Hoping to turn the tables on Barack Obama – and spin declining numbers in his favor – John McCain retooled his stump speech today.
Rather than relying on negative attacks and innuendo, the Republican presidential candidate attempted to set himself up as an underdog ready to fight for the White House. The media’s coverage, he claims, has been far too dismissive.
Said McCain to a crowd of 20,000 12,000 in Virginia Beach:
Let me give you the state of the race today and some straight talk. We have 22 days to go. We’re 6 points down. The national media has written us off. But they forgot to let you decide.
What America needs in this hour is a fighter, someone who puts all his cards on the table and trusts the judgment of the American people.
McCain and Palin are definitely sweating Virginia, a state that hasn’t gone to the Democrats since 1964. Obama, however, may change that: the Senator has a slim three-point lead, according to a Washington Post/ABC News poll. Despite this anomaly, McCain insists he and his supporters have the Democrats “right where we want them.”
How about we take this to the next level?
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Darth Paul
Points for facing facts! His campaign puppetmaster should be congratulated.
Brandon
Yeah, wasn’t Hillary using that whole “underdog” angle toward the end too? Doesn’t bode well for the Mccain campaign.
I think what they forget is that Barack has been the underdog from the beginning, so he’s already assumed that role.
Jon
Damn, he’s hot in that picture! Father time has not been kind.
bobito
You said it, Jon! Kind of a warning to us all: no matter how hot and doable you might be today, if you live long enough… damn!
And double damn! Brandon, you beat me to it: yes, Hillary was doing the “underdog” thing, too, not too many months ago. Worked like a charm for her, didn’t it?
mark
Someone should inform Miss Lindsey Graham that when you promise a big POLICY speech coming from McCain, and he delivers his same old political stump speech….folks NOTICE.
Ston
So they are behind in FL. VA. and NC, and he has the Democrats “Right where he wants them”???? I don’t want anybody THAt delusional running things.
mark
Malkin the putrid hag who thought Japanese Internment CAMPS were just SWELL, and accused John Kerry of self inflicting his purple heart wounds….says McCain takes off his gloves and has Hello Kitty mittens underneath.
Throw the sow a fresh juicy rat to gnaw upon
http://img56.imageshack.us/img56/5526/malkin9ro.jpg
marco hussein channing
McCain doesn’t stand for anything. Obama’s campaign has been Hope and Change for 20 months.
mark
btw Manly Man Charlie Crist is ready to fight with McCain against those TERRORISTS acording to a mailer in Florida.
http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2006-8/1210139/CristNavy.jpg
Pretty brave of Charlie when Don’t Ask Don’t Tell is still in effect.
fredo777
He’s got the “tool” part right.
I wish he’d pick a campaign theme + stick to it. Experience/Tried + True or Change/Reformer/Maverick or Underdog/Fighter?
Decisive leadership, indeed.
Mark
It’s time to bring up the USS Forestal. For those who don’t know about the USS Forestal, just go here to find out how McCain helped KILL 120 of his fellow military buddies with his wrecklessness, due to the fact that he graduated 5th from the bottom of his class of 899 officers in the academy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chuiyXQKw3I
CHURCHILL-Y
“Yeah, wasn’t Hillary using that whole “underdog” angle toward the end too? Doesn’t bode well for the Mccain campaign.”
Hillary sadly was trying to gather votes from a small pool infiltrated by drones.
This time the Messiah is swimming in a whole different body of water.
“I think what they forget is that Barack has been the underdog from the beginning, so he’s already assumed that role.”
An underdog that has the media in the tank for him, funding from foreign sources that has put him at the top of political $, and the Hollywood clowns drooling for him all over the tube.
Yeah Obama is the underdog!
emb
mccain sounds more and more like the Black Knight from Monty Python & the Holy Grail: with his arms and legs cut off, he still threatens to bite his foe. Or kick some “you-know-what”. Use the word, john; it’s “ass”. Like you are one of.
But yeah; boy mccain was eminently doable. Dumb as a box of hammers (894th out of 899 at Annapolis; managed to crash FIVE aircraft in less than ten years, only one of which was involved in a combat situation), but doable.
MEN-SAR
MCCAIN PALIN 08
inform yourselves!
fredo777
Inform yourself.
G. Gordon Liddy says what?
Obama/Biden ’08
Brian
I’m glad others have weighed in on how hot McCain used to be. Looks a lot like the first guy I ever slept with.
I find my accration to the young McCain very confusing. I think I need to lie down.
Brian
Accration? I meant attraction. Been a long day of fighting Prop 8…..
TripleX
In 2006, Obama campaigned for a relative in Kenya, who was running for the Presidency. Obama’s cousins name is Raila Odinga. Subsequently, Odinga lost by 230,000 or so votes. He did not accept the loss. So he called for demonstrations by his political supporters who in turn committed ethnic cleansing and genocide. Point blank, this guy tried to subvert the election process and use blackmail until he got what he wanted. Here is a video that gives a good accounting of the events along with photo’s as proof of Obama and Odinga campaigning together. And Obama, used U.S. taxpayer money for this and his Senatorial position to help this terrorist. Titled: Barack Obama & Raila Odinga – Link: – http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=S8QcpdUtxNQ&feature=related
Mr C
Triple X photos can say and be anything. Especially in the day of photoshop and morphing. Anything is possible.
Some of you queens are really funny. It seems that if your Blacks and alleged to do something is done in Africa you’re not an American. Try telling that to the Bush family with their ties to The Saudi Royal Family.
Oh but then again the Bush’s are caucasians.
I get it. All these internet bullshit stories are so funny…
MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
mark
One thing McCain hasn’t realized, NO F*CKIN’ Democrat or Independant after 8 years of Cheney/Bush and two suspicious elections….buys this repig underdog garbage. If we win in a landslide or by half a percentage, we will ALL vote, and we won’t be lulled into any false polling numbers,,,,the worst that happens is we get a HUGE Win….we can live with that.
David
John Sidney McCain: The Story of a Middle Name…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7VS8dg6mWE
Amazing Grace
Fuck politics! Let’s get to the real meat here. HOW HOT WAS McCAIN! Huh? Huh? I wish I was alone with him in a buker then. I would turn him gay for sure. McKai want suckee, fuckee? Me love you long time.
fredo777
Yeah, he was a sweet piece of man-candy way back when.
My, how things have changed.
MX3
Anyone who thinks McCain could ever *possibly* be anything akin to an underdog needs to read about his background — this cover story from Rolling Stone is astonishing —
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/make_believe_maverick_the_real_john_mccain
mark
The Hanoi Hilton guards “had” McCain in the Biblical Sense.
bobito
Ah, yes, the scion of the super-rich family is ALWAYS the underdog, didn’t you know that? The super-rich have to pay for everything, but just have a smidgen of middle-class lineage and you get everything handed to you on a silver platter. That’s the way it’s always been, and it will never change. The ultra-rich have it really bad in America. I just don’t know why they even bother to put up with the rest of us.
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