McCain says he’ll bring up Ayers in the debate, but what about the other scandals?
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John McCain, after being double dared by Obama, has said that he intends to bring Ayers into the last presidential debate. Okay, that’s one step in the right direction. How about all the other steps? If I were advising McCain, I’d tell him to turn nearly every question to a scandal even if it doesn’t make complete sense to do so.
For one thing, we’ve heard all these lousy questions and answers two to four times already, depending on whether you count the VP debate and the Saddleback Forum. Why listen to them again? But that’s what we’re going to get.
Example of what we need:
Moderator: Senator McCain, will you support going after terrorists in Pakistan without Pakistan’s approval?
McCain: Well, I can tell you that this is a sensitive area that needs to be handled with tact, unlike my opponent’s handling of Kenya, which could have been partially responsible for more than 1000 souls lost. When you go into fragile situations as a representative of the United States, you must be careful not to openly and forcefully side with one party or another, particularly when one party has a history of opportunistic violence. I think that Obama’s friendship and campaigning for his fellow tribesman, Raila Odinga, showed a tremendous amount of callousness and carelessness. Did his actions directly lead to the rampaging and genocide in Kenya? It almost certainly would have continued on without him, but we’ll never know the exact impact of his behavior. In fact, nearly all his foreign policy actions have shown a frightening guilelessness. I can only hope that he will some day learn his lesson, particularly given, in this case, that Pakistan is a nuclear power.
And so forth.
We need serious talk about Reverend Wright, ACORN, Odinga, CAC, Fannie Mae, and on and on. We need to hear about how Obama won his first Illinois race by having all the other candidates thrown off the ballot. There are so many things Americans need to hear, and we’ve already lost four opportunities.
Let’s not lose this one.
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Didn’t you just love the comment about ACORN—how we couldn’t use this as just another excuse for voter suppression…by the very candidate who brings new definition to voter suppression—just keep them off the ballot!
Definitely a new definition for voter suppression.
This is just one of the many little ironies with Barry.
It’s a bit off topic but I need your help.
Obama’s fraud knows no boundary.
A Swiss citizen witnessed voter fraud in Switzerland and wrote the following at
http://purplepeoplevote.com/2008/10/05/funny-funding-for-obama/
Leon48, on October 6th, 2008 at 6:26 pm Said:
I am swiss and resident in Geneva, Switzerland.
1) I certify that the Obama campaign has raised money from SWISS residents (not US citizens!)
2) I can also certify that at a fundraising reception help in my town Geneva in early sept., several people gave the Obama campaign about 20′000 usd each which is way above the legal limits in your country.
On my local Geneva TV, a SWISS donor has actually declared “it is our duty - as swiss citizens - to help elect a black candidate because this is a historic and fantastic thing”.
I stand ready to witness and bring proof backing up my statement. I dont know who to contact in usa so I am just tryin to post a few messagges under some articles appearin to raise the question of fraudulent donations to Obama.
Leon Fiss, Geneva, Switzerland
I’ve heard similar stories from friends in Switzerland, France and Germany.
I contacted local TV channels in the States but (probably because I live in a blue state) I only got cookie cutter responses “Thank you for contacting us.”
I also contacted several French language TV stations and newspapers in Switzerland and France, but they are not intereted in this story. Unfortunately the French media are just as biased as the American media, so let’s contact BBC, Times and ITN and some German media(much fairer when it comes to McCain than the French media) and ask them to investigate!
BBC (They have offices all over Europe)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/newswatch/ukfs/hi/newsid_3950000/newsid_3959100/3959111.stm
Times Online’s Newsdesk (They also have bureaus all over Europe)
news@timesonline.co.uk
ITN (They too have mumerous bureaus in Europe)
news@itn.co.uk.
Also contact Schweizer Fernsehen(German Language Swiss TV) and Der Spiegel (a provocative German magazine)
Since I can’t write letters with umlaut(2 dots on a, e, o) here, I posted a template letter in German at the bottom of the following page.
http://colberturdead2me.wordpress.com/
with English translation of the Spiegel’s “Contact us” format.
Please copy and paste the German letter and send it to Schweizer Fernsehen and Der Spiegel!
Email this to your friends, post this on your blog and ask your readers to contact overseas media!
Hope we can get their attention!
One of the things that I ‘love’ about all the European support for Obama is their limitless desire to see America elect a person of color, since they perceive us all as such backward racists.
You’d almost think they were open to electing a person of color in their own country…even a major party nominee…anyone? France, England, Germany, Sweden? Am I hearing crickets out there?
@Jude
Well, maybe the Europeans are listening to U.S. politicians. Because according to Lt. Governor Mongiardo of Kentucky, people living in rural areas of the state are ignorant and racist. And then there’s “Stick a foot in my mouth” Murtha, who says the same about western Pennsylvania.
To bad we can’t export them to Europe.
I’m doing my pre debate warm up right now. Tonight I though I would try something new, something bold, something exciting…I am trying a Hofbrau Oktoberfest. Is good !
I think tonight McCain will go for blood. I hope McCain will lay it all out and take the advice of Dick Morris and Bill O’Reily.
If I don’t get my October surprise tonight, at least I’ll be drinking it. :neutral: