McCain Advisor Accuses Obama of Underhanded Reference to McCain’s Age

Losing his bearings is like losing a grip on reality. It has nothing to do with age. This is so far fetched.

Pray tell us what he did mean by that phrase “losing his bearings”? Sounds like an old car to me. As we already know, Obama can use a phrase like “bitter….so they cling to their guns and their religion”…WE GET IT! It’s called hit and run tactics. He makes a hit, then his surrogates try to clean it up for him. Pennsyvanians have not forgotten the “bitter” remark, and neither have we.
Obama’s problem is that he is green. It is too much information to remember every detail. He forgets, then says something so satirical, if not stupid.
That is exactly why he cannot and does not want to debate. He needs a speech, even if it is one someone else already gave.

He has lost his bearings, From the Maverick to the Republican mouthpiece. Since his lost to Bush and his capitulation to the Republican Party, I have lost all respect for the man.
His continued support for the Bush Policies shows, no proves, he he has lost his bearings

Ageism, Pilots have to retire from flying at age 60. That’s not ageism is it. Would you want an 80 year-old flying your plane or doing your triple bypass? Age is an issue. A president has to be on top of things. Remember Reagan in his second term? Besides have you heard the stories about his temper? Most senators have a story about how mccain lost-it one time or another. This country does not need an OLD, HOT-TEMPERED guy dealing with this country’s problems.

What else can the McCain camp say to distract voters’ attention from McCains clumsy insult on Obama? It was a strong indicator that McCain is really not all that committed to deliver on his pledge to run a respectful campaign.

oh, PT, come ON. “Loosing it” and getting hot-tempered has NOTHING to do with getting older; it implies that you have passion for something. I’ll bet Senator Ted Kennedy has gotten plenty hot-tempered in his LOOOOOOONNNNNGGGGGG career.
Age, people, is NOT indicitive of “losing one’s facilities”. THAT IS A MYTH. Just as some younger people get Alzheimer’s at an early age, there are MANY older people who are still VERY MUCH WITH IT, even at age 99. Age has NOTHING to do with a person getting “rotten in the brain”: DISEASE DOES. Let this be your FIRST LESSON about AGE, people. You have a lot to learn.

Age has nothing to do with it. McCain has always been this way. One of his symptoms is that he doesn’t consider what the reaction might be to his actions or comments. They have medication.

@Vietvet: My point is that gauging their intentions is problematic. It seems silly that they would signal their preferred candidate. It makes more sense that they would think that whomever they “support” would get negative blowback. Continuation of Bush’s non-policies and wars in the area helps Hamas.

He’s 71? I didn’t know that he was so old.

McCain’s a Navy man, if he does not know that ‘losing his bearings’ means then he is just lying. Everyone in the Navy knows that phrase means that you have lost your way. “Bearings” is a navigational word in that context.
People, if you think it means anything else then your arguement is foolish. So if the Navy man wants to say this is anything else than a person saying “you have lost your way” then they are….

What is McCain talking about. IS IT his age to interpret Obama’s remarks as “agist.” The intelligent inference and the inference normal people would conclude is that Obama meant McCain moral compass by making personal attacks on Obama after saying he would run a campaign devoid of these kinds of remark. MAYBE IT IS HIS AGE.

As a sailor I know losing ones bearing is getting off your compass course. The first thing I thought of was McCain’s moral compass. I say this because McCain is strong on having a moral compass, unlike President Bush, who has none that he shares with anyone who watches his actions. Anyway, even after having it explained, I can’t see why anyone would think this a comment aimed at McCain’s age.
Even John Stewart called McCain on the comment about Hamas. It is clearly hypocritical for McCain to say he is taking the moral high road and to say Hamas endorses Obama. McCain has in fact lost his bearing (his moral compass).

So, meeting with tyrants is not oaky for an American President? Where were you folks when our Presidents were in bed with the Central American dictators, Iran’s Shah, South American military Junta? You folks must be young kids, or hypocrites!
Hamas leader said that Obama will be a great President like JFK. So why not start trashing JFK too, just because Hamas leader said that he was great? Do you see the bigotry in these statements that the Hillary supporters and McCain supporters are making?

Being a pilot it seems to me that “loosing your bearings” means you’ve strayed from your intended direction and need to make corrections to find the correct path again.
Guess McCain’s camp is going for the sympathy vote of picking on an old guy like Hillary did in New Hampshire about picking on a woman.

We now know where his oh so kind supporters get there attitudes. He clearly doesn’t care what his supporters say about anything or anyone,
Thier disrespect comes right from the top,they are so mature that they alway resort to putting people down.

typical Obama….like Senator Clinton being “in her silly season”. So insulting and someone thinks he should be President? This is madness. This Black woman will vote McCain before she votes Obama!

obama whines about race – turn about is fair play.
i’m for hillary or mccain.

This doesn’t matter, Obama is destined to lose. What has he done to date..he has won ONLY half of the vote among his OWN party, wow what an achievement. The general election is a completely different set of equations, and the broader American electorate by a wide margin are not going to tolerate the inexperienced, condescending, anti-American nonsense that is Obama.

Realistically if you take away the black and college age voters who else is supporting Obama?

McCain is too old to become the US president. Obama didn’t even tell that he (McCain) is aged. In fact you can not tell blind to a blind.

Right on to say Obama “attacks viciously with subtlety and innuendo”. That is what he’s good at and has been doing all along. That is why people don’t feel he attacks even he does – so he attacks and still get sympathy votes because people seem only see Clinton attacks – that is because they feel Clinton attacks even she doesn’t. That’s what’s been unfair about this competition, that is one of many similar reasons that my vote will never go to Obama. Come on, Hill supporters, if you feel strongly about what I feel, please let’s all vote for McCain in GE, that would guarantee Obama doesn’t get elected. Let’s all work together – Obama failure in GE would be a big victory for Hillary!

Republicans needs to grow up. McCrazy complains about everything, have you noticed? He’s such a cry baby.

It is tough to imagine how Obama could lose to an OLD, Ill-tempered, adulterous guy like mc-more-war. But then again there were enough idiots in this country to elect bush/cheney twice. (actually he lost the first but that’s another story). Hopefully these idiots have grown a little wiser over the last 7.5 years. Obama 2008!!!

