McCain Adviser Won’t Fight Obama

McCain needs to fire Mark McKinnon now. He proves himself unreliable. He is a Democrat and will vote that way no matter what he says now

Might be a little premature, Byron. Clinton still might come back to win the nomination, and Mark McKinnon doesn’t seem to have any qualms campaigning against her.

This piece must be a trick, planted by Democrats to ### off Republicans.
The guy used to be a Democrat, he “supports McCain 100% …etc” BUT if the Dem Nominee is Barack Hosein Obama, he thinks it would be ” bad for McCain..”

These people are gushing about a man who is saying absolutely nothing, but saying it very well. Obama needs to be revealed for what he is, vapor. His veneer is actually very thin, and the Repubs (and the country) need a candidate and a team than can carefully expose him on substance.

I notice Senator McCain surrounds himself with people that think like him. Remember, the senator said that he thought Hillary would make a great president. We can’t be sure that he is going to vote for himself.

The real shock is there’s someone working for McCain with a conscience. D.

McKinnon is McCain’s paid message guy. To say Obama’s candidacy is not good for the campaign is not a good message. Hopefully, McCain will fix this fast.

Sounds like Marky Mark wants to be on the winning team. It’s the political equivalent of the floating resume. Keep me in mind, Barack!

My bet is that this guy has said something racial in the past and he doesnt want it to come back and bite mccain.

Hahaha, where in the article did it say his advisor wasn’t backing him?

If McKinnon feels that way, he should do the honorable thing and step down now; if McCain were to fire him, it would be blown out of proportion and used to emphasize McCains temper.

Kay, he was born in America. His father is from Kenya and his mother from Kansas…but he was born in America. Last time I checked the US Constitution…you need to be born an American citizen.

Here is a perfect example of why the current political chaos in the GOP exists. We have a so-called expert in politics who has been advising Bush and then McCain but who swoons over “The Unbearable Lightness of Being Barack” Hussein Obama! What ever happened to the manly ability to discern weak minded fools posing as expert advisors? For the GOP to have relied on this kind of mind illustrates just how morally and intellectually impaired they are.

I agreee, McCain should drp-kick McKinnon NOW! I believe in the “white guilt” complex. It’s sad, to say the least. What, you can’t attack a non-white man running for POTUS for fear of being called a racist!? Thank you, Jesse Jackson. The Dem race IS race-based. Look at the recent polls! I know that there are plenty of mostly young white liberals are voting for Obama, because he’s young, good looking a so-called “change-agent” with a preacher’s fervor. But, look at the black vote. I think it’s primarily raced-based voting. Trouble is Obama has no qualifications or accomplishments to speak of. Obama’s just a likable guy with “change” as his main speech buzz word. All hat and no cattle. BTW, he IS the most liberal senator in congress based on voting record & no votes. The lefties love him, the blacks, and the young platform. All with little substance from Obama. I can’t believe that it’s come to a popularity race contest for POTUS for a lot of Dems and other folks. As polarizing as Bill-ary is, she’s far more qualified on day one. We conservatives ought to start thinking about congressional seats, supporting McCain and the presidency in 2012. I’d rather fight McCain on issues while in the White than the alternative: a liberal Dem POTUS AND Congress. Makes me ill at the thought.

“Are American’s getting dumb?”
Anyone else see the irony in this?

Davie,
Please listen to what I have to say.
You’ve bought the media’s and Hillary’s “experience” mantra hook, line and sinker. You’ve bought the media’s line that Obama is all fluff. Did you watch the Democratic debate between Hillary and Obama? I am willing to be my net worth that you did not. That debate was 110% substance, with specifics and details.

I’m guessing Republicans will see this as weakness. But independents will see it as character on both McCain’s and McKinnon’s part.
You guys in the GOP seem to have no idea what a great tactical move you’ve made by presumably nominating McCain. The very reasons you don’t like him are the reasons independents do – and so long as you don’t commit political suicide, as in the base taking a collective vacation in Fiji this November, independents will decide the election.
From the Democrats perspective, it is sheer luck they also have a candidate who may be as if not more popular with independents.

The media crowd has a hard time to have a critical look on Obama’s record. Every tiny amt of questions will always go back to – oh, he is black, that’s why he is being attacked crap. Make no mistake about it, coming this fall, no media would ever do any negative stories about Hussein Obama…too many people are afraid to label as the one being instructmental to defeat the most promising black man to win the White House in this generation.

The reason why Obama is winning right now is because he listens to the legitimate criticisms leveled against him and he makes necessary changes. FOR EXAMPLE, WHEN PEOPLE CONSISTENTLY SAY HE IS AN “EMPTY SUIT” OR SIMPLY RUNNING ON IDEALISTIC RHETORIC, HE MADE CHANGES TO HIS STUMP SPEECHES, ADDED MORE “MEAT,” SUBSTANCE, ADDED TOWN HALLS, ECONOMIC MEETINGS, ETC. Imagine a President who actually listens to the American people to get things done? Speaking of empty (pant) suits, why does Hillary avoid answering the question of healthcare mandates and tax increases for the majority of working Americans?

Ah yes. The “stubby-armed” old coot McCamesty vs Obama with his give-away drivers license program to illegal mexican aliens. What a pair to draw to. The voters don’t have much of a choice. Very sad. Very sad, indeed. The US will merge its’ borders with mexico and canada, and we’ll all live happily ever after.

