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McCain Hit Obama With Britney, Paris -- Now Light Sabers?

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August 02, 2008 6:31 PM

Britney Spears? Paris Hilton? Moses?

The McCain campaign’s ads comparing Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., to those figures may have prompted a chuckle, but Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., told ABC News’ Diane Sawyer he’s dead serious about the issues in the ads.

“We’ll continue to have humor in our campaigns,” McCain said. “Those ads really were focused on two things.  They were focused on the fact that Sen. Obama wants to raise taxes, and I’m opposed of it.  And he opposes an energy policy which would work, including offshore drilling.  So the message there is there’re stark differences between myself and Sen. Obama.”

But McCain wasn’t done joking, either.

“I kind of enjoy ‘em,” McCain said of the ads. “You gotta have a sense of humor in this. 

“You know, a few days ago, Sen. Obama said he challenged me to a duel," McCain said. “I’m for the light sabers as weapons of choice.”

Speaking of a much more serious tiff this week about whether or not Obama played the race card in the campaign, McCain seemed to defend his team’s strong response.

“We’re not gonna allow racism to come into this campaign in any form,” McCain said. “And so I’m gonna respond if it comes up again.”

On another hot campaign issue, McCain said "the American people will make a judgment" on whether his campaign's pressure prompted Obama’s apparent shift this week toward allowing drilling for oil in U.S. coastal waters as part of a comprehensive energy plan.

But McCain claimed his opponent’s position remains much different from his.

“Well, the fact is he still opposes offshore drilling,” McCain said. “He opposes nuclear power.  He opposes most every measure, incentives to build a battery-driven car.  So, I’m not surprised that he’s hedging on this issue. But the fact is he still opposes offshore drilling.  We need to drill now and drill immediately, and it’s disgraceful that the Democrat-controlled Congress goes on a month-long recess without acting on energy.

“I would hope that he would urge the speaker of the House to at least have a vote on it,” McCain added.

“Sen. Obama is still opposed to a comprehensive energy plan,” McCain claimed. “It seems to me the only thing he wants us to do is inflate tires” to improve gas mileage.

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Obama's plea to the nation to inflate tires is most apt. Hot air has been the hallmark of his political career.

Posted by: Marty | Aug 2, 2008 6:57:21 PM

It is refreshing to see McCains ads and campaign. He gets the facts out in a Fun way.

Obama is full of evil and vile tactics, Attacks and smear campaigns, that he has always used though his campaign.
Obama learned to play down and dirty in Chicago and has always used that. That is how he got the nickname the Eliminator.

After seeing Obama Race bait himself was hilarious. Showed how low and weak he is.

Go McCain the better man and the Better Candidate and would make the Better President.

Posted by: seah | Aug 2, 2008 7:02:22 PM

This kind of stuff really gets Obama's goat. You know, somebody can't get your goat unless you have one. These ads are funny because they're true. They irritate Obama and his supporters because they're TRUE.

Obama or McCain.... We're screwed!

Posted by: Turtles | Aug 2, 2008 7:04:21 PM

yeah

I am sure all the people who lost their jobs and homes and healthcare and paying a arm-and-leg for gas really enjoy the humor of choosing the next president who will deal with these problems.

very funny low road mccain

Posted by: Omentum | Aug 2, 2008 7:13:42 PM

irkulyen1

you bring up an excellent point. how can we trust someone who was tortured for five years don't have any mental issues. he is a human gaffe machine and his own campaign disowned his statement on taxes that he made the other day.

mccain is a risky choice. if he flips out thinking he is in the hanoi hilton and start sending u

Posted by: Omentum | Aug 2, 2008 7:17:57 PM

i am struggling ..... everyday..... have humor...... are you kidding

Posted by: Omentum | Aug 2, 2008 7:27:52 PM

why have we never heard Mccain take the oil companies to task for the acreage they have that HAS OIL...

what is his plan to get them to drill more there...

Just because the oil companies say it is cost prohibitive does not mean that it is cost prohibitive...

it means that they won't see the profit margin increases they have seen lately.

John who should you be calling to task...I guess you don't think the oil companies because I have never heard you once in this discussion chastise THEM, to the point of making them do something.

Posted by: dl | Aug 2, 2008 7:28:55 PM

McCain is so transparent with his actions and comments. All this is the McCain campaign's intention to define Obama as someone different than the average American voter. This is a strategy used by the Republican Party successfully for over 20 years. Hopefully, his time around the the voters will see through the hoax and cause the effort to fail. McCain: The Failure!!

