McCain Seems Irritated at Des Moines Register Edit Board Meeting

Those darn questions... McCain was down 15 in Iowa. Make that 20.

Looks like the "register" invited McCain to a baseball game and tried to use the bat on him in a most personal and impolite way. I thought his answers we to the point, no umms and ahhs, a bit snippy but fairly accurate.

Maccain looks like a surly old man.
In the begining, I even had respect for him.
But now, I lost all respect and even don't feel pity for him!

He looks really miserable and angry, and at the end of the clip, he tried to smile, but so awkward...

He must feel that he has no more chance to get momentum, he already tried so many cards... Celebrity Ad, Pick of Palin, Suspension of Campaign... it will not work anymore,,, American people have now immmune to his circus.

John McCain is becoming a national joke. He is a clown.

If the US elections were to be won by bloggers....mars would be a safer bet to live in !!!!!

O ....has that going for him.O nly that.

If Iowa was not already in Obama's column, it most certainly is now.

He reminds of Tom Cruise's ridiculous character during the interview scene in "Magnolia". I was ready for him to just stop talking and stare past the interviewers, "silently judging" them.

The bottom line is that this is not Presidential demeanor. I do not want this man near the nuke code. He loves to hate, and I'm sorry, but that's not OK. Look at his eyes--he literally wants to stab these journalists. That is not something to be admired in a leader. That is something the Taliban would approve of. We need a cool, level head in the White House. Imagine if he or Cheney were Pres during the early days of the Cold War. The way he's provoking Russia right now, we may get an idea of what that scenario would've been like if anyone elects this angry ass. I looked at the Des Moines Register website, and it's interesting to note that he only got angry with the questions asked by women. Before whiner GOP'ers cry foul by the media, note that this paper's editorial board endorses McCain.

I think John is just giving up at this point. It amazing how many people are jumping to "questions they need to ask Obama" when this video had nothing to do with Obama. Dems can say, why don't they ask McCain about Keaton 5? Partisan arguments still don't explain his temper in this video. It's just becoming a sad day.

On the other hand, you have to like someone who stands up for what he believes in a no nonsense way. One of the clips questioned whether the straight talk express was still on the track. I think Senator McCain set these partisan nitpickers straight on that point. Can you imagine the waffling, hemming and hawing of the O-man if he should be similarly questioned? Oh my!

Asked about Herritage's statement, Palin's foreign policy adviser, Steve Biegun, insisted the candidate's position was correct. Russia's "old behaviors" of aggressively flying into U.S. airspace have been exhibited recently, he said.

"Governor Palin told me that when Russian aircraft buzz American airspace and U.S. aircraft are mobilized at Elmendorf Air Force Base, she is informed by her National Guard commander," said Biegun, who did not offer any additional explanation for the contradiction.

"The point she was making is that the geographical location of Alaska has unique attributes. This doesn't happen to many states in the union," Biegun said. "Her point was that she's pretty up close to some of the big issues of international affairs."

Herritage said Air Force officials discussed with Palin instances of Russian planes entering the buffer zone and the U.S. response during their annual statehouse briefing in February.

It could not immediately be determined how many times Palin had been notified in real time of Russian planes having entered the buffer zone. Major General Craig E. Campbell, the adjutant general of the Alaska National Guard, did not immediately return calls and e-mails.

3 weeks ago:

And while the Alaska National Guard operates a launch site for a US antimissile system at Fort Greely, about 100 miles south of Fairbanks, the Alaskan governor is not in the site's chain of command and has no authority over its operations, according to Major General Craig E. Campbell, the adjutant general of the Alaska National Guard who commands the roughly 3,800 state militia members.

Gov. Sarah Palin cites vigilance against Russian warplanes coming into U.S. airspace over Alaska as one of her foreign policy credentials. But the U.S. military command in charge says that hasn't happened in her 21 months in office.

"When you consider even national security issues with Russia, as (Prime Minister Vladimir) Putin rears his head and comes into the airspace of the United States of America, where — where do they go? It's Alaska," the Republican vice presidential nominee said in an interview last week with CBS News' Katie Couric.

The spokeswoman for the McCain-Palin campaign, Maria Comella, clarified in an e-mail to The Associated Press that when "Russian incursions near Alaskan airspace and inside the air defense identification zone have occurred ... U.S. Air Force fighters have been scrambled repeatedly."

The McCain ticket deserves to lose when they let Ifill be moderator of the VP debate knowing that she has a book about Obama due out in early 2009 and has a financial stake in seeing him elected. What can they be thinking? Apparently not too clearly.

Concerned in OH:

contrary to what you might think, I am not 'pro-abortion', there should be as few as possible which is why reproductive education should be enhanced in schools, and assuming rape or incest is an issue, there should be no restrictions on a women gaining access to a 'morning after' pill.

The question is who gets to decide what's right for a women. We can argue all night about fetal viability and whether someone's view of 'life begins at conception' is vaild.

That still doesn't address the issue of whether a women has the freedom to decide what's right for her. I believe a women has that right.

Of concern to McCain's campaign, however, is a remaining and still-undisclosed clip from Palin's interview with Couric last week that has the political world buzzing.

The Palin aide, after first noting how "infuriating" it was for CBS to purportedly leak word about the gaffe, revealed that it came in response to a question about Supreme Court decisions.

After noting Roe vs. Wade, Palin was apparently unable to discuss any major court cases.

There was no verbal fumbling with this particular question as there was with some others, the aide said, but rather silence.

stainam,

Does John McCain still believe that Czechoslovakia exists?

In another clip, when McCain is asked how he can restore trust in American government if some of his campaign charges are not completely true, he doesn't hide his displeasure with the question.

"Because I have always had 100 percent, absolute truth and that's been my life of putting my country first," McCain replied. "And i'll match that record against anyone's. And I'm proud of it. And an assertion that I've ever done otherwise, I take strong exception to."

McCain's ads have been cited misleading over 30 times by non partisan groups.

PolitiFact cites 27 statements by McCain that are barely true, 24 statements that are false and 6 statements that qualify as pants on fire.

Why is Gwen Ifill moderating the VP debate on Thursday? She has written a book on Obama, due out Inauguration day, and she has every incentive to have him elected. This is truly biased! a moderator is REQUIRED to be neutral.

I am furious...FURIOUS....at the ongoing media bias toward Obama. What has society become? The media picks at the tiniest little thing about McCain and Palin, but ignores HUGE issues with Obama. No one is talking about ACORN, no one is talking about the police-state thug tactics in Missouri. And have you seen the videos of these children being brainwashed into singing songs about Obama? Are you kidding me with this?

We, as Americans, need to be scared......VERY VERY scared, at the mere thought of Obama coming to power. The thought of it sends chills down my spine.

God help us.

I have to say first of all as a life time resident of Illinios, and having been to what you refer to as Chicago Thug Land too many times to count, I and others are very dissappointed. I doubt you have ever been farther than the edge of your own yard. Try getting out more you just
might learn something important.

McCain has lied repeatedly throughout his campaign about Obama and about his own record. It is all a matter of public record. All you have to do is to have the intelligence to look it up
Verbal abuse and discriminatory remarks about the candidates are to me an outrage and I believe that they should not be allowed to be posted. But I am not the mod here.
Color should not matter. We all bleed red blood.
We all believe in a higher power and eventually we all die as well.
Change is coming, that is correct. Our world is constantly changin around us, and so is our USA. How we manage the changes and what we do with them as one nation ,indivisible, is what is most important.