Obama Surrogate Attacks McCain for Age, Cancer

McCain is 72. That’s a fact. Reagan had the beginning of Alzheimers at that age. McCain has had cancer four times. That’s a fact. To pretend that’s not an issue is crazy. McCain is old. McCain is sick.

Look, the fact is that McCain is 72 and has a history of serious health problems. You can’t deny that. Despite what we have been told, he does not appear healthy and vibrant to me for a man his age. Throughout this campaign he has taken weekends off–a luxury that will not be available to him if he becomes president. That means we should be looking even more closely at Governor Palin than we might otherwise.

The Democrats are desperate and out of control.
They spent last week driving away the female voters, small-town voters and now they want to risk losing the most reliable voters of all?
It’s true–Obama and the Democrats are not in touch with average people.

Jake it’s not the age and illnesses
it’s the choice and judgment he used in picking the countries decider in chief…if that happens.
If that happens he threw America’s fate to a woman who knows nothing on a single issue we are facing…
a woman who they have hidden away and now we see we are being played …
He is being attacked for putting his own self candidacy above the welfare of the nation.
which with his most important decision as President he has shown clearly that is the case…it’s not about the country it is about the same political simy tactics of the last 8 years
the exact tactics, team and judgment that got us here.

Raising a legitimate question is an “attack” on McCain, Jake?
Please, for the sake of our country, get off the tire swing for good!

Mckain is 72 years.
Palin constantly lies.
GOP, Please Dont try to fool the Americans again!

Facts are just that and we can’t afford to bury our heads in the sand given the extremely tough times that American families currently face. With that said, Sarah Palin is NOT the person that we should want one beat away from the presidency. In fact, her consideration for the vice-presidency should truly raise a serious doubt for each of us entering the polling both this coming November! Howard , NV.

cindy in nc
everyperson I know including the ones voting for mcCain who are over the age of 65…say Mccain’s age is their biggest concern with him
so what does he do
gets the least capable, knowledgable person with the least amoutn of grasp of the enormous issues we are facing and says if something happens to him…
this moron who second guesses facts, makes them up, doesn’t believe in science really…who can’t answer follow ups on anything never mind the issues we actually face…
is going to be the leader of the free world…
yeah that is stupidity.

McCain has more experience, better character, is tougher,has as much energy, and way more control over his mouth than Obama.
And the most important thing–he actually has a proven record.

sally
with his biggest decision as a possible President… and a possible subsequent term
he showed
his judgment is pitiful.

Going after McCain because of age??? Palin because she’s female??? Dang, the democrats are really imploding big time.

McCain IS old.

Actually, I see MCcain age as an inspiration. That dreams and wanting to do great things in life does not have to stop when you hit 70.
At any age there is an opportunity to do great things for your country.
In addition, lets not forget it was Obama who took 1 week to relax and MCcain had no vacation. It’s Obama who had too many gaffes and blames it on not having enough sleep and MCcain has not.

Death comes to all of us at different times. Those that take illegal drugs harm the body. How did Obama beat his drug addictions? He took them for a very long time. What affect will it have on his judgment? He has a LOT of mind blocks, stutters and repeats when he has to talk off the teleprompter. His past drug addiction could be far worse than McCain’s age!

I am appalled at the comments in the commercials from Obama in respect of McCain not using the Internet or the computer, shame on you Barak Obama for being wso cruel, the man cannot type because of his war injuries. Pray that you never have to face a disability of any kind. Shame, shame.

Everytime the Dems mention McCain’s cancer, the number goes up. He’s had it twice, three, no four times. By next week, they are so panicked that they’ll have him on life support.
Guess what. McCain on life support is still a better president than Obama or God forbid, the horrible Biden. Obama’s biggest judgement pick? A plagiarist, father of a lobbier, blowhard liberal.
Good choice.

McCain is a rotten liar,
a hothead – a man without
scruples and moral convictions.

Jake,
Would you please report on the real concern associated with the vice president? I keep hearing people say it is McCain’s age that worries them. I am not worried at all about his age. I am worried about the history/reality of the presidency against the McCain ticket.
Out of the 43 presidents that have been in office, 8 have died in office. Of these 8 deaths, 4 or 5 died from unnatural causes, depending on how you view the death of Harding. Of all the vice presidents, 1 in 3 have had to assume the presidency at some point.
To hear people say, well McCain is so healthy, I am just shocked. First, I am not advocating any harm come to anyone, especially a president. With that said though, I look at these comments in conjunction with history and say are these people nuts? Do they think McCain is bullet proof?
With a history of 1 in 5 presidents dying from unnatural causes and so many more having attempts made on their lives, is Palin ready to be the next president?
Please stop saying it is ageist or McCain is fit as a fiddle. The question is what if something happens to McCain be it natural or unnatural, can this individual known as Palin take on the office of the presidency?

About time they came out and said it… he’s too old and Palin is too dumb. Period.

Independents and fair-minded miidle of the roaders are going to decide the election. And Obamamaiacs are turning these people away with nasty ageist comments……………
and…….according to realclearpolitics…..in Minnesotta the race is a tie. Of all places in MN the race is a tie.
what happened to the red state strategy, 50-state strategy?
Obmamaniacs who have been posting here for a year that Obama will take Idaho, Montana and Wyoming!!!

That’s not how it works, Mike.
If Obama wins and Bidens dies, Obama would get to pick his new VP.

Keep digging that hole alittle deeper Democrats.

270 electoral votes needed to win.
Bam 273
Mc 265

I don’t understand why people would get upset about this. It’s a legitimate concern. I think there needs to be an age limit.

concerned in ohio
what is obama lying about? be spefic.
John McCain is 72 years old: true
John McCain may be the oldest elected: true
John McCain was diagnosed with deadly melanoma 2 times: true
His risk for death based on age and illness has increased: true
Therefore, Sarah Palin is one heartbeat away: true

Ageism?
What an odd tactic for the Democrats to use since Obama is losing that group of reliable voters.

Let’s see … in one week the Obama campaign and its surrogates have managed to offend women, evangelicals, senior citizens, melanoma survivors, women, computer-phobes, hunters, small town mayors, women, veterans, POW’s and their families, women and women. Did I leave anyone out? I wonder what’s on tap for next week?

Just wondering, smoking is a leading cause of cancer and lung cancer is pretty deadly, too. Obama is a life-long smoker. Based on your reasoning, Obama probably has about 2 years to live. Then Biden would be President. He’s a nice guy, but he has had aneurysms. So he probably has 3 years to live (based on your reasoning). See how silly you are?

OMG!!
How desperate can Obama and his surrogates get?
Their continued personal attacks against McCain will backfire!
PATHETIC!!

McCain has previously pointed to his 94-year-old mother as proof that the McCain family stock is one that lives long and healthy. But he hasn’t been telling voters — nor has the media adequately reported — another key piece of family history that they deserve to know: John McCain has already outlived both his father, who died at the age of 70, and his grandfather, who died at 61. It is reasonable for voters to be concerned that McCain, who has twice battled melanoma (a serious form of skin cancer) and endured severe physical and emotional trauma during his life, could have an ever greater likelihood of becoming diminished or incapacitated, or even dying while in office.

Woody–you left out families with disabled children.
Biden made a lovely comment about them that the MSM ignored.

