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17 Responses to “McCain Asks “Who Is Barack Obama?””

  1. Jay Tea says:
    October 6, 2008 at 5:33 pm

    It’s and interesting question.

    We know John McCain graduated at the bottom of his class at Annapolis. Have we seen Obama’s college records?

    McCain released over 1,800 pages of his medical records. Obama released a single page summary.

    We know all about McCain’s Senate career, especially his tangential involvement with Keating. We can’t see the records of Obama’s years as head of the Chicago Annenberg Foundation, and he never talks about his eight years as a director of the Joyce Foundation.

    Can we see his office records from his tenure in the Illinois State Senate? The earmarks he designated while a state senator? The clients he represented as an attorney? His billing records, especially those of Tony Rekzo? His state bar application?

    Did he meet Bill Ayers in 1995 when Ayers tapped him to head up the brand-new CAC, or did they meet in 1988, when both men were members of the Alliance for better Chicago Schools? Did Ayers really put in charge of a multi-million-dollar foundation someone he never met before?

    Just asking questions… won’t someone “get in my face” and answer them?

    J.

  2. jr says:
    October 6, 2008 at 5:41 pm

    Conservatives love how McCain dumped Carol. Like Reagan dumped his first wife. Like Newt dumped his first 2 wives. McCain has “values” aka is white

  3. bryan says:
    October 6, 2008 at 5:44 pm

    One point of yours Jay

    “McCain released over 1,800 pages of his medical records. Obama released a single page summary.”

    This is true. However,

    Obama’s health report, stating a clean bill of health, only needed one page.

    McCain’s ‘release’ was for one hour, no recording devices allowed in the Friday afternoon before a public holiday weekend (was it labor day?). Not so much of a release as a parole, and the large amount of paper either says ill health or deliberate obfuscation.

    I take it the rest of your ‘facts’ are not so similarly misleading.

  4. bimbo slice says:
    October 6, 2008 at 5:44 pm

    at one point McCain says “…and all we get is an angry barrage of insults…”…maybe I am getting paranoid again, but to red meat Repub crowd that sounds awfully similar to “angry black man” ..hurling insult words like motherfucker and what have you

  5. Mylegacy says:
    October 6, 2008 at 5:46 pm

    “Who Is Barack Obama?””

    Barack is the guy that I’ve watched DAILY for the last 19 odd months as he’s come from nowhere to being on the Bridge to the White House.

    Has ANYONE ever been so well vetted for so long?

    Barack is tough (see the Keating 5 Video), fair (see the Keating 5 video), smart (Editor Harvard Law Review), calm (just look at any of his 50 odd debates this cycle), inspirational (ask any of the 80,000 in CO).

    As America falls apart – we are SO LUCKY to have someone with his breadth of brains, talent and skills. FDR when we needed him BO when we needed him.

    Barack Obama: The Great (White/Black/Hispanic/American/World) Hope!

  6. Jay Tea says:
    October 6, 2008 at 5:50 pm

    jr, you’re so gallant. You’re more upset about McCain’s divorce than his ex-wife is. They have a very cordial relationship, and she supports his candidacy.

    Also, McCain has always owned up to his conduct leading up to the divorce. He’s freely admitted his misdeeds. His life is largely an open book.

    Obama’s… not so much.

    And it’s kinda risky to try to look outside the official, sanctioned narrative.

    J.

  7. Bruce Henry says:
    October 6, 2008 at 6:31 pm

    Jay Tea, you mention bar applications, Illinois legislature office records, etc. What is it that you are implying Obama is covering up? Specifically.
    Because, specifically, a 72-year-old “releasing” his 1800 pages of medical records for 3 hours with no photocopying allowed, on the Friday before Memorial Day, smells. It smells even worse in light of the Palin VP pick.
    And John “Crash” McCain never talks about his mediocre Naval career, except to occasionally mention he was a POW. Did, you know, by the way, he was a POW? Not only that, he was a Prisoner of War.

  8. locus says:
    October 6, 2008 at 8:15 pm

    Yes, Jay an open book.

    At 70 years old, multiple cancer survivor, and don’t forget the POWPOWPOW experience, he’s an open book with his medical records.

    He’s so open that he had to snow the press about his current health status. They had no time to look over those 1800 pages, could take no notes, and the best medical writer in the country (an MD from the NYTimes) was not invited.

    This is openness?

    Perhaps he’s a little concerned that the American public will learn his true fitness for office. It shouldn’t make anyone any more comfortable to know that his VP pick will be a “heartbeat away from the Presidency.”

    Remember, Country First!

  9. Duros Hussein62 says:
    October 6, 2008 at 9:40 pm

    McCain’s ‘release’ was for one hour, no recording devices allowed in the Friday afternoon before a public holiday weekend

    And that 1800 pages was only a “partial” release.

    Isn’t there a physical required to be President?

