New McCain Slime Call In Arizona Hits Obama As "Follower" And As "America's Most Liberal Senator"
Still more signs that John McCain is in a panic over Arizona. He now has a second slime call running in his home state, this one attacking Obama for his "present" votes in the state senate and hitting him as a "follower" and not a "leader."
For good measure, the call also calls Obama "America's most liberal Senator."
Here's audio of the call, which was sent in by Milly Haeuptle, an artist and teacher in Flagstaff, AZ, and received by other readers around the state:
The caller introduces himself as calling for "McCain and the RNC." Then it continues:
Because with two wars abroad and an economy in crisis, we need a leader in the White House, not a follower. As a state senator, Barack Obama refused to take a stand on politically risky issues 129 different times by voting "present." And in his short career in the U.S. Senate, he's voted the party line an astounding 97 percent of the time, earning the title of America's most liberal senator.Barack Obama talks a lot about change, but we can't trust his track record to deliver it. This call is paid for by the Republican National Committee at 866-558-5591and authorized by McCain-Palin 2008.
The claim that Obama has the "title" of "America's most liberal Senator" is, laughably, based on the National Journal's ranking of him as the most liberal in one year -- 2007. Recycling this one, along with the state senate stuff, is really scraping the bottom of the barrel.
McCain has now been reduced to harassing his own constitutents with this kind of nonsense.
Late Update: The same call is also running in Colorado.
How can the "most" anything also be a follower? If he's the most liberal, then he is leading the liberal movement.
Does anyone at Camp McCain try applying logic to anything they spew?
October 31, 2008 1:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
Turnip! Stop stealing the comments out of my computer! :-)
October 31, 2008 1:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
You are just too smart, McCain voters would never reach that logical conclusion.
October 31, 2008 1:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
According to the new meme, he's the most powerful wimp in the world -- a weak-kneed pacifist with storm troopers.
Forget the Peace Corps; this country needs an army of therapists.
October 31, 2008 2:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
LOL!!
October 31, 2008 2:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
McCain Money News Roundup for Oct. 28, 2008
McClatchy Newspapers’ Greg Gordon filed an interesting report yesterday that appears to debunk John McCain’s claim that, after the embarrassment of the Keating Five scandal, he never again pressured regulators on behalf of a friend. In fact, the story says McCain “promoted an Arizona land swap that would’ve benefited a former mentor and partner of the scandal’s central figure.”
The story details McCain’s efforts in the late 1990s to forge a land swap with the U.S. Forest Service that would have benefited the owners of the Spur Cross Ranch, which included a company controlled by former Charles Keating associate Carl Lindner Jr.
Gordon notes that, before the deal fell through, “McCain and an aide pushed for the exchange in more than a half dozen sometimes-testy letters and phone calls up and down the Forest Service’s hierarchy, according to former agency officials and correspondence. McCain’s office even circulated draft legislation that would have overridden the agency’s objection to surrendering national forest land.”~McCain’s Lobbyists.com~~~~~~~Note: For more on Carl Lindner,go upthread to earlier post,or: leveymg’s Journal - THE CRIMES AND COVERUPS OF JOHN McCAIN, “REFORMER” Jun 3, 2008 ... Like the Bush Family, McCain had his Hand in the BCCI and S&L;Scandals McCain claims that his involvement in the Keating S&L;scandal wasn’t ...
http://journals.democraticunderground.com/… - 48k
McCain Backer’s Firm Pleaded Guilty To Funding Terrorist Group In Colombia ...Jul 2, 2008 ... Late last week, Lindner co-hosted a $25000-per-person fundraiser for McCain and the Republican Party in the wealthy Indian Hills ...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/02/m… - 146k -
October 31, 2008 2:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
I love the smell of McCain panic in the morning. It smells like Obama victory.
October 31, 2008 1:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
C'mon Johnny. Think LEGACY here. As Steve Scales told Jeff Daniels in the convenience store scene in the movie "Something Wild" -- "Dude? Attempt to be cool."
October 31, 2008 1:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
OHMYGOD! THE POLLS ARE TIGHTENING!!! McCain and Bob Barr are getting closer and closer!
October 31, 2008 1:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
NAILED IT!
October 31, 2008 1:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
Feh. If there's no siren, there's no reason to worry ;)
October 31, 2008 2:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
Actually, this is the least sleaziest robo call from McCain so far. What happened to "Obama will paint your white children black" ad?
October 31, 2008 1:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
I dunno... perhaps, he doesn't want to lose home sweet home he can go back to after the election?
October 31, 2008 2:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
So my mother, 83, in Scottsdale, tells me yesterday to not spend any money until after the election is over. Interpretation meaning, unless McCain wins. Since she claims that talking about this raises her BP, I didn't say anything, but this is the non-reality of a McCain voter courtesy of Fox news. I cannot for the life of me connect the dots on how a McCain victory will be good for me financially. She is a somewhat rational woman in an irrational bubble. I hate FOX.