Posted by: Lou R | Aug 2, 2008 7:30:00 PM

i get the impression that mccain is bought out by big oil---how much does it take to buy you john.

Posted by: rodney | Aug 2, 2008 7:32:41 PM

Hey, OMENTUM what happened to Obama's lead in the polls???? So much for his "Momentum"

Posted by: Ryan | Aug 2, 2008 7:34:50 PM

i guess if you are out of touch. if you think we are having a psychological financial problems.

if your only struggle is to figure out which mansion you are going to for the weekend.

if your lead economist believes we are in a mental recession and a nation of winers.

THEN I GUESS YOU CAN HAVE HUMOR IN TIMES LIKE THESE

Posted by: Omentum | Aug 2, 2008 7:38:00 PM

McCain should be truthful...the reality is that he doesn't want to raise taxes on the rich or on corporations. He has no problem raising taxes on us poor suckers who live paycheck to paycheck. Why any low or middle class person would vote Republican is beyond me. Vote Obama and keep your money in your wallet, vote McCain and watch ExxonMobil make even more profits!

Posted by: Mike M. | Aug 2, 2008 7:49:00 PM

Regulating oil speculation does not create one more drop of oil and that is where the problem lies. As demand continues to increase prices will as well unless supply is increased. Go after the speculators if you want but they will just use unregulated overseas markets to do the same thing. You have to increase supply by drilling where there is actually oil and by taking advantage of oil shale. This would take from 2 to 7 years according to the people who actually drill. Or, we can wait and say again, "we should have started drilling back in 2008." Alternatives will not be ready for at least 2 decades - by the time we will all be broke; wait until you start seeing your heating bills this winter.

Posted by: ms1236 | Aug 2, 2008 7:55:48 PM

Mike M. why are you so mad at rich people? Because they make more than you do? It is called free-enterprise and capitalism. It is okay in this country to make as much money as you can! We have a progressive income tax, the rich already pay more than anyone else - that is fair? By the way - by taxing corporations you are taxing yourself as they just raise prices to cover their costs. Research shows that the economy does better with lower corporate taxes as then businesses expand creating more jobs and actually creating more revenue for the government. Raising anyone's taxes during a recession is always bad. Economics 101.

Posted by: ms1236 | Aug 2, 2008 8:04:48 PM

I wish Obama would be more proactive at this point but McCain's ads are like trying to debate the town idiot--McCain.

Posted by: Mr. Coffee | Aug 2, 2008 8:16:07 PM

mccains secret to fame and fortune----HIS WIFE AS HE HAS NOTHING TO OFFER

Posted by: rodney | Aug 2, 2008 8:16:13 PM

Sure, it's humorous, why not, McCain, it's always humorous to laugh at religion and what many people find sacred and believe in. What's next some humor in rape, murder, or child abuse? Oh wait, your close friend and big contributor already made some humor out of rape. I guess all worms stick together. You are a dispicable old man, not very different from the old sleezy pervert our mothers told us to be careful about. Some role model you are.

Posted by: Jake | Aug 2, 2008 8:24:26 PM

John McCain is the man who can give this country the "wet start" it needs!
With McCain, you'll end up with your feet on the ground, which is a hell of a place to be if you're flying a jet over enemy territory.
But he'll get us there.

Posted by: Mooser, Bummertown | Aug 2, 2008 8:32:19 PM

Rodney . Ok, whatever

Posted by: What? | Aug 2, 2008 8:33:42 PM

ms1236...why does Warren Buffett pay less in taxes (proportionately) than his secretary? It's because the wealthy person's tax burden is not just based on their income (as most people in the low and middle class is). It's also based on investments/capitol gains. The Republicans want to make sure capitol gains taxes are low so the wealthy don't pay. The low and middle classes were in a lot better shape financially when we had a Democrat in the White House.

Posted by: Mike M. | Aug 2, 2008 8:36:26 PM

Yes, Rodney we women have a problem with Mcnutcase's view on birth control. Someone needs to tell him the revolution is over. And by the way, birth control applies to men too! Somebody needs to tell him that viagra ain't gonna do much good if he can't have sex! And yes menopausal women can conceive!

