Well, McCain DID channel Joe the plumber tonight. Remember Joe Wurzelbacher on Sunday. Here is the video and video commentary with a follow-up interview to help your memory.
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But, will John McCain benefit from calling out Obama on class warfare and tax redistribution?
Stay tuned……..
Update:
Here is the video of Obama and McCain discussing Joe the plumber:
Democrat Representative John Murtha of Pennsylvania
Has Pennsylvania Representative John Murtha LOST it?
Democratic Rep. John Murtha said Wednesday his home base of western Pennsylvania is racist and that could reduce Barack Obama’s victory margin in the state by 4 percentage points.
The 17-term Democratic congressman told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in a story posted Wednesday on its Web site: “There is no question that western Pennsylvania is a racist area.”
Murtha said it has taken time for many Pennsylvania voters to come around to embracing a black presidential candidate, but that Obama should still win the state, though not in a runaway.
In a separate interview posted Wednesday on the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review’s Web site, Murtha said Obama has a problem with voters’ racial attitudes in western Pennsylvania that could trim his winning margin on Nov. 4.
Murtha was a Hillary Clinton supporter and will aplogize in 3……..2……..1………..
Today’s Editorial at the largest daily newspaper in Santa Barbara County.
Our Opinion: Can you trust Jackson in Sacramento?
October 15, 2008 8:07 AM
Hannah-Beth Jackson is trying to run away from much of her past. Ms. Jackson was known during her years in the statehouse as so extremely partisan and off-putting that even some fellow Democrats, locally and in Sacramento, wanted her out of politics.
But now, amazingly, Ms. Jackson is trying to portray herself as an independent in her run for the state Senate against Tony Strickland. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Ms. Jackson — who earned the title of Taxin’ Jackson — also is attempting to revise history and suggest she didn’t support one idea after the next to increase your taxes.
Now comes word that Ms. Jackson is trying to rewrite the circumstances regarding her participation in a scheme in 2003 to delay passage of the state budget for political gain.
Think back to that summer when Assemblywoman Hannah-Beth Jackson showed up at the county Board of Supervisors meeting to criticize the GOP’s no-new-tax stand and, in her view, that party’s partisanship at the expense of compromise.
It was just more grandstanding and hypocrisy from Ms. Jackson.
Days later, a broadcasting system in the Capitol building aired budget discussions by a group of 11 Democratic Assembly members that included Ms. Jackson. A staff member interrupted the legislators by saying: “Excuse me, guys, you can be heard outside.”
A report in the San Francisco Chronicle stated: “Members of the Assembly Democrats’ progressive caucus were heard making candid, if not intemperate, statements . . . that they may want to ‘precipitate a crisis’ over the budget this year.” The L.A. Daily News noted that the Democrats “speculated that the continuing deadlock over the state budget could benefit their party politically by slowing the drive to recall Gov. Gray Davis.”
At a recent candidates debate in Ventura, Ms. Jackson tried to distance herself from all this by saying there was no secret meeting, according to reports. The Strickland campaign notes: “Hannah-Beth Jackson thinks that when she says something, it’s true. This time, her denials are more hollow than usual. Taxin’ Jackson must have forgotten the news coverage of the now infamous ‘Squawk Box’ recording. In this meeting, Democrats inadvertently had microphones transmitting their secret plans to hold up the budget and to blame the Republicans in hope of gaining a political advantage.”
On top of these apparent lies or distortions about her past, Ms. Jackson has further damaged her reputation by over-the-top mud-slinging against Mr. Strickland.
Voters must ask themselves: Do you have enough trust and confidence in Ms. Jackson to give her a job in Sacramento?
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The answer is NO.
Tony Strickland for California State Senate, District 19.
The answer is perhaps when you look at the next poll graphic:
If McCain makes a good showing in tonight’s debate, he might have a chance of beating Obama. Of course, Obama will look for a knockout blow. But, a three point lead is not alot in a fluid race.
ACORN, William Ayers and squirrels aren’t going to cut it if John McCain wants to win the Presidency. Now, Jeremiah Wright and the racism/anti-semitism preached in Obama’s African American church is an issue that can be exploited. But, McCain won’t do it.
Flap bets Sarah Palin is wondering why she signed onto the Titanic.
Update:
Flap agrees with this - mention them ALL - over and over again.
Flap thought this Sarah Palin smear about her belonging to a fringe America-seccessionist political party was DEBUNKED weeks ago. Apparently, Rick Sanchez of CNN didn’t get the message (via Ed Morrissey).
Rather than deliver a single revelation, the 24-hour cable news channel coughed up a reheated, overwrought and misleading story that seemed designed to yoke Sarah Palin and her husband to the most extreme secessionists in Alaska.
Yes, Todd Palin once belonged to the Alaskan Independence Party. And his wife, the governor and now Republican vice presidential nominee, has been friendly with some of its members.
But neither CNN nor the other news organizations that have reported on the connection, including The Times, have shown that Sarah Palin embraced the call by some in the party to sever their beloved state from “the Lower 48.”
To understand the AIP story, voters need a little background.
In the eccentric world of Alaska politics, the party is not so far out on the fringe. An AIP member won the governorship in 1990.
CNN centered Tuesday’s report on an interview with Salon.com reporter David Neiwert, who acknowledged that Sarah Palin never belonged to the party and that her husband joined but “wasn’t active at all.”
That didn’t stop the cable network and anchor Sanchez from front-loading its report with outrageous pronouncements from AIP founder Joe Vogler, now deceased.
“The fires of hell are frozen glaciers compared to my hatred for the American government,” Old Joe, as he was known, once said. “And I won’t be buried under their damn flag.”
Flap would be yawning again with another MSM attack on Sarah Palin. What wakes Flap up with this one are not the misreported facts but the association of Todd and Sarah Palin with the bombing of the federal building in Okalahoma City in 1995. Can you believe this?
Come on CNN. Do your fraking fact checking and lay off the NUTTER conclusions.
Is there any wonder why Fox News is clobbering CNN in the cable news ratings?
