He ACTUALLY SAID "My friends, the Mac is back." I kid you not. While the "Rocky" theme played.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

McCain uses old Clinton clip in robocall; Obama's confident
By MARGARET TALEV AND WILLIAM DOUGLAS
McClatchy Newspapers

http://www.kansascity.com/445/story/871413.html

The Republican Party on Sunday launched robocalls to millions of voters in battleground states, playing audio of Hillary Clinton in the primary election portraying her then-opponent Barack Obama as too inexperienced to run against John McCain.

Obama, meanwhile, unveiled a 30-second television ad comparing his own backing from billionaire investor Warren Buffett and retired Gen. Colin Powell to McCain's weekend endorsement by unpopular Vice President Dick Cheney

As both campaigns sought to energize voters with two days remaining in the presidential contest, McCain was fighting for comebacks Sunday in Pennsylvania, New Hampshire and Florida, while Obama spent the day in battleground Ohio.

The two campaigns' moods were markedly different.

McCain and his team were defiant. In Wallingford, outside Philadelphia, the sound system played the theme from "Rocky" as McCain took to the stage in a high school gymnasium to address a crowd of 2,000.

"Let me give you a little straight talk about the state of the race today," McCain told the crowd. "There's just two days left, we're a couple of points behind in Pennsylvania. The pundits have written us off, just like they've done before. My friends, the Mac is back."

McCain also scheduled an evening town hall meeting in New Hampshire, where he's long had a strong network of support but where he now trails Obama by 10.7 percentage points, according to an average of statewide polls calculated by RealClearPolitics.com. "We wouldn't go to New Hampshire unless we thought it was winnable," McCain senior adviser Mark Salter said.

Obama and his surrogates exuded confidence.

"Two days," Obama told 60,000 supporters in Columbus, where he began the day, before a scheduled evening appearance in Cleveland with singer Bruce Springsteen and a night rally in Cincinnati. While Obama implored supporters to vote, saying, "Don't think for a minute that power will concede without a fight," he also said, "This is our time. We've got a righteous wind at our backs."

In Florida, at a rally with Obama's running mate Joe Biden at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Sen. Bill Nelson said that if turnout is high, "Tuesday night I suspect we're going to be singing 'Happy Days are here again.'"

[donco6]

1. Rocky? Has he trademarked "cliche"? n/t

[DCBob]

2. The simple minded Repubs respond to such nonsense.

Pathetic.

[electron_blue]

3. He said he'd use the Rocky theme when he was on SNL. I thought he was kidding.

Obviously not.

[skooooo]

4. I'll be glad when "the Mac" goes away...

[Jed Dilligan]

5. I doubt he knows the reference this evokes in my mind

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eiKTp3VdE0

[Raschel]

6. I'm telling you this guy is in dreamland. He thinks he's some kind of macho John Wayne type.

Listen to him, it's all about fight, fight, fight, "I can find Obama", "Todd's a pretty tough guy", blah blah.

His whole campaign is based on it. I'm surprised nobody in the media has picked it up.

It's so ridiculous, the guy's an old grandpa.