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Obama angry at FOX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Obama angry at FOX for tarnishing halo effect
Chad Groening - OneNewsNow - 10/20/2008 8:55:00 AM
A conservative media watchdog says it's outrageous that Barack Obama is blaming a major cable news service for costing him two to three points in the polls.
In a recently published interview for the New York Times Magazine, the Democratic presidential candidate said: "I'm convinced that if there were no FOX News, I might be two or three points higher in the polls. If I were watching FOX News, I wouldn't vote for me, right? Because the way I'm portrayed 24/7 is as a freak!"
The Illinois senator continued, explaining that he is being typecast as "the latte-sipping, New York Times-reading, Volvo-driving, no-gun-owning, effete, politically correct, arrogant liberal. Who wants somebody like that?"
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Do voters watch FOX News because they don't support Barack Obama?
Or do voters oppose Barack Obama because they watch FOX News?
Seton Motley, director of communications at the Media Research Center (MRC), says Obama's lashing out is evidence he cannot stand the idea that FOX News does not worship him like the majority of the mainstream media do.
"He's gotten unabashed, loving coverage from all three broadcast networks, the vast majority of the cable news networks, and every print publication you can imagine," says Motley. "It has been wall-to-wall glowing coverage."
FOX News, says Motley, has the "audacity to report on [Obama] as he is and quote him verbatim" -- and somehow, adds the MRC spokesman, the presidential hopeful credits that for a downtick of two or three percent in his polling. "[For him to single-out FOX News is] just a staggeringly myopic view of the media and how he's been treated during his presidential run," he says.
In contrast, Motley suggests that if not for the pro-Obama bias of The New York Times and the rest of the mainstream media, John McCain would be up 20 percent.
Florida Republican Women Denounce Speaker Pelosi's Leadership
(Tallahassee, FL) The Florida Federation of Republican Women today condemned the leadership of Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House and appealed to members of the Democratic Party to replace her in order to save the American taxpayers from further economic disaster.
"Throughout this crisis and especially during her media performances from Sunday afternoon through Monday, Ms. Pelosi has proven that she is not capable of leading Congress to a bi-partisan resolution in the Wall Street crisis. We are shocked that a woman in her position could allow herself to behave in such a shrew-like manner. She has ignored the civilized rules of public debate and demonstrated a political recklessness we have never seen in Congress, thus creating an even larger and more costly international debacle," said Linda Ivell, president of the FFRW.
Ivell pointed to the disastrous vote on the $700 billion bailout in which 96 Democrats voted against the proposal culminating in the estimated $1.1 trillion lost by Americans yesterday in the stock market. "Amazingly throughout her tenure as Speaker she has been given a pass because she is a Democratic woman, yet she clearly lacks the judgment necessary to lead even her own majority," said Ivell.
"Our members feel that Nancy Pelosi's vitriolic abuses in assigning partisan blame have been so disgraceful and misleading that they rise to the level of negligence. It is painful to watch a woman self destruct in this manner and take the country's economic stability with her. She should go back to her regular seat and turn the podium over to statesperson who is both worthy and capable," concluded Ms. Ivell.
* For groups and media requiring a Spanish language spokesperson, FFRW Secretary Ana Gomez-Mallada is available for bilingual comment.
Debate Fact Check: Barack Obama Repeatedly Stretches The Truth
On Iran:
Obama said that "I was called naive when i suggested that we need to look at exploring contacts with Iran, and, you know what? Preside nt Bush recently sent a senior ambassador, Bill Burns, to participate in talks with the Europeans around the issue of nuclear weapons." This comment both overstates the case and does not accurately reflect Obama's position. Obama has said he would begin direct talks with Iran on its nuclear program without preconditions, a stance that has worried key European allies.
-- The Washington Post
On Taxes:
During Friday's presidential debate, Sen. Barack Obama provided a loose interpretation of his tax plan, saying that those making less than $250,000 a year "will not see one dime's worth of tax increase." It's not entirely true. Obama has called for higher taxes on income, capital gains and dividends for individuals making $200,000 per year; his tax plan imposes higher taxes on couples starting at $250,000 a year.
-- ABC News
On Energy:
In addressing the issue of energy independence, Senato r Barack Obama claimed during the debate that he was generally supportive of nuclear power, clean coal, and offshore drilling. However, statements made by himself and his running mate just in the past three months indicate otherwise.
