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Hillary's supporters in this blog are missing the real point of this story. McCain is using the same playbook as the Hillary campaign. She lost. It is stupid to repeat the same strategy that did not work before. The Obama campaign, instead, showed that there is a winning strategy against Hillary. Obama's campaign was running against old-style politics and politicians, a description that fits both Hillary and McCain. It worked because many people don't like Hillary. Hillary's supporters may have missed this, but about half of the country do not like Hillary. The Republicans know this all too well. In case there is a McCain/Hillary matchup in 2012, Hillary's supporters will remember which party hates her more and longer in the first place.

What's the surprise. The McCain canpaign doesn't need to reference Clinton for material about the changeling. He has a history of campaigning for a new higher office as soon as he is elected to one. My only question is what he will be aiming at next; what could be higher than the Presidency/ Lord of the World, perhaps.

The accountability and responsibilty for "not having one substantive hearing to do oversight” is his fault. If he can't do the job resign the chair position, or does he just want to post it to the short resume.

Let me get this right, republicans criticizing obama for the fact he “held not one substantive hearing to do oversight” is not obama’s fault? It's just McCain using Hillary’s old attacks?
The kool-aid must be getting stronger.

mccain as bad as he is, will be the president. because of the dnc
and all of that stuff about the right wing coming out against sen. clinton. was just hog wash. people will go with the one who makes sense to them. and mccain nor obama make sense to the everyday working folk.

Posted by: the patriot | Jul 15, 2008 7:28:46 PM

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Yes patriot,
The DNC has screwed itself AGAIN! Hillary was destroyed so BO could be the ringer. Not happening.
The RNC beat the drum resoundingly, started 2 years ago saying Hillary was poison. They do not want to run against her, ever! Hillary would defeat McCain in a second, but now he has it made. BO is unelectable.

So if the voters can be hoodwinked into electing the shrub TWICE..I say anyone can be president! Maybe we can all vote Nader and shock the crap outa both crappy parties! At least Nader is not in bed with big business or the military. Now he would be CHANGE, I doubt they would let him live. Well at least he is a choice between all the DNC and RNC have to offer.

In Obama's own words, he couldn't call a meeting because "I was appointed to the committee and then immediately began my campaign for president." This is typical Obama - just get the cred on his resume and move on.

Obama is a FRAUD - the DNC picked the WRONG guy and he will never win.
WHY won't obama debate McCain??? - His campaign won't let him - he cannot answer a direct question without a prepared answer from the teleprompter.
He is a Staged Show!
Life-long Dem - will turn to the GOP for my guy of Change!

Is anyone concerned that even after Clinton called him out on the meetings, he still hasn't held a single hearing on such a crucial matter. The whole country, including military, should be screaming about this.

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No they don't care, they just look at that as her being hateful. I personally think they should look into it myself, especially with the escalation of violence lately.

It is amazing how the American public can be bamboozled into another idiot like Bush. Can't speak, doesn't have a clue. God Help us if Obama wins.

How could he have had any hearings? He only served as the junior senator from US Illinios for 140 days before he began running for POTUS. --------------
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Exactly, all he has been doing is running for President. WAnting a promotion before he ever completed his current job...

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how can the man have hearings when hes campaiging all over the country?????

Read the above answer....

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Actually, this form of attack worked quite well for Hillary. Once she started using it, she started beating Obama like a drum. She just started too late.

>"s.valenti+Jen, get over it, Hillary has lost the primaries and her great friend McSame they will lose the general elections.

Posted by: BKMC | Jul 15, 2008 5:00:33 PM

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i wouldn't count on it............

B O couldn't even hold a meeting; how's he going to run a country..... or stop a running nose............

Is anyone concerned that even after Clinton called him out on the meetings, he still hasn't held a single hearing on such a crucial matter. The whole country, including military, should be screaming about this.

hp boston
the dnc knew this, and they will regret in nov. they backed the lesser.I was listening to a group of african american women this past weekend.
and they were discussing uni. healthcare.
they are not pleased that is not front and center with obama, after during the primary they were bamboozled by obama over sen. clinton plan. they see the writing on the wall that obama will not be able to deliver what he promised when he beat sen. clinton.
mccain as bad as he is, will be the president. because of the dnc
and all of that stuff about the right wing coming out against sen. clinton. was just hog wash. people will go with the one who makes sense to them. and mccain nor obama make sense to the everyday working folk.

Rasmussen reports that while McCain and Obama are locked in a tight race - today separated by 2 points, Clinton would beat McCain by 8 points.

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So we will see who gets to be prez...
The convention and the delegates have a rude awaking. They will blame everyone but themselves when McCain IS the president.

