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Obama accused McCain and Palin of "shameless" dishonesty with their claim to be "mavericks" ready to shake up Washington.
"I've got to admit, these folks are shameless."
"When John McCain gets up there with Sarah Palin and says 'we're for change'... you've got to ask yourselves, what are they talking about, how do they have the nerve to say it?" the Democrat added.
"It's empty words. You're just saying it because you realize, gosh, Obama's been talking about change and it seems to be working, so maybe we should say it too," he added to mocking laughter from a crowd of 1,500.
"You can't just make stuff up, you can't just reinvent yourself," he said earlier in Flint, Michigan, in response to Palin's boast that she had intervened to kill the federally funded bridge. He said Palin had originally supported a "Bridge to Nowhere" project in Alaska.
"The American people aren't stupid."
McCain told a rally in Lee's Summit, Missouri today, "We're going to work for you and we're going to drain the swamp in Washington, DC... We'll take them on and we'll defeat 'em because America knows it's time for change and it's time for the right change."
On the previous Saturday in Colorado Springs, about 10,000 people attended the McCain-Palin rally and on Friday, in the small town of Cedarburg Wisconsisn, the crowds filled the main street and and the surrounding blocks. These are unusually high attendance figures compared to McCain's previous rallies.
McCain praised Palin's history of fighting corruption in her own party and pork-barrel spending while governor of Alaska, and touted his own reputation of bucking the party line.
"I will veto every pork barrel earmark spending bill that comes across my desk. We will stop it, my friends, because it breeds corruption and we can no longer stand for that," McCain said.
(By the way, of all the major news wires, I find Agence France Presse (AFP) to be moderately accurate. They still have to be fact-checked and cross-referenced carefully, but some of what they say is at least vaguely correct.)
Here is a 2-part Palin interview from Feb 08. You can decide for yourself whether she is a liar or not:
She looks pretty straight-up and honest to me. Also, you can see her pushing for change and reform. This was long before Obama knew who she was.
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This whole election has been about Obama inventing himself, he's changed shapes and fit into any little notch he can to 'identify' with the people he is talking too. That is all he is, is a self-promoter and Bush Basher. He doesn't offer any real leadership for the country.
After his over-hyped and Bush hating speech at the DNC Obama's bubble burst, his speech was lack-luster and didn't amount to anything, just more of the same Democrat playbook old wind. When McCain introduced Palin Obama and Biden have practically went into hiding.
Biden has dropped off the map, I haven't seen or even heard about him from any news source. Obama is on the defensive and reacting to Palin, to Palin the VP. Not to McCain the nominee for President, Obama can't keep his eye on the prize, he's trying to defend himself so much that he'll lose the election rather then lose any ego about himself. Biden was a horrible choice, Obama threw away the election, Obama has been very vain and thought that picking someone to fill in for his foreign policy negatives that would quiet critics, all it did was confirm that Obama isn't ready to lead anyone, he hired Biden to make the choices for him.
The Democrats are really putting up some duds lately. But I guess the GOP did the same thing a few times also. When real Conservatives come back into government and stop this power-sharing arrangements, then the country will prosper like never before.
Here we are in the golden era of mass communication, world-wide markets and energy possibilities that could employ millions and we do what...nothing, the Democrats block new energy production (coal, nuclear, oil drilling) all at the same time crying about our enegry problems, the US military is trying to help people set up free markets in the world and what, the Democrats want to stop this from happening and let those countries go back into the hands of tryants. The Democrats are the source of Americans problems - and the Republicans that give into polling data, which I think polls are all bogus anyways.
Might as well throw darts at names on the wall and you'll have just a good of a chance to pick the next President as polls do.
Posted by: Christopher | September 09, 2008 at 07:57 PM