McCain Hit Obama With Britney, Paris — Now Light Sabers?

It is refreshing to see McCains ads and campaign. He gets the facts out in a Fun way.
Obama is full of evil and vile tactics, Attacks and smear campaigns, that he has always used though his campaign.
Obama learned to play down and dirty in Chicago and has always used that. That is how he got the nickname the Eliminator.
After seeing Obama Race bait himself was hilarious. Showed how low and weak he is.
Go McCain the better man and the Better Candidate and would make the Better President.

yeah
I am sure all the people who lost their jobs and homes and healthcare and paying a arm-and-leg for gas really enjoy the humor of choosing the next president who will deal with these problems.
very funny low road mccain

i am struggling ….. everyday….. have humor…… are you kidding

McCain is so transparent with his actions and comments. All this is the McCain campaign’s intention to define Obama as someone different than the average American voter. This is a strategy used by the Republican Party successfully for over 20 years. Hopefully, his time around the the voters will see through the hoax and cause the effort to fail. McCain: The Failure!!

Hey, OMENTUM what happened to Obama’s lead in the polls???? So much for his “Momentum”

McCain should be truthful…the reality is that he doesn’t want to raise taxes on the rich or on corporations. He has no problem raising taxes on us poor suckers who live paycheck to paycheck. Why any low or middle class person would vote Republican is beyond me. Vote Obama and keep your money in your wallet, vote McCain and watch ExxonMobil make even more profits!

Mike M. why are you so mad at rich people? Because they make more than you do? It is called free-enterprise and capitalism. It is okay in this country to make as much money as you can! We have a progressive income tax, the rich already pay more than anyone else – that is fair? By the way – by taxing corporations you are taxing yourself as they just raise prices to cover their costs. Research shows that the economy does better with lower corporate taxes as then businesses expand creating more jobs and actually creating more revenue for the government. Raising anyone’s taxes during a recession is always bad. Economics 101.

mccains secret to fame and fortune—-HIS WIFE AS HE HAS NOTHING TO OFFER

John McCain is the man who can give this country the “wet start” it needs!
With McCain, you’ll end up with your feet on the ground, which is a hell of a place to be if you’re flying a jet over enemy territory.
But he’ll get us there.

ms1236…why does Warren Buffett pay less in taxes (proportionately) than his secretary? It’s because the wealthy person’s tax burden is not just based on their income (as most people in the low and middle class is). It’s also based on investments/capitol gains. The Republicans want to make sure capitol gains taxes are low so the wealthy don’t pay. The low and middle classes were in a lot better shape financially when we had a Democrat in the White House.

Those who think age does not matter are just ignorant of the facts. The Presidency is a very demanding job and that person will need to have lots of energy to do it well. There is a GOOD reason why pilots have to retire at age 60. mc-more-war has already had too many senior-moments to handle the job well, plus he can’t even use a computer. The Real straight-talker, John Murtha was right when he said the presidency is no place for an OLD man. Obama 2008!!!

LOVE the ads!!! The crybaby messiah suddenly sees he can’t cry foul and have the RNC jump like the DNC did on the Clintons. So glad his race-baiting actions have come home to roost. It’s one of the reasons why his polls numbers are on a downward spiral. Keep up the great work McCain! It’s about time you came out swinging.

I want to see a commerical showing McCain as a kid eating from a silver spoon, then almost getting kicked out of the academy for being in the bottom five percent of his class, then show McCain crashing four jets and big daddy admirl coming to his aid. Then coming home from five years as a prisoner and having an affair and dumping his wife for some cowgirl beauty queen that has enough money to bolster his career.
I want to see an ad like that.. But I know I never will because some people have enough class unlike others…

If I remember correctly, Ronald Regan was a celeb.

I seem to recall (last year?) McCain making a disparaging comment about skyrocketing CEO salaries that set off howls in conservative circles. He’s for free-market capitalism — up to a point. There’s a populist streak in his thinking that says go ahead, be successful, but if it gets obscene in a time when others are hurting, you need to give more. It’s the “common good” argument, as opposed to Obama’s collectivist approach, and one of the reasons right wingers didn’t enthusiastically support him in the beginning.

as i said earlier–mccains childish attacks against obama are a smoksscreen to take attertion off this vile vulgar old geser–who does not have the brains of a child—his wife needs to start being his nanny.

voted along with bush 95% of the time.

A Blue Ribbon Panel appointed by Congress says that Iran is planning an EMP attack on the US. The panel goes on to say that we are NOT prepared as a country to defend against such an attack and as a people we are poorly equipped to deal with the consequences. The panel surmises that over 200 million could die as a result. Read more here:
http://www.harvybing.com

I like the ads. In Germany Barack Obama schedule an event. The opening acts were two popular groups from Berlin. When they finished Barack Obama performed.

Funny ads? Like this campaign to be humorous? McCain supporters are having a good time. For the rest of us, the real joke is on us. People are losing jobs, mortgages are foreclosing, banks are going under, people are dying in Afghanistan and Iraq, and this is the best McCain can do: make a mockery of the campaign? And for what – a little “humor”? I guess I don’t get it. Folks, realize soon that you get what you vote for! George W. Bush, anyone?

i think the usa has learned a lesson with bush and his clone mcbush does not have a chance of winning—–we dont need another idiot which mccain has proven to be.

McCain helped Bush in the run-up to the Iraqi WMD war, when McCain mumbled his lies about Iraq being the do-er of the Anthrax murders. Turns out to have been an inside job by US government scientists. Yet Mccain’s ‘sources’ told him to tell us on television it was those Iraqi’s.
McCain is much deeper into the Bush Iraqi’s WMD lies than many realize. There are still two months of this election to go. See the video of John McCain on the late night show, telling lies about Anthrax and Iraq in 2001.
McCain has Sen. Gramm to make his economy decisions for him. Gramm is no longer the co-chair of the campaign, but he is still the authority for McCain’s points of view. Ask Rick Davis the manager of the campaign. McCain doesnt speak for his own campaign on social security. HE IS A PUPPET. For whom?
The risk is McCain. The puppet candidate, who cannot speak for his own campaign.

Bush won with only 12.5% of the adult population voting for him. 40% of the registered voters did not vote. The 10′s of millions of the rest who did not vote were not registered.
The under 26′s voted only 15% in the Texas primary, and that was among the registered ones, BOTH PARTIES. Only 16% Dem and 13% Republican, under 26 voted.
Register, and vote absentee and make your vote count.

Senator McCain is either lying outright or confused again. We cannot begin drilling immediately no matter how much we want to because:
1. There is not a single deep-sea drilling rig available until 2011 or later;
2. All builders of deep-sea drilling rigs are booked up with orders through 2012 and are already working at over 100% capacity to fulfil existing contracts;
3. We outsourced the building and repair of ships and deep-sea equipment years ago, so we can’t even build one ourselves;
4. The Republican rubber-stamp Congress never bothered to rebuild the refinery capacity destroyed by Hurricane Katrina five years ago, so even if, by some miracle, we could drill, we wouldn’t be able to refine that oil into anything usable.
5. The Democratic-majority Congress passed a bill to beef up existing refinery capacity, but it takes several years to build a refinery;
Finally, the oil companies are not even going to bid on those leases till 2012 because they’re booked up through then. So, even if we drill today, we’re not going to get anything out of it for nearly a decade.

John McCain has no honor or integrity to allow his campaign to wallow in the mud with his disgusting attacks this week. Let’s just hope that America wakes up to his ineptitude before it’s too late.

I think McBush has a man crush on Obama. The repugs are like that. Look at the man crush they had on Reagan.

What McCain didn’t figure into the whole Britney/Paris ad was the fact that Obama is famous for the same reason that McCain is famous. They are both presidential candidates. Obama isn’t famous just because he’s famous, like the celebs. He is famous for the same reason that John is famous. Kind of steps on his own old toes,right?

“Obama’s plea to the nation to inflate tires is most apt. Hot air has been the hallmark of his political career.”
You are correct.
And since The Messiah Obamination has cornered the market on hot air, at least he’ll have something to fall back when he loses in November.

I have no doubt that our wonderful media that continues to kiss the repugs ass to compensate for the supposed “liberal” bias they have COUPLED with the intellect of the same morons that voted for Bush….TWICE….will in fact elect McCain.
The repugs and their kind hate America. They want it their way, or no way. They reject diversity. They leverage fear and religion to retain control while their corporate oil buddies continue to rack up record profits. And yet again…you can be assured our ineffective media will fail to do their jobs (again) and the radical right will continue their dishonest and disgraceful methods of stealing elections at all cost to win the White House.

To Rodney .. the word is “omentum” and not “momentum”. Omentum is a fold of peritoneum. Look it up.
As far as “momentum” .. recall that Reagan was having a tough time at the same stage of the election. It took the debates to break it wide open and that’s what we will have here.
The fact-deprived, forgetful and angry old man against the very bright and knowledgeable Obama. That will break it open and send John back to his rocker, where he belongs.

McUGLY… I have no more respect left for the man.

you know.. i thought when i heard obama’s comment about not looking like others on currency that it was cool. it kinda struck me as funny with his youth and ears that stick out that it would give lincoln and franklin a smile.
you think alfred e bush would be better.
this is a unique opportunity to really suck it up, take the chance and see if a really smart man can put our govt working again… maybe even imagine a whole lot less incopetance and corruption.

It doesn’t matter what McCain says or does, this election is all about Obama. You see his poll numbers are dropping and the fight hasn’t even started yet. The MSM nas never reported on Obama, most people in America don’t know about all of Obama’s baggage, but they will. Obama doesn’t help himself with performances like his News Conference in Florida yesterday, he shows how unprepared he is every time he talks without a teleprompter. The comparison to Paris was great, famous for doing nothing, just like Obama. This whole thing was a inside promotion of the DNC, that’s why Obama gave the “Big Speech” at the 2004 Convention, to BAMBOOZELE and HOODWINK the rest of the DEMS into supporting him, and the Money from Soros greased the wheels. These are the same Internationalists responsible for Jimmy Carter, when you see Ziggy Brzezinki and George Soros you think Carter II. They naver had the instant media of today though, or such a large group of Anti-Obama DEMS, the outcome will be different this time.

Yeah McCain, I’m laughing my buns off these days because it’s SO refreshing to see a Republican campaign being run into the mud by Rovian acolytes.
What happened to McCain from 2000? Isn’t he the same guy who condemned Bush in a debate for using these same smear tactics? It’s pathetic to see him using them in his campaign.
It’s even sadder to see America starting to fall for it again.

