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Always To The Right on Thursday, October 09, 2008 4:21:24 PM
Michelle Malkin • October 9, 2008 02:12 PM
Update…here’s the vid via Allah…
I am away from my office, so haven’t seen the video of this yet. But
several readers are reporting on a frustrating exchange John McCain had
with a passionate supporter in Waukesha, Wisconsin. McCain gets a
softball — and bungles again.
Banging. Head. Against. Wall.
Commenter nyc123me:
CNNlive online covering McCain/Palin event in Wisconsin.
A guy just got up and begged McCain to take it to Obama in the next
debate regarding all his shady associations. The crowd went for it big
time. McCain said ‘yes I will’ and immediately started about something
else. I don’t believe he will.
Reader Jeff e-mails:
He did it, but he had to be goaded into it. Called out
Barney Frank and Chris Dodd when someone asked if he was going to name
names and call for investigations. And people shouting ACORN, until he
responded strongly about investigating them before the election
Also some guy was so riled up about McCain doing something to fight the socialists - Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid!
Stephen Hayes at the Weekly Standard
reports more details — including something that made me grit my teeth
last night when I heard him say it on FNC last night. Quit saying you
“don’t care” about Ayers’ terrorist record. Stop that!
In response to a broad question about how Barack Obama
“got here” — presumably got his lead — John McCain didn’t name Bill
Ayers but spoke of him directly. McCain said “We don’t care about an
old washed up terrorist and his wife” who said earlier this decade that
he wished they were more successful. (Several in the crowd chanted: “Yes
we do!”)
…The next question came from a black McCain supporter, who reminded
McCain of the candidate’s plea at the convention for his supporters to
do everything possible to ensure a victory. The supporter said: “I
doubt that anyone has taken, pardon me, the [behind]-whoopin’ I have taken
for doing that.” He then implored McCain to go after Barack Obama at
the next debate and asked him to raise ACORN and Reverend Wright. “I am
begging you, sir,” he said, as the crowd stood and applauded.
McCain, as my readers above noted, said “Yes, I will,” then hurriedly changed the topic.
We’re Screwed ‘08!
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A commenter below thinks McCain did “fine.” But what does it tell
you that the man has to be goaded and prodded and dragged into going on
the offensive on ACORN/Ayers/Democrat Fannie-Freddie corruptocrats? It
tells you what I’ve been saying out loud for quite some time — that
McCain has always had much more of a stomach for taking own his own
base than he has had for taking on the radical Left.
If there is a special medicine to cure him of this pathology, get him an IV drip of it, stat.
Question for discussion: Is it too little, too late?