Even if reformer Sarah Palin became President because of John McCain’s demise, it’s not like she would be running the country alone! Every President relies on a host of advisors for each department decision. Still, as long as John McCain lives, there is no problem. With his experience, he would make a great President regardless of his age. Obama has less executive experience than Palin!
On the earmarks: As every mayor and governor does, Palin was just doing her job in requesting funds for her city and state. The real responsibility lies with the Congress to reign in all these earmarks before they are given out. John McCain, as part of the Congress, has a real record of fighting to control these earmarks. Sarah Palin “got it” and said “No” to the bridge. But Barack Obama, as part of the Congress, received over one billion dollars in earmarks for his state since he has been senator. He also said on last Sunday’s talk show, that he has changed his mind and will delay repealing George W’s tax cuts since our economy is so fragile. Guess what? McCain has been saying this all along!
McCain, in his wisdom, looks at the big picture and what is good for our country. Obama looks at himself and what is good to get himself elected.
And as far as all of us bloggers: : “a man (or woman) hears what he (or she) wants to hear and disregards the rest” (The Boxer – Simon & Garfunkel)

Let’s see … in one week the Obama campaign and its surrogates have managed to offend women, evangelicals, senior citizens, melanoma survivors, women, computer-phobes, hunters, small town mayors, women, veterans, POW’s and their families, women and women. Did I leave anyone out? I wonder what’s on tap for next week?
Posted by: Woody | Sep 14, 2008 12:06:34 PM
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WELL SAID.
It gives you glimpses of the mindset of the followers of The One, The Messiah. Non-believers who don’t likr the Messsiah are being turned off. At this rate The One will carry only Illinois and Vermont on 11-4-08.

Anon 1
Obama released all his medical records!
McCain gave a time limit and strick rules for looking at his!
Why was one open (barack) and one so secretive (mccain) ?

obama was a constitutional lawyer, not a trial lawyer.
remember the CONSTITUTION? used to matter, at least pre-bush…

Pinion65
On the earmarks: As every mayor and governor does, Palin was just doing her job in requesting funds for her city and state. The real responsibility lies with the Congress to reign in all these earmarks before they are given out.
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haven’t you been listening, they are all lies. PLAIN requested earmarks – lots of them… and the bridge to Nowhere… “Thanks but No thanks… did she return the money? No, I thought If “Alaska wanted to build a bridge it would pay for it on its own”??? yeah with the earmarks she never returned… what a tool she is, can’t even keep her own lies straight.
Everyone, even FOX NEWS has called McCain a liar. Did you see him squirm on the View? What a joke. Can you imagine him with Putin????

Sick, sick, sick, Obama and his crew are sick!

Looks like the education BO got from Rev Wright is paying off.
Wright–the expert on name-calling and hatred.

would you want a 72-76 year old heart/brain surgeon?
i thought not.

Obama doesn’t appear to care too much for the constitution since he voted for FISA (wiretapping)after promising he would not.
If he could get away with it BO would deny freedom of speech to those who criticize him…he already tried to stop a radio broadcast on the facts about his association w/Ayers.

Sexist comments from GOP one expects to hear; but from the Dems? Come on now!
It’s just amazing to me how panic-stricken the Left has become since Sarah Palin was selected by McCain…
If issues matter, let’s just get McCain and Obama into weekly, unscripted “townhall” stle debates around the country. Let the locals ask questions and let the candidates answer.
Frankly, there is just too much “spin” and not enough open and honest dialogue between the two…
I don’t give a northbound rat’s southern exposure what someone else says about either Obama or McCain. I don’t want to hear someone else “clarify” what they meant. I want to hear it “straight from the horse’s mouth”, as they say…

The media has done an exhaustive, frenzied investigation of every receipt Sarah Palin has ever turned in; every speech she has ever made. There is still much that has not been thoroughly investigated about Obama and his years in Chicago. He does not have much experience either and is amazingly still an unknown.
Posted by: bct424 | Sep 14, 2008 12:26:48 PM
You’re joking right. Where have you been these last 18 months. And we are just beginning to learn about Palin.

obama was vetted for 18 months. his family was vetted. his friends were vetted. his family’s friends were vetted.
palin’s just getting started. quit whining. it’s no one’s fault except ‘maverick’ mccain’s.

Thanks, harry. I forgot about that. To recap:
In one week the Obama campaign and its surrogates have managed to offend women, evangelicals, senior citizens, melanoma survivors, computer-phobes, hunters, small town mayors, veterans, POW’s and their families and families with disabled children.
The McCain camp has managed to offend community organizers, the NEA, Chicago politicians, Bill Ayers and the MSM. Did I leave anyone off of this list?
Which side do you think is driving away more swing voters?

Hillary voter said:
Let’s see … in one week the Obama campaign and its surrogates have managed to offend women, evangelicals, senior citizens, melanoma survivors, women, computer-phobes, hunters, small town mayors, women, veterans, POW’s and their families, women and women. Did I leave anyone out? I wonder what’s on tap for next week?
It gives you glimpses of the mindset of the followers of The One, The Messiah. Non-believers who don’t likr the Messsiah are being turned off. At this rate The One will carry only Illinois and Vermont on 11-4-08.
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I am sorry you are not a hillary voter. Let me say what Hillary said over and over again:
NO WAY, NO HOW, NO MCCAIN/PALIN
Hillary has the best intrest in mind, for all women. Palin is against all that we so hard fought for. We must move forward not backwards. So stop posting this nonsense and calling yourself a Hillary voter.

Stan:
Biden not only opposed the surge but he wanted to divide Iraq into three sections–officials in Iraq said that would be a disaster.
I bet Palin even knew that was stupid.
35 years in Washington doesn’t guarantee good judgement.

Concerned in OH writes, “I don’t think you can call someone who’s only tried 14 cases a “mob lawyer”. Or even a “lawyer” for that matter.”
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If that’s the case then why don’t “you” become one? Afterall, if Obama can get academic scholarships to Columbia (NY) and Havard Law I’m sure YOU can as well.
What now? Is this the point where we start to PRETEND that the average Joe could accomplish what Obama has accomplished? Or is this the point where individuals like yourself “try” negate the significant achievements of others because they happen to be Black?

Chipo1965: I guess you missed my point. The responsibility for giving out earmarks lies with the CONGRESS. Palin was just a mayor and a governor doing her job for her people. John McCain, as part of the CONGRESS, has a real record of fighting to control these earmarks. Sarah Palin “got it” and said “No” to the bridge, and instead used some of this money for infrastructure which is her perogative as mayor and governor. But Barack Obama, as part of the CONGRESS, received over one billion dollars in earmarks for his state since he has been senator AND DID NOT SUPPORT EARMARK REFORM.

A vote for McCain means Hillary can never be President!
Its the truth I supported Hillary and now I support Obama!
This Palin woman has not paid her dues she isn’t worthy and should not ride Clinton wave and get what should be hillary’s that being her being the first woman vp and the first woman president!

Mike – Surgeon Fyodor Uglov won admiration across the globe and operated until the age of 103 he just recently died. He saved thousands of lives. He was proficient up until his death. He was admired because he took on cases that other surgeons felt as hopeless, and completed the operations successfully. This doctor from Finland was admired by all. What you are saying Mike is that America cannot produce any great people that are old, right? Only other countries have this ability.

