McCain on Obama: Inexperienced, But “I Didn’t Say He Wasn’t a Smart Politician”

Experience? Lets see-our Republican experience has placed us in such a vulnberable position in regards to oil, economy, health care, education and most importantly 2 wars with over 4, 000 men and women casualties. When have never tried sincere dialogue with anyone for a long time. We are too busy telling other countries how to govern-the Republicans never listen to anyone-they shoot from their hip and never are accountable. So this “so called” experience has hurt our country in so many levels. WE NEED CHANGE AND WE NEED IT NOW! GO OBAMA 2008

Goldberg says: “But Obama has shifted that position.”
Precisely. He had to shift because it was a stupid gaffe by a liteweight pol trying to pander to the “appease-them-and-maybe-they’ll-forgive-us” wing of the Democrat Party.

Krissy K
Haven’t you already said your a McCain supporter ? Not a Clinton supporter ?
Second, Barack Obama has for 11.5 years held a public office.
Clinton has held a public office for 6 years.

What’s really scary is that the Republican propaganda machine thinks that the American people are gullible enough to swallow another 4 years of the Bush policies.
Remember ‘trickle down economics”? Wasn’t that supposed to mean that as a worker, if I worked hard and made my company wealthy, I’d share in the fruits of this labor? By the time the Executives and Senior Managers had skimmed off their greedy takes, not a lot got to me.
Now, Dow Chemical has announced they will be increasing their prices across the board by as much as 20%. Dow is involved in the majority of daily items around me, from diapers to paint, from plastics to household cleaners. Can I expect the wealthy company I work for to help offset this burden? I seriously doubt yours will either.
From my point of view, the Republican “trickle down economics” is a form of plumbing.

One more time guys and gals Hilly is not I reapeat NOT going to be on the ticket.Get use to it.This selfcentered woman is in outer space,,,,She has LOST LOST LOST.She will be lucky if she comes out of this holding on to NY for the senate seat

What really sickens me is that you are all a bunch of pigs!

Obama’s great judgment about Iraq occurred before he held a seat in the senate (remember, prior to the primary, he had 2 years of senate experience). The fact is, the “judgment” he refers to is a single appearance he made in downtown chicago during a large anti-war protest. Obama was not on the list of invited speakers. nobody knew who he was at the time. He just got in a couple words and this is what he said: “I AM NOT A PACIFIST, BUT I DON’T SUPPORT A STUPID WAR.” That was it. The Obama camp, with the MSM, have exaggerated that statement by creating new sound-bites in recording studios and pretending he said these during the rally, which he did not.
Go back to any of the Chicago papers, radio stations, or television stations from that period and see if you find more than the quote I mention above. You won’t.

McCain graduated 894th out of a class of 899 at the Naval Academy. Incredibly, the Republicans managed to unearth the ONLY person in America dumber than the totally incompetent failure Bush Jr. Obviously, Republicans like voting for people SMARTER than they are.

doublestandard:
McShame keeps talking about ‘experience’, focusing on his war record. Yes, I feel he is a hero in a long ago war; but if that argument were valid, we would be in the last year of John Kerry’s administration. You didn’t forget that John Kerry was also a Vietnam vet too, have you?
Where are the ‘Swift Boat’ attacks now that a new Vietnam vet is running? Wasn’t the Vietnam War a disaster both here and abroad? And, wasn’t it a Republican (Richard Nixon) who appeased the North Vietnamese and retreated from that war?
The focus of this election is JUDGEMENT, not experience. Wasn’t John Kerry more experienced than Bush? McShame said we have pulled down the troops in Iraq to pre-surge levels. That is not correct, an error anyone with sound judgment would not make, especially after making 8 trips to that country! Perhaps there weren’t flash cards for him to review before making such a blunder.
And, to me, 20,000 lives are not ‘trivial’.

