McCain’s New Strategy
ABC News’ Jan Crawford Greenburg Reports: McCain’s tough new "celebrity" ad campaign, designed to portray Obama as an empty suit who — like Paris Hilton — is devoid of substance, is the first part of a broader strategy that ultimately could have ramifications for McCain’s VP selection. The campaign will continue to hit hard that Obama is not an agent of change — but a man who merely plays to his audience and is unwilling to risk losing his adoring crowds by making the tough decisions. This is only the first volley, sources close to McCain tell ABC News. There’s a bigger point — and this initial volley, they say, lays the groundwork for it. They will be sharpening McCain’s message that he, not Obama, is the true change agent, a man who’s repeatedly taken unpopular stands, made the hard calls and forged bipartisan alliances. Part of the calculus now is how his VP choice will further sharpen that message. There is significant support among top McCain advisers that he make a "transformative" pick who would change the Republican Party — someone who would appeal to moderate Republicans and Democrats. This pick would be someone who, like McCain, has taken the unpopular stands, made the hard calls and stood firm on principle. A person who fills that bill, these advisers say, is Joe Lieberman. Lieberman, an Independent Democrat, flatly denied his interest to ABC’s Ron Claiborne earlier this month, but McCain is now seriously considering him as that "transformative" pick, sources tell ABC News. McCain is close to Lieberman, admires his willingness to stand alone on principle and shares his views that Islamo-fascism is the most serious threat to the nation’s future. What’s more, some McCain advisers believe Lieberman would dramatically enhance the point they are now trying to make about Obama in this "celebrity" ad campaign. McCain and Lieberman are anti-celebrities, the argument goes. They have, as one top adviser said, felt the heat after taking unpopular positions because they were willing to do "what’s right for the country" — whatever it meant for their own popularity. Tom Ridge also would be that kind of pick — and he, too, is on McCain’s very short list, sources say. As a Republican who was Bush’s director of Homeland Security, he is less dramatic than Lieberman. He also ran into some problems at Homeland Security with his color-coding system. But as a moderate pro-choice politician and former Pennsylvania governor, he, too, could make a statement–and open the Party to moderates who now are up for grabs. And looking at the map, Ridge also could deliver Pennsylvania — a state McCain badly needs. McCain has not decided which route to take. The transformative pick would anger a slice of the base, and he could decide, at the end of the day, to pick the conventional conservative. That would be Mitt Romney, Minn. Gov. Tim Pawlenty or former Ohio Rep. Rob Portman, sources tell ABC News. But of those three, only Pawlenty would help with McCain’s "change" message. Romney, a flip-flopper extraordinaire, is vulnerable to the "celebrity" tag himself–and Portman is defined as Bush’s budget director.
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Paris Hilton can buy MCBUSH a few times and still have a few milion in change, He is the biggest phony i ever saw, applies for a marriage license to marry 1 women before he is divorded from the first one> nice work if you can get it. I wonder what other laws he has broken.at least it is against the law where I live.
Posted by: Rose Szymanski | July 30, 2008, 8:24 pm 8:24 pm
McCain is definitely NO American hero. He is a DISGRACE.
Posted by: Tamrya | July 30, 2008, 8:27 pm 8:27 pm
I could have sworn that John McCain said earlier this year that his campaign was going to take the high road……..what has happened to change his approach? In fact, I thought that he said that the American people wanted, and deserved, better……what has happened to change his approach? Simple put: I guess that John McCain has nothing positive to say. In fact, he has NOTHING TO SAY about how he’s going to move our country forward. How sad…….McCain…….more of the same old politics as usual!
Posted by: Howard Gallas | July 30, 2008, 8:28 pm 8:28 pm
I kind of hope that McCain keeps putting out these negative ads, because everytime he puts these ads on TV every faction of the media can debunk it as lies. The Washington Post and the New York Times have done just so.
Posted by: Jennifer | July 30, 2008, 8:32 pm 8:32 pm
What the McCain campaign fails to grasp is this presidential election has been going on for two years. McCain may-be trying to reach people in his own base, but most Americans know Obama due to the extended Dem primary. McCain’s campaign has now stated on two seperate occasions that McCain does not speak for his campaign. (stated once on affirmative action and another on his raising taxes) If McCain does not speak for his own campaign, how do we expect him to lead in any capacity?
Posted by: Paige | July 30, 2008, 8:45 pm 8:45 pm
i think mccain has totally lost his mind—-what little he has—–wow totally wacky.
Posted by: rodney | July 30, 2008, 9:01 pm 9:01 pm
This really makes me like McCain. Don’t get me wrong I am a Clinton supporter who was never going to vote for the corrupt Obama, but I’m really considering McCain especially if he chooses Lieberman.
Anyone but Obama the arrogant!
Posted by: John25 | July 30, 2008, 9:08 pm 9:08 pm
“could have sworn that John McCain said earlier this year that his campaign was going to take the high road”……..Howard Gallas
Maybe this is the high road for McCain, he seems to have lost all moral fiber he ever had in his increasingly desperate, desperate try for the white house.
Posted by: JR | July 30, 2008, 9:11 pm 9:11 pm
The more I read about Obama the more frightened I become. He is sleazier than any other politician that I have ever seen. I wish the press would cover it.
Democrat for McCain/Lieberman 08′
Posted by: Alice | July 30, 2008, 9:11 pm 9:11 pm
help everyone alice is frightened—-tell us why and no bs please.