Mike,
If you think Obama has been vetted by the MSM, you have another thing coming. Just look at the way Stephanopolis took in upon himself to “correct” Obama when he said “my Muslim faith”. Compare that to Gibson’s confrontational and professorial stance with Palin. This is just one small example of how Obama has gotten a pass for 21 months.
The Republican mud machine is just getting warmed up. Obama’s extreme left ties with the likes of Frank Marshall Davis to Ayers to Wright to Saul Alinsky will not play well with mainstream America. Those ties have NOT been properly vetted. McCain will have to start sliming big time in commercials to drive the news cycle because you know we will see a half dozen 20/20 and 60 minutes pieces on Palin over the next 6 weeks and zero on Obama.

America deserves better than Obama and his crazy surrogates!
They are not running to help America at all! They are only in it for themselves!
America does not believe Obama or his surrogates or the media cheerleaders that protect him.
McCaskill’s cheap shot personal attack against John McCain are not becoming of a US Senator at all, let alone an American!
PATHETIC!

Yes the Obama campaign attacked his disability to type on a computer keyboard this week too. Unfortunately his fingers are twisted and useless due to being broken under tortue at the hands of Vietnamese interogators. He can’t brush his own hair tie his shoes or raises his arms above his shoulders either. The obama campaign has gone beyond the pale attacking Palin’s family, and distorting her record, now they attack McCain’s physical issues he incuered during torture.
Really Classy! A real new hope and new kind of politcs1 Right! When pigs in lipstick fly.

Thanks, Chipo! I forgot another group the Obama camp and its surrogates have offended — active duty US forces and their families! Giving credit for recent successes to the Sunni and Shia instead of the surge and Petreus’s leadership is a real gem. Keep repeating that line, it’s a real vote winner!

An independent voter will never support this women Palin. Independent voter dont like all the smears and lies. The McCain campaing as turned to dark days..Every day the talk about negativity. Sad!!! I realy belive that at one time he was even with the independent vote, but now hes falling behind. Independent dont like Palin extreme views. Im starting to belive tha the more we know about this lady the more voter are runnig away. I can honestly say Obama will be a good guy anf I belive he means well.

Hey Jason,talk about extreme views. Since you support Obama, you must also agree with him that babaies born alive after abortion should just be left to die? Palin is the rubber glue candidate because as soon as you attack her about something, it brings to mind jsut how far far far far far far left Oblahblahblah is. Keep it up. Oh, and send Obama your change. He is asking for it “change we need”

Obama has consistently refused to release: his full medical records (a one page summary), any academic transcripts from any school, his application to the bar, full records from the Annenberg Challenge, any legislative records from his time in the Illinois Senate.
We have only his word that his drug use was brief, but we do know for a fact that he only admitted to going back to smoking after he was busted with a cigarette. We also know that he says one thing to an audience while saying the exact opposite behind closed doors where he thought no one could hear him.
We could go over Biden’s track record as a serial plagiarizer and outright liar (let’s not get even bother getting into his overweening gasbaggery) that dates back to his college days where he almost got kicked out of school entirely because of it.
On the other hand, the lives of Sarah Palin and John McCain have been gone over with a fine tooth comb by every media source and Democratic opposition researcher in the country. And after all of that, this is the best they can do to find a “scandal” or reason not to vote for the Republican ticket?
It’s a sign of desperation that Obama supporters have to cling to “yeah, but he’s gonna die” as a reason not to vote for their opponent. Aside from the spurious nature of the claim, do they completely lack the self-awareness to know how terrible it makes their candidate look to even raise the argument?
For those of you without a clue, here’s what it sounds like to everyone who isn’t deep in the tank for Obama:
“Yeah, I know my guy is really bad and you don’t like him. McCain is pretty appealing, but he’s gonna die soon. I know you’d rather vote for McCain, but trust me, you’d be wasting your vote because he’s old and feeble. My guy is awful, but he’ll probably live out his term! So try to forget how awful Obama is – Vote for Obama because he’s most likely to complete 4 years in office!”
ROFLMAO…Keep making that argument…please…

Kitty
The dumb thing is McCain was a smoker most of his life! McCain has smoked for more years than Barack Obama has been alive!

SNL was great!

The wave is turning. I knew that the Palin effect will be just a faint memory. McCain is droping full speed. He was ahead 7 points now hes ahead by 1 point nationaly. As a republincas I said the Plain was a good temp exciment. The reality is that I like so many othes republicans are not just voting republican just because. We will support the best candidate. Plain is just to controversial..The more she opens her mouth the more she lies. Even after she has been call on it she continues to lie. Soud familiar???CHANNEY all over again. No Not this time. This republican says NO PALIN.

Since cancer is being discussed… Socialism is a cancer which which destroys societies (Russia, Cuba, Vietnam, Eastern Europe, Venezuela, Bolivia), not to mention their economies. Now Obama and his cronies want to infect America with the socialism…

Obama trashes Hillary then, trashes Palin. No wonder women voters are moving to McCain/Palin.
Obama’s worst enemy is Obama!

I was a Barr voter until Palin was added to the ticket.
The leftists on this site have now convinced me to donate time and money to Palin/McCain…like I’m not busy, or poor enough already. Thanks for nothing Uhbama supporters.

Obama trashes rural America saying they’re too stupid to understand complex issues and have to revert to the bible and guns!
Obama’s worst enemy is Obama!

McCain is neither physically nor mentally prepared to be president of these United States of America. I can tell you from experience, when you hit a certain age you do not have the energy and stamina of a younger man in his forties or fifties to get things done. McCain has had bouts with melanoma and just the treatments will considerably slow any person physically and mentally.

Sakaashvili the President of
Georgia is going down. He
took instructions from a
nutter like McCain.

democrats,shame on you to say such kind of questions.
it is Obama’s muslim roots and education scare me.
God bless America!

Jake, Senator Obama and his surrogates are on the edge of disenfranchising many in the Baby Boomer generation, a large portion of the voting public indeed. Considering Senator McCaskill’s remarks today follow the ageism ad about Senator McCain regarding email (his POW related handicap prevents him from using a keyboard), the Obama-Biden campaign better back off this line of attack and fast.

These same people wouldn’t hire a 60 year old in the business sector. Yet they claim that age cannot be a factor for the President. Gee didn’t they claim that Obama was too young once? Insider, outsider, Too young, Too old, Black, White, Male, Female, Christian, Muslim, Athiest, Pro Life, Pro Abortion, Cut Taxes, Cut taxes, I think we are Bi-Polar!

McCain is the older candidate, but he is the one that had the guts to show real change by selecting Palin.
Obama proved how empty his change promise really is by choosing a wornout political Washington gasbag.

cCain is the older candidate, but he is the one that had the guts to show real change by selecting Palin.
palin… I can see Russia from my house aaa! LOL

The disrespectful Obama is angry. The only thing holding up the empty suit is the hot air rhetoric from he and his surrogates and the media cheerleaders that think he can do no wrong.
The Media does not want to support a loser. And Obama’s personal attacks against McCain-Palin is a losing strategy.
DESPERATE!!
DISRESPECTFUL!!
NO WAY! NO HOW! NOBAMA!
McCain-Palin ’08
Hillary 2012

Chipo,
By all means, please go on. Keep giving credit to some “grand awakening”. It’s a Joe Biden (Let’s partition Iraq) talking point and you’re regurgitating it quite well.
I actually agree with you that it was war that brought down the USSR. The Cold War was won without firing a shot by sticking by our allies and negotiating from a position of strength. The Russian Federation of States is certainly a much smaller and hobbled version of the USSR but they will not remain so forever, as we are seeing.
Now, care to take any bets on which demographic groups the Obama camp will offend next week?

