The Amboy Times

McCain Blasts Obama

About six months too late, but he's putting up a good fight now.

Sen. John McCain took his most direct shot at President Barack Obama since the presidential campaign on Friday morning, using a Senate floor speech to criticize the president for mocking the Republican concerns over the massive economic stimulus package.

In a fiery speech Thursday night before House Democrats, Obama rejected the GOP’s characterization that the stimulus package was merely another spending bill.

“What do you think a stimulus is? That’s the whole point. No, seriously, that’s the point,” Obama said at the retreat in Williamsburg, Va.

Stimulus means, Spending got us in this mess, more spending will get us out.

On Friday morning, McCain fought back.

“The whole point, Mr. President, is to enact tax cuts and spending measures that truly stimulate the economy,” McCain said. “There are billions and tens of billions of dollars in this bill which will have no effect within three, four, five or more years, or ever. Or ever.”

Here's the video.

Here's another video featuring Tom Coburn (R-OK), Joe Leiberman and John McCain making their points on the Senate floor.

Sen James Inhofe (R-OK) issued this statement.

"While I appreciate the efforts of my colleagues to bring down the price tag of this bill, the fact is we still face a trillion dollar spending bill. Making it worse, the bill is 93% spending and only 7% stimulation. Over the past few days I have fought to include more in the way of real stimulus through higher percentage of infrastructure and defense spending, while working to cut much of the typical government waste often found in a bill of this size. Yet Democrats have blocked these efforts.

"The good news tonight is that the American people are catching on to the fact that this is the largest spending bill in history and are becoming more and more vocal in their opposition. My offices in Oklahoma and Washington DC have been flooded with emails, phone calls and faxes overwhelmingly opposed to this trillion dollar legislation. They can rest assured that my vote remains an unwavering ‘no.'"

Let's see, 93% of 780B? That's a 725.4 billion pork barrel.

Original Mavericks

McCain picks Palin for Veep

I like this move. McCain shows his political savvy.

John McCain picked Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, a maverick conservative with less than two years in office, as his vice presidential running mate Friday in a startling choice announced on the eve of the Republican National Convention.

McCain has positioned himself to take Hillary voters.

"But it turns out the women of America aren't finished yet and we can shatter that glass ceiling once and for all," Palin says.

Brooke from PaleoCon Command Center opines,

Isn't it ironic that the DNC had homages and stories about women being passed over for jobs simply because of their gender, and they passed right over Hillary for a freshman senator and an arrogant white guy that's been in the Senate since the days of Nixon?

The Obama camp is targeting Palin's inexperience.

"Today, John McCain put the former mayor of a town of 9,000 with zero foreign policy experience a heartbeat away from the presidency," Adrianne Marsh, a spokeswoman for Obama, said in a written statement.

On the other hand , the Dems are running an inexperienced President with an experienced Veep. Even Biden himself has criticized Obama on the experience issue.

Hot Air Talks about CHANGE.

McCain can remind voters who has the real record of reform.  Obama talks a lot about it but has no actual record of reform, and for a running mate, he chose a 35-year Washington insider with all sorts of connections to lobbyists and pork.  McCain has fought pork, taken real political risks to fight undue influence of lobbyists, and he picked an outsider who took on her own party — and won.

This is change you can believe in, and not change that amounts to all talk.  McCain changed the trajectory of the race today by stealing Obama’s strength and turning it against him.  Obama provided that opening by picking Biden as his running mate, and McCain was smart enough to take advantage of the opening.

Michelle Malkin is Impressed.

Check out STACLU for a great round up.
Fred on Sarah Palin.

Torture Comedy from Rolling Stone

What could be funnier that an American soldier getting tortured? Not much to the far left who can't bear to see a terrorist cry.

NB- You might think that a tidal wave of denunciation would ensue if a cartoon depicting John McCain being tortured in a bamboo cage by Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and another person (who might be George W. Bush) were to appear in a supposedly respectable or trendy publication.

You might further think that giving McCain's three torturers stereotypically exaggerated Asian features would only further fuel the outrage.

Sorry to disappoint you, but the cartoon involved appeared last month in Rolling Stone. As far as I can tell, what you are about to see has produced not a single ripple of protest

McCain ad: Obama changes his mind

McCain on SNL

Hot Air brings Sunday morning mirth.

"I will not make age an issue in this campaign. I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent's youth and inexperience"

Ronald Reagan to Walter Mondale 1984.

Republicans Against McCain

Trouble in amnesty paradise?

It had to hurt.

John McCain, who appears to be the GOP's presumptive presidential nominee, was resoundingly booed before and after addressing the Conservative Political Action Convention this afternoon, despite his plea to the Republican right that they have more in common than not.

McCain was introduced first, though erroneously, by former VA guv George Allen. Allen, who endorsed McCain today after having supported Fred Thompson's bid, was supposed to introduce Sen. Tom Colburn who had the official honor of presenting McCain. So, with the double introduction, McCain was booed not once, but twice.

