Where Have You Gone, John?

For a long time I always said that McCain was the only Republican I would ever vote for. I admired him greatly, having read his books, etc. He has lost my vote. His temper, and having Rove's goons planning his attacks have sealed the deal. He will be a Bush clone, for sure.

You are absolutely correct stpblk we do know where McCain stands.
He's made it clear he will keep the Bush economic policies.
He's made it clear he will appoint ultra conservative judges to the Supreme Court to keep the effort to over turn Roe v Wade.
His Health care advisor is the same individual who kept the Clintons from bringing health care to all americans leaving 50 million uninsured.

If you think the economy is "Great"
If you think is acceptable for some to dictate to Women.
If you think it is acceptable for America to rank 47th in the world on health care.

Then McCain is your man.

But don't claim wisdom in the same breath that you make it clear you are not paying attention and claim everyone else "nobody realy know" because you don't know, some do pay attention.

The McCain campaing proves what the press is unwilling to say because reporters like McCain personally. He is a not very bright (fifth from the last in a class of 450 at Annappolis) but ideological and beleives the ends (his election) justifies the means. He is too influenced by the braintrust around him, and he is self righteous.

Sure he's be fun to have a beer with but you don't want him as president. Been there, done that.

Give me a smart person, even if I don't personally like him (i.e. either of the Clintons, Obama, Bush Sr.) as presdient anytime. And Obama has shown, with his amazingly organized Campaign, the pivoting on a dime when they mis-step, that he is smart, organized, and in many ways, ready to compromise, to get things accomplished.

The GOP would rather you like McCain, because he seems so solidly 'old school'...so wonderfully patriotic, after all he has been in Washington for 25 years...he was a pilot (logged a whole 20 hours of flying) during Vietnam. Well, here are some facts, since the GOP doesn't like to deal in those:

McCain graduated from college at the BOTTOM of his class: 894th out of 899th. That alone makes it easy to see why he can't keep the factions and politics of the middle east strait when talks about them. It also explains why he says he doesn't know much about the economy...I certainly believe it!

McCain on Family values: After returning from Vietnam, he finds that his wife has been disabled in a car crash. While still married and living with his 1st wife in 1979 he was, according to The New York Times, ???aggressively courting a 25-year-old woman who was as beautiful as she was rich.??? (McCain then divorced his wife, who had raised their three children alone while he was imprisoned in Vietnam, and launched his political career with his new wife???s family money.)

McCain on the Economy:
- In December 07 he said, "The issue of economics is not something I've understood as well as I should."
- In January 08 he said, ???I don???t believe we???re headed into a recession,??? he said, ???I believe the fundamentals of this economy are strong and I believe they will remain strong.???
- In March 08 he said, "I will not play election year politics with the housing crisis," adding, "I have always been committed to the principle that it is not the duty of government to bail out and reward those who act irresponsibly, whether they are big banks or small borrowers." - Guess it's not his problem if thousands of Americans become homeless thanks to deregulations in the mortgage industry (which were supported by McCain).
- In April 08 when asked about the state of the economy, "I???m very concerned about it, Neil. And obviously the way it???s been going up is just terrible. But I think psychologically ??? and a lot of our problems today, as you know, are psychological ??? the confidence, trust, the uncertainty about our economic future, ability to keep our own home."
- In April 08 when asked about why he supported the gas tax holiday, "This might give them a little psychological boost. Let???s have some straight talk, it???s not a huge amount of money"

McCain on Taxation:
- In 2001 he argued AGAINST Bush's tax cuts saying, "I cannot in good conscience support a tax cut in which so many of the benefits go to the most fortunate among us, at the expense of middle class Americans who most need tax relief."
- In 2006 he said, "The tax cuts are now there, and voting to revoke them would have been to -- not to extend them would have meant a tax increase." Even tax-cutting advocates who cheered McCain's reversal could not help but call it what it was: "It's a big flip-flop," said conservative moveme

The GOP would rather you like McCain, because he seems so solidly 'old school'...so wonderfully patriotic, after all he has been in Washington for 25 years...he was a pilot (logged a whole 20 hours of flying) during Vietnam. Well, here are some facts, since the GOP doesn't like to deal in those:

McCain graduated from college at the BOTTOM of his class: 894th out of 899th. That alone makes it easy to see why he can't keep the factions and politics of the middle east strait when talks about them. It also explains why he says he doesn't know much about the economy...I certainly believe it!

McCain on Family values: After returning from Vietnam, he finds that his wife has been disabled in a car crash. While still married and living with his 1st wife in 1979 he was, according to The New York Times, ???aggressively courting a 25-year-old woman who was as beautiful as she was rich.??? (McCain then divorced his wife, who had raised their three children alone while he was imprisoned in Vietnam, and launched his political career with his new wife???s family money.)

