dyn.politico.com - 10/11/2008
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Fearing the raw and at times angry emotions of his supporters may damage his campaign, John McCain on Friday urged them to tone down their increasingly personal denunciations of Barack Obama, including one woman who said she had heard that the Democrat was "an Arab." Each time he tried to cool ...
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More Mixed Messages from McCain?
Political Punch —
... or Jonathan Martin from Politico has a good account HERE . This morning in Philly, Obama thanked McCain."I want to acknowledge that Senator McCain tried to tone down the rhetoric yesterday at his town hall yesterday," Obama said, "and I appreciate his reminder that we can disagree while still being respectful of each other. I’ve said it before, and I'll say it again – Senator McCain has served this country with honor, he deserves our thanks for that." This was followed by an odd response from the McCain campaign, as if the GOP senator had not last night admirably tried to ...
McCain Campaign Continues Attacks After Obama Thanked McCain
Hoffmania! —
... fraud than he was before yesterday. These people are scumbags. Jake Tapper, ABC News: Last night, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., tried to correct some of his
more, er, angry and scared supporters, ones who seem to buy into the
ludicrous myth that Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., is some sort of Muslim
Manchurian candidate.
You can read more about McCain's response HERE or Jonathan Martin from Politico has a good account HERE.
This morning in Philly, Obama thanked McCain.
"I want to ...
Krauthammer Tours The Border Of Gaffneyland
Wonk Room —
This much is clear: President Obama’s speech last week in Cairo has Charles Krauthammer really, really steamed. In addition to last Friday’s extraordinarily dishonest (even for Krauthammer, whose respect for fact has always been negotiable) review, and various television appearances in which he recited a version of Middle East history that seemed derived mainly from watching Exodus a bunch of times, this morning he uses his valuable journalistic real estate to raise questions about the President of the United States’ true feelings toward the country that he leads.
Deploying once again the tired ...
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McCain To Supporter: No Ma'am, Obama Is Not An Arab
tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com 10/10/2008 — As noted below, today's McCain event was awfully surreal, and here's some video of the best moment -- McCain grabbing the mic away from a woman who says she's scared of Obama because he's an "Arab"...
One thing that's intriguing: How quickly the crowd goes from booing McCain's demand ...
Crowd Boos McCain After He Says Obama Isn’t A Muslim?
sayanythingblog.com 10/11/2008 — That’s what this Politico story suggests , but the video tells a different story (ignore the ignorant MSNBC reporter who suggests that McCain’s tying Obama to Ayers - a white male - is what prompted this woman to suggest that Obama is an ...
"Arab" Not "Arab Terrorist" —
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
A correction to the quote I posted from Ana Marie Cox last night. One of McCain's supporters called Obama an "Arab", not a "terrorist." The quote was reported by Halperin as well. McCain did not actually correct the woman on the matter at hand more than saying ...
McCain and the "Arab" —
The Reality-Based Community
The woman quoted by Mark Halperin telling John McCain that Barack Obama is an "Arab terrorist" — at which he corrected her — actually said merely "Arab." It's appropriate to give Halperin a hard time for misquoting, especially when apparently he had the right version ...
Arab-phobic McCain Volunteer Isn't Convinced —
Hoffmania!
The Uptake got video of Gayle Quinnel , the woman who called Obama an Arab at a McCain rally. She doesn't believe McCain's rebuke. Totally drank the Kool-Aid which landed in her inbox.
Adam Aigner, NBC News: So even though Senator McCain told you that he didn’t feel that was true and ...