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Cindy McCain: Obama Has 'Waged the Dirtiest Campaign in American History'

October 07, 2008 8:56 PM

The Nashville Tennessean reports that at a children's hospital today, Cindy McCain -- the wife of GOP presidential nominee Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. -- said her husband's opponent, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., has "waged the dirtiest campaign in American history."

That's quite a charge.

Mrs. McCain was visiting the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt University.

“What I have found is that it’s necessary to make sure the American people understand what we have to say, what we stand for as a husband and wife, and what we will do for the American people if we’re lucky enough to be elected,” she said.

- jpt

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man, Cindy McCain picked the wrong week to give up her barbituates! We can forgive her for speaking such nonsense when she's still trying to kick her drug habit, but still, I must protest: Sen. Obama has run a very classy, nationally unifying campaign. Mrs. McCain would change her mind, once she experiences a moment of clarity. Btw, as an admitted adulterer (she and McCain having their fling while he was still married to that stripper), should she be saying such things?

Posted by: tuffyjones | Nov 1, 2008 6:36:36 PM

The left's ongoing SMEAR CAMPAIGN ... ongoing false accusations of RACISM ... UGLY comments about Sarah Palin and Cindy McCain are DISGUSTING ... and say much, much more about Obama and the democrats, than they do about Senator John McCain and Governor Sarah Palin. The Obama campaign has been hiding Michelle Obama throughout the election season, because the public doesn't like her. Maybe it's time to bring her anti-american sentiments, and 20 years attending Rev. Wright's racist sermons back to the attention of America. If you vote for Obama, you are also voting for voter fraud, media corruption, racism, and socialism. Keep America strong and safe, elect McCain/Palin on November 4th.

Posted by: Howard | Oct 20, 2008 2:11:55 PM

How could you say Cindy McCain is a racist when she adopted a very sick black/Indian child,
the newborn child had such major health problems & would of died if it wasn't for Mrs. Mccain devotion to the baby.
Bridgette McCain is the name of their adopted now grown minority daughter from Bangladesh.
mmm..This part about her seems to be left out. She may have alot of faults to some of you out their but being a Racist is one of them!

Posted by: m72 | Oct 20, 2008 10:10:18 AM

So the lady did some pills? SO WHAT! Now since the nasty ,hit below the belt New York Times went and re-wrote this old news about Mrs. McCain,now every media outlet in town has the GREEN LIGHT on bring up all the drugs Obama has done in his past.
Who cares what drugs people did in the past,everyone has their own thing they get stimulated from caffine-street drugs.
Now Obamas drug days are going to be under the microscope. He should write a "thank-you" letter to the TIMES for crossing that line.
Its not fair to do that to either party or person.
Usually people that write about someones drug use is usually covering their own...

Posted by: m72 | Oct 20, 2008 9:54:16 AM

No one ever speaks about John McCain's association with G. Gordan Liddy. Nixon's right hand man who arrange Watergate.
Dont be fooled by the Secret Society.

Posted by: secretsociety | Oct 19, 2008 9:22:27 AM

Dear carlyonsue:

What are you talking about the only thing I have heard the Obama campaign say about the Palin's children is that they are off limits. I am interested in hearing the evidence that the Obama campaign started the smear campaign. I am a republican and would love to vote for John McCain but cannot because of the way he has been running his campaign so I will be writing in Ron Paul for President.

As for the phrase "People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones!" the reason is not because stones will be thrown back at you. the reason is because if you throw stones in a glass how it crumble down upon you.

But please tell me how the Obama campaign started the smear campaign against McCain.

And yes I agree with you that she got help for her drug addiction but as for being honest about it the only reason she said anything about it publicly is because she was told that the DEA was going to release the information so she made sure to come out and talk about it before they did. Also as for being honest about it, if she was truly being honest about her actions she would have accepted the consequences of what she did. Instead of accepting those consequences she completely avoided the consequences because if it had been me or you, we would have been charged and convicted of a felony and sent to prison. She was not, in fact she doesn't even have a criminal record even though she is a criminal because she committed a crime.

Posted by: Josh | Oct 11, 2008 5:38:58 AM

I totally agree with Cindy! Nothing has been off limits to the Obama campaign and the democrats! Not even Sarah Palin's children! Now that the stones are being thrown back at them they can't stand it! They are screaming foul and that the republicans and the McCain campaign are not being fair. Well, the democrats started this war of words when they launched their smear campaign against McCain and Palin over six weeks ago! Well, there is a saying that says "People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones!" Reason: The stones will be thrown right back at them! That's what the McCain campaign are doing! They're only fighting back after weeks of having the stones thrown at them! They have a right to fight back! They should have done it weeks ago! The Obama campaign shouldn't have started this war if they can't take the stones thrown back at them!

