McCain phone message about Ayers

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McCain phone message about Ayers
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Sat, 10-18-2008 - 9:19am

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Republicans launched an enormous wave of phone calls Thursday blasting Sen. Barack Obama for "having worked closely with domestic terrorist Bill Ayers," party sources said.


Didn't McCain say @

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Registered: 10-12-2008
Sun, 10-19-2008 - 2:05pm

"Clinton says 2012 run 'close to zero'
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
AP

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton puts the chances of her running for president again at near zero - slightly higher than the chances she gives for becoming Senate majority leader or a Supreme Court justice.

In an interview aired Tuesday on "Fox & Friends" on the Fox News Channel, Clinton, D-N.Y., was asked the chances, on a scale of 1 to 10, that she would be the next majority leader in the Senate.

"Oh, probably zero," she said. "I'm not seeking any other position than to be the best senator from New York that I can be."

Being nominated to the Supreme Court?

"Zero," Clinton said. "I have no interest in doing that."

Running for president again?

"Probably close to zero," she said. "There's an old saying: Bloom where you're planted."

The former first lady, who was elected to the Senate in 2000 and re-elected in 2006, said she looked forward to working as a senator with a Barack Obama administration. "

While I have no doubt that there will be speculation for the next 4 years - it remains just that - speculation. The lady has spoken.

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Sun, 10-19-2008 - 2:10pm

The majority opinion?

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Sun, 10-19-2008 - 2:14pm
I just looked it up.

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Registered: 10-12-2008
Sun, 10-19-2008 - 2:15pm
She is saying that now.

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Registered: 10-14-2008
Sun, 10-19-2008 - 2:16pm

Yes. A review has to be more than one sentence to genuinely be a review. I'm not talking about the kinds of reviews you find on "epinions.com" or something like that, where any yahoo with an Internet account can - and does - weigh in with one sentence or two that typically has as many exclamation points after it as it does letters within it. I'm talking about an actual, formal review, which is what people think of when they hear the word "reviewed a book" or "book review." They think of the kind of multi-paragraph piece you'd find in the newspaper or a magazine, not a one-sentence answer which would never even have been given, had not a reporter who was asking about many things in the course of a larger personal profile of Obama said "hey, what are you reading?"

Perhaps that's why the GoOPers continue to flog this line so heavily, though - because they're quite aware that it makes people think (as long as they don't bother to do even the most basic fact-checking about the claim) that Obama wrote out a lengthy, multi-paragraph review of Ayers' book, for publication in a periodical, when nothing of the kind is even close to being true. It's classic Rove/Bush style "technically true" crap - and only barely even THAT: you have to believe that a one-sentence answer to a question (instead of a proactive offering of an opinion) constitutes a review. It doesn't, in nearly anyone's view....but if such a thing exists, I suppose it's not TECHNICALLY false to call it "a review," if you squint hard at it.


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Sun, 10-19-2008 - 2:18pm
Well most of us know that a review can be oral, or written.

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Sun, 10-19-2008 - 2:20pm
And your evidence to support your opinion? You have perhaps a link or two?
Maybe just wishful thinking on your part?

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Registered: 10-14-2008
Sun, 10-19-2008 - 2:22pm
Why isn't he using that money to run positive ads about himself?


He is. Most of his ads ARE positive ads about his own campaign. Next question?

The left is crying foul because mean old John McCain is picking on Obama.


"Crying foul?" No, LOL, hardly. "The left" (if, by "the left," you mean "people who pay attention to such things") are pointing out that John McCain appears to HAVE no positive, issues-oriented message to say about his own campaign and/or his own policy goals if elected President, choosing instead to pour 100% of his media buys into negative, character-based attacks upon his opponent....and using some pretty weak and old points as the very linchpin of those attacks. Bill Ayers? Heck, even McCain referred to him as "some washed-up old terrorist" in last Wednesday's debate. Obama's tone in his responses was near-perfect: he was cool, unruffled and almost slightly mournful, as if to say "really, John? THIS is what you REALLY want to talk about, in front of 55 million people?" He explained it lucidly and evenhandedly, and that was (again, until McCain/Palin re-re-re-re-re-resurrects it) the end of "the Ayers issue."

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Sun, 10-19-2008 - 2:24pm

 

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Sun, 10-19-2008 - 2:25pm
No it isn't wishful thinking.

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