McCain: Mr. Negative?

the Pajama Pundit — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:22:51 GMT

Mr Negative indeed. This guy keeps going after Obama's character ('wants to lose a war to win an election'). It's all b.s. - and it's offensive. I would be just as offended if Obama were going after McCain this way.

http://thepajamapundit.com/

McCain: Mr. Negative?

Mr. Eko — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:23:22 GMT

McCain is running exactly the type of campaign that he promised he would NOT run. No integrity.

McCain: Mr. Negative?

victor mass, columbus, ohio — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:24:32 GMT

Great political coverage, but I have two questions:
1. I realized that the media has started using "arrogance" to describe Obama; is this because McCain blasted the media for too close to Obama? this is sad. Just because somebody is confident does not equate to arrogance.

2. I also realized that anytime McCain says something, it does not stick, but when Obama says something, you guys in the media spend days unend dicing and splicing. Is this fair? McCain just flipflopped on taxes, he lied in his ads, and many more, if it were Obama, you guys would have jumped all over him. This is why a recent study suggest that the media gives 72% negative coverage to Obama--this is conspiracy to bring him down.

McCain: Mr. Negative?

thats a fact jack — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:24:50 GMT

mctraitor is using wounded American troops for purely political purposes and would rather start a war for political purposes rather than to protect America

McCain: Mr. Negative?

victor mass, columbus, ohio — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:25:26 GMT

only desparate people go negative.
vic

McCain: Mr. Negative?

MIA — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:25:27 GMT

All of you in the MSM know that McSurge is a mean old nasty man. All of his talking points is about Iraq, the surge, Iraq and the surge. Geez, man get over it.

McCain: Mr. Negative?

Colleen, Ithaca, NY — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:26:46 GMT

Note to MSNBC (and other cable news channels): Stop showing negative, untruthful campaign adds.
Why sould you want to become the tool of a political campaign? Don't you realize that you are doing thier dirty work for them. Keep your hands clean or you'll lose all respect and credibility.

McCain: Mr. Negative?

Florence Dorsett, Texas — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:26:51 GMT

{ Mr. McCain who hammers Mr. Obama repeatedly on policy differences, experience and trustworthiness. }

This is an outrage! How dare McCain speak the truth about Obama! Obama is not just a candidate, He's a movement. Get out of the way old man!

McCain: Mr. Negative?

Diane from Illinois — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:27:00 GMT

Finally! the press is beginning to report on the angry, creepy, negative McCain the rest of us have seen since his nomination! I never thought it would happen! Too bad it's now, at the end of July instead of after Labor Day when more people will be taking notice. Is this just another "Teflon" moment for McCain simply due to timing? One has to wonder.

McCain: Mr. Negative?

iowan — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:28:13 GMT

Media---Make McCain pay if he's going to create rumors and call them commercials. Even his appropriation of the slogan "Country First" implies that any other candidate presumably does not or can not place the 'country first'--kinda "I'm more 'country first' than you are." Thanks, Senator McCarthy.

This is why McCain should not receive 'equal time'---he has nothing to say.

McCain: Mr. Negative?

justthinkinoutloud — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:30:22 GMT

Who woulda thunk that McOld would say one thing then do the opposite. After all his bus is called the straight talk express.

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Pete - Albany, NY — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:31:17 GMT

“Result for Mr. McCain: a public relations coup that allowed him to show his toughest campaign advertisement of the year — one widely panned as misleading — to millions of people, largely free, through television news media hungry for political news with arresting visual imagery."

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Congratulations...the media with its 24-hour news cycle has become a tool for John McCain. Why pay for the ad buy when all he has to do is come out with the ultra-negative attack ads and have MSNBC, CNN and FOX Noise run the ad for free?

"Low Road Express"
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/30/opinion/30wed1.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

McCain: Mr. Negative?

Paul Miller, Woodbridge, VA — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:32:06 GMT

Let's call it what it is. McCain is fixated and obsessed on Obama.

McCain: Mr. Negative?

