Obama Camp Hits Back At McCain's "Keating Economics"
The Obama campaign is bringing out their latest salvo against the McCain campaign's decision to attack Obama's character. They've just put up a new Web site, KeatingEconomics.com, teasing a comprehensive attack on McCain's role in the Keating Five scandal.
Here's the teaser for what is being promoted as a full-length documentary on McCain's part in the last major banking crisis:
"Many of our fellow citizens apparently believe that your services were bought by Charles Keating," says the late Sen. Howell Heflin (D-AL), in some archive footage of the Keating Five hearings.
It's going to be a very interesting next four weeks, to say the least, as these two camps throw everything they've got at each other.
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Bad decision.
October 6, 2008 12:00 AM | Reply | Permalink
Why?
October 6, 2008 12:02 AM | Reply | Permalink
It has always been my fear that Obama would damage himself by trying to match McCain is negativity. Maybe unfounded, but it looks like we will soon find out.
October 6, 2008 12:16 AM | Reply | Permalink
I understand the fear. But at this point, the media isn't differentiating between the two. McCain goes negative and the MSM reports it as both camps as taking the gloves off. So he might as well get his licks in, while using the TRUTH, if he is going to be blamed for going negative.
October 6, 2008 12:19 AM | Reply | Permalink
No. Its a GREAT decision. Democrats cannot stand idle why republicans smear them with false lies.
October 6, 2008 12:05 AM | Reply | Permalink
I just want to be sure that we don't return lies with lies.
From the trailer, it seems well done. It looks like it isn't a smear job, but it relates what happened and McCain's role in it to the current crisis. It's a substantive attack. I would be careful not to make it a regular part of the stump speech, though.
October 6, 2008 12:09 AM | Reply | Permalink
Obama doesn't need to lie. Just get the media talking Keating 5 right up to the debate. If so, he wins.
October 6, 2008 12:13 AM | Reply | Permalink
Right. Because Obama and Biden never have to say the word "Keating." Palin said "terrorists", and it was a poor choice of words. Even the AP agrees with that.
Let others say "Keating.
Let it ring from the heavens!
October 6, 2008 12:29 AM | Reply | Permalink
Right. For the reasons stated by acamus and Nulook23, this is the only way to fly.
*Also*, Americans don't want to vote for a candidate who won't stand up for himself (as Kerry did not). McCain has first announced that the next month will be a shitstorm and the Moose Queen already started in. Well, if that is how they want their ignominious defeat to be remembered, Obama is obliged to grant their odious wish.
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October 6, 2008 12:28 AM | Reply | Permalink
As long as they keep lying about us, we should keep telling the truth about them.
October 6, 2008 8:31 AM | Reply | Permalink
precisely. tell the truth and they'll think it's hell...
October 6, 2008 9:51 AM | Reply | Permalink
Nice concern trolling...
Obama's one job for the next 4 weeks is to keep exposing the Gramm/McCain/Keating connection and it's link to the deregulation of the banking act, the repeal of Glass-Stegal and the other 'reforms' that lead to this collapse.
Going negative is only bad when it's a lie.
October 6, 2008 8:37 AM | Reply | Permalink
Okay people, we're breaking down here, lets work together as a team.
October 6, 2008 12:01 AM | Reply | Permalink
I think it's too late... We messed up.
October 6, 2008 12:02 AM | Reply | Permalink
No! It's never too late. FORMATION! NOW!
October 6, 2008 12:04 AM | Reply | Permalink
Nonsense - I've found that the Obama campaign has perfect timing.
October 6, 2008 12:07 AM | Reply | Permalink
Obama's team is perfect, we, in our attempt to coordinate our synchronized posts of "this is excellent news..." not so perfect.
October 6, 2008 12:10 AM | Reply | Permalink
Ah, but we try . . . you can't deny that.
October 6, 2008 12:18 AM | Reply | Permalink
Aye, the passion was there.
October 6, 2008 12:25 AM | Reply | Permalink
You got it, Tena.
Seen this site?
http://www.johnmccainrecord.com/
Dead. Brilliant.
Like i said in the last thread, October is gonna be a real bad month for John McCain.
Plouffe and Axelrod are so on top of this.
October 6, 2008 12:19 AM | Reply | Permalink
You're so right about P. and A.
I'd marry either of those guys if they'd ask me. Wait. That's not legal in New York.
Never mind.
October 6, 2008 1:36 AM | Reply | Permalink
Great site, thanks for the link. Everything is right there and so easy to use.
October 6, 2008 6:23 AM | Reply | Permalink
No kidding, it's perfect timing! The report comes out at 9AM tomorrow and everyone has one day to pass it around the entire world and then on Tuesday McCain has to debate Obama? We thought he was rude and nasty on the first debate, just wait!
October 6, 2008 5:07 AM | Reply | Permalink
Politico was the first to break the news of the Obama campaign's new assault against McShame. Politico is reporting the obama team will employ surrogates and supporters to hit the tv and airwaves on Keating Five. FINALLY, FINALLY!!! I've waiting for the Obama people to bring up KEATING FIVE. McCain stepped in his own mess...lol
October 6, 2008 12:04 AM | Reply | Permalink
Now is the time, the time of the unveiling of the Keating 5.
October 6, 2008 12:06 AM | Reply | Permalink
"Keating, party of five, your table is ready."
I hope this hits the airwaves big time Monday and Tuesday so McStain is hoppin' mad before the Town Hall Debate.
PEACE
October 6, 2008 12:31 AM | Reply | Permalink
Hit that spoiled brat Grampa Munster where it hurts! I love that, unlike the McCain Campaign, the Democrats are able to use actual facts and real issues to smack down the so-called "maverick."
I read the Rolling Stone article that Josh Marshall linked on the front page of TPM about McCain, and I'm sickened by him. He's totally George Bush, but worse. As I was reading the story, every few sentences, I thought of the potential attacks that McCain could be hit on–and I'm sure the Obama camp and the Democrats are way ahead of me, particularly with this perfectly legitimate and timely ad.
I also love that neither Obama nor Biden see Sarah Palin, who is proving to be a true embarrassment, as important enough or legitimate enough to really acknowledge her. Her own unqualifications, ineptitude and dullness (and now racism) is taking care of that. Who would've thought that the conservative press would actually do their job in exposing her.
Hopefully the rest of the press will do their job and start telling a new generation and the forgetful older voters, that Senator Maverick McMavericky was part of the Keating Five. Excellent ad!
October 6, 2008 12:08 AM | Reply | Permalink
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Nice. They asked for it, the jerks. Here it is.
October 6, 2008 12:11 AM | Reply | Permalink
hit them before they hit you.
Obama hits while still focusing on what concerns people, the economy.
