Just keeps getting better Hillary is now using the same talking points as McCain.  Hillary and McCain teaming up on Obama.  Afterall democrats truly love McCain.  LOL

The candidates did "nothing" to answer the questions.  Obama saying he brings "perspective" as an answer to how will you be different?  What a joke.  The american people need to wake up and pay attention - these people aren't going to do things differently - they are politicians.  Politicians involved in a downward spiral of discovered untruths.  We need to continue to put them on the hot seat and when their answers are vagues and dishonest - we need to respond and react appropriately.  Our government isn't capable of taking care of our own people here in the US.  We pay and pay and pay in taxes so immigrants can take advantage of our generosity & freedoms while the american people have to fight or pay through the nose for the freedoms granted to everyone else.  It's time for a change, all right.  Land of the free?  Hardly.  

I suspect that, given true insight into each of these candidates, they would suppose that the American people are also naive.

It is a shame that there is not a candidate that represents me (and I consider myself fairly average).

Mccain has become a pathetic old man----he should have known better than to kiss up to Bush and the religious right.His own man,he ain't.Course he is going to wait for campaign cash before he decides to spend more time with his family.

With McCain racing headlong toward obscurity, who will be Bush's illegal war cheerleader? Graham, he's already showing the strain. Did anyone see him on MTP? He looked like he was about to stroke-out. Another day, another group of Americans killed and for what? Bush's legacy?

When Bush had his colonoscopy, they found McCain.

I used to think - back when the war still seemed noble - that McCain was one of the most realistic, reasonable, and moderate politicians in Congress; a good candidate for President. The past few years however, his inflexible tolerance and support for nearly all of Bush's war policies has tarnished this image.
During the last presidential election, I was wishing that McCain could somehow run instead of either parties' candidates. Now, I can only hope that 2008 will reveal someone new and better.

I'll take the Obama approach over the Hillary/McCain approach anyday, and as the overwhelming majority of focus group results from after the debate showed, so would most Americans.

If talking to someone before getting trrops killed is NAIVE , we should all be naive!

Gasbag mccain will probably wait for matching funds, drop out and start his campaign for 2012. With the money, he can probably fill up the "gasbag BS express" and start cruising the country looking for people to listen to him.

I used to like McCain when he was Mr. Straight Talk.  He told Falwell to kiss his butt, was all kinds of independent.  Then he caved and became this ambitious guy who'd support torture, even though he'd been a victim of it himself, and kissed Falwell's ass at Liberty College.   The guy would step over his own grandmother to become president, and look at what it's gotten him...John who?

I believe McCain is the only candidate who is actually being honest with the public.  Anyone who thinks we can just leave Iraq now is naive.  The fact is most people supported the war at its onset and now, only in hindsight, are people saying that they were always against the war.  Removing Sadaam Hussein from power wasn't a bad idea.  But the execution of the war was incompetent at best.  McCain is the only candidate running who has been consistent on this issue.  I admire McCain even more now than I did before.  (Of course his pandering to the religous right on abortion isn't all that admirable, but it is by far the lesser of two evils.)

will you all PLEASE just check out Ron Paul's stance on the issues - he isn't republican for sure and he is more democratic than any politician i know
check it out for yourself - noone says it better then Ron Paul
http://www.ronpaul2008.com

I have watched all of the debates, repub and dem, all of the forums, and listened to all of the candidates speak. As a democrat, I will have to say the only one who is truly worth voting for is Ron Paul.

>> When Bush had his colonoscopy, they found McCain.


Wow, this is funny stuff.  Do tell - Someone comes up this for you, and you're an ace at the delivery, right? You're right up there with Mahre.

Please, provide more as soon as possible.

Ron Paul is god and McCain is crap.  Why?  McCain wants to sell us out to illegal immigrants.  Ron Paul will send them home.  ALL OF THEM.  Vote Ron Paul!

Ron Paul is god and McCain is crap.  Why?  McCain wants to sell us out to illegal immigrants.  Ron Paul will send them home.  ALL OF THEM.  Vote Ron Paul!

Gingrich is making an important historical analogy not attacking candidates.

My letter to The Washington Examiner

Dear Editor,

Bill Sammon’s piece along with its headline, “Newt Gingrich goes nuclear” (The Examiner - July 23, 2007) presents yet another example of how our political process is broken.

In a recent hour-long newsmaker interview with reporters, Newt Gingrich when asked by Bill about joining the presidential race made a simple historical analogy. He likened his interest in joining the race in its current form to former French President Charles de Gualle’s interest in returning to political life under the French Fourth Republic, a political and governing system which he disdained.

Sammon either did not understand the reference or he chose to quote Gingrich out of context.  I am inclined to believe the latter because Bill is a smart person.

Gingrich as a young man lived in France under de Gaulle and earned a Ph.D. in modern European history.  His comparison, which Sammon ignored, was significant and relevant to today’s dysfunctional political process and government bureaucracies.

For twelve years de Galle unwaveringly opposed the Fourth French Republic. He despised the ruling elites of the permanent governing class.  They had no new ideas, no creativity, and no solutions. Their failed political leadership, lack of seriousness, political games, and constantly shifting coalitions led to an unmitigated political mess, compounded by a governmental structure that didn’t work.

The Fourth Republic ended after military disaster in Indochina in 1954 and the subsequent loss of the war in Algeria.  Herein is the significance of the Gingrich analogy unreported by Sammon.

Last week, a snowman was allowed to ask a question about global warming to serious candidates by way of a YouTube video.  We have reduced a presidential debate to a TV game show similar to ‘Are You Smarter than a Fifth Grader’.  This is no way to choose the leader of the free world.

The de Gaulle illustration is fitting.  De Galle understood that to solve France’s innumerable problems and return it to prominence on the world stage, would required dramatic reforms that could not be realized from within the then failing political system.  He boldly called for real change and in 1958, de Gaulle lead the creation of France’s Fifth Republic which survives today.

Similarly, in order to solve America’s seemingly intractable problems, what is needed at the core of the presidential race are bold solutions and bold leadership that transcend the constraints of partisan political posturing.

It was clear to anyone in the room that when Gingrich said, “This is like going to De Gaulle when he was at Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises during the Fourth Republic and saying, 'Don't you want to rush in and join the pygmies?” that he was referring to the French analogy of a broken political system and not any of the candidates running for President.  

Sammon shortchanged his readers by choosing to ignore the important comparison, and choosing instead to quote Gingrich out of context all for the sake of horserace politics.

Rick Tyler
Press Secretary for Newt Gingrich
Washington, DC

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