Beth, Denton, TX — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:32:16 GMT

Every negative word out of McCain's mouth is another nail in the coffin of his political campaign.

McCain: Mr. Negative?

Laura, Boston, MA — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:32:49 GMT

I am a dem and I have seen Senators McCain ad and I have to admit that nothing in that ad (although it is tough) is factually incorrect. Obama didn't go and as MSNBC has stated by means of many pundits, he should have just said "Okay, no cameras just me" and gone. Instead sadly he took time to go to the gym where the camera were on him.

I don't like how Obama feels the need to have the cameras rolling. It will (if it hasn't already) come back to bite him in the butt. Also, he needs to watch what he says. i.e. We are in a good position to win. What's that all about? Sound arrogant. Come on Obama if you want to win the White House you need to get down with the people (like Harold Ford has been saying for weeks now).

Otherwise it will be President McCain in the White House!!!

McCain: Mr. Negative?

Ed, FW, TX — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:32:59 GMT

McCain continues to flip/floop, go negative without any facts to back up his assertions and has no coherent message as to WHY he should be preident.
He seems to be using the Clinton playbook and we all know how well that worked. Using Olberman's line again as it does fit very well "old man screams at cloud"

Obama-Biden '08

McCain: Mr. Negative?

Beth, Denton, TX — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:36:36 GMT

BTW, some of us have noticed that although Obama gets more coverage (time-wise), much of it is negative. If you want to get news that is more even and less biased, you have to quit watching network or cable TV that has sponsors - I have started watching PBS because it's the only channel that has in-depth coverage of both candidates. IMO, of course.

McCain: Mr. Negative?

donna — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:37:10 GMT

Thank G-D the 'Times', and the AP, and the, (less than straight forward), WP are setting the record straight. McCain is a liar. Lies have not stood in this election cycle. No, not this time.

McCain: Mr. Negative?

Class Warrior, D.C, — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:37:15 GMT

Mr. Daily Breaks His Pledge Not To Question His Opponent's Patriotism.
If you can't trust him to keep his promises, can you trust him in the White House?

McCain: Mr. Negative?

White Presidential Candidates Can't Jump!! — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:41:00 GMT

Laura, you must have missed the fact that he visited wounded soldiers in Kuwait. You also missed the fact that he played basketball with the troops. McCain's lying like a rug!

McCain: Mr. Negative?

Treena NJ — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:41:17 GMT

Let's see McCains entire lexicon which he repeats over and over:
1. Obama
2. surge
3. radical muslim extremists
4. pork barrel spending
5. Reagan footsoldier
6. my friends

That's all I've heard from him since he has been running. Nothing else. I don't know what he plans to do or how he plans to do it. All I know is that he thinks Obama will beat him and he is desperate.

McCain: Mr. Negative?

Bill, Gainesville, FL — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:41:54 GMT

Good to see some criticism (finally) for McCain's lies about Obama--he's managing to play the media like a fiddle.

And hey, if McCain really backed the Gore plan he'd drop his mantra of drill, drill, drill.

McCain in 2000: Moderate maverick
McCain in 2008: Neocon hack
Change we've all witnessed, change we've all despised.

Obama/Nunn--doing the smart thing for our nation and the world.

McCain: Mr. Negative?

Bill Jones — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:42:17 GMT

Does any one really understand John McCain...does John McCain understand himself??

Can he be trusted to be POTUS?
Take a good long look.....tell us, is it more than asking...do you want paper or plastic...?

Do we need change that he says we should have?

McCain: Mr. Negative?

C A, Tuscaloosa, AL — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:42:46 GMT

Everyone who blogs here has at one time been in a group of people where one person always seems to be comlaining, always seems to try and bring everyone else down. After a while this person has an affect on the entire group and any good feelings they may have had disappear. There is always one person who is so miserable that they make everyone else around them miserable. If you want a miserable person in the Whitehouse that will eventually make the entire country feel pretty miserable vote McCain.

