On Leno, McCain Invokes POW History When Asked About House Controversy

and Ted kennedy babbles on about the moon and his brother. can he give a speech without invoking his brothers?

Obama is an elitist and radical guy who has shady judgement to be friends with terrorists and anti-Americans. Obama’s wife hates America. How the hell these kind of people can even think about being our President and first lady?

NOUN, VERB, P.O.W.

westseattle, very well said.

Why does he keep bringing up being a POW. I mean enough is enough, how many times do we have to hear it.

McCain is not the only POW that this country ever had.
Many of us and our families served and still serve this country in uniform.
So I have tremendous respect and I honor McCain’s service.
However, being a POW is not a qualification for POTUS.
In Mcacin’s case I even think his POW status should disqualify him. We have evidence he was brain-washed by the Vietcongs and he sold secrets to the enemy that may have led to the death of almost 5000 Americans.

Samantha: How many times the elitist, radical Obama talks about his ‘community service’? A community organizer with radical views and terrorist connections CAN NOT BE OUR PRESIDENT. We TRUE AMERICANs will NOT let it happen. Period.

CJ,
You are the one spouting conspiracy theories to justify your candidate’s blatant exploitation of his POW status. You realize how ridiculous this argument is? I doubt you do.

It’s called highlighting your strong points, the overcoming of hardships, the qualities acquired as a result, and the assurance that he honorably served this country and has the integrity to lead it.
On the other hand, “Obama has . . . a speech” highlighted on his three by five card resume, and more questionable elements of his past than a hound dog has fleas.

CJ not as much as the POW story which has nothing to do with anything. And I vote on issues and I won’t elect McCain who plans on continuing the Bush policies.

McSame has NO INTEGRITY to lead my country.
He is an adulterer who shamelessly abandone his wife in the same way he adandoned his country and gave secrets that led to the death of 5000 Americans.
McCain is a fraud.
He wined and dined with Charles Keating.
He took bribes and other gratuities from Abrammoff and his gang of thieves.
Just what integrity are you talking about?
Your MCCaine is a fraud.
WE WILL NEVER ALLOW HIM TO BE POTUS.

Samantha: Do you really believe the liar Obama? Read my earlier post and you will know how many times Obama has lied to get elected. McCain on the other hand has always stood up for the Americans. He has critisized Bush. The only policy he and Bush has same is that McCain will not increase Taxes. What else?

I read an article the other day written by a lieutenant colonel that said McCain cheapens his service and the service of other soldiers with this brand of garbage.
McCain is doing exactly what Republicans accused Kerry of doing when he threw away his medals. In my view, that was an act of true patriotism on the part of Kerry, in the vein of our forefathers… men with real integrity. McCain’s cheap pandering is a stain on our flag, just like his performance in the US Navy up to and after he was captured. Google the USS Forrestal to learn how McCain’s arrogance resulted in the burning deaths of more than 100 US soldiers in Vietnam. This man’s heroic capital was spent the day he walked out of that camp… just to pay for all the crap he did before those years. And with the way he’s pissing on the service of real American heroes now with his cheap politics, he’s proved that was true.

As a veteran I am becoming increasingly offended by McCain’s constant use of his time in Nam as a defense to any question or attack. I feel as though he is cheapening his experience and his service and in doing so is cheapening my service…I won’t vote for the man. I also find the outright lies and smears about Obama to be disgusting…he never went to a Islamic school, it was a public school open to all faiths…everyone needs to take a breath here.

TR: So in your mind Ayers is not a terrorist? Wright, Farrakhan are not anti-Americans?

How does spending 5+ years as a POW give someone the moral compass to do the same to others?

John McCain only mentions 3 things in every sentence: a noun, a verb, and “P.O.W.” He has demeaned and devalued his military service by using it as a cheap political tool to get out of really answering the tough questions. Is there anything this guy won’t do?

McCain playing the POW card in response to Leno’s question about the house was a repeat of Brian Roger’s bringing up his POW experience after Obama criticized McCain for not answering accurately about his homes and also their worth. I think the POW issue was also brought up by Rogers after it was discovered McCain wasn’t in the cone of silence last week. Then before that, it was evoked the week before when the Bush pastor, who married Jenna, brought up about McCain offering up his wife as Miss Cow Chip in Sturgis. In short, McCain’s status as a former POW has been his defense in three major embarrassments timed roughly a week apart, not counting his Leno appearance. This certainly doesn’t go along with accounts of his humble reticence to talk about his POW experiences.

