McCain Manager: 'Not About Issues' Updated

Only someone who is out of touch with life in america would say the election is not about issues.

If Obama's popularity is any indication, Rick Davis is correct. Obama's resume is thinner than Palin's, and a fraction of McCain's. Obama associates with convicted criminals who buy him homes, terrorist bombers of the Pentagon who give him political clout and entre to money and power in Chicago, and racist ministers who give him street credibility with blacks. Is this election about issues? Apparently not. If so, Obama would be long gone. It's not about issues or candidates, it is about a tapping into certain segments of the population. Obama is tapping into blacks, liberals, Abortionists, youth, and anti-war segments. McCain is tapping into conservatives, Christians, pro-life, patriotic segments. It is a horrible shame it isn't about issues, because we might be making a terrible mistake based on radical partisanship. www.honestjohnwade.com

Presidential elections are always about more than issues; the depth, character and judgment of the individual plays a piviotal role. Why? Because the position requires someone who has the ability to rise above the issues and formulate a direction for the nation.

McCain's got the depth to handle the job. Biden has it too. Obama is a lightweight. We still don't know about Palin.

YOU TOTALLY STUNNED HE SAID THAT..??
WHAT ISSUE DID OBAMA HAVE TO GET AN EDGE OVER HILLARY CLINTON? HE STOLE HIS ISSUES FROM HILLARY
WHAT ISSUES DOES OBAMA HAVE, PERIOD?
EXCEPT THE CELESTIAL CHOIRS SINGING PART .. AND 'I AM THE ONE'

MCCIAN GOT THE DEMOS ON PERSONALITY ,STAR QUALITY IN PALIN, AND THEY ARE BEATING ABOUT THE BUSH, LOOKING FOR PALIN'GATES' TO DAMAGE THIS LADY AND HER FAMILY.
NAME ONE ISSUE OBAMA HAS EXCEPT THE MASS MEDIA MADE HIM INTO A STAR AND FED HIM TO THE AMERICAN PEIOPLE... HE IS NOT THE ONLY QUALIFIED BLACK MAN?

PALIN MCCAIN WILL WIN ON WHO YOU CAN TRUST AND RELATE TO..HERE.

Well, maybe McCain is trying to say forget the issues such as high gas, employment, foreclosure, a bad war and billions of dollars spend on that war, lost American lifes because he wishes to continue this in his administration because his opponent just happens to be black and of course, we can't have a Black president who just might clean this mess up for the betterment of all America. No, No, No, I can't believe America is that stupid to fall for that or are we?

THE DEMO PARTY IS ON A MONUMENTAL HUNT FOR PALIN"GATES"

KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT SARAH PALIN SINCE AGE 2 THAT WE DONT KNOW..
DID SHE HUG HER FEMALE CLASSMATE A LITTLE TOO HARD?
DID SHE TALK TO THE MOOSE BEFORE SHOOTING THEM AND THEN APOLOGIZED TO GOD.. ON BEHALF OF THE MOOSE?
DID SHE SHAKE HANDS TOO VIGOROUSLY WITH HER BOYFRIEND BEFORE TODD, MAYBE THEY WERE HAVING AN AFFIR?
TELL US ANYTHING ABOUT SARAH PALIN
NO, WE DONT WANT TO KNOW ABOUT HER SON IN THE ARMY-- JUST THE BAD STUFF!!
ALASKA WELCOME TO THE SAN FRANCISCO MEDIA..
WAKE UP BACKSTABBING DEMOCRAPS!!
YOU TRASHED YOUR FEMALE AND REPUBS FIGURED IT OUT!!
THEY MADE THEIR FEMALE A STAR.

!!!!!!THE HUNT FOR PALINGATES!!!!!!!!!!!
OBAMAMANIA IS OVER
!!!A STAR HAS RISEN--- AS STAR HAS SET!!!

TJ, A CARD-CARYYING MEMBER OF PUMA, SAYING TODAY IS PRETTY QUIET--THEY ARE RUNNING OUT OF "PALINGATES" ALREADY...?

Perhaps Mr. Davis just had a moment of truth. I think McCain knows he cannot win the Presidency on the issues, as the Republican brand name is damaged. The independents and moderates will not vote for McCain based on making the tax cuts permanent or keeping the troops in Iraq for years to come, as these are a continuation of Bush's policies. To win these folks over, McCain just has to plant enough doubts about Obama to try to eek out a win in November.

The main issue the Dems seem to be raising right now is whether the bottom of the GOP ticket (Palin) has as much experience as the top of the Dems ticket (Obama). Biden and McCain seem to be evenly matched as both are long time politicians, beltway insiders, experienced in reaching across the aisle, and a history of voting the same way on numerous issues including the vote to authorize the Iraq war.

It would be nice to hear about some real issues but we may have to wait for the debates for that. Hopefully, they'll actually be boxing matches instead of the powder puff derbies that were so entertaining but extremely unproductive during the primaries.

when all you can offer the american public is four more years of this, republicans can't run on issues. they're happy with the issues being addressed exactly the way they've been addressed the past eight years.


If you are too, the mccorpse church lady ticket is for you and don't say you didn't get plenty of warning from people who want capable government not world wrestling federation and babymama hussein fistjab rezko antichrist idiocy.

While I do support a woman's right to choose, i believe that in most cases abortion is the wrong choice. I believe that Feminists for Life have a good cause - that women deserve better than abortion.

