Obama to Vets: “I Love America, So Do You, and So Does John McCain”

Hey Obama, I question your love of America. GO to a church where the preacher says G-D America. refuse to wear a flag pin. don ot honor the National Anthem. Michelle not proud of America. Apologize in Germany for the USA.
You sir are not a patriotic American. So what are you going to so about it?

your Patriotism is beinging quesitoned because of your associations with “Ayers”(know and proved terriost), “Wright” and Rezko and the list goes on. This is the reason and we are not dumb americans and we will not fall for this type of Pandering.

I’m just sitting back and laughing at these anti-Obama post. In three months you will be greeting Obama as Mr. President elect. Hahahaahahaha! I bet you angry people will hate that too. LOL!

IF WE ARE GETTING INTO CHILD LIKE NAME CALLING, WE PERHAPS COULD SAY, “I DUMPED MY FIRST WIFE FOR PERSONAL GAIN, MORE MONEY, AND ALL THE REST OF THE SHALLOW WOMANIZING THINGS WE CAN’T SAY IN PRINT.
THAT’S WHY I KNOW SO MUCH ABOUT PERSONAL GAIN FOR SOMETHING SELFISH.
(I PERSONALLY CAN’T VOTE FOR THESE PERSONAL CORE BELIEFS)

I can’t recall a presidential candidate ever who had to keep asserting that he loves America. Obama has a problem and it isn’t his opponents. It’s his own past behavior and associates.

This is the reason and we are not dumb americans and we will not fall for this type of Pandering.
Posted by: Frank- South Hampton | Aug 19, 2008 9:51:16 AM
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And yet you seem to excuse Mccain’s associations with Charlie Black, Phil Gramm and Lindsay Graham.
How interestingly hypocritical of you!

Did Obama also mention that up to the middle of last year, of the 14 Senate votes on Iraq Senator McCain missed 10 of them?
That this year, McCain has missed ALL of them — including one to honor the sacrifices of the fallen?
That McCain has opposed or voted to table measures that would pay for:
- veterans’ medical care
- veteran’s health care facilities
- veterans’ outpatient care
- new equipment for the National Guard
- safety equipment for our troops in Iraq
All this talk about McCain’s heroism and patriotism and love of all things Veteran, and I don’t see that he’s really put any money where his mouth is.

One thing I do NOT like is any candidate questioning another candidate’s patriotism.
That stuff needs to STOP.

Obama looks in the USA to define evil. that says it all.

Did Obama call Bush “John McCain’s President” at the VFW hall? I bet not.
Obama has shifted his position a bit on Iraq, but he has wanted to pull out just to get us out of there. It is fair to question the wisdom of that, and Obama can’t say he’s being attacked every time someone brings up the fact that a poorly timed withdrawl in Iraq could have long term, negative consequences. Questioning why he has come to the conclusions he has about Iraq- considering the success of the surge he will not acknowledge- is absolutely fair and important. He can’t take that off the table by saying people are questioning his ‘patriotism’.

I’m a vet and I am going to question his patriotism! Obama is someone like who has done nothing for his country. ever.

He loves America in the way an abusive husband loves his wife.
America had better give Obama (and his O!bot minions) what they want, or else.
That’s real “love,” comrades.
All you need to know is that when he was asked about defeating evil, Obama instinctively started riffing about how America is evil, especially when it tries to do good.
The O!bots aren’t fooling anyone except for themselves. Probably why Barry-O has peaked in the polls. We’ve seen enough.
I hope he picks Biden for Veep. He’s toast if he does.

Please. When he wask asked if ‘evil’ exists, he looked to America first to define it and failed to remeber the evil that caused September 11th.

Has the public wised up to his Saul Alinsky manipulation methods yet? More Hope and Change and Agitation rethoric from an empty suit.

drJohn wrote:
“Obama lived in the cesspool culture of America-haters Jeremiah Wright and Louis Farrakhan, criminal Tony Rezko and terrorist William Ayers.
By choice.
For 20 years.
I am not buying it when he says he loves America. You are not what you say you are. You are what you have done. And Obama has lived in filth for 20 years. That’s what he has done.“
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McCain has hate mongers like Hagee and Parsley. From your own logic then McCain also doesn`t love America.

