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Obama Hits McCain, Palin For Ugly Tone At Rallies
Obama goes there: He hits McCain for the ugly and hateful tone that has gripped his and Sarah Palin's rallies, and excoriates Palin, directly, for not doing anything to rein that tone in:
If we want to talk about Congressman Lewis, who is an American hero, he unprompted by my campaign, without my camp's awareness, made a statement that he was troubled with what he was hearing at some of the rallies that your running mate was holding, in which all the public reports indicated were shouting when my name came up, things like "terrorist" and "kill him," and that your running mate didn't mention, didn't stop, didn't say hold on a second, that's kinda out of line. And I think Congressman Lewis' point was that we have to be careful about how we deal with our supporters.
Feeding the "erratic," "angry" and "out of control" meme.
Late Update: It's worth pointing out that Obama's decision to directly go after Palin is probably driven by her unexpectedly high negatives of late.
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Time for Obama to pull out the Iran-Contra link.
October 15, 2008 9:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
Obama's on a giggly mood.
October 15, 2008 9:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
McCain flatlining now when talking about Ayers & Acorn.
Frankly, I think McCain is being obnoxious by repeatedly interrupting Obama.
October 15, 2008 9:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
Word. No surprise if many undecided voters switch to Obama for this.
October 15, 2008 9:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah. McCain can barely sit still. He's constantly attacking. And Obama is sitting back playing steady defense. No news is good news.
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October 15, 2008 10:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
OMG! I can't believe he just asked that question about running mates! Whoo-hoo!!!
October 15, 2008 9:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
Good. Biden vs. Palin.
October 15, 2008 9:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
Here comes the Palin lie, lie, lie!
October 15, 2008 9:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
Time to dig deep McCain. There's got to be some bullshit left in that hole.
October 15, 2008 9:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
She's a role model for women.
ROFLMAO!!!!!!!
October 15, 2008 9:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
WTF does Palin understand about "autism"??
October 15, 2008 9:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
Down's Syndrome, autism - same difference?
October 15, 2008 9:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
He just said "precious children that have autism" AGAIN! Am I out of the loop or missing some information here? Cause he said Sarah Palin has "special understanding" of these children. Does her baby have Down's AND autism? Is that even possible?
October 15, 2008 10:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
He just said "precious children that have autism" AGAIN! Am I out of the loop or missing some information here? Cause he said Sarah Palin has "special understanding" of these children. Does her baby have Down's AND autism? Is that even possible?
October 15, 2008 10:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
He just said "precious children that have autism" AGAIN! Am I out of the loop or missing some information here? Cause he said Sarah Palin has "special understanding" of these children. Does her baby have Down's AND autism? Is that even possible?
October 15, 2008 10:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
I don't believe autism even manifests itself until the child is older than hers is now.
October 15, 2008 10:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
Schieffer is a scumbag for bringing this up in the 1st place.
I just wished O brought up McLame's associations with terrorists and corrupt thugs, and there are plenty.
October 15, 2008 9:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
That would be a bad idea. He's winning on staying positive.
October 15, 2008 9:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
O I hate that old fool - he should be hung up by his thumbs for this entire line - he just could not wait - that old Drama Queen!
October 15, 2008 9:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
Whatchoo talkin' 'bout? Schieffer did the right thingโwe needed for McLamebrain's idee fixe to get aired in the presence of "That One." Obama replied by telling folks what they already knew or surmised, that Captain POW!!! was accusing the Annenberg Foundation of being a Yippie!!! front organization. And Sarah Palin's running mate sputtered and made a series of really weird girns, suggesting that he was about to be overcome by an onset of Torrette's. A winning ticket all around!
October 16, 2008 12:51 AM | Reply | Permalink
As if McCain's trust rating isn't low enough, now he's got to directly defend and promote Sarah Palin to the nation with a straight face.
October 15, 2008 9:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
O started slowly but he's coming into his own. When he said McDumbass's campaign allegations say more about his campaign than they do about him (O) he hit a home run!
October 15, 2008 9:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
I distinctly remember that Alaskans have always gotten money back.