If one candidate is selling lies and lipstick and the other is offering real polices and truth… I know who I’m voting for!
OBAMA 08

Palin’s take on her qualifications for being VP based on having been Mayor of Wasilla: “It’s not rocket science,” Palin said, according to the town newspaper, the Frontiersman. “It’s $6 million and 53 employees.”

Republicans are buch of hypocrites. In the republican primaries, Huckabee and Romney used to say that the age of McCain was a preoccupation and nobody shouted. When a democrat say the same thing, it becomes an outrage.
If elected president, McCain will be the oldest US president to be elected. It’s a fact, not a critic nor an outrage.
Imagine 1 second if McCain was a democrat. We would have read thousands of thousands messages about his “senility”.
Hyprocrites.

If one candidate is selling lies and lipstick and the other is offering real polices and truth… I know who I’m voting for!
OBAMA 08

Plumber
you are an idiot if you think Obama is a “socialist”
do you know anything about how a democratic capitalist republic works?
america needs to be smarter
and yes…more American and more patriotic to the values that this country was created on
those values can’t be found in your arguments…or carly fiorina’s for that matter.
they are abundant in Obama’s…
there is one campaign that will “relight the beacon” so to speak of what this country stood for…and it’s not the team that has trashed that America for the last 8 years.
we are taking our country back
and saving it from the lies and slime of the last 8 years that you obviously want to continue.

A question to all, regaurdless of your faith. COULD YOU MAKE A SLIP OF THE TONGUE AND REFER TO YOUR FAITH AS MUSLIM? Think about this.

and the Plumber
I think what Obama has going for him
is he is smarter than nayone on the other side…grasps the problems and issues better than anyone on the other side
and can actually form his own thoughts and answers…and details and follow ups….etc
on those issues, answers and changes
McCain and Palin…are horrible at that.
You obviously have never been ina q and a where Mccain is asked a follow up on anything outside military operational questions…
even diplomacy and foreign policy …the dirty little secret is…he CAN’T answer second follow ups because he gets either frustrated …makes a joke or says…drum roll…”I was a POW”
and that is the truth…
ask any reporter that has actually followed him
and Palin…can’t answer any question with facts and grasp
once again the choice is between morons who use manipulation and patriotism to get themselves elected…
and smart people who can talk for hours on issues taking questions and giving thoughtful answers…
lets hope you and opther aren’t stupid for a thrid time and vote for another 8 years like we just had.

In 21st century they went against the best candidate because of gender. Adios Democrat for your double standard…please vote McCain/Palin..at least McCain is better than your last president candidate Kerry and disguised Obama.

If one candidate is selling lies and lipstick and the other is offering real polices and truth… I know who I’m voting for!
OBAMA 08

dl(tro),
huh? Your gibberish is as incoherent as your messiah’s.
And yes. Your messiah is a Marxist.
We can talk about socialized health care, education, and energy if you want.

Deb. You need to read more. It was George Stephanopoulos with ABC news who corredted Obama during an interveiw.
I’m not the one who brought this up!!!!

This country, our economy, are in a shambles. And at the hand of 8 years of Republican leadership. You people want to elect someone of the same party, with mostly identical plans. Are you people stark, raving, mad? Absolute insanity, racism, or both.

d:
….”If McCain is such a maverick he would have chosen Lieberman”.
What gives you the ideas that a relatively conservative guy has to choose a liberal for a running mate in order to be a maverick? Sorry, that doesnt follow. There is no logic there.

Ted Kennedy has a brain tumor and has been a drunk womanizing sleaze-bag for years! I don’t see anybody running him out of town on a rail! This is typical attacks from Obama camp surrogates while Obama tries to pretend his hands are clean! If you have nothing else then attack on age or sex or race!

I remind you that Reagan won the elections with 69 years. He got reelected with 73, one of the biggest triumphs ever occurred: 525 electoral votes for him and scarcely 13 for Mondale. He finished his 2 term-office with an approval rating even higher than the first time.
In Great Britain Churchill was appointed prime minister with 66 years and led the country with one interval until 80.
If we talk about Obama, the effects of constant drugs abuse are very dangerous on people´s brain and damage seriously their mental capacitiy.

Bahahaha
You Obots ! It’s clear that you get your talking points from HuffPo and the DailyKos. Thanks for the entertainment. Everytime the Obots and the liberal drive-by media open their big mouths they help McCain/Palin win in Nov. … so PLEASE continue to rant!! LOL
NOway, Nohow, NObama
Go PUMA!

the plumber be careful they remove things that are obvious lies.
so they may start removing all of your posts.
speaking of lies now we are finding out that Palin didn’t actually go to Iraq. she went to Kuwait. Not even to where mccain has said she went?
when is the lying list going to stop.

Mick
McCain and Palin are ahead in the pols because just like they did to the country for the past 8 years
they have lied.
but unfortunately lies are hard to keep covered.
especially whne they are as numerous and big as these whoppers.

ernie |
Newsflash! Women live longer than men!

again what about the 3 lies that Fiorina made?
one which George had to acknowledge…she was spouting them and making them up so fast…he could only get to one
I think that is the bigger issue
“she gave back the money from the bridge”
can you beleive that Jake…you would say this is a bigger story than her lying again
the press needs to start valuing the truth…and calling out lies.
8 years they were “curbed” from doing so…and we are here now from that.
call the lies lies…now. not after our country has imploded.

==Women live longer than men!==
That’s cuz, for the most part, they don’t do much.

Psssss
OBAMA WILL WIN !
NO FEAR !
TRUTH WILL BEAT LIES
OBAMA 08

John McCain has said that Palin’s National Security credentials rest in the fact that “she knows more about energy than anyone else in the country” -which must come as a big surprise to many people from MIT to EXXON – but in the biggest speech of her life – at the convention – she got the numbers totally wrong – She claims Alaska produces 20% of the nations energy. Look at FactCheck – the number is closer to 3.5%. She is a moron and McCain is a moron for choosing her.

I saw a lot of desperation on the faces of Democrats this morning on the Sunday talk shows. This may mean a lot coming up.

It looks like a great number of the Daily Kos posters have made their way here making discourse impossible and relegating this site to name calling. Typical 0bama tactics.

Mr. Incredible
there is a big difference in going to Kuwait and going to Iraq.
and the biggest issue with it
is it’s ANOTHER LIE.
the list is getting long…really long to cover up the worst decision and most self serving and carelessly reckless decision by a Presidential nominee in the history of our nation.
that is the “so what?”

Senator McCaskill, Ms. Fiorina and Mr. Stephanopoulos:
With respect to John McCain the issues are not how healthy and vigorous he is or his age, but rather, the issues are his mortality and the likelihood of his becoming incapacitated and not able to perform his duties as President if he were elected. I’m a 62 year old male and about one-fifth of the males born in my birth year, 1946, have died. John McCain is 72 years old. He was born in 1936, and about one-third of the males born in his birth year have died. There is about a one-in-seven chance that John McCain will die before inauguration day in 2013 and about a one-in-three chance that he will die before inauguration day in 2017. The chance of either his death or becoming incapacitated is higher; however, I haven’t been able to find a good source that discusses the issue of someone his age becoming incapacitated. I do know that in the decision making process anything that has the likelihoods above demand serious and thoughtful examination.
I think that I have done this, and the factors above have contributed significantly to my decision not to vote for John McCain as President. The election of John McCain as President creates too high of a likelihood that his running mate, Sarah Palin, would succeed him as President within the next four years.
So, Senator McCaskill, when someone tells you that John McCain is healthy and vigorous and that his age is not a factor, smile sweetly and say, “This is not about his health, vigor or age but about his mortality and the likelihood of his becoming incapacitated while he is in office.” There will be of course an outcry of ageism that you will have to withstand. I do believe there was a very famous Missourian who said, “If you can’t stand the heat stay out of the kitchen”.

