McCain Campaign Brings On Board Yet Another Operative McCain Once Blamed For Sliming Him During 2000 South Carolina Primary
EmailABC News has learned that Warren Tompkins, one of the strategists of then-Gov. George W. Bush’s South Carolina campaign in 2000 — which Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., blamed for his family being slimed — is now a part of the McCain-Palin campaign team, albeit in an "unofficial" role.
Tompkins, a protégé of Lee Atwater, has been dispatched to North Carolina to assess the state for the McCain-Palin campaign, Southern GOP strategists tell ABC News.
The McCain campaign says only that Tompkins has "no official role" with the campaign. The Raleigh News and Observer spotted Tompkins in the state "surveying North Carolina for the McCain campaign to determine what can be done to shore up the state."
The news of Tompkins being brought on board the McCain campaign brings to a total of three the number of GOP operatives McCain now is using despite the fact that he once held them responsible for the ugly campaign that contributed to his South Carolina primary defeat, a campaign in which McCain’s wife Cindy was attacked for her past addiction to painkillers, and the McCains’ adopted Bangladeshi daughter Bridget was targeted as his illegitimate black baby.
Last month, to the dismay of many McCain 2000 alumni, McCain hired another former Palmetto State opponent, Tucker Eskew.
This week, as a wave of robocalls attacking Obama has been reported across the country, and some of those calls have been tied to Jeff Larson and his firm FLS-Connect, a client of Bush’s in 2000, whom McCain’s team back then held responsible for anti-McCain robocalls.
The recipient of one of the new McCain robocalls, Minnesota Democratic County Commissioner Chris Shoff, was reported in the Huffington Post and the New York Times as having tied the call to FLS-Connect, which has been paid more than $8 million by the Republican National Committee during this election cycle.
The McCain campaign has refused to comment.
Eight years ago, of course, McCain was much chattier on the subject of these types of calls.
"A lot of phone calls were made by people who said we should be very ashamed about her, about the color of her skin," McCain told one interviewer. "Thousands and thousands of calls from people to voters saying ‘You know the McCains have a black baby.’ I believe that there is a special place in hell for people like those."
"You’ve seen it — turn on the radio, turn on the television, and unfortunately now pick up the telephone and you’ll hear a negative attack against John McCain," McCain said during a February 2000 GOP debate in South Carolina.
"At a town hall meeting a mother stood up and she said, ‘Senator McCain, my son was 13 last year. We had a lot of trouble of explaining things to him that went on in Washington.’ She said, ‘Now he’s 14. He’s told me not long ago, "John McCain is my hero. He’s the man I want to be like." Well, last night he came into her room,’ she said, ‘and he had tears in his eyes because he had answered the phone and the phone call, even though he told the caller that he was 14, said, "Do you know that John McCain is a liar, and a thief and cheat?"’ Well, that night I called my people together. I said, ‘Take down our response ad. We’re running nothing but a positive campaign from now on.’ I committed to that, I promise that."
In 2001, McCain said he was "very unhappy" about his family being attacked, specifically identifying "the phone calls that said, ‘Do you know that Cindy McCain’s a drug addict?’…Phone calls saying, ‘Do you know the McCains have a black baby?’" Phone calls, he told Rolling Stone magazine that went out to the voting public of South Carolina "by the hundreds of thousands, yeah. And, you know, that’s really the ugly underside of politics."
In Maine, Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine — an original member of McCain’s 2008 campaign kitchen cabinet who’s up for re-election — recently said the calls "don’t serve John McCain well. This kind of campaign call does not reflect the kind of leader that he is.”
– jpt
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The McCain camp have no shame. They wonder why their behind in every poll… the American people aren’t blind.
I hope Powwll endorses Obama tomorrow. Big blow to the McCain camp if he does.
Posted by: Vanessa | October 18, 2008, 1:37 pm 1:37 pm
He has lost any shred of dignity he once had.
McCain is absolutely disgusting.
Posted by: Sarah | October 18, 2008, 1:38 pm 1:38 pm
This man is shameful. He will stop at nothing to try his best to win. What a shameful, despicable coward he turned out to be.
Posted by: David | October 18, 2008, 1:39 pm 1:39 pm
Can you say Sleaze?
I know McCain feels terrible about it though. He’ll make up for after it is all over.
I am not insuating nothing McCain is a dirt bag, without morals.
Posted by: Thinking | October 18, 2008, 1:43 pm 1:43 pm
What happened to the McCain that had a shred of honor? He sold out to the same dirtbags that destroyed him in 2000, he should be ashamed. In just over two weeks he’ll probably look back on this that put the final nail in his already pathetic campaign.
Posted by: Peter Jackson | October 18, 2008, 1:46 pm 1:46 pm
The association of Obama’s that I find most troubling by far is that he has been palling around with that scumbag John McCain.
Posted by: Joe | October 18, 2008, 1:48 pm 1:48 pm
When candidates poison the perception of one another with both pointing their bony fingers of contention, as parents do, we all inherit the living nightmare of taking sides in a divided house.
So, be wise, and let us reason together; drop all resentment towards dad, mom, brothers and sisters, and yes, both candidates. Then will the emotional mist lift from your eyes to see clearly who best will serve. If we all do that, the election will be clean and beyond dispute, uniting instead of dividing us.
In this fashion, the sickest family member and those political dissemblers will never be able to divide our families and conquer America from within.
Alexis de Tocqueville said that America is great because America is good. When she ceases to be good, she will cease to be great. Families in union, standing together as one free nation under God can once more begin the world all over again.
Posted by: JANESCHE | October 18, 2008, 1:49 pm 1:49 pm
Propaganda operates at the subliminal or subconscious level and the sensory perception level. The subconscious and sensory perception and processing are largely involuntary. That is, we cannot control our mental processes at the subconscious level and we cannot control sensory processing. Once we have seen or heard data or information, we cannot unsee or unhear it. Propaganda and persuasion techniques operate at this involuntary level, the subliminal, subconscious, and sensory perception level. Conscious thought is voluntary, but sensory perception processing and the subconscious are not.
All propaganda and all propagandists understand this and make use of it. Hitler stated: “In the end, it was believed.” Propaganda operates at this involuntary level. We have no or very little control over this level. We receive and process this data or information involuntarily and aith or against our will. These factors highlight the myth and illusion in so-called democratic societies of free will and independent choice and action.
Posted by: JANESCHE | October 18, 2008, 1:51 pm 1:51 pm
McCain has become the thing he hates. With all the outrage he has been flinging at the NY Times, I’m surprised he hasn’t also hired them into his campaign. Just to ‘survey’ things of course…
Posted by: MIguy | October 18, 2008, 1:52 pm 1:52 pm
I guess McCain hasn’t been a “perfect servant.” Again.
Posted by: Danny | October 18, 2008, 1:55 pm 1:55 pm
It matters how you run your campaign. It shows the people who you really are, how you would govern and why you are running.
McCain is shamefully pandering to the worst fears by lying about his opponent.
Posted by: doug | October 18, 2008, 1:55 pm 1:55 pm
Well so much for putting country first.
Posted by: annie | October 18, 2008, 1:57 pm 1:57 pm
So Its true Mccain has sold his soul to win the Election Mccain shame on you for hiring those same people that smeared you terribly YOU MY FRIEND DESERVES TO LOSE AND LOSE BIG!
Posted by: Angie | October 18, 2008, 1:58 pm 1:58 pm
I have received two McCain robo-calls that began with (paraphrased) “I am calling you on behalf of John McCain…to tell you that there are things about Barack Obama that you do not know…” Unfortunately, I hung up before finding out what dirt was being said, so I can’t add that to the blog, but you can bet it was lies and distortions. McCain has hired the sleaze balls that did the same thing to him eight years ago. As if the voters are not going to know that???!!! Or what?? John, you can talk nice from now until your Doomsday (Nov. 4) but you can’t take this stuff back. So how does that make you different from your hated NY Times??
Posted by: Colorado Dem | October 18, 2008, 1:59 pm 1:59 pm
hmmmm those darn politicians say the darndest things dont they???!!! like when joe biden said, not but 12 months ago, that barack obama “IS NOT READY TO BE THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA”. ahhh yes, what a difference 12 months on a campaign trail can make.
Posted by: tim | October 18, 2008, 2:00 pm 2:00 pm
When our country desperately needs to come together to address the economic crisis and help the weakest among us weather the crisis before they are wiped out, John McCain offers a solution that consists of doubling down on George Bush’s tax cuts to the rich and his divisive, nasty politics. That’s how he puts his country first.
