“..(McCain)while speaking to a large crowd of supporters in Pennsylvania, he called his fellow citizens “my fellow prisoners” without missing a beat failing even to realize that he had done so…”

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Caryl..

If you hadn’t included the link, I swear I might have been skeptical. “My fellow PRISONERS”...OH MY GOD!!

Inherit, on the specifics, I have to agree with you to a limited extent. I say a limited extent because in my opinion, this is just more of the ‘damned if he does, and damned if he doesn’t’ stuff. Obama started out long ago, talking SPECIFICS. I’ve mentioned this before. He talked specifics all over the campaign trail, at town hall meetings and everywhere else.

And guess what? People complained. They complained that he was being to “professortorial’ (that’s not really a word, but that’s as close as I can get). They didn’t want the details. Sadly, some folks just can’t absorb them. My mother is like that…so is my ex. They ask you a question, but they don’t want to concentrate on the answer, or they don’t like the reality of it. They just want instant results.

That’s what people always wanna hear from lawyers as well. They do some incredibly stupid thing, and it gets them into deep shit, and then they expect the lawyer to say, “Don’t worry”, I’ll take care of it. Never mind that you were lying-in-wait and murdered 2 people in cold blood, leaving the murder weapon behind with your finger prints all over it. No worries. We’ll just hook you up with a little community service that you can do on a couple of weekends. No problem.

So, that’s the case with a bunch of other stuff. Folks would like to hear that we’re gonna have this really wonderful health care program, but they don’t wanna pay for it. That would mean higher taxes. I think he WILL get out of Iraq, for all of the same reasons that he didn’t think we should ever have been there to begin with, but also because he’s hyper-pragmatic and it’s costing too much in blood and treasure.

Obama didn’t name any names on Supreme Court Justices, but he did name who he WOULDN’T have supported, much less appointed, (Clarence the Thom) and that’s good enough for me. In fact, even if that was the ONLY reason for voting for him, (he already told Diane Waters that there was no time to whine, because McCain would appoint Justices that would set women back to the stone age) it would be enough. (women wouldn’t be the only ones thrown back to the stone age).

Then there’s Palin. It was bad enough when we were only considering what McCain was capable of. Now we know that he’s not likely to make it through a full term, and we’d be stuck with her.

Dopey David Broder says the “voters” want more DETAILS!, but what he really wants is to derail an Obama presidency, and is piling on the “no substance” talking points of the redumblicans.

David, David, David—have you heard of the web?  I realize that the radio had just been invented when you were born, and maybe you’re still catching up, but if you REALLY WANT DETAILS, go to Obama’s web site, and you can have all the policy details you want….if that was really what you wanted to begin with.

But what Broder and the rest of the neocon/neolib unholy alliance really wants is to set up the talking point that Obama lacks substance, which is laughable, in light of his life story.

Weak-minded candidates, weak-minded author of this article…“this crisis is moving too fast.” There are plenty of people who are competent enough to not be discombobulated by the “speed” of this crisis. They understand what brought it on, and know what should be done to address it. Leadership doesn’t just talk about being calm in crisis or “channel” some other leader. Leaders point to a clear path forward. Something neither candidate can do.

Let us remember it was the national press three weeks ago and not Senator Obama who first labeled Senator McCain’s response to a worsening economy as “erratic”. And for sure, nothing that Senator McCain has done since then suggest he or his campaign has found their way back to the Straight Talk Express.

If anything, they have wandered further off course mostly talking about Senator Obama rather than the economy which is what the great majority of Americans do want to talk about.

And when he does deem to talk about the economy, sorry to say that Senator McCain acting erratically was most recently on full display when he changed his home mortgage bailout plan overnight for the worse and sadly, while speaking to a large crowd of supporters in Pennsylvania, he called his fellow citizens “my fellow prisoners” without missing a beat failing even to realize that he had done so.

“Across this country, this is the agenda I have set before my fellow prisoners…”

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/8/1550/41356/348/615972

“My Fellow Prisoners” goes beyond a gaffe of jokingly singing bomb bomb Iran, not knowing the difference between Shiite and Sunni, confusing international borders, picking a presidential running mate on the basis of a 5 minute first-time introduction, completely reversing his public stance on the state of the economy in two hours time, voting yes instead of no on a legislative bill packed with the very earmarks he had so consistently showed nothing but open disdain for and still does, or even hiring the same swift-boat artists who had previously unmercifully swift-boated him and his family to the point of distraught.

No, “My Fellow Prisoners” sadly goes back 40 years to the mentally and physically disturbing point in Senator McCain’s life wherein the public speaking of such an emotionally revealing phrase only there would unfortunately make sense in his mind without thinking twice about it. It is a past connection current disconnect.

At this point, whether one supports him or not, for his own sake we can all only hope that Senator McCain’s recent erratic behavior is a temporary thing and not something that is on the verge of becoming permanent.

Erratic Is As Erratic Does

Johnny Boy, all Seven of YOUR Doorsteps are littered with Chickens and their Shit!
This Obama-Ayers Connection IS A BRidge to Nowhere….But Mac to this Economic Attack is Not a ‘Bridge too Far’ to cross.
Mac was exposed only about 6 yrs after taking Public office to be selling his favors to Banking- so he started pretty much straight off the bat. And Proof of his continued Corruption is evideneced by Phil Gramm over his Right shoulder (before Mac’s Wet Nurse took up the spot). Phil Gramm Euphemically calls his mission ‘Deregulation’ but in reality has been nothing but pure unabashed attempts at ‘Destablization’.
Then lets add in Mac’s Big Oil Connections and numerous appeasements and how that leads US right to his Undying support of the illegal invasion into Iraq ( rememeber HE is the one who put a fork in it with ‘Anthrax came from Iraq’- the last Nudge needed to convince US they were Attacking US, and an Immediate Threat- A LIE!)
Now he is the only one clinging to the idea of remaining indefinitely..Hmmm, Haven’t Shored up those Corp Oil Contracts enough Yet ah?
Funny that Ike’s devatation and resulting Oil disruption has had No effect on Oil prices…in fact the closer we get to the election, the price continues to Drop. But prior to that the skyrocketing prices were increasing food prices, causing layoffs, and kneecapping industries….Gee could that have been the reason people couldn’t pay their House payments????
John McCain has helped bring our country to it’s knees on three Fronts…Financing, Energy and International quagmire Conflicts!
Call Him What he IS…A TRAITOR, A WAR CRIMINAL and a Scourge Upon Humanity…3rd world citizens Starved due to the increase cost of Rice due to the Global Oil Price Gouging by Finanacial Speculators.McCains Feet Should be dangling Right next to Cheney’s!

One must remember the oldest of political axioms, if you don’t make any promises, you won’t be accused of breaking any.

Every time we GET specifics from the campaigns, they are nonsense.

Obama’s health care plan is nonsense and probably won’t work.  Amazingly, though, John McCain’s is 100x worse!

Obama’s plan to win in Afghanistan doesn’t make much sense.

McCain’s makes even less.

Obama’s plan to get us out of Iraq is vague and MAY work.

McCain’s plan is to keep us there 100 years!

Obama voted to bail out the banks with our money.

So did McCain, but now he wants to spend another $300 billion shoring up the mortgages…didn’t he READ the bill he backed?????

Obama hasn’t said what kind of Supreme Court Justices he’ll appoint.

McCain said more Scalias and Thomases!

Specifics from Obama are bad.  Specifics from McCain are 100x worse!