Support NeoGAF

[Zombie James]

What the fuck is with McCain's obsession over town halls?

 

[AniHawk]

What the fuck is with McCain's obsession over town halls?

He does well there.

 

[Tamanon]

This is really what McCain's suspending the campaign reminded me of.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH1ujxNwrkA

 

[Stoney Mason]

This guy on countdown is owning Mccain...

 

[grandjedi6]

 

[Amir0x]

McCain's one singular public strength is when he is presented as the crotchety old grandpa whose harsh words hide his genuine compassion for your wellbeing. This persona is displayed best in town hall settings.

 

[reilo]

Can I get a link to the entire Palin-Couric interview? This shit is painful.

 

[speculawyer]

Now she seems outright daft. This is not about sexism. Plenty of capable women out there. This is about her being a fucking idiot.

Yeah, it goes back to the Peggy Noonan hot mic capture where she mentioned other more capable but older GOP women that got passed over because they didn't want the ticket to be the old people ticket.

 

[Zombie James]

Can I get a link to the entire Palin-Couric interview? This shit is painful.

Look two or three pages back, I linked to it.

 

[grandjedi6]

Friday's Debate Will Focus In Part On The Economy
24 Sep 2008 08:00 pm

It has to, right?

How could Jim Lehrer, a newsman, not ask about the economy?

Well, he will.

A senior Obama adviser says that the CPD has told both campaigns that there will be questions about the economic crisis during Friday's debate.

They were told this last week...

http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/09/fridays_debate_will_focus_in_p.php

 

[reilo]

Look two or three pages back, I linked to it.

Got it. Thanks. Why's it only 5mins long? Is that the entire interview?

 

[Beer Monkey]

Hey, Palin needs to take time off to work on this crisis.

Oh, wait, she's a Governor. :lol

 

[Lord Helmet]

I have absolutely no faith in the American people's ability to weed out bullshit, I fully expect people to eat up Mccain's bullshit while foaming at the mouth at his sheer 'maverickness'.

This. Sadly.

 

[Gary Whitta]

Rove on the ORLY Factor, even he's saying this move could be suicide for McCain.

 

[HylianTom]

http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/09/fridays_debate_will_focus_in_p.php

The plot gets even richer. Delicious.

 

[Amir0x]

http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/09/fridays_debate_will_focus_in_p.php

what debate

you mean Friday's Obama TELL ALL

 

[speculawyer]

Got it. Thanks. Why's it only 5mins long? Is that the entire interview?

CBS cut out the really embarrassing stuff.

Spoiler

OK, I just made that up . . . any other stuff couldn't really have been much worse.

 

[Guy Legend]

The man just looks old and feeble now. What a ridiculous day.

 

[reilo]

what debate

you mean Friday's Obama TELL ALL

It'd be awesome. The debate is projected to have 100mil+ viewers, and if McCain doesn't show up, everyone will continue to tune in. Obama then addresses literally the entire electorate by himself to put the smackdown on McCain.

 

[Stoney Mason]

He does well there.

Regular people tend not to ask tough questions or know a candidate's history. Hence why Mccain loves them.

 

[Steve Youngblood]

Hey, Palin needs to take time off to work on this crisis.

Oh, wait, she's a Governor. :lol

At least she's got actual executive responsibilities to attend to that she may or may not be giving her full attention to.

Obama can't even be bothered to make a binary vote on a crisis effecting us all.

... I'm trying really hard here.

 

[Tamanon]

Got it. Thanks. Why's it only 5mins long? Is that the entire interview?

Extended interview won't be released until next week. It's just bits and pieces now.

 

[reilo]

Also, isn't it hilarious how the McCain camp abandoned the entire "but Obama has FM/FM ties!" after the Rick Davis lobbying fiasco?

 

[ViperVisor]

Dick Morris

'Biden is a disaster'
'Palin doing so well'

 

[Amir0x]

It'd be awesome. The debate is projected to have 100mil+ viewers, and if McCain doesn't show up, everyone will continue to tune in. Obama then addresses literally the entire electorate by himself to put the smackdown on McCain.

It won't have 100+ million viewers if McCain does not show up. It'll have way, way less.

That said, I suspect the impact will be better determined in the days to come as the game of chicken intensifies. And what exactly occurs on the bailout.

 

[Funky Papa]

WTF AT THIS PALIN CHURCH VIDEO ON COUNTDOWN?!?!!!??

What's up with it? Any video?

Spoiler

Please, be Palin speaking in tongues

 

[ManDudeChild]

Ok. I'm convinced that McCain is intentionally throwing this election. None of the shit he's doing makes any sense at all. From his brain dead choice for VP to the lies in ads to this retarded move to delay debates.

This dude can't be serious about the election at all.

... well that would certainly make him a maverick :lol

 

[RubxQub]

The man just looks old and feeble now. What a ridiculous day.

Fixed

 

[ronito]

Rove on the ORLY Factor, even he's saying this move could be suicide for McCain.

Riiiiiiight. Rove says its "suicide" then when congress passes the bill, which it would have anyway with or without Mccain he'll come out and say, "Wasn't it amazing that he would rather save the economy than win an election? What a hero? Did you know he was a POW???"