McCain on the Economy:
- In December 07 he said, "The issue of economics is not something I've understood as well as I should."
- In January 08 he said, ???I don???t believe we???re headed into a recession,??? he said, ???I believe the fundamentals of this economy are strong and I believe they will remain strong.???
- In March 08 he said, "I will not play election year politics with the housing crisis," adding, "I have always been committed to the principle that it is not the duty of government to bail out and reward those who act irresponsibly, whether they are big banks or small borrowers." - Guess it's not his problem if thousands of Americans become homeless thanks to deregulations in the mortgage industry (which were supported by McCain).
- In April 08 when asked about the state of the economy, "I???m very concerned about it, Neil. And obviously the way it???s been going up is just terrible. But I think psychologically ??? and a lot of our problems today, as you know, are psychological ??? the confidence, trust, the uncertainty about our economic future, ability to keep our own home."
- In April 08 when asked about why he supported the gas tax holiday, "This might give them a little psychological boost. Let???s have some straight talk, it???s not a huge amount of money"

McCain on Taxation:
- In 2001 he argued AGAINST Bush's tax cuts saying, "I cannot in good conscience support a tax cut in which so many of the benefits go to the most fortunate among us, at the expense of middle class Americans who most need tax relief."
- In 2006 he said, "The tax cuts are now there, and voting to revoke them would have been to -- not to extend them would have meant a tax increase." Even tax-cutting advocates who cheered McCain's reversal could not help but call it what it was: "It's a big flip-flop," said conservative moveme

Despite some like mattgilman saying McCain is not playing the race card, it is obvious to me that McCain is looking for a way to get into race to exploit. Obama has simply been saying the obvious - the Republicans are saying he is not the main stream, he is different, does not represent the typical American. The right wing bloggers of course are saying much much worse. All in the name of alienating whites. Of course, with Rovian/Bush philosophy guiding him, McCain is looking to reverse the responsibility to the one who he is attacking. Great eh, get your issue tabled in your favor and you paint it as the other guy's bad for raising it. I think right thinking Americans will see through this.

The Republicans and the right wing elite extremists of course must resort to trying to embarrass Obama or personally discredit him with racism, fear mongering and the like. This is because their views and policies are inferior and they have no strategy figured out for themselves other than to attack his character and also of course his wife's character.

McCain's dealing with all of this shows a small mind and a reactionary agenda. It shows he is not made of the right stuff to be a strong leader. I respect him. He is a patriot, he served his country, he suffered torture. However, that does not necessarily make him Presidential material. The more I see of him, the less I like.

I believe Obama is neither right or left, Democrat or Republican in his thinking and views. He is simply an intelligent commonsense person with a broad perspective. He also has a strong moral core, and I believe the steely determination to do what is right for America -- yes, including the dealing with terrorists and the wars. I believe this is what America needs -- what is right for America at any given one time is a mixture of the liberal and conservative ideologies. Not necessarily one or the other.

In fact, I would argue that neither liberal or conservative ideology is particularly better or correct. America's parties, particularly the Republican Party led by Bush and Rove, have tried to split America down the middle in order to execute a philosophy of 50% plus one vote is enough to govern the other 50% minus 1 against their will. This has been more than misguided -- it has led to disastrous consequences for the country and indeed for other countries, and arguably the entire world.

I also believe Obama is in fact the mainstream here; he might not look mainstream on the outside, but inside, he is mainstream to the core. And, its what's inside that counts.

Will the real McCain please stand up. How's 'bout him standing zestily up for the protection of his original wife and family when he met his former (?) drug addict currennt wife. He didn't stand up for decency then and he can't now 'cause the truth just isn't in him. He has a life pattern of stories that elicit 'ah ain't he rough a tumbly'. Get over it American, McCain has no boundaries unless there's a lot of dollars on the hook he ambling for. Bush, Bush, Bush. How can people fixate on what they hope to be the truth instead of the truth. He never had the truth in him like I said just whatever ya wanna hear = you know, situation ethics.

John McShame has taken the election to a new low. I look at Obama ad's and he is talking about the issues, I look at McShame's ad's and he is talking about Obama.

I'm just out right tired of the same old attack, attack, attack. Even if I was not pro-Obama I would not vote for McSame based on how he runs his campaign. I have more respect for the Presidency then that!

