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Pete - Albany, NY — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 13:18:29 GMT

Ladies and gentlemen, the presumptive GOP nominee for president, Senator John McCain!

Open mouth. Insert foot. Repeat as necessary. Your results may vary!

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Sharon Stone — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 13:20:51 GMT

Old man McCain is all for the war, but just like Bush he understands none of it. Do we really want another president that wants war, but don't even know who he is fighting. He knows that we may need to do it for 100 years though. This guy is an idiot.

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Dave, Tn — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 13:24:48 GMT

Do you people read and trust your own reporting? I could probably find a story from the WaaPoo reporting the same things.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8330976/

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class Warrior, D.C. — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 13:27:11 GMT

McWar is clearly an imbecile, like the man whose clone he is. Do we really want this dofus running a Hundred Years' War?!? he's like that guy on the commercial on tv who couldn't locate China on a woorld map, even though that was his job. If the Dems weren't being so stupid and self-destructive, John Duh-bya would be a cinch to beat in November.
And he hasn't even SPOKEN stupid stuff on the economy yet!

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Paul Miller, Woodbridge, VA — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 13:28:24 GMT

He said the same thing on Monday? Okay, I'm convinced. McCain has no idea what he's talking about with respect to Iran and Iraq.

The Bush view reflects this moronic us versus them thing - the good guys versus the terrorists. McCain seems to be in this overly simplistic and wrong-headed camp.

The reality in Iraq is a web of groups and agendas, dominated primarily by the dynamic of majority Shi'ites coming to terms with power over the largest minority Sunnis. Its not the only dynamic but from half a world away, it seems to be the primary one.

Iran of course is reveling in the prospect of a Shi'ite dominated Iraq.

For McCain seemingly not to understand this also over-simplified but at least closer to correct concept is, well, just stunning.

Its as stunning as Hillary Clinton's seeming ignorance of the U.S. policy of intentional ambiguity with respect to mainland China and Taiwan.

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Lisa, New Britain, CT — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 13:29:42 GMT

Its a long way to November, that's honestly all of have to say at this point...any gains by McCain now have plenty of time to fall by the way side. He has some strengths, certainly, but he has some major downside too.

Obama 08

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Keith in PA — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 13:32:02 GMT

This is a guy who really wants to tout his foreign policy expertise???? He better study harder before he tangles with Obama.

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Billy, MI — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 13:43:35 GMT

The deomcrats are raising the issue because this is a serious blunder. He didn't just say it once. He said it three times that day and said it earlier in another interview. The American people were already lied to about al quaeda and Iraqi ties and the result was a war that is still going on five years later. Now we have another republican candidate spreading lies about Iran and al quada links. My hats off to Liebermann for correcting McCain, but it looks to me that McCain is itching to go to war with Iran.

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A.Brocco,Albuquerque,NM — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 13:55:33 GMT

Once the media begins to truly scrutenize John Mc. (so far his has been give a FREE ride),they will find out that there are larger conflicts that he needs to address other than the fact that he can't remember the difference between a Shiite country (Iran)and Al Queda a Sunni organization. Had Hillary or Barak showed similar ignorance, the right wing nuts like Rush Limbaugh would be screaming about their lack of knowledge.

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JohnnyU, WA State — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 13:59:30 GMT

McCain whoops, that says it all.

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Steve A Jonesboro IN — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:29:26 GMT

Old fool mccain has no clue as to what is happening in the country or the world. Foriegn affairs and Iraq are his strong points-and he doesn't even know who the enemy is after 5 years?? The real enemies are ignorant, arrogant self righteous hypocrites like him!

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Diane from Illinois — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:30:19 GMT

Okay, after listening to that excellent speech yesterday by Senator Obama, WHO would YOU rather see on TV giving the State of the Union address? Obama or McWhoops? It's no contest folks. First we had Reagan with Nancy whispering in his ear, "We're doing the best we can" and then someone whispering in Bush's ear (while he's holding a book that he's reading upside down)that the Trade Towers have just been hit (and he continues to sit there)and now Lieberman is whispering in McCain's ear the difference between Shiite's and Sunni's. Did you see ANYONE whispering in Obama's ear yesterday as he gave the speech of the century regarding the toughest issue of race facing America today? Why is this even an issue?

