by Jill Zuckman
Mesilla, N.M. - John McCain knows the polls.
The Republican nominee also knows what the pundits are saying. And he's heard reports that Sen. Barack Obama has already written his inaugural address.
"When I pull this thing off, I have a request for my opponent," McCain told the crowd gathered in the Old Messilla Plaza near the Mexican border. "I want him to save that manuscript of his inaugural address and donate it to the Smithsonian so they can put it right next to the Chicago paper that said Dewey defeats Truman."
That paper was the Chicago Tribune, which ran the famously incorrect banner headline on Nov. 3, 1948 after President Harry Truman defeated Thomas E. Dewey.
"There's 10 days left in this election," he said. "Maybe Barack Obama will even have his first State of the Union address ready before you head to the polls."
The Obama campaign said the report that initially suggested Obama had already written his inaugural address was not true.
"While this charge is completely false and there is no draft of an inaugural address for Senator Obama, the last thing we need is a candidate like John McCain who just plans on re-reading George Bush's," said spokesman Bill Burton.
Comments
On this one, Senator McCain, you had better cross your heart, cross your fingers and toes and, then cross your eyes, because, on this one, you are going over the top !! First of all, former President Truman was a straight talker, he didn't have to advertise it !! Secondly, he was a Democrat, who believed in the working and middle classes. He didn't play patty-cake, patty-cake with the Lobbyists, like you have for the past 20 years !! And finally, he would never, ever, agreed to the character-assassinations, your campaign is waging against Senator Obama and Senator Biden. Former President Truman didn't believe in the gutter politics, you and your campaign, have stooped to !! Senator McCain, you are better off, comparing yourself to President Bush, after all, you have championed his failed policies and gutter politics. Senator Obama is a real comparison to President Truman, one who does champion the working and middle class communities !!!
OBAMA 08 !!!
SUPPORT OUR TROOPS, BRING THEM HOME, ALIVE AND WHOLE. NOW.
Posted by: Don Fitzgerald, Chicago | October 25, 2008 7:02 PM
Wow.....he's only about the 10th presidential candidate to do that. I doubt the Trunes headline will be wrong this time.
Posted by: bill r. | October 25, 2008 7:03 PM
This is too funny. In 1948 the pollsters stopped polling two weeks before the election because they thought it was over. Dewey relaxed his campaign - and remember, Barack Obama is in the party of Truman. Give'em Hell Barry. ...............
http://thefiresidepost.com/2008/10/17/giveem-hell-barry/
Posted by: Ohg Rea Tone | October 25, 2008 7:06 PM
Senator McCain, we knew Harry Truman. He was a president we liked, and Senator, You're no Harry Truman. Not even in your dreams. The Republicans have run this country for 6 out of the last 8 years and have screwed things up big time. Now is the time for all good men and women to come to the aid of their country and throw all the Republicans out.
Posted by: Geep | October 25, 2008 8:35 PM
Now folks this is scary - think twice before you put the dems in charge.
Rep. Jim McDermott, a Democrat from Washington and chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee's Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support, said that since "the savings rate isn't going up for the investment of $80 billion [in 401(k) tax breaks], we have to start to think about whether or not we want to continue to invest that $80 billion for a policy that's not generating what we now say it should."
In English - they had hearings on discontinuing the 401K plans throughout the country. McDermott's expert witness is also in favor of the gov't confiscating the existing 401K's and then giving people a guarenteed 3% return.
http://www.usnews.com/blogs/capital-commerce/2008/10/23/would-obama-dems-kill-401k-plans.html
Posted by: Terry | October 25, 2008 9:06 PM
And Obama cites
FDR defeats Hoover
FDR defeats Landon
FDR defeats Willkie
FDR defeats Dewey....
Posted by: ornery | October 25, 2008 9:47 PM
Has anyone else noticed that it seems like John McCain gets his talking points now from WingNut sites like Free Republicn and National Review? Sad really sad. Now they are quoting the Investor's Business Daily polls as the ones they subscribe, to but did anyone bother to inform them that investor's business daily has run many many editorials disparaging Barack Obama with material closely resembling what you might find in a chain email? A few samples
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=302222641317480
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=302827467707515
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=303605575673142
and you just REALLY have to love this one!!!