Posted by: carlyonsue | Oct 10, 2008 5:03:28 PM

To all of you who are ridiculing Cindy McCain about her drug addiction, she at least has been open and honest about it! She publicly admitted her addiction and she got help for it! Has Barack Obama ever admitted his association with Bill Ayers and with thugs?

Posted by: carlyonsue | Oct 10, 2008 4:46:53 PM

Reply to R-T. CONDOMS DO NOT, CAN NOT PREVENT the spread of AIDS even when used correctly. Your "Imagine 40,000 deaths for the lack of a penny condom! Sounds pro-life to me!" comment tell every one you are listening to pro-choice (baby assassins) who are lying to everyone. Get the facts! Abstinence and murder are the only sure fire means to avoid raising a child. If you don’t want the responsibility of raising a family practice self control and take responsibility for your actions! Don’t drop your pants! The rape and incest arguments are a cop out. An evil committed against a women does not make the murder of a baby any less evil!

Posted by: Russ | Oct 10, 2008 3:35:36 PM


ANY TAKING ABOUT pro-life? Before the
Bush Administration there was a condom
distribution program in Africa. The #
of new AIDS cases per year fell by almost 6,000 per year. Then the pro-life
moral majority put an end to the program
because it promoted "fornication". The
# of aids cases has risen . Imagine
40,000 deaths for the lack of a penny
condom! Sounds pro-life to me!

Posted by: R-T | Oct 10, 2008 12:36:29 AM

Money can buy many things, homes, cars, planes, friends, children,(did anyone notice the poor girl standing behind the circus act yesterday), it can buy you out of drug charges, and can buy you into politics,
BUT...
Money CANNOT buy class
Money CANNOT buy character
Money CANNOT buy truth
Money CANNOT buy intelligence

Posted by: olivia | Oct 9, 2008 10:57:42 PM

As a republican and former supporter of Jonh McCain in the 2000 primary I find this statement of Cindy McCain's to be very surprising because of the fact that John McCain was the victim of the dirtiest campaign in American history when George Bush cost him the primary in South Carolina by "push polling" people in the state into thinking that McCain fathered a chil. The Bush campaign denied these allegations but I know that someone was conducting these "push polls" because I was one of the pollsters who was asked to make these calls in South Carolina. I refused to make those calls because I knew they were untrue.
First of all 100% of John McCain's ads have become negative and 33% of Barack Obama's ads are negative. In my opinion running any negative ad is wrong. But don't be mistaken negative and dirty are two very different things.
Second the statement that Cindy made about Obama's vote against funding the troops is true and it is also true that McCain voted against funding the troops as well. These votes are on two separate bills though McCain voted no on a bill that would fund the troops and set a time table to begin withdrawing our troops, Obama voted yes on this bill. Obama voted no on a bill that would fund the troops but would not set a time table to begin withdrawing troops from Iraq, McCain voted yes on this bill.
On to who is running the dirtier campaign sadly I have to say that it is McCain and I believe he is doing this because it worked for Bush against him.
As for the choice of Sarah Palin as VP. I think it was made as a tactic to get the disgruntled Hilary voters and for some it will work but other's will see the choice for what it is.
As for voting with your heart and conscience that is not the way to vote for a president that is the way to pick the person you want to be with for the rest of your life. The way to vote is with your brain because that is what the next president should be using when he makes the decisions that will affect all Americans lives for the next four years.
Don't let scare tactics sway the way you think.
By the way I am not voting for McCain or Obama I will write Ron Paul on my ballot.

Posted by: Josh | Oct 9, 2008 5:44:34 PM

As a person who would like this world to have a better chance, I would have voted for Obama. I have watched the debates, and I fail to see why Obama is not evryone's choice. The man talks straight, he is honest and his intelligency is evident. He has a clear vision for the American people, and looking at his life he is a hero. Obama has the courage to put US first, and struggled to gain the presidency when the country is in the most difficult times... Yes US has a hope wih OBAMA and as for me I would like to see Obama in the Whitehouse. He will shake the world and will bring peace closer to reality... Mothers will not worry about their son's in Irag and ventures that we are not quite sure why they have started in the first place. It is time for the soldiers to come back to their families and as for Mr Mc Cain who says that he knows where Bin Laden is why does he tell Mr.Bush how to find him?? It is time for peace we are not on this earth for ever. We owe it to our ancestors and for those who will come in the future to live in a world of peace... A highly unattainable vision but possible with such people as mr OBAMA in the presidency... Good luck mr OBAMA and may you get in the whitehouse and may you set the foundations for peace...

Posted by: Myrianthi Chaudri | Oct 9, 2008 5:32:57 PM

This whole campaign is starting to sound like the campaigns in south and central america.

Obama has misrepresented and changed his position since the beginning of the campaign when he was facing members of his own party in the primaries.

He has had and continues to have associations that are just as represented by the McCain campaign staffers and supporters.

