McCain: Ratcheting up the rhetoric

Patriotic — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:18:36 GMT

Only in America can you attack someone for not visiting the troops by showing a picture of Obama visiting with the troops BUT blurring out the troops to make a political point!

McCain: Ratcheting up the rhetoric

Greg Easterly — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:18:37 GMT

[[ He accused the news media of showing favoritism toward Mr. Obama. ]]

Ya think? Lets see, Obama has a 100-1 lead in contributions from media, is 4-1 in positive stories, and MTP makes him all comfy by taking their studios to HIM while The Great One is in London. Naah, no bias there.

McCain: Ratcheting up the rhetoric

Clara Kansas City, MO — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:19:17 GMT

"Just in Mcsurge claims he's half black !!!"
the realslimshady/ richmond, va. (Sent Friday, July 25, 2008 8:38 PM)

Where’ve you been? Didn’t you post some during the primaries? You hit the nail on the head with this one!

McCain has proven himself to be a complete pander bear. He literally will SAY anything. Of course, 5 minutes later he won't remember it; but thanks to "the google" and YouTube we've got him on the ropes!

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Bee, NH — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:21:47 GMT

McCain is running scare and he is becoming an angry old man. I can't believe he is using our veterans as a political football.

First, the guy is boring and he flip flop on every issues. He is for it but now against it. He is not for time table but now supports time table. He is for affirmative action but now against it. He is not for tax cut but now support it.

Which McCain am i suppose to believe? The angry McCain or the flip-flopper McCain!! McCain = McSame = George Bush. The guy was all over Mitt Romney for suggesting a time table in Iraq, but, he now embracing the same time table.

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Amy B Portland, ME — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:21:55 GMT

I have been to other blogs where more conservative people leave comments and I am very afraid there is a large bloc of voters who just enjoy hating Obama so much that no amount of fact checking dissuades them. They think Obama is a socialist, which as far as I can tell, translates into "universal healthcare is for wussies." I don't know how you get through to these people, especially as I suspect most of them are actually struggling financially.

McCain: Ratcheting up the rhetoric

BJ, CA — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:23:10 GMT

The new John McCain Dollar bill..
It says it's really cheap but no one knows what it's really worth....

McCain: Ratcheting up the rhetoric

Mr. Eko — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:23:29 GMT

McCain has revealed himself to be nothing but a hypocrite.

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Cindy Lou, TX — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:23:30 GMT

McCain seems to be having a meltdown. His accusations about Obama and the German troops are false. Obama has admitted that some elements of America's increased presence in Iraq have helped quell violence. I don't support McCain--at all--but he really should focus on HIS message and quit attacking Obama for awhile.

I hope McCain gets what he wants--more media coverage. He will surely regret it. Obama gets more media coverage, yes, but it is mostly negative as an article in today's paper reports. If McCain wants that kind of non-stop coverage, I say let him have it.

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Clara Kansas City, MO — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:23:40 GMT

Bush's foreign policy has become pragmatic because someone finally clued him into the fact that his 'legacy' is a complete debacle. He is sprinting to embrace Obama's positions for two reasons:
First, to salvage anything for 'history' and second, to assist the GOP in winning in an effort to avoid any Democratic retaliation that might actually convict him for war crimes. Bush, McCain and the Repub party are devoid of principles. I believe the term I've seen used is "morally bankrupt". However you label it, these people do not have ANY interest at heart other than maintaining Power and Wealth. If you believe otherwise, you truly have been brainwashed.

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camie — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:24:47 GMT

Actually as a independent who supported mccain before i did obama. I am very surprised at the way mccain has been acting so far. Im glad im not a mccain supporter because he is looking really bad right now.

Video: McCains response to gay adoption...
http://sensico.wordpress.com/2008/07/27/mccains-response-to-gay-adoption/
or
http://sensico2.blogspot.com/2008/07/my-blogs.html

McCain: Ratcheting up the rhetoric

Paul Miller, Woodbridge, VA — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:25:19 GMT

"McCain lashing out" is exactly where the Arizona senator doesn't want to be. And he knows it, so this really speaks to his discipline, or lack thereof.

It is interesting the Bush Administration seems to be coming around, recognizing the foolishness of its Neocon ways, while McCain truly is establishing a break with the president - by clinging to those notions that somehow the nation benefits by portraying an arrogant and belligerent persona to the rest of the world.

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Good Job! — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:25:57 GMT

I'm glad to see McNuts camp FINALLY took him to the dentist for a good tooth whitening. Those yellow bottom teeth were really distracting!
Go Obama/Biden '08

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Debbie in Phoenix — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:26:22 GMT

It’s about the surge, the surge, the suuuuurrrrrrrrrrrrggggggge.
It’s all McCain has. Let us shake our fists, turn red in the face and go all bug eyed at our campaign rallies because that is the only point we have to make. Really, McCain? Don’t you have people to pull you back from the cliff’s end before your psychotic break is so clearly on display for everyone to see? So let’s look at the McCain argument rationally. If Obama had been president, there would have been no surge. You’re right…. But let us be clear, if Obama had been president there would have been no surge because we would not have been mired in a wrong headed, ill-planned, ill-conceived, costly, costly war in the first place.