It’s ok for big mac to flip flop on drilling, but not Obama. Mac is acting like a spoiled brat and laughs and calls it funny, humor. They are magicians, slieght of hand to make you think they have a point.
Bush calls for “time horizons” (timeline?) Isn’t that Barak Obamas position/policy/idea? Yes! Over the last couple of months bush has negotiated a deal with North Korea and begun talks with Iran. Negotiation, hmm, that’s Barak Obamas position.
During the same time Congress passed a couple of decent bills IE: Housing, etc. Mind you McCain is against all this. Why are gas/oil prices going down over these same 6-8 weeks? Because after 7-1/2 years Bush finally exercises pragmatic leadership (Barak Obamas positions).
Lately the McCain camp has stated that there are “psychological stresses” than can be influenced by appropriate public policy. Well why oil/gas prices are going down over the same period of time. It’s because the markets respond to smart public policy just like McCain says, the policy that Obama supports, that Bush is currently using. McCain is against all these issues. He is resorting to negativity. Every other sentence out of his mouth is something derogatory about Obama, not furthering his own agenda; McCain will say anything to get elected.
Obama has his flaws fore sure. Baring McCain’s heroic service, He is yesterday, Obama is tomorrow… future, hope of a better day for all Americans.
The Right will say and or do everything and anything in their power to make people think that their half truths and lies are so. They have a way of repeating the same thing over and over and having it stick. You have to respect them for being able to change the narrative at relatively low cost to them and fairly easily too.
I think that even though Obama gets the majority of press coverage, a good portion of that has been negative press. Rev Wright, Bitter Etc. In Germany he decided it was not right to go to visit the troops with his campaign staff based on DOD directives. His senate staff had already gone home. He was criticized for not going. I’m sure if he would have gone they would have hit him for going. No matter what he does the right will demonize him. John McCain makes speeches in Canada, England, and Columbia etc. Political speeches, he slams Obama for doing the same. Double standard, hypocrisy, for sure.
The media doesn’t call McCain out on things like this. All his gaffes are over looked (Anbar awakening, Iraq-Pakistan border, Czechoslovakia etc). They surely don’t miss a beat with Obama. They give McCain a free ride on the so called less press he gets. Obama gets nailed. All the while the media is running head lines like… “Does Barak Obama get more coverage in the press than John McCain does”? Give me a break.
I am obviously a Democrat but nothing that I’ve stated is anything but the truth. These talking points are not made up like the republicans. They only know how to distract and confuse, then laugh at us in private about how gullible we are as Americans. Snake oil salesmen for sure. Don’t be hoodwinked. Let’s all get together and toss the bums out! Barak Obama is our only hope against the same old policies that are destroying our country. We must stand up and fight back or suffer the consequences of our inaction.

Like shake ‘n bake, McCain’s Sneer & Smear campaign uses Karl Rove’s own proven recipe for how to distract, dismay, and disorient voters. It works for a while, then blowback sets in and voters want to know, what do you stand for Darth McCain, except Sneer & Smear?

Have you inflated your tires yet? Obama is supplying the hot air.

How come McCain’s daughter wasn’t in the video with Britney and Paris? Doesn’t she hang out with Heidi Montag?

Let’s see now. McCain puts up an ad showing a black man with two white sluts, with all the obvious “traditional” implications, and thinks the public is naive enough to believe that he and his Rovian trained communications team is so naive that they are innocent of the race-baiting overtones? I don’t believe it, and neither should the public, especially after what the GOP did recently to black Democratic candidate Harold Ford in TN.

McShame wants to raise taxes as well on the poor and Obama wants to raie them on the rich which got a break from the Bush Administration. This site must be a repub site becasue that is all that post on here.

Mccain wants to fight with lightsabers?
Bring it on old McSkywalker!
Signed, Obi-Wan Obama
See the shirt here!
http://www.cafepress.com/americanharriso

Democrats need to keep in mind that McCaqin’s ads are made to appeal to Republicans, not Democrats. They are meant to play to the irrational prejudices and hatreds of unenlightend emotionally fearful children. McCain’s ad makers aren’t targeting intelligent and psycholically well-adjusted human beings. They are targeting the dysfunctional lunatic fringe of our society.

The old corrupt Republican politics-
John McCain is confused, showing signs of dementia and is just reading talking points from corrupt Republicans. Another four years of Bush would totally destroy our country and this is what the American people would get with McCain. For the sake of our country, we must make sure that Barack Obama is elected President.

McCain can help bring down gas prices by returning the $1,000,000 in campaign contributions that he accepted from oil and gas companies. Doesn’t it smell fishy that while we’re all being squeezed, big oil companies made record profits this quarter — a combined total of over $50 billion? Giving $1M to McCain is a small price for them to pay to keep the goodies coming.

McCain doesn’t know the difference between Sunny and Cher. He also wants to veto beer. Give him some warm milk and his carpet slippers and have him sit on the chair by the window.

I’m glad McCain is blowing all his money on
these useless advertising jigs. It shows how
fiscally irresponsible he is and has no control
over his subordinates.

McCain’s grandfather and father were Admirals. He got into Annapolis because he was an Admiral’s kid. He was a child of privilege. How did he honor the gift and family tradition of attending Annapolis? He graduated 894th in a class of 899 cadets. I doubt that most people recognize the significance of an Admiral’s kid finishing in the bottom ½ percentile of his class. McCain was either too stupid to deserve being accepted at Annapolis or he was disgracefully unappreciative of the privilege of attending Annapolis. Can you imagine the “pride” his father felt when he was either too dumb to earn even marginally acceptable grades or he felt too entitled and protected to even feel the need to try and earn acceptable grades? In either case, McCain clearly didn’t deserve to be at Annapolis, and he certainly didn’t work as hard as he could have to honor his grandfather and father. McCain had to be either unimaginably stupid or insufferably lazy for 895 cadets to outperform him in a class of 899. McCain didn’t just perform poorly; he was undeniably one of the absolute worst students in his class! And now he wants to be president. Only a Republican could be as book stupid and or as irresponsibly arrogant as John McCain is and win his party’s nomination for the presidency. Now let’s compare his academic achievements and or his work ethic to a poor black kid who was raised by his white grandparents without any privileges, and worked his behind off to graduate magna cum laude from Harvard Law School. OK, so there is no comparison.

I have often wondered how the people who voted for George W. Bush because he was the type of guy you could have a beer with feel about the fact that he is also an alcoholic. It is a perfect example how the American public enables political corruption, by choosing the most shallow, contemptuous candidate simply because that candidate is a mirror image of what they think a “regular guy” is. Well, the “regular guy” thing is a ruse, a hoax, a sham. Ask yourself, if you had been Bush, would you have screwed over this country the same way he has? Would you? Would you have let the corporations screw the public in areas of energy, housing, lending, agriculture, education… name a topic. Would you go about undermining every aspect of the government by making signing statements and covert operations to glean as much power as you possibly could? If you are truly a “regular guy”, thinking that such is a good thing, would you do that to your friends and family? Would you do it to total strangers? Would you do it to the country as a whole and to the entire world as well?
Is that what “regular guys” do? In the case of Bush, yes. In the case of McCain, probably. He’s already campaigning with simplistic arguments and this Paris Hilton thing is the worst. If anyone is like Hilton, its McCain. After all he took almost $5K from her parents. See, he’s already screwing over his supporters.
Go for it America. Give us another Bush.

I do not Support Obama, he has hi sown issues. However, MCGarbage has no plan for America. I I had to pick one of them for t he plans they have, then it will not be McGarbage. Instead of spending money telling us how he is going to turn this country to the righ path, he spends it trivializing the whole process with stupid ads. For you all who think this is working, I must tell you that McGarbage will lose this elections. You were going to vote him anyway, But more americans have become less dumber that you still are. Go to bed and do some thinking!!

If every American can’t see the newest round of tactics and how joyfully they are spinning them, God help us all.
You all fell for these republican charades for 8 freekin years- get over it.
Obama 08

McLame thinks that Brittany and Paris have something to do with “raising taxes” and “energy policy” and some of these yahoos want this guy to be President? He’s lost his marbles and can’t think straight, but you want his finger on the trigger and sending more troops to “Bomb, Bomb Iran”?

If Mccain really thinks Obama doesn’t have a energy plan, either he hasn’t been listening or he’s lying again. Mccain thinks this is cute but it isn’t. Mccain thinks that making silly ads to compensate for the lack of energy comming out of his campaign is crazy. Mccain maybe enjoying those silly ads but the challenges the next president face is nother amusing or funny. Mccain needs to become more serious about what he says and does. Right now Mccain is looking like the joke because he’s repeatedly saying things that aren’t true about Obama even after reporters, pundits, and commentators say its not true. Which tells us more about Mccain than what he’s trying to display about Obama.

Well I’m glad that we see this clown for what he is. McSenile, have lost his rabbit assss mind. What is funny about Moses. Plus I see just how you treat women when you saying that Britney and Paris are a joke, I guess your ex-wife was a joke when she was disable. Wow someone need to drop this ol’ fool off at the ol’ Folks home. Well like they say ones when your mind goes the assssss goes with it.

McCain is classic picture of a politician. The surest way to know if he is lying is to check and see if his lips are moving. He doesn’t deserve to even enter the foyer of the white house.
He is lower than Bill Clinton.

Why should Obama join Mccain at his town hall meetings. Let Mccain step outside of his comfort zone and debate like Obama and Hillary did. Mccain just want Obama to attend his town Hall meetings so he can answer questions from republicans.

How does one look a soldier’s family in the eye and are able to say “You gotta have a sense of humor in this.
We canNOT elect this man President of the United States.
This lifelong Republican can clearly see that Senator McCain would lead this country to it’s final destruction.

BS! Obama has a $150 billion dollar energy plan. Why has McCain rejected Obama’s proposals, like investing in wind and solar, green jobs, increasing milage standards, incentives for new transportation tech, updating the electricity grid, efficient buildings, curbing excessive speculation???

Linda – What has obama achieved in Europe and the Middle East? I would say he achieved absolutely nothing because he and Mccain are even in the polls.

Good grief, I have not read so much drivel in one place in my entire life. Rodney, spell check, dictionary, something! To the idiot who suggested that the oil companies would sell to China or India. Of course they will, oil is a commodity sold on the open market. But the fact that more of is sold by an American company will lower the trade deficit, make the dollar stronger, produce many very high paying jobs and lower the prices with the increase of supply. For EVERYONE. Thereby lowering food prices and helping people at all economic levels. I don’t believe any of you have any idea the incident rate of oil spills from off shore drilling and why is it alright with you that other countries do it but not yours. What a bunch of selfish twits you all are. Grow up. Read a book.

John McCain is proud of his military record. Good!
Because John McCain crashed four Navy aircraft as a naval pilot.
Most Navy pilots have never crashed an aircraft, but McCain was a terrible student at the USNA.
Terrible student+incompetent pilot=bad for America and Americans.

McCain is an old, grumpy empty suit that makes a lot of noise. LOSER!
NoMcCain 08

Mc Cain is a Carpetbagging Golddigger, oops, sorry to offend!!

Isn’t it amazing? The press prsents NObama as the messiah, The McCain campaing pokes some fun at them and what happens? We now have liberals getting religious. Funny!

I generally like to read these blogs but today is not one of those times. These blogs are an exercise in democracy and should not be abused with name calling and insults. I have no respect for McCain. I think that his “hero” status is suspect; his personal life needs to be further exposed so that all Americans can get a better understanding of his character; his management of his presidential campaign has been a disaster–it has all the making of the incompetence of the Bush administration.
The economic crises that we now face can partially be laid at the feet of the Bush administration. Another four years with McCain at the head of this government will be an even greater disaster.
What can he truly offer the American people? Great communication skill? A brilliant mind? Prior intellectual accomplishments? Excellent management skills? A questionable “hero” mantle? The desire to be president is an insufficient qualification to be such. Let us dissect every aspect of his candidacy to see the real McCain. Let discuss his associations with lobbyists the same way that the media treated Rev. Wright.

Cindy,
Is this the-Cindy McCain? I see ur standing up for ur man the who called u a ” c*&t ” and left his first wife who is crippled for you.

Liberals getting religious after McCain pokes some fun athe the next messiah? That’s interesting…

Sorry, John. There isn’t one humorous thing about the condition the Republicans have left our country in. Sorry. Try your stand-up act in a club, not running for the presidency that has to clean up Bush’s mess.

offshore drilling will take 10 years to produce a mere 3 cent price reduction… of course the oil companies will reap billions more in profits… nuclear energy, still too expensive, mccain’s energy policy is completely a band-aid approach that the rich oil companies want… obama has an excellent energy policy but the media doesnt talk much about it because they are part of the corporate structure who supports mccain

Lake Hart, darling that wasn’t Moses. It was Charlton Heston. You don’t get it? No kidding. Two different ads, one implying that the press is overly enthralled with Sen. Obama and may not be as objective as they claim to be due to the celebrity treatment (People magazine, the Enquirer, Extra) not very classy for POTUS. The other (Moses ad) is about the way people are acting about this man. This just in, he is just a man. No one person is going to solve the problems of the country. We are not set up that way. No fainting, it’s stupid. Sen. Obama has a very high opinion of himself but like my old grandmom use to say it’s a poor dog that can’t wag his own tail. You Obamiacs are silly.

