Where Have You Gone, John?

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  • Posted By: cooper1249 @ 08/03/2008 11:03:28 PM

    Why does the media not question McCain, they too will have to suffer under a McCain Presidency. I know they fell in love with him 8 years ago but that was 8 years ago. He is constantly lying about his record lying about Obamas record and all I seem to hear about is his eating habbits and my God maybe hes to thin to be President, are you kidding me.McCain is not his own man today and we all better start paying attention.

    • Posted By: ebony @ 08/04/2008 3:38:31 AM

      Enter Your CommentVery true! The media do need to start looking out for themselves too! Maybe they all are in the upperclass and would benefit from McCain being in office! But I'm telling you, we will be in serious trouble if McCain get's in office! I really hope the media starts doing there job and start telling the American people that McCain is lying about Obama!

  • Posted By: Albatross @ 08/03/2008 11:05:43 PM

    "Can't govern after winning this way"? How naive can John Weaver be? The Bush Administration has been winning and "governing" this way all along. Ruthlessness and power-at-any-price are the hallmarks of the corporatist goons that have taken over this nation, and McCain would simply be the next presidential puppet controlled by those for whom the bottom line replaces the Constitution.

    • Posted By: cooper1249 @ 08/03/2008 11:09:25 PM

      exactly right. McCain is just another Bush and this Country will be in for a hole lot of crap if McCain wins.

      • Posted By: ebony @ 08/04/2008 3:35:51 AM

        Enter Your CommentYou're right! I believe personally that McCain would be worse than Bush! Lord please help us all if McCain get's in office! I hope the American people wake up and vote for Obama! I know he is not perfect but I know he will be a far better choice than McCain!

  • Posted By: jlynch00 @ 08/03/2008 11:27:55 PM

    John McCain a Maverick?! a war Hero?! Who is the real McCain. His??? real past is more of an unknown to most Americans then Obama???s past. For the truth about John McCain's service in Vietnam check out the pod-cast of the interview with Ted Sampley of Vietnam Veterans Against John McCain at;www.thejeffandmikeshow.com
    Did McCain really suffer in the Hanoi Hotel? Or did he betray his country by singing like a canary
    to the Vietcong?

    • Posted By: ebony @ 08/04/2008 3:34:07 AM

      Enter Your CommentYeah I've heard too that McCain really wasn't a hero also! My father served in Vietnam and he told me that! Said McCain would tell anyone everything he knew and he got special priviledges because of who his father was! I really wish the MSM would reveal the truth! But to be honest the media is softer on McCain than they are on Obama! Obama may get more coverage but it is usually negative!

  • Posted By: ebony @ 08/04/2008 3:29:48 AM

    Thank you MrAlter for you being truthful and upfront! I always enjoy hearing your unbiased analysis of the situation! Please do not let McCain and the repubs get away with playing dirty. Please broadcast it where ever you can! McCain is not an honourable man! I just don't a person that is so dirty and dishonest to be the leader of America! McCain does not deserve that position! If he can't win it honestly and honourably he doesn't need it!

  • Posted By: cferns1530 @ 08/04/2008 3:27:08 AM

    Wow! some of the posts are unbelievable.....as unbelieveable as McCain's campaign.

  • Posted By: PacificGatePost @ 08/04/2008 2:49:10 AM

    IS McCAIN???S CAMPAIGN GETTING TORPEDOED BY HIS OWN SUPPORT SYSTEM?

    http://pacificgatepost.blogspot.com/2008/07/more-evidence-that-republicans-dont.html

    It sure looks like it.

  • Posted By: jlmealer @ 08/04/2008 12:22:06 AM

    Actually Jon... It will soon be big news!