Please——-obama is the most liberal…or r we picking a President based upon youth, looks, charisma rather than policies….if so Teddy Roosevelt and Honest Abe would lose too. What a shame–

Irma, I’ve been to the site and read. All I see is these boxes he’s put a lot of people in. What I’m going to do for the Hispanics, Blacks, LBGT or whatever. Yepp he’s going to bring us all together. Except he’s left out a big chunk of America. By the way I didn’t see my group on his list.

What I can’t get is when he gets in front of audiences he turns on this affected southern accent! He’s from Illinois what’s the deal?

Hey joyce; why don’t you listen to someone rather than yourself and other liberals. If or when you do, ask for proof and/or their voting record on the issues. It will speak for it’s self. America will be swirling the drain soon… It’s a sad time, but we’ve become ignorant, amoral and we deserve it. I truly hope BHO wins in Nov with a large Dem majority in congress; everyone will see what happens and hopefully wake-up. Only after that can we start to work again making this country great after the catastrophe that is coming our way soon. I just hope it doesn’t take 8 years as opposed to 4 years, but the American sheepeople are infinitely ignorant so we’ll see…

Rasmussen has some interesting head to head polls in battleground states.
In Colorado, Obama has a nice lead over McCain, while McCain has a nice lead over Clinton.
In New Hampshire, Obama is strongly ahead of McCain, while McCain and Clinton are roughly equal.
A little good news for Clinton – she does better against McCain in Missouri than Obama does, though both contests are within a couple points, so inside the margin of error.
Rasmussen also has a national daily tracking poll. Obama has jumped to a five point lead today; the first time since the poll started early last year he has led in this poll.

Hillary and Bill are going to pull it off by hook or by crook. You can bet the Arkansas farm on it.

Hey, proof that Obamacans exist!
A commentator on CNN today said it’s really hard to run against a message of hope. People don’t like it when you bash hope.
RealClearPolitics.com shows Obama beats McCain in a head to head race. Check it out.

Has anyone else noticed that this Primary campaign is following a similar trajectory to the plot of the final season of the West Wing? Fresh young candidate who transcends race (so he was Hispanic rather than African-American, but so what) gets himself ahead in the Democratic race. Crusty old, socially liberal Republican (despite having trouble with his conservative base) ties up the GOP nomination. And wasn’t there even who resigned from Vinick’s campaign staff because he couldn’t bring himself to fight against the election of Santos?
Is this a case of life imitating art or what. Spooky.

I can’t believe this guy Senator Obama. or should I say Senator Zeus (D. Olympus) he promises everything to everybody and no one on one challenges him. he votes No on the Surveillance Bill and no one challenges him and this guy may be the next Commander in Chief. He’s more like the Messiah in Chief.

I wonder what the Obama people have on Mark McKinnon.

I never thought about it before, but Hillary and McCain, being such good “friends”, might mean that if she were the Democratic nominee, McCain would just let her win the Presidency. He just seems like that sort of nice guy. With his legislative history, he could do just that.

McNasty is part of the problem, not the solution, he’s been in DC over 25 years.

Obama’s got it made. McCain is just too slimy for conservatives to support.

Advisers to McCain are like wives. He’ll just dump him and get a younger, richer advisor.

F. Melgin wrote: “Democrats are all about themselves”?! Yeah, if by “themselves” you mean “the majority of America! Romney in 2012?! If he couldn’t win against pitiful John McCain this year, what makes you think he could win against anyone any year?
OK y’all, amusing comments. See ya in November, when America votes in a Democrat to the Oval Office!

Pakaal, you state the obvious. McCain-democrat. Hillary-democrat. Obama-Democrat. Of course there will be one in November.

Peter – take the 30-40% of social conservatives out of the GOP and you get to go back to the 40 years that ended with Bob Michel’s reign.
I guess if you like being a permanent minority party, then so be it, but, I guess your views are instructive to this fiscal and social conservative, in that I understand that you kind of want to be Democrat-lite, enjoy some of the chotchke’s that Nancy Pelosi tosses you, and sit back and watch the country decay away.
Maybe there’s some large consituency that’s going to replace ours, but, I don’t think you’re going to get it in the GOP you envision.
I like McCain, think he’s right on the war and most fiscal issues, and he’s a heck of a lot better than either Obama or Hillary.

Can’t you guys recognize character when you see it? Mr. McKinnon said months ago that he would not make ads (that will inevitably go negative) against Obama. He respects him as a candidate and does not want to be a working part of a campaign that tries to knock him down. Take off the partisan lenses for one minute and recognize when someone follows through on a promise! Democrat or Republican, we should recognize when someone actually keeps their word.

Sen. McCain has proven himself to be -on occasion – meaner than the proverbial junk-yard dog. That’s exactly what our next president must be to deal with the Islamofascists. So I will vote for him in the general election but I can’t say I will enjoy doing so.

John McCain wasn’t my first choice, but considering Obama and Ma, he is who my family will vote for now. I still think Huckabee is a Clinton plant. I wouldn’t be a bit surprised.

Do conservatives really think that the destruction of our economy, removal of our civil liberties, and decreased standing in the world is the fault of two years of Democratic majority and not the 6 previous years of a conservative Judiciary, Executive, and Legislature?
Are they really that delusional? Do they honestly believe that the massive corruption that has torn the country down is to blame on the people who couldn’t do anything about it?
Do they really believe that all of the halls of power are populated primarily by Democrats and not the corporate tax-cutting, lobbyist scandal drenched Republicans?
Wow. I guess Denial’s an art form for some people.