McCain really needs to quit with all of this pitiful P.O.W. garbage, before he becomes a joke, just like Rudy “Noun-verb-9/11″ Giuliani. He’s quickly becoming a tired, sad joke.
We know he was in Vietnam. We know he was captured. We know he can’t tell his rear end from a hole in the wall. It’s bad enough that he fumbles simple questions so badly that even CBS decides they can’t air the answers to them, and now he has to use that pitiful P.O.W. defense for every stupid, asinine, and wrong statement that he’s made about foreign policy, his so-called area of “expertise.”
John McCain is nothing more than a tired old Bush republican losing more of his marbles each and every day, and every day he gives us yet another reason not to vote for him.
Go home, John, and stop embarrassing yourself. Even the Republicans deserve better than this.

So if you have so much property that you don’t know what you own, that makes you bad. I think that’s why people have things like accounts and such to keep track of such things

Steve_NJ Stated
“WE WILL NEVER ALLOW HIM TO BE POTUS.
Man, you need your head examined! You sound like a crack pot. Do you realy think deep down that Obama is anything better than what has come before. The only reason I would wish Obama to win is to prove he is just another politician and you all have been played for fools.

This nation is going broke and the best you people–all of you–can do is shout at each other like children on a playground.
It’s disgusting.

Anyone check out the tight vineyard vines tie Joe Biden was sporting?

If you vote for someone because they suffered… isn’t that like the same as reparations?

Peach – I’d be surprised if you could quote just once where Obama has played the poor little victim card in response to a direct simple straightforward question he was uncomfortable answering as the weak minded spineless McCain did on Leno.
What McCain tries to hide is that HE is the very elite that his campaign encourages tools like you to believe Obama is. McCain is the rich out of touch elite person who last demonstrated any shred of human toughness 40 years ago in a POW camp and has largely been a rich little tool ever since.
He started out privileged, the son and grandson of Naval admirals and let’s all be realists here for a second… with his grades and the attitude he freely admits to having, we all know why he wasn’t thrown out on his ass at the Naval academy and why he was even able to get in in the first place and it wasn’t his merits.
When are you people going to get tired of putting these children of privilege into office? They don’t serve us. They don’t do what’s best for us. They never had to make it on their own like most of us and they never will. They are not fit to represent us because they are not representative of real americans. They are representative of the top 2 percent only and that’s it.
Obama did not inherit a legacy and got where he is on his own merits. That’s integrity and honor I can believe. Not some rich tool whose going to tell me that our domestic oil supply, which could only serve our needs if we could use it as fast we use oil now, for a little over three years, is going to magically make us energy independent. I’m not surprised a tool like him would say that, given that he doesn’t even know how many houses he owns or what his own opinion is on whether insurance companies should cover birth control the way they cover Viagra. The guy’s an embarrassment. Voting for him sends the message to the rest of the world that America is an over the hill testosterone deficient wannabe leader who can’t answer simple questions with straight answers. Heck no to sending that message.

Life lesson: Never ever ever trust someone who calls you by the word “friend”, if you want to learn the lesson quickly goto a place like costa rica (a comparatively safe country, within 24 hours you will find someone calling you ‘friend’ if you choose to trust them you will have lost some valuable item with 1min-4hours later).. McCain self admits he knows nothing about the economy.
If you watch McCain every few weeks he postures the country to goto war with another country, so far we have had to be concerned of a war between the US and {Iran, Syria, Russia}.
I find McCain to be a scarier man than Obama. Although i’d rather see Ron Paul or D. Kucinich, I’ll vote Obama..

Ster: McCain can donate 100% of his $135,000 salary as a Senator. So what? His wife makes tens of millions.

John McCain and his “I was a POW ya know” schtick is fast becoming as tiresome as Rudy 9/11.

Obviously McCain sticks up for the elite. Is this even debatable? Republicans are always concerned about the elite, because the elite are what rule the great American dream since they are at the pinnacle of it. If you want to summer in Nantucket and send your kids to Taft and Hotchkiss you should vote Republican because that’s the fratty thing to do. Do you happen to like UVA lacrosse and Dave Matthews Band?

