McCain edging closer to Obama, new polls says. Is the economy as big an Obama advantage as we thought?

What do poll patterns show lately?

1. Obama needed to think -- while the market went down.

2. He needed to measure things -- while the market went down.

3. He would show America he was being careful & thoughtful -- while the market went down.

4. He would do a little yoga, & consult the Dalai Lama -- while the market went down.

5. Then the sky opened and he answered...

I agree with the plan, my children. I don't understand it, I just agree. I really, really do! Cross my heart and hope to die -- I love the plan! Love it, love it, love it!

6. America answered -- we hate it, dumb ass.

7. Obama -- back to thinking. Back to measured thoughts. Maybe a little yoga.

I guess I'd prefer someone who is giving serious thought and analysis to a monumental problem, then just opening the taxpayer's checkbook (already overdrawn) to bail out the knuckleheads who have created this mess in the first place.

I'm amazed that our good Palin-McCain supporter, Jeetz, can't provide any factual reasons for supporting Palin-McCain.

This campaign, according the Palin-McCain staff, was to be on personality and not on issues.

Our good Palin-McCain supporter is certainly taking that to heart in his fact-free, substance-free posts.

Of course, after 26 years of channeling Barry Goldwater, this past week John McCain turned into Huey Long. It is perhaps this change has so disoriented Jeetz that he can't take about issues because he doesn't know what McCain will say next.

From the Huffington Post:

John McCain's Chief of Staff gay, wins Roy Cohn Award

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-rogers/john-mccains-chief-of-sta_b_128362.html

I'm guessing McCain's supporters will mostly just shrug, but those who are attracted to the ticket because of Palin and her fun-D'uh-mentalist background will have to make chiropracter appoints for injuries caused when their heads started to spin.

I’m sorry, but the big point from this is that Obama can’t put this election away in a time when, by all accounts, this should be an absolute route against the Republicans. If fact he appears to be doing a great job of losing. Try as you might to just wave this off, he should be comfortably ahead by double digits.

Wooly

Is there a "factual" reason to support Obama? For example, when our friends from the left posit that "Obama addressed an issue is a speech" it's not true. Normally, the speech was generic pap, and the the Obama marketing arm inserts another link to their "factual qualifiers."

Let's say, for example, that aliens from space landed in the US (not unreasonable since I'm sure I heard one of Kerry's handlers exhort him "klatu, barrada necto" during the last presidential debates). What the Obama camp would present as "fact that our candidate was prepared and addressed this issue" would be a speech where he mentioned the word "alien" in the context of illegal alien, and then a link to whatever they wished to make up. Drum and his cohorts would then present that as "fact."

Simple challange: Show me the legislation the Junior Senator authored while in the Senate addressing the economy. Energy. Health care. Terrorism. He's a "leader." He's for "change." Where is it? How about any reforms he brokered accross the aisle? Show me WHY this guy should be President based on his legislative record.

You KNOW I'm Right

I thought it most important for the American voting public and the media to know exactly what kind of man we are even considering for the highest office in the land. We should all be so well informed, very informed matter of fact. I have submitted a link, via AlterNet.org, I think would be of great interest to the media world, and the nation as a whole. John McCain needs to come clean and explain himself for this, since he is running on the POW/Honor hero platform.

Most important, they also believe, as expressed so well in the Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs final report, that "the single most basic principle of personal honor in America's armed forces is NEVER WILLINGLY TO LEAVE A FELLOW SERVICEMAN BEHIND

http://www.alternet.org/story/99663/

As we know (especially our good McCain-Palin supporters, Obama should be leading by at least 20 points.

So, as an Obama supporter, the ABC poll out tonight is one more reason to be disappointed: he only leads McCain 52% to 43% among likely voters.

I'm sure our good McCain-Palin supporters will be gloating one more time about how badly Obama is doing.

Hi American Pride,

I am not sure if you are plaing partisan politics, but at the risk of taking your question seriously, I went ahead and found some links you should check out...

United States Senate Career of Barack Obama

This wikipedia link should get you started, but I find this next link a lot more interesting.

List of Bills SPONSORED By Barack Obama

Note that this wikipedia link shows just the bills Obama sponsored, not co-sponsored or otherwise supported.

I think I also read somewhere that Sarah Palin was advocating transparency in Washington DC and then she found out that Obama's first Senate bill was the thing she had been calling for. It's called something like "Google for Government", I think...

Hooray for bipartisanship, eh?

Now we take you back to the regularly scheduled name-calling and outing of gay Republican hypocrites in McCain's right-winged campaign, flying pigs with lipstick, etc etc etc...

I think it is interesting to note that John McCain saw and tried to 'fix' the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac 'problem' years ago.

FEDERAL HOUSING ENTERPRISE REGULATORY REFORM ACT OF 2005
details of McCain's Senate floor speech can be found here.

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/record.xpd?id=109-s20060525-16&bill=s109-190

McCain called out Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in part saying

"I join as a cosponsor of the Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Reform Act of 2005, S. 190, to underscore my support for quick passage of GSE regulatory reform legislation. If Congress does not act, American taxpayers will continue to be exposed to the enormous risk that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac pose to the housing market, the overall financial system, and the economy as a whole.

I urge my colleagues to support swift action on this GSE reform legislation."

In both 2005 and 2006 the dems would not allow a vote on this bill.

Barrack Obama has indeed sponsored a bill which his camp says shows that he , too had the foresight to see this mess in 2007.

34. S.1222 : A bill to stop mortgage transactions which operate to promote fraud, risk, abuse, and under-development, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Obama, Barack [IL] (introduced 4/25/2007)

But, this bill did not address any specific issue which would have 'eased' this crisis.

This bill was so bad that it was simply sent to commiteee for review and has not even been supported by most members of his own party.

IMHO - This is a clear indication that it is McCain that has the foresight. That it was McCain who warned of the impending crisis.