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October 5, 2008Why He’s Voting for McCain/PalinI love this fellow - his videos are all great. He’s smart, lively, charismatic and courageous as hell. This 9.5 minute riff is astounding. He covers all the bases from the spurious, politically expedient, manipulative, baseless and contrived charges of racism (because it is racist to tell the truth about Obama, if it’s not “positive”, you know) to Pamela Anderson (made me laugh out loud) to liberal “open-mindedness” and absolutely throws down the gauntlet, challenging liberals, and particularly minority Democrats, to look at where they are and how they got there. Stunning. Applause! More on McCain vs Obama: Kathy Shaidle gives the McCain/Palin ticket a bit of a boot in the behind for not going full fury (we know Kathy likes fury) on the Obama-Ayers connection. She says:
H/T Ed Driscoll who has another great video up that you should go see! Also, see Gateway Pundit airing video with Obama - earlier in his career - talking up his relationship to Ayers. Gloves off. And one more thing: I don’t think Obama really likes Israel as much as he says he does. Just a hunch. http://theanchoressonline.com/2008/10/05/why-hes-voting-for-mccainpalin/trackback/ 23 Responses to “Why He’s Voting for McCain/Palin” |
October 5th, 2008 at 8:19 pm
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October 5th, 2008 at 9:00 pm
What a great video. Thanks for posting it…I just sent the link to a bunch of people, and it will be “ammunition” for the next lib who sends me an e-mail and insults Sarah Palin!
October 5th, 2008 at 9:27 pm
Absolutely GREAT! I love it! The RNC should pay to put this on Fox as an infomercial !!
October 5th, 2008 at 10:45 pm
And why I’m not
There’s a lot of apologizing going on for the Sixties. I was less a participant than a consumer of that decade — I was seventeen when it ended — but I’m here tonight on the side of the troublemakers of old.
I’d like to think that this might be the last presidential election in which we’re called upon to fight anew the cultural and political battles of that decade. If it is, and if we’re being asked to stand beside either of two hugely flawed figures of that era, then count me alongside Bill Ayers.
McCain said it best himself in a New York Times (funny how it suddenly becomes the paper of record instead of the detested “media” when it suits her) article endorsed by Governor Palin herself:
Precisely, Ace. I don’t countenance you, who likely killed far more people in your career than Bill Ayers and the Weathermen ever did. I don’t endorse the tactics of the Weathermen, but they were closer to the right side than you were, Senator McCain. They opposed the evil that was the Johnson-Nixon war on Vietnam, and you have never ceased to support it. I am proud to go on record as one who will vote against you and shortly applaud what I trust will prove the decisive repudiation of your lunge at the highest office and your entire disingenuous career.
I don’t “love” the USA (love a country? — how effing grotesque is that?), but I wish it well, and my opposition to McCain and to the toxic tradition he represents is of a piece with those hopes for my country’s good fortune. And I will put my functional “patriotism” up against anyone’s, any day.
October 5th, 2008 at 11:07 pm
Yowza, what a video! I wish I could think as fast as he talks. Golden tongued — glad he’s on our side!
October 5th, 2008 at 11:29 pm
I think I’m in love….
October 6th, 2008 at 1:38 am
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October 6th, 2008 at 6:43 am
I don’t know who this guy is, but he has a lot of good energy and he hits the nail on the head! Great video!
October 6th, 2008 at 7:45 am
ProjectionWatch: Racially Tinged Edition…
In this week’s ProjectionWatch, the mainstream media once again takes on the troubling subject of Lying Liars Who Lie and, in the process, helpfully uncovers an even more disturbing pathology lurking among the ranks of those who oppose The One……
October 6th, 2008 at 9:49 am
Alfonzo is terrific, expresses himself well, and has an ear for a great turn of phrase. Thanks for sharing this one!
October 6th, 2008 at 10:27 am
Well, courtesy of Sarah Palin, you all appear to have gotten your wish. We will see how effective it is. John McCain had exactly half of the truly undecided voters in his corner for a brief 3 days in September. Now he has virtually none. For the first time, Obama’s rise in support has been exactly matched by McCain’s own fall. We will see what his new strategy wins him.
