Phil Gramm is right. America HAS become a nation of whiners. At an Obama town meeting in Elkhart, IN, this mortgage broker (hmm, wonder what he was up to during the past few years?) says the country is in the dumpster and has been “held hostage by the oil companies,” so what’s the government going to do? Barack Obama gives an extended answer that’s long on pie-in-the-sky programs and short on how the American pie actually gets baked. No mention of personal responsibility or initiative, no acknowledgement that the private sector is the engine that actually drives innovation and the economy. No, more government programs are what we need — including an electric car in every garage that will drive us to the Big Rock Candy Mountain.
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“What does Hillary want?” That was the question Senator Clinton posed when Barack Obama became the presumptive nominee in June and it looks like the answer is still blowin’ in the wind. At a fundraiser last week, the former candidate told supporters that she’s trying to work out a plan that will allow her supporters to be “respected” at the Democratic National Convention. And even though “I’m supporting Senator Obama,” the former candidate said there are a lot of options on the table. More here.
Sound Bite: “Because I know from, just what I’m hearing, that there’s incredible pent-up desire. And I think that people want to feel like, ‘OK, it’s a catharsis, we’re here, we did it, and then everybody get behind Senator Obama.’ That is what most people believe is the best way to go.”
Barack Obama says John McCain isn’t the “original maverick” as his recent ad claims. Well then, who is McCain? He’s George Bush, donchya know.
Like an old dog with a bone, the McCain campaign just won’t let go. This latest ad once again labels Barack Obama “the biggest celebrity in the world,” but asks is he “ready to help your family?”
Sound Bite: “The real Obama promises higher taxes . . . more government spending. . . so, fewer jobs.”
A swimsuit-clad Paris (I’m just hot”) Hilton gets even with John McCain for dissing her in his recent ad.
Sound Bite: “I’ll see you at the debates, bitches.”
See more Paris Hilton videos at Funny or Die
Berliners may dig Barack, but bikers are revved up over McCain. At the world-famous Sturgis, South Dakota Motorcycle Rally, the old jokester told a cheering crowd that he encouraged wife Cindy to compete in the Rally’s beauty pageant.
Sound Bite: “I told her with a little luck, she could be the only woman ever to serve as both the first lady and Miss Buffalo Chip.”
“Washington’s broken,” says this new 30-second spot from John McCain. (Hey, wasn’t that Mitt Romney’s line?) And guess who can fix it? Someone who has spent the last 25 years in Washington, of couse.
Sound Bite: “He’s the original maverick.”
John McCain is taking the “low road” in the campaign while Barack Obama offers “real solutions” for America’s energy problems. And a $1000 check, to boot!
In this new 30-second spot, Barack Obama says John McCain is in “Big Oil’s pocket,” just like President Bush.
Sound Bite: “Now Big Oil’s filling John McCain’s campaign with $2 million in contributions.”
The ad also promotes Hugo Chavez, er, Barack Obama’s plan to tax the “windfall profits” of oil companies and redistribute the revenue to American families via $1000 “rebates.”
No mention here of Obama’s newfound support (sort of) for offshore drilling by those oil companies. (Oops! Good-bye windfall profits. Hello new big rigs.)
Expat actress Gwyneth Paltrow makes an appearance in this video that encourages Americans living abroad to register and vote. Vote Democrat, of course.
Sound Bite: “I’ll be voting from London, but you can vote from anywhere . . . Every single vote will count.”
Playing the race card? Not me, says Barack Obama. And just to clear things up, he observes that the McCain campaign isn’t racist, it’s cynical.
Sound Bite: “What I think has been an approach to the McCain campaign is to say he’s risky, to try to divert focus from the fact that they don’t have any new ideas when it comes to fixing the economy or dealing with healthcare or dealing with education.”
Barack Obama promises the moon and the stars to NASA workers in a speech today in Titusville, FL.
Sound Bite: We cannot cede our leadership in space. That’s why I’m going to close the gap . . . by continuing to support NASA funding, by speeding the development of the Shuttle’s successor, by making sure that all those who work in the space industry in Florida do not lose their jobs when the Shuttle is retired because we can’t afford to lose their expertise.”
(Have you ever heard a reasoned discussion from a candidate about the relative cost and value of the space program compared to, say, funding an alternative energy program?)
John McCain has gone from comparing Barack Obama to Paris Hilton and Britney Spears to mocking him as “The One.” (Hmmm. If the current McCain strategy doesn’t work, what’s Plan B?”)
Sound Bite: “He may be the one. But is he ready to lead?”
John McCain goes after the Latino vote with this web ad that needles Barack Obama for not mentioning Latin America during that global stump speech in Berlin last week.
At a town hall meeting in St. Petersburg, an African-American disrupts Barack Obama’s speech. The cool candidate cools the situation. Later during the Q&A, the young man says Obama has not spoken “to the interests and . . . on behalf of the oppressed and exploited African community, or black community, in this country.” Obama disagrees.