Is McCain's Arizona now in play?

...from supporting Favorite Son John McCain.
This decision forces McCain to spend money where he didn't think was necessary.
It pulls McCain dollars out of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Florida and Missouri and spend it in Arizona.
That's hardball politics...

John McCain has Barack Obama right where he wants him.

Having to defend your home turf is such a brilliant maneuver. I guess we'll find out just how brilliant it is come election day.

John McCain, as he reminds us, is a fighter.

And, you have to believe he wants to fight to keep Arizona.

What a guy!

con:

We're only behind by four points in Pennsylvania.

lib:

Give it up idiot you ain't got a chance.

con:

We're up by four in Arizona.

lib:

Give it up idiot you ain't got a chance.

I see the difference between Obama and McCain as more gut instinctive. Its not about this fear stuff being thrown around and its not about minimizing Obama into something less than McCain on the economy. Nor is it about this socialism or radical nonsense.

The polls are showing the truth here. The American people are finally seeing what McCain and Obama stand for. They see a stronger leader in Obama, something they hope for and with bated breath are hoping is not just too good to be true.

The more they see of both of them, the more this moves to Obama. With good reason I might add. You can't watch this long and not get it that Obama is genuine, capable and altruistic.

And, you can't miss that McCain's campaign is all about "spin" to understate rather dramatically. The problem is that the truth is so far off what McCain needs to spin it into, that the spinning takes a legion of spiders. And the web spun from all that spinning, is just tying the ticket to the floor.....

America will be voting for the change she clearly needs. And America realizes she must vote out the partisan gridlock to ensure the change can happen. She knows the Republicans, under current leadership, are incapable of dealing in good faith on that matter. And I would say that if there is a risk with giving Obama the House and Senate, it pales in comparison to the opportunity to put America right.

Obama is seeking change. Big change, yes; but not to some new radical thing. The change is just a restoration of America to her fundamentals. A rejuvenation to her founding moral principles, to her bedrock of freedom, democracy and the American Way. It is incredible that revolutionary change is needed to restore America to her own bedrock. Indeed she has drifted, or more accurately, been driven far asunder. She is almost a fiction today, so far is she from her own truth.

Maybe we are too awestruck by Obama's success so far to hope there could be more in this man. I think he will be able to drive forward his grass roots political movement. I will say though, and you can mark these words, that it will not be a Democratic movement, a liberal movement, or a radical movement. It will be simply an American movement that is lucid, inclusive, and cohesive....

I would not say he is the person America has been waiting for, but I argue he is the leadership she is waiting for.... His person and history is a great surprise and challenge for America. A surprise that I believe will ultimately delight her and a challenge, one that is long over due by the way, that she will not only embrace but meet as well....

On Tuesday, when America gives Obama the wheel, he will astutely point the train in America's direction....

Obama will drive an American restoration. In good time, we will once again see that shining light on the hill, that glowing torch in the harbor, that open door to the neighbors, and follow that American Dream.....

America needs to move quickly though, she has drifted too long and is far behind. There is indeed the fierce urgency of now.....

Kudos to you Paul Stewart. I could not have said it better. I, too, believe that Obama will strive to unite America, heal the wounds inflicted by racism and bigotry that has been encouraged by Mc Cain and Palin, and gather the best and the brightest to guide us through the rough road ahead. I think he has the strength of conviction, the integrity and the intelligence to lead us and restore our stature on the eyes of Americans and the rest of the world. GO OBAMA/BIDEN

He is a disaster. He's a good organizer with dangerous, naive ideas. He is a typical Chicago thug politician. He is a marxist. He is an ignorant student of consitutional law. He is wrong for America.

He would throw this country into a crapper.

Higher taxes on the job providers when the economy is so fragile?

A trillion dollars in new government programs?

Nationalized health care?

Empathic judges on a supreme court that he wants to see move away from the founding document of this nation, that he sees as fundamentally flawed?

That certainly is change, that is also chaos and ruin waiting to happen.

For all the Obamaniacs, a simple equation:

We will ignore the 4-1 spending from a candidate that espouces the virtues of a level playing field. Actually, no we won't.

The REAL question is why the candidate whose only claim to legislation was the "Google for Government" that supposedly made financing transparent refuses to release the list of his doners. Corruption, thy name is Obama.
You KNOW I'm Right

about Obama's donors is insulting.

Does the concept of grassroots campaigning go right over your heads? I take it you have never participated in fundraisers either.

Wow pretty pathetic.

How about the donors to this group ?

Bush Energy Policy Meetings

How about
Bush and Product Safety

How about
FDA meeting with Pharmaceutical execs
This one I will quote some lines -
The American Association for Justice through the use of the FOIA was able to obtain emails that list attendees of a meeting between Bradshaw and the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) revealing the FDA chief counsel met with legal representatives from Pfizer, Wyeth, Eli Lilly, Berlex, Organon, Abbott Laboratories, Takeda, Sanofi-Aventis, Serono, AstraZeneca, Cephalon, Millenium, Eisai, Amgen, Astellas, GlaxoSmithKline, Bristol Myers Squibb, Johnson & Johnson, Novartis, Merck, and 3M.

