Political Punch

If McCain is going to use his military service and POW years as credentials to be President, then his war story needs to be analyzed. He was never a commander in war time. He served about 20 hrs of combat duty in 23 missions before being shot down yet he received 23 medals. Yes he survived 5.5 years as a POW but we only have his version as to what happened. Some question his story. I know he got a lot of publicity when captured as well as when he came home due to his family and political ties. But can we trust the media hype? Propaganda in war time is always used. Jessica Lynch and Pat Tillman are examples. John McCain the war hero could have been used by the Nixon administration to counteract the numerous anti-war veterans who were getting media attention during the Vietnam War. I just wish some investigative journalist would look into the validity of the McCain military story. I wish everyone would really take a look at this carefully and ask whether he really qualifies as better candidate based on a story that he has used throughout his political career. Why is this off limits? I for one am concerned with his neocon ties and "bomb bomb Iran" joke. If he really had to make the tough decisions that a high level officer has to make in time of war I would be more convinced. I admire his service to the country and his tenacity to survive a POW camp but it does not convince me that these make him qualified. Our country is in need of serious reforming to keep viable in these challenging times. I do not hear maverick McCain anymore. He sounds more and more like another corporate mouthpiece. He has even crossed the line pandering to the religious right. Barry Goldwater would not be happy with this candidate at all.

BAMMMMM again - another tough shot from Obama. I bet McGeezer is just fuming.

It's about time someone said this out loud.

Good job obama!! Keep 'em comin'.

Maybe the focis should be on the Obamas late term abortion issue instead.

In a letter his wife sent out on his behalf in 2004, Michelle Obama denounced a federal law banning partial-birth abortion, writing that "this ban on a legitimate medical procedure is clearly unconstitutional." Clearly!

The Supreme Court later found the law not "unconstitutional," but "constitutional" -- which I believe may have been the precise moment when Michelle Obama realized just how ashamed she had always been of her country.

Emm-whatever makes you feel better, but you did not explain McCain's supportive comments on the draft on at least four other occasions. She may have had a long statement/question - but McCain is setting the record for a draft. 1 X - a pass - time #5 - bye bye....

She made a personal opinion statement. Rather than spend another 10 minutes pulling about her speech, he simply agreed not to disagree and move on. Hmm, kinda like when the Dems tack on some pork fat to a bill and Bush vetoes the whole thing until they get it right.

Okay Emm.... so why has McCain made similar comments on the draft on at least four other occasions? Why hasn't his campaign "walked-back" those comments? You state 'Anyone would have gotten confused". I beg to differ - Your 72 year old candidate did and appears often "confused".

Her life's story was:
"Senator McCain I truly hope you get the opportunity to chase Bin Laden right to the gates of hell and push him in as you stated on your forum. I do have a question though. Disable veterans, especially in this state have horrible conditions, their medical is substandard. They drive four hours one way to Albuquerque for a simple doctors appointment which is often canceled. Our VA hospital is dirty it is understaffed, it is running on maximum overload. The prescription medicines are ten years behind standard medical care we have seven hundred claims stacked up at the VA office in Albuquerque some of them are ten and seven years old waiting to be processed in the mean time these people are homeless. My son is an officer in the Air Force, and I am a vet and I was raised in a military family. I think it is a sad state of affairs when we have illegal aliens having a Medicaid card that can access specialist top physicians, the best of medical and our vets can’t even get to a doctor. These are the people that we tied yellow ribbons for and Bush patted on the back. If we don’t reenact the draft I don’t think we will have anyone to chase Bin Laden to the gates of hell."

Not after all that,where is a question mark indicating a question? None, so anyone would have taken the 99% of information that was actually heard (not counting the possibility of him clearing his throat, stage noise, etc) and answered the same way. Grain of sand.

From Today's Town Hall:

If we don’t reenact the draft, I don’t think we’ll have anyone to chase Bin Laden to the gates of hell.

To which McCain responded:

Ma’am, let me say that I don’t disagree with anything you said.

So Emm... McCain doesn't pay attention to what people ask him in his town hall meetings nor does his answer speak for him? His own campaign did not send out a "walk-back" or anything on the statement. Town hall is not nappy time.

Wrong. What he said, after a woman asked him a rather long, convoluted, multiple points all jumbled together, was that he didn't disagree with what she said. Anybody would have gotten confused with her mumbo jumbo. He was just being polite instead of saying "Pick a subject and verb and get back with me."

Just returned from dinner here in Republicanville where McCain just lost a lot of support with his comments today supporting a draft. Friends packing their kids up to send them off to college, many Ivy League are never going to vote for a man that wants to pack their kids up and forcefully send them into war.

"decentAmerican"

I've always said it would be a tight race. I've even worried on another board that his high poll numbers were dangerous because it could make people who are fed up with Repubs and their policies complacent. There are far more people fed up with Repubs than there are Repubs. Even Repubs were so fed up with Repubs that they nominated a man who they thought was hardly a Repub. Repubs are so easily fooled.

And McCain is in a real bind: go to the center and the evangelical base will be outraged; go to the fringe and Obama will make inroads into the heart of the Republican party.

McCain had to spend his campaign money before the convention and he spent it like a drunken sailor. After the conventions, Obama will have the money advantage to chase McCain down to the gates of hell.

Will Obama get a big bounce during the convention? If he doesn't, the fat lady will have sung!

Obama: The more you hear him, the better McCain looks.

GO OBAMA
FAILURE IS NOT AN OPTION

POOR MARTIN YOUNG AND NOT INFORMED-----VERY ORIGINAL JFK SOUND FAMILIAR.

rodney

That was not an original statement.

hey martin
HOW ABOUT FAILURE IS NOT AN OPTION

GO OBAMA

Which words best describe a real leader?

(1) We have nothing to fear but fear itself.

(2) The buck stops here.

(3) Damn the torpedos and full speed ahead.

(4) That's above my pay grade.

mccain claiming to be a military expert---5.5 years in the hanoi hilton makes him an expert..wow what a stretch of the imagination.check this guys records ---school and military--mccain is really dumb.