McCain Adviser: Terrorist Attack Would Help McCain in Election

Although it is a true statement (just as Obama’s bitter comments were also true), you DON’T say that if directly part of a campaign.
Consultants who have NOTHING to do with campaigns can say that but NOT anybody directly involved in the campaign.
Charlie Black said that another terrorist attack would be an “advantage” for McCain.
So thousands of Americans dead after a terrorist may help McCain but that means that Americans were ATTACKED.
Why would ANYBODY say such a callous thing from a campaign.

Politics of Fear wont work this time…We as Americans will vote for our Hope and Aspiration for a country and future we want…Fear wont work this time around.

I disagree with Black’s assertion. We are already fighting with the “enemy” that would make such an attack. If that happens, the Bush solution to terrorism will finally be exposed as a colassal failure. And, since McCain has sold his soul and climbed into Bush’s treehouse, he will be seen as complicit. I think that Americans don’t buy into the lies anymore. This is just another statement illustrating the desperate fantasies of a doomed campaign.

Nancy: Have you ever lived in Pennsylvania? I did, for more than 12 years. They don’t “cling” to anything and they’re not “bitter.” They own guns because they like to hunt and they go to church because they are devout in their faith. Obama’s “bitter” comments were pandering, elitist and pathetic.

Charlie Black has nothing to do with policy.
Charlie Black is a polical operative hack who has been on every republican campaign since Reagan.
He has nothing to do with policy and he has never been involved with governing.
Obama advisor who he was close with Father Pfleger praised Farakkan.
McCain worked as hard as anyone to prevent another attack.
McCain set up the 9/11 commission. McCain was a co-sponsor of the 9/11 commission to stop another attack.
McCain has nothing to do with a reporter asking a question.
This wasn’t some strategy. The reporter asked Black the question.
This is mccarthism with the obsession with surrogates in this election.
Black is a non issue. Black has nothing to do with policy. He has never governed. He wouldn’t serve in a McCain white house.

When the dems bring this up they are saying that the GOP will purposefully have another attack. To the dems the enemy is the gop not al queda or iran. They think that Bush caused 9/11 to help him with politics.

McCain had nothing to do with this.
McCain slammed black.
McCain worked to stop another attack.
McCain was a co-sponsor setting up the 9/11 commission to learn the mistakes and stop another attack.
The reporter asked black the question. This is between the reporter and Black.
This is Mcarthyism.
McCain has a 19 year old son who just came back from fighting overseas. Cindy McCain wore a cellphone attached to her wrist the whole time he was away.
DAMN THIS ELECTION SUCKS. MEDIA SILENT ON THE DEMS WHO SAID THIS. THEY WOULD NEVER REPORT THAT. NEVER IT IS STATE CONTROLLED MEDIA BIAS LIKE WE ARE IN RUSSIA.
THAT IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN 85 PERCENT OF THE MEDIA IS DEMOCRATS. THE DEMS SAY SOMETHING THERE NAMES AREN’T PRINTED.

What’s the matter McCain, don’t like “straight talk”?
After all, Bush/Cheney saw 9-11 as the best thing that ever happened to them. It paved the way for everything that followed. Iraq, torture, breaking laws, trashing the Constitution, etc., etc., etc.

Seems like more of a prediction made from inside information not a wish.

If they do hit us again I hope McCain, Chaney, Bush and Lieberman and Rove are their focus.
Here comes the play on fear factor. These people are sick in the mind and if anyone votes for McCain you are also. It would not surprise me if they made a deal with those terrorist so they can play it out.
All of them make me sick.

WOW. next you know the repubs will be planning an attack on the US to help them win the election. ANd why on earth would another attack help the Repubs????? This administration has been the worst at managing disasters, wars, and foreign policy in the history of this country and to give them another 4 years of their misguided policies. Stupid.

News flash to all you “Patriotic” Republicans. You don’t have to be held as a POW and a lifetime in the military to have the judgement and intelligence to run a country. Serving in the military does not qualify as intelligence and good judgement. Yeah give him a gold medal fine, the presidency……NO. McCain graduated bottom 5 from his undergrad class while Obama graduated with honors from graduate school. We had 8 years of a moron mumbling president, we don’t need another.

The reason that all disasters are better for republicans is because Dems have no shot of managing crisis. Um, floods in the midwest, TAX the rich, and blame Bush because it is his fault it rains.

