Obama will probably go up double digit over McLamebrain (fundamentals of economy are fine) this week especially if he attacks Obama’s character. Who needs that kind of discussion when the economy is going to hell by the day.

Why did McCain sell that house anyway???

McCain could start campaining on his mavrick record like:
How he went against his party with the immigration bill with Ted K. (oh yea he flipped on that one)
Or how he was against bush’s tax cuts. (oh he flipped on that
one too)
Or how he was against torture. (oh yea he flipped on that too)
Never mind.

Actually, if anyone took a serious look at McCain’s voting record you will see right away that he talked the talk, but didn’t walk the walk when it came to voting. For most of his career he has had close to a 90% voting record with Republican issues. Very rarely did he actually vote against his party.

In amounts ranging from $200 to $2,300, about 30 partners and employees of the legal firm Keating, Muething and Klekamp, as well as their family members, have contributed $50,200 to McCain’s 2008 campaign. All but two of the contributions came in July, and all but three of those July donations were logged on July 31, suggesting they were delivered at the same time. As with any bundle of campaign contributions, it’s difficult to determine which donor was the “bundler,” the person who solicited the contributions on the campaign’s behalf. McCain’s online roster of bundlers, which purports to name any individual bundling $50,000 or more for the campaign, does not associate any of McCain’s major fund-raisers with the Keating firm.

http://washingtonindependent.com/4447/keating-firm-raises-50k-for-mccain

Obama needs to include this in his Keating Economics film.

thanks to his hard-charging (stillborn) rescue of the bailout everyone hates, even if he hauled bin laden up the capitol steps in chains, absolutely no one would think that it’s not another one of his hail mary campaign stunts. he’d never get credit for it.

that’s what happens when you lose all credibility, which up until now was the best thing mccain had going for him.

“As a political presence, McCain has been like an iceberg. Nine-tenths of his actions and motives have always been held beneath the surface, concealed from public view. As a result, even though McCain has been in the headlines for almost a decade, we still haven’t gotten to know the real John McCain. Is he a hero? Or has he always been caught up in his own self-advancement? Has he been totally corrupted by this association with Charles Keating? Or was it the insidious McCain who corrupted Keating? On the surface, he’s seems so readily approachable and open to journalists, television people and radio talk show hosts. And yet, after his statements are weighed, it always becomes clear McCain has never actually revealed much about himself.” -Tom Fitzpatrick, Phoenix New Times, 10-10-90

“If your political advertising reflected where it came from, you would be forced to run footage of yourself dining with defense contractors. You would walk on beaches with Keating and lobbyists for the big pharmaceutical companies. You would ride horseback with medical lobbyists. You would walk through developments with the real estate flacks. There would be one grand shot of you and your family at poolside in Keating’s place in the Bahamas, or disembarking from a free ride on Keating’s jet airplane. Sometimes, when alone, you must think it strange that after ten years in Congress, the biggest part of your television campaign must still be devoted to those old film clips of you coming back from Vietnam the first time. You’re John McCain, the hero who sold out.” -Tom Fitzpatrick, Phoenix New Times, 10-28-92

Remember the idiot tap dancing in front of the White House when McCain was nominated republican candidate for president?
The selfish idiot was chanting: “McCain will not win! If I could declare martial law and postpone the elections NOW THAT WOULD BE GREAT!”

Good point… :)

Too bad they aren’t very good at picking said authority figure. It got us 8 years of Bush.

Anyone other than the lobbyists McIIIrd surrounds himself with would be better…

AS THE financial crisis pushes the economy back to the top of voters’ concerns, Barack Obama is starting to open up a clear lead over John McCain in the opinion polls. But among those who study economics for a living, Mr Obama’s lead is much more commanding. A survey of academic economists by The Economist finds the majority—at times by overwhelming margins—believe Mr Obama has the superior economic plan, a firmer grasp of economics and will appoint better economic advisers.

http://www.economist.com/world/unitedstates/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12342127