Posted by: teddymaniac | October 18, 2008, 2:01 pm 2:01 pm
teddy…
so taxing the rich is the answer for the “poor ol’ middle class” huh??
Posted by: tim | October 18, 2008, 2:05 pm 2:05 pm
Welcome to New York Times on phone.
Posted by: Newt | October 18, 2008, 2:08 pm 2:08 pm
Going negative is bad! Hasn’t he learned? He’s gonna lose by even a bigger margin now! What an idiot! and he thinks he’s fit to lead! What a dufus! He can bring in any loser he wants it’s only gonna hurt him!
Obama-Biden 2008
Posted by: kellie | October 18, 2008, 2:08 pm 2:08 pm
“Then will the emotional mist lift from your eyes to see clearly who best will serve.”
Posted by: Belle Starr | October 18, 2008, 2:10 pm 2:10 pm
Attention, Obama/Biden Supporters.The time is now, its just a few weeks left till the Election.Lets show are support on these posts for Obama/Biden.America needs a change, we cant stand another 4 years of Bush’s Policy’s, that McCain will continue!
Posted by: Demo Rules | October 18, 2008, 2:11 pm 2:11 pm
Not surprised at all.
By attacking Sen. Obama’s tax policy to cut tax for 95% of Americans, McCain admits his is the same as Bush, McSame! Hey McCain what do you call the rebates Bush sent to us? Socialist rebate? This economy must be recovered from “bottom up”, the same rule as sending those rebates!!! It’s not socialism – America needs bottom up economy now than ever.
Posted by: leighg1 | October 18, 2008, 2:13 pm 2:13 pm
Truely it seems to me that McCain has a Black Baby we don’t know
Posted by: yuan | October 18, 2008, 2:13 pm 2:13 pm
McCain sold his soul to the devil, I mean Karl Rove.
Posted by: hopesprings52 | October 18, 2008, 2:14 pm 2:14 pm
“I hope Powwll endorses Obama tomorrow.”
Posted by: Belle Starr | October 18, 2008, 2:14 pm 2:14 pm
Powell didn’t lie for Bush. He wasn’t part of the inner circle.
Posted by: d | October 18, 2008, 2:16 pm 2:16 pm
“Powell didn’t lie for Bush. He wasn’t part of the inner circle.”
Posted by: Belle Starr | October 18, 2008, 2:20 pm 2:20 pm
Country First—McCain should withdraw
Posted by: Tasha | October 18, 2008, 2:21 pm 2:21 pm
Powell definitely lied for Dubya. Get real.
Posted by: hotandspicy | October 18, 2008, 2:24 pm 2:24 pm
Fellow Democrats, The time to rise up and support, Obama/Biden is at hand.This Country’s Economy is in ruins, and who do we have to thank for that? McCain/Republicans.Vote Obama/Biden in 2008
Posted by: Demo Rules | October 18, 2008, 2:26 pm 2:26 pm
hotandspicy
It is hard to say about Powell. I don’t like to think he would have knowingly lied, but he sure didn’t make much of an effort to make sure he was telling the truth.
Posted by: jock59801 | October 18, 2008, 2:27 pm 2:27 pm
Fellow Democrats, The time to rise up and support, Obama/Biden is at hand.This Country’s Economy is in ruins, and who do we have to thank for that? McCain/Republicans.Vote Obama/Biden in 2008
Posted by: Demo Rules | October 18, 2008, 2:28 pm 2:28 pm
That’s why McCain has my vote. He’s willing to forgive and forget for the American people.
Posted by: Polioti | October 18, 2008, 2:29 pm 2:29 pm
Take all these negative sentiments to the poll and vote! VOTE OBAMA/BIDEN ’08
Obama will be a great President because he has much to offer and prove. Americans will be recipient of that drive to make America the greatest and well viewed throughout the world. Bet on it, you betcha!!
Posted by: Ms. G | October 18, 2008, 2:33 pm 2:33 pm
BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR.
AFTER THE DEPRESSION OBAMA WILL BRING WITH HIS HANDOUTS, AMERICA WILL GO DOWN IN HISTORY AND OTHER POWERS WILL RISE..
YOU MAY BE WITNESSING THE END OF A CIVILIZATION , EVEN AS THE MEDIA CHEERS..
Posted by: TJ, THE CLINTONITE | October 18, 2008, 2:38 pm 2:38 pm
I don’t think Obama is doing any negative campaigning now, but he definitely did against Hillary. And the media helped him.
Posted by: hotandspicy | October 18, 2008, 2:47 pm 2:47 pm
These people smeared his own daughter.
If McCain will sell out his own daughter, he certainly will sell out America.
Posted by: Ryan C | October 18, 2008, 2:47 pm 2:47 pm
If Joseph Goeebels was still alive McCain would recruit him too!
Posted by: AJ | October 18, 2008, 2:52 pm 2:52 pm
TJ
we have been witnessing an attempt at the “end of civilization” for the last 8 years.
Nice try though.
Posted by: dl | October 18, 2008, 2:52 pm 2:52 pm
He wants all the dirty people he can get the dirtier they play the better he likes them .They can do his dirty work and smash Obama and he can sit back and say”I don’t agree with that person’ .Like he wanted Obama to tell him he was sorry for Lewis .Obama has no right to tell him he is sorry for Lewis statement.
Posted by: indp voter | October 18, 2008, 2:54 pm 2:54 pm
How do you know when your campaign is out of control.
When the general is weak and without authority; when his orders are not clear and distinct; when there are no fixes duties assigned to officers and men, and the ranks are formed in a slovenly haphazard manner, the result is utter disorganization.
Posted by: KenB, MI | October 18, 2008, 2:57 pm 2:57 pm
How low will John McCain sink? The man who once said he’d never stoop to dirty campaigning, regardless of the consequences, just keeps sinking into the mire.
In 2000, McCain was hideously smeared with racist attacks. He now hires the same scum to do to Obama what they did to him.
For this alone, he deserves to lose. I just sent more money to Obama.
I hope the Obama campaign, if it hasn’t already, does a hard-hitting ad based on McCain’s shameless, desperate hypocrisy.
Posted by: Alexandra | October 18, 2008, 2:58 pm 2:58 pm
It fairly obvious by the posts on this board that the sheep are going to allow themselves to be led to slaughter and vote for Senator Government. What amuses me is that once he’s in office–all the promises he made–tossed out for his agendas and the agendas of the Democratic leaders in Congress pulling his strings like puppets. How else does a junior senator wind up being a serious Presidental canidate? But then again the sheep will always do as their told by their government, but what thier sold by the media, and then wonder why things really haven’t changed at all. At least I’ll take some comfort in knowing I voted for the other guy.
Posted by: fooled no more | October 18, 2008, 3:01 pm 3:01 pm
So sad, on Lee Atwater’s death bed he asked for forgiveness for his misdeeds. He also urged everyone to take the high road in politics from here on. Too bad his protege was not listening. Too bad McCain is putting winning in front of country. I
wonder how that makes McCains family feel to know that the same man that smeared their family will do the same to someone else’s. Like I said so sad.
Posted by: Teri | October 18, 2008, 3:01 pm 3:01 pm
I live in Arizona and I think some of you McNasty lovers need to google McCain-Keating-Gordon Liddy- and also Cindy McCain read some of the newspaper articles on them from the 1990 and 2000 time period. Cindy’s money is dirty money and she and her father were in the Keating mess up to their eyebrows as was McNasty.Read about her fathers tie to crime. Used to be Mcbush, but became McNasty when he became buddies with the very people who targeted his family on behalf of Bush or big W. I used to believe McCain even though I felt he wasn’t always honest would be a good choice for President, but yesterday my family voted early by mail for Obama and Biden.With the dirt coming from McNasty and his campaign people being enought to make a person sick at their stomach we couldn’t stand the thought of listening to him and Mrs Stupid from Alaska for four years. Oh yes don’t forget to google Sarah Palin and read what the people in Alaska think about her and her husband.
Posted by: judi book | October 18, 2008, 3:08 pm 3:08 pm
my fingers got a little ahead of my thoughts while typing–what I meant to say is that the sheep will buy what they’re sold and do as they’re told and actually believe that Obama will keep his campaign promises. How much do you wanna bet the healthcare plan is the first to be scraped? Any takers out there?
Posted by: fooled no more | October 18, 2008, 3:10 pm 3:10 pm
McCain really thinks this erratic “Joe the Plumber” gimmick is going to carry him over the finish line
Posted by: watching | October 18, 2008, 3:12 pm 3:12 pm
McCain is toast.
Posted by: JimmyTMac | October 18, 2008, 3:12 pm 3:12 pm
fooled no more – Obama will be able to do whatever he wants. He’ll have a super majority in congress. You’re right about healthcare though. It’s just not gonna happen anytime soon. The money isn’t there. I think some essential groundwork will be laid though.
