Three against ‘that one’

I said I’d occasionally update the progress of my recent interviewee Deborah Johns and her bid to keep Barack Obama out of the White House, and so I shall. They’ve gone through half their tour as of today and roughly half the country as they approach a large number of dates in Michigan, a state both John McCain and Barack Obama have abandoned, choosing to pull their resources elsewhere.

Their ad campaign today drew the attention of the National Journal website, which paints Michigan as safely in the Obama column, but the last poll done was back on October 14th before the last debate – that poll had Obama +11. It’ll be interesting to see what this drive does for polling there.

Deborah and fellow “Stop Obama Tour” speaker, singer-songwriter Lloyd Marcus, also made an appearance on “Fox and Friends” this morning from a stop in Wisconsin. It appears the video was shot of a TV set, but sometimes you have to take what you get:

The third person on the pro-McCain tour is internet radio talk show host Mark Williams, who has been blogging about the tour on his own website.

I’m sure a lot of people figure this to be somewhat of a lost cause, at least in Michigan. (Ohio, with five stops planned, and Pennsylvania, with three, may be a different story.) And others may denigrate the negativity of the campaign. But, damn it, talking about the record of someone who’s not fit for command isn’t negative campaigning, it’s bringing up the facts.

Obama’s weak on foreign policy, otherwise he wouldn’t have picked Joe Biden for his vice-presidential choice. (Joe’s weaknesses seem to be focused in counting letters and in overall common sense and powers of observation – “Stand up Chuck!”)

Obama’s voting record is farther left than anyone else in the United States Senate. I thought what America was crying out for was a “moderate”; certainly they have one in John McCain.

And if one is judged by the company he keeps (that seems to be all the rage locally), then you have to wonder about those folks Barack Obama hangs out with and hires as advisors.

The two (unprompted) words I heard most over last weekend at the Autumn Wine Festival when discussing the election were “scared” and “worried.” Maybe the Democrats down the way were hearing the same about what they think could be a third term of George W. Bush if John McCain’s elected, but those discussing politics at my table were astonished at the thought of having a President who combines the ineptitude of Jimmy Carter with the corruption of Bill Clinton, rolled up into a Huey Long-like figure who wants to “spread the wealth” his way, by taxing the producers and rewarding the less apt. Does the phrase “from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs” ring a bell?

So as the “Stop Obama Tour” continues, hopefully they’ll start seeing the results they’re looking for in both the polls and in actual votes. Our country truly does deserve better.

Author: Michael

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3 thoughts on “Three against ‘that one’”

  1. Lloyd Marcus is originally from Baltimore. I have heard him on WCBM radio about a week ago on the Sean and Frank show. I thinks it is great that he is doing his Stop Obama tour.

  2. One of the main reasons you folks are so “scared” of Obama is that McCain’s campaign is almost entirely built on fear. He rarely says what he stands for (other than a vague “country first,” and spends most of his time blasting Obama, scaring voters, and running negative ads! Now, I admit that Obama has some negative ads, too, but the ratio of positive to negative ads in teh Obama campaign trends much more positive, while the reverse is true for McCain. Shouldn’t you question a so-called “leader” who spends his time scaring his supporters rather than telling us what he will do in a positive way? Well, except he says he knows how to get bin Laden. I wonder why he hasn’t done so, then.

  3. McCain hasn’t captured Osama (even I made the Freudian slip of typing “Obama” first) because he’s not Commander-in-Chief yet.

    And “us folks” don’t like the thought of the United Socialist States of America – it’s bad enough that GWB has pushed us in that direction with the bailouts. But it sounds to me like McCain is for keeping taxes low, a strong national defense, and buying up $300 billion in underperforming mortgages. (Two out of three ain’t bad, or so the song goes anyway.)

    Oops, I also forgot a tax credit for picking up the tab on your own health insurance. But he’s not for “spreading the wealth”, more for keeping that which you earn.

    How’s that?

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