McCain/Palin Endorsed By New York Post
By NancyA on September 9, 2008 at 11:00 PM in ABC News, Barack Obama, Economy, Energy Policy, Foreign Policy, Fox News, John McCain, MSNBC, National Security, Nuclear Power, Obama, off-shore drilling
According to Taegan Goddard’s Political Wire, The New York Post has endorsed McCain despite the months Obama spent wooing “Rupert Murdoch’s media empire.”
I guess Obama’s attempt at getting Murdoch’s media to support him appear to be wasted.
From Political Wire we learn about Obama’s whining to Fox News chief Roger Ailes in a summer meeting. I guess he thought he would get the same softball treatment from Fox News that he did from CNN and MSNBC:
In Vanity Fair, Michael Wolff reports on a “secret courtesy meeting” between Sen. Barack Obama and Fox News chief Roger Ailes earlier this summer.
“Obama lit into Ailes. He said that he didn’t want to waste his time talking to Ailes if Fox was just going to continue to abuse him and his wife, that Fox had relentlessly portrayed him as suspicious, foreign, fearsome — just short of a terrorist.
“Ailes, unruffled, said it might not have been this way if Obama had more willingly come on the air instead of so often giving Fox the back of his hand.
Well another round won by McCain/Palin!
The New York Post had this to say in their endorsement:
THE Post today enthusiastically urges the election of Sen. John S. McCain as the 44th president of the United States.
McCain’s lifelong record of service to America, his battle-tested courage, unshakeable devotion to principle and clear grasp of the dangers and opportunities now facing the nation stand in dramatic contrast to the tissue-paper-thin résumé of his Democratic opponent, freshman Sen. Barack Obama.
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McCain has been in Washington for many years now, but he is not of Washington. He knows where the levers of power are located - and how to manipulate them - but he is not controlled by them.
McCain’s selection of the charming, but rock-solid, outsider Sarah Palin as his running mate underscores the point.
Neither plays well with others.
The Post listed several good reasons to vote for McCain (Note: I don’t necessarily agree with all of them!).
There are many reasons to support the McCain-Palin ticket. Here are but a few:
* National security: The differences between McCain and Obama are especially stark.
McCain says 9/11 represented a two-decade “failure . . . to respond to . . . a [growing] global terror network.” He understood that Iraq is a critical front in the war on terror - and he urged perseverance even in the dark days that preceded the success of “the surge.”
Obama backed policies that would have abandoned Iraq to its fate, he bitterly opposed the surge, and once insisted that US forces invade Pakistan in search of Osama bin Laden - seemingly without regard for the potential consequences of attacking a nuclear-armed nation, ally or not.
Regarding a nuclear Iran, McCain has pushed for the strongest possible international sanctions and diplomatic pressure. Obama opposes sanctions.
And, when Russia invaded the former Soviet republic of Georgia, threatening a return to the Cold War, McCain reacted with stern disapprobation: “We must remind Russia’s leaders that the benefits they enjoy from being part of the civilized world require their respect for the values, stability and peace of that world.”
Obama called for UN action - unaware, apparently, that Russia’s Security Council veto would have prevented any.
* Taxes: McCain knows that when government absorbs ever-larger shares of national income, the economy suffers.
High tax rates diminish investment, killing jobs and stunting growth.
And while Obama promises tax cuts for “95 percent” of Americans, what he actually is proposing is some $650 billion in tax-credit-driven hikes in entitlement and other spending, to be paid for with heavier imposts across the board, but especially on investment - like a sharply higher capital-gains tax.
This is bad news for the millions of ordinary Americans who own stocks, either personally or through pension funds or who plan someday to sell their homes or other real property.
McCain, wisely, vows to keep capital-gains taxes at 15 percent and to keep the Bush-era tax cuts in place - understanding that new growth will boost revenue, and promising to make up the rest with spending restraint.
And he’s called for a one-year freeze on most discretionary spending and an end to pork-barrel giveaways.