I think like some others here, that Obama should not have been so smug as to do the Time cover. I am quite sure he knew what would be titled over his picture.
Why people are so quick to end the race is beyond me. Let the people vote and let Clinton campaign. There is nothing wrong with it. Will she get the nomination, I seriously doubt it. But she has the right to continue this.
I think its wrong for people to make personal attacks on her, especially without knowing all her accomplishments. It is a shame how low people will go. Why is it necessary to attack the opponent? Especially when your candidate is winning. Why not give us something of substance as far as why Obama would be the better leader.
To say, I have had enough of her, please go away…just shows immaturity. I thought as Americans that we value the Democratic process. Patience is a virtue…ever hear of that one?

Zime: he didnt ask to do it, they took a picture of him and did it. he said he thought it was bad luck and wasnt overlooking senator clinton. you did see the asterisk next to his picture right?

McCain is OLD and lost his bearings a long time ago. He has a temper problem connected to a mental problem. He has no morals as shown when he dumped his crippled wife. Remember Keating 5. It will very dangerous to put that man anywhere close to that button. His knickname s was PUNK and McNasty and for a good reason. Was 6th from the bottom of his class. Got over 100 demerits.
When I was discharged from Service WWII I was so proud of this country. George Bush and his cronies have ruined it. God help my Grandchildren.

McCain is too old to handle this risky world where you need a lot of judgment skill. Having military experience gives you edge in a battlefield but not as a commander in chief. He has anger management problem too. He carries everything that Bush has.
Hey America, choose McCain if you love going back to 20th century and 19 century afterwards. Good luck to you all who vow to vote for McCain. He is the past NOT future.

…just like Hillary said: “if you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen”

I don’t know why Senator McCain’s camp would be upset. The statement was only made by the spokes-horn of an inexperienced, elitist, un-American, racist, terrorist-supporting empty suit, whose wife is running for that office. And those of us who will go to the GE polling places know exactly that. Still NA, can’t change that, so don’t even go there.

McCain is Grandpa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Old old old! There’s no other way to say that… O-L-D!

You see it, but if you do not have the magazine and read it online, you do not know what it signifies.

John: what makes you think hillary cares about the middle class? she took a job working for wal mart board of directors then went into the governors mansion then the white house then on to the senate. she hasnt been middle class since she left for college. she said it herself she hasnt pumped her own gas in 32 years. And she said that the gas tax wasnt actually serious is was to woo the blue collar workers. she doesnt care about you she cares about herself

Karma,
Opponents can make derogatory comments which most uninformed Americans will believe? Senator Obama has the right to defend his character, reputation and position, if you can’t take it then advise your candidate to display more character and better judgment.

Since when did someone being old really matter? In other countries being older means being wiser. I cannot believe that Obama says that it was not a smear but yet his supporters are outright saying it. How low will they go? And Clinton was the one always being accused of going negative.
I have read the blogs over these past few months and the nastiness spewed by many of Obama’s supporters is the worst I have seen. They are their own worst enemy.

LOL, he’s lot his bearings already!

united states, needs a president that provide the kind of change they can believe in. and i think obaman has proved that and will lead america out of it present economic predicament and war chest atitude around the world. the republicans have tried in the last 8 yrs to destroy themselves, and sen. mccain represents that and will carry on george bush 3rd third failed administration

What a stretch. So far, McCain has fought this honestly and directly. In that silly dig he had changed direction. That’s what “losing his bearings” means. And you can do it at ANY AGE when you sway from a predetermined course. It’s not the same as “losing his marbles”.
It’s hard to know whether some of you are illiterate or just general purpose Obama haters.

Allamr18…what does pumping gas have to do with anything? My husband does most of that for both of us. I doubt that she did a lot of her own driving anyway…what’s the problem?
And how do you know what Hillary Clinton cares about? Hmmm…guess you must be an insider and even can read minds. Amazing I say….aren’t you the lucky one.

Such OVERLY SENSITIVE REPLY is a claer proof that McCAIN CAMPAING IS MORE WORRIED ABOU HIS AGE THAN ANYBODY ELSE.

I do not blame McCain for bringing up the comment. I mean come on…the Dems are hogging all of the press. He needs it too. Don’t be so harsh people…it is just politics.
Fun huh??? I cannot wait to see what’s coming in June…

Right on John Kovacs. President Obama should just meet with the terrorists, have a couple of beers, and casually whip them the finger so that nobody can prove it. Great international policy. The Iranians don’t even know what that means.

Please read the context of Obama’s remarks, people, so you can have a reasonable conversation. Obama noted that McCain had earlier pledged to run a positive campaign – free of constant attacks, caricatures, and innuendo. Barack commended this commitment as noble, but chided McCain for “losing his bearings” – that is, his moral compass – when he implied that recent statements by Hamas suggested some kind of sinister link with Obama. The point was well-taken, as McCain’s remarks represented deliberate and irrational character assassination.
The point is: Obama made no mention of age; age had nothing to do with Obama’s critique. He is saying that McCain lost his bearings with respect to his moral compass – that is, with respect to his noble commitment to run a clean and honorable campaign. Obama’s critique was right on target and totally legitimate. McCain’s ploy was clearly guilt by association, which is politics as usual.

Skyebeader…you are right…the Mod Dems will not vote for someone that the “new” Dems are forcing down their throats.
Right now Obama’s supporters are turning off votes from anyone who is a senior citizen, going on about McCain’s age. They will feel sorry for him. I would not be surprised if Obama loses the General election by a large margin.
If the Republicans can swift-boat Kerry, just think what they will do to Obama.

anti-corporate-fascism
Do you have anything else to say other than pasting the same old thing over and over??

I do not believe that the comment really meant anything. But if you read what his supporters say, they are basically not practicing what he is preaching.

Dan Brink….I guess the General Election, like the Primary, will again be about Obamaniacs screaming about “context”. The Reverend Wright, Tony Ayers, Mr. Rezco, Mr. Auchi, cousin Odinga, and Mrs. Obama herself…they have already put your candidate’s comments into context. Stop.

I am not a Republican, but I do believe that with age comes wisdom. McCain is not afraid to disagree with those from his own party. He has experience and that does say something no matter is you agree with his views or not. I have followed him for some time and do agree with how he sees many things.
I am 37 and cannot imagine how much more wisdom I will gain in the next 30 years. I say there is nothing wrong with having a President that old.

PGH: MM Rev Wright scares the heck out of you that people dont say all the greatest things about america huh? bill ayers not tony ayers, and bill ayers has nothing to do with him. they served on a board for a month. 40 years after bill ayers did that stuff. he was like 20 something when that happen. tony rezco is about to be acquitted they havent found anything wrong. cousin odinga? are you serious. are you responsible for a non family member. his wife? thats some pretty classless stuff right there. saying shes proud to see her husband do well on such a large stand is admirable. if my son or daughter was voted in masse to be the president id say the same thing. step your game up kid

He’s not over the hill, he’s over the mountain. The presidential job is a very
stressful job he could get a heart attack
in the White House. We need a young, strong, president like Obama.

