On Leno, McCain Invokes POW History When Asked About House Controversy

McCain is NO maverick. He is living in the past. He even addressed his followers as "My fellow prisoners". Something is not right with this guy. I would never want him to be our leader in times of crisis. If he was President and we were attacked his first move would probably be to announce he was suspending his campaign forgetting that the campaign was long over with.

OMG...what is up with that stupid ? about how many houses they have??? Like it has anything to do with his politics or the campaign, not to mention that the people asking the ? are soooo hypocritical I could gag...they probably have several houses themselves. I am so sick of this ???, why is it acceptable to ask someone how wealthy they are, but you would never bash someone for being poor...their wealth (as long as it didn't come from ripping off Americans) should have nothing to do with politics!!!

I am convinced that that the activities that we partake in DO say something about us. Neither presidential party is delivering what I would like in the next POTUS...however, I will likely choose the man the is LESS the socialist, LESS the the taxationist, LESS the pro-abortionist, with LESS the history of drug abuse and MORE of the history of serving his country and the MOST experience. McCain is not perfect. There are allegations of his infidelity from his first wife...in those situations, the outsiders never know the full story. In the POW situation, I found the first hand account that was recorded in 1973 and still available on-line very enlightening. It is lengthy and demonstrates that McCain did have a braking point after much unrelenting torture. I would challenge you to read it if you desire to be better informed or you don't believe that this experience says anything about the character of a man.

As far as I can see, Mr. Obama did not choose to serve in the military. At about the same age he was self-admittedly angry and "inhaling" "that was the point"...that is my recollections of his statements.

I read as much as I can about both candidates. In the past, I have voted for either ticket depending on my convictions.

There's a international crisis in the former USSR state of Georgia.
McCain is sending his VP Cindy McCain to evaluate and contain the situation.
Our current Monarchs the Bushes are "out to lunch", heck
after running the country into the ground they've decided to run out for a
long lunch break, maybe until November. Guess they figured, what the heck?
we're out anyway, let's just kick back and steal office supplies.

McCain's got it under control, my people are in his camp and with FOX News
behind the McCains, here we go, 4 more years ! 4 MORE years! FOUR MORE YEARS!

spock you fool

go to FACT CHECK.org
Obams's birth records are beyond dispute
He is an American

don't vote for him if you don't want but don't make things up

gee you all must be doing better than you were four or eight years ago--

if not - and you are like most people- stop the silly posts and get real

this country is in a mess

it is not 1960 0r 1970

Past or Future --
McCain is the son and grandson or admirals - he was a POW - but examine the record - whch he had sealed -- the old Swift Boat people are now forming Swift bost for Viet Nam vets -

There is a reason he had his records sealed - none of this would matter if he wasn't running on his POW record - but that is his answer to everything so now he may need to answer for his own actions during that time

SPOCK-

I know, but what I put in my previous comment were two examples found in other comments to show how ridiculous the discussion often becomes. Another example being your odd claim that Hawaii has no record of Obama. There is no question about either candidates citizenship and to devote any time to the topic avoids discussing truly important topics.

So spock, we have to be careful with what we bring up in these discussions. You should be frustrated by someone questioning McCain's citizenship status as I was and all of us should be. But we should also be equally frustrated by stupid and erroneous questions being raised about Obama's citizenship like you just did. We quickly become puppets of party agendas if we blindly endorse anything as long as it has the backing of the right letter, D or R.

Have to get back to studying. Just wanted to say that I might not convince spock or others to avoid using what they themselves must know are baseless claims, but to feed on this political garbage is not only an indicator of the stagnation of ideas that exists in politics, but also of our own mental stagnation. While I'm trying to figure out a way to pay for med school and I hear lies about Obama or McCain I get angry, because it is a waste of all our time.

I do have a favorite in the race but to know that someone in each of the parties thinks so little of me and all of us to lie about these all too often marginal issues really angers me. I will not continue the chain by disseminating lies about either. Where is the discussion on health care? Where is the discussion on renewable energy resources (and no, sound bites don't count)? We deserve better.

Good luck to whatever candidate you want to win everyone!

riceowl - McCain is a Natural Born Citizen

Now Jake you should do a story on Obama who can not seem to find his Birth Certificate and Hawaii has no record of him!!
So is Obama a Citizen is the question?