* Trade: “I object when Senator Obama and others preach the false virtues of economic isolationism,” says McCain - noting that “globalization is an opportunity” for US workers. He adds that while emerging economies like those of China and India are worrisome, the answer is competition informed by education and innovation - not protectionism.
* Energy: On the economic issue most vexing Americans today - energy prices - McCain is aggressive
He is a strong convert to offshore drilling: “We have trillions of dollars’ worth of oil and gas reserves in the US at a time we are exporting hundreds of billions of dollars a year overseas to buy energy.”
He also strongly backs nuclear power - a carbon-free form of energy that America can produce relatively cheaply.
Obama, meanwhile, hews to the Democratic Party line on energy: no nukes, no drilling and no comprehension of the consequences of such policies.
And finally The Post finished up with this quote:
In the end, though, sound security, economic and energy policies - plus allegiance to principle - are critical to keeping America safe and strong.
On all counts, John McCain and Sarah Palin understand this - and that’s why we’re in their corner to the finish.
As for my vote I am still not certain what I will do in November, but I am carefully looking at McCain/Palin, listening to their speeches and talking points. And I am anxiously awaiting Palin’s ABC interview. Palin is a regular person like me, a working mom like I was during my Navy days, and understands special needs children, I grew up with a brother who has special needs, they are part and parcel of your moral fiber! And it turns out McCain remembers the last time he changed a diaper because he said, “There’s some experiences you never forget.”
Thanks for the information. It looks like the New York Post has future plans for Hillary in 2012.
The mere fact that national security is at their top list says much. Perhaps the wounds of 9-11 remain fresh in New Yorkers’ minds.
Brand new video I just made comparing Obama’s sexist ‘lipstick on a pig’ remark with what Sarah Palin said at the GOP convention in Minnesota. Also included, more examples of Obama’s sexism and Team McCain’s conference call to address the disgusting remark by Obama. PLEASE spread this around to the women that you know, as well as all men that respect women:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1X03m-vXm_Y
We saw what Obama and the media did to Hillary in the primaries.
NO MORE. We draw the line here.
COOL! I will have to check out your new youtube. Thanks.
Excellent video!
Thanks, guys! Glad you like it.
yeah, excellent work.
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Very nice, Paul.
Think about it. If Iran develops nukes, we have a problem. Every time another nation develops them, the chance of finding the perpetrator of a nuclear suicide attack goes down while the chance of such an attack happening goes up. When the trend lines cross, a lot of people will die.
Here’s a hypothetical of how NY or DC could get nuked. It will be by a device carried on a small boat. Any powerboat in the 28′ range can carry the 1,000 kilos a 2nd generation bomb weighs. There are millions of them out there and just a few hundred coasties. In NY or DC, the most likely targets, you can bring a small boat right into the heart of the city. Using a ski boat or sport fisherman means that there will be no evidence left.
With a ground level land blast, the CSI types can do quite a bit with the rater and any structures that are left. With a sea explosion, the hole gets filled in rather quickly, which removes the evidence. So, any President who wants to find the culprits will have to use a randomizer to pick the target. That’s too much to risk in this election.
Exactly. I don’t know why the far left doesn’t see the threat from terrorism or thinks that they can negotiate it away. And by the way, negotiating with someone who is trying to kill you seems less like diplomacy and more like being the victim of an armed robbery.
I read an excellent article the other day that said that the problem of both Obama and Kerry is that they did not learn the appropriate lesson from the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center. After that bombing, law enforcement rounded up everyone involved and put them in jail. A victory for addressing terror as a problem of crime, not of defense, right? Wrong, because eight years later, the WTC is gone and blown up by associates of the exact same people.
Dealing with terrorism as a law enforcement issue is like sending the cops to Hawaii after the Pearl Harbor attack. Now that doesn’t excuse the Iraq war and associated intelligence failures, but it does support the oft-derided Bush claim that you do have to fight terrorists somewhere else so you don’t face them here again eight years later, and I don’t think Obama understands that.