Posted by: JimmyTMac | October 18, 2008, 3:16 pm 3:16 pm
This shows how desperate McCain has become, and how he will do anything to get elected. How sad that he has sold his honor and dignity by using the very despicable people who attacked his wife and child in 2000 to attack Obama. I wonder if he would sell his soul to the devil if it was offered.
Posted by: Paul | October 18, 2008, 3:16 pm 3:16 pm
The Republicans have already robbed us of SO MUCH!! How much more will we allow them to rob us??
Posted by: lkinopfl | October 18, 2008, 3:20 pm 3:20 pm
Ok, so let’s see – McCain embraces the dirty tricksters he once criticized.
McCain supporters respond with unfounded allegations against Obama, the media, wild exaggerations and lies, name calling, desperate threats and alarmist language.
So why we are supposed to believe McCain and his supporters now? Why does anything these people say have any credibility any more?
I am really hoping Obama will win by a large margin, so we can put this type of campaining way, way behind us. I really hope this election signals the end of Atwater/Rove/Davis etc.
Didn’t they see the polls? Negative campaining isn’t working. So maybe it’s just as well they keep at it…
Posted by: Andy2 | October 18, 2008, 3:26 pm 3:26 pm
I made my decision a while ago and respect both for their respective service to our country.
One has tried to rise above the name calling while the other seems to have forgotten not only his promise but the experience he had not so long ago.
One would like to say it’s typical Republican behavior while the other says it’s typical Democrat behavior when what it truly is the behavior of man. Man makes the choices and will bear the consequences as a result. That is what we are seeing, despite the context in which they were made, there is a consequence man must pay…
Posted by: rj | October 18, 2008, 3:26 pm 3:26 pm
McBUSH and Palin are desperate, they are picking up all the dirty political people they can find. This party is so negative and nasty. Americans see that and will vote agains them. It is sad to see how much McCain has changed since he got old. He is not the man he used to be, this will go against him. Palin is a liar, can’t be trusted, they don’t even want her in Alaska no more.
Posted by: Betsy | October 18, 2008, 3:27 pm 3:27 pm
McBUSH and Palin are desperate, they are picking up all the dirty political people they can find. This party is so negative and nasty. Americans see that and will vote agains them. It is sad to see how much McCain has changed since he got old. He is not the man he used to be, this will go against him. Palin is a liar, can’t be trusted, they don’t even want her in Alaska no more.
Posted by: Betsy | October 18, 2008, 3:27 pm 3:27 pm
“Attention McCain” do what is best for this Country, gracefully bow-out of the Race, before the Electiion. It is what America wants and it is good for the Country.
Posted by: Demo Rules | October 18, 2008, 3:30 pm 3:30 pm
The people voting for OBAMA do not care if he has been involved in fraud, if he has lied to the people, if he is not even a citizen of the USA, but Kenya (not worth checking the records)–Obama has hired lawyers to fight the suit at great cost instead of just showing the paperwork for “free” but the public does not care. They do not care about his associations. I wish all of these Americans could look into the faces of all of the young men and women over the past 200 hundreds that fought to keep America “free” —socialism is on the way with a corrupt leader. You don’t care now, you will later, but it will be too late—you will have lost something precious and replaceable.
Posted by: Ann | October 18, 2008, 3:31 pm 3:31 pm
Why does Obama keep referring to “Economic Justice” in his speeches? I found a book online called “Economic Justice: The Market Socialist Vision” by James Yunker that explains the concept (Google it). Basically the book states that the concept of Economic Justice is a tool that can be used to slowly change a capitalist country into a socialist country. The author takes the view that, because socialism has become a dirty word in most prosperous capitalist countries, direct cries for socialism won’t work. You have to first introduce it as a market based economic strategy so that people can see how they will profit from it (i.e., when the government takes from others to give to them). Then, once people see how they profit from it, it will be easier to implement a more traditional socialist economy. Of course, the ridiculous book doesn’t describe how most socialist nations descend into filth and squalor within a few years. I am sure Obama has studied the above book in detail, because most of his economic policies (the few we have seen) come straight out of this book. It’s an eye opener.
Posted by: Wisdom | October 18, 2008, 3:34 pm 3:34 pm
Ann
McCain spent 5 years in North Viet Nam. I say he has slept with the enemy. Have you checked this out?
If you vote for McCain you vote for commie’s and for anything that is anti-American.
McCain is a sad and erratic man.
Posted by: democratic | October 18, 2008, 3:42 pm 3:42 pm
Great, another person on McCain’s behalf to slander the American people. My wife and I work 120+ hours per week but somehow we want WELFARE?!? because we would like to see our hard work bring us a little closer to the American dream. What about all the welfare for CEOS!? How many billions did we just GIVE THEM? Did any of these welfare kings and queens give any of their mansions or yachts up? Hell no!! If these companies can’t adapt to a middle class based economy then as the capitalist mantra states they must fail. If there is one less CEO getting rich off the backs of hard working Americans, so be it. Why else would McCain be gripping so hard on the Joe the plumber story? He has no connection with the middle class, so he leaps at this fairy tale. Joe saves under Obama’s plan, period. If he really wanted to purchase his boss’s company he should jump at the chance to save money on taxes. McCain and his wealthy friends benefit from his tax plan, not common Americans like my family. I refuse to vote against my family’s well being for any marginal variance in ideology with the leader of the free world. You can’t yell SOCIALIST and expect everyone to run when under Republicans we have seen the biggest redistribution of wealth in American history.
Posted by: mims NJ | October 18, 2008, 3:48 pm 3:48 pm
watching: If you think McCain is finished security has doubled for Obama and who know if he will be over the finish line. Get a grip.
Posted by: Mariann Pepitone | October 18, 2008, 3:48 pm 3:48 pm
Since the last debate, all McCain talks about is “Joe the plumber”, and that “he’s not Bush”. Big deal. Is this going to be his discourse for the remaining 2 weeks? Is this his answer to America’s problems? Now he enlist some the same dirtbags that slimed him when he was running against Bush. What do you think this is for, to run an honest campaign or to smear Obama like he was smeared himself by Bush and Company. Doesn’t this man have an once of decency in his bones?
Posted by: Jake | October 18, 2008, 3:49 pm 3:49 pm
Ann | Oct 18, 2008 3:31:17 PM…you made a post about past connections…WELL MCCAIN IS THE ONE THAT WAS INVESTIGATED FOR STEALING MONEY…EVER HEARD OF THE KEATING 5…Palin was convicted of ethics violations in ALASKA…THEY ARE THE SAME AS BUSH…JUST A PACK OF LIARS….
Posted by: COL. Nathan JESSUP | October 18, 2008, 3:53 pm 3:53 pm
WHAT IN THE WORLD WOULD ANY SMART AVERAGE AMERICAN VOTE FOR THE PEOPLE THAT GOT US IN THIS MESS ON THE ECONOMY, WARS, AND NO JOBS…BUSH IS MCCAIN AND MCCAIN IS BUSH…JOHN SAID THIS ON MEET THE PRESS…
Posted by: COL. Nathan JESSUP | October 18, 2008, 3:55 pm 3:55 pm
What a pity! It is so sad to see McCain, once an honorable man, succumbed to his desire to be President and sold his soul in doing whatever it takes to win including the very things he once loathed. He has lost his way and credibility.
He picked Palin, an unqualified candidate, to appease the Republican base as his running mate. He hired the Bush operatives to run his campaign and employed the same dirty tactics that were used against him in 2000. He is 2 faced in this campaign – a charming one in the public and a dark and dirty one in private. He says one thing in public like running a positive campaign, Barack Obama is a decent man, etc. and does the opposite using robocalls and negative character attacks that are filled with lies and half truth. Now he is adding yet another Bush operative.
Where is McCain’s honor? What kind of a man he has become?
Just watch, his next tactic will focus on voter suppression in the swing states. McCain may think he can return to his decent self in the future. The sad reality is once anyone goes over to the dark side, it is almost impossible to rid the control of the evil power except through divine intervention.
For those who want to vote for McCain, you may want to pray for his repentance and salvation before it is too late and prepare to accept defeat on Nov. 4…
Posted by: educator | October 18, 2008, 3:57 pm 3:57 pm
The more I learn about McCain, the less I respect him. Time was, I did. Never again.
He has no interest in anyone or anything except John McCain and never has. And there are plenty of people who have known him over the years who have said so in print.