McCain lets the "redneck" be a "redneck" and we get race-baiting, wink, wink (come fuck me look)... Obama has a Muslin(sic) name..... and he is Black.
and by the way i was once healed from witches by a witchdoctor.
- as I (bigot) was writing that last sentence i was overcome with shame on behalf of America that a person like Palin could even be on a state ticket let alone a national ticket. this is really shameful
October 6, 2008 12:11 AM | Reply | Permalink
Shameful for normal Americans, prideful for morally challenged Republicans with blood on their hands who detest the common man as "whiners" and suckers.
October 6, 2008 12:14 AM | Reply | Permalink
> come fuck me look
Ahhhh! That's it! That's it! That's the exact words I was searching for to describe it!
Seriously, my first thought when she winked was "Damn, she is a Catherine Tramell!"
October 6, 2008 12:20 AM | Reply | Permalink
Hell - she also had on red fuckme pumps.
October 6, 2008 12:27 AM | Reply | Permalink
lol As if I'd want to!
October 6, 2008 12:31 AM | Reply | Permalink
Tena, Pricess Wasilla needs to click the heels of those CFM ruby red slippers and head back to Alaska to face impeachment.
And the First Dud has some 'splainin' to do, too!
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October 6, 2008 12:35 AM | Reply | Permalink
I wouldn't do it with your digit!
October 6, 2008 12:43 AM | Reply | Permalink
"Come fuck me"? No kidding! Who else would wear a short skirt to meet Muslim leaders? Kharzai (sp?) couldn't take his eyes off her legs. Shoes by "Naughty Monkey" no less.
October 6, 2008 5:12 AM | Reply | Permalink
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October 6, 2008 12:48 AM | Reply | Permalink
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This also shows O's political skills.
Palin opens the associations bag over the weekend (bad news cycle) and the surrogates/info is being trickled out.
O is throwing down the Keating 5 with websites, documentaries, coordinated surrogate deployments, web ads, etc.
Ya know O was just waiting for this like, say my name Bitc$, say it.
October 6, 2008 12:12 AM | Reply | Permalink
We were always wondering why Obama and surrogates never brought up K5 before. I think there was a quiet, unofficial "gentlemen's agreement" behind the scenes between the two campaigns -- you don't bring up Keating 5 and we won't turn the cuckoo reverend loose or mention Ayers. Might explain why we haven't heard anything about Ayers and Wright until now. Anyway, desperation got the best of McCain's campaign, and they turned Palin loose. Once that happened, it was gloves off.
I, too, think it's great!
October 6, 2008 12:31 AM | Reply | Permalink
I think it's because he didn't want the force of the attack to wear off before Nov. 4th. We already learned how attacks launched early (ie, Rev. Wright) lose their power after overuse. Obama waited until under a month to the election, AND--in the face of threats that McCain is going negative--he shot first, consigning the McCain camp to damage control.
With the TRUTH!
Wow. Talk about a disciplined campaign.
October 6, 2008 4:30 AM | Reply | Permalink
I guess the Ayers thing was supposed to be McCain's big "October Surprise", huh? I'll bet they're going batshit over at GOP central right now.
October 6, 2008 5:15 AM | Reply | Permalink
I love it. They had the ammo ready to fire if necessary. Say my name bitch!
October 6, 2008 12:35 AM | Reply | Permalink
EXACTLY! These websites, documentaries, etc. were produced weeks, months ago, just waiting for the perfect time to surface.
I've said it before, but it bears repeating:
Team Obama has been playing a master chess game while Team McCain is still workin' the checkers over the pickle barrel.
PEACE
October 6, 2008 12:39 AM | Reply | Permalink
I can just see O greeting McCain at the debate Tuesday...
O shakes McCain's hand and whispers in his ear, "Shouldn't a been talking Shit"
October 6, 2008 12:51 AM | Reply | Permalink
Sweet.
October 6, 2008 2:06 AM | Reply | Permalink
The brilliance of this move is that it slams McCrazy right on the nose while keeping the focus right on economic matters.
Expect the McPalin forces to cry 'Negative Campaigning!!!" tomorrow. or threaten that he won't turn up at the next debate if it's carried by any network that so much as breathes the name Keating in the next 24 hours.
October 6, 2008 12:17 AM | Reply | Permalink
CNN makes me sick. they ran the Palin charges all day as if it were real news. Disgusting. Like Swift Boat all over again.
October 6, 2008 12:21 AM | Reply | Permalink
Now lets see if they run on Monday the Keating 5. Fair is fair.
October 6, 2008 12:28 AM | Reply | Permalink
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October 6, 2008 12:33 AM | Reply | Permalink
They'll run it. They weren't focusing on Palin's idiotic statements because of bias towards a candidate, they just have an unfortunate bias toward red meat (even if the meat is rotting and infested with maggots). This is more red meat, although of a better quality and with more to chew on. People get excited over these unforeseen attacks, and it gives the pundits something to talk about, so they'll definitely run it.
October 6, 2008 12:40 AM | Reply | Permalink
CNN? C'mon, consider the source. CNN has become a proxy for conservative and Fox talking points. No one I know watches that network anymore except to see Larry King.
October 6, 2008 12:32 AM | Reply | Permalink
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October 6, 2008 12:34 AM | Reply | Permalink
I watch CNN a lot and they are not FOX by a mile. Of course, they give the asshole Lou Dobbs a whole hour (and Glen Beck is not on CNN but Headline News). CNN is not a progressive news orgization, they approach it from the center, trying to maintain their rating by neither upseting the liberals too much not upseting the conservatives too much.
But how many times in the last week have I seen Toobin rip into Palin, or Gergen talk about the GOP has screwed up this whole bailout. That is not FOX.
October 6, 2008 12:44 AM | Reply | Permalink
Just like they ran the Fox infomercial on Palin the day previous. One would think that profit motive would kick in at some point and they would at least try to strongarm their own interview out of Palin.
October 6, 2008 12:34 AM | Reply | Permalink
There are few on CNN who take up the liberal banner such as Rolin Martim. And even Blitzer and Brown will try in their own way to be balance the debate. As bad as they are, CNN is not a voice machine for the GOP.
October 6, 2008 12:38 AM | Reply | Permalink
Don't forget Jack Cafferty! He's been hitting both McCain and Palin right between their beady little eyes!
PEACE
October 6, 2008 12:42 AM | Reply | Permalink
With a sledge hammer!
October 6, 2008 12:47 AM | Reply | Permalink
Crap. How could I leave out Cafferty. If there is anyone who is a voice of reason that reaches the masses, it is him. I love Keith and Rachel but a lot of people tune them out. Cafferty reaches people Keith and Rachel don't.
October 6, 2008 12:52 AM | Reply | Permalink
His anger is just so fucking beautiful and righteous.