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=304816152498589
Just remember the guy who is quoting poll numbers from this wingnut organization wants you to take him seriously and vote for him.
Posted by: sgwhiteinfla | October 25, 2008 9:55 PM
G. Gordon Liddy
John Singlaub
Augusto Pinochet
Try doing a story linking those guys with John McCain.
Posted by: sgwhiteinfla | October 25, 2008 9:59 PM
well, at least it would make the Smithsonian which is a pretty exciting place to land any manuscript, rather than the vertical file under John McCain's desk. But we forgot, John can't write his own speeches and has trouble with teleprompters at times. McCain you're pathetic.
Posted by: pogo | October 25, 2008 10:15 PM
It was in the 1948 election campaign that Truman said, "If you want to live like a Republican, you have to vote Democratic." Obama's message is similar to Truman's and that is why he will repeat a Democratic victory this year.
Posted by: Ron M | October 26, 2008 12:10 AM
"When I pull this thing off." -J.McCranky
-
I haven't heard Obama make any predictions. It's McCain who's making the prediction here. Better save that clip for the Smothsonian, it's too historical for youtube.
Posted by: Bruce Y | October 26, 2008 12:24 AM
With the mounting bad news for their campaign, McCain/Palin will have no choice but to go increasingly negative in their attacks. Anybody else see this leaked 527 spot?
http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/Leaked_Pro_McCain_527_Negative_Ad_Small_Town_Fear_Itself/
Posted by: Exredstater | October 26, 2008 1:19 AM
Try this one out. Sen Obama is completed out of touch with main stream America unless of course main stream America only believes rhetoric. If this man is elected it will be a sad day for our country. He has no leadership qualities of any of the President's mentioned in this blog. He is a compromiser, a Chicago thug, and has know idea what he actually believes. If an advisor isn't telling him what to say or think he hasn't a clue. You all better wake up before you put a socialist in the highest office in the land. He is not as innocent in his dealings as you all believe he is.
It si hard to believe that because Pres Bush has been such a disappointment in so many areas that you jump brainlessly into bed with someone who has no core beliefs and little to offer his country. His campaign as run through his surrogates, the liberal press, from the beginning has been seek and destroy. Watch out Joe the plumber and anyone else who speaks the truth about Barack Hussein Obama.
Posted by: Wayne Fox | October 26, 2008 1:34 AM
That Truman-Dewey line probably plays real well to the over-80 crowd.
Posted by: Tom J | October 26, 2008 3:26 AM
Senator Obama will announce in his inaugural speech that he is creating a new "Socialist States of America" that will include Venezuela, Cuba, Nicarauga, Bolivia, Argentina, Haiti and Ecuador.
He will also announce that Hugo Chavez is the new Secretary of State and Raul Castro the new Secretary of Defense.
That will explain his earlier statement that the United States consists of 57 states!
MSNBC and the NY Times will applaud the move and call it audacious.
Posted by: Pat H | October 26, 2008 7:42 AM
"While this charge is completely false and there is no draft of an inaugural address for Senator Obama, the last thing we need is a candidate like John McCain who just plans on re-reading George Bush's," said spokesman Bill Burton.
SAAALLLAAAAAMMMMM!!
Is that the same spokesman that has been slamming McCain's spokeschick on the "TODAY SHOW" all the time. He's good.
Posted by: Jorge from Bloomington | October 26, 2008 8:26 AM
Dewey and Truman. Didn't McCain go to grade school with those guys?
Posted by: Jorge from Bloomington | October 26, 2008 8:28 AM
Someone should remind McCain that in the Dewey-Truman race the Republican lost.
Posted by: Quppy | October 26, 2008 10:32 AM
Above: "The Obama campaign said the report that initially suggested Obama had already written his inaugural address was not true."
From yesterday's NY Times:
"Mr. Obama's .. transition chief has even drafted a sample Inaugural Address."
Someone is lying here--either Obama's people, or the NY Times.