I picked this about 5 months ago. Pro-Republican media sites weren’t pro-Obama, they were anti-Hillary, because they knew she stood a chance to beat McCain.
They smeared Hillary and promoted the weaker candidate and now he is locked in as the “Democratic” candidate, they have turned on him to promote their original agenda.
Seriously… I picked this a LONG time ago.
I haven’t read the rest, only the title. First, off, this is BAD news for Obama. NY Post may be a rag, but it is hugely popular in NYC. It’s the cheapie newspaper, the one with the brightest and most outrageous headlines that one sees EVERY DAY going to work.
Look at the two NY Post stories from today alone:
O PASTOR IN SEX SCANDAL
REV. WRIGHT DONE ME WRONG: CHURCH LADY
http://www.nypost.com/seven/09092008/news/nationalnews/o_pastor_in_sex_scandal_128142.htm
And:
HOW OBAMA BLEW IT
PAYS PRICE IN POLLS FOR BUNGLED ATTACKS ON SARAH
http://www.nypost.com/seven/09092008/postopinion/opedcolumnists/how_obama_blew_it_128132.htm
On 9-11. If have ever been bomb, and your pionted on with a gun in your life time. You may understand few things.
When a sonic sound of a war jet of any kind zip through the air in your space there is something about that that you releave over again. The 9-11 memory can never be minimized as Obama had.
There was a reason why Sen. Hillary Clinton voted for the war. The Dnc used it against her. That was the single argument that Obama has. He was not even in the position to cast a vote for the war.
Where he was in the position to vote for something and take a stand he voted present.
The DNC and Obama are going to lose the general election on their lies.
No surprise here. The Post would endorse the Republican ticket, no matter who was on it. And they have always savaged Hillary. For Obama to seek the Post’s endorsement just confirms how nuts he really is.
As a native New Yorker who lives 20 blocks from the site of the World Trade Center, you bet 9-11 is fresh. My local firehouse lost half of their fire fighters and another fire house in our neighborhood lost all … all of their members. In my neighborhood (Greenwich Village) you could not pass a street light or a building wall for weeks without noticing the handbills put up by family members with a photo of a son or a daughter, a husband or a wife, a friend, with their name and description, and the headline “Have You Seen Me? Worked at World Trade Center.” Hundreds of faces staring back at us as we walked down the streets, reminders from families who could not believe that all had been lost. I’ll never forget on that day as I walked to St. Vincen’t Medical Center, I found the doctors and nurses waiting outside the emergency room entrance for the arrival of thousands of victims. And how they looked as they slowly realized that the victims would never arrive. Some things you never get over. And then I think of Barack’s crazy uncle Jeremiah Wright preaching from his pulpit about chickens coming home to roost and I look forward to pulling the lever in the voting booth to elect, for the first time in my life, a Republican candidate.
Thank goodness. I am shocked that any preacher would say the things Wright said only days after the attack. WTF was he thinking? This sam nut thinks the gov’t gave our fellow black citizens HIV.
What a loon.
Our nation was heart broken. WTH was he thinking to say those things when we were hurting for the people in NYC and the rest who died in plane crashes?
He’s sick.
I don’t know about you guys, but I was praying for the families, and Obama’s mentor is almost gleeful when he said those words, “Nah, nah, nah….God Damn America”.
I hope FOX replays Wright’s idiotic words on September 11th reminding Americans of Obama’s mentor, Reverend Wright.
More Americans need to know who Obama’s mentors are.
And the picture of Ayers stomping on the American flag in the NYT while he said in that interview, “We didn’t bomb enough buildings.” That ran on Sept. 11, 2001. What a den of vipers Hyde Park, IL is.
You got it. Many do not. DNC did not get it.
They were all short sighted with their supper deligates who disrespected their electorate for the sake of making “history”. They forget, history is made in this country everyday.
