How does instructing his supporters to "stand up and fight" while still asking incendiary questions about Obama tone the extreme rhetoric down?

Jeffrey Goldberg with The Atlantic makes an interesting analogy:

In the months before Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated, he was the target of numerous vitriolic demonstrations, during which he was labeled a liar, a traitor, and a coddler of terrorists. Bibi Netanyahu, his opponent at the time, did little, or nothing, to tamp down the anger of the crowds. We know how that story ended. Those demonstrations, and the anger hurled at Rabin, created the climate for what might be considered the worst day in Israeli history, and one from which the country has not recovered.

John McCain did the right thing by calling out demonstrators and defending Barack Obama's decency last week. But we should see that continually. And Sen. McCain, how about instructing your running mate on the fundamentals of decency as well? I'm not suggesting something terrible is in the offing. But the anger of these crowds is a dangerous thing to democracy. Thank God, if nothing else, for the United States Secret Service.

http://www.gwu.edu/~action/2008/biden/bidenorg.html

Key People-Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE)

"Deputy Political Director Muthoni Wambu Former AFL-CIO PAC Coordinator. In 2000 Wambu joined with Vera Baker to form Baker Wambu & Associates, a political fund-raising firm."

How's her parnter doing Joe? Is this somehow tied to why Clinton was snubbed for Joe and his 9,000 votes?

The best thing Ole McCain could do is shut the hell up for the last 3 weeks. Every time he opens his mouth he hurts himself. Maybe that's what he means about fighting, fighting himself and his erratic actions.

This is an old speech. It was no more impressive last month.

Who can stand up... he is so busy spinning. No one knows what direction he is going in minute to minute....Empty Suites....

It will be a very very long time before I vote for a Republican. H*ll will probably freeze over...

you are history Mccain. Even your dad and grandpa can't help you out of this one. har har

Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights!

Who ever thought John McCain would be paraphrasing Bob Marley, lol!

McCain's tired old rhetoric. It's not about fighting. It's about taxes, healthcare, education, Iraq etc

Majority of Americans agree w/ Obama positions on these issues.

Meet John McCain radical right-wing pals
Gordon Liddy served four and a half years in prison in connection with his conviction for his role in the Watergate break-in and the break-in at the office of the psychiatrist of Daniel Ellsberg, the military analyst who leaked the Pentagon Papers. Liddy has acknowledged preparing to kill someone during the Ellsberg break-in "if necessary"; plotting to murder journalist Jack Anderson; plotting with a "gangland figure" to murder Howard Hunt to stop him from cooperating with investigators; plotting to firebomb the Brookings Institution; and plotting to kidnap "leftist guerillas" at the 1972 Republican National Convention
Liddy has donated $5,000 to McCain's campaigns since 1998, including $1,000 in February 2008. In addition, McCain has appeared on Liddy's radio show
during the presidential campaign, including as recently as May. An online video labeled "John McCain On The G. Gordon Liddy Show 11/8/07" includes a
discussion between Liddy and McCain, whom Liddy described as an "old friend." During the segment, McCain praised Liddy's "adherence to the principles
and philosophies that keep our nation great," said he was "proud" of Liddy, and said that "it's always a pleasure for me to come on your program.

Meet other McCain radical right-wing pals.
This guilt by association path is going to be trouble ultimately for the McCain campaign. You know, you can go back, I have written a book about
McCain, I had a dozen researchers go through him, I didn’t even put this in the book. But John McCain sat on the board of a very right-wing
organization, it was the U.S. Council for World Freedom, it was chaired by a guy named John Singlaub, who wound up involved in the Iran contra
scandal. It was an ultra conservative, right-wing group. The Anti-Defamation League, in 1981 when McCain was on the board, said this about this
organization. It was affiliated with the World Anti-Communist League the parent organization which ADL said has increasingly become a gathering
place, a forum, a point of contact for extremists, racists and anti-Semites.

He knows how to win in Iraq

He knows how to get Bin Laden

He knows how to fix the economy

He knows how to win an election

Gimmicks First - Palin McCain 2012

Agree with billy - if McCain knows how to fix it and do all this stuff, hasn't he already had his chance? What's he waiting for? Will he hold back on this crucial information if he doesn't win the Presidency?

And when will Palin ever say anything that is not an insult or meaningless platitude? Does she have any constructive ideas at all?

I can't believe ANY Obama supporter would dare say anything, considering just last month Obama told his supporters to argue with McCain supporters, get in their face...a little different than stand up and fight for your rights.

In these trying times--two wars and economic collapse--who would vote for someone with no experience who hides his past?

Forget Ayers or Wright or Rezko. These are in fact the people with whom Barack Obama worked to change Chicago into what it is today. He can defend these people, he can even apologize for having once advanced their agendas, but to deny that he's ever served their cause is dishonest, and to hide behind the economic fiasco of our day is cowardly and devoid of the dignity of the office which he seeks. Personally, I think who Sen. Obama chooses to ally himself with for political and personal gain are fair-game, but if he wants to exploit the financial crisis and use it to call everything else "smears" or "distractions," we'll beat him there. Sen. McCain has the courage and track record to win on the topic, any topic, of the opponents choosing. When all was going swell in Afghanistan and terribly in Iraq, the Democratic party said, "no talking about Afghanistan, only Iraq!" and McCain won; the surge he proposed since 2003 worked. Sen. Obama says that well it didn't, it was designed to foster political reconcilliation, and it hasn't. But it has! Sunni Awakening Councils are killing Al Qaeda terrorists who claim to be Sunni, and the Shiite government is killing Iranian backed Sadrist millitias who claim to be Shia. That's political reconcilliation; you see, in the war on terror, there are no Sunni and Shia, only the forces of good, freedom, and democracy against the forces of evil, tyrrany, and terrorism. When the Democratic caucus made oil an issue and tried to fault McCain for the high price of oil, he proposed lifting the drilling moratorium, pushed it through Congress, and now oil has dropped almost 50%.