Pearl,
My sentiments exactly. The ad has subtle example of racism in it. And yes, it target toward those ignorant whites in the Appalachians of Pennsylvania, Ohio and North Carolina. The may fall for it, but those honest working class whites are looking for a real leader to address the serious concerns of Americans will gravitate toward Obama. Many of them will realize for all the McShame hype he’s really not about much.

im having fun.

OK, folks. Simmer down. There are intelligent, well-meaning Republicans out there. Just because none of them are posting here doesn’t mean they don’t exist. A good number of my friends are Republicans. Of course, they’re all appalled at what’s become of their party in the last 8 years, and they’re voting for Obama this year, but they remain Republicans and they want their party back.
Oh, and remember, not all Republican homophobes are gay.

Once the NYT concludes its investigation into Vicki Iseman and lobbyist corruption. McCain will be through. So Mit Romney, get ready to accept your party’s nomination in September
NoMcLame

“You know, a few days ago, Sen. Obama said he challenged me to a duel,” McCain said. “I’m for the light sabers as weapons of choice.”
This is the second time this guy has made a star wars analogy. The first was during the 2000 election. Although I can’t prove it, I think this guy has a redemption daddy complex, something to still prove–at age 71! I guess that’s inevitable when both your dad and granpa were both admirals. McCain’s weakness: He craves REDEMPTION…

im a “conservative” and i can see the point of a republican voting for obama this year. i believe a small minority of them might. but that is something i would do only out of sheer desparation, and i dont know if the country is at that point yet. maybe we are. of course the whole point would be to vote for him, see him COMPLETELY flop, and then take full advantage of it in 4 years. but someone with obamas ideas can really make a mess in 4 years. not sure if its worth the risk yet.

If McCain used the “c____t” word, as alleged towards his OWN wife…how much respect and admiration does one have for
such a person?
And, as for him being quite knowledgeable about current issues and Iraq…he has been “gaffing” for days with information being dispursed, until someone in his campaign pulls his coat to correct him. Some instances, he is still adamant about his remarks. Lastly…many have better hone in on a serious situation. It is my belief dementia has begun to enter into the picture. This could be very serious for ALL of us Americans!

I thought mccain said his ads were making a statement that obama was not ready to lead and that he was more like a celebirty what do those ads have to do with taxes and energry i think mccains age is getting the best of him he either forgets what he says or hes losing it!!! scary very scary and just to think some of you want him as president what is wrong with you people?

How can McCain be having fun when so many Americans are suffering? It just seems like there is only one serious candidate in the race and that is Obama. He maybe knew to the seen, but McCain has been around for 24yrs and what has he accomplished that qualifies him to be president? NOTHING.

McCain’s proposals on the stump are often far more sweeping than the more measured options outlined by his campaign” — and would in fact double the tax impact of his formal proposals. . .

McCain trails Obama in spelling out the nitty-gritty. McCain proposals lack specific strategy.

Anyone who makes such disgusting, disparaging comments about his wife and woman is mentally incapable of being commander-in-chief.

let me guess kandis… you were a bill clinton supporter??!! how ironic if you were… lol

McCain’s promise to balance the budget by 2013 — were notably short on specifics and d not appear to add up.

This is exactly why we don’t need another dumb ass republican running the country. McCain is a complete jerk.

I’ll guess I’ll vote democrat brcause I really believe in free speech, as long as no one get offended.

erin…
you are flat out wrong. there are obamiacs. a good portion of his supporters are so in the tank for this guy no matter what he does. more than any other canidate i have ever seen. they act like that every negative thing said about him is unfair and unjust. they feel like he is being so mistreated by the press for a number of reasons. its absolutely disgusting.

Mr. McCain and his heiress wife with her private jet may find the issues in this campaign humorous, but the vast majority of Americans are looking for actual solutions to some serious problems. While inflation, foreclosures, and unemployment may not be anything Mr. McCain and his country club jet set feel are all that bad, they may find the rest of the country feels these issues are a bit more pressing. Everyone loves a good laugh, but these ads aren’t funny, they are glib. There is a difference.
What happened to the honorable John McCain I used to support?

John McCain has lost it, if he ever had it to begin with. How this guy ever survived the Keating 5 Scandal to run for president is beyond me.
Read here 9 out 10 signs McCain may have Alzheimers:
http://www.stopthinkvote.com/concern.html

McCain is desperate, as he should be. The man has so little to offer. He has made Obama the issue and will stop at nothing to tear Obama down. I watched Obama talk about being different from the presidents on our currency. Didn’t strike me as racist at all–factual and warmly humorous. The Republicans are running scared and the only way McCain can win is by going negative, which is an oxymoron (and McCain is a simple moron) because he can’t win if he goes negative. Get out the vote, my friends.

first off kandis, americans are a bunch of whiners… thats a fact. i didnt see where mccain said that, but maybe he did. not a big deal. secondly, my point was that clinton cheated on his wife while in office.. lol thats not as bad as calling someone a name??!! come on now, clinton was a dirtbag and you supporteed him. now you’re going to accuse mccain of being a jerk because he called her a name?! if thats true, then put me on that list.

Ah well, John, they don’t call it second childhood for nothing.

McCain is a very sick man…mentally and physically
Do Not Let that Decrepit Psycho in the White House!

erin…
i couldnt agree with you more. but thats really hard to do when the media is part of the “obamiacs”. thats my point. its not just the citizens. its the majority of the media, who try to put their spin and influence onto the american people. also, it is an imprtant thing because trying to talk issues to those that are so close minded and in the tank for ANY canidate is impossible. and somehow, this type of action and thought spreads like wildfire. you tell me if 40 years ago, someone with barack obamas experience would even be considered to be a canidate for president. im not saying that mccain or a republican is the answer. as a conservative, im pissed at them just as much lately. im just saying, somehow, modern day america have made this guy into a rock star and i just dont get why people fall for it.

New McCain Website
http://www.depend.com/
Just havin’ a bit o fun and all John

The McCain ads mock. They are insulting and not funny. He looks more and more like a mean LITTLE MAN everday. I don’t know if he ever lived up to his old image, but whatever he had is long gone. Obama has so much more intellectual capacity that is needed to restore this country. All McCain can offer is shrinking government and War.

Real solutions like inflating your tires, eh? How about increasing domestic production? Of course, Obama has now thrown his opposition to that under the bus like so much else, since he feels the breeze blowing against the position.
Obama: a Weather Vane for President; saying whatever you want to hear, accomplishing nothing.
Heck, compare the personal commtiments the two men have in their lives:
http://politicalinquirer.com/2008/07/25/another-walking-versus-talking-case/
And Bill Clinton, taking advantage of a very junior staff member in the Oval Office, is a shade worse thant a single curse word uttered decades ago.

The Messiah Ad is one of the best political ads in history. It shows the truth about how corrupt and egotistical Obama is.

mccainisdangerous – that was a very classy remark about McCain’s wife. You liberals are so mature and respectful.

tim – thank you for that comment. It’s amazing how evil and war-mongering liberals are.

tim, I won’t disagree with you. And I don’t get involved in all the hype. So I really don’t know how to answer you. If we didn’t have the internet there wouldn’t be so much exposure.

“We’re not gonna allow racism to come into this campaign in any form,” McCain said. “And so I’m gonna respond if it comes up again.”
What McCain really means is, he’s not going to acknowledge that racism exists, both in the minds of some voters as well as some campaign strategists. And by “respond” he means, he’s going to make a straw man argument whenever someone brings it up, trying to conflate a mention of racism with a perpetration of it.
That is low, McSame.

its just spineless and they need to be called out on it. but ultimately, it does nothing but make the left look like idiots, and unappreciative of their rights and the ones who helped give them. so i guess its not all bad.