Posted by: rodney | July 30, 2008, 9:13 pm 9:13 pm
Obama is so deceiving that it takes a lot of strategy to expose him. I hope McCain eventually will find Obama’s archilles heel, which I think is Obama himself.
Posted by: young_voter | July 30, 2008, 9:14 pm 9:14 pm
John25, your no Clinton supporter and certainly no democrat or you wouldn’t be talking up two republicans.
I’ll go you one better, anyone but McCain the childish, ill-tempered, incapable Bush clone.
Posted by: JR | July 30, 2008, 9:15 pm 9:15 pm
hey young voter someone is using your post name–go get them
Posted by: rodney | July 30, 2008, 9:15 pm 9:15 pm
obama is like paris and brittany—–i dont think so unless you are gay.
what is this guy going to come up with next.he gets more and more like a cartoon character
Posted by: rodney | July 30, 2008, 9:21 pm 9:21 pm
wow mccain is that bad that the party has crawled under a rock.
Posted by: rodney | July 30, 2008, 9:42 pm 9:42 pm
Wow,
If McCain want a “transformational” VP to move the GOP closer to the Democrats, I’m off his bus for sure. Why go through all the crap of transforming when you already have Obama and the Democratic party available where McCain seems to want to go? Just vote for Obama and make it easy.
This guy is a trifle ” nuts”
Posted by: craig | July 30, 2008, 9:42 pm 9:42 pm
LIEberman and McSame deserve each other. Neither one has a bit of honor or integrity.
Posted by: jefferson | July 30, 2008, 9:43 pm 9:43 pm
Another Democrat for McCain … Lieberman wouldn’t be my first choice, but I guess I could live with it.
Posted by: mlwheeler | July 30, 2008, 9:45 pm 9:45 pm
“could have sworn that John McCain said earlier this year that his campaign was going to take the high road”……..Howard Gallas
Maybe this is the high road for McCain, he seems to have lost all moral fiber he ever had in his increasingly desperate, desperate try for the white house.
Posted by: JR | July 30, 2008, 9:46 pm 9:46 pm
I love how McCain flatters himself to be this guy of integrity yet he’s putting Britney and paris in an add. uuuhhh, didn’t Britney support Bush? And I’m SURE paris is a republican as well, after all, republicans want to be sure she gets all the money her father earned when he dies, although she hasn’t earned a cent. That’s a republican thing. odd strategy to put two sorry arse republicans in an add iwth a democrat and say he’s liek them. How odd. Surely obama will grab the fact that both are republican and reem is back up mcCain old sagging white arse.
Posted by: jess | July 30, 2008, 9:48 pm 9:48 pm
jr
i think he lost a little more than moral fiber–perhaps what little he has for a mind.
Posted by: rodney | July 30, 2008, 9:48 pm 9:48 pm
Nonthing new here, Obama is a fake, hypocrite and empty suit from day one. The situation in Germany, when Obama snubbed our wounded troops, because he couldn’t make a “photo-op” out of the visit, is proof.
Posted by: Al in GA | July 30, 2008, 9:51 pm 9:51 pm
jimmy stewart in one of his movies stated to never hit your children on the head —you will make repubs out of them
I REST MY CASE
Posted by: rodney | July 30, 2008, 9:51 pm 9:51 pm
Senator Obama truly believes that Americans are dumb and he can fool them with his bogus promises and unrealistic political rhetric. He is an manufactured political candidate all wrapped up in superficial and artificial character traits and charismatic speeches written by other people and spoken with the help of a teleprompter. He can not think fast on his feet. He needs to have everything in a nice commercial package for delivery. He is all smoke and mirrors. He certainly reminds me of a celebrity with little talent other than an attractive package.
Posted by: Mary | July 30, 2008, 9:52 pm 9:52 pm
Obama is so deceiving that it takes a lot of strategy to expose him. I hope McCain eventually will find Obama’s archilles heel, which I think is Obama himself…young voter
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McCain is the one that’s doing all of the baseless and false attacks, yet Obama’s the deceiving one.
McCain has come out with four negative and false attack ads in a row. Obama responded with an ad of his own, debunking McCain’s false claims with actual facts from actual news sources. What does McCain have? A bunch of lame and tired GOP talking points leftover from 2004. Fortunately, the American public is smarter than that now and can see through all the BS.
Posted by: Jennifer | July 30, 2008, 9:54 pm 9:54 pm
mary
you sound like an angry old geser—-would you please describe mccain for us—-HA HA HA
Posted by: rodney | July 30, 2008, 9:55 pm 9:55 pm
McCain continues to shoot himself in the foot as one of his bigger contributors is Paris Hilton’s parents. I don’t think McCain using their daughter in this fashion is going to go over to well……
Posted by: Paige | July 30, 2008, 9:56 pm 9:56 pm
JR, I share your sadness. It must have been Jerusalem; no it was Berlin; no it must have been Hoa Lo Prison. Senator McCain is the Manchurian Candidate.
Posted by: flopez | July 30, 2008, 9:57 pm 9:57 pm
McCain:
The surge occurred during the Anbar Awakening.
Questioner:
Sir, the surge occurred in 2007, the Awakening occurred in 2006. What do you mean?
McCain:
What I mean is there was a counterinsurgency in Anbar and that counterinsurgency was the surge.
Questioner:
Then what was the 30,000 troop buildup?
