McCain's latest: "We've got [Obama] right where we want him!"
Because 23 days out from Election Day, I'm sure John McCain always planned on being significantly behind in the national polls and having to play defense in states like Virginia, North Carolina, West Virginia, etc. Riiight... At least he can always count on Drudge, Bill Kristol and Mark Halperin to carry his water.
“The national media has written us off. Sen. Obama is measuring the drapes and planning with Speaker Pelosi and Sen. Reid to raise taxes, increase spending, take away your right to vote by secret ballot in labor elections and concede defeat in Iraq. But they forgot to let you decide. My friends, we’ve got them just where we want them.”
If John McCain were Microsoft Windows, I think we're officially up to the Vista launch. Politico asks: Reset Button or panic button? I'd wager the latter.
As always, the Obama camp tells it like it is:
“Less than twelve hours after his campaign announced that Senator McCain would finally have some new ideas on the economy, he decided that it was more important to give a new political speech about where he is in the polls. But the American people know that this election isn’t about who’s up or who’s down, it’s about who will change the disastrous Bush-McCain economic policies of the last eight years. Barack Obama will continue to bring his message of change to every corner of this country, which is why he’s talking today about his new plan to provide immediate relief to struggling families and homeowners, jumpstart job creation in America, and ease the credit crisis that’s hurting too many businesses.”
more racism by mcsame supporter:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRqcfqiXCX0
looks like this election will out gop's southern strategy.
(((FRIGHTENING))) Clip from UTube!
These people all live in the same nut house.
If that's the case then there's a few branches of that nuthouse here in SE TX.
It's going to be a loooong 23 days for McPhalin. What else do they have to talk about, that will span all of 23 days? Answer: Nothing!
like everything else the cons are going to try to stage a comeback and STEAL Bill Clintons deserved title The Comeback Kid.
Where the hell are they? Or has Obama asked them to disappear?
Hillary just spoke at a rally for Obama in the last couple of days. It was pretty good, too.
I paraphrase: It took a Democrat to clean up after the first Bush - and it will take another Democrat to clean up after this Bush. But we're used to cleaning up the ashes of the Bushes...
Something like that anyway; she had the audience going too.
yeah, wasn't it Hil who said, "Jobs, baby, jobs" yesterday?
RICHMOND, Va.— Sensing Democratic victory, Bill Clinton tonight urged party activists to work over the next three weeks not just for Barack Obama but also to ensure the party enjoys healthy majorities in the House and Senate.
Hillary is on the trail for Obama today. She's making fun of Drill Baby Drill and has coined the phrase, after Obama's economic speech today:
"Jobs Baby Jobs".
She's out there. She (and I think Bill, too) were with Biden in Scranton, PA this weekend.
For some odd reason [bias] the MSM doesn't seem to want to cover the Clintons. Must be the fear that those legions of Hillary supporters might flee the McCain-Palin travesty.
What better way to keep an eye on your competition than from 50 yards back?
Who gave McCain the puppy uppers?
I saw this clip elsewhere and saw him jumping and waving to the crowd after his "speech". yow.
McCain calls people he doesn't even know and could really care less about in the long run "My Friends".
"Obama's measuring the White House drapes!"
race baiting: check
muslim bailing: check
terrorist baiting: check
gay baiting: check
More Bulls**t from McCain & Co. More relevant talk from Obama. McCain clearly thinks his supporters are stupid and or gullible. Obama talks to us like he believes we are intelligent.
Well, I guess he's right about one thing - His supporters ARE stupid and/or gullible.
your going to need it.
All over the tubes are videos of Repugs complaining about / deserting McPain.
It's really over for them.
They are going to lose, even with the theft of 10 million or so votes and the 6% Bradley effect.
The thing that says a lot to me is this: after running a miserable campaign, devoid of ideas and long on smear; after two poor debate performances; after numerous erratic antics designed to "hide the ball" so we might not follow what's really going on--after all that, and now a roughly 10-point spread in the polls, major media sites are still asking if today, or tomorrow, or the next day FINALLY represents the day that McCain might just hit the reset (as opposed to the panic) button. "Will he finally get it together and make his dramatic comeback?"
Speaks volumes as to how badly the MSM wants their horse race back. Look for this meme coming out of the debate Wednesday night.
yeah,
Right where we want him, ahead in the polls.
This is so pathetic and sad.
It's pathetic to watch this shell of a man. Listen closely as he makes that "hnnnnunnnh" noise which I think is supposed to be a laugh to match that shit-eating, humorless grin. Reminds me of Peter Boyle's performance in "Young Frankenstein"
This, at one time might have been an honorable man. But after repeatedly selling his soul to Faustus and the neocons who have hijacked the Party of Lincoln and Eisenhower and Rockefeller there is no spark of decency left in him.