    JOHN McCAIN 3R ECONOMIC PLAN 2008
    Abbreviated version
    Progressive thinking Republican Candidate John McCain comes through for America with his 3R economic plan. In the persona of Theodore Roosevelt, McCain???s plan just makes sense.
    FIRST , keep in mind that to drop the fuel tax, the local gov???ts would crash. We must use the 3R to replace taxes lost from replaced fuel through green energy.
    (Yes, we have it ready to go!)
    www.betterconstructed.com
    1. RETHINK: America must see globally on what America is capable of in our current state of technology, engineering and meet the demands that face the world.
    Private Sector framework is in place and current laws allow the 3R to happen. The Progressive attitude of John McCain to get things done by crossing party lines will resurrect America.
    2. REFORM: The American people must demand higher quality products and less restricted trade routes for Made in USA components. We will lead the way of MFG again!
    The USA will reform its dead manufacturing base
    3. REINVENT: America and Americans must reinvent themselves to reach and maintain these standards and by sheer American ingenuity, control the world???s marketplace in the competitive manner, as the USA has always been proud to be the world leader.
    NUTS AND BOLTS of the plan are simple.
    Billions of savings equates to millions of lost tax revenue from energy companies. The US needs a separate tax revenue source before we can move away from fossil fuels.
    McCain 3R solution.
    McCain???s 3R is about technical, closely monitored and rapid hands on training from pros to create new pros. Thousands of currently-job-displaced ???once leaders in the manufacturing arena??? will be asked to train and play instructor rolls in the 3R plan. Paid, of course, as these new leaders will help create a whole new style of prosperous America. A massive restructure providing thousands New American MFG means millions of new jobs for infrastructure alone.
    We have the buildings, needs and infrastructure to do this!
    New jobs is the mainstay for Creating a new guard for Social Security.
    This is the new place for financial speculators to invest!
    McCain???s Progressive nature embodies Theodore Roosevelt more than any US presidential candidate in history since the original Rough Rider blazed the greatest era of growth in America.
    We need John McCain to lead our nation with the same type of change.
    Men and women of all races on equal ground operating their own businesses or taking part as an employee. No more hyphenated Americans! Thinking like Theodore Roosevelt all the way to a stronger America.
    www.betterconstructed.com
    THIS 3R DRAFT COURTESY OF:
    John Lewis Mealer, Founding President of Mealer Companies

    • Posted By: You are a FOOL @ 08/04/2008 1:06:45 AM

      And we all live happily ever after. I highly respect what your trying to do and say. In a perfect world, all of these great ideas will come, and people will jump up and down and say yahoo. And to compare McCain to Roosevelt is a bit of a stretch of wishful thinking.

      Our country is in deep trouble. Is our country ready for a panacea well written by you? I highly doubt it. I think before we can move to your area of expertise, there are more pressing issues that need immediate attention. Examples, Iran, Israel, Palastinians, China, Russia, global events of all types, health insurance, the quagmire, housing, recession possibilities and a contracting economy, food or gasoline, and the list keeps going on and on and on.

  • Posted By: knobrocker @ 08/04/2008 12:02:06 AM

    Hey, going negative and throwing integrity to the wind has worked for Dubya. Why not for McCain. Let's face it: Carl Rove and his flying monkeys have taken over the Republican party. No wonder people are leaving it in droves.

  • Posted By: acoustech @ 08/03/2008 10:06:07 PM

    When your enemies protest so widely and loudly.. you are pushing on the right nerve... If I am McCain's manager.. I make more ads just like that one

    • Posted By: You are a FOOL @ 08/03/2008 11:56:18 PM

      So you would substitute the word Muslim for the old n word. NEXT Fool

    • Posted By: labman57 @ 08/03/2008 10:30:19 PM

      So following that logic, any ad that disrespects and pisses off your opponents, regardless of how factually inaccurate, juvenile, or insulting it may be, is fair game. Why not just come out with an ad campaign that says "don't vote for that f*****ng n*****r".

  • Posted By: ltk0001 @ 08/03/2008 5:54:04 PM

    The problems with Barack Hussein Obama are the unanswered questions about the sources of his mountains of cash that are coming from Saudi Arabia, Iran, China, et al., etc....he has raise more total campaign funds to date of any candidate in history...remember how Gore got into problems accepting monies from China via monks in LA...+ too many questions to fit in this post...NOBAMA..Unqualified.

