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Mon Oct 13, 2008 11:32 AM EDT
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VIRGINIA BEACH — Republican John McCain pledged to fight for a new direction for the country in an energetic new campaign stump speech Monday that sought to distance him from the economic policies of President Bush. "We cannot spend the next four years as we have spent much of the last eight: waiting for our luck to change," McCain said while campaigning with running mate Sarah Palin in this once reliably Republican state that has become a battleground this year.
"The hour is late; our troubles are getting worse; our enemies watch. We have to act immediately. We have to change direction now."
The Arizona senator insisted he understood Americans' concerns about the deepening financial crisis, even as fears about the meltdown have moved voters firmly in Democrat Barack Obama's direction in recent weeks.
The repudiation of the Republican incumbent's economic policies came as McCain has struggled to find a message that would reverse his sagging poll results nationally and in some battleground states. Yet, McCain echoed a line from President George H.W. Bush and his son, George W. Bush, about Democrats "measuring the drapes" that proved ineffectual for the GOP in 1992 and 2006.
"Sen. Obama is measuring the drapes, and planning with Speaker (Nancy) Pelosi and Sen. (Harry) Reid to raise taxes, increase spending, take away your right to vote by secret ballot in labor elections, and concede defeat in Iraq," McCain said, targeting the prospect of one-party government with references to the Democratic leaders of the House and Senate.
In 1992, President George H.W. Bush told a Houston rally when he went to the Oval Office he expected to find Democratic candidate Bill Clinton "there measuring the drapes. Put those drapes on hold, it's going to be curtain time." Clinton unseated Bush.
In October 2006, President George W. Bush said congressional Democrats "were measuring the drapes" and planning to take control of Congress. A month later, Democrats won the House and Senate.
McCain acknowledged Obama's lead in the polls. "The national media has written us off," McCain added. "But they forgot to let you decide."
"What America needs in this hour is a fighter," he said, adding that he knew Americans were worried about the direction of the country.
"I know what hopelessness feels like. It's an enemy who defeats your will. I felt those things once before. I will never let them in again," McCain said, a clear reference to his 5 1/2 years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam. "I'm an American. And I choose to fight."
He renewed his pledge to freeze federal spending, renegotiate distressed mortgages to help middle class homeowners, and cut taxes. He also vowed to bring more experienced leadership to the White House, because "the next president won't have time to get used to the office."
McCain compared Obama to Herbert Hoover, the Republican who was president when the stock market crashed in 1929 triggering the Depression.
"The last president to raise taxes and restrict trade in a bad economy as Sen. Obama proposes was Herbert Hoover. That didn't turn out too well," McCain said. "They say those who don't learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them. Well, my friends, I know my history lessons, and I sure won't make the mistakes Sen. Obama will."
In fact, Obama's tax plan calls for reductions for Americans making less than $200,000 a year.
McCain's retooled pitch comes as Republican campaign veterans say he needs to do more than just attack Obama in an economic environment that favors Democrats.
Obama leads in enough states to be within reach of the 270 Electoral College votes needed for victory while McCain is being forced to defend Republican turf where polls show the race close. That's partly because of Obama's well-funded onslaught of TV ads and extensive network of field troops registering and canvassing voters; McCain trails on both fronts.
It was a measure of McCain's troubles that he was campaigning Monday, just three weeks before the election, in Virginia and later in North Carolina, both normally solid for the GOP nominee but in play this year.
Virginia hasn't voted for a Democratic president since 1964, North Carolina since 1976.
McCain's visit to North Carolina, where he again used his new stump speech, was his first in six months, while Obama has spent considerable time and resources in the state. President Bush twice won North Carolina by double-digit margins.
The state's May primary was expected to be an afterthought, but Obama's extended race with Hillary Rodham Clinton for the nomination helped drive a boom in Democratic voter registrations. Since Jan. 1, new voter registrations in North Carolina have favored Democrats nearly 4-to-1.
Introducing McCain to the Virginia crowd, Palin sought to temper the sometimes volatile outbursts from supporters against Obama that marked the ticket's rallies last week.
The Alaska governor never mentioned the Illinois senator by name or his connections to 1960s-era radical Bill Ayers, a reference she made repeatedly last week that incited the crowds.
When supporters started chanting "No-Bama, No-Bama," Palin jumped in to say voter anger was driven by economic woes.