  10. Frank DiSalle says:
    October 6, 2008 at 10:32 pm

    The thing is, the man who is willing to lick the floor to get elected will get elected; it’s a fine summary of the national character, a nation bent on dumbing down, erasing standards, eradicating anyone who stands for anything resembling an idea, getting along and going along, and by all means not rocking the boat. As ______ stands for nothing and believes in nothing, he is perfectly suited for a nation that, so long as the 401-K accounts hum along nicely, is pretty much exactly the same. :: Publius 2000

    This is a comment on an article in Slate.com [Why Bush Is Toast ], to the effect that the 2000 Bush campaign was dead in the water. But the most interesting about it is that you could put Obama’s name, McCain’s name, even Sen. Clinton’s name in the blank space, and it would still be an appropriate observation in re: the 2008 Election.

    The country is in serious trouble when the person who wants most to be President will get elected. No matter who wins, there will be an epiphany by the end of 2009, when America wakes up to see which “pig with lipstick” they’ve been sleeping with.

  11. Quaker in a Basement says:
    October 6, 2008 at 11:42 pm

    We can’t see the records of Obama’s years as head of the Chicago Annenberg Foundation,

    What are you yammering about, Mr. Tea? Aren’t these the same records Stanley Kurtz has been combing through? Refresh my memory–he came up with what again?

  12. Oliver Willis says:
    October 7, 2008 at 3:27 am

    Not to throw cold water on the latest b.s. Frank picked up on the right wing blogs (I read them too), but in 2000 Al Gore did in fact beat George W. Bush by 540,000 votes nationally. That is, the polling was right to be in favor of Gore. And aside from some malfeasance and malpractice in Florida, he was just a few votes shy of having the votes in the right place to be president.

    The country is in serious trouble when the person who wants most to be President will get elected.
    The last 8 years have shown us what having a president who isn’t interested enough to be president gets us.

  13. beeblebrox says:
    October 7, 2008 at 5:56 am

    “We know all about McCain’s Senate career, especially his tangential involvement with Keating.”

    Tangential? If by that you mean direct involvement, then sure.

    And McCain didn’t “release” his medical records. They were made available for 3 hours for a select group of journalists who weren’t allowed to communicate with anyone, including medical professionals. 3 hours to go over 1800 pages. Oh, and this was back in May. Is that what Jay considers full disclosure? Yeah, probably.

    And every document related to Obama’s activities for the state are a matter of public record with the state. As are McCain’s records with the US Senate. This isn’t surprising nor is it even remotely controversial.

    Of course, Jay is with the party that prides itself on ignorance and creating their own reality. It’s not a bug with them, it’s a feature.

  14. Frank DiSalle says:
    October 7, 2008 at 9:42 am

    “Anyone but Bush” is not running. And , “anyone but Clinton” was not defeated in 2000 or 2004.
    That is no way to interpret who we need in the White House.
    Obama is just another left winger…
    We don’t NEED him in the White House at all.
    If America is lucky, there will be a landslide for Obama, and the long awaited closure / catharsis for the Bush haters will have occurred.
    Then we can settle back and watch the inflationary, corrupt, foreign policy crisis plagued Presidency that inevitably follows a left winger into the White House.
    Incidentally, GW Bush won the requisite number of Electoral Votes to be President.
    Darn that pesky Constitution!

  15. Parthenon says:
    October 7, 2008 at 10:47 am

    Frank, as far as I can tell the only president off whom you’ve based that comment is Jimmy Carter. There are a few problems with the statement.

    Number one, the country wasn’t born in 1976, and by almost any definition, on almost any issue, the FDR presidency was ‘left-wing’ for the times (save the decision to intern Japanese Americans). In some respects, JFK was a liberal, but in many others, as you know, he was quite conservative. With respect to his foreign policy, it was his hawkish tendencies that got him into a crisis (The bay of pigs), and his dovish tendencies that rescued him (negotiating behind the scenes, and letting Kruschev tell his people that he saved Castro).

    Number two, in much of the rest of the developed world, Sen. Obama would be an either dead-center candidate or slightly on the conservative side. And generally they don’t seem to experience many more crises than we do in the States.

  16. Duros Hussein 62 says:
    October 7, 2008 at 12:10 pm

    Frank is now officially a corollary to the Hugh Hewitt Predict-o-matic.

  17. PG says:
    October 7, 2008 at 6:23 pm

    If Obama were going to take the McCain tack, he might demand that McCain release his military records. Remember the Republicans’ demand that John Kerry do so? (Also that Teresa Heinz Kerry release her tax returns.) Somehow, McCain’s military records and his wife’s tax returns aren’t relevant to the 2008 campaign.

    It would go a long way to refuting the damning Rolling Stone article about McCain, which so far hasn’t had much fact checking done on it. The Washington Post checked Navy records that indicate RS is right, and McCain wrong, about his first crash of a plane: it was pilot error, not an engine failure. In his second crash, McCain cut through power lines in Spain and caused residents of the area to lose electricity. (Maybe that’s why he won’t talk to the Spanish PM — he and Spain don’t get along.)

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