SmilePolitely.com has some suggestions for how John McCain can improve his campaign's fortunes. A few of my favorites:
- Without advance word, completely disappear from the world for a few days, and create a storm of speculation and intrigue. Emerge three days latter, scratched and bloody, with the dead carcass of Osama Bin Laden across his back. [Note: This will take some embalming work, since Bin Laden has been in deep freeze in US government storage since 2005. He will need to call in some favors from his mortuary friends.]
- During next debate, slap Obama with a leather riding glove and demand satisfaction for the restoration of McCain’s honor. Offer choice of fencing epee, dueling pistol, or full javelin and riding horse. If Obama claims this is illegal, simply question his manhood, and choose riding horse, since Obama is known to be a poor equestrian.
- Announce that the election is now a raffle, and that anyone who votes for him can win up to six of his twelve houses. Have Sarah Palin make the announcement, and have her wink a lot, implying that she or Todd just might come with the deal, depending on which way you swing. If Obama complains that this is illegal, slap him with a leather riding glove and see above.
After all, if you can't laugh at the absurdity of this year's Presidential campaigns, then what can you laugh at?
McCain has a new ad out today about Obama and Ayers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONfJ7YSXE5w
McCain just doesn't get it. With less than 30 days to go I am one who is waiting for more and more sleaze coming from the McCain campaign so I can make up my mind about who to vote for.
Maybe Obama/Biden should have a video with Sarah Palin watching the Alaska skies, saying, " Sarah Palin, anxiously waiting every day for her close neighbor Vladimr Putin, who is also a neighbor of North Korea AND Iran, to fly over her house."
This is getting better and better all the time.
The Annenburg (sp?) Foundation funded the education board Obama and Ayers were on. Mrs. Annenburg is a major contributor to McCain. Therefore, McCain accepts money from the same person who funded terrorists! That makes McCain a terrorist.
Too tenuous? McCain has served in the US Senate with Robert Byrd. Robert Byrd is an admitted former member of the Ku Klux Klan, a domestic terrorist organization that has murdered and bombed. Therefore, unless McCain states that he is quitting the same organization that has Byrd as a member (The US Senate), he obviously condones what Byrd did, and also pals around with domestic terrorists.
Logic is fun, especially when mis-applied!
Ok so let's see if I get your "logic".
Let Member 1=Byrd
Let Member 2=McCain
Let Org. A= KKK
Let Org. B= Senate
1-->A
1-->B
2 not-->A
2-->B
Therefore 2-->A. Bzzz! Wrong. The correlation of McCain and Byrd in the Senate does not imply McCain's support of Byrd's KKK membership.
Byrd did not raise money for McCain's prospective AZ repesentative/senator campaigns. Nor do I think McCain went all the way to West Virginny, hat in hand, to get Byrd's blessing to start his political career.
If that doesn't sway you, take one from the Obama playbook--McCain was only seven or eight years old when Byrd was burning crosses. So, it doesn't apply...case closed...stop race-baiting (oh, wait, the guy is white).
Nice try with the logic though, Chief.
Obama should go with the epee - it's the only weapon listed that's not lethal. The only thing that either would be in danger of hurting in modern fencing is the loser's pride...
Logic is fun, especially when mis-applied!
Ok so let's see if I get your "logic".
Let Member 1=Byrd
Let Member 2=McCain
Let Org. A= KKK
Let Org. B= Senate
1-->A
1-->B
2 not-->A
2-->B
Therefore 2-->A. Bzzz! Wrong. The correlation of McCain and Byrd in the Senate does not imply McCain's support of Byrd's KKK membership.
Byrd did not raise money for McCain's prospective AZ repesentative/senator campaigns. Nor do I think McCain went all the way to West Virginny, hat in hand, to get Byrd's blessing to start his political career.
If that doesn't sway you, take one from the Obama playbook--McCain was only seven or eight years old when Byrd was burning crosses. So, it doesn't apply...case closed...stop race-baiting (oh, wait, the guy is white).
Nice try with the logic though, Chief.
Hmm, someone is unclear on the concept of "misapplied".
I would like to make clear, that even if we share the same name,,,and some of the things I write on here,,,that I do just to see where they might splatter :) I am not, and never have been,,and would never be involved in the KKK.:)
Yes Xian you don't get the misapplied, I don't think they are saying the money made Obama a terrorist it's hanging out with the terrorist like Ayers that was the problem for Obama. Obama should find better mentors then the radical Ayers and Dohrn to be on boards with and to help them indoctrinate children. I am waiting for the issue of the two Brinks guards that were killed by the Weather Underground in this story from Politico which is interesting and tells the story of what radicals Ayers and Dorhn really where doing when they where involved in the killing of to State Troopers and a guard;
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0208/8630.html
unlike some other fringe figures of the era — they’re also flatly unrepentant about the bombings they committed in the name of ending the war, defending them on the grounds that they killed no one, except, accidentally, their own members.
Dohrn, however, was jailed for less than a year for refusing to testify before a grand jury investigating other Weather Underground members’ robbery of a Brinks truck, in which a guard and two New York State Troopers were killed.
“I don't regret setting bombs; I feel we didn't do enough,” Ayers told the New York Times in 2001.
And their rehabilitation in establishment circles, even in Hyde Park, has its limits.