Ross Perot: ‘McCain is the classic opportunist. He’s always reaching for attention and glory,’
Ted Sampley (Vietnam vet and vet’s rights campaigner): ‘I have been following John McCain’s career for nearly 20 years. I know him personally. There is something wrong with this guy and let me tell you what it is – deceit.’
The Reagan’s cut him dead after he abandoned his first wife for Cindy. The Reagan’s had loved him and Carol.
Try googling McCain, read what people who have known him over the years have to say about him.
Posted by: This is SO Old | October 18, 2008, 4:04 pm 4:04 pm
It is alarming to see how the media manipulates ALL the campaign information. It is good to find the text of the entire debates and speeches given and read as much as you can or at least go to the bookstore and skim through both candidates’ books. You will see that both of them have been tainted by this process – but what candidate woudn’t do “anything to win”? If you think you can do the job, then of course you’d go all out to get it. The problem being swept under the rug here is the blatant way that BOTH Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin have been portrayed is nothing short of media wolves on a carcass. Between photos of Hillary published (during her quest for the Dem nod) to showcase tears, age lines and forlorn expressions, to the ultimate insult of a Daily News (NY) photo of a young guy looking up at Palin’s legs shot from an angle I’d expect to see on a Playboy cover – to the adjectives carefully chosen in news stories – and the list goes on and on -
WAKE UP women – do not pick at the woman who made it farthest, be she Republican or Democrat – maybe its time for a Good Ole’ GIRLS club if you want a REAL change. I don’t think anyone makes it to a Democratic or Republican candidate by being “stupid”.
I am a registered Dem (many years) who is voting Rep based on READING the history of the last Great Depression and the Carter Presidency era and seeing too many items that didnt work then are similar to Obama’s ideas PLUS I wouldnt miss the chance to vote for a working women as VP. Any working parent knows that Affordable and GOOD daycare/afterschool options are a priority EVERY day. Palin will advocate that by sheer nature. There’s no way Obama (c’mon, really) and Biden get that, even though Biden suffered the tragedy with loss of his wife. I will take a free thinker with experience (whats wrong with being a little passionate?) and a working mom over a young lawyer with all his foreign policy hopes resting in Biden. Its also cause for pause that Jesse Jackson, a really seasoned, dedicated activist, has a problem with Obama as well.
Posted by: lis | October 18, 2008, 4:06 pm 4:06 pm
Sidney actually thinks a tax cut is WELFARE!
What the hell has happened to the republicans? Too many years listening to the base of bible slapping looneys I guess.
Posted by: What's up Sidney? | October 18, 2008, 4:08 pm 4:08 pm
do not pick at the woman who made it farthest, be she Republican or Democrat – maybe its time for a Good Ole’ GIRLS club if you want a REAL change.
Sorry, I don’t vote based on gender but if I did I certainly would want someone more qualified than Palin. And there are plenty of qualified women that McCain ignored.
Posted by: erin | October 18, 2008, 4:09 pm 4:09 pm
Register 3rd party and vote for Condi Rice.
Posted by: a stupid PUMA | October 18, 2008, 4:10 pm 4:10 pm
It’s amazing how low someone will go just to become president……
Nothing in the world is worth that, McCain…..Why are you trading in your name for this?
This is horrible…..Who will you recruit next?
Posted by: shalom | October 18, 2008, 4:12 pm 4:12 pm
“Powell is another WAR MONGER, we do not need a black republician liar, he took us into war just like Bush did, he lied just like Bush did. Colin Powell is NOT needed in the Obama camp!!!!
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Powell left the Bush administration voluntarily, I think he couldn’t stand the stupidity from the Rove, Cheney, Rumsfeld NeoCon cronies.
It seems that he had talked for hours to G.W. to persuade him to use diplomacy and international politics against Saddam.
It can be said he cave in to the war rhetoric of that moment, however it’s good to have him on board. It is an honorable act that he left the Bush Administration, it shows he isn’t glued to that chair.
Posted by: CLabs | October 18, 2008, 4:14 pm 4:14 pm
McCain is losing his marbles and his honor. He is hiring mean-spirited thugs, guys that uses lies and sinister tactics to fool people. Guys that used the same despicable tactics against him in 2000. This doesn’t show a lots of leadership, rather it’s shows us how desperate he is.
Posted by: CLabs | October 18, 2008, 4:20 pm 4:20 pm
Not sure how McCain can get back his honor after this election is over. It’s really sad.
I really liked him and voted for him in 2000.
Posted by: cincyr | October 18, 2008, 4:27 pm 4:27 pm
That’s why McCain has my vote. He’s willing to forgive and forget for the American people.
Posted by: Polioti | Oct 18, 2008 2:29:01 PM
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Say what? McCAIN has your vote because he is willing to hire one of the biggest liars and smear-mongers in politics. Which American people is he willing to lie for? That says more about you than it does about America.
Posted by: No McCAIN | October 18, 2008, 4:32 pm 4:32 pm
What about McCain’s association with the criminal Gordon Libby? Why is no one talking about that. McCain is a two faced hypcrite. He’ll go to any extreme to win the election. Do we want someone like that in the White House? We had 8 years of a horrible Republican administration. Let’s not have another four more years.
Posted by: Lucy M. Borik | October 18, 2008, 4:34 pm 4:34 pm
The McCain camp have no shame. They wonder why their behind in every poll… the American people aren’t blind.
I hope Powwll endorses Obama tomorrow. Big blow to the McCain camp if he does.
Posted by: Vanessa | Oct 18, 2008 1:37:32 PM
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I’m not sure how much Powell helps Obama. The same people who hate on Obama will just hate on Powell. These people are America at her worst!
Posted by: indevoter | October 18, 2008, 4:35 pm 4:35 pm
Powell’s endorsement isn’t a must in my eyes. To me any minority with 1/2 a brain wouldn’t be supporting the racist ticket of McCain/Palin.
Posted by: Didi | October 18, 2008, 4:42 pm 4:42 pm
GO—-MCCAIN!
Joe the Plumber is GREAT!
Posted by: Blondshag | October 18, 2008, 4:43 pm 4:43 pm
McCain’s charges against Obama fail the sniff test and indeed are proved wrong time and again when fact checked by any of the third-party, neutral checkers.
You would think McCain would want, at the least, to hold onto the honor he claims as his. But he has chosen dishonor above honor and his hoped-for election to President over the country by hiring and turning loose the sleeziest of liars who are rushing to his aid through robo-calls and other underhanded means.
The dishonorable campaign given charge by lies, deceipt and racist-laden robo-calls will collapse. Thanks to a more sophisticated electorate, the Internet that allows us to fact check against McLies, McCain’s sleezy, filthy machine will fail because Americans who see the honorable side of America will vote against the sleeze mongers McSleeze has hired.
Posted by: Bob | October 18, 2008, 4:45 pm 4:45 pm
GOOGLE: The Title Of The Article: “MAKE BELIEVE MAVERICK: A CLOSER LOOK AT THE LIFE AND CAREER OF JOHN McCAIN REVEALS A DISTURBING RECORD OF RECKLESSNESS, AND DISHONESTY”
Posted by: No McCAIN | October 18, 2008, 4:48 pm 4:48 pm
It is a sad end to a once dignified or shall I say respectable Senator’s career, he hitched his wagon to the wrong people. I kept on looking for reasons to vote for him but he has become the political equivalent of a rodeo clown.
Posted by: McCAIN Mutiny | October 18, 2008, 4:56 pm 4:56 pm
Yeah, during the primaries the Obama supporters villified Hillary for voting for the war, but they totally excused Biden’s war vote. His campaign also accused Hillary of wanting him “gone” and they accused her of being partially responsible for the death of Bhutto.
And the media jumped right in and spread this garbage. When it comes to Hillary no slander or libel goes too far.
So what we’re seeing now from McCain is nothing new, but this time the media is opposed to it because they favor Obama.
Posted by: hotandspicy | October 18, 2008, 5:00 pm 5:00 pm
The media have not mentioned Obama picking Biden who voted for the War and NAFTA. But Palin disagrees with McCain on climate control – and that’s all we hear.
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I watch, listen and read a lot of news and this is something I rarely hear. Truth is no one respects Palin enough to care about here position on climate control. She thinks god put dinosaurs on earth 6000 years ago for fossil fuels for man. Oh, and that man walked this earth with dinosaurs. Oh ya, I’m going to listen to Ms. Congeniality.
Posted by: indevoter | October 18, 2008, 5:00 pm 5:00 pm
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GO—-MCCAIN!
Joe the Plumber is GREAT!
”
Man, I wouldn’t trust this guy to do anything in my house…
1) He is not licensed
2) He is making 250,000,– so I’m pretty sure I will be overcharged and screwed.