October 6, 2008 1:11 AM | Reply | Permalink
And this is what would've dominated the airwaves straight up until Tuesday night's debate. Enter Keating Five.
October 6, 2008 12:47 AM | Reply | Permalink
Assuming that's true, it is awful. Glad we've got this stuff coming along, though. If not, maybe we'd be treated to a month of the news parroting Klondike Barbie's statements why Obama is a Wall Street elitist or what have you.
October 6, 2008 2:18 AM | Reply | Permalink
Right now, the McCain aides are trying to awaken his highness from his Arizona nap to get his directive on this matter.
October 6, 2008 12:22 AM | Reply | Permalink
He's going to flip out. The man is obsessed with himself and gets very insecure when people bring up his shady past. I doubt he'll even watch the damn documentary or look at what's actually being said, he'll just whine and rage.
October 6, 2008 12:29 AM | Reply | Permalink
He is an ugly ugly little man!
October 6, 2008 12:49 AM | Reply | Permalink
Just to develop the point:
It can safely be argued that the S&L crisis is relevant to the current economic meltdown in about 50 different ways, and emphasizing McCain's role in its most symbolic episode isn't just (as the McCain people will argue) a look back at an irrelevant past, but a necessary investigation into the man's judgement, ethics, you name it.
The worst arrow the repugs have got in their quiver (a phantom palship with William Ayres) is relevant to nothing; unless they're prepared to argue that the Weathermen were in league with Al Queida at some point.
Ain't no way, none, that this isn't a good strategy for Obama.
October 6, 2008 12:29 AM | Reply | Permalink
You have hit the proverbial nail on the proverbial head. McCain said he learned his lesson after the Keating 5. The big question for voters is DID HE?
October 6, 2008 12:34 AM | Reply | Permalink
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October 6, 2008 12:37 AM | Reply | Permalink
What Obama has to do at the next debate is keep hammering Biden's argument that McCain has never been a maverick on any issue that mattered.
I would even advise him to be so strident on the point that McCoprophagy blows his stack and takes a swing at him (it's one of those 'roam around the stage' town hall nightmares, so there's more room for McCain to lose his bearings in style).
October 6, 2008 12:42 AM | Reply | Permalink
Nicely said Tom.
October 6, 2008 12:37 AM | Reply | Permalink
You know, that's a good point. How thin, btw, would a documentary on the Ayers/Obama relationship look?
No court film, no party hats. Hell, no substance!
October 6, 2008 12:58 AM | Reply | Permalink
The longest part would be "I'm John McCain and I approve this documentary."
October 6, 2008 1:08 AM | Reply | Permalink
You write brilliant books and you are witty to boot.
October 6, 2008 1:12 AM | Reply | Permalink
I give all the credit to my muse.
October 6, 2008 1:22 AM | Reply | Permalink
Just stay away from automobiles my friend.
October 6, 2008 1:38 AM | Reply | Permalink
I'll try. But when friends need a lift, they need a lift.
October 6, 2008 1:59 AM | Reply | Permalink
Stupid old fool clean forgot about the internets, didn't he?
October 6, 2008 5:17 AM | Reply | Permalink
this is a brillant strategy by the Obama team. It would of been a mistake for McShames lies and associations to go unchallenged and I will take issue with anyone who thinks otherwise. Obama once said, if they bring a knife, I'll bring a gun...well, he's got the gun..
October 6, 2008 12:27 AM | Reply | Permalink
No argument here.
Fucker has more than asked for it and it's just the damn truth.
October 6, 2008 12:31 AM | Reply | Permalink
Hear hear!
October 6, 2008 12:45 AM | Reply | Permalink
Told Yah, Told Yah....heheheheh
October 6, 2008 12:46 AM | Reply | Permalink
All the surrogates today forewarned of this. Obama is not Kerry or Gore or Dukakis. He will strike back. And with a +7 lead in the polls, who is going to benefit. Obama? I think so.
October 6, 2008 12:31 AM | Reply | Permalink
Obama also has built up a big advantage over McCain in favorability ratings. That's like money in the bank that he can draw on now when he needs to fight the smears.
http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/10/why-it-probably-wont-work.html
October 6, 2008 12:37 AM | Reply | Permalink
It's the last gasp of a struggling campaign. They can't play it clean down an average of 7 to 8 in the polls. And playing dirty is all they know.
Goodbye to the McCain campaign, as well as the McCain reputation.
October 6, 2008 12:39 AM | Reply | Permalink
Which everyone knows is the desperation move.
and like you said- what's left of McLame's reputation is going to be in shreds when this is over.
If he's going back to the Senate - o boy. He needs to just retire.
October 6, 2008 12:46 AM | Reply | Permalink
He definitely won't run for another term. This is it for McCain. Presidency or sad retreat into the Arizona sunset.
October 6, 2008 12:48 AM | Reply | Permalink
Thank the gods - get him out of here soonest.
He's disgusting.
October 6, 2008 12:52 AM | Reply | Permalink
The only question is how soon will Cindy file for divorce.
October 6, 2008 12:54 AM | Reply | Permalink
Right after she watches the Obama's move into the White House.
And I bet she has a prenup that leaves Senator $520 shoes broke. Maybe McCain can be Lil' Lindsay Graham's roomie?
PEACE
October 6, 2008 12:58 AM | Reply | Permalink
I don't get her - except I do get the whole motivation for being a zombie now. He's such a miserable motherfucker - you know he's verbally and psychologically abusive.
I hope she divorces his ass but fast, dammit.
October 6, 2008 1:00 AM | Reply | Permalink
McCain, left to wander the beaches with his metal detector in retirement alone and forgotten. Just fuckin' deserts.
October 6, 2008 1:04 AM | Reply | Permalink
Wasn't that an old Steve Martin piece?
October 6, 2008 1:18 AM | Reply | Permalink
Yup. Talking about Nixon.
October 6, 2008 1:39 AM | Reply | Permalink
Something like "Oh hep hep ho hep hep ho", or that's how I remember it.
October 6, 2008 2:25 AM | Reply | Permalink
Oh god, in that Rolling Stone piece, calling his wife a cunt. WTF? I mean, my wife and I have had our disagreements, but I have the utmost respect for her, she's my best friend. How do you get to that point so quickly over such a small slight?
October 6, 2008 1:22 AM | Reply | Permalink
Have you read the Rolling Stone cover story about him? McCain has NO respect for women whatsoever. They are there for his pleasure and convenience. period. I don't have the faintest idea why Cindy would put up with that kind of treatment. i sure as hell wouldn't. Here's the link in case you haven't seen it yet.