The conservative press corps are hopping mad; Rush is frothing at the mouth and the Grand Ol' Party's creaky old geezer, uh, candidate is baring his yellowed teeth. I do believe it means that Barack Obama knocked this one out the park! When is the media corps going to realize that if the right wing nut jobs are mad as hornets its because they are running a ill-tempered, poorly-spoken, senile old man against a young, brilliant, erudite political wunderkind. Der.. Why is that hard to get??? Obviously President Maliki and the Prime Ministers of Israel, Germany, France and England understand this. So does every other nation and their entire populace gets this (Obama’s favorables average 80% to 4% over McNutty through out Europe, our allied countries in the Middle East and Japan).

McCain: Ratcheting up the rhetoric

Pete - Albany, NY — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:26:46 GMT

John McCain will always be there for our troops...

...except when it comes to the new GI Bill which he opposed and didn't feel was important enough for him to show up to vote on because he was off campaigning!

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BL, Cincinnati OH — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:27:21 GMT

McCain's narrow minded logic that because the violence is down that the "surge worked" is as simpleton as saying that "oil prices dropped because GWBush said he was going to lift the ban". It "sounds" good, the problem is that it completely ignores the real factors that led to the outcome we see.

If the Saudis and the US hadn't started paying a lot of the Iraqi's, if the Sunni Awakening didn't happen, and if Muqtada al Sadr hadn't stood down, the surge would not have worked at all. Those things allowed the violence to go down, not the surge.

McCain: Ratcheting up the rhetoric

subgruvet, ok — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:28:41 GMT

Senator, former naval officer, POW, Keating 5 escapee, Whining wittle bad sport. I am going to vote for Sen. Obama who's showed strength and endurance throughout this campaign. I served in the navy during the same years as McCain but could never bring myself to vote for someone so out of touch with the needs of the nation.

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Michelle Zee — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:28:59 GMT

Instead of the McHorrible camp criticizing Obama, they need to be selling Americans on what McAin't is going to do for America. All this criticism is boring and shows more stupidity in that camp.

For McCritic to have all the answers, he is definitely not savvy on telling us on what he will do.

I am waiting on the media to really ask him with all this criticism of Obama, what can he do better? Then maybe the McCritic camp can tell us what are their plans, because so far we only know Obama will do, because the rethuglicans are telling what Obama says he will do and then the rethugs tells us, oh no he won't.

Just like Rethuglicans, they are not going to do a darn thing and are standing in the way of someone who wants to restore America. McCritic had a whole week to talk about the economy, but yet he is on the cheese aisle talking about NOTHING!

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Hypocrisy, thy name is McCain! — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:30:17 GMT

Hey, Old Man River, here's the record on who supports the troops and who didn't have hearings on Afghanistan!!!

http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/the_truth_on_troop_support.html

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jeff D Evanston IL — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:30:32 GMT

ok, american must wake up and realise that john mccain us using his military record as will as the fact he was a POW to pimp the american troops in the media!! yes i said pimp, every thing that comes out of his mouth is about the surge, visiting troops, i have the better judgement because i'm a vet!!! john please!! this must stop,
i need to know a few things!!
1. how are you going to balance the federal budget in 4 years?
2. how are you going to solve the immirgation problem?
3 how are you going to solve the health care criss?

I DO NOT WANT TO HERE ANOTHER GOT DARE THEING ABOUT THE WAR OR THE SURGE FOR AT LEAST 2 WEEKS,
JOHN TELL AMERICAN HOW WE ARE GOING TO GET OUT OF THIS MESS YOU AND THE REPUBLICAN GOT U.S. IN, GAS PRICES, HIGH INFLATION, HOUSING CRISS.

WHEN YOU GIVE GOOD SOULITION TO THOSE PROBLEMS AND ONLY THEN CAN YOU TALK ABOUT THE SURGE AGAIN.

COME ON JOHNNY GIVE IT A TRY!!!

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EJ — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:33:21 GMT

Wow... I cannot say that I am not surprised that the McCain campaign and for that matter the mindless clones of Rove would stoop to tactics like these. It is amazing to see how far off course the Straight Talk Express has taken... Who knew their detour would take us through Columbia, Canada, lies, false ads, and dirty tactics, let along a sausage shop in Columbus, Ohio.

If he really wants to attack Obama for not goign to visit the troops, maybe we should revisit his support (or lack their of) of the new GI Bill. It also sounds like McCain is going to play the race card. If he has flipped on Affirmative Action then he puts racial politics in play for this elecetion. Patheic... If he plays race... maybe the next step is to play age... see how he would like it if people allowed people to discriminate on the basis of age. So much for the McCain the Mav... seems more like McCain the crazy old man who just is pissed off at the world and because he is not getting the attention he thinks he deserves he is whining and complaining and yelling at clouds!

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Bee — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:34:57 GMT

McCain reminds me of Guliani...A verb, A Noun and the Surge.

McCain is such a joke.

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jerry/corpus christi texas — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:38:02 GMT

Obama could not go and see the troops in the hospital by himself?????

