Tucker Bounds responds to Obama's Nevada remarks: McCain's not Bush, and he's a war hero. POW! POW!

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Obama Goes to Nev. After Hawaii Detour
Democrat Emphasizes McCain-Bush Ties

By Robert Barnes
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, October 26, 2008; Page A15

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/25/AR2008102501987_2.html



Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., shakes hands with supporters at a rally in Las Vegas, Saturday, Oct. 25, 2008. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

LAS VEGAS, Oct. 25 -- Democratic Sen. Barack Obama on Saturday treated President Bush's early vote for Obama's Republican rival more like a political gift than a rejection, and he vowed, "We're not going to let George Bush pass the torch to John McCain."

Obama returned to the campaign trail after visiting his seriously ill grandmother in Hawaii, and he held a pair of rallies in the battleground state of Nevada. In both, he revived his effort to tie McCain to the unpopular president and highlighted Bush's vote Friday in the process.

On a high school football field here, Obama ridiculed what he said must be the "strangest twist of this campaign" -- McCain's assertion that he is the candidate more likely to change Bush's economic policies. Obama called that "amazing."

"He took it to a whole new level: He said I was like George Bush," Obama said with wonder. "Loco!"

Obama launched into a litany of ways McCain has supported Bush, as well as quoting McCain's now-familiar comment that he supported the president 90 percent of the time.

"That's right," Obama said. "He decided to really stick it to George Bush -- 10 percent of the time."

Obama held rallies here and at the University of Nevada in Reno, and later will cross McCain's path in New Mexico before heading to Colorado. All three states voted narrowly for Bush in 2004, and the visits continue Obama's trend of strenuously challenging McCain in states that went Republican four years ago.

The campaign is feeling so confident about states that went Democratic in 2004 that Obama hasn't visited one since Oct. 16.

Polls show Obama ahead in all three of the states on this weekend's travel itinerary, and his campaign aides point to several measures that show increased enthusiasm for their candidate. In Nevada, one of the early-voting states that Obama has made a priority, 53 percent of those who already have voted are Democrats, compared with 32 percent who are Republicans. The turnouts were roughly even four years ago. New Mexico is experiencing a similar trend.

Obama referenced Bush more than two dozen times in his Reno address and said it was fortunate for McCain that the president didn't hold a grudge about the Arizona senator's attempt to distance himself.

"Because yesterday, he cast his vote early for -- guess who? -- John McCain," Obama said Saturday. "And that's no surprise, because when it comes to the policies that matter for middle-class families, there's not an inch of daylight between George Bush and John McCain."

The McCain campaign replied with a line the Arizonan used in the final presidential debate, and it continued to steer away from the president's legacy.

"No matter how he spins it, if Barack Obama wanted to run against George W. Bush, he should've run against him four years ago, because his opponent is John McCain -- a war hero and bipartisan reformer," said McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds.

[ErinBerin84]

1. I wonder if Tucker Bounds has checked his wikipedia lately.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tucker_Bounds

"Tucker Bounds (born January 13, 1979) is a Republican political spokesperson and complete douche for the McCain-Palin 2008 presidential campaign."

Can't argue with the facts!
Also, Fucker Bounds was a media aide for the Bush 2004 campaign of course.

[mitchum]

3. LMAO!

That entry is great

[Binka]

7. That Smarmy Fucker Is 29 Years Old! What A Punk! And Douche.

Why isn't his ass in Iraq?

[greenmutha]

8. "...and complete douche for the McCain-Palin 2008 presidential campaign."

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

OMG. Tears. Streaming.

[grannylib]

2. He might as well be W, and he's no hero of ANY KIND. A real hero

would CONTINUE to act with honor, not toss it out the window in desperation, trying to 'win' the presidency. A REAL hero would not hire the same assholes that W used to smear him. A REAL hero would be able to control his party when they pull the Arab, racist, terrorist shit - not just make lame, feeble attempts to make the odd (really odd!) supporter understand otherwise.

[bluestateguy]

4. "Tucker Bounds"

Sounds like the name of a B list porn star:

TUCKER BOUNDS starring in

ELECTILE DYSFUNCTION

[Trajan]

5. I think everyone is missing the point

The GOP supported Bush and his policies .. Hence; they are republican party policies .....

John McCain is in the republican party and also supported Bush's policies ...

By voting for McCain or ANY republican, you are voting for the policies that have destroyed the economy and wrecked the polity of the nation and the world ....

McCain must be rejected NOT because he 'is like Bush', but because 'He is in the republican party' ....

This has always been a problem for us: The focus on Bush means NOTHING (nearly) once he is lame duck ...

Go after the republican party ..... THEY caused this ...

[MamaDem]

6. I love the wikii entry,....LMAO!!!!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[raysr]

9. Getting shot down, captured,

and giving the enemy 300+ hours of propaganda makes him a hero? It's way past time to hit McCain with his POW record and why he did everything in his power to keep the Senate from seeing it.

Rock him and knock him, he's been running on that long enough, I say expose him!!! There are people out there that were at the Hilton with him that have a different view of Admiral McCain's little warrior!

Fuck John McCain!