McCain And Palin Go On The Attack

GOP Nominee Asks "Who Is The Real Barack Obama?" While Palin Criticizes Democrat's Ties To Bill Ayers, Rev. Wright

(CBS/AP)  Republican John McCain is calling Democratic rival Barack Obama a liar.

The GOP presidential candidate told a campaign rally: "Sen. Obama has accused me of opposing regulation to avert this crisis. I guess he believes if a lie is big enough and repeated often enough it will be believed. But the truth is I was the one who called at the time for tighter restrictions on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac that could have helped prevent this crisis from happening in the first place."

In some of the harshest language yet, McCain said the campaign comes down to a simple question: Who is the real Barack Obama?

"All people want to know is: what has this man ever actually accomplished in government?" McCain said. "What does he plan for America? In short: who is the real Barack Obama?"

McCain drew the loudest cheers when he said the Democrat has written two memoirs but "he's not exactly an open book."

"I don't need lessons about telling the truth to American people," McCain added, reports CBS News reporter John Bentley. "And were I ever to need any improvement in that regard, I probably wouldn’t seek advice from a Chicago politician. My opponent's touchiness every time he is questioned about his record should make us only more concerned." (Read more from Bentley.)

McCain also said that Obama and Democrats in Congress "encouraged" the corruption at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac that led to the subprime mortgage meltdown.

"As recently as September of last year he said that subprime loans had been, quote, 'a good idea' Well, Sen. Obama, that good idea has now plunged this country into the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression."

The Obama camp has charged that McCain is trying to charge the subject away from the economy, as McCain's poll numbers have been sinking along with the Dow Jones average, reports Bentley. But Obama said today that the economy should remain front and center on the campaign.

"I’ve got news for the McCain campaign - the American people are losing right now, they’re losing their jobs, they’re losing their health care, they’re losing their homes, they’re losing their savings," Obama said. "I cannot imagine anything more important to talk about than the economic crisis, and the notion that we’d want to brush that aside and engage in the usual political shenanigans and scare tactics that have come to characterize too many political campaigns, I think is not what the American people are looking for."

Meanwhile, Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin expanded her own attack on Obama's character on Monday to include his relationship with an incendiary former pastor as well as his ties to 1960s-era radical Bill Ayers.

In the process, Palin toned down her description of the Obama-Ayers relationship after her weekend remarks were criticized as exaggerated, but at the same time she embarked on a discussion of Obama's relationship with his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., which McCain had signaled he did not want to be a part of his campaign.

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Read more on Palin's attacks on Obama in our blog From The Road.

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In an interview with conservative The New York Times columnist William Kristol published Monday, the Alaska governor said there should be more discussion about Wright, Obama's pastor of 20 years at Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago. The Democratic candidate denounced Wright and severed ties with the church last spring after videotapes surfaced showing Wright making anti-American and anti-Semitic comments from the pulpit.

Wright had appeared to be off limits for the McCain campaign ever since McCain himself condemned the North Carolina Republican Party in April for an ad that called Obama "too extreme" because Wright was his pastor. He asked the party to take down the ad and said, "I'm making it very clear, as I have a couple of times in the past, that there's no place for that kind of campaigning, and the American people don't want it."

When Kristol pressed Palin about Wright, she replied, "I don't know why that association isn't discussed more, because those were appalling things that that pastor had said about our great country."

She continued, "To me, that does say something about character. But, you know, I guess that would be a John McCain call on whether he wants to bring that up."

At a morning rally in Florida, Palin kept up her criticism of Obama's ties to Ayers, a founder of the violent Weather Underground group blamed for several bombings during the Vietnam War era, when Obama was a child.

The Illinois senator has denounced Ayers' radical views and activities.

"This is someone who sees America as 'imperfect enough' to work with a former domestic terrorist who targeted his own country," Palin said of Obama. That was a tamer description than Palin used at rallies in California and Colorado over the weekend.

In her earlier attacks, Palin had said that Obama "pals around with terrorists." News reports pointed out that Obama was eight years old at the time of Weather Underground bombings and that the two men do not know each other well although they live in the same Chicago neighborhood, have served on a charity board together and Ayers hosted a meet-the-candidate event when Obama first ran for state office in the mid-1990s.