Nobama bloggers got the memo last week….”we’re going with the lie attack”…..just throw out everytime you can the word lie, lie, lie.
Not going to work bots….Obama has no cred to be POTUS, and keeps so much from us….no character witnesses for him….none, on either the CNN bio or FOX bio, just Indonesian half sister who he lived with for 2 minutes, and wifey Michelle….where are the people from his life that can attest to his good character? Oh, that’s right…Rezko in jail, Wright was banished and threatened, Ayers not giving interviews and Pfleger told to shut up too. Michelle pushed to the background…campaign realize she’s a detriment on the campaign trail.
NOBAMA, NO HOW, NO WAY.
COUNTRY FIRST McCAIN/PALIN

Why didn’t anyone bring up Biden’s health? Obama’s mother death at a very young age from multiple cancers?

Turning to the point of experience, what experience in foreign policy had Clinton, Reagan or Carter before running for president? How many foreign leaders did they meet?
Obama´s experience in foreign policy:
´I made a speech in Berlin´
´People in Europe adore me´
They also adore Madonna or George Clooney and they aren´t presidential candidates.

McCaskill is Missouri’s Harry Truman in a skirt:
“Give ‘em Hell, Harry!” Truman replied, “I don’t give them Hell. I just tell the truth about them and they think it’s Hell.”
McCain’s campaign has been playing dirty politics for months, which the media has ignored. It took several weeks of nonstop blatant lies for the media to finally start reporting on the lies
The McCain campaign is very good at acting the the pool innocent picked on candidate.
Our country is in severe economic trouble. McCain has already said he does not understand economics.
This election is too important!!! Make McCain and Palin answer questions from the media, which does not include Sean Hannity a fake hypocrite.

==mr. Incredibly do you just feel ignoring all the lies from the Mccain campaign is okay?==
What “lies”?
==…but the truth will save the country…==
That’s why McCain/Palin will win.
==the truth is the Republicans are trying to win and govern on lies for a 9th year.==
That’s YOUR truth, not truth.

“speaking of lies now we are finding out that Palin didn’t actually go to Iraq. she went to Kuwait. Not even to where mccain has said she went?”
Yo, dl, did it ever occur to you that State Governors aren’t really involved with actions on a national level? Let me give you a clue: B. Hussein Obama has been to Afghanistan ONCE, and that was just last month. He’s been to Iraq TWICE, one coming last month. BHO is in the U.S. Senate. Are you starting to get a clue yet? Doubtful.

You just disproved your point! Sarah Palin is white and she’s clearly brought down the curve! 6 colleges in 6 years? Her foreign policy experience is being able to see Russia from Alaska? She preaches abstinence for teens while her 17 year old daughter is pregnant? She’s against abortion even in cases of rape and incest.

There were 4 booths set up at The LA county fair yesterday. Two for the republicans and two for the socialist..errr democratic party.
Intrest levels appaered to be equal, however, you could tell just by the way the booth’s were set up there is a very distinct difference between the two parties. You would not have to understand anything about the parties, to know they are very different.
The republican party had very simple and organized booths, showing and pitching an exact message, while the democratic party had booths that were set up like a “head shop”. They were not only run by burned out hippies, but had everything from regae music playing, to incense burning to selling T-shirts tha looked like ones you would buy from at a concert from the 70′s.
What a mess. People were laughing, that was for sure.

Scott…are you saying that you judge people by the way they look?

Democrats are in the gutter. They just lost Florida, Missouri, Ohio, and Virginia. Large older population, and many, many retired military veterans who don’t appreciate being told by the friend of Pentagon bomber and his 5 time draft dodging VP candidate that he is too old.
Posted by: Karen
They’re arent enough of those people to out number the 2 million new voters that the Obama campaign has registerd or the millions of young people who aren’t being polled because they don’t have cell phones! By the way, Bill Clinton didn’t serve either but while he was President – a DEMOCRAT, the economy was great. In fact, the economy always does better under DEMOCRATS! Sorry but the geezers won’t be able to make a difference!

Palin is not only lacking in experience,
but she is not well-educated enough to
be VP. I’m a democrat and I think she’s
an awesome woman! But if put in a
national crisis situation, I fear she
will end up like a telemarketer – with
her color-coded answer cards.
Obama at least has National experience!
He has shown his intelligence and grace
throughout the primaries and GE. I feel
much safer having someone with his education and reasoning skills as my
commander in chief. If McCain had
chosen an educated, intelligent woman,
rather than a token conservative, he
might have had my vote.
Now: No way McCain, no way Palin! Save out Nation – vote with your brain!
Obama/Biden ’08
Oh, btw, we all might be killed by the
Russians if Palin gets in office, so McCain’s age is of no relevance.

Thanks Scott…I live in LA and don’t usually get to the fair, but I can imagine, even in LA county, Republicans at the fair would outnumber the Victacrats.
Tomorrow in Burbank, Meghan McCain is coming for a book signing at the Republican offices and I will be working it. Would love to see this stupid blue state turn red.

Obama – losing more of his ‘street cred’ daily!

==She preaches abstinence for teens while her 17 year old daughter is pregnant?
Her daughter, just another know-it-all teenager, disregarded her mother’s advice and did what she thought best for her, no?
==If she’d been given the option of a condem or some other form of birth control, maybe she would not be pregnant==
She had the option of saying, “NO!”

“vote with your brain!”
“Not to be a republican at twenty is proof of want of heart; to be one at thirty is proof of want of head.”
-Francois Guisot (1787-1874)
“Not to be a socialist at twenty is proof of want of heart; to be one at thirty is proof of want of head.”
-French Premier Georges Clemenceau (1841-1929)
“Ya know what they call the candidate with the youth vote? Loser” -James Carville

Democrats are in the gutter. They just lost Florida, Missouri, Ohio, and Virginia. Large older population, and many, many retired military veterans who don’t appreciate being told by the friend of Pentagon bomber and his 5 time draft dodging VP candidate that he is too old.
Posted by: Karen | Sep 14, 2008 2:40:13 PM
Fl probably, Missouri, maybe but Oh and Va are a definate toss up and either one could win.

Oops,
I should have explained what “republican” meant in 18th century France.

SOMEONE NEEDS TO CALL JOHN MCCAIN OUT ON THIS EXCUSE FOR NOT USING A COMPUTER!
THE EXCUSE THAT HE CAN’T LIFT HIS SHOULDERS IS RIDICULOUS! DO YOU USE YOUR SHOULDERS TO TYPE? NO! IF YOU HAVE AN ISSUE YOU CAN HAVE A TRAY THAT COMES OUT OVER YOUR LAP WITH KEYBOARD AND MOUSE ON IT! YOU CAN EVEN PUT A LAPTOP ON YOUR LAP.
YOU USE YOUR WRISTS AND FINGERS TO TYPE AND USE THE MOUSE!
I KNOW PEOPLE THAT ARE PARALYZED FROM THE NECK DOWN THAT CAN’T USE/MOVE THEIR ARMS, AND HAVE NO PROBLEM USING A COMPUTER DAILY! THERE IS ADAPTIVE EQUIPMENT IF THERE REALLY IS AN ISSUE!
STOP USING BEING A P.O.W. AS AN EXCUSE FOR EVERYTHING! IT’S GETTING OLD!
USING A COMPUTER REQUIRES, FINGERS, WRISTS AND ELBOW.
WHEN I SEE PEOPLE WHO ARE PARALYZED AND CANNOT WALK OR USE THEIR FINGERS/ARMS USING A COMPUTER JUST FINE WITHOUT ANY EXCUSES OR COMPLANING, AND THEN SEE THIS OLD MAN MILKING HIS P.O.W.NESS FOR EVERY EXCUSE IN THE BOOK, IT BOILS MY BLOOD!
I’VE LOST ALL RESPECT!
ABSURD!
YES, I KNOW CAPS = YELLING
BTW, I’M A C5-6 QUADRIPLEGIC THAT HAS NO FINGER MOVEMENT AND I TYPED ALL THIS JUST FINE!! THERE IS ALWAYS WAYS TO DO STUFF!