All the bs talk about some potential attack by morons in a cave somewhere that probably get paid by Karl Rove or one of organizations is quite boring. But it keeps it simple the sub-100 IQ of the Bush/Cheney supporters who fear just about anything because they are so stupid. Fear is directly proportional to the level of stupidity.
But this shifts the attention away from who is robbing the bank like that scene from one of the Pink Panther movies. Greenspan and Bernanke are the clowns that keep bailing out the speculators and Wall Street crooks who are looting the Treasury. The relentless expansion of the money supply by the Federal Reserve is destroying the savings of everyone and it is the main reason that oil and other commodity prices are soaring.
We have threats alright, but they are coming from our own thieves and gangsters in Washington, DC.

Big deal! This is just the Obama campaign and the American Pravda (MSM) drawing attention away from Obama’s lying flip flop on public campaign financing and his recent race baiting comments.
Even the doofuses who always vote Dem know McCain will do a better job against terrorists than Obama. The terrorists certainly know it.

Bhutto happened last december. He is saying that helped. He is talking about the primary context and McCain’s experience not a political shot at the democrats.

P.S. But after the terrorist attacks on his watch, President Obama will have the Justice Department file criminal charges against them. Oh boy! (LOL)

I know I will feel much safer if Obama’s national security advisors include the likes of Madeline Albright, Warren Christopher, John Kerry, Dennis Kucinich, and Bill Richardson.
WOW! Obama really is the candidate of change. Maybe he could also bring back Ron Brown?

Obama is the master at playing the race card

So if President Bush is a war criminal, does that make every member of Congress who voted (repeatedly) to fund the wars (including Barry Obama) accomplices?
Just wonderin?

Aaron Burr: Yes, just the ones who knew the real truth. Not the one’s who believed Bush’s lies.

Didn’t take time to read the other comments, so this has probably already been said, but of course a terrorist attack would boost McCain. That doesn’t mean McCain or any of the people who support him want a terrorist attack, it was just a truthful response to a loaded question.

Of course another attack would help McCain. His adviser Charlie Black shouldn’t be criticized for accurately stating a fact.
The real issue is, WHY would it help McCain?
The answer is that anyone who dares question Bush’s military tactics in dealing with the terrorist threat is labeled as naive and soft on terror.
Squashing debate over military policy and strategy does not make America safer.
Like it or not, competently fighting any war requires strategic thinking and intelligent application of our resources. Bush and co. have squandered and continue to squander ours in Iraq, a folly ill planned and executed from day one (see Lt. Col. Yingling’s article “A Failure In Generalship” in the Armed Forces Journal.
Plus, fighting this war on a giant bottomless credit card ensures that China not us will have the best stuff with which to fight future wars. Predators do not come from the Missile Fairy, they are the result of a prosperous, advanced economy which can afford to develop and build them. Thank you so much, Mr. Bush, for handing my kids’ tushies to the bad guys so your rich buddies can pay even less in taxes.
Once we stop chasing our tails in Iraq and get OBL and Mullah Omar’s heads on sticks and shut down the al Qaida bases in western Pakistan, I believe the point will (at long last) be made. But don’t hold your breath waiting for this to happen in a McCain administration.

Aaron,
Get ready for your worst nightmare.
Repeat after me.
OOOOOOOOOO BAAAAAAAAAA MaAAAAAAAAAAAAAa!
That’s going to be your next POTUS.
Funny, huh?

One thing that needs to “change” is the broken-record rhetoric from the left. You all sound like a bunch of parrots…
illegal war….baraaak!
fear mongering Republicans..baraaak!!
McCain is Bush the third……baraaaak!
Obama is our savior…Barak!!

Black and McBush can’t think and take orders from the Emporer with no brains Bush before they talk! Thats the reason for the kindergarden Gafs. President Obama and the Dems win by Landslide in Nov!

And for all of the Obama lovers: The guy is a racist. No claimed “Christian” can sit under an idiotic and racist pastor for over twenty years only to deny that he doesn’t hold and agree with some of the very same beliefs that pastor was preaching. The guy will be exposed for his “true colors” come November and McCain will be the next POTUS.

El Hombre,
Allow me to provide a quick lesson and definition of racism. This is on the house.
A racist is someone who has a belief or doctrine that inherent differences among the various human races determine cultural or individual achievement, usually involving the idea that one’s own race is superior and has the right to rule others. Does that sound familiar with WHITE AMERICA?
Racism is reinforced with a policy, system of government, etc., based upon or fostering such a doctrine and discrimination. Does that sound familiar with policies WITHIN WHITE AMERICA?
Finally, a racist has hatred or intolerance of another race or other races. That has WHITE AMERICA written all over it.
So, the next time you freely use the word in relation to someone of color, think before you speak. Those of color don’t prevent or oppress Whites from gaining or acquiring anything. Well, maybe a whitegirl or two.
Class is dismissed.