October 15, 2008 9:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
CNN women not responding to McCain's Palin BS but the Men LOVE it.
October 15, 2008 9:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
Men like it when Mc gets mad. Women hate it.
October 15, 2008 9:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
She was a POW in Russia for 13 years. Special needs. Maverick.
October 15, 2008 9:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think my jaw dropped so bad while McCain defended Palin. That was the most unbelievable shit I've heard in a very long time.
October 15, 2008 9:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
Watching on CNN. As McShame talks about Palin the women line is FLAT!!!
October 15, 2008 9:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
Nice side step for Obama -- is she qualified for president? And nice turn to funding autism!
McCain going after Biden! Holy shit!
October 15, 2008 9:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
Obama killed him on his spending freeze idea.
October 15, 2008 9:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
Dammit Barack - he should have hit Palin on her utter lack of foreign policy! Huge miss.
October 15, 2008 9:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
His eyes are on McCain. Any moment that Obama spends attacking Palin is a missed moment for him.
The people that it'll matter to know all about Palin's foreign policy chops already.
October 15, 2008 9:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
That just opens up more criticize for him. Obama played it cool and strategically.
October 15, 2008 9:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hoover 2008!
October 15, 2008 9:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
McLame asks "climate change" in the middle as apparently he's has hearing problem and takes a note.
October 15, 2008 9:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
Obama damns with faint praise when talking about Palin.
Also made a good point that if autism is important to you, you have to figure out a way to pay for it and stop spouting slogans like "spending freeze".
October 15, 2008 9:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
Energy is always huge on the meters. It's been that way on every debate.
October 15, 2008 9:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
Here go the servers...
October 15, 2008 9:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
Question: Can anyone tell me what is McCain consistently writing on his note pad?
October 15, 2008 9:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
I heart Sarah.
October 15, 2008 9:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
โ โญ โช โฏ โ โฌ โ โจ
October 15, 2008 9:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
. . .must. . .find. . .nitro. . .
October 16, 2008 12:56 AM | Reply | Permalink
McS: Bresh of freath air.
October 15, 2008 9:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
"It's time we have that breast of flesh air" -- John McCain near verbal slip on S. Palin
October 15, 2008 9:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think he writes as a distraction when he gets agitated or excited.
Watch for that and his tongue flickers.
October 15, 2008 9:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
Admittedly, I'm totally biased, but I feel a lot more confident listening to Obama than I do McCain (well, I don't feel confident at all about McCain).
October 15, 2008 9:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
McCondescension.
October 15, 2008 9:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
How was the line moving during the "negative campaign" stuff? Could anyone please fill me in?
October 15, 2008 9:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
McCain busted out an Omni-Eyeroll there.
October 15, 2008 9:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
McCain's body language, eye-rolling and sarcastic eye-brow raising is SO bad.
Labor leaders in Colombia are being assassination? Eye roll...
October 15, 2008 9:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
I saw that too and all I could think was what an asshole McCain is.
October 15, 2008 9:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
I sure heard a lot of trembliness in his voice in the first 10 minutes. (Hey, it that a word?)
October 15, 2008 10:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
McLame is such an angry asshole -
I hope his lines are showing people don't like it -
and goddamn this node shortage -
October 15, 2008 9:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
McFucker just rolled his eyes when Obama mentioned assassination of union leaders in Colombia.
October 15, 2008 9:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
McCain is a reptile.
Obama is smacking him around on Colombia right now. McCain = Punk'd!
October 15, 2008 9:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
Is McCain making sense? -on free trade- He sounds Palin like to me.
October 15, 2008 9:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
Scheffer is giving McCain the final word on every single topic.
October 15, 2008 9:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
This would concern me, except McCain looks like a weasel everytime he follows up.
October 15, 2008 9:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
I thought the same. Scheffer more often asks Obama questions first.
October 15, 2008 9:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
It's not just the asking of questions. They're rotating questions. Watch the end of every exchange. Scheffer is giving McCain room to answer every one that should end with Obama, and he's using that to lob last minute bombs that Obama isn't getting the chance to refute.
