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Obama: DNC up with ad in Michigan

Posted: Thursday, September 04, 2008 9:32 AM by Domenico Montanaro
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The DNC’s independent expenditure unit has gone up with its first TV ad, the Atlantic Monthly’s Marc Ambinder reports. “Confirming the state's status as contested, the DNC's independent expenditure is running an ad in Michigan that casts Sen. John McCain as out of touch on the economy, and just like President Bush. The ad features video of both Bush and McCain calling the ‘fundamentals’ of the economy ‘strong.’ Then, a narrator intones: ‘Michigan is struggling, but some people don't seem to notice.” More: “A DNC spokesman says the ad will air in Detroit, Flint-Saginaw, Grand Rapids- Kalamzoo, Lansing, Traverse City, Marquette, and Alpena starting on Thursday, Sept 4.”

Obama yesterday latched onto McCain campaign manager Rick Davis saying this campaign was not about issues. "If you've got George Bush's track record, and John McCain voting 90 percent of the time in agreement with George Bush, then you probably don't want to talk about issues either," Obama said.

Obama is scheduled to appear on O'Reilly tonight. He then appears on MSNBC's Countdown on Monday.

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Still waiting for Obama to talk about the issues. Rebate checks aren't the answer to every problem Barack.
Obama is scheduled to appear on O'Reilly tonight.
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I've already set my TiVo.  This should be one very interesting interview -- AND it will steal viewers from McCain's speech (those that weren't already stolen by the NFL).

http://thepajamapundit.com/
The DNC has party unity.
The RNC has party fight dogs...
Country First fight dogs..(to much natural gas)
Forget the ad.

It's a pity the unruly crowds of the far left wing nuts see fit to break windows and wreak havoc on unsuspecting people by throwing bleach, etc., all over them. Supposedly a big big violent demonstration is planned for early this evening.
Maybe the cops will wise up and use real bullets.

Also keep in mind that these are some of the supporters of the Obama/Biden ticket. You don't find these animalistic protests done by Republicans.
Matt Lauer this morning on Today, tried to be alittle up beat about Sarah Palin's speech last night at the GOP convention.  But aside from a few one liners written by god knows who, Palin with her screechy annoying voice sounded alot like Megan Mullally from the comedy show `Will & Grace.'  She is the equivalent of a stand-up comic at a cheap comedy club --> this does not a Vice President make.  Her lack of experience and lack of intellect will leave her under the table when she tries to Debate  the qualified and experienced Joe Biden.
I was born in Flint. It saddens me to see it's a dying town, as are many others in the midwest. It's time for someone to step up and restore mid-America to it's manufacturing greatness. Jobs for America. Products made in America. Obama gets "it." McCain can just go buy another home.
Well a Obama supporter I am, but this nice crap is useless.  Okay we got it, 90% of the time, but there are other issues to point to and if the Obama camp doesn't get more aggressive, this will be 2004 all over again.

Palin is Bush in a skirt, she will send this country down the wrong path and the Obama needs to be get busy and send Palin back to Wa-Silly and send her grandfather McCain back to Arizona.

She is mean and nasty and she is nothing to be proud of as a mother flaunting her dysfuntional out for public consumption. What kind of mother is she?  She is the elite, because while she plannign on making the tough decisions for this country a nanny will have to see to her child with special needs.  How is she just like us, other mothers are taking care of their children and shame on the republican for taking that mother away from her kids; evidently she is needs at home more; look at her daughter, she has bigger fish to fry at home.  

This is not amodel family and the media should be ashamed of themselves for pushing her message of emptiness at a time when we need solutions.  