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Nicholas: Minnesota — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:34:51 GMT

"A spokesman for McCain's campaign accused the Democrats of launching unwarranted political attacks. 'In a press conference today, John McCain misspoke and immediately corrected himself ...'"
--Nooo, I believe that was Joe Lieberman who corrected him.

--Why do I get the feeling that the words 'senior moment' will come to play as much during this election as the words 'Bush-McCain'?

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Gerry , Vancouver, Canada — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:35:55 GMT

On a trip paid for by the American taxpayer and on his signature issue, Mr. Mc Cain does not seem to know what he is talking about. This is more than a mere slip of the tongue when this trip is obviously planned as a showcase for his campaign. Maybe he will sing his "BombBombIran" song as well. He seems to think that is funny. This is the guy that Hillary says is ready to answer the phone at 3am. Didn't someone say she would say or do anything to win?

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twocanpete — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:39:05 GMT

http://twocanpete.blogspot.com/
Another 'Senior Moment' to remind us of why Mike Huckabee should be the nominee.

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Class Warrior, D.C. — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:43:12 GMT

Isn't this kind of bs the kind of lies and lack of knowledge and bs that got us into Iraq in the FIRST place?!? I forsee BAD, BAD things coming from this uignorant jerk...

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Little Benny Franklin — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:44:02 GMT

Seems like another christian republican does not understand the divides in the muslim community, no surprise there, that is the reason the Bush administration has made such a mess over there.
The republican party has always played the
anti-intellectual card to get votes, perhaps McCain is playing dumb to get the dumb votes or perhaps he is just plain dumb, a vote for McCain is a vote for another lazy president that does not do his homework.
The reason the Bush administration has not been able to push war with Iran is because they are using the same formula that got us into Iraq, fool me once but not again. But here we have a presidential candidate waving the sword of war at Iran with the wrong information. That's all we need, another president that pulls us further down and creates the illusion that we are warmongers. So, do you independents still want to vote for him if Hillary is the democratic choice? Seems like you would vote for a real monster to spite the pretend one you have created in your minds.

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Brother Odd — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:52:59 GMT

He has no clue of the economy either, thats why he don't talk about it. He thinks we need to keep fighting, he just isn't sure who were fighting. Joe will tell him what to do, like Dick tells Bush.

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nuanced — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:58:22 GMT

It is extremely clear from McCain's statements that he did not mix up words or mis-speak; he said exactly what he believed -- repeatedly. It wasn't a senior moment, it wasn't a gaffe --- he simply believes things that are not true, even after people have corrected him. It is very similar to Ronald Reagun's modus operandi when he repeatedly told those untrue anecdotes. For many people a good story is better than the truth. You just have to look at your email inbox of urban legends from your friends and family to know many people operate that way.

He will be dangerous because just like Bush and Reagan he will ignore the facts and believe whatever supports his preconceived notions and ideology in making decisions and people WILL DIE in vain in large numbers as a result.

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nuanced — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:02:57 GMT

Hi twocanpete, I visited your blogspot. You have some problems. I hope you can work them out.

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HENRIE WARE BIRMINGHAM ALA — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:25:47 GMT

DO YOU WANT A SENILE OLD MAN FOR PRESIDENT. HE SHOULD GO BACK HOME TO ARZ AND ROCK IN A CHAIR. HE IS NOT CAPABLE TO BE THE NEXT COMMANDER AND CHIEF GO HOME MCCAIN.

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AJ, IL — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:31:53 GMT

I saw the video of McCain making that statement and it was very telling. McCain repeatedly made an incorrect statement in which Joe Lieberman had to tap him on the shoulder and correct him. That incident really made McCain look like an old feeble-minded man. Even I a typical American citizen caught on to how McCain misspoke, claiming Al-Qaeda (Sunni-based) was being trained by Iran (Shite-based) to commit terrorism in Iraq. Dumb! Dumb! Dumb! Dumb! Dumb!

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Rich - Philadelphia — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:55:55 GMT

McCain will continue to make gaffs like this because he is a clueless old man...

However, he does do well in the all important (sarcasm intended) catagory of being a candiate you want to have a beer with...

How pathetic....Let's vote for a bitter old man because he's the one w/can have a brewsky with....