What we need now is a qualified candidate for the country.
I remain a democrate but I am and will be voting for and supporting Sen. John S. MacCain.
OT - but does anyone know the link to the talk show host that was a Hillary fan and is now very anti-Obama? Last week he was railing about Obama’s camp not allowing him to attend a press conference with Obama although he has a press pass.
Thanks
I don’t know the link, but his name is Steve Corbett in Pennsyvlania
Mandelay
OH my….. I cannot imagine how it must feel to of been so close on that day….
I always remember watching the news I was fixated, waiting for people to be rushed to the hospital for treatment… my mind could not comprehend that part of the day….
A day one will never forget…. However being so close you must carry it with you each day.
You know, six years ago (less than a year after 9-11) our family buried my cousin who was only 50 years old. He and his wife lived on Staten Island and his wife had to purchase a plot for the burial. And it was a sad time for us in the family. So we went to the cemetery on Staten Island for the burial and it’s a very pretty place. And after the service at my cousin’s grave, we drifted away and we saw many graves all around with new headstones. As we looked closer we saw they were the graves of fire fighters and port authority police and citizens … all had died in the towers on September 11th. I guess their families were “lucky” as they had bodies to bury but you could see teddy bears and fresh flowers on these graves and wind chimes in the trees on the grounds and you knew there were many people who visited those graves frequently. Nobody in my “blood” family died on 9-11 but everyone I know feels the loss. And those who lost someone on that day will always be connected to all of us who make up the life of the city. G’nite people and take care. Signing off.
“”McCain says 9/11 represented a two-decade “failure . . . to respond to . . . a [growing] global terror network.””
I’d say 3 decade failure, not 2. Reagan didn’t exactly have his finger on the terrorist pulse either. He was so obsessed with the USSR he was myopic to the Islamist threat growing. Not to mention his utter failure in not responding to the Lebanon marine barracks attack.
And Sen. John S. MacCain was against the set up of that Lebanon marine barracks and it was another lack of experience defence Sec. that stopped the attcked ordered by President Reagan to punish the attackers of the Labanon marine attack.
I was surprised and saddened to hear of Ed Koch’s endorsement of Barky, particularly as we head into the week of the seventh anniversary of 9/11/01.
I just can’t find a reason why anyone from NY would support or endorse BO. All his mentors are so Anti-American. Ed Koch, shame on you!!
Team Clinton Says Obama Intimidated By Palin Factor
Hillary: ‘We Will Do What We Are Asked’; Panetta: ‘They Are Totally Reactive’
The harshest thing Hillary Clinton could come up with about Sarah Palin at a Sept. 6 campaign event at Wagner College on Staten Island was that there was no evidence at the convention in St. Paul to suggest Republicans would “guarantee equal pay for equal work for women.”
“I heard nothing!” she said.
Reporters tried to get Mrs. Clinton to talk about John McCain’s running mate at a tiny press conference after the event, but she refused even to mention Mrs. Palin’s name, saying only, “I am campaigning for Senator Obama and advocating on behalf of the Democratic Party and our positions.”
Stop the presses.
With the McCain campaign running tactical circles every day around the Obama outfit—which has failed, somewhat unbelievably, to come up with even a semi-compelling response to the Palin selection—one might think Mrs. Clinton, to say nothing of her sidelined husband, would be a useful surrogate on the counterattack right about now. Apparently, the Obama campaign does not agree.
“My concern is that I see them as totally reactive right now as opposed to getting out there on their own and saying what the hell they are about,” said Leon Panetta, a former chief of staff to Bill Clinton who has advised Mr. Obama. “They seem to be intimidated by the Palin pick. They seem to be intimidated by how the Republicans are coming at them on change. And you cannot win if you are constantly on defense.”
Mr. Panetta added, “As president of the United States you are going to have to learn how to deal with people you may not particularly like, because if you are trying to get things done, you have got to use everything and everybody that you can to get it done. I do think that they absolutely in this race have got to make use of the Clintons in every possible way, because they need them. He has clearly got some problems out there.”