How about the actual quote, in which Obama clarifies that he was talking about in the context of the compaign–which I think significantly illuminates where he’s coming from and makes the charge he is dinging McCain for his age absurd–even though so many on this board will never admit it. It’s the McCain campaign that is blowing it out of proportion, and the mindless followers who don’t even bother to read and think for themselves who scream the lies:
“This is offensive, and I think it’s disappointing, because John McCain always says, ‘Well, I’m not going to run that kind of politics,’” Obama said. “And then to engage in that kind of smear, I think, is unfortunate, particularly since my policy toward Hamas has been no different than his.”
The Illinois senator added: “For him to toss out comments like that, I think, is an example of him losing his bearings as he pursues this nomination. We don’t need name-calling in this debate.”
Like McCain, Obama criticized former President Carter for recently meeting with Hamas leaders, saying the U.S. must not negotiate with a terrorist group that is intent on Israel’s destruction.

Ryan – It’s over, you don’t have to post “If I can’t vote for Hillary then I’ll vote for McCain” any more.
There is no way a Democrat or anyone that supports Hillary can convert from Hillary’s ideas to McCain’s. They are incompatable.

So all you Democrats who don’t support Obama whould rather see McCain in power?
4 more(maybe 8)years of the same old Republican tactics? Shame on you all!
Obama is the only candidate that truly right for the job, who wants to put America back on the right track. As for the comment that “losing one bearings” has ANYTHING to do with age discrimination is ABSURD. And if you believe it, I truly pity you.

laughing at the dems – I agree that McCain only said it because the stupid media would take the bait. Well ABC is the only one that took the bait.
So, is this about ABC? Yeah they are that stupid.
I used to have respect for Charley and George before the “debate”.

It was a horrible statement from McCain – he did lose his bearings, from his oft-proclaimed moral code of campaign conduct. You do not have to be old to be stupid and mentally out-of-control. Just another wacky if not wacko assertion, worse than anything Hillary has said to date. Not the first, not the last from the only Senator who votes against bills he sponsors.
Interesting though that his campaign brought up his age, not Obama. If that is going to be their defense for any and all valid criticisms, he has no chance to win. Gingrich pegged his own party perfectly. You will not hear this crap from Obama.

“… you DON’T deal with the truth, because if you did you wouldn’t have a case to bring.”
“Hmmm. Could it be a little of that white folk thinking going in?”
I believe in his statements of no more being able to disown the Reverend than the black community or his white grandmother. Then, throwing all three under the bus. Not disowning Hamas is a little bit of a problem for me, with two sons fighting terrorists, as well.
And, BTW, I am NA. Just a comment from an “outsider” (there needs to be HUGE apologies and reparations for that, immediately) looking in. You’d have to grow one to understand.

Did you all see the clip of McCain carrying pizza boxes? McCain looked like a Wal-Mart greeter, for goodness sake. The guy practically needed a walker. No way I want to trust him and his aging mind to run this country. Bearings shmearings — the goat is old.

Everybody is missing the point with the term “losing his bearings.” I wish that Obama was referring to McCain’s age, but unfortunately he was referring to the bearings on the wheels of his STRAIGHT TALK express.

Would one be able to wake up McCain at 3am?

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John Mc_bush will be in big trouble when its time to debate , i can picture him straping joe lierberman in a baby carrier on his body and taking him on stage to help bail him out on the tough questions.
This man is not educated enough to run for any office much less the Whitehouse, his marks at the naval college was a JOKE.
he is truly getting a free pass because of his service in the army .But the Whitehouse IS NOT a ARMY outpost.. the likes of a colin powell and wesley clarke to name a few is 100 times more qualify than him.
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McCain is a direct clone of the DORK presently in the White HOuse..A vote for McBomb is a vote to continue and expand the war in Iraq.

I don’t’ think what Obama said is anywhere near as offensive as what McCain said (FIRST–saying Hamas wanted Obama to be President). Now THAT WAS OUTRAGEOUS, UNNECESSARY AND JUST PLAIN MEAN!! At least Obama knows the difference between the Sunni and the Shia!!

Obama said McCain losing his bearing, because he lose his gun. Ha…ha…ha…

McCain is no Bush. Get yourself educated people on the difference. Look into McCain’s history…geez…

Well I kind understand Brian’s comment…it was made out of anger, though still not justifiable.
They are all childish anyway…lets just say she started it :-)

zimeeisme – McCain want to give Iraq as much time as they need to figure it out, Hillary does not. McCain wants the market to fix health care, Hillary does not. McCain wants to extend the tax cuts, Hillary does not. McCain shifts very right Hillary does not. McCain supports choice so no argument there.
No, it is impossible for any Hillary supporter to think like McCain.
I do agree with the fact that we have borrowed ourselves into very near economic collapse (read American Theocracy). But the big problem is that the Iraq war is bought on credit (40% of that funded by China) which has lead to a falling dollar (thus $4.00 gasoline), and a credit crunch. The Republican irresponsibility and ideology with money has lead to the economic problems not the business cycle (read The Price of Loyalty by Bush’s first treasury secretary).

Skyebeader..I totally understand where you are coming from.
I honestly do not know what Obama can do or say at this point to bring back the Dems who feel as you do.

McCain lost his bearings AND his moral compass when he approved waterboarding of prisoners.
The rest is easy for him now. Just make up stuff about the opponent and hope that some of it sticks.

Ryan – It’s over, you don’t have to post “If I can’t vote for Hillary then I’ll vote for McCain” any more.
There is no way a Democrat or anyone that supports Hillary can convert from Hillary’s ideas to McCain’s. They are incompatable.
Posted by: Sanity Man | May 8, 2008 10:26:11 PM
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Dont worry most of these silly post saying they will vote for mccain beacuse hillary didn’t get it are BY REPUBLICANS.
Lets face it if you are voting for Mccain you were never a Democrat in the first place; And if issues didn’t matter.. then why they get involve in the election process this year.
Obama said it no one person is bigger than the party , Obama is ahead on all fronts and cant be caught, and did it fair and square playing by the DNC rules.despite the goal post being move it seems everyday by the Clintons.

i once read a study that said people that talk on their cell phones while driving have the reaction time of a drunk driver or a 71 year old man. very interesting…
hey when social security gets brought up u think mccain will be bias since he is getting a check?

