The Governator Attacks "Girly Man" Obama

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger campaigned for Senator John McCain yesterday in Columbus, Ohio. Schwarzenegger did not call Obama a "girly man", but that was the clear inference from his remarks. AFP reports:

Muscleman-turned-actor-turned-politician Arnold Schwarzenegger called on Barack Obama to beef up his his policies -- and his body -- at a high-voltage campaign rally for Republican John McCain Friday.

Schwarzenegger, the Hollywood action hero who is now the Republican governor of California, delighted a crowd of several thousand at a McCain campaign event in Ohio by ridiculing both Obama's policies and his slender physique.

The Austrian-born former Mr Universe has hosted a bodybuilding tournament in Columbus for several years, and opened his address by inviting Obama to participate in the next event.
"Every year in March I come here to organize the Arnold Classic, which is all about building the body and pumping," Schwarzenegger said.

"That's why I want to invite Senator Obama because he needs to do something about those skinny legs. I'm going to make him do some squats.

"And then we're going to make him do some biceps curls to beef up those scrawny little arms. But if he could only do something about putting some meat on his ideas.

"Senator McCain on the other hand is built like a rock. His character and his views are solid."

Schwarzenegger's best line of all was this:

"John McCain has served his country longer in a POW camp than his opponent has served in the United State Senate."
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McCain's Incredible Growing Lead (Part 1): A Miracle In The Making

For many days we have chronicled Barack Obama's incredible shrinking lead. Today, we are happy to report that McCain's tortoise-like progress in the polls has allowed him to catch up with and now finally surpass the sputtering hare. The pollster Zogby has this to say about the latest numbers from the Zogby poll:

"Is McCain making a move? The three-day average holds steady, but McCain outpolled Obama today, 48% to 47%. He is beginning to cut into Obama's lead among independents, is now leading among blue collar voters, has strengthened his lead among investors and among men, and is walloping Obama among NASCAR voters. Joe the Plumber may get his license after all.

"Obama's lead among women declined, and it looks like it is occurring because McCain is solidifying the support of conservative women, which is something we saw last time McCain picked up in the polls. If McCain has a good day tomorrow, we will eliminate Obama's good day three days ago, and we could really see some tightening in this rolling average. But for now, hold on."

(emphasis added)

For those not enamored by the tortoise vs. hare analogy, how about this one: The McCain-Palin team is like the American men's relay team at the Beijing Olympics who did not catch up with the French team until the very end of the final lap to out touch them at the finish and bring home the gold for Michael Phelps and the other Americans.

This election promises to be a very special and historic one for the Republican presidential ticket.
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Father Knows Best? Michael Powell Doesn't Think So

Michael Powell is not following his father when it comes to presidential endorsements. As TheHill.com reports:

Colin Powell’s endorsement of Barack Obama, the Democratic nominee, has put him at odds with his own son, former Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Michael Powell.

Michael Powell, who served as a policy adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney, is a surrogate for John McCain and represents the GOP nominee on the campaign trail.
He endorsed McCain early in the Republican primary in January, and said the Arizona senator was the best candidate to “calm the turbulent economic waters and to steer the new economy in a direction that will bring growth, opportunity and prosperity to all Americans.”

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McCain: "We Don't Want A President Who Invites Testing From The World"

The ABC News blog reports that, in response to Senator Biden's concession that the foreign policy inexperience of a President Obama would invite "world testing", Senator McCain will deliver these remarks later today in Belton, Missouri:

"The next President won’t have time to get used to the office. We face many challenges here at home, and many enemies abroad in this dangerous world. Just last night, Senator Biden guaranteed that if Senator Obama is elected, we will have an international crisis to test America’s new President. We don’t want a President who invites testing from the world at a time when our economy is in crisis and Americans are already fighting in two wars.

"What is more troubling is that Senator Biden told their campaign donors that when that crisis hits, they would have to stand with them because it wouldn't be apparent Senator Obama would have the right response.

"Forget apparent. Senator Obama won’t have the right response, and we know that because we’ve seen the wrong response from him over and over during this campaign. He opposed the surge strategy that is bringing us victory in Iraq and will bring us victory in Afghanistan. He said he would sit down unconditionally with the world's worst dictators. When Russia invaded Georgia, Sen. Obama said the invaded country should show restraint.