Posted by: Miki | Aug 2, 2008 8:39:07 PM

Those who think age does not matter are just ignorant of the facts. The Presidency is a very demanding job and that person will need to have lots of energy to do it well. There is a GOOD reason why pilots have to retire at age 60. mc-more-war has already had too many senior-moments to handle the job well, plus he can't even use a computer. The Real straight-talker, John Murtha was right when he said the presidency is no place for an OLD man. Obama 2008!!!

Posted by: pt | Aug 2, 2008 8:40:16 PM

I get it now... Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Iran was a joke song... ha, ha, ha... that scares me. McCain scares me. This isn't what I believe to be Presidental conduct.

Posted by: Rick_VT | Aug 2, 2008 8:41:26 PM

LOVE the ads!!! The crybaby messiah suddenly sees he can't cry foul and have the RNC jump like the DNC did on the Clintons. So glad his race-baiting actions have come home to roost. It's one of the reasons why his polls numbers are on a downward spiral. Keep up the great work McCain! It's about time you came out swinging.

Posted by: Never Obama | Aug 2, 2008 8:42:10 PM

Yes, when you're campaign ads are stupid and ill conceived, pretend they are a joke. Nobody will notice. I wonder how the Hilton's feel about the McCane camp mocking their daughter in a tv ad plastered all over the country? Especially since they made a maximum donation to McCane's campign fund. I bet their just rolling on the floor with laughter.

Posted by: Bea | Aug 2, 2008 8:43:20 PM

I want to see a commerical showing McCain as a kid eating from a silver spoon, then almost getting kicked out of the academy for being in the bottom five percent of his class, then show McCain crashing four jets and big daddy admirl coming to his aid. Then coming home from five years as a prisoner and having an affair and dumping his wife for some cowgirl beauty queen that has enough money to bolster his career.

I want to see an ad like that.. But I know I never will because some people have enough class unlike others...

Posted by: Gman | Aug 2, 2008 8:46:00 PM

2 out of three that i talk to are for obama-----where do these poles come from--seem like a lot of bs

Posted by: rodney | Aug 2, 2008 8:46:23 PM

If I remember correctly, Ronald Regan was a celeb.

Posted by: Jack | Aug 2, 2008 8:46:46 PM

Here's John McCain as a candidate for McCain in the U.S. Senate in October 1986 (posted by AZ blogger Tedski who has a PDF of the original newspaper report):

Did you hear the one about the woman who is attacked on the street by a gorilla, beaten senseless, raped repeatedly and left to die?

When she finally regains consciousness and tries to speak, her doctor leans over to hear her sigh contently and to feebly ask, ‘Where is that marvelous ape?’

Yup... he's one funny guy.

Posted by: Rick_VT | Aug 2, 2008 8:47:07 PM

I seem to recall (last year?) McCain making a disparaging comment about skyrocketing CEO salaries that set off howls in conservative circles. He's for free-market capitalism -- up to a point. There's a populist streak in his thinking that says go ahead, be successful, but if it gets obscene in a time when others are hurting, you need to give more. It's the "common good" argument, as opposed to Obama's collectivist approach, and one of the reasons right wingers didn't enthusiastically support him in the beginning.

Posted by: magic | Aug 2, 2008 8:50:46 PM

Want another McCain joke that is documented? Here this one:

Ten years ago, McCain told this joke about Chelsea to a group of Republicans:
"Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because her father is Janet Reno."

Hmmm.. cozy with the Clintons eh? Funny guy... mean, sexist, homophobic... yes Presidential material indeed.

Posted by: Rick_VT | Aug 2, 2008 8:54:19 PM

as i said earlier--mccains childish attacks against obama are a smoksscreen to take attertion off this vile vulgar old geser--who does not have the brains of a child---his wife needs to start being his nanny.

Posted by: rodney | Aug 2, 2008 8:59:08 PM

JR the uninformed said: "I love McBush's sense of humor, but the jokes on us. high gas prices (Democrats' fault...prices raised AFTER they took control of Congress), huge deficit (one Senator has very little control over the deficit, genius), torture (which McCain opposed, Einstein), more war (no, just winning the war Democrats are determined to lose), social security (what stance did he even take on this? Or are you just pulling things out of your butt at this point?), the economy (dot.com collapse recession coupled with devastating economic effects of 9-11, yet employment is still high. You're so brilliant!).

You fail on an epic level.

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Posted by: ynot4tony2 | Aug 2, 2008 9:01:24 PM

voted along with bush 95% of the time.