“[Barack] said [the troops] deserve everything… and every help that they so desire.”
Posted by: military-wife | Aug 19, 2008 9:59:27 AM
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Posted by: eliot | Aug 19, 2008 9:59:57 AM
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Really? Cool! I’d like a million dollars, please. In fact, every veteran should receive a million dollars in cash immediately. Paid for by the tax payer… uh, I mean… the government! Yeah!
What? You disagree? That’s “too much”? How can you put a price tag on my service? I’m shocked!
You don’t support the troops!

“But you all served together, and fought together, and bled together under the same proud flag.”

I hope he picks Biden for Veep. He’s toast if he does.
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Biden makes john McCain look like an amateur in foreign policy and national security. If people dont like Biden then Obama is definitely doing the right thing by chosing him.

“I hope he picks Biden for Veep.”

Character and Conduct!
President of the United States should be held to a higher standard!
I dropped out of high school ( 10th Grade ) To join the United States army. I scored so high on my entrance exam that I was given a choice as to what ( MOS ) Job I wanted in the Army.
I chose The Nike Hercules Missile system as a crewman and nuclear weapon specialist for surface to air missiles. After successful boot camp I went into my Advanced Individual Training school. ( AIT ) The time was January of 1976 The school was in Fort Bliss Texas. When it came time to move into a Top Secret classroom environment, I was the last person given a Top Secret clearance and had to sweat making it into the class.
The reason and the point I am making was that the United states government had to send government officials in to my old neighborhood in Anchorage Alaska, where I had lived and talk to many of my neighbors and friends to determine if I had Ever used drugs or alcohol and to determine my character. I later found out that there were two individuals that knocked on residence doors and asked specifically about Marijuana use and other drugs.
During my work with nuclear weapons (I was 17 years old) I was continually in front of the Battery Commander and asked specific questions regarding drug use and or Past or present Alcohol abuse. If a person in my unit were even suspected of past or present use of drugs regardless of when it occurred he or she would not be permitted to work with or around Nuclear weapons.
The army regulation is AR50-5.
My question is how in the world can a commander and chief (The President of the United States) Admit to past drug use and be allowed the entire nuclear arsenal that the Military commands at his disposal.
As a footnote: In my Barracks were the photos on the wall of the chain of command. Starting with my 1st sergeant and going to the commander in chief. (The president) This is still in every Barracks in the Military!
If I would have been denied my clearance, and at the top of the chain of command was a person who admitted to drug use, How would I have felt. Better yet, how does the commander in chief circumvent this military law? Even if he is a civilian commander of the Armed forces how can you be allowed to control this nuclear arsenal after admitting to past drug use when no military personnel would even be allowed to get near one?

Keith — this argument of “judgement vs experience” is senseless. Who says Obama is the standard bearer of “judgement”? Obama does not define judgement….far from that. This is a man with no significant accomplishments in his career, so what gives you any idea that he has judgement, because he tells you so? Do you believe anything anyone tells you without facts to support it?
McCain brings experience, and judgement. Obama just brings himself, and empty words.

The absolute silliness of Obama is now impossible to hide as he studders and stammers without access to the teleprompter. His abundant contridictions and falsehoods can’t be hidden when he’s on his own. No wonder he won’t debate McCain in a forum where reall people ask real questions.
No way this guy is presidential material! No way at all!

What does everyone mean by : “Obama brings empty words”? I see this everyday in blogs.

Hank, I don’t think everything Senator Obama predicted came true. I said the surge would not work and might even make thinks worse. I’m pretty sure he said that.

How can someone take 25 years to come to terms with MLK Jr. day for a holiday? You have to have some very deep seated prejudices.
How can you employ someone like Richard Quinn, editor of a racist magazine? Talk about someone who really hates America – they still want to secede, for Gods sake!

Some one..Ok let’s talk about lying…In this Christian forum McCain brought up the fact that our Congress deals in “pork barrel politics”, and he referenced a bill to study the DNA of bears. He didn’t mention he VOTED yes on that bill…WHAT A FAKE!!!

By all means, take Biden . . .
Senator Comb-Over is the biggest know-nothing blowhard in Congress.
The late night comedy shows will be falling all over themselves to parody this guy, the material would just be too good to pass up (even if they are in the tank for Namby-Pamby-Obambi).