Everyone I know saw Clinton's ploy for what it was. Disgusting.Posted by: Jane Hussein

What ploy? That she was smart enough to leave her name on the ballot?

McCain should also use the AD. 'It's 3 AM, who do you vote to answer the call?'

Yes, It's right for McCain to use those shots to attack Obama.

We should put country first, party the second.

We need to elect the one good for the country.

You know if he loses it will be Hillary's fault in some way, shape or form. I hope she keeps her distance from this flip flopping liar.

Before Hillary ever mentioned it, I read about his NATO non-leadership and found it a huge turnoff. Obama had this great opportunity with the subcommittee chair position to show he could lead on Afghanistan, and he called not a single hearing.

At some point it's Obama's fault that he never called a hearing.

chris mistakenly wrote:
not to mention the apparent disenfranchisement of the votes of florida's and michigan's voters in the democratic race, will likely be one of many factors contributing to his increasingly inevitable failure to win the general election...
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I am from MI, my friend. And I can tell you that Obama will win MI. No one feels "disenfranchised" here. Everyone I know saw Clinton's ploy for what it was. Disgusting.

McCain keeps pounding the NAFTA drum. Trust me, that doesn't go well with the folks in the UAW.

The "selected" candidate will not win in November. They picked the wrong one again, that is why I am disgusted with the democrats.

That's not a very good response by Biden. It sounds like Obama isn't even allowed to run the subcommittee which he chairs, and here is wanting to run our country.

The training wheels should have come off by now.

I lost faith in the democratic party because of barack Hussein obama.

obama's got a lot more sources for special interest groups like swift boat vets to use against him than john kerry ever did, and kerry was a vietnam veteran going up against an incompetent, ignorant commander in chief that most intelligent people could surmise would be a destructive force on America.....how do you think obama will fare against a former POW who has a history of working across the aisle, is already polling stronger on national security and the commander in chief title, and has shown to be a strong contender for the votes of independents?

dl....in case your sense of history only goes back as far as last week, let me educate you......Al Gore received over 500,000 more votes than dubya in 2000, yet dubya "won" the election....how can this be? because electoral votes matter more, regardless of national polling numbers (which would indicate the popular vote %).....

chris pull up the local state polls if you want to compare numbers...

yours are wrong.

oy.

atleast get your info straight ugh.

obama's numbers are better overall...
you and the primary numbers that MEAN NOTHING in a general.

just like national polls unless they are blowouts.
oy

jane....if you were at all familiar with recent election trends, election history and Senator Clinton's character and history, and especially polling data at the time, you would reasonably come up with very favorable odds that Senator Clinton would win those states (michigan, florida, pennsylvania, west virginia, ohio, etc.) that she would need to win the White House in November....obama's poor judgment in WITHDRAWING his name from michigan's primaries, not to mention the apparent disenfranchisement of the votes of florida's and michigan's voters in the democratic race, will likely be one of many factors contributing to his increasingly inevitable failure to win the general election....he won the nomination largely because of those red states he beat her in....however, she won the more traditional Democratic states and a number of swing states as well, some by wide margins......any reasonable person would ascertain that she would have had a better chance of winning the White House than he, especially given the tenacity and seemingly invulnerable qualities her and her husband somehow possessed against republican and conservative attack campaigns....

yeah I guess mcCain hasn't seen MSNBC's vp poll

this playbook isn't even helping Hillary for VP...never mind against Obama for Pres.

and she had the wright scandal and all the rest of the garbage to throw...

McCain's got a lot less.

the fact remains that only Senator Clinton was capable of being the best President that our children, our troops and our country desperately need right now....stop trying to disguise your guilt for supporting a lesser candidate (mccain and obama) by blaming the inadequacies of your party nominees on her justifiable concerns about them....

Chris,

FYI - Just because she won them in the Primary doesn't guarantee she will take them in the GE.

No surprise here. Obama will use the same complaints made against McCain by Romney. That's just standard post-primary campaigning. Both sides collect the issues that worked against the nominee in the primaries, then amplify them in the GE. That is why the DNC was so panicked by the Clinton juggernaut post-Super Tuesday. She had discovered how to beat him and was doing it until the DNC jiggered the superdelegates and the count in Michigan and Florida.

Obama was the weaker nominee. The pundits said so and the party knew it. Obama was 'selected'. Now they have to live with it and blaming Clinton is how they intend to cover their own prodigious posteriors post-election.

