McCain: Gunga Galunga

Amy B Portland, ME — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:34:40 GMT

Watching Obama on his tour, I thought to myself, even Republicans have to see what a huge advantage it would be to have this guy represent us to the world. As Obama says, everything is global now, we are connected like never before, why not have a leader who looks, sounds and acts like he is unafraid to engage with the world? To me, Obama aced his interview for the position of world leader.

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NOT IMPRESSED — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:36:13 GMT

McCrazy better be careful of his D-Double Dares... He dared Sen. Obama to go overseas and cries because HE DID and HE CAN look presidential and command an audience of 200,000 people on foreign soil!

McTroll should never dare him again. Plus he needs to get more words than "SURGE" in his vocabullary. WE ARE NOT IMPRESSED...

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Matt, Idaho — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:37:53 GMT

Thank you FirstRead, for reporting this McCain News alongside all the Obama News.

Ironic that the 'only' news John can generate is the kind that hurts himself in the end, ha.

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The Waa Waa Express. Str8 talk my arse! — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:39:43 GMT

Poor John. I've seen comparisons of Obama to Hitler and with that statement from Goodman: 'in a way, John is refighting the Vietnam War.' For a long time, the former prisoner of war has believed that Vietnam should have, could have had a different ending. Americans lost the war because they lost their will. He's thought more about the sorry last chapter of that war than its foolish beginning. So, too, his attention on Iraq has been less on the war's origin than on some undefined victorious conclusion.'
Says it all. Hitler was upset about the German's loss in WWI. Who is more "Hitler like" now?

I will say this..for McCain to want to distance himself from Bush, hanging out with his father is NOT a good way to go, even I know that.

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Senator Obama for President of US — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:40:47 GMT

Hey, mccain, you got anymore clocks and countdowns you want to throw out? Your challenge was met and trumped! In fact, I loved and am still loving all the pictures from overseas!
Thank you

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jeff D Evanston IL — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:41:05 GMT

this is the point that obama will make in the debates!! that if we had done what he wanted us to do in 2002 we would have never been there!! so McCain can talk all he wants about the surge and who idea was it and who should get credit for it!! obama will have the arguement that WE SHOULD HAVE NEVER BEEN THERE!! PLAIN AND SIMPLE!!that is his arguement!!!! and as we see now, the iraq's was us out so they can continue to get this together and we are turning our attention to afgenstain. as a obama supporter, john keep talking as you are, its starting to make people look at him and WONDER, WHAT IS THIS GUY REALLY ABOUT!!!
and keith obermann your right, he is fighting this was as if we are still in vietman!!!
last, think back to the student protest of the 60s and 70s against the war, if these protest had not happened the north vietman government would have kept john McCain a hell of a lot longer than they did!!!
the protest helped us end that war alot sooner than it would have if they had not protested!!

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Anne/Ohio — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:42:39 GMT

Here's the picture: "Mr. McCain and George Bush Sr. in a golf cart at a members only club riding around with no cares in the world."
A little out of touch I would say. Must be nice to have that kind of life style! I guess thats what extra drill for oil will get you, seems abit like "Dallas" McCain being "JR"

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donna — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:44:14 GMT

Obama is slipping in the polls. We have to face it.

Even though McCain has had an abundance of cheese, oil spills, and gaffes this week, the electorate is not savvy enough to connect the dots. All they hear is 'off shore drilling', and 'gas tax holiday', which translates in to a sense of relief, however false.

The local news last night, matter of factly reported on the Obama speech, but was enthusiastic over McCain eating sausage in Ohio.

Senator Obama needs to quickly pivot back to the economy, and offer lots of specific, as soon as he comes home. I believe he will.

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Al in LA, CA — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:45:37 GMT

I don't know why McCain is allowed to revisit (& revise) the past, but Obama is not. He wants answers on the surge, but no more debate on his support of the war initially.

It's like a financial advisor who puts you in a bad stock that goes under, then wants credit for selling after you've already lost half your money. Do you really want him advising you anymore? Or do you try the guy who warned you against the buy in the first place?

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cmaie — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:48:51 GMT

meeting with the dalai lama wont make mccain more appealing but might help mccain become less tempered because he has really been showing his temper this week with these ridiculous attacks on obama

McCain made another! gaffe during the CBS interview that the media didnt pick up on
http://sensico.wordpress.com/2008/07/24/another-mccain-gaffe-during-cbs-interview/
or
http://sensico2.blogspot.com/2008/07/my-blogs.html

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Paul Dobro Bettendorf — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:53:31 GMT

Hey RNC, Don't wish for something, you just mught get it:

"Barack Obama remains unable to open the lead against John McCain"

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BJ, CA — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:54:10 GMT

Haggee = money
Lama = attack China...

McBomb is planning again...

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BJ, CA — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:56:00 GMT

Where does McWar really want the SURGE to go...?

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Steven, NY — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:56:39 GMT

So let me get this straight. McCain criticizes Obama for not visiting Iraq and the Commanders and then when he does he criticizes Obama for not campaigning to the American Voters. This guy is senile.

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Lyn, KCMO — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:58:14 GMT

Hillary's campaign stumpled and failed when she went negative... Did McCain miss that?... We don't want trash - we want solutions. We're smarter than that, John... Grow up...