Posted by: CLabs | October 18, 2008, 5:03 pm 5:03 pm
Joe the Plumber is GREAT!
Posted by: Blondshag | Oct 18, 2008 4:43:09 PM
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Joe The Plumber, isn’t named Joe, isn’t a plumber, owes $1100+ in back taxes, has never made more than $45K in his life, would get 3 times the tax cut under Obama’s plan, and is an agree Republican.
McCAIN vetted Joe The Plumber about as well as he vetted PALIN!
Posted by: McCAIN Mutiny | October 18, 2008, 5:04 pm 5:04 pm
GO—-MCCAIN!
Joe the Plumber is GREAT!
Man, I wouldn’t trust this guy to do anything in my house…
1) He is not licensed
2) He is making 250,000,– so I’m pretty sure I will be overcharged and screwed.
Posted by: CLabs | Oct 18, 2008 5:03:03 PM
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Actually JOE the plumber is one in a long line of McCAIN liars. He made about $40,000, owes back taxes, has no money in the bank, and the business he says he is going to buy isn’t for sale.
He’s no rocket scientist because buying a business for $250,000 doesn’t mean you will have an equal profit and the 3% higher tax is only on the little bit above that.
Posted by: No On McCAIN | October 18, 2008, 5:09 pm 5:09 pm
McCAIN in a NY charity roast joked that he fired his entire staff and replaced them with Joe The Plumber.
I think McCAIN should keep the staff and replace himself with Joe The Plumber and replace PALIN with Paris Hilton.
It couldn’t be aby worse.
Posted by: No On McCAIN | October 18, 2008, 5:13 pm 5:13 pm
We are all Joe the Plumber…
Posted by: Captain America | Oct 18, 2008 5:12:35 PM
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You can be “JOE THE PLUMBER” if you would like, if that’s what you aspire to.
For me, I would rather not be divorced, without a dime to my name, owing $1100 in back taxes, be unliscenced, and a liar.
Posted by: No Plumber | October 18, 2008, 5:17 pm 5:17 pm
McCAIN will say and do anything to realize his life-long ambition of being president. This is a man who said “the fundamantals of our economy are strong” dozens of times before the economy tanked. Now, a $700 Billion to possibly $1 Trillion bailout later, he is starting to talk about the economy. He surrounds himself with people who don’t know much more than he does. At the last debate he was asked who he might chose as Secretary of The Treasury and the first name that came out of his mouth is a man who is supporting Obama. McCAIN is now promising the sun, the moon, and the stars to every American in nearly every catagory. DON’T BELIEVE IT!
Posted by: No On McCAIN | October 18, 2008, 5:20 pm 5:20 pm
McCAIN wants to follow the BUSH Policy to privatize Social Security. Can you imagine what it would be like if Social Security was invested in Wall Street, which is what McCAIN says he will do.
WOW! This is beyond stupid! And it is not CONSERVATIVE. BUSH is the most fiscally irresponsible president in recent history and now McCAIN wants to follow in his foot steps.
Posted by: indevoter | October 18, 2008, 5:21 pm 5:21 pm
More of the same coming from the PALIN/McCAIN LIE MACHINE.
The Republican side is getting really scary… just read the Post’s coverage of Palin’s rally in Florida (Dana Milbank’s column) for proof. Why are so many Americans so stupid, so sheep-like that they believe being a brave POW is a qualification for President? Why can’t they see that Palin is Bush with a pretty facade (and probably worse)?
I have nothing against what I call “old-style conservatives” (what Republicans used to be, pre-neo-con), I even agree with a few (very few) of their policies, but the neo-fascists are truly frightening. If the United States chooses these people and – even worse – if Ms. Palin becomes President, the country is lost.
Posted by: McCAIN NO MORE | October 18, 2008, 5:26 pm 5:26 pm
McCain is acting like Daffy Duck…Is it the medications he’s on for recent mini-strokes, or is it just being 72 and erratic!
If he is this bad at 72 what will he be like at the end of his term. Very scary.
Posted by: indevoter | October 18, 2008, 5:27 pm 5:27 pm
To all the Rove people: “Release the real John Mccain!”
Don’t worry John, hang in there, we’re comin’ to free ya!
Posted by: caribbeanSnow | October 18, 2008, 5:41 pm 5:41 pm
This whole tax issue is another McCAIN smoke-n-mirrors political stunt.
Obama’s economic plan hasn’t changed since he posted it on his website many months ago.
McCAIN’s plan changes daily with the polls.
If Obama’s plan was bad it was bad from the beggining. And why didn’t McCAIN jump on it then? Because McCAIN doesn’t know enough to have an opinion.
McCAIN’s economic plan is Bush’s plan. So how has that worked so far.
McCAIN’s housing buyout proposal is Hillary Clinton’s proposal, by McCAIN’s admission. And the plan is SOCIALIST.
Most independent economists think both McCAIN and Obama’s plans have holes, but these same economists favor Obama’s plan. This includes a great many conservatives.
McCAIN by his own admission understands nothing about economics. Google McCAIN economics and you will probably get dozens of footage with him stating just that.
At the same time that McCAIN was saying “the fundamentals of the economy are strong”, Obama was warning of the impending problems and low and behold the bailout.
Posted by: No On McCAIN | October 18, 2008, 5:43 pm 5:43 pm
Who would have thunk in 2000 that McCain would end up in bed with the very thugs that did him in during the South Carolina primary? The desperate seek out strange bedfellows.
Posted by: Brooklyn Democrat | October 18, 2008, 5:45 pm 5:45 pm
To quote an old GOP attack aimed at Kerry, JOHN McCAIN has more waffles than the House of Pancakes.
Then there’s PALIN. I’m so glad the report found that I did nothing wrong, after a report came out saying she abused her power. Can she read?
Posted by: McCAIN Mutiny | October 18, 2008, 5:47 pm 5:47 pm
The really sad part of this whole issue, the slimy campaign operatives, is that the American people are the ones who suffered in the end. We were the ones who endured two terms of a really inept and criminal president and his administration. And we are the ones who have watched our futures slide into bankruptcy, courtesy of the Bush Administration.
I honestly believe a McCain/Palin administration would be an even bigger disaster, especially if Sarah Palin, for some tragic reason, became president.
These political operatives don’t work out of the goodness of their hearts. The McCain Campaign is paying them the big bucks.
Anything to win, Senator? How do you sleep at night?
Posted by: anitanevada | October 18, 2008, 5:48 pm 5:48 pm
McCAIN what a shame and PALIN she’s a flailing.
Posted by: indevoter | October 18, 2008, 5:49 pm 5:49 pm
“At a town hall meeting a mother stood up and she said, ‘Senator McCain, my son was 13 last year. We had a lot of trouble of explaining things to him that went on in Washington.’ She said, ‘Now he’s 14. He’s told me not long ago, “John McCain is my hero. He’s the man I want to be like.” Well, last night he came into her room,’ she said, ‘and he had tears in his eyes because he had answered the phone and the phone call, even though he told the caller that he was 14, said, “Do you know that John McCain is a liar, and a thief and cheat?”‘ Well, that night I called my people together. I said, ‘Take down our response ad. We’re running nothing but a positive campaign from now on.’ I committed to that, I promise that.”
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That was then and this is now.
John McCAIN has fallen hard. It’s amazing that someone who went through this would hire the same thugs to do it to someone else. This is a disgrace.
Posted by: Poor JOHN | October 18, 2008, 5:54 pm 5:54 pm
Senator Obama is also more of the same.
On Big Three issues that matter to people in recent time, Senator Obama voted with President Bush.
1) Banks bailout
2) Iraq war funding
3) Energy bill
How could he be different if votes with President Bush?
Posted by: midwest | October 18, 2008, 6:11 pm 6:11 pm
Whoever win this Nvember election, can ehy really solve the financial crisis the world are now facing? I doubt so, unless he go for a global monetary reform. Blood is more thicker than water and Powell will endorse Obama maybe to be back as one of his Secretary? Americans wake up – the ruling elites are the real contestants on this election, nor McCain or Obama.
Posted by: Ramon QUITALES | October 18, 2008, 6:14 pm 6:14 pm
Whoever win this November election – can he really solve the financial crisis we are facing now? I doubt so, unless he reform the monetary system not only in the US but worldwide. McCain attakced Obama for knowing Ayer but why he doesn’t attack himself when he collaborated with the Reds in North Vietnam and put the lives of other POW in limbo? Being a POW doesn’t make you a hero after you sang to the enemy as McCain admitted himself.
The ruling elites are the winner in this election unless they duplicated what Fidel Castro has done – abandon your financiers and silent backers!
