Warner to focus on 'common sense'

GG, FL — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:44:38 GMT

WARNER IS SECOND FIDDLE TO NO ONE. HE IS HONORABLE, UPSTANDING GOVERNOR WITH THE RIGHT STUFF NEEDED IN THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY TO WIN THE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT IN THE FALL.

WE LOOK FORWARD TO HIS SPEECH AND SUGGEST THAT FIRST READ STOP GIVING OPINIONS AND CONDUCT RESPONSIBLE JOURNALISM WITH JUST THE FACTS, JUST THE FACTS AS OUR SORELY MISSED TIM ALWAYS DID.

Warner to focus on 'common sense'

Richard, Washington State — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:45:20 GMT

Thanks for the correction on the Biden visit. I overstepped on that one.

On another note:

You know McFolks, the McJokes are getting McReally McOld. You’d McThink that by McNow such McSchtick would have McWorn out and McEveryone would have McMoved-On to McSomething McElse, something McMore McCreative.

On the McOther McHand, if it McFeels McGood, McDo it. And have McLots of McFun while you’re McAt it.

McBut that's McEnough of McThat right McNow.

McLater.

Warner to focus on 'common sense'

Nashville_fan — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:46:26 GMT

I'd like to pitch an article idea:

John McCain: Will Lying Cost Him The Election?

Off the top of my head, here are some of the lies you could use. According to the McCain campaign, Barack Obama:

- Is responsible for high gas prices

- Didn't visit German troops so he could play
basketball

- Will raise taxes on people making $32,000

- Is against nuclear power

- Has changed his position on Iraq

- Wants to invade Pakistan

- Doesn't love America

- Played the race card

- Doesn't put America first

Now that seems like MORE than enough lies for an article, no?

Did I forget any?

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Capt. Smash, Salt Lake City,Utah — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:48:13 GMT

From: Huffington Post!

On a frozen winter evening at a Town Hall meeting in a school in the Manchester, N.H., suburbs, John
McCain expressed surprise and irritation with an intelligence report downplaying the threat of Iran's nuclear program.

At the end of a long list of reasons to be suspicious of the Iranians, McCain declared: "And they sure don't share our Judeo-Christian values."

It seemed at the time to be an odd thing to say about a Muslim country. After all, even if there were no nuclear program, no oil, and no rabble-rousing president, Iran still wouldn't have Judeo-Christian values. And it's troubling to wonder if that alone would be a reason for suspicion.

This was no-mistake remember McWar said last week he wants to send more cigarettes to Iran to kill them all. McWar really said that people.

Mean-while back at McWar’s Iranian death camp, McWar pushes his final solution for all Persians and Iranians.

The Mc Pol Pot Regime has a new plan for Iran
McWar now wants to commit genocide on all Iranians and Persians. His new plan includes nicotine gas chambers and giant potash plants for there burned up bodies. This man does not care about human life at all. Just his family fortune and his wealthy lobbyist friends

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Diane from Illinois — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:50:05 GMT

From an earlier post:
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McCain has more honesty, integrity, patriotism, and love of country then Obama can only dream of having.

Kramer T., NYC (Sent Tuesday, August 19, 2008 12:13 PM)
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Let me get this straight Kramer. You think John McCain is honest? I almost spit out my drink on THAT one! He has been NOTHING but dishonest in all his ads and statements concerning Obama. Maybe you're referring to his "honesty" with his first wife.....you know, having an affair while she was recovering from a car accident....THAT honesty? You also think McCain has integrity? You mean like honing the reputation as a guy who'll say the truth regardless of the political consequences and then on almost every issue where he took a principled stand against the Republican line---taxes, immigration, oil drilling, the Religious Right - - he's changed his views? And finally on patriotism...where do I start? McCain got his first career breaks from connections and money - not hard work. He was a son and grandson of navy admirals. He attended Annapolis where he did poorly. Nevertheless he was commissioned as a pilot, where he also performed poorly, crashing three planes before he failed to evade a North Vietnamese missile that destroyed his plane. He spent more than 5 years in a prison camp where he "sang" like a songbird and helped destroy many of his fellows soldiers because of the information he gave the enemy. Because of his weak military record there was no chance of him making admiral, so he set his sights on politics where he has underperformed as well. Even his own campaign doesn't trumpet his successess. He hasn't voted in the Senate since April 8, 2008. No senator has missed more roll-call votes than John MCCain except Tim Johnson who was recovering from a near fatal brain aneurysm. John McCain's major accomplishment in Vietnam AND in the Senate has been to survive. Just surviving doesn't make you a hero, or a decent president. America needs to do more than survive the next four years. Now, please fill in the 3 blanks for me regarding YOUR views on honesty, integrity and patriotism that you THINK John McCain has. Obama '08!

