WELL HELL – WHY SHOULD JOHN S. McCAIN EVEN BOTHER TO SHOW UP?

OBAMA CAMPAIGN ISSUES TALKING POINTS TO MEDIA AHEAD
OF DEBATE

Wed Oct 15 2008 11:13:03 ET

The Obama campaign issued a set of debate 'talking points' to media on Wednesday morning, the DRUDGE REPORT can reveal. Press
Secretary Sean Smith issued the directive in an email from Pennsylvania, 12 hours before the debate.The memo oddly mirrors much of the main press analysis and theme of the current campaign:

-------- Original Message --------

Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 09:37:27 -0500
From: Sean Smith
[s***mith@barackobama.com]

To: Sean Smith [s***mith@barackobama.com]

* This is John McCain's last chance to turn this race around and somehow convince the American people that his erratic response to this economic crisis doesn't disqualify him from being President.

* Just this weekend the weekend, John McCain vowed to "whip Obama's you-know-what" at the debate, and he's indicated that he'll be bringing up Bill Ayers to try to distract voters.

* So we know that Senator McCain will come ready to attack Barack Obama and bring his dishonorable campaign tactics to the debate stage. Obama continues to lead on the economic crisis with a rescue plan for Main Street.

* Over the course of the campaign, Barack Obama has laid out a set of policies that will grow our middle class and strengthen our economy.

* But he knows we face an immediate economic emergency that requires urgent action - on top of the plans he's already laid out - to help workers and families and communities struggling right now.

* That's why Barack Obama is introducing a comprehensive four-part Rescue Plan for the Middle Class - to immediately to stabilize our financial system, provide relief to families and communities, and help struggling homeowners.

* This is a plan that can and should be implemented immediately.

* Obama has shown steady leadership during this crisis and offered concrete solutions to move the country forward - and his Rescue Plan for the Middle Class builds on the plans to strengthen the economy and rebuild the middle class that he's laid out over the course of this campaign.

* Already in this campaign, he's unveiled plans to give 95 percent of workers and their families a tax cut, eliminate income taxes for seniors making under $50,000, bring down the cost of health care for families and businesses; and create millions of new jobs by investing in the renewable energy sources.

* John McCain has been erratic and unsteady since this crisis began - staggering from position to position and trying to change the subject away from the economy by launching false character attacks.

The unbridled arrogance is absolutely STUNNING! And since 95% of what is being said in this appalling email stretches the truth almost to the breaking point at best, and is outright LIES at worst - it's another dishonest blathering from the most dishonest political campaign I have ever seen. And a transparent attempt to deflect the very justifiable questioning of Barack Obama's relationship with the domestic terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, among Obama's plethora of questionable associations.

Barack Hussein Obama may or may not be legally able under the U.S. Constitution to even RUN for president. However, even if he is qualified in the eyes of the U.S. Constitution, by reason of worldview, political philosophy and sheer cowardice and intellectual bankruptcy, he is unqualified, inept and would be a complete disaster as President.