Up to now, the personal favorability of both Presidential candidates has been far higher than either of their vote percentages, and far higher than the current holder of the office. We are unlikely to ever reach political agreement in this country, but we had a chance to stop hating our political adversaries personally, a chance of becoming mere opponents again instead of sworn enemies.
However the election goes, McCain and Palin have just obliterated that chance. They have just added one more name to the list of men whose personal love of this country has been smeared and savaged rather than just their political views opposed: Cleland, Dashele, Murtha, Kerry, Obama. They have just stepped across line which separates political disagreement from overt personal ill will.
This is the Hail Mary pass that you asked for.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t surprise me. I have been dreading it ever since I saw John McCain’s body language during the first Presidential debate.
And I don’t doubt that, if McCain wins, you yourself will continue to write how bewildered and confused you are about why so many people are now “McCain/Palin haters” just like they were “Bush haters”–how these leftist haters are utterly immune to the values of true bipartisanship–and how this hatred is so self-centered, so boomerish, and so “perpetually adolecent”. After all, isn’t John McCain “our” President rather than “your” President?
They are hated because they have done hateful things to win elections–or have had them done in their name.
Personally. I find this something of a strain on the vows I have taken, but I have complete confidence in the antidotes and purification practices I have been given to manage it. And, in fact, working to manage the strain will ultimately bring me great benefit. So I now have to new names to add to my personal gratitude list, above and beyond the compassion and loving kindness I have vowed to cultivate toward all.
But that doesn’t mean that they haven’t sown the wind.
[Yeah, Joseph and Obama has run a clean campaign, right? Training folks for "agitation" on election day? Nice. - admin]
October 6th, 2008 at 10:37 am
That video is most definitely going to be posted on my blog - thanks so much for letting us know about Alfonzo!
October 6th, 2008 at 1:49 pm
Daily reading assignments…
The Anchoress: Why He’s Voting for McCain/Palin Patterico: L.A. Times Distorts the Record on Responsibility for the Mortgage Crisis Ed Morrissey, Hot Air: Israelis dispute pro-Obama video, plus (and it’s about time) McCain blasts Obama, Democrat…
October 6th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
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October 6th, 2008 at 4:42 pm
All along I’ve assumed Obama’s campaign would fall apart when McCain starts to clue people in to what kind of person he is and the jarring disconnect between the fantasy and the reality. I figured it would happen during the convention and the debates since those are the times the media can least control the message. But now I think the time has come and gone, McCain’s waited too long.
October 6th, 2008 at 5:22 pm
Anchoress, the line is clear and Palin crossed it: “palling around with terrorists”. Obama’s interaction with Ayers is a fact, and how much or little it means is legitimate fodder for a voter’s decision. Palin’s statement, however, is a deliberate and contemptuous insult made from the issue for the sake of a sound bite. It certainly got everybody’s attention, and put the Obama campaign on the defensive, insofar as that means anything.
They clearly were prepared for the possibility of it, however, since they have a whole documentary film ready to go about John McCain’s role in the Keating Affair. But nobody with any sense would not have prepared something for possibility, given the track record of our politics since 1992. And Obama’s campaign is proving to be one of the tightest political ships of modern times.
But I would have you consider that this film was probably ready during the week or so that John McCain was ahead in the polls, as well as during the comedy of the “suspension” of his campaign to ride into Washington on a white horse and fix the economic crisis. Someone such as Karl Rove, with no scruples about anything done in the name of electing your candidate, would not have hesitated to release the film during the “suspension” and let McCain have to contend with it during the first debate. It would have given him fits.
Obama’s campaign did not do this, and I think they would have preferred to never release it at all.
If John McCain uses tomorrow night to attack Obama with language like Palin’s, it will also get everybody’s attention, and it will define what everyone thinks ever afterwards about the public John McCain. And however Obama responds will permanently shape our impression of him, for good or ill, as well.