The Grand Old Party is no more, the elephant is running for cover in the wilderness and will probably spend many years there.
Dude...if you are behind...in North Carolina of all places...and you're a Republican...that looks bad on your part.
Obama has just pulled ahead of McCain in North Dakota and Missouri.
Yea, right where he wants him. I think Gramps is off his meds again.
When he said that, I took it to mean he had the media just where he wanted them. Who the hell knows what he meant? He probably doesn't have a clue either.
It was like he had done a little speed before that speech. Probably a couple of cans of Red Bull instead.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
their putting in the pre-rally kool-aid these days.
You could bounce a quarter off Cindy McCains face and it wouldn't hit the ground for at least 15 seconds. One more face lift and she'll have a beard.
I sure am glad I wasn't drinking anything when I read your comment. If I had been there would be a mess all over my desk. :)
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
I'm not saying they're real, or they walk among us. I'm just saying, you look at her and describe what you see...
"My fellow prisoners...." -McCain
Freakin' Wiley Coyote McCain. We're almost to the part where he runs over the cliff, I think.
And John opens another box from Acme Campaign Supply Co.
A McCain talking head just came out and said McCain will, in fact, make new economic proposals--tomorrow. This after a different McCain talking head said today that McCain would not be making a new proposal.
That is, of course, until Obama made a *major* economic speech today. Now McCain would like to copy Obama's term paper.
McCain's New Plan: I have a plan and I know how to do it.
There may be some truth to him saying "We’ve got them just where we want them." All the polls have been leaning towards Obama but we need to ignore that and not get too happy. Don't get too relaxed just yet... It's not over until it's over!!
Yep, the polls are meaningless.
Well they are mostly meaningless as to their content, but not when it comes to our reaction to them. When I say that we shouldn't relax just yet, I'm referring to McCain being seen as an underdog. This can affect those republican voters who might have stayed home on election day and also the undecided who might perceive this victory dance based off polls as arrogance on our part.
Public opinion polling essentially represents the opinions of people with sufficient leisure time, and/or nothing more important to do than participate in public opinion polls.
It is no coincidence that those would be the same people who have the greatest potential for exposure to the messages of the main-stream media. So it can be considered a relatively accurate measure of the effectiveness of the messages of the MSM, upon that group.
Unfortunately, by definition, that group would tend to exclude about 90% of American adults.
I feel the same way, but I think the Obama camp is staying about 5-10 steps ahead of McCain. I read today that they have $77 million in the bank and expect to raise another $100 million before Nov 4th. McCain is struggling, picking and choosing what he can and cannot afford to spend his campaign dollars on, while Obama buys up blocks of TV time at month end. (Is that really where McCain wants him).
The McCain campaign also advised Palin to have the personnel board investigate Troopergate, as Palin controls that board. Much to their chagrin, the personnel board hired an independent counsel (a Democrat and Obama supporter) to run the investigation. That report should be out right before the election and is expected to be worse that the first one.
Statistically, Obama is sited to have a 90% chance of winning. Historically, there is not much of a history of candidates coming from behind to win, especially if there party is currently in office and doing a terrible job of it. One comparison sites Ronald Reagan coming from behind to beat Carter, but Carter was in office and the economy was tanking.
We'll just have to keep holding our breaths, crossing our fingers, fighting the smears and hoping that rational minds will prevail on election day.
that there will be no further "October Surprises". I don't think I could handle another.
Right where you want him? That's right, you're republican... that means you're in a stall and he's right behind you with your pants around your ankles.
So does this mean that if Obama was behind in the polls, then Obama would have been in the better position? Somehow I doubt that is how it would have been portrayed, but that is the cynic in me.
I love the way that Obama keeps after the message of "McCain/Bush Economics." They have to keep pounding this message home, something they have done from the beginning, and keep tying McSame to everything that is wrong in this country.
vote for Obama.
Then go about business as usual.
Go to the mall. Spend for Christmas on a credit card.
Hey, I know Obama said today not to do it.
But do what you want. You are an American. An ordinary American. Obama's going to take down those evil Wall Street fucks.
Just wait and see.
of hearing yourself type?
I'm too old.
Blue, you believe in the system.
I did that for about 40 years.
Then I realized the system is corrupt.
You can castigate me. That's fine.
Just think about your own situation.
I've got, maybe, 25 years to go. Hope you've got more.
You might not have than long with another Republican in the White House.