She left that poor little town with the debt of 22 million and she is not capable of running this country.  
Finally showing up on O'Reilly ... funny he decided to do so on McCain's night to speak.  Either way, Giddy Bill will give him a pass.  
So why is it OK for Obama to talk about McCain being in league with Bush for 8 years, but it's not OK to talk about Obama being in league with his church for 20? If we have to "get over" the Wright thing, then we can "get over" the Bush thing, because McCain is different, regardless of how the Democrats paint him as the same. Just as Obama says he's different than his old pastor.
Good.  Obama needs to fight for the truth.  Michigan really needs the help too.  Kick starting the auto industry with new hybrid cars out of Detroit and other cities there and in Ohio should really help.

He's going to need to fight the lies from the Republicons even more now that they have shown they won't offer any solutions to issues, just petty attacks.

She reminded me of another Sarah.  Sarah Michelle Gellar in Cruel Intentions.  She's just more of the same Republicon sleeze.

I could barely stomach watching it last night but I wanted to see what lies they were spreading so I could continue to fight back against the lies going door to door, email address to email address, phone call to phone call.

I'm going to up my monthly donation after seeing that pathetic pack of lies and cheap personal attacks.   Figure $100 tonight when I can get a secure connection (work's firewall stops it), and up it later this month.

https://donate.barackobama.com/page/contribute/pf?outreach_page_id=45154

Those that can't donate money,  please donate your time.  Tell all your friends, email buddies, neighbors and family the truth.  Educate them.  Register them, and get them to vote!
I listened to Huckabee, Rudy, and Palin last night and still haven't heard more than 2 words about the economy from this RNC convention. The closest they came was when Palin offered 'specifics' only to rattle of the most generic laundry list of conservative bullet points I've ever heard. I guess we shouldn't be surprised that the campaign that doesn't think the election is about issues would be ignoring the biggest issue of the election.
Now we can get back to the issues.  After all of the gimmicks have been played lets see if the Republicans can delivery a message about fixing the problems instead of making new ones.
So why is it OK for Obama to talk about McCain being in league with Bush for 8 years, but it's not OK to talk about Obama being in league with his church for 20? If we have to "get over" the Wright thing, then we can "get over" the Bush thing, because McCain is different, regardless of how the Democrats paint him as the same. Just as Obama says he's different than his old pastor.
Down with Obama (Sent Thursday, September 04, 2008 9:52 AM)

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Because with McCain, its relevant to his stance on issues and policies.  With Obama, it is smear and character assasination.  The latter, supposedly, was not supposed to happen in a McCain campaign.  
Because Wright Doesn't make Policy....and Wright doesn't give tax breaks to the wealthiest Americans when things like Infrastructure need to be taken care of.  Wright didn't lead this country into an awful and unnecessary war that took the lives of  FOUR THOUSAND AMERICANS on Manipulated evidence. BTW, Mrs. Palin's Church is something to behold itself. So, Let's keep it political...and as far as Policy is concerned...McCain doesn't have a leg to stand on...that is why they are making this about Obama and not the Issues.
We need more Ads to combat the rhetoric that is coming from the GOP.  Last night was the nations first impression of Sarah Palin and she was as mean as snarky as the GOP party has been for 16 years, we don't need more of the same.  This November I am not just voting "for" Senator Obama, but I am voting "against" Sarah Palin.
Palin's speech sounded more like a High School Pep Rally.
Spoken like a true politician..
I did this and I did this and I did this and I did this and I believe this and (buy Alaska natural gas) and I believe this  and I believe this and I'm going to do this(buy alaska natural gas)
and I'm going to do this and we can do that and
that and that and that and I want this
and you need this (natural gas pipe line) and John McCain is this and John McCain is that...The issues are this and that....Buy my natural gas, Obama is dumb and so is Senator Reid, buy my natural gas pipe line. Something aboutlipstick and piplines..
Listen to her closely.. Alaska will be able hold the pipe valve (on or off) making you hostage for natural gas...Stinks of big oil companies with a skirt and mullit...Since when does a Gov. from an over affluent State know just what
the hell is going on in my world.
Buy my natural gas from Alaska is another ploy to monoplize that market. As VP we would spiral into worse enery dependence..
How in world can anybody trust her.
That speech was nothing more than an attack dog and a bribe to sell natural gas..
We just don't know her or care that she can stand up to the oil companies but we do know the Alaska oil companies do want you to buy buy buy their natural gas. I smell a rat...a phony pony rat.....
Does any one remember the "Hunt Brothers"(didn't they come from Arzonia)...is there a move to get  a monoply of the natural gas market?..Is this why T.Boone is selling CNG?