I just hope that if McCain does this he finally turns man enough to look Obama in the eye when he does it. Based on past performance, I’m sure Obama will have no trouble meeting McCain’s eyes no matter what is said.
[Gimmee a break, Joe. She hasn't crossed a line, but some would like us to think so. The same group that would like us to believe that anything negative said about Obama is "racist" in origin. I'm a little weary of it, and not terribly interested in the pathetic and endless spin, anymore. Admin]
October 6th, 2008 at 6:40 pm
Okay, Anchoress, have it your way. After 28 days it will all be academic.
[Will it, Joseph? I suspect people will see pretty much what they want to see. Including you and me. -admin]
October 6th, 2008 at 7:38 pm
The good news Anchoress, is that you appear to only have one Obamite troll assigned to your blog, and it’s one that knows how to type words with more than four letters in them, and knows how actually use the shift lock key. Nonetheless, they have all had the same brainwashing job applied, and they all have a tendency to spew hated-filled rhetoric when angered. You can tell these types by their irrational “Bush-Rove” paranoia, and their repetition of whatever the latest dKos talking point is.
Talking point for this week - the Keating-5. And, of course, they fail to mention the fact that John McCain was was 1.) judged to have not been complicit in the scandal and was 2.) completely exonerated. The prosecutor apologized for having McCain dragged into the mess, but the Democrats insisted that at least one Republican be tried.
Three Democrats went to prison: Alan Cranston (D-CA), Dennis DeConcini (D-AZ), and Donald Riegle (D-MI).
Of the five Senators investigated for ethics violations, one Democrat and one Republican were cleared of ANY wrong doing (other than making poor choices when it came to “friends”). You know both of these two names: John Glenn (D-OH) and John McCain (R-AZ).
Not that the troll cares about the truth any, he’s just out doing his assigned rounds, posting the obligatory smear-of-the-day. These guys really just need some prayers directed their way, and some help from professional cult de-programmers. They’re afflicted worse than Scientologists are. Some of those same techniques have been used on them, but they’ve been upgraded and enhanced with some nice KGB additions to the overall program… (See: KGB trained Ayers, who then trained Obama - http://www.galenslade.com/?p=79 )
additions.
[Joseph and Rand are not "Obama-trolls". They're longtime readers of the blog who tend to subscribe to very leftwing ideology, and they are always courteous, even when our passions rise a bit. - admin]
October 7th, 2008 at 12:45 am
Not academic? We will have a President-elect [I may have gotten my day count wrong. Let's say 30 days.], it in all probability will be Barack Obama, the electoral and popular vote count will probably be far more definitive than 2004, and the state-by-state margins will be beyond any rational charge of election fraud or worthwhile legal challenge. Both in the states that break for McCain and the ones that break for Obama the victory margins will be something on the order of a medium sized city.
You cannot elect Nobama. He doesn’t exist. You also can’t vote for Sarah Palin for President. She is not running for the office. With these two soul satisfying alternatives gone, what do we have left? I have followed the Gallup Daily all Summer and the lowest John McCain has polled in it has been 42%. It is 42% now. That means that, at the moment, the entire set of undecided voters that he picked up in his convention “bounce” and choice of Palin have been stripped from him. All of them. He is starting from scratch.
In virtually every national poll, including the Gallup Daily, Obama is starting to break at or above 50%. For McCain to do this by November 4th, he has to acquire the full 9% of the undecided voters who are left. I don’t expect him to pick up more than 5% of them no matter how much or how shrilly he and Palin denounce Obama. And I’m beginning to think this is generous, that the “taking the gloves off” will massively backfire.
Why? For nine months now, various people have been trying to tell everybody that, for one reason or another, Barack Obama isn’t fit to be President. Hillary Clinton lost doing it. After Hillary stopped campaigning, John McCain started doing it, and for three solid months Obama has led him in the Gallup Daily and most other national polls. The only exception has been a three day McCain lead immediately after the RNC.