You libs are something else, first the McCains are not that wealthy, if you read and correctly he owns mostly condos that they live in 3 of 5, the other properties are investment properties.

At least they bought their own homes, unlike Obama who owes his home to slum lord Rezko, while Rezko watched over the poor live in sub-sub-sub-standard housing, he helped Obama by a mansion , which is problably worth more money then all of McCains homes put together!!

mccain only has about 5 million, Obama no one knows, kerry 100's of millions, Kennedy 100's of millions

Gore making 100's of millions off the fraudualnt global warming fears

Should I go on,

The difference here is Republicans believe in Growth you libs say one thing and live another!!

Tax the poor so the libs can live in mansions!!

I don't care if it's Cindy or John who owns the homes, the fact that they are so wealthy, coupled with Senator McCain's own admission that he doesn't really understand economics, coupled with his economic advisor's comments that we're only in a mental recession and that people need to stop whining, suggests to me that John McCain isn't really the guy who is going to be fixing the economy.

He and his advisors just don't get it.

The people that find Leno funny nowadays are what's wrong with America.

As i read articles,blogs, personal comments etc..I'm amazed at how divided this country is. "Bush" the great divider has suceeded.The middle class is deteriorating by the minute and our prejudices will elect another GW Bush in november.As far as the POW issue. Like Guilliani and 911, he has nothing to really talk about. God bless him for his service but at least he didn't wind up like the 4,000 plus that he helped send to that crime of a war in Iraq

McCain was hilarious last night!

Leno made jokes about houses being flooded in Florida and most of them belonged to McCain.

He said McCain was a war hero in the Civil War.

Then McCain came out and said "you forgot to mention I warned that the British were coming".

I used to support McCain because I can't stand Obama--but now I really like McCain and trust his experience.

Full honesty please!!

This is not a story about the American dream, but instead the use of a powerful story that many have lived but that few use regularly to explain all actions throughout their lives. Whether one chooses to support McCain or Obama, we shouldn't feel good about campaigns that use such a powerful story to explain minor (number of houses) and major (infidelity) mistakes. This is a disservice to the experience that so many faced and lived through, but an even greater disservice to those that perished due to worse conditions.

Rather than coming to a conclusion about McCain or Obama when this type of story is done, blind backers of each try to invoke the other to justify or excuse actions of their favorite. This is not productive at all, and indicative of a rotted system. In this case, it is clear that McCain is only hurting himself by taking a powerful strength to explain something stupid away.

The only relevant question is: Is McCain correct in using his POW story to answer the houses question? For me the answer is a strong NO.

Judge THIS story and don't state lies, it serves no one and discredits your argument. Couldn't go through all the comments but here are two good examples:

McCain is a citizen of Panama. How is he running for president?
Obama who hates America and disrespects our honorable military men/women.

Do we deserve good leadership?

@ Renee: What? Seriously, what does that have to do with anything? Go vote McCain in order to push your bitter brand of faux feminism. I'm sure that will show those sexists!

McCain just doesn't get it. He's out of touch.

"What it has to do with putting Americans in houses and keeping in their homes. And that's what I'm gong to do."

Right. Foreclosures all over the place, telling people to take second jobs, forego a holiday, not having a clue about the price of groceries, taking an entire motorcade to Starbucks so he could pick up a lousy cup of coffee .. what does he know about life as it's lived.

That's the point. But it's an inconvenient point for people who just like to interpret this as an attack upon those with wealth. Because they really couldn't give a damn about their neighbour. Just about themselves and who they can screw to the wall so they can climb on their backs.

Greed is so ugly.

ANOTHER SEXIST ATTACK BY THE OBAMA CAMPAIGN...

They seem to have a problem with successful women like Cindy McCain and Hillary Clinton.

SO OBAMA IS AGAINST THE AMERICAN DREAM NOW EVEN FOR FORMER PRISONERS OF WAR

We get it, that's all he's got

Someone said that Rudy's sentences all contained a noun, a verb and 9/11. Substitute POW for 9/11 and you've got McCain. His attempts to invoke his POW experience into the housing matter are getting more and more embarassing. He needs to knock off irrelevant messages about the past and start telling us what he's going to do about the future.