The GOP is in this awful mess thanks to Florida’s RNC’s ‘big guns’ endorsing McLame in the last minute to stop Romney, who was on a roll. (Robert Novak explains in his column how brother Jeb was behind the coup against Romney in /Florida, after it was obvious that their first choice, former NYC mayor, sank fast with his huge baggage of waste material.) Now the RNC is scrambling with this unappealing candidate. The champaign is already flowing in the camp of the DemoLeft.

All you idiots yammering about Bush and how awful his administration is never seem to understand that a president can’t get very far without good support from congress. Everyone knows how ugly the democraps have been towards Bush. They lie all the time and can’t keep their campaign promises. Bush could have used some help, not the foul badmouthing from Pelosi and Reid and others of their ilk.

You really have to be nuts;to let this ole coot carry on the BUSH Urban civil
war policy in Iraq,which we have no business being in,and it will continue to drain billions and further sink our economy.Poor obama will have to come in and keep the boat afloat;by putting back those jobs that was lost and put a freeze on those people losing their homes.However he is a guy we can all rally around.

How stupid!

And Huckabee forced this McCain down our throats.

“All you idiots yammering about Bush and how awful his administration is never seem to understand that a president can’t get very far without good support from congress. Everyone knows how ugly the democraps have been towards Bush. They lie all the time and can’t keep their campaign promises. Bush could have used some help, not the foul badmouthing from Pelosi and Reid and others of their ilk.”
Really Russ, do I have to respond to you?
Did you forget that the Repubs owned all three branches of government until 2006? And all they could seem to get done was giving out big cash refunds to rich white boys.
A new day dawns in America, and will see the end of the polotics of the rich built on the backs of the poor. And if America is destroyed it will be because narrow minded white man can’t bear the idea that anyone but them can lead this nation.
“Go get the rope and the guns ma, one of them der darkies is in the White House”.

Its very difficult for a white candidate to campaign against a black candidate without being called a racist. Even if your name is Bill Clinton and blacks worshipped you for 2 decades. Except Obama to try this against McCain as well.

If Huckabee can hold on long enough and in the process deny McCain the delegate count to clinch the nomination, we conservatives can force a floor fight at the convention and nominate someone other than this politically-befuddled crackpot!

easy victory for mc cain
can you say trillion dollar reparations ;) Obama better cry to his mama
but he is too liberal for the mainstream
of course he is winning now he is preaching to the choir
i bet the republicans are tickled to face someone so far off the beaten path,
talking badly about Washington that’s a first for a politician

I’m shocked, shocked I say, to learn that Bush has been hiring Democrats to help him run and sell his domestic policies.
How Compassionate can you get?

As a lifetime conservative / republican that has been forced by the current political environment to morph into a Libertarian, let me say , John McCain will never get my vote.

I believe it was in June of last year that Mr. McKinnon let Sen McCain know that he would not be willing/able to work against Sen. Obama, as Mr. Obama’s candidacy was a unique and historic moment for the nation. Here’s a quote from Lech Walesa: He who sticks out his hand to stop the wheels of time will get his fingers crushed. I saw Pres. Reagan’s son make an interesting comment last night: it’s dangerous for the dems to put up a candidate who’s plainly like less than the other one. Not that likability is enough, but with platforms not so far apart, you’d rather have someone the people LIKE. Sen. McCain seems to have a bit of the same problem within his own party.

These people are gushing about a man who is saying absolutely nothing, but saying it very well. Obama needs to be revealed for what he is, vapor. His veneer is actually very thin, and the Repubs (and the country) need a candidate and a team than can carefully expose him on substance.
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NAILED IT!!!!

I a 37 years old and voted in my first election in 1988. I am a conservative democrat. I have always been so frustrated with the left wing of the democratic party/moveon.org/code pink crowd, embarrassing. I am amazed how liberals think. Look at the eletion of Joe Lieberman in CT who couldn’t win the democratic primary but still won the election. Liberals proved their point in nominating Ned Lamont..how well did that work out in the general election? Democrats are misreading the election results from 06. If you are a liberal and voted for a democtrat, of course you were voting to end the war. the rest of non-liberal America was not. I was against the war in Iraq from the beginning, however we are there now and it’s in the USA’s interest to try and get Iraq right. Democrats are invested in failure in Iraq. If Obama wins the primary his message of hope won’t sound so great when he starts getting challenged on troop withdrawals and being confronted with the slaughter of Iraqis. For anyone who cares, if Obama gets elected, his troop withdrawals will coincide with the Iraqi’s going to the polls. As David Brooks said, the blood of them will be on a Democratic president’s head, So much for hope in his first year as president. then again I think he’s too liberal and will go the way of a Ned lamont in the general election. Believe me, as a life long democrat from NY can’t vote for him, he’s in trouble.

McCain’s a lib?
Does that make President Bush a bald faced liar for calling McCain a conservative?