"We cannot spend the next four years as we have spent much of the last eight: hoping for our luck to change at home and abroad. We have to act. We need a new direction, and we have to fight for it."

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McCain Eloquently Defends Joe The Plumber Against Obama Campaign's Smears

Courtesy of the Drudge Report, here is what McCain had to say today in response to the Obama campaign's kill-the-messenger attack on Joe the Plumber:

It's great to be here in Miami. Florida is a must-win state on November 4th, and with your help, we're going to win Florida, and bring change to Washington, DC. We had a good debate this week.

You may have noticed-- there was a lot of talk about Senator Obama's tax increases and Joe the Plumber. Last weekend, Senator Obama showed up in Joe's driveway to ask for his vote, and Joe asked Senator Obama a tough question. I'm glad he did; I think Senator Obama could use a few more tough questions.

The response from Senator Obama and his campaign yesterday was to attack Joe. People are digging through his personal life and he has TV crews camped out in front of his house. He didn't ask for Senator Obama to come to his house. He wasn't recruited or prompted by our campaign. He just asked a question. And Americans ought to be able to ask Senator Obama tough questions without being smeared and targeted with political attacks.

The question Joe asked about our economy is important, because Senator Obama's plan would raise taxes on small businesses that employ 16 million Americans. Senator Obama's plan will kill those jobs at just the time when we need to be creating more jobs. My plan will create jobs, and that's what America needs.Senator Obama says that he wanted to spread your wealth around.

When politicians talk about taking your money and spreading it around, you'd better hold onto your wallet. Senator Obama claims that wants to give a tax break to the middle class, but not only did he vote for higher taxes on the middle class in the Senate, his plan gives away your tax dollars to those who don't pay taxes. That's not a tax cut, that's welfare. America didn't become the greatest nation on earth by redistributing wealth; we became the greatest nation by creating new wealth.

The Obama campaign's smears of Joe the Plumber are playing as well with the American public as Obama's lipstick-on-a-pig attack on Sarah Palin. Notice the pattern in how Obama and his supporters respond to anyone who questions "that One."

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Meet Joe (The Plumber) Wurzelbacher: The Man Whose "Wealth" Obama Wants To Tax To "Spread Around"

For those wondering who John McCain's "Joe the Plumber" is from last night's debate, here is the video of Barack Obama when he met Joe Wurzelbacher on the campaign trail. Watch Obama try to explain why it's okay to raise taxes on Joe -- effectively penalizing him for his hard work in building his plumbing business -- in order to "spread the wealth around."

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Ayers On The Agenda

It is almost a certainty that William Ayers will be a topic of conversation at tomorrow night's debate. The Boston Globe reports McCain will "take that dare" of Biden to bring up Ayers to Obama's face. It should be entertaining television to watch Obama parse the meaning of the word "pal" and see if he denies that he knew of Ayers terrorist past when he worked with him to dish out $50 million in grants to leftist causes. Oh, and there's also that question of who ghostwrote Obama's first book . . .

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Obama's Fantasy Football v. McCain's Real Players

Here's a sharp contrast to the news that Obama's ACORN friends tried to register voters fraudulently using professional football players names. The Morning Journal reports:

Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain brought his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, to Strongsville [Ohio] yesterday for a rally, where some of the biggest cheers were given to surprise guests Brady Quinn and Joe Thomas of the Cleveland Browns.

The Strongsville Police Department estimated about 6,000 enthusiasts attended the rally at the Walter F. Ehrnfelt Recreation Center on Royalton Road, many arriving hours early to wait for a chance to see the decorated war hero and his charismatic vice-presidential candidate.
. . . .
After Palin's remarks, Quinn and Thomas were accompanied by an earsplitting endorsement as they strode out to the podium in the center of the audience. The two NFL players, dapper in suits and ties, towered over Palin and the McCain family.

"Tonight we have a great hero among us," Quinn told the crowd. "Sen. McCain embodies the American spirit. He never quit, and he kept fighting for freedom."