Obama responded to the renewed controversy over Ayers on the Tom Joyner radio show today. "I served on a board with him. And so now they’re trying to use this as guilt by association, and as you said, they’ve explicitly stated that what they want to do is to change the topic because they don’t want to talk about the economy and the failed policies of the last eight years."

Later, Obama adviser David Axelrod told CNN the Illinois senator "didn't know the history" of Ayers' Weather Underground activities when Ayers hosted the 1995 gathering. Speaking in Estero, Fla., Palin responded, "Today they're saying for the first time that Barack Obama didn't know back then about Ayers' radical background."

Meanwhile, a poll conducted by the nonpartisan Pew Research Center over the weekend found that just over half of registered voters view Palin favorably and about four in 10 think she's qualified to be president, essentially unchanged from a week earlier, before her debate with her Democratic rival, Joe Biden. Biden's positive image improved slightly to 63 percent, and those saying he's qualified to be president grew to 77 percent, the same poll showed.

[grangerwoods]

VIDEOS JOHNNY MAC DID NOT SEE
PALIN IS ANTI-AMERICAN

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIi4rbIXbkw

Listen very very close from the 6 minute mark to the end!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4iCDBIAde8&feature=related

Her own confirmation!

[alaskavoter1]

ALASKA GOVERNOR Palin = RECALL!!!
I am a Alaskan life voting Republican. This 2008 Election, I will [with pleasure] vote Democrat! This Alaska Governor has Destroyed and continues to attempt to Destroy "MANY GOOD ALASKAN PEOPLE(s) Professionally and Politically during her "VERY SHORT" term position as Mayor in a small community Wasilla, Ak (Approx 5,000 + residents during her reign) and current Alaska State Governor.(of approx. twenty months). Whenever Palin is confronted with a question that she does not know, does not have a clue or simply does not want to answer, her indignation which turns to...ANGER...is unquestionably familiar!......McCains'''' V.P. selection Sarah Palin unequivocally has NO business being the Alaska Governor, let alone, a USA candidate for Vice President.... Maverick??..... ****AMERICA SHOULD BE FEARFULLY CONCERNED****. I voted for Sarah Palin in Alaskas 2006 Governor Election. MISTAKE!.... Never Again%u2026 I repeat-NEVER AGAIN!!...Alaska Governor Palin is an absolute Embarrassment to the Alaska People(s) and "IS" proven to be an insatiable Liar!! How can she possibly ASSUME the to possess the ability to clean up America, when she cannot clean the ''MESS" she has created in Alaska. Yes,--- A Mess FOR Alaskans to Clean-Up!!!!!!............ MCCAIN, you should be ASHAMED of yourself!!!! This victim (palin)has no business in this Presidential Arena.

[read Alaska News-Politics adn.com]
Posted by AlaskaVoter

[kansas1946]

Hey, Sarah attack puppy. Listen to your boss...
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"Sooner or later, people are going to figure out if all you run is negative attack ads you don''''t have much of a vision for the future or you''''re not ready to articulate it." [John McCain - 2/21/2000]

[zietzke-2009]

MCSAME publically said that his campaign would not use attack ads and would conduct itself in a dignified manner....???? LIES, LIES and more LIES.

These people will do and say anything to get elected.
Can America really trust these people ?

THE U.S.A. has been changed to U.S.S.A
United Socialist States of Amerika...Bush''s NEW WORLD
ORDER !! Its time to wake up AMERIKA and smell the Coffee. We have been shafted.

Is time to send MCSAME back to one of his many ranches in Arizona and his side kick, Ms. Barky Failin back to her kennel in Wasilla, AK.

[babooph]

Palin-journalism major -cannot speak with the media!!!!WIERD!!!![maybe one of those witches did not get purged ??]

[veteran22]

Timothy McVeigh, home-grown terrorist belonged to a right wing extremist sub-culture whose central issues were gun control and state%u2019s rights. He took the lives of 168 citizens when he bombed the Murah Federal Building. Todd and Sarah Palin have close ties to the Alaska Independence Party (AIP) whose founder said he hated America and had not use for her d*** flag. AIP also advocates states rights. Neither of the Palins have distanced themselves or repudiated their involvement with the AIP. So Obama is dangerous and the Palins are not? White privilege and racial profiling are the order of the day!!