In today's financial crisis, there are villains. Former CEOs of Fannie and Freddie like Franklin Raines and Jim Johnson wrote themselves compensation policies that paid them just for writing loans, getting money out the door with utter disregard for whether or not his government-run quasi-company will get it returned. What he did was wrong and selfish, but it wasn't illegal; we don't throw people in jail for just wrong and selfish deeds. In fact, what they did was encouraged, no... required by the government. You see, there's a regulation in the books, it's called the Community Reinvestment Act, signed by Pres. Carter and augmented by Pres. Clinton. What it did was create the sub-prime mortgage by saying that commercial banks can't discriminate on whether or not a borrower can pay that money back.

Sen. McCain knew the trouble that was brewing; it's well documented. He spoke on the Senate floor and co-sponsored S.190 in 2005 to rein in Fannie and Freddie. He wrote a letter, signed by two dozen fellow Senators who happened to all be Republicans, to the Senate leadership to rein in Fannie and Freddie, or face potential collapse, so be ready for it. But the Senate did nothing. They must have thought his sounding of the alarm was... "erratic." I don't know why they did nothing. Maybe Senate Banking Chairman Dodd was in the tank for Fannie and Freddie, because they stuffed his tip-jar silly with the highest campaign contribution in Fannie and Freddie history. Maybe House Banking Chairman Frank was in bed with Fannie and Freddie, too. Maybe Sen. Obama's handlers from Fannie and Freddie told him not to. I don't know and I don't care, what's important is Sen. McCain was right, and everyone who disagreed with him, Democrat or Republican, was wrong.

ACORN is an evil organization. It's history of attempted electoral fraud is well documented, not just by the partisans, but by the hostile media as well. It lobbied at branch managers homes if their branch was seen as peddling insufficient sub-prime loans. It raucussed in branch lobbies if they thought that branch wasn't making enough loans to people who couldn't pay it back. Why, at the height of this financial crisis, did the majority caucusses tried to inject a $300M a year every year slush fund to ACORN, is a mystery to me. Sen. McCain was right, this was an emergency, and there was no consensus. He went back to Washington to tell the oppossition party, "What do we have to do to get this non-sense out of the bill?" Instead of giving ACORN $832K, it would have been nice had Sen. Obama went back and told his party, "Get this garbage out of here," too. But I guess he liked the slush-fund, or maybe he saw the crisis as a non-emergency, or maybe he though actually acting on the crisis would be... "erratic."

You see, the problem with the sub-prime mortgage is, in and of itself, unfair. Do you think the billionaire CEOs were taking money out of their pocket to house people who can't afford their own homes? Of course not. Do you think the super-rich paid for the houses of those who couldn't afford their own houses? Of course not. Like Barack Obama, who lives in a $2M house he bought for $1.5M, he made $4M last year! They pay cash up-front; no mortgages, just 15,000 Benjamin Franklins. The people who subsidize subprime mortgages are the hardworking, tax-paying middle class Americans, who have to pay a higher interest rate to make up for the toxic sub-prime loans. In and of itself, I guess it's fine. For the banks, it's a cost of business. For the hard-working, tax-paying middle-class, it's the price we pay for living in a socialist democracy. But it doesn't end there; it didn't end there. Sub-prime mortgages took the bottom out of our banking industry, trillions of dollars evaporated, banks closed, and businesses are shutting their doors. The fat-cat CEOs aren't hurting, they've got their bonusses. The sub-prime borrowers aren't hurting. They're getting kicked out of homes they never were supposed be in in the first place anyways, and lay-offs don't affect them either. Who is really getting hurt are the hardworking middle-class Americans who played by the rules, paid their taxes, and lived within their means. They bought a house they can afford, took out a mortgage payment they can meet, and for all their trouble, they lose their jobs.

Go McCain! McCain speaks the truth, while I know he has never painted his logo over the American flag, or blinded people with the glare from his halo, he is the man to get this country (not Africa) back in shape!

Missouri Obmna 51 McCain 43?

McCain is just a very old man that has nothing but one liners which are meaningless and mostly incendiary. The country will be better off without him and his wooden puppet Palin. Both Palin and McCain have been behaving like White Supremests of the first order. Hope they lose by many votes. The Nation needs a Presidential ticket that unites the nation, not divide it with anger, hatred, and racism. Enough of these two dufus people!

More fighting? Really? More fighting? Personally, I'm tired of fighting; everyone I know is tired of all the fighting; and not only that, we are tired of hearing about fighting from McCain. How about some fixing, instead of fighting?

Obama/Biden '08

Senator Mccain we are sir we are gonna stand up and fight to make sure Senator obama becomes president thanks sir!