"There's anger about the insider dealing of lobbyists. Anger about the greed on Wall Street. Anger about the arrogance of the Washington elite," she said.
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{"commentId":3459736,"authorDomain":"tasarlai"}
I am seriously concerned about McCains Mental Health
Seriously.
Sarah Palin gets right up on the stage in Virginia this morning before Noon and with McCain sitting right there and listening, points out to the audience in a mocking manner how the Obama Campaign keeps looking back to the past. This has become quite old, really quite old, now.
But the crazy part about this doesn't just sit with that part ... Nooooo
McCain gets right up there and in less than ten minutes starts quoting Santayana and saying "Those that don't learn from the past are doomed to repeat" and he riles up his audience by claiming he will learn from the past so's he doesn't make any mistakes.
I am Jeremiah Johnson and I swear as god is my witness this is the actions of someone with a three minute memory or has some other serious mental deficiency.
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- 6 votes
#1 - Mon Oct 13, 2008 12:04 PM EDT{"commentId":3459955,"authorDomain":"lunartick"}
...this is the actions of someone with a three minute memory or has some other serious mental deficiency.
Why can't it be both?
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- 4 votes
{"commentId":3461875,"authorDomain":"wynbro1"}
Glad to see this post as I was wondering the same thing. If we are just to take the Campaigns alone which are a business in there own right just as the government is. Which Candidate America, has run a more fine tuned, focused campaign with a team of workers that are simply amazing????? Think about that seriously. Who put a team together that has moved there Campaign to heights we have never seen in recent political history?. Which Candidate has used his judgment to put together such a finely tuned and focused campaign?? Which candidate has said at the beginning of his campaign made and assessment of where this country is and chose a theme for his Campaign and has stuck to it to this day?? Think about it America?
Then I ask: Which Candidate has run the most erractic campaign in American History? Which Candidate has changed his theme for America more than three time, never focusing too long on any? Which candidate has been wrong on the economy, wrong on the war and wong on so many things despite his "EXPERIENCE" ???
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- 4 votes
{"commentId":3464813,"authorDomain":"zdrakes"}
Yeah, Jerimiah, can this ticket get anymore schizoid? They say: We don't need to look at the past because if you don't know your history, you're bound to repeat the mistakes of the past and we have mistakes we are bound and determined to make again. Not only did John McCain scrape by in history class he is not quite scraping by in History with a looming D.
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{"commentId":3467308,"authorDomain":"tasarlai"}
Makes one wonder why there isn't a Youtube video up by now with this glaringly obvious contradiction.
Besides the Laugh Factor for chiding someone for doing exactly the same thing, It's chock full of McCain "Senior Moments"
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- 1 vote
{"commentId":3461311,"authorDomain":"betsie"}
I read that if McCain/Palin win the election they plan to reinstate the military draft.
Any truth to this?
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- 2 votes
#2 - Mon Oct 13, 2008 1:50 PM EDT{"commentId":3462380,"authorDomain":"snotrag-dave"}
You won't get confirmation of that prior to Election Day... that would be a political death sentence for the campaign.
But you won't get a true denial, either.
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- 4 votes
{"commentId":3479026,"authorDomain":"all4peace4all"}
They will need to based on all the wars Sarah wants to start from her front porch!
McCain has often stated that a voluntary military is preferred, but that if we need more troops, inscription is always available and he is in favor of a draft!
He needs to draft a pair of you-know-whats and draft a new VP!
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- 1 vote
{"commentId":3464351,"authorDomain":"PeteZaHutt"}
measuring drapes? You betcha!
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- 1 vote
#3 - Mon Oct 13, 2008 4:17 PM EDT{"commentId":3464969,"authorDomain":"jsunshine122"}
"Who's got two thumbs and is running the most disgusting campaign in US history? This guy!"
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- 3 votes
#4 - Mon Oct 13, 2008 4:52 PM EDT{"commentId":3465202,"authorDomain":"proscribe"}
I am soooo tired of hearing Obama and his cohorts trying to tie John McCain with George Bush. Well, he made it clear..."He knows President Bush, he's has worked with President Bush, but he ain't no George Bush". Bush would be the first to grit his teeth at the mention of the name 'John McCain', he has been a thorn in his side for eight years. However, the Democrats and the far left media would NEVER tell it how it is, their only hope is to try to make people believe that George Bush is running for a third term. Yet, at the same time, they never mention Joe Biden's is also a senator who works with the president (Bush). Oh well!! All's fair in love and politics.
