Obama sees desperation in McCain's reliance on 'Joe'

[babylonsister]

Obama sees desperation in McCain's reliance on 'Joe'

By William Douglas and Steven Thomma | McClatchy Newspapers


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McCain, speaking earlier at a rally of 3,000 at a Manchester, N.H., hockey arena, used Obama's best-selling book to try show that the Illinois senator's policies are out of the mainstream.

"Readers of his book 'The Audacity of Hope' might recall that he wrote about the need to 'spread the wealth around' there, too," McCain said. "He writes of the need for 'labor laws and tax laws that restore some balance to the distribution of the nation's wealth.' He has talked elsewhere about how, in our day, 'the distribution of wealth is even more skewed, and levels of inequity are now higher.' "

Obama, campaigning in Richmond, Va., said remarks such as Palin's signified a losing campaign that was running out of time.

"They have been trying to throw whatever they can up against the wall to see what sticks," he said. "They have run out of ideas."

Obama told about 13,000 supporters at the Richmond Coliseum that "in the final days of campaigns, the say-anything, do-anything politics too often takes over.

"We've seen it before, and we're seeing it again today. The ugly phone calls. The misleading mail and TV ads. The careless, outrageous comments. All aimed at keeping us from working together, all aimed at stopping change."

Obama leads in Virginia by an average of 7 percentage points in public polls, but his lead has narrowed slightly in the past week. He's trying to become the first Democratic presidential nominee to win the Old Dominion since 1964.

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[Bicoastal]

1. Wow--3,000 for McCain versus 13,000 for Obama.

That says it all.

[iceman66]

2. I think it was actually more like

1,000 for McCain and 30,000 for Obama!

[babylonsister]

5. It's always that way, but sometimes only 15 for McSame:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x7540772

McCain lands at Columbia Regional Airport, greeted by a crowd of 15

:evilgrin:

[kwassa]

3. McCain's campaign never had ideas, only strategies, bad ones

and they all sound like desperation.

They continually put up absurd straw men and knock them down. Few are buying the bullshit.

[stevietheman]

4. Not even strategies... more like a string of tactics. n/t

n/t