Gloves Coming Off: McCain To Go After Obama On Associations, Honesty And Judgment

Via The Washington Post - new ads being made, McCain said to be getting ready to turn up the heat on Obama. It certainly isn't too late given the way information flows today. There are still plenty of undecideds, suggesting Obama has not been able to close the deal.

A strong, consistent attack plan carried out over the remaining weeks certainly has the potential to change the race in enough key states for McCain to win.

Sen. John McCain and his Republican allies are readying a newly aggressive assault on Sen. Barack Obama's character, believing that to win in November they must shift the conversation back to questions about the Democrat's judgment, honesty and personal associations, several top Republicans said.

With just a month to go until Election Day, McCain's team has decided that its emphasis on the senator's biography as a war hero, experienced lawmaker and straight-talking maverick is insufficient to close a growing gap with Obama. The Arizonan's campaign is also eager to move the conversation away from the economy, an issue that strongly favors Obama and has helped him to a lead in many recent polls.

"We're going to get a little tougher," a senior Republican operative said, indicating that a fresh batch of television ads is coming. "We've got to question this guy's associations. Very soon. There's no question that we have to change the subject here," said the operative, who was not authorized to discuss strategy and spoke on the condition of anonymity.

Being so aggressive has risks for McCain if it angers swing voters, who often say they are looking for candidates who offer a positive message about what they will do. That could be especially true this year, when frustration with Washington politics is acute and a desire for specifics on how to fix the economy and fight the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is strong.

Comments

[seekeronos]

Here's a truthful advert against Obama:

http://seekeronos.blogsome.com/images/hitler_obama.jpg

[SacTownMan]

Great image Brother Seek!

It is time for McCain and Palin to turn up the heat on Xerxes!

Barry and Botox Biden keep getting a pass from the media so who else will get the message out about these Socialist hacks!

[BobinStamford]

Oh heavens! Mr. Keating 5 is going to talk about, uh, character. He's such a funny old man. Too bad no one cares about the shitty old geezer and the his record and being a 'hero'.

Remember patriots, the fundamentals of the economy are STRONG!!

[jacksonian]

Keating 5= 1 repub and 4 dems. the one repub and only 1 dem( john glen) were cleared of acting improperly, that leaves 3 guilty dems.
"The fundamentals of the economy are strong!!" I believe the last presidential candidate to paraphrase those words was obama in mich. a few days ago.
I care about John McCain and acknowledge the debt that I owe him and every other veteran. In other words I'm not a welching dhemmi. By the way. it takes a pretty shitty person to type what you just did.
Funny how last presidential cycle the left was making the case that in these troubled times we needed a war veteran to lead us. One doesn't hear that so much now.

[Fred Beloit]

One doesn't call him Boob lightly. Remember, Boob, you , Pelosi, and Harry Reid were absolutely correct. Iraq is a lost war.

[MarkJ]

BobinStamford,

"Too bad no one cares about the shitty old geezer..."

Gee, your comment perfectly encapsulates the way the rest of us feel about you.

[Fred Beloit]

Here is some good news for both candidates, since they both have their heads way up in there, and for Al Gore too. Anybody want to buy some nice packages of mortgage-backed securities mixed in with some lovely carbon credits. What a sick joke!

http://www.amazon.com/gp/blog/post/PLNK3Q3AFLBNEGKMH

[Suzi]

A little preemption from the press:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/04/us/politics/04ayers.html?_r=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&oref=slogin

[rightwingprof]

Palin's on the attack. She said on Fox News that Obama wasn't fit to be commander-in-chief.

[Fred Beloit]

I hate to quote this much, but it is so cogent and matter of fact, it should be seen. I recommend the rest be read as well. From V.D. Hanson via PJM:

"I was reminded last night how tired we’ve become by all these professionals who pontificate, strut, and then say nothing or utter nonsense. Let me illustrate: I have watched the demagogic Rep. Barney Frank for the last two weeks panicking like a teen-driver who was caught with an open container, screaming and crying that conservatives in DC caused all of Wall Street’s graft—when any one who saw tapes of the past Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac oversight hearings could see the pompous Frank obstructing needed regulation in service to his political agenda, with no concern about the public purse or the poor investor, only the heady notion that he, the anointed, was advancing liberal doctrine at someone else’s exposure in getting “the poor” into houses by hook or crook.