Don’t you just love it when someone mentions Vietnam and leaves out the key facts!
Why did Nixon retreat? It was from the anti-war pressure and the democrats that forced him to.
After the cut and run that the democrats forced, nearly 3 million Indochinese were murdered after we left.
Worth repeating, 3,000,000 citizens were slaughtered from the result of the cut and run antiwar, kumbya tree-huggin hippies!

McCain is wrong!
Obama is NOT a smart politician. Anyone who has Rev Wright, Pfleger & Ayers in their closets and wants to run for president isn’t too smart.
So now what does he have? Oh yeah, pretty speeches. Lol.

Obama got the attention of David Brooks and George Will today.
Watch and learn McCain.
Obama08

i would agree with mccain… obama IS a smart politician. for now.. lol. this is the first time he has been on the national spotlight. now take a look at how much controversy has been around him. look at how many times he has had to explain his past ridiculous comments. look at how many times, just in this campaign, he has changed his views on what he has said before. this is all due to lack of experience. so then he gets criticized by so many people, he realizes he screwed up and he is advised (dont think for a second he makes these decisions on his own)then he has to go and backtrack and change his views. there is no disputing this. theres nothing wrong with being inexperienced. its just that. he dosent have the experience. maybe he should have waited till 2012 to run for president.

BEN…
you bring up a good point. we do need some fresh ideas in washington. the 9 trillion in debt has been going on for decades now from both sides of the aisle. ron paul would be a good change i think. he would cut ALOT of the wasteful spending. which is the biggest problem we have right now. it would be nice if democrats would realize this. QUALITY universal health care and all of the other b.s. they think the government should be in control over dosnt cost that much right??!! idiots.

tim – Well said. I believe at this point that Obama will win the presidency, and I pray that he does a good job. I would hope whomever gets in there makes good policy choices for all of our benefit. This election will be exciting. It would be awesome if third party candidates got significant vote tallies.

Obama is very risky for the country.
He is dot com stock.

JS – I remember the media talking about the platforms of Obama, Clinton, McCain and Paul. They talked about how the next budget under new leadership would compare to Bush’s current budget. Obama +250 billion, Clinton +230 billion, McCain +60 billion, and Paul -150 billion. The first two will send us into greater debt, but our nation accepts that since most are up to their eyeballs in personal credit card debt. McCain would be better but he wants to bomb Iran, and the latter of course moves us in the correct direction. You are correct they promise what they cannot give unless of course China and others are willing to continue funding us. They pander what else is new.

tim – Of course I agree. That is why this election will be exciting. I only am speculating, but who knows. The dems have certainly been much more motivated during the primaries than the republicans. You are correct in saying that the economy is in trouble because of our spending. It is just tough convincing the masses that spending is the culprit.

Obama is the man with good judgement and leadership ability. I do believe that he can restore America credibility to the outside world.
OBAMA ’08

If you cant vote for obama vote for ron paul !

BEN..
i totally agree with you again. the dems HAVE been more excited than the republicans. but thats just democrats personalities.. lol i mean, they get all “hyped” up about change and hope. and i dont mean that in a offensive way, but idealists are just that way. how many bumper stickers for john mccain do you see? its a good example. idealist and liberals like to spout off at the mouth and throw their political interests and views around on the rest of the country. conservatives, in general, dont do that. my point is, that just because the democrats seem more motivated or excited, dosnt mean that will make any difference.

tim – I have no idea. I think sometimes the only thing people see is some kind of celebrity status drummed up by the media. People also seem to be interested in what a politician can give them rather than what is best for the country. I personally think we are in big financial trouble especially with stagflation taking off and none of the candidates, except very few, actually talk about the root causes. I feel that this is probably because the politician would need to blame America for somethings, and this doesn’t go over very well with the dumbed-down electorate. We have seen this with the blackout of Paul by the media. I agree that with you that we broke Iraq so we must fix it, but I also see our presence as a possible hindrance to progress. It is just a really tough situation that never should have happened.