He needed a general to hold his hand and tell him to "man up"?

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Tess, Portland, ME — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:42:14 GMT

Can you imagine what we would be listening to this morning if Obama had gone to Landstuhl as McWhine says he would have? He is cocky - he is audacious - he defied the Pentagon - he thinks he is 'the one'. I actually enjoy watching the McCain campaign in 'schizo' mode but I know there are many Americans who can't or won't sift through the garbage and form their own opinions but will believe everything they hear.

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Cynthia, Philly PA — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:54:09 GMT

If the Saudis and the US hadn't started paying a lot of the Iraqi's, if the Sunni Awakening didn't happen, and if Muqtada al Sadr hadn't stood down, the surge would not have worked at all. Those things allowed the violence to go down, not the surge.

BL, Cincinnati OH (Sent Monday, July 28, 2008 9:27 AM
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I completely agree. You would think with all of our "brilliant" talking heads...this would be a piece of the puzzle that should be in place. But nooo, all everyone keeps talking about is this surge. It is McSame's only hope and only talking point. He himself admits he knows nothing about the economy. Well of course he knows a little about the economy, he knows enough to marry rich so the economy will have NO effect on him. So he harps and harps on the surge and says things like, "I was right, he was wrong." I say, go back to the cheese isle Mayor McCheese.

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j mccain — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:00:58 GMT

hey look at me I can say things, I can do things, hey someone look at me hey anyone, are you there, is anyone there, come on hey surge surge see I can say stuff, come on snybody PLEASE look at me, is it 3 am yet?

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Susan Roman Sanford,Fl. — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:02:06 GMT

I hope you all get what you deserve.Obama,a democratic congress and Senate.Get out our wallets because we are headed for another Jimmy Carter presidency.Hold on folks it,s only going to get a lot worse.I have never seen such disrespect for our elderly.The man served his country.his sons are serving our country.What has Obama done.It is a digrace the way this country treats our elders.We are all going to be old one day and hopefully a lot wiser.I have great respect for John Mcain because he is old and has endured.Obama has had the luxury of not having made any of the tough decisions but simply being a Monday morning Quarterback.Wow what an accomplishment.I hope we get what we deserve an American Idol President.Not to mention a Muslim Great.Even if he isn't The Mulim world thinks he is because if your father is a muslim guess what he is considerd muslim.I really don't think we need that.He voted against funding our troops in the field.Come on people.

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JAMES LAWTON, OK — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:13:48 GMT

SUSAN ARE YOU SAYING ELECT J MCCAIN BECAUSE HE IS OLD, ARE YOU SERIOUS, IS THAT THE BEST REASON YOU CAN COME UP WITH? PLEASE TELL US OTHER REASONS YOU WOULD VOTE FO MCCAIN INSTEAD OF OBAMA.

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Brian, Cedar Hill, TX — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:20:16 GMT

Old McCain is sounding more and more like the old coot that yells at kids to get off his lawn.

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D Roman Sanford,Fl. — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:22:36 GMT

We should never ever publicly tell our enemies when we are leaving the battlefield.We leave when we are ready.You don't announce it.What kind of logic is that?The enemy will wait for that day.Obama is not ready to lead this nation.

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Enrique, Chicago — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:26:26 GMT

McCain can claim to be a patriot all he wants. The truth is that McCain has embraced a president who has done great damage to our country. Bush has put his cronies before our country. McCain would do more of the same. That's not patriotism.

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greg, pinecrest fl — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:28:27 GMT

obama bypassed the veterans in Germany. This is a FACT.

he only does what is convenient to him and he really has shown that they(the wounded vets) mean NOTHING to him as it did not present enough perveived political benefit to himself. what a fake!

he is cold and calculating combined with ignorance and puffery.

ever wonder why our detractors and enemies love him so much? they look forward to batting him around jimmy carter style. he will be even more of a pushover as he has proven this already from his waffler flip-flopper ways. what a fake! what a joke! how easily duped the voters can be.

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greg, pinecrest fl — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:28:47 GMT

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Ed, FE, TX — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:32:06 GMT

If the John McCain of 2000 were still around we might have a race after all. The current pander bear version is sad to see. No integrity, no graciousness. To quote Olberman "Old man screams at cloud"

Obama-Biden '08

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Michelle Zee — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:33:02 GMT

Susan Roman Sanford,Fl. (Sent Monday, July 28, 2008 10:02 AM)

With all due respect, where have you been talking about Obama being a muslim? He can't be a radical muslim and a radical christian at the same time; you must pick one!

He must be a citizen of the United States to have a US passport. Most of America will be voting for Obama. I am sure with all the talk about Carter, even Carter didn't screw America the way the Repubs have.

Where is the accountability for the rethugs and no rethuglican has yet to tell America what they will do; only what Obama can't...again boring {yawn}!

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Pete - Albany, NY — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:39:48 GMT

"I have never seen such disrespect for our elderly. The man served his country. His sons are serving our country."

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So...what, this is supposed to give Senator McCain free reign to say and do as he pleases?

Bottom line...John McCain 2000 would not vote for John McCain 2008.