If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time; who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer.
Obama’s victory speech
Continue reading ‘Obama Takes It’
Dear Barack Obama,
Please stop spamming my house with door hangtags advertising your campaign, and that of Senate candidate Mark Warner and 10th District candidate Judy Feder. Yesterday, you did it when I had but a McCain sign in the front window. Today, you did it again, when I had a McCain sign, a McCain/Palin sign, and Frank Wolf sign in the window, as I put the additional signs up after the first door spam.
Oh, and our entire household has already voted early for McCain/Palin, Gilmore, and Wolf.
Sincerely,
Relantel
So… if this race is over, as the MSM would have us believe, why is Obama closing out Monday with a campaign appearance on the ground in Iowa, a state said to be in his column by 10+ points a few weeks ago? Gov. Palin is due there as well. The Obama spin is they are trying to increase their margins, but with the candidate’s time being finite, you don’t go somewhere out of the way unnecessarily. The turning point in this race seems to be Joe the Plumber. Which gave rise to Tito the Builder. And put McCain squarely on the side of the working man. Throw in the fact that the Obama campaign has thrown three reporters off of the campaign plane for the temerity of their editorial pages to have endorsed John McCain. (For the record, that the New York Post, The Dallas Morning News, and The Washington Times each endorsed McCain was no surprise at all)
I missed this ad a few days ago, but it is effective, if blunt and choppy, in its comparison between Obama and McCain. It is aptly titled “Compare”:
The McCain campaign pokes fun at Obama’s three-network infomercial tonight (NBC, CBS, Fox… ABC said no):
(H/T: Ed Morrissey/HotAir)
(H/T: Ed Morrissey/Hot Air)
McCain uses Biden’s prediction/guarantee of an international crisis against Obama. Morrissey notes it is to run in “key states”.
Not that we should be surprised by the opinion of these few, but they encapsulate it well.
First up is Erick Erickson of Redstate, in “I guess Barry decided he already won” and “Obama lies about his ACORN ties“.
From the first Erickson link:
Throughout the night, Barack Obama looked distant, like he did not want to be there, like he was annoyed. He really looked annoyed all night.
McCain on the other hand looked like the comeback kid — the guy who knew he had to do well. And he did.
Here is why it mattered.
Between October 24th and 27th of 1980, Jimmy Carter was ahead of Ronald Reagan by six points. Obama is up three in the traditional Gallup poll and up eight in the expanded Gallup poll.
This becomes very doable for John McCain tonight. It becomes very doable.
Next is Hugh Hewitt, in ‘The Joe The Plumber Debate: McCain Scores and “Senator Government” Stumbles’:
Thank you, Joe W., America’s plumber, wherever you are. He must be a Browns fan.
McCain scored big with the Joe the plumber exchanges, and with the campaign tactics exchange. Obama looked angry and stumbled repeatedly as he tried to cope with what he really told Joe the plumber –guaranteeing the replay of the clip again and again and underscoring Senator Obama’s flexibility when it comes to facts– and with what John Lewis said. Obama’s answer on ACORN was a jaw dropper and opens the door to the MSM, as does the Ayers exchange. McCain drove this home without going overboard. Repeatedly returning to Joe the Plumber was key for McCain, and by the last half hour Obama was petulantly telling Joe what the “right thing to do by his employees” was. John McCain then spoke directly to Joe and put a bright line around Obama’s “spread the wealth” line, and the “fundamental difference” between the campaigns. When Senator McCain slipped and called Senator Obama “Senator Government,” he scored when he didn’t even intend to. That’s the sort of thing that marks a great debate for McCain, when even his verbal flub advances the key message.
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