Mickey – Can’t argue with many of the things you listed. Bush has made a mess of things because of the self-serving arrogance of many that made policy for him. I believe the motivations for Iraq were more than meets the eye. Cheap oil seems high on the list especially after McCain’s admission a few weeks ago. If the dems produce someone with a reasonable budget plan, I would be happy. Obama along with Paul is probably the best on talking with others that may see the world differently.

MICKEY…
wow, do i wish i was a fast typer cause i would LOVE to give you some education on all of those issues. those ARE all real issues by the way. but your implying that its REPUBLICANS fault right?! and that obama is going to reverse all of that right?! ley me start with the first: poverty in america IS NOT THE GOVERNMENTS FAULT! it starts with and comes down to a little thing called PERSONAL responsibility!! im not saying the government shouldnt be there to help those in REAL need, but the government IS NO THE ANSER TO POVERTY. the medicine thing: yes, again IT IS A REAL PROBLEM. but again, do you trust the american governmet with your health care??!! the ones who have put us in a 9 trillion dollar debt??!! you think they will do the job effectively?! look at other nations with universal health care. and dont even get me started on the 4 dollar gas!!!!you think maybe if slick willy and the dems would have let us start using OUR resources and statred drilling for oil we would be in this situation??!! and your going to blame the oil companies for making record profits?! it has NOTHING to do with the problem! they are playing by the rules, and its not the dollar amount they are brining in, its THE Profit margin!! the percentage! they are making an average of 8 percent profit. that is NOT unethical profits. thats NOT price gouging. the problem is OUR DEPENDANCE ON FOREIGN OIL. homeless vets has ALWAYS been a problem. do you know how many vietnam vets are still homeless and are never going to be “normal” again? thats war, and thats what it does to you. im not saying it isnt a problem, but that has not been a repuiblican or “current administration” problem..lol we definately need to pay more attention to it. and this might have been the most ridiculous one you said: forclosures on homes because of the war??!! do you even know what your talking about?! the forclosures were because of PREDATORY LENDING AND PEOPLE BUYING MORE THAN THEY COULD AFFORD. plain and simple. and do some research on it and look at the laws changed by mr. clinton (again) on lending laws. but now, yet again, the TAZPAYERS are responsble for fixing stupid peoples mistakes. mickey, i wish i could explain all of this to you, but i dont have the time or energy right now. but do yourself a favor, and do some REAL research on these issues. quit blaming certain people(george bush, oil companies, etc.) for problems that were either pre existing or have nothing to do with the problem in the first place. you are simply biased and uninformed.

Sen Obama is very smart, perfect Democratic nominee because he’s done nothing in pass. Oh, I forgot only one mistake he made that he attended that church.

Bush ran a brilliant campaign….he managed to get the support in 2000 of a lot more than 1/2 of the Republicans.
He had a habit (just like Obama) of talking his supporters into supporting lame brain policies,
Obama is a lot more like Bush than McCain. McCain is a principled and honest guy who has often stood up to other Republicans to “do the right thing”.
Obama is a smart politician….”change” is a campaign slogan….not a policy.

If Barack Hussein Obama is the nominee,
and…if Hillary Rodham clinton does not run as an independent, which I strongly advocate and will support in every aspect monetarily and otherwise.
Then all John Sydney Mccain has to do is still be breathing come November in order to get my vote. He is at least real as opposed to ephemeral!

Sophia,
over 4,000 in iraq alone…3,000 on 911. we never hear about the casualties in afghanistan and i have not even included the injured….
what about the dead and wounded from the countries that are helping the US with their troops?
what about the thousands of families with empty places at the dinner table?
when you count the iraqi, and afghani, dead wounded and displaced….woah..this whole thing has been an unnatural disaster.

I have not read all the comments, but it seems like very few people are engaging the substance of McCain’s foreign policy discussion and how it relates to Obama’s brashness, which seems dead on to me.
Instead, “go Obama” no matter what his shifting positions might be, and he is an evil republican and old…shallow, in my opinion…
McCain used to be the republican democrats liked, if you can fish it back out of the memory hole.