October 15, 2008 10:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
McLame is fucked. That's all I can say - he's making no sense, he's obviously fighting to keep from reaching over and strangoing Obama -
October 15, 2008 9:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
McCain is fucking full of non-sequiturs.
If the American people hate his attacks tonight as much as in previous debates, he's fucked.
October 15, 2008 9:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
What's the delay on the CNN lines?
October 15, 2008 9:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
McCain is fucking full of non-sequiturs.
If the American people hate his attacks tonight as much as in previous debates, he's fucked.
October 15, 2008 9:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
I know Joe the plummer.
We were down in Joe's garage
We didn't have no dope or LSD
But a coule of quarts of beer
Would make it so the intonation
Would not offend your ear
October 15, 2008 9:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
Just listening on NPR and I can't tell you how many times I have heard McCains noisy breathing and frankly, he sounds sick. I can hear it even when he isn't talking. Also he just sounds like the only thing he can say is negative stuff about Obama. That is all that is coming through. Is McCain looking at Obama at all?
October 15, 2008 9:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
McCain thought this would be a cake walk. Just throw out the POW stuff, pilot, etc. and it's in the bag. Pick a raging neocon as his running mate that likes to hunt and spew BS and he's as good as "in." He's pissed as hell that it's not working and just doesn't understand why. I believe people look at the last election and say to themselves, "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me." Ain't happenin' again.
October 16, 2008 12:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
McCain is frustrated, angry, combative. Maybe his core likes it. But he's not kicking anyone's ass.
October 15, 2008 9:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
We can tell you care, you angry, cranky old man!
October 15, 2008 9:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm still tuned in to a show on mind altering drugs.
Does our O look Presidential? Is he kicking butt?
October 15, 2008 9:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yes - he is kicking butt and McLame just is an asshole tonight. He is condescending, contemptuous, dismissive - it's a disgusting display.
October 15, 2008 10:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
Joe!!!!
October 15, 2008 9:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
McCain is not making sense. McCain has one friend, Joe.
October 15, 2008 10:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
I thought he was going to mention his friend Joe Lieberman, but it's Joe the Plumber again!
October 15, 2008 10:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
What is with McCain and this man-crush on Joe the Plumber??
October 15, 2008 10:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
Is it moe of the lighting, but McCain looks more and more like Dr.Evil each time I see him.
Contentwise, Obama stays on message and actually answers the questions.
McCain is so anxious and jittery.
If it walks like a president and talks like a president, its definitely Obama.
October 15, 2008 10:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
McCaib just wants to use up time - all that crap about gyms, walk in clinics, obesity - just air.
October 15, 2008 10:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
Obama slow steady climb with CNN yellow, red, and blue respondents: then THROUGH the ROOF at the end. He really gave a good talk on health care that sent ladies and -50k earners skyrocketing.
PS - Since WHEN do Republicans care about PLUMBERS????
October 15, 2008 10:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
Awesome!
October 15, 2008 10:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well. . .there was that little clambake that went down at the Watergate Hotel. We all know of McCain's ongoing devotion to G. Gordon Liddy.
October 16, 2008 1:03 AM | Reply | Permalink
ZERO!
McCain is about to lose it.
October 15, 2008 10:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
The last Joe comment from Mccain made the CNN thingy PLUNGE.
October 15, 2008 10:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
Wow McFuck fucked.
October 15, 2008 10:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
McCain: Joe called, he left a message: Cut it out!
October 15, 2008 10:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
The last time plumbers were this important in an election Nixon was President.
October 15, 2008 10:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
McCain is mangling the healthcare exchange. And he just lobbed the "fine" charge and "single payer" charge at Obama.
I seriously don't think McCain can absorb legitimate policy points, so he just makes it up.
October 15, 2008 10:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
ZERO!
McCain is about to lose it.
October 15, 2008 10:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
McCain: Joe called, he left a message: Cut it out!
October 15, 2008 10:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
Mr. Negative already lost this election by limiting himself to pander the base. He has been sounding much like Palin.