Let’s not forget the Foreign Affairs Committee that Bozo chaired and never had one meeting! Sarah Palin as VP has more experience than their Prez. candidate. There was a Navy Commander on CNN who just said the same thing….Palin MORE experienced than Obama.

Hey Jack, quit yelling….oh, and can your candidate land a jet? Thought so.
JOHN SYDNEY McCAIN….would rather him lead this country than a keyboard like all the losers on this board.

Debra,
You clearly don’t read or research the facts. Pundits, themselves have repudiated the McCain lie that taxes would go up under Obama. Furthermore, economic growth has almost always been better under democratic administrations and the poor have always done better. Abortions declined during the Clinton era but have remained steady under Bush. Debra, please do some homework before you post your remarks.

Why do Obama’s female supporters feel like victims? Can’t make it in a man’s world like Sarah Palin did?

erin at 3:05, as of today Ohio is
50 McCain and BO 44.

Vicky,
Several IQ tests later and I’m still at 130. Not genius, but not room temp either.

Wow, you can really smell the fear and desperation in the air. For McCaskill to make such an idiotic statement without any regard for how badly it reflects on her and her party, their internal polling must be even worse than the polls that the public is able to see.

Mr Incredible meet Sarah Palin
Two overly cocky individulas with no political knowledge and little intellegence. Perhaps you should be Vice President?
A match made in GOP land.

Obama’s campaign has now entered the rigor mortis stage! At the rate he’s slipping, he’ll be lucky to get Illinois’s electoral votes!

Compare the ABC questioning of Obama and Palin and tell me who’s protecting who here…
The following is a breakdown of the questions asked of the nominees:
Obama interview:
How does it feel to break a glass ceiling?
How does it feel to “win”?
How does your family feel about your “winning” breaking a glass ceiling?
Who will be your VP?
Should you choose Hillary Clinton as VP?
Will you accept public finance?
What issues is your campaign about?
Will you visit Iraq?
Will you debate McCain at a town hall?
What did you think of your competitor’s [Clinton] speech?
Palin interview:
Do you have enough qualifications for the job you’re seeking? Specifically have you visited foreign countries and met foreign leaders?
Aren’t you conceited to be seeking this high level job?
Questions about foreign policy
-territorial integrity of Georgia
-allowing Georgia and Ukraine to be members of NATO
-NATO treaty
-Iranian nuclear threat
-what to do if Israel attacks Iran
-Al Qaeda motivations
-the Bush Doctrine
-attacking terrorists harbored by Pakistan
Is America fighting a holy war? [misquoted Palin]

Jack….can you land a jet? Can Obama? I’m fairly confident with John McCain’s ability to lead the country and I’m not giving him any typing test to do it.
HILLARY SUPPORTER FOR McCAIN before he picked PALIN

At least Gore was an accomplished candidate. He did, after all, invent the Internet. Obama just invents new ways to practice hate politics!

Where is all the media vetting of Biden?

==Shame on McCain for being a POW! Shame on him for not using a computer! Shame on him for fighting for the USA! Shame on him for being old and still alive! Shame on him for getting cancer! Shame on Mccain for not being a community organizer! Shame on him for being a white male! And these are the “issues” that the Democrats are running on!!????!! Okay..good luck with that!==
EXCELLENT points!

Biden who?

Why is McCain running. I thought the retirement age was 65.

It’s clear to me that John McCain is morally unfit to lead our nation. He has, in the past month, lied countless times about Senator Obama. Today, even Karl Rove (Karl Rove!!) admitted as much.
I also think it’s important that Senator McCain release his wife’s tax information and his own medical records. One, we should have a full disclosure of Mrs. McCain’s business dealings (as a matter of course–Senator McCain does aspire to the highest office in our land) and, for the same reason contained within the parenthesis, Senator McCain must release to the public his medical records. He’s 70 + years of age and has had skin cancer four times. He owes it to the public.

Obama dodged 10 town halls/debates with McCain….so I don’t care if Palin dodges interviews until Nov. 4(she’s not…there are a few this week). I do predict these will be the highest ratings for a VP debate in history. And if Gov. Palin held her own with that pud Charlie Gibson, then she’ll be fine. CNN tonight is doing bios on both VP candidates…..tune in.

==It’s clear to me that John McCain is morally unfit to lead our nation.==
I’ll still take him over Obama.

Barack Obama’s worst nightmare: Michelle Obama!

Biden has had 2 brain aneurysms. He seems in worse health than McCain and is only 5 or 6 yrs younger. I am scared something would happen to him and Obama would be in charge.

Sure, the liberal drones will try to make this some kind of election issue. That’s what they do. Ignore the issues and focus on the ridiculous.
But this isn’t an application for a Walmart greeter. It’s PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES!
Obama is DANGEROUSLY unqualified and has a SERIOUS lack of knowledge about international and domestic politics.
That’s why he can’t stray from his prepared speeches. He sounds like someone who just crammed for an exam and is dying to spew out the answer before he forgets.”change, blah,blah,blah..change etc.etc.change”

Health, age, and experience are always factors. McCain made health and age a bigger factor when he chose a largely unknown and untested Ms. Palin as a running mate.

==Ed,
You forgot “Shame on Palin for being a conservative woman”.==
The worst of all sins.

SNL was right on the money comparing Clinton to Palin.
One is smart, accomplished, and deserves to be recognized.
The other is obviously way over her head.(But she does have cool glasses so I’ll vote for her)
It was funny, but also so true it was scary.

Kitty:
You do realize that John McCain smoked a couple of packs a day when he was younger, right? You do realize that John McCain is 72 years old and may not survive (heaven forbid) his first term? You do realize that John McCain has had cancer FOUR times?
Fair enough, Obama smokes a couple of sticks a day, but compared to the list above, I’ll take his bad habit over his opponent any day.

More of Obama’s decline – from RCP …
09/14 Minnesota Leaning Obama »»» Toss Up Obama 207 – McCain 227 McCain +2.3
09/13 Indiana Toss Up »»» Leaning McCain Obama 217 – McCain 227 McCain +2.4
09/11 Florida Toss Up »»» Leaning McCain Obama 217 – McCain 216 McCain +2.5
09/11 North Carolina Leaning McCain »»» Solid McCain Obama 217 – McCain 216 McCain +2.5
09/11 Georgia Leaning McCain »»» Solid McCain
What’s that flushing sound I hear?

Mr. Incredible….so true Obama women seem so anti “party of tolerence”. Strong women frighten them and they want to remain Victacrats.

