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It is plain and simple. Sen. McCain doesn't matter this election has already been decided just like 1996.
I wouldn't bet the farm on that, yet...
It is plain and simple. Sen. McCain doesn't matter this election has already been decided just like 1996.
Funny how any ex-military man who supports a Democrat gets attacked...I am thinking of Zinni, McCaffrey, Shinseki, Adm. Crowe, Wes Clark, etc. etc. I suppose Admiral Fallon will be the next guy you go after.
The right-wing nutz who go on Fox touting the war while on the Pentagon payroll get a free pass.
Thanks JAW for having my back so to speak.
These are retired generals who remained on a government payroll and posited themsleves as "analysts" on Fixed News and elsewhere.
I never said that RUSH HIMSELF made these comments...rather the callers to his show. RUSH DID knock McCain on a variety of other issues and even urged people to vote for Hillary at one point
Formed on the Anvil of His Captivity
Tony Blankley - TownHall.com
Wednesday, July 02, 2008
As of today, Sen. Barack Obama is about halfway through his "patriotism theme week" message cycle. As of 2008, Sen. John McCain is about seven-ninths through his patriotism theme life cycle. I guess that is the difference between the new politics and the old patriotism.
The Obama campaign launched its new politics patriotism week last Sunday, with retired Gen. Wes "Speichellecker" Clark smearing John McCain's war record -- even to the point of the former general saying that "riding" in a fighter plane and getting shot down are not qualifications for being president. Well, in fact, McCain wasn't riding, of course. He was the pilot in his 23rd mission over heavily defended enemy territory when he was shot down by a Soviet missile. But when Wes "Camera Hound" Clark goes on a mission, he always aims low.
This is the same Gen. Clark who, while leading the bombing campaign against Serbia from his desk, was reprimanded by President Clinton's secretary of defense, William Cohen, to get his "f------ face off the TV. No more briefings, period. That's it." During that bombing campaign, Gen. Clark didn't even go along for the "ride."
And it is the same general who was removed prematurely from his European command on the following explanation of then-chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Hugh Sheldon: "The reason he came out of Europe early had to do with integrity and character issues." This is the man who the Obama campaign -- which is above politics as usual -- sent out to smear a genuine war hero. Of course, after 24 hours, Obama disassociated himself from his surrogate's smear attack. This is becoming a pattern of Obama's new politics. Wes Clark is the seventh prominent Obama supporter to disparage Sen. McCain's military service. Obama is beginning to reveal Nixonian political instincts.
But Wes Clark is right. Merely being a war hero is not qualification for the presidency, although it is a hell of a start when compared with those of us who never served in uniform. And the more than five years as a prisoner of war with constant torture that McCain suffered through is also not qualification for being president -- even when compared with Obama's tough seven years of service at Columbia undergraduate and Harvard Law School.
I may be wrong but he along with Laura Ingraham, Ann Coulter and other darlings of the far right at various times stated that they would sooner vote for Hillary than McCain...the thought being that if HRC was elected, the country would go to hell in a handbasket and the "real" Republicans would once again take over. Or did I dream this?
OK Z thanks I was hoping I wasn't having a sixties acid flashback(Just kidding folks).
I first want to say that I'm an Independent. I look at both sides.
Some feel that "they go with the party line" to protect their $ interest/contracts.
Liberals are all for free speech, provided they agree with it. Keith Olberman can foam at the mouth about how Bush is the Anti-Christ, but let a retired general appear on the competition of the Communist News Network and offer an opinion not in line with MoveOn.org, and suddenly the very foundations of democracy are in danger.
So yes he will raise taxes but a majority of people would not see it. The grain of truth is there.
McCain's tax plan will give tax cuts to the rich, the grain of truth is there.
McCain has stated tha Obama's tax plan will raise taxes, but a non partisan group did an analysis of both of their tax plans and found that +85% would pay less with Obama. Even though we are very upper middle class, I would receive a larger tax cut under Obama's plan. That surprised me.