Where Have You Gone, John?

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  • Posted By: Driver of wagons @ 08/02/2008 8:34:42 PM



    i have noticed McCain seems to standing less and less upright. bending over more lately. i don't think he has the physical ability to handle the grueling pace of a campaign or the task of being the president. Look how much it has aged considerably younger men in much better shape mentally and physically then he is.

    This issue is extremely scary.



    • Posted By: Wrendell @ 08/03/2008 3:08:17 AM

      And just think, he'll be 76 at the end of his first term...hmmm

  • Posted By: staycalm @ 08/02/2008 6:04:59 PM

    I like John McCain very much and will vote for him but I totally agree with this article. I have written to his campaign with similar comments. If he wants to make Obama seem foreign and out of step with mainstream America, all he has to do is run Youtube clips of Obama's former pastor and his unbelievably anti-American, anti-white diatribes and remind people that Obama went there religiously, no pun intented, for 20 years and considered that man to be his mentor.

    • Posted By: Wrendell @ 08/03/2008 3:00:26 AM

      Dear staycalm, please remember that NOTHING is ever said about all the full blown racist whites who have held office in the House, Senate and the White House. We just buried Jesse Helms and being a rampant racist never hurt his career. What are you afraid of, really. Does the idea of an intelligent black man frighten you? Are you afraid that he will do a good job? It is a certainty that he can not do any worse.

  • Posted By: KirbyF @ 08/03/2008 2:58:32 AM

    John hasn't gone anywhere, the only change in the eyes of the media is that he's now running against a far left democrat(are there any other kind anymore?) rather than a conservative Republican. Especially a far left democrat that people in the media like Alter seem to have a man crush on. This is a political campaign for president of the U.S.and not an anointment of the Chosen One. Things can get a little rough so you lefties
    had best get used to it.

  • Posted By: bluesky123 @ 08/03/2008 12:44:22 AM

    News media and American 'journalistas' have elevated McCain to "the most popular national political figure in the country" by repeatedly describing him as a "war hero" based on his refusal accept a communist offer of "early release" from captivity.

    What the media has carelessly refused to acknowledge is that the camp's senior ranking U.S. POW (SRO) had issued unquestionable orders that if a POW was to be released, "it would be the longest held prisoner" Because McCain was not the longest held POW, he would have faced a military court-marshal if he had accepted the offer.

    It is incumbent upon McCain to prove to the American people that the 5 1/2 years he spent at the mercy of communist interrogators did not leave him with mental health issues that could hinder him in making snap decisions "if the White House phone rang at 3 a.m."

    Is McCain taking any kind of pain or "nerve" medicines? If so, do the medicines cause emotional and physical reactions?

    McCain was once treated for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) which is said to get worse over time for former POWs, what is the status of his treatment?

    Does McCain still harbor stress triggered suicidal tendencies?

    Where was McCain and what was happening to him during the months he was missing from the POW camp?

    McCain implies that he made only one propaganda broadcast for the communists, but Senate Foreign Relations Committee staffers say he made over 30. How many did he make and what did he get in return?

    Why does McCain still deny that the Soviets were involved in the interrogation of U.S. POWs in Vietnam?

    Does McCain's former interrogators, the communist Vietnamese, Russians, Chinese and Cubans have anything in their secret intelligence files about his behavior as a prisoner with which they could blackmail a President John McCain?

  • Posted By: bluesky123 @ 08/03/2008 12:42:24 AM

    News media and American 'journalistas' have elevated McCain to "the most popular national political figure in the country" by repeatedly describing him as a "war hero" based on his refusal accept a communist offer of "early release" from captivity.

    What the media has carelessly refused to acknowledge is that the camp's senior ranking U.S. POW (SRO) had issued unquestionable orders that if a POW was to be released, "it would be the longest held prisoner" Because McCain was not the longest held POW, he would have faced a military court-marshal if he had accepted the offer.

    It is incumbent upon McCain to prove to the American people that the 5 1/2 years he spent at the mercy of communist interrogators did not leave him with mental health issues that could hinder him in making snap decisions "if the White House phone rang at 3 a.m."