Obama 08!!!!

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Lee Holmes — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 16:00:29 GMT

Paul Miller: Then explain this.

The New York Times Apr.14,2007:''US Suspects Iran Aiding Both Sunni And Shia Militias''

Then too,MSNBC itself observed last summer[along with the NY Times,AP,REUTERS,CNN,NEWSWEEK,WaPO,and Agence-France-Presse], that Shiite Iran was supplying arms to the Sunni Taliban in Afghanistan. What you forget in your analysis of Middle Eastern ''dynamics''is that the adage of the ''enemy of my enemy is my friend''holds true. Why would Shia HEZBOLLAH make common cause with the Sunni-majority PLO and Islamic Jihad?[as it did during the 1981-1984 Lebanese War,IJ,itself a Sunni Egyptian creature]. Why would Sunni al Qaeda work with Shia HEZBOLLAH all during the 1990s? Why are clearly identified Iranian munitions ending up in the hands of Sunni terrorist insurgents in both Iraq and Iran?

What we find rather,is that those portions of the MSM in the tank for either Clinton or Obama[the latter I suspect],are using any and all means neccesary to deflect attention away from D'Affaire Wright. Even if[as with their embrasure of the 2007 NIE,whose findings are now as dead as Caesar],they turn out to be wrong,and McCain,actually correct.

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC Feb.18,2008:''Triple Cross: Osama bin Ladens Master Spy In America''.DVD/VHS

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Harmony — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 16:21:35 GMT

The old guy is slipping. Old timer's disease is creeping in.

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shoe,North Andover, Ma. — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 16:32:59 GMT

It looks as though McCain is looking for another reason to stay in Iraq for one hundred years even if the reason is based on ahem wrong intel. First it was we're going to disarm Iraq of W.M.D.'s. Second it was we're going to rid Iraq of a brutal dictator. Third it was we're bringing democracy to an oppressed people. Then it was we must train the Iraqis to be able to provide their own security. Now it is we must stay till the job is finished. Which job one,two,three,four,five or maybe it is job number seventeen senator?

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StevO, Denver — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 16:38:13 GMT

Imagine if that old McCain is elected President. He will keep us at war and quite possibly get us into another even more potent war, completely alienate us around the world, our economy could be drawn deeper into depression, fuel, food, mortgages will become so desperately expensive, our dollar will be almost worthless, etc., etc. After his 4 year term, then it will be up to the Dems to try and recover from it all. We must have a peaceful, intelligent president and administration that is willing to begin to help heal the wounds around the world and here at home. (It's going to take a long time). Soon there will be no jobs and living as we know it will become desperate... what then? Revolution! Let's not take that chance and begin to change now with Barack.

Obama O-Eight

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sally Higgins Greenwich, NY — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 16:39:39 GMT

I have a question.....why did Michigan and Florida move up their primaries? Must have been a pretty good reason if they chose to do it even knowing the DNC would strip them of their delegates.

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Vridar, Seattle, Washington — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 16:45:47 GMT

In a biographic documentary I saw on CNN recently I learned more of John McCain's impressive service and horrific struggles as a POW in Vietnam. This service makes me--the son of a grievously injured former Green Beret who was briefly held as a POW, also, in Vietnam--very proud of his service to our country.

Unfortunately I also learned in the same biography that McCain finished 5th to bottom in his class at the Naval Academy and that, furthermore, he recounted how at his graduation commencement he wistfully hoped at the time that he could have screwed around more as he watched the young man who, being last in the class, was called to the stage to shake the hand of President Eisenhower as a sort of perverse honor. McCain, in reminiscing for the interview, seemed to think it amusing; I do not.

This cavalier attitude regarding personal learning, irrespective of brave military service to our country, is alarming to me and should be to all those who have watched another poor student and cut-up, George W. Bush, run our country into the ground. It is likely, in my opinion, that both men's lack of studiousness and diligence is dangerous in a leader elected to manage a complex government in a complex world. McCain most recently has demonstrated his lack of due diligence when he spoke of how little he knew about the economy. Even if, as is apparent, McCain the Senator focused on national security issues (and even then, did he study them, or does he just rely on his "gut"?), how does one spend decades in the Senate without learning economics inside out?

