Man, what a train wreck. He comes out and does a woe is me performance for the national media following him around... meanwhile he continues to stoke the nuts with his advertising running all over the country. Freaking hypocritical coward. This is now not about McCain winning the presidency, it's about the losers running the Republican Party trying to stoke anger in anticipation of a Dem rout... so they can go back to the playbook of talk radio and obstruction in the hopes it will work one more time. McCain has lost control of his party and his campaign... if he ever really had it. Pathetic. And really, what is it with all theses losers whining about "We're really scared of an Obama presidency." Well, welcome to my world you pansies. I just lived through an 8 year nightmare that will haunt me and my country for the rest of my life and you're scared of Obama? Grow a pair and spend some time thinking for once. This whole thing is sickening. If this is not exhibit A for why the whole Republican Party should be blown up right now I don't know what is...
A pair is not what they need. Sometimes I wonder if these people are watching and reading the same news I see. (Rhetorical question to make me look smarter) Our culture of ignorance and its celebration of mediocrity and isolationism is setting us down a path of even more tyranny. It may be in 4 years or 20. Things MUST change from the bottom up.
Funny. Some of the quotes you put up said they "booed" McCain. I just saw the video of it, and people applauded and supported McCain's plea. Who is stirring things up again?
Where's the video? If I'm not mistaken, you said in another thread that the words "terrorist" and "kill him" were not yelled out from the crowd, even though it was clear as day. So, I'd like to see this video for myself.
This is great footage of McCain. I used to like the guy a few years back and felt he totally changed to appease his party. The palin choice was horrible and showed me winning the election was the most important thing to him and the right. Had he taken his chances and chosen someone good for the position, he'd have a greater likelihood of getting my vote. No chance now. Part of me did wonder, if he would go back to his own drum if elected, but there's too much risk of the VP having to take over. Then again, dick isn't exactly someone I'd want in charge.
I watched it replayed on Fox. It may be online now. By the way... I said those phrases were aimed at Ayers. Thanks for playing.
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Josh Marshall adds the button -- I get from his expression a sense of a man that is, in addition to all the other things he's angry about, is frustrated or angry at the situation he's gotten himself into. But he has sown the wind and now he's reaping the whirlwind. "Even," says TPM Reader RB, "as he says 'You don't have to be scared of an Obama presidency' to a handful of followers (and, more importantly, of national reporters), he is spending millions to bombard as many people as he can with the ad named "Dangerous". The small hand giveth, and the large hand taketh away." And yet this conveys too much suggestion of planning and intent. I have more the sense of someone desperately casting about and losing control of the situation itself. Even hypocrites can get in over their heads. Indeed, in a more nuts-and-bolts strategic sense McCain has really gotten himself into a hole because the campaign he's been running has almost entirely been premised on the claim that you should be scared of an Obama presidency. Not that McCain, if he'd run a very different campaign, couldn't have run on issue disagreements with Obama. But right now if you take away fear of Obama becoming president, there's almost no reason not to vote for him since McCain has basically conceded the issue agenda to Obama. If you look at every poll for months, voters are dying for change. Fear of Obama is the only thing keeping him from leaving McCain in the dust. Take that away and McCain's done. I'm not sure what else to say about this episode. But it is something to behold. --Josh Marshall
This is such nonsense - those knuckleheads asking the questions are planted there to do just that - then McCain gets to act like the good guy with the intended message delivered. The Ayers/ Obama terrorist ads roll on...
Firstly, I NEVER WATCH MSNBC. Just my personal taste. I never watch Fox either. Secondly, I must admit this 6 minutes on McCain's campaign is dead on and worth listening to. The loons in one of those rallies actually boo McCain when he implies Obama is a decent human being. Thirdly, McCain has painted himself into a corner. If his people continue running the negative ads and Palin continues her personal mission of character assassination, McCain will again look erratic and his campaign out of control without a leader. He will lose even more independents.
I don't know, I'm inclined to believe they really are just ignorant, stupid people. World's full of them. But you're right about the ads. If Mccain was serious about this change of heart, pull the ads.
