Lots to catch up on, so here goes (I'm not above stealing the pic either)...In case you missed it, check out the top clips we captured this week at McCain town hall meetings:As always, a hat tip goes out to Michael Morrill at Keystone Progress for this stuff (and I actually have more like this, believe it or not).McCain Falsely Claims Palin's Negotiated Natural Gas Pipeline Will Bring "Clean Energy" (here).McCain Leads The Crowd: "Drill Baby Drill" (here). Palin Makes First Gaffe, Indicates Fannie and Freddie Are Publicly Owned (here). McCain Lies, Says Palin Sold Plane On eBay… For A Profit! (here).McCain Criticizes Obama For Wanting to Slow FCS Development (Which McCain Once Also Advocated - here). McCain Exhorts: "Change Is Coming!" (x3) (but not in the way he thinks; my note - here). Palin: VP Choice Says Lots About Pres. Nominee, And You Can't Call Biden An "Agent Of Change" (here). Crowd Interrupts McCain With "Straight Talk" Chant (McCain Responds "That Sounded Rehearsed" - naaah! Ya' think? - here). McCain: Palin Is "Right On National Security… She Understands Those Issues," Contrasts Her "Record" With Obama (here). 'Reformer' McCain: Tired Of Gov't Not Responding To Disasters And Old-Boy Cronyism In DC? (here).Palin Reminds People "Government Is Not Always The Answer… Too Often Government Is The Problem," Lists Her 'Maverick' Achievements (here).
Blast from the Past:
With Palin saber-rattling on Russia and the foreign policy debate fast approaching, here are some old clips with new meaning:
McCain: "There's Gonna Be More Wars"
JOHN MCCAIN: "I'm sorry to tell you that there're gonna be more wounds and there's gonna be more wars. I'd like to tell you there's not gonna be any more wars. There's gonna be more wars.
MCCAIN: "We are facing an implacable evil that wants to destroy everything we stand for and believe in, that wants to destroy America; and that confrontation is gonna have many manifestations in the years to come."
(Rally; Florence, SC 01/18/08)
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JOHN MCCAIN: [...] Just a few hours ago there was an act of provocation by some Iranian ships towards the United States ships transiting the Straits of Hormuz. My friends, it came close to a military confrontation. [...] Let's understand who are enemies are! Let's understand that radical Islamic extremism is in many places in the world. And we were in two wars today combating it. And there are other places where we may have to [fight].
[...]
I know how to treat weakness in me.
(Speech; Keene, NH 01/07/08)
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VIDEO with FULL TRANSCRIPTS
McCain Falsely Claims Palin's Negotiated Natural Gas Pipeline Will Bring "Clean Energy"
JOHN MCCAIN: This Governor negotiated a $40 billion dollar natural gas pipeline that will bring clean energy to the lower 48 which will help alleviate America's energy requirements. I'm proud of that job, and that's the kind of job we can continue to do.
(Rally; Fairfax, VA 09/10/08)
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McCain Leads The Crowd: "Drill Baby Drill"
JOHN MCCAIN: And we've got to do all of the above; wind, tide, solar, natural gas, flexible fuel, hydrogen, battery powered cars. And yes, yes, as that sign says over there my friends: drill, baby, drill. We've got to offshore drill and now, we've got to do it now!
(Rally; Fairfax, VA 09/10/08)
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Palin Makes First Gaffe, Indicates Fannie and Freddie Are Publicly Owned
SARAH PALIN: [...] [McCain] understands what to do about job losses and high energy prices and mortgage failures, the problems faced by hard-working, middle-class Americans--all of us! And that's why John McCain has been calling for years to reform things and cut bureaucracy, even at the lending agencies that our government supports. The fact is that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac--they've gotten too big and too expensive to the taxpayers. (cheers) The McCain-Palin administration will make them smaller and smarter and more effective for homeowners who need help.
(Rally; Colorado Springs, CO 09/06/08)
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McCain Lies, Says Palin Sold Plane On eBay… For A Profit!:
JOHN MCCAIN: You know what I enjoyed the most? [Gov. Palin] took the luxury jet that was acquired by her predecessor and sold it on E-bay! [laughs] And made a profit!
(Meet & Greet / Rally; Cedarsburg, WI 09/05/08)
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McCain Criticizes Obama For Wanting to Slow FCS Development (Which McCain Once Also Advocated)
JOHN MCCAIN: This weekend Senator Obama was asked for an example of a time when he bucked his party. His answer was defense spending. He says now he wants to increase it, but during the primary he told a liberal advocacy group that he'd cut defense spending by tens of billions of dollars and he promised them he would "slow our development of future combat systems." [shakes his head while crowd boos] [...] my friends, this is not a time to slow our development of future combat systems. That's not bucking his party, that's telling em just what they want to hear. Senator Obama told the extreme left what they wanted to hear during the primary and now we think he's trying to tell you what he thinks you want to hear. My friends, you may not always agree with me, but you will always know where I stand.
(Rally; Lee's Summit, MO 09/08/08)
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McCain Exhorts: "Change Is Coming!" (x3)
JOHN MCCAIN: Let me offer an advance warning to the old big-spending, do-nothing, me-first, country-second Washington crowd: Change is coming! Change is coming and it's coming to our nation's capitol! And we're cleaning up! Change is coming.