It’s just a big joke to the $500 loafers McCain and the MSM will love it. Instead of being embarrased or angered by this garbage; they have an excuse to carry it because “it’s just (their favorite) McCain being McCain”. I can hear them spinning it now. There’s nothing funny about this totally unqualified bitter old man. But that won’t stop them. Below are some reasons why the cable’s will eat this up.
I’m retired and have lots of time on my hands so I read many posts and blogs concerning the MSM. Those who believe that the MSM is run by liberals are spewing right wing propaganda — many of whom are too ignorant to know whose been running and ruining their lives for many years. But those of you who know the real deal, I believe are missing the bigger picture. The political coverage is not as much about ratings as it is CONTROL! The MSM does the bidding of corporate America and they do not want Barack Obama or ANYONE who calls for real change to win! If we really had change in this country, they would lose the millions they make from oil and pharmaceutical company commercials and that’s just the tip of the iceberg. These people are not journalist or investigative news reporters! There is no nice way to say how I feel about these people. They are whores who sell their souls instead of their bodies for their bosses and believe me the pay is excellent. They love the Republican ‘no taxes for the over $250,000 crowd’ theme and they don’t intend to give it up. They helped elect George Bush twice and sat by while he took us into Iraq, covered up for all his secrecy while he demolished the Constitution and trashed the economy. But they feel no pain or guilt!
I don’t have a problem with real commentators who are allowed to express their opinions, whether they are liberal or conservative if it were truly fair and balanced. I believe in freedom of speech and I think that is a good thing. I believe the American people should hear all sides. Unfortunately, the corporate media doesn’t see it that way and have very few liberal or progressive commentators expressing opinions. They must maintain control. So we are stuck with right-wing opinion commentators and so called moderators like Wolf Blitzer and Anderson Cooper questioning – always negative questions about Barack Obama. Let’s examine this picture.
CNN: Their “best political team on television” coverage is subtle and one must listen between the lines, which they want us to believe makes them more respectable. But one could argue that this technique makes them more dangerous than Fox. Neo-cons come in all colors and from both political parties! At least we know what Fox is all about. Their commentators and moderators are not fair and balanced. Except for Jack Cafferty, CNN has no liberal commentary coverage and if you notice he doesn’t get a whole lot of air time. Lou Dobbs is an obnoxious Republican posing as an Independent pretending to speak for the middle class. He’s not in the middle class category. He couldn’t care two hoots about the middle class and he is very dangerous. Dangerous enough to have the ignorant hate filled masses that follow him shut down the Congressional switchboards over the immigration issue. Glen Beck is a complete nut job and shouldn’t be allowed near a microphone. Yelling fire in a crowded theater is not freedom of speech. It’s illegal!
FOX: I’m glad to admit that I can’t watch Fox Noise any longer than five minutes. Most of what I know about them is from watching some of their nonsensical sound bites shown on The Daily Show, Keith Olbermann’s Countdown and Dan Abrams’ Verdict or Internet coverage. That’s enough for me! I do know that Rupert Murdock is buying up every TV network, radio station and newspaper he can get his hands on to give us the Limbaugh’s and Hannity’s of the world and Murdock is no liberal!
MSNBC: I expect we complain more about MSNBC because with all their faults, they’re the lesser of the three evils. But despite what the right wing nuts tell us, MSNBC is NOT a liberal mouthpiece. They are as much a part of the controlled corporate media as the others. Their mid-day shows are your basic CNN type “listen between the lines” subtle anti- liberal ‘questioning’ format. We criticize Chris Mathews for talking over his guests but for the most part; you’re not going to get a steady diet of right wing pap from him and he won’t let a right wing AH get the best of him. Andrea Mitchell is going to tow the corporate line for the most part. After all she is married to Alan Greenspan, the former Fed chairman. Race for the White House is just a filler for now with David Gregory kissing a** trying to climb the corporate ladder. Even though Dan Abrams comes off a bit silly at times, at least he goes after Karl Rove on Verdict and makes a fool of Brad Blakeman. Joe Scarborough on the other hand is an egotistical bitter washed up politician who should be glad that he got lucky enough for a chance to climb the corporate media ladder and make big money. He’s there to balance what little liberal opinion crumbs they throw our way. I don’t know why these cable networks feel the need to insult our intelligence to appear balanced because the FCC is useless and I’m not even sure they have jurisdiction over cable TV. CNN does it by trying to give the impression that they are avoiding controversy, while continuing to ‘question’. I’ve never seen so many question mark bi-lines in my life! Fox Noise hires a bunch of Hillary ‘has beens’ as contributors, which is an insult to the intelligence of a mentally retarded flea so they can continue their fair and balanced lie. None of the corporate cable networks are fair and balanced!
But for the most part, MSNBC’s guests are usually more diverse and interesting unlike CNN’s same old subtle ‘best political team on TV” bunch! Wolf Blitzer wants us to believe he’s objective – Oh please! Many of you say that MSNBC should fire Joe Scarborough. You’re just making him more likeable to his bosses. If he ever does step over THEIR line, they’ll just replace him with another hack of his ilk. Apparently, Tucker Carlson stepped over their line and lost his show? Probably got too big for his britches? I can’t think of any other reason why they’d fire an egotistical right wing idiot. Understand that they own the guns, so to speak; we don’t! So we’re stuck with the likes of Scarborough, Buchanan and Joe Watkins. He’s the black preacher from Phila – their company (if you know what I mean) black conservative. They all have one! Maybe he lost his congregation since he’s not introduced as a preacher anymore? Tucker Carlson, the CNN reject, who’s now reduced to an MSNBC contributor and the nut case, Brad Blakeman who Dan Abrams features a lot is priceless — as morons go. They all serve a purpose like Fox uses their pitiful Alan (whatever his name is) to sit there and look foolish. The MSNBC right wing boys are so over the top obnoxious — they do their cause more harm than good, as does Fox’s company liberal, Alan what’s his name. Mica Brzezinski should be ashamed of herself participating in a format that allows Scarborough to belittle her. But she’s trying to continue her climb up the corporate ladder too. Oh, I can’t forget Chuck Todd, who is well on his way to becoming their new star. He’s being such a good little corporate boy and climbing as fast as he can. Trust me, they all tow the line or they get fired. Contracts don’t matter – they’ll take you off the air and pay off your contract and see to it that you never get a job in the industry again – if you’ve really disobeyed their wishes. David Shuster, for example had to start at the bottom of the ladder again after MSNBC allowed Hillary to become a censor. I totally respected Tim Russert. He had the rare ability to remain a completely humble and objective moderator. Unfortunately, he allowed them to literally work him to death! Two examples of note worthy small stuff is Larry King putting up with the stupid new graphics (red and blue dots streaming across the screen in the middle of interviews) interrupting one’s train of thought, which I doubt that he approves and Keith Olbermann has to do silly comedy that is so beneath such a learned man who is truly the only progressive commentator on cable. I get scared every time he goes on vacation because that’s one of the sneaky ways they fire a progressive employee – never to be heard from again! Remember CNN’s Aaron Brown?
So don’t expect their coverage to change. They will protect McCain (or neo-cons from either party) until or unless he makes such a fool of himself that a majority of the American people wake up and make themselves heard. But I don’t think that’s going to happen. There ain’t enough of us, with enough pull that haven’t been dumbed down. Ignorance rules now by careful calculated design! Besides, if all else fails, they’ve now got their Black Water private militia and security company to keep the masses in line. The Progressive Internet sites and blogs are good and I’m thankful for them. But unfortunately at this time; they don’t have the power because they don’t reach or influence as many people as cable TV. I’d like to see Arianna Huffington, Rachel Maddow or someone from The Nation Magazine or Mother Jones have their own show as progressive commentators but that ain’t going to happen either. Maybe these people have too much pride to become network whores – I don’t know? But I doubt they’ll be offered the chance, even if they are willing to give it a try. Before one of you right-wing nuts make one of your snide propaganda comments about MSNBC being a liberal mouthpiece – DON’T! Slink on over to your own network and right wing mouthpiece, Fox Noise to express them! Despite your ignorant propaganda, progressives and liberals don’t have a network! Why is that? I’d like some Progressives to answer that question. Not whining, just stating the hard cold facts! I’ll be impressed when we have enough power to shut down the Congressional switchboard over one of our causes instead of taking Obama to task for being a politician and a damn good one! But he’s not the Messiah as the right wing nuts tell us to believe that he is. There will, no doubt be some changes in government for the better. But he’s not going to take away your precious corporate media system. That can’t be done unless somehow the American public becomes well informed and you are not about to allow that to happen. So, why are you over reacting? Afraid to take the slightest chance, I suppose! Someone with the intellect, charisma and honesty of Barack Obama scares you and to use one of your favorite scare words — that could be RISKY, now couldn’t it you bunch of spineless cowards?

the gooey,sticky,nasty and slimy mucus that we call snot is better than barack obama!!!!

Looks like McCain’s ads hit a nerve with Obama supporters. Obama’s free ride is over, and he’ll think twice before bringing up the race issue again.

erin..
well im glad someone on here dosnt believe the hype. honestly, if i talk to someone who looks at all the angles and has the big picture of how the media controls things, and they still support obama, okay. i still would disagree but would say at least your not being brainwashed and you’re making an eduacated choice. its the ones who fall for the hype that bother me. of course obama going after the youth is nothing new, the dems always do that. but with awareness for young people to vote at an all time high, its scary because the majority are clueless and idealists. but more importantly, they fall prey to the hype for the “cool, young canidate”. hype in the media is out of control in this country, and not just for the presidency. just look at who are celebrities nowadays. look at who and what we glorify. its embarrasing.

Marty,
America is ready for a brighter future. Please don’t lye. Our children are far too important for you to lie. What kind of a hole do you want the United States to live in? Bush/McCain has ruined the economy and relies on oil.
Barack is an honorable, decent, and kind man, much like many other Americans. Thanks for slamming my lovely home town of Chicago, who are overwhelmingly behind Obama because of the over 800 pieces of legislation he passed in the Illinois Senate, including children’s healthcare, ethics, and justice.

It’s sad how much the media love McCain.

McCain had gotten off the hook for 5 yrs of not being responsible for his family needs , and health issues with his former wife and children. He’d wanted to be financially free so he married a rich blonde barbie doll. They are better off without him.

Wait till the debates when Gramps and his alzheimers take center stage and Americans can see the stark contrast of the old time politicians and his 3peat of Bush’s policies and Obama’s clearer vision for an America that still believes in our CONSTITUTION, the rule of law and no intention of bullying the rest of the world, and an economic plan that takes into account middle America and not just the 1% of richest Americans.

man i hate when i have to reply to two at once, but ill try it.. first off angie and pinhead, im NOT A MCCAIN SUPPORTER!!!! if you would read my posts, i dont come in here to “praise” john mccain. i have to vote for one of these knuckleheads. im a conservative, not a die hard, but im conservative. so who do you think im going to vote for? the one that is closest thing to a conservative, whether its a democrat or republican, white, black, green, brown, i dont care. lets just end the cheating conversation, because while it makes for some good chat, it has no bearing on the presidency. angie, you say “mccain has done no greatness in his life”.. lol well, he has served the country in one way or the other his whole life. i havent agreed with everything he has done, but i never would agree with anyone to that point. he HAS been a part of lawmaking for a long time, and much to your dismay, has brought some sort of happiness to lots of people. not saying obama hasnt, just dosnt have much of a history yet. thats all im saying. zippy, your only point was about cheating… waste of time.

McCain going against Super-O in a battle of light sabers? Except for characters like Darth Maul, the Superhero always wins. If the Force is with McCain, he sure doesn’t demonstrate it in his campaign speeches!
This election will be decided by charisma and superhero status; McCain is out of his league!

Offshore drilling is energy policy?!I enjoy McCain becos he is the real “Joker”.He claims offshore drilling immediately will bring gas prices down!It won’t not even after 10 yrs or 20 yrs or 30 yrs.We would definitely producing oil for countries like China and India as they would pay higher prices and guess whom would the oil companies sell the offshore produced oil to!Even if they become patriotic (in your dreams ,pal)and decide to sell the oil only to the US will they be willing to sell for a lower price against the world market which determines the selling price.McCain admitted he does not understand economy!Well this is not rocket science,this is common sense which he lacks or he is bent on misleading the public playing on their worry of escalating gas prices and exploiting it.Offshore drilling even if it is done safe is no short term solution nor longterm solution!Nuclear energy is another complex area and it is stupid to promote it without expalining safeguards.France is a small country and thier small nuclear programs cannot be translated to a big country like ours.Besides there have some serious concerns raised in France and the details are yet to emerge.Obama is never against any electic driven car!But he is definitely against McCain’s gimmick offer which is to say the least ridiculous.Electric car is not the problem solver.Infact Obama is the one who is calling for comprehensive energy policy.He is calling for change in attitude in energy utilization in the larger interest of not conservation but preserving the global health.People are already responding though initially they were complaining and there is significant reduction in oil consumption.By the way if inflating the tires can save 5-10% energy what is wrong with the suggestion?Just remember some of the greatest inventions in science come from a common sense approach.It is easy to bring back McCain’s disdain for women , his womanizing days and crude personal jokes ,but Obama is riding the high road.But unfotunately winning in politics demands going toe to toe with a scum like McCain who is frivolizing the presidential election with his negative ads.

ok, let me put it this way: why NOT drill for our own oil asa PART of an energy plan? our main focus here, long term, should be getting off of fossil fuels? correct? but thats not going to happen overnight. my guess, for what its worth, is that it wont happen for decades. so, even if as some say, that drilling more of our own oil wont bring down oil prices because of a global market, whats the harm in at least trying it? we still need it, and we have alot of it. and if anything, it will give less money overseas right? so really, what the harm in doing it? take away the whole partisan bickering, whats the harm in doing it? if its simply because of the environmental theats, we are just idiots.

ms…
great point… ten years is ALWAYS ten years away.. lol dems have been giving us this excuse forever. AND its comming from the same people that follow al gores every word.. well if its going to take ten years to start getting the oil (which it wont) why would you believe al gore when he says “we can get off of fossil fuels in ten years”… lol just plain ridiculous

Someone explan to me what alternative energy will be ready on a large scale within 20 years. We will have to rely on oil for at least 2 decades so we need to drill now and take advantage of oil shale. In addition we should conserve and keep developing promising new forms of energy. You could double all the solar and wind being used today and that would account for about 5% of our energy usage. So you better not give up on oil and coal just yet or you may want to buy a horse and move south for the winter. Nuclear energy is very safe, the techonology is in place now where there is very little if any chance of major problems. The Chernobyl plant in Russia did not even have a containment facility.

ms1236, you have no clue what you’re talking about.
Truth be known, if you look up records from Senator Obama as of several years ago, he was studying the effects of environmentally safe drilling.
Mr. McCain has oppossed both ANWR as well as off-shoring drilling his entire political life ———-UNTIL TWO WEEKS AGO.

rhys…
well said. it is about futures. im not an expert on it, but to the “media brainwashed” who think that us drilling for our own wont bring down the price, you have to learn a thing or two. plus. like i said in my above post, whats the harm in trying? we might kill a polar bear or a seal? BIG DEAL.

Those WASPs, they never could tell a joke.

Oh, don’t get me wrong. I am not supporting mccane.
I will vote for Obama. I was just trying to make a point.

are there no anti drilling people left in here??!! one of you, speak up on my above post on the issue of drilling for what we have. i dont mean this in a no it all way, but i want to hear the DOWNSIDES of drilling? i understand some saying “its not the answer”, but i want to hear what the downfalls could possibly be, seeing that we need it anyways. maybe im missing something.

No anti-drilling people?
Mr. McCain was anti-drilling up until 15 days ago. Go read his record!