McCain made a humble plea for the support of the far right contingent of his party, saying that though they have disagreed at turns and though he has made "mistakes" (more booing), "you will still allow that in many ways important to all of us (I have) maintained the record of a conservative."

That explains why you're so popular with Democrats and the MSN, but not with conservatives, eh John?

(...)"I have made mistakes, you can attest to that," he joked, before promising to "secure our borders first."

Sure you will. I believe you.

Here's what McCain said just nine months ago about those who dared to disagree with him on  illegal immigration.

"[Expletive] you! I know more about this than anyone else in the room," shouted McCain at Cornyn. McCain helped craft a bill in 2006 that passed the Senate but couldn't be compromised with a House bill that was much tougher on illegal immigrants.

McCain's temper is legendary and never seems to be directed at Democrats.

"No, I'm calling you a f*cking jerk." -to fellow GOP Senator Chuck Grassley, when Grassley asked "Are you calling me stupid?" 2/21/00

"By the way, I think the fence is least effective. But I’ll build the goddamned fence if they want it." -2/07

"Only an a**hole would put together a budget like this... I wouldn't call you an a**hole unless you really were an a**hole." -to Budget Committee Chairman and fellow GOP Senator Pete Domenici in a Senate budget hearing

McCain was also asked if as president he would be comfortable with Tancredo heading the immigration service. McCain smiled and said, "In a word, no." Source.

Cornyn, Grassley, Tancredo, and Domenici are all Republicans.

Here's what McCain says to Democrats.

"I am sure that Senator Clinton would make a good President. I have no doubt that Senator Clinton would make a good President." -2/20/05

"John Kerry is a very close friend of mine. We've been friends for years. Obviously, I would entertain it." -When asked if he would entertain being Kerry's VP if asked, 3/10/04

"The first thing that I would do is call in John Kerry, Bob Kerrey, Joe Biden, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Henry Kissinger, Dick Lugar, Chuck Hagel, and several others and say, ‘We’ve got to get foreign policy, national security issues back on track.'" -When asked the first thing he would do if elected President, 3/00

So if you think McCain is going to undergo some kind of conservative transformation once he gets your vote, remember his past.

Mc Cain Loses Two Top Aides

After losing a press secretary over the Amensty Bill, Mc Cain's two top aides must have figured out that Mc Cain is a RINO with no sheep's clothing. This is another sign that Republicans are in no mood for another left-leaning, open border President. That's what Democrats are for. Mc Cain's poll rating has dropped from 26.4% in February to 16.3% most recently.  The Amnesty Bill was a disaster for him and front-runners Giuilliani and Romney should take heed.

John McCain jettisoned two top aides Tuesday, the one-time Republican front-runner struggling to right a presidential bid in deep financial and political trouble.

Campaign manager Terry Nelson and chief strategist John Weaver offered McCain their resignations, which the Arizona senator accepted with "regret and deep gratitude for their dedication, hard work and friendship."

Other senior aides followed the two out the door, and the campaign announced that Rick Davis, who managed McCain's 2000 bid and the current campaign's chief executive officer, will take over.

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Mc Cain Loses a Press Sec over Amnesty Bill

The Senate Amnesty Bill lacks votes, and so does Mc Cain. He is trailing badly behind Giuliani,  and I predict he will lose more ground when the votes start rolling in. The RINO from Arizona has sunk from 26.4 to 16.3 percent of the GOP field poll since February. Once Romney and Thompson gather momentum, he's finished. Mc Cain trails Clinton, Obama, and even Edwards in head to head polls. Here's one reason why;

Despite his best case for the immigration compromise -- and he made a good one at the debate the other night -- the unalterable fact is that the issue is right now a major problem for the McCain campaign.

To wit, one of the first tangible signs of the damage it's doing, as supplied by Romney's camp:

Subject: RE: TIME TO CALL RADIO

Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 22:15:22 -0400

From: David Nix

To: 'Adam Temple' 

CC: Mike Gibbons  

Adam,

Please consider this my resignation as Aiken County chair for McCain. I am too far from him on the Amnesty Bill. I was hopeful that he could keep his nose clean this time around, but he can’t read the pulse of the American citizens.

...Can't read the pulse of the citizens. With all the talk about Reagan in the First debate, you'd think the GOP would realize that a populist candidate wins for us every time...

Please pass my regrets on to Henry McMaster.

David Nix
Aiken County

Adam Temple is McCain's South Carolina press secretary.  The e-mail was in response to a plea for McCain county chairs to call into talk radio stations and make the pitch for their candidate.  Nix, evidently, is very unhappy about the "Amnesty Bill" because the guy he cc'd, Mike Gibbons, happens to be a reporter for the Aiken paper.  Henry McMaster, btw, is the state AG and a big McCain supporter.

Yes, call in the talk radio stations and explain why an open border is so crucial to Homeland Security, and when they disagree with you, just swear at them.