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The Books of John

McCain's editor on what he's learned from poring over a decade's worth of the senator's manuscripts.

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  • Posted By: wendydk @ 10/11/2008 12:25:09 PM

    John McCain is a good man, who got carried away by ambition, bad people and bad decisions. I think his conscience is bothering him now, and makes him more appealing, and more the man I know him to be.

    Sarah Palin may be smart, but she's not who you think she is. Sarah Palin is a traitor to America and to her party.

    Palins un-American activities
    http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/10/07/palins_unamerican/index.html

    Alaskan Independence Party chairwoman Lynette Clark talks about why she does not identify herself as an American, and about her kindred spirit Sarah Palin.
    http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/09/10/alaska_secession/index.html

    The pastor who clashed with Palin
    http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/09/15/bess/index.html

    Troopergate Report Concludes Palin Abused Power. Full 263 Page report here???
    http://download2.legis.state.ak.us/DOWNLOAD.pdf

    Palins Attack On Obamas Patriotism Legitimizes Questions About her Association With Group Founded By America-Hating Secessionist
    http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/10/palins_attack_on_obamas_patrio.php

    Palin And The Alaska Independence Party
    http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/09/the_alaska_independence_party.php

  • Posted By: sidamin @ 10/02/2008 12:29:34 PM

    Doesn't it seem very different from the McCain on the campaign trail? If I had just read these snippets from his books without seeing him on interviews and campaign trail I could swear that they were 2 different men. If there are these great noble thoughts within this man then the person that we see has not been able to muster them up. McCain has been far from inspiring.

    • Posted By: Chuzpah @ 10/03/2008 2:11:24 PM

      Your assessment is spot on.How does such a fine man look at his wife and publicly call her the C-word? That says zero respect for women. Go to Snopes, under McCain and checkout a blog from Anil, someone had the misfortune to vacation with him. I am convinced that is the real John McCain. Videos, TV appearances and interviews abound recording his flip flops. He will deny or change the context just to make whatever gaffe he made fit. At the RNC, when he stood grinning and heh, heh, heh.....it sent chills down my spine. The reason he panders to the far right is because he thinks they do not have the intelligence to look at his record-telling Vets how he loves them. If he is an Advocate for Veterans, I am qualified to be POTUS. The flag waving, sentimentality and joe six pack references don't fit the actions of McCain/Palin. Palin is already under investigation for abuse of power as governor-in last nite's debate she did understand what the Constitution on the authority of the VP-then she stated she would reform Washington. She has potential to be worse than Cheney. Not your everyday soccer Mom according to the people of Alaska. And she doesn't answer questions unless she wants to, remember that.

      • Posted By: Krohn @ 10/03/2008 8:56:29 PM

        McCain never called his wife the c -word! That is just more trash politics that Obama ( or Axelrod, or even George Soros) sent his surrogates out to spread through the rumor mill!

        • Posted By: wendydk @ 10/09/2008 12:04:06 PM

          Sorry Krohn, but he did it on tape, and I've seen it with mine own eyes.

  • Posted By: willnotvoteobama @ 10/02/2008 8:14:24 AM

    Some October surprises that can happen! Obama gets named by resko in his federal deal and is ordered to appear before a federal court to face charges! Or Larry Sinclair videotape emerges with proof that Obama did have a homosexual affair! Or the Michelle Obama whitey tape comes out or a terrorist attack in an u.s. city (god help us) or Iran attacks Israel and makes an announcement that they have a nuclear Wepons! Or Pakistan breaks into two different factions and one is a terrorist regime! So many things can happen!

    • Posted By: wendydk @ 10/09/2008 12:05:08 PM

      Or, Sarah Palin's Troopergate truth comes out. You know what's behind that deal just based on how hard they're trying to hide it until after the election

  • Posted By: wendydk @ 10/09/2008 12:01:28 PM

    I think the rubbish pouring OUT OF palin the last couple of days would rival Everest, and has proven exactly what we've all been saying about her since the beginning. She's a trash-mouthed rabble rouser, more worried about her political ambition than bringing America together.

    John McCain USED TO BE a great man. I think he knows what a mess he's made of his life this last year, and will always regret what he allowed things to come to.

