How to Beat a Rock Star: ‘Substance.’

Be rational and vote McCain? Be rational and vote for someone who does not share my familly values protecting my marriage? Be rational and vote for someone who does not share my understanding of what is needed to improve the economy of this country? Be rational and vote for someone who wants to continue to bully his way through the world? Voting for McCain in my opinion would be a betrayal of all I would like to see changed to make for a stronger America, a more just America, a free America, a healthy America. I also could not be rational and vote for a man who, like Ronald Reagan, has a good chance of losing his memory in during his presidency.

Two wrongs do not make a right.
America is so desperate for change that we are about elect the Pied Piper as president. . . and you can bet our treasury and uniquely American sense if independence and self reliance will suffer accordingly.
Bush was desperate to go to war and look how he botched it. As voters we can't afford to make the same mistake. McCain 2008mistake. Not now.

Two wrongs do not make a right.
America is so desperate for change that elect the Pied Piper as president. . . and you can bet our treasury and uniquely American sense if independence and self reliance will suffer accordingly.
Bush was desperate to go to war and look how he botched it. As voters we can't afford to make the same mistake. McCain 2008mistake. Not now.

Firefighters hired by the state of Oregon as government employees are required to speak English.

The bilingual crew leader requirement applies to private contractors that choose to hire non-English-speakers.

The person taking this story around to the media who was not allowed to act as a crew leader runs a private contracting company, and the state informed him that he had to be bilingual to be the crew leader if any of his crew didn't speak Engish because the state's own firefighters operate only in English.

So the guy hired a bunch of migrant workers who didn't speak English for his crew (because they're cheaper, of course), and the state refused to let him lead them if he couldn't speak their language because it didn't want these guys to go out there and get killed because their own boss couldn't give them instructions.

With all due respect, this article asks the wrong question. And, it assumes Obama has no substance. The reality of the matter -- if you dig deep, and take the time to read each candidate's policy positions and ideas -- that Obama wins the substance argument by a landslide. Not merely a win for Obama. An Obama wipe out.
That's substance we can believe in.

Couldn't McCain at least be briefed on that report????? How can a Candidate running for President not make time to stay informed regarding basic government happenings? I have serious doubts about McCains ability to evaluate and process the essential information flowing through the Presidential Office. How can he ask us to let him make critical decisions affecting our nation. It's like admitting he doesn't know what is going on!!!!

If people wanted substance then they would have voted for Dr. Ron Paul.

Substance? What substance?

In the first session of the 110th Congress (2007), McCain holds the dubious honor of missing, by a wide margin, more votes than any other Senator save one. The only one who missed more? That would be Senator Tim Johnson, who was recovering from a brain hemorrhage.

The Washington Post has a database that tracks vote missed in the Senate. McCain missed a whopping 261 of 468 votes, about 56%. And it not because he wasn't there in the building. He refuses to vote on any bill that is controversial or that he might be criticized for. Consequently, he votes on almost all of the silly votes (like "Name a Daisy Day") but fails to be in the room when really important stuff is going down, like votes concerning the war in Iraq. Senator Harry Reid, the Senate Majority Leader became so angry with McCain about this that he took him task for it right on the Senate floor, saying "Senator McCain has spent considerable time defending the President on Iraq, but has only managed to show up for four of the last fourteen Iraq votes."

In case you think I made that up, I will give you a reference: "McCain Missed Votes on Iraq Triggers Reid Rebuke" published in The Hill, May 17, 2007.

You may be asking why would McCain not want to vote on Iraq? Because he already knew then that he would be running for President, and he knew the war was increasingly unpopular, and he didn't want the Democrats to be able to point to his record and say "Look how he votes on Iraq."

McCain has also missed important votes on national security, funding of law enforcement, equipment for firefighters, and of course, his most recent no-show, on giving veterans the GI Bill. In fact, McCain misses more than half of his votes.

Is this the kind of President that you want?

Welcome to McCain???s personal delusion: A New American Dystopia.

To begin with, McCain is no ???maverick.??? That ridiculous misnomer ------- bequeathed on this geezer by the media ------ is not reflected by McClone???s voting record. A whopping 89% of the time, this evil old prik has voted for all of the failed and flawed Bush strategies.