Of those many embarrassing committee moments, my favorite exchange was brilliant Rep. Frank, as the Harvard Law Graduate, genuflecting to another Harvard Law School graduate, the equally proclaimed brilliant Franklin Raines, who profited in the millions as he helped to ruin a once hallowed housing agency—both smug as they engage in just the sort of skullduggery that caused the meltdown and cost millions of Americans hundreds of millions of dollars."
http://pajamasmedia.com/victordavishanson/debate-impressions/

[jharp]

Always wonder how the Keating 5 stayed under the radar.

Anyways, I'm glad to see McCain bring it up. Another nail in his campaign's coffin.

[Scrapiron]

BobinStamford, your hero 'Islamist' Hussein O stated the same thing a few days ago, (He made fun of McCain, stole the statement and used it himself). "the fundamentals of the economy are STRONG" is a true statement by both so what the problem? If the fundamentals weren't strong the entire country would have collapsed last week when it was discovered the 'the top three' Hussien current financial advisors came streight form Fannie and Freddie and that Barney 'the homo' Frank lived with one of the criminals for years.

It's time for us to demand an independant Investigator/Prosecutor to go after the Fannie, Freddie and congressional criminals. Dodd, Frank, and several others who received 'favorable' interest rates on home purchases and refinancing, aka kickbacks, from friends should be prime targets. Hussein O took hundreds of thousand in 'kickbacks' (a major felony in any language) for his votes in the senate so he should be on the list of future prisoners in a federal facility. It will come, just hope it isn't too late and he becomes the next impeached president. Both of my worthless senators have been notified of the demand for an investigation. Grassroots can get it done.

[Rajiv Vindaloo]

"Being so aggressive has risks for McCain if it angers swing voters..."

No it doesn't. People like to think they're against negative campaigning, but every study ever done shows that they actually eat it up.

As long as the ads are accurate, McCain has NOTHING to lose by going on the attack.

[Mr DeBakey]

"As long as the ads are accurate..."

That'll be the day
As in
"Barack Obama voted for tax increases 94 times.."

[Mr DeBakey]

Go After Obama On Associations

"Twenty-six years later, at a lunchtime meeting about school reform in a Chicago skyscraper, Barack Obama met Mr. Ayers, by then an education professor. Their paths have crossed sporadically since then, at a coffee Mr. Ayers hosted for Mr. Obama's first run for office, on the schools project and a charitable board, and in casual encounters as Hyde Park neighbors. [...]

[T]he two men do not appear to have been close. Nor has Mr. Obama ever expressed sympathy for the radical views and actions of Mr. Ayers, whom he has called "somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago, when I was 8"

Best of Luck

[BobinStamford]

No one cares about the geriatric gigolo's silly "positions". Sorry patriots, you clowns can surge all you want and wave your flags until your arms fall off but you are losing - and losing big, in November. Sorry to see the old man cut and run in Michigan, btw.

At least you still have NASCAR - for now!!!

[Worst President Ever]

So much for Palin the Savior. Looks like McLame's campaign's in a death spiral and they're turning to their last, best hope - Negative Campaigning. Must make all those remaining McLame supporters proud, knowing that if he campaigns on the issues, he's a loser.

And then this, looks like another detour for the Straight Talk Express:

"The Alaska Supreme Court has agreed to hear an emergency appeal from lawyers seeking to shut down the Legislature's Troopergate investigation of Gov. Sarah Palin."

http://www.adn.com/palin/story/545140.html

[Fred Beloit]

How to "win" debates and remain in the Senate for thirty-six years, even though you are just like any other mokes. Make stuff up that you wish were facts...like Harpo does, for example.
"For all the focus on Sarah Palin's graceful performance in Thursday's vice presidential showdown, a more significant spectacle was taking place behind the other rostrum.