  • Posted By: Krohn @ 10/08/2008 11:43:34 PM

    "Not all Democrats agree with Mr. Frank that such policies are off-limits to criticism. Last week Rep. Artur Davis of Alabama said in a statement: 'Like a lot of my Democratic colleagues I was too slow to appreciate the recklessness of Fannie and Freddie. I defended their efforts to encourage affordable homeownership, when in retrospect, I should have heeded the concerns raised by their regulator in 2004. Frankly, I wish my Democratic colleagues would admit when it comes to Fannie and Freddie, we were wrong.'

    "Mr. Davis is a member of the Congressional Black Caucus."

    'Rank snobbery'

    Camille Paglia, who supports Sen. Barack Obama, has nothing but scorn for the way the media has treated Sarah Palin.

    "The mountain of rubbish poured out about Palin over the past month would rival Everest. What a disgrace for our jabbering army of liberal journalists and commentators, too many of whom behaved like snippy jackasses," Miss Paglia writes at www.salon.com.

    "The bourgeois conventionalism and rank snobbery of these alleged humanitarians stank up the place. As for Palin's brutally edited interviews with Charlie Gibson and that viper, Katie Couric, don't we all know that the best bits ended up on the cutting-room floor? Something has gone seriously wrong with Democratic ideology, which seems to have become a candied set of holier-than-thou bromides attached like tutti-frutti to a quivering green Jell-O mold of adolescent sentimentality."

  • Posted By: Krohn @ 10/06/2008 6:02:15 PM

    The Antichrist!:
    When George Soros failed to obtain the election of his candidate, John Kerry, in 2004, he brooded for a while, even said he might get out of politics altogether, but he just couldn???t stop himself. He has stated publicly that he wishes to burst the ???bubble of American supremacy,??? because he says our preeminence in the world is a detriment to global ???equilibrium.??? So far, he has failed, but he keeps on trying.

    And Mr. Soros has made no secret either of the fact that he sees the shortest way to effect political shake-ups, what he terms ???regime changes,??? is through very difficult economic conditions.

    America has not yet felt the full force of Soros style economic shock treatment. But others have.

    Soros made his first billion in 1992 by shorting the British pound with leveraged billions in financial bets, and became known as the man who broke the Bank of England. He broke it on the backs of hard-working British citizens who immediately saw their homes severely devalued and their life savings cut drastically in comparative worth almost overnight.

    When the Asian Financial Crisis of 1997 threatened to spread globally, George Soros was right in the thick of it. Soros was accused by the Malaysian Prime Minister of causing the collapse with his monetary machinations, and he was branded in Thailand as an ???economic war criminal??? who ???sucks the blood from the people.??? Right in the middle of this crisis, Soros dashed off his book, The Crisis of Global Capitalism, which demanded a ???third way??? toward economic stability.

    Wake up, America, before it is too late!!!!

  • Posted By: cani77 @ 10/05/2008 10:22:07 PM

    n a few weeks we will make a choice that will decide our future.
    I follow an economist named Bob Proctor. He has called the top and bottom of every market crash since the 70s correctly.
    Also, he perfectly predicted the current real estate market meltdown and the picture he paints about what will happen in the next couple years
    is terrifying.He thinks it will be worse then the great depression.
    The banks in the U.S. are going under one after the other. Countrywide the largest morgage bank in the world,Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch which are 3 out of the top 5 wall street firms. Also, Fanny and Freddy Mae which hold 50 percent of the home loans in the United States.
    The government took them over because they are essentially bankrupt.If they didn't the entire financially system would virtually shut down, the stock market would crash and we would suffer beyond what any of us have seen before.

    McCain just like Bush " doesn't understand the economy".
    That not just my opinion its his own words. Not only does he not understand how to fix it but he does not understand exactly what is broken.
    It is no surprise that he doesn't. The people that make up these securities use complex mathematical models very few people understand.
    Bush and McCain both can take the credit for this mess since they helped deregulate the laws that were protecting us.

