than a very small minority.
October 29, 2008 3:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
It's not that the Republican Party isn't viable, but it isn't rational. They almost have lost the ability to make decisions based on facts. How can a government chasing made up boogeymen function? We've got enough real problems that need solutions. We need people who think in power.
Carl Sagan talked about a bullshit meter. Well, mine goes off every time McCain or his surragates speak. President #1 job description: The ability to think about the big picture.
(sigh, another matyra rant)
October 29, 2008 4:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
That's exactly why I think they aren't viable - they aren't rational and only a rational party with real support can be viable.
The support for the extremist wing is very limited. The Repugs cannot win another election unless they broaden support and they can't do that if the loonytunes wing takes over.
That's why I say they aren't a viable party - they will be marginalized worse than the Green Party if they keep this up -
October 29, 2008 4:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
LOL! From Andrew Sullivan
Palin ups the ante and describes this Republican activist who's voting apparently on the Israel issue as a veteran and an Alaskan. Why the fuck not, I guess? I'd make this Odd Palin Lie Number XXI, but I'm too tired. She's a loony person. Just remember that, ok? And keep an eye on her sister, Heather Bruce.
October 29, 2008 2:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
About Joe the Plumber, obviously.
October 29, 2008 3:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
Goddamn does that woman do anything but lie?
October 29, 2008 3:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
I doubt she's careful enough to lie all the time. She probably tells the truth occasionally by accident.
October 29, 2008 3:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
The sad thing is, she lies so often that it's not even news anymore.
October 29, 2008 3:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
All this tells me is that McCain is now too cash-strapped to do new TV ads on this crap; he can only afford robocalls. Ooh, I'm so scared.
October 29, 2008 3:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
Not that anyone here sounds overly concerned about an Obama win, but I thought I would point out that the "Strong Obama" states a pollster.com gives him 272 EVs.
All Kerry states plus IA and VA are now considered "strong".
Sorry if this is old news, but I just noticed it.
October 29, 2008 3:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
WAY OFF TOPIC: LIEBERMAN IS LOSING HIS COMMITTEE CHAIRMANSHIP!!!!
October 29, 2008 3:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
?????
October 29, 2008 3:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
There have been reports lately about the Senate Dem leadership sifting through the possibilities for next session's committee assignments. Rumors about Joe LieberSchmuck losing his committee chairmanships.
Not at all unexpected. AUIU, though, this really can't happen until the next session, even with a huge Dem landslide on Nov. 4.
October 29, 2008 3:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oh. Right. I thought he was saying something had been decided and announced.
October 29, 2008 3:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
Source? Linkee? Anything!!!!!!??????
October 29, 2008 3:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
Today's TPM EC Morning Roundup has a blurb titled Report: Senate Dems Reviewing Plan To Oust Lieberman From Chairmanship.
Unfortunately, the link to the article in The Hill is broken. Try this link instead.
October 29, 2008 4:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
Thank you!
October 29, 2008 4:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
They must be trying to target the "special needs" voters.
October 29, 2008 3:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
Here's a post from Kos on Sarah's very own brand of Alaskan socialism.
October 29, 2008 3:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
Even in that short quote, her syntax makes me want to shoot myself.
October 29, 2008 4:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
Really. Doesn't she have a degree from a college where English is the first language? How in the hell could she ever diagram a sentence or write an essay for a passing grade at a reputable university?
October 29, 2008 4:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
Riiiight. Everything was just going along swimmingly until 2007 when the DEMOCRATS took over the House and Senate. Then, a year later, the banks suddenly went to shit! Coincidence? I think not!
It's funny - you'd think that Obama being a terrorist and child pornographer would have been damning enough for the McCain team to run on, but apparently even they don't think so. It just goes to prove that not even the McCain team believes the shit they're peddling.
October 29, 2008 3:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
You know what caused the financial crisis?
IT WAS ALL THAT GODLESS MONEY THAT THE DEMOCRATS WERE THROWING AROUND!!!
Damn that godless money!
October 29, 2008 3:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
wow. Palin's really hammering away at the LA Times story in her storytelling today.
October 29, 2008 3:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
Which LA Times story?
October 29, 2008 4:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
The LA Times refuses to release some video of a party that Obama attended where an American-Palestinian was doing something, or some such.
The LATimes won't release it because they were given the video in the first place on the condition that they wouldn't air it.
October 29, 2008 4:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
O - thanks. Yeah, I read something about that in passing -
More terrorist palling -
*sigh*
I don't know that Greg is right that McLame is now robo-sliming with impunity - I think he's paid a price and continues to pay it because I don't think anyone much thinks this is the right way to run a presidential campaign.
October 29, 2008 4:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think that McCain/Palin may have jumped the shark on this one. Calling a respected Columbia professor a neo-nazi may bring out some editorials saying "enough."
The only ones looking like nazis are McCain/Palin. I wish they would just shut up with their vile accusations.
October 29, 2008 4:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'll repeat this because I believe it's a bigger story than the lack of reporting on it seems to suggest:
Two Cuban Americans were mobbed at the close of the McCain-Palin rally in Miami today and had to be rescued by the police before the mob could start tearing them to pieces for being Cuban Americans with Obama signs. The mob is yelling "Terrorist" at these guys and the situation got dangerous very quickly.
That's a big story - this has to stop.
October 29, 2008 4:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
We got it here in Wisconsin, in case you're keeping track.
Also interestingly (especially since my spouse & I already voted, so let the Repubs waste their money) we got three separate flyers from the Wisconsin Repubs (not the RNC and not the McCain campaign) - 2 hitting Obama on Rezko and one quoting Wayne LaPierre/NRA as saying Obama wants to destroy the right to bear arms.