Posted by: Ramon QUITALES | October 18, 2008, 6:24 pm 6:24 pm
There is no other choice but John McCain. By the way, anyone see Michelle Obama’s bill for her 4pm snack
at the Waldorf Astoria hotel. It is over $400.00. That is your campaign money people. Think about it.
Posted by: Polly | October 18, 2008, 6:45 pm 6:45 pm
McCain says he has been fighting for USA since he was 17. What kind of fights he fought? He was in Naval Academy chasing female models and came in 4 th from the bottom of his class. Does being in academy count as fighting for the country? He is shamelessly lieing. It has come to a point of no guilt in WHITE lies.
Come on folks let us change the direction this country is going and elect a new team of Obama/Biden.
Posted by: silkwool | October 18, 2008, 7:18 pm 7:18 pm
I wonder when McCain will issue his standard post-election apology. After 2000 when he lied about his thoughts re the confederate flag to curry favor with S Carolina voters, he apologized after the election.
He is not an honorable man – not any more.
People need to realize he is not the McCain of 2000. He is wallowing in base smears, lies and vile insinuations and can not and should not be our president.
Look how his campaign has turned the country against itself in a few weeks? Talking about real Virginians, pro-American parts of the country, and on and on. Saying on one hand Obama pals around with terrorists while also calling him a decent man that he respects.
McCain is now a despicable liar and should not be rewarded by our party or our votes. He is unfit to serve.
Posted by: Florida Republican | October 18, 2008, 7:27 pm 7:27 pm
I became what I beheld. – A fitting epitaph for McCain
Note: The Chicago Tribune endorsed Obama. Yeah, I know the paper is from his home state. But they have not endorsed a Democratic candidate since their founding in 1847.
Posted by: allheavens | October 18, 2008, 7:28 pm 7:28 pm
Our Country
Democrats….what has Obama really done in his career? Come on…think hard now…name one thing. He has done nothing…not one thing. Name a bill? Name a law? Anything?? Anything? Any experience at all?? If you don’t like McCain fine….but don’t vote for Obama either! Do a write in! Vote for an independent.
Please…do not give away your – our freedom people…..you-we may never-ever get it back.
Posted by: Martin | October 18, 2008, 7:36 pm 7:36 pm
I find it funny to hear some voters or maybe non voters raising their voices in cheers for Macain while he claim not to be George Bush.Now what makes him different from Bush is his personal look which nobody will be voting for.His tax cut is Bush’s,foreign policy Bush’s,campaign strategists Bush’s,robocalls Bush’s what’s remaining.He should stop fooling innocent citizens.To be a POW i a war is due an erratic planning and not a qualification to run for office.He is in the republican party
Posted by: anita njoku | October 18, 2008, 7:49 pm 7:49 pm
Mccain has lost his integrity I once admired him for.
Posted by: Jamie S. | October 18, 2008, 8:05 pm 8:05 pm
There is a must-read article in The Guardian by Brad Friedman titled “The Republican Voter Fraud Hoax”
Here is an excerpt. Why isn”t more of the mainstream media on this?
“…It”s a hoax. All of it.
But it”s been an effective one, as it”s served to distract from very real concerns about tens of thousands of voters who have been illegally purged from the voting rolls in dozens of states, as the New York Times reported in a remarkable front page investigative story. That story followed a report the week before from CBS News detailing still more wholesale purges of voting rolls in some 20 states.
That will be the November surprise, when thousands, if not millions show up to vote only to find they are no longer welcome to do so and are forced to vote on a “provisional ballot” which may or may not be counted.
These real concerns of election fraud, such as voting roll purges, electronic voting machines that don”t work and so much more that actually matters, have been obscured by the smoke and mirrors and sleight of hand of the Republican party”s phony Acorn voter fraud charade.”
Posted by: indevoter | October 18, 2008, 8:54 pm 8:54 pm
I want to see how the Republicans act if Colin Powell endorses Obama tomorrow.
Posted by: Jwench | October 18, 2008, 8:59 pm 8:59 pm
Watch Greta Van Sustern, on right now if you want more info into who Barack Obama really is.
Posted by: S Adams | October 18, 2008, 9:08 pm 9:08 pm
This is just another nail in the coffin of the completely immoral repub party. As I’m a fiscal conservative, independent, McCain and Bush and most of the rest of repubs should be ashamed of themselves what they have done to the country.
McCain’s staff choices of the scum he has hired, the lies he won’t tell to Obama’s face he puts in commercials show how low he has become. I really liked McCain 2000 but he is nothing like that now.
I thought it was just talk when neo-con Grover Norquist said we should run the gov into the ground and let it die on the vine.
And they call themselves patriots!!! I call them all scum!
McCain, where has your honor gone? Repubs is this how you want to lead?
Jerry
Posted by: JERRY | October 18, 2008, 9:12 pm 9:12 pm
Maybe Greta should do a show on who McCain really is.
Posted by: d | October 18, 2008, 9:19 pm 9:19 pm
Yet another ecample of how different the John McCain of 2008 is from the John McCain of 2000. That gasping sound you hear is the remaining shred of McCain’s integrity dying.
Posted by: chuck | October 18, 2008, 9:39 pm 9:39 pm
Another American hero loses his moral compass. This type of neo-conservative, R.M. Scaithe, tactic of throwing any lie at the wall something will stick is why I am now an independent. We are adults and not spoiled children.
Posted by: chaz | October 18, 2008, 9:43 pm 9:43 pm
No shame. No honor.
Posted by: James | October 18, 2008, 9:45 pm 9:45 pm
The same people who despised in 2000 are the same people he is using now. Can you say that McCain has sold his soul to the devil?
Posted by: Jwench | October 18, 2008, 9:46 pm 9:46 pm
Not surprised. McCain will sacrifice his last ounce of dignity in pursuit of the presidency. No Class? No Honor? No ideas? No Shame?-vote McCain.
Posted by: nina | October 18, 2008, 9:58 pm 9:58 pm
You deserve what you will get as reading these blogs make me ashamed that you are Americans. It shows ignorance and stupidity. No wonder other countries hate us.
Posted by: hkn | October 18, 2008, 9:59 pm 9:59 pm
I thought McCain was not George Bush.
Posted by: AMINLA | October 18, 2008, 10:36 pm 10:36 pm
RIP in John McCain we miss you. McCain continues to show a lack of dignity and poor judgment. He disgusts me so bad, it makes me ill.
Posted by: Paula | October 18, 2008, 10:37 pm 10:37 pm
mccain=honorless. This is as low as it gets America. He needs to turn it around for the sake of his very soul….come back to the light john!
Posted by: tehevo | October 18, 2008, 10:39 pm 10:39 pm
Mccain is history. He should live with it.
Posted by: bill | October 18, 2008, 10:41 pm 10:41 pm
If you can’t beat them join them?
I didn’t think there were going to be any new lows, but with Sarah Palin calling all city folks “unAmerican” and McCain choosing the dirty politics he “detested”. I guess these two mavericks get the feeling they are being put out to pasture or worse,the glue factory.
Elmer Fudd and Elmers glue.
Posted by: val | October 18, 2008, 11:52 pm 11:52 pm
Tucker Eskew, the scum of the earth, wasn’t filthy enough? What has happened to John McCain? How could he hire the people who slimed his own daughter? And all of the evidence showed that it wasn’t working anyway. How could he do this? Unbelievable.
Posted by: mara | October 19, 2008, 12:05 am 12:05 am
Wanting any of the corrupt republican Bush vipers of hate shows how low McCain is going. McCain becomes more like Bush as each day passes.
Posted by: Vicki | October 19, 2008, 12:23 am 12:23 am
McCain’s hiring of the same slime merchants used by Bush against him is nothing more than clear and convincing evidence that he has traded the last shred of his integrity, honor and decency, AND HAS BECOME EXACTLY LIKE BUSH. Maybe worse, because I don’t think that anyone can argue that Cheney wasn’t qualified to be VP or President, unlike that dimwit Palin. And speaking of Bible Spice, although actuarial tables give McCain a one-in-four chance of not surviving his first term, the odds of McCain simply becoming debilitated due to injury or disease and unable to fulfill his duties as President are actually much higher. Those who are still supporting McCain/Palin at this point reveal as much about their own lack of character as these candidates have with their despicable mudslinging campaign of lies and deceit. This is from a proud Independent who enthusiastically supported McCain in 2000. I don’t even recognize this man anymore.