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/make_believe_maverick_the_real_john_mccain/page/1
October 6, 2008 1:39 AM | Reply | Permalink
I just found the McCain camp's answer to this move: Sounds sort of weak to me.
http://thepage.time.com/response-to-latest-obama-attack/
October 6, 2008 5:53 AM | Reply | Permalink
Maybe he'll grow his hair long in the back like LBJ did.
October 6, 2008 12:54 AM | Reply | Permalink
a ponytail maybe?
October 6, 2008 1:01 AM | Reply | Permalink
Get it right, it is alled retrograde!
October 6, 2008 1:05 AM | Reply | Permalink
Speaking of Dukakis, he was on Olbermann the other night saying the same thing - Obama's campaign has not let anything sit there and fester.
The local NBC affiliate here sure seems to be in the tank for Obama. They report on the campaign every night, they give him footage, they report some dumbass McLame statement and then spend 3 minutes letting Obama rebut it.
;)
October 6, 2008 12:51 AM | Reply | Permalink
journalists for Obama. I wonder why? :)
October 6, 2008 12:53 AM | Reply | Permalink
O by the way - they reported McLame is coming to New Mexico next week - he's addressing some really stupid organization. They reported that and then showed vid of Obama in Espanola and said Obama was here 2 and 1/2 weeks ago - that was awhile back and they're giving him 45 seconds of good vid, with Richardson.
October 6, 2008 1:03 AM | Reply | Permalink
I haven't seen Richardson for awhile. What is up with him? Is he visible on the local level?
October 6, 2008 1:06 AM | Reply | Permalink
Hell no - I never see him on the local news. Except when he was in Espanola first with Clinton, then with Obama. (both were there for Obama) Otherwise - who the hell knows where he is.
LOL
October 6, 2008 1:14 AM | Reply | Permalink
Wait, He'll be Back; when needed!
October 6, 2008 1:16 AM | Reply | Permalink
We need him now.
October 6, 2008 1:27 AM | Reply | Permalink
He was on the south side of Milwaukee on Friday. Big Hispanic population there.
October 6, 2008 7:36 AM | Reply | Permalink
Wher is Karl Marx he owes me $5!!!!!
Yeaaaaaaaaaaah
October 6, 2008 12:41 AM | Reply | Permalink
I was just talking to my roommate about how brilliantly Barack has run his campaign. Think about it......at the beginning of the primaries, he was not the most well known running to become POTUS. He managed to outrun, outplay, outcampaign Edwards, Biden, Dodd,Richardson and CLINTON!!! Remember how Hillary was towards the end of the primaries? She was all over the place with an inconsistent message. Barack stayed with his game plan and managed to stay on message and grow a massive ground game!!! He won the primaries because of his ability to stay true to who he is without compromising. Now we are in the General election and McCain since winning his party's nomination has been running nothing but untrue, negative ads. Now he we are in the last months, weeks of the election period and once again Barack has taken another well known off their game. McCain hasn't had a clear message since this all started. Barack's ground game has been underestimated and the donors and the volunteers, like me, keep giving and we keep working. I just find it amazing that he has been able to run his campaign this way and still be ahead without having to change who he is. He has kept his eye on the prize by methodically doing what he needed to do to win. This was never going to be easy but I think there needs to be a book written about the Barack Obama presidential campaign and how to run a race for office.
October 6, 2008 12:41 AM | Reply | Permalink
So write it from your eyes!
October 6, 2008 12:56 AM | Reply | Permalink
Okay so who else cant fucking wait for Election Night and McCain's concession speech? I want to see him, his druggie Stepford wife, that crazy four-eyed bitch, and the silent bear she's married to all crying tears of pain.
I know Obama's way too graceful to call out any of them in his victory speech but "Looks like the country said thanks but no thanks to you, Sarah" is too good to pass up.
October 6, 2008 12:44 AM | Reply | Permalink
McCain won't give a concession speech. As it is said in the movie The Crying Game, "it not in me nature."
October 6, 2008 12:47 AM | Reply | Permalink
McCain doesn't concede. He'll be obnoxious about it.
BTW, I love your avatar Tyler. And the desire to be a trophy wife.
May all your dreams come true!
October 6, 2008 1:03 AM | Reply | Permalink
I too love your avatar.
Also, I personally hope McCain goes on an unhinged rant that damns him politically forever..
October 6, 2008 2:48 AM | Reply | Permalink
Amazing. Ba-da-bing! NOW it's on!
October 6, 2008 12:44 AM | Reply | Permalink
Sounds like the McCain campaign is about to crater.
PEACE
October 6, 2008 12:48 AM | Reply | Permalink
As Lennon said "is give peace a chance"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OnWAOqZj58
October 6, 2008 12:59 AM | Reply | Permalink
An old Chicago song:
He had it comin'
He had it comin'
He only has himself to blame
October 6, 2008 1:08 AM | Reply | Permalink
Here's some interesting info from whois.net:
domain "johnmccainrecord.com" was registered on 8/13/08 and is registered to "Obama for America"
There's no need for "privacy" when the truth is on your side. Thanks Barack for demonstrating what transparency in government looks like!
PEACE
October 6, 2008 1:08 AM | Reply | Permalink
That's Strategy; no that's tactics buying a web site 2 months before needed. Strategy is telling the truth!
October 6, 2008 1:13 AM | Reply | Permalink
And for old times sake, as Obama begins to seal the deal, lets listen to Bush singing "Imagine"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TizK6Boxdo4&feature=related
October 6, 2008 1:15 AM | Reply | Permalink
I think it's completely reprehensible to show a muppet and Hastert in the same video. Shame on you Albert!
Though it makes me say, remember Hastert? Seems like a million years ago.
October 6, 2008 1:28 AM | Reply | Permalink
Just as some day soon, we'll say, "remember when Bush was President, it seems a thousand years ago."
October 6, 2008 1:35 AM | Reply | Permalink
Remember Rick Santorum? Seems like a thousand years ago.
Fantasizing about stuff like that makes me sleep better at night.
October 6, 2008 1:44 AM | Reply | Permalink
Just like "Mission Accomplished" and Bush walking around like he was he gun slinger. Now he shoulders have slumped and he has that "oh god what have I done" look on his face.
October 6, 2008 1:47 AM | Reply | Permalink
How about Sunday, Bloody Sunday (U2)??
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXnO_FxmHes&feature=related
October 6, 2008 1:50 AM | Reply | Permalink
Georgie just has so much talent.
October 6, 2008 1:57 AM | Reply | Permalink
I'm going to bed - good night and one love!
October 6, 2008 1:16 AM | Reply | Permalink
Goodnight
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwoPpqT9tSM
October 6, 2008 1:24 AM | Reply | Permalink
I don't have the stats, but I'm willing to bet that the percentage of voters who know anything about the Keating Five is exceedingly small. Now they will be getting an education.
October 6, 2008 1:16 AM | Reply | Permalink
Amen!