In June, Barack Obama harshly criticized John McCain's plan to drill offshore. Here is what he told a Las Vegas audience about offshore drilling, "It doesn't make sense for America," Obama said. "In fact, it makes about as much sense as McCain's proposal to build 45 new nuclear reactors without a plan to store the waste some place other than right here at Yucca Mountain," the Illinois senator said.
And just last week, Senator Joe Biden was caught telling a young woman that the United States should not build any new coal plants and that investing in clean coal technology was a bad idea.
Barack Obama Agrees With John McCain Again and Again and Again
John McCain and Senator Barack Obama particapated in the first presidential debate at the University of Mississippi on Friday evening. Once again, John McCain showed without a doubt that he is ready to be Commander in Chief from day one. Senator McCain's answers were clear, direct, and heartfelt. Barack Obama, by contrast, repeatedly evaded questions and directly contradicted previous statements that he has made.
One of the most telling aspects of the debate was how often Senator Obama agreed with John McCain. On major point after major point, Barack Obama said that he agreed with John McCain. Senator Obama even agreed with John McCain's call for reforming and eliminating earmarks, despite the fact that Obama has requested $ 932 million in earmarks during the past three years.
McCain's Performance at First Debate Earns Rave Reviews
David Yepsen, Des Moines Register:
It was one of the most substantive debates in recent presidential campaign history and John McCain won it. The Arizona senator was cool, informed and forceful in Friday's first presidential debate of the general election campaign. He repeatedly put Barack Obama on the defensive throughout the 90 minutes session. Obama did little to ease voter concerns that he's experienced enough to handle foreign and defense policy. That was his number one task Friday night and he failed.
By Bill Cotterell · news-press.com capital bureau · September 21, 2008
THE VILLAGES -- Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin told wildly cheering, flag-waving, chanting supporters that John McCain is "the only great man in this race" and promised Sunday he will fix the nation's economy if voters give the GOP four more years in the White House.
"He won't say this, so I'll say it for him," the Alaska governor said in an almost confidential tone at the close of her first Florida stump speech. "There is only one man in this election who has ever really fought for you. John McCain wore the uniform of his country for 22 years -- talk about tough."
The Villages, a vast, upscale planned community north of Orlando, has about 70,000 mostly adult residents -- many of them military retirees -- who vote reliably Republican in statewide races. Tens of thousands inched along roads into the picturesque town square of the complex, where they stood in sweltering heat for about four hours as local GOP officials and a country band revved up the crowd.
"Sa-Rah! Sa-Rah!" they chanted at every mention of her name, applauding loudly and waiving tiny American flags that were distributed -- along with free water bottles -- by local volunteers. The fire chief estimated the crowd at 60,000.
Admiring throngs mobbed the Palin family's arrival and departure, snapping souvenir pictures. Autograph seekers thrust campaign signs, caps with the McCain-Palin logo and copies of magazines with her face on their covers, and the Palins responded warmly.
Palin, her husband and three of their children arrived in Orlando but spent a family day at Disney World, she said as she introduced her entourage to the enthusiastic crowd. She joked about similarities and differences of the two states at opposite corners of America, but was all business when she focused on the need for a large voter turnout in a hotly contested state with 27 electoral votes.
Recent polls have given the McCain-Palin ticket a single-digit edge but Florida is clearly up for grabs. Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., campaigned from Jacksonville to Miami late last week and the Democrats have mobilized a massive volunteer effort statewide. McCain, who led the Jan. 29 state primary with a big boost from popular Gov. Charlie Crist, has strong support in the vital I-4 corridor and across North Florida, where conservative southerners tend to register as Democrats but vote Republican in statewide races.
In a theme Palin would pound home, GOP Chairman Jim Greer Greer said Obama and his running mate, Delaware Sen. Joe Biden, have records of voting for higher taxes and have said on the campaign trail that they would increase regulation of financial markets.
"John MCain and I are going to take our case for reform to every voter in every background and every party, or no party at all," said Palin. "We're going to Washington to shake things up."
She said "John McCain warned Congress that we needed to do something before these problems became a crisis," but that Washington -- including Obama and Biden -- did not act for months as financial giants teetered and toppled.
"Americans are caught in kind of a perfect storm between high taxes, high gas prices, greed on Wall Street and a shortage of courage in Washington," she said. "But we need new leadership in Washington -- we need serious reform on Wall Street."