Now, one could loosely make this same argument about Obama, I think, but unlike Bush and McCain, Obama recovered from a lack of seriousness in his teenage years, going on to be a top student and Editor of the Harvard Law Review, which, while not the definitive measure of seriousness, certainly takes an extraordinary commitment to serious study regardless of innate ability.

Both Hillary and Obama are exceptional students of life, history and government. As such, and in light of the tragedies which befall America when we elect a student cut-up, we Americans will be better off to elect a President who is consummately serious about studying and understanding the highly complex world around them.

Obama '08!

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Angel — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:19:09 GMT

It will be interesting to see the end result of this election. Hillary loves to throw the rock and hide her hands.

She is the one along with Geraldine Farraro that knew exactly what to do to finally bring out the race issue in this contest. This is something that they have been trying to do all along, to make people see Obama as a black candidate.

It is awful and sad. I really hope that those people in the next few primaries give the Clintons what they deserve, failure!

The saddest thing about this whole thing with Wright is that Obama was right in that this is the generation of blacks that do not trust whites because of what they have experienced. And church is where most of it comes out, however, what white people have seen as the meanness in the message, is customary in the black church. I am not necessarily speaking about the choice of words, but the moving and the style of preaching.

Most Black ministers regardless of the message always get dramatic, forceful, and loud during their sermons, so if you were to take away the words and put others in its place, you would still get the dramatization in the pulpit.

Although many of Wright's comments seemed radical to many, they were based on many truths and were not exactly anti-American as many would perceive from those sound bites. They were truths, in many ways.

People not affected soon forget that the government actually did give syphilis to black men in an experiment, this is documented and true. So to think that the government would spread HIV is not so far fetched as many would like to believe.

It is also true that our foreign policies, many of them are the cause for the hate and the desire to kill Americans, which too has been documented many times.

So many of the things Wright has said, along with biblical teachings, are not untrue. However, because of the tensions between white and black, and because of our inability or unwillingness to admit that America does need to rethink some of her positions inside our borders as well as outside our borders.

The real problem is that many people take the news for what is written or stated and go no further to investigate or research a topic, we tend to believe everything we hear on the news until that news in a part of our personal lives and it is our family that has their own story distorted. It is at that time that we want the world to know that the news media is unfair and biased.

It is my prayer that Whites, Hispanics, Asians, and Blacks would take the time out to actually learn about what our leaders do behind closed doors that put our lives in jeopardy.

This man, Wright is also an ex-Navy man, there are things that he knows about what our leaders have done behind closed doors militarily, which is also demonstrated in his message.

We as Americans need to stop, take out a moment to investigate the truth and then make our decisions. However, without an open mind, a clear view of entire scope of a thing, or we lose as a people.

When all the dust settles, we will come to terms within ourselves that we have been tricked many times by our government. The problem is when someone speaks out about it, they are unpatriotic. Does this mean that it does not matter what our country does but just because we live in it, we should agree?

Absolutely not, we are Americans and that means we have the right to speak our hearts, and research our government moves and plots, and make informed decision, as to if we have treated others fairly.

Great example: Bush, weapons of mass destruction, instill fear in the people on this one opportunity (911) and get the revenge you want for your father's attempted assassination. Forget Afghanistan, only put a few there, the place that the real killer resides and go to war in Iraq.

Five years later, no weapons of mass destruction! But an invasion that has killed thousands of Americans and thousands of our allies. Our government lied to us, defrauded us, and you still cannot see Wright's point, be they good or bad?

It is a sad state in America. We are willing to sacrifice a great leader that can help us get on the right track because of behind the scene tricks again. This time from Clinton, who in fact, helped Bush destroy our children's lives, the economy (war cost), and families all across America. Just because she is a Clinton with name recognition, we are once again willing to put power in the hands of someone not smart enough to read a report, which would have given her a different view, or perhaps not!

I will not vote for this woman, period. She is now trying to steal the nomination, put women against men, and divide us even further. Is this what you really want for America?

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S.B. Stein E.B. NJ — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:45:45 GMT

Is this a regular happening that McCain mixes up groups and problems? How often does this kind of mix up happen? Can he clearly understand the situation and who is involved for what reason? I hope so. I know that the president is supposed to represent America, but do we have to worry about his temper as well?