We old white ladies will be going elsewhere to vote.

Brian – Yes I went to public school, went to college as a history major, graduated, did post graduate work, worked my way up the company ladder, went off on my own, now own my own company with 22 employees, and am a millionaire. And I’m a Democrat because I think on my own. Huffington is better than Rush (wasn’t she a Republican that started thinnking on her own too. Who knew!

Heres my take on this article, a lot of people are hurt. I can understand, a lot of people are scared of what they don’t know. Some are “bitter”(Lol) that Obama is going to win and they’re respective candidate isn’t. Well, life isn’t fair. But I’d hope so many of you would show yourself to be intelligent human beings and not get in the gutter. But as I’ve seen, most supporters take on the mentality of those they support. As far as the ageism, those arguments make me sick, there is none. People are just trying to find little BS to make him look bad because through issues and personality they can’t. As far as the HRC supporters saying they’ll go to McCain, I’ve got 2 points. 1st, if you really would do that, then you are not supporting HRC for her policies. You’re supporting her because she is a woman, or because she Billy’s wife. I say this because she and Obama are 95% the same on issues. So if you will cut off your nose 2 spite your face…..So be it. It’s YOUR face. If through vindictiveness you vote against your interests you will have done more to prove you are mostly “Uneducated voters” more than any pundit or candidate ever could…..

the more I hear John McCain, the more I learn about John McCain, the more I realize that he and his campaign are just not up to being President. These kinds of responses tell me that the wheels are coming off the straight talk express.

Just another smoke screen to get everybody off the real issues, the war,high gas prices and so on and the american people fell for it again. He like Clinton is after the I feel sorry for you vote.

Heres my take on this article, a lot of people are hurt. I can understand, a lot of people are scared of what they don’t know. Some are “bitter”(Lol) that Obama is going to win and they’re respective candidate isn’t. Well, life isn’t fair. But I’d hope so many of you would show yourself to be intelligent human beings and not get in the gutter. But as I’ve seen, most supporters take on the mentality of those they support. As far as the ageism, those arguments make me sick, there is none. People are just trying to find little BS to make him look bad because through issues and personality they can’t. As far as the HRC supporters saying they’ll go to McCain, I’ve got 2 points. 1st, if you really would do that, then you are not supporting HRC for her policies. You’re supporting her because she is a woman, or because she Billy’s wife. I say this because she and Obama are 95% the same on issues. So if you will cut off your nose 2 spite your face…..So be it. It’s YOUR face. If through vindictiveness you vote against your interests you will have done more to prove you are mostly “Uneducated voters” more than any pundit or candidate ever could…..

Ask anybody who serves or has served in the Navy what it means to “lose your bearings.”

if McCain gets president he will fix health care benefits for the elderly, make sure social security is well protected, drop prescription drug prices and make the roads wider with wider brighter painted lines, the Cracker Barrel restaurant will be 24/7 like a super center walmart, and the big red phone in the oval office will be replaced with a Jitterbug Cell phone so he will be able to hear on it!

McCain with one foot in the nursing home and one in the grave, that’s the guy that’s going to win the white house?
are we beign punked’?

The comments on this post are pathetic. None of you have any respect for the three people running for President. They’re not perfect but they are doing something that not one of you (or me) commenting here could do in a million years.
Obama did not attack McCain’s age. McCain did engage in a low-ball attack on this Hamas issue. Let it go.
McCain is ready to be President, I don’t think his age is, or should be an issue, unless someone has some concrete evidence that it’s a problem. If not, then everyone should shutup about it. McCain should have had a shot at the Presidency in 2000, but he was cut out due to negative attacks.
Hillary supporters should be pissed at Hillary, she ran a bad campaign at the wrong time. She should have had her shot, this just wasn’t it. For you Dems, Obama is gonna be the nominee, you might as well support him. Because if you were voting for Hillary because of her Democratic positions, then voting for McCain out of spite is just stupid. A vote like that doesn’t punish Obama it punishes you.

Wow, seems like these two good men are making mountains out of mole hills. Why are the reactions of these two turning so visceral?

Oh God! all these illiterates that dragged Clinton to mud have started surrounding McBush again. What has “bearing” gat to do with age?.
The first thing the next President need to do is to make it compulsery that all Americans at least attain high school level.
When you say someone has lost bearing, it simply means lost focus. Anyways, McBush campaign manager is indirectly signaling what they thot could be McBush’s problems.
You people shouldn’t worry in whatever way you people present McBush he mush loose the elections.

Apparently not too many people know “losing one’s bearing” is navigational in nature. Just think of the analogy of a ship lost at sea is a ship that has lost it’s bearings. If you want to refer to one’s age Obama should have used something like “losing his marbles”.

This election is for the country, it is not only for the Democrat or the Republican, so if you can not vote for Hillary, you can vote for McCain if you like. You don’t have to stick with the Democrat then you stick with Obama if he win the nominee. Open your mind, so you don’t see other people as “uneducated voters”

It’s a phenomenon that McCain thinks it’s ok to accuse a presidential candidate of being “friendly” with Hamas while not accepting “descriptive english” from his opponent. That’s a pretty desperate jab for a straight talker. Fact: McCain is 71 years old. Why dispute that? Here’s more descriptive english McCain style: It is a fact that the Bush family is associated with the Bin Laden family. Both Bush presidents have endorsed McCain and McCain has accepted with open arms. Does that not make McCain associated with terrorists?

experience got us fighting 2 wars experience got us high gas prices
experience got us 4000 dead men and women. We don’t need no more experience.

Obama is using the same dirty style of attacks that he used on Hillary and the followers are still drinking the koolaide!!
When you buy into Obama’s game – he wins and you loose. When you finally wake up you will see that you have been bold faced lied to. Let me tell you ahead of time “I told you so”!

Grappy Hothead McCain, time for you to go to the nursing home–not the White House.

Muahahahahahahhahahahaha!!!! That was funny……

Also experience dropped the ball in getting help to the people of New Orleans.

Obama’s lame attacks on McCain are just a sign of what’s to come. Its downright amazing that an unknown person, with only 143 days in the Senate, can fool so many Americans.
Clinton supporters, who’ve been taken for granted by democratic party and superdelegates — will NOT vote for Obama in the general election. our vote will go to McCain.

Not an age reference, at all. I mean, my goodness, Ronald Reagan started losing his bearings LONG before his 70th birthday!!

Over 250 million people in the US and these are the best characters we can come up with! What a Country!

