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Even if he came up with a radical plan at this point it would just be obvious that the purpose was just to get elected. I don't think it would work.
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I drank beer. I like beer. I still like beer. ... Do you like beer Senator?
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John McCain spent years being programmed by his Vietnamese overlords. Manchurian candidate!!"Stuie has the right idea" - Japher
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Re: So you're John McCain...
Suicide is a viable option.Originally posted by Rufus T. Firefly
... and you're down 5-10 points nationally; you're down by double-digits in the Dem states you hoped to pick up (WI, PA, MI); you're down by 3-7 points in the GOP states your opponent hopes to pick up (VA, OH, FL), any one of which will hand him the election. The economic crisis isn't going away, your attacks on your opponent's character aren't sticking, your opponent has more money than God, and you have a vice presidential candidate that roughly 60% of America regards as unqualified for higher office.
It's 27 days until the election. What do you do?
I look forward to the entertainment value of the sarcastic answers, but I actually am interested in serious ones.Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.Comment
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I get my people to find that little kid on Heroes who can talk to computers and do a little magic... My friends.Comment
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Reveal the shocking and long suspected truth about his medical condition, He is Dieing of CANCER and has only months to live (which kind you ask? ALL OF THEM!) and is switching his VP pick to Obama.
A wave of sympathy votes carries him into office and he beats William Henry Harrison record of one month for shortest presidency and W record for wars started.Companions the creator seeks, not corpses, not herds and believers. Fellow creators, the creator seeks - those who write new values on new tablets. Companions the creator seeks, and fellow harvesters; for everything about him is ripe for the harvest. - Thus spoke Zarathustra, Fredrick NietzscheComment
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Well, there's a lot of question regarding whether the Bradley effect is even a phenomenon that can be applied to any other campaigns, let alone this one. Even if it can, though, it's likely to be balanced by the Cell Phone Effect -- that is, by the fact that pollsters still only conduct polls through landlines, and thus undersample people who use cell phones exclusively. That means they're undersampling lower-income voters and college students, both of whom skew to Obama.Originally posted by Zkribbler
...and don't forget the Bradley Effect.
"I have as much authority as the pope. I just don't have as many people who believe it." — George CarlinComment
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McCain could ask GWB to present OBL who is in US custody for years to the public now with the explanation that McCain had caught him single-handedly when he visited Iraq
Alternatively, GWB could declare that the nation is turmoil due to financial crisis, wars and a potential terror supporter at the gates of the White House so he must stay a third term
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The race is nearly tied now
Tie according to Zogby *****es:
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hotair.com? Is that your home page Wiglaf?Comment
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I AM SO SORRY YOUR HERO BLEW THE POOCH AT WATERLOO. WHAT A NATIONAL DISGRACE. ALL THE FRENCHIES GATHERED ROUND AND WHAT HAPPENED, THE FIRST OF MANY DEFEATS BY THE AMERICANS. THE GENERAL MCCLELLAN WAS BETTER AND HISTORY IS WRITTEN BY THE VICTORY. WHAT DO YOU SAY ABOUT ZOGBY BEING HOT AIR NOW? I ONCE WALKED INTO A MCDONALDS AND ORDERED 15 SNACK WRAPS AND WALKED OUT JUST TO SPITE THEM
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Remember the mortgage bailout plan that McCain proposed during the debate? Now he wants the tax payers to pay face value for the bad loans. Anything for corporations should be his motto, not country first. He changed it the day after the debate.
McCain changes homeowner plan
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) made an overnight change in the homeowner bailout he proposed at Tuesday’s presidential debate, making it more generous to financial institutions and more costly for taxpayers.
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McCain's staff says it was always meant that way.
When McCain sprung his surprise idea at the start of the debate in Nashville, his campaign posted details online of his American Homeownership Resurgence Plan, which would direct the government to buy up bad home mortgages, allowing strapped people to keep their property.
The document posted and e-mailed by the McCain campaign on Tuesday night says at the end of its first full paragraph: “Lenders in these cases must recognize the loss that they’ve already suffered.”
So the government would buy the mortgages at a discounted rate, reflecting the declining value of the mortgage paper.
But when McCain reissued the document on Wednesday, that sentence was missing, to the dismay of many conservatives.
That would mean the U.S. would pay face value for the troubled documents, which was the main reason Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) gave for opposing the plan.
A McCain campaign official explained the change: “That language was mistakenly included in the initial draft and it’s been corrected. It doesn’t reflect the intentions of the initiative, which necessitated the correction and the removal of the sentence. A simple mistake.”
Obama Campaign Economic Policy Director Jason Furman said in the campaign statement opposing McCain's plan: "John McCain wants the government to massively overpay for mortgages in a plan that would guarantee taxpayers lose money, and put them at risk of losing even more if home values don’t recover. The biggest beneficiaries of this plan will be the same financial institutions that got us into this mess, some of whom even committed fraud."
The McCain campaign estimates in both documents that the plan would cost about $300 billion.
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I drank beer. I like beer. I still like beer. ... Do you like beer Senator?
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Ooooooh! That...that... ooooooooh!
I hope Obama *****slaps him real good on this at the last debate.Tutto nel mondo è burlaComment
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Yep, it's pretty remarkable. Instead of going with the market fundamentalism of the House Republicans (which, at least electorally, has some merit), McCain's going with corporate welfare. I don't know what he's thinking.
He wants to take $300 billion in tax payer money, and use $100 billion as a giveaway to exactly the guys who created the crisis (by buying these mortgages at inflated prices)."Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. "
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If I were McCain I'd be telling everyone I met that if Obama gets elected then the dems will have control of government and that socialism is inevitable.Long time member @ Apolyton
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They way things are going, that might make a lot of people more likely to vote for himOriginally posted by Lancer
If I were McCain I'd be telling everyone I met that if Obama gets elected then the dems will have control of government and that socialism is inevitable.
"The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists."
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