Palin, whose son shipped out for Iraq this month, made a point of asking veterans and military members in the crowd to raise their hands for a round of applause. Then she recalled that McCain took an early, unpopular stance in support of the Iraq troop surge, a policy shift now widely credited with stabilizing Iraq. "That's the kind of man I want as commander in chief," she shouted, as applause and whoops rose in the town square. "John McCain is the only great man in this race."
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The Truth About John McCain's Economic Recovery Plan
John McCain has responded very strongly with his message on Economic Reform, but unfortunately the media and Obama, by using sound bites that have been taken out of context, would have you believe Senator McCain is out of touch with America's economic needs.
We know this is not the case, and with "The Truth About John McCain's Economic Recovery Plan" we are asking you to make these facts a part of your daily conversations with your friends and neighbors to get the truth out.
Join us in becoming part of the Florida Women for McCain Truth Squad!
The Truth About John McCain's Economic Recovery Plan
On The Economic Crisis:
· John McCain is committed to fixing the Wall Street mess, reforming Washington, and most importantly, enacting a pro-growth agenda to create jobs for Americans and to get this country back on track.
· Unlike Barack Obama, John McCain has laid out his plan for reforming our financial markets. Barack Obama has put forth no plan for reforming our financial markets.Barack Obama will not even state a position on the biggest bailout so far - AIG.
· Barack Obama is content to merely vote "present" on this current economic crisis - and that's not presidential leadership.
· John McCain supports smart regulation. Our regulatory structures need to be updated to reflect the modern financial system.
· Two years ago, John McCain warned that the taxpayers would bear the cost of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac unless reforms were adopted. At the same time, Barack Obama was silent as he took campaign contributions from Fannie and Freddie and took advice from their former CEOs.
· Barack Obama's attack on interstate banking laws that have little to do with our current crisis demonstrates a lack of understanding of the nature of the challenges we face.
The Economic Plan Under Negotiation:
· What we need in a plan for reform is accountability for Wall Street, accountability for government, and a commitment to protecting peoples' homes and life savings and restoring our financial markets.
· It is clear that Congress must act and must act quickly. John McCain laid out his plan and priorities last Friday. He spoke to Secretary Paulson over the weekend, and is looking at the plan the administration has put forth.
· With great respect for Sec. Paulson, John McCain is greatly concerned that the plan gives a single individual the unprecedented power to spend $1 trillion. We will not solve a problem caused by poor oversight with a plan that has no oversight.
· John McCain believes we need a high level oversight board to impose real criteria for who gets help and who does not; and to ensure that we have a careful steward of the taxpayer's dollars. It should be bipartisan and have qualified citizens who have no agenda but the protection of taxpayers and the financial markets.
· John McCain believes we need to reform a Wall Street in need of accountability. We cannot have taxpayers footing the bill for bloated golden parachutes like we have seen in the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy, where the top executives are looking at $2.5 billion in bonuses after they ran the company into the ground.
· We can't have taxpayers paying bonuses to executives at failed institutions and they should make no more than the highest paid government official.
Pushback On Deregulation Attacks: · On the campaign trail, Barack Obama decries the very same 1999 deregulation bill that his running-mate voted for, his economic teampushed for, his major Republican support co-authored and President Clinton signed into law.
· According to the full quote that Barack Obama is citing, John McCain says he supports common-sense regulation and oversight of our financial markets. Economic Topline Message:
· John McCain has outlined an economic recovery plan to get our economy back on track. His economic recovery plan will create millions of jobs and create opportunity in America.
· John McCain's tax policy will create family prosperity and allow Americans to save for the future. Under his plan, a married couple with two children will get over $6,000 in tax relief - more than under Barack Obama's plan.
· John McCain's economic recovery plan will create jobs here in America. Through lower business taxes, incentives for business investment, incentives for research and development and by opening markets, John McCain's plan will create millions of jobs in America instead of driving them overseas.
· John McCain will adopt an "all of the above" energy policy to become energy independent. We will embark on a national mission to build an alternative energy base and create millions of new jobs.
· Barack Obama's tax increases are exactly the wrong answer. His tax increases are the surest way to turn a recession into a depression and would only hurt those already hurting today.
· Barack Obama says he won't raise taxes but voted 94 times in the Senate for tax increases and against tax cuts.
· Barack Obama says he will only tax the rich, but he voted to raise taxes on those making just $42,000.