That's where Joe Biden, speaking with the pompus self-importance befitting his 36 years in the Senate, told one baffling fib after another."

http://www.nypost.com/seven/10042008/postopinion/editorials/the_lies_biden_told_132104.htm

[Fred Beloit]

Reasoned arguments against the bailout. I have one quibble, the author called it blackmail. It should be called extortion.
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/bailout-saga-proves-that-elites-dont-care-what-we-think/

[The Other Ed]

The reason this Ayers story never goes anywhere is that people do not think Obama working with a guy 13 years ago on education and local politics necessarily means Obama is in any way involved with crimes that Ayers did 40 years ago.

Are all the Evangelical Christians working with Charles Colson now guilty because of his Watergate crimes years ago? Of course not, there needs to be a closer connection than unrelated involvement decades later to make these types of associations resonate with voters.

[Jim Treacher]

It's odd how these Obama fanboys are so eager to declare victory. Jeez, guys, don't panic.

[Son of a Pig and a Monkey]

Barack is as Muslim as a bag full of Baracks.

[The Other Ed's Cluebat]

Other Ed:

No-one is suggesting that young Barack, who was attending Muslim school when Ayers carrried out his domestic terrorist campaign, was associated with Ayers' crimes, for which Ayers was completely unrepentant, on September 12, 2001. They question Barack's judgement, and his unrelenting thirst for power, that he would associate himself with that asshole, as well as with Ayers' wife, who thought the Manson crew carving up the heavily pregnant Sharon Tate was "really kewl". Oh yeah, and Reverend "Goddamn America" Wright, Obie's race-baiting imam, er, "pastor", doesn't reassure. And that convenient real estate deal with the crook Rezco -move along, nothing to see here. And Obie's role in facilitating Fannie Mac and Freddie Mae (sorry about that, the teleprompter went of the fritz) -and taking their money to keep them going -until the bail-out that Obie dawdled to take a stand on.

[sand_dollar]

obama has a history of relations and associations with radical types. Which means he shares their views and goals, whether 20, 15, 10, 5, years ago. He has not been called to task by the 'impartial, objective,' mass media. He has been given a character pass ever since the 'rev.' wright episode. No honest man joins a church, making a public commitment, and stays there for 20+ years WITHOUT knowing what that church is all about. obama is a LIAR when he says he wasn't in church when those things were said. He is NOT qualified to be elected president. He is a black power community organizer with a blib tongue. Wake UP!

[Fred Beloit]

Obama and his Co-CEO of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge also made 100 million smackers disappear with no visible results. Think what this team could do with 1 trillion really super large.

[Spartan112]

Seek I expected better frm you, that image is weak and childish at best. It's a completely unfounded attack. It's ludicrous when either side of the aisle make "Hitler" comparisons. Unless you can prove that either of them has killed upwards of 12mil people you might as well leave it by the sidelines.

[Fred Beloit]

What a good idea, Agent 112. We could call it THE GESTAPO. Or, more modestly, THE PEOPLE'S POLICE.

""We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.”

These two startling sentences were ones Obama inserted into the prepared text of a recent speech he gave on the topic of “Service” in Colorado Springs on July 2, 2008 (http://tinyurl.com/64u93u) in which Obama “asked us to serve,”"

http://www.plnewsforum.com/index.php/forums/viewthread/40956/

[FredP]

I'd rather see McCain go after Obama on drilling for oil. McCain and Palin are for it; Obama and Biden (and Democrats in general) are against it. There is lots out there and when we start drilling prices will come down. Everybody cares about the price of gas and heating oil.

[sam]

Most Americans are idiots and will probably elect Palin. Americans don't like smart people, they feel intimidated by them. That's why they elected Bush twice, they felt that he was like them. Palin is now the new joe-six-pack. Do you expect the world to take you seriously? Sorry, I forgot, you don't care about what others think as long as you're together in the country of stupid. Palin is an idiot and has no business even mentionning Obama's name. McCain can use whoever he wants to help him take off his gloves.

[Philip McDaniel]

A person is often known by the company he keeps. Ayers, Wright, Rezco…Harpo, Boob, Worst Paperhanger Ever, etc.

[Philip McDaniel]

...Ed the horse, SamIAm, ...