Here is why:

"If women must submit to abortion to preserve their lifestyle or career, their economic social status, they are pandering to a system devised and run by men for male convenience. Of all things which are done to women to fit them into a society dominated by men, abortion is the most violent invasion of their physical and psychic integrity. It is a deeper and more destructive assault than rape.... Accepting short-term solutions like abortion only delays the implementation of real reforms like decent maternity and paternity leaves, job protection, high-quality child care, community responsibility for dependent people of all ages, and recognition of the economic contribution of child-minders." --Daphne de Jong

OOOOOOOKKKKKKKK.... Maybe McCain should consider getting rid of his campaign manager and Palin .... Then again McCain is not the sharpest tool in the shed !!! His pick in vp proves that !!!

The Republicans have to pray that Americans are too dumb to pay attention to the issues. They are out of step with the opinions of the majority on most of the policy decisions that the new president will be making, so if the issues are the deciding factor, they haven't got a chance.
All McCain has going for him is the claim that, since he is older than dirt, his vast experience will enable him to make better decisions than Obama. Then the first decison he makes as an actual candidate is to choose Sarah Palin for a running mate against Joe Biden. Lucky for her, Joe can't actually tear her up as throughly as he could in a debate without getting arrested for assault.
McCain is only the Republican candidate because every Republican who had an actual shot at winning decided it wasn't a good enough shot and dropped out.
They are figuring that no one can clean up the mess that they have made in 4 years and maybe the voters will blame whoever is in the White House in 2012.
Granted, that would be a seriously stupid thing for voters to do, but the Republicans have used guns and religion to get an awful lot of voters to vote against their own best interests for a lot of years.
Then as soon as they are elected, big business gets government support and the middle class falls further and further behind.
Maybe they actually can make it work again.

Even the people that work for McBush have dementia.

Hey John Wade -
Here's a news flasher buster. Mr. Obama's supporters are just as patriotic as anyone else. I've got 27 years in the U.S. Navy. I love my country and I serve it with my life. Don't question my patriotism or my right to vote for whom I wish!

TJ4:47PMSep 2nd 2008

THE DEMO PARTY IS ON A MONUMENTAL HUNT FOR PALIN"GATES"

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You betcha TJ. Fair's fair, not only did you hunt for Obama gate stuff, but ya'll flat made up Goebbels sized lies and continued to push them after they were shown to be false. You personally have pushed a lot of hate and a lot of lies, so standby TJ - what's good for he GOP goose may be real good for the dem gander!

We all need to be concerned about the influence of big business and lobbyists on our government. But I believe we need to be more concerned about the ability of a U.S. President to make a decision.

We know McCain can make decisions. I worry that Obama will spend so much time thinking and so much time waivering back and forth between conflicting advice and so much time speaking forth great swelling words that he will never get to the place where he is able to make make a firm decision.

This election is so black and white (no pun intented) "the issues" to a large extent take a back seat.

Obama has THE most liberal voting record in the Senate followed by Joe Biden who comes in at number three.

To quote Thomas Sowell, a nationally syndicated African American columnist and Senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stamford University:

"Now that the senator with the furthest left voting record in the Senate and the senator with the third furthest left voting record are the Demcorats nominees for president and vice president, there will be great expressions of indignation over being "negative" if anyone dares call them "liberals." Actually, leftists would be more accurate."

Thomas Sowell
"Most People Want Emotional Lighting Rods, Not Answers" 9-01-08

Obama and Hillary's positions on the issues were not that different. Hillary looked past the Democratic nomination by staying consistent in her meassage, thus she hoped, minimizing her "Shift to the center" for the general election.
Obama moved the entire process far far far off into left field by pandering to the liberal left and Hillary responded to late.
When Hillary did address "the issues" and spoke of Obama as "Naive" "Irresponsible" and Unqailified to be president she won most of the following primaries, but it was to late.
Obama's 143 days of experience in the Senate before running for President made "The Issues" his weakness compaired to Hillary.
His youth, oratory and charisma made Obama the Democratic nominee in a simple popularity contest in which Hillary could not compete.

With 143 days of experience in the Senate Obama is trying the "Same Old" "If you can't dazzle them with brilliance then baffle then with BS." to avoid McCains 35+ year advatage in political experience.
Avoiding "the issues" worked against Hillary and masks his inexperience.
Obama plays to his strengths, youth, oratory and charisma to win one more popularity contest.

Respectfully,
Pete

this is one of the creepiest farces ever pulled on the citizenry. its even being traded on wall street.
the obvious is in front of us: she doesnt talk like she's seriousabut the race and will probably be replaced before the end by someone dark, but not as dark as obama, ...say someone lauded as a hero of the of the hurricane ravaged gulf coast who has a more horrible skeleton in his closet.
my uncle was a prisoner in a japanese POW camp where the men volunteered to draw straws to see who would be sacrificed so that the others could eat, and stay alive.
this tabloid drama election is an insult to the sacrifices made for our country.
I see now why even republicans dont like john mccain.

How can McCain's staff can even form his mouth to say that. McCain goes out of his way to keep issues out of the race. Every week he has and attack ad against Obama.In those town hall meetings, all he talk about is his POW days, and attack Obama. Ask him how he's going to get the Economy going, he hees and haws, but ask him about the Russia/Georgia situation and he'll give a minute to minute detail with how he'll handle Russia. As we all know we don't want no part of Russia with our weak ground forces stretched to the limit. He's a war nut. Everything is military to him.

"McCain is tapping into conservatives, Christians, pro-life, patriotic segments.>>>>>>:> So you are saying that DEMs are not Christians or patriotic? This Pro-life stuff is a joke. You have just as many REPs getting abortions as DEMs, so cut this pro-life crap out. The REPs been in the White House 12 years out of the last 20, and we still have Roe vs Wade with a Conservative Supreme Court. That should tell you that the GOP only uses this issue to gain support, but in reality everything remains the same.