Posted by: Anthony Lewis | October 19, 2008, 12:30 am 12:30 am
John McCain: Early Character Traits
graduated fifth in naval class
admits to slacking off serious studies;
broke vows of his first marriage;
War hero
Federal Senator
faced Ethics charges re Keating affair
Obama:Character
Worked his way through Harvard;
Got high grades
was president ofschool newspaper; helped others through community service
Taught Constitutional Law
Married, parent of two girls
Served as State and Federal Senator
Qualities for a President? The choice is clear
Posted by: Lou | October 19, 2008, 12:39 am 12:39 am
Hey John how can you even look at your daughters or your wife after selling out to the same people who slimed them
in 2000. Hell how can you look at yourself in the mirror. It can’t be worth more than your family.You really can’t be that sorry can you.
Posted by: Scott | October 19, 2008, 12:45 am 12:45 am
GWB haing issued 2 *t e r r o r i s t i c-t h r e a t s* to Iraq/Iran by saying he would attack them,makes himself the world (terrorist).
So what does that make McCain/Palin who said he would follow Bush policies?
Makes McCain also a **t e r r o r i s t** since he wants the US to stay 100 years more in Iraq..That is a *t e r r o r* to the Iraqui
people,plain and simple.
So why would anyone want to vote for a
known world **t e r r o r i s t** following the policies of The Decider/Dictator Bush?
No wonder the world hates our policies
thanks to Bush/McCain/Palin.So easy a 10 year old can figure it out.
Posted by: Texasatheist2 | October 19, 2008, 1:14 am 1:14 am
i left out a letter..should have read “GWB having issued” sorry about the typo..late here.
Posted by: Texasatheist2 | October 19, 2008, 1:19 am 1:19 am
I think it obvious to all reasonable people that McCain is willing to sacrifice the good image and decency of our country to get to the white house with his drug addicted wife. we may feel that this is all politics but the fact is that this is his true character. The apple does not fall too far from its tree. If he end up losing this election, the best thing for him would be to retire from public office. Being a war heron does not aways equate to decency.
Posted by: Andy | October 19, 2008, 1:20 am 1:20 am
Sounds like we have a lot of young people on tonight. They don’t have any idea what they are talking about. The last 14 months we have had high gas prices. Before that things were not bad. The DEMS. took over 2 years ago and all of this has been done in to prepare the way for Obama. With the DEMS in control and hating BUSH will not do anything that may make him look good. The DEMS have hurt this Country for Obama to win. You may think its been tough for the past 8 years, but I assure you ,you haven’t seen anything bad yet. Just wait till Obama is elected. Young people have been totally brainwashed as far as this Country is goes. They do not understand how people had to die for their rights to even speak. Obama is at the present time stopping people from talking about him. His attorneys just send letters claiming they will sue. Just wait till there are not jobs, because there there are no rich people who own them or are still left in America. You know people are free to take their money and leave. If this happens you will be in the bread lines. You will be given so much for only. Young people have NEVER had it bad in the COuntry. But, they are about to. And the deserve it. They need to learn a hard lesson. As for me and my family, we are leaving!! Enjoy!!!!
Posted by: Barbara | October 19, 2008, 1:26 am 1:26 am
Let’s face it, Obama has been focused on articulating his policy positions.
Meanwhile, McCain+Republican party are focused on dirty attacks – they’ve given up on being the leaders in policy thinking.
Shame and embarrassment for us conservatives.
Posted by: Patrick | October 19, 2008, 2:08 am 2:08 am
Its not surprising the digusting slime of the GOP need to lie to get elected they have been doing it for years. What we are seeing now are the last throes of a desperate party that knows they are going to be sent into the wilderness for a very long time. to the GOP and their slimey fear tactics I say goodbye and good riddance.
Posted by: califtom | October 19, 2008, 2:09 am 2:09 am
The young people of America are very aware of the price of liberty and free speech – we are fighting a war in Iraq now based upon the failed nation-building policies of Bush and McCain. Instead of lecturing the youth of the nation about their lack of political knowledge, perhaps we should analyze the mistakes that were made by the “older and wiser” citizens of this country that have us in the position we are in today. As far as the DEMs being responsible for the fiscal meltdown, the legislation that deregulated the financial system was passed when Congress was held by the REPUBLICANS. I recommend people understand the actual history before attempting to generalize the problems our nation face – otherwise you end up looking ill-informed and unintelligent…but then again, what would I know, I am a young American.
Posted by: Mike | October 19, 2008, 2:19 am 2:19 am
@Patrick… Well observed, and very, very true observation. Mr. McCain would have served himself and his party much better by addressing the ISSUES facing AMERICANS rather than attempting to “wield a club” onstage in that final debate. The McCain-Palin ticket has no answers to the real issues, so they are employing scare tactics and smears to try and scare the American people into voting for him. And about choosing Sarah Palin as a running mate…. whoever told him that due to the success of Hillary Clinton, and her subsequent absence from the Democratic ticket; that it would be a campaign-saving move to choose a female running mate…..One question… What were you thinking? I personally am glad for the selection. This race COULD be much closer if the Republicans had made a RESPONSIBLE choice instead of throwing a “hail mary” out of desperation. 11/4/08… Judgement Day and redemption for 8 long years of destroying our countries’ future. Good Riddance, gw…
Posted by: Douglas | October 19, 2008, 2:30 am 2:30 am
An Obama/Biden win : the end of civilization?
Give me a break. How dare Americans even incinuate that they are civilization? War-mongerers.
And with all honesty, we people from outside your “civilization” bubble would like a leader from your country who doesn’t like going to war. McCain to the tune of Barbara Ann, “Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran…”
Think of this: Does America get attacked by terrorists before or after they decide to invade a country?
Obama will mellow the US- hopefully put some brains to your playground bully country.
There is passion for Obama because people not only from the US want him to be president, also people outside. Because for once, it will be the chance for America to be governed by a leader who knows what it feels like to be a minority member- in this case black.
There is still racism in America. Hispanics vs Blacks vs Asians vs Whites. And hopefully an Obama win will bring to realization a truly equal view among individuals regardless of color or race.
PS.
Sarah Palin represents the soccer mom? The problem with America is stereotyping. Black dude = has a felony record. Asian = me love you long time. Hispanic = I love taco bell! Can I do your garden?
Sarah Palin is not like you. Yes, she is a woman the same way that all women share the same genitalia. Yes, she has kids and so does the rest of the population of the world. Yes, she goes too church and believes everything she is taught there hook, line and sinker. But she isn’t poor, she can afford a lot more than an average individual. No, she doesn’t slave at home after getting home form the office.
America doesn’t need a president who they can relate too. Would you like your drinking buddy to be president if you can relate to him? And about child health care, she would think of that naturally because she is a woman unlike Obama/Biden. You have flawed logic. Very.
Even animals are afraid of Sarah Palin. Ask the moose up there in Alaska.
Posted by: Linus | October 19, 2008, 2:32 am 2:32 am
Barbara …you are leaving if Obama gets elected?
How childish…what are you afraid of?
And I am a senior citizen, so I know what it has been like for a long time.
Obama/Biden ’08
Posted by: Bev | October 19, 2008, 2:41 am 2:41 am
Remember Brame in Washington State? A chief of Police who was going through a divorce. He also was threatening his wife. Nobody stopped him and he killed his wife and himself.
That Commissioner has put Gov Palin and her husband and thier sister and her ten year old kid at risk. Remember this, The Trooper tazed his ten year old kid with his tazer. A clear Domestic Violence Act. He should have been arrested and had his weapons taken away from him for the families safety. Shame on all of you for accusing the Gov of Abusing her power.
Posted by: Mikel | October 19, 2008, 3:00 am 3:00 am
If Obama gets elected, and does all that he says about the taxes say goodbye to prosperity. And of course Guns. And Bibles. He was not a Christian when he first started working with black pastors in Chicago. Till one of them asked O “what Church did you attend”? That’s when he chose a Church to his liking. A “Hate America” Church.
His wife wrote a paper on her racial problems at her college and passed it around for comments to the other Black students. I think there 500 or so students. I think it was 5 returned the letter. One other black student when asked about her problems said this if there were any problems it because of what she was doing, not because of the color of her skin.
Don’t tell me those Obama’s don’t have a problem with people who have white skin. YES, THEY DO.
Posted by: Mikel | October 19, 2008, 3:13 am 3:13 am
DON, Have you ever looked inside a Bible. Makes me wonder. It looks like you should read it more often. It may CHANGE your life.