How much did Obama’s donate? They donated huge amount of money to the racist church. Obamas did not give a penny to the Katrina victims

How will you fix the economy? I was a POW for 5 1/2 years. How will you fix the housing crisis? I was a POW for 5 1/2 years. How will you fix the crisis in IRAQ? Did I tell you that I was a POW for 5 1/2 years. McCain really has nothing to say to the American people. We don’t know his anything about his platform. BUt we do know…that he was a POW for 5 1/2. I also have a question about the McCain images…Why do we mostly see images of his military days as opposed to current images? He’s 72 so what. He should be proud of that but instead I think he’s ashamed or else he still feels like he’s living in his POW days.

Famous FORMER PRISONER, approves CIA’s torture of prisoners.
Appalling or just crazy? Now our troops are exposed to being waterboarded.

Good Lord! Stop with the slams. I appreciate McCain’s lack of interest in his wife’s houses.
The LARGER issue is: who has a resume??
McCain has decades of working with the other party and a solid track record of accomplishments!
Obama has NO TRACK RECORD, and NO RESUME!
We just had eight years of a President who was light on experience. LOOK WHAT HAPPENED!!
Obama has even LESS experience than GWB!!! May God help us if Obama get’s elected!

Erik: Why do Obama supporters do not like when someone talks TRUTH? Is that why Obama did not put Hillary on the ticket?

STER you are mixed up.
ONLY McCain went on TV and claimed to have an insider source who KNEW that the IRAQI’s did the anthrax attack on Congressional offices.
Kerry, Gore, Clintons. NONE of them every said that.

The only reason why McCain being a P.O.W. is relevant is because that’s all he knows how to say. He’s forgotten everything else, like who he is and what he believes. The saddest part is that this is the best that the Republican Party can do. No wonder they can’t even win in Mississippi.
McCain is an embarrassment to himself. He needs to drop out now, because when he decides to invade the wrong country again, he ain’t gonna be able to use that P.O.W. crap as an excuse.

CJ said: “A real American is one who is willing to criticize America.”
Not when they are lying about it… or making America sound like a BAD country when it’s not… it’s the greatest, most free country with the most opportunity than any other in history. The problem is, Obama and the others do not see ANY good… only the bad.
Sad.
You know who else does that? Socialists and Communists.
Now… think about it for a while.

Are people not reading my comments or what? This interface doesn’t really celebrate other people READING anyones posts..it’s more just a bunch of people rambling. As I’m typing this about 50 things are being said that I can’t see. I bet:
1) Someone brings up McCain being a POW
2) NO ONE brings up Joe Bidens awesome SHARK PRINT, VINEYARD VINES purple tie
3) Someone brings up why Obama is a fluke
4) NO ONE talks about Republicans been LEET in Nantucket, Cocktail Parties, and liking University of Virginia varsity lacrosse

I nearly threw up on my keyboard. McCain evokes his POW years like Giuliani evoked 911.IT’s a losing strategy. He’s just changing the subject. Being a captive does not make him qualified to be President. McCain can’t remember how many houses he has, and his wife can’t seem to remember how many siblings she has. It’s just gross.

“Question: How many houses do you have?
Answer: I was a POW for 5 and half years.”
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A well played move to show his patriotism and experience qualities in the face of such an idiotic question about houses. Old schoolers will not answer such personal questions. It’s his business, not anyone else’s. So when the question went unanswered, the hope was for a real journalist to find out the answer from real documents and set people straight about the “He OWNS 8 houses. . . blah blah”. First, even if he did, whoooopty doo? Second, look at who actually owns each one, who lives in each one, which ones he’s never been to, and then realize that Obama’s fraulent dealings with a felon landed him an estate worth far more than what McCain in reality owns.

Does no one remember the attacks against Kerry? They attacked him for his military service, they attacked him for marrying rich, does any of this seem familiar? Or are these tactics only O.K. for Republicans to use

You do realize that Obama is a US SENATOR which means he already has som form of security clearance as does Mcain

MissS:
Yes, sort of. he owns none. His wife owns them. But, I guess it’s the same thing. Did you know Obama also owns a mansion. $1.6 million (bought undervalue)?
SO WHAT?!?!?
Why is it wrong to be successful? Isn’t that what we ALL want? I wish success on everybody in America!
Why is that a sin?
Nobody gets poorer when someone gets rich.
Were you ever hired for a job by a poor person? NO!
America CREATES wealth! The more the better! Work hard and YOU will get there too! You may not have 7 houses, but this is the greatest country for the opportunity.
Why is it so bad (for Democrats) to be successful? How many houses does Kerry have (I bet you voted for him)? Or the Kennedys? etc… etc…

No one says anything about the taxes that
Senator McCain pays on his many houses.
He can only stay in one house at a time.
I think he will make a great president. It
will take Obama 4 years to learn
how to run the country. Then watch out the
next four years. Could be interesting.
Some of us sleep in our car. DQ

Right on RL!!!