October 6, 2008 1:19 AM | Reply | Permalink
I'm old enough to remember it well. And I never trusted the guy. Never viewed his words as anything other than hypocritical.
This will be viewed from the other side as a low blow. But put beside the deregulation mess we're reaping now... this is information the voter needs, in order to make a judicious decision about who is trustworthy to steer the ship of state during these turbulent times.
mcShame is UNFIT FOR DUTY on this or any watch!
October 6, 2008 7:47 AM | Reply | Permalink
McCain: The Most Reprehensible of the Keating Five
- November 29, 1989
- Phoenix New Times
http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/1989-11-29/news/mccain-the-most-reprehensible-of-the-keating-five/1
October 6, 2008 1:21 AM | Reply | Permalink
Ah, what Americans will learn in the next few days about McCain. A most excellent analogy:
October 6, 2008 1:33 AM | Reply | Permalink
We call that Alamihi!
October 6, 2008 1:35 AM | Reply | Permalink
That reads like it was written today: Faustian bargain, playing the POW card once too many times, and this:
"Those who survive will be the sociopaths who can tell a lie with the most sincere, straight face. You are especially adept at this."
That's mcShame in a nutshell. A lying sociopath, trying to make himself look like a legendary hero. He'll be legendary all right. His name will live in Infamy!
October 6, 2008 7:54 AM | Reply | Permalink
I waited so long for someone to tear the lid off Bush's AWOL during the Viet Nam war. His drug use...all of it. Nobody did! Dan Rather tried, but look where that got him.
McCain can't worm out of this. Everything he did is documented. GOOD FOR OBAMA! I'm sick and tired of democrats getting beaten to a bloody pulp....now McCain's gonna bleed, and I'm giddy with joy over it!
October 6, 2008 1:33 AM | Reply | Permalink
It's relevant. It's timely. The Keating Five story is the bridge to understanding how McCain's 26 year long deregulation push has brought us to where we are today.
Not only does this hit McCain hard, but it keeps the issue of the economy on the front page.
October 6, 2008 1:35 AM | Reply | Permalink
Exactly. Make McCain publically relive this time and retell the "lessons" he learned, and how he aligns this with being the "Deregulator."
October 6, 2008 1:38 AM | Reply | Permalink
Viva Las Vegas
Viva las Vegas
Viva Viva Viva!
October 6, 2008 1:39 AM | Reply | Permalink
Anyone wanna bet that, when Obama quietly told the 527's to go ahead, he told them to stay away from Keating? There was never a doubt that Keating would "rear his head" (just like Putin does in Alaska, apparently) when the time was right.
I'm just so damn glad that the time is right, because I've been salivating over the prospects.
PEACE
October 6, 2008 1:38 AM | Reply | Permalink
The Alamihi went come and bit him in the okole!
Don't mess with the Big Kahuna!
October 6, 2008 1:48 AM | Reply | Permalink
and our dollars went for that site...lol!
Way to go O! the Big Kahuna!
October 6, 2008 2:00 AM | Reply | Permalink
It wasn't so long ago when some were questioning why they were giving money to the campaign. They didn't have faith in the grand strategy.
October 6, 2008 2:03 AM | Reply | Permalink
It was hope.
October 6, 2008 2:04 AM | Reply | Permalink
Looks like it was the Obama campaign with an october surprise.
This is truly EXCELLENT!! for McCain.
October 6, 2008 1:59 AM | Reply | Permalink
How dare they! It is so unbecoming for Democrats to behave in such an aggressive manner.
October 6, 2008 2:01 AM | Reply | Permalink
Who said I was a Democrat? I am an American....lol
October 6, 2008 2:03 AM | Reply | Permalink
With Obama at the helm, they are the same thing.
October 6, 2008 2:04 AM | Reply | Permalink
What a great feeling!
October 6, 2008 7:57 AM | Reply | Permalink
NEWS!
October 6, 2008 2:01 AM | Reply | Permalink
Look friends, at the moment the momentum is on our side. However there will be some unanticipated incidents along the way. Bear down, show some effort and give us back our country!
October 6, 2008 2:11 AM | Reply | Permalink
Like Johnny Cash sings, I'll stand my ground and I wont back down.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUvEouWA29o
October 6, 2008 2:17 AM | Reply | Permalink
And the line of the night goes to Spencers Mom:
"Keating, party of five, your table is ready."
October 6, 2008 2:12 AM | Reply | Permalink
We have a Window seat for you!
October 6, 2008 2:14 AM | Reply | Permalink
We have a Window seat for you!
October 6, 2008 2:14 AM | Reply | Permalink
In total agreement!
October 6, 2008 2:55 AM | Reply | Permalink
A line for the ages!
October 6, 2008 8:04 AM | Reply | Permalink
The Nikkei is tanking!
October 6, 2008 2:13 AM | Reply | Permalink
Hong Kong is doing worse, but Shanghei is only moderately tanking. Not good folks.
October 6, 2008 2:21 AM | Reply | Permalink
They need to prop it since they (Chinese) own our debt
October 6, 2008 2:26 AM | Reply | Permalink
Now Shanghai is tanking like the other two.
October 6, 2008 2:30 AM | Reply | Permalink
And Europe follows too. (suffering goes on)
mcShame... not able to change the topic. And having to face the music on top of that!
Karma.
October 6, 2008 8:06 AM | Reply | Permalink
What's is up with up with those glasses, McCain?
October 6, 2008 2:24 AM | Reply | Permalink
lol I saw those too. Not a great visual for a 70+ who wants to be president.
October 6, 2008 2:29 AM | Reply | Permalink
definitely not as stylish as Palin's.
October 6, 2008 2:36 AM | Reply | Permalink
In her Tina Fey glasses....
October 6, 2008 2:49 AM | Reply | Permalink
With this Keating initiative tied right to the economy, the Obama people are showing the courage and determination to win that were, well, otherwise expressed in the past months.
With this going into the final ugly-ugly stretch of Swift Boating, I think Obama's really got him. Now matter how many times he suspends his campaign or otherwise writhes, or calls Obama names or plays the race card, I don't see how McCain can get out of this.
October 6, 2008 2:27 AM | Reply | Permalink
Unless he makes an utter denounciation of his his past beliefs about tax cuts and deregulation.
October 6, 2008 2:35 AM | Reply | Permalink
Who would believe it now??? He's already branded as a liar.
October 6, 2008 8:07 AM | Reply | Permalink
How can he do that, though, amigo? He's been crowing about deregulation right up to time the crisis broke. It would have no credibility, and just make it worse for him if anything, I reckon.
October 6, 2008 3:13 AM | Reply | Permalink
If John McCain knew about the internet, he would probably be furious about this latest move.