Posted by: rodney | Aug 2, 2008 9:04:06 PM

Maybe after this political thing doesn't work out, McCain can do some comic sketches.

Posted by: Ben Straub | Aug 2, 2008 9:15:57 PM

A Blue Ribbon Panel appointed by Congress says that Iran is planning an EMP attack on the US. The panel goes on to say that we are NOT prepared as a country to defend against such an attack and as a people we are poorly equipped to deal with the consequences. The panel surmises that over 200 million could die as a result. Read more here:
http://www.harvybing.com

Posted by: Jerry | Aug 2, 2008 9:16:25 PM

Did you see this?
http://www.jedreport.com/2008/08/setting-the-rec.html

McCain made an add mocking the picture of Obama ON A DOLLAR BILL in June!!!

Posted by: Jeremy | Aug 2, 2008 9:18:24 PM

I like the ads. In Germany Barack Obama schedule an event. The opening acts were two popular groups from Berlin. When they finished Barack Obama performed.

Posted by: waggdogg | Aug 2, 2008 9:18:47 PM

we should have sent mccain----could have shown his yellow teeth and told some of his sick jokes.

Posted by: rodney | Aug 2, 2008 9:22:43 PM

Funny ads? Like this campaign to be humorous? McCain supporters are having a good time. For the rest of us, the real joke is on us. People are losing jobs, mortgages are foreclosing, banks are going under, people are dying in Afghanistan and Iraq, and this is the best McCain can do: make a mockery of the campaign? And for what - a little "humor"? I guess I don't get it. Folks, realize soon that you get what you vote for! George W. Bush, anyone?

Posted by: cmgmaggie | Aug 2, 2008 9:23:41 PM

Folks, realize soon that you get what you vote for! George W. Bush, anyone?

cmgmaggie,

George W. Bush was elected twice. The country wanted him, even in 2004. Al Gore and John Kerry both lost. The United State don't want a liberal. Barack in further left than them. McBush will win.

Posted by: waggdogg | Aug 2, 2008 9:28:58 PM

i think the usa has learned a lesson with bush and his clone mcbush does not have a chance of winning-----we dont need another idiot which mccain has proven to be.

Posted by: rodney | Aug 2, 2008 9:32:27 PM

everyone knows McCain is the laughing stock of the country.

$4 a gallon gas, $6 a gallon milk, empty factories, crowded schools, crumbling roads, contaminated drinking water, contaminated food, illegal immigrants, too many drugs, too few policemen, tens of thousands of lost jobs, un-navigable waterways, non-secure borders, foreign ownership of U.S. infrastructure, and the list goes on and on and on… Its nice to see how McCain finds things humorous and how he handles his opponents, I bet if he were president he would handle world politics the same way, as a joke.

Posted by: Scott P - Kansas | Aug 2, 2008 9:32:58 PM

McCain helped Bush in the run-up to the Iraqi WMD war, when McCain mumbled his lies about Iraq being the do-er of the Anthrax murders. Turns out to have been an inside job by US government scientists. Yet Mccain's 'sources' told him to tell us on television it was those Iraqi's.
McCain is much deeper into the Bush Iraqi's WMD lies than many realize. There are still two months of this election to go. See the video of John McCain on the late night show, telling lies about Anthrax and Iraq in 2001.

McCain has Sen. Gramm to make his economy decisions for him. Gramm is no longer the co-chair of the campaign, but he is still the authority for McCain's points of view. Ask Rick Davis the manager of the campaign. McCain doesnt speak for his own campaign on social security. HE IS A PUPPET. For whom?
The risk is McCain. The puppet candidate, who cannot speak for his own campaign.

Posted by: Bruce Becker | Aug 2, 2008 9:36:03 PM

Senator McCain is either lying outright or confused again. We cannot begin drilling immediately no matter how much we want to because: There is not a single deep-sea drilling rig available until 2011 or later; All builders of deep-sea drilling rigs are booked up with orders through 2012 and are already working at over 100% capacity to fulfil existing contracts; We outsourced the building and repair of ships and deep-sea equipment years ago, so we can't even build one ourselves; The Republican rubber-stamp Congress never bothered to rebuild the refinery capacity destroyed by Hurricane Katrina five years ago, so even if, by some miracle, we could drill, we wouldn't be able to refine that oil into anything usable. Finally, the oil companies are not even going to bid on those leases till 2012 because they're booked up.

