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ailsagirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-05-08 07:26 PM
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Obama allies warn McCain to back off attacks-- or else...
Edited on Sun Oct-05-08 07:26 PM by ailsagirl
(10-05) 13:51 PDT Asheville, N.C. (AP) --

Barack Obama's allies warn that John McCain's attacks on the Democrat's character will lead to the political equivalent of mutual assured destruction: fire your big weapon at your own peril.

Several Obama surrogates said his supporters may start reminding voters of McCain's ties to Charles Keating, a convicted savings and loan owner whose actions two decades ago triggered a Senate ethics investigation that involved McCain as one of the "Keating Five."

The warnings of massive retaliation came as McCain's running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, took on the role of attacker and said that Obama sees America as so imperfect "that he's palling around with terrorists who would target their own country." She was referring to an early Obama supporter, 1960s radical Bill Ayers, a founder of the Weather Underground whose members were blamed for several bombings when Obama was a child.

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still_one Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-05-08 07:27 PM
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1. Forget the warnings, nothing is wrong with exposing the mccain/palin past
or record


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rusty charly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-05-08 07:30 PM
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2. 'Warning' is all the Dems do
Just do it. Do the Repugs 'warn"? Did Palin 'warn' about the terrorist slur?
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ailsagirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-05-08 07:52 PM
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5. We'll see...
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TheDebbieDee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-05-08 08:03 PM
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6. GMTA. I posted almost the exact thing on another thread
on the same subject matter!
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ailsagirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-06-08 12:30 PM
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8. Sorry I missed that...
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riley3 Donating Member (161 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-05-08 07:32 PM
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3. No need for a warning
The only ethical thing to do is make the public aware of the real mccain/palin.
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CoffeeCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-05-08 07:36 PM
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4. If we could only hear the communications...
...that go between the campaigns.

McCain mentioned that this camp had asked the Obama camp "many, many times" to have
those town-hall meetings (ha! you never got them, you old bastard!). I imagine that
there is a lot of exchange between the two camps. How could there not be?

I imagine that the Obama camp called the Obama camp after Palin made her "pals"
comment and words were exchanged.

McCain all ready knows what's coming.

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The Traveler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-06-08 03:07 AM
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7. Songbird McCain
Worse things than Keating can be levied against McCain ... who is known in certain parts as the Songbird of the Hanoi Hilton. He really needs to think about this. Glass houses. Throwing stones. All that.

Trav
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