McCain:
That was a surge too, but can you excuse me, I feel a surge coming on in my pants.
Posted by: John McCrank | July 30, 2008, 9:59 pm 9:59 pm
“celebrity” – a famous or well-known person
This is true, no political experience, no military understanding, no management experience and no foreign relations experience. McCain has described Obama, perfectly!
Posted by: Al in GA | July 30, 2008, 10:03 pm 10:03 pm
The situation in Germany, when Obama snubbed our wounded troops, because he couldn’t make a “photo-op” out of the visit, is proof….Al in GA
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That’s a lie..
1) ABC July 30,2008
McCain Camp Continues Unsubstantiated Inconsistent Attacks on Obama Over Germany Trip
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/07/mccain-camp-con.html
2)Dallas Morning News July 30,2008
Fact Check: No evidence for McCain ad’s claim that Obama troop visit was to be media event
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/politics/topstories/stories/073108dnpolfactcheck.1a2b2fec.html
3)MSNBC July 29, 2008
MCCAIN VS. OBAMA: FACT-CHECKING TIME
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/07/29/1230437.aspx
Posted by: Jennifer | July 30, 2008, 10:04 pm 10:04 pm
McCain needs a great VP pick. He needs to tighten his message immediately. And if you want him to win people, you better be praying hard that he can survive the remaining grueling days of this campaign. Obama’s team makes this campaign look like a cakewalk. Obama knows how to sidestep and say a whole lot of nothing when answering questions. McCain tends to truly try to answer the question…he doesn’t seem to know how to spin anything. He has been a politican long enough that he should be able to present himself better. Maybe he is just too exhausted and I can understand that but he really needs to get focused and let other people trash Obama. As the candidate, he shouldn’t be doing all the negative talking that he is doing right now. Where are his surrogates and why aren’t they the ones going negative. His whole campaign seems disorganized. It is a miracle that he is staying within five points of Obama. Maybe Americans can see through Obama afterall. I hope so.
Posted by: Patrick | July 30, 2008, 10:04 pm 10:04 pm
AL DOES OBAMA LOOK LIKE PARIS HILTON TO YOU ????????????????
Posted by: rodney | July 30, 2008, 10:05 pm 10:05 pm
whose are the one? The one who put down the life for the country, or the one who always …………….you know the rest.
Posted by: Jm | July 30, 2008, 10:06 pm 10:06 pm
John McCrank, The Daily Show already did that. You know the “boner” media get in the presence of Obama. Who can blame you.
Posted by: flopez | July 30, 2008, 10:06 pm 10:06 pm
Strategy?
Yesterday’s? Today’s or tomorrow’s?
Posted by: Thinking | July 30, 2008, 10:07 pm 10:07 pm
To be a celebrity is great, but this does not give you the right to be nominated, much less the president.
Posted by: BR549 | July 30, 2008, 10:08 pm 10:08 pm
–Rodney–If your children climbed trees and fell out hitting their heads, they are now Obama supporters. They may have developed big ears too.
Posted by: Mary | July 30, 2008, 10:08 pm 10:08 pm
ABC news,
How come when McCain releases an ad, you have it on your front page with an “article” about it almost immediately, yet when Obama releases an ad it is rarely covered.
Methinks you are a bit biased. Not for the Democratic candidate.
Posted by: Brian | July 30, 2008, 10:08 pm 10:08 pm
Senator Obama truly believes that Americans are dumb and he can fool them with his bogus promises and unrealistic political rhetric…Mary
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Well the same could be said for McCain. He thinks that people are dumb enough to believe these false and negative ads. Oh wait, people like Mary already believe these ads. These negative ads are targeted to the low-information voters or people who could care less about things called facts!!
Posted by: Jennifer | July 30, 2008, 10:08 pm 10:08 pm
Doesn’t anybody see the striking resemblence between John McCain and Nikita Krucheve, the former Russian Premier? I mean, they look like twins. Maybe these guys are related.
Posted by: Jake | July 30, 2008, 10:09 pm 10:09 pm
@ Al in GA,
Your correct !
Posted by: martha S. | July 30, 2008, 10:10 pm 10:10 pm
Isn’t it strange that John McCain looks like the twin of Nikita Krucheve, the former Russian Premier. I mean, talk about identical twins.
Posted by: Jake | July 30, 2008, 10:11 pm 10:11 pm
mary stop being an angry old geser—or are you related to mccain—-he thinks obama looks like paris—-he may have other problems—-wow this guy is getting strange
Posted by: rodney | July 30, 2008, 10:12 pm 10:12 pm
jake
he even acts like him–but bangs his head instead of a shoe
Posted by: rodney | July 30, 2008, 10:13 pm 10:13 pm
Jake, I believe Nikita Khrushchev was the First Secretary of the Soviet Union, not the Russian Premier. He, like McCain was a tough guy too.
Posted by: flopez | July 30, 2008, 10:13 pm 10:13 pm
Obama keeps McCain on the defensive. Along with all these negative ads, McCain needs some positive press. He needs to get his policies neatly packaged and sell them. I thought it was pretty impressive of Obama to hold that big economic meeting and have those heavy weights advising him. Why doesn’t McCain’s team do something like this? Is it b/c McCain is too controlling or is the team incompetent?
