McCain Takes the Lead

Zogby: McCain Takes the Lead

Thursday, September 25, 2008 3:07 PM

By: David Alliot

The very latest poll numbers from John Zogby put John McCain squarely ahead of Barack Obama at 46 percent to 44 percent, respectively.

McCain moved from three percentage points behind Obama to two points ahead of the democratic candidate in less than a week. One possible reason for the boost — McCain’s decision to forego politics as usual to focus on the current financial meltdown. The polling was conducted after McCain’s announcement that he would suspend his campaign.

Independent voters played a key role in the latest figures: McCain now leads with independents by nine points, 43 percent to 34 percent.

The survey was conducted on Sept. 23-25, 2008, with 4,752 likely voters and carries a margin of error of plus or minus 1.5 percentage points.

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Brown Says Presidential Candidates Not Wanted in Washington

by Janet Crain

U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH), a member of the Senate Banking Committee, just made a statement on FOXNews that the bailout was near being solved yesterday when McCain showed up. Implying he should have stayed out of it. This despite the fact that Harry Reid, democrat requested McCain's help.

He went on to say that the Presidential candidates should get on with running for President and leave the bailout to those in the committee working on it. He further stated the financial crisis was all the Republicans' fault for deregulating banking, etc. He completely ignored Bill Clinton's contribution.

It seems like a very arrogant statement to me. One of these men, McCain or Obama, will be elected President on Nov. 4th, 2008. Even if Barack Obama fails to realize this, the next President will have to live with the outcome of this bailout, perhaps more intimately than anyone else.

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Debates in Limbo

McCain threatens to pull out of tonight’s debate, wants to debate at WU

Published: Friday, September 26, 2008
Updated: Friday, September 26, 2008

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Republican presidential nominee Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.) walks with U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) in the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., September 25, 2008. McCain returned to Washington on Thursday to address the nation’s financial crisis.

Republican presidential nominee John McCain upended the presidential campaign this week, threatening not to attend the first presidential debate—set to take place tonight—should Congress not reach a deal by that time on the proposed federal bailout plan meant to alleviate the current economic crisis.

Under McCain’s plan, laid out by Senator Lindsay Graham (R-SC), the first presidential debate would be held at Washington University on Oct. 2 instead of the vice presidential debate, which would take place in Oxford, Miss.—where the presidential debate is set to occur tonight—on an undetermined date.

“We must meet as Americans, not as Democrats or Republicans, and we must meet until this crisis is resolved,” McCain said in a statement Wednesday.
As of this writing, the fate of the debate, which is set to be held at the University of Mississipi is unclear; most recently, McCain has stated that he will not wait for a final vote to decide whether he will attend the debate scheduled for Friday night, but rather would attend only if the White House and members of Congress reach an agreement on bailout legislation.

Both the Commission on Presidential Debates and Democratic nominee Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign have said that they would like the debates to continue as scheduled.

Washington University is also planning to host the vice presidential debate as previously set up.

“We’re just moving ahead as planned. I don’t want to conjecture,” Sue McGinn, the University’s executive director of communications, said.

Thursday afternoon, it appeared that a group of lawmakers on Capitol Hill had come to a preliminary agreement on a counterproposal to President Bush’s original $700 billion bailout plan, but by the evening the proposal had fallen apart.

Although lawmakers had initially hoped to have a bill on the President’s desk by the weekend, by 10:30 p.m. on Thursday, talks had broken down without any indiciation about how the government will attempt to resolve the crisis in financial and credit markets.

Though there was speculation that McCain’s decision may make the vice presidential debate the first event of the debate cycle, the Obama campaign has announced that Obama will be attending the first presidential debate regardless of whether McCain decides to attend.

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Operation Country First: The Campaign Theme

by J.B. White
Rattler Gator Blog

Through corresponding with friends, it's clear the McCain campaign has hit upon a winner with its theme of Country First. It raises so many compare and contrast questions with his opponent, Barack Obama (e.g., citizen of the world?), that it works on multiple levels for many different individuals. Briefly, it invokes a winning presidential campaign by a Republican Senator (Warren G. Harding) who garnered 404 electoral votes, and it (via a below-the-radar benefit) importantly aligns itself with the traditional patriotism of country music. As a neoconservative, it also directs some fire at me with its theme serving as cautionary reminder of the need for American restraint in advancing the cause of freedom and democracy. Message received (with some caveats, of course). There are many more but I will necessarily limit my focus.

Country First

For my purposes, therefore, Country First as a political theme is first aimed at the base of the Republican Party. McCain's theme reminds the base that he is one of them. More importantly for the national election, though, the theme serves as a psychological mirror intended to force Independent voters or Reagan Democrats and any skeptical Republican recipients of the message to engage an unavoidably inward-directed contemplation in response to the theme.