    Is McCain taking any kind of pain or "nerve" medicines? If so, do the medicines cause emotional and physical reactions?

    McCain was once treated for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) which is said to get worse over time for former POWs, what is the status of his treatment?

    Does McCain still harbor stress triggered suicidal tendencies?

    Where was McCain and what was happening to him during the months he was missing from the POW camp?

    McCain implies that he made only one propaganda broadcast for the communists, but Senate Foreign Relations Committee staffers say he made over 30. How many did he make and what did he get in return?

    Why does McCain still deny that the Soviets were involved in the interrogation of U.S. POWs in Vietnam?

    Does McCain's former interrogators, the communist Vietnamese, Russians, Chinese and Cubans have anything in their secret intelligence files about his behavior as a prisoner with which they could blackmail a President John McCain?

  • Posted By: radamisto99 @ 08/03/2008 12:23:54 AM

    If McCain were an honorable, he would have left the GOP in 2000 after the despicable way he was treated in ther South Carolina primary.

  • Posted By: Iofiel @ 08/02/2008 11:38:58 PM

    It's a real shame about McCain. When he won the primaries, I felt that we had a good shot as a nation no matter who won because both candidates were honorable men looking for a new direction. Now McCain has acted disgracefully time and again and declared himself "proud" of the way his campaign acts. He's either lying or, even scarier, he might actually believe it and think that his smear campaign is something to take pride in. The last weeks haven't been about McCain and his visions for our nation but long screeds against Obama based on some of the silliest rhetoric in a long while. What happened to the McCain of 2000 and who did he sell his soul and pride to to become president?

  • Posted By: Iofiel @ 08/02/2008 11:38:31 PM

    It's a real shame about McCain. When he won the primaries, I felt that we had a good shot as a nation no matter who won because both candidates were honorable men looking for a new direction. Now McCain has acted disgracefully time and again and declared himself "proud" of the way his campaign acts. He's either lying or, even scarier, he might actually believe it and think that his smear campaign is something to take pride in. The last weeks haven't been about McCain and his visions for our nation but long screeds against Obama based on some of the silliest rhetoric in a long while. What happened to the McCain of 2000 and who did he sell his soul and pride to to become president?

  • Posted By: kurosawaquilter @ 08/02/2008 11:14:43 PM

    I used to admire John McCain for being the man he was while associated with the Republican Party in a time when everyone followed the Bush lead. But the man running for president this time, this John McCain, is not going to bother to do his own thing--he's lost his own identity. Obama hardly even needs to say that McCain is George Bush II. McCain has said it louder and more often than anyone. It is very sad.

  • Posted By: ErinMc @ 08/02/2008 11:10:48 PM

    I'm sorry, personal honor? I am increasingly convinced that the true McCain???petty, petulant, foul-mouthed, and foul-tempered??? has come out in this campaign. His real make-up is also evident in the frightening stories of his senate colleagues (including many of his own party) about his temper, narcissism, and penchant for personal grudges. Yes, he effectively branded himself as the straight-talking, maverick reformer after the ???ethical lapse??? of the Keating 5, which ended up costing thousands their retirement funds and taxpayers billions. But that???s all it is??? an empty brand.

  • Posted By: bkam @ 08/02/2008 10:43:58 PM

    Thank you for bringing up my main worry as an Independent -- McCain's campaign is a MESS! How in the world does he expect us to trust him with our country?

  • Posted By: Steve T @ 08/02/2008 6:18:46 PM

    I lost most of my respect for John McCain in 2000, when he allowed GW Bush to successfully smear him during the Republican primary. Whatever backbone got him through the Hanoi Hilton seemed to have evaporated.
    Now, observing his gutter politics in this campaign, I've lost the rest of it. He was fit to lead at one time, apparently long ago, but not anymore.