It will just SEEM like a long time.
I'm hardy.
I've survived Truman - Shrub II.
They all sucked in various ways.
The best, believe it or not, was Nixon.
Yeah, I know, he sucks in the judgment of history.
But he was smarter than all who came after him, and less dishonest than LBJ.
Nixon may have been smart, but he was just as evil as Shrub and he lied MORE than LBJ.
And LBJ WAS a lying shite.
He lied about Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Watergate, domestic spying, etc.
He brought in Kissinger.
But the Dems had a bit more spine back then.
LBJ and Bush 43. Instead of a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage perhaps a constitutional amendment banning Texans from seeking the presidency would be something we should be talking about.
"We've got him right were we want him!"
Better send out a search team. I take that to mean Obama has been kidnapped, gagged and bounded and taken to Dick Cheney's undisclosed location.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RZ-hYPAMFQ
giggle
That was my first reaction too.
...he wants the Senator from Illinois to be able to outcampaign, outspeand, and outclass him...because that's where Obama is...
McPalin =McPain
Really? You want him to win the election?
Well, not Bill Kristol:
I thought it was only hyenas who turned on their injured ones and tore them apart...
McCant/Falin 08
I am trying decide which one is McCain and which are two of his faithful lobbyists:
http://gonemovies.com/WWW/MyWebFilms/Drama/Wi...
I think McCain is on the far left, in blue. They certainly lurch around like he does.
:)
Remember Dudley Moore's "Arthur"? Late in the movie, Arthur is drunk and the father of his unwanted bubblehead fiance is coming to kill him. Arthur is drunk and says, "He's got me right where I want him."
The difference in real life is, it's the voters who are coming to do in McCain.
"I love the smell of Republican desperation in the morning"
They've had him (and any Democratic opposition) right where they've wanted him for over 6 years now courtesy of Diebold, Sequoia and the rest of the companies responsible for privatizing our election process.
The fix is in. It only has to look close.
http://current.com/items/89393772_racist_obam...
So this is the New Republican Party huh?
much worse
The Penguin and The Joker together on stage planning their next dirty trick to take down the Dynamic Duo of Obama and Biden.
Or..."The Rocky Horror Stage Show"??
More like the bumbling Boris and Natasha.
This mentally-challenged old man is showing us (prisoners) once again just how out of touch mentally he is. This would have been a great strategy at the time when he was even or leading; saying it right now just emphasizes one thing: McCain Is Too Unstable to lead.
All Obama has to do primarily is to focus on his platform at the last debate and not get drawn into some kind of stupid fight with McCain...
As far as the new economic plan that McCain has been advertising just tell him its a great plan that's why it's already part of that bailout plan that just passed...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=unO3bLMVmaU
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
Erratic is an understatement. In one sentence he's the self-proclaimed underdog and in the next he's got Obama right where we want him. WTF is happening to this man's brain?
It's becoming painfully obvious that his Invasive Melanoma State 3B (of 4) has metastasized to his brain now. Which reminds me: Where are his medical reports?
I guess there somewhere out there along with his gambling earnings which have been intentionally omitted from his past two year's tax returns??
Last night CNN was trying to pull this absolute shite about McCain being healthy and fit to serve and has provided 1200 pages of medical records, his mother is in her 90s, blah, blah, blah.
That may sound all fine and good, but they contrasted this with Obama was a smoker. It is known that smoker shortens a person's life. Obama provided a one-page "doctor's note".
Apples and Oranges. Apples and Oranges.
I needed a strong one after that, so I drank two.
Cindy McCain is licking her chomps at the prospect of her husband getting in the White House so she can get another 7 houses with that upper class tax cut while the middle class suffers.
OK pops. Damn....you've got Senator Obama right where you want him. I'm glad YOU want him to win too.
One crazy old fart!!
“The good news is that at $2.50 consumers have more to spend on other goods in the store”
Well Yahoo now I cin aford anudder hot pocket, and go back to the super jumbo gulp!
All because a John McCain!
Ana beer too!
Just a week or 2 before the 2006 elections, gas dropped here in SE TX from ~$2.70/gal to $1.82/gal. Coincidence? I think not.
After the elections, it shot back up again. Apparently due to massive pouting going on in the oil companies' corporate headquarters.
Same thing happening now, folks. Watch how quick it goes back up after Nov. 4.
Wow, all the money that Cindy has and she dresses like that. Paging Mr Blackwell!
Nancy Pfotenauer actually attacked Bill Kristol today, claiming he is pro-Obama.
I know, quite laughable.
