That's why the MSM is now pushing the meme that the 'real' story is not that lil' Barry lost, but McCain must have cheated! He broke the cone of silence! He must have had a shoe phone!
Posted on 08/18/2008 12:28:43 PM PDT by mngran2
UPDATE: ABC News' Ron Claiborne, traveling with the McCain campaign, reports that McCain senior adviser Charlie Black would not say whether people around McCain while he was en route to Rick Warren's forum had access to blackberries and cell phones from which they could have tipped off Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., about the questions.
"There's no reason we would do that," was all Black would say, though quite obviously there is a reason.
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.abcnews.com ...
Obama lost. That’s the story here.
They might as well get some practice in, they’re gonna need it.
The additional story is that Obama is a sore loser and instead of accepting the fact that McCain wiped the floor with him, he is whining instead.
Liberal playbook 101, if confronted with defeat let loose the dogs of injustice and cry conspiracy!!! For example, liberals never lose elections, they are cheated by voting machines or police with dogs or whatever the liberal imagination can conjer.
Related thread Turns Out Obama Had More Prior Knowledge of Warren Questions Than Did McCain - Byron York
Actually, they’re cooperating with Team Obama to move the “Obama strongly supports infanticide” story off page one. That’s what’s really behind this.
Maybe it’s just me and I’m too sensitive, but.......
It seems like this is part of a pattern, where the Obama campaign complains about this or that, and says that something is unfair. Here it seems we’re hearing more stories about how the process of the Rick Warren meetings somehow was unfair to Obama, rather than hearing more about the content of what Obama said.
They really need to give this a rest. It is pathetic. What a bunch of whining losers. Now that it has come out that Obama actaully had one more question in advance than McCain did, I imagine this cry of “cheating” will probably quickly go away.
Talk radio should just keep replaying the soundbite of Obama saying, “I actually cheated on this one” over and over again.
Yeah, McCain and his blackberry made Obama sound like a stuttering fool more interested in covering up his core values than answering questions.
That's why the MSM is now pushing the meme that the 'real' story is not that lil' Barry lost, but McCain must have cheated! He broke the cone of silence! He must have had a shoe phone!
Calling the charge a "blatant falsehood" Davis said "1.) There's not one shred of evidence that it's true; 2.) In his official correspondence to both campaigns, Pastor Rick Warren provided both candidates with information regarding the topic areas to be covered, which Barack Obama acknowledged during the forum when asked about Pastor Warren's idea of an emergency plan for orphans and Obama said, 'I cheated a little bit. I actually looked at this idea ahead of time, and I think it is a great idea;' 3.) John McCain actually requested that he and Barack Obama do the forum together on stage at the same time, making these kinds of after-the-fact complaints moot."
Obama is coming off as a crybaby, whining and screaming "cheater!" in order to hide his own shortcomings and lack of connection to average folks.
Mr. McCain answered his questions straightforwardly; Mr. Obama did not. He never does.
He lost.
Their young inexperienced ninny guy got his crock cleaned by an old fart and it just has to stick in their craw.
However, all their gnashing of teeth and wearing of race card sack cloth and ashes will take away from Obamas major gaff “Above My Pay Grade” comment.
People with common sense will see through the medias In The Tank for Obama moments that this guy is a novice when it comes to his core values.
Shame on you Obama media, ABC, NBC, PMSNBC, CNN and others.
Obama is tripping over his own...
This thing is percolating nicely. Let it hit the news tonight, then hit back with a LOUD townhall meeting challenge tomorrow. Any time, any place.
Yeah, hi, I'll take a cone of silence please...thanks"
"rmmmmf uummmfpthf hremmmthsppph"
Uh media, the questions weren’t that hard. It’s just that Obama was busy trying to hide his left wing positions. McCain didn’t have that problem.
You mean his trying to give an answer that doesn't enrage his base yet also try's to appeal to rational people.
Obama's pratfall was his own doing.
McCain didn't know what the questions would be. He didn't need to; he knew the answers.
You could ask the Messiah those SAME questions today and get the same pathetic,meaningless (er, nuanced) answers.
The toughest thing in his mind that he has had to do is oppose the Iraq War when he was a member of the ILLINOIS STATE SENATE. No argument there.
The hardest time he did go against his party WAS when he tried to take away their free meals. No argument there.
When does a fetus get rights? That is ABOVE his pay grade, as his Senate job and his STATE SENATE job. I won’t argue with him there either.
How would he deal will EVIL in the world? Confront it, for the US is even evil sometimes. Can’t say that wasn’t a splendid answer either.