[Philip McDaniel]

"We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.”

I missed that, Fred. Shades of the Brown Shirts – 1930s Germany. An ill advised comment on Obama’s part to say the very least. I’m sure you’ve noticed that most demagogues cannot refrain from telegraphing their aims and plans.

[Spartan112]

McCain spent 5 years in close proximity to a pack of communists...hmmmm, makes you wonder.

[Philip McDaniel]

"McCain spent 5 years in close proximity to a pack of communists...hmmmm, makes you wonder."
LOL!

[Scrapiron]

Send Sarah Palin out with the three names of those most responsible for the crash and corruption at Fannie and Freddie. Arm her with the facts on each of them and the big 'fact' that all three now work for Hussein O. Put some pressure on the FEC and get the facts out on Hussein O's campaign take of over $200 million from terrorists and terrorists nations.

She can draw 50,000 or more to each rally and put the truth on the people. They won't 'get mad' and turn against McCain and Palin for telling the truth, they'll appreciate it and change a lot of minds.

[Scrapiron]

Fred Beloit, all of the $100 million plus didn't disappear, over $3 million of it is in the bank under the name Hussein and Michelle. It was easy, use 50 million+ tax dollars to buy copies of two Hussein books and the royalties come back the Hussein, ala $3.5 million (now laundryed money) in the bank. Crime and corruption Chicago style. Or you can say (if you're stupid) that millions of people purchased a book by an unknown Islamist.

[Log]

It would have been nice if McCain had opposed the bailout bill. Then he could have gone after Obama for supporting the bailout bill. Now that would have been a winner for the American voters.

[seekeronos]

"--- It's ludicrous when either side of the aisle make "Hitler" comparisons. Unless you can prove that either of them has killed upwards of 12mil people you might as well leave it by the sidelines. ---"

How about a comparison to the evil H-man *before* he could implement his "Endlösung der Judenfrage"?

Granted, that particular poster is based off of the 1936 "Long Live Germany" (Es lebe Deutschland) poster commissioned short after Hitler marched into the Rhineland and began the re-militarisation of Germany in earnest.

The Holocaust (specific to mass murder, not necessarily the persecution of Jews and other persons deemed "undesirable" or "useless eaters" by the Nazi regime) was either in is very first stages of implementation, if implemented at all: the initial bouts of mass murder occurred in Lithuania in early 1941.

[seekeronos]

Sidenote to the above:

In no way am I justifying Hitler's actions or those of the Nazis.

I'm just saying that at the time of that poster (1936) people had no inkling of what Hitler's plans were peyond making Germany a better place.

And I'm concerned that this might also be the case with a demagogue like Obama, who has mustered legions of mentally zombiefied minions convincing kids to sing "Dear Leader, Change Our World" type songs, and sloppy, overfed-yet-poorly-nourished Negro high-school children doing some sort of synchronised buck dance to "Yes, We Can!" and "Obama is responsible for (x,y,z, everything in my life and my welfare check too!)..."

[Dr. Ethiopia]

McCain-Palin ticket is the worst joke about to be pulled on Americans. Are you serious? Palin for VP? Ok. Moving on. We all know McCain has no chance except to go negative. Nothing is appealing about a man who acts like he was the only soldier in Vietnm. Think about it i am Twenty-something and the Vietnam story will not be the reason why i would vote. So maybe he should try to focus on the issues, and then he might have a slight chance in capturing my attention span.

[redherkey]

"Too bad no one cares about the shitty old geezer..."

As Michelle wisely points out, in Barack's America, old people will be required to do their patriotic duty and report to a euthanasia clinic at age 70. Lacking any productive utility, and representing a serious drain on our nation's budget (not to mention their carbon footprint, which becomes extremely detrimental as they produce carbon while producing ZERO productive utility), they will gleefully support our great leader by removing their impact.

Think I'm kidding? Visit with any German citizen who remembers the 1930s well and they'll likely point out eerie parallels to Barack's ascent, his brownshirts, his secret police, his association with anarchists and totalitarianists, his disturbed and unbalanced upbringing with a loser father and a mentally unbalanced mother, etc.