Don’t start college, it will take at least four years to get a degree. No, drilling off shore isn’t a state’s rights issue and if it was we would be drilling in Florida because the polls here are 60% for it. As noted before producing our own oil lowers the trade deficit, producer a lot of really good paying job, makes the dollar stronger and lowers the price of gasoline and heating fuel. All of these things help all of the citizens not just in the U.S. but the entire world. And then every time the fool in Iran or Chez open their mouths the price of oil won’t take a roller coaster ride. There is no down side to drilling and producing in the U.S. and I am all for alternatives but there are people who need the prices lower now and just as the Iran and Chez can make the price go up in one day, our commitment to drilling will make it go down and less likely to react to random statements from crazy people.

While ABC is giving McCain air time to say that he won’t let race into the campaign, is ABC going to address the fact that they started the race baiting game? Anyone want to guess why Obama was talking about not looking like the other guys on the money? How about this: http://obamaproject.windonwater.net/?p=41
QT

cindy.. wow, i couldnt agree more.. i just dont see any downside to drilling?? i mean, i know the ultiamte goal.. and we would have to KEEP PRESSURE on the politicians to make alternative energy a priority, but as PART of the plan, there are just zero downfalls in drilling for every drop we have.

Tim-
So you’re going to vote for the third Bush term, huh?
Real smart.
Congratulate the record deficit by bringing in “more of the same”.

TIM
my advice to you is to listen to the canidates i know mccain is probably a better choice for most not that their happy with that choice the fact is people Know mccain and dont really know obama that well but me being an independent i do my own research i listen to the canidates their words not the media the canidates ads go to the senate voting website page look at both mccain and obamas votes in senate i am voting for obama mccain scares me he is not the same mccain in 2000 if he were i may be voting for him i feel mccain is to obsessed with WAR and all his flip flops hes done im not quite sure where he stands dont get me wrong i have much respect for mccain and his military time i look at it like this we cant go anymore wrong than what bush has gave us im willing to give obama the chance at least he is not offering more of the same !!!!! mccain has become too bushy for me!!!

tim… the news media and BHO have indeed brainwashed the public into thinking there is no need to drill, because it “won’t matter”. This kind of thinking only serves to drag America down to “Third World” status… the same agenda as the environmentalists’. If they truly cared about the human race continuing more than another 100 to 200 years, they would advocate controlling population… NOW! It may already be too late. More people WILL require more resources; it’s that simple.
And biofuels are a phony. Burning food for energy is like setting fire to your winter clothes to keep warm in December or January. What do you do after the fire goes out?

Tim says-
“there are just zero downfalls in drilling for every drop we have.”
—
Are you — what — 15 years old???
My God kid, if that’s the best you can write. Try dating instead!

In a few minutes I’m shutting down this computer and turning off the lights; it’s bedtime, and besides, I need to reduce my “carbon footprint”. Of course, our power here is generated by hydroelectric dams, but those are “evil”, too, aren’t they?
Good night, all.

This old FOOL should be trying to talk about his economic policy, and how we will solve the home mortgage crisis. Instead of talking about his opponent. He’s a loser. You don’t waste the voter’s time talking about your opponent. Who is advising this guy? It’s a sad and pathetic spectacle to watch the man McCain lose this way.

Folks this is ABC news, the corporate machine that has abandoned any semblence of deivering the news,have doubts? go back and review the Clinton Obama debate hosted by hack Gibson and Stepanopolis,,,universally panned and now they are totally in the bag for the disgraceful fraud called Mc Cain good luck to all Americans if this whack job sees the light of day as POTUS. We are headed for the stone age of American existence and so many are just fine with it. This guy can,t even keep his own lies straight.

Hey guys, don’t try talking “Tim” out of voting for McCain, he sounds exactly like him.
They deserve each other!

angie…
i totally understand. i dont like what bush and the republicans have done either. but i dont like what the democrats have done either!! the congres right now, is useless. they have been for two years, and that scares me. listen, i realize the repubs have spent too much. (im a conservative by the way, not a republican) they need a serious cleansing. a kick in the ass from therir base to get back to what we conservatives REALLY believe. george bush DOES NOT REPRESENT WHAT I BELIEVE. neither does john mccain, but barack obama REALLY dosnt stand for what i believe. now, some of what he says of course sounds good, but i know exactly what he means with his generalities. i know what democrats stand for. i simply cant vote for that. it just sucks we dont have one good canidate to choose from. and i think if people were honest enough to quit “standing up for their team”, thats waht most of america would say.

ABC and John McCain both think those Paris ads are funny and produced “a chuckle”????? It is sad to see someone at 72 who has yet to find out that he doesn’t have a sense of humor. I guess ABC was cracking up over the “Bomb Iran” joke. Not only is it not funny but it was also old too (80′s old). What about that hilarious joke about killing Iranians with cigarettes. O Yes then there is his ape/ rape joke. “where is that marvelous ape?” So damn funny. Quick replace him with Leno and you won’t need a laugh track for the Tonight Show’s opening monologue.

Ann – thanks for the comment. If the government is leaving you alone that is good news!! Do some research on what the government spends our money on and you may get an eye opener. Just one example – the $300 billion dollar bill to help people who were stupid enough to buy a home they could not afford. In addition, $450 million of that money is going to La Raza for “counseling” people on home loans. I have worked hard and bought a house i could afford and now I have to help pay for people who were stupid or greedy. This is just one example of where your taxes dollars are going – they are thousands of others. YOu may want to reconsider defense spending with countries like Iran in the world.

jess in mon….
do you NOT hear what i have been saying???!!1 i dont like john mccain either!!!! what do you NOT understand about that statement?

and your going to complain about the fda??!! wow…

Hey, I like that Rhys!
And McSame not only campaigns and speaks like a turnip, but by golly he even looks like one!
:-O !!!

yeah rhys.. whats up with that? why does everyone assume you have to be for either one?!

You know…there is off shore drilling permissions available that aren’t being done…even if Obama supported new drilling, it wouldn’t bring down the price of gas. The real issue is…what are we going to do to get a handle on things before we run out? Give me real renewable alternatives that won’t destroy the planet any more than it already has been…for now I’ll just park my car as often as possible and walk

Obama will be down hill from now, people are finding out now that he is a muslim, and he is shady obout everything.We can not trust him,have no expirience , he could make our economy even worse.

McCain’s ads are not only disrespectful to Obama, they’re disrespectful to the voters. It’s insulting to bring the campaign down to such a petty, juvenile discourse. It’s unbecoming of a Presidential candidate. We deserve better.

ms1236: “Just one example – the $300 billion dollar bill to help people who were stupid enough to buy a home they could not afford. In addition, $450 million of that money is going to La Raza for “counseling” people on home loans. I have worked hard and bought a house i could afford and now I have to help pay for people who were stupid or greedy.”
Uh oh, you must be one of those “bitter whiners. Goodight Lou Dobbs.

And to think I once like McCain. I actually felt sorry for the guy and thought the media favored Obama.
This week has shown me exactly what’s in his hand. He is just like Bush. In fact, he might even be worse than Bush.
McCain’s checked in his “maverick” label for what? A fabricated “bump” in a daily poll? LOL! What a loser. He has the same people running his campaign now that stomped a whole in his head in 2000.
I guess I’ll guy with Barr come November!

Tim, We agree on one thing, fiscal conservative values. It was, remember, a democratic administration that last managed a balanced budget (Clinton) and a balanced budget is simply not possible without at least some tax increase somewhere (no matter what the current batch of republican candidates try and tell you…). I no longer find it possible however to support a republican party that is all talk and no action on just about every conservative principle imaginable, from executive power and government intrusions, to national defense, to balanced budgets. They have lied to congress, they have lied to the american people and such a violation of values can’t be rewarded simply because I would prefer the red jerseys to win over the blue jerseys. This current batch of republicans needs to be benched until they can come up with something better than the current state of affairs.
I have been a republican as long as I have been able to vote. I was 15 when Reagan first ran. I went to every meeting of his local supporters in Mississippi even though everyone thought I was crazy to volunteer for some right wing, no experience cue card reading actor running for president. But I was inspired by Reagan, by his optimism, by his clean break with a failed past, and I must say I feel much the same about Obama now.
As always these candidates are imperfect choices, but if I must choose, I will always go with the candidate that best represents the optimism, honesty, and sensible good heartedness that are truly the hallmark of American values.

that should say “I guess I’ll VOTE Barr come November” obviously. heh

TIM
dont you feel bush has punished the middle class and the poor for the last 7 years by giving the wealthy the tax breaks and us middle class having to stuggle i dont think obama is punishing anyone hes just trying to be fair the old trickling down affect did not work besides obamas tax cuts are for 95 percent of americans i think we the middleclass have been paying for far too long if a person makes 500000 thousand a year they can afford to share the wealth dont you think but i respect your comments as you have respected mine!!

That would be sweet if Karl Rove goes to jail. The prisoners love those baby faced chubby guys.

jess.. just as old as the “old mccain” jokes too… lol

I certainly hope that Ms. Sawyer was journalistically busy rebuking McCain’s hot air and lies. Was she?
Or was she smiling and laughing and tossing her pretty blonde head? And did McCain them compare her favorably to his billionaire blonde wife (thief and drufg addict) or unfavorably to Britney and Paris?
McCain is pathetic. Obama better deal with these pathetic ads. The press that smiled while Bush (=McCain) lied out way to war certainly will not deal, or be responsible, though they collect their pay checks and claim all the constutional privileges and protections of the first amendment.
Offshore drilling as an answer to our energy problems is not an answer to our long-term energy problems. Offshore drilling will increase the mega profits of Exxon while promising Americans, at best, a four-cent reduction per gallon four to six years from now. If the American people accept this lying proposal, we as a nation are doomed and I feel sorry for our children. But Americans have been willing to eat all the lies served up to them by Bush–McCain probably takes it for granted that Americans will be stupid again and again and again.
I only hope he is wrong.

angie…
first off, how have the tax cuts affected you? im assuming you’re middle class? my point is a fundamental one, not so much a political one. its not right to steal from the rich to pay the poor!!! its not a taxing issue, its a spending issue. our current government has COMPLETELY overspent. you’re exactly right. but do you have any idea how much money is wasted in our federal government?! taxing the rich even more (they ALREADY get hit harder than us BY FAR) is only hurting the ones who provide jobs. thats not to mention corporate taxes!! look at our countries corporate tax rate comapared to the rest of the world. its outrageous. people have to remeber, the rich are the ones who give us our jobs. its a spending problem, and always has been.

The only “race baiting” that has been done in this campaign has been by John McCain, Obama spoke the truth when he said he didn’t look like others who’ve run for president and what’s wrong with that? Is it not the truth? He does have a funny name now doesn’t he? Again he spoke the truth. Yes, I understand it’s alright to say those things is long as you’re a white man saying them but if you happen to be an African-American man saying those things all hell is going to break loose.

So some of you seriously want McCain for Pres……With all the exporting of jobs and tax breaks for the unimaginably wealthiest, that[s the best you can come up with? Why, after lying to the American people about Iraq and WMD etc; why after pandering to the corporate heads, who profit from exporting manufacturing to China, why, after handing energy policy over to the oil industry, do you deserve The White House? If a Democrat had run this economy into the ground like this and lied and stolen an election and was throwing 12 billion a month away….What would you be saying? How about a moment of honesty…not here, but some time later tonight when your starring at your ceiling in bed. Just one little moment of honesty…when no one else is looking. Come on…I know you can do it..

Well since we are in a mental recession, then I guess McCain ads are fun. Even his own mother said the Paris/Britney ad was stupid. McCain has nothing. That’s why it’s attack, attack attack. What happened to the honorable campaign he and his wife said they would run??? You can never trust a liar.