I hate top say it ladies and gents but the future is absolutley dismal in all reguards.
Mcain had better buck up and toss this weak Nancy overboard without hesitation.
MIt is also vital,,,,VITAL that Mcain takes O to the mat on funemental coservative principals, for if he goes head to head with O on any principals that even have a wiff of being the same then Mcain will be beaten like a drum.
The bright side to this is that O is a near bumbling idgit without his telepromter so going head to head in a debate could be Mcains main strength just as long as he stands strong on a very diferent message other than….hope, which is simply a word for Euro socialism, flat out surrendering to AQ, our National security/Intell abilities will go straight into the crapper.
The MILITARY will be reduced and demoralized to a near point of the pull out of Vietnam for not letting them finish the job that they know they are capable of.
O is the anti Reagan, speeches that make people feel good about themselves with the major difference that O is anti american with socialist views where Reagan made Americans feel good and busted his hump to put the people in positions to better themseleves as Americans,Reagan also never refused to wear an American flag pin or hold his hand over his heart dueing the National anthem which that in itself speaks volumes about the anti Americanisim that O obviously has being he doesnt do either.

Remeber Michael Dukakis was 15% ahead after the convention, what happened to him. People are fickle with polls. the Democrats have not been challenged on their troop withdrawals because they all agreed. Pulling out of Iraq will be a losing message. Read David Brooks article you might learn something. GO CODE PINK!!!

btw Hillary or Joe Biden were the only hopes the Democrats had, but again in a caucus 1% of the population votes. I will give code pink people credit they are dedicated. Also, what will Obama do when asked by McCain about his Moveon.org endorsement? remember General Betrayus,. I can here the republican machine warming up to running against the most Liberal senator in the USA.

Bill Clinton won because he wrestled control of the democratic party from the left wing. The left wing is now back in control. Where are all the other conservative Democrats??? May be waiting to vote for McCain in the general election?? I guess that’s where I need to put my money and vote.

LOL… Good job guys. You really know how to pick’em. Oh yeah, John McCain strikes fear into the hearts of democrats. That stalwart champion of the GOP, John McCain the Maverick/Establishment candidate. When Obama the Clinton Slayer wins in a landslide, Don’t blame me I voted for Mitt.

Fact of the matter. Senator Obama has substance. Just because the media has chosen to neglect his years of experience as a state legislator (1996-2004) and rather focus on his shorter experience as a US senator (2004-present) does not mean lack of anything(ignoring something does not vaporize it, fact of life!!).
SO, all those people believing that senator Obama lacks substance and should be exposed need to think again. Certain people want America to think he lacks substance and think that if they say it long enough, then enough people who aren’t paying attention or trying to find the truth will accept it. But America has been burned one too many times in the past by misinformation and lies and so they are checking facts and finding the truth for themselves!!!

What’s McKinnon afraid of having to say? That Obama is a Communist leaning Liberal that has no achievements in Congress other than starting his presidential bid immediately after taking office and using his empty populist rhetoric to capture the fancy of the wistful masses yearning to “feel good” about America after 8 years of the Media and the Democrats and our international enemies droning on about how evil we are? Naaaaah, couldn’t be that.

This is a constant theme. I disagree with Obama on key issues, he is void of substance, but he makes me feel good.
This is what we have become? We are going to bury this country in socialist type debt because the guy doing it makes you feel good?
I think we are living the last best days in this country, and it is sinful that uneducated people will put this guy in out of white guilt? Yikes!

The democrats list the economy in most polls as their #1 worry. Electing a liberal anti-capitalist as president (OBAMA) is the very best thing to do if you want the economy to completely fall apart. Just goes to show how uninformed and ignorant democrat voters are. WISE UP FOOLS.

Randy you are right that liberals will be a disaster, but nothing is better for the economy than a consevative democrat: ) there’s just none left :/

The race thing is a joke. I was watching CNN as a pundit before the SC primary was discussing how black women will vote. He said he spoke to several and they said they would vote their race and not their gender. No one on the CNN panel even flinched when this racist statement was made. It was like that was a completely resaonable thing for a black woman to say.

Here is what democrats stand for…
ABORTION, the killing of human beings while still in the wombs of their mothers. SICK
What’s ironic is that women in this country, the supposedly more compassionate of the two sexes, have killed more human life in 40 years than men have killed in ALL the wars the United States has fought in COMBINED and MULTIPLIED by 10.
Democrats also claim to be more compassionate and fully support abortions… the killing of a woman’s unborn baby.
Our country’s Bill of Rights claims that ALL men are CREATED equal and are endowed by the CREATOR with certain UNALIENABLE rights. The first of which is the RIGHT to LIFE.
OBAMA and CLINTON support the killing of our babies in their mother’s wombs. Our society is sick and perverted. The cancer has spread to all 50 states and the patient is terminal.

Just count this as one of many “I told you so” moments that RUSH will be having. He TOLD you McCain was a Liberal. He TOLD you he surrounded himself with Democrates, he told you he was playing with the wrong crowd. It’s all coming back to bite the GOP. This should be no surprise to us conservatives. This is how the Dems play. The McKinnin guy is a DEM and he is RINO’S top advisor!!

Has anyone even REALLY checked out McCain? He is a globalist,so is Obama and Hillary. Google CFR and see if we don’t end up with North American Union. Huckabee and Ron Paul are the only ones against this. This is serious stuff folks

Government “controlling” a free-market economy? You mean kind of like what Republicans do with oil subsidies and grants for agriculture? And how most Republicans fell lock-step behind Bush and his “stimulus” package?
Yeah… it works both ways, d.l. I’m just an honest Republican pointing out the obvious. The minute fellow Republicans decide to stop propping up the antiquated oil industry and bailing out banks, then I’ll start believing they actually favor a “free-market.” Until then, they’re all just talk.