Posted by: thepoliticalcat | Aug 2, 2008 9:40:17 PM

Bush won with only 12.5% of the adult population voting for him. 40% of the registered voters did not vote. The 10's of millions of the rest who did not vote were not registered.

The under 26's voted only 15% in the Texas primary, and that was among the registered ones, BOTH PARTIES. Only 16% Dem and 13% Republican, under 26 voted.

Register, and vote absentee and make your vote count.

Posted by: Bruce Becker | Aug 2, 2008 9:40:25 PM

will do

Posted by: rodney | Aug 2, 2008 9:42:17 PM

Senator McCain is either lying outright or confused again. We cannot begin drilling immediately no matter how much we want to because:

1. There is not a single deep-sea drilling rig available until 2011 or later;

2. All builders of deep-sea drilling rigs are booked up with orders through 2012 and are already working at over 100% capacity to fulfil existing contracts;

3. We outsourced the building and repair of ships and deep-sea equipment years ago, so we can't even build one ourselves;

4. The Republican rubber-stamp Congress never bothered to rebuild the refinery capacity destroyed by Hurricane Katrina five years ago, so even if, by some miracle, we could drill, we wouldn't be able to refine that oil into anything usable.

5. The Democratic-majority Congress passed a bill to beef up existing refinery capacity, but it takes several years to build a refinery;

Finally, the oil companies are not even going to bid on those leases till 2012 because they're booked up through then. So, even if we drill today, we're not going to get anything out of it for nearly a decade.

Posted by: thepoliticalcat | Aug 2, 2008 9:43:19 PM

Oh, yes, I forgot the most important thing: What guarantee do we have that the oil companies, which have been making record profits for the past few years, will sell the oil for which they destroy our beaches and scenic areas and even our drinking water -- to us? What's to stop them from selling it to India and China, which want it as much as we do, but can afford to pay more for it thanks to president Bush flushing our economy down the crapper?

Posted by: thepoliticalcat | Aug 2, 2008 9:46:41 PM

John McCain has no honor or integrity to allow his campaign to wallow in the mud with his disgusting attacks this week. Let's just hope that America wakes up to his ineptitude before it's too late.

Posted by: day678 | Aug 2, 2008 9:47:22 PM

50% of the population believes in the McCain drilling lies. That tells you that the average IQ is 100. Of course, half the population is below 100 on the bell curve. You can tell them something, ANYTHING, about 10 times and then its Gospel. Drilling will help you. We can get the oil out in months. Sure. If we lease the land, the fact is that the product that comes out of the ground will be sold to the HIGHEST BIDDER. By the time new leases are sold, researched and drilled and refinery capacity is built, which happens to be the log jam in the US, China will have 20 million new cars and India will have 7 million new cars and Vietnam will have 1 million new cars. They will bid that oil price up and up and up. The only solution is to stop leasing US government property to WTO companies and create sovereign corporations to research and drill and keep the oil for the USA.
As things are, oil is a commodity. Obama is right.
The way out of the oil game is new ways to do things. Steam powered engines can replace diesel, for industrial uses. Population centers will need more trains. Legal requirements for minimums have to be established. Yes, that means no more 440 HP 14 MPG guzzlers. Sorry adolescents. You missed it. We have to start now. And drilling is not a short term solution, on price.
Anyone who says it is, is lying. McCain is lying.

Posted by: Bruce Becker | Aug 2, 2008 9:49:45 PM

I think McBush has a man crush on Obama. The repugs are like that. Look at the man crush they had on Reagan.

Posted by: rosie | Aug 2, 2008 9:50:25 PM

1. There is not a single deep-sea drilling rig available until 2011, or later;

2. All builders of deep-sea drilling rigs are booked up with orders through 2012 and are already working at over 100% capacity to fulfill existing contracts;

THANK YOU POLITICAL CAT.

McCain is lying.

Posted by: Bruce Becker | Aug 2, 2008 9:51:57 PM

JAYSUS CHRIST!!!!!!!!!! IS THIS WHAT THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION DEBATE IS COMING DOWN TO, WHETHER OR NOT MCCAIN ATTACKED TWO BIMBOS? EFFING SAD MAN! WE ARE IN TROUBLE. EVOLUTION IS GOING BACKWARDS.