Posted by: Bea | July 30, 2008, 10:13 pm 10:13 pm
ABC news trying it’s best to pump up McCain, sells more ads, but it’s quite clear to me and most other people that McCain is establisment, is a flip flopper, and plays sleazy politics. We just don’t need McCain, he’s not what our country’s looking for. I can’t imagine anything scarier than putting in a 72 year old republican with one foot in the grave after what this country’s been through. That’s change all right, change for the worse.
Posted by: Scotti | July 30, 2008, 10:14 pm 10:14 pm
This is a old jerk running for the republicans could not fine anyone better????Honest from the things I have heard Obama is responsible for the high gas prices huhhuhuhuhuhuhuh?????Now compared top Hilton and Spears for gosh sakes Mc Cain give it up………
Posted by: indp voter | July 30, 2008, 10:14 pm 10:14 pm
Since the media is for Obama, the truth has almost no chance of making it to our tv’s. McCain is now pointing out the truth about Obama and the love affair with the media. The fact is, McCain is doing what the news channels should be doing.
Posted by: Bart | July 30, 2008, 10:15 pm 10:15 pm
Alice:
Explain exactly what you mean when you say that Senator Obama is sleazy because I see an intelligent, classy, inspiring man that is running a clean campaign and the sleaziness I detect is from McCain as he smears Barack Obama and lies to the American public. Please Alice, tell us what you find sleazy about Senator Obama and do be specific.
Posted by: pdyoung | July 30, 2008, 10:16 pm 10:16 pm
It’s not fair to blame McCain for his new negative campaign strategy. He’s an old guy who has had health problems and has every right to be grumpy.
Posted by: Jedermann | July 30, 2008, 10:18 pm 10:18 pm
hey bart
mccain is a real genius—-obama looks like paris and brittany—-wow he sure is smart.
Posted by: rodney | July 30, 2008, 10:20 pm 10:20 pm
How is a 72 year old fossil with no new ideas and a stubborn commitment to Bush’s worst policies an agent of “change”? Hillarious!
Posted by: Billw | July 30, 2008, 10:20 pm 10:20 pm
McCrypt’s got the change part down already: he figured out how to “change” his position on taxes and even hold two different positions at the same time. The new strategy: candidate for President says one thing, his campaign says another, and then you can have it both ways!!! Brilliant. Not sure whether it was flip, flop, or what, but it sure was creative!
Posted by: American Patriot | July 30, 2008, 10:20 pm 10:20 pm
Will Obama ever risk his life for his country?
Posted by: Jane | July 30, 2008, 10:20 pm 10:20 pm
Why not pick Mitt? He’s as adept at “changing” his positions as McWhiner has become.
Posted by: SE, CA | July 30, 2008, 10:21 pm 10:21 pm
Bart – stop whining, you sound just like McCain. The old fool is just jealous that he’s no longer the only media darling in the race. Maybe if McCain ran a better and more compelling campaign the press – and the people – might actually care.
Posted by: bite me | July 30, 2008, 10:22 pm 10:22 pm
I remember when President Reagan was accused of being too old for the presidency. He was a great president !!!
Go McCain !!!!!
Posted by: Baron | July 30, 2008, 10:22 pm 10:22 pm
Why not pick Mitt? He’s as adept at “changing” his positions as McWhiner has become.
Posted by: SE, CA | July 30, 2008, 10:22 pm 10:22 pm
Give me the war hero ,over the ones that spill the hatred America.
Posted by: mr | July 30, 2008, 10:23 pm 10:23 pm
Jake:
I agree, Nikita Khrushchev does look like McCain………..They’re both hotheads. Would love to see McCain beating his $520. Ferragamo celebrity shoes on a UN table.
Posted by: John McCrank | July 30, 2008, 10:24 pm 10:24 pm
I hate black people. Obama is a stupid mulatto and I hope he gets the same thing that jumped up uppity negro Martin Luther King did. The blacks need to learn their place in my country!
Posted by: Mary | July 30, 2008, 10:24 pm 10:24 pm
jane
get all the facts about mccain —-why dont we see his military records–if it was good he would constantly shove it at us—i know part of what he is hiding.
Posted by: rodney | July 30, 2008, 10:24 pm 10:24 pm
All of the yibberish about how the media is in for Obama is false. Look at all of the gaffes and flip-flops that McCain has made and the media either overlooks it or gives excuses for him. CBS even edited out his comments when he messed up the timeline of the surge, and replaced it with another answer.
If Obama had messed up the timeline of the Anbar Awakening, it would be all over the news.
Posted by: Jennifer | July 30, 2008, 10:24 pm 10:24 pm
mr – McCain isn’t, technically speaking, a war hero. He is a famous POW. But his heroism didn’t help the war effort. It only helped himself.
Posted by: Chattyway | July 30, 2008, 10:25 pm 10:25 pm
mr – McCain isn’t, technically speaking, a war hero. He is a famous POW. But his heroism didn’t help the war effort. It only helped himself.
Posted by: Chattyway | July 30, 2008, 10:25 pm 10:25 pm
mary –how did i know that you are a racist old person. scares you dont it
Posted by: rodney | July 30, 2008, 10:26 pm 10:26 pm
Mary, you have alot of alter egos present at this site. I know I read the book Sybil. I know you walk on the wild side. I know you play both sides.
Posted by: flopez | July 30, 2008, 10:27 pm 10:27 pm
McSame is getting desperate. He knows he has nothing to offer and that’s why he’s reduced to attacking Obama.
Posted by: Big Dan | July 30, 2008, 10:27 pm 10:27 pm
Both of these guys are nuts. I’m voting third party this year!