October 6, 2008 2:29 AM | Reply | Permalink
I bet he didn't sleep well last night. May not sleep well tonight either..... Debate tomorrow!
Timing of this is exquisite! Announcing the roll out with a vid... followed by another...
mcShame camp is squirming this morning!
October 6, 2008 8:09 AM | Reply | Permalink
First time, I'm absolutely impressed.
Watergate mastermind and felon G. Gordon Liddy, Alaska Independence, others to follow.
October 6, 2008 2:32 AM | Reply | Permalink
I kind of resent the notion in the last paragraph that Obama is somehow stooping to McCain's level by saying the two campaigns will "throw everything they have at each other".
October 6, 2008 2:35 AM | Reply | Permalink
Unleash the Dogs...Those are not all the leashes to be counted!
October 6, 2008 2:39 AM | Reply | Permalink
Call me perverse, but articles like this just make me, I don't know, horny?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/05/AR2008100502524.html?hpid%3Dtopnews&sub=AR
October 6, 2008 2:45 AM | Reply | Permalink
wow...i liked the article too but follow kawika's advice...lol. do try to hold back...
October 6, 2008 3:23 AM | Reply | Permalink
You've got too much time on your fingers,,,
Please dont't have a premature election!
This is good news for FUGU!
October 6, 2008 2:53 AM | Reply | Permalink
lol thanks kawika. I'll try to find my center and hold back.
October 6, 2008 3:15 AM | Reply | Permalink
The New political party - the uncommitted. One commentor offered the opinion that the uncommitted are those who chose to vote for Nader, Barr or McKinney and referred to republican or democratic voters as non-thinkers.
October 6, 2008 3:21 AM | Reply | Permalink
It's like flirting instead of committing to a relationship. These people seem to be courting attention. Really annoying actually.
October 6, 2008 8:22 AM | Reply | Permalink
But if Keating is in play, won't Wright be too? So far, there has been no mention of Wright by the McCain campaign.
But won't it be coming now?
October 6, 2008 3:23 AM | Reply | Permalink
You've got it flipped, though. McCain is in the express lane racing right into a concrete wall and oblivion.
The skirt strategem failed. All he's got left is Wright and the like. So he's going to use them, period. And they've explicitly promised to talk about Obama's "associations" in the last days, i.e., Wright and Ayers. The Moose Queen already began this weekend. Only issue is whether to sit back and take it a la Kerry, or smack McCain in his ugly, angry face. Obama chose the latter.
October 6, 2008 4:13 AM | Reply | Permalink
You've got it flipped, though. McCain is in the express lane racing right into a concrete wall and oblivion.
The skirt strategem failed. All he's got left is Wright and the like. So he's going to use them, period. And they've explicitly promised to talk about Obama's "associations" in the last days, i.e., Wright and Ayers. The Moose Queen already began this weekend. Only issue is whether to sit back and take it a la Kerry, or smack McCain in his ugly, angry face. Obama chose the latter.
October 6, 2008 4:13 AM | Reply | Permalink
What Obama has in the case he's pressing is correlation and relevance to the the central issue of this election. He will keep voters firmly focused on the economy while giving a museum tour of McCain's finer moments. McCain is now forced to play defense just as he was mounting his offense.
The Obama campaign nailed its presentation, too - it is factual, sourced and not wildly partisan. It's tone is just right.
October 6, 2008 4:17 AM | Reply | Permalink
Hear - Hear!
October 6, 2008 8:26 AM | Reply | Permalink
They will bring Rezko, and some others...
And Obama will bring Gordon Libby, Singlaub, and a few other radicals he is friend with...
October 6, 2008 3:56 AM | Reply | Permalink
I'll float another reason why this is a thing of beauty and a joy to behold:
This video and that website (domain name and everything) did not, I'm certain, just emerge in the last 24 hours, when the stories about McCrackers going seriously negative hit the news cycle. The Obama campaign had to have had this gem of a strategem up their sleeve for weeks; months, perhaps. Yet the conventional wisdom (even from those in the MSM claiming to be familiar with the Obama camp's inner workings) had it that the Keating business would remain untouched for the duration of the campaign. They were all so certain that this was a move Obama could not bring himself to make.
I would hate to be on the wrong end of a card table with Plouffe, Axelrod, et al. A cool, lethal operation when roused to anger, they make the much-vaunted (and highly overrated) Clinton 'War Room' of '92 look like a drunk and disorderly amateur hit squad by comparison.
October 6, 2008 4:49 AM | Reply | Permalink
Well said! Bravo!
October 6, 2008 5:34 AM | Reply | Permalink
Agreed! Hit them now. This ties in perfectly with the economic crisis. McCain has set himself up for this.
October 6, 2008 7:03 AM | Reply | Permalink
And mcShame was hoping to change the subject.
And the international markets are all down about 5% each....
Karma.
October 6, 2008 8:02 AM | Reply | Permalink
I really like that.
October 6, 2008 5:34 AM | Reply | Permalink
A consumation much to be anticipated: Evening of November 4, perferrably early, Jim Lehrer stretches out his arms, hands palm down on the desk, wry smile with tinkle of eye, nods to Brooks, then Shields, looks up to the camera, and the words, "Well there you have it. Barack Hussein Obama is the 44th President of the United States."
GOBAMA 08
October 6, 2008 6:18 AM | Reply | Permalink
You just brought tears to my eyes.
October 6, 2008 8:01 AM | Reply | Permalink
I agree with Benen on WashmOnthly need to tie this into the economy and not make this a battle of Keating v Ayers. That is exactly what Mccain wants and is his only chance aka change the narrative. Obama's campaign needs to keep the focus on the economy and health care all day and night for the next 30 days. It is fine to use Keating as it is legit, however, again need to keep in the context of the economy and how Mccain has a history of putting the economy in the exact mess it is now.
October 6, 2008 6:25 AM | Reply | Permalink
Keating 5 is to our current economic situation as pointing at a toxic dump site is to a rash of cancers.
Effects - meet causes.
October 6, 2008 8:30 AM | Reply | Permalink
I'm glad we're all excited, and I think the Keating 5 scandal is relevant to today's situation and John McCain's character.
But I am surprised at how much everyone here interprets this as a clear slam dunk by the Obama team. I agree that it should be, but I guess I'm not as confident about the electorate. It seems to me that this is going to anger McCain enough to go really apeshit with Rev. Wright, which he had said he wouldn't do. (Don't know if I believe that, but he still hasn't brought it up yet.)
I know the standard Democrat response: well, we'll just bring up Palin's wacko church. But I don't really think that kind of tit-for-tat will play well. And I think a black pastor that Obama knew for twenty years saying, "God damn America" scares Americans much more than some exorcism. (Again, not that it should, but I think that it does.)