October 31, 2008 1:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
I do economic forecasting for a living. Most economists I know are terrified of a McCain win. They don't care about liberal vs. conservative. They want competence.
October 31, 2008 2:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
Exactly. And if FOX is fair and balanced, I would like to know one person who has watched that channel and comes away voting for Obama. I don't think you could find even one. I do get great satisfaction that MSNBC has beat them with Olbermann and Maddow, although Hannity is still tops. That defines their audience quite well I guess.
October 31, 2008 2:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
I have been assured by none other than Rick Davis that Obama is wasting his money in Arizona is a GOOD THING. That they (McCain) fully INTENDS to win Arizona.
October 31, 2008 2:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
A newsletter from 1984 provides more embarrassing evidence of John McCain's relationship with the U.S. Council on World Freedom, a group that was involved in funding militant anti-communists and espoused some anti-Semitic views.
McCain's FACE graces the front page of the group's "World Freedom Report," published on Dec. 15, 1984, a copy of which was obtained from the research library at the University of Kansas. The front page also features a reprint of an article McCain penned that same month for Reader's Digest.
In the early 1980s, McCain served on the advisory board of the Council on World Freedom, which funded and provided arms to what the Associated Press described as "ultra-right-wing death squads in Central America." The group also "aided rebels trying to overthrow the leftist government of Nicaragua," which landed it "in the middle of the Iran-Contra affair and in legal trouble with the Internal Revenue Service, which revoked the charitable organization's tax exemption."
When McCain's connection to the council received its first blast of press attention earlier this month, his campaign told Politico that McCain "disassociated himself" from the group in 1984 "when questions were raised about its activities."
But the group's tax filing in 1985, covering the previous year, lists McCain as a member of the advisory board. And in October 1985, a States News Service report placed McCain "at a Washington awards ceremony staged by the council."
Moreover, in 1986, McCain himself told the Phoenix New Times that his reason for leaving the group merely had to do with a lack of time.
Asked by the AP this year about McCain's alleged efforts to distance himself from the council in both 1984 and 1986 (when McCain had to ask to have his name removed from the group's stationary), founder John Singlaub said: "That's a surprise to me. ... I don't ever remember hearing about his resigning."--------------Huffington Post,Sept.28,o8--------McCain said,the other evening on Larry KIng, he dares anyone to find photos of him,taken with terrorists. Well, this oughtta suffice for starters, anybody got pix of th "85 awards ceremony? How about photos from Carl Lindner's pricey fundraiser for McCain just recently in Indian Hills. Lindner was CONVICTED of aiding and abetting Colombian deathsquads recently.
October 31, 2008 3:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
O Greggy - {{{{Swoon}}}}
October 31, 2008 2:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
Don't you love that Drudge is calling North Carolina a "key swing state"? Who would have thunk it?
October 31, 2008 2:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
Don't kill me for this - I know that's the Eye of Sauron, but the Eye of Sauron has always looked like the Flaming Vagina of Sauron to me.
LOL!!!
October 31, 2008 2:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
No, actually it's a picture of Cindy McCain.
October 31, 2008 2:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
O shit - LOLOL!
October 31, 2008 2:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
Nice!
October 31, 2008 2:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
It's not a direct reference to your post. But I just hope people stop bringing information from Drudge.
Who the fuck cares? In the beginning of the week there was a late night pandemonium on the blogs: Drudge finds "shocking" tape of Obama. Geez, it's just tiring. All this fuckards are just mental hostages to that stupid website.
Everyone on the left (Inc. Kos and TPM) keeps telling me how drudge is no more important and almost every day some concern troll posts a "Obama doomsday" post from the drudge.
Pathetic...
I'm not saying ignore him, but I think our effort to lower his status inevitably enhances his presence in the political domain.
October 31, 2008 2:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
I agree with you in part. It is a good idea not to take anything on Drudge as anything serious. That the media appears to be doing more of this is a great step.
However, Drudge is still revered by many on the Right. If you want the context for why the Right believes what they believe, you have to see Drudge.
October 31, 2008 2:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
It is called Kohe Lele
Koko Head--Traditions of Pele and Kapo
When Kamapua'a attacked Pele near Kalapana, Kapo [a sister of Pele] sent this kohe ["vagina"] as a lure and [Kamapua'a] left Pele and followed the kohe lele ["flying vagina"] as far as Koko Head on O'ahu, where it rested upon the hill, leaving an impression to this day on the Makapu'u side. Then she withdrew it and hid it in Kalihi. When the Hawaiians dream of a woman without a vagina it is Kapo. Since Kapo does not like this part of the body, unless a medium possessed by Kapo wears a ti leaf protection she is in danger of having this part of her body torn at. (Beckwith Hawaiian Mythology 186)
October 31, 2008 2:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
I love that.