>Senator Obama has more class than John McCain.
Really? Let’s dip into the archives, shall we?
“They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.” – Sen. Barack (no name) Obama, April, 2008
So people who don’t vote for Obama are racist, gun-toting, Bible-thumping theocrats who hate Bush but who can’t come to terms with their own racism and just vote for hopeandchange.
Stay classy, Obama.

Anyone who has commented on Obama here is already in the tank for the guy. There is nothing you can say to them to CHANGE their minds. On the MCCain non votes there is a reason why he did not vote for the vet package. There was billions of dollars in pork attached to that bill. If the Dem wanted to take care of the vets then they should have stripped the pork out of the bill. On his first failed marriage, he was though to be dead after years of captivity and his wife moved on with her life so this is understandable. The ex also has nothing bad to say about him. About marrying money. The MCCains have a pre-nup. That argument is pretty weak to say he married for money. If this is all the bad thing you can say about the guy he is going to have smooth sailing in Nov. . I cant wait for the debates when all we will hear out of Obama mouth is uh uh uh well well, um um well. Which is what he does when there is no prompter in from of him. Let’s face it. When the public, who does not read blogs everyday get wind of the REAL Obama, he’s toast.

consider…John McCain has had a free ride in this election and Obama has been pretty much a gentlemen about revealing a lot of crap he has in his closet. The issues are so much more important.

Obama turns his back on active military heros, he will not visit them without a camera. There was more pork in the package then there was money going to the vets, why do you think Obama voted for it, more money for his wife!!
I find it disturbing that Obama is playing politics of old and worse using our Vets as political fodder!!
Please choose Biden, he is a loser too!

Despite ‘some one’ ranting, the US is a pro-choice country. The number of women having late term abortions is so incredibly small as to be meaningless, yet ‘some one’ seeks to put restrictions on all women in the name of preventing it. There are more abortions because of rape and incest than there are late term abortions. Most late term abortions happen because women have to travel out of state or take time to raise the money.
The suffering that the religious nutcases are inflicting on women in this country is appalling.

Good Lt you ought to get your facts straight. Gore went out of his was to be inclusive for service members stationed overseas, including all ballots even ones that had flaws that could have been legally thrown away.
It is the GOP that is making it hard for our forces overseas to vote.
The RNC mailed these voters letters in envelopes marked, “Do not forward”, to be returned to the sender. These letters were mailed to servicemen and women, some stationed overseas, to their US home addresses. The letters then returned to the Bush-Cheney campaign as “undeliverable.”
The lists of soldiers of “undeliverable” letters were transmitted from state headquarters, in this case Florida, to the RNC in Washington. The party could then challenge the voters’ registration and thereby prevent their absentee ballots being counted.
One target list was comprised exclusively of voters registered at the Jacksonville, Florida, Naval Air Station. Jacksonville is third largest naval installation in the US, best known as home of the Blue Angels fighting squandron.
A soldier returning home in time to vote in November 2004 could also be challenged on the basis of the returned envelope. Soldiers challenged would be required to vote by “provisional” ballot.
Over one million provisional ballots cast in the 2004 race were never counted; over half a million absentee ballots were also rejected.

>This is why I’m voting for Obama. Character, Policy, and Integrity
“They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.” – Sen. Barack (no name) Obama, April, 2008
Character. “Policy.” Integrity.
Laughing. Out. Loud.

Obama may not challenge anyone’s “character and patriotism,” but he is not above implying that someone is a racist because they oppose him.

Joe Biden is more experienced than John McCain in terms of foreign policy and national security and everybody knows it.
Aside from that McCain makes too many gaffes.
1. McCain doesnt know the difference between Sunni and Shia.
2. Doesnt known that Czechoslovakia has not been in existence for more than 15 years now.
3. McCain doesnt know where al qaeda is. He thinks thay are between the borders of Iraq and Afghanistan when in fact they dont even share borders.
Joe Biden in your face!!

I’m concerned that Obama is so ‘nice’ when McCain goes out of his way to tear him down. McCain went before the vets yesterday and talked about how Obama wouldn’t back vets needs. Yet it is McCain who has voted against bills to aid vets or to provide our military with better equipment. Why isn’t Obama calling McCain out on his hypocracy?
Doesn’t this show weakness on Obama’s part?