“How will Obama’s stand on giving drivers licenses to illegal aliens do in the genealr election?”
If Osama wins there will be no more illegals. Barack Hussien Obama is the worst thing that America can “hope” for.
Evil man is he.

I am Dem supporter but if HRC is not nominated you GOP gotta unite. America cannot afford to have a president who live by speeches and rhetoric! the stake is too high! I know McCain doesn’t behold many of conservative credentials but he is still by a million miles better and more reliable than Obama.

“I would pay 40% in taxes if I new that my kids and I would have health care, and education paid for”
Make it 45% so you can go back to school to. Who new “White Male” needed more schoolin’

Al well said. I agree Obama is not an option and I am sure the rigt wingers will get it.

Hi. I have my fair share of student loans. Right now my children have state health care here in illinois, Best insurance ever, thats to Obama. It’s nice to know that if your child gets sick, you don’t have to worry if it will be covered or not. I pay no co-pays. Even so, I have to pay >$20,000 a year in services not covered, for my son who has autism. but that’s a whole other story.
My other question is this. What are your biggest fears about socialism.
And how many of you are paid to write on this board??

No chris, you know what i mean. Hillary “Rhodam” clinton and Barrack “Husain” Obama are very different things

Again I don’t get why Barak doesn’t get more questions on cocaine use. Bill Clinton was tortured over smoking pot. A supreme court judge that reagan nominated had to drop out for pot… I guess when Tim Russert said it’s race baiting to bring up Barak’s drug use because he admitted it in his book, the Left wing has decided to pass on this and God knows what else…McCain and the republicans hopefully will.

That’s why Huckabee WILL be our next President. Don’t you people get it?? The media is setting this race up for an Obama win. McCain will NEVER win against Obama!!! At least if it’s Huckabee verses Obama it will be a real race to the White House but it ain’t over till it’s over no matter what the media says!!!!!

Thanks white male, but it’s his name and it is what it is…these are the issues that he will face in a general election HRC was the dems only chance..

the only reason I am staying a democrat is because of Health care. A party that will nominate Barak is too liberal for me.
I work in health Care..It is broken and the Republicans are dead wrong on this issue.

So jen, you write a book and admit to something and so therefore you shouldn’t have to answer questions? He chomps on gum like crazy because he just quit smoking. Does he have a complusive disorder? an addictive personality?

So jen, you write a book and admit to something and so therefore you shouldn’t have to answer questions?
You shouldn’t have to answer questions? Who’s asking questions that he’s not answering? It’s just human psychology. “So, you used cocaine, huh?” “Yep. Young and stupid.” That pretty much covers it. It’s not exactly Ph.D. level psychology to point out that admitting to things kind of takes the sting out of their value as an attack.
If you were able to ask him inanities like whether he has a “compulsive disorder”, he’d probably answer that, too. I’m guessing most people have more substantive things they’d rather discuss.

Jen is another spell checker and equates typing skills with intelligence. I have one question for Barak supporters. He says he’s going to unite the country and move it forward, red and blue states become purple. My democratic govenor of NY won in a landslide. He’s been in office less then 2years. He like Barak support giving drivers licenses to illegal aliens. After Govenor Spitzer, a democrat in a Liberal state tried this, his approval ratings are now around 30%.
Once John McCain starts pointing out how liberal Barak is, what makes any of believe this garbage Barak says. Another politician ran on a similar platform, “I am a united not a divider” George Bush. He was full of it just like Barak. just look at these boards, he’s united nothing so far except code pinker’s, moveon.orger’s and the liberal media.

Oh, Chris/conserv dem/black mail, you’ve misspelled Barack’s name consistently and I haven’t pointed it out yet. I only point it out when you accuse people of being dumb. Remember that sign “GET A BRAIN MORANS”? See? Irony? Damn, I wish Republicans hadn’t killed irony, wrapped it in chains, put its feet in cement, and sunk it into Lake Superior.
George Bush *is* a uniter. He’s united 70% of the country against him. It just took him a little longer.
As for Obama, I bet these guys would be surprised to learn that they’re in Code Pink.
http://www.republicansforobama.org/?q=homepage

Good grief, these things are so ridiculously elementary. People aren’t asking him about his age (72, btw) because they’re ageist, it’s because he’s running for president. His health, fitness, and life expectancy are kind of relevant to whether or not he can do the job for 4 to 8 years. He seems to be pretty energetic and in good health to me, so I don’t care so much, but age and health concerns have ALWAYS been brought up. Remember Dick Cheney and his four heart attacks or whatever it was? Ronald Reagan showed signs of Alzheimer’s before he left office, for pete’s sake. Cocaine use in college is much less relevant to your current ability to do the job. These things should be completely obvious.

Wow… I wish I had a dollar for every Repub here whose head exploded over this, I’d be quite wealthy, and happy to be taxed at 40% because I’d already have enough money to live well without being a greedy tard.
And as for the evils of socialism, um… we have been allies with evil socialists for over 50 years, and they have a higher level of education and standard of living than we do.
If you enjoy overpriced and underperforming healthcare, world record deficits, and all your tax dollars going to war, please, vote for St. “Hundred Years War” McCain. And then go back to your ever so profitable meth labs, yokels.

