The Case Against John McCain

Wow, here's a biggie:

McCain has exploited a loophole in his the campaign finance laws with his name on it, allowing over 60 million to be raised from some very, very rich donors for his general election fund - even though he has accepted public financing.

http://www.jedreport.com/2008/07/mccain-raises-6.html

He's basically cheating the system, the one which he uses to show 'what a maverick' he is. What a bunch of bullshit.

Obama ought hit McCain hard over this, and make him explain to the American public why it's okay to violate laws he worked hard to pass - in detail.

Cycloptichorn

Desperate times calls for desperate measures; McCain is no different.

And they truly are getting desperate.



http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/07/will_mccain_campaign_disavow_s.php

Colonel Bud Day is a Swift Boat Veteran for Truth; McCain's campaign refuses to disavow his comment.

Cycloptichorn

The country is in the worst trouble since the great depression. We need something much more than the old, atrophied, brain of McCain running the country.

Obama is progressive, and has excellent judgment. He is the man who can get the country back on track to some degree.

Progressive? What exactly does that mean? Progressing to what end?

Excellant judgement? Yes, what fine judgement he has used in his personal life in selecting his church.

Advocate
"The country is in the worst trouble since the great depression. We need something much more than the old, atrophied, brain of McCain running the country. "
I vouchsafe your views.
USA needs some rational vies as that of yours

Thank you. I wish I were president so I could turn the country around. I am now convinced that the entire government has sold out to the lobbyists on K Street, meaning that corruption is running amok.

You have the same observation I have; it's rotten in Washington DC.

McCain adviser Gramm quits after 'whiners' remarks

By DEVLIN BARRETT, Associated Press Writer 27 minutes ago

NEW YORK - Former Texas Sen. Phil Gramm resigned Friday from his role as GOP presidential candidate John McCain's campaign co-chairman, hoping to quiet the uproar that followed his comments that the United States had become a "nation of whiners" whose constant complaints about the U.S. economy show they are in a "mental recession."

McCain, a bald-faced liar. He'd make an excellent Liar in Chief, definitely the equal of the current Liar in Chief.

McCain Owns First Foreign Policy Gaffe During Obama's Iraq Trip
As Barack Obama began his trip to the Middle East and Europe, the media was already speculating about the possibility of a gaffe. Obama's travel "carries political risk," the New York Times reported, "particularly if Mr. Obama makes a mistake."

But the only foreign policy error made in the last few days came this morning on ABC's Good Morning America, when John McCain made ANOTHER geography gaffe while trying to criticize Obama's visit to Iraq. (Just last week, McCain repeatedly referred to Czechoslovakia, a country that hasn't existed since 1993.)

Asked by Diane Sawyer whether the "the situation in Afghanistan in precarious and urgent," McCain responded: "I think it's serious. . . . It's a serious situation, but there's a lot of things we need to do. We have a lot of work to do and I'm afraid it's a very hard struggle, particularly given the situation on the Iraq/Pakistan border."

But as ABC's Rick Klein noted: "Iraq and Pakistan do not share a border. Afghanistan and Pakistan do."

Watch it here and read the transcript under the video:
link

Someone ought to mail the McCain campaign one of these.

Cycloptichorn

Obama has enough gaffes of his own. When you have nothing to offer, this is what you come up with?

Last May, he claimed that tornadoes in Kansas killed a whopping 10,000 people: "In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died ?- an entire town destroyed." The actual death toll: 12.

Earlier this month in Oregon, he redrew the map of the United States: "Over the last 15 months, we've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been in 57 states? I think one left to go."

Last week, in front of a roaring Sioux Falls, S.D., audience, Obama exulted: "Thank you, Sioux City. ... I said it wrong. I've been in Iowa for too long. I'm sorry."

Explaining last week why he was trailing Hillary Clinton in Kentucky, Obama again botched basic geography: "Sen. Clinton, I think, is much better known, coming from a nearby state of Arkansas. So it's not surprising that she would have an advantage in some of those states in the middle." On what map is Arkansas closer to Kentucky than Illinois?

Obama has as much trouble with numbers as he has with maps. Last March, on the anniversary of the Bloody Sunday march in Selma, Ala., he claimed his parents united as a direct result of the civil rights movement: "There was something stirring across the country because of what happened in Selma, Ala., because some folks are willing to march across a bridge. So they got together and Barack Obama Jr. was born."

Obama was born in 1961. The Selma march took place in 1965. His spokesman, Bill Burton, later explained that Obama was "speaking metaphorically about the civil-rights movement as a whole."

Earlier this month in Cape Girardeau, Mo., Obama showed off his knowledge of the war in Afghanistan by homing in on a lack of translators: "We only have a certain number of them, and if they are all in Iraq, then it's harder for us to use them in Afghanistan." The real reason it's "harder for us to use them" in Afghanistan: Iraqis speak Arabic or Kurdish. The Afghanis speak Pashto, Farsi, or other non-Arabic languages.

Over the weekend in Oregon, Obama pleaded ignorance of the decades-old, multibillion-dollar massive Hanford nuclear-waste cleanup: "Here's something that you will rarely hear from a politician, and that is that I'm not familiar with the Hanford, uuuuhh, site, so I don't know exactly what's going on there. (Applause.) Now, having said that, I promise you I'll learn about it by the time I leave here on the ride back to the airport."

I assume on that ride, a staffer reminded him that he's voted on at least one defense-authorization bill that addressed the "costs, schedules, and technical issues" dealing with the nation's most contaminated nuclear-waste site.

Last March, the Chicago Tribune reported this little-noticed nugget about a fake autobiographical detail in Obama's Dreams from My Father: "Then, there's the copy of Life magazine that Obama presents as his racial awakening at age 9. In it, he wrote, was an article and two accompanying photographs of an African-American man physically and mentally scarred by his efforts to lighten his skin. In fact, the Life article and the photographs don't exist, say the magazine's own historians."

And in perhaps the most seriously troubling set of gaffes of them all, Obama told a Portland crowd over the weekend that Iran doesn't "pose a serious threat to us" ?- cluelessly arguing that "tiny countries" with small defense budgets can't do us harm ?- and then promptly flip-flopped the next day, claiming, "I've made it clear for years that the threat from Iran is grave."

Barack Obama ?- promoted by the Left and the media as an all-knowing, articulate, transcendent Messiah ?- is a walking, talking gaffe machine. How many more passes does he get? How many more can we afford?

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MWZjY2YzZWVkMjdkMDEzMGQ0MjJkNTUyN2FkNmMzYTc=

Yeah, yeah lol

I'm sure we could come up with one for McCain thirty times as long. The point is that for a supposed foreign policy 'expert' McCain constantly makes the SAME MISTAKES over and over again; these aren't isolated instances.

Cycloptichorn

As I've said several times already, McCain is senile. He doesn't know his geography or who our enemies are. What is more astounding is the simple fact that Americans want him to be our president. Go figure.

Possibly McCain's supposed foreign policy expertese is merely hype? An expert should at least be able to distinguish between Sunnis and Shias.

That's for dang sure! McCain can't even remember the simple stuff; what will he do as our president? Third term for Bush is a given if elected. McCain might start a new war in the Middle East by mistake.

Since Obama and McCain seem to agree on many issues, you could also say that an Obama win would also be a third term for Bush.

You could, but you wouldn't be accurate in doing so in any way, really.

Cycloptichorn

I'm not the one doing it, the LATimes is...


http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-na-centrists13-2008jul13,0,7130991.story