In fact, McCain personifies the delusional thought process which has brought the United States to the brink of one-party-totalitarian-rule. Let???s review the corporate fascist regime McCain has supported:

1. Genocide against Iraq ----- a country even Bush admits had no links to 911 or al Qaeda.
2. 12 billion/m on this fake war, which continues to place our troops in the cross fire between Islamic jihadists and tribal factions.
3. A war which, according to our own CIA, has radicalized Koranic fundamentalist sentiment instead of keeping us safe from it.
4. Illegal surveillance; violation of the FISA court
5. Our nation beggared to China ----- who is largely funding the Iraq fiasco
6. Skyrocketing gas prices, plunging economy, record home foreclosures.
7. An administration awash in corruption, indictments and felony convictions.

And all of it, mind you, done to implement the great, neoconservative ???wet dream:??? A global, free market economy ----- as set forth in the PNAC.

If this old f*ck McCain thought the Hanoi Hilton was bad, wait till he debates Obama.

1) Press conf. http://www.thememoryhole.org/war/no-saddam-qaeda.htm)
2) 911 Commission ----- June 17, 2004
3) 2008 Senate Intelligence Committee;
4) Chief U.S. Weapons Inspector Report on Iraqi Arms Program, Charles A. Duelfer, Oct 5, 2004.
5) 60 Minutes, aired April 23, 2006 Tyler Drumheller: ???Bush knew in 2002???
6) State Department???s Bureau of Intelligence & Research)
7) January 2004 report by the Army War College)
8) Baghdad year zero: Pillaging Iraq in pursuit of a neocon utopia: http://www.harpers.org/archive/2004/09/0080197

"McCain't and isn't able to Govern" Has just as much substance as his supporters and they just can't seem to quite make that move to the 21st century Their antiquated rhetoric is just that, Antiquated! And their pretzel logic is not going to carry them this time.
35 + MIl Votes and not counting the caucuses to 9 Mil votes and that is just the preliminaries.

This Isn't even a contest.

You don't have to go home but you can't stay here

McBush sez: "So when French intelligence and German intelligence and all the others???I don't know what role spin plays in it, but I don't think it would have been very easy for anyone in this administration to spin French intelligence or other nations that held the same view."

McBush is lying. German intelligence WARNED Bush that the source code named Curve Ball was throwing curve balls with his tall tails of "trailers of mass destruction" and other such garbage that the Bushites used to dupe the American public into war. And the intelligence people were complaining that the necons were "cherry picking" intelligence that they could use to sell the war and "stove-pipiing" to Cheney so they could avoid the vetting that intelligence is supposed to be subjected to.

If Bush doesn't do it first before he leaves office, McBush will use the same sort of deceptions to lie us into a war with Iran that Bush used to lie us into the Iraq war.

Wow! I use to like this guy. Go Obama!

I can't imagine what kind of "substance" John McCain claims to offer. So far, there's not a single one of his policies that could make the claim to substance, except, of course, for his policies on continuing a war with Iraq and possibly starting another war with Iran (and even then he can't get the players right). A statement like this is nothing more than a bad joke and one I am surely hoping the American people will not fall for again -- not after 8 years of the Bush administration pushing the same kind of empty hype.

Obama '08!

Yeah, substance can trump star power, but McCain doesn't have any. The corporate media just wants the public to believe he does because he's done favors for the telecommunications industry in the past and he can do much more for them if he gets to be president.

Obama has star power. He also has substance, despite the "narrative" that the corporate propaganda mill is grinding out.

John McCain is nothing but a warmonger. He is willing to do anything and say anything to get the Presidency, but he has NO SUBSTANCE at all: Keating 5, calling his wife ugly names, abandoning his first wife for being disabled, associating with dishonest lobbyists, riding Bush's coattails. Why is he withholding documents on the Abramoff investigation? He is the enemy to women, the middle class and to those who believe in America's standing in the world as a beacon for peace and modernity. To elect John McCain is to pull the trigger on a winless war with Iran. He is dangerous for our children's future.