Hmmmm, Keith, if you wanna bring up gaffes:
– Obama said in his Selma speech that that civil rights march was responsible for his parents meeting, when in fact he was born before that march.
– in Europe, he talked about “my finance committee”, when he does not chair, nor even is a member, of the finance commitee.
– he talks about 57 states.
– He thinks that the interpreters in Iraq speak the same language as Afghanistan.
– he says that Iran was not a “grave threat”, then 2 days later says that it is.
Forgive me though, some of these are not true “gaffes”. I have to give credit; some of them are bold faced LIES.

“They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.” – Sen. Barack (no name) Obama, April, 2008 Posted by Good Lt.
Please explain (carefully) what is not true in this statement. Many may not like what he said, but it is so true. When are Americans going to start facing the truth? Are we just children and have to have everything sugar coated? It is also true that many Americans are “whiners”; we expect the government to step in and save us from the messes we get ourselved in. We do not want to hear that we need to stop spending and start saving. We don’t want to hear that we need to learn to conserve instead of running our heating/airconditioning at full blast, driving our big SUV that get 12-15 mph. We are still in many ways a racist country. We are so afraid of the truth that we condem those who have the courage to state the truth. We get angry when we are told that we are not a perfect nation, that we too have issues that need attention. It is time for Americans to grow up and be adults. We WILL be a stronger nation when we do.

This year, McCain supported Bush 100% of the time. When he bothered to show up to vote. McCain – the only man dumb enough to quit a no show job.

Decent American,
so now you admit both McCain and Biden make gaffes however Joe Biden still makes McCain look like an amateur in foreign policy and national security.
Am glad you did because not too many McCain supporters will do that.

McCain has given more than 20 years of military service to his country. Obama has given his country squat.

What kind of nonsense is this? His patriotism is not in doubt because of anything McCain has ever said about him but because of his own words, deeds, and associations. People question his patriotism because for 20 years he sat in the church of a pastor who screams obscenities at America… Because his wife gives speeches announcing her lifelong contempt for this country… Because Obama’s rationale for not wearing the American Flag pin was that to do so wasn’t “true patriotism.” If anything, Obama is the one who should be apologizing to all Americans for questioning their patriotism!

“it is a fact that Obama has shown superior judgment than McCain over the last 8 years and this is not a secret.
Posted by: Keith | Aug 19, 2008 11:34:06 AM”
Really?
Obama was dead wrong on the surge. And he would choose to be wrong again. When Russia invaded Georgia, it took Obama three tries before he came forth with an intelligible position, which then mirrored McCain’s position.
When faced with a tough question on Saturday as to when babies get human rights, Obama voted “present”, just as he did 129 times in the IL state Senate. He ducked the issue.
Presidents don’t get to vote “present.”
Every time it really matters, Obama falls down.

Those of you who make light of John McCain’s as a POW -
What is the most physical pain you have felt in your life — going to the dentist?
You call him songbird — You try being tortured as he was — and see how fast you cry “uncle”. He has already admitted how ashamed he was that he did this.
What was the biggest torture Obama has suffered? Maybe it was when he couldn’t find gum to chew since he made the gut retching decision to quit smoking.
Can’t you remember that Freedom is not Free.

Krista
A community organizer does not do much to get people off charity. It’s a political position that strong-arms people into voting the way the party wants them to vote.
What Obama did very well was to work with Rezko to cheat charity folk out of their community dwellings and into slums.
You can look it up!

“I have never suggested that Senator McCain picks his positions on national security based on politics or personal ambition.”
Indeed, His Holiness would never throw out a personal attack, he is too good for such low behavior.

Sorry Senator Obama, but the right to question is a basic right of the Constitution under freedom of speech. It gives the voters the right to question your patriotism based on your past associations and you the right to call them bitter because they ask these questions.

I simply can’t figure out how Obama has managed to convince so many people that he should be the President of the United States.
Obama is not proud of the country that he wants to lead…and neither is his wife.
He claims to have the “judgment” to lead. Yet his judgment has been faulty when selecting associates like Rezko and Ayres. It only took him 20 years to realize his pastor was a vile spewing and hate filled anti-American. He threw his white, racist grandmother under the bus before he resurrected her as one of the people he would seek advice from at the Saddleback Forum. He believes people in the heartland are bible thumpin’, gun totin’ rubes who don’t know the difference between a dandelion and arugula. His position changes on any given day to suit his audience.