I'm not hand-wringing here. I'm curious about strategy. Do you think this strategy means that they also have a response to more Wright, and if so, what do you think it is? Will they just keep hitting on the economy and McCain's political scandals? Or do you think they (or their surrogates) will bring up the dubiousness of the POW stories, the affair, the privilege, etc? In some ways, after reading the Rolling Stone article, I wish they would. But I think strategically it could tarnish Obama's image as being calm, steady, and above the mud.
October 6, 2008 7:02 AM | Reply | Permalink
This provides context for the financial problems. Some voters need more context to understand the roots (the rot) of how we got here. This is a public service. A history lesson. Too bad mcShame has associated himself with such shameful aspect of history. Oh, well....
October 6, 2008 8:24 AM | Reply | Permalink
With or without this Keating thingy, whether Obama "angers McCain enough" or not, the McCain campaign will bring up Wright again. And McCain is angry already. I don't know why they should be worried if this may not make McCain angry.
Of course nobody can tell how this will actually turn out to be, but I personally feel reassured to see how carefully planned this whole thing is (look how impulsive McCain's shots are by comparison). You cannot get a website like that ready to go overnight by reacting to the Saturday report McCain would go more negative. Nothing they do seems haphazard, which makes me believe the Obama camp is ready for various scenarios after unleashing Keating. And I also believe they will forcefully tie it to the issue.
So... buckle up. It's going to be really, really ugly. But I think the Obama camp knows what they are doing (honestly, I was not so quite sure before the convention, but I am now, no matter how it turns out to be).
October 6, 2008 8:30 AM | Reply | Permalink
I agree with all of this. But I am still unsure if folks think this is going to be a "tit-for-tat" strategy. In other words: "Bring up Wright and we'll bring up x." And then get progressively uglier from there? If so, do you think that will be effective? I am really curious and unsure.
Or do you think the Obama campaign will continue to hammer on the economy, including the damaging Keating 5 stuff when necessary, and ignore McCain and his minions when they go absolutely crazy with the race-baiting (which they surely will)? Though I don't think race-baiting will work with independents when directed at Obama (I don't think he reads as the angry black man to most folks), I do think America is racist enough to be really afraid of Rev Wright. Bringing him back up in a full frontal assault, I fear, will conjure up what I think can be an effective strategy against Obama: "Do we really know this guy?"
I don't think Ayers conjures up that question, except amongst those who are already dead set against Obama. Rev Wright? I could see independents being swayed by this, and I'm really curious as to what folks think the counterattack on that will be. As you mention here, they clearly were well prepped on the Keating 5 stuff. Do you think they are well prepped on another character issue against McCain (since there really are so many)?
October 6, 2008 8:38 AM | Reply | Permalink
So you are concerned about the Wright stuff to be brought up again, rather than a "tit-for-tat" strategy per se?
October 6, 2008 9:47 AM | Reply | Permalink
I'm not really "concerned." I'm just wondering how folks think the Obama camp will play the inevitable bringing up of Wright. (In fact, we now find out that Palin brought it up with Kristol, which indicates that she will be the one to talk about it so McCain can apparently look clean. What a joke! Why are they trying to deliberately make her look out of step with the campaign--first the Michigan garbage and now this? Puzzling. No one could possibly believe she doesn't know what's going on with the campaign, and if they do, then it makes the campaign look incompetent and disorganized.)
This definitely looks like a "you went to Ayers, so we go to Keating 5" kind of situation. They planned it in advance, but were waiting for the right moment, which was the inevitable character attacks they had anticipated. All I'm trying to figure out is what kind of counter attack, if any, they might launch in response to the Wright stuff, because I think the McCain folks know that Wright is much more damaging than Ayers or Rezko--who are very remote characters to the vast majority of Americans. I assume that Obama knows that too, so I'm wondering what strategy if any they might have to deal with it.
I'm not one who believes that Palin's wacko church is sufficient--or that it is likely something Obama will bring up. Maybe the flip flop on "agents of intolerance"? Maybe nothing?
October 6, 2008 9:57 AM | Reply | Permalink
Personally, I don't believe they have to play in their field. The Wright thingy was widely reported already and once dominated the narrative. And it was done. Now DOW is hitting below 10,000 and they still want to talk about that old story as if nothing was happening. How would voters see that?
October 6, 2008 1:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm not a night person like some of you, but have some more great morning news. The LA Times this morning has the story on McCain's "Aviation Disasters". I've been praying for this for weeks. Now if we can get a few prominent Republican endorsements (I know they will not come from TX or MS or AL but they are out there.) Here's the link to the 'Aviation Disasters' piece:
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-aviator6-2008oct06,0,7633315.story
October 6, 2008 7:10 AM | Reply | Permalink
Thanks for the link. I'll paste it to other places too.
October 6, 2008 8:08 AM | Reply | Permalink
More and more hitting the fan today. What a day!!!
October 6, 2008 8:17 AM | Reply | Permalink
From:
Head of State
http://headofstate.blogspot.com/2008/10/impulsively-unreflective-duo-inmccain.html
The Impulsively Unreflective Duo In..."McCain Goes Negative"
In our last episode, we saw the indomitable, impulsive duo suspend the campaign to take on the Crisis on Wall Street! Now, watch, as, in our next episode...McCain Goes Negative!
McCain paces the floor in the Fortress of Irritability. He is cracking walnuts.
A walnut slips to the floor.
McCain: Damn nutcracker!
Sarah Palin is sitting in a chair at a desk. She is writing on a piece of paper: "J.M + S.P." This is then crossed out and replaced by "S.P. + J.M.". These alternating versions , the one before it always crossed out, continues down the page.
McCain: Well, the first plan didn't work. We tried to put them in a trance with the folksy ray, but they had their deflectors halfway raised. If only you hadn't called the commander in Afghanistan "McClellan"
Palin: But...didn't you say they were fighting a civil war, Sir?
McCain stops pacing, looks at Palin silently. He is smiling through tight lips but he is holding back anger.
McCain: "I think the time has come. We have to call in...Dr. Negative."
He pushes a large black button, which is the only button on a red phone on his desk.
Dr. Negative immediately bursts through the door. He is carrying flyers, masking tape; telephone wires are wrapped around his arms hanging in every way; a tattered copy of the book "Accusations of Fascism, Communism, Terrorism, Drug Use, Pedophilia, Islamism, Adultery, Pandeism, Cannibalism, Cubism, Miscegenation, and Spousal Abuse...for Dummies!" is rolled and stuffed in his left pocket, filled with bookmarks; he is dragging a Robocaller behind him, leashed to a chain.
Dr. Negative (quickly, eagerly): Did you hear? Obama was born in Bin Laden's subterranean bomb making factory, outside of U.S. lines. He was born on a pile of cocaine and dynamite--and the midwife was a Trotskyite!