SNL was right on the money comparing Clinton to Palin.
One is smart, accomplished, and deserves to be recognized.
The other is obviously way over the hill! Her fat crammed into those goofy colored pantsuits.(But she does have a husband who was once a president.??!!)
It was funny, but Palin is way better than Hillarious ever was!

Yellow, it doesn’t surprise me that you would support someone who makes a bad judgement every single time he lights up. Are you seriously trying to say smoking doesn’t show a lack of good judgement? Now, if he quit smoking, I’d change my tune. But he hasn’t. Therefore, lalalalala, Obama shows he makes a bad judgement every time he smokes.

I am sick of the press particuly Geo Stephenopalis pandering to the Republican party. McCain has the press afraid to say anything about a woman who is not only not qualified but is a dangerous person to this county’s future, she would take us to war with Russia when we are already fighting two wars if that isnt stupid I dont know what is.

Ed
at least pelosi knows that bush doctrine

thanks to the bubba vote. this election is in play
thanks bubba
keep voting against your interest and keep the sting of white presidents going.

McCaskill is an embarrassment to the State of Missouri … and probably won’t get elected … like Obama, she is a 1st term Senator with no accomplishments!

Yes, McCain’s age is an issue as is Palin’s experience. But the biggest issue is the total dishonesty that the McCain and Palin campaign and their surrogates like Ms. Fiorina are employing. I just rewatched the early segment of the broadcast and Fiorina stated that Palin didn’t take the “Bridge to Nowhere” earmark monies. It has been well documented that she did and spent it on other transportation projects in Alaska including the approach roads for the infamous bridge. Palin took the money! Fiorina LIED!! The whole sleazy group of them just LIE! LIE! and LIE. And the mainstream media (i.e. ABC) just keep on letting them get away with it. And all of you bloggers follow the distractions as well.

Why can’t Obama stop smoking….Biden really is one puff away from the White House and since his mom died in her 40′s of cancer he’s really asking for lung cancer. We don’t know what Obama Sr. would have died of because he killed himself driving drunk.
Posted by: Debra | Sep 14, 2008 4:04:00 PM
————
Debra
how does the crap smell down there. You are really scraping the bottom of the cesspool.
If Obama is smoking, it would be because he is looking at his OLDER opponent acting like he is on romper room with the baseless childish “non-issue” attacks levied against him.
McCain has the lame excuse for all this is because obama didnt agree to go to town hall with him …. that bizarre talk would drive anyone to smoking.
excuse me McSame … you run your ROVIAN campaign and Obama will run his. Only a dimwit would have agree to go to small town america to town halls to debate with mccain. THAT IS MCCAIN’S BASE.
The bubba vote is solidified. Bubba is once again going to vote against his interests to keep the string of white presidents going.

I would think Claire McCaskill was speaking in the context of Palin possibly having to assume the presidency. When you factor in McCain’s repeated bouts with cancer, his pre-existing injuries from imprisonment along with actuaries, his age is a valid concern. This is the third “ism” to be directed against Democrats by the McCain campaign. The first one was racism (reverse) for Obama saying he didn’t look like other presidents on the denominations of bills. The second was sexism toward Palin because he said McCain’s economics were pig on a lipstick. And now it’s ageism to express concern about his age in lieu of Palin succeeding him. I think I forgot charges of elitism if you express concerns over Palin’s lack of qualifications. So what is the next “ism” to be hurdled by the McCain camp?

Obama believes he’s “on the issues” when he talks about age..
LMAO

St Petersburg Times’ editorial today:
McCain’s straight talk has become a toxic mix of lies and double-speak. It is leaving a permanent stain on his reputation for integrity, and it is a short-term strategy that eventually will backfire with the very types of independent-thinking voters that were so attracted to him.

Everyone keeps talking about McCain’s mother…implying that McCain will live out a full term.
McCain’s father and grandfather died in their 70′s…so does that mean that John only has a 50% chance of living out a full term?

Right now, we are being subjected to an absolutely disorienting blizzard of lies and absurdities (Palin is a lying absurdity) from the McCain campaign. The idea is to so disorient people, to throw so many new concepts, brands, lies, images, marketing and distortions at them that they will not be able to focus on the issues in this election, and the real choices serious people have to make.
People are already falling for the dishonesty and the lies. What does this do for our country?

If I was as old as McCain and knowing my medical history includes the most elusive disease known to man (cancer), I would have thought more of the American People than my Campaign.
if God forbid anything happening to President McCain (and there even being a President McCain) he has left us with a person who has NEVER met a foreign leader, who is a pathological liar, and seems sooooo excited because you can see Russia from her house.
Obama took into account by hiring the MOST credible person in the SENATE when is comes to foreign affairs.
sooooo McCain roll your dice with your campaign …. not my country

The neo-cons saying “game over” are lying as much as the McCain campaign. Latest Gallup – easy to Google – shows McCain is up two points – that is within the margin of error -and that is with his post convention bounce. With all of the debates left to go. McCain’s lies, the Republicans record, the cratering economy and pure idiocy of selecting someone like Palin, will require a lot more than lipstick to make it all look good.

I’ll bet the Super Delegates are already working on their excuses for voting against their state’s plurality and picking a bag of hot air!

Obama is like the popular guy from high school. Whatever happened to him? Oh, yes, he’s working over at the car wash now.

This harping on age thing sounds like the politics of fear. Remember that Obama supporters. It’s what your candidate says he’s against. Flip flop Flip flop.

Talk about flip flops. I guess they both do their fair share.
* McCain took a firm line in opposition to torture, and then caved to White House demands.
* McCain gave up on his signature policy issue, campaign-finance reform, and won’t back the same provision he sponsored just a couple of years ago.
* McCain was against presidential candidates campaigning at Bob Jones University before he was for it.
* McCain was anti-ethanol. Now he’s pro-ethanol.
* McCain was both for and against state promotion of the Confederate flag.
* And now he’s both for and against overturning Roe v. Wade.

McCain Palin.
A bridge to nowhere.
A bridge to deception

” . . .Claire, you ignorant s##t . . .
AK3 – When I read though postings, the vast amount of the vitriol comes from McCain supporters. Oftentimes, vitriol and profanity is a substitute for people who don’t have the verbal ability to articulate their support or their concerns.

According to pamela, we can’t have it both ways with respect to both McCain’s fitness for office coupled with his infirmities. But we can. Before she goes too far down this path, she might want to consider FDR, who had lost use of his legs through polio and needed a wheelchair to move around. Somehow, FDR was able to govern effectively.
McCain is chair of the Senate’s Telemcommunications Committee (which is the Senate’s Internet watchdog), and his need for keyboarding help has not decreased his wits one bit.
I think we’ll just leave it there.

