FINAL COUNTDOWN FOR USA ELECTION 2008

October 10, 2008

McCain calls Obama 'decent person,' is booed

McCain sort of can't win here.

Parnes reports from Minnesota:

A man in the audience stood up and told McCain he's "scared" of an Obama presidency and who he'd select for the Supreme Court.

"I have to tell you. Sen. Obama is a decent person and a person you don't have to be scared of as president of the United States," McCain said as the crowd booed and shouted "Come on, John!"

"If I didn't think I'd be a heck of a lot better, I wouldn't be running for president of the united states."

If it's not the Times editorial board jeering him, it's his own crowd.

No big deal except that it strongly attaches Obama to still another shady organization/operation/group of folks and does give incentive to wonder how much his campaign is tolerating or encouraging or overlooking the dubious ACORN practices.

Foxfyre wrote:

No big deal except that it strongly attaches Obama to still another shady organization/operation/group of folks and does give incentive to wonder how much his campaign is tolerating or encouraging or overlooking the dubious ACORN practices.

ACORN being shady is a matter of your opinion. I do not have enough facts to share that opinion with you. Obamas campaign paid a subsidiary money for a service. So what?

That 'service' is via an organization that is under investigation in more than a dozen states, has incurred numerous accusations, allegations, indictments, and convictions of flagrant voter fraud.

But perhaps you wish to retract your earlier statement that you care? It seems to me that you are among the ranks of the other Obama supporters who really don't seem to.

I really dont think McCain is comfortable with the kind of anger that has been coming out at some of these rallies. You can kind of see it in his body language. Whatever I may think about him, I honestly believe that he doesnt like that kind of mob mentality. Palin on the other hand.... well, I dont know enough about her to say.

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I really dont think McCain is comfortable with the kind of anger that has been coming out at some of these rallies. You can kind of see it in his body language. Whatever I may think about him, I honestly believe that he doesnt like that kind of mob mentality. Palin on the other hand.... well, I dont know enough about her to say.

That just smoothes over the reason for the anger. It makes an assumption that the anger is irrational and thus to be condemned.

Every year both sides accuses the others of all sorts of things for which there is no basis. This time, there is a basis

Indeed, [McCain] just snatched the microphone out the hands of a woman who began her question with, "I'm scared of Barack Obama... he's an Arab terrorist..."

"No, no ma'am," he interrupted. "He's a decent family man with whom I happen to have some disagreements."

Look, Fox, if I wanted to steal an election would it make more sense to fraudulently register 100,000 people and then figure out how to get those votes cast on election day?

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- Fraudulent registration forms do not constitute voter fraud.

Voter fraud only occurs if someone tries to improperly cast a vote. “It’s not voter fraud unless someone shows up at the voting booth on election day and tries to pass himself off as ‘Tony Romo.’ And who would try to do that?” wrote Rep. Jesse Jackson (D-IL). The Brennan Center for Justice noted that “there are no reports that we have discovered of votes actually cast in the names of [false] registrants.”

- In many states, organizations like ACORN are required by law to turn in every registration card they receive.

As the Wall Street Journal reported, “New Mexico law requires Acorn to turn in all applications, no matter how suspicious-looking, within 48 hours. Elections officials do their own quality control on registrations.” In fact, “under most state laws, voter registration organizations are required to turn in all the forms they receive.” Furthermore, ACORN explained in a statement that “for the past 10 months, any time ACORN has identified a potentially fraudulent application, we turn that application into election officials separately and offer to provide election officials with the information they would need to pursue an investigation or prosecution of the individual.”

When a department store calls the police to report a shoplifting employee, no one says the department store is guilty of consumer fraud. The same principle applies here. The small number of staffers who have submitted fraudulent forms are violating ACORN’s mission. Anyone caught defrauding should be prosecuted, and ACORN says it is assisting in that effort. ACORN should work harder to catch these employees and ensure that they are held responsible.