 

[GhaleonEB]

Also, isn't it hilarious how the McCain camp abandoned the entire "but Obama has FM/FM ties!" after the Rick Davis lobbying fiasco?

Yeah, their response to that follow-up article was to just bail out. Out of the debates, out of the campaign, out of their fucking minds.

 

[Ether_Snake]

Rove on the ORLY Factor, even he's saying this move could be suicide for McCain.

I think Rove and McCain really don't like each other, wink wink 2000 wink wink.

 

[Gary Whitta]

Extended interview won't be released until next week. It's just bits and pieces now.

Hopefully CBS will drip-feed a steady supply of embarrassing soundbites over the coming days, compounding the all-out clusterfuck that the McCain campaign is fast becoming.

 

[electricpirate]

I'm hoping McCain has cashed in enough "Strait talk chips" that the public won't believe him any longer. The media certainly stopped buying his bullshit, and if the public has seen enough, he's done.

 

[reilo]

It won't have 100+ million viewers if McCain does not show up. It'll have way, way less.

That said, I suspect the impact will be better determined in the days to come as the game of chicken intensifies. And what exactly occurs on the bailout.

The real issue I have with this McCain political maneuvering he is trying to pull off, is that for the past week, he was spending his time being on such important shows as Rachel Ray's. Up until today, he was scheduled to appear on Letterman, too.

If we are truly under an economic crisis, then McCain just pulled a Bush-Katrina fiasco by waiting a week to actually do something.

 

[Amir0x]

i don't know how many times McCain has to fuck up before the polls stop being even this close, but christ it's getting sad

 

[Ether_Snake]

It'd be awesome. The debate is projected to have 100mil+ viewers, and if McCain doesn't show up, everyone will continue to tune in. Obama then addresses literally the entire electorate by himself to put the smackdown on McCain.

Obama will never do the debate without McCain. He's not stupid.

1- If he does the debate, it makes it look like he doesn't care about the economy.
2- If he does the debate, McCain will ask for his own "by myself" debate, which the media will not give him, and he'll call out the media on it.
3- Whatever happens from her on with the bill, McCain will claim that he puts country first.

 

[Tamanon]

Bush invites Obama and McCain to meet at the White House tomorrow?:lol How odd.

 

[Karma Kramer]

People saying this is over... don't get your hopes up. I will be very surprised if this day really does mark the downfall for McCain. In a month who knows where this election will be if just two weeks ago McCain was ahead in every poll.

 

[jey_16]

ugh....for some reason, i think this might workand give him some help in the polls. It plays in to his whole "country first" scheme he has going on

hopefully it doesnt and we get to see him crash and burn

 

[grandjedi6]

Obama will never do the debate without McCain. He's not stupid.

1- If he does the debate, it makes it look like he doesn't care about the economy.
2- If he does the debate, McCain will ask for his own "by myself" debate, which the media will not give him, and he'll call out the media on it.
3- Whatever happens from her on with the bill, McCain will claim that he puts country first.

None of that will even be close to the image of McCain not showing up to the debate.

 

[soul creator]

It'd be awesome. The debate is projected to have 100mil+ viewers, and if McCain doesn't show up, everyone will continue to tune in. Obama then addresses literally the entire electorate by himself to put the smackdown on McCain.

for some reason, I just had a mental image of Obama putting on a Frank TJ Mackey-esque performance

 

[reilo]

i don't know how many times McCain has to fuck up before the polls stop being even this close, but christ it's getting sad

 

[Steve Youngblood]

Bush invites Obama and McCain to meet at the White House tomorrow?:lol How odd.

It's about time. The current president and the next president will surely solve this thing.

 

[Ignatz Mouse]

When McCain picked Palin, I thought it was instant suicide. More like a slow drag.

This, today-- seems like suicide. I'm probably wrong again, but I'm not sure how McCain can win now. Regardless of whether I (or anybody) thinks it's a good move, the Press is in full-on hate mode de to McCain camp's recent remarks, and they're all playing this like a ploy. And making a ploy during a crisis looks really bad.

I expect more Repubs to start coming out publicly for Obama over the next week.

In Sarah Palin's own terminology, McCain just blinked.

 

[mj1108]

Bush invites Obama and McCain to meet at the White House tomorrow?:lol How odd.

Obama accepted.

 

[Guy Legend]

If McCain doesn't show up to the debate, it will be a disaster for him. However, the last thing I want to see is Republicans getting their wishes on a delayed schedule on all the debates. The debates need to go on as scheduled.

Postponing the VP debate is even more hysterical. This shit can't be real.

 

[Snaku]

http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/09/fridays_debate_will_focus_in_p.php

I hope Obama shows up. :lol

 

[Xisiqomelir]

None of that will even be close to the image of McCain not showing up to the debate.

Correct. We can only hope Obama gets his uninterrupted coverage.

 

[grandjedi6]

Bush invites Obama and McCain to meet at the White House tomorrow?:lol How odd.

Now Mccainy, I know you wanna help and all but you're like an ant in a picnic. So buzz out, he he he.

Now Bammy, I should show you where I hid the snack drawer in case you get the munches next year.

 

[MaddenNFL64]

Fox News, ABC polls. Obama up 6-9 pts. NBC, Obama up 2.

I'd say give Obama a 5 pt lead.