Thank you. What a fascinating myth - I know next to nothing about Hawaiian mythology and I love that kind of thing.
October 31, 2008 2:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
I can see the conservatives scrambling:
"Fox News has reason to believe that, being born in Hawaii, Obama was exposed to people who knew about Hawaiian Mythology! This means that Obama believes in women without vaginas! How does this play out with his stance on Abortion??? Our in depth probe at 11!"
October 31, 2008 2:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
() - or not?
October 31, 2008 2:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
Baghdad Matt
October 31, 2008 2:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
Running out of ideas, running out of time, and running scared...
October 31, 2008 2:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
Did anyone watch Al Gore? Any online links of the video? He was campaigning for O today, isn't it?
October 31, 2008 2:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yes, he did campaign. Told Floridians that they would wake up on Wednesday with the election in their hands, ouch.
October 31, 2008 2:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
OT, but "I'm not convicted"? Wow. Sounds familiar. Sounds very much like the "I'm cleared" Alaskan.
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/31/stevens.debate/?iref=mpstoryview
October 31, 2008 2:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
Very interesting 20 second video where you can see McCain momentarily contemplating Palin as President. He has horror in his eyes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=623u3otwK78
October 31, 2008 2:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
This is how much she knows about the constitution:
Whine much, honey? Poor baby - they ain't treating you like you are Miss Congeniality, are they?
October 31, 2008 2:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
McCain is just now realizing how much he screwed up. Serves him right for listening to Kristol.
October 31, 2008 2:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oh, for christ's sakes. Didn't the woman take an English class, just shoot me. Palin interview in part:
"What this has left me with is a very energized and positive feeling about America, because there are enough Americans who are desiring the positive change that John McCain's gonna usher in."
Plante then suggested that in her next sit-down interview, Palin should tap the reporter on the knee and ask, "So who you votin' for?"
Palin laughed and said, "Yeah, maybe that just would say it all."
"I'm gonna try that," she said.
October 31, 2008 2:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
Greenwald says Palin is REALLY ignorant and ill informed. Here is the link:
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/10/31/palin/index.html
October 31, 2008 2:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
Actually, I see Josh just put this up on the front page.
October 31, 2008 2:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
No offense, but I don't need Glenn Greenwald to tell me that - I figured it out alll on my own.
;)
October 31, 2008 2:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hey, just yell back at these folks: A vote for Obama for prez removes a liberal from the Senate!
I'm all for it myself!
October 31, 2008 2:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hey, just yell back at these folks: A vote for Obama for prez removes a liberal from the Senate!
I'm all for it myself!
October 31, 2008 2:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
O that's good!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!
October 31, 2008 2:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
I suspect this is as much to try to save Shadegg's hide in a potential McCollapse than save McCain from the embarassment of losing AZ.
John
October 31, 2008 2:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
Jeebus, you'd think McShame could get his story straight. Is Obama a socialist or a liberal? Which is it?
October 31, 2008 2:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
Evelyn Mulwray: She's my daughter.
[Gittes slaps Evelyn]
Jake Gittes: I said I want the truth!
Evelyn Mulwray: She's my sister...
[slap]
Evelyn Mulwray: She's my daughter...
[slap]
Evelyn Mulwray: My sister, my daughter.
[More slaps]
Jake Gittes: I said I want the truth!
Evelyn Mulwray: She's my sister AND my daughter!
;)
John
October 31, 2008 2:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well done!
October 31, 2008 3:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
Who knew McCain was capable of this kind of thing?
October 31, 2008 3:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
Umm...if he is the most liberal senator, who is he following?
October 31, 2008 3:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
Umm...if he is the most liberal senator, who is he following?
October 31, 2008 3:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
So the guy who spent 26 years trying to convince everyone that he was Barry Goldwater and then spent the last 2 trying to convince everyone he was George Bush, is calling somebody else a follower?
October 31, 2008 3:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
I have feeling that all Republicans carry an index card in their pockets that says the following:
When in doubt say:
(Name of Democrat) is the most liberal member of (the Senate/Congress)
October 31, 2008 6:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
That's actually the THIRD sleazy robo-call mccain's run in Arizona. Here in Flagstaff we got a different low life robo-call call Wednesday, Thursday & Friday. Had I been undecided, these calls would have pushed me off the fence and into Obama's camp.
November 1, 2008 1:43 AM | Reply | Permalink
I've received this call in Washington State as well...either they are spending mon ey in Washington or they think I live in Colorado or AZ...
November 1, 2008 2:12 PM | Reply | Permalink