So, this is what flip-flopping on sticking to public campaign funding will get you: enough money to buy 1/2 hour chunks of tv air time, just before an election. Wow. Good thing there’s no fairness doctrine yet, eh?
This once again proves my point that Obama and his campaign are bad strategists…or perhaps it proves John McCain’s point that Obama doesn’t know the difference between a strategy and a tactic. Because if Obama was REALLY smart, he’d forget the networks that no one watches and buy a solid hour of time right behind the Project Runway finale, next week.
Because fashion knows no ideological boundary!
I like Hot Air’s take on it, ala “The Outer Limits”: They control the signal. Yeah, the vertical hold, too. But the fine-tuning….still off.
And c’mon…you don’t do this if you really and truly are looking at a “landslide.”
Meanwhile - here’s something that I said shoulda happened two years ago: Boehner declares war on ACORN. Well that’s very nice. A little late to the game, guys….
Also, via Instapundit, Jeff Jarvis says the press is responsible for its own downfall. He’s quite right. He also writes:
A Gallup survey says 52 percent of Americans do not trust news media, up from 30 percent in 1972.
I’d suggest our distrust is much higher than that, at this point.
October 9th, 2008 at 5:36 pm
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October 9th, 2008 at 7:05 pm
It’s already happening, Woman.
Last Saturday, my husband and I went to our local Mexican restaurant. The place has two TVs with two different channels on. One had the Food Network. The other one…
It was All-Obama, All-The-Time! For over an hour.
As hungry as I was (and of course, the Little Fig 2), I became a bit sick to my stomach when I noticed that Obama is showing himself to be a Man-of-the-American-People, beloved by Middle America, those rural farmers, those… bitter-gun-and-Bible-clingers! The way he swooned the crowds… How he charmed them to dance to his tune.
The Serpent was that charming with Eve, too!
The manager at the restaurant was the only one watching the spectacle on that TV screen. I looked at the people on the other tables. No one else was watching. This being South TX, and how common the tradition of la palanca inside the electoral booth benefiting Democrats for ages(even though ballots are now electronic across TX), I was pleased to see that others were not buying his snake oil. If anything, every client there avoided that screen like the plague. I left the place disgusted, with my food unfinished and my tortillas cold.
I can’t say that I’m not going back there as a protest measure. I’m moving from this area anyway.
October 9th, 2008 at 7:08 pm
Have you also noticed that the ones buying Obama’s snake oil are more often than not women?
“… as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty…” (2 Corinthians 11:3)
October 9th, 2008 at 7:15 pm
I would like to remind my friends here that Carter had a small lead going into the final weekend of the 1980 election:
[quote]In his closing remarks, Reagan asked a simple yet devastating question that would resonate with voters in 1980 and beyond: “Are you better off now than you were four years ago?” [b]According to Carter’ Press Secretary Jody Powell’s memoirs, internal tracking polls showed Carter’s tiny lead turning into a major Reagan landslide over the final weekend.[/b](per Wikipedia)[/quote]
All McCain has to do is ask if Americans want to be lead by a cheater or a doer the next 4 years in the last statement of the debate.
Furthermore, Obama’s distasteful 30-minute CBS informercial will backfire on him — like the Berlin speech and the Greek Temple fiasco. I would also like to remind by friends of the 1948 election, which can provide a useful basis for a McCain response:
[quote]
In the final weeks of the campaign, American movie theatres agreed to play two short newsreel-like campaign films in support of the two major-party candidates; each film had been created by its respective campaign organization. The Dewey film, shot professionally on an impressive budget, featured very high production values, but somehow reinforced an image of the New York governor as cautious and distant. The Truman film, hastily assembled on virtually no budget by the perpetually cash-short Truman campaign, relied heavily on public-domain and newsreel footage of the President taking part in major world events and signing important legislation. Perhaps unintentionally, the Truman film visually reinforced an image of the President as engaged and decisive. Years later, historian David McCullough cited the expensive, but lackluster, Dewey film, and the far cheaper, but more effective, Truman film, as important factors in determining the preferences of undecided voters. (per Wikipedia)[/quote]
October 9th, 2008 at 7:17 pm
I would like to remind my friends here that Carter had a small lead going into the final weekend of the 1980 election:
Per Wikipedia: In his closing remarks, Reagan asked a simple yet devastating question that would resonate with voters in 1980 and beyond: “Are you better off now than you were four years ago?” According to Carter’ Press Secretary Jody Powell’s memoirs, internal tracking polls showed Carter’s tiny lead turning into a major Reagan landslide over the final weekend.
All McCain has to do is ask if Americans want to be lead by a cheater or a doer the next 4 years in the last statement of the debate.
