I have lost respect for John McCain and the type of campaign he runs in the last few weeks. Consider the following actions of his and his campaign:
1. He attacks Barack Obama using this notorious video:
This from the man that actually has more in common with Britney Spears and takes money from the Hilton family:
Did you know McCain was also in the movie Wedding Crashers?
Check out Hollywood McCain's other celebrity sounding facts!
You should be upset with McCain if for no other reason giving more press attention to Paris Hilton and Britney Spears. Thanks to his campaign for another trashy commercial.
2. He attacked Barack Obama for not visiting the troops by using video of Barack Obama visiting the troops!
John McCain used wounded troops as a political attack. He said Barack Obama didn't want to visit wounded troops because the military said he couldn't bring cameras. When John McCain's campaign was contradicted by the facts from reporters traveling with Barack Obama they didn't back off and continued their disgusting attack.
Then it turns out John McCain's campaign was going to attack Barack Obama for visiting the troops if he did go.
Seems in John McCain's campaigns view that using wounded troops for a partisan attack is fair game.
3. Both campaigns have said they don't question the other candidate's patriotism. John McCain has said many times he would rather lose a campaign then lose a war. But he goes into full attack mode when he says about Barack Obama:
" Would rather lose a war in order to win a political campaign..."
He is accusing Barack Obama of wanting America to lose a war. But at the same time he is lying when he says he isn't attacking his patriotism. How can a person be a patriot while wanting American troops to be killed?
The John McCain campaign team started off the campaign with a popular, independent minded war hero and diminished him by using sleazy Karl Rove tactics.
No wonder they say he is running for Bush's third term!
( John McCain and President Bush celebrating McCain's birthday while Hurricane Katrina was going on.)
I am done with his campaign. They would rather destroy McCain's character then lose a campaign. How did his staffers take a great war hero and take him down so fast?
They must be really desperate if they are flailing like this so early. I think McCain could win, but at what cost?
I guess we shouldn't be surprised that a campaign that has a "Swift Boat" extremist , Karl Rove, and a bunch of lobbyists working for them would go negative.
He needs hid old team back.
Bonus late night comedians calling John McCain out. David Letterman calls it a smear ad and Jon Stewart points out that the Hilton family supports John McCain!
Looks like Joe Klein has admitted he was wrong for saying McCain would run an honorable campaign.
http://dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/8/1/1138/95551/761/560633
It is OBVIOUS that John McCain needs a NEW set of advisers! OsiSpeaks.com
Every time McCain follows his gut and allows his independent streak to take over he wins - just like when his campaign rose from the dead last year. The reason his campaign was dying last year was because he jumped into the Bush political machine believing it was his only chance to win.
Well the machine was all about money and consultants, and not about integrity and principle. He dumped them, restructured and won the primary. Who knows why he feels he has to run back to Bush's right wing extremists? They have co-opted his campain, at least in California. Unless he stops this, he will lose.
KYJurisDoctor,
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The succession of negative adds have something in common with each other. They are nearly 100% lies. I get an email from FactCheck.org following every one of them. There are charges of things that are made up by McCain's campaign and put out as if was fact and run in front of focus groups. McCain approves of each of them McCain says Obama ran the first negative commercial.
It showed McCain being hugged by George W. Bush while the narration goes on to say McCain voted with Bush 90% of the time. We don't need four more years of this, we need a change
I am Barack Obama and I approve of this message. That is negative but it is 100% true.
The succession of negative adds have something in common with each other. They are nearly 100% lies. I get an email from FactCheck.org following every one of them. There are charges of things that are made up by McCain's campaign and put out as if was fact and run in front of focus groups. McCain approves of each of them McCain says Obama ran the first negative commercial.
It showed McCain being hugged by George W. Bush while the narration goes on to say McCain voted with Bush 90% of the time. We don't need four more years of this, we need a change
I am Barack Obama and I approve of this message. That is negative but it is 100% true.
McCain looks worse than Bob Dole! When he tries to smile he grimaces like he is passing gas. When you look at a crowd (always small) at a McCain event they all look like they just took a hand full of sleeping pills. If McCain gets elected he will start a war with Iran that will send oil to $250 a barrel and gas at the pump to $10 a gallon, and he will have no choice because he has already promised Lieberman he will bomb Iran.
McCain can't win if he won't let his loyal campaign workers comment in public and he can't win if he let's his loyal campaign workers comment in public.
Hence the lack of a McCain campaign...