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subgruvet, ok — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:52:12 GMT

I hope Warner can come across half as well as Mario Cuomo did in his 1984 speech. Warner is sharp and should do fine. I'm looking forward to it. I will say this x-republican who's voting for Obama enthusiastically has no interest whatsoever to hear one word out of Mrs. Clinton's pie hole. I'm so sick of the nasty campaigns and war/fear/abortion politics from the GOP and RNC that I'm happy to be voting out of inspiration and hope for real change. The nation so badly needs it.

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donna — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:53:36 GMT

Having former Gov. Warner speak at the convention sounds like a win, win for the dems.

He is bi-partisan, will appeal to Independents, and may siphon votes away from McCain in Virginia.

With regard to 'the risk' to Warner's career given that he is better off the cuff, rather than giving speeches, I say, 'if you want to catch the wild monkey, you've got to climb the tree'.

Go for it Gov. Warner.

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Beverly in Chicago — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:56:55 GMT

Yes, the bar is getting higher; Al Gore is speaking too. The economy, energy, and no more wars is the compass for where the voters what to go.
Al Gore will be a slam dunk! The energy is starting to RISE.

nobody but Obama

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Amy B Portland, ME — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:57:48 GMT

"Virginia Gov. Mark Warner's speech next Tuesday night will almost certainly be second fiddle to the highly anticipated words of Sen. Hillary Clinton."

What??? I am looking forward to Warner's address because he was the guy I wanted to be nominated for the Presidency in the first place. (oops. Sorry Barack). I am happy to see Obama promoting qualified people - another way in which he differs from Bush! As far as Hillary goes, she is on the platform to molify the older Democrats, but the future belongs to Obama and Warner.

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MSierra, SF — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:58:06 GMT

... as opposed to Alberto Gonzalez and the politicization of the Jsutice Dept

Lying to the American people with a elaborate hoax to start the Iraaq War

Introducing torture into the American jurisprudence system

Allowing New Orleans to wallow, while calling for America to aid Georgia ('We are all Georgians, now')

Running up the deficit to historic proportions while you had a Republican White House, Senate, House and Supreme Court

Allowing the high paying American jobs to be shipped to China and India

Allowing a majority of American corporations to pay NO CORPORATE TAXES

Yeah !!
Common sense would be refreshing
And it would be different

John McCain, More of the Same

Sometimes crashing air craft and haunting strip clubs does not give you 'Presidential experience'

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Rodney Hopper, Waxahachie, TX — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:59:09 GMT

Warner will do fine. Any Senatorial candidate on national tv can't really lose ground unless they completely tank.

Between Warner and Kaine, I'm thinking VA is looking good top to bottom if you have a (D) beside your name.

http://www.rodneyhopper.com

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John B, Des Moines, IA — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:02:56 GMT

I believe Warner and Obama reinforce each other's messages nicely. Step above our differences to find common ground. Solve the problems that are best suited to government involvement. Work in the interest of the middle class, all of society will be better off. Don't just ignore the less fortunate, but for the grace of God goes any of us.

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Chris, MI — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:04:31 GMT

With all the talk of Obama's "outside the beltway" desire for change, and Washington being broken, how can he be seriously considering Biden for Veep? You don't get more inside the beltway than a sitting long-term Senator, and with Biden's votes on the Bankruptcy bill, won't his economic liabilities outweigh his foreign policy credentials? I'm sorry, but the idea of two Senators on the ticket makes me far too nervous.