McCain: Not yet, Dr. Negative. I want you to meet Sarah.
Sarah: Oh, we've already met.
Dr. Negative: That trooper went down! He poisoned the salmon milk at the Wasilla Bible school! With drugs made at a Leftist Satan worshiping collective! That you could see from Russia!
Sarah: You betcha'!
Sarah and Dr. Negative give each other a high five. Dr. Negative's telephone wires rattle on his arm as he does so, triggering the Robocaller, which starts playing "...illegitimate babies made in test tube factories in North Korea and sent to Chicago by Bill Ayers..."
Dr. Negative shuts off the Robocaller with an embarassed smile.
Dr. Negative: Just practicing.
There is a pause.
McCain: That's fine, Dr. Negative. That's fine. Because, now, I have a special job for you. An important one.
Dr. Negative leaps into the air with excited glee. As he does, detritus falls to the floor--buttons reading "Election Day: Remember, the 3rd Tuesday in November!"; business cards, reading "Push Polls Anonymous--We Call, They Fall" and "Mongers On Call-No Rumor Too Far fetched"; Bandaids with purple hearts; mangled and dirty chads.
Dr. Negative: A new job! A special job! Oh, Mr. McCain! I'm ready! I'm ready!
Sarah watches from her chair, filing her nails.
McCain: Now, Dr. Negative. You have to make him seem radical...
Dr. Negative quickly pulls a can out of his right pocket, emblazoned with the word "Radical" He opens the top. Red and Black snakes fly out.
Dr. Negative: (eagerly, expectantly, hungrily) Yes...Yes...
McCain: You'll have to start rumors that are so inflammatory that they will spread like wildfire, and that will be started too late to stop them with the actual truth...
Dr. Negative pulls a gigantic grinder out of his left pocket. It is labeled "Rumor Mill". He turns the crank a few times. Hamsters, syringes, and Peace symbols fly out.
Dr. Negative: Yes...Yes...
He is salivating.
McCain: They will have to be so incredible, so over-the-top, based on such tawdry and poorly sourced evidence, yet riddled with tempting minutia--bullet gauges, Google maps of supposed meetings and the like, that the right will eat them up, and start analyzing the minutia with adolescent glee.
Dr. Negative (Very calmly, matter of fact): Oh, that's easy. They'll eat anything.
Dr. Negative reaches into his back pocket, pulls out a manila envelope labeled "Minutia: So-called "Proof" for the Right". He empties it to the floor. Bullet gauge measures, outdated copies of Photoshop, paperbacks entitled "How to Use the Insane as Competent Witnesses", "The Faked Moon Landings! Roswell! And Other Believable Phenomena!" and "You TOO Can Be A Warrior--From Your Own Couch!" fall to the floor.
Sarah plucks out the "Faked Moon Landings" book. She starts reading.
McCain: We know how our girl loves to read.
Sarah stops, and begins fixing her hair in a hand mirror.
McCain: Now, Dr. Negative, there is one final task.
Dr. Negative: Yes, Mr. McCain?
McCain: It is very difficult. Very...dark.
Dr. Negative: (Leaning forward expectantly, his voice quivering with excitement): Yes, Mr. McCain, Yes?
McCain: You will have to play the card that they played against me. Do you understand?
The room becomes silent. Sarah stops looking at herself, and looks towards the center of the room where McCain and Dr. Negative are staring at each other.
Dr. Negative: You mean...(eyes widened with disbelief. His telephone wires are quietly shaking as he shivers).
McCain (nodding): Yes.
Dr. Negative slowly removes from his jacket pocket what seems to be an ordinary pack of playing cards. They are labeled "Joker" brand. He takes a penknife from his pocket, and slowly slices the covering cellophane. There is a slight and distant roar. He looks at McCain.
McCain nods.
Dr. Negative then slowly removes the red ribbon encircling the cellophane at the top of the pack. He inserts the penknife--holding it from it very farthest end--and flips open the top of the pack.
Smoke begins to pour from the top of the pack, thick, acrid smoke. It quickly fills the room, covering all that is in sight.
McCain (shouting amidst the sound of smoke rushing into the room): And remember--no fingerprints!
Next episode: The smoke is cleared.
Cite:
Head of State
http://headofstate.blogspot.com/2008/10/impulsively-unreflective-duo-inmccain.html
October 6, 2008 7:28 AM | Reply | Permalink
Can anyone ban this guy?
He's neither relevant nor, you know, actually funny. Sort of like an American Carol.
October 6, 2008 7:59 AM | Reply | Permalink
Yes, I hope so. Isn't this the equivalent of spamming for one's blog? It takes up a huge amount of space, ruins comment sections, and gets posted all over the web. AND it isn't funny.
October 6, 2008 8:08 AM | Reply | Permalink
NEWS
am I to late?
October 6, 2008 7:49 AM | Reply | Permalink
Nope. Take a look at this:
New Proof On Longtime McCain Lie About Threatening Official
http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/10/06/new-proof-on-longtime-mccain-lie-about-threatening-official/
October 6, 2008 7:58 AM | Reply | Permalink
You know what's beautiful about this?
It's the Providence of it all. I mean, the Keating attacks without our recent bailout, would have appeared disconnected, desperate, tit-for-tat. Now, due to the course of events, they are perfectly appropriate and relevant. As Joe Biden would agree, the past is prologue.
Moreover, we've been handed political cover by Sarah Palin's smear over the weekend.
It just doesn't get better than this!
October 6, 2008 7:59 AM | Reply | Permalink
Karma. You gotta love it!
October 6, 2008 8:03 AM | Reply | Permalink
Yup. Now he can go medieval on McInsane's wrinkly old ass WITHOUT changing the subject from the economy. A twofer.
And, of course, major bonus points if McInsane gets even angrier and more obnoxious on Tuesday than he did in the first debate.
October 6, 2008 8:24 AM | Reply | Permalink
Yes, the timing here is unbelievable! Cymbals crashing as a symphony hits its high point!
October 6, 2008 8:32 AM | Reply | Permalink
Guess I went to bed too early last night. I missed all of the excitement!
Wheee!!!! Hit him where it hurts, Obama!!!
October 6, 2008 8:33 AM | Reply | Permalink
Ding! Round fourteen. Rope-a-dope.
October 6, 2008 8:45 AM | Reply | Permalink
That's just concern trollery. I say rip their fuckin veins out. All considerations of strategy aside, that presumptuous little non-entity bitch needs to be ripped into for having the fucking affrontery to try and dis Obama on that Ayers crap. Fuck her.
October 6, 2008 8:47 AM | Reply | Permalink
That was meant for JohnT (for troll?) above.
October 6, 2008 8:49 AM | Reply | Permalink