    Bush's economic advisor Phil Graham wrote the deregulation bill that allowed banks to take huge risks with all of our future.
    Now, Phil Graham is the head of McCain's economic policy.He is also McCain's choice for the next secretary of the treasury.
    No one in this country can afford for that to happen. The last time Bush met with his economic advisors was in March. He either didn't care or didn't realize that anything was wrong. Phil Graham had the guts to say that we are in a mental recession after he helped create the worst economy meltdown in our lifetime.
    It will take the best and brightest minds in the world to get us out of this nightmare. As bad as Bush has done, McCain would be
    even more destructive because things are in much worse shape. The next president will not inherit a surplus like Bush did but a tanking economy and a 11,600,000,000,000 (trillion) dollars deficit. Most of it Bush created and it will take decades to pay it back.
    If you do what you have always done then you will get what you have always got.
    When it comes to policy Bush and McCain are the same 90 percent of the time.
    So why are the polls even close then ?




    Mccains spokesperson just said they dont want to talk about the economy anymore. Instead they would rather make up lies and
    and half truths and try a smear campaign .

    Hold them accountable NOW!
    Elect Obama Biden 2008




    Check out this video of sarah palins interview it will blow you away


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r36Xc0GG4iQ

  • Posted By: Krohn @ 10/05/2008 8:26:05 PM

    he ACORN does not fall from the tree:
    http://justsaynodeal.com/acorn.html

  • Posted By: TruthForward @ 10/05/2008 11:17:37 AM

    His books hides his true past.


    For example, does anyone remember Charles Keating, and the Keating Five. Look that up. It's about McCain's Active corruption in the S&L scandal.

  • Posted By: Krohn @ 10/05/2008 12:59:13 AM

    This is one of the few Democrats that I am proud of!:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZR5ekEuGyvk

  • Posted By: Krohn @ 10/03/2008 8:54:50 PM

    Day 5 of stealing Ohio's election!:
    http://www.foxnews.com/video2/video08.html?maven_referralObject=3130656&maven_referralPlaylistId=&sRevUrl=http://www.foxnews.com/politics/

  • Posted By: Krohn @ 10/03/2008 3:03:03 PM

    EVEN MORE ON THE VOTER FRAUD THAT IS GOING ON IN KEY BATTLEGROUND STATES!:
    http://www.foxnews.com/video2/video08.html?maven_referralObject=3129737&maven_referralPlaylistId=&sRevUrl=http://www.foxnews.com/politics/
    DON'T SAY THAT I NEVER WARNED OF OBAMA'S NEFARIOUS CAMPAIGN!

  • Posted By: Krohn @ 10/03/2008 1:02:19 AM

    You may not like Bill, but sometimes you have to love him!
    http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html

  • Posted By: Krohn @ 10/03/2008 1:01:47 AM

    You may not like Bill, but sometimes you have to love him!
    http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html

  • Posted By: Krohn @ 10/02/2008 2:06:12 PM

    More on the voter fraud in Ohio:
    http://www.foxnews.com/video2/video08.html?maven_referralObject=3128354&maven_referralPlaylistId=&sRevUrl=http://www.foxnews.com/politics/

  • Posted By: Krohn @ 10/01/2008 10:29:35 PM

    voter fraud in Ohio:
    http://www.foxnews.com/video2/video08.html?maven_referralObject=3126975&maven_referralPlaylistId=&sRevUrl=http://www.foxnews.com/politics/

  • Posted By: Krohn @ 10/01/2008 10:04:19 PM

    A man of great wisdom:
    http://www.atlah.org/broadcast/manningreport.html

  • Posted By: Krohn @ 10/01/2008 9:38:43 PM

    Obama's dirtiest, darkest secret!:
    http://larrysinclair.org/

  • Posted By: Krohn @ 10/01/2008 9:38:30 PM

    Obama's dirtiest, darkest secret!:
    http://larrysinclair.org/

  • Posted By: willnotvoteobama @ 10/01/2008 7:39:11 AM

    The top 1% of earners earns 22% of the income and pays 40% of the taxes. So, that leaves 60% of the taxes to be paid by 99% of the people. Please, tell me what is fair in this equation. How much more does Obama want them to do? And, when Obama says 95% of the American people will get a tax cut, he forgets to say that 40% pay NO tax. So, while some do get a tax cut, he'll be sending a new "welfare" check to those that never paid in the first place. That's socialism, folks!

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