Change you can trust contrasts beautifully with change you can believe in.

Everyone wants change, only with a team that we can trust to implement it.
If you’re in a tough spot, you want someone to come to help you that you can trust, not someone you believe may want to help you.

John McCain, polls show, is rated as highly qualified and highly trusted. This slogan, change you can trust, reinforces this message.

It can even be added on to John McCain’s current slogan. Country first, change you can trust. Or perhaps Change you can trust that puts Country first. Or how about Change you can trust that puts America first

It implies without directly saying it that the other side is perhaps a little less trustworthy.

It also reinforces the message that in a time we were facing battle with Al Qaeda worldwide and two conventional wars, John McCain is a commander in chief you can trust to lead us to victory.

There are 30 days left before Election Day. Sarah Palin’s debate performance was good, but it’s really up to John McCain to win.

CHANGE You Can TRUST

CHANGE You Can TRUST to put COUNTRY FIRST

CHANGE You Can TRUST to put AMERICA FIRST

CHANGE – TRUST
COUNTRY FIRST

John, are you listening???

http://strategicthought-charles77.blogspot.com/2008/10/change-you-can-trust-slogan-that-could.html

Anywho.. maybe Obama can debate against John McClane! I know that’s who I’m voting for!!

http://www.votejohnmcclane.com/

The financial crisis didn’t come to a head until two weeks ago. We are in a financial crisis.
McCain needs to be there for several reasons. One, back in 2005 he had studied the mortgage subprime situation, especially with regards to Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. He tried to get legislation passed to confront the problems that Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae and other similar subprime lenders posed. Unfortunately he was not successful. However, I believe that he is especially needed at this juncture because he has familiarity with the issue. He has researched it and studied it. He has the notes, he has the details, the facts and the figures. We may not have the time at this point to research the subject again and bring people up to speed.

The second reason we need him there is that he might be able to work with some of the Republicans who have real concerns about bailing out these companies again. History has shown that bailouts are only a temporary fix, but a temporary fix is what we need now until we can come up with a fair solution. Remember the Savings and Loans fiasco of the 80s. We don’t want to keep repeating the mistake.

Taking six months off to campaign for office is perfectly acceptable in normal times when things are going well. For critical legislation, he still has a job to do.

I was merely posting information I saw from people in Oxford. And for a town that size, 5 million is a serious deal: not something you can just blow off.

You can forget about the money loss to the town of Oxford. It is all donated private funds.

The university had estimated the cost of the presidential debate to be up to $5 million, all of which came from private donations. There were no announcements about when the debate would be held if it were to be postponed.

Most of the major televisions networks and many print journalists had already arrived in Oxford by the time the news broke Wednesday.

As you can see, the town is already enjoying an economic boost with the press moving in, supporting local businesses such as restaurants and hotels.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26885268/

Who is Obama going to debate?

I suggest Biden

He will be alone.

Can you tell me which foreign policy issue was debated in the Senate in the last six months?

He has been impulsive and reactive the last month. If I were looking for a leader, I want someone who knows when to react and when to consult with people who know more. McCain has admitted that Economics isn’t his strong point. Which is fine, I’d rather have someone around who knows the limits of their knowledge. Sorry, being decisive on things that you don’t have a good understanding of strikes me as playing with fire at best, and Russian Roulette with all chambers but one loaded at worst.

Pivoting from the Fundamentals of the Economy are sound to this being such a disaster that only his personal Intervention can solve the problem will ring hollow with a number of people.

Choosing to not appear on Letterman because you have to get back to DC, then appearing on a news show a few blocks away at the exact same time he was to be taping on Letterman. That’s a serious unforced error.

I could go on and on. but the issue with McCain isn’t the base. It’s with the Independents. And his actions this week have alienated a lot of the independent voter, who are absolutely vital for McCain.

That’s the problem with Gambits. Sometimes you get nothing for the pawn.

And my mea culpa here… picked up the “dateline” of Nashville as opposed to Oxford where Belmont is located. Oxford is a small town of about 19,000 people… not the size of Nashville. Duh…

But businesses will be open, taking advantage of the traffic for the event. And the event won’t be “blown off”, but rescheduled. Hopefully, anyway. There will be far more to “debate” once this financial rescue package is finalized.

And I must disagree… it is “right” to postpone and reschedule. So we’ll leave it at that.

Andrew Mullins, special assistant to university Chancellor Robert Khayat, told ABC News that the Ole Miss campus has been transformed to accommodate the candidates and the press. Road blocks are in place on campus and in the community and the debate television set for the candidates has already been constructed. He said the university has spent roughly five and half million dollars getting ready for the debate.

I’m just going on what information I have seen from people whom live in that town. I have a few people I keep in touch with through the interwebz, that happen to live in Oxford and they say the town is basically focusing everything on this event, and they don’t want to reschedule. It would be too demanding.

I’m not trying to attack you. I’m not trying to make McCain look bad either. I was merely posting information I saw from people in Oxford. And for a town that size, 5 million is a serious deal: not something you can just blow off. Yes I know larger things have been rescheduled, but that doesn’t make it right.

Anyway, peace out

1: The univ chancellor, Robert Khayat, said last year the costs were estimated to be between $2 and 2.5 mil. Now those costs have doubled?? And frankly, I’m having a hard time wondering why the costs are so high, unless it’s city law enforcement on overtime for security.

2: The Curb Event Center is a venue that seats 5900 people. This is peanuts when you consider huge concerts in 20-60K venues that are delayed and cancelled quite often during tours.

3: There is a big difference between “delay” and “cancel”. Most of the services are not paid in full up front… catering within the venue itself, parking, security, etal. What can be done is to move the event to another day if the venue schedule permits. Since most these venues are not booked 7 days a week, and a debate can easily occur on a weekday than a weekend, it’s unlikely this will be a problem.

4: The city is hardly “shut down” for a 5900 person event. Absurd. The Belmont Univ campus may shut down that day, but they can shut down another day instead. It’s impossible that a city the size of Nashville will “shut down” for an event this size. Hang… their local country stars will draw a bigger audience.

This is all must media hype to make it appear that McCain is insensitive to scheduling details of the debate. There will be very little money lost, and far larger events have been rescheduled in the real world.

Anyway, it doesn’t matter much because the debate is going forward from what I understand.