[xrepublic4u]

MCCAIN IS RUNNING HIS CAMPAIGN A LOT LIKE HITLER RAN HIS!

[moeen1000]

Converted from Obama to Plain supporter after seeing this vedeo, you will too:

http://www.jedreport.com/2008/10/sarah-palin-palling-around-wit.html

[sallievoter]

The really good thing here is that so many people have ALREADY VOTED IN RECORD NUMBERS, so many people are just tuning out all of mccain and palin''s hysterics. And today''s Gallup poll, which ended last night, gives Obama a 9 point lead from registered voters.

All of this alien conspiracy theory stuff will help mccain fans deal with their anger...and will also apparently continue to give Obama a boost with the rest of the country. mmcain might be better off talking about today''s issues instead of the past.

[hughema]

Shame on the McCain/Palin campaign. McCain should know better being the victim of the same below the belt tactics in the 2000 primary campaign. Wouldn''t expect anything different from Palin though. If you don''t have it criticize the other guy.

[lbf1989]

All American''s want is the truth. Obama doesn''t know how to deliver that. Go online and research the Bill Ayers/Barack Obama relationship for yourself. Many McCain/Palin supporters have been waiting for this to be addressed to the public. It''s not a distraction from the economic issue....its hard facts that need to be discussed and shouldn''t be ignored.

MCCAIN/PALIN 2008!

[gsmith772]

FoxNews headline..ACORN Vegas Office Raided in Voter Fraud Investigation

Looks like Obama''s favorite organization (ACORN) is under investaigation again. Funny how MSM is ignoring these things yet again.

[tgs4democrac]

R=racist
E=elitist
P=pandering
U=un-American
B=bigots
L=losers
I=idiot
C=corporate welfare
A=all washed up
N=negative campaigns
S=send them packing in November when McCain and Palin lose

[tgs4democrac]

...so who is the real "terrorist"? Sarah Palin has been inciting racial violence and hatred at her rallies, exhorting her base to kill Obama and using racial slurs.
Palin is unpatriotic, un-American and a terrorist.
She should hold a press conference and apologise to the American people and Barack Obama for her hate-terrorism and racial slurs. That is, if she can find a complete sentence or two in that brain of hers....

[xmanborg]

The Attack Dogs are on the run.

[xmanborg]

Sarah and McLame

With the Internet and news your lies dont go very far. Sarah Palin and John McLame that old Dog both need a Distemper Shot and a good swat with the news paper.

[dnsallday]

John McCain and Sarah Palin, please explain to the American people that are losing their homes, their jobs, their pensions and their health care, along with many elderly people who can no longer stretch their dollars to get enough to eat, exactly how holding your hateful KLAN rallies is going to help them!

[gsmith772]

Speaking of lies - her''s another big one....

Later, Obama adviser David Axelrod told CNN the Illinois senator "didn''t know the history" of Ayers''

[gsmith772]

at one of her "rallies" when she mentioned Obama--someone in the audience yelled "kill him", we heard it!
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Whatever - as if you can control what someone in the audience yells out.

One of the problems I see as the the Democrats are throwing out so many lies that it is almost impossible to keep track of them.

Another thing I notice - is the Democrats keep saying they ''want to talk about the economy - thats what matters to people'' - but you never actually hear them say anything abot what they will do for the economy - except raise taxes on business - which is economic suicide. The democrats idea of talking about the economy is saying "No more Goerge Bush - No more George Bush". there is absolutely NOTHING in terms of content.

Democrats are hypocrites.

[liberalme]

Another lie - Democrats are nothing but liars. Nobody in the Republican campaign called Obama a terrorist. Please get your facts straight.

Are you Joe Biden ?

Posted by gsmith772 at 11:45 AM :

ACTUALLY---on the news here in FLorida---at one of her "rallies" when she mentioned Obama--someone in the audience yelled "kill him", we heard it!

Typical Republican response to the hate they are projecting---they will be their own downfall.