John McCain's VP choice is the Natural Gas Queen with glasses...
We don't need some one to control our valves to energy..
Let's send a clear message to this Phony Pony gas sells person

from Alaska...
No way,
no how,
no McCain...no Alaska natural gas either
Go Barack!  ISSUES, ISSUES, ISSUES...AND we never hear about them from the Repubs.  Barack stands for what he beleives, and McCain skirts his own record.  As a young, middle class mother, military wife, student with two jobs, and citizen of a rural area (less than 6,000) - Palin and McCain are simply insulting to my socioeconomic status and the millions of other middle class people.  We are not whiners, we are workers, and I'd like to see McCain try to live off of my annual income for a year- he'd NEVER survive.  Under McCain the rich get richer..and the rest of us suffer.
Go Barack!  ISSUES, ISSUES, ISSUES...AND we never hear about them from the Repubs.  Barack stands for what he beleives, and McCain skirts his own record.  As a young, middle class mother, military wife, student with two jobs, and citizen of a rural area (less than 6,000) - Palin and McCain are simply insulting to my socioeconomic status and the millions of other middle class people.  We are not whiners, we are workers, and I'd like to see McCain try to live off of my annual income for a year- he'd NEVER survive.  Under McCain the rich get richer..and the rest of us suffer.
McCain and his gang rather engage in personal attacks then address real issues. He said this campaign was going to be about issues. Instead his campaign is nothing more than garbage. McCain has lost my respect.
Well, it's about time.  I am SO sick of every other commercial that's playing on local TV here from McPow or the RNC.  Fight back!
McBush made the wrong desicion in picking Palin, she is not a woman with issues I agree on. Who is she to try and ban books, she does not have the right to say what people can read and not read. This is something Hitler did during the war. She will not tell me as a woman if I should not use birth control. Will she keep on having babies? She should have turned down McCain it will only destroy her family. Her daughter is already pregnant, this happens but says a lot of what is going on at home. She should not whine about sexism, she is in politics and this happens. McCain and Palin are nice people but not the leaders this Nation needs.
well sinse the RNC has thrown the kid gloves away and has yet to show us how to rescue the country from the REPUGS current mess theyve made....and appearently they have no morals left... Maybe Mcain could pull some strings to get Micheal Vic out of jail and hire him to be Saras "handler'
Down with Obama (Sent Thursday, September 04, 2008 9:52 AM)

More talk of nothing...a church?  In this church did they say God sent thousands of troops to their deaths like Palin said?  Palin said this and it's always pointing the finger elsewhere.