Furthermore, Obama’s distasteful 30-minute CBS infomercial will backfire on him — like the Berlin speech and the Greek Temple fiasco. I would also like to remind by friends of the 1948 election, which can provide a useful basis for a McCain response:
Per Wikipedia: In the final weeks of the campaign, American movie theatres agreed to play two short newsreel-like campaign films in support of the two major-party candidates; each film had been created by its respective campaign organization. The Dewey film, shot professionally on an impressive budget, featured very high production values, but somehow reinforced an image of the New York governor as cautious and distant. The Truman film, hastily assembled on virtually no budget by the perpetually cash-short Truman campaign, relied heavily on public-domain and newsreel footage of the President taking part in major world events and signing important legislation. Perhaps unintentionally, the Truman film visually reinforced an image of the President as engaged and decisive. Years later, historian David McCullough cited the expensive, but lackluster, Dewey film, and the far cheaper, but more effective, Truman film, as important factors in determining the preferences of undecided voters.
October 9th, 2008 at 7:43 pm
“All McCain has to do is ask if Americans want to be lead by a cheater or a doer the next 4 years in the last statement of the debate.”
A better question would be if America wants to be lead by a deceptively smooth speaker who wants America to turn the way HE wants her to be (which should make women think of the suffocatingly dominant men in their lives), or by a doer who loves his country enough to serve her with his life (which reminds us all of sacrifice and service).
October 9th, 2008 at 9:59 pm
It really does not matter how badly Obama screws up, so long as McCain insists on shooting himself in the foot after putting his foot in his mouth.
He has now tweeked his $300 billion leftist mortgage plan. Instead of buying them at a discount, it is now being reported that McCain’s plan is to buy them at face value, meaning that “the government” will absorb all the losses. Even Obama the Marxist is smart enough to see that is INSANE, even if all it really is is a desperate gimmick.
October 9th, 2008 at 10:17 pm
This is not the move of someone who is comfortably in the lead and seriously contemplating a landslide victory.
This is a last-minute calling of an audible at the line of scrimmage when your team is down by a touchdown and there’s 25 second left.
Also, consider ye the sudden revelation of ACORN’s latest shenanigans.
“It’s October, Barry! SURPRISE!”
I suspect Hillary Clinton is behind all of these turds suddenly dropping into Obama’s punchbowl.
October 10th, 2008 at 8:34 am
Obama should be looking at a landslide - but he’s not….
And is it panic or prudence which expends exorbitant amounts to purchase prime television time on CBS three weeks out if confidence is presumably high? Or is Geo. Soros’ bank book simply too near at hand for it to matter much??…
October 10th, 2008 at 9:48 am
You know, there are a couple of thing I have to wonder about…why is it such a big deal that Obama voted against a bill to fund troops (with now withdrawl timeline) when John McCain voted against the SAME bill (when it had a timeline)?
Why is being the friend of Bill Ayers a big deal (former violent protestor) yet consorting with women who bomb abortion clinics not an issue?
Just depends on which side of the aisle you sit, I suppose. It’s all good- as long as you’re a republican. If you’re not, then it’s a grievous wrong.
Funnily enough, Stephanie, someone has sort of asked that question. But I am wondering about the ‘blowing up abortion clinics’ thing. What is that story? More here - admin
October 10th, 2008 at 9:50 am
October 10th, 2008 at 10:44 am
My Banning…
I’ve made two decisions in the last week that have shaped my new attitude towards politics. First, I have decided who I’m voting for, and second, I am going to move, forcefully if need be, politics and news in general…
October 10th, 2008 at 10:46 am
Gateway Pundit On A Roll, Ayers, Obama, Pfleger, and More
Instapundit reports! Good stuff and lots of it, link and keep scrolling.
October 10th, 2008 at 12:30 pm
Project Runway - my secret indulgence (shhh… don’t tell anyone).
October 10th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
cAnchoress,
Here are a couple links I’ve found (quick scan) describing McCain’s associations:
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/McCain_connections_coming_back_to_haunt_1007.html
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2008_10/015061.php
http://mediamatters.org/items/200810040004
[edited to admit link, Steph there are easy instructions here on how to make links, naked urls blow my formatting out of the water. Thanks for the references; I'm taking the day off of reading today - decided my energy is better spent elsewhere, but will check all but the mmediamattersl inks out tomorrow. As MM has managed to willfully misquote me several times to completely distort my meaning (adding convenient Dowdish ellipses, etc) I don't consider them to be particularly credible and won't bother reading them - admin]
October 11th, 2008 at 3:25 pm
Come on stephanie — these claims you cite are about as tenuous as ominously revealing that McCain is a person who lives in the world, and there have been evil persons in the world, so McCain is obviously evil himself.
You know, when you try to twist things into such unrecognizable shapes, it does more damage to you and your credibility than your intended target.
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