Memo To Still President Team

FROM: RESPECTFUL REPUBLICANS
DATE: October 22, 2008
RE: MCCAIN DEFAME CAMPAIGN
TO: Still President Team

Desperate Times?

Well, that's how it would seem to be playing out for your Palin/McCain campaign. Per Chris Mathews of Hardball, "Every time conditions prevail, that is the current status of things causes McCain's poll numbers to dwindle, McCain cancels, curses, fires, stoops, postpones, distracts, and starts making wild accusations. That is to say, he pulls a 'razzle dazzle,' 'hail mary,' 'bootleg,' 'statue of liberty' play in a scattered move to distract the public from the real issues."

Instead of talking about cleaning up the mess that the current administration -- THAT MEANS YOU MCCAIN, AND YOU TOO GEORGE -- instead of showing us all some sort of Brave New Deal, Cheney you're hiding, Bush is trying to figure out where the ball rolled behind the couch, and Rov is calling the game off. And your love child, the not-so-honorable Senator John McCain is telling the American people "Hey! Look over there!"

As you've probably heard by now, dear Frank, chairman of the Financial Services Committee said, "McCain's trying to pull the longest 'Hail Mary' in the history of either football or Marys."

Last week on Bloomberg News, Chris Buckley, son of William F. Buckley (the recently departed -- God Rest His Blessed Soul), was being interviewed about his new book, "Supreme Courtship." When asked about McCain's name calling and terrorist accusations, he replied, "It's gone beyond saying a Hail Mary. He's saying the whole rosary!"

Name Calling. Inciting crowds to call for mob violence. Taking the Milf on a shopping spree. Saying one day that Obama is a decent family man, and the next calling him an elite, terrorist, socialist muslim.

Really, McCain? Don't you know there are Respectful Republicans out there?

Last night, Buckley made an appearance on the Daily Show where he was quote as saying, "I didn't leave the Republican Party. The Republican Party left me."

You know what, McCain? You're mother dresses you funny.

McCain's Response To McCain's Actions:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHW-RO1_WN0

Right To Left

No time to do full analysis here, now. Suffice it to say, McCain is becoming the Elephant in the corner.

You just got nominated as the first GOP (F) VP.
What ya gonna do know? I'm going to Disneyland!!!

The Independent (UK)
October 13, 2008
Republican leaders break ranks with McCain
Senior members of the Republican party are in open mutiny against John McCain's presidential campaign, after a disastrous period which has seen Barack Obama solidify his lead in the opinion polls.

From inside and outside his inner circle, Mr McCain is being told to settle on a coherent economic message and to tone down attacks on his rival which have sometimes whipped up a mob-like atmosphere at Republican rallies.

Two former rivals for the party nomination, Mitt Romney and Tommy Thompson, went on the record over the weekend about the disarray in the Republican camp. And a string of other senior party figures said Mr McCain's erratic performance risks taking the party down to heavy losses not just in the presidential race but also in contests for Congressional seats. Mr Thompson, a former governor of the swing state of Wisconsin, said he thought Mr McCain, on his present trajectory, would lose the state, and he told a New York Times reporter he was not happy with the campaign. "I don't know who is," he added. Some Republicans seeking election to Congress have begun distancing themselves from Mr McCain.

In Nebraska, a Republican representative, Lee Terry, ran a newspaper ad featuring support from a woman who called herself an "Obama-Terry voter". With just over three weeks to go to election day, a new Reuters/Zogby tracking poll showed the Democratic candidate gaining momentum during the past week. From a two-point lead four days ago, the latest reading has Mr Obama up 6 points. A Gallup poll yesterday put him at plus-7 per cent.

Senior Republicans have sharply conflicting views about the direction the McCain campaign should take, with some arguing that their candidate has not hit Mr Obama hard enough on the shady associates from his past. The issue of the Rev Jeremiah Wright, Mr Obama's former pastor, whose incendiary speeches about white racism almost derailed the Democrat's primary race, should be brought back on to the table by Mr McCain, many are counselling. Mr McCain, however, has ruled that issue off-limits, for fear of being accused of playing a race card.

Reining in the party's supporters may be hard. A minister delivering the invocation at a rally on Saturday asked Christians to pray for a McCain win. "There are millions of people around this world praying to their god – whether it's Hindu, Buddha, Allah – that his opponent wins, for a variety of reasons," said Arnold Conrad, the former pastor of Grace Evangelical Free Church in Davenport. (Of course Hindu is not a God, its a religion. Hmmph)

The press was quoting one Congressman today who compared McCain to the late Alabama segregationist George Wallace. "Senator McCain and Governor Palin are sowing the seeds of hatred and division," he said. "George Wallace never threw a bomb. He never fired a gun, but he created the climate and the conditions that encouraged vicious attacks against innocent Americans who were simply trying to exercise their constitutional rights."