No mojo for O
The Annointed One is toast
Old media weeps

THESE ARE FACTS AS REGARDS TO JOHN MCCAIN AND WHY HE CAN NOT BE PRESIDENT:
- HE IS TOO OLD TO BE PRESIDENT. HE CAN’T EVEN CAMPAIGN A FULL WEEK AT A TIME. HE HAS TO LIMIT HIMSELF TO 2-3 DAYS OUT, 2 DAYS OFF. HIS WORK ETHIC WON’T BE ANY BETTER. OTHER THAN BEING A MINIMUM WAGE GREETER AT WAL MART, CAN YOU NAME ONE COMPANY THAT WOULD GIVE AN UPPER MANAGEMENT JOB TO A 72 YEAR-OLD?
- CANCER: YES, HIS CANCER IS BACK
- THE YEARS HE WAS A POW HE WAS PSYCHOLOGICALLY TORTURED. HE DOES NOT HAVE A LEVEL MINDSET. THAT IS WHY HE IS PRONE TO RAGES AND MAKES TERRIBLE DECISIONS- LIKE HIS SELECTION OF A VP.
- HE HAS SOLD HIS SOUL MORE TIMES THAN THE PRODUCERS SOLD SPRINGTIME FOR HITLER
REMEMBER BOB JONES UNIVERSITY, JERRY FAWELL?
- HE HAS NO IDEAS EXCEPT THE CONTINUATION OF THE BUSH DOCTRINE- WHICH HIS VP KNOWS NOTHING ABOUT.
- HE HAS TARNISHED THE UNIFORM OF THE US NAVY BY HIS LIES, MISDEEDS AND GENERAL SCUMMINESS IN THIS ELECTION.
- SARAH PALIN

Sen. McCain made his age and health history a viable issue when he chose the dangerously inexperienced Sarah Palin as his running mate.
Tomorrow is promised to nobody, not you or I, not Sen Obama or Sen. Biden. However Obama did what was prudent and chose a VP running mate that would be ready on day one, Sen. McCain chose somebody who may help him get elected, but the fact that she’d be a heartbeat away from the Presidency is frightening to anybody not treating the GE like a sporting event.

I agree we should not elect anyone who is not ready on day 1 to be president. So lets not vote for an inexperienced knucklehead like Barack Obama. I don’t think giving a speech in Germany qualifies him as having foreign policy experience. Besides, Obama thinks world leaders are going to fawn over his greatness like the New York Times and college campus cook aid drinkers. Not gonna happen.

Well, once again, the Obamanuts show their ignorance. Biden’s had two aneurysms, but that’s ok. Obama was a coke snorter and weed smoker…but that’s ok. McCain had skin cancer cells removed..just like millions of Americans that live for decades afterwards, and that’s NOT ok. See the hypocrisy there? If now, you’re blinded by liberal hate. Sucks to be you, don’t it?

I want to see Obama’s medical records! What is he hiding?

You can be fine for 10, 20, 30 even fifty years after a melanoma removal, and then have seizures one day, and find it to be caused by a metastatic melanoma to the brain.
It could go to your liver, and destroy it, leading to death.
It goes to the lungs.
It is virtually ubiquitous, and when it does strike, its is deadly, and extremely resistant to effective treatment.

While you are at it – let’s see Joe Biden’s medical records.
aneurysm
possibly drinking
blood pressure
My wonder what we have there??????????

I’m becoming more and more convinced that Barack Obama is too immature for the Presidency. When the campaign was going his way, he was “Mr. Cool and Collected”. Now, since the polls have indicated that his support is slipping, he has begun to act like a spoiled child, offending everyone but his dumb but still-loyal, starstruck supporters.
It’s apparent that the voters are beginning to wise up to what a fraud he is. Thanks, but I prefer experience, a proven record, and maturity (even though McCain is 72 and has had skin cancer), as opposed to an inexperienced, egotistical, and offensive candidate, such as Obama.

Once again Claire McCaskill sticks her foot in her big mouth. I can’t believe she was actually mentioned as a possible VP. Talk about an idiot with no experience. She jumped on the Obama bandwagon early-with him looking to carry Missouri. It’s not working. McCaskill couldn’t manage her own nursing homes.(for real) and now she couldn’t carry Sarah Palin’s suitcase. I bet she doesn’t even get re-elected. Women dumped her when she campaigned against Hillary Clinton.

Age is a legitimate issue. That is why we had term limits put in.

McCaskill’s comments are appalling. Apparently she was not satisfied with turning off older voters, she had to make sure to repel cancer survivors as well.

Democrats have a message:
- Being older mean being useless
- Experiencing cancer means you’re gone and not to considered for anything important. Go home and die.
- Women cannot have it all.
Women with a cancer history must really be worthless.
McCain hammers Obama on issues but all Obama can muster is physical derision.
Pathetic.

Senator Obama has refused to release any medical records. One has to wonder what he is hiding there. Biden has had brain surgery, an alcohol problem, and other serious medical concerns. He has not released a full medical history either. Third in line among Democrats, Nancy Pelosi, is close to the same age as McCain.
McCain, to contrast, has been open and frank about his medical records and has a family history of longevity. He should have as great or greater chance of making it through the next 8 years as the three member of the Democratic party list above.

“McCain, to contrast, has been open and frank about his medical records and has a family history of longevity. He should have as great or greater chance of making it through the next 8 years as the three member of the Democratic party list above. ”
I believe that the life expectancy for white males in the US is currently at 75.4 years. In other words, statistically, John McCain is at risk of not surviving his first term of office–especially when one adds in the stress and burden that comes being from being President. I wish him long life, but pretending the facts don’t exist is, well, inherently foolish. And irresponsible as voters.
I mentioned earlier, though, that it’s also unfair to assume that something couldn’t happen to Obama, and we should look at both presidential running mate choices and ask ourselves: do we know the running mate as well? Are we as comfortable with the running mate as we are the presidential candidate? This is a fair question.
I stated that I, as a Democrat, am comfortable with Obama’s running mate, Joe Biden. When I vote for Obama, I’m voting also for Biden to become president, if need be.
Now, it is fair to ask Republicans, the population at large:
Are you comfortable with Sarah Palin assuming the presidency of the United States? If not, you should seriously rethink your vote. You can’t spend the next four years desperately hoping that McCain stays healthy.

If McCain was a Patriot he would put his EGO aside and realize that the number of risks to the people of America that he has taken on for his own gain is not worthy of the uniform he once wore.

So now Democrats question John McCain’s patriotism?
I guess someday they will point with pride the great patriotism exhibited by Obama?

Palin has never met a world leader, then who is president Bush, president of wall mart, all the people thats worried about McCains health and age,people are dying daley thats in there early 20es and 30es from heart atacks, cancer,aids and other things, age and health has nothing to do with
it, when God call you will answer regardless of who you are, so you that has put McCain in his grave,dont you think its time YOU got him out. Yes the war is about wone, and it would be a disgrace to quit now andGIVE BACK all thats been won.

When I want a good laugh, or need to be entertained a bit, I come over to ABC.com or watch a little bit of the one sided ABC News coverage. Just like Denzel said in the movie Training Day, “it’s all BS, but it entertains me”.

If you can set side the age and health issues – Look at the economy and the financial crisis in the USA today – The right wing doesn’t want to talk about and tou can be assured you want hear about it on Fox – Be real anyone who can vote for McCain is oblivious to all the problems in this country.

It’s time to bring up Obama’s cocaine abuse.

Pamela,
Indeed you can’t. Which means that you can’t dismiss McCain’s notable 26 year career as a Senator in the United States Senate despite having all those injuries you want to scurrilously bring up.

Perhaps Senator McCaskill is unaware that Harry S. Truman was 64 at the time of his election in 1948? And this at a time when the life expectancy was far less than it is today. His picked VP was Alben Barkley who was 71 at the time of the 1948 election. Apparently age was not a problem to Democrats in that era. It would seem that as a Senator from Missouri she would be aware of the history of President Truman and less than eager to attack someone because of age. I sincerely hope she receives more respect when she attains more wisdom and age. I also would pray that she is not tortured at the hands of an enemy and suffer from some of the afflictions that she and her cohorts on the liberal left are so ready to criticize.