[Worst President Ever]

redhatkey - making sh** up doesn't make it so. Your post is a litany of BS so far off the charts it's not worth the effort to refute.

Lies and hate aren't going to win you the election this time.

[seekeronos]

Redherky, it is called "getting rid of the useless eaters".

As of this posting, there are 6,727,990,285 people on earth.
http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/

In a nutshell, the global elites want to thin down the herds of humanity to a more manageable, (or to use a progressive buzzword, "sustainable") level.

Estimates on that exact number vary from 500,000,000 (about the size of the population of North America inclusive only of Canada to Mexico) to around 2,000,000,000 (about the size of Red China plus India minus New Delhi).

Read differently, the elites want to reduce our population by 70% of current levels to around 99%.

That is some holocaust they would have in mind: how they would accomplish it is another matter.

Arguably, it seems a bit over the top and hardly believable, and yet, with the Red Chinese and the Russians actively or passively murdering off their populations (following the legacy of Mao and Stalin) via deliberate destruction of their poorest classes of people, it only follows that America is a logical target for reduction to poverty and famine... with its very large middle class.

5% of the world's population but using 25% of its resources, wiped out by fifty careful years of planning.

Population Reduction - especially of so-called "useless eaters" - is a hallmark of socialism.

As Orwell's Infamous Pig once said:

"Some animals are more equal than other animals".

[seekeronos]

Pro'lly served from the Table of Mr. Jones and other conspiracy theorists... but an intriguing read nonetheless:

http://100777.com/node/1046

[StevefromMKE]

"So maybe he should try to focus on the issues, and then he might have a slight chance in capturing my attention span."

So what exactly does float your boat, Dr. Ethiopia? What is that John McCain could do for you that would make you vote for him?

[GuyInCT]

Call me crazy, but it just occurred to me that maybe McCain really doesn't want to be president. Maybe he just wants to stay in the senate where he was everyone's "beloved maverick". I think there is a distinct possibility that McCain is trying to throw the election, maybe subconsciously.

The other alternative is that he thinks he will get disaffected democrats by becoming indistinguishable from Obama. He may get a few but not nearly enough to make up for the loss of his "base".

[Scrapiron]

When will McLame turn Palin loose on the state of the nation in Jan 2007 and todays result after two years of a democrat congress? Gas has doubled, the stock market has lost 1/3, the financial market is dead in the water, the housing market has crashed and unemployment is shooting up. That is the 'change of direction' the democrats promised the country to get elected, and they promised to stop the way in Iraq immediately. They sure changed the direction of the country, down the tube, and the war in Iraq is won despite the democrats traitorous actions.

[seekeronos]

Wow, jharpo got savagely smacked down at Patterico's...

http://209.85.173.104/search?q=cache:2tki2Dce8BwJ:dev.patterico.com/2008/10/02/politico-forecasts-a-psychic-vp-night/+patterico+jharp&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=4&gl=us&client=firefox-a

Nice touch with the seemingly differing backstories between here and there.

[SacTownMan]

Yea, Seek I found Harpo trolling there a few days back. The regulars there just put a daily bitch slap on that boy.

He made a comment about Palin's Down Syndrome baby and they just about formed a lynch mob for his ass. They asked me to post his comments here but I figured there were no suprises for the regulars here.

He is doing the same thing there he used to do here. He races to be the first to post on a new thread. He still never links anything, just puts it down as fact. Spewing the BDS rants and the Moonbat Top Ten Talking Points and posting over and over and over and..... you get the idea!

Independantly wealthy now and a world traveler to boot! Sounds like the sock puppet a little!

[seekeronos]

"--- Independantly wealthy now and a world traveler to boot! Sounds like the sock puppet a little! ---"

Ya know... that sure does sound a bit like Sock O'Bob or Sock O'chris.

Add in the high-fallutin' edge-mah-gay-shun from one of them e-lite (pronounced "ee-light") Ivy League degree-grantin' places... and he'd almost be a perfect match.

Unfortunately, where as Sock O'whoever from Stamford actually succeeds at being marginally funny on occasion, Harpo seems to be completely without any shred of a sense of humour.