I’m so sick of McCain playing the POW card because of his inadequacies. He used it in regards to cheating on his first wife, he used it in regards to Saddleback, he used it in regards to being asked a simple question about his houses. When are the people of this country going to wake-up? When are people going to educate themselves and stop being so ignorant to change? McCain is a disaster for this sacred country, and will completely remove a woman’s right to choose, a man that called his current masked face wife the c-word, a man that is not for equal rights or pay for women. A man that is a complete hypocrite when he’s says he’s going to run an honorable campaign, but all he can do is put out negative ads and talk about Obama, instead of the issues and what direction this country should be moving in. He talks celebrity, but was on Leno again earlier, and was all hunky-dorey with Singer Daddy Yankee. He’s all talk, and a man of the wrong experience, or should we call it, bad experience. Republicans voting for McCain should be on edge, what a loser they have in their corner. I can’t wait till he picks Romney, they hate each other, and have like 12 or 13 houses between them; that’s hardly being in touch with the middle class, but I’m sure he’ll continue to play the POW card. Well, at least until it gets played out. ;~)

We have become to stupid to rule ourselves.

Does McCain have anything, anything at all to give us except POW, surge, and a near obsession with Barack Obama?

Keaton 5
McCain statement: “American economy is doing GREAT” (while millions go homeless)
Drill Oil on American soil (when he knows that the oil will go to the WORLD MARKET FIRST, NOT TO AMERICANS) OPEC CONTROLLED.
ANOTHER TRILLION DOLLARS TO THE FAKE FRONT OF IRAQ (GIVEN TO HALIBURTON)

How many houses? What’s up with this question? I know people with lots of houses too. So what? It’s really nobody’s business, and the tally of one’s property is not related to the execution of policies or of one’s philosophy.
Making an issue of this is petty, does not define anyone as being out of touch, and proves nothing. Actually it proves one thing, that the liberals don’t have anything earth-moving to dish on the Republican candidate.
Obama has a mansion! And he’s wealthy! He is well removed from the average middle class America too! He’s in effect enjoying the same American dream that McCain is enjoying, and yet the Liberals attack McCain for it and put Obama on some pedestal for it. Typical Liberal double standard!
And what about Biden’s overstated education issue? And with Obama’s past, I know a person of Obama’s past would easily be considered a security risk! So it makes me wonder how he got as far as he did. Easy answer… hippie ex-drug addict liberal votes! We only need to look at our own past to see where we stand on that one!

Someone please explain to me how you can be an elitist and a radical, a muslim and a Christian under Jeremiah Wright for 20 years AT THE SAME TIME? Bottom line… if your doing well in this economy, if you don’t mind people dying in a war that was created based on a lie, if you don’t mind well educated people loosing their jobs with little hope of finding another equivalent paying job, then vote for McCain. It’s your vote, use it to support the candidate you feel will help you most. Just remember, we live in a society and if you consider yourself to be a “moral” person, what’s occuring in this country to others should keep you up at night. I ask any Republican willing to have a civil conversation… where is your compassion for your fellow man? I’m serious… I don’t see that in the Republicans portrayed on t.v.

“Can McCain make any public remarks without bringing up that he was a prisoner of war?!”
Um… yeah.
Could Kerry? No.
I bet you voted for him, didn’t you?
Case closed.

Waa waa wah. John McCain has houses. Waa waa wah. Name me A US senator or governor that doesn’t have lots of expensive real estate. Democrat or Republican.
This latest political distraction does not address my real issues. Affordable healthcare, affordable housing, affordable transportation and next on the list of things I have trouble affording: food. There is no change I can believe in, only more of the same old mud fest slinging campaigning. All I hear is distractions, empty promises and lies.
Jesus Christ, when is there going to be someone that actually delivers solutions to the real issues that keep “We the People…” from actually achieving the promise of Life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness?
Please God, get this election campaign back to what it is suppose to be about, politicians serving the public for the public’s good and not themselves or their party.