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The Truth — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:46:11 GMT

Lets face a few facts. Obama can't run on his record, he has none. So he's running as the 'Photo-op' candidate. He wants to show people that he's popular. Not going to see the soldiers fits the mold of the campaign. Can't have cameras to show the big photo-op with the military wounded? Then Obama isn't going to waste his time, and instead will go play basketball so he can get yet another photo-op.

McCain: Mr. Negative?

Judy Dallas TX — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:46:11 GMT

The last two mornings that I watched Morning Joe have left a "sad" not "angry" taste in my mouth. Why does "white" MSM pounce on every thing Obama says? The only area they have, so far, left unreported is his "intimacy" with his wife. Joe is so "envious" of Obama that is shows. You see,in Joe's mind, a black man should "still" stay in "his place". Obama "shouldn't be running" for POTUS because Joe didn't run, and Joe is "white.
Paul Jenkins (Huff Post) has a very enlightening article today. I suggest you read it Chuck and send a copy of Joe, David, Pat and Chris. This "old civil war" mentality needs to go.

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A Charles, LA, CA — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:46:44 GMT

I've noticed critiques of Obama generally have little to do with policy. The arrogant charge is the best his detractors could come up with. It has a very "gotcha" feel to it. He's doing so many things well.

If the media was doing it's job, they would be talking about his thin resume. Instead, we're in the biggest reality TV show ever.

McCain: Mr. Negative?

Terry, IN — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:48:32 GMT

McCain Lies About Oil Drilling and the Media Yawns

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joseph-romm/mccain-lies-about-oil-dri_b_115693.html

McCain: Mr. Negative?

Bev, LA — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:48:58 GMT

I'm a 64 year old white working woman and I'm angry! Now CNN is spreading this garbage. I was defending CNN against Joe on MSNBC when I wrote the following to them. For shame MSNBC and CNN!

MSNBC GET RID OF JOE SCARBOROUGH! He belongs at Fox. He is so adament about Obama's "uppitiness" that it's almost RACIST. He continues to hammer away at Obama's statements that the world is watching and waiting for America to come back to it's greatness and he's a symbol for it. (Is it not obvious after his trip abroad?) If it was Bush or McCain saying that they were the hope of America fighting terrorism by their phony war he would hail them as being patriots! I"m so disgusted I had to turn him off. If this continues, I'll only watch MSNBC when Keith is on and will encourage my friends (that I told to watch MSNBC as un-biased) to turn all of you off again and go back to CNN (not sure of that now). CNN and MSNBC stop this Obama bashing! You let McCain go free from so many outrageous comments and flip-flops but you incessantly go after Obama's every word. AS A WHITE person I'm offended at this seemingly racial bias.

McCain: Mr. Negative?

kim w virginia beach va — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:49:06 GMT

So if McGrumpy Old Man decides to run a positive campaign would he be flip flopping again? Please don't..I can't take that cheesy, creepy, phony smile.

McCain: Mr. Negative?

Dee Dee Jones — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:50:04 GMT

McCain: Mr. Negative?

Terry, IN — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:52:29 GMT

victor mass, columbus, ohio

This says a lot - and VERY well!!

Obama Still Does Not Know His Place

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-jenkins/obama-still-does-not-know_b_115671.html

McCain: Mr. Negative?

Babygirl, Biloxi MS — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:54:29 GMT

Obama didn't go and as MSNBC has stated by means of many pundits, he should have just said "Okay, no cameras just me" and gone. Instead sadly he took time to go to the gym where the camera were on him.

Laura in Boston, your mistaken Sen Obama did not go to the gym instead of visiting the troops. If you had seen the actually footage he was at a gym in the middle east with the troops when he made that shot. Also, he was advised by the pentagon not to go because he was on the campaign leg of his trip.

McCain: Mr. Negative?

Benny, SFBayArea, California — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:56:41 GMT

Beth, Denton, TX

You are right Beth. Obama gets more airtime but not more favorable coverage.

The Center for Media and Public Affairs at George Mason University, where researchers have tracked network news content for two decades, found that ABC, NBC and CBS were tougher on Obama than on Republican John McCain during the first six weeks of the general-election campaign.