Just admit it you or the rethuglican party have no real solutions; just slander...I get it now!  Get a clue.
I hope all republicans aren't as stupid as what I saw last night with all the lies and the absence of anything solid about the economy, health care, etc., etc., etc.. While I never liked the Clinton's this eskimo isn't isn't worthy to clean Hillary's shoes.
What upsets me most of all is that I haven't heard any republican question McCain's choice, all have glowing public opinions. If this doesn't sound like Bush's yes men, while the country is hurting then your not listening.
go obama!!! keep spitting the truth about whats really going on and what the republicans will be voting for. It's funny...throughout the whole RNC, the republicans have just acted as though George Bush never existed...like the last eight years of struggling, gas prices, forclosures, etc never happened. NEWS FLASH!!!!...Bush is a republican too...his guys made the mistakes and the republicans presidential nominee has voted with bush 90% of the time. So basically its going to be more of the same. More poverty, more penny pinching, and more problems for the middle and lower class. Sarah Palin is just a distraction because the republicans dont want the public to know the truth about them. She should have been vetted properly, they only chose her because they think she will appeal to women, and small towns but in reality she is a turn off. yes she's a mother, yes she has a job, yes she knows how to DELIVER a speech (she didnt write it), but none of that has to deal with the issues of the economy. Millions of mothers deal with struggling but bush has veto'd almost everything congress came up with to help the economy. He has done nothing for us, and with john mccain voting with him 90% of the time, electing him would be taking more steps backwards for the nation.
Its ok to talk about McCain and Bush's past 8 years, because of all the lie's, and my fellow soldier's being killed for oil. USA going to hell, lost jobs and
poor getting more poor. That's why, 4 more years of Bush/McCain and the USA will be a 3rd world country.
Still waiting for Obama to talk about the issues. Rebate checks aren't the answer to every problem Barack.
Rebate This (Sent Thursday, September 04, 2008 9:38 AM)

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Had you tuned in to the Obama's acceptance speech last week you might have learned a thing or two.

You want talk of issues and you think you're going to get it from the GOP this week?  Guess again.  They're too busy worshipping McCain to discuss issues.
The pubs cannot speak on accomplishments as they
have none and on policies as they are a joke.
So as usual, it is attack, distort, lie, pander.
I do hope the media digs into all these issues
about Palin, as they are seriously scary, but
they haven't for Mccain, so who knows.
She delivered an empty speach. To an empty crowd.
I can't wait to see the campaign ad where Sarah Palin talks about the energy policy she likes---Obama's. Or where she asks a reporter "what does the VP do all day?"
Maybe I missed something while watching the DNC but there was not a lot of discussion about anything other than the "Mesiah" and his background so what's the difference? Seems as though when Barry does it it's OK.
Rudy Guilianni is just a bad loser. At least,Obama knows how to win his party's nomination. Of course Rudy is going to support McCain, adulterers usually stick together.And what about Cindy McCain isn't she a drug addict? I heard she stole drugs from a clinic she paid for.
Obama is right and MC Cain is wrong and so is Palin, I thought the speech was an insult to the american people.

Palin was condescending and rude in her comments about Obama.

But what would else would we expect from the empty GOP, empty heads and empty thoughts.
Let's now forget what happened the last time the American people elected a republican governor. I guess all that 'executive experience' in TX was the key to Bush's success these last 8 years!

Deja vu all over again.

Enough. No Way. No How. Not this time.
An interesting observation, I've seen in comments over the last few mos. that Obama reminds some of these folks of Hitler, WOW.You know that Hitler was a right wing Conservative who would invoke God to get his army of Automatons moving. One thing he needed was someone to hate, someone that looked different than they did, someone Foreign. So dose that sound familiar? HATE OBAMA, why? well he's not like us his wife is not like us he's foreign. Yep and all the soccer and security moms who are now hockey moms that voted for Bush but won't admit to it, love Palin and therefor McCain and when they wave the flag and invoke God the automatons come a runnin in servitude to keep the chaos goin. So when everyone wises up and wakes from there slumber what will be left? See Germany.
How ignorant do the Republicans think the American people are? Are they just stupid or in self denial.  This choice of the Bimbo from Limbo is the most humiliating decision made by McBush and I hope the citizens of this country recognize that this represents an old man with no sense.  Can you imagine that this inexperienced Alaskan housemom would be the leader of the free world if McBush cannot continue in office?  To you 30% of the population who believe that Bush is doing a good job, wake up and smell the roses.  You, the Reublican party, have all but destroyed our economy, caused the deaths of over 4000 American soldiers, and made us the laughing stock of the world. Are you insane or do you honestly think normal people can't figure out that the damage your party leaders have done and will be forgotten by the crap that is being spewed at the convention.  You have no clue and that is why Barack Obama will win in a landslide and the Democratic party will have to clean up your mess!          


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