Posted by: HOLY TAMALE | Aug 2, 2008 9:51:59 PM

What McCain didn't figure into the whole Britney/Paris ad was the fact that Obama is famous for the same reason that McCain is famous. They are both presidential candidates. Obama isn't famous just because he's famous, like the celebs. He is famous for the same reason that John is famous. Kind of steps on his own old toes,right?

Posted by: mzsam | Aug 2, 2008 9:52:45 PM

To quote Phil Gramm "You people need to stop whining". Follow John's example: Dump you crippled wife for a drugged out bimbo billionaire heiress. Problem solved.

Posted by: RMW97 | Aug 2, 2008 9:53:09 PM

"Obama's plea to the nation to inflate tires is most apt. Hot air has been the hallmark of his political career."

You are correct.
And since The Messiah Obamination has cornered the market on hot air, at least he'll have something to fall back when he loses in November.

Posted by: RoBoTech | Aug 2, 2008 9:53:40 PM

McMean's offshore oil drilling ruse is so transparent - shame on mindless American's who can't see he's just another crooked politician taking millions from oil companies who make billions while the rest of us suffer.

Posted by: AnthonyAfterwit | Aug 2, 2008 9:53:53 PM

I have no doubt that our wonderful media that continues to kiss the repugs ass to compensate for the supposed "liberal" bias they have COUPLED with the intellect of the same morons that voted for Bush....TWICE....will in fact elect McCain.

The repugs and their kind hate America. They want it their way, or no way. They reject diversity. They leverage fear and religion to retain control while their corporate oil buddies continue to rack up record profits. And yet again...you can be assured our ineffective media will fail to do their jobs (again) and the radical right will continue their dishonest and disgraceful methods of stealing elections at all cost to win the White House.

Posted by: Seth Myers | Aug 2, 2008 9:56:33 PM

Hmm...how come we didn't see this story earlier?:

"Tallahassee Democrat senior writer Stephen Price on Friday was singled out and asked to leave a media area at the Panama City rally of presidential candidate Sen. John McCain.

Price was among at least three other reporters, and the only black reporter, surrounding McCain's campaign bus — Gov. Charlie Crist and his fiancee, Carole Rome, were already aboard — when a member of the Arizona senator's security detail asked the reporter to identify himself. Price had shown his media credentials to enter the area.

Price showed his employee identification as well as his credentials for the Friday event.

"I explained I was with the state press, but the Secret Service man said that didn't matter and that I would have to go," Price said."

http://floridacapitalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080802/CAPITOLNEWS/808020312

Of course the McCain campaign said race had nothing to do with the decision. That's why everyone else was allowed to remain - well, except one white reporter who asked why Price was removed.

Posted by: kevinbgoode | Aug 2, 2008 9:57:23 PM

To Rodney .. the word is "omentum" and not "momentum". Omentum is a fold of peritoneum. Look it up.

As far as "momentum" .. recall that Reagan was having a tough time at the same stage of the election. It took the debates to break it wide open and that's what we will have here.

The fact-deprived, forgetful and angry old man against the very bright and knowledgeable Obama. That will break it open and send John back to his rocker, where he belongs.

Posted by: Vivienne | Aug 2, 2008 9:58:01 PM

Why are we are talking about these moronic ads when the country continues to fall apart. What is the McSame plan anyway besides more freebies for the oil industry and "no new taxes"? You know who else said "read my lips, no new taxes", George Bush Sr. And then what did old George do, raise taxes!! McSame is the next in a long line of people who push the Republican lies. It is 2008 John, not 1988. "No new taxes", how Mclame. If you believe that, please go see a shrink. OBAMA 2008!!!

Posted by: Tom | Aug 2, 2008 9:58:02 PM

McUGLY... I have no more respect left for the man.

Posted by: ignatious | Aug 2, 2008 9:58:06 PM

Today's Republican Party tacitly welcome homophobes, misogynists, racists, anti-Semites and messianic fundamentalist nut jobs into their party and inherently incorporate their values into their moral fabric and political objectives. Defending the actions and values of today’s Republican Party is advocating ignorance and evil over common sense and common decency. It would be hard to imagine that any presidential administration, Republican or Democrat, could have been as malicious, polarizing, undemocratic, corrupt or destructively pernicious to the founding causes and defining principles of our republic than George W. Bush’s has. Eisenhower’s Republican Party was a liberal bastion of social and economic pluralism compared to the hegemony and elitism of George W. Bush’s. John McCain’s presidential campaign is now being run by the same people who George W. Bush relied on to get him elected and politicize our government. McCain isn’t going to garner 200 electoral votes and he will lose the popular vote by double digits. Not because he is “different”, but because he is the “same” as George W. Bush. They deserve one another and today’s Republican Party deserves the both of them.