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Obama's Incredible Shrinking Lead (Part III)

The Diageo/Hotline tracking poll now has Obama's lead down to one point.

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Obama's Incredible Shrinking Lead (Continued)

Another poll, Zogby, now has Obama's lead at only two points:

The race for President of the United States remains far too close to call between Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain as both candidates head toward the finish line, a recent Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby daily tracking telephone polls shows.

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Debate Impressions

I'd give it a tie. Both candidates performed well. Sen. John McCain started off slowly but seemed to warm up, whereas Sen. Barack Obama was out of the box fast and then grew somewhat flustered later in. Both candidates misspoke at times, and the fact-checkers can determine whether any of those botched phrases revealed anything substantive.

McCain missed several opportunities. When Obama kept asserting that he'd give 95 percent of the country a tax break, McCain needed to call him out, and remind him that the bottom 40 percent pays no federal taxes.

Let's see, if Obama gives a tax break to people that pay no taxes, that would be, what -- a welfare check? For nearly half the population? Yeah, and that tax cut comes with a free bottle of (organic) snake oil!

McCain never addressed the issue of judges. (And in fairness, the questions never gave him that opportunity.) One of the reasons that the U.S. economy has led the world for so long is our rule of law. McCain has been very clear that he would appoint judges who apply the words of the constitution, statute or contract at issue. That gives certainty to business -- which is crucial in a time of economic chaos. Obama, in contrast, has said that he will appoint judges who will empathizes with the underdog -- which means you'd better not be the business owner.

Nor did McCain bring up the issue of the sanctity of life. (Again, because Tom Brokaw carefully avoided the subject.) McCain's commitment to life is longstanding and unequivocal. Obama, on the other hand, would take abortion "rights" to a new level: Obama voted to prohibit medical care to those fetuses who somehow, miraculously survive an abortion and are born live.

Under Obama-care, the courts would "discover" that there is a "right" to have the federal government pay for abortions with taxpayer dollars. This issue might not turn the election. McCain owes it to the unborn, however, to make clear that voters know where Obama stands on abortion.

Obama left several unanswered questions. He never did tell us how big the fine will be for self-employed individuals who don't acquire, and small businesses who don't provide health care. Obama never conceded that entitlements need to be cut -- and "misspoke," changing the word and the subject -- entitlements -- to education. And Obama never committed that he would defend Israel if Iran attacked it.

That Barry: even after two years running for president, and two debates, he remains an enigma wrapped in a mystery.

Obama's Incredible Shrinking Lead

A new poll from Hotline/FD Tracking reports that the Obama lead is down to 2 points -- another sign that McCain still can win and that tonight's debate remains critical to the outcome of the election.

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House Republicans Refuse To Roll, So Democrats Spin Out Of Control

Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid and other Democrats on the Hill have been spinning out of control today trying to blame yesterday's breakdown of talks at the White House on the presence of Senator McCain at the meeting. In a supremely Machiavellian move, Reid and his Democratic colleagues falsely accused McCain of injecting "presidential politics" into the legislative debate yesterday, while the object of their press conferences today was precisely that: to promote Obama's candidacy by trying to portray the disfunctional meeting yesterday as somehow a win for Obama.

Critical observers should not be fooled. Shouldn't the blame really be placed on Senator Obama, who apparently was not prepared (too much time at the gym?) to address the House Republicans' concerns about the proposed bailout package? After all, it was Obama who was tasked by the Democrats at yesterday's White House meeting with tying the ribbon on the legislative package. The problem for Obama, however, was that not everyone was yet wrapped into the package -- namely, the House Republicans, who rightly felt that their concerns about the price tag and other aspects of the legislation had not been addressed.

Jake Tapper of ABC News reported this comment from Congressman John Boehner, who has led the House Republican revolt:

"I don't know what games were being played at the White House yesterday, ganging up on Boehner," said House GOP Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio "but if they thought they were rollin' me they were kidding themselves."

It appears that the Democrats tried to orchestrate yesterday's meeting so that Obama would sweep in and take all the credit for the legislation. When that did not occur because of the House Republicans' objections, then the Democrats decided to blame McCain.