I think we need to find a true Muslim to run for President and hope he wins. That way, the Muslims who hate us will become our friends and they will know all the secret information we have about everyone and we won’t be able to use it against these folks who hate us. That would stop that awful torture against our enemies, too, since we wouldn’t have any enemies! I think it’s a great idea, all we have to do is find someone to run as a Muslim… mmmm where can we find someone like that?

Why would McCain have a Democrat as advisor anyway? I thought he was a Republican.
Snicker, snicker.

Good lord Richard – will you all ever stop grieving over the Rebellion? You lost. The South couldn’t even put shoes on its soldiers because the Confederate states couldn’t agree on what to send to whom – you want that kind of military? Good riddance to the Confederacy I say, good riddance. Hooray for April 9th!
And if you don’t think the Constitution was SUPPOSED to be changed over time, then why were amendments allowed in the first place? Should we revoke the 19th amendment as well? Ask yer wife first. Or maybe the 2nd Amendment? Ask the NRA on that one.
I get so tired of the yokels and their tired arguments. Where were they when Dubya started all this spying on folks and grasping power as the unitary executive? But they stay mad the Confederacy lost 140 years ago. Please.

Jen Ned lamont thought the same thing in CT, it’s how those poll questions are asked. Once John McCain points out how moronic it is, but bho does win, the blood will be on his hands at that point. John McCain’s point about 100years in Iraq was, Americans don’t care we have bases in Japan, Germany, Korea as long as our soldiers aren’t getting shot at. john Mccain’s point was if we do leave a stable democratic Iraq, why would a base be different there then it is in saudi Arabia or Kuwait which we already have…Turkey too

Yeah! Yeah! “People like you” have a double standard about “every issue” !!! Every single one!!! and to have come upon this profound insight from a mere few sentences of commentary…amazing.
Some of these ridiculous, sophomoric posts amaze me. An advisor makes an ethical decision that makes rational sense – good for him. If you’re too much of a partisan hack to refrain from demonizing him for the heresy of viewing a liberal positively, then that’s on you – shame on you.

Jen the holier than thou Demosheep has admitted on this page that she is bigoted against group homes.
Shame on you Jen.
I thought Democrats were tolerant of all views?
Or is it only positions you agree on?
Hypocrite.
And you have obviously done a lot of drugs or you wouldn’t be defending Osama so strongly.
Don’t worry your boss won’t find out and you won’t lose your mid-level marketing gig.

Hmm.. Maybe John Romano isn’t the smartest in the group home, either, in addition to that nasty stuff with the kittens. Well, it’s always fun having a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent, but I’m going to turn it over to gb and Edsbowlingshoe and any other intelligent, bored folks out there. Peace –

Davie, why is it that if Clinton gets the superdelegates and the nomination, there will be riots in the streets. You do not hear any of this kind of talk from Hillary supporters. Now who is more mature ? If she doesn’t get the nomination, I will weigh the differences between Obamarama and McCain and see which foot I want to shoot myself in.

As vapid as an Obama candidacy may be, it is a wondrous thing to see Hillary DENIED! I wonder, will she overdose on sleeping pills after the convention, or will she take hostages in her campaign headquarters and commit suicide by cop? Or will she stay on as a US senator and spend 4 years employing her politics of personal destruction against Obama and his allies?

The GOP needs to find someone else to run at their convention. McCain will get his behind kicked, especially if he surrounds himself with wimps. O-Bama is so transparent, and McCain’s guy doesn’t want to attack him on his records, etc…. Total wimp.

also what do all the pull out the troops now think of when Iran trys to fill the vacuum when we leave on one side and Saudi Arabia on the other? Will the Sunni/shiite conflict spread? Has BHO explained these things or even thought about it. Btw I have tried to like BHO speeches, they really aren’t that good, I am amazed people’s reactions to them.

BHO wants to sit and meet all the dictators that do no not like us in his 1st year in office. I can’t believe BHO gets a free ride this naive position. Scarry…

Chris: The problem with your reasoning is that it sounds exactly like the Vietnam-era “Domino Theory.”
How can you be so sure that Iran and Saudi Arabia would rush into Iraq to take over if we left? How can you be certain the surge is even “working,” and not driving opposition forces underground? How can we be sure the terrorists in Iraq won’t just resurface once we scale back our troops?
If the only thing that maintains a modicum of “stability” is the presence of our troops in Iraq for the next century, losing a couple hundred every year to terrorist attacks, we have to ask ourselves whether it’s truly worth it–and whether it can be considered anything other than a failure.

If you have any respect and love for this country dem/rep you know the leader of the free world, the President of the United States of American should sit down directly with the likes of Ahmadinejad. This would soil the presidency and elevate a dictators stature on the world stage. In NY we wouldn’t allow him to visit the world trade center site, but BHO is going to lunch with him, may be Kim ill Jung join meet them.

gb, BHO hasn’t aswered what we are leaving behind, dispite my not liking this war, McCain was right. We needed more troops and things are getting better. McCain again said we would only stay if we make a stable Iraq, I don’t know if we can, but I know we can’t if we leave under BHO’s terms.
BTW Military leader of Taliban caught this week with #3 in Al Quaeda.
I voted for the Clintons and would vote for HRC. I was always amazed with how the right wing hated the Clintons and thought it reflects more poorly on teh haters. They never could see any good.
The LIBERAL dems are exactly the same way w/ Bush, they see no good. I think right now the only candidate that seems to be speaking honestly about what we face is JM. When it comes to discussing these issues BHO doesn’t have a chance. I am 37 and never have voted for a Republican for President, but OHB is not the answer

GB, it’s not about being afraid, but a dictator has no standing to sit down with president of the United states. all you are doing is deeming the office and elvating their’s.
this is not something you should have explained, it is just such common sense.