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The Don — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:05:01 GMT

Oh Warner will be just fine. Warner is unlike McCain, whom in my opinion is closer to Hitler in many ways. I am praying that God not let it be to pass that McCain becomes president. I honetly believe if he is to be president, he will- with or without direct intent - create the single most catastrophic war there ever was or will ever be. I believe he will not only caouse war among nations, but also among people of different ideologies, religions, and even possibly gender and ethnic wars of improble proportions.

I have never been a Putin supporter and I felt his anger long before even when he was being tauted for his successes and such. Comparatively, I think McCain will make Putin seem like Gadhi.

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Kim W Virginia Beach, VA — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:10:03 GMT

I just switched my voter registration to VA from WI and can't wait to vote for Warner in November. HE will turn VA blue..Can't wait!!!

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...OBAMA'S SECRET WEAPON TO CLOBBER HILLARY... — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:11:52 GMT

Is it possible that we will see Hillary Supporters (i.e., the ‘Whining Women’s Brigade’) leaping off cliffs in Colorado when Obama announces his VP pick — and it ain’t Hillary?

Will Obama’s VP choice pre-empt the ‘Clinton Freakshow’ scheduled for the DNC convention?

Will Obama surprise everyone and serve Hillary’s Supporters Cool-Aid at the Convention?

WHO IS OBAMA'S SECRET WEAPON TO CLOBBER HILLARY?
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Tzalaran — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:13:11 GMT

i'm looking forward to the conventions this year much more than i have in years past.

i'm hoping that the speeches will all focus on the direction that each party feels the country needs to move in, although i'm sure most of it will be empty rhetoric.

i'm pleased that at least one party is allowing fresh blood to come out and speak, as it is time for this country to stop living in the greatness of its past, and find a way to be great in the future.

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MK,MO — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:14:16 GMT

"It’s perhaps an unenviable task. While it may be pegged as the night’s “keynote” address, former Virginia Gov. Mark Warner's speech next Tuesday night will almost certainly be second fiddle to the highly anticipated words of Sen. Hillary Clinton."

Looks like another opportunity for Clinton and Her "Pissed Off Pumas" to make fools of themselves yet again. Maybe they can play "I am woman hear me roar" as she walks on stage.

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Rick,Ky — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:22:32 GMT

76 days left until America no longer has to read a story that includes what Hillary or Bill might do.

Thank God !!!

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Beverly in Chicago — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:23:27 GMT

Warner knows exactly who the Smart guy is. With a 9.8 percent gain over July 2007, while the number of new houses and apartments that builders obtained permits for or began building slumped to their lowest levels in 17 years, according to new government statistics; 2 wars implications of Russian and Iran Warner knows Obama is on the right side of history. Teddy Roosevelt said “talk softly and carry a big stick," In much of the world now, McCain is talking loudly and has no stick.
nobody but Obama

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dp in PHX — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:25:44 GMT

Call me crazy but the keynote speaker is put up there to deliver a bipartisan message, can we be looking at a bipartisan ticket... I love Joe Biden, but can it be that Obama will pull out the coupe to end all coupes? I'm just saying, if you look at this whole set up like one of those cockeyed painting that look like nothing until you stop trying to focus (oh, I see the sailboat..sure)... VP Powell??????
I would love to see Barack Obama set the talking heads and pudnut pundits spinning on their collective ears! Wouldn't that just be the coolest? Nanner, Nanner, Chucky T got it allllll wrong. That'd be so fun.

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Walk the Talk — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:27:11 GMT

That's what the Democrats are all about, speeches, speeches, and more speeches. Has anyone ever been truly inspired by a speech? Even one of Obamas? I mean, to the point that they got off their butt and did something about it? Any personal stories out there?

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J. Ellis, Virginia — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:29:07 GMT

Soon-to-be Senator Warner is far too savvy to not allow his speech to be in perfect pitch to the audience in the hall and to independents. I hope he highlights his economic skills, which will remind American what a sad state our economy is in now under Republican leadership.

Mark Warner and Barack Obama compliment each other very well with their message of change in Washington. A change that is long past due.

GO OBAMA/BIDEN 08/12

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WTG, MI — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:29:25 GMT

Yeah, real dangerous stuff being performed by Warner. Almost as dangerous as what our troops go through everyday.

Warner appears to be yet another Democrat that is full of himself. That party seems loaded with those types lately.

