Palin Called “Fluffy Bunny” Her Comments, “Racially Tinged”

Today, Douglass K. Daniel of “The Associated Press” called Palin’s remarks about Barack Obama in her recent fiery stump speeches racially tinged.  He cites these quotes from the Alaska Governor:

“Our opponent … is someone who sees America, it seems, as being so imperfect, imperfect enough, that he’s palling around with terrorists who would target their own country … “This is not a man who sees America like you and I see America.  We see America as a force of good in this world.  We see an America of exceptionalism.”

Palin of course is questioning Obama’s association with William Ayers, a man who Obama had denounced long ago.

Here’s the article:  AP: Palin’s Ayers Attack “Racially Tinged”

I actually laughed when I read the part of the article where he writes,

“It’s a giant changing of the subject,” said Jenny Backus, a Democratic strategist. “The problem is the messenger. If you want to start throwing fire bombs, you don’t send out the fluffy bunny to do it. I think people don’t take Sarah Palin seriously.”

Oh really Ms. Backus?  I have video that suggests otherwise:

Nobody expects the Palin resurrection.  Perhaps if that strategy doesn’t work, they could use “The Holy Hand-grenade of Antioch.”  Hey, however way you want to throw those firebombs.

So McCain released the pitbull, fluffy-bunny or whatever she’s being called today to go after Obama.  I was expecting this in the final month and with almost impeccable timing, the attacks are unleashed.  Historically, it has always been in the final month of the election when the candidates go after each others character.  To be fair, Obama has been going after McCain for being “erratic” during the financial meltdown.  McCain is not at all taking this lying down, complaining that Obama is smearing him because of his age.  Obviously, McCain must not have seen what conservative columnist George Will and Sam Donaldson said of him the other week on “This Week with George Stephanopoulos” that almost mirrored Barack’s claim:

Get ready folks.  We’re in the final stretch and boy, is this going to get ugly.  As I live in a solid red state, I won’t have to endure nearly as many campaign commercials interrupting my viewing of “CSI.”  My thoughts go out to all of those in the swing-states who will have to endure the commercials and stump-speeches in their respective home states.

My thanks to the comedy troupe, “Monty Python” for allowing me to loosely use their footage, and sincere condolences to former Python, Michael Palin for the misfortune of Sarah having the same last name.  My heart goes out to you.

Beginning of the End for John McCain?

The Economy may not be the only thing having a meltdown.

John McCain may be having one of his own.

This past week and a half has had me asking, “What the hell is going on with John McCain?”  He first says that “The fundamentals of our economy are strong.”  The market crisis begins, so John McCain revises his statement three hours later by saying, “The fundamentals of our economy are at risk.”  He winds up backpedaling about his earlier statement telling the American people that what he meant to say was that the workers in America were strong.

Is he saying that we have good workers in America?  Yeah John.  We already knew that.  It goes without saying, so why even say it?

These workers of whom he speaks have a good idea that he wasn’t referring to them to begin with.  Most Americans know that it was a pathetic attempt by him to try to squeeze out of that earlier remark.

By this time, McCain is rattled enough to where he starts blurting out knee-jerk responses, throwing everything including the kitchen sink in there in hopes that something, anything will resonate.  He lashes at the Wall Street “Fatcats” for helping to create this crisis.  Nevermind that Merrill Lynch and Lehman Bros. were significant contributers to the McCain campaign.  He calls for the firing of SEC Chairman Chris Cox in this pseudo-populist approach that had many scratching their heads.  George Will, conservative columnist and panel member of “This Week With George Stephanopoulos” made some scathing remarks with regard to his credibility during a crisis including the remark, “John McCain showed his personality this week, and it made some of us fearful.”

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McCain’s campaign seems to be locked in “Chinese finger-cuffs.”  The more he struggles to break free, the worse he makes it.  Two days ago, McCain’s runningmate Sarah Palin went to the UN in NY to meet with world leaders and dignitaries including President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.  The media pool was allowed in for a whopping 29 seconds, and the media were not allowed to ask any questions to Palin.  This sparked an outrage of all of the journalists – even those at FoxNews who called the move, “unprecedented.”  McCain was again the subject of scorn, and Campbell Brown of CNN led the rallying cry to “free Sarah Palin.”

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That same day in Strongsville, Ohio, McCain ignored questions from his own media pool.  One of the frustrated reporters shouted, “Has your bus become the No Talk Express?”

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It gets even worse.  Yesterday, McCain announced that he is suspending his campaign so that he may fly to Washington and fix the economic problem with the President and other lawmakers.  Is it a coincidence that he made this decision two days before the first Presidential debate and hours before appearing on “The Late Show with David Letterman?”  Letterman was not at all pleased, and made it quite apparent on his show last night.

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The one main snag with McCain’s decision to suspend his campaign to work out a deal in Washington is that the deal has been worked out.  Congress rejected Bush’s proposal of handing over $750 billion to Treasury Secretary Paulson without any oversight, caps on executive salary, or help to ordinary Americans who are truly strapped in this economy.  The most troubling of Bush’s proposed bill were these words which the administration tried to sneak in:

“Decisions by the Secretary pursuant to the authority of this Act are non-reviewable and committed to agency discretion, and may not be reviewed by any court of law or any administrative agency.”

Congress got their way because the Bush Administration overspent their political capital just as they had overspent on everything else.

With a consensus reached between the White House and Congress, will someone please remind me why John McCain still needs to suspend his campaign in order to  concentrate his efforts on Capitol Hill?

All that McCain will have to do now in Washington DC is posture politically; something in which until now, he hasn’t been doing very well.

Update: As of Thursday night, efforts to put together a $700 billion rescue plan for the national economy appear to be stalling, hours after key lawmakers had declared they had reached a deal.  Okay Maverick, get in there and show us what you can do.  But please, don’t “win one for the Gipper.”