But contrary to what the Democrats claim, it was not McCain who caused the impasse. As Mark Ambinder reports:

Though Sen. Chris Dodd implied that Sen. McCain sandbagged the rest of the negotiators by bringing up alternative proposals, McCain himself did not bring up those proposals, according to four independent sources briefed by four different principals inside the meeting, including two Republicans and two Democrats.

"McCain has not attacked the Paulson deal," said a third Republican who was briefed by McCain direclty. "Unlike the [Democrats] in the [White House] meeting, he didn't raise his voice or cause a ruckus. He is urging all sides to come together."

Republicans like John Boehner brought up the concerns of House GOPers and McCain acknowledged hearing about their concerns. And McCain, and staffers, did seek to gauge the level of support of the GOP working group's white paper. The Democrats were left with the impression that McCain endorsed the GOP efforts, but they concede that he did not raise them directly.

The fact is that Boehner doesn't have 100 votes from his conference -- 100 votes that Nancy Pelosi really wants. And that's not McCain's fault.

Contrary to what Reid and other Democrats claim, McCain's presence in Washington, D.C. this week has been positive for the legislative debate and negotiations. It is critical for both McCain and Obama to be active participants in the process because, after all, one of those two men is going to the president and in charge of managing everything in the legislation in just a few months. And it is important for both men to respond constructively to the House Republicans' issues rather than simply "roll them", as Obama and other Democrats apparently tried to do yesterday.

The irony is that Obama, the supposed "uniter", is trying to divide Capital Hill by not dealing with the House Republicans' concerns. McCain, in contrast, is listening and trying to work on a compromise to bring everyone -- liberals and conservatives -- together.

But obviously no good deed goes unpunished in a presidential campaign, as evidenced by Reid and other Democrats' partisan rancor against McCain.

In contrast to Reid, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell struck precisely the right note in his remarks today, as reported by Jake Tapper of ABC News:

"We think it's extremely important not only to get the substance of the package right, but to do it quickly," said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, "and I think everybody is trying to go forward in good faith."
. . . .
Both [Senator Judd] Gregg and McConnell said that -- despite assertions by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and House Financial Services Committee Chair Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass. -- the presence of Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., in negotiations has been positive.

McCain has "been a very constructive part of this," said McConnell.

Gregg said that it was helpful for both presidential candidates to return to Washington, DC. "Senator McCain, Senator Obama coming back to the city, coming back to Washington, significantly moved the process along, because, first, it got us focused. But, secondly, more importantly, it got the American people focused on the seriousness of the issue...So I think that was constructive."

McConnell agreed, saying the presence of Obama and McCain "underscored the significance of moving forward and moving forward on a bipartisan basis and doing it quickly."

Hopefully Obama will return with McCain to the nation's capital quickly after tonight's debate and step up his activity in Washington beyond simply being "present" to "roll" the opposition. For the country's sake, Obama should work to forge a consensus with all lawmakers on the Hill, including the House Republicans, as McCain seeks to do.

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Obama's Message To Wall Street And D.C. Beltway Friends: "Show Me The Money!"

The big money trail continues to lead to Obama. Last week we heard of the record sums contributed by his Hollywood donors. Today comes word, as reported by the LA Times, that Obama has also raked in more than McCain from Wall Street and D.C. Beltway types:

Obama received heavy support from lawyers last month, taking in $3 million to McCain's $1.7 million. He also outraised McCain in New York, the nation's banking center, collecting $2.7 million to McCain's $1.3 million.
. . . .
Throughout his campaign, Obama has said that he rejects the ways of Washington insiders. But he continues to outraise McCain in the Washington-Maryland-Virginia area, with $2.88 million to McCain's $2.4 million last month, and $28.5 million to McCain's $10.5 million since the campaign began.

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Obama Fails To Beef Up His Attack On McCain

Senator "Eloquence" is at it again. Last week Obama called McCain an "old fish". Yesterday Obama continued to try to make jokes about McCain's age. According to AP, the Democratic presidential nominee -- the one who decries racism but apparently loves ageism -- said:

"The old boys network. In the McCain campaign that's called a staff meeting. Come on."

Obama tried to defend his feisty remarks by saying, ""I'm skinny but I'm tough." But not that funny.