One reason so many Democrats feel Ok with Sen Clinton, but not so Ok with Obama is because of experience. Not hers alone, but hers combined with Bill’s experience. For the same reason, they might go with McCain over Obama if McCain would ramp up his campaign & offer more ideas for the economy, health care & ending the war. But it’s a balancing act for him to do that, since he’s not so popular with the ultra conservatives in his party. What to do, what to do? Take on a (much younger) ultra conservative running mate to please that faction? Take on a much younger, middle of the road Republican, to win some of the disillusioned middle of the road Democrats? It’s going to be interesting and fateful, whichever he decides. Meanwhile, if Obama should pick Clinton, that could be a mistake, since she won’t help him against McCain much. Who does Obama need to help balance his flaws? Anybody have any ideas?

So what is everyone worried about age for. He has anther 25 years left…LOL

When someone talks about someone “losing their bearings”, I don’t necessarily think age so I think
the McCain camp is making something out of nothing. Having said that, I have no doubt that we are going to be hearing the phrase “distract and attack”
coming out of the Obama camp non-stop and I, for one, am already sick of hearing the phrase.

Mccain is more honorable than Obama Obama has decieved his way to the nomination lead he will just have to relinquish it before the convention period

Jbate
Hillary doesnt care about money she cares about the country Obama will go down before the convention guaranteed

I guess it must be near midnight, since the lunatics are out baying again.
I’ll take a Democrat with major faults any day over a Republican like McCain–but then I don’t have to, because Hillary isn’t going to get the nomination. Instead, we have Obama, and I’m mighty happy we do.

To all the Obama supporters(myself included): I guess we, as well as Obama, are the hateful divisive ones in this country even tho we support positive change and unity in this country, but somehow we’re the bad ones in this campaign. Go figure. I guess that same mentality applies blaming Obama for both Hill’s and McCain’s misspeaks in the press. I support Obama 100% and you guys obviously can’t stand the fact that Obama and his campaign were strategic and outsmarted Hillary. They were smart enough to include all 50 states in thier pre-campaign agenda, unlike Hillary, who was so arrogant to believe she would win hands down by Feb 5. Tsk Tsk…maybe you will see the light one day. To blame the Obama supporters going against the elderly population for your reasoning for not voting for Obama and tearing this country apart is absurd. Obama haters implied that and now all of sudden it’s our fault?

Bill Clinton in the whitehouse with nothing to do is a scary scary thought….
Obama will pull us from iraq then we will get another attack and everyone will blame him even tho it is not his fault. if Hillary is the vice then she will become the pres, some redneck with 3 brain cells will take her out because she is a woman and then we have the speaker of the house in the oval office…scary scary scary

Isn’t America tired of having leaders with such a weak grasp of the English language? McCain is lost because he has allowed his ship to stray off-course. He has not held to his stated values with integrity.
BUT THANKS, McCain campaign, for bringing attention to an important issue. Reagan faded before our very eyes while in office. In these dangerous times, do we want that to happen again? This isn’t simply due to the fact of his age – it’s due to the fact that McCain has actually demonstrated some problems with memory and focus. That would be an issue even if he were 45.

Staniam,
I said I would vote for a Democrat with flaws rather than a Republican like McCain, but I WON’T have to, because Hillary isn’t going to get the nomination.
So, in simple terms, what I said was Hillary is the democratic candidate with flaws.
That means the Democratic candidate who is going to get the nomination doesn’t have them (well, strictily speaking ALL people have some because none of us are perfect, but not big, serious, game-changing flaws).
Hope you get help with that remedial reading problem real soon.

HILLARY RESEMBLES AND REMINDS ME OF CHUCKY. THE MINUTE YOU THINK SHE’S DEAD, THAT UGLY FACE OF HERS POPS RIGHT BACK UP.

Kitty
Obama cannot get the nomination either before the convention so you best back down and stand down or go away because I will not tolerate it… the media is wrong you can be confident all you want its not going to happen

Jbate
what do you care about Roe V Wade you probably werent born yet when that took place no court will overturn it they might threaten

allamr18
it depends on the percentages and the superdelegates the process is not over after the last convention get your facts straight and get ready to be taken down at the convention because it will happen and you will accept his not being the nominee!

To all concerned:
Please give blessings to this presidenial campaign and bring enlightenment to all who forsake it. I have the utmost confidence that all this will be settled and our nation will be as one. The souls of our dearly departed calls out for what is right and just. They died for our freedom, please less not dishonor them with all this fighting and discontent. GOD BLESS us ALL and GOD BLESS our nation. Thank you.

Jabate
that proves you are a fruitcake because you are a laawyer in cali

Staniam: It’s not arrogance at all. Obama has inspired us and we are very happy. A lot of us started out liking Hillary or even maybe neutral. When she started to lose her lead, she turned very nasty and started incorporating right wing smears against her fellow democrat. The same smears that Bill was put thru. People, including myself we totally disappointed with her and turned away from the mudslinging. But this is all Hillary knows how to do, she is old-school politics. Noone expects Obama to be a miracle worker, but he at leasts gives us hope that maybe…finally we can get a president that could unite this country again and get rid of all this old-school garbage in our govt. If he gets the nomination, please don’t put our country in jeopardy for another 4 yrs with McCain. It’s not worth it. I give credit for Hillary being such a fighter and giving her supporters what they want, but it’s gone overboard with the hostily coming from her camp and it’s dividing this party up. It has to stop.

Staniam,
Please be so good as to clarify what you mean by the following:
“Obama has just attacked Hillary unfairly and now Mccain”

Philly: come on “typical white people” may be new and offensive to you but to many minorities they understand it. barack grew up around white people his entire life his mom grandparents and then harvard. you dont think he had white people give him that why are you here look? or that you must be here because of affirmative action, or they clutch their purses when black men walk by them? im 23 and have had that happen many a times. its insulting and demoralizing to know you are no threat to anyone but to walk next to a car door and have a white woman lock the doors.

Staniam,
And you have some sort of mystical knowledge that allows you to know beyond any shadow of a doubt that the will of the majority of the voters in the Democratic primary AND the elected delegates AND the superdelegates will be overturned and Obama will not get the nomination?
Care to share the source of your all-knowing insider knowledge? How, prithee, will he be stopped?

Sometimes I close my eyes and try to imagine Senator Barack Obama sitting behind the desk in the Oval Office. Then I shudder and shake the image out of my head. It would be like your high school’s student council president becoming separated and lost from the main group of the daily White House tour. Its not his skin color that makes the image implausible, its his complete lack of relevant experience and his deep seated insecurity and shallow nature. I honestly get the feeling that Barack ran for President mainly just to prove that he could do it [thus, "Yes We Can!" slogans], not that he REALLY wanted the job at all.