Obama is the media darling and can do no wrong. So everybody just get used to it. He is a great orator, but has no substance. If Obama wins the democratic nomination and is elected president, the only change we will see is a visual one. JM should just get rid of this advisor guy real quick.

That’s one of the dumbest things I’ve ever heard. He sounds like he thinks it would be like beating up on a retarded child. I’m nearly 50 and I’ve never known times like this where so many stupid people can rise to such positions of promininence.

I was a little taken aback by McKinnon’s
remarks; liking a guy and wanting him to be president are two different things. It’s his choice of course, but Mark ought to recognize which side his bread is buttered and also what he really believes in. After all McCain has said he likes Clinton; so does that mean then that a McCain campaign won’t go full-bore after her in order to win? Politics ain’t bean-bag, Mark.

Take note people: the three ‘top’ candidates (chosen for us, not by us) are all senators… the same jokers who are holding totally mindless hearings on baseball/steroids instead of dealing with SERIOUS issues facing our nation such as the sub-prime swindle they permitted the banksters to execute.
NOTHING WILL CHANGE WITH ANY OF THESE CLOWNS!

A lot of people are racist and its sad.You need to focus all that energy and hatred on the real issues at hand(the war,immigration,economy). I’m an independent because I believe the best candidate should get the vote. With that in mind I’m backing Obama but if he doesn’t get the nod I’m voting for McCain.Either way it will be better then Bush whom I also voted for in the past.God Bless America…

Funny thing David, no one seems to mind saying Hilary Rodham Clinton, or George W. Bush. Why does it bother you so much. Can’t stand the name HUSSEIN?????
Get over it, it’s a fact. Just another thing the media doesn’t want to cover.Shame on you and the MSM>

If Mccain quits the senate, they he will have done some good afterall.
QUIT THE SENATE NOW – MCCAIN!!!!!

You people are missing the forest throught the trees! Mark is just saying that he knows the campaign is going to inevitably take on a racial tone and he doesn’t want to be involved. All you democrats out there know for a fact that you will fall in line and declare any attack against Obama as racist.

As much as I disagree with Hillary, I think her presidency could be survivable. But if Obama wins, with so much at stake, I’m moving to Canada
Posted by: Ted | Feb 14, 2008 8:35:26 AM
Perhaps, you haven’t noticed but America is doing so well for millions of Americans right now. By virtue of the childish comments on this blog it is clear that Obama, while a convenient otarget to blame for ‘anything’ you wish to disagree about, isn’t the problem with America, it the many intolerant hillbillies here who seem to believe that they can carry around this much hate and fear, and still have a functional nation that solves problems.

If this were a job interview in a truly color blind and gender blind society all thinking people would realize that Obama does not measure up to the job at this point in his life. It is amazing to me that the Democrats, who scream about what a racist and gender biased society we are seem to be the only ones totally focused on gender and race as the prerequisite qualifications for the job. Their hypocrisy know no bounds.

So Cliford how isn’t Obama qualified? Qualified enough to clerk on the Sup Crt (which he turned down to make only 13K while he had student loans).
Tell me who was the most qualified president. Nixon right?

Sadly Obama qualified enough for Volker but not for Susan. So what school of economics did you go to?

At least I’m honest about who I am and my feelings. And EH? I have no idea why you drug me into port security and your gibberish. I never brought up port security.
I don’t make up stuff like many, I just say it as it is.
too bad the MSM doesn’t start asking REAL questions about Obama, intead of kissing up to him and giving him sugar coated interviews. Pathetic. If you all want to jump on the Obama Koolaid band wagon, go right ahead. Again, don’t say I didn’t warn you.

AFSGTSAM yes exactly, bc you can only read what your write and never anybody else’s comments.
Maybe the War and the economy aren’t separate issues.

Susan says :Yes I call my self some one who makes judgments based on non rational presuppositions (hubris) bc my comments always sound as thought I make judgement based on my presuppositions that aren’t rational.
Susan where there is smoke…

