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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>McCain: A placed called Hope...</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/07/07/1184275.aspx</link><description>The AP's Sidoti: “McCain calls himself an underdog. That may be an understatement. The GOP presidential candidate trails Democrat Barack Obama in polls, organization and money while trying to succeed a deeply unpopular fellow Republican in a year that</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.0 (Build: 60608.1)</generator><item><title>McCain: A placed called Hope...</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/07/07/1184275.aspx#1184296</link><pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 13:33:12 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1184296</guid><dc:creator>Granger Todinski, NYC</dc:creator><description>Obama and the Democrats are going to learn, apparently the hard way, that money doesn't buy elections. Obama is one of the poorest excuses of a candidate to come down the road for the Dems in a long, long time. Even if he manages to get elected, the people of this country will be smart enough to throw the Dems out of party leadership in the Senate and House in 2010 when they see all the whacked out ideas the liberals have in store for the country.</description></item><item><title>McCain: A placed called Hope...</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/07/07/1184275.aspx#1184297</link><pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 13:33:43 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1184297</guid><dc:creator>Obama For President!!</dc:creator><description>interesting.. McClain is the underdog. &amp;nbsp;That's very hard to believe! &amp;nbsp;It also hard to beleive that none of the Bush-Cheny supporters are not supporting him.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;People typically supports the party.... &amp;nbsp;Not the candidates!&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;** 1 FREE BUMPER STICKER + 20% OFF -JULY BLOW-OUT SALE on Barack Obama products $8.99 &amp;amp; Up ( &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;up to 80% Off). 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It’s possible that the audio clips could be used in political ads, but that’s not his intention, he said.&lt;br&gt;***************************************************&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Oh, well at least he's being fair and balanced. &amp;nbsp;(insert sarcasm)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://thepajamapundit.com/"&gt;http://thepajamapundit.com/&lt;/a&gt;</description></item><item><title>McCain: A placed called Hope...</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/07/07/1184275.aspx#1184320</link><pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 13:41:06 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1184320</guid><dc:creator>thats a fact jack</dc:creator><description>if you like rising unenployment, sky high gas prices, never ending wars with body bags comming home everyday, more and more home owners being thrown out of their homes and a non-existent middle class then mccant is your man </description></item><item><title>McCain: A placed called Hope...</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/07/07/1184275.aspx#1184328</link><pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 13:43:35 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1184328</guid><dc:creator>J.Ellis, Virginia</dc:creator><description>The problem with &amp;quot;letting McCain be Mccain&amp;quot; is even that John McCain is uninspiring and boring. This man inspires no new message, no hope of reversing the failed policies of Prez Bush, and worse still, will continue to walk in lock step with the Repub platform in his sad effort to make his own party excited about him and his candidacy. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;As someone said on the Sunday morning talk shows, John McCain of 2000 would not vote for John McCain of 2008. 'Nuff Said.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;GO OBAMA/BIDEN</description></item><item><title>McCain: A placed called Hope...</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/07/07/1184275.aspx#1184350</link><pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 13:53:58 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1184350</guid><dc:creator>Clara Kansas City, MO</dc:creator><description>PS. &amp;nbsp;It was John Kerry - who had entertained the idea of having McCain as his running mate in 2004. &amp;nbsp;Unbelievable, isn't it? &amp;nbsp;that this McCain is no Maverick, and completely unrecognizable as the guy with the 'name brand' recognition.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;He has rolled over in bed with Bush and Rove and their sick, twisted plan for America. &amp;nbsp;This election is massively critical to ALL Americans. &amp;nbsp;So please get out and vote</description></item><item><title>McCain: A placed called Hope...</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/07/07/1184275.aspx#1184355</link><pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 13:56:10 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1184355</guid><dc:creator>Buffalo Bob Lieberman and Howdy Doody McCain</dc:creator><description>Does this mean no more Lieberman trying to clear up McCain misstatements?</description></item><item><title>McCain: A placed called Hope...</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/07/07/1184275.aspx#1184371</link><pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:01:21 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1184371</guid><dc:creator>donna</dc:creator><description>The McCain camp in turmoil is a relief. Given the carping Barack is having to endure from his own base.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Leading Liberals is like trying to drive a herd of cats. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Let's give our candidate our support. See the big picture. Let's express our concerns to him in a way that is more private, in the way that families who really care about each other do. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Compromise is the key to winning elections. Are we going to lose to the repubs again, because we are rigid, and refuse to accept the dynamics of political science? </description></item><item><title>McCain: A placed called Hope...