McCain: "We've Got Them Just Where We Want Them"

By: John Bentley
Topics: John McCain

(CBS)

From CBS News' John Bentley:

(VIRGINIA BEACH, VA.) – Telling his supporters not to believe the media or the polls, John McCain cast himself as the only candidate who would really fight for the American people.

"Let me give you the state of the race today. We have 22 days to go. We're six points down. The national media has written us off. Sen. Obama is measuring the drapes, and planning with Speaker Pelosi and Sen. Reid to raise taxes, increase spending, take away your right to vote by secret ballot in labor elections, and concede defeat in Iraq," McCain said.

"But they forgot to let you decide. My friends, we've got them just where we want them."

There had been speculation that McCain was also going to unveil new economic proposals today, fueled by his close friend and adviser Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) telling Bob Schieffer on "Face the Nation" yesterday that the campaign was talking about what those proposals were going to be. But McCain spoke only of having to "change direction now" from the policies of the last eight years.

"The next President won't have time to get used to the office. He won't have the luxury of studying up on the issues before he acts. He will have to act immediately. And to do that, he will need experience, courage, judgment and a bold plan of action to take this country in a new direction," McCain said.

"We cannot spend the next four years as we have spent much of the last eight: waiting for our luck to change. The hour is late; our troubles are getting worse; our enemies watch. We have to act immediately."

Obama is outlining his economic rescue plan today, and his campaign criticized McCain for his speech here.

"Less than twelve hours after his campaign announced that Sen. McCain would finally have some new ideas on the economy, he decided that it was more important to give a new political speech about where he is in the polls," said Obama Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer.

"But the American people know that this election isn't about who's up or who's down, it's about who will change the disastrous Bush-McCain economic policies of the last eight years."

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by taxthechurch October 14, 2008 2:39 AM EDT: John McCain says he has a sure fire plan to capture Osama Bin Laden. Why would a "patriot" wait until after the election to unveil it? Why has he not implemented it before?; Reply to this comment


by obbcbs October 14, 2008 12:24 AM EDT: Palin denies any wrong doing. That was with her fingers crossed. She doesnt count her two ethical violations of state statutes which are meant to protect citizens from abuse of power by state officials. We have not heard the details yet of her use of Yahoo to avoid state laws intended to provide access by the public for the Freedom of Information act. Yahoo is not secure and not backed up. Of course Cheney says he "lost" the Iraq war emails. That''s her plan, to "lose" by convenient deletion any incriminating evidence about her abuse of the Native Americans, women''s groups, the Sierra club and anyone else who gets in her way, by trying to actually find out what she''s up to.; Reply to this comment


by obbcbs October 14, 2008 12:19 AM EDT: McCain''s remarks to the crowd this past week:

"MY FELLOW PRISONERS"

yes, it was the first Alzheimer''s moment in public, for the former POW, who used to rehearse his speeches in Vietnam. You know, he says he decided to run for the office of president when he was a POW. Clearly, he is having an Alzheimer''s moment, when he addresses the crowd as MY FELLOW PRISONERS.; Reply to this comment


by gthc1 October 13, 2008 11:43 PM EDT: Perhaps you''d rather hear about the real terrorist associates of Palin. The group whose founder was shot in an illegal plastic explosives sale gone bad:

http://www.akip.org/

Tim McVeigh, anyone?; Reply to this comment


by gthc1 October 13, 2008 11:36 PM EDT: Are Obama supporters ignoring his association with racist and dangerous terrorists?
Posted by bronson14 at 01:31 PM : Oct 13, 2008

You mean on the Chicago Annenberg Challenge board? The one set up by a mainstream Republican, Walter Annenberg? The same Annenberg whose wife endorses McCain and who was an ambassador under Nixon and a friend of Reagan? Goodness, who knew the heroes of McCain were "terrorist" sympathizers...; Reply to this comment


by newslink October 13, 2008 11:21 PM EDT: How do we say Delusional. If MCcain thinks that everyone is lying. Than he needs to see his Doctor. Old Age has kicked in. MCcain have you notice. that we are on One- Accord. Read yor Bible....; Reply to this comment


by edxdie October 13, 2008 9:23 PM EDT: "We have them where we want them, (followed with) by the short hairs." is obviously coded language to regain support from the Lincoln Republics who thought they found a home in the homophobic conservative right. It will get past Palin who only reads the Bible for Idiots. But McCain''s remarks were so well embedded that most fearful conservative could confuse it with a statement by a secret sleeper terrorist(he hung around brain waching expert commies) or a desperate politician being guided by Islamic telepathic agents willing to ask Americans to ple to tear down their government rather than reclaim it.

These conspiracies about a person''s character certainly rank equally with the conspiratorial types who decided that Dr. Wright (a scholar on race in America, although his message is less than comforting to many who are ignorant or in denial about America''s brutal treatment of African-Americans) and Dr. Ayers (an expert in education after switching from music and weather forecasting) knew Obama would be presidential fodder one day and just a little south of the theory that Islamics knew the same when he was just age two.

Another theory is that there will be no male Bush III but possibly a Bush I female presidency. That is why g-d gave the Bushes girls! And a last theory is that the former Berlin and walls of separation in Iraq are going to be raised across Russia''s Eastern border to regain its privacy.; Reply to this comment


by sallievoter October 13, 2008 6:38 PM EDT: John mccain announced to the GOP today that they should FIGHT.

HE IS ASKING AMERICANS TO FIGHT OTHER AMERICANS. THAT SEEMS LIKE WHAT PALIN HAS BEEN CALLING "DOMESTIC TERRORISM."

MCCAIN, americans are better than this and WE WILL NOT FIGHT EACH OTHER SO YOU CAN WIN AT ALL COSTS.

how unAmerican and Unpatriotic to tell your radical extremist base to FIGHT.

Have you TOTALLY LOST YOUR MIND?; Reply to this comment


by ixoye_02 October 13, 2008 5:44 PM EDT: Some folks here have suggested that because of McCain''s service to our country. McCain deserves to be president. Since when does someone just deserve to be president in a democracy? Perhaps in a fascist state or oligarchy (not too far from our current system), but not in America!! McCain and any other candidate needs to convince voting Americans to support his/her campaign. So far, McCain is lacking any compelling reasons to vote for his presidency. And McCain simply cannot earn it as some would suggest.; Reply to this comment


by ernieshome-2009 October 13, 2008 5:17 PM EDT: I would like to see the "term limits" for all Federal elected and appointed individuals address in the upcoming debate. I feel very strongly that term limits should be imposed; Reply to this comment