Politics: the art of making the unacceptable believable.

what happened, barack? it didn't take you very long to abandon your church of 20 years once you realized it would be politically beneficial for you (which is the same reason why you JOINED)....didn't you realize it would also be in your political interest to do something as a senate chairman when you had the chance?....

obama beat Hillary because he had a better strategy to win the nomination.....however, only Senator Clinton could have beaten mccain because she had a better plan to win the White House (winning the states that will decide the election)....in case you obama lemmings forgot, electoral votes will be the only ones that matter in November and only Senator Clinton would have won enough....

Jane what would you tell the workers. Why were the jobs eliminated. GM is fighting for it life and more jobs will be lost. Way to expensive to build cars in the US with union load and prior employees.

michelle.....yeah, because obama can beat mccain in Alaska, oklahoma, nebraska, and other democratic strongholds that he beat Clinton in...

What's the news? Wasn't Hillary and McCain campaigning together from the beginning? Trust me, Hillary shared any bit of information she got from her opposition trash pickers. She had a pact with the conservatives that she would help them destroy Obama, if they left her alone.
So far they have failed, but we can count on the subbmissive personalities to keep on repeating what ever they are told to.

Not holding hearings should be a real indication for us on how he will run the White House. Experience and the desire to defeat Hillary and now McCain at any cost.

Yes, let Obama meet him in Ohio and have McCain keep repeating how great NAFTA is in front of laid-off auto workers! LOL!

McCain in clueless!

McCain go ahead and use Hillary's playbook against Obama.

Hillary lost.

add bitter and clingy to the flopping fish comment below

Sen. Clinton does not have a patent on this sort of politics 101 stuff. Low hanging fruit I would say easy stuff for McCain to harvest. Suitable for picking away at Obama.

What will reverberate is when McCain administers the coup de grace after the convention

Stay tuned, coming next flopping fish out of water trying to change again.

s.valenti+Jen, get over it, Hillary has lost the primaries and her great friend McSame they will lose the general elections.

How could he have had any hearings? He only served as the junior senator from US Illinios for 140 days before he began running for POTUS.

Obama: Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing!

I believe the Dem front runner is campaining on borrowed time. He is trying to keep his profile and party from being splintered by fear of discovery also he cant seem to keep up with his responsibility and rhetoric and has the media giving the same false info about his lead in the polls. - it seems not long ago that Bush was going to lose to his opponnent according the feminazi- wild eye'd semi socialistic media machine right up until the facts started to come in.

May I make a recomendation - given the media's history you may ask them to turn the rhetoric down a little - the general public are suspicious of what they try to sell to joe and jane american.

He may want to ask them to paint him as a humbler and sinciere person rather than the messiah like tapestry they are feeding to the ignorant and easily swayed members of our citizenry - usually the innocent victims.

Please Barry, be honest to the facts and stop trying to run as a something your not... you are a liberal just admit it and ask people to be understanding about the personal issues that been apart of your background and maturing process and let them decide, not your media complex. What is said in the closet will be told on the housetop - just ask your previous dem predecessor

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That particular playbook didn't work too well for Hillary.

Hillary is out of the race, leave her alone. Why is Clinton somehow to blame for these chinks in Obama's armor? Do you think McCain wouldn't have picked up on these things. He's a big boy, he has researchers. John Edwards as a candidate pressed Obama on why he voted "Present" 130 times and demanded an answer, not "That's the old politics John". And everybody in America can see that Obama won't touch a debate since his debacle before the PA primary.

Jen, that is why Hillary has lost the primaries, MNcSame can do the same and he will lose the general elections come November.

This shouldn't come as much of a surprise. Hillary and McCain have a lot in common: they both ran their campaigns into debt and had to purge their staffs in the middle of the campaign. Little wonder they're both pursuing the same failed strategies.

Rasmussen reports that while McCain and Obama are locked in a tight race - today separated by 2 points, Clinton would beat McCain by 8 points.

Guess the DNC picked the wrong candidate.

When will they get it right! and please, don't give me any baloney about being ahead in pledged delegates - through "gamed", undemocratic caucus results. I'm sure that will provide cold comfort when Obama loses to John McCain in November.

Why should Obama receive a pass on this? He is quick to point out issues on the Republicans? He was put in office to serve the people not ignore his responsibilities just because he is campaigning! He has been campaigning for over a year and a half...when do you think he should get down to business? Give me a break!

It worked well for Hillary.......

John McCain looks like he should be greeting people at Wal*Mart.

There's no way John McCain going to be President! John McCain mind is stuck in the 60s, 70s, and the 80s politics.

John McCain has no ideas of his own just warm over stuff of the past.

So this "republican" doesn't know what's going on, even though he's on this committee? He needs a hearing? To discuss what?
Can't this guy figure it out for himself? Does he want to hold hands and sing?
Give me a break!

how can the man have hearings when hes campaiging all over the country?????