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#5 - Mon Oct 13, 2008 5:03 PM EDT{"commentId":3465749,"authorDomain":"DirkM"}
I am soooo tired of hearing Obama and his cohorts trying to tie John McCain with George Bush.
Well Edward, then perhaps you would prefer to hear John McCain try to tie John McCain with George Bush. Just watch this Video.
Funny to see McCain supporters try to spin loops distancing McCain from Bush and then watch McCain in this video trying to spin loops to connect himself to Bush and his policies. I guess he just goes whichever way the wind blows.
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- 2 votes
{"commentId":3472125,"authorDomain":"Grammiescookies"}
SLAM DUNK ALL NET!
Thank you, I've been looking for this. That video is great and needs to be shown to every right winger who says that exact line "he's no George Bush"
I love it!
{"commentId":3472125,"threadId":"387204","contentId":"1992792","authorDomain":"Grammiescookies"}
- 1 vote
{"commentId":3474305,"authorDomain":"DirkM"}
Thanks, Grammie's. I agree this video should be required watching for every right-winger trying to pretend McCain is no George Bush. I notice E.A. hasn't been back to comment. What's the matter, cat got your tongue, Edward?
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{"commentId":3465260,"authorDomain":"blueislandbobsue"}
Sen.Obama has changed his platform so many times and because of his lack of judgement in the past, I do believe he will not be a President that will truly help our country to advance and solve the problems that are facing our great land. The media seems to be scarred to discuss all of the past mistakes and relationships this man has had. True, it did seem like the McCain campaign has been attacking him. He attacked so many of his constituents during the primaries, Was this fair or just. We the voters have a right to know everything about a candidate and their character. The McCain campaign at least were not afraid to make more public the character and his voting record. If the major media had been doing their job, then possibly the campaign for the repbulican could have been more fruitful. Do people truly want someone as their president who has had the relationships with former terrorists and people who call themselves citizen, but who are obsessing on the destruction of our beloved country? Do people want a president who believes in the killing of innocents who are fighting for their lives?
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#6 - Mon Oct 13, 2008 5:06 PM EDT{"commentId":3465867,"authorDomain":"DirkM"}
Sen.Obama has changed his platform so many times
Really? I thought it has been about Change in Washington from the beginning. No, McCain is the one who is changing his platform, and the sad part is that he is changing it to copy Obama's! Now, suddenly at the very end of the campaign, McCain is talking about change! What a transparent ploy that is.
because of his lack of judgement in the past
Translation: because McCain sucks on every major issue, we need to attack Obama's character by implication that he hangs out with unsavory characters.
True, it did seem like the McCain campaign has been attacking him.
Yes, McCain has been launching a completely negative campaign based on personal attacks of Obama. And this after promising in January that he would run a positive campaign. Whose platform is changing daily?
We the voters have a right to know everything about a candidate and their character.
True. So why has the McCain campaign been hiding Sarah Palin from the media?
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{"commentId":3466419,"authorDomain":"jscalahan"}
That's funny....I thought it was a mad-lib where she just threw in a name....
In all fairness, the McCain eight years ago was a different man. That McCain would not have hired the people who play by the book that destroyed him in 2000 and many others after....the campaign that uses fear and plays upon the small mindedness of those that believe the garbage they spew. That McCain would not have placed Palin on the ticket with him for fear of her lack of judgement and moral character. That McCain would have stuck to what he believed and been less of a flip-flopper. That McCain would have run a positive campaign, focusing on the issues.
But this McCain didn't do that, and it is his own fault. He is to blame for making these ridiculous decisions that continue to divide the electorate. It is stunning, for someone who claims he wants to bring people together, that he has chosen people that pull apart, him even doing so himself.
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- 1 vote
{"commentId":3465775,"authorDomain":"DirkM"}
"The hour is late; our troubles are getting worse; our enemies watch. We have to act immediately. We have to change direction now."
Is McCain referring to the nation's economic crisis, or the crisis in his own campaign? Sounds more like the latter.
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- 2 votes
#7 - Mon Oct 13, 2008 5:37 PM EDT{"commentId":3465870,"authorDomain":"biggerthebetter"}
They blather on and on and yet they have no clear plan (or any plan) for this country.