Deb
Obama has attacked Mccain as well as Clinton with underhanded references CLinton supporters will not support Obama and will not back down
Posted by: staniam | May 9, 2008 12:16:26 AM
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Please try to learn the fundamentals of writing so people could understand your attempts and thereby know the full extent of your ignorance.

Kitty there have been 34 million votes cast so far only one million came from the caucuses where Obama got his so called “insurmountable lead” at the end of the primaries Obama will have only a 100 delegate lead and because of his electability the remianing superdelegates which will not announce before the convention will go for Hillary and you will accept it

Staniam,
Nope, doesn’t cut it. I want specific, detailed cases in which Obama has attacked–without provocation and without any sort of grounding in fact–either McCain or Clinton.
And if you are planning to use this particular exchange about McCain losing his bearings, it won’t wash, because as all the intelligent posters on this blog know, it was a statement having to do with the disconnect between the way McCain promised to run his campaign and the way he is doing so.
So, please, no generics. A specific example.
Oh, and please use punctuation in your diatribe.

Staniam,
I am so pitying you right now, you have no idea.
What are you going to do if this thing doesn’t turn out the way you plan? What if all the intelligent (and not so intelligent) folks in the Democratic party decide they are going to do the right thing and give the nomination to the man who earned it via popular vote and elected delegates, and not overturn the will of the people and hand it to Hillary?
How will you go on? How will you survive?
The disappointment will probably be too much for you.

Republican are masters at fending off criticism by feigning outrage at relatively minor negative comments, hoping to stem more serious relative comments later. But it won’t work this election. We coming after you and your out of touch, old candidate. Can’t you just see how bad it’s going to get with McCain becoming riled and confuse in upcoming debates. We’re looking for it. Can hardly wait.

allmr18
seriously we arent going to give Obama a free pass just because hes the first black candidate with a serious shot at the white house that is reverse racism

I wouldnt expect you to give him a free pass. but argue his policies not his race. and hes not the first hes about the 4th or 5th. just the first to make it this far. and reverse racism is non existent. it makes no sense and i dont have time to argue that point.

Deb
we are not idiots because we dont support Obama half the country doesnt so deal with it there will not be total support for Obama

Staniam,
You are such an empty bag of hot air….you spout and spout and spout nonsense, have no support for anything you say, insult and threaten people, make wild prognostications, refuse to deal with real issues, and have no knowledge of which you speak.
You are really putting an quite a show this evening–and revealing how little you know.
LOL–your absurdity has made me laugh.
On the other hand, I do feel sorry for you…… Wow

Deb
you are just upset that everyone isnt in total agreement with your pals well it will be that way!

Of course there are intelligent folks who don’t support Obama, but they are able to articulate specifically why they are not and not rely on inference and innuendo in doing so.
You are not able to articulate a single reason–and have the nerve to tell me to fill in the blanks you can’t fill in yourself.

brian
I agree they cannot dictate to us on how the race dialogue will be thats exactly what Pres Clinton was saying in SC

Phillypaul
and I do remeber BOs convention speech in 2004 with fondness and his announcement at the state capitol in Il trying to equate himelf to President Lincoln but itst he underhanded novice swipes that Obama and the Obamabots take… which is the subject of this article that I cannot abide!

To “Tracy” – You are absolutely correct about Senator John McCain not being the lucid and more normal acting man that he was in 2000. There is something just “off” and strange about him now. Pacing, and muttering, and keeping his head down, and his incessant use of the phrase, “My friends” “My Friends!”-as if he thinks he is Caesar or something. This is part of why I wanted Senator Hillary Clinton to succeed so badly. Barack is an inexperienced, arrogant, empty suit and John McCain seems to be suffering the onset of old age. Neither is a secure choice. I still have not given up on Hillary!

staniam, it’s not only the young that are suppoeting Obama. But these young people have gone to war for this country. And yet you mock them. Way to go.

staniam, please enlist and tell me how you feel after you have been in the war zone.

The United States of America…and all this country could come up with was Clinton, McCain and Obama. Reading the posts on this site is pathetic. Each one of you has been sucked in by one of these 3 losers. You’re all so smart, write your own names in when it comes to November voting.

Let’s see we are not suppose to discuss the elephant in the room even though it MIGHT affect our country. He’s OLD and he chose to run for President. It’s not off limits.

I think you have all lost your marbles.

Leroy
the world isnt ready for a less than truthfull black president

Oh geez Obama supporters are really the pits, now its make fun of McCain time.

Earl
no campaign commercials! half of america is sick of Obama!

Ever wonder what happened to the real McCain. He was against the Bush tax cuts. He was once critical of our misadventure in Iraq. He called religious extremists agents of intolerance. Now for 2008 he has made an about turn on all these issues. Whatever happened to straight talk? He has lately chosen a politically more expedient path. He has lost his bearings.

leroy
it isnt Obamas time yet he shouldve consided the nomination and run for VP now he will never be president you have to folow protcol of seniority in the democratic party

Hold up! Obama is More President Than Hillary Will Ever Be. Senioity? Break The Word Down, SENIOR Lol!

Earl, some of you people are now joining Clinton with Obama after you have slandered hacked and brutalised here for 16 months . You are now realising it that Obama cannot win without Clinton , you now want her support , you wont get it never .McCain will rather win

In an interview on CNN, Obama accused McCain of trying to “smear” him by saying that the Palestinian militant group Hamas favored his candidacy.—————————————–
UH, yeah. That’s not an accusation. That’s the truth.

It Must Be Nice Being White in the sun only to have a black shadow cast upon you! Isn’t That Right Alla MR?

Obama isn’t exactly wrong about McCain losing his bearings. Where did Hamas say they were for Obama? McCain probably made it up!!! I heard on some local news stations McCain’s own words saying he’d make things up to get elected and throw the populace off about the other candidate, whoever it was. So, I’d let it rub off my shoulders like everything else if I were Obama.
And, many of us don’t realize McCain said his summer gas tax isn’t a gimmick, it’s the way he really thinks and the American public ought to get used to it if they are going to elect him. Things like this are the policies McCain thinks are real solutions!!! I’m Republican and can’t stand that we only have McCain as an option. I’m listening OBAMA, but know I’ll still vote Republican if McCain doesn’t totally botch it!