    • Posted By: william111 @ 08/02/2008 10:32:58 PM

      Lets see Paris Hilton (White Female), Britney Spears (White female), Barack Obama (Multiracial black Male). Most white males despise this scenario. Thanks McShame campaign for bringing distractions to this 2008 Election

    • Posted By: a brighter America 08 @ 08/02/2008 8:26:21 PM

      Actually, McCain really had NO backbone while POW; On several occassions he agreed to do propaganda ads for the VietCong. He put self before his country and his comrades. McCain was NO heror, he was and is a coward. McCain has lived off our country and taxpayers his entire life; he has no inkling of the daily lives of Americans in the middleclass and the poor. He is a spoiled Navy brat whose father a Navy Admiral pulled strings to get him into the Naval Acadamy and then again to get him assigned an aviator. McCain was 5th from the BOTTOM of his greaduating class yet he was given a choice position when he should have been assigned to clean airplanes instead of flying them. You bet, Daddy carried him through! Then it was Cindi's rich daddy who sponsored and helped McCain get into the senate. McCain has earned NOTHING on his own his own merits! Right now in this campaign he doesn't even have control of his own candidacy!! He said something a few days ago that was out of script. Later when tone of his handlers was being interviewed and was asked about the off-script comment; the hander replied, "Senator McCain does not speak for our campaign". So, just WHO is running for president in the McCain camp? Is it that particular handler, all the handlers, or is it McCain? I think all of us need to question McCain on this!!

  • Posted By: CenturionMk5-2 @ 08/02/2008 10:28:29 PM

    The McCain campaign is truly like that of person it seeks to promote to presidency. It is one of savage averagery, executed with average savagery.

    • Posted By: notroubleatall1963 @ 08/02/2008 10:30:37 PM

      hahaha, excellent! Well said!!!

  • Posted By: ptmoudgal @ 08/02/2008 8:38:28 PM

    Oh for heaven's sake. Newsweek, MSNBC, Time, CNN make Obama out to be a saint. This is another puff piece with no balance. I would love to read an article that points out the +ives and the -ives of both campaigns without always pointing to what the other side did as wrong. Actually I am glad (finally) that McCain is showing some spunk. He is pointing out some of the inconsistencies about Obama that HRC did. Some of the tactics that these guys used against the Clintons were juvenile as well and oh by the way what about Ludacris, Wright, Farrakan, etc. who have shown nothing but hatred against the McCains and the Clintons. At the end of the day - it is all about who will keep your taxes low and the country safe - nothing else matters.

    • Posted By: MT-MD @ 08/02/2008 8:59:42 PM

      Comment: "At the end of the day - it is all about who will keep your taxes low and the country safe - nothing else matters." - ptmoudgal

      Are you kidding? NOTHING else matters? What about human rights? What about good education and good jobs? What about a health-care system that actually IS a system (rather than a patchwork of corporate interest and public funding)? What about a smart energy policy and smart environmental policy? I'm sorry, but if your only priorities are low taxes and safety, maybe you should collect an armory for yourself and build a bunker in the woods and let the rest of us deal with the important issues of living in a civil society that wants to better itself for the future.

      • Posted By: william111 @ 08/02/2008 10:30:16 PM

        A negative McShame campaign and the whining about the media coverage have helped the McSame gang. The democrats have plenty in their arsenal. Lets see according to President Bush and VP Cheney, Wall street got drunk which resulted to the mortgage crises. Bush failed to take away the keys from Wall street when Bush claims that Wall street got drunk. Bush claims and admits Americans are addicted to oil. Now Bush/Cheney are going to push primarily for more oil so that our oil addiction problem will be solved in America. The (2)two oil men in the White house know that all profits for the oil industry are good only for the energy corporations of the oil sector of America. Will Americans keep defending America in foreign lands so that the oil profiteers can continue to think or care less about the struggles of Americans. No doubt that terrorism is a threat to America, but bullying Americans thru patriotism so that oil corporations profit during war times is not America??? and I will not vote for McBush!

        This is a cat-and-mouse game, similar to McCain's decision to back offshore oil drilling in the United States despite years of opposition. He knows the move could backfire against him by making him appear to be a flip-flopper, but McCain hopes voters will put their concerns over $4-a-gallon gas over the long-term opposition to the drilling.