Evidently even the Obama campaign is saying it doesn't trust the NY Times, which endorsed Obama, to be accurate.
Posted by: Former Tribune reader | October 26, 2008 3:57 PM
Someone is lying here--either Obama's people, or the NY Times.
Posted by: Former Tribune reader | October 26, 2008 3:57 PM
--------------------------------------------------The liar is obviously Former Tribune reader. How else did he read this article and post a comment?
Post a comment
(Anonymous comments will not be posted. Comments aren't posted immediately. They're screened for relevance to the topic, obscenity, spam and over-the-top personal attacks. We can't always get them up as soon as we'd like so please be patient. Thanks for visiting The Swamp.)
Name:
Email Address:
URL:
Remember personal info?
Comments:
Please enter the letter "r" in the field below:
Preview Post
Related Tags:
Barack Obama , campaign , John McCain , polls
Voter guide
United States of Anxiety
• Read series
• photo gallery
Compare candidates
VoteGopher.com: Find your match On the issues
John McCain
McCain profile
• Stories
• Photo gallery
• Quiz
Barack Obama
Obama Watch
• His youth
• Photo galleries
• Quiz
Photos
• The latest
• Primaries
• Encounters
• Your photos
Video
• Campaign trail
• Video chats
Contributions
Who's giving money to whom?
Archives
October 2008
September 2008
August 2008
July 2008
June 2008
May 2008
April 2008
March 2008
February 2008
January 2008
December 2007
November 2007
October 2007
September 2007
August 2007
July 2007
June 2007
May 2007
April 2007
March 2007
February 2007
January 2007
December 2006
November 2006
October 2006
September 2006
August 2006
July 2006
June 2006
May 2006
April 2006
March 2006
February 2006
January 2006
Subscribe to the feed for this site
[What is this?]
Latest polls
Election 2008 RCP Average
National Obama +7.6
Battlegrounds RCP Average
Pennsylvania Obama +10.8
Ohio Obama +6.1
Michigan Obama +17.0
Colorado Obama +6.5
New Hampshire Obama +9.3
Virginia Obama +7.0
Florida Obama +2.2
Electoral vote map
Test your scenarios
Classic commercials
Watch them here
Quizzes
Palin or Fey?
Know the presidents?
Your McCain IQ
Your Obama IQ
Galleries
Sarah Palin
Campaign trail
RNC | DNC
Unauthorized tour
Obama's Chicago
News, but funnier
Walt Handelsman
The Lowe- Down
Joe Fournier
Editorial cartoons
Candidate match
Test assumptions
You Decide
Should the Electoral College be reformed?
Yes No
Challenge your assumptions.
Categories
2006 Mid-Term Elections
Abortion
Afghanistan
Agriculture
Appreciation
Biden
Bill Clinton
Bureaucracy
Bush Administration
Chicago
Congress
Consumers
Corporate America
Court proceedings
Crime
Daybook
Defense
Democrats
Disasters
Doubletake
Doubletalk
Economy
Education
Energy
Environment
FEMA
Federal courts
Food Policy
Foreign Policy
Front Row
Doyle McManus
Fun stuff
Gas prices
Gay rights
Global War on Terror
Global politics
Globalization
Globetrotting
Government contractors
Health
Higher Education
Hillary Clinton
Homeland Security
Honors
Human rights
Hurricane Gustav
Hurricane Katrina
Illinois delegation
Immigration
Infrastructure
Intelligence
Internet and Politics
Iowa 2008
Iran
Iraq war
John McCain
Journalism
Justice
Labor
Legal issues
Media and Washington
Middle East
Money and Influence
National Security
New Hampshire 2008
North Korea
Obama
Palin
Politics
Polls
President Bush
Privacy
Race and Politics
Religion and Politics
Republicans
Space exploration
Supreme Court
Swamp Gas
Swamp Note
Taxes
Technology
Terrorism
Transportation
United Nations
United States of Anxiety
Vice President Cheney
Voting issues
Washington scene
White House
White House 2008
Women
campaign finance
satire
© 2008 Tribune Interactive
Posted by: Bruce Y | October 26, 2008 5:58 PM