Remind me again why does this guy has to keep asserting he loves America?
Oh, right, his own wife (one of his ’3 wise men’) said in public that America is ‘downright mean’, and for the first time in her adult life she’s proud of America. And his pastor and mentor screams ‘G-D America!’.

Jake, when I read your post, I thought I would appreciate what Obama had to say. Then I watched the clip of Obama. I felt like I was being lectured to. Obama seems very cranky and self-righteous. Not an attractive combination.

McCain has hate mongering friends too. Hagee and Parsely. While Obama has said he was not in church when those words were said, we know for sure that McCain knew about hate speeches from these two pastors yet he approached them because they can bring him votes.
McCain will rather win an election than denounce hate mongers.

Hey Angela, you say change was the mantra of Castro and Hitler.
It was also that of Thomas Jefferson and George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglas, FDR, Winston Churchill, Martin Luther King, Ronald Reagan, Mother Theresa, Desmond Tutu on and on and on.

Contrary to popular belief, John McCain, by his own admission, DID NOT LOVE HIS COUNTRY when he enlisted:

Obama continued, “Let me be clear: I will let no one question my love of this country.
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Then, who is the one who places his hands between his legs while the national anthem was sang, and who said to defend the constitution by voting against and filabuster the spying bill to pander voters, yet when it comes to the challenge he voted for giving Bush’s government the power to spy on its citizens?

Obama continued, “Let me be clear: I will let no one question my love of this country.
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Sure. “I was proud of my country for the first time in my adult life,” after my husband got some white votes and 93% of black votes.’ – another Obama said.

I don’t want socialist “change” and equal distribution of wealth.
I make about $50,000 a year and I don’t want to share it with those who won’t work and look for government to take care of “everything”.
Obama’s mantra -
“Vote for me and I will make sure “BIG” government takes care of all your needs. You just need to stand there with your hand out.”
I share what I want by giving to charities of my choice. The government is not supposed to be a charitable organization.
I do agree with Obama on one thing –
We need to “throw the knuckleheads” out. ALL of them, including ding bat Pelosi and wimpy Harry Reid.
We never had federal income tax for the first 100 years of the Republic. Since income tax, social security tax, capital gains tax, estate tax and tax on tax, the government has just found more ways to spend the money we earn.

“Isn’t it IRONIC that a PASTOR and NOT a REPORTER was the main instrument in getting Obama to finally answer some tough, difficult, yet truly relevant questions?”
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I’m not dissing Warren in any way, but the only questions Obama answered were the ones he had in advance.
The others were “above his pay grade.”

For some reason the last half of my first post at 12:20:51 seems to have gone missing. Here’s the missing part:
[Obama] exhibits all the narcissism and ego mania of John Edwards without the baggage of a mistress and a love child.
He’s shallow, inexperienced and self serving. He’s not about unity, he’s divisive…and has consistently played the race card while casting the blame on the Republicans. I’ve not heard McCain utter a word about his funny name or that he’s black. BTW, he isn’t black, he’s bi-racial.
The Democrats are constantly preaching about changing the country for the benefit of “the children.” And here we have a guy, hand picked by the MSM, who endorses and promotes INFANTICIDE!!
The Obama campaign slogan is Hope and Change. I’m sure he “hopes” he’ll fool you long enough to be elected president. The only “change” I see is the promise of higher taxes, bigger government and Marxism.

“Let me be clear: I will let no one question my love of this country”
and how will you stop them? China-like censorship?

“Has McCain ever “flip flopped”, and if so, how do you feel about it?
Posted by: Lou | Aug 19, 2008 1:20:09 PM”
No doubt he has, but he didn’t portray himself as “different”, “new”, complete with “hope” and “change.”
Therefore, it doesn’t matter what McCain does. You guys keep bringing this up to provide moral equivalence and cover for Obama’s failure to abide by his own promises.
The Obamessiah was supposed to be better.
He’s not. He’s worse.

Any love Obama has for this country places far, far below his love of self.

