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McCain sings

Take a minute and a half out of your life to watch this video:

The Obama supporters on the blogs are way too complacent about how tough it will be to beat McCain, by the way. This is one of the lines we will need to push to get the job done.

Tags: Iran, Iraq War, John Mccain

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desmoinesdem

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  • I'm very nervous

    about any D running against McCain.  He will be very tough to beat.  The way Hillary has been campaigning, I think it would be very difficult for her to beat McCain.  Obama has a better chance, but I suspect it would be a close race.  I think Obama’s early responses to McCain have been good, painting him as a third W term.

    On balance, I’m still happy McCain is the R nominee.  Yes, he is by far the best opponent they could field, but he would probably be a president I could live with.  Can’t say the same about most of the other R candidates.

    rf  Thu 28 Feb 9:36 PM

    • McCain has voted to confirm every Bush judge

      I don’t think he would be any better as president than Romney or Huckabee.

      Obama has his work cut out for him. He will need to do a lot better with Latinos, working-class whites and women in order to beat McCain. He is going to significantly underperform the generic Democrat among Jews, who are a large voting bloc in states like PA, OH, MI, MO and FL.

      Actually, FL is a write-off for Obama against McCain. I give him less than a 5 percent chance of beating McCain there.

      His campaign will also need to mend some fences, because a lot of Clinton supporters are very angry about the way this campaign has turned out.

      desmoinesdem  Thu 28 Feb 11:31 PM

  • Desmoinesdem, saw your comment

    on some blog about your unwillingness to donate to Obama’s campaign.  May I ask why?

    rf  Thu 28 Feb 9:39 PM

    • he's not "change I can believe in"

      One of these days I am going to put up a detailed post about my concerns regarding Obama. He is doing a great job of building the Barack Obama movement, but he is also trying to be all things to all people. I don’t see his campaign making any kind of argument for progressivism or the Democratic Party.

      Big Tent Democrat (who reluctantly supports Obama, by the way) has written extensively about this problem at Talk Left.

      If Obama is elected, I think he will sell out progressives repeatedly in an effort to be the man above partisan politics, who’s governing on some mythical unity agenda.

      This year I am going to focus my energy and my political donations on state and local candidates.

      Obama doesn’t need my money, and he should be able to carry Iowa with little trouble.

      desmoinesdem  Thu 28 Feb 11:28 PM

  • You are right

    he is likely to be fine with his money situation.  Your money is probably better spent on more local races.  Hopefully Ed Fallon is getting some of it. 🙂    

    rf  Fri 29 Feb 3:54 PM

    • yes, Fallon is getting some

      along with a bunch of statehouse candidates. I am supporting Democrats who will not promote themselves by pushing stereotypes that denigrate Democrats like me.

      desmoinesdem  Fri 29 Feb 4:23 PM

  • Not even

    when the stereotypes are 100% right on?  Sometimes we D’s need to hear the truth, even when it hurts. – I’m sorry, but I am full of that kind of self-righteous “real Democrat” bs.  We really need to move on from the 60’s, folks.

    rf  Fri 29 Feb 7:56 PM

    • so when Obama positions himself

      as better than those other Democrats who are supposedly hostile to people of faith, that’s ok by you?

      That’s in his book, and it’s total bullshit right-wing stereotyping. Show me the Democrats who are hostile to people of faith.

      Obama is not running as a Democrat. He is running as superior to those Democrats who are just as responsible for all our problems as the Republicans. Doesn’t sound like a candidate who will realign American politics in our favor to me.

      desmoinesdem  Fri 29 Feb 9:32 PM

      • It may be your interpretation

        that Obama “positions himself an better than other D’s”.  But I think that says more about your feelings about the man than the reality of Obama’s positions.

        “Show me the Democrats who are hostile to people of faith.” – Are you serious with this??  Either you are in deep denial, or you hang out with completely different D’s from me (which I doubt, considering our preference for the same state/local candidates).  A beginning of a list of D’s who could fairly be considered hostile to people of faith: me, Mrs. RF, and countless other D’s I talk to.  I use the term “humanist” to describe my own spiritual leanings.  For sure, I do my best to be tactful or respectful.  But I say many things about religion and religious people that I think are right on, but religious people would consider hostile.  Obama is right to call me on that.  

        Your statement would be comparable to an R saying “show me an R who is hostile to gay people.”

        rf  Sat 1 Mar 10:33 AM

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