Positive words for Obama: 28%
Positive words for McCain: 43%

Negative words against Obama: 72%
Negative words against McCain: 57%

McCain: Mr. Negative?

S.B. Stein E.B. NJ — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:58:43 GMT

It saddens me that McCain is using these old questionable attacks still. I was hoping that he would be above that for a longer period of time. I think it is interesting that people are comparing his campaign to Dole 96. Both are older guys fighting against the younger guy who has different ideas. I can see why Jindal is on the VP list so that Republicans don't look like old white guys. I also seem to think that McCain is trying to get enough of the middle by speaking highly of Pelosi and call himself a conservative. Which one is he and don't say maverick because he isn't.

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62 white female for Obama — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:03:11 GMT

The McCain group learned from the Hillary 2:00 a.m. ad ... no need to waste their $$$ running the ad, the press will do it for free ... anything for sensationalism!!!

McCain: Mr. Negative?

Ron Indiana — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:03:27 GMT

Actually, I would like to see the cameras on McCain 24/7. It would give a clearer picture of this grumpy, demented, angry old man. It would make an easier choice for independent voters.

McCain: Mr. Negative?

C A, Tuscaloosa, AL — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:03:52 GMT

Obama is running on the positive. Hope and change. And boy do we need change. He admits he does not have all the answers as well as he will need the help of the Amercian people to move forward in a positve way.

McCain is running on the negative. His claim to be able to win wars and by attacking his opponent is his game. After 30+ years in the Senate you would think that it is McCain who has a record on which he can run. But there is no record being discussed. One cannot disucuss their own record when they are too busy complaining about or attacking the other. Or perhaps Mccain is intentionally staying away from discussing his own record. He knows the Amercian people prefer someone with no record versus someone whose record is and would be a repeat of GWB.

McCain: Mr. Negative?

Terry, IN — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:05:33 GMT

Laura, Boston, MA

You certainly haven't been paying attention. McCain was just spouting more lies. He had an attack ad prepared in the event Obama went to the hospital, and another if he didn't. Here is the truth from someone who was there.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/28/andrea-mitchell-leads-med_n_115501.html

McCain: Mr. Negative?

Mary G, Old Bridge, NJ — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:06:27 GMT

I definately agree about Joe Scarborough. However, I think MSNBC is trying to be fair and balanced(no pun intended.) Joe needs to up his level of discourse, he's starting to sound like the REAL MCCAIN!

McCain: Mr. Negative?

Media (Doesn't) Matters — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:06:36 GMT

BTW, some of us have noticed that although Obama gets more coverage (time-wise), much of it is negative.

Beth, Denton, TX

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That trip to the Middle-East and Europe proved Beth's point. I think we only got 98% positive coverage from the media for Obama on that trip. There is lots of room for the media to improve.

McCain: Mr. Negative?

Harvey Rivers, Longview, TN — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:08:14 GMT

--- Obama is running on the positive. Hope and change. ---

Hope and change don't fill my gas tank.

McCain: Mr. Negative?

joseph marcucilli — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:09:56 GMT

I found it revealing when McCain claimed he opposed the manner in which the war was handled in Iraq and that the Bush people simply would not listen to him.Then why was McCain working so hard to reelect Bush and subject our troops to a knowing failure of policy?McCain had no idea at that time that Bush would back a surge.It seems McCain is the guy who would rather win an election than a war using our troops as pawns in this deadly game we call war.

McCain: Mr. Negative?

C A, Tuscaloosa, AL — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:10:56 GMT

In additional to a negative campaign McCain is campaigning on the ignorance of voters. Look at many posts here including Laura, Dee Dee, The Truth, etc. These people are typical of the ignorant Amercian voter who wallow in the negative, miserable, ill-informed, rumor-mill mud. Voter ignorance elected GWB twice to the Presidency and the now we find the same ill-informed, narrow-minded, ignorant people still in the mud where McCain goes to find his support.

McCain: Mr. Negative?

