Comments on: Highlights From McCain Blogger Call

By: Kitchen; heat; leave «

Kitchen; heat; leave « — Fri, 09 May 2008 20:36:45 +0000

[…] what McCain said in response to this was, “All I can tell you, Jennifer [Rubin, at Contentions], is that I think it’s very clear who Hamas wants to be the next President of the United […]

By: shingles

shingles — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 06:01:03 +0000

Does anybody know if anyone OTHER than Aaron Klein has authenticated whether or not the Ahmed Yousef in the taped interview is actually Ahmed Yousef? There are questions being raised about the authenticity of the interview - that the voice on the tape does not match known and verified recordings of him. In other words, people are questioning whether Aaron Klein, who always magically manages to get these amazing terrorist endorsement scoops right around election time, is a fabricator.

By: GayPatriot » McCain’s feistiness in ‘08 like Truman’s in ‘48

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 23:36:28 +0000

[…] this week’s blogger conference call, for example, he didn’t mince words when he said, “I will be Hamas’ worst nightmare.” A statement like one Truman might make, simple, direct and to the […]

By: Redstate.com - absentee

Redstate.com - absentee — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 02:35:15 +0000

McCain Blogger Conference Call…

The ad is about judgement, lack of which on the D side is best exemplified by Obama’s twenty year endorsement of Wright. Senator McCain, however, is entitled to his objection, and should be able to characterize the style of his campaign ……

By: Straight Talk Watch « Eagles and Owls

Straight Talk Watch « Eagles and Owls — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 04:59:15 +0000

[…] Senator Obama. � You can listen to the radio interview here. � On a conference call with leading conservative bloggers, Senator McCain brought this up, asserting that “it’s very clear who Hamas […]

By: John McCain Blogger Call | MY Vast Right Wing Conspiracy

John McCain Blogger Call | MY Vast Right Wing Conspiracy — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 21:06:44 +0000

[…] particularly like that he said, “It’s clear who Hamas wants to be the next President of the United States.” Yes, […]

By: J. Lichty

J. Lichty — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:27:18 +0000

Ayers was acquitted. Coburn wants the death penalty for abortion. Both sound pretty extreme

Ayer’s acquittal on a technicality (he does not deny the underlying acts and wishes he would have done more) is a slim reed to compare him to Coburn’s belief that abortion deserves the death penalty. Is Coburn setting off bombs at abortion clinics or is he trying to use the democratic process to change the law? Call me when he starts a bombing campaign and then we can compare.

By: Colin

Colin — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:23:53 +0000

So, McCain thinks Hamas supports John Kennedy, too?

By: bob

bob — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 17:51:16 +0000

Who cares who Hamas prefers? They don’t get to vote. And they didn’t “endorse” Obama either. You should be more precise about what they said.

I think Osama bin Laden wants McCain to win, so that the U.S. will stay in Iraq and Afghanistan forever. Same reason he released a tape in 2004, just before the Bush-Kerry election.

Ayers was acquitted. Coburn wants the death penalty for abortion. Both sound pretty extreme.

By: Gord

Gord — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 17:02:29 +0000

Sure, lay off the Wright thing. That should get McCain another .02% of the black vote. but it might come at the expense of conservatives who get sick of McCain giving us the back of his hand. The self-righteous way in which McCain dismisses conservatives who want to remind Americans of Obamessiah’s association with the hatemonger reminds me why I can’t stand McCain, even as I realize I need to vote for the jerk.

By: Banjo

Banjo — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:41:57 +0000

Comparing Hogee to Wright is like Obama comparing Coburn to the murderous bomb-throwers he used to hang with. But moral equivilance is one of the arrows in the MSM quiver.

By: Jeeves

Jeeves — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:26:37 +0000

Seth:
Does this mean, to paraphrase the Reverend, that the pigeons are coming home to roost?

Maverick’s refusal to discuss Wright is no doubt on account of his own toxic preacherman, Hagee. Although yesterday on the bus the following exchange took place:

Q: You and your Democratic opponents spend a certain amount of time commenting on surrogates and endorsers, on what they said. Do you think that is in any way interfering with how you’re trying to conduct your campaign?

A: …I didn’t attend Pastor Hagee’s church for 20 years. There’s a great deal of difference in my view between someone who endorses you and other circumstances.

By: Grumpy Old Man

Grumpy Old Man — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:22:19 +0000

He’s clever to lay off the Wright thng. It’s Obama’s church, always a sensitive subject. The punditocracy will hammer on it regardless, and McCain can rise above the fray.

Criticizing riendship with a bomber, outside the philoboshevik world of academia, on the other hand, is unlikely to ruffle any feathers.

By: Jon S.

Jon S. — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:18:30 +0000

McCain is playing the Wright fiasco smartly; he doesn’t need to bring it up when everyone else is. There will be more than enough 527s jinning up ads on this after Labor Day. Ayers is a different matter, at least in McCain’s mind: a real terrorist, not a loudmouth phony wannabe like Wright.

Don’t get me wrong: I think Obama has plenty to answer for re Wright, and I see no harm in McCain making some basic points that everyone — even plenty on the left — have already made. But Maverick’s not bringing Wright up, or even responding to it in any serious way, may not be such a bad thing. Let Mav focus on Ayers, an association potentially even more deadly than that with his dumb anti-American preacher.

By: Seth Halpern

Seth Halpern — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:04:21 +0000

He who would be Marble Man must deal with pigeons.