To compensate for his lack of weight does Obama really need to say so many things off-teleprompter that make voters cringe?

"People Who Need (Money) People"

The Obama-Biden campaign devotes as much or more time these days raising money from fat-cat donors than meeting with ordinary people. Senator McCain picked up on this point yesterday, as reported by CNN:

Speaking at a campaign event in the working-class Democratic stronghold of Youngstown, Ohio, the Republican presidential nominee said Obama “talks a tough game on the financial crisis, but the facts tell a different story.

“…He put Fannie Mae’s [former] CEO, who helped create this problem in charge, of finding his vice president. That’s not change — that’s what’s broken in Washington,” said McCain.
“Talk about siding with the people, siding with the people just before he flew off to Hollywood for a fundraiser with Barbra Streisand and his celebrity friends,” he said. “Let me tell you my friends, theres no place I’d rather be than here with the working men and women of Ohio.”

CNN added that "Streisand, a staunch Democrat" was "scheduled to perform at a $28,500 a head Obama fundraiser Tuesday night in Beverly Hills, California."

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Trike vs. Bike

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Obama's "Lipstick On A Pig" and "E-Mail" Campaign Themes Aren't Working

Obama appears to be running his campaign the way Democrats run government: with lots of wasteful spending. Particularly on his campaign ads. The latest is the ad (discussed by Bridget below) which makes as its centerpiece argument that McCain is not qualified to be president because he cannot type an email.

Even the mainstream media is now acknowledging that Obama went way over the line with this one. For example, the LA Times reports today:

Like many of his generation, McCain does not like to talk details a lot about his wartime experiences, certainly not about any lingering physical symptoms. To be honest, it could sound like complaining and, as he's ruefully noted, unlike many others, McCain did come home.

The former pilot does joke sometimes about flying his plane into a telephone-pole-sized North Vietnamese missile.

Last week in his speech to the Republican National Convention, McCain opened up more than usual, mentioning his two broken arms and broken leg from ejecting over Hanoi, and his 66 months of imprisonment and torture, calling it simply working him over.

But something he did not go into in that speech were....

...some of the lingering results of his poor medical treatment and brutal beatings.

Here's a passage from a lengthy Boston Globe profile on McCain that was published the last time he ran for president. It was headlined "McCain character loyal to a fault." It was written by Mary Leonard.

And it was printed more than eight years ago, on March 4, 2000.

It is available online, where Jonah Goldberg of The Corner blog at the National Review found it.

"McCain gets emotional at the mention of military families needing food stamps or veterans lacking health care. The outrage comes from inside: McCain's severe war injuries prevent him from combing his hair, typing on a keyboard, or tying his shoes. Friends marvel at McCain's encyclopedic knowledge of sports. He's an avid fan -- Ted Williams is his hero -- but he can't raise his arm above his shoulder to throw a baseball."

Obama spokesman Dan Pfeiffer denied the freshman Illinois senator's ad was making an issue of McCain's age. "It's extraordinary," he said, "that someone who wants to be our president and commander in chief doesn't know how to send an e-mail."

Obama needs to fire Dan Pfeiffer today and pull the "e-mail" ad immediately. "Lipstick on a pig" and "e-mails" -- what "winning" message will the Obama campaign waste their money on next?

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It's "President McCain", According To Harry Reid

Fox News has now reported the remarks of Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid, who acknowledged that McCain has already won the election today:

The slip came after he aggressively linked the Republican presidential nominee to the sitting President Bush, and suggested McCain would be a reckless commander in chief.

“We live in a dangerous and unpredictable world,” Reid said in an address on the Senate floor. “Our dangerous world calls for leaders with sound judgment, not those with a temperament prone to recklessness. … Will we stick with the same failed, out-of-touch foreign policy of George Bush, Dick Cheney and John McCain, which military experts and countless authors call the worst foreign policy in our nation’s history?”

But then Reid got a bit ahead of himself, as he began to describe Obama’s foreign policy toward Al Qaeda in Pakistan.

“President McCain even called the Obama approach naive,” Reid said.

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Harry Reid Acknowledges The New Reality

This could be a good one. Drudge reports that Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid referred to the Republican presidential nominee as "President McCain." It is a developing story; no link yet.

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