Our Mad Doe

We love her. She was on Leno.

She was adorable, nervous, and bespectacled.

She should be running things, but we need her as a pundit. A very fast talking, brilliant, thoughtful, funny, charming, open minded pundit.

Shout out to Grandma. From now on, we say it right.

Our Mad Doe.

Love you girl
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/

Think Republican, Vote Obama....McCain's Been Put On Ebay

Give me a D! Give me a double D! What's that spell? Palin!

In the past, when she ran for Alaska governor, she freely admitted to a reporter that she got a "D" in macroeconomics in college. per ABC News.

Save The Cheerleader, Save The World. I'm starting to hallucinate. How many days without sleep can you go before you start imagining McCain dropping a pencil for Wasilla's former Mayor to bend over and pick up, over and over and over.

That's it. I'm gonna take a nap. First one in a month. I'm tired of looking for things that makes us go and plastering them on my website. I'm gonna go pray. I'm a Jew with a fake Repulican Colbert like tounge in cheek sort of blog thing and I'm gonna go pray to Aina, the female God of the earth, to handle McCain in the appropriate way. Please Aina, give him strength. Give him
peaceful rest. Give him brilliant ideas and the time to impliment them. Give him helpers and voters and hope and the hopeful. Bless him and keep him and help him guide us.

Y'all know I'm talkin' bout Mr. O, right? Laterz

Lisa "That One" Lindo

Uncovering Googlegate: McCain Wants My Money. How Mcain hijacked The Google and The Message during the U.S.A. Elections '08

It's a trick. It's a trick on Google.

It's a trick that works like this:

You think you are going to the most trusted & preferred site for searches, Google. You're looking for when the next Presidential Debate is, so you go to Google. As we all know, on Google you can look up information on any particular subject and it instantly takes you to the answer.

This is just like when Captain Kirk would call out and ask the ship's computer a question, only you kinda have to do some typing. How amazing it is to live in this age of information.

Just one thing. The first link that comes up on the page sends you directly to give McCain money. There is no info about any debates on that page. None. (See screen capture upper left)

"Next Presidential Debate" = Make A Contribution in the world APalin

You're expecting a listing of links that can answer your question, but disguised as the first listing on the page is a link that takes you to that ad for McCain. In fact, this fake ad that looks like a Google Listing with answers, is at the top of a lot of Google Site Search Pages. See where it sends you in person:
http://www.mccainpalinvictory2008.com/landing/landing_v1.htm?sid=google&t=jfc

Notice, McCain's campaign refers to this link inhouse as McCainPalinVictoryGoogleLanding.

Nothing on that page in any way tells you about any debate, past, present or future. You were flying around free on the information superhighway, and he hijacked the plane and brought you in for a "landing" directly into the middle of his bank account.

I can't believe I'm seeing this. I'm taking a big deep breath. Annoying, he is.

He can buy Google, which it could easily be argued is a monopoly. He can make Google funnel money to him all day. But, he can't buy us. He can't buy us. He Can't Buy Me!

Hijacking the Internet, The Google, The Information Superhighway is surely the worst form of domestic terrorism. So bad in fact, even the bad guys hadn't thought of it. Until now.

Today I went to get cash off my credit cards. I had been charging with them, that still worked. My Wamu card didn't of course. But, and I hope you're sitting down, on all of the 11 cards I tried to get cash off of, every one said Inelligible Transaction. not Invalid Pin, not Insufficient Funds, just Inelligible Transaction. Gulp.

Carl Rove, damn you. Damn you to hell!@!! I'm gonna go cry now.
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GOOGLE PAGE LISTING WHEN YOU TYPE IN "NEXT PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE" (see for yourself -- http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=next+presidential+debate
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Link in the ad that looks like a google listing on the top of that page:
http://www.mccainpalinvictory2008.com/landing/landing_v1.htm?sid=google&t=jfc
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And now your through the looking glass.

In an effort to fulfill equal time obligations, Barack has an ad too.

His is always clearly listed like an ad should be on the right side of the Google page. See: http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/im43?source=sem-lb-google-deb-debterm-search-swt&gclid=CJOwnKOlmZYCFRs-awody06W7Q If you go to his ad, you are treated to a clip of a debate and offered all debates on video to be sent to you for free. He doesn't even mention donating on the page the ad sends you to. He offers information.

Look for yourself. Make your own conclusions.

Get your Google on. And then go vote.