JUST A SIMPLE MAN, WILL NOT MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE OVER AND OVER AND OVER..
THE LAST PAST YEARS HAVE BEEN A FAILURE
WHO NEEDS ANOTHER FOUR WITH McCAIN AT THE WHEEL.
ONLY A FOOL REPEATS THE SAME MISTAKE OVER AND OVER AND OVER ANDV OVER AND OVER ……….

Ster,
Let’s be clear here. Neither McCain nor his wife are “successful” in the entrepreneurial sense. She earned her fortune by inheritance. McCain earned his by marriage, after cheating on the wife who waited on him when he was a POW.
There is nothing wrong with being wealthy. But there is something wrong with supporting the Republican WAR ON THE MIDDLE CLASS.
The GDP of America has doubled since 1980. Where is the growth in middle class wages? Nowhere, that’s where!
The Republican write the rules to benefit their base. The wealthy DOUBLE their wealth and the middle class struggle to keep a decent life and to send their kids to college.

STILL HE DOESN’T KNOW HOW MANY HOUSES HE HAS. I THINK IT IS BECAUSE OF HIS AGE.
AGAIN:Mecane steels people heart by telling his captivitu in vetnam and when he talks about it he thinks makes his listeners to belive he is the only vetran from that wrongly started war and finished shmefully.
He uses it like a currency to buy peoples heart, ear and now their vote AMERICA WAKE UP BEFORE CRYING FOR THE NEXT FOUR YEARS.
MACANE STOP USING YOUR EXPERIANCE IN VETNAM AS ACURRENCY TO BY PEOPLS HEART BECAUSE YOU ARE FROM RICH FAMILY AND GOT A CHANCE TO BE ON NATIONAL STAGE DONT MAKE MONY AND STATUS WITH THAT EXPERIANCE. THERE ARE MANY VETRACE WHO DIDN’T HAVE A CHANCE LIKE YOU AND CANNOT CASH IN TELLING THEIR STORY. WE ARE TIRED OF LISTING YOUR BLABLA BLA …..VETNAM……BLABLA…. TALK REALITY NOW.

Just to straighten out those who comment on Kerry always sayign he wasin Vietnam, he basically only pushed it once, at his speech at the convention. It was the whole swift boat issue that kept him talking about his service in Vietnam. You can thank the Republicans if that bugged you then and now. The Democrats realized very early how stupid it was to say anything about Vietnam, especially when Kerry flapped his mouth when he came back. So Kerry’s Vietnam issue was pushed by Republicans, not Democrats or Kerry. And W was elected on it.

I read the often repeated line, “McBush”, or “Four more years of the same policy”. Take a look at The One. Who does he most resemble in politics? I say, “Not another four years of O’Carter”. Can anyone remember Iran? What are the odds??

Why do the Dems, ever since 1959, present Whos from Whoville? Jimmy Who? Michael Who? Bill Who? Barack Who? Maybe it’s because they have slim resumes, tons of “Great Ideas”, totally despise anyone who questions their “Truly Superior Wisdom”, and, oh yeah, were born in a log cabin. JFK’s wisdom brought us to within minutes of nuclear armageddon, LBJ – who personally ran the Vietnam War, Carter – one of the least effective Presidents since the USA’s formation, Honest Bill announced to all, on national TV, that he had problems with the truth. And now we are supposed to throw our unconditional support behind someone with a one paragraph resume? But, then again, he’s got “Great Ideas”! Ok, right.

Guy said: “and even connections to Marley, the 1976 car-bomber of Arizona Republic investigative reporter Don Bolles.”
Is Marley related to Bill Ayers who bombed the Pentagon, the NYPD and the Capitol who is a “friend” of Obama? Hosted his first fundraiser and was on the FBI’s 10 most wanted list?
Oh… sorry to bring THAT up!

JL said: “The media tends to prop up this kind of dialogue, but we can stop it.”
I hope so! It’s business that CREATES wealth — sometimes out of thin-air! I mean, did anybody get poor when the CEO of Google got rich? NO!
So tired of treating business like cr*p. THAT’s why businesses leave America. High taxes and they’re vilified. So, they split!
You’re right… ANYONE in America can pay a $25-$50 fee and start their own Corporation — (AND HIRE PEOPLE) — and get rich! Try and Try again!
You can’t do that anywhere else!