McCain: ‘Behind all of these claims and positions by Senator Obama lies the ambition to be president’
I love these types of statements from the McCain campaign. Are we to believe that McCain isn’t an ambitious guy who has envisioned himself as President for the past ten years at least? Come on!

I’m going to vote for the guy that gives tax breaks to the wealthy people who ship my job overseas and bankrupts the company I used to work for and walks away with a 30 millon dollar bonus tax free. Yea thats it.. because I know he will start more wars and keep me safe in my cardboard house because I lost everything I own. Man this makes soo much sense. Do you people even stop and listen to yourselves… LMAO!! A vote for MCsame is a vote againts workers and is a vote againts america and the dream. Mccain = America hater he even said it himself his pastor didn’t!

Take a look at the pre-presidential record of the very first Republican president – Abraham Lincoln. Also from Illinios. It is almost identical to the 2008 Democratic candidate Barack Obama. It might not even quite match it.
Obama 2008!

If a candidate for president spent 20 years sitting in a racially divisive church, purchased his home with the help of a now convicted criminal and received $250,000 in campaign contributions from him while he was already under indictment; if this candidate’s policies do not make sense and he flip-flops on critical campaign issues; if he spent only 143 days in the Senate before running for the toughest office in the world; if he had a bad habit of associating with radicals, crooks and people of questionable character; if he had another bad habit of throwing anyone or any policy under the bus at the first sign of trouble; if the only thing this man has to run on is his ‘good judgment,’ when the aforementioned shows that he has exhibited anything but – wuld you vote for him?

The Dems had their chance and blew it. I’ll vote for anyone BUT Obama. If you prefer to call him McSame then McSame it is. McSame08

Hey drjohn, I was just wondering what you thought of McCain’s “flip flops”

Have they? You need to read history a little closer. I think you need to take it up with Bush and hhis wealthy tax cuts for exporting jobs. Trying to get new shady free trade agrements passed. And by the way last time I looked republicans have controlled the congress
most of the time “democrats have been shoving free trade down your throat”

>>>>Obama said,….The times are too serious for this kind of politics.”
And the times are too serious for Obama’s race-baiting – which he engaged in all throughout the primary.
NObama!

What if there was a vote to decide if $13.5 billion in tax breaks for oil companies should go into oil alternatives, like solar and wind? What would you want your Senator to do?
Well, as you probably guessed, there was such a vote. We needed 60 votes to prevail, and 59 of them were in. But John McCain ducked the vote.1
As a result, instead of powering millions of homes with clean energy and building next-generation solar technology, we’re giving ExxonMobil and other companies billions in tax breaks at a time when they’re already making record profits.
What a Patriot!!! Obama 2008!

Posted by: Joe | Aug 19, 2008 1:47:34 PM
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Maybe you missed it. I said “my kids.” That means it happened in their schools. Which means the NEA. Which means the Democratic party.

“McCain disavows pastors’ backing”
Nashua Telegraph 5/23/08

of course, i’m sure you and your wife love america now because you have a chance to become the president. Question is are you and your wife still going to love america if you’re not elected??? i guess not because then you wouldn’t be proud of american anymore. No radical liberal loves america, period.

Barry’s campaign insisted that Senator McCain cheated in Sadddlebrook. So much for the “honorable” road.

McCain has attempted to distance himself from some of Hagee’s views, much as Barack Obama is doing in relation to Rev. Jeremiah Wright. But unlike McCain, Obama has not stood on stage with Wright and accepted his accolades this year.

So I do think one thing we can all agree on is our govenment right now just sucks. Right?

drjohn, you didn’t answer my question regarding how you felt about McCain’s “flip flops”.
But that’s ok.

fact check… Coal will never be clean. Thats a quote from 2 chemical enginers
Posted by: Joe | Aug 19, 2008 2:21:15 PM
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That quote was 0-bama’s top energy policy advisor, the good Gov. Bill Richardson said in formulating and defending 0-bama’s electric plug-ins. 0-bama, who is clueless on Energy and scientific facts, believed in Richardson and thought coals could really be “clean” since Richardson called it “clean carbon”.
Who do you think Richardson is selling out now?

I agree with Marylou, no Presidential candidate EVER has hade to prove his patriotism like this empty suit AND put up a website to Stop the Smears (more like Don’t let the Truth Out). This really is “new politics”. So glad my candidate doesn’t come into question on this…….COUNTRY FIRST!