(Speech; Fairfax, VA 09/10/08)
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Palin: VP Choice Says Lots About Pres. Nominee, And You Can't Call Biden An "Agent Of Change"
SARAH PALIN: You know the choices that presidential nominees make for a running mate, they say a lot about them. And when our opponent made his choice, he went for a fine man, a decent man, Senator Biden can claim many chairmanships across many, many years in Washington and certainly many friends in the Washington, but even those admirers would not be able to call him an agent of change.
PALIN: Senator McCain has called the two of us a team of mavericks. John McCain knows that we've done some shakin' up in Alaska. And, as governor I took on the old politics as usual in Juneau. I had to stand up to the special interests and the lobbyists and the big oil companies and the good ol' boys' network. And true reform, though it is so hard to achieve. [...] With the support of our citizens we put the government of our state back on the side of the people. And I came to office promising major ethics reform. To end the culture of self-dealing up there. And today, that ethics reform is the law. And while I was at it, we got rid of a few things in the governor's office that I just didn't think our citizens should be paying for. Like that luxury jet, it was a little bit over the top. So I put it on Ebay. And, I love to drive myself to work, and you may have heard we did lay off the governor's personal chef, though I do admit with that one, my kids aren't starving but they sure do miss her. I came to office promising to control spending, too; by request, if possible, but by veto, if necessary. Hundreds of million of dollars of vetos later, and Senator McCain too, promises to use that power of veto in defense of the public interest. As a chief executive I can assure you that it works. This is a moment that requires that kind of toughness and strength in the heart of the American president. And my running mate is a man who has shown those qualities in the darkest of places.
(Rally Colorado Springs, CO 09/06/08)
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Crowd Interrupts McCain With "Straight Talk" Chant (McCain Responds "That Sounded Rehearsed")
JOHN MCCAIN: These are tough times. Youre worried, youre worried about keeping your job
[Crowd interrupts with chanting of Straight Talk!]
MCCAIN: That sounded rehearsed.
MCCAIN: My friends, for a moment of straight talk, these are tough times, you're worried about keeping your job, finding a new one, struggling to put food on the table, even stay in your home. Today were looking at costly government led restructuring of our home-loan agencies. We need to keep people in their homes but we can't allow this to turn into a bailout of Wall St. speculators and irresponsible executives.
(Rally; Lee's Summit, MO 09/08/08)
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McCain: Palin Is "Right On National Security…She Understands Those Issues," Contrasts Her "Record" With Obama
JOHN MCCAIN: [Obama] was wrong on Iraq, he was wrong on Iran, and he was wrong when he made a moral equivocation between Russia and Georgia when Russia invaded. My friends, he's wrong on national security, and he has a record. This person is right on national security, and she's been right and she understands those issues and I'm proud of her.
(Rally; Fairfax, VA 09/10/08)
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Reformer McCain: Tired Of The Old-Boy Cronyism In DC?
JOHN MCCAIN: All you've ever asked for government is for it to stand on your side and not in your way. And that's just what I intend to do, stand on your side and fight for your future. We must reform the way the government does business, whether it be the Air Traffic Control system-- how many of you are tired of standing and waiting in an airport for 6 or 7 hours? We gotta fix it. How many of you are tired of the fact that government cannot respond to disasters in away it should? How many of you are tired of the same old business, the same old old-boy cronyism that exists in Washington DC? You're sick of it, I'm sick of it, well bring about change.
(Rally; Fairfax, VA 09/10/08)
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Palin Reminds People "Government Is Not Always The Answer…Too Often Government Is The Problem," Lists Her 'Maverick' Achievements
SARAH PALIN: As mayor, I shook up the good ol' boy system—had to kinda take that on. I reminded people that government is not always the answer, in fact, too often government is the problem. So here's what we did: we got back to the basics and I put the local government there back on the side of the people.
PALIN: I eliminated taxes on property; on personal property. I eliminated taxes on those small business inventories; this was hurting small business. We took that tax away. Property taxes were way too high. So every year I cut rates for six years in a row and those reforms worked and our communities soared. We started takin' off.
PALIN: So then, as governor, I brought that same agenda of positive change to the state level. We took on the old politics as usual in Juneau and we broke the monopoly that had controlled our state; that was the lobbyists and the special interests associated with big oil companies. We came to office promising major ethics reform to end the culture of closed doors and self-dealing and today that ethics reform is the law of the state. We cleaned it up!
PALIN: I thought it was important also, as mayor and governor, to try to lead by example. So what I did, as mayor, I took a voluntary pay cut, which didn't really thrill my husband and then, as governor, I cut the personal chef position from the budget, which didn't thrill my kids and then I put the state's government checkbook on-line for all to see, which didn't thrill a lot of the bureaucrats and, as you may have heard, the luxury jet that came with the office: I put it on eBay.
PALIN: What I had done was promise to control spending when I came into office so I didn't want to just be walking the walk. We didn't want to just talk about it. We wanted to actually do it by request, if possible, and by veto, if necessary is how I would control spending and today our state budget is under control and we do have a surplus and I put the veto pen to nearly half a billion dollars in reckless spending.
(Speech; Lebanon, OH 09/09/08)
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Update: Sorry about the broken links - I just checked the post again, and I think I either removed them or noted where they are.
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