Yo, TripleHaze:
Where do you work? Is it for a Corporation?
Are you too stupid to realize that for $40, you can start your own? No? Go ahead!
Maybe you too can EMPLOY people instead of sucking off the teat of government.
Maybe you’ll get rich… if you do… you’ll deserve every penny. What’s stopping you? The man? No… just $40 for a license.
Get out there, bust your a** and make it happen.
REALLY… what’s stopping your *ss other than laziness? I’ve got three businesses… one doing well… allows me to work from home and read your lazy a**’s posts! I am now employing TWO people … WITH benefits!
What are you doing? Other than asking your Mom for money and looking for the cheapest dope prices? LOL!
GET UP… WORK YOUR A** OFF, and GET RICH! Then, you too can hire people and make them rich!
Or… you can stay on the couch, watch TV and be mad that all these other people have more money than you. Well, when you put in more than 12 hours per day, 6-days per week like I do… we can talk. Until then, grab your Mom’s box of Frosted Flakes, eat up, and SHUT UP!
When YOU provide someone with a job and experience, THEN you can post your drivel. Otherwise, go to sleep and let the rest of us make America. We do it one job at a time! YOU do it NO JOB at a time. Lo-hoo-hoo-ser!

Blah-Blah-Blah
If you paid close attention to what the current Administration has said –versus what they have actually done,(And I mean looking up actual speeches coming from the White House and Washington– not listening to some fool’s opinion for the sake of listener ratings – they don’t even believe half the stuff they themselves spew and laugh all the way to the bank!), then it’s fairly easy to see what has happened to the country as a result of the current Government. We all know people that have lost their homes due to foreclosure or disaster. Who got helped? Who’s still waiting? Homeowners are near the bottom of the list while these huge financial institutions continue to get propped up with tax dollars from your paychecks. When has the American Family suffered so much at the hands of their own Government? Then there’s this war that should never have happened. Afghanistan was necessary. Iraq? We were lied to about that one, just look at the words vs. actions! More of the same? WHY? So it could get worse for us? No way. Let’s see if Obama is good to his word. I know this current Pres. isn’t and I don’t want to see McCain in there – 71 years old – that’ll make him 75 or 76 at the end of the term. He should be enjoying retirement – not running the most influential country in the world.

Shoot, I’m a conservative and a Republican and I’m pretty sure that many large companies are run by corrupt, greedy, polluting, sweat-shop running, bean-counting, selfish, military-industrialist types who often run these companies into the ground and parachute out.
Anyway, though I’d be quite happy to see a qualified Vietnam Veteran be President, I think Sen. McCain needs to scale back on pulling out the “POW card” because it’s wearing thin with many people and just gives ammo to his detractors.

Playing the POW card over and over may work during a campaign but I’m not so sure it would work as President.

Ah Ster. You assume much don’t you?
Well, yes I did work for a corporation for 15 years and my job was outsourced to India. A very well paying job.
I work for a private company now (which I much prefer, even though I make less money) and yes I know I could start a corporation, I already have a sole proprietorship.
No, I think people who start businesses and employ people do a great job. Small business people that is – not when it grows into this corporate nonsense.
I’m talking about these corporations who have sold the soul of America. That’s what we need to stop. Or reign in.
Sorry, it’s been 30 years since I’ve lived with mommy and I probably work more hours than you. Again, you just assume. And as usual, you are wrong.
If you are really conservative, then listen to a real conservative like Ron Paul – he speaks about the evils of corporations. It’s not anti-business it’s this machine we need to stop.

Ster: “It’s business that CREATES wealth — sometimes out of thin-air!”
Actually no, it’s consumers. The current market has made this abundantly clear.
Without consumers, a business is doomed to fail. Low wage workers and the middle class have so squeezed by this administration that they only can spend on basic necessities. That’s why Wal-Mart is doing great but every other business is in deep doodoo.
Without people having money to spend, there’s no consumption. Without consumption, there’s no business. End of story.