Please note that McCain has made the issue of Jeremiah Wright off limits. The reverend's rantings are protected constitutionally and McCain has fought and suffered to protect those rights.

McCain considers Ayers a dispicable person and an enemy of the U.S. even though he is a citizen.

Conversely, it is never alright to attack a candidate as a friend of terrorists since Ayers was never convicted and hence is and should be considered innocent under those same constitutional protections.

Obama staffers have similarly used prior associations against the McCain Palin campaign. Todd Palin has also never been convicted of crimes. The difference from McCain's view is that even though painted by the Obama campaign as an associate of terrorists because of Palin's membership in Alaskan's for Freedom, neither the group or Palin have been convicted nor do they profess to have commited crimes. Ayers freely admits to bombings and says he should have done more.

McCain's attacks then have more justification than the Obama position, but McCain gets more ink for negativity.

Part of the system. The liberal press is giving greater latitude to Obama and the supporters on the right react with unfortunate name calling since that's the way they get noticed by the media.

The handlers of both of these candidates are going to spark real physical trouble.

When it hits the fan it will be McCain that gets the blame because that's the way it will be reported by mainstream media, but the blame will lie with the handlers and strategists for both sides.

When one of these rallies erupts in physical violence, Ayers will be boogying in joy across his livingroom but there will be plenty of blame to go around on both sides.


Posted by: Lance | Oct 9, 2008 2:59:19 PM

Cindy is lying! They are the ones who are conducting a DIRTY NASTY CAMPAIGN BECAUSE THEY ARE DESPERATE. Case in point, she is criticizing Obama about voting against the bill funding the war, when SHE KNOWS OR SHOULD KNOW that her deceitful, adulterous husband did too. Of course, maybe she's been out of it because of all the gray matter she probably lost due to her having been ADDICTED TO DRUGS IN THE PAST. Since she also became a THIEF TO COVER UP HER ADDICTION in addition to her own adulterous actions, she probably shouldn't be judging anybody else.

Palin has NO room to talk either with all of her baggage with Troopergate, her husband having been the one doing her gobernatorial duties, and with her negative associations herself like AIP the ALASKA INDEPENDENT PARTY, who wants to SECEDE FROM THE US!

Then there's McCain's association with the US Council for World Freedom, AN ANTI-SEMETIC organization!

Posted by: sensiblethoughts | Oct 9, 2008 2:32:49 PM

CINDY MCCAINE WAS A GOOD MEAL TICKET FOR JOHN MCCAIN . WHEN JOHN MCCAINE MET CINDY HE WAS EARNING 25, 000 A YEAR IN THE MILITARY, THATS RIGHT MY FRIENDS. HE DUMPED HIS FIRST WIFE, 3 MONTHS AFTER SHE WAS IN A HORRID CAR ACCIDENT, AND MARRIED CINDY , WHO HAD INHERITED A FORTUNE FROM HER DADDY.
HIS FIRST WIFE LIVES ON A MEAGER EXISTENCE IN VIRGINNIA. LOOK IT UP , IT'S THE TRUTH.
HOW ABOUT THAT FOR MORALS CINDY AND JOHN? YUK

Posted by: JOY | Oct 9, 2008 1:11:47 PM

Hide the pills Cindy's at it again. Are you kidding me - this like Mike Tyson screaming about an opponent's lack of sportsmanship out of one side of his mouth with guy's ear hanging out the other.

Posted by: freedomfighter1975 | Oct 7, 2008 10:49:17 PM

AWESOME!!!!!!

Posted by: icarus | Oct 9, 2008 12:35:46 PM

Cindy McCain made this statement with nothing to back it up. I mean, come on! Where is her supportive statement to clarify what she said? It seems that the Repubs are saying whatever they can hoping no one will look up facts and instead, just simply, believe what they are saying. Short and silly.

Posted by: CRyan | Oct 9, 2008 12:25:18 PM

Oh, to be a SNL writer this week.

"How come I can't get my 13th house? Daddy promised me I could have it." or "This isn't fair. Republican smear and scare tactics have always worked in the past how come they aren't this year?" or How about her "fantasizing" about the big O dressed in her very expensive designer clothes.

Poor 100 million dollar spoiled Cindy?

The whining is worse than Hillary's if that could have been possible.

A little fact checking (like actually vetting of a VP) of her husband's voting record would have been a little prudent here.

Posted by: Robert Johnson | Oct 9, 2008 11:48:14 AM

Correct SARAH (Oct 8, 2008 6:09:49 PM)!

World of politics are really too expensive, but we don't have any other way to elect our leaders.

So, we need to accept the reality and focus to the current issues in order to move on.

Both side have owned stratigy and i think the American voters are old enough to choose who the best of these candidates.

But don't forget Gov. Sarah Palin coz' being a mother and public servant, we do believe that she has guts to serve you effectively.

Posted by: Balweg | Oct 9, 2008 8:17:48 AM

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