Soraparis,
Don’t worry. The only ones on here that want McSame to win are posting from the state prison in backwoods Kentucky somewhere.
Anyone with half a brain is voting for Obama!

Nuclear power = nuclear waste with no place to dispose of it. Off Shore Drilling will not lower prices at the pump cause the world market demands the highest profit least the stockholders sue them for billions. The real reason they want off shore cause its easy to get the oil and you can still stick it to the American consumers. And the fact they still have millions of acres of untapped oil reserves already & a choose not to drill seems like the oil companies want it both ways. McCain is just another evil GOP do nothings. All of his commercials bash and nothing to say why him. He has no ideas except to be just like his daddy BUSH. He is using the playbook that got his campaign in 2000 derailed. Looks like McCain sold out his worthless cancer ridden soul to the Devil don’t you think.

Awesome question Angie! :o)

Let the jokes run rampant! Hear the one about the hot blonde lobbyist named Vicki Iseman who just went poof! up and vanished the day after the NYTimes published an expose on her McCain? A real kness slapper.

John McCain as Cynical as the JOKER in the old Batman TV series.

Yes, McCain dodged the Vicki Iseman bullet big time.
Hey tim, is there really two of you on here?
:/ –?

jess.. if its a great question, why dont you answer it???

Wait a minute…it’s the Democrat controlled Congress’s fault that there’s no program in place for energy? Is that what this moron is saying? And for the decade that the Republicans controlled Congress we didn’t have any problems? I know…it just crept up on us in the last year and a half. I am very concerned for anyone who believes this man is fit to run this country. I want one of you Republicans to list the number of years that the Republican controlled Congress missed out on vacation…or the Republican president for that matter. Whoever wins…please make education in the U.S. mandatory…stupidity is running rampant.

TIM
I agree im no expert either, judging from your post why would you vote mccain look he doesnt want to leave iraq more money spent he sings bomb bomb iran the thought is there more money spent but the fact is we have A GLOBAL ECONONMY NOT JUST A USA ECONOMY thats what makes it so difficult i think

So much for honor and respect on McCain’s part. Keep in mind that the candidates are presumably trying to show us their good sides during the campaign, and that in practice they may not quite live up to the image they portray. Bush talked about compassion but gave us corrupt belligerance. At least Obama talks about hope. What does McCain do? He talks trash. And this is his good side?

jess, please stop posting with my name. bad enough you cant answer REAL questions, but then you go and play games. please go somewhere.

dont hold your breath archie.

For anyone claiming anything in McCain’s ads said about Obama is true, you need to actually do some reading and learn the facts.
Nearly everything John McCain has said about Barack Obama has been an outright lie and it’s pretty sickening to watch.

Well Mcbush has turned into the Joker
that ran Wild………
Yep … Mcbush wants to Keep a Joker
In the White House…
BUT THE LAST ALMOST EIGHT YEARS the Joke
has been on the American people and the entire free world……

Get real use to it Obama. Politics and leading a free society requires a very thick skin.
If Obama and his campaign can’t figure out how to deal with this level of attack how do they expect to deal with the despots, murders and enemies on the international front.
Politics is a nasty business and this level of negative attacks is something the president has to deal with every day, before breakfast.
If Obama can’t man up and fight this level of attack down he does not deserve to be president.
Obama seems to be playing not to loose, never a good strategy when faced with the attack dogs on the other side.

Get real use to it Obama. Politics and leading a free society requires a very thick skin.
If Obama and his campaign can’t figure out how to deal with this level of attack how do they expect to deal with the despots, murders and enemies on the international front.———————-
Well Obama could do what G.W. Bush does
and BLOWUP A FREAKING THIRD COUNTRY
FOR BY JUST SAYING THE HAVE WMDS..
Hey it worked before… just read posts
that support Mcsame..aka Mcmime… LOL
oh i cut a Joke sorry…

McCain was once a person to look up to and now to betray himself at the end of his career.
Sad

Looking at the title of the Blog … “Now Light Sabers”. I was thinking about Star Wars and John McCain always saying he knows how to win wars. I guess for Obama it would be “May the force be with him!” and for McCain “May the fiber be with him!”

There are many reasons that McCain is unsuitable to be President. It is clear each time he opens his mouth.
But the most meaningful skill he lacks is leadership. There is so much to be done to try to repair what Bush has done and it is going to take a great leader and manager.
John McCain cannot run a campaign skillfully. And he does not even realize that is important. He seems to think that all he needs to know is how to win a war… not that he does. He just says so. He is a very inept and frightening person.

McCain was one of the handful of Republicans i respected. After letting Schmidt take over his campaign the sentiment is no longer. You can tell McCain doesn’t even believe the crud Schmidt is selling. One thing you can say about McCain, he’s a bad BS’er, and he can’t BS his way out of defending these ads.
WHen he was on with John King of CNN the otehr day he couldn’t get away from him fast enough when he brought up the “dollar bill” issue.

It seems tha McCain is a very desperate man. At one time I actually supported this man but as time goes on, I am more and more saddened by his behavior. I realize that he is of an advanced age and is in very poor health but I really expected him to focus his campaign on the issues and how he planned to correct the problems created by eight years of the Bush administration.

I would venture to guess that inflating tires the proper amount would probably save in one year about the same amount of crude oil as will be found in these plays on the continental shelf that everyone is crowing about. There may be natural gas out there, but these Republican bills are in no way going to affect the price we pay now at the pump. This is all for show and an issue that they hope to use as a club to beat up vulnerable Dems in the coming election.

Offshore drilling is a paper tiger. It will deliver too little, too late and will do nothing for the energy crisis. By the time this oil finally comes to production — many years from now, we will have already shifted away from a predominant oil economy to one focused on wind, solar and hydrogen. Oil will be in a much lower demand.
The American public is being sold a bill of goods over this offshore oil drilling. Bush, Cheney and McCain’s oil friends will benefit from this — but the average citizen will not.

George Glass, are you saying that you would support raising the taxes on those that suceeded in business and giving the spoils to those that chose to take the low road? Obama wants to explore new energy alternatives, we all know it is big business and the oil companies that are researching this, what happens when he taxes them so deep this is no longer affordable? What do you think will happen when he places a windfall profits tax on the oil companies? They raise the price!

McCain ads are plain silly> McCainhas no ideas so he places ads that are nothing but fluff. Then when Obama asks to talk about the issues McCain makes Jokes.

What matters in this election is that the republicans have been in office for the past 7 going on 8 years and the country is in a mess. Shouldn’t that be enough incentive for vote for a democrat this time? That truth, plus the fact that McCain does not appear to be a healthy person and might be too old for the job. What does it take for people to wake up and clearly see the truth in the situation?

Politics as usual, and the mindless sheep follow the media and forget to think alittle for themselves. What does America (and the world) need ? A brain damaged 70 plus manchurian candidate with the same list of political chronies, failed concepts and policies or a fresh young face with new ideas, intelligent, motivated, with a vision for a new direction and a new era of innovation, cooperation and progress at home and in the world community…. duh?

McCain = Bush
If the United States government wanted to replace oil with other energy sources it would promote incentives for business to develop these sources. McCain, Bush, Cheney are all in the pockets of oil men. McCain will not lead the United States away from oil. McCain will continue all of Bush’s policies. The United States will come apart under McCain’s leadership. McCain = Bush!

I don’tthink either of those ads really make McCain look presidential. And I do think he needs to make the case for himself, before he starts to tear down Obama. If even he is focussing on Obama, how is he goin to make anyone focus on him? Maybe he doesn’t want them to, maybe he knows he can’t defend himelf against the ‘Bush’s 3rd term’ charge. But if even if thats the case, srely McCain could make the case that that is what is necessary. Right now I am deeply unimpressed by McCain.

I don’t worry about McCain. The man is senile, he does’t really grasp the seriousness of the problems that afflicts America. He just wants to be president because he thinks he deserves it. If he becomes president, it’ll be not because Americans voted for him. It’ll be because the Republicans are planning another Florida stunt. Other than that, and under normal circumstances, this old man doesn’t have a chance. Trust me.

Why in the world would we want to exchange one village idiot (GW) for another village idiot (McCain). A vote for McCain is a vote for the same old tired crap we’ve had to endure for 8 years.

I’m sorry Senator McCain, your humor is off-mark and really unneccessary. I found both the celeb ad and the Moses ad silly and offensive. More importantly, in your 20 (gasp!) years as a senator you have failed the middle and lower class in our country by:
1. voting for the Bush tax cuts which numerous economist have described as shifting the burden of taxes from the upper income to the lower and middle income households. And,
2. voting for the Iraq War.

There is no such thing as the straight talk express. It’s called a snake in the grass. Republicans are just that and they are gonna get beat badly during the elections.

I find it funny that this is the best the McCain campaign can come up with. Making silly political ads only dumbs down the issues and protects McCain from having to really talk about the issues – for fear that the man will produce more gaffes.
The more I read about McCain’s view on different policies the more I see a lot of holes and wishful thinking. But if this is all it takes to sway American voters and provide the media with simple talking points then I guess it won’t be long before McCain starts utilizing cartoon characters and hand puppets.

McCain — laser lights and celebrities! LOL … It’s going to take a lot more than that for him to ever have a chance against Barack!

It is too obvious that McBush is in full panic mode. When the repubs have to go to britney spears, you KNOW that they are in TROUBLE.
What’s next…..an appearance on The Maury Show?
“YOU ARE NOT THE FATHER”

When it comes to McCain’s ads, where’s the beef? I guess people who are losing their homes, jobs, health care and pensions don’t really need to know where McCain stands on anything. All they need to know is that Obama is a celebrity.
People get what they vote for. Last time they voted on non-issues and they got George W. Bush.

This offshore drilling BS is a non issue that plays well to low information voters. Oil companies, contrary to all their babble, aren’t interested in new offshore drilling at this time, and even if they began the process today by the time such wells came into production the result would be so insignificant as to have zero impact on world crude prices. On the other hand, closing the Enron loophole, which Republicans are fighting tooth and nail, could cause a dramatic reduction in crude prices in a heartbeat.

ABC lets hope one of the three debates do not include that empty suit , Gibons, again. If there is an ABC debate I probably will not watch it, since I quit watching ABC after that alleged “debate” about flag pins. If Gibson again is a commentator on a presidential debate, I am sure he will talk about Britney and other meaningless showing he can go lower than flag pins

The McCain Britney/Paris ad is all about race–pretty much like the Harold Ford “call me” ad but slicker, since it is supposedly about celebrity. This was a very carefully calculated ploy by McCain’s new Rovian advisors. It’s total BS for McCain to accuse Obama of playing the race card–that too is a typical Rove move.

vancav gee ahead in one poll out of how many polls????? I know I’ll bet the farm on that one poll being correct.

During the republican convention the dems should run TV spots juxtaposing McCain with Homer Simpson’s father and Mr. Burns from the Simpsons. This would be to demonstrate their sense of humor of course and point out the differences between Obama and McCain on taxes and energy policy.

This blog finally made up my mind: I will vote for McCain. I had thought we were “screwed” as one comment said, with either, and there was not too much difference. McCain’s position favoring offshore oil drilling is very important, as is his position on using nuclear energy. I am a lifelong Democrat but I see that our country needs “energy” soon, and we must get it. I do not believe drilling, done properly and overseen properly, will destroy the environment.

riveted that a most excellent plan I believe I’ll forward it on to the Obama Headquarters.

There aren’t any “facts” in these McCain ads. They are insulting to the intelligence of the American public. Further, he keeps spreading lies as if they were fact–Obama refused to meet with injured troops n Germany because he couldn’t bring a camera crew (a bold-faced lie and they knew that when they ran the ad), Obama doesn’t support a comprehensive energy plan (he has a comprehensive energy plan; John McCain does not). McCain’s campaign is as big a joke as the candidate is turning out to be. The big question is, does this country elect another joke to be its president yet again? We seem to have a penchant for jokes that aren’t very funny.