    • Posted By: You are a FOOL @ 08/03/2008 11:54:04 PM

      You know, you sound like a parrot for Fox news. I have an idea, since you don't have an idea of your own, when you do decide to have an idea of your own, post it at Fox. You know what the definition of insanity is don't you? NEXT Fool

    • Posted By: cooper1249 @ 08/03/2008 11:37:29 PM

      are you kidding me. Go back to Fox News please.

    • Posted By: notroubleatall1963 @ 08/03/2008 9:36:27 PM

      Hey moron-- The "mountains of cash" from the countries you mention is due to American citizens living abroad in those places. They collectively contributed 10 times more than the Americans Abroad gave to McCain. So Americans are funding Obama's campaign.

      Stop posting lies and rumors - only the poorest educated and the least informed might believe you, but you're just dead wrong. And it's a pity that you are so poorly informed yourself.

    • Posted By: graphtheorist @ 08/03/2008 7:42:58 PM

      I agree! I was born in California. (What does that make me? An anchor baby? Nope!) I send money to Obama's campaign whenever I can. My parents were both born in Pennsylvania. Do you still think I must be some kind of "anchor baby?" What the hell is an "anchor baby," anyway? Read the constitution, Ron Paul!

    • Posted By: pinkpanther87413 @ 08/03/2008 6:53:43 PM

      Gee i guess the fact of the funds his own book is generating means nothing and you cannot verify one dime you spoke of. what people do, is much different than what a lobbist, pays you to do!

    • Posted By: supersenior @ 08/03/2008 6:13:32 PM

      DULISIONAL!! Obama's money comes form the people of America who support him. You have no proff for you silly charges. No one is going to believe that nonsense so just give it up.

  • Posted By: Gwiz @ 08/03/2008 11:53:53 PM

    Where's the entegrity of the "NEWS MEDIA" to state the truth about Mcain?

    His position
    temperament
    flip flops

  • Posted By: DrBill43 @ 08/03/2008 7:09:38 PM

    Jonathan Alter is not qualified as a writer, nor is Newsweek as a magazine. Such tripe!

    • Posted By: You are a FOOL @ 08/03/2008 11:51:59 PM

      What did you get your PHD in, being a shmuck, if the kitchen is too hot, fox news is waiting for you. Go see Batman and take those blood pressure meds. Perhaps Xanax will relieve your anxiety of what is being posted here.

    • Posted By: olderwiser @ 08/03/2008 10:36:50 PM

      A $43 doctor bill? Insurance will cover $2.00 of that bill. They will keep the rest and refer you to a lawyer who will explain that lawyers can't make a living on cases to sue for $41.

    • Posted By: Cazador1972 @ 08/03/2008 9:14:31 PM

      This is an opinion article, not a reporting article. I'm guessing you get your information from Fox News, ja?

  • Posted By: Gwiz @ 08/03/2008 11:49:45 PM

    I have yet to understand how the polls are showing McCain a.k.a "McSnitch" running head to head with Mr. Obama?.....Every blog i read on the Internet are voters who favored Mr. Obama. With the lame childish campaign McSnitch is running, who would vote for him? unless you're racist or stupid, $4 gas 51 thousand job lost in july!!.......I hope the GOP is not planing to "RIG" the voting machines to get McSnitch elected.......

    FYI... The first read boys are LAME!!! there in the tank for McSnitch, they won't post a comment if it's anything negative about McCain.

  • Posted By: ChicoCDM @ 08/03/2008 9:52:10 PM

    Obama's media friends stop at NOTHING to get thier guy elected. The only difference I see in this McCain is one that will not lay down when the Obama camp tried to paint him as racist in a SLY way. I see a Joh McCain that will win THIS election. That's the only difference I see. I like how the DEMOCRATS rage about negative attecks when that's ALL they have done "McSame" yadda yadda. I'm glad McCain is standing up for himself and taking Obama to task. He can't count on the media to be fair ESPECIALLY NOT NEWSWEEK, TIME or the NYT. Whatever you guys publish I KNOW ITS FAVORABLE FOR OBAMA! NO MATTER WHAT!

    • Posted By: cooper1249 @ 08/03/2008 11:46:45 PM

      go back to Fox News. Do you even bother to check McCains record.