FuzzySnake.com
Posted by: Mark | July 30, 2008, 10:28 pm 10:28 pm
I hate black people. Obama is a stupid mulatto and I hope he gets the same thing that jumped up uppity negro Martin Luther King did. The blacks need to learn their place in my country!…Mary
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And the true Mary is finally revealed. Not only is she a low-information voter, she’s a racist pig as well!! Congrats, you get the KKK award for the stupidest blogger on the planet!!
Posted by: Jennifer | July 30, 2008, 10:28 pm 10:28 pm
I have lost all respect for John McCain after viewing his ad with Paris Hilton, Britney Spears, and Sen. Barack Obama. Giving the enormous problems facing our country, such a childish political as is a slap in the face every American. I don’t see how any self-respecting Republican could bring himself/herself to vote for John McCain after this asinine prank.
Posted by: caliguy55 | July 30, 2008, 10:28 pm 10:28 pm
Obama, a community organizer, celebrity, part time senator and associated with numerous questionable friends including criminals, racists and terrorists.
Senator McCain, career military, stateman, war hero, long term senator and 44th president of the United States.
Posted by: Just-the-facts | July 30, 2008, 10:29 pm 10:29 pm
Chattyway,
There’s a guy named Bud Day that thinks McCain is a hero. Perhaps you should look him up. He’s kind of famous in military circles.
Posted by: flopez | July 30, 2008, 10:30 pm 10:30 pm
Hey Jennifer:
Great information but AlinGa doesnt want fact or truth. He is just spewing and respewing lies that he knows are untrue, either because he is in serious denial or either he just wants to make himself feel better.
Posted by: pdyoung | July 30, 2008, 10:30 pm 10:30 pm
Jennifer – oh shut up you stupid PC lib loser. You’ve probably got a mulatto baby from your Black Muslim pimp daddy, Obama!
Posted by: Mary | July 30, 2008, 10:30 pm 10:30 pm
OBAMA=a Blank Slate. I’ve never followed a campaign in which I have heard so many empty words. Please note how Obama’s handlers switch their campaign sign. Originally it was “Change You Can Believe In.” They realized that their guy was riding on “belief” and I noticed a short while ago they switched it to: “Change That Works For You.” Oh yeah, right. What the H&%l has he done for Chicago?? The have a crime rate out of control and are about to call in the National Guard to stem the homicide rate. Obama is a disaster in my opinion. I have no respect for the guy simply because he has been riding on the “nice guy, change” garbage for ages. I have NO IDEA WHAT HE STANDS FOR. And he SWITCHES again and again and again. Jerusalem should be undivided…then..to Abbas, it has to be worked out in the final negotiation. What a con artist–plays the Jews, plays the non-Jews. Plays his Church of Trinity UNTIL public opinion forces him to abandon his Church!! All this after saying Pastor Wright was like an “uncle in the family you didn’t fully agree with.” Obama is a slippery politician and no more than that–but one with ZERO agenda and ZERO TRACK RECORD IN THE SENATE. Its a PITY that Hillary got dumped on–at least she has been capable and been a dynamic force for her constituents in New York.
Posted by: marat | July 30, 2008, 10:30 pm 10:30 pm
Mary:
Speaking of stupidity. Obama can out-think your little crack-ass any day of the week.
Posted by: John McCrank | July 30, 2008, 10:31 pm 10:31 pm
flopez – Bud Day? What kind of loser is named after a crappy beer? Everybody knows McSame is no hero – just an incompetent who got shot down and did anything to survive like a worm.
Posted by: Chattyway | July 30, 2008, 10:31 pm 10:31 pm
Melanie? Mary? Sybil?
Posted by: flopez | July 30, 2008, 10:32 pm 10:32 pm
McSame is being Bush!
His Staff is really silly and stupid!
He needs a desperate … change in his Staff!!
This approach is making him look like a very mad nasty old man.
Posted by: GHM | July 30, 2008, 10:32 pm 10:32 pm
jennifer
it is strange how these old gesers act—-a little boose or drugs and all hell breaks loose—since they cannot hide what they are they just let loose–make great repubs.
Posted by: rodney | July 30, 2008, 10:32 pm 10:32 pm
Obama is a crack smoking nig ger. I hate all blacks and want to exterminate those criminal monkeys!…Melanie
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Oh wait, I think it’s a tie. Melanie gets the KKK award too!!
Posted by: Jennifer | July 30, 2008, 10:32 pm 10:32 pm
Chattyway,
Bud Day is a crappy beer. The beer won the Medal of Honor though. That’s something.
Posted by: flopez | July 30, 2008, 10:33 pm 10:33 pm
McSame is being Bush!
His Staff is really silly and stupid!
He needs a desperate … change in his Staff!!
This approach is making him look like a very mad nasty old man.
Posted by: GHM | July 30, 2008, 10:33 pm 10:33 pm
John McCrank – no filthy black savage can outhink a white person. It’s genetically impossible. Blacks are good at athletics and dancing and picking cotton, but they don’t have the cranial capacity to process higher level thinking like Whites. It’s science.
Posted by: Mary | July 30, 2008, 10:33 pm 10:33 pm
tell them that their sheet is on fire and scare the hell out of them.
Posted by: rodney | July 30, 2008, 10:34 pm 10:34 pm
flopez – they give those things out like candy to anybody who ever got a boo-boo. I’m not impressed. McCain is still not a hero.