Depending on who’s doing the telling, the reason the Clintons have been apportioned such a modest role—even as the Obama campaign gets pasted on a daily basis by the opposition—is either that remarkably little has been demanded of them, or simply that they don’t feel up for doing much more.
Most of the former and present Clinton staffers interviewed for this story, as well as Mr. Obama’s campaign, say that the limited role she has taken in advocating Mr. Obama’s candidacy is by design, and that she is doing precisely what is asked of her.
We’re not seeing more of her, in other words, because that’s how they want it.
“If they asked Hillary to do more, she’d be happy to do it,” said one Clinton adviser.
But one source close to the Clintons provided a slightly different version of events, saying that a high ranking Obama staff member indicated to a Clinton counterpart that they would like Mrs. Clinton to take a more aggressive tack, and that the answer was no.
Either way, the fact that it has taken so long for this discussion about the Clintons’ role to occur—while polls show a sharp shift in support toward the Republican ticket—is a source of wonderment in Clintonland. The consensus there, based on conversations with present and former Clinton advisers, is that the Obama campaign has isolated itself both as a result of its desire to break with the Clintons and establish itself as the future of the Democratic Party, and out of primary-victory-inspired hubris.
The effect, they say, has been a disastrous passivity.
“[McCain chief strategist] Steve Schmidt and company organized speeches that basically totally misrepresented Obama’s record—they were basically lies,” said one former Clinton aide. “They aren’t idiots. They know what his proposals are. But they said, ‘Fuck it, we’re just going to go out there and say he is going to raise taxes and do all this bad shit.’ And they got a decent bounce. And then you see the reaction from the Obama people saying, ‘We’re not going to be bullied, we’re not going to let our record be misconstrued.’ The second you start hearing that kind of rhetoric, you are being bullied and your record is being misconstrued.”
The problem, the former Clinton aide said, is that “they don’t have any attack dogs.”
“To address Palin, you need a prominent tough woman,” said another former aide. “I can’t think of any others who really work and who could really zing her with a smile on her face and look really good doing it.”
“Either it says that they don’t think they need him or that they don’t want him or some combination of the two,” said a Democratic operative close to the Clintons, referring to the former president. “I think they want to do it without him—without both of them. A lot of this is psychological.”
[SNIP.. GO TO LINK FOR WHOLE THING]
http://www.observer.com/2008/politics/team-clinton-says-obama-intimidated-palin-factor
Ed Koch most likely believes all of the smears.
Ed Koch is not the most discerning of individuals. Who cares what that old gasbag thinks.
I am amazed that anyone would still be unsure at this point about who to vote for.
Obama to make a statement on the lip stick controversy.
Obama knew what he said and who he was addressing it to.I can’t stand his Obama’s nasty ass!He always has his hand like scratching his nose-head or something when he does his smears.
McCain-Palin 08
ABC Palin will be on Thursday.I believe it’s ABC.A rumor went around in saying Palin was going to do the interview on The View.No, that’s a rumor to just get us to miss her.Nt me..I am so excided with McCain and Palin.
GO McCain/Palin 08
I think Biden is working his self to become ill where he can’t be V.P wink wink-Do we see another democratic nasty bag of tricks coming? I wouldn’t put ot pass them one bit.Think of how Biden was really going at it about Hillary as he talked.Is Biden trying to build things up and Bill luch date today with Obama.HUH?Makes you wonder.Well ok,that won’t work at all.
That would show that Obama wants to do anything.Well he Obama made his bed.Sleep in it alone.No matter what comes this way.We are not buying it.
Maybe in 2012 after we see how it runs with McCain and Plain which I do believe that our country will be so much better of.But there is noway will I ever Vote Obama for anything! Not even if he picked Hillary.It’s Obama that I will not vote to gain the white House.
McCain /Palin 08