Posted by: osage | Aug 2, 2008 9:58:08 PM


you know.. i thought when i heard obama's comment about not looking like others on currency that it was cool. it kinda struck me as funny with his youth and ears that stick out that it would give lincoln and franklin a smile.
you think alfred e bush would be better.
this is a unique opportunity to really suck it up, take the chance and see if a really smart man can put our govt working again... maybe even imagine a whole lot less incopetance and corruption.

Posted by: w bradford | Aug 2, 2008 9:58:20 PM

McCain and his supporters confirm it: They all heart Obama. Keep them coming. It just shows how pathetic McCain reall is.

Posted by: jay | Aug 2, 2008 9:58:28 PM

It doesn't matter what McCain says or does, this election is all about Obama. You see his poll numbers are dropping and the fight hasn't even started yet. The MSM nas never reported on Obama, most people in America don't know about all of Obama's baggage, but they will. Obama doesn't help himself with performances like his News Conference in Florida yesterday, he shows how unprepared he is every time he talks without a teleprompter. The comparison to Paris was great, famous for doing nothing, just like Obama. This whole thing was a inside promotion of the DNC, that's why Obama gave the "Big Speech" at the 2004 Convention, to BAMBOOZELE and HOODWINK the rest of the DEMS into supporting him, and the Money from Soros greased the wheels. These are the same Internationalists responsible for Jimmy Carter, when you see Ziggy Brzezinki and George Soros you think Carter II. They naver had the instant media of today though, or such a large group of Anti-Obama DEMS, the outcome will be different this time.

Posted by: Jim Aaron | Aug 2, 2008 9:59:11 PM

john mccain was born in 1936.


...


1936.

Posted by: dustin | Aug 2, 2008 10:00:04 PM

Yeah McCain, I'm laughing my buns off these days because it's SO refreshing to see a Republican campaign being run into the mud by Rovian acolytes.

What happened to McCain from 2000? Isn't he the same guy who condemned Bush in a debate for using these same smear tactics? It's pathetic to see him using them in his campaign.

It's even sadder to see America starting to fall for it again.

Posted by: brianne13 | Aug 2, 2008 10:00:09 PM

McCain knows exactly what he was doing. He wasn't being cute or funny. He was playing on people's fears. THe Evangelicals to be precise. To that base... it paints Obama as a "false prophet" or worse "The Anti-Christ"

If you don't believe that... you don't know about evangelicals. This is the most disgusting smear campaign I have ever seen. McCain has no honor.

Posted by: jet | Aug 2, 2008 10:00:10 PM

It's ok for big mac to flip flop on drilling, but not Obama. Mac is acting like a spoiled brat and laughs and calls it funny, humor. They are magicians, slieght of hand to make you think they have a point.
Bush calls for "time horizons" (timeline?) Isn't that Barak Obamas position/policy/idea? Yes! Over the last couple of months bush has negotiated a deal with North Korea and begun talks with Iran. Negotiation, hmm, that’s Barak Obamas position.
During the same time Congress passed a couple of decent bills IE: Housing, etc. Mind you McCain is against all this. Why are gas/oil prices going down over these same 6-8 weeks? Because after 7-1/2 years Bush finally exercises pragmatic leadership (Barak Obamas positions).
Lately the McCain camp has stated that there are “psychological stresses” than can be influenced by appropriate public policy. Well why oil/gas prices are going down over the same period of time. It’s because the markets respond to smart public policy just like McCain says, the policy that Obama supports, that Bush is currently using. McCain is against all these issues. He is resorting to negativity. Every other sentence out of his mouth is something derogatory about Obama, not furthering his own agenda; McCain will say anything to get elected.
Obama has his flaws fore sure. Baring McCain’s heroic service, He is yesterday, Obama is tomorrow… future, hope of a better day for all Americans.
The Right will say and or do everything and anything in their power to make people think that their half truths and lies are so. They have a way of repeating the same thing over and over and having it stick. You have to respect them for being able to change the narrative at relatively low cost to them and fairly easily too.
I think that even though Obama gets the majority of press coverage, a good portion of that has been negative press. Rev Wright, Bitter Etc. In Germany he decided it was not right to go to visit the troops with his campaign staff based on DOD directives. His senate staff had already gone home. He was criticized for not going. I’m sure if he would have gone they would have hit him for going. No matter what he does the right will demonize him. John McCain makes speeches in Canada, England, and Columbia etc. Political speeches, he slams Obama for doing the same. Double standard, hypocrisy, for sure.
The media doesn’t call McCain out on things like this. All his gaffes are over looked (Anbar awakening, Iraq-Pakistan border, Czechoslovakia etc). They surely don’t miss a beat with Obama. They give McCain a free ride on the so called less press he gets. Obama gets nailed. All the while the media is running head lines like… “Does Barak Obama get more coverage in the press than John McCain does”? Give me a break.
I am obviously a Democrat but nothing that I’ve stated is anything but the truth. These talking points are not made up like the republicans. They only know how to distract and confuse, then laugh at us in private about how gullible we are as Americans. Snake oil salesmen for sure. Don’t be hoodwinked. Let’s all get together and toss the bums out! Barak Obama is our only hope against the same old policies that are destroying our country. We must stand up and fight back or suffer the consequences of our inaction.

