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Current Events => Archives => Politics => Election 2008 => Topic started by: Wretched Excess on August 19, 2008, 11:32:47 PM
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this quote from obama just sounds needy and weird: " . . . I believe that he genuinely wants to serve America's national interest. Now, it's time for him to acknowledge that I want to do the same."
huh? and as whiny as that comment already is, it certainly doesn't sound right in the same speech as "John McCain doesn't know what he's up against".
yesterday, by the way, he said :
"I will win, don't worry about that," Obama told a crowd of 1,300 people at a fundraiser Sunday night in California . . .
Link (http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hQoaTsB4OpY94G8f4tvFSPGGlBtA)
Obama: McCain 'doesn't know what he's up against'
A combative Barack Obama said Tuesday that Republican John McCain "doesn't know what he's up against" in this election and challenged his rival to stop questioning his character and patriotism.
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"Our job in this election is not just 'win,' although I'm a big believer in winning," Obama said during the rally. "I don't intend to lose this election. John McCain doesn't know what he's up against."
"He can talk all he wants about Britney (Spears) and Paris (Hilton), but I don't have time for that mess," Obama said.
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"These are the judgments I've made and the policies that we have to debate, because we do have differences in this election," Obama told the veterans. "One of the things that we have to change in this country is the idea that people can't disagree without challenging each other's character and patriotism. I have never suggested that Sen. McCain picks his positions on national security based on politics or personal ambition. I have not suggested it because I believe that he genuinely wants to serve America's national interest. Now, it's time for him to acknowledge that I want to do the same.
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Responding to Obama's comments, McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds said: "Barack Obama has made it clear that unconditional withdrawal in Iraq is more important to him than victory in Iraq. That's not a criticism of his patriotism, that's a criticism of his judgment."
More (http://www.adn.com/24hour/topstories/story/498253.html)
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Two words for Obamanation: A verb and a pronoun.
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What is wrong with him?
"Our job in this election is not just 'win,' although I'm a big believer in winning," Obama said during the rally. "I don't intend to lose this election. John McCain doesn't know what he's up against."
The mouse that roared. I'm sure the guy who survived over 5 years as a POW in the Hanoi Hilton is really shaking in his shoes being up against Obama!
Then there's:
"He can talk all he wants about Britney (Spears) and Paris (Hilton), but I don't have time for that mess,"
So, why won't he go and have a debate with McCain?!? :thatsright: Oh...wait...nevermind...
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McC DOES know, the kid does not.
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McC DOES know, the kid does not.
30+ years of public service versus 140 days -- yeah, I think McCain knows what is what.
Rush noted it today: hussein is losing it and coming across as desperate. And McCain is capitalizing on that.
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Obamalama dosen't even know enough not to swallow the pablum being fed to him by MoveOn. Jeez!
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My "take" on John McCain is this--although I'm not sure if he's doing it consciously, or subconsciously:
A lot of people have complained that John McCain "didn't do anything all summer," but--
(a) John McCain was a prisoner of war, and undoubtedly that experience has affected his conduct and expectations. One of those things he perhaps learned was to never jump the gun; to wait until all is in place, and ready.
This ties in, sort of, with
(b) John McCain is a traditionalist. Political campaigns used to start after Labor Day, and not a year or two ahead of the election. Short campaigns worked well in the past, and there's no reason to believe they won't still work; it's just that they haven't been done lately.
We can of course blame George McGovern for this, who announced his candidacy for the 1972 Democrat nomination in January 1971, starting this stupid trend.
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(c) John McCain shares many personality characteristics with the late Marshall Zhukov of the Soviet Union.
Zhukov was the Russian general who went through western Russia and all of Poland like a hot knife through butter, getting rid of the Germans. But once he reached the German border, 60 miles from Berlin, he abruptly stopped. Didn't do a thing; just sat there for a whole month.
This of course perplexed the western allies, who were racing through western Germany.
Zhukov had apparently figured the Germans would fight harder on their own soil, than they had on Russian and Polish soil, and so it might prove a rough 60 miles to Berlin. So he brought the thing to a screeching halt, and just sat there for a whole month.
Actually, what he was doing was commandeering all artillery armaments possibly available to him, getting them to the front, lining them up.
When they were all in place, there was unleashed perhaps one of the greatest artillery bombardments in the history of war; possibly the first such thing that one could actually see from the moon.
The rest is history, and quite possibly history is about to repeat.
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he's making a major strategic blunder, it seems to me. he is campaigning as though the entire country
agrees with him completely in his sometimes hysterical outrage at the administration. i would think that
he should be out there trying to convince them, but he is lecturing to them.
I can't imagine anything more condescending, or doomed to fail.