Where Have You Gone, John?

Barack Obama the clearly better choice. He is more intelligent and has amuch better moral compass. Grumpy Mc Cain needs to go take a few naps just not in the oval office on our watch.

YES WE CAN! SI E PUEDE!

McCain is clearly not running his campaign, just like Bush doesn't run his presidency. Its real scary. Maybe its time for the Repubs to drop McCain and replace him with Sen. Jimmy Breaux from Louisiana. Check him out at this link:

http://www.youtube.com/profile_favorites?user=gravyfilmxxx

McCain is clearly not running his campaign, just like Bush isn't running his presidency. Its real scary stuff. I can't stand what his campaign is doing. Maybe its time to pull the plug and nominate JIMMY BREAUX.

Check out his policies at this link: http://www.youtube.com/profile_favorites?user=gravyfilmxxx

"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.

John McCain WAS viewed by the majority of the population as a Hero, but now he's sold his soul. When it's more "fun" to produce attack ads, than actually discuss the issues of the American people, he started
the erosion of what was once a sterling reputation. If he somehow wakes up on November 5th as POTUS, he will have done it by stomping on everything he ever stood for, and no one will be looking up to him.

Politics have always been all about mean spirited activities. Politicians could care less about the voter. Politicians only care about the vote. Remember Political Capital. McCain is way to old. To old all the way around. Four more years of impoverished conditions of the Bush years. I hope not. Ho Hum, here we go all over again.

Normalman,

John McCain is now a puppet to the Republican Party. First they swiftboated him, degraded him and his family, and now they speak for him like a ventriloquist. Wow, what a weak man he his. I'd rather vote for Obama because he speaks his own mind not somebody else's. "mildly tough attack?" How about "outrageous lies?" The Republican Party has run this country in the toilet. They are responsible for this mess and these so called "mildly tough attacks" are going to backfire in their face because we need a leader, not a puppet, to get us out of this mess. Great job Republicans. And thank you for trying to screw us all again with your dumb game playing. Thank you children! The difference is we are watching this time!

Newsweek: where did you get your journalists ? In Moscow?

His Campaign shifts show exactly what a McCain White house would look like. A giant puppet show with McCain at center stage. His inability to stand up to his own party and stand by his convictions, shows how John McCain is not ready to lead a nation in dire need of strong leadership. The concessions he has made in this campaign are disturbing. I hope that voters can see through the curtain to the lobbyist puppet masters controlling McCain's politics. at work

Besides $500 shoes and $1500 boots, 8 homes and a private jet, I wish the legion of press loyalists to McCain would stop talking about his ranch in Arizona. I can't handle years more of the hearty Republican President on his ranch. Bushes "ranch" had no livestock only some brush for Bush to pose next to. The same is true of McCain's "ranch". It is 61/2 acres in a development, not a working ranch. It does provide a setting for BBQs for the press and stroking of their egos. Jonathan, people McCains age do not change. You are wittnessing the one and only one.

Steve T - You nailed it. How can we possibly expect a man to show true leadership, and stand up for our rights ... when he can't even stand up for his own?

I am glad to see Alter's critical comment. I hope it will get the sheepish media to think for themselves. I dont know what makes me more angry, McCain's distortions and idioctic notions taken seriously or the media playing so soft with him.

Okay, so we can all now discuss how Saint MCain is taking the low road. When will we discuss how through his efforts the policy of the US government towards Iraq became regime change (1998). How in that effort McCain was the principle sponsor of Chalabi as the leading Iraqi exile figure. How Chalabi's information was much of the basis for our belief that the Iraqi's still had WMD. And how finallyChalbi turns out to be an Iranian agent.

When will teh media begin to discuss how through McCain's misguided judgement, we fought Iran's biggest enemy and gave teh block to them. McCains response? Bomb bomb bomb Iran.

He is the most firm advocate of preemptive warfare in public office. When is the media going to do the job America needs them to do?

What if the tables were turn and it was Obama who made the remarks and ran the kind of ads that Mccain has used against Obama over the past 2 weeks? What would the reaction from the media be?

What if the table were turn and it was Obama who made all the remarks or ran the kind of ads Mccain has run against Obama over these past 2 weeks?

It's almost as if McCain's not running for president; he's running for middle school student council president. The Britney-Paris ad was just stupid; the "Messiah" ad is deeply offensive. I won't be surprised if it backfires badly; people of faith see that there are some lines you just can't cross.

Excellent piece, wish I could say thing so eloquently!

From some of these news stories, and the insight they provide into the advisors of McCain and his campaign, I'd have to say it would be pretty upsetting if he won.

A family member of mine actually received a threatening letter in the snail mail today for a letter to the editor he wrote that had been published in the local city paper this week, defending Obama's view of the world as "reasoned" and "factual" vs. an appointee of the Bush Administration (whose name shall go unmentioned). In the letter, the person had written all sorts of hateful things - "you hate the Republican party, Obama is a Muslim, he's not American, he was born outside the US, and you want your country to go to a foreigner..." and worse.

This sentiment is alive and well across the country. It's quite shocking when you read things on the blogs and on the Internet, but when you get a personal letter in your own mailbox, it starts becoming scary.

This country could use a great leader - and Obama seems to have all the attributes. He's not perfect, but he's certainly inspired many of us to get out and vote when we're normally pretty apathetic, or just feeling basically disenfranchised by the system. He's inspired younger voters too, who I hope will make an effort to get to the polls this Fall. Because if the sub-moron element in our country turn out to be the "majority" once again, and we elect a man who appeals to this mentality, I will try my hardest to save up my meager dollars and get the hell out of the country.

It will be a terribly sad day if Obama doesn't win. Because the element that prevails will be the worst possible element in America, rather than the best.

Good article. As someone who once supported McCain for all the things he "used to stand for" his current performance is sickening. What I want to know is when are CNN and MSNBC going to talk about the McCain ad putting Obama on the dollar bill in response to their phony claims of "playing the race card"? I have yet to see this even mentioned except on Kieth Olbermann. That in itself proves this is all phony outrage" by McCain.

It's odd how the press will find excuses for McCain's behavior. Where another politician would be an opportunist, he's a good man doing bad things. The press has convinced themselves that the straight talking maverick of 2000 must be the "authentic"
McCain and evidence that he's just another politician must be explained away to maintain that narrative.