    • Posted By: notroubleatall1963 @ 08/02/2008 10:18:10 PM

      Low taxes and safety from the Terrorishstsh... Wow, that's great. Low taxes - what do we get for our "low taxes" - absolutely nothing. They pay for the war that we don't need. We stirred up a hornet's nest to get at the oil that we failed to secure. Wow, I feel safer, thanks Bush.

    • Posted By: gravyfilm @ 08/02/2008 9:26:51 PM

      Are you kidding? Taxes, safety...what about our children? How about a decent education, food, clean air and water? I am so sick of this type of selfish BS. When are we as a country going to think about creating a better world for our kids? Taxes? You think thats the biggest problem we face? At the rate we are going we will be asking for aid from India.

  • Posted By: william111 @ 08/02/2008 10:25:33 PM

    The whining from the GOP has finally had an impact on the media in favor of the McCain (McSame) in 2008. The race to the White House has tightened up to a virtual tie. I wonder if the McShame campaign will again start the whining when there lead slips away from the Obama campaign. The conservatives of the GOP blamed the Clinton's, when Hillary was branded as a whiner she was trailing Obama in the spring of 2008.

  • Posted By: sharonklim @ 08/02/2008 10:24:35 PM

    John, I was surprised to read such such an in-depth and well done article. I have been following all the primaries and now this general election. The content reveals your knowledge of past and present events/candidates of this campaign are excellent.. I strongly feel John McCain has now started using "Karl Rove Playbook. Negatives quite long for McCain. Found he lies alot. Past bad baggage alarming. Thanks
    This Republican.

  • Posted By: Normalman @ 08/02/2008 7:52:21 PM

    Usual whining of the liberal media that their pet "good" republican is off the leash and acting like all those "evil" republicans they don't like. In other words, he might actually win ugly then lose with dignity, which is what Alter and others who claim to like him want him to do. McCain's taking Obama on hard, is it all fair - no. Is a good chunk of it fair - yes. Either take the heat or get out of the kitchen.

    As someone who wasn't already voting for Obama, I'm glad he's going in hard. And it's interesting to see how easily scared the Obamican get at every mildly tough attack.

    • Posted By: notroubleatall1963 @ 08/02/2008 10:20:43 PM

      Why is the that the "Liberals" always "whine" and "drink the Koolaid"???

      This is getting so cliche - can't you dummy Republicans get a grip on the English language and use it creatively for a change? It would make reading your rants so much easier on the eye and less jarring to the sensitive Liberal souls posting here.

      Thank you for your consideration.

    • Posted By: sirhc @ 08/02/2008 8:30:35 PM

      ACTUALLY WHAT HE'S DOING IS BEING WOEFULLY STUPID. HE DIDN'T LEARN FROM HRC? SHE HAD THE MONEY, FAME, POWER, NAME.....ETC AND SHE GOT BEAT SO BAD SHE ENDED UP 20 MILL IN DEBT AND IT WAS OVER A QUARTER OF A YEAR BEFORE SHE FINALLY GAVE IN. NOW MCCAIN WHO REALLY DOESN'T EVEN HAVE A BASE IS GOING TO TRY IT? DOES HE REALLY EVEN WANT TO BE PRESIDENT? I KNOW THE OBAMA CAMP IS LOVING IT..........MCCAIN IS GIFT WRAPPING THE PRESIDENCY.

  • Posted By: DoTheMath @ 08/02/2008 9:47:24 PM

    I can only guess that McCain must have had something going for him at some time to get to the point where he is now. Whatever it was, it's gone. He can't keep the facts straight. His campaign runs sleazy ads that try to confuse people and cause members of his own party to shake their heads in disbelief. Why would anyone trust him to run the country?

  • Posted By: vernonbc @ 08/02/2008 9:46:33 PM

    Jon, you make many good points but you're way off on one basic premise - that John McCain has integrity. He's not some naive good guy that is inexplicably being led down a garden path. What you are seeing now is indeed his inherent lack of integrity. Way back in high school and college he wasn't called McNasty for nothing. You have been bamboozled by thinking he is/was a man of character in the first place.

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