This is incredible given the comparisons of 2000 and 2004. In both cases throughout the same time period there were wild swings of as much as 8% in both directions until October. So what is different? When Clinton first started her campaign, her signs consisted of the following: Hillary! As her campaign progressed it became Ready To Lead. McCain and Palin now sail under the banner of Country First. Can anyone possibly tell me country first instead of what? Ready to lead whom where? or Why Hillary?
All of these people seem to have thought that just being who they are was sufficient reason to elect them President, and that who he is disqualifies Barack Obama from being so. At least that is the way they have campaigned against him. Barack Obama has campaigned the old-fashioned way and told people pretty clearly some of the things he wants to do. Some of it is naive, some of it scares the willies out of you, And most of it will come out quite different in the democratic process of how we do things here.
But it is something, not nothing. So far, more people seem to like hearing what the man running for President wants to do now than what he did thirty years ago in The War. Obama is a candidate and not merely a name in red white and blue at the end of the political commercial that tells us once again that Obama isn’t fit to be dogcatcher, McCain and Palin are no more than this, particularly McCain.
The tactic simply hasn’t worked. It didn’t work for Hillary Clinton, and it has put McCain and Palin in a deep hole. So with the roaring cheers of their followers, they are now trying to do it again with more venom, more ugliness, and more ferocity. They are getting out of a hole by having someone give them some new and sharper shovels. And, in the process, they are simply adding to the emnity and ill-willthat has poisoned our politics for the last 15 years.
In the end it won’t much matter. The poison that has seeped into our politics can’t get too much worse. But there was a chance this year that it might have gotten better.
October 7th, 2008 at 8:34 am
I have been thinking on what the liberal leftists are saying and it just strikes me that what we are seeing is the last hurrah of the Boomer and Hippie generation. They are now doing their best and pulling out all the stops to make the revolution they tried to cause back in the 60’s and 70’s really happen. They will stop at nothing to lie about what they are doing and will lie about what the opposition stands for. They are the media these days and the college professors and the teachers and the CEO’s and nothing will get in their way to give us socialism.
It is the stark Orwellianism in the rewriting of history and the refusal to really examine the cause and effect of the policies they are supporting that really scares me. Can they not see what is going to happen if they bring these policies into practice or do they just not care since the ones who will have to fix it all up are not them. We were lucky we had a Reagan to fix up their mess 25 years ago but who is the Reagan of today. Sarah is much like him but he was coming from a bigger support group of his celebrity and from California. I just hope the message can get out in the next month or we will be truly skewed (not the word I wanted there but close).
October 7th, 2008 at 8:53 am
> John McCain had exactly half of the truly undecided voters in his corner for a brief 3 days in September. Now he has virtually none. For the first time, Obama’s rise in support has been exactly matched by McCain’s own fall. We will see what his new strategy wins him.
This claim is disingenuous at best. The thing that has been costing McCain for the last two weeks is really f’ing obvious, has nothing to so with him or his actions, and I challenge you to justify your making such an idiotic statement.
The fact is, it’s a demonstrably provable fact that the Left has been lying its teeth off regarding the problems, and even the media’s careful blinders aren’t handling enough to hide it.
McCain needs to start hammering the lies home — citing facts and making it clear who is at fault for this mess — which is about 65/20/10/5 — the Dems, the GOP, the Lenders, and the Home Buyers. But the ones who really, really fornicated with the canine are the Dems, who have been ignoring, obfuscating, and obstructing any and all efforts to resolve the issues at the heart of this crisis in a rational manner BEFORE they reached crisis proportions. At least 14 times during the Bush Admin, the GOP and/or Bush have attempted to slow and direct the snowball as it gained speed and power going down the hill… and every time, the Dems have shoved them out of the way, derided their efforts, and claimed that the snowball represents no problem of any kind for anyone…
October 7th, 2008 at 8:57 am
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Barack Obama and the Strategy of Manufactured Crisis
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October 9th, 2008 at 11:44 am
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