</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/07/07/1184275.aspx#1184386</link><pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:08:29 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1184386</guid><dc:creator>Houston</dc:creator><description>The AP's Sidoti: McCain calls himself an underdog. That may be an understatement. &lt;br&gt;-------------------------------------------------&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;It's not an understatement, it's pure barnyard fertilizer. McCain is no underdog; he's the chosen candidate of the corporate media, the Associated Press in particular, whose journalistic sycophants even promised to keep McCain supplied with donuts with sparkles on them.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Today's paper carried an AP article mentioning that Obama said McCain's health insurance scheme would &amp;quot;shred&amp;quot; the system. Then they quoted two &amp;quot;experts&amp;quot; to contradict Obama. One was from the right wing &amp;quot;think&amp;quot; tank American Enterprise Institute. The other was actually working _for_ McCain. &amp;nbsp;Nobody was quoted in defense of Obama from his campaign or an expert not from the the radical right. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;That's the kind of coverage we're going to get right up until November, with the media manufacturing bogus &amp;quot;controversies&amp;quot; about Obama while McCain dodders his way to the White House.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</description></item><item><title>McCain: A placed called Hope...</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/07/07/1184275.aspx#1184388</link><pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:09:44 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1184388</guid><dc:creator>Andrea, New York City</dc:creator><description>After 8 years of a not bright or thoughtful president, who needs another 4 years of the same (McSame). It's scary. And further more, I have seen much sharper 71 year-olds. And they are completely computer literate. He just does not have it! </description></item><item><title>McCain: A placed called Hope...</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/07/07/1184275.aspx#1184401</link><pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:16:22 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1184401</guid><dc:creator>Diane from Illinois</dc:creator><description>I agree. Let McCain be McCain. Keep a microphone in front of his face 24/7........he'll bury himself. The problem is, McCain doesn't know WHO McCain IS these days. He's flip-flopped so much on whatever he stood for, that he currently is floundering around trying to decide WHO the voters want him to be. He's a joke from the 1950s and America can't afford 4 more years of failed Bush policies. Obama is the ONLY answer. Obama '08. At least he would bring honesty and integrity BACK to the White House and he would be welcomed around the world.</description></item><item><title>McCain: A placed called Hope...</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/07/07/1184275.aspx#1184402</link><pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:16:40 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1184402</guid><dc:creator>Ron Indiana</dc:creator><description>A Republican convention that is an anit-Obama, smear Obama convention. &amp;nbsp;How telling. When you are wrong on the issues. What else is left. Smear your opponent. I wonder if that is what the authors of the Declaration of Independence had in mind?</description></item><item><title>McCain: A placed called Hope...</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/07/07/1184275.aspx#1184411</link><pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:19:50 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1184411</guid><dc:creator>Class Warrior, D.C.</dc:creator><description>As yesterday's Doonesbury put it; they have hope still that they can disenfranchise as many Obama supporters as possible with crooked tricks at the polls. &amp;nbsp;Otherwise, they haven't got a chance. &amp;nbsp;The fact that they'll spend their Convention dumping on Obama instead of lauding the virtues (as in, what virtues, there are none to laud) of their own candidate, as is usual in Conventions. &amp;nbsp;To me, this just looks like a desparation move.</description></item><item><title>McCain: A placed called Hope...</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/07/07/1184275.aspx#1184419</link><pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:23:54 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1184419</guid><dc:creator>Voice of an Old Republican</dc:creator><description>HOPE all you can McRut...&lt;br&gt;We see that you can't change...your to set in the BUSH life style....when you lose the daddy can't save you...just don't ruin the GOP for the next 100 years....&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Obama/Biden'08&lt;br&gt; </description></item><item><title>McCain: A placed called Hope...</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/07/07/1184275.aspx#1184467</link><pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:37:52 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1184467</guid><dc:creator>BJ,CA</dc:creator><description>&lt;a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/maps/obama_vs_mccain/"&gt;http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/maps/obama_vs_mccain/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;McCain is the under dog, it has nothing to do with being &amp;quot;under&amp;quot;... </description></item><item><title>McCain: A placed called Hope...</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/07/07/1184275.aspx#1184532</link><pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:53:11 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1184532</guid><dc:creator>Carole, Ft. Lauderdale</dc:creator><description>The McCain campaign is having the same problems as Hillary's campaign. &amp;nbsp;Obama is the king of stage management and choreographing those big rallies to make himself look 'presidential'. &amp;nbsp;Hillary's campaign team couldn't manage to do it, even insofar as figuring out who should be sitting behind her on the platform the cameras were aimed at, and McCain's campaign staff is even worse at it. &amp;nbsp;It's more than pathetic that we elect people in this country based on the expertise of their image-shapers -- it doesn't even matter what they are saying or what their experience is -- just how well they say it and how well the image plays on whichever tube you watch.</description></item></channel></rss>