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Benny, SFBayArea, California — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:59:48 GMT

When meeting with the Dalai Lama will John Sydney McCain III suggest a military surge to "fix" the Tibet problem? It seems as if he, like Bush think that the use of military force is always the answer.

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Class Warrior, D.C. — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:59:54 GMT

...Besides, if Mclame somehow steals the election a la 2000, Obama can always run for Chancellor of Germany. Be very afraid, Ms. Merkel, be very afraid!
As far as the crack that he has now won the Iraq primary...wouldn't it be good if SOMEONE ran that damn country (other than into the ground, that is)? Maliki sure as hell isn't doing it.

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Paul Miller, Woodbridge, VA — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:00:26 GMT

Among McCain's problems are this potential impression of not being completely well balanced. It may well be the most unfair of charges; I've never met the guy so I can't begin to say. But its out there, and has been for a long time.

Any candidate needs to avoid reinforcing his own negatives (or even potential negatives). Giving columnists ammunition to throw around adjectives like "intemperate" could, in retrospect, be the straw that broke the elephant's back this time around.

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Brian, Cedar Hill, TX — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:04:17 GMT

Maybe the Dalai Lama can help McInsane with his anger and jealousy problems. He's become such an angry old man.

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pedestrian — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:07:21 GMT

"...the week got off to a bad start when Mr. McCain was photographed in a golf cart with the 84-year-old former President George Bush in the resort town of Kennebunkport..."

The biggest problem here? The elder Bush looked like the young one.

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Jackieblu — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:11:51 GMT

McCain = PTSD = anger = loser!

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Sick of Morning Joe ! — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:13:24 GMT

The Morning Joe show is so slanted that it is SICKENING TO WATCH. I have to go else where. Has anone else had it with that guy and his yes men/woman???

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MI Chick — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:15:34 GMT

"The biggest problem here? The elder Bush looked like the young one.
pedestrian (Sent Friday, July 25, 2008 10:07 AM)"

LOL!

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S.B. Stein E.B. NJ — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:19:24 GMT

It is great that McCain is visiting with the Dalai Lama. Does that mean he would pressure China to stop tormenting Tibet and let it go? Not even the Dalai Lama is proposing that.

I do have to agree somewhat that it does seem that McCain is trying to fight the Vietnam conflict again. He doesn't seem to understand that the we can't use the same rules that we had in Vietnam and use them in Iraq and Afghanistan. They are all different places; only thing similar is that there are people living there. I hope that the lesson learned that trying to fight a two front war is not going to work; we are doing that now (Iraq and Afghanistan). We needed to be finished in Afghanistan well before there was any invasion of Iraq, and Bush, McCain, Cheney, Rumsfeld and other Neo-cons should have thought of that well before hand.

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Larry, Roseville CA — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:23:16 GMT

Al in LA, CA--

Great, great analogy! I need to print and frame that one.

Obama '08

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ray poole — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:25:23 GMT

please I had heard it all a bunch Imean a bunch of smart or so called smart people are trying to bring down Obama for his cunning inteligence, he went to school and studied like you'll yet even across the Alantic you missed it he was trying to save grace of our country he is not a kid nor prisioner orcaptive of our country and yes he is a senator and has a right to speak on any world veiw he want's stop reporting on him if you don't like what he is doing huh wish I had a mike and a new's crew and stop thinking cause you been here 70-80-1ooor 50years makes you a professor of American politics people are tired of wimps

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Diane from Illinois — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:25:41 GMT

Perhaps McCain would garner more press coverage if he had anything substantial to offer the American public. He only keeps offering the gas tax holiday which is bogus, as well as off-shore drilling when they have 68 million acres they currently AREN'T drilling. McCain's problem is that he has nothing new to offer and we've all heard enough of the failed Bush policies for the past 8 years....we don't need to hear more of the same.

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Houston — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:27:53 GMT

I didn't see the whole Kelly O'Donnell interview with McCain. It was ridiculous. She kept asking soft-ball questions about Obama that invited McCain to make scurrilous attacks on him. That's not the approach taken when Obama is interviewed.

Whoever is interviewing Obama just relays McCain's attack talking points and demands that Obama defend himself. Brian Williams and Katie Couric tried to badger Obama repeatedly to get him to say that his opposition to the surge was a mistake. To his credit, he refused to back down.

It's been pointed out that the surge could have had little to do with the Sunni Awakening's succes because not only did it start months before the surge began, but also because few of the surge troops were sent to Al Anbar Province where the Sunni Awakening took place.

The US payed the Sunni insurgents to take part in the Awakening and to not attack Americans. That had a lot more to do with the success of the Awakening than the American troops sent to Baghdad.

When is some "journalist" going to ask McCain to admit he was wrong about the war from the very beginning when he claimed it would be an easy victory? And when is McCain going to be called out for his use of McCarthyite tactics to smear Obama's patriotism.

There aren't many Edward R. Murrow types in modern journalism. If the onews we have now had been around in Joe McCarthy's day, he'd probably have made it to the White House with the corporate media's assisntance rather than going down in disgrace, thanks in part to Murrow.