Are any other state parties besides Wisconsin's creating their own slime?
October 29, 2008 5:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
We got it here in Wisconsin, in case you're keeping track.
Also interestingly (especially since my spouse & I already voted, so let the Repubs waste their money) we got three separate flyers from the Wisconsin Repubs (not the RNC and not the McCain campaign) - 2 hitting Obama on Rezko and one quoting Wayne LaPierre/NRA as saying Obama wants to destroy the right to bear arms.
Are any other state parties besides Wisconsin's creating their own slime?
October 29, 2008 5:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
McCain and Palin can try to bring up Rezco, Ayers and anyone else if they want, but it will not work, not this time, not this year, not against Sen. Obama. I rebuke McCain, Palin and all of their supporters' evil tactics (words and deeds) in the name and blood of Jesus, and send all of them back to the pit of hell where they come from. I plead the blood of Jesus for Barack Obama, Joe Biden, their families, their campaign, and Sen. Obama's presidency.
Not any of McCain's WEAK campaign tactics, the RNC, and his supporters' attacks of lies, hatred, fear, racism, and division WILL NEVER PREVAIL against Sen. Obama - this nation's next Commander-in-Chief !!!
You [ Barack Obama], are from God and have overcome them [the enemy's attacks, schemes, and plots ] , because the one [God] who is in you [ Barack Obama] is greater than the one [the enemy ] who is in the world. - 1 John 4:4
No weapon forged against you [ Barack Obama] will prevail, and you [ Barack Obama] will refute every tongue that accuses you [ Barack Obama] . This is the heritage of the servants [ Barack Obama] of the LORD, and this is their [ Barack Obama] vindication from me," declares the LORD. - Isaiah 54:17
" I [ God ] will send my terror ahead of you [ Barack Obama] and throw into confusion every nation you [ Barack Obama] encounter. I [ God ] will make all your [ Barack Obama] enemies turn their backs and run." - Exodus 23:27
They will fight against you [ Barack Obama] but will not overcome you, for I [God ] am with you [ Barack Obama] and will rescue you," declares the LORD. - Jeremiah 1:19
The Lord will rescue me [ Barack Obama] from every evil attack and will bring me [ Barack Obama] safely to his heavenly kingdom. - 2 Timothy 4:18
11 For he will command his angels concerning you [ Barack Obama] to guard you [ Barack Obama ] in all your ways; 12 they will lift you [ Barack Obama ] up in their hands, so that you [ Barack Obama ] will not strike your [his] foot against a stone. 13 You [ Barack Obama ] will tread upon the lion and the cobra; you [ Barack Obama ] will trample the great lion and the serpent. - Psalm 91:11-13
I have given you [ Barack Obama ] authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you [ Barack Obama ]. - Luke 10:19
It's time for the American people to get it right and NOT vote for McCain-Palin, instead vote for change. It's time for this country to turn the page and seek a new and better future for ourselves and our children.It's time for REAL change in Washington, it's time to elect Barack Obama for president !
Obama-Biden are the wiser and stronger team to solve the crucial challenges we have in this nation and abroad !
Amen.
October 29, 2008 7:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
McCain and Palin can try to bring up Rezco, Ayers and anyone else if they want, but it will not work, not this time, not this year, not against Sen. Obama. I rebuke McCain, Palin and all of their supporters' evil tactics (words and deeds) in the name and blood of Jesus, and send all of them back to the pit of hell where they come from. I plead the blood of Jesus for Barack Obama, Joe Biden, their families, their campaign, and Sen. Obama's presidency.
Not any of McCain's WEAK campaign tactics, the RNC, and his supporters' attacks of lies, hatred, fear, racism, and division WILL NEVER PREVAIL against Sen. Obama - this nation's next Commander-in-Chief !!!
You [ Barack Obama], are from God and have overcome them [the enemy's attacks, schemes, and plots ] , because the one [God] who is in you [ Barack Obama] is greater than the one [the enemy ] who is in the world. - 1 John 4:4
No weapon forged against you [ Barack Obama] will prevail, and you [ Barack Obama] will refute every tongue that accuses you [ Barack Obama] . This is the heritage of the servants [ Barack Obama] of the LORD, and this is their [ Barack Obama] vindication from me," declares the LORD. - Isaiah 54:17
" I [ God ] will send my terror ahead of you [ Barack Obama] and throw into confusion every nation you [ Barack Obama] encounter. I [ God ] will make all your [ Barack Obama] enemies turn their backs and run." - Exodus 23:27
They will fight against you [ Barack Obama] but will not overcome you, for I [God ] am with you [ Barack Obama] and will rescue you," declares the LORD. - Jeremiah 1:19
The Lord will rescue me [ Barack Obama] from every evil attack and will bring me [ Barack Obama] safely to his heavenly kingdom. - 2 Timothy 4:18
11 For he will command his angels concerning you [ Barack Obama] to guard you [ Barack Obama ] in all your ways; 12 they will lift you [ Barack Obama ] up in their hands, so that you [ Barack Obama ] will not strike your [his] foot against a stone. 13 You [ Barack Obama ] will tread upon the lion and the cobra; you [ Barack Obama ] will trample the great lion and the serpent. - Psalm 91:11-13
I have given you [ Barack Obama ] authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you [ Barack Obama ]. - Luke 10:19
It's time for the American people to get it right and NOT vote for McCain-Palin, instead vote for change. It's time for this country to turn the page and seek a new and better future for ourselves and our children.It's time for REAL change in Washington, it's time to elect Barack Obama for president !
Obama-Biden are the wiser and stronger team to solve the crucial challenges we have in this nation and abroad !
Amen.
October 29, 2008 7:27 PM | Reply | Permalink