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October 02, 2008

McCain reinforcements heading to FL

Politico: "John McCain is pulling out of Michigan, according to two Republicans, a stunning move a month away from Election Day that indicates the difficulty Republicans are having in finding blue states to put in play. McCain will go off TV in Michigan, stop dropping mail there and send most of his staff to more competitive states, including Wisconsin, Ohio and Florida. Wisconsin went for Kerry in 2004, Ohio and Florida for Bush."

Meawhile, the talk of McCain's grassroots problem in Florida is belied by the huge numbers of folks trying to get tickets to see Sarah Palin. In Pinellas,we hear more than 4,000 tickets have already been given and that's likely to double by tomorrow.In Fort Myers, all the drivers trying to get Palin tickets supposedly caused a traffic jam.

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i am laughing so hard.

No Country For Old Men.

BREAKING: McCain campaign gives up on Michigan and is pulling out.

Today they flee to Florida.

Tomorrow they'll flee to Argentina.

4:39 -- nice. i like.

I still can't believe McCain cheated on his wife. What a douchebag -- you can't ever trust someone who cheated. ever.

It isn't over until its over . . . ok, now its over.

Know what they say..there is stupid and then there is "Floriduh stupid". How anyone can possible be enegized by that complete ditz Palin is beyond belief.

Little Ft. Myers' traffic is always backed up. It has some of the crummiest traffic gridlock in Florida.

Vamonoss a Argentina? No que necesario. Sobre el socialismo/populismo del Obama, somos Argentina.

That HQ is in a little strip mall. It would not take much to cause traffic problems. Whoever wanted to pass tickets out there should have their head examined.

Come on pinheads, do the freaking math. Chuck Crisp has been all over the news oflate doing things that might be considered "conservative".. They’ve started to mention Rome again... tic.tic.tic.tic...

After tonight’s debacle, McSame will drop Fail’n and pick up Crisp, then they will announce the move in Clearwater with a special appearance by the Old Dude himself with Chuck... this way, they avoid a sure embarrassment with Chuck against Biden by laying it on the Ilacksa Ho.

Get ready monkeys… it's desperation time and Lil’ Johnny Napoleon will stop at nothing to get his way.

McSame/Crisp ’08 “Honor Last”

Read it, live it… and laugh like hell at it with the rest of us!

Barack Obama is a cult and the reincarnation of Jim Jones. Why not just cut to the quick and have the inaugeration in Jonestown? Obama is one scary dude.

5:10 your wife is cheating on you

I remember when McCain had honor and dignity and I was proud to have him in my party.

4:41
What don't you ask most of the members of his advisory team from Florida?

Change We Can Believe In"

Barack Obama's Advisers:

James Johnson: CEO of Fannie Mae from 1991 to 1998. Johnson was forced out of Fannie Mae due to questionable loans. Johnson has 5 questionable loans with Countrywide Bank = $7M

Franklin Raines: Took over Fannie Mae from 1999 to 2004. Raines lent billions of dollars in risky mortgages and made $90M at his time with Fannie Mae. Obama chose Raines as his adviser for mortgage and housing policies.

Angelo Mozilo: Bank of America CEO. Sold all his stock in Countrywide Bank right before Bank of America "rescued" Countrywide.

Johnson and Raines both were involved in multiple loans with Countrywide while they drove Fannie and Freddie into the ground.

John McCain on May 25, 2006 warned congress about Fannie and Freddie and told them they were in serious trouble and needed immediate attention. Congress ignored him. Nancy Pelosi, Chris Dodd and Barney Frank all said that the problems with Fannie and Freddie were being exaggerated by McCain and Fannie and Freddie were doing fine.

Some interesting information about Obama:

At the beginning of Obama's campaign he said that he would end the war in 16 months and now he says that "the pace of the war would be dictated by the safety and security of the troops and the means to maintain stability".

Since the beginning of his career he has been a supporter of gun restrictions. Then after the courts struck down the Washington DC handgun ban, he suddenly changed his position and said that "the second amendment was an individual right".

In October of last year, Obama stopped wearing his American flag lapel pin because it was an "empty substitute for patriotism". He now wears his pin again.

On 3/18/08 Obama said he could not denounce Reverend Wright because he is "like family". A few months later Obama decided to denounce the Reverend.