Lisa "That One" Lindo

A word about words...and rumors

One of the members of our team just got off the phone with a dear friend. The dear friend in question is a mormon from Utah, just so you understand her "media filter." Our contributor said, "I am so sorry, but until November 4th, McCain and Obama own me." You see, we've just been so very busy, there was no time to chat. Being a telephone conversation, as telephone conversations are want to do, our dear Utonian friend replied,

"Obama phones you?!!!???"

Don't believe everything you hear just because you "heard it." Do your own research. Get your eagle on.

www.IfTheBuckStopsHereShootIt.com

On Inheriting Greatness

"Being the son of a Four Star Admiral is alot like being the son of a Former President, and neither will accept actual responsibiltiy."
Abraham Lincoln

Red, White, & Boo: We thought Freddy Kruger was scary, but he didn't have jack on Freddie Mac!

This is what we can find on Freddie Mac's website. It speaks for itself, but let me get my eagle on and break it down for you...

Freddie Mac's Actual Website
Currently, on Freddie Mac's corporate website, please find their

NEWS & INFORMATION PAGE

Here they present a report on why people who can't afford homes should be put in them and supported with voucher and assistance programs. This was created BEFORE any of this talk about bailing them out!! See this mission statement below, present by Rick Davis.

Its purpose:

Homeownership has been a cornerstone of the country’s economic strength throughout the past decade. “State and local governments nationwide must expand their efforts to ensure that every family in America has the opportunity to own a home,” said Davis. “The more Americans we have owning homes, the stronger our economy and the greater the benefit.”

Report From Homeownership Alliance (HA) President Rick Davis.
(and here it is...)

HA Highlights Best Practices for Increasing Housing Affordability
A report released by The HA, a coalition of almost 20 organizations of which Freddie Mac is a charter member. The report identifies existing practices for increasing homeownership opportunities. “We hope this report will spark a much-needed dialogue on affordable housing programs.” said HA President Rick Davis. The best practices in the study fall into five categories and represent both demand-side efforts (e.g. homeownership tax credits, housing cost assistance programs and voucher assistance programs) and supply-side efforts (e.g. agency development initiatives and developer incentives).

Types of practices included:

Homeownership Tax Credits: Homeownership tax credits have helped tens of thousands of families become first-time homeowners.
Housing Cost Assistance Programs: Housing agencies in cities across the country, including Baltimore; Seattle; Riverside, Calif.; Phoenix; New York and Washington, provide funds for participants to use toward the costs of owning a home – i.e. down payments, closing costs and mortgage payments.

Voucher Assistance Programs: In recent years, locations including Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, have begun making federally funded Section 8 vouchers applicable to mortgage payments. With more than half of its residents living in Section 8 housing throughout the city, HACP has implemented a program allowing public housing residents and Section 8 renters to use their HA Payments toward monthly mortgage payments and expenses.

Agency Development Initiatives: In cities including Minneapolis, Minn.; Riverside, Calif.; Atlanta and Philadelphia, agencies are investing directly in increasing the supply of local affordable housing by rezoning or annexing land specifically for the purpose of affordable housing development, investing in the development of affordable housing or funding the rehabilitation of existing unoccupied housing properties. To date, the Philadelphia HA has invested in building four major developments located in communities close to schools, stores and parks and are affordable to eligible families, with mortgage rates as low as $700.

Developer Incentives: Chicago, Atlanta and Phoenix increased the supply of affordable housing. In the last two years, Chicago has created 466 affordable units because residential developers receiving discounted city land or using city financial assistance must set units aside for affordable housing. The program will help the city create 700 affordable units in the next three years.

And in closing, he ads...

Homeownership has been a cornerstone of the country’s economic strength throughout the past decade. “State and local governments nationwide must expand their efforts to ensure that every family in America has the opportunity to own a home,” said Davis. “The more Americans we have owning homes, the stronger our economy and the greater the benefit.”

Deep Breath. I'm trying not to yell. So, who's fault is this again? And why is Rick Davis still McCain's campaign manager? And lastly, and this one just spins me around, how is it that McCain is gonna 'clean up' Freddie Mac?

Feeling Impailed

You Can Lead A Candidate To Oxford, But You Can't Make Him Think

A TALE OF TWO CITIES -- McCain called Letterman. "Can't make it 'ol Buddy, gotta save the world and gotta race back to D.C. to do it."

"No Problem." says Letterman, as disappointment and surprise began to wash over him. How bad must things actually be for the war hero to cancel? Wow.

Only McBeth didn't run back to Washington. He was at the same network's studio, shooting an interview with Katey Couric AT THAT EXACT MOMENT, and would be staying in NY for an additional 22 hours before he went anywhere near a plane! Dave, run that clip, will ya?