Posted by: Chattyway | July 30, 2008, 10:35 pm 10:35 pm
This childish ad is some sort of “strategy”. God help us all, if the moron behind this ad comes near the White House. John McCain obviously approved this ad; and, for that alone, I would vote against him. It’s become apparent that McCain is completely devoid of ideas as to how we’re going to solve the tremendous problems facing our country.
Posted by: caliguy55 | July 30, 2008, 10:35 pm 10:35 pm
Hey Caliguy….Keep making the correlation between the empty triumvirate. As a former Democrat, and because I think the ad is funny, your disgust makes me laugh. You obamidiots hate reality.
Posted by: PGHPAVOTER | July 30, 2008, 10:36 pm 10:36 pm
Jennifer – I would rather this country burned to the ground and every last white person died than see a black nig ger like Obama in the White House. The only blacks I want to see in the White House are lawn jockeys and butlers!
Posted by: Chattyway | July 30, 2008, 10:36 pm 10:36 pm
Mary,
Remember, in our last therapy session, we reminded you that you are really a zitty white Harvard junior.
Posted by: flopez | July 30, 2008, 10:36 pm 10:36 pm
jennifer
put on your helmet they are in attack mode—-screaming cursing and throwing their crap at us.
Posted by: rodney | July 30, 2008, 10:36 pm 10:36 pm
McCain’s campaign is running on empty. This ad is going to backfire bigtime. How stupid and shallow does he think America is?
Posted by: Lloyd Nakatani | July 30, 2008, 10:37 pm 10:37 pm
Jennifer – oh shut up you stupid PC lib loser. You’ve probably got a mulatto baby from your Black Muslim pimp daddy, Obama!…Mary
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Oh! Mary did I strike a nerve? Don’t worry you can share your KKK award with Melanie!
I feel sorry for people like you. Your arguments are solely based on hatred. There’s no reason to debate facts with low-information voters such as yourself, because all of that is way over your head!!
Posted by: Jennifer | July 30, 2008, 10:38 pm 10:38 pm
wow talk about a couple of strange repubs
Posted by: rodney | July 30, 2008, 10:40 pm 10:40 pm
Rodney,
As you stated earlier, all some of these people have are baseless childish arguments because the substantiated facts are on are side!! You’re doing a great job as well!
You too flopez!
Posted by: Jennifer | July 30, 2008, 10:41 pm 10:41 pm
mary and melany chattaway sound like mccain advisers—-they thought the mike was off.
Posted by: rodney | July 30, 2008, 10:42 pm 10:42 pm
The devil is coming out.. hatred and disrespect. The truth of the matter is that these self loathing haters would love to see this country go down an empty pit. Mccain and camp are liars and crooks and YES WE Can take back American from these criminals!
Posted by: Heidi | July 30, 2008, 10:42 pm 10:42 pm
Just a hunch but
If Hilary is not chosen for V.P. then judging by comments that continue to pop up obama will lose a good percentage of that vote to either non committed or McCain and in turn lose the election.
Posted by: Rico | July 30, 2008, 10:44 pm 10:44 pm
The funny thing about Chattyway is that he/she has voted against himself/herself the past 2 elections at least and will do so again in the fall. Chattyway, it’s ok, I don’t expect you to understand what I just said so I’ll spell it out for you: the jobs in your town that are being shipped overseas are leaving because of Republican policies. The kids in your town that are being sent to their deaths in the WRONG country (Iraq instead of Afghanistan where Bin laden is), are being sent there because of George Bush. And you’re such an idiot that you’ll walk into the booth again this fall and pull the wrong lever: maybe this year, instead of McCrypt on the ballot, they’ll put a sign on the ballot machine that said “pull if you hate yourself.” You’ll probably pull twice.
Posted by: Patriotic American | July 30, 2008, 10:45 pm 10:45 pm
got to go gang i will remember this discussion—–jennifer i can usually draw them out.
good night
Posted by: rodney | July 30, 2008, 10:46 pm 10:46 pm
–Jennifer, you do not know me or even know what you are talking about. I do not hate Barrack Obama or his family. His daughters are beautiful and very special. I just don’t like his politics. Can’t you be mature enough to understand that?
Low-information voter (?) I worked for a political party for 8 years and very large corporations in several states. I am well educated but now retired.
Posted by: Mary | July 30, 2008, 10:48 pm 10:48 pm
We’ve already had one president who took the “unpopular stands,” and that was one president too many. There’s a saying that goes, “What’s popular isn’t always right, and what’s right isn’t always popular.” But that doesn’t mean that if something is popular, it has to be wrong. It’s about time to get someone in the White House who is open to listening to the public, who understands, respects, and actually FOLLOWS the Constitution and federal laws, which were obviously put in place for a reason. It’s time to get someone who doesn’t bend and break rules for his own interests. It’s time to get someone who, for once, will atleast consider the opinions and voices of the electorate, of the American people.
Posted by: BP | July 30, 2008, 10:48 pm 10:48 pm
You too flopez!…Me
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I meant to give props to pdyoung!!
Posted by: Jennifer | July 30, 2008, 10:48 pm 10:48 pm
Hey Jane:
Barack Obama is risking his life right now as he runs for the highest office in the United States.