McSame looked so dumb on health care that he goes, "You [don't] not [fine]" ! He looked like the must idiot in his facial expression, with dilated eyes.
October 15, 2008 10:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
If Obama wasn't going to be President for the next 8 years, then I'd say he'd be perfect to be the next James Bond. He frickin' rules man.
October 15, 2008 10:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
ZERO!
McCain is about to lose it.
October 15, 2008 10:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
The last time plumbers were this important in an election Nixon was President.
October 15, 2008 10:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
ding ding ding!
October 15, 2008 10:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
An angry, muddleheaded old man vs. an unflappable focused younger man.
The choice couldn't be clearer.
October 15, 2008 10:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
Wait.... Joe is rich? I thought he was a plumber... What the hell is going on?
October 15, 2008 10:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
McCain just admitted he'll tax health benefits.
October 15, 2008 10:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
Is it me, or is McCain increasingly aware . . . and pissed-off mightily . . . that he's blowing this?
October 15, 2008 10:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
It doesn't look as if McCain's criticism about Obama's health care plan went over so well - mostly flatlining after Obama getting high marks from men and women
And McCain sounded like a dope when Obama said Joe the Plumber would pay 0 and McCain said "Zero?" almost as if he couldn't understand.
October 15, 2008 10:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
McCaini is getting killed on health care. How about those gold-plated plans that include cosmetic surgery and . . . TRANSPLANTS?
October 15, 2008 10:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
Is it me, or is McCain increasingly aware . . . and pissed-off mightily . . . that he's blowing this?
October 15, 2008 10:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
McCain just admitted he'll tax health benefits.
October 15, 2008 10:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
McCain has used up all his attacks...he now has to do what he just can't do...talk old ideas, and failed policy....
October 15, 2008 10:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
McCain is clueless. He thinks some policies cover cosmetic surgery?
And you have to have a "goldan plated Cadilac" plan to get transplant?
October 15, 2008 10:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
You have to have a Gold Plated Cadilliac as a co-pay for a transplant. Hope that clears everything up.
October 16, 2008 1:07 AM | Reply | Permalink
So what the hell is a refundable tax credit?
October 15, 2008 10:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
McCain just admitted he'll tax health benefits.
October 15, 2008 10:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
Obama voted against BREYER?
Did Mc mean Alito?
October 15, 2008 10:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
McCain just admitted he'll tax health benefits.
October 15, 2008 10:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
The Ledbedder comment was great.
October 15, 2008 10:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ledbetter was a trial lawyer's dream. Red meat to the red states.
October 15, 2008 10:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
Did he really admit he'll tax health benefits?
Ok, I left the show on mind altering drugs and now watching a show on fried foods.
God I'm a wuss.
October 15, 2008 10:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
Did you hear McCain? He keeps taking deep breathes that you can hear all over the radio.
October 15, 2008 10:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
"Luke! I am your father.
October 16, 2008 1:10 AM | Reply | Permalink
McCain was about to jump out of the TV screen right there...
October 15, 2008 10:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
An Education question, what a radical concept!
October 15, 2008 10:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm guessing the CNN line is about 2 sec delayed because it goes to zero when Schieffer speaks about 2 sec. after he starts
October 15, 2008 10:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm thinking that's how long it takes for the CNN audience to turn their knobs.
October 15, 2008 10:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
How is it moving?
October 15, 2008 10:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
Charter Schools? That will get the GOP base (circa 1999)
October 15, 2008 10:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
Troops to teachers. McCain's military answer to everything.
October 15, 2008 10:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
Does the Palin baby have autism? I thought it was Downs Syndrome, why does he keep saying that?
October 15, 2008 10:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
Autism... Downs... they're all the same to McClown.
October 15, 2008 10:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
These debates are not good for America. They are full of mis-leading information, hatred and just nonsense. I would rather see Obama and McCain in a UFC match on SPIKE. The millions of dollars spent on their campaigns should go to much more important issues rather than these two politicians going for each other's throats...god bless us indeed in the coming months.
October 16, 2008 11:13 PM | Reply | Permalink