However, Kristol's latest op-ed in the NYT criticizes the McCain campaign [The title of the piece is actually "Fire the Campaign]. He's recently described the campaign in televised interviews as "toxic" and "pathetic".
Who in the world is believing this "right where we want him BS anyway".
Christopher Hitchens is also now supporting Obama, (along with Christopher Buckley, the two Christophers). Hitchens criticism of McCain, (especially along the lines his selection of Idiot Palin) is fairly scathing.
Did anyone else hear this at the McCain rally today? McCain said, "Fear is like a thief in the night!", and a supporter yelled, "Like Obama!" Anybody catch that?
Anybody in that crowd that's not white? I don't see one Asian, one Hispanic, one African American. Even with the good light from the cross fire that's burning in the back row I still can't see anyone who's not white.
I saw clips from Palin's speech today. There were two black men there. Both were wearing suits and had earpieces.
They must really HATE being on her detail.....
Recently, a black reporter was removed and detained from a McCain-Palin rally for "looking like he didn't belong".
Any person of color who votes for these two is really lacking in common sense.
That's because he wasn't at the end of a rope.
By the way, I hate this new comments format. We used to be able to follow several strings at once and comment instantly, all the comments coming out in chronological order and numbered for easy reference. As I said in an earlier post, I fear upgrades because they are never improvements. I rest my case...
You want to vote for Bush again???
If you register you can change to a "Flat Format" if you like which means all comments are seen by you one after the other. It also tells you when new comments are made and all new comments are easily found because they are surrounded by a red box.
Okay, I registered... so how do I change to a "Flat Format"?
Go down to Post new comment line and click the small icon at the end of the bar.
Hasa Diga Eebowai
"we’ve got them just where we want them.”
That's what the Washington Redskins said about the St. Louis Rams just before the last play of their football game yesterday.
The Rams then proceeded to kick a field goal as the clock runs out.
Final score: Rams 19 Redskins 17.
Looks to me like the clock is running out on the McLame/Failin campaign.
McCain is simply holding back until the right moment when he can unleash his campaign coup de ville in Florida and win the entire election in 12 minutes.
You're all too stupid to understand...
"I'm an American, and I choose to fight" McCain says later in this speech. As though being an American makes him different from Obama. What a bullshit thing to say.
Yup, there he goes again insinuating that Obama is not American. Gawd, he makes me sick. I hope the good decent folks out there can see thru all his bullshit. I hope I hope!!!
was born in Panama. Panama John ought to shut his pie-hole.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eMkth8FWno
"I'll bite your legs off!!"
Exxxactly. Poifect.
And here in Michigan, we are preparing for the Detroit Lions first ever Super Bowl Championship. The rest of the NFL has no idea what is headed their way!
... George Custer, by chance? Or maybe that was a more recent George talking about OBL?
Baghdad Bob's Back!!!!! He now goes by the name Baghdad John!
"Seven days after what by all reports has been a landslide victory for Obama, John McCain has still refused to concede the election as thousands of McCain supporters flood into Florida chanting 'Start The Recount!!'..."
Perhaps the "comeback kid" should also ditch the beer hag who always seems to be in the frame in every stump speech.
This is the best analogy of the McCain campaign I've read in a long time:
"If John McCain were Microsoft Windows, I think we're officially up to the Vista launch."
ROTFL!
"Sen. Obama is measuring the drapes and planning with Speaker Pelosi and Sen. Reid to raise taxes, increase spending, take away your right to vote by secret ballot in labor elections and concede defeat in Iraq."
Hmm. Nice try at spin there. Raise taxes? Maybe for a few. Most Americans will have reduced taxes. And we have to raise taxes somewhere to dig ourselves out of this enormous debt hole that Bush put us in. Obviously if reducing taxes worked to increase gov't revenus (as they claim it will) we would be flush. We're not. Case closed.
Increase spending? Where? On what? Health care? Obviously they haven't read numerous statistics that says overall spending is decreased when people have proper healthcare, as communities are not having to come up with shortfall money for caring for those without insurance. People will also go to the doctor BEFORE they're deathly ill, reducing or eliminating hospital stays.
Take away your right to vote by secret ballot? Are they still seriously actually saying this yet? Hey McCain - your 'advisors' are not doing their job and filling you in on these debunked myths!
I won't even touch the 'concede defeat in Iraq' bit.
Can these guys talk about anything substantial? Oh, yeah, I guess not - all they have left is lies, mudslinging and bullshit.
Ten points ahead of McCain/Palin and gaining more every time McCain/Palin open their mouths
They got him sitting on their faces and beating the hell out of them.