Posted by: Mikel | October 19, 2008, 3:17 am 3:17 am
It is time that this country gets its moral life blood back. Barack Obama and his campaign has given us a glimmer of hope that we can turn the moral compass back from greed and and distruction. I am tired of hearing about “fat cats” of Wall Street getting away with crimes againist ordinally working people. Robbing us of our homes, our jobs and now our retirements that we have worked our whole adult careers to acheive. Mr. Obama has had a unique life which can bring more insight on how other nations view Americans and help restore our dignity. I’ve been ashamed of our country for many years for the way our politicians just step on other nations to achieve their ends. And no it has not been for the good of America, it has been for the good of their pocketbooks.
Posted by: Anne Cooper | October 19, 2008, 3:31 am 3:31 am
All Obama supporters should note again that his campaign opted out of federal campaign financing, which was the hallmark of campaign reform to put an end to spiralling funding by special interests and runaway “legalized” bribes. Note that he lied on this issue and completely reversed his position after beating Hillary and committing to accepting the limits. He is now being accused of cu=orruption and outspending McCain with his funding 3 or more to one. WAKE UP OBAMA SUPPORTERS, IS THIS CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN?
Posted by: Rob | October 19, 2008, 3:38 am 3:38 am
Desperate times call for desperate measures and McCain is a very desperate man right now. Palin and McCain will be tossing the kitchen sink next since they already tossed joe the plumber into the mix, an unlicensed plumber who doesn’t pay his taxes. Palin and McCain use name calling, labeling, accusations and never, ever, with proof. McCain seems to physically and mentally unhealthy. Perhaps, McCain suffers from PTSD from his POW days. Something is not right about McCain and he seems to get worse by the day if not week.
Posted by: Lawrence | October 19, 2008, 4:30 am 4:30 am
How can Senator McCain say that he is not Bush? He sold his soul to the slime merchants he setested in 2000. John, how low are you going to go to become President, you are willing to sell your wife and adopted daughter to these slime balls. The only person remaining from the group that slimed you is Rove. Go ahead and hire him too, what are you waiting for? You might as well give it a shot because all these negative attacks are not working for you. Please, Senator McCain, do not stoop so low. Go with some dignity left. You deserve it and we all deserve it.
Thanks
Posted by: Raju | October 19, 2008, 4:49 am 4:49 am
Does a name like Barack Hussian Obama need to be running for presedint of the united states? Think about it!!!!!!
Posted by: m | October 19, 2008, 5:09 am 5:09 am
Sorry, president was spelled wrong. it’s late
Posted by: m | October 19, 2008, 5:16 am 5:16 am
M; I’ve thought about it and no – a name cannot run for President, but a person can and the person who bears the name – due to no fault of his, just like you – will be the next President of the USA, not because of a name, but because of who he is: i.e. a President that the the USA and the world are going to be darned proud of
Posted by: exatlantic | October 19, 2008, 6:45 am 6:45 am
DIRTY POLITICS – Just what do we want with a President, someone who can do the job and be respected around the world or someone who has lost their character and integrity. My father who fought in World War II and a life long Republican must be spinning in his grave.What a sorry mess.
Posted by: SmileAlready | October 19, 2008, 9:00 am 9:00 am
I really cannot believe that you folks are so blind that you would vote for an inexperienced person with ties to radical groups (i.e. Rev Wright). Our country is having financial problems and giving the current Democrats in power a free hand would solve our problems? Mr. McCain is not George Bush!! John McCain is the only choice we have. Can you image what Obama will do if he is elected. Welfare reform will go out the door and Rev Wright types will be in power and may god help us. We only have ourselves to blame if Obama is elected. Remember that the Democrats controlled Congress and were the main reasons for a lot of our current policies that have just about bankrupted our country.
My friends and I are Hilary supporters who will never vote for Obama. If we had another choice outside of McCain we would take it. But we do not.
Posted by: John | October 19, 2008, 11:52 am 11:52 am
The voters need to know that Obama not only has good points, but some real issues that have been under reported or ignored by Team Obama ABC, NBC & CBS relating to his socialist agenda and his connections with the left wing loons, We understand that you were in Alaska and hot on the trail of Joe the Plumber that had the Audacity to Ask Obama a Question. We have received your message loud and clear you will track down, harrass and destroy any citizen why dares speak up against the Socialist Party.
They need to know that the transparancy Obama is so proud of does not exist he has been trying to pass off the biggest welfare program in history as the tax cuts.
Posted by: ubu1991 | October 19, 2008, 2:06 pm 2:06 pm
America is a laughing stock everywhere in the world today.My question to you McCain supporters, are you better of today than eight years ago? If your answer is yes, you will count your-selves lobbyist who’s influencing the President for the mess we are today,which McCain still believe in, and he don’t know how to deal with it when such question come to him.Due these lobbyist of a group, American economy is becoming so poor even more like fifth world countries.Why do you still want Republican President in the white-house again?Americans are tired of Republican government.It look like tradition in America, Democrat build the economy, and Republican destroy it with unnecessary war! Why why????????
Posted by: danimania23 | October 19, 2008, 2:15 pm 2:15 pm
Today Obama was endorsed by former Secretary of State General Colin Powell. Today, a campaign operative known for sliming McCain in South Carolina was dispatched to North Carolina by McCain. Speaks volumes, doesn’t it?
Posted by: ricky | October 19, 2008, 4:12 pm 4:12 pm
In an Obama-Biden administration you will still have a grantee of freedom of speech until you say something against them at which time you will become much like Joe the Plumber and people will be digging into your life and trying to make you look like a bad person! Even people talking about him here… You probably have things in your past your wouldn’t want out there.
A sign of things to come?
First, they came for Sarah Palin, and I said nothing because I was pro-choice. Then they came for Joe the Plumber, and I said nothing because plumbers cost too much anyway. Then they came for…
In Germany they first came for the Communists,
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew.
Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn’t speak up because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me —
and by that time no one was left to speak up.
The point of the post was that we can’t tolerate any group that wants to suppress another or their ideas by violence or intimidation.
Posted by: wahm5 | October 19, 2008, 6:10 pm 6:10 pm
This just shows the last ditch efforts of a desperate campaign…bring on board the man who slimed you and your wife. If I was McCain, I would rather lose this election than work with the crass slimer who made a muck of his 2000 run for the Presidential office, a run that I actually had the upmost resepct for McCain.
Posted by: annazette | October 19, 2008, 6:28 pm 6:28 pm
Do you know what “spread the wealth around really means?” It means TRICKLE UP POVERTY! I know it is hard for some of you, but try and think about that.
Posted by: Amy | October 19, 2008, 10:39 pm 10:39 pm
WAKE UP AMERICA! Obama is going to RAISE your TAXES, do you really think he supports gun ownership, and do you really think he is capable of being our president and dealing with other world leaders when he cannot make a decision or stick with one real policy decision? THINK AMERICA!!!!- Barack H. Obama will be a total disaster. Most do not remember the Depression but right before it happened the economic climate was really bad, like it is today, and the democrat raised the taxes- this is what we can expect from Obama a possible great depression II.
DOES ANYBODY REMEMBER THE CARTER YEARS??? Obama years will be the same- listen to his policy talk. WAKE UP AMERICA- BEEN THERE DONE THAT & IT IS REALLY BAD!!!!!
Posted by: Debra | October 19, 2008, 10:41 pm 10:41 pm
He said in 2000 “‘ I believe that there is a special place in hell for people like those.”
For him to turn around, in his despiration, to use the same Robocalls against a fellow Senator of the United States has shown us what part of hell he would go to.
It is so pathetic when one sees a purpoted hero he has admired over decades to stoop this low It is like seeing Esau selling his birthright to Jacob because of a plate of poridge.
I empathize with Senator McCain, bearing in mind that at 72, this is his last chance at having a shot at the Presidency. The ambition he has nursed since Hanoi.
A man that is willing to dine with the devil to win an election portends great danger not only to the United States but the World.
But he needs to leave the stage with his head held high. But at this state of negativity he, Mrs Palin and the RNC have displayed in these elections season, whether he wins or loses in the GE, I doubt if he will feel good with himself in the morning of November 5, if his shameful campaign is anything to go by – Except he has no shame.
Posted by: Dare Nigeria | October 20, 2008, 5:33 am 5:33 am
It’s not just his taking on Sarah Palin as his running mate that casts doubt on John McCain’s judgment. The fact that Palin was foisted on him by his handlers and that he accepted her sight unseen (she was nowhere on short or long list) belies his public image as a strong leader.
Posted by: Carlos Navarro | October 20, 2008, 1:51 pm 1:51 pm
As a black man, I can tell you if Barack Obama wins, there is going to be a lot of trouble in this nation. I hate to say it, but as a black man, I don’t particularly like my own people and I certainly won’t vote for a black man. I think it will be very bad for this country.
Posted by: jazzman646 | October 26, 2008, 1:22 pm 1:22 pm