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#8 - Mon Oct 13, 2008 5:44 PM EDT{"commentId":3465881,"authorDomain":"wwchs"}
Sen. McCain said: "We cannot spend the next four years as we have spent much of the last eight: waiting for our luck to change,".
Guess what Sen. McCain? We are not going to let you anywhere near the drapes!!! Slither back to the Senate, you foul and poisonous maggot..
Sen. McCain also said: "The hour is late; our troubles are getting worse; our enemies watch. We have to act immediately. We have to change direction now."
Senator, one of Americas greatest 'enemies' is the Fascist Rupert Murdoch and his FOX attack @!$%#es, Chris Wallace, Bill O'Reilly, Shawn Hannity, Neil Cavuto, Ann Coulter (the bitter (rumored(?)) (?)transsexual (?) in denial) and etc. etc. etc..and even though the hour is late I'm sure all them are up planning their next American assault. If they not: Rupert to his @!$%#es, 'wake up! SPIN harder, boys and girls, SPIN!! Rrrrrrrr.... we are going to loose the White House, Rrrrrrrr....America needs more GOP generated HATE rrrrrr, change direction'.
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#9 - Mon Oct 13, 2008 5:45 PM EDT{"commentId":3466277,"authorDomain":"travelinfotog"}
A day late and million dollars short for McBomb Bomb.. He is what ill's America.
I can't begin to fathom him or her as our next President. IF McBomb Bomb steals the election in court (which his people will try to do,) I will renounce my citizenship and move to Canada or somewhere else.
I can't afford, nor can America afford to allow McBomb Bomb anywhere close to a nuclear weapon!
Sean Hannity is a racist and biggot and he really hates America, because it isn't white. Does Fox news have ANY black commentator on their broadcasts?
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#10 - Mon Oct 13, 2008 6:10 PM EDT{"commentId":3466438,"authorDomain":"jscalahan"}
Oooh Oooh... I want to start a "Let's ship Sean Hannity to France" club. He disgusts me.
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- 2 votes
{"commentId":3467230,"authorDomain":"marthagrabiec"}
They have five to my knowledge and maybe more.
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{"commentId":3467401,"authorDomain":"wwchs"}
Perhaps....China?
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{"commentId":3466346,"authorDomain":"dguaglardi"}
The Alaskan government found Palin guilty of abusing her powers as Governor. Her answer is she's happy that she has been found not guilty, very happy.
That said, what direction are we going to this time, Sen. McCain. Maybe if you got rid of Palin and gave the running mate job to say........Sean Hannity, things would get really interesting. Or, maybe not.
If this whole scenario was a SNL skit, it would at least be enjoyable. Unfortunately, it's real. The only real thing, thank God, is November 4th is around the corner.
I don't know about the rest of America, but I've had all the "fun" I can handle for one election. Here's looking down the road about 3 weeks and ending this fiasco.
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#11 - Mon Oct 13, 2008 6:14 PM EDT{"commentId":3466583,"authorDomain":"cricketticket"}
John "The Maverick" or John the "underdog"
I am allways for the underdog...typically in America the underdog is the disadvantaged- and ones who are left behind.
Possibly the disadvantaged in the U.S. could be veterans of war- who, if John And Sarah are elected will create a larger population of injured (if not dead)service men and woman who unfortunately as the past has dictated end up with often times in poor standards of living and handicapped- then again Sarah Palin understands handicapped individuals she didn't get an abortion and her child is retarded(down-syndrome).
Are the underdogs those who don't recieve healthcare?- or have serious issues due to discriminatory practices in the U.S.'s societal culture? are they not the underdogs anymore? Instead the underdog of America is a Presidential nominee? Is the election about John McCain and Sarah Palins defense record(Troopergate, terror stereotyping, Oil deals and she has a lesbian friend)- YES. And in world full of big ego's I wouldn't let John McCain fall from grace or go down.
McCain-Palin 08' vote for them its important.
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#12 - Mon Oct 13, 2008 6:30 PM EDT{"commentId":3467025,"authorDomain":"jsunshine122"}
No "Under". Just "Dog".
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{"commentId":3467228,"authorDomain":"wwchs"}
Mass Graves.
What?
Could someone decipher that entry?
Perhaps you...Mass Graves.
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{"commentId":3467306,"authorDomain":"marthagrabiec"}
Cynical sarcasm = anti McCain/Palin.
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{"commentId":3467555,"authorDomain":"wwchs"}
Thanx.
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