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McCain: 'Every reason to doubt' Obama

Posted: Friday, May 16, 2008 4:56 PM by Domenico Montanaro

From NBC's Domenico Montanaro
While speaking to the National Rifle Association in Louisville, McCain responded to Obama’s remarks earlier today.

“I welcome a debate about protecting America,” McCain said. “No issue is more important. Sen. Obama claimed all I had to offer was the ‘naive and irresponsible belief’ that tough talk would cause Iran to give up its nuclear program. He should know better.

“I have some news for Sen. Obama: Talking, not even with soaring rhetoric, in unconditional meetings with the man who calls Israel a ‘stinking corpse’ and arms terrorist who kill Americans will not convince Iran to give up its nuclear program. It is reckless to suggest that unconditional meetings will advance our interests.

“It would be a wonderful thing if we lived in a world where we don't have enemies. But that is not the world we live in, and until Sen. Obama understands that reality, the American people have every reason to doubt whether he has the strength, judgment, and determination to keep us safe.”

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John Mccain supports GWB and his running on Bush expierence!  American can not afford one day Of Insane Hussain Mccain's expierence!!
McCain may be toast, but  so will Obama when Bob Barr, Ron Paul, and possibly Hillary run as independents. There will be too many candidates available and they will get the default votes of the disgruntled supporters of Hillary!
According to McSaim,
Iraq war will be over in 4 year. So if people listen to this crap, the war will be over by the time he is done with his first term in Office. So, everyone of you out there ask yourselves? What the hell happened during the past five years where more than 4,000 soldiers have died and more than 40,000 wounded seriously. If McSaim knew how to win this war in 4 years, why did he keep his a** without speaking all these years on how to win this war. He is dangerous, he is ignorant, and he so stupid comparing Obama intentions of talking to our enemies as something that should never happen. Let's look at the news today, USA sending billions of tons of food to North Korea, which is one of the Axil of Evil according to Bush. Why the heck are we helping our enemies? Ask yourself before you vote for this guy because he would really take you to war with Iran and pay attention, Iran is triple the size of Iraq and is four times the population with much stronger army and missiles. Not to be afraid but killing inocent people just to show how strong america is stupid. You can be strong and be tough at the same time by being smart, not brainless.

Go Obama, I will gladly vote for you for the first time in my life.
A man captured and tortured in another misbegotten war lead by politicians rather than global urgency probably DOESN'T have the objectivity necessary to conduct legitimate diplomacy in the 21st century.  

McCain knows only that the enemy is bad...and may no longer have the capacity to understand that the enemy can be defeated with carrots as well as sticks.  Never mind that this is the same man who skipped out on his own wife for the trophy, the same man integral in the S&L scandal that cost Americans 200 billion dollars in bailout money.  

He's the man who blindly supported the war and took issue only with the fact we didn't kill more of our own troops to achieve an objective that was never defined.  And when it WAS defined (we will be greeted as liberators)...it certainly didn't turn out that way.

There's no one more dangerous right now than George Bush...but given how close he is to our presidency?  John McCain is rapidly becoming America's next greatest threat.
Sure McCain, because shooting first and asking questions after has done us a world of good in Iraq.  I thought he said he was different than Bush
Nothing scares me more than the idea of an adulterous, wishy-washy Senator with considerable health and mental health issues anywhere near the nuclear codes.
It's amazing how many mindless people have been brainwashed by Obama's marketing blitz! Yes, negotiations works with SOME countries, but with nations like Iran, and organizations like Hamas it does nothhing, and has done nothing. It would be like telling a woman about to be raped that she can "talk her way out of it" instead of defending herself. The bottom line is that if someone is determined to destroy you, telling them that you want to compromise only emboldens them. APPEASEMENT DOESN'T WORK!! It never worked in the past and it won't work now. That is the difference between someone who is intelligent and experienced in national affairs, and someone who is naive and just wants you to vote for him because his highly-paid marketing team came up with a catchy one-word campaign slogan "change" which means nothing because he won't/can't even do it. WAKE UP PEOPLE!! No one is saying war is the first choice - it is always to be the last choice. Diplomatic sanctions are always a good start. BUT IS OBAMA REALLY STUPID ENOUGH TO THINK THAT THERE IS ANYTHING THAT HE CAN SAY THAT WILL MAKE THE LEADER OF IRAN, HAMAS, OR BIN-LADEN CHANGE THEIR MINDS??!! I AM TIRED OF OBAMA INSULTING THE INTELLIGENCE OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE!!!
Bush, McCain,  Rummy, Cheney.  Lotsa experience and 0 common sense.  Time to vote Obama and common sense over failed experience!
You say McCain is old old old.He has more knowledge About what is going on in this country and the worldhan Obama will ever have.I bet you do not know McCain has a son fighting in Iraq.Why hasn't Obama who says he loves America been in the service for his country.Obama says he is not a muslim well his spokes person Gibbs has said that Obama is a muslim but not a practicing one.Get that practicing one.Obama cannot speak on his own with out his speech writers.He also has to have a teleprompter to tell him what to say which is mostly lies.That is the reason he has his nose up in the air reading from the teleprompter.
The problem is that we have every reason to doubt both Sen. McCain and Sen. Obama. Most democratics knew that, and that's why they voted for Sen. Clinton.

But if you're an Sen. Obama fan, not to worry. Whatever the GOP throws at him, his surrogates, that is, the American press, will be there to defend him and make it all right again. Following President Bush's (admittedly offensive) appeasement remarks this week, CNN and MSNBC spent a full 2 days discounting them and cheering Sen. Obama on in his rebuttal.
Sen. Obama may win this election. The press will lose.


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