McCain’s ‘Free Ride’

When is the media going to start questioning John McCain on his policies? We hear of Barack lacking in substance yet McCain has never state where he stands except his stance on the war in Iraq. We all KNOW what that is. But where is his polices on the economy, health, education? He says he is the most "Experienced"! Let's see some of that experience! No hype, McCain! Let's hear what your policies are!!!

"McCain's Free Ride"?!?!?! How about Obama's Free Ride? We used to have qualification standards in this country when electing a president: That he/she be able to present to the public at least a miniscule list of accomplishments as a public leader before asking them for election to the highest office in the land. "The Audacity of Hope' should be re-titled 'The Audacity of Arrogant Presumption'.

John McCain has been affecting for positive change in the House and Senate for 25 years, often bucking the G.O.P. party line to do what he feels is for the greater good. And he's sacrificed more for his country in his younger years than Obama could (or would) ever be willing to do during his entire lifespan.

What's Obama's crowning achievement in his 3 years in the Senate? He helped enact legislation that allows lobbyists and congressmen to dine together only if they're standing up, not sitting down. WOW! And in terms of biographical background, do we really want a Commander-in-Chief who grew up in a Muslim country and who's family was never even proud of America until it started casting votes for him?

If a white Republican were to run for president with Obama's biography and short list of accomplishments (or lack thereof), would anyone in the press even give him the time of day? Let's be honest: Barack Obama is the national media's affirmative action darling. Anyone who even questions his preparedness to be president is smeared as a racist by the press (e.g. Bill Clinton in South Carolina).

Who exactly has been getting the free ride in the media?

I challenge all those in the media that believe that McCain is getting a "free ride" to actually step up and ask some questions that Newsweek believes is substantiative in nature, I believe you will all be surprised. McCain is a politician, but unlike Obama he has the answers to the questions that matter, why would he have to show how he differs from Obama on issues that Obama has yet to address and will never address. Save it for later when they are going at it in the presidential campaigns. Also I have to agree with many of the posts that are calling for an in-depth look at the treatment Obama is receiving from the media, every time he speaks the news networks break in on the other candidates speeches, and he has yet to be called out for his lack of ideas regarding how he will actually "change" America. Open your eyes, U.S. media, call it fairly for both sides.

Thank you Mr Philips, (Waldman et all) and SPECIALLY the NY TIMES for TRYING to bring the VOTERS to consider the REAL "CLEAR & PRESENT DANGER"... a McCain in the White House..... Like exCandidate Hart who challanged the press with his brazen selfpromotion of his impeccable "character" the "Mr Clean, Straight Talker" Mr McCain deserves a FAIR REVIEW OF HIS GROWING STRING OF LIES....
Also: 30% of Japanese prisoners of war in Soviet hands returned as THEIR AGENTS, under control of Soviet spies... the % of returning German POWs WAS EVEN GREATER.
MANY WERE PSYCHOLOGICALLY captive, blindly obedient to proper call... It was once an IRON RULE that returning POWs are a too great a security risk to be EVER given access to too sensitive knowledge... WHERE ARE OUR GOP "SECURITY EXPERTS"???? Unfair as it may be - a stint in communist hands was, AND SHOULD (unfortunately) CONTINNUE TO BE, a HIGHLY SUSPECT event in any one's life. Fortunatelly with Sen McCain just his $$$$$ affairs with the various lobbys SHOULD KEEP HIM OUT of the Presidency!

Ok ,I know this will make some people angry but I'm wondering how many returning POW's from Viet Nam have not been diagnosed with Post Tramatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). I'm a 60 year old Vet who has been working with disabled veterans for more than a year after a 25 year carreer in human services. Most of these Vets are Viet Nam era soldiers who did not spend time as POW's and virtually all of them are PTSD. I've just got to wonder how a person who was treated so inhumanly by his captors could avoided struggling with PTSD.

A free ride? Isn't this the guy that the media left for dead in August? If you want to do some in-depth examination, why not Barack Obama? Never mind, then the media would actually have to examine themselves. Never happen.

It???s not just the press that gives McCain a free ride, it???s the mental lethargy of voters (granted, the two are connected). A recent CNN poll shows 55% of Texans think Bush is doing a lousy job, 61% are opposed to the Iraq war, and 62% think the economy is in recession. Yet the same poll shows 52% of Texans are ready to elect a candidate who promises nothing more inspiring than four more years of Bushism! Who???s kidding whom? Is Texas really that doggedly ???red???? What part of "failed" do Texans not understand? Do their mothers routinely drop them on their heads?

Hillary doubts the "Ride", was free. Hillary now accuses Mccain of "Plagiarism", She attributes the following lines used by Mccain to the "Former Rodent Bill Clinton", (I did not have sexual relations with that woman), (I poked it but I did not inhale), (No, those were not Cuban Cigars,). and concerning his closing statement, (And that's all I Got to say about That(, Hilary stated was from her favorite movie, "F. Gump". Hillary stated it is obivious Mccain can't get past the politics of the 90's and the influence that Bill and "Viagra", had on them. Ms. Clinton stated, "It's time to get past these things and get on with the people's business", Water gate, FBI gate, Firing Gate, Vince Foster Gate, Ron Brown Gate and most of all Hillary's "universal health care and making sure the Government gives more of our money to Africa and the poor who doesn't want to work.....

