Replies to post #69533 on Tornado Alley (PROG)

[F6]

McCain Robocalls: Obama Is a Baby-Killing, America-ignoring, Hollywood-loving, Terrorist-Loving ...

Jake Tapper
October 16, 2008 6:29 PM

The liberal muckraking site Talking Points Memo [ http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/10/latest_mccain_robocall_alleges.php ] has collected some of the slough of anti-Obama robocalls being made by the McCain/Palin campaign with the RNC.

One of them (listen HERE [ http://blip.tv/file/get/Tpmtv-McCainRobocallObamaOpposesSavingBabies258.mov ] ) says:

"I'm calling on behalf of John McCain and the RNC because you need to know that Barack Obama and his Democrat allies in the Illinois Senate opposed a bill requiring doctors to care for babies born alive after surviving attempted abortions -- a position at odds even with John Kerry and Hillary Clinton. Barack Obama and his liberal Democrats are too extreme for America. Please vote -- vote for the candidates who share our values. This call was paid for by McCain-Palin 2008 and the Republican National Committee at 202 863 8500."

Another [ http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/10/new_robocalls_from_mccain_and.php ] (listen HERE [ http://blip.tv/file/get/Tpmtv-Hollywood419.flv ] ) says "Barack Obama and his fellow Democrats got caught putting Hollywood above America. On the very day our elected leaders gathered in Washington to deal with the financial crisis, Barack Obama spent just 20 minutes with economic advisers, but hours at a celebrity Hollywood fundraiser. Where are the Democrats' priorities?"

A third [ http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/10/mccainrnc_robocall_questions_w.php ] (listen HERE [ http://blip.tv/file/get/Tpmtv-McCainRNCRobocallCivilRightsForTerrorists991.wav ] ) says, "Barack Obama and his fellow Democrats aren't who you think they are. They say they want to keep us safe, but Barack Obama said the threat we face now from terrorism is nowhere near as dire as it was in the end of the Cold War. And Congressional Democrats now want to give civil rights to terrorists."

A fourth [ http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/10/worst_yet_mccain_campaign_robo.php ] (listen HERE [ http://blip.tv/file/get/Tpmtv-McCainRobocallObamaWorkedCloselyWithATerrorist507.mov ] ) says, "You need to know that Barack Obama has worked closely with domestic terrorist Bill Ayers, whose organization bombed the U.S. Capitol, the Pentagon, a judge's home, and killed Americans. And Democrats will enact an extreme leftist agenda if they take control of Washington. Barack Obama and his Democratic allies lack the judgment to lead our country."

This doesn't seem to me to be such a great recipe for future bipartisanship achievement, should Sen. McCain win in 19 days.

But maybe Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi will let bygones be bygones.

Copyright © 2008 ABCNews Internet Ventures

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/10/mccain-robocall.html [with comments]




Greensburg, KS - 5/4/07

"Eternal vigilance is the price of Liberty."
from John Philpot Curran, Speech
upon the Right of Election, 1790

F6