I really don’t get McCain’s strategy. Maybe I’m missing something, but I personally don’t even see the humor in these ads…of course, Republicans aren’t really known for their sense of humor. I think it’s just making him look silly.

With that ad he has alienated California and it Celeb votes. What the ad is saying: “All celebs are stupid, Obama is stupid because he is a celeb and can’t lead.” Hey wasn’t Ronald Reagan a Celeb that is an insult to him as well.

Mary – “Hey wasn’t Ronald Reagan a Celeb that is an insult to him as well.” – Great point, but you forgot about Arnold!

Decent people don’t find McCain’s brand of nasty, warped humor funny.

McCain is lying about Obama’s tax plan. Shame on him!

The election really is pretty simple. If you like the way things are going, vote for McCain. If you want change, don’t vote for McCain. This election is not referendum on Obama and the Democrats, it’s a referendum on Bush and the Republicans, McCain was there for the whole thing. If you think they did an outstanding job, vote for them, If you think they did a lousy job, for heaven’s sake don’t vote for them again! Up to you, but I personally am not ready for four more years of the same failed policies.

McCain is a joke. It is these Republican tactics that have gotten this country in a BIG HOT MESS.
Republicans think the voters are stupid. NOT THIS TIME. Nothing will cover up Republican fear tactics and incompetence.
The only difference between McCain and Bush is that McCain is meaner and nastier (and boring).
I and many other Independents will NOT vote for McCain.

TRUTH…
Kathy Hilton’s response to the McCain celebrity ad:
“I’ve been asked again and again for my response to the now infamous McCain celebrity ad. I actually have three responses. It is a complete waste of the money John McCain’s contributors have donated to his campaign. It is a complete waste of the country’s time and attention at the very moment when millions of people are losing their homes and their jobs. And it is a completely frivolous way to choose the next President of the United States.”
The Hilton’s donated to McCain and I’m sure now regret it.

ms1236 – the rich should pay more taxes, since a.) they can afford it and b.) they benefitted the most from our system so they should be asked to put more back into it.
Only crazy Republicans think that it’s a good idea to balance the budget on the backs of those who can least afford it. Face it, the Republicans have been trying to destroy the American middle class since the 1930s.

This happens every election of the last 10 years. The Republicans have no good track record, so they instead demonize their opponent with scuriolous tactics, that’s the only thing they are really good at. I just wonder when are republicans going to get serious about the average American and also leading the world. It would appear they did a lousy job leading America and most of the world wants change in the US govt. With such forces against them the only tactic they have left is to demonize, mock, and demonize some more. They did it to Kerry, they dit it to McCain in 2000, and they did it to the Clintons and Gore. It’s not enough to be good at putting down other people! We need a great leader not another demonizer. I vote for change. Obama is very well qualfied, great eductaion, great american story, charismatic leader with great vision and ideas. That’s enough for me to say NO to four more years of the same.

Hey all you Boma huggers what’s the deal with yall man? you want everybody to be suffered just because you are? For crying out loud man did you so long forgotten that your Obamama call Republicans “FEAR MONGERING”? It seems like all of you are living in fear now. You are damn right you can not have humor when you are fear. Emotional will take the dominate of your mental and will screw everything up I can see it day by day from Bomama camp. So be happy don’t worry.

This is not a good strategy for McCain. His best bet would be to show that he is different and has a positive plan for America. While this Rovian strategy may pay some early dividends, in the long run it will backfire. Not that he really stands a chance anyway. The real presidential race was between Clinton and Obama.

McCain is likely the second most inept candidate we’ve had for president in the history of the United States, second only to George Bush. I’ve heard it said that life takes you in a full circle physically and mentally and on the mental front McCain is surely headed back to childhood. It’s probable that it will not be to long before he needs people to feed and dress him.

This election is a referendum of the Republicans who had complete and total power for 6 years and still hold presidential power now. If you like the job they did, vote for them, if you don’t then don’t vote for them. It’s your choice but lets at least use our votes to make ourselves heard one way or the other.

Badger1 – every time his surrogates like you bring up Rev. Wright, McCain is playing the race card. And you’ve been doing it for months. Thanks for asking. You lose. LOL

He thinks that his ads are funny? Like he thinks rape jokes are funny? America has some serious issues that he has helped create in his years in the Senate. We’re not looking for funny, we are looking for solutions. And we’re not looking for a guy who sells out his ideals for 30 pieces of silver to run for president again.
A McBush – er, McCain administration would not be funny. Barry Goldwater was right about McCain!

I don’t find these ads funny. I find them crude, tasteless and disgusting. I though McCain was a different kind of candidate, but he’s reaching into the same old Karl Rove bag of dirty tricks that drove me out of the GOP a long time ago. I guess McCain has no honor left. He’s lost my respect and my vote. I don’t know if I will vote for Obama, but I may just stay home. McCain is just another version of Bush. What happened to the guy I voted for in 2000?

nipsy,
Thanx for the respond dude actually English is my third language. You see what my point is when you don’t have happiness and humor in your life? Look at yourself you start nipp picking at my English. Well I just need to have enough of English to make money and support everything that I can to my family. Oh were you talking about raicist? to me raicist can involve in different kind of issues skin color, human ethnics, and language barrier are part of that. So far you are one of those, if I made myself clear to you than you are raicist and should stick with Obama.
PS. Do not respond to my post if you think my English is horrible and that you can’t understand a word I’m saying.

vegas – no, I don’t see your point. Your English is really messed up and I honestly can’t follow what you’re trying to say. It’s not about racism, it’s about basic communication.

killminster – you raise a good point – what is McCain doing to help working families? He’s big on doing the oil companies’ bidding and wasting $10 million/day on his war in Iraq, but he really doesn’t seem to give two sh–ts about the average American family. I guess that if you don’t wear $500 shoes you don’t count in McSame’s world.

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How DARE that insensitive John McCain actually invoke humor and callously & overtly direct it in the direction of the humor deprived of our electorate.
THE VERY NERVE OF THE MAN !

vancan thats why we need to be very careful of who we give that power to and we need to be able to take that power away from them the first time they use it wrongly like when they suspend the civil liberties of americans that travle outside the US did you know that if you are returning from outside the US they can take any digital or analog media device i.e. cellphones laptops and so on and give them to outside companies and do this legaly and for an indtermnate amout of time with no probibly cause whatsoever? Oh and by the way china doesnt have oil futures speculation so you just proved my point thankyou

I came upon the McCain ad comparing Obama to Britney and Paris. And it stopped me cold. What’s that about? And why did it trouble me so?
Let me get the really nasty stuff off my chest right away. Comparing Obama to Paris Hilton is another of McCain’s tasteless and inept jokes. Paris Hilton is a no-talent nobody blessed with the good looks and good fortune that have made her a shameless somebody to our giddy press. Like John McCain, she came from affluent circumstances. And like him she is a survivor; he survived a long imprisonment in a brutal war, and she survived a spoiled brat childhood in Beverly Hills. I don’t mean to denigrate his suffering, or hers, but the sad fact is that both of them seemed to learn so little from it. You couldn’t send either of them to the grocery story for a container of milk and expect them to identify it — the store or the milk. Like McCain, Paris is one tough cookie, someone who lives in the world without apparently being effected by the less fortunate around her. Clearly Ms. Hilton has far more in common with John McCain than with Barack Obama.
In different ways Paris and McCain both inhabit their own plastic bubbles comfortably. She has charmed the besotted paparazzi, bent them to her will, and prevailed, posturing on life’s red carpet, slinking towards oblivion or middle age — whichever comes first. McCain has made it to his Republican presidential nomination by charming an infatuated political press that never seemed to ask him a tough question. He lightened his moral load as he aged by tossing off whatever burdens of decency and character he intermittently demonstrated. Now, having tossed aside reality as well in his statements about the oil crises, the economy, the war, veterans affairs (his is one of the worst voting records for vets) he is light enough to survive the run without any onerous burdens like truth or integrity.
Poor Britney doesn’t deserve to be classified with Paris or even McCain. She is a talented mess who inherited nothing, made a fortune from her adolescent musical talents, whatever you think they may be, worked hard from childhood to rise above her humble origins, and for all her aberrant behavior should not be placed side-by-side with Paris or McCain, both charter members of that infamous lucky sperm club.
John McCain — unlike the mythical Good Joe American he hopes to bamboozle with his vicious anti-Obama ads — is an elitist/opportunist who abandoned a sick wife, carried on with an attractive blond beer heiress and married her, survived corruption charges as one of the Keating Five, and became a proxy billionaire through that romantic transaction which has helped to finance his political ambitions. To suggest that Obama, a brilliant man from a modest background, one who made his own luck and life through his intelligence and strength of character, has something in common with these Hollywood girls is less than an insult to Obama, who has young daughters and clearly loves them; it is an embarrassment to McCain, as it reveals his low view of women. They are dirty jokes to him. Be it a young Chelsea Clinton’s awkward adolescent looks, or women being raped by gorillas, he finds the denigration and victimization of women a source of infinite jest. None of this is accidental. It all fits in with that infamous ad. If you wanted to contrast Obama to a dubious celebrity there are so many untalented men who fit the category — too many to list here — but McCain chose two feckless, reckless young white women to bring his opponent low by stating that there was little substance to back up Obama’s fame and popularity. In making that ad McCain went well beyond his stated intention to show his opponent as an empty suit. It’s so easy to see the ad for what it is and read “black man, promiscuous young white women, wink wink.” Wouldn’t it be splendid if the mainstream press suddenly opened its eyes to that ploy?
When you get to a certain age — my age — new life becomes the spectacular anodyne to all the illness and death around you. It forces one to look at the future in a new way; protectively, not as a distant place that we know we will never visit but as a place we want to make safe for those we love after we are gone. As the grandfather of three girls ranging in age from three days to three years I take deep offense at this denigration of women that passes for political rough and tumble. We can only hope that McCain will soon abandon his sexism together with his incipient racism as the campaign continues. But we won’t bet the farm on it. God help America and my beloved grand-daughters should he prevail. McCain offers the future nothing but the past, and the past just isn’t working very well these days for any of us.

And another thing the reason this country is the way it is most of the blame is on US. Reading some of the posts on here and the way people talk to eachother proves my point we are a nation divided and we cant get anything done if we cant come together peacefully for a commen goal. I personally wont say anything negitive about people that disagree with my point of view we are americans here our constitution gives us the right to have our own thoughts. Just because our leaders are acting like childeren doesnt mean we have to.

Kal: As were Jefferson, Madison, TR and a host of others. I guess I am in good company. If you can’t see the power and money drives politics in both parties, God help us. Getsnart: I absolutely agree, but we also have to be concerned about the size of government and how much it affects our daily lives.

Badger1
Give us one example of Obama showing himself to be a racist, and I might not hold you in so much contempt. I’m really not sure you know what the word means.

I checked my tires but the economy didn’t seem to change much. I guess the rest of you are not picking up your end.
As usual, the lefties are whining and arguing by using adjectives. If you don’t understand what Phil Gramm meant, read your own posts. Assaults on McCain’s character, assaults on generic “rich people”, but nothing in there about how, if McCain’s ideas are so bad, how are Obama’s any better? Oh, of course, that’s a racist remark to inquire as to whether Obama actually has any ideas. Perhaps you lefties ought to read his books – the ones that are about what he would do, not the ones that are about him … oh, that’s right, there aren’t any. Maybe we could see what he might do if we were to look at his track record – that would be, what now? The dealings with terrorists, anti-American churches and sweetheart deals for houses – oops, more racist remarks, sorry about that. Well, setting those aside, let’s look at his track record – oops again, so sorry, of course he doesn’t HAVE one.
Guess we’d better go back to calling names.

nipsy,
So far I did not see you respond to my last post looks like you finally understood me. Wow I know my English is not that great but please stop the pretenting game that you don’t understand me. It really takes a very not so smart person to not understand what I wrote. I was able to learn 3 different languages proves that I tried hard to understand others even if they don’t speak the same as I do. For you, you tried to put others down because they are not so perfect with their English well I have news for you. Remember the speech that your Obama made on Memorial Day? He said “I have a uncle!” everybody knows he have an ungle (not a ungle) but people seems to understood what he said. So here’s my comment on basic communication. Communication goes both ways, the distributor and the anticipator if either one wants to be an a..hole about things then there is no way in hell we would be understanding one another.