America used to know John Mccain. Swamp of terrorist lovers and america haters? You are reaching my friend! I can critize my country and still love being in it and being here. I assume you are reffering to Ayers? Well that my friend is guilt by association they live in the same town big deal! I live in the smae town as the Unibomber did. Does that make me a terrorist? I think america knows obama. I think it’s just close minded people who chose not to listen that don’t know or don’t want to know Obama. And that my friend is why he is up in the polls. How did he blow it on the surge if you put 30,000 brave troops anywere they will acomplish there mission duh! Why the surge is failing and did fail is because now they are gone there is no political reconsilation that was supposed to happen while the surge was in place. Although we did make the country more secure for the time being. Do you just rattle off maccain’s lies or do you think for yourself?

power2people,
mistaking a fact that was documented in her own book is not the end of the world.
Yet, deception to get votes is closer to it. He who said he would vote against and filabuster Bush’s spying bill during the primaries, and then voted for the bill, giving Bush’s government power to spy on you does not deserve support from a good voter like you.
It’s sad, however, to the contrary of facts, that you thought HRC and McCain was supporting to give ExxonMobile tax credits while you thought 0-bama had voted against it.
You need to know more facts before you go to the booth.

“[Richard Quinn] is a fine man who worked for Ronald Reagan and Strom Thurmond and other fine people.”
–John McCain, defending his neoconfederate advisor, who believes that slavery was a good thing

power2people
That Obama didn’t know how many states there are helped convinced me he shouldn’t be president.
That he listened to Rev Wright for 20 years and didn’t recognize a true “hater” of America convinced me he shouldn’t be president.
He is above is paygrade — and I thought the “buck stops here” is what being President is about.
Go Hillary!

” are reffering to Ayers? Well that my friend is guilt by association they live in the same town big deal! I live in the smae town as the Unibomber did. Does that make me a terrorist?”
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It’s a lot thicker than that. They served together on a board, and I believe Ayers specifically requested Obama. They are good friends. There’s more to come. Wish I could link you to it.

-suggesting, as he has so many times, that I put personal ambition before my country-
As with personal ambition before you congressional district. Are they Rezko building still without heat (some have been condemned) even now that Obama got his Rezko mansion?

yup, clean carbon coals. It gives energy and vapor of dry ice. It must be clean, right?!

drjohn, if the Obama supporters are “afraid” (I think not) of afraid of Stanley Kurtz (an admitted partisan) investigating the strong connection between Obama and Ayers it’s not because of what he will find, but what he will report his twists and manipulattions” into “facts”.
What Kurtz does not do is provide hard evidence to support his claims.

Joe, DrJohn is right. The Obama/Ayers relationship goes deeper than that they lived in the same town.

McCain: ‘Behind all of these claims and positions by Senator Obama lies the ambition to be president’
Are we to belive that McCain isn’t ambitious? That he doesn’t have an ego the size of Mt. Everest and a belief that he – John McCain – should be President?
Give me a break. He’s been grooming himself for 15 years.

drjohn, not to belabor the issue, but my point is made. It”s ok for McCain to “flip flop”, but not Obama.
McCain has changed his views on just about every major issue. Two months ago, he was against drilling for oil here, now he’s for it; he’s been for and against gay marriage; he’s been for and against tax cuts; he’s been for and against pork spending…you get the point.
But it’s ok, because it’s John McCain.

drjohn, the Annenburg Challenge is proof that Obama, Ayers, and Ayers wealthy father are more than just acquaintances. The Challenge was created to create social revolution through the educational system. Ayers father bankrolled it; Obama served as its Chairman of the Board at his request. Ayers and Obama go back to Columbia U. They’re much more than just neighbors or just acquaintances. Is such an education model pertinent? Ayers teamed up with Hugo Chavez recently extolling revolution through education.
Ayers father was familiar with Obama because he got his son’s college friend (Obama) a summer job at a law firm he did business with. Of course you need look no further for proof of damaging info when information starts disappearing from the web or is being blocked.
Where there’s smoke, there’s fire and the Ayers denials are as damaging as any lie Obama has told thus far. I take that back – there is one huge lie out there that is sure to come out Election Day.