What is Hillary’s resume Bills? Why is that acceptable? Oh I forgot we threw out the constitution long ago so forget the 22nd Amendment. So again, Lincoln (2 years in ole po-dunk IL) vs. Nixon ( huge policy wonk for how many years?).
Mitt, you’d take a man who moves American jobs over seas even while he tell the people of Michigan something different? YOu take a man who takes what ever position will get him into office (no integrity).
McCain just like Obama has no executive experience some might say he has integrity (some disagree), but again perhaps he has been there too long (those Depression Era saying you now diapers and politico’s).
Richardson Executive experience, foreign policy experience would have been the first Hispanic, but ah he let Hillary co-opt what should have been his message. He could have bounced back from Iowa, but in New Hampshire many women thought he was ganging up on Hillary in the debate. That was his problem.
So then you have Obama no experience in the executive setting I do ceede that point. However, he’s not just Ivy league, he has Character (how many people do you know who turn down instant power and lots of money, for debt no name recognition and hard work). Oh and being a con-law prof I think we need someone who respects the constitution (obviously the Clinton’s did not either). Some question his loyalty and that’s the thing, Obama would be under so much scrutiny, he couldn’t give the Saudi’s weapons (like the Clintons and the Bushes did) he couldn’t do get away w/some of the things the previous two presidents got away with (including the co-president thing). He couldn’t get away w/appointments of people who are just loyal. He would have to get the best and the brightest (as he has done). Why is he just black, he never said that, he’s being asked be judged on his character.
Look @ what he has done in a year, looked at how he has managed his campaign so-far. Now looked @ the so-called experienced candidate.
In the end McCain will not fight hard against Obama, watch and see. He’ll make it close and then throw the election not bc he hates the GOP, but bc he Loves his country more than his party, and he knows some in the party have been disloyal to this country.

By your logic since other people read the posts they would be able to read that you never said those things. Don’t think everyone is stupid, I think many people could infer that I was snarking. But you know, maybe other people can’t read any posts but mine, or something ; P

Susan says you can no shame and idiot who lies… (as she looks in the mirror).
Actually you can (it hits them later though, much much later).

Those who say that, if so and so get elected, I am moving to Canada or elsewheres
Please move, we are over populated here, now.
Many Hollowood’s movie stars, said, they are moving, if Bush was elected, years ago.
Guess what they are still here getting rich by the American way of life.

i find this cult-like hold barack obama has on people a little scary.

Blacks have become America’s sacred cow. No one will do or say anything to them or about them in word or deed. It is pathetic behavior by Whites. The Media fears the Black, exampled by their unwillingness to say anything about Obama other than he likes the word “Change”. Obama, smart man that he seems to be, is riding that fear right into the White House.

Funny hat too

Roy Guscott, why do idiots like you love to stress Obama’s middle name? Just what are you really trying to say? Let’s judge YOUR name… I’m getting something…. hmmmm. It appears you’re a redneck, perhaps a member of some hate group that disapproves of anyone that doesn’t look like you! I could be wrong.. but to a born and bred Georgia boy like me, your name gives me the impression that bed covers aren’t the only thing you use white sheets for!
Now, you see where that gets us? Nowhere. I attack you, you attack me, and no one is the better for it.

Davie, why is it that no one ever questions white people for voting for white candidates (WHICH IS ALMOST EVERY OTHER ELECTION), yet its all about race when blacks vote for a black candidate? Are blacks traitors to their race if they decide to vote for Clinton or Mccain. The black vote is not a singular voice. In fact, he didn’t start receiving an overwhelming vote until Bill’s statements in South Carolina. Also, why is it that when Obama wins a state with a large black population its about race? If SC is, say, 49% black, and Obama struggles with the latino and asian vote, then that would make the other 51% (whites, latinos, asians, etc)basically against Obama, right? Also, how do you explain predominantly white states, of which almost all have gone to Obama?

Up front, I am a Democrat. I do have conservative leanings however. What I don’t get about the republicans that want to put down Obam’s messege is that he is pretty much doing the same thing as Regan. He is being a leader, giving people hope…. Hope for change.
You have to be on drugs or in a different universe to not get it. Bush II, offered, specifics that have largely turned out to be bad ideas. Great leaders can navigate, and bring everyone along with them.
I think McKinnon sees the leadership potential and is smart enough to not run against the grain.

But John McCain is an American Hero(TM)!

i would argue that corporate tax breaks and outsourcing hurt our economy more ;)…a staple of the GOP diet, no?

the truth is McKinnon is a hack who cares only about cash. If he thinks he has enough and is tired of being shunned by the majority of the crowd who used to consider him a friend, he’ll quit. If the millions he’s made on Bush and with McCain so far don’t seem enough, he’ll rationalize that he’s just doing “contrast ads”, not going negative. Truth is he’s spineless.

It’s unbelivable to me that Obama is so much of an untouchable that McCain’s own advisor will not actively participate in his campaign should Obama be the nominee. There is something seriously wrong, here.

Barack, let Joe Biden jump all over McCain, he knows him and can get away with calling him a crook, The Keating 5, and his so called foreign policy experience which is a hoax. You on the other hand can get on the economics and show what he’s lacking there.Why would someone think that John McCain looks presidential, he just looks like a tired old man to me, and as for a misspoken word people have died for misspoken words, take for instance WMD’s. So you all had better wake up the man, McCain, is going to lead us down a path of destruction.

McCain aid – he want to throw dishes and
PALIN wants to be the pitbull to scare people off.
Translation: They want to provoke a HICKTOWN BRAWL in Washington?
GOOD LORD WHAT ON EARTH HAVE HAPPENED TO THE AMERICAN STATESMAN?
- How did he DEGENERATE from the HONORABLE – ELOQUENT – RESPECTABLE MAN who was WASHINGTON – LINCOLN-ROOSEVELT – TRUMAN – KENNEDY to this
POTTY-MOUTHED, OVER-THE-NEIGHBOR’S FENCE GOSSIPING HICK-TOWN BRAWL MONGERING PITBULLS ????????
THE WHOLE WORLD IS LAUGHING AT US!!!!
I WANNA CRY…. LORD PLEASE BRING LINCOLN BACK!!!!