"We've got them just where we want them"
Wasn't that the gist, if not the exact words, of Custer's last cummunication to base before he got his ass kicked at The Little Big Horn?
On a brighter note.
That loud mouthed freak McCain will die of old age soon.
Really wish you would not say things like that.
Actually, I think in this video, McCain looks healthier than he has in a month. Maybe he just got his B-12 shot.
(From Monty Python's "Holy Grail"):
ARTHUR:
Look, you stupid bastard. You've got no arms left.
BLACK KNIGHT:
Yes, I have.
ARTHUR:
Look!
BLACK KNIGHT:
Just a flesh wound.
notKeith
Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.
What are you going to do, bleed on me?
I think McCain is safe in West Va.
If you zoom in on the video you can see Cindy McCain's lobotomy scars.
This is one issue where I disagree with Obama.
If you know the dynamic of a manufacturing shop floor, there's usually the face you show Upper Management, underneath which lies a shadow power dynamic of alpha personalities.
A person's vote is his or her prayer: one should have the right to vote without peer pressure or coercion.
This bill opens the possibility of bribing and bullying to get signatures, and anyone who signs is contractually bound, regardless of the circumstances in which such signature was induced.
I was going to wait a while, but now seems like a good time trot this out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKhEw7nD9C4
WTF is with the blinking, stick out your tongue thing? Jesus.
The guy just doesn't look human.
Check out Cindy the bobble-head doll. She's such a Barbie.
You tell 'em John, you fucking useless halfwit.
My friends, I feel bad for John McCain. Can you imagine someone in his desperate, floundering campaign got lucky and sold him the idea that being out of touch and doing and saying everything wrong resulting in Obama taking the lead was exactly what was being planned and it's working beautifully for him. And he'll go out in public and say "we've got 'em right where we want them". I don't guess he ever bothered to ask "Uhm....why do want them there to begin with?". They must have some explosive story on "that one" they're going to unleash on us.
My friends, I'm pretty sure, my friends, that John McCain, my friends, is every bit as stupid, my friends, dishonest, my friends, and creepy, my friends, as George W. Bush is.
It's really hard to believe that in a country with more than 300,000,000 people, John McCain is the best the Republicans can come up with. He was an immature cretin when he was shot down in Vietnam; he was an immature cretin when he came back to the US; he was an immature cretin when he got involved with Keating; he was an immature cretin when he lost to Bush in 2000; and he's still an immature cretin. The only difference this year is that he appears to be a senile, immature cretin.
Craziest McCain/Palin Cartoon you'll ever see! @
http://www.youtube.com/tomryanfilms
Are you concerned about Obama being assassinated if he were elected? The vitriol that has been stirred up in the McCain/Palin rallies has been alarming. I heard a Virginian resident interviewed on the radio other day. The woman said she feared the idea of an African American in the White House, because she thinks that such an administration would neglect White Americans, and only look out for African Americans. Why would someone think like that? Does her statement insinuate that all past presidents of the US have neglected African Americans, and they are looking for pay back? I'm smart enough to know that only a small minority of Americans feel this way. Although as an African American I am proud that someone like me could potentially be the president, but as an American, I wouldn't expect an Obama administration to favor a certain demographic.
Any wonder why even Karl Rove anticipates that Obama will win the election?
I found this great cartoon on the Reasons To Be Cheerful, Part 3 blog: dead on!
John McDelusional
The Cubs have the Dodgers right where they want them to
FLMAO! Yeah you almost do
They've got him right where they want him?!? Where would that be Daffy? Kukamonga? Walla walla? Lake Titicaca?
The McCain campaign has finally deployed the dreaded Bugs Bunny option. I suspect they will try to cause the Obama campaign to slam into the side of a giant boulder by painting a tunnel on it or maybe crush them beneath a safe tied to a rope.
There is no racism or sexism in the land of the free and the home of the brave. TV news are truthful and objective. They don't lie and they always give a balanced story - all the sides are heard. There is no propaganda and this is the best system there is and can ever be. Therefore we are justified in forcing it down everyone's throat. If they object, too bad. Hipocracy is not for the faint of heart.
11 or 12 points ahead! ROFL.
"We've got him right where we want him".....at the Head of the Class so we can pull childish pranks like "pantsing" him.
The Republicans will steal this election. See:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEzY2tnwExs
CNN calls this the 'Bradley effect', to prepare you for the difference between exit polls and actual result. See:
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/13/ob...
Nobody is perfect.
My friends, we’ve got them just where we want them.”
Yeah. In the White House.
and that would be in the presidential driver's seat.
I don't know what's worse...Palin's winks or McCain's pained crypt-keeper grimace.
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