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James T. Kirk — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:30:37 GMT

A Democrat talking about 'Common Sense'. Now there's an oxymoron.

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Pat Huntington NY — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:33:49 GMT

This is why Warner would've won the presidency hands down...but instead, the Obamabots gave us a challenging candidate who's not sealing the deal. Instead, as each poll is taken, Obama loses his lead to McCain. And thanks to him and the Obamabots, and how they threw Hillary supporters to the curb, you got PUMAs and HillarySupporter4McCain, etc.

I fear the Dems have lost it this time, again, when they should've won it. We do need change...stop hiring campaign managers from past failed campaigns for Pete's Sake!!!

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Paul Miller, Woodbridge, VA — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:34:38 GMT

Warner could read the phone book at the convention and he'd still beat Gilmore. People should understand Gilmore got the nomination only because no Virginia Republican with realistic aspirations wanted to run against Warner.

And the phone book think might not be a bad idea. No matter what words Warner has in front of him, it will sound like the phone book, lol. He's not a great speaker. But he was a pretty solid governor; maybe Virginia's best since Jefferson.

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Not_Buying_What_You're_Selling — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:40:20 GMT

So maybe if he didn’t go around bad mouthing America (Like you liberals love to do) he wouldn’t have his patriotism questioned.
What_you_Selling (Sent Tuesday, August 19, 2008 1:05 PM)
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Good Lord, do you even READ what you post before you hit "submit"? Sheesh.

I know that you would like to set fire to the Bill of Rights, but until you get that chance, we can say whatever we want about this country - good OR bad. That is, lest you forget, what makes our country so great. It's our duty to voice our displeasure in order to try to make things better. Not to live, as KO stated last night, in an embroyonic police state.

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Newt G., Washington DC — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:40:50 GMT

A Democrat focusing on Common Sense? Now I'm convinced, this is a historic election. Yet another first.

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Donna, Lincroft, NJ — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:41:09 GMT

The finessessing has already begun-Warner will write his own speech, but it will be a collaborative effort that the Obama camp has yet to say they can veto? Gimme a break.

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Brendan D, Niles, IL — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:46:37 GMT

The idea that Mark Warner plays second fiddle to anyone when he speaks really only shows just how big of a circus the media is. Mark Warner should have been the nominee, but for some reason, he really WANTS the Senate. That's fine; he's a Virginny boy. But let's dispense with the notion right now that he plays second fiddle to anyone. Had he run, he would've been the nominee, hands down. I find that first paragraph to be indicative of a media that will simply not let Hillary Clinton be the brilliant senator she can be and would rather continue feeding into this notion that the Democratic Party is somehow split. Shame on you, Domenico; shame on First Read as well. You're above this kind of ridiculousness.

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Suburban Mom paying attention, IL — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:50:10 GMT

See, what the media fails to get is that the party line doesn't have to be "The other side is wrong, all of the time." That is a Bush-Cheney-Rove mainstay, which John McCain has unfortunately embraced 100%.

The message that the truly bipartisan politicians like Obama and Warner are trying to spread is that "The current ways do not work." The common-sense Republicans that are distancing themselves from the neo-cons understand this. Leach and other pro-Obama GOPers understand this. At one time, John McCain even claimed to understand this, but that John McCain is not the same man we see before us in 2008. The country cannot thrive while being forcibly split down the middle. Nothing gets done- we cannot continue down this road. Three cheers for common sense, and for getting (D)s and (R)s working together, for all of us.

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WOW — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:50:31 GMT

I don't think anyone cares.

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Sam, Dallas, TX — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:54:56 GMT

61" Flat Screen DLP 1080 TV set!! That's how much I love KEITH OLBERMANN.
This past Sunday night, my TV went bad. First thing that came to my mind was COUNTDOWN with KEITH OLBERMANN. So, guess what I did Yesterday right after work hours before Countdown aired? Yes, I went out and bought 61" Flat Screen TV.
I love you, Keith!
Sam
Dallas, TX

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John Mccain — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:55:51 GMT

Comon sense is for sissies. War, Surge, Threaten, More War.

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John Ferguson, Boca Raton, Florida — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:01:02 GMT

The way I see it, Hillary Clinton is the VEEP, without her, Barack does not stand a chance!!