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McCain Concedes Graciously
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
(CNN) -- Sen. John McCain on Tuesday urged all Americans to join him in congratulating Sen. Barack Obama on his projected victory in the presidential election.
"I pledge to him tonight to do all in my power to help him lead us through the many challenges we face," McCain said before his supporters in Phoenix, Arizona.
"Today, I was a candidate for the highest office in the country I love so much, and tonight, I remain her servant," he said.
McCain's running mate, Gov. Sarah Palin, was standing with him, but she did not speak.
McCain called Obama to congratulate him, Obama's campaign said.
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OFF TOPIC: McCain's Family A Hoot!
In an interview with The Daily Beast, McCain's aunt, 96-year-old Rowena Willis (twin sister of McCain's mother) said this of her sister's concern about McCain winning:
"She really doesn't care," Willis said of her 96-year old twin sister, who has campaigned for her son and recorded TV ads with him. "Let these bastards get in,’ she says, ‘I don't give a damn anymore. If these people want to buy votes and get their people in office, let them suffer for it in the way of high taxes."
Willis went on to say:
"I'm hoping he wins, for the country's sake,” McCain’s aunt said. “I figure it will kill him, but he's going to die one day anyway, so he might as well do it there."
DAYUMMM!! These are some rough old women! HA!
OFF TOPIC: "My Fellow Prisoners," John McCain To Americans
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
I declare John McCain needs to take this act on Def Comedy Jam, this is some funny stuff!
OFF TOPIC: Obama 2, McCain 0
According to early snap polling at CNN, Fox, and CBS, Senator Barack Obama has succeeded in coming out the favorite in the second presidential debate. Senator Obama spoke very directly to the audience and delivered his responses with respect, precision and clarity as he displayed a firm command of all subject matter.
I thought that it went well for both of the candidates. Unfortunately for McCain though, his style of delivery and blame is just not appealing.
And, the primary incentive for Senator Obama to debate well? Post debate PDA with his very loving wife Michelle of course!
OFF TOPIC: It's A Street Fight Now!: Keating Economics.com
Monday, October 6, 2008
Who is running Obama's campaign...Marvelous Marvin Hagler? This current move is worthy of the ring! Somebody might have to give McCain a standing eight count.
The gloves are off and the Obama Campaign has landed a penatrating body blow to the McCain Campaign by putting up a website that ties the current disatrous economic conditions to the scandal surrounding the savings and loan industry failure and the notorious "Keating Five." OUCH!
The current economic crisis demands that we understand John McCain's attitudes about economic oversight and corporate influence in federal regulation. Nothing illustrates the danger of his approach more clearly than his central role in the savings and loan scandal of the late '80s and early '90s.
John McCain was accused of improperly aiding his political patron, Charles Keating, chairman of the Lincoln Savings and Loan Association. The bipartisan Senate Ethics Committee launched investigations and formally reprimanded Senator McCain for his role in the scandal -- the first such Senator to receive a major party nomination for president.
At the heart of the scandal was Keating's Lincoln Savings and Loan Association, which took advantage of deregulation in the 1980s to make risky investments with its depositors' money. McCain intervened on behalf of Charles Keating with federal regulators tasked with preventing banking fraud, and championed legislation to delay regulation of the savings and loan industry -- actions that allowed Keating to continue his fraud at an incredible cost to taxpayers.
When the savings and loan industry collapsed, Keating's failed company put taxpayers on the hook for $3.4 billion and more than 20,000 Americans lost their savings. John McCain was reprimanded by the bipartisan Senate Ethics Committee, but the ultimate cost of the crisis to American taxpayers reached more than $120 billion.
The Keating scandal is eerily similar to today's credit crisis, where a lack of regulation and cozy relationships between the financial industry and Congress has allowed banks to make risky loans and profit by bending the rules. And in both cases, John McCain's judgment and values have placed him on the wrong side of history.
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Talk about reality bites!
OFF TOPIC: Stick And Move Palin Won't Be Talking On Sunday Morning
Sunday, September 7, 2008
I see that Ms. Mouth All Mighty Tongue Everlasting Sarah Palin can stick and move when she's surrounded by her crew, but she won't sit her moose hunting behind down in a chair with the rest of the candidates on Sunday morning and discuss all of the smack she laid out last Wednesday evening at the RNC.
Put up or shut up Sarah Palin!
I'm not in love with John McCain, but at the very least he'll look you in your eye when he fantasizes.
The Los Angeles Times "Top Of The Ticket" wrote the following post:
Sarah Palin will be missing from action Sunday a.m.
As is The Ticket's custom, a post listing the entire roster of appearances on this Sunday's interview programs will pop up Saturday at noon PDT (3 p.m. EDT).
But here's an advance heads up, in part because of who WON'T be found on any of the chat shows.
Three of the four now-official candidates on the major-party presidential tickets are scheduled to sit down for questions: Democrat Barack Obama on ABC's "This Week," his running mate, Joe Biden, on NBC's "Meet the Press" and Republican John McCain on CBS' "Face the Nation."
Absent from this list, of course, is the GOP's star of the moment, the not-so-long-ago obscure governor of Alaska who is McCain's running mate, Sarah Palin.
Since she was thrust onto the national stage a week ago, her appearances on it have been tightly regulated by the McCain campaign: a few side-by-side campaign stops with him and, of course, her big speech to the GOP's convention Wednesday night.
Today, top McCain aide Rick Davis indicated the campaign isn't in any hurry to slot Palin for a Sunday show appearance -- and will do so only if he and other strategists determine it serves the ticket's purposes, not because some may view it as a required initiation for a major political player.
Appearing on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" show, Davis said, "I'd never commit to anything in the future. ... Our strategy is in our hands, not the media's. We're going to do what's in our best interests to try to win the election. If we think going on TV news shows are [sic] in our best interests, we'll do it. If we don't, we won't."
Palin still will be busy this weekend. She'll campaign Saturday with McCain in two key states -- Colorado and New Mexico -- and she'll deliver his campaign's weekly radio address. That's one of those trappings of the presidency McCain has borrowed (notwithstanding the barbs his forces like to sling at Obama along these lines). Read the rest of this post...........
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