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=XjkCrfylq-E

Spoiler Alert: I'm about to get metaphorical on his ass.

While the entire community was working hard to clean up spilled oil that had washed up on their local beaches, the owner of the faulty tanker, U.S.S. McCain, flew into town and drew a line in the dark and sticky sand.

Really? Johnny don't like the deal? You stopped everything you were doing to fly into town and say 6 sentences, sit down and not, in any way, be part of the solution???
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See Barack's address to the press about why the deal for economic stimulus stalled:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/26893995#26893995
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To be honest, now I'm getting angry....

Hey, John!!! Why don't you get some gloves out and start scrubbing those birds leaking black stuff all around you???

We'll even allow you to make ONE constructive comment. Do you HAVE any constructive suggestions? Every major news outlet calls your parachuting into Washington D.C., an incredibly destructive, distracting, divisive, and dumb thing to do. People, please believe me when I tell you that he actually said, he being the Republican nominee for President formerly known as John, did not read the three (3) page proposal as put forth by Hank Paulson !!!!!!! he didn't even read it. (heavy sigh)

See for yourself: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/#26894431

I'm going to sleep.

Cramming For The Test -- McCain wants to cancel debates

Wow. McCain is short, yes, but today he stooped to a new low. He claims he doesn't want to debate Barack because of the economy. And if Mr. O says no, and wants the debates to go on as planned, then the Republicans set up Barack to appear in front of the American public and the world as someone who doesn't care enough about the economy to halt the debates. Seriously. Wow.

As Barack's campaign so easily pointed out today, perhaps McCain is not ready to walk and chew gum at the same time. A President needs to multitask. McCain needs to take a nap.

Let's lay out how much Barack Obama actually is concerned, and has continuously been ringing the church bell in alarm, about our economy:

1. Obama's Year Old Letter to Bernanke and Paulson Regarding Housing Crisis March 22, 2007

2. Obama Calls for Modernizing Our Regulation of Financial Markets (video) March 27, 2008

3. Obama's Speech to Nasdaq (video) September 17, 2007

4. Message To The Nation (9/18 - video)

5. Obama Economic Press Conference July 28, 2008 (video)

6. Barack Obama's actual plan for the economy posted online
Use link or see the following for some key elements of Barack's plan:

-A $1,000 emergency energy rebate to help families with high fuel costs right now while putting $50 billion into job creation to get our economy back on track.

-Families making less than $250,000 a year will get a tax cut three times larger than under John McCain's plan and will face absolutely no tax increases.

-While John McCain has voted against raising the minimum wage 19 times, Barack would raise the minimum wage and set it to rise automatically with inflation.

-Invest $15 billion a year in green energy research to reduce our economy's dependence on foreign oil and create 5 million American jobs a year.

7. Barack's Blueprint For Change (video)
Emergency Economic Plan in detail as released on 9/21

So much for the incredibly stupid, ruthless, and inaccurate claim that Mr. O has no plan and is MIA on the issue.
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Two days before Senator McCain outlined his "specific plan," Barack Obama laid out a 6 point detailed plan on how we needed to reestablish oversight in the financial market. It followed on 6 months of him putting forward further detailed ideas and talking with experts like Warren Buffet, et al.

Check out McCain's website for his "detailed plan." http://www.johnmccain.com/Images/Issues/JobsforAmerica/briefing.pdf

McCain's only record, unbelievably horrible as it is, can be seen as follows:

1. ABC News 'This Week" Panel discusses McCain's comments over the last few days.

2. Video answer to foreclosure problems leading to bank closings

3. Talking Points Memo (TPM) video with Russert interview

4. Hardball (video)Shows 22 Times!!: McCain Has Said Fundamentals of Economy Are Strong

5. CNBC (video)McCain claims Commerce Committee oversees entire economy, and he was the Chairman.

6. Oversight experience gives him unique opinion (video)

7. MSNBC: McCain-onomics

Now. you really have some homework. Check out these links, learn for yourself. Its all there. Do what you need to do, write to the media, write to your friends, carry McCain in on a stretcher. Just get 'er done and get him to that debate!

BTW, my favorite part of McCain's economy video (which is really just clips of his speeches), is that he plans to balance the budget by 2013. Promises. Hmmmm....maybe I'm just not good at math, but, um, 2013 would fall after this next Presidential term in office. He is promising something that wouldn't happen until AFTER the next four years. So he couldn't really be held to it, God Forbid, if he made it to the Oval Office.

OK, I promise to initiate peace all over the entire world by 2100. So there!