His posts are just the masturbation of other peoples thoughts.
right2bright on September 18, 2008 at 10:16 AM

“…Hey Gocht, copying and pasting articles seems to be your forte. Ever have an original thought?
fogw on September 18, 2008 at 9:40 AM

Hey foggy, I have a rather difficult and challenging row to hoe here, keeping you wingnuts on the straight and narrow.

If I don’t document or second source everything I write; I’m accused of being a contemptible, despicable, dammed liar and piece of fresh dog excrement.

I link, so you wouldn’t have to tax your scatological vocabulary; just for you foggy…!

BTW: You too r2b2…! ;)

The add focuses on Big Government Obama.

I’m surprised that the McCain campaign didn’t cut an ad about McCain’s attempt to reform Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in 2005/6 and point out Obama’s inaction on the bill. Maybe that’s coming later, but now is the time to hit that point — while it remains fresh in the minds of the voters.

I am just baffled that they haven’t done that yet, when it is such an obvious winner for McCain. Steve Schmidt, you need to get on top of this!

Watch the campaigns, not the polls. Obama’s campaign is still in retreat. It has not secured its own base yet. It is hemorrhaging money.

One afterthought about the recent national polls–we’re not seeing the same swings toward Obama in state polls. Hurricane Ike knocked out power in much of East Texas, including the oil-refining area, which generally votes heavily Republican. If national pollsters couldn’t call that area, it could have provoked a Democrat skew in national polls, which wouldn’t be reflected in state polls outside Texas.

Steve Z on September 18, 2008 at 9:43 AM

Good point. I’ve been trying to figure out what happened that Obama suddenly shot up in the polls. Is that a large enough portion of the population?

It implies that there would be some point in the future when Obama would not make a disastrous president.

They will need all the help we can give them, especially in these battleground states.

That was a decent ad — up until the very end where it showed the baby. I mean, really? A baby?

Harpazo on September 18, 2008 at 9:05 AM

I don’t know, I think the baby was a good touch. It reminded me of MoveOn’s “Don’t take Baby Alex” ad, except I immediately thought “Don’t take Baby Alex’s electricity”:)

I’m surprised that the McCain campaign didn’t cut an ad about McCain’s attempt to reform Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in 2005/6 and point out Obama’s inaction on the bill. Maybe that’s coming later, but now is the time to hit that point — while it remains fresh in the minds of the voters.

I’m waiting impatiently for this one too. It should be the talking point of his campaign right now.

HAHAHAHA. You lose again.

fogw on September 18, 2008 at 9:40 AM

He is infamous at these “quotes” but never stating where they are from.
His posts are just the masturbation of other peoples thoughts.

The vast majority of Americans are not seriously affected by the financial markets meltdown. They are affected by higher taxes and higher gas prices.

This is also going to keep driving the Obama campaign and its pals in the media nuts. They keep trying to fact-check these tax ads and McCain is running them anyway. Which do you think resonates more with avreage voters: “That guy wants to raise your taes” or “that guy has a bunch of lobbyists running his campaign”?

Hey EnglishMike, what’s even worse is that the Hollywood shindig was organized by Penny Pritzker. Google “Pritzker Superior collapse” and see how that’s relevant.

DrSteve on September 18, 2008 at 8:23 AM

Checking it out now – but you need to lose the quotes on the Google search, or else the only result is your comment!

J_Gocht on September 18, 2008 at 8:37 AM

Hey Gocht, copying and pasting articles seems to be your forte. Ever have an original thought? By the way, here’s a little something you forgot to paste from the article …..

It was written by Roger Altman.

He is currently chairman and chief executive of Evercore Partners and was deputy US Treasury secretary under President Bill Clinton. He was a co-head of investment banking and a board member at Lehman Brothers in the 1980s.

HAHAHAHA. You lose again.

When are you going to muster up enough of that Bush family courage and face the American people to explain your total incompetence…?

J_Gocht on September 18, 2008 at 8:37 AM

Explain how this is Bush’s fault, J.

I agree with other posters that, during this financial crisis, McCain needs to hit three themes in his ads:

1) McCain introduced a bill to reform Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in 2005, but was voted down by the Democrats–in other words, HE saw this coming, but the Democrats, led by Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd, thwarted him.

2) Harold Raines, Jamie Gorelick, and Jim Johnson made tens of millions of dollars mis-managing Fannie Mae with taxpayer money, and are all working for Obama. Can voters trust Obama to reform Fannie Mae?
McCain needs to name names here, like Sean Hannity does!!!

3) Over the last 20 years, Obama has the second highest campaign contributions from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac of anyone in Congress, and he’s only been in Congress 4 years.
Can voters trust Obama to reform them, when he’s been bought by those who ripped off the taxpayers?

http://myriadscreed.wordpress.com/2008/09/17/my-suggestion-for-mccains-new-ad/

That was a decent ad — up until the very end where it showed the baby. I mean, really? A baby?

Yep, a baby. One that wasn’t forced to be born prematurely and left to die in a soiled linen closet in a Chicago hospital. One of those.

“ALL of it…?”

Yep. John “Cleared” McCain should get it all out there.

Show the world that a man who hasn’t been in the Senate two years has managed to come in #2 on the list of lawmakers receiving the most money from Fannie and Freddie over the last decade.

Greed.