Everywhere i go all I find, be it TV media, Newspaper/ print, and here at the online media sources, is constant talk of the candidates, Clinton and Obama, and McCain and Huckabee...How is it that there is another candidate still in the running for the GOP whom has no mention?....(his campaign coverage has been rejected by the media **WHY?** and therefore he is proceived to be non existant) But he does exsist and he sould have coverage (if not, at least , be mentioned and reconized of his candidacy) He is a true conservative.A real Republican, He is CONGRESSMAN DR. RON PAUL and he's got the right medicine to help America be well again! Shame on all media for not reporting on his existance in this race! I urge all Americans to go to WWW.RONPAUL2008.COM to at least find out what he plans to bring to the table and if he may be the candidate that would best represent you. He deserves to be considered!

You have to laugh - the only person getting a free ride from the media is Barack Obama.

It's difficult not to like a guy who is a true American hero. And the media may find it a bit daunting to go negative on someone who spent five years in a cage in Hanoi. McCain is certainly a conservative but even the liberal press admires his war record. And this is especially true as many in the media have never been in the military. It is right? Not particularly. But it is understandable. I've been a yelloe dog Democrat all my life and will vote for Obama in the general election. Yet I have more negative thoughts about the Clintons than I do McCain. He deserves respect.

Let's all send a political conservative shockwave to Washington D.C. and vote for Huckabee!

Let's all send a political conservative shockwave to Washington D.C. and vote for Huckabee!

Oh, please, Sen. McCain has gone through hell with the Republicans and then again with the New York Times. A free ride??? Hardly.
The word free ride can be applied to Sen Obama. His theme song should be "Can't Touch This"

The leaders of both the Republican and Democratic Parties are moving us closer and closer to Socialism, away from our Constitution (the true Test of American Patriotism). Both major parties pushed through the Patriot Act (a direct violation of our civil liberties) allowing the Federal government (and the lawmakers) greater access in to our personal lives. We have welfare, medicare, and medicaid, all basically federal government subsidies for Americans as a socialist distribution of wealth and commodities. Then, we have the continuation of undeclared War (a direct violation of our Constitution), allowing the President (or socialist leader) the ability to unilaterally decide whether our country (our Americans) go fight in another country using military resources and costing volunteer military lives.
The very core values of America that the founding fathers of our country laid out for us are being destroyed, and our nation is moving in a perilous direction. The American people need to Wake up from their Slumber, and start helping educate their fellow Americans that we are not Socialists, but in fact we are a Nation of Patriots (people who live by and die for civil liberty as well as individual rights).
Our country sorely needs a third party that will rejuvinate and unify the 40% of Americans that usually don't vote, to overcome the two party system of the Socialist Democrats and Socialist Republicans. Individuals always care for other individuals through charity and good deeds, the Federal government steals from individuals to line the pockets of the Corporations and maintain power for itself, leaving whatever remains recycled back to the American people.
Stop sleep walking into Socialism --- Wake up and fight for our Founding Fathers core values of freedom and equality for all! Freedom from the Federal government intervention! Freedom from excessive taxation!

"There's only "a dime's worth of difference" between the Republican and Democratic parties, and they're fighting over that dime! "
Obama, Clinton, McCain, Huckabee --
1. All voted to continue funding the Iraq War.
2. All support "comprehensive immigration reform" -- Washington speak for Amnesty for illegal aliens. They want their big corporation buddies to be happy now don't they with their cheap labor. Meanwhile we pay higher taxes to offset the burden that would put on Social security, Medicare, Medicaid, Welfare. If you subsidize something you get more of it, the more we subsidize illegal immigration the more we will get of it, and the more illegal alien families will be affected and hurt.
3. All wish to enact some socialist program or another for the "greater good" -- Translation, we want you to pay higher taxes so we (the federal government) can spend it in the way that benefits our special interest group. Obama (Health care insurance companies), Clinton ( Pharmaceuticals), McCain (Military industrial complex including all military corporations), Huckabee (Military industrial complex).
4. All are for reforming Washington and ridding it of government and lobbyist control (well so they say).
5. All support the Patriot Act (a direct violation of our civil liberties)

This election season has nothing to do with platforms and politics it's merely a case study in generational ideologies. It seems to me a lot people can't seem to wrap their head around the fact that younger generations do not put up with ignorant obsolete sanctimonious old people because we don't have to. You guys (i.e. ignorant, prejudiced, scared of everyone that isn't white and speaks english fogeys)...(republicans) do nothing but get in the way of progress, oh and by the way in case you didn't realize it yet it isn't your country anymore, it's ours now. You guys (you know who you are, see above if you are confused) have, since day one made decisions based on fears and prejudices that your parents believed in or maybe a preacher taught you or perhaps were generally accepted in the time period when you grew up, I'm sorry but we just don't do that anymore you guys are done and if you don't think so you will have your pompous high and mighty name run through the mud until you understand that you are nothing more than a regular flawed person just like the rest of us. Most people in their 20's and 30's and 40's are not going to vote for McCain for one simple reason, fear tactics don't work on us, sorry Mac. You guys will never get it and you need to, you see pious right wing evangelical fear mongering is over with now. It was like communism, sure it had its heyday, and it worked when people were poor and ignorant, but had no staying power because its success was dependent on keeping people stupid and afraid. Consider swallowing that big bitter pill of reality and recognize (as soon as possible) that hating, killing, prejudice, and bigotry was a defining characteristics of YOUR generation not ours. Your time has passed.