Let’s leave the humor to the professional comedians, shall we? McCain can’t talk about real issues and he’s scared that Obama will run away with the election. He takes every weekend off to go hang out in Czechoslovakia and the Iran-Pakistan border while making more jokes about rape and calling his wife who he left his previous wife for a *UNT as he plans to overturn women’s rights. PEOPLE WAKE UP!!!! No one in their right minds would vote for this crybaby senile over-gaffed screwball. Can you honestly imagine him with his finger anywhere near the button??? If so, then you “my friend” have a DEATH WISH.

getsmart
Generally, conservatives are so afraid that they might accidently help someone who doesn’t “deserve it,” that they would rather not help anybody at all. It is easier for them to assume that people with troubles have only themselves to blame. (Unless of course these conservative THEMSELVES have troubles; then of course it is all the liberals’ fault!)

I would like to know where the facts are in this piece. the centerpiece of the Mccain energy plan is to drill for more oil and gas. The Texas wing of the GOP should be mighty happy.
His second big point is lets keep the Bush tax cuts, so all the big fat salaries the oil and gas folks are getting, they can pay less in taxes. Just like Texas needs more stimulus.
Way to go John!

I am curious, if universal health care is so undoable, why is it that Austria, Belgium, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Estonia, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Malta, the Netherlands, Norway, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Poland, Portugal,Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Brunei, China, Hong Kong SAR, India, Kuwait, Qatar, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Japan, Malaysia, South Korea, Seychelles, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, Peru, Cuba, Uruguay, Venezuela, Austrailia and New Zealand
ALL HAVE UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE, BUT WE DONT. The richest nation on earth has 70 million uninsured or underinsured citizens. Does this make any sense?

jock59801 your right I agree 100% I am not a republican im more liberal but I try not to define myself by party politics I am an American and try go the way that is the best for Americans not whatever way either political party is trying to go one way or the other.

The ads really seems to have hit the nerves of the Obama worshipers. The vapid, Democratic version of the Emperor with no clothes can’t handle the truth. Run to your ugly, big fat mama Michelle, Barry! You can’t “buy” yourself into the presidency.

Coward Obama can’t face McCain in a one-to-one Lincoln-Douglas debate, because he can’t talk without a script.
As for the comparisons of Obama with Paris Hilton – it’s an insult to Paris Hilton.
You Obama devotees are a shallow, drugged-out pathetic bunch. No wonder you worship the coke-head. What do you guys do, eat brownies after inhaling Nobama’s flatulence?

Dear Senator McCain,
I would like to thank you for running that attack ad again Obama. You have angred a lot of youth in this country. But at the same time, you gave him more exposure by compairing him to 2 celebrities. Obama is getting the star treatment. There is a resaon for that, Mr. McCain. Who’s the next celebrity on the block you want to compare Obama with? Thanks to your silly attack ad, we have even more youth now participating in Obama’s campaign. We gained another 30% of youth volunteers here in our Atlanta office. Thanks McCain! Now that’s something to smile about!!! :

Would McCain be the shortest President this century? Will he be standing on three phone books in the debates?

Let’s face the reality of McCain’s campaign. He obviously believes the best defense is a good offense. Yes these ads are an effort to incite a certain segment of the electorate. The former John McCain would not recognize his new generic GOP counterpart. This new strategy is indeed disgusting and quite shameful. Please, let’s talk about real issues. This is not the time for HUMOR!

black man + young white daughters
“celebrity” used as pretext to subliminally conjure racial fear.
These are professionals, folks.

I would like to know more about where people stand and less about smear campaigns. In the end, this is about my country, not Paris or Spears, or any of those people.

What really disturbs me about Obama is the fact that he’s a such a big time statist who will reduce our freedoms here via confiscating the people’s property and wealth via higher taxes, more and more government regulations over the way we live our lives and by weakening us against our enemies abroad. This is the substance of Obama’s message of “hope and change”. Turn your life over to the tender mercies of some government worker and let them decide what and how much you will receive (if your a good serf and follow all the rules) at the direction of all powerful Lord Obama. This will translate into a worse life for Americans in general. I realize some people actually think that’s good, but we aren’t living in Nazi Germany or Communist Russia, so I reject the idea that citizens should be mere serfs to the all powerful state. A human being should have be sovereign over his or her’s own life.
It’s as if ideas aren’t important to leftists. Freedom is a side issue with them. Well, it’s the essence of proper government, not a side issue.

Tim
What does understandable mis-speaking have to do with I.Q.? I think all candidates have plenty of gaffes, if you really want to make that an important criterion for the next President of the United States.

It’s true….Obama is a gas bag.

Twelve acres for every adult American, suggestion for John McCain to help follow through on his promise to increase offshore drilling, help the American people and create an immediate economic stimulus to the American economy.
Democrats under the leadership of Barack Obama want to effectively give away in trust our offshore exclusive economic zone by standing in the way of any current offshore development. Under the 1982 United Nations Law of the Seas Convention the US has an exclusive economic zone of 200 nautical miles and mineral seabed rights up to 350 nautical miles extending along the Continental shelf. A nautical mile is 6080 feet so our exclusive economic zone extends about 240 miles and mineral seabed rights extend 420 miles. The US has the world’s largest offshore exclusive economic zone totaling 4.4 million square miles. In comparison, the total land area of the United States is only 3.4 million square miles. Because we have the world’s largest offshore coastline which is twenty-five percent greater than our land area, it only makes common sense that we exploit our offshore resources to achieve our energy independence.
The best way to effectively exploit our offshore resources and really help the average American is to divide up the 4.4 million square miles of US offshore economic zone among the 218 million Americans adults who are 18 years and older according to the 2003 US census. Because a square mile equals 640 acres, there would be 2.816 billion offshore acres to be divided among the 218 million American adults. The current federally leased acreage of roughly 100 million acres both onshore and offshore represents roughly only three and a half percent of the total 2.8 billion offshore exclusive economic zone acreage of land that could be leased and divided up by all Americans. Subtract out that acreage and you still have 2.7 billion unleased acreage. Granted this remaining acreage may not be the best prospects but we won’t know for sure until there is actual drilling.
Under this proposal, every adult in the US would be entitled to 12.8 acres. This would be a takeoff from the forty acres and a mule theme except it would be mineral rights to offshore production. A lottery could be set up to randomly assign 12.8 acres to every American. You may end up with mineral rights to acreage around American Samao. The resulting lottery would create ten of thousands of instant American millionaires whose acreage abuts known contiguous offshore oil fields. A market to buy and sell acreage rights could be created which would put money into the pockets of those who acreage contains unknown oil potential. Turning over the acreage to ordinary Americans to collect leasing revenues and royalty rights will empower Americans and stimulate the economy. We do not need the Department of Interior and Nancy Pelosi to argue over the next four years which tracts of land should be leased and have that money going into the General Treasury.
Give the land to every American and they can expeditiously see to the leasing of the land. Mercedes Benz limousine liberals and wacko environmentalists can finally keep their mouths shut and instead use their own fat checkbooks to buy up acreage and prevent development if they choose with the acreage they buy from ordinary Americans. Let Barack Obama and the Democrats tell the American people that they are better trustees of the offshore land with limited or no development and that each American is not entitled and should not profit from their 12.8 acres of offshore land.
Leasing and royalty payments are not insignifcant even for small acreage. An example is east of Fort Worth Texas where natural gas drilling companies are paying 25 percent royalties and $3000 leasing payments to owners of quarter acre homes for natural gas drilling rights under their homes.

What do you think the Scarlett Johansen email nonstory was about? “Oh, Michelle would beat tyhat5 white girl’s hind end, if she knew she was trying to steal Obama.” I don’t need a canuck to point out a pro, thanks.

As long as Mrs. McCain wants to use her money to try to become first lady someday John McCain will keep on running. They look disconnected with the pain and suffering of the American people. Why the McBushes does not explain the $492 billion deficit and the higher unemployment? No wonder raising taxes for the rich is such an issue with him.

Light Sabers, Star Wars … McCain knows how to win wars … Will Darth Vader please pick up the white courtesy phone … some old guy is on the phone with a 100 year project

chatty-
That’s why I believe we’d be better off researching TRUE alternative energy, and not this ethanol crap. People like to say we’re running out of oil, and that’s crap. We’re running out of CHEAP oil, and if we don’t start looking at other ways to attain energy, we will have failed as a race by the time the crude-covered sh** hits the fan.
I know, unfortunately, that renewed offshore drilling is inevitable, I just wish people would look at the issue realistically, rather than believe what John McCain or Barack Obama are saying about it this week.
BTW, I never got a chance to get back on the other day, when we were talking about the Rezko case. Does the Sun Times archive all of those articles?

Simply put…McCain and his idoit staffers are proof positive that he can not win this election. Anyone who votes for this vile and contemptable man with his stupid ads are pathetic and stupid themselves. People who are fair mainded and intelligent know what McCain is doing and will reject it flat out and support Senator Obama. Enough said!

Spelling correction…Idiot. typo error.

tasha-
Tim has a point…not about YOU being a bigot, but what he said makes sense. I’m in no way a McCain fan, but I don’t think he’s a racist. As for the “gaffes”…pfft. Everyone makes mistakes, especially when the pressure is so high.
If he’s a McCain ad writer, I have to say thanks…those ads made me giggle…

Only jerks and a-holes find this kind of bullying, hateful and yes, racist, humor funny. McCain has lost his honor.

I HEARD Obama say that he could consider a compromise IF new drilling for oil were part of a comprehensive energy plan designed to decrease our dependence on foreign oil. He’s not against a comprehensive energy plan. He’s just against one that won’t work.

Obama will do anything to get elected…mmmm. Hasn’t McBush just announced that he’ll be going to the Sturgis Rally 2008 at Buffalo Chip in South Dakota? So while McBush is up on stage, just the next stage over is the Ringin’ Wet & Wild” women’s wrestling event. Yes, Obama is the one who will do anything to get elected.
Bush has destroyed America, flushed it down the tubes to make a profit, vote for McCain if you want more of the same. Vote Obama if you’re a patriot and actually care for your country.

I am disappointed with John Mccain, he is a low life candidate, comparing Brit with Obama saddled me as a republican, i think Mcccain is just an empty vessel, were was the parents of these girls, they should defend there daughters form this monster called John Mccain.

McCain no longer wears the mantel of hero. Does the man even realize that both Hilton and Spears are famous for notoriety, not emptiness? One lost the privilege of seeing her children for episodes with drugs, alcohol, and the apparent indecency of posing for the press sans underwear. Whatever point the addled-brained McCain entourage hoped to make by aligning Obama with Spears was not apparent–certainly not humorous. When I first saw the ad, I though I had lost my reasoning. Then, spotting Hilton, I thought that I had missed out on Obama’s incarceration for DUI and other legal infractions. A few moments of my life were filled with real panic. No humor whatsoever. Then, I re-looked at the face of McCain and saw outlines of a leering dirty old man. I doubt seriously that McCain even knows why Spears and Hilton are notorious. Fortunately, rational people in the United States can overcome this addled-brained nonsense and consider its source. McCain is no hero. POWs who return to America to pick up their lives in families and communities, hoping that their children never have to endured what transpired in their brave lives are the heroes. Bah, McCain!