  • Posted By: denis1009 @ 08/03/2008 11:44:34 PM

    I agree with Jonathan. I really think McCain is pathetic. He really has no new ideas for America, and just wait until the debates. If they don't figure out how to plant some kind of ear plug in McCain's ear to give him answers to questions he will implode because he truly doesn't have command on what is going on with America. Just wait.

  • Posted By: cange98 @ 08/03/2008 11:40:40 PM

    Ladies and Gentlemen meet the real John McCain:: http://therealmccain.com/

  • Posted By: masonwl @ 08/03/2008 11:35:10 PM

    Comment: McCain: racist, bigot & homophobe
    August 1, 2008 - 7:14am.
    By DOUG THOMPSON

    John McCain, a member of the House of Representatives in the mid-1980s, often held court at a table near the bar at Bullfeathers, a popular Capitol Hill watering hole, telling jokes and matching hangers-on drink by drink.

    As a Capitol Hill chief of staff, I often drank at Bullfeathers and was invited to join the throng at McCain's table one evening. A few minutes listening to the racism, bigotry and homophobia of the Arizona Congressman told me all I needed to know.

    McCain loved to tell jokes about lesbians, blacks, Hispanics and the Vietnamese community that occupied a large section of Arlington County, Virginia, just south of the District of Columbia.

    Of course, McCain didn't use polite language in the jokes: He used names like "fags" or "queers" or "dykes" or "***" or "spics" or "wetbacks" or "gooks."

    A typical McCain joke (overheard at Bullfeathers):

    Two dykes are talking at a bar and one leaves. As she walks toward the door, the other watches her leave and says out loud: "God, I've love to eat her out."

    Two men are standing near by and one turns to the other and says: "I'd like to do the same. Guess that makes me a ***."

    Or another (also overheard at Bullfeathers):

    Question: Why does Mexican beer have two "X's" on the label?

    Answer: Because wetbacks always need a co-signer.

    (McCain has a documented history of lesbian jokes. He's also come under fire for other jokes about rape.)

    Exampe:

    Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly?

    Because Janet Reno is her father.


    Another example:

    Did you hear the one about the woman who is attacked on the street by a gorilla, beaten senseless, raped repeatedly and left to die? When she finally regains consciousness and tries to speak, her doctor leans over to hear her sigh contently and to feebly ask, ???Where is that marvelous ape????


    When he ran for the Senate, I attended a gathering of GOP operatives at the National Republican Senatorial Committee where McCain outlined his campaign strategy:

    I play to win. I do whatever it takes to win. If I have to *** my opponent to win I'll do it. If I have to destroy my opponent I won't give it a second thought.


  • Posted By: Bill45 @ 08/03/2008 10:17:40 PM

    The fact that Obamanathon Alter devotes an entire petulant column to the Obama celebrity ad shows just how effective the ad is. The Obamanauts know all too well that, lacking any record or accomplishment, all their guy has going for him is the mystique that made it possible to barely squeak by Hillary. Puncture the Obama mystique in any way or, worse, let derision of the Obama mystique take hold in the public consciousness and it will be 1988 all over again. That explains all the hysteria Dems like Alter about the ad. It is so effective and potentially fatal to their guy's candidacy.

    • Posted By: cooper1249 @ 08/03/2008 11:19:29 PM

      do me a favor and check McCains record, check out his votes on the troops he claims to love so much.
      He is a liar and it will come out believe me. McCain dosen't score well at all with the vets one gives him
      a D while Obama gets a B+ but of course you can't be bothered with that right. You want a third world war than vote McCain

  • Posted By: olderwiser @ 08/03/2008 11:01:19 PM

    Corporate America really flinched when Mc Cain attacked their greed. They flinched and then turned around and snickered into their armpits, confident that he is their man. As to inspiring plans for service, he means the kind that is referred to when one brings an animal to a stud farm to be serviced. You, the citizen, are the animal that he had in mind and corporate America is the stud that he had in mind. Be wary of these people. They have ridden high for the past eight years and would just love the chance to finish off our economy and pocket the proceeds, allowing you to eat all the cake that you want.

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