C) Oh, poor old McCain! I'm old too, but I do thank God for blessing me with two lovely children, and I do take great pride in the youthful attraction of my son and daughter as God' great gifts. God is good! The younger ones naturally have their own appeal which we as old ones once had but no longer have. Do we have the right to use that natural attributes against them when they are not to blame for our own loss of such attributes because we are now old? Now McCain, if Obama were your son campaigning for the presidency and not you, will you be saddened by the fact that he is drawing, gaining and receiving much attention like some celebrities? Will you take that as an offence, and use that to attack his youthful appeal? What if those young named celebrities, Britney Spears and Paris Hilton should take offence and start to attack McCain would he not be blamed as irresponsible for starting it all? Is that what is expected in responsible and a respectable elder statesman aspiring to be the leader of the United States of America? McCain should know that any attack on the natural youthful attributes of the younger ones like Obama by old ones like McCain will only help to draw attention to his old age. If that old age is not matched in him with wisdom and understanding, good vision and foresight, and good judgment and temperament, then it is not worthy.

It is a good show of wisdom and understanding, as well as good sense of responsibility for Obama not to attack attack McCain on the basis of his natural attributes that come with old age. That is quite respectable. Obama has also proved himself to be better than McCain in good judgment, foresight and vision as demonstrated in their different positions about the invasion of Iraq and the war that followed. Surely all evidence point to the fact that Obama has much better leadership qualities than McCain.

I am Abbarick. And I approve this message.

The media slowly awakens from a decades old slumber in regard to the fraud that is John McCain. He has always gone with anything that would make him look good or help him win. He's doing nothing different now except the media bought the straight shooter, maverick mask.
Time to show who he really is. An incompetent who just wants that big job and doesn't have a single idea
what he'd do other than look in the mirror and call himself Mr. President.
McCain is an empty suit, has always been, always will be. Now he's who he always was, just a nasty little man.

A) How would McCain camp react it if Obama should counter the celebrity charge by saying that McCain is trying to hide his natural defects that would make hard for him to sell as a celebrity? Why did McCain appear on the "Late Night Show" if he is not seeking celebrity status? Is McCain so out of touch, and so ignorant/confused that he could not understand that David Letterman's Late Night Show is principally for fans of celebrities such like the ones that McCain camp is trying to deride out of jealousy? The painful problem for McCain is that he introduced himself as "John McCain: The American president Americans have been waiting for" and wanted to be treated as such but he received no such reception neither at home nor from abroad. Rather it was Obama who humbly refused to be compared with the past presidents that is receiving the kind of presidential reception McCain is craving and passionately soliciting for.

That explains the furious rage and the attempt from the McCain camp to make a mockery of that Obama's positive advantage that is seriously eroding what McCain arrogantly perceived to be his own advantaged area in the race for the White House, namely in the AREA OF ABILITY AND THE EXPERIENCE TO LEAD AT HOME AND ABROAD IN BOTH DEFENSE AND FOREIGN POLICY as the story line indicates. McCain knows very well that Americans want a president that will restore the badly damaged image of the country abroad as President Bush admitted saying he should not have said some things he said the way he did. Comparing the reception that the two candidates received from abroad as the respective nominees of the two major Parties, McCain can no longer dare to raise the issue of foreign policy credentials Obama seems to be far more likely to succeed in restoring the US back into the leadership position. McCain is trying to downplay that great reception given Obama abroad as the same as the ones given to celebrities like Britney and Paris, but those European State leaders that Obama talked with may not like the idea of being compared to Briney and Paris. A simple act of courtesy in diplomacy.

"Barack Obama may be The One," the announcer says. "But is he ready to lead?"'

McCain thinks Obama is not ready to lead, but Americans and the rest of the world believe he has the RIGHT ideas and is heading in the RIGHT direction and they welcome him to lead and are ready to follow his lead. By contrast, McCain thinks he is ready to lead but Americans and the rest of the world believe his ideas are WRONG and that he is heading in the WRONG direction and would not welcome him to lead, and would not follow his lead. That is the very point that Obama's responses must not miss out, because that is the very fact that McCain is afraid of and would like erase. That is the fact that McCain is trying to distort and draw attention away from and wish people would ignore. McCain is trying to SCARE Obama from exploiting it.

I am Abbarick. And

Republican reporter can't help resort to this comments on John McCain ...I'M TOTALLY AGREED WITH HIS MOTHER to said publicly that indeed that JOHN McCain is plain Stupid.

"For a man who will turn 72 this month, he's a surprisingly immature politician,erratic, impulsive and subject to peer pressure from the last knucklehead who offers him advice. The youthful insouciance that for many years has helped McCain charm reporters like me is now channeled into an ad that one GOP strategist labeled "juvenile," another termed "childish" and McCain's own mother called "stupid."