Contemplation of what? The theme invites individuals to look back on the dissonance in America today and further invites individual voters, in response to that dissonance, to ponder first things. If that invitation is genuinely accepted, the clear bet by the McCain campaign is this: their candidate wins.

Why should that be? Well, when one considers the essential nature of things, one tends to eschew finding a needle in the haystack of life and remaining fixated on that one narrow point (coalitions of the willing, ladies and gentlemen). Yes, you may bring a particular special interest to the discussion. Country First, however, seeks to return the recipient (and, thus, the national political discussion) to an unabashedly American discourse designed to inform our public philosophy vis-a-vis political debate. This is a decidedly nonpartisan approach with a very partisan effect given the near total abdication by Democrat's of any comprehension of putting the American national interest first.

Instead, any embrace of a national interest issue is almost always linked with some global effort that ultimately demonizes some facet of pure Americana.

Boxing Them In

So, as a primary goal, Country First seeks to contrast the other side in this election by putting them in a bad light while extolling the legitimate war heroism and maverick status of John McCain. No one will ever confuse or fault McCain for forever utilizing an unabashedly European approach to politics. No, sir! Barack Obama? Well, let us simply say that he engages in a political discourse that (even when fronted by a plain vanilla metrosexual proxy with exotic melanin) remains antithetical to the American way.

The McCain campaign knows the elaborate and pervasive trickeration that is the Obama campaign and they know it has to be stopped. What kind of trickeration, you ask? The kind that allows a black man to play the presidential election game by a different set of rules that protect him from national review. Wasn't it Jesse Jackson who said (and I paraphrase), we just want America to play the game by the same set of rules? Wasn't it?

Country First is a thematic approach designed to accomplish the task of snapping America out of a hypnotic and guilt-induced trance imposed in an environment where the media and other national myth-makers are completely aligned against you. This means you have to go over the heads of the media and the polling myth-maker's, etc. Any hope for success in this endeavor dictates that, while looking firmly and resolutely forward, one must first go back to the primary myth being utilized by Barack Obama to superficially mainstream his cause.

Sinful by nature, modern psychology has verified the sheer difficulty we human beings encounter when attempting to look within. Can we ever really see ourselves as we are? Not likely. Additionally, if internal insight is supremely difficult for an individual to achieve, is it more difficult still for a national polity?

Relatively speaking, I think not – and herein lies the genius of the Country First theme for me.

Service

Although far more quiet than the self-evident panic that set in after the naming of Sarah Palin as Republican nominee for Vice President, I have to believe knowledgeable operatives among the Democrat's are hoping against hope the nation will not stop to dwell on this Country First theme of the McCain campaign. We've seen, since the awful 9/11 attacks on America, calls from certain quarters to require all Americans to engage the good fight and bear some burdens in response to those attacks. Some of those calls have certainly been disingenuous but service in this environment is a powerful and winning theme.

This comment sent into William Katz at Urgent Agenda on September 3rd from a man identified as Howard J. Klein explains why:

Seems to me the slogan “Country First” is a shorthand way of saying, “Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.” The Dems have slipped so far to the left that JFK is now a Nazi in their eyes.
Kennedy, a man Obama has studiously attempted to copy and whose family machine has clearly worked in concert with Obama's Chicago machine, made that famous statement with the full knowledge that America was going to continue forcefully challenging the scourge of communism around the globe. Through the Peace Corps, through the military, through diplomacy, through a wide range of American initiatives.

Just as few people around the nation can wrap their hands around the fact that the Republican Party is the historical party for African Americans, few Democrat's today can grasp the political reality of John F. Kennedy. No, no, no. Set aside, of course, the private reality of John F. Kennedy, what they truly love – since they gave birth to it – is the Hollywood myth of John F. Kennedy. The essence of Kennedy has been falsely modified: we've moved from Kennedy the signifier (ask not what your country can do for you or Ich bin ein Berliner) to Kennedy the signified (Camelot) to Kennedy the sign (as presently utilized by Barack Obama).

If you haven't seen the Prayer, God and War video recently produced by Newt Gingrich please do yourself the favor and take a good look at it now. It is quite relevant to this discussion and also illustrative of why Country First works so well.

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McCain To Work and Obama To Debate ? Obama, You’re Fired!

McCain To Work and Obama To Debate ? Obama, You’re Fired!

Posted by mcnorman under Uncategorized |

I think Donald Trump would have NO problem firing Barack Obama.

He doesn’t know when to go back to work. This is a crisis. Does he understand? I don’t think so and neither do others. Country First!

A Cause Greater Than Self…McCain is a man of his word.

Obama, the ignorant is arrogant beyond belief. He said he is multitasking? He does not see the urgency in doing his work. He is STILL a paid Senator. Did he forget?

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