Political Hippo Circle Jerk - America, farg YEAH!

[rjs246]

McCain has a tight rope to walk. If he talks to much about what he has done against his party to be called a maverick he risks alienating the GOP base. He needs that base to be elected.

If there's one thing you can count on from the GOP base it is their unwavering willingness to vote for whoever their party's nominee is. He had to cater to them a bit in primary season, but the fact that he has continued to do it (and actually moved further right) is confusing as all hell.

[Diomedes]

Black Comic Introduces McCain  (New York Observer)

mildly amusing

[ice grillin you]

anyone been following the stumblings and bumblings of carly fiorino....pretty funny stuff....btwn that and the blackberry comment the mccain camp hasnt had a very good week thus far

[Diomedes]

No, I have not been following Carly.  What did she say?

[ice grillin you]

fiorina...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/16/fiorina-palin-couldnt-do_n_126827.html



blackberry and fiorina....

The campaign of Sen. John McCain wanted to be clear yesterday: The Arizona Republican did not help create the BlackBerry.

That message came after McCain's top economic adviser said that the senator had, in fact, helped bring about the handheld device, comments that the campaign later called a "boneheaded joke."

At a briefing for reporters yesterday morning, Douglas Holtz-Eakin held up his BlackBerry in an attempt to prove that his boss, the former chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, has economic know-how.

"He did this," Holtz-Eakin informed them. "Telecommunications of the United States is a premier innovation in the past 15 years -- comes right through the Commerce Committee -- so you're looking at the miracle John McCain helped create, and that's what he did."

Thus began the breakdown -- at least for a day -- of the new discipline of the McCain campaign's message machine.

Holtz-Eakin's gaffe was soon followed by another from Carly Fiorina, the former chief executive of Hewlett-Packard and a senior McCain adviser.

Asked on KTRS Radio in St. Louis whether she thinks Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin "has the experience to run a major company, like Hewlett-Packard," Fiorina answered directly.

"No, I don't," Fiorina responded. "But you know what? That's not what she's running for."

Fiorina tried to revise and extend her remarks during an interview with NBC's Andrea Mitchell a few hours later. But that didn't go overly well either, providing more grist for Democrats -- not to mention late-night comedians.

"Well, I don't think John McCain could run a major corporation," she said. "I don't think Barack Obama could run a major corporation. I don't think Joe Biden could. But it is not the same as being the president or vice president of the United States."

Later, on Fox, she accused Obama's campaign of "flooding the zone with nonsense" and said that Palin and McCain "are very fast learners."


McCain also tripped up yesterday, claiming that "I was chairman of the Commerce Committee that oversights every part of our economy." In fact, the committee's scope legally excludes "credit, financial services, and housing" -- the very areas now in crisis.

But it was the BlackBerry claim that had folks buzzing, given its similarity to the urban legend that Al Gore once said he invented the Internet.

The Obama campaign jumped on the remark. "If John McCain hadn't said that 'the fundamentals of our economy are strong' on the day of one of our nation's worst financial crises, the claim that he invented the BlackBerry would have been the most preposterous thing said all week," said Obama-Biden spokesman Bill Burton.

Liberal blogs also quickly pointed out a survey he filled out in the last year in which he claims: "Under my guiding hand, Congress developed a wireless spectrum policy that spurred the rapid rise of mobile phones and Wi-Fi technology."

Whatever his role in the technology, McCain has already admitted to being less than a proficient user. In a July 11 New York Times interview, McCain was asked, "Do you use a BlackBerry or e-mail?"

"No," McCain said, but then explained, according to the paper: "I use the BlackBerry, but I don't e-mail. I've never felt the particular need to e-mail."

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

But since the message didn't come from McCain himself or Palin herself, and the comment wasn't officially sanctioned by McCain... It doesn't count as stupid, right?

I thought that was where the line is drawn, so as to avoid including liberal bloggers and idiotic celebrities as an extension of the Obama campaign.

Please advise.

[ice grillin you]

the story is in every conservative newspaper in the country today...she went on news shows to clairfy her remarks...the mcain campaign themselves chastised the gaffes


keep thinking this is some liberal blog conspiracy

[ice grillin you]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/17/obama-takes-on-economy-pa_n_127021.html

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

the story is in every conservative newspaper in the country today...she went on news shows to clairfy her remarks...the mcain campaign themselves chastised the gaffes


keep thinking this is some liberal blog conspiracy

My point isn't that it's a conspiracy.  My point is that it obviously doesn't "count" against McCain, by the rules set forth on .

[ice grillin you]

im not familiar with those rules

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

You should be.

[rjs246]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/17/obama-takes-on-economy-pa_n_127021.html

Any talk of changing the Tax Code is welcome. Any attempt to get back to talking about actual issues is welcome.

Good commercial.

[ice grillin you]

Any attempt to get back to talking about actual issues is welcome.

Good commercial.

exactly


i generally dont pay attention to ads because obviously they can will and often do say anything in them but i like the tone of that ad a lot

[Wingspan]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/17/obama-takes-on-economy-pa_n_127021.html

Pretty much every political ad should be as this one. No mentioning of your opponent at all..and saying flat out what you will do. The non-partisanship angle is a pipe dream, but nonetheless a good commercial.

[Rome]

Prominent Clinton backer and DNC member to endorse McCain
Posted: 10:45 AM ET

From CNN Political Editor Mark Preston


Lynn Forester de Rothschild was a strong supporter of Clinton's White House bid.

WASHINGTON (CNN) — Lynn Forester de Rothschild, a prominent Hillary Clinton supporter and member of the Democratic National Committee's Platform Committee, will endorse John McCain for president on Wednesday, her spokesman tells CNN.

The announcement will take place at a news conference on Capitol Hill, just blocks away from the DNC headquarters. Forester will "campaign and help him through the election," the spokesman said of her plans to help the Republican presidential nominee.

Forester was a major donor for Clinton earning her the title as a Hillraiser for helping to raise at least $100,000 for the New York Democratic senator's failed presidential bid.

In an interview with CNN this summer, Forester did not hide her distaste for eventual Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama.

"This is a hard decision for me personally because frankly I don't like him," she said of Obama in an interview with CNN's Joe Johns. "I feel like he is an elitist. I feel like he has not given me reason to trust him."

Forester is the CEO of EL Rothschild, a holding company with businesses around the world. She is married to international banker Sir Evelyn de Rothschild. Forester is a member of the DNC's Democrats Abroad chapter and splits her time living in London and New York.

Nothing says "working woman" quite like being married to an international financier with a surname like de Rothschild.