Robert, West Greenwich RI — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:11:37 GMT

Why is this not on the front page of msnbc's politics page?

McCain: Mr. Negative?

Pete - Albany, NY — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:13:15 GMT

So what's misleading about McCain bashing Obama on his huge mistake of not visting the wounded soldiers? You don't need much more evidence to see that Obama didn't go only because cameras were not allowed. Anywhere else there were cameras, Obama showed up.
Dee Dee Jones (Sent Wednesday, July 30, 2008 9:50 AM)

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Were there cameras present when Obama visted wounded soldiers in Kuwait?

McCain: Mr. Negative?

Mary G, Old Bridge, NJ — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:13:56 GMT

I'm amazed at McCain's attempts to convince women that he's on their side. He's used foul language in public referring to his own wife! (However,He doesn't seem to mind her money.) He laughed at nasty remarks about Hillary, but didn't condemn them. He's made "jokes" about Chelsea Clinton and then there's his infamous "Rape" joke! I think womens groups are barking up the wrong tree. Instead of complaining to Obama of perceived slights during the promaries, why aren't these womens groups screaming at McCain?

McCain: Mr. Negative?

Kathy Corey — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:14:09 GMT

Oh dear...any time anyone points out Obama's faults they are being angry and negative...next come racist.
The NYTIMES has become a sorry excuse for a newspaper...now it is just an Obama campaign vehicle.

McCain: Mr. Negative?

COL. A.M.Khajawall [Ret] — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:14:39 GMT

Dear American Citizens and the Press

As a concerned citizen, I consider it is my duty to bring following message to you all.

"We the citizens of the United States of America have the ultimate responsibility to elect the " Right Candidate" to lead our nation, out of our huge present and future internal and external challenges as well as opportunities. This is to prevent depression and isolation in-spite of being the only superpower in the world morally, democratically, economically, and militarily.

We need to consider the "critical qualities and characteristics" of our presumptive presidential nominees at the time we vote.

In my personal and professional opinion the critical considerations are as under:

1. Calm, cool, and collected " temper " [ Presidential Temperament ].
2. Sound and sustained "Judgment and Caliber".
3. "Thought-fullness and togetherness" of purpose and positions.
4. Minimum "ex-poser and exploitation" around "Washington and Washington insiders".
5. Renewed " Vigor and Vision " for our Greatgrand Nation.
6. Foreign policy based on " American Values, Virtuous, Vastness".

Stay informed, stay involved, and stay engaged. Do not allow some partisan media, pundits, pollsters, and perpetual political opinion makers effect your vote in the wrong direction.

Don't be effected and duped by "Psychological Terrorism" that is directed at common American people without their full consent and awareness.

Long live U.S.A and its diverse but democratic people.

Col. A.M. Khajawall [Ret] MD., ABFM., ABDA.
Chief Consultant: World Wide Porfessional Consultants[WWPC]
Colonel, USAR/MC Combat Stress Control[Ret], Disabled American Veteran and Freedom team.
Consultant Psychiatrist: CA State, Medical Board of California, and Los Angeles Mental Health Department
Address: 7642 Eaglehelm Court Las Vegas NV 89123
PS: Please discuss the Hon. senator McCains chronic anger, temper, and senior moments. Our Greatgrand Nation under current challenging time can not afford him to be our next president. Listen to a forensic psychiatrist and PTSD expert.

McCain: Mr. Negative?

Andrea, New York City — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:17:22 GMT

"I am a dem and I have seen Senators McCain ad and I have to admit that nothing in that ad (although it is tough) is factually incorrect. Obama didn't go and as MSNBC has stated by means of many pundits, he should have just said "Okay, no cameras just me" and gone. Instead sadly he took time to go to the gym where the camera were on him. Laura

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Laura: That gym photo was from a photo taken in Kuwait while Barack was with the troops. They airbrushed the troops out. The photo was not taken by the campaign—it was an army photo. It is a gross misrepresentation of the facts.

This kind of bad publicity should not be picked by the media. It sends the wrong message to good folks.