"Truth in Media" Cindy Graves 1VP Florida Federation of Republican Women interviewed on WOR Radio New York
Florida Republican Women Officially Boycott Oprah
Florida Federation of Republican Women MEDIA ALERT
For Immediate Release Contact: Cindy Graves
September 6, 2008 904/448-0801 cindyfgraves@aol.com
Florida Republican Women Officially Boycott Oprah
(Tallahassee, FL) The Florida Federation of Republican Women today called for a boycott of the Oprah Winfrey Show based upon Ms. Winfrey’s refusal to have Governor Sarah Palin as a guest on Oprah until after the election, according to Linda Ivell, President of the FFRW.
Ms. Ivell said her 58 year old group, the largest political organization in Florida, is also encouraging women to join the grassroots national movement to cancel their subscriptions to O Magazine.
“Women in Florida helped build Oprah into the icon she is today. With our Republican sisters across the nation, we have collectively enjoyed her entertaining, informative and female-driven programming as we raised our families and became more empowered as women. We are deeply disappointed in Ms. Winfrey’s decision to sit out the greatest political moment in the history of Republican women since suffrage,” said Ms. Ivell.
Ivell went on to say, “We find it to be an abuse of her power –gained on the backs of our patronage of her advertising empire - to use her program to so blatantly support Obama in the face of this historic moment. So, we are tuning out and cancelling our subscriptions to O Magazine and encourage other women to do the same. Maybe not forever, but at least until ‘after the election’,” said Ms. Ivell in a direct reference to Oprah’s refusal not to host Governor Palin until ‘after the election’.
Ms. Ivell stated that her members respect Ms. Winfrey’s personal endorsement of the Democratic ticket as every American is entitled to their personal opinion and vote. The boycott is a part of the FFRW’s new truth in the media and fair reporting watch dog committee organized in direct response to what Ivell termed as ”the unfair and misleading reporting regarding the selection of Sarah Palin as running mate on the Republican ticket.”
“The women of my organization stand united in our stance for fair and balanced reporting. We were sickened by the liberal media assault on Governor Palin’s family and her underage children. We are simply taking our spending dollars elsewhere and will publish a watch dog report on unfair media practices weekly on our web site: www.ffrw.net,” said Ms. Ivell.
Carville: 'Too Much Reassurance, Not Enough Passion'
Carville: Obama Should Be ‘More Aggressive’
Thursday, September 11, 2008 2:02 PM
By: Rick Pedraza
Democratic strategist James Carville tells Newsmax that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama hasn’t been aggressive enough in his campaign against Republican rival John McCain.
“His message has gotten a little more focused,” Carville says about Obama during the past month, “but what’s happened in this campaign – and the Republicans have gotten very good at this – is every morning they get up and say, ‘What is that we can do to make people forget what’s happened to their lives?’
“I think the Obama people need to realize that every day they get up they have this mundane, but very important, task of reminding people what has happened in their lives and who to blame for it.”
The strategy the Democratic Party is using, Carville says, reflects too much reassurance, and not enough passion.
Recent polls have shown a 20-point shift of white women support from Obama to McCain, but Carville is not alarmed.
“In politics, everybody gets alarmed at everything,” he says. “These convention bounces don’t happen all the time. We have to wait until Governor [Sarah] Palin is weaned from the teleprompter. Right now we only know her from what we see on the teleprompter. So, we’ll wait and see.”
Carville turns out to be a good prognosticator. Last time Newsmax interviewed him, Carville said Obama would pick Joe Biden as his vice presidential running mate, and that McCain’s choice would be a surprise. Turns out he was right on both counts.
“It was a shocker,” he says. “I thought that since Obama would reassure us, McCain would surprise us. That did happen, and now we’re in the next phase of the campaign.”
Did Obama make a big, and potentially fatal, mistake by not putting Hillary on the ticket with him?
“There are a lot of people that argue that if [Obama] had picked Hillary, he would have forced McCain to react in a different way,” Carville explains. “It certainly would have had a positive impact on his fundraising. But by the same token, he’s the nominee and he’s entitled to pick who he wants.”
Does Hillary want Obama to lose so she can run against McCain in four years?
“She’s campaigned more for Obama than any runner up for the nomination has campaigned for anybody,” Carville says.
“I don’t have any reason to think her support is not sincere. There’s no evidence that it’s not.”
Carville: 'Too Much Reassurance, Not Enough Passion'
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