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Not sure if you've been hearing about the story of John M. Murtagh. He's been getting a tremendous amount of airtime in the alternative media.
http://www.city-journal.org/2008/eon0430jm.html
As you can see from the date it's from April--unfortunately. This is tragic because Mr. Murtagh has a truly compelling story. Mr. Murtagh's father was a NY State Supreme Court judge whose family was bombed by Bill Ayers' Weathermen. John, by the way, was only nine years old when Ayers' terrorist thugs tried to murder him and his family.
He has an incredible story. Unfortunately, it has taken way too long to get the attention it deserves.
Then what the heck was the Walter Annenberg foundation doing when they appointed Ayers to the board of their foundation for schools in Chicago? Makes you wonder about this kook Annenberg. Is he some sort of Commie?
On a different note:
Former governor Milliken backs away from McCain by Pat Shellenbarger | The Grand Rapids Press Friday October 10, 2008, 6:57 AM
Former Republican Gov. William Milliken
GRAND RAPIDS -- He endorsed John McCain in the presidential primary, but now former Republican Gov. William Milliken is expressing doubts about his party's nominee.
"He is not the McCain I endorsed," said Milliken, reached at his Traverse City home Thursday. "He keeps saying, 'Who is Barack Obama?' I would ask the question, 'Who is John McCain?' because his campaign has become rather disappointing to me.
"I'm disappointed in the tenor and the personal attacks on the part of the McCain campaign, when he ought to be talking about the issues."
Actually, Walter Annenberg was closely aligned with many conservative politicians. His family founded Triangle Publications, which owned such magazines as Seventeen and TV Guide. He was ambassador to the UK, a major art collector and also endowed schools of communication at USC and Penn.
I'm sure Mr. Annenberg had the best intentions for his foundation. Unfortunately, it, like so many other philanthropic organizations focusing on "education", has been highjacked by leftist/socialist academics as a coduit for their social engineering agendas. Bill Ayers just happened to claim the Chicago Annenberg Challenge as his prize.
Rolling Stone has an awesome article on the late Senator McCain that every GOPer should read.
Not that you would expect RS to say anything nice about McCain...
but seriously folks, is there anything nice one can say about JSMcCainIII?
I am an independent leaning toward mccain. if I do not hear mccain directly address the acorn situation/scandel and the 800,000 contribution during the debate wednesday night. i will not vote and stay home. this to me is bigger than ayers.
Senator McCain
You blew it senator. Your only hope now is to come out with a new ad before
election day stating Your first priority is the economy that will be first thing on your agenda 2nd thing is going
after the parties that created this problem in the first place and prosecute to the fullest extent of the law.
3rd. senator Obama once again got by without answering the most important question on America's mind what
was he doing in Micheal Ayers livingroom if not launching his career. Why did he spend 50 million or more on radicule education instead of regular school. we want to know.
. 4th why a 20 year association with Rev. Wright who can stand behind a pulpit and blasphamy
the United States of America and his other connections with radicules. This is your only hope now John you have
to follow through with an ad and mean it you will prosecute those involved in this economy downfall. That my friend
is your only hope now. Please I beg you do it for the good of our GOD 1st Country 2nd and family 3rd P{lease
John Please for America
I saw Bill Ayers twice the Saturday before last. It's really hard to not run into him in Chicago if you care at all about education.
IMO, McCain blew it by his less-than-steady behavior during the bailout boondoggle negotiations, and by his eventual support for it. He was competitive prior to that, and still hasn't recovered.
Gotta love copy/paste comments. One of my uncles forwarded me something quite similar not too long ago. I especially love this line:
Senator Obama once again got by without answering the most important question on America's mind what was he doing in Micheal Ayers livingroom if not launching his career.
America couldn't give two ***** about Ayers. The only people asking that question are hard-core Republicans who wouldn't vote for Obama even if the other candidate was The Devil.
(EDITED by IP to remove profanity.)
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At some point we have to trust the government. - redstatewannabe on 2008-06-12 at 1:14pm
IMO, McCain blew it by his less-than-steady behavior during the bailout boondoggle negotiations, and by his eventual support for it. He was competitive prior to that, and still hasn't recovered.
Right now I would agree that this was the turning point, though I think there is a mix here between McCain's obvious incompetence in handling the crisis politically and Obama's skill in handling the crisis politically. McCain didn't just suck, he sucked particularly severely when compared to Obama who, while he didn't do much, didn't do anything stupid.
But I think the choice to focus on Ayers has been another huge mistake. The "kill him!" comments aside, this character critique undercuts the main message coming out of the convention, which was "Reform" and "Change". Whether McCain would admit it last night or not, the line of logic here is that Obama is not patriotic. That is just not a good strategy in the America of 2008. And it is certainly not change.
I've said it before and I'll say it again. I think McCain could have won on experience. If he had picked a strong running mate, like Tom Ridge, he would have presented an old, secure, leadership package which could be very appealing right now. Obama is still very beatable, but McCain/Palin don't seem like they're going to get it right anytime soon.
McCain should stick to the Ayers and ACORN issues. Throw in a mention every speech that he is a maverick. Somehow let people know that he was a POW. Use Cindy more; people admire millionaire beer heiresses. That's the proven route to success. The polls will turn around by November 10. Don't change a thing.