Posted by: spadefba | Aug 2, 2008 10:00:35 PM

Only Bush would make such a stupid joke. Correction, only Bush and McCain would make such a stupid joke. McCain isn't fit to be President. He appears to have nothing original to say and nothing to offer. He is not a safe choice.

Posted by: James | Aug 2, 2008 10:00:39 PM

Like shake 'n bake, McCain's Sneer & Smear campaign uses Karl Rove's own proven recipe for how to distract, dismay, and disorient voters. It works for a while, then blowback sets in and voters want to know, what do you stand for Darth McCain, except Sneer & Smear?

Posted by: larstein | Aug 2, 2008 10:04:38 PM

Like shake 'n bake, McCain's Sneer & Smear campaign uses Karl Rove's own proven recipe for how to distract, dismay, and disorient voters. It works for a while, then blowback sets in and voters want to know, what do you stand for Darth McCain, except Sneer & Smear?

Posted by: larstein | Aug 2, 2008 10:04:44 PM

Have you inflated your tires yet? Obama is supplying the hot air.

Posted by: Matt | Aug 2, 2008 10:05:22 PM

When Dubya was "selected" in 2000, I thought that stupid Americans got what they deserved. After he duped the country once again in '04, it was even more evident to me that most Americans are ignorant of the facts and don't seem to care about it. John McCain and Co. know this and are pandering to the lowest common denominator. This, of course, doesn't make me feel any better, because, I'm an American who does not deserve this nonsense. I believe in equality and fairness and democracy and the Constitution, which the current administration is tearing to shreds. McCain and his band of merry men spin and the media repeats it as fact. The media is more responsible for this mess because they don't report the facts, just Republican talking points. It's time for the media to stop spewing propaganda and start to report the unvarnished facts and let the readers and viewers decide. CBS and ABC are almost as bad as FoxNoise. I know that MSNBC is liberal, but, at least I am aware of that. Most people are unaware and unwittingly believe what they hear. Shouldn't at least the main networks be unbiased? And, why doesn't someone fact-check McCain's tv ads for the truth? Why should he be permitted to air such lies? Aren't there some standards that should be upheld?

Posted by: day678 | Aug 2, 2008 10:05:58 PM

How come McCain's daughter wasn't in the video with Britney and Paris? Doesn't she hang out with Heidi Montag?

Posted by: RMW97 | Aug 2, 2008 10:06:27 PM

Like shake 'n bake, McCain's Sneer & Smear campaign uses Karl Rove's own proven recipe for how to distract, dismay, and disorient voters. It works for a while, then blowback sets in and voters want to know, what do you stand for Darth McCain, except Sneer & Smear?

Posted by: larstein | Aug 2, 2008 10:07:12 PM

Let's see now. McCain puts up an ad showing a black man with two white sluts, with all the obvious "traditional" implications, and thinks the public is naive enough to believe that he and his Rovian trained communications team is so naive that they are innocent of the race-baiting overtones? I don't believe it, and neither should the public, especially after what the GOP did recently to black Democratic candidate Harold Ford in TN.

Posted by: Tom | Aug 2, 2008 10:08:15 PM

Sarcasm and ridicule, avoid the issues.
John McCain: Same. Old. Crap.