As the Republicans are the party that allowed of 911, it seems odd to me that if they incompetently allowed another devastating attack, that it would help them somehow.
Are they expecting Americans to say “thank you sir for 911, may I have another?”

McCain is finished! GOP should start to retool for 2012 election! Thats if the Republicans want to win another election!

Nathan – read post more carefully. His true colors “will be shown”. So your a not going to find a poll of a prediction.

The one thing I am worried about is an attack from terrorists because their guy BO didn’t win.

Quite to the contrary another terror attack would only display again the incompetence of the current administration, which McCain is imbedded in.

Who needs a terrorist attack?
McCain will be behind in the polls.
Bush/Cheney will find a “reason” to justify an air strike against Iran in Sept/Oct, start yet another war, and try and seize on McCain’s perceived military “stregths”.
While I recognize his service in our miltary as admirable, McCain was in the bottom 1% of his class at the Academy. He’s really not the greatest of strategic minds.
I have yet to understand how spending a war in a prison camp makes one any more capable with regards to military strategy.

Apetrelli,
any examples, or is it the usual GOP blather?

McCain is the democrat running as a Republican. Obama is a Socialist running as a democrat. I’m hoping a 3rd party candidate comes into the race…then maybe well get a real Conservative in the race (not Neo-con like the current admin). I personally don’t want a socialist as POTUS. Argue all you want about my label on BHO but all you need to do is look at what he is saying on the campaign trail.

nathan, show me a june poll that shows bush winning in 1988. Or one that shows clinton winning in 1992 or bush winning in 2004. You can’t because there aren’t any.

Texas Conservative
“Jeremiah Wright”…blah blah blah
“Flag pin”….blah blah blah
“Michelle Obama”…blah blah blah
“Pledge of Allegiance”….blah blah blah
Did I miss anything?

RE: Troy Street
“JFK handled Cuba absolutely terribly (they got rid of the missiles because they FELT like it)”
ACTUALLY, The reason that there even WAS a missile Crisis in Cuba was because of JFK. Khrushchev thought that JFK was weak and inexperienced and that he could send in the missiles unchallenged.
Just a little historical FYI and some food for thought for all those Obama supporters out there.

What a totally stupid question and an even more moronic answer. Why didn’t Black just reply to the reporter and ask him where the hell he came up with that crap. Why ask if killing americans will be a good thing for anyone’s campaign. This isn’t a McCain issue and not an Obama issue either. People are writing who can handle it better and why – no one really knows do we? I’m for Obama for a lot of reasons and I don’t want McCain for a lot of reasons. But the real issue with this story is that the question was asked by an idiot and answered by another idiot. Just because the press asks something that is way out there and just plain wrong doesn’t mean you have to answer it and prove how out there and wrong you are too.
It’s time the press gets called on this garbage and these lame “issues” get put to bed. I don’t care who listened to what crazy preacher ( both have and you know it ) because religion is not part of the job. I don’t care that Obama didn’t serve in the military or that McCain cheated on his disabled wife. Again not part of their job. I care about who will care about this country and who wants to get things done and change for the good.
The two idots in this story don’t warrent our time.

Ayana – If a black man claims he can cross the race line and become POTUS, which I would be for, he can’t do it from the HQ of the black panthers only to claim that he is not affiliated. Have you listened to stupidity of “liberation theology”? A white man created AIDS with the intent on wiping out the black population.

Tejas,
I’m gonna let you in on a lil secret. Shhhhhhhhh, don’t tell, ok?
Repeat after me:
OOOOOOOOOOOOO BAAAAAAAAAAAA MAAAAAAAAAA
I heard he’s going to be the next POTUS, and that all of your whining is without effect.
It’s best you get on your donkey and ride into the sunset grasshoppa. You’re done here.
Giddyup!

ISn’t this remark from the guy who worked as a lobbyest for Iran? Man if there is an attack conspiracy nuts will have a field day saying it was all planned so republicans could win the election. They have connections to the people who would be doing the attacking or supporting it. And lets face it, a McCain presidency would be in the best interest of the terrorists and Iran. McCain is the best recruitment tool they would have, 1000 years in their holy land? McCain is better for recruitment then Bush.