Thank you for that, Mary Lou. Quite righ.
I hope your post survives.

So what happens if McCain wins? Does he send millions of fresh newly drafted soldiers to Georgia to fight off the Russian oppressors, possibly starting WW3?
What a true patriot.

drjohn, as far as giving Kurtz access to the files at the Daley library, my basic response would be to answer it would be “fair” to do so.
Now, I’m not falling into Kurtz’s cover up conspiracy, but after reading his earlier articles on the matter and his attempting to interpret the library’s refusal to release the documents as a “cover up” gives me good reason to say it would be fair NOT to do so.
Especially after a line like this:
“The records would almost certainly make Obama out to be a liar about the extent of his personal relationship with this unreconstructed terrorist:”
If Kurtz was playing “fair”, then releasing the files to him would be “fair”.

It’s a fair statement.
Obama has said that Ayers is
“..just a guy (he) knew” like a neighbor. It’s far more than that.
And Ayers is admittedly an unrepentant terrorist.
“Guilty as hell- free as a bird” as Ayers puts it. Ayers didn’t kill anyone but only because of incompetence and not for lack of trying.

great speaker, poor legislator

i know i love America because i will vote for the only candidate who will make the best President: Senator Clinton

both obama and Senator Clinton know that America needs a strong leader to lead all Americans towards a better future…..obama is certainly willing, but only Senator Clinton is able to do so….

You’d think the guy who stands behind our military would vote in favor of the GI bill?
Bring oour troups home.
Time horizon… right.
OBAMA 2008

It’s been well established here, at least among the McCain supporters, that they find Obama’s alleged “flip flops” quite bothersome.
Any McCain supporters care to tell us what they think of their candidates “flip flops”?

dk
Do you think Russia withdrew because Obama noticed someting?
DO you think Russia has withdrawn anything?

Debra, which of our “enemies” support Obama?

And I for one I’M NOT A GORGIAN! They haven’t done a thing for me just like these stupid Iraqi’s I would rather have Russia on my side than a country that can’t even defend itself. And thats “straight talk” my friends!

drjohn
“Do you think Russia withdrew because Obama noticed someting?
DO you think Russia has withdrawn anything?”
2 words: Verb tense

Go Obama!!!
McCain supporters your just angry because the small little smear attack ground you assumed you had was just broken with truth!!!!
WE the PEOPLE – YES WE CAN!!!

I never saw Obama give McCain such a clean whupping as he did today at the VFW Convention. This crowd clearly didn’t like McCain’s politics-as-usual attacks of yesterday. They know he’s better than that. He knows it himself. And Obama knows it too and called him on it.

“Uh uh, ee ee, but but…Let me be clear. And they say Obama is a great speaker.”

Here Obama connects. He reminds us why so many of us support him. McCain is like a relentless hammer with his attack ads against Obama on the war. Some of us have family about to enter this war. We have family who have already served 3 tours. Yes we all love America We also honor McCain’s service to this country. Obama having a General like Colin Powell support him just might give Obama the edge this election season.

I challenge anyone on this blog give me an example of Sen. McCain judgment and/or experience as a President? Even better, how is Sen. McCain helping the veterans that are returning from the war? If you don’t have any experience (example) on the Sen. McCain then stop making bogus comments on his experience with the Iraq war. It will be one of the biggest mistakes next to Vietnam War.

Anyone or anything relates to bush is bad thing and anything like mccain IS relate to bush. we need new thinking in this country and DO NOT FORGET who raised deficit in this country, bush jr., bush sr., regan, it is old elephant not the donkey raised deficit in this country and took donkeys to fix the problem ever since I came to this country and voted for all those republicans since ford era.

he loves this country, how about kenya and indonesia?

Under the veil of anonymity, the best in people comes out. Obama is an inspiration. Any attempts to ignore this speech resemble attempts to ignore wild conspiracies like “the moon landing”.
The difference between the Obama bashers is that they focus on things like his race and vague partisan politics whereas I think an Obama supporter can applaud a valid point from McCain. The only problem is, valid points are few and far between for McCain and that is precisely why Obama is in this position.
If McCain wins this election, it will only affirm the world’s suspicions that that the majority of Americans cannot make the right decision anymore (re: Bush round 1 and Bush round 2)