Obama has been waffling all over the place lately - on oil drilling, on the war in Iraq, on taxes and the budget deficit, etc. It seems like he's becoming more and more a puppet of the polls - whatever the flavor of the day is, he gravitates towards it. Is this really the man we want to occupy the Oval Office? He lacks integrity and the ability to solidify his stand on any major issue.
He even changed his mind about debating McCain in a town hall format, choosing instead the safer route of a more traditional side-by-side, question-and-answer format hosted by the media.
He seems to be resting on his laurels as the "annointed one", the proverbial Messiah, the winner of an international popularity/beauty contest that is being propagated by the media. We don't need a political lightweight in the White House at this critical juncture in our history, with so many important issues at stake and so many key decisions to be made.
Flamo,
He said he would compromise to support off shore oil drilling as part of legislation that also has new incentives for alternative energy.
He has supported subsidies for alternative energy for the entire campaign.
Months ago you wrote that he was not much different than Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson.
After Jesse Jackson's recent comments do you believe what you write before?
Flamo,
Since you are keeping track of flip flops any comment on the fact that McCain supporting off shore oil drilling is a flip flop for him?
http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/08/oil_company_executives.php
Mango Flaming thinks Obama is a puppet of the polls? HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! McCain is the biggest flip flopper in history. He was against off shore drilling before he was for it and now he is for it. FLIP FLOP MCCAIN!
Let me give you another big flip-flop on the part of Obama. He originally stated that he would be accepting public financing to support his campaign. He has recently retracted this promise after realizing that he would have to limit his campaign expenditures by accepting public money. Wow!
Brian,
I hear what you're saying about Obama tying offshore oil drilling to development of alternative energy sources, but it's still a flip-flop. He was adamantly opposed to offshore drilling of any sort just a few weeks ago. Now that he sees most Americans favor it, he's changing his tune.
Regarding your comments on Jackson & Sharpton, I think Obama, beneath the slick veneer and sparkling rhetoric, is still a far left-leaning liberal. Most of his views are in sync with those of Jackson & Sharpton even those he's taken a more independent stance on Affirmative Action and paternal responsibility.
Jesse Jackson is obviously very annoyed at him because, if he gets elected president, it will cause Jackson to become further irrelevant because he can no longer claim, with any credibility, that the white man is holding back black Americans. It essentially casts guys like Jackson, Sharpton, and the Reverend Wright as old school, out of touch, dinosaurs who no longer speak for modern day black America. And this frosts the hell out of them.
Flamo,
Being that McCain also flip flopped on off shore oil drilling I don't know what your point is exactly.
Are you upset because McCain flipped first on that issue?
Brian,
One of my main points is that Obama is becoming the flip-master. I can count on one hand the issues that McCain has flipped on. With Obama, I have to use both hands before taking my shoes off and counting my toes.
He is obviously taking a very cautious approach as the campaign nears November and doesn't want to make any mistakes. Therefore, he's starting to compromise more and more and rapidly taking on the appearance of Kerry II.
Flamo,
McCain has flipped on Bush's tax cuts, off shore oil drilling, and comprehensive immigration reform. He also flip flopped on not running a negative campaign.
Brian,
I'm still counting on one hand with McCain...
Flamo,
Not every flip flop is the same.
The immigration bill was named McCain-Kennedy. John McCain says if it was brought to a vote he would be against it.
That type of flip flop is much, much bigger than Barack Obama saying he would support a compromise that would promote alternative energy.
McCain doesn't flip flop he flat out lies. He has admitted to it.
No, I think he's just honest about it when he changes his position on something and actually tries to explain the rationale for why he may have altered his original stance on something.
Obama, on the other hand, is from the John Kerry school of flip-flopping ("I voted against it before I voted for it"). He tries to disguise his flips as flops and vice versa.
This guy is really starting to remind me of Jimmy Carter all over again. He even adheres to a lot of Carter's old policy proposals with regard to energy consumption/conservation, windfall property taxes on oil companies, dealing with tensions in the Middle East, etc.
Flamo,
What did John Kerry vote for before he voted against?
Explain.
Funding the war in Iraq. Remember?
Flamo,
He voted differently on two different bills. How is that a flip flop?
Anyways, a flip flop from McCain that really changed my mind about him was when he started seeking the support of the same types of people he labeled as "agents of intolerance" in 2000 when I really though he was a maverick.
My perception of him changed when he backed away from his earlier position.
Is that a major flip flop?
Brian,
True, they were different bills, but they were both spending authorization bills for the war effort. He voted "yes" on one and "no" on the other. That's a classic flip-flop. It speaks to his lack of conviction on the issue, or, even worse, his sensitivity to public opinion polls.
Obama has been acting very much the same way lately. His flip-flop on oil drilling is the best example.