Posted by: pdyoung | July 30, 2008, 10:49 pm 10:49 pm
Mary,
Who are you? I think you need to scroll up and read your previous comments…
Posted by: Jennifer | July 30, 2008, 10:50 pm 10:50 pm
Dissing two young ladies to benefit from their humiliation is disgraceful. How come you want to be a president at the expense of ordinary citizens’ humiliation? Shame on McCain.
Posted by: hilltop | July 30, 2008, 10:53 pm 10:53 pm
Mary states, “I am well educated”.
You’ve sure convinced me. With 98% of your DNA the same as a monkey, I’ll give you the benefit of any doubt, despite what your trainers say.
Posted by: John McCrank | July 30, 2008, 10:56 pm 10:56 pm
I hate black people. Obama is a stupid mulatto and I hope he gets the same thing that jumped up uppity negro Martin Luther King did. The blacks need to learn their place in my country!
Posted by: Mary | Jul 30, 2008 10:24:26 PM
Mary , where is YOUR country…you sound like a f*g hag to the k.k.k.
Posted by: oldwhiteguy | July 30, 2008, 10:59 pm 10:59 pm
Mary you sound more like a KKK card carrying savage and imbecile than any African Americans I know. You are the lowest intelligence on this blog and probably in your city. You may think you are of higher intelligence but you most definitely are not. Just possibly, you may have higher intelligence than your father, who is your uncle and who is your cousin, who dropped out of school in pre-school.
Posted by: pdyoung | July 30, 2008, 11:01 pm 11:01 pm
Everybody knew his contempt for women, but this one was a new low, especially given the fact that these two young ladies do not have anything to do with the politics. Why does he have to trash Paris Hilton or the other young lady?
Posted by: tom | July 30, 2008, 11:01 pm 11:01 pm
“OK, I’m the real agent of change. I’m an old white guy with a background in a do nothing senate. I say one thing one minute and then flip flop to the exact opposite in an effort to pander and garner votes from people who I swear to God, I wish would just disappear already. I come from money…well, my wife does and I have no idea what it’s like to actually work up a sweat for a paycheck. Oh, that doesn’t sound all that different than what you’ve ever had at election time does it? Never mind.”
Posted by: foxisms | July 30, 2008, 11:02 pm 11:02 pm
“OK, I’m the real agent of change. I’m an old white guy with a background in a do nothing senate. I say one thing one minute and then flip flop to the exact opposite in an effort to pander and garner votes from people who I swear to God, I wish would just disappear already. I come from money…well, my wife does and I have no idea what it’s like to actually work up a sweat for a paycheck. Oh, that doesn’t sound all that different than what you’ve ever had at election time does it? Never mind.”
Posted by: foxisms | July 30, 2008, 11:02 pm 11:02 pm
“OK, I’m the real agent of change. I’m an old white guy with a background in a do nothing senate. I say one thing one minute and then flip flop to the exact opposite in an effort to pander and garner votes from people who I swear to God, I wish would just disappear already. I come from money…well, my wife does and I have no idea what it’s like to actually work up a sweat for a paycheck. Oh, that doesn’t sound all that different than what you’ve ever had at election time does it? Never mind.”
Posted by: foxisms | July 30, 2008, 11:02 pm 11:02 pm
Obama is a black Hitler. He will put white people in camps and force white women to have mulatto babies. He wants to raise an army of mulatto muslim terrorists to destroy America. If this is what you want, vote for him. I am very politically connected and I know the truth about your messiah Obama. He is the black anti-christ!
Posted by: Mary | July 30, 2008, 11:03 pm 11:03 pm
Barack is a courageous man. He is not afraid of liars, crooks and devils! You haters create lies about the man but like your leader you do not stand on truth. One’s character is important and John MacCain and talk all he wants but his actions portraty a differnt story. He is a weak man who will stoop to low levels to win and push his hateful parties agenda. He is spineless and not a Hero. A real hero stands on his own merit. Ron Paul is a better man than John McCAin. And for record the people of American voted for Barack to become the parties nomination.
Posted by: Heidi | July 30, 2008, 11:03 pm 11:03 pm
WOW! I only hit submit once. Honest.
Posted by: foxisms | July 30, 2008, 11:03 pm 11:03 pm
Hey Melanie:
You are foaming at the mouth along with McCain. Maybe you will have to leave America after Barack Obama becomes POTUS, where there are no African Americans. By the way, Melanie, you dear have no power at all.
Posted by: pdyoung | July 30, 2008, 11:05 pm 11:05 pm
foxisms…
I glanced at your post and the hair stood up in my ears…
Saw the part about “old white guy” and took it personal
oldwhiteguy
Posted by: oldwhiteguy | July 30, 2008, 11:05 pm 11:05 pm
McCain is employing a dangerous strategy. These things tend to come full circle. For instance, why is a grown man complaining about the popularity of his opponent as if it is a bad thing? Why? Is he suggesting we are all delusional under some Obama spell and are too stupid to figure it out, insulting the Americans who beleive in Obama? Only he and the extreme right can see this? Is this professional jealousy? The juvenile nature of the concept is alarming. How can anybody take him seriously, especially overseas? You can see Karl Rover all over this. The Republicans deserve to loose all power for these same old political tricks. If they do not change during this campaign, how can you expect them to change after the election? Because Obama is so successful I am sure McCain feels he has no choice, but really, is this all they could come up with? The debates will be a draw and it will come down to the grass roots effort and the Obama team has the energy. Obama 2008!!