On 4/28/08 Obama said he would go along with Senator McCain and use public financing for his campaign. A few months later Obama decided to use private financing instead.

On 6/4/08 Obama said that Jerusalem should not be divided and it shall remain the capitol of Israel. Less than 24 hours later Obama changed his mind and said "Well, obviously it's going to be up to the parties to negotiate a range of these issues and Jerusalem will be part of those negotiations. My belief is that, as a practical matter, it would be very difficult to execute".

Back in June Obama backed the new Phiser Bill, which exempts telecommunication companies from lawsuit wire tapping cases. He was against this in the primaries.

On 7/1/08 Obama said he would expand Bush's funding for religious initiatives. He was against this in the primaries to appease his liberal supporters and now he's for it.

Fortune Magazine July, 2008. Obama said "I think that sometimes during campaigns the rhetoric gets over heated and amplified and politicians are always guilty of that and I don't exempt myself".

"Change We Can Believe In"

The only thing Obama has changed.......is his mind.

McCain never cheated on his wife, that was a partisan smear job, so what else is new. It was mentioned once and McCain called the NY times on it. You haven't heard anything since, BECAUSE ITS NOT TRUE! stop drinking the LIBERAL KOOL-AID PEOPLE

Its too bad HUSSEINS nasty blizak Kenyan d-bag of a father didn't pull out when he was cranking HUSSEINS nasty white crack momma back in the day

Hypocritical to ask why someone would consider her as vice presidential material.

She isn't a prize, but Obama is just as lame, just a better speaker. Biden, while more experienced, and seems pretty intelligent, comes up with some of the doofiest statements.

I don't think either party has any right to question anyones' position in this election. I liked Fred Thompson, then Romney, then almost anyone but McCain - too liberal until the last month or so.

All candidates have flip-flopped, have deceptive (at best) ads, made bone-headed and inconsistent statements. None are what I would call top notch candidates.

Bottom line - most of us will vote party line. The independents, and the moderate democrates and republicans will decide this election. The rest of us are committed.

To tell you the truth, if Sarah Palin said her husband's great grandfather killed a moose while riding a dinosaur, I still would vote republican.

4:41

I guess we shouldn't trust Bill Clinton, John Edwards, and apparently half the men in this country - EVER!

Sorry scumbags - maybe we can put a scarlet letter on all of their foreheads (no, I guess that has been done).

Well, ya know, Todd's great granddad they say shot a moose with his old bolt action Enfield one day while riding a dinosaur. A stegasaurus, he said. How he sat on that fella I don't know for the life a me.

I still can't belive Obama's preacher said "God Da#n America." What a douchebag -- you can't ever trust someone like that, ever!

5:59 Must have been a tough sumb*tch:)

Actually, I picture a Tyrannosaurus, they run fast and wouldn't be able to reach reach him with those dinky little arms.

AFTER TONIGHT'S DEBATE mcBUSH will BE UNABLE TO WASH Tthe stench OF SUZIE ZAMBONI from the public's mempry!!

that dumb broad is the best that oldfart could come up with, should something happen to him???

what UTTER and COMPLETE CONTEMPT and DISRESPECT for the nation and the world!!!!

i agree with Gato(Retard) for once. If you cheat, you should lose everything.

when will mccain start campaigning again? i saw everywhere he was suspending his campaign but haven't read or heard he is back on the trail?

the best strategy to keep Florida in the McCain column is to keep Gov. Palin here.

with her mouth shut

florida is already fixed. they should go somewhere that actually counts the votes.

florida is already fixed. they should go somewhere that actually counts the votes.

Arlene must be seething. It's about the campaign sent someone down here to put her in her place.

Tickets to see Sarah Palin - the next Saturday Night Live skit in the making.

whoo hoo

6:16

I'm not sure I am so happy you agree with my statement. I don't know if you are in left field or appreciated my attempt at sarcasm!

I thought the word you used (Retard) was considered offensive to mentally handicapped individuals.

Since your comment is so blatently offensive to individuals that are unlikely to be able to defend themselves, I assume you must be a Republican. A sensitive, love your fellow man, Democrat would never stoop so low.

The McCain campaign's wheels have fallen off.

"McCain reinforcements heading to FL"

(Anywhere but Iraq)

Is the news about Florida instead of Michigan. Folks, they must feel that Florida needs this help big time .

were is Jeb Bush during this whole thing

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