True black American, I do not care who becomes president of the USA as long as it is not a Republican..I like Hillary and Obama. I did not vote in the primary but I’m voting in the general elections for whomever the Democrat nominee is..you see I’m a true democrat and would never jump ship like some of you Hillary voters who plan to vote for McCain..the old man..inorder to spite Obama. McCain is too old and likes war..he is a warmonger like bush..the only difference is that he served and Bush did not..Republican party is war,and more war..so vote for McCain out of spite for obama and see where that would get you. Also, Hillary supporters have to remember that is she becomes the nominee(wink,wink) then she needs Obama supporters too..Duh!

I don’t think Obama was, even subtly, referring to age. I think he meant ‘losing his bearings’ in the most direct sense. But the thing is, McCain IS old! It is valid to raise that issue directly if Obama or others want to.
Age limits frequently, and very legally, are set for a variety of jobs. I know after 8 years of Bush some of us might have forgotten this: normally the job of President is a very demanding one, and requires a great deal of stamina and mental clarity. If McCain applied to be a police officer today he would be declined due to age. If he attempted to return to the armed forces, become a lifeguard, an astronaut, or airline pilot, etc. he would be declined. Outright. No subtle comments or veiled inuendo required. So why is it such a no no to discuss age when talking about the most important job in the country?

AllamR18,you are right about statistics. Mark twain once said “that there are three kinds of lies… lies, damn lies and statistics

My mom is seventy-two, love her, just not presidential.

“It has nothing whatsoever to do with age. He is questioning his ethics.”
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Why would Obama worry about questioning McCains ethics. He’s a Republican right? He obviously has none…….

I work in the laundry room of a nursing home in Nebraska. I just asked 5 people who I knew were McCain supporters if they thought that “loosing one’s bearings” was a slight against the elderly or in any way implicated age. Of course, none of them had yet heard about this latest earth-shattering scandal, so perhaps that is why they all thought nothing of the phrase. One respondent even thought that I was talking about Brittney Spears. Politics always divides, but I wish we wouldn’t flush the previously agreed upon meanings of language down the toilet every time it doesn’t go our way. Oh, and McCain is a war monger.

Anne,
You see what you want to see. Where you see tired and strained face, most of us see a warm and welcoming gaze that is energized and focused. Even the news media has made mention of his renewed energy. You stand pretty much alone in the observation of where Obama is today, several days after he won an important victory.
Where your hear manufactured age insults, most of us who actually listened to the interview heard the sorrow of a man who expected better from McCain and an observatino that McCain is not holding true to is pledge of a decent campaign.
Now, you can twist reality all you want, but the truth is out there for all unbiased (and no, that isn’t a racial slur) to see.
I think your dislike of this man is affecting your perception.

The McCain campaign know his age will be one the biggest issues and may be the deciding factor for many voters.

This is Obama’s campaign style. He smears and slanders, and then accuses the other one of doing so….he has done this repeatedly to Hillary and because of the old GOP trash against Bill and Hillary, people are gullible to believe him. His big ideas are very costly…how are we going to pay for all of Obama’s liberal agenda? His ideas on creating jobs will cost 200 billion….will we go to China to get it? He is a liar and a phony. Wake up people. Hillary is far more competent, so all he could do is tear her down.

A close loss in NC wouldve helped Clinton more but she will win by 40 and 30 in WVA and KY and will be ahead in the delegate count when we say delegate count the Obamabots think thats just elected delegates the final tally is elected delegates and superdelegates and the supers are supposed to decide whos electable and thats Hillary so Obamas chickens will come to get him soon enough :)

Just another cheap shot by a slick union orginizer from the south side of Chicago where people “voted” early and often.
You have to remember Obama is slick, makes a hit, runs, then everyone else cleans up what he says. He never cleans it up himself. Obama also threw his grandmother under the bus so to speak, never got really angry at Rev. Wright, so we have a very slick, silver tounged politician. Change, he says, hasn’t yet defined anything. Just pie in the sky, nothing down to earth. Surender, retreat, isolate, run, and if needed, then we will talk to all the enemies of the USA. Right, as they click their heels and pull the trigger to kill us all.
John McCain has more integrety in his little finger than Obama has in his whole body.

This odd overreaction by McCain’s clan shows how jittery they’ve gotten watching what happened to Clinton. They’ll come out with guns loaded and hope the GOP power machine will sustain them… but there’s a newer, faster model in town and so: muscle all you want… we’re in for the ride!

Awwwww the big crybaby McCain can dish it plenty dirty, but he gets a dig about his age and ignorance that is essentially true and he goes ballistic. Da big baby…him no like criticism but him can dish it real good hisself, can’t him? Awwwwwww. Truth hurts Pubs. You are masters of insult, slime and dirty innuendo (as in Jeremiah Wright) while you accept the support of racist bigot John Hagee…but you not like it when you get it back. ‘Know what I say?
GO BARAK. Don’t be a ‘nice guy’ like John Kerry was when he lay down and let Republicans smear and swiftboat him.
Hope Obama won’t retract anything. You know McCain will be questioning Obama’s patriotiem, his judgment (also agism: McCain will paint Obama as an inexperienced baby) and his ‘associates’….so let the insults begin. McCain has gotten a free ride so ffar. And he’s NO shrinking violet when it comes to dishing dirt. So GO Obama. Do some more. You know McCain will do it to you and in politics, two wrongs DO make a right.

Longtree
Really Ive been saing all along that the Obama campaign is as amateur as you can get they just dont know basica facts and make up things for their convienience… sounds an awful lot like President GW Bush

Longtree
It was not about McCain’s obvious short term memory loss. It was about McCain losing his way in moral terms, LOSING HIS MORAL COMPASS, when McCain lied that he McCain “knows” that Hamas likes Obama better than he likes McCain.
The phrase losing one’s bearings means losing your direction on a ship or plane. It has nothing to do with age. The age spin avoids the real fact, that McCain has now used faked material. Lies.

TSnow
You got it. losing one’s bearings means losing one’s direction, at sea, or in an airplane.
it has nothing to do with age.
Lost his way. Moral compass.

I CAN’T BELIEVE THAT I JUST READ EVERY COMMENT LISTED HERE. I FURTHER CAN’T BELIEVE HOW EASILY YOU ALL FELL RIGHT INTO IT!
IT’S NOT ABOUT “BEARINGS.”
IT’S ABOUT HOE THE REPUBLICANS SAID THAT OBAMA SIDES WITH HAMMAS, AND YOU ALL WERE WILLING TO OVERLOOK THAT!
THIS IS HOW THE REPUBLICANS WORK. IT’S GOING TO BE A LOOOOOONG CAMPAIGN.
LET’S TRY NOT TO LOSE, “OUR BEARINGS.”