Underdog,
Perhaps you haven’t been following between the lines of all the Associated Press liberal run media machine (and yes, FOX get’s their news from AP too, so they’re screwed as well). The only repeat I see is a constant liberal cowardliness that has crippled the current administration. And what mistakes were made were made on both sides of the isle. Whatever upset’s you, there’s plenty of blame to go around! Also, half of the bipartisan fact finding mission launched over those mistakes was in fact seated by McCain. And I recall clearly that McCain was quite critical about the handling of Iraq. Remember too that the troop serge has been very successful, and has shown that there’s now light at the end of the tunnel. McCain supported the makings of that success, Obama voted against it. Thanks partially to McCain’s support, we may be able to soon redirect our attention to Afghanistan where such a focus is really badly needed. McCain can best lead on this issue. Obama hasn’t even been stable on his direction on these issues. Let’s get this straight, McCain is not Bush! Not an ounce of similarity at all! Bush didn’t listen to McCain early on. Had he done so, things would have been much different. Now’s a great chance to allow McCain to finally execute a strategy that will quickly and cost effectively bring a swift resolve to the middle east issues, and do so without a quick cowardly all-out pullout that will leave a country and region in devastation. By the way, did you know New York City is by far more dangerous than Baghdad? More people die on the NYC streets than on Baghdad streets on a daily average. NYC citizens are American’s, but who’s ending the violence there? And I didn’t even mention LA, or the other inner city killing fields. AP could care less for NYC or LA. They just sell the news that get’s commercial play (liberal lobbyists anyone?). But no, AP paints a different picture and the blind lemming liberals would follow AP off a cliff if led that direction! So don’t give me that broken record scenario. It’s too easy of an argument to have any bases in reality. The big picture is wider and more complicated than most can muster. And far too many trust AP to fill them in. If you want to look at a stuck loop, just look at the current house who’s liberal dominated, and has an approval rating far below that of Bush… Ouch! I’m sorry, but a two-faced ex-drug addict isn’t going to help matters. We really need McCain!

POW is not a qualification for President of the United States any more than it is an answer for how many houses do you own. And the funny thing is, after the week of being made fun of, he still can’t get that answer right. He does not fit my definition of fit for office.

McCain is becoming a one-liner, or rather a one-worder: POW!
He’s beginning to remind us of the old TV Batman series in the ’60s. You all remember Adam West and Burt Ward as Batman and Robin when they would get in their fights with The Joker, and The Penguin and The Riddler, and the rest. The cartoon signs would be inserted in big letters on the screen: BANG! BONK! DING! BOINK! POW!….I knew you’d remember….It seems John only remembers POW! and inserts GOP! occasionally…Not enough for a tv show, and certainly not enough for a sequel!
Yelling POW! every time he forgets where a country is, or how many homes he has, or whether Sunni’s and Shia’s and Kurd’s like each other, or why he never learned much about economics other than to marry into it, or why affordable healthcare and the housing and mortgage crisis mean something to middle income Americans and why their taxes should be lowered not the multi-millionaires, simply will not suffice as a convincing argument.
I respect your service; I respect your status; but you are treating it like a joke when you ignore issues and throw out the word POW! like it is your magic wand.
I learned more about military integrity and personal integrity from my WWII Dad who seldom even mentioned or talked about his war days. He kept his medals respectfully in a box. It was only late in life that we learned what his Bronze Star was for. His view as he raised us was he did what his country asked, no explanation or excuses needed, and no special treatment asked for; and then he firmly told all of us to go get an education so we could learn enough to prevent wars, and earn our way with our families, and provide the leadership for our kids when it was the next generation’s turn to lead.
I am guided by his words. It is time for the next generation to put that education to work and provide the leadership that will make the world a better place. I will work for Barack Obama to be the next President of the United States. Join in this effort. Make our nation proud!

cindy’s money bought his soul.
worse, most of those houses sit empty as investment properties. no one lives in them.
yet his economic advisor phil gramm helped regular americans lose their homes to foreclosure with his lobbying work for the bank UBS.
so maybe johm can put them up for the night.
since they have no house, no kitchen table, and no reason to feel as blessed as he is.
not really being a member of his church and all that.

Thanks, cincyr, but the point there was McCain is going to continue the ideologies currently set by the Bush Administration. He’s changed his tune quite a bit since he ran for the GOP ticket in 2000. It’s politics. He’s gotta say and do what it takes to get him elected. Same goes for Obama, but given the state of affairs now, why would anyone want more of this kind of Government? We need a different direction. I’m not sure it will improve, but of the two, I trust Obama to accomplish more for working families than a Bush wannabe.