Less than six months after this meeting, the agency would release its final physician labeling rule with complete immunity preemption language in the preamble, a complete about-face from the language in the proposed rule that specifically said the agency did not intend to preempt state law with the rule.

Oh my God ... it just goes on and on and on.

You somehow are concerned that Mr. Obama is allowing and encouraging the individual - my 18 year old daughter for instance - to contribute to who she sees fit ?
What a surprise.

What is wrong with spending money the American people have given you ?
Bush and the Rs have been doing it for years - except they money they spent came out of our pockets.

how much money Barak Obama has. He is no longer trying to reach 270 electoral votes. He is trying to reach 370 electoral votes.

I have to admit I'm finding it very amusing that suddenly the Right is screaming about how Barak Obama opted out of what is basically a socialist program, the public financing of campaigns. However, the Right has never had a problem with situational ethics. “Fair” has always meant to them, “Whatever is to my advantage”.

with Obama getting his money from the people (so long as those people actually exist.)

He's been getting money from Della Ware, Jobama McBiden, Mickey Mouse, and other fine upstanding citizens. People have been looking at their credit card statements and findind $2300 contributions generously made to BO for them that they did not even know that they wanted to make. But that's what BO wants right? For us to be neighborly with other people's money? (Yes, the BO cmapign does not care what your name or e-mail is, so long as the credit card number is good or the check clears.)

The lack of security and ID checks on contributors within the BO campaign amounts to fraud and identity theft.

BO broke a campaign promise, I'm not suprised at all because he's a typical politician (so much for change.) That's minor compared to one woman's name being used repeatedly to donate a total of $175K from multiple credit cards without the BO people noticing. I'm excited to have these people in charge of the economy!

Let's take seriously for a moment that Obama has received money from anonymous people.

Exactly how does Obama do the bidding of people he can't identify?

On the other hand, Obama has received most of his money in small contributions and recognizes that his present support crucially demands on this true citizen movement.

The problem is, in today's political world of dirty tricks, thank you Lee Atwater and Karl Rove, those campaign donations are just as likely to have come from people who wish to harm the Obama campaign as help it.

Cause you sure don't appear to understand how the process works.

For folks who claim to feel so strongly about a candidate, you sure don't seem to be participating in the process. None of you have done any phone banking or canvassing for McCain. I don't think there are even any envelope stuffers among you. Now we see you haven't donated to his campaign either. The only evidence of any action on your parts is rda going to hear Palin when she was here.

You have just picked one more issue to help your "IT ISN'T FAIR! McCAIN SHOULD HAVE WON!!' argument which you will begin to present in a little more than 48 hours. When in reality, it's not about the donations; a grassroots effort may have made a difference for your candidate.

Why would anyone do volunteer work for McCain?

His message is for people to keep their own wealth. If you are only interested in your own personal wealth, volunteering makes no sense. There is no personal advantage in volunteering time to someone. It is your time, so you should use it for your own personal wealth.

It is not a surprise that our good McCain-Palin supporters don't talk about their canvassing experiences because they haven't done any of it.

You write :

I don't have a problem...
Submitted by Teikiatsu on November 2, 2008 - 9:47am.

with Obama getting his money from the people (so long as those people actually exist.)
. People have been looking at their credit card statements and findind $2300 contributions generously made to BO for them that they did not even know that they wanted to make

Really ?

You see that is a really bad federal offense - it gets the Secret Service involved.

So I suppose you have some documented evidence of this ... just like ACORN voter fraud ... right ?

Just once when you people reply to stuff like this could you sound adult and not like a junior high school kid or younger? I miss Isaac, at least he actually stayed mature.

Anyway yes it has been documented. Mark Steyn twice donate the $10 minimum to BO's campaign as the name Della Ware and Jobama McBiden. He used an invalid e-mail but used a valid bank account that belonged to him. Both times the money was taken from his account.

As for the $2300 taken from people's credit cards $175K in one woman's name I don't need to confirm it, do a simple google search. *Some* media outlets are actually reporting it.

Teikiatsu's honesty is greatly appreciated:

"As for the $2300 taken from people's credit cards $175K in one woman's name I don't need to confirm it . . ."

Truthiness.

If the example is so easy to find, then our good fact free friend would have provided ONE link. Oh, well.

Facts have a liberal bias, so it is much better to just make cr*p up because a good McCain-Palin doesn't need to confirm it.

However,

what is funny is that (according to a writer at National Review Online) knowingly contributing money with a false name is a no-no; original text at bottom.

Has Mark Steyns money been returned a week later ?

Or is he still guilty of 2 separate felonies.

Here is the RNO article

Jonah,

If your goal is to get these sorts of things investigated, you're
better off not encouraging intentionally phony donations that'll have
to be sorted from any real attempts at fraud and complicate an
investigation. Causing a logjam at the FEC won't expedite justice
here; encouraging a host of phony donations just belabors Steyn's
original, sensible observation of Obama's credit card verification
standards.

He may have lost by a lot, but come now! We're talking about Arizona here.
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