Sen McCain and his party have no strategy for anything and so he can
only resolve to smear and fear tactics.
He has no real answers for anything and
probably can’t think of any. Yes he is
old!

Maybe if McCain wasn’t so old, he wouldn’t confuse a reference to direction with a reference to age ;)

I don’t get it. What does “losing his bearings” have to do with age. A person can lose his/her bearings at any age. The dictionary defines “bearing” as a way of conducting oneself; relevance; producing or ability to produce; awareness of one’s situation; etc. There is no mention of age. Everyone knows how old McCain is. If he is paranoid about his age, maybe he should not have run for president. Obama did not invent age nor has he said anything about McCain’s age that I have read or heard. The fact remains that the job of president entails a lot of pressure that maybe, just maybe, an older person can’t take. McCain and millions of other peope in their seventies know that. So “If you can’t stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen.” I for one, think we need someone strong and rescilient to lead our country. My vote is for Obama.

Clearly Obama meant bearings in the navigation sense. McCain used to have integrity but has veered into Rovy waters. In other words, he’s lost his bearings.

Senator McCain, Your lame attempts to drive a wedge between Israel and Senator Obama are despicable. His policy toward Hamas is the same as yours. But consider this: if Adolph Hitler were alive today you would be his favorite candidate.

Good grief people, McCain is old. If elected, he would be the oldest person ever elected. AGE is an issue, get used to it.

Proves that Obama’s claim that he “is running his campaign differently” to be just another blatant Obama Lie.

McCain is a hypocrite, and liar, first he says he is going to run a clean campaign, then he goes an does something as insulting as saying that the Palestinian militant group Hamas favored Obama’s candidacy. McCain knew full well that Obama believes just as McCain, and Hillary believes that Hamas is a terrorist organization, so for McCain to say any phrase which includes Hamas and any of the democratic candidate’s name in the same sentence is disgusting, and disgraceful, and it is a sign that McCain is a liar, and a hypocrite, and will say and do anything to win. After this disgraceful act, by McCain, he wants to complian when Obama defends himself, and responds to McCain’s attempt at smearing him. Obama’s response to McCain was very respectul compared to the disgraceful thing McCain had said, and it was totally appropriate for Obama to defend himself, and say that McCain’s words were offensive, an that it is a sign that McCain is losing his bearings.
McCain has no right to be outraged, he should be ashamed of his behaviour.
Obama’s response was appropriate, simply stating that McCain words were offensive, and that McCain was losing his bearings, proof is that McCain says he’s going to run a clean campaign, yet two days later he is trying a disgraceful smear tactics against Obama. So yes McCain is losing his bearings, from day to day he is either purposefully ignoring or forgetting the promises he had made the day before about having a respectful campaign. McCain has shown that he is not a man of his words!!
I would ask McCain how happy he would be if Obama had used McCain’s name in the same sentence as Hamas. Think McCain would have be happy about that?! NOT!!

This is so sad. They couldn’t find anything wrong with his interview so now just like always the republicans are making up an issue. I hadn’t realized McCain was so sensitive about his age. Wonder what he’s so worried about? You’ll never see Obama pull something like this. Just freaking pathetic.

1masterstroke – Thats a very impressive list you’ve put together. Thank you for posting it.

McCains Strategist needs to refer more closely to his dictionary…I understood what was said and Obama did not comment on his age at all.

Obama is politics as usual!! Obama was endorsed by Hamas because they know he is the weaker candidate on terrorism. His policies on Iran remind me of Chamberlain’s policy towards Hitler, “appeasement” and we know how well that worked. He needs to criticize McCain to reflect away from the oh so true criticim of himself by McCain. By the way, I am a Democrat!!

Grandpa Mccain, Me thinks thou dost protest too much…..

1masterstroke…did you ever think to look at the other “PORK” that was included in all those bills that you keep refering to? Maybe you should you dork!

Tiger said:
“Come on, Hill supporters, if you feel strongly about what I feel, please let’s all vote for McCain in GE, that would guarantee Obama doesn’t get elected. Let’s all work together – Obama failure in GE would be a big victory for Hillary!”
Uh… In the GE should Hill supporters be voting for a victory for Clinton (who had already lost) or should they be voting for a victory for themselves and the whole country?. Am I missing something here?
It seems that to Tiger it is better for the country to go through another four years of misery and failed and dangerous policies than to accept the fact that Clinton lost.
And why is Tiger ready and happy to see the country self-destruct? Is it because Clinton would have lost or is it because Obama would have won?
Tiger said to Clinton supporters “…if you feel strongly about what I feel…”
I wonder what (s)he feels so strongly about that he/she would welcome hell onto America rather than a hope for change. “Give us Clinton or give us death!” seems to be the cry. Or is it “Give us death rather than a black president!”
I just hope that the Clinton supporters Tiger is appealing to have more care for the future of America and the rest of the world than (s)he apparently does.
Tiger needs to realize that the reason Obama leads in the number of states won; the number of pledged delegates; the popular votes; and now, the super-delegates, is not because everybody is stupid. If there is any stupidity being displayed here it is by people like Tiger who want to commit national suicide. And for what reason?
The simple fact is that Obama leads in all counts because – when all put together – the MAJORITY of AMERICANS see Obama as hope for a better tomorrow.
Common sense dictates that whoever gets the nomination should be backed by all Democrats and by all who would find a continuation of the Bush policies an unthinkable nightmare. Any other kind of thinking is childish, vindictive, stupid, and dangerous.
And by the way, defeat for Obama in the GE would not be a victory for Clinton. She and supporters like Tiger would go down in history as being sick in the head.

When “losing his bearings” is interpreted as a jab at McCain’s age, it’s absolutely clear to me we don’t need anymore republicans in the White House…I’m already in the poor house! What idiocy! If I were Obama I wouldn’t even dignify that kind of ignorance with a response!

The MCCain camp needs to calm down because I am sure he will be attacked n a lot more than just his old age.

Vote for another four years of republican rule, do not think that 90 percent of George W Bush would be George W Boooh – it is four years of the same as before but said with a different voice in McCain.
Do not look at the risk of a stress sensitivity problem in both Bush and McCain as they possibly both had ignoring fathers who always thought they were disappointments and cowards, and then wanted to grow into being bullies to the world.
That is not a valid argument even if it would be like that. Even if McCain cried his eyes out every night in Hanoi Hilton, and only survived mentally there due to a semi-hate towards the father and support from the other POW’s.
It does not matter at all, McCain is still a hero, and should be the next bully president of the world. It is the most logical, psycologically.