In almost every question Obama would give the same answer again, because he is the empty suit we all know he is. The only thing he is full of is himself. He IS ‘the one HE has been waiting for’. The MSM loves to say he is thoughtful and nuanced. The ums, ers, ahhs, and stumbling that he exhibits when you take his teleprompter away are something that can only be covered up for so long. Acting as if he speaks that way because of his thoughful answers is playing the public for fools. Even the Kos kids and DUmmies are starting to see that Obamamessiah is not ready for prime time.
This thing is percolating nicely. Let it hit the news tonight, then hit back with a LOUD townhall meeting challenge tomorrow. Any time, any place.
Follow up on Wednesday with ads showcasing the reason why Obama will not meet McCain in the town hall meetings: his stumbling and bumbling when not reading his lines.
I submit 99% or Freepers could have answered every one of those questions without a cheat sheet, or a Harvard education.
even if McCain did know the questions, that doesn’t explain why obama couldn’t answer them...
This is like watching Clinton eviscerate Dole's campaign.
Finish him off, John. Strike NOW!
I thought I read several snide pieces saying McCain is technologically illiterate...so how the hell would he know how to use a blackberry?
I don’t believe that’s much of an argument, as he could have easily had an aid cue him.
What’s more revealing here is that McCain’s camp asked “why would he do that?”
while it was all too obvious to the leftist that, had it been them in that position, they would have cheated.
The Obama campaign is running interference to divert public attention away from the fact that answering the question of whether killing babies is immoral is “above his pay grade”. He’s also unable to explain why he’s in favor of murdering babies who survive a partial birth abortion.
Well, on second thought, maybe I should take that back. Obama is so used to being tossed easy Nerf ball questions by the fawning MSM that I suppose it really isn't fair that he should be expected to respond to one that is simply “standard”.
Warren was throwing a huge sloppy kiss to Obammy’s arse except......
I believe the expression is "wrinkly, white-haired dude."
Obama really wasn’t stumped he was trying to be slick, only the Supreme Court question flushed him out. His court would be 9 Ruth Bader Ginzburgs. Case closed.
Nothing I have seen so far touches on whether or not McCain was getting information beamed into his brain by Space Aliens from Beyond the Moon!
If McCain cheated, there would be a conspiracy. McCain has said he played it straight, and everybody involved backs him up on that. Could he have cheated? Of course he could. Proving that it was possible nothing.
check out the comments at the bottom of the article...loads of excuses by Obama fans.
This is complete desperation on behalf of the MSM and I can hardly wait for Olbermann’s ranting later tonight... And to think, these fools are calling Hillary a sore loser.
McCain kick’s butt in one debate and now they’re scared to death that Barry isn’t going to be up to snuff when it comes to the real debates. Boo Hoo... How bad will these fools look when Barry loses in November? I suppose they’ll come up with some foolish reason for Barry’s loss, that of course, will have absolutely nothing to do with Barry.
What the heck is the big deal? It wouldn’t have changed any of their answers anyway.
The Obama campaign whines too much because they know they have a little runt of a candidate they have to make excuses for.
It is a given, accepted on faith by the Democrats, that Obama is smarter, more eloquent, and a better debater than any other person. Given the obvious fact that McCain rode him hard and put him up wet, they have to postulate all sorts of explanations for this turn of events. The fact that Obama is just not very good at this stuff will never occur to them, because it contradicts their assumptions.
The Obamaniacs are praying for the Rapture so most of Red State America disappears, which would insure a win for their boy Barry, lol
Had an aid cue him on what? It wasn’t a debate, and the questions were about personal opinions: they had no right or wrong answer. And Obama had THREE questions in advance to McCain’s two. Face it, McCain was just better prepared and OBVIOUSLY answered above Obama’s “pay grade”. These people need to step back from Hollywood and Get Smart. “Cone of silence” indeed.
It was really interesting the way he stopped in the middle of the word “inexperienced” when talking about why he would never have nominated Clarence Thomas. Rush was all over that today.
I’m with you man.
It was McCain’s forum, because the questions exposed core beliefs, which Obama must hide because people, even his supporters would find them abhorrent.
The controversy exposes the left, though, because they reveal that they would have not hesitated to cheat if they could.
Obama’s daughters say he hates ice cream. He’s can’t even just be honest and say he doesn’t like it, but has to pander on desserts too.
How can you cheat when you technically can’t answer a question wrong? Cheat on what??
The light is dawning on the democrat Marbleheads that BHO is not ready for prime time.
Of course. Besides, Obama's moral compass obviously points due Hell. He HAS to hide them in front of a crowd like that. He wouldn't even make eye contact.
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