Someone said that Rudy’s sentences all contained a noun, a verb and 9/11. Substitute POW for 9/11 and you’ve got McCain. His attempts to invoke his POW experience into the housing matter are getting more and more embarassing. He needs to knock off irrelevant messages about the past and start telling us what he’s going to do about the future.

SO OBAMA IS AGAINST THE AMERICAN DREAM NOW EVEN FOR FORMER PRISONERS OF WAR

McCain just doesn’t get it. He’s out of touch.
“What it has to do with putting Americans in houses and keeping in their homes. And that’s what I’m gong to do.”
Right. Foreclosures all over the place, telling people to take second jobs, forego a holiday, not having a clue about the price of groceries, taking an entire motorcade to Starbucks so he could pick up a lousy cup of coffee .. what does he know about life as it’s lived.
That’s the point. But it’s an inconvenient point for people who just like to interpret this as an attack upon those with wealth. Because they really couldn’t give a damn about their neighbour. Just about themselves and who they can screw to the wall so they can climb on their backs.
Greed is so ugly.

Full honesty please!!
This is not a story about the American dream, but instead the use of a powerful story that many have lived but that few use regularly to explain all actions throughout their lives. Whether one chooses to support McCain or Obama, we shouldn’t feel good about campaigns that use such a powerful story to explain minor (number of houses) and major (infidelity) mistakes. This is a disservice to the experience that so many faced and lived through, but an even greater disservice to those that perished due to worse conditions.
Rather than coming to a conclusion about McCain or Obama when this type of story is done, blind backers of each try to invoke the other to justify or excuse actions of their favorite. This is not productive at all, and indicative of a rotted system. In this case, it is clear that McCain is only hurting himself by taking a powerful strength to explain something stupid away.
The only relevant question is: Is McCain correct in using his POW story to answer the houses question? For me the answer is a strong NO.
Judge THIS story and don’t state lies, it serves no one and discredits your argument. Couldn’t go through all the comments but here are two good examples:
McCain is a citizen of Panama. How is he running for president?
Obama who hates America and disrespects our honorable military men/women.
Do we deserve good leadership?

As i read articles,blogs, personal comments etc..I’m amazed at how divided this country is. “Bush” the great divider has suceeded.The middle class is deteriorating by the minute and our prejudices will elect another GW Bush in november.As far as the POW issue. Like Guilliani and 911, he has nothing to really talk about. God bless him for his service but at least he didn’t wind up like the 4,000 plus that he helped send to that crime of a war in Iraq

I don’t care if it’s Cindy or John who owns the homes, the fact that they are so wealthy, coupled with Senator McCain’s own admission that he doesn’t really understand economics, coupled with his economic advisor’s comments that we’re only in a mental recession and that people need to stop whining, suggests to me that John McCain isn’t really the guy who is going to be fixing the economy.
He and his advisors just don’t get it.

riceowl – McCain is a Natural Born Citizen
Now Jake you should do a story on Obama who can not seem to find his Birth Certificate and Hawaii has no record of him!!
So is Obama a Citizen is the question?

gee you all must be doing better than you were four or eight years ago–
if not – and you are like most people- stop the silly posts and get real
this country is in a mess
it is not 1960 0r 1970
Past or Future –
McCain is the son and grandson or admirals – he was a POW – but examine the record – whch he had sealed — the old Swift Boat people are now forming Swift bost for Viet Nam vets -
There is a reason he had his records sealed – none of this would matter if he wasn’t running on his POW record – but that is his answer to everything so now he may need to answer for his own actions during that time

There’s a international crisis in the former USSR state of Georgia.
McCain is sending his VP Cindy McCain to evaluate and contain the situation.
Our current Monarchs the Bushes are “out to lunch”, heck
after running the country into the ground they’ve decided to run out for a
long lunch break, maybe until November. Guess they figured, what the heck?
we’re out anyway, let’s just kick back and steal office supplies.
McCain’s got it under control, my people are in his camp and with FOX News
behind the McCains, here we go, 4 more years ! 4 MORE years! FOUR MORE YEARS!

OMG…what is up with that stupid ? about how many houses they have??? Like it has anything to do with his politics or the campaign, not to mention that the people asking the ? are soooo hypocritical I could gag…they probably have several houses themselves. I am so sick of this ???, why is it acceptable to ask someone how wealthy they are, but you would never bash someone for being poor…their wealth (as long as it didn’t come from ripping off Americans) should have nothing to do with politics!!!