Poor old “Some guy”, he got it completely wrong! Obviously a Dem. FDR did not win WWII, the US generals like Patton and MacArthur did! FDR didnt really even want to fight, but he had no option after Pearl. Worse, a sick FDR GAVE AWAY Eastern Europe to Stalin at Yalta, causing a Cold War that lasted 44 years! JFK and Cuba? Well, he started off well, by forcing Kruschev to back down, but, we later found out that Kennedy secretly removed US Bomarc missiles from Turkey in exchange! So it was a draw. Clinton?? Please, heaven help us! Sure, people were tried for the WTC bombing in 1993 (not 1991), but that wasn’t done by Clinton? It was the FBI and other agencies. Clinton actually was indirectly responsible for 9/11 because he didn’t do enough against al Qaeda! He ignored the Cole bombing, he ignored the bombing of US embassies in E Africa! All he did was use cruise missiles to stir up some dust in Afghanistan, as a public PR show. Pity al Qaeda had long since departed. Clinton had 7 years to sort out AQ, from 1993 to 2001, but he did virtually nothing. America can thank only Pres Bush for no more terrorism on US soil. He tightened up security drastically, created the DHS, monitored terrorist communications, monitored terrorist financing and a whole host of similar measures. Many of these measures were bitterly contested by the dumb Dems too! Finally, he took the battle to the ME, Iraq and Afghanistan, thereby diverting AQ away from the US! In terms of keeping the US safe, Bush is a hero! And now that the US is winning hands down in Iraq too, the whining leftists have been shown up for what they are: weak, effete and totally incapable of being entrusted with the responsibilities of Commander-in-Chief! Imagine a US being governed by Moveon.org? Your worst nightmare!

Gars,
Who’s policies brought down the Berlin Wall and effectively ended the Cold War?
Oh thats right. It was Reagan.
Thanks for Playing.

Mike,
Are you still seriously giving the Gipper the credit for the collapse of the Soviet Union just because he gave a speech? The Cold War lasted 40 years and all the policy before it that wore down the Soviets doesn’t count? Oh yeah, I guess in the realm of ideologues it doesn’t. Tear down this myth! I guess the Afghans had nothing to do with bleeding the great beast either.

Hope & Optimism are a false mantle swaddling the most Marxist candidate
ever to run for President.
Sad to say it, but this Republican would settle for JFK compared to the dunderhead buffet we’ve been served. (Except the psychotic left would chase that Catholic right out of the DNC convention hall- he’d be FAR too conservative for today’s liberals!)
In short… the problem isn’t the candidates, its the electorate. We’re getting what we deserve.

“Looking at these comments remindes me of the 1930′s and over 400.000 dead American soldiers because we talked instead of attacking first.”
Actually in the 30s and 40s we had the moral authority to attack and chose not to. In this case we invaded another country on false evidence and used torture, under Bush we have lost the moral authority. Not only that, but attacking Iraq made the U.S. no safer. It eliminated the counterbalance to Iran and Iraq was not a friend to al Qaida, so this had little to do with terrorism and nothing to do with 9/11. The one thing it did do was eliminate Saddam’s payments to Palistinian suicide bombers in Israel, but now Israel is in more danger from Iran. As long as we have troops in Iraq, we will have deaths, we will never get to the place we currently enjoy in Japan or Germany, two totally different situations.

On 9/11 I saw thoes people jump from the World Trade Center. But to a Lib. that was’nt tourture or the ones that burned to death.I guess they jumped to keep from being Water Boarded.

Republicians have nothing to compete on……..I think we should do a COUNTDOWN to see how long it takes for the Republicians to raise the terror alert level…they will do it…All they have is FEAR MONGERING, nothing else

In the Chicago Tribune today: June 23 2008
Obama made an outrageous statement:
He meant it as a joke, but when Barack Obama recently parodied a famous line from “The Untouchables” he also dredged up the reputation of his longtime home as a place that is rough, raw and unlikely to breed reform.
“If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun,” Obama said during a Philadelphia fundraiser, explaining the Chicago-style approach to hard-nosed politics.
Obama is risky and scary.

It struck me as being similar to HRC saying her supporters were hard-working, uh, white people. It is true that white people did support her. The problem was there were white people who supporter Obama.
Here, Black says if an unfortunate terrorist event happens, then McCain will get the most support. True, he was able to talk knowledgeably when Bhutto was assassinated. It is also true that alot of voters think Republicans have a lock on security and military affairs.
The flip side is also true, Democrats like Biden know a great deal about security and military affairs too. The difference is in how many Democrats are willing to negotiate before we come down to arms. People don’t trust Republicans to back away once they’ve made bad choices with arms.
What is the deal about Grenada? What about Beirut barracks? How was that first Gulf War and Hussein—the Iraqi people having problems with their economy since that war? When do they know how to isolate and contain until a regime gives up or dies out without putting American soldiers in harms way?