Posted by: Tom | July 30, 2008, 11:07 pm 11:07 pm
HEY…I’m OLDWHITEGUY. I post on every news site as such. How did I get confused as being MARY?
fyi,,,I AM an old white guy and proud of it. I’m also proud of supporting Obama
Posted by: oldwhiteguy | July 30, 2008, 11:12 pm 11:12 pm
I think Mary is taking a break from this blog, she’s bringing cupcakes to her KKK meeting.
Posted by: Jennifer | July 30, 2008, 11:13 pm 11:13 pm
Mary, sounds like a hill-billy, depraved of modern humanity.
Posted by: Phil | July 30, 2008, 11:16 pm 11:16 pm
Mary, the only anti-Christ is you, because you are misinterpreting the bible. Anti Christ is supposed to be a white dude from EU. Now you are telling us that the Bible is wrong? Right wing nuts do not know where to stop, do you?
Posted by: tom | July 30, 2008, 11:16 pm 11:16 pm
flopez…
Come on fess up
You’re really Rush Limpballs in drag!
Posted by: oldwhiteguy | July 30, 2008, 11:18 pm 11:18 pm
Rush Limbaugh is gay?
Posted by: tom | July 30, 2008, 11:19 pm 11:19 pm
Hey ChattywayThe scripts will change for people like you after Barack Obama becomes POTUS. You chattyway will be working as a cook,jockey or servant and if the President is in a good mood, he just might plant some cotton so that you can pick it.
Posted by: pdyoung | July 30, 2008, 11:20 pm 11:20 pm
Some jester is using my name to post nasty stuff. This has happened before by Obama supporters and it is very sad. This Mary respects Senator Obama but I do not like his politics so will not vote for him.
Goodnight, posters.
Posted by: Mary | July 30, 2008, 11:21 pm 11:21 pm
flopez…
Perhaps you’re John Mccain learning how to use a computer…
Read and think BEFORE you post!
Posted by: oldwhiteguy | July 30, 2008, 11:22 pm 11:22 pm
Ton:
Great Post.
Posted by: pdyoung | July 30, 2008, 11:38 pm 11:38 pm
pdyoung,
“Ton” is a figment of your imagination.
Posted by: flopez | July 30, 2008, 11:42 pm 11:42 pm
“flip flopper”. Please have the guts to put a name on this drivel. ABC news? Try left wing hack job.
Posted by: What's your name | July 31, 2008, 12:10 am 12:10 am
McCain doesn’t need to appeal to moderate Republicans with a veep such as Lieberman or Ridge-McCain appeals to those people himself. I don’t know any conservatives who are excited about McCain and many are wanting Romney on the ticket, ABC says Ridge can bring Pennsylvania well Romney will bring Michigan before Ridge brings PA. Of course ABC news calls Romney a “flip-flopper” they don’t want him on the ticket because they know he would destroy the Democratic veep nominee in the VP debate.
Posted by: Sean | July 31, 2008, 12:44 am 12:44 am
McCain’s top three VP choices should be:
PALIN, PALIN and PALIN
Hope I made myself clear
Posted by: Wayne Gordon | July 31, 2008, 12:45 am 12:45 am
For those who thinks that Paris Hilton is nothing more than a blonde air-head who parades around as a celebrity, she is a very successful business person with lines of clothes, shoes and a fragrances worth up to 50 million dollars in value. Her line sells all over the world in the most exclusive shops. Maybe someone should tell Senator McCain.
Posted by: Mary | July 31, 2008, 1:02 am 1:02 am
Why is it ok for McCain to bash Britney and Paris just to score political points? Shows his low character that he is more than happy to attack his fellow Americans who have nothing to do with his campaign just to attack Obama. Attack ads suck, but at least keep them on target. If elected President he certainly won’t be President for all.
Posted by: Peter | July 31, 2008, 4:30 am 4:30 am
McCain is desperate. Nothing seems to be working for him. This nonsense obout Obama disrespecting our saintly troops in a German hospital is hogwash. He will wrap himself up in the flag and many naive Americans will think him a patriot.
Patriotism is the last resort for him, and as good old Sam Johnson said: Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Posted by: Michael Colon | July 31, 2008, 5:22 am 5:22 am
Paul,
Is it natural for the national press to obsess over one man. You know, the one that already has the gay vote.
And, judging by Sage’s comment, McCain’s Orthdox Jewish friend has also lost the gay vote.
Posted by: flopez | July 31, 2008, 10:32 am 10:32 am
flopez – Well, the media includes a lot of females, too. But for McCain to so completely obsess over Obama, I don’t know, there’s something not right about this.
Posted by: Paul | July 31, 2008, 10:44 am 10:44 am
DoctorM – does it make you feel better about yourself to call other people names?
As for your pick for a McCain running mate, I don’t know. Its one thing to cross party lines for a unity ticket, but to do it with a guy who was once the other party’s running mate? There’s a strange quality to that. There’s clearly a chemistry between the two, though.
Posted by: Paul | July 31, 2008, 11:09 am 11:09 am
Back when oil was $70.00 a barrel, the dems said if they won the elections of 2006, they would fix the problem.
Well, they won Congress and now oil is almost double that of 2006.
Were is the fix?
This is just another example of the dems saying anything to get elected. The don’t have any solutions and never have.
Wake up America, The great “Change” that Obama talks about would be if the American Public would finally get smart as to what the dems stand for!!!!!!!!!!1
Posted by: Checkers | August 1, 2008, 2:48 pm 2:48 pm