McCain Helped Create the Blackberry?

I am so tired of "lipstick politics". Issues anyone?

http://think.mtv.com/044FDFFFF0098A08300170099226F/

I agree, we need to get back to the issues before us, knock off the BS comments, lipstick on a pig, and most of all the Bush Bashing.

I can't say that the Europeans would be bemused, since they have their own silly seasons to deal with. Sort of makes our look pretty bland, by comparison.

Once again, knock off the Bush Bashing - its counterproductive to the issues at hand!

A silly comment by a McCain staffer in no way compares to Al Hore pimping himself at the Grand Poobah of the Internet.

McCain and Palin 2008!

Taking a joke and making a big deal about it is a new Democratic Phenomenon.

Talk about your gaffes boy of boy ole' Biden has a house full of them

With Sarah Palin's addition to the Republican ticket potentially energizing some women voters, Biden's remarks raised anew a legitimate question of whether Obama would have been better off picking the former first lady as his running mate. One could imagine Senator John McCain's campaign even using Biden's remarks in their own ads to exploit female misgivings about the Democratic ticket.
Just this week, he mused that Senator Barack Obama might have been better off with Hillary Rodham Clinton as his running mate.

"Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more qualified than I am to be vice president of the United States of America," Biden said Wednesday in Nashua, New Hampshire. "Quite frankly it might have been a better pick than me."

a human verbal wrecking crew. This is the fellow who nearly derailed his nascent presidential campaign last year by calling Obama bright and clean and articulate and who noted that you needed a slight Indian accent to walk into a Dunkin' Donuts or 7-11 in Delaware.

The guy who, reading his vice-presidential acceptance speech from a TelePrompter, bungled McCain's name, calling him "George" ("Freudian slip, folks, Freudian slip," he explained).

The guy who, on the day Obama announced him as his running mate, referred to his party's presidential nominee as "Barack America" and noted that his own wife, Jill, a college professor, was "drop-dead gorgeous" but who, problematically, possessed a doctorate.

The guy who has said he is running for president (not vice president) and who confused army brigades with battalions. Who referred to his Republican vice-presidential opponent as the lieutenant governor of Alaska.

In Fort Myers, Florida, last week, he referred to the "Biden administration," before quickly correcting himself to say the "Obama-Biden administration."

"Believe me, that wasn't a Freudian slip," he said, laughing and crossing himself. "Oh lordy day, I tell ya."

Think Go Sarah Go S A R A H
She and Mccain have oyr vote.

To: suzanne Thanks for the info on Biden. I was beginning to think he dropped out of the race on the blogging sights. Everyone else too busy bashing the other 3.
Even the democratic news reports state how many times the Obama camp email the media with anything that could be made to look negative about McCain or Palin.
GO MCCAIN - PALIN

mccain and gramm did create the present financial crisis with the help of neocons everywhere.

Vote for them and expect more bank failure. What would they do to stop it, go liberal and demand regulation?

Don't be idiotic. Republicans made this crap and they'll continue it. Obama can and will fix it, but it requires what neocons won't do - regulate the banking industry.

It's about the mccain gramm economy, stupid!!

Is anyone in the republican party capable of telling the truth?

What is this bogus Republican aol LA-LA Land all about? Seems like all they post are addled, misinformed and, obviously, really scared name calling
bullies who never fact check anything because, they heard it on FOX



DEFENDING AMERICA BY DAVID H. HACKWORTH

John McCain is being hailed by the press as a “genuine war hero.” But is he a war hero in the conventional sense like Audie Murphy and John Glenn?

Or is his “war hero” status the creation of a very slick publicity campaign that plays on flag, duty, honor and country?

For sure, McCain has the fruit-salad — a Silver Star, a Legion of Merit for Valor, a Distinguished Flying Cross, three Bronze Stars , two Commendation medals plus two Purple Hearts and a dozen service gongs.

On a purely medal count basis, he out-weighs Murphy and Glenn, who both for years repeatedly performed extraordinary deeds on the ground or in the air against an armed enemy.

McCain’s valor awards are based on what happened in 1967, when during his 23d mission over Vietnam, he was shot down, seriously injured, captured and then spent 5 1/2 brutal years as a POW.

In an attempt to find out exactly what the man did to earn these many hero awards, I asked his Senate office three times to provide copies of the narratives for each medal. I’m still waiting.

I next went to the Pentagon. Within a week, I received a recap of his medals and many of the narratives that give the details of what he did.

None of the awards, less the DFC, were for heroism over the battlefield — where he spent no more than 20 hours. Two Naval officers described the awards as “boilerplate” and “part of an SOP medal package given to repatriated (Vietnam-era) POWs.”

McCain’s Silver Star narrative for the period 27 October 1967 — the day after he was shot down — to 8 December 1968 reads: “His captors… subjected him to extreme mental and physical cruelties in an attempt to obtain military information and false confessions for propaganda purposes. Through his resistance to those brutalities, he contributed significantly towards the eventual abandonment…” of such harsh treatment by the North Vietnamese.

Yet in McCain’s own words just four days after being captured, he admits he violated the U.S. Code of Conduct by telling his captors “O.K, I’ll give you military information if you will take me to the hospital.”

A Vietnam vet detractor says, “He received the nation’s third highest award, the Silver Star, for treason. He provided aid and comfort to the enemy!”
The rest of his valor awards — issued automatically every year while he was a POW — read much like the Silver Star. More boilerplate often repeating the exact same words. An example: “By his heroic endeavors, exceptional skill, and devotion to duty, he reflected great credit upon himself and upheld the highest traditions of the Naval Service and the United States Armed Forces.”

Yet McCain’s conduct while a POW negates these glowing comments. The facts are that he signed a confession and declared himself a “black criminal who performed deeds of an air pirate.” This statement and other interviews he gave to the Communist press were used as propaganda to fan the flames of the anti-war movement.

Accounts by McCain and other writers tell of the horror he endured: relentlessly beatings, torture, broken limbs. All inflicted during savage interrogations. Yet no other POW was a witness to these accounts.

A former POW says “No man witnessed another man during interrogations… We relied on each other to tell the truth when a man was returned to his cell.”

The U.S. Navy says two eye-witnesses are required for any award of heroism. But for the valor awards McCain received, there are no eye-witnesses, less himself and his captors.

And they’re not talking.

Our POWs in Vietnam were treated appallingly. The Viets would either break a POW or kill him. POWs provided info beyond name, rank and serial number or they didn’t come back.

Based on these stalwart men’s horrific experiences, the Code of Conduct has been changed. A POW says, “Now the training is to give them something… don’t risk permanent damage to health, mind or body.”

McCain refused an early release. An act of valor? Three former POWs told me he was ordered to turn it down by his U.S. POW commander and he “just followed orders.”

McCain certainly doesn’t appear to be a war hero by conventional standards, but rather a tough survivor whose handlers are overplaying the war hero card.

OBAMA IS LIKE A CHILD in that he loves launching attacks at McCain from a distance surrounding by his squealing, fainting, sobbing worshipers (and that's just the Hollywood set - lol), but is scared to debate McCain face to face.

America needs a President who can face his foes in person, not launch attacks via the Obama-loving media and other surrogates

20-MILLION DEMS WILL ELECT MCCAIN / PLAIN '08

Okay, seriously? Get a f*cking life. If you are going to waste our time with a stupid story about how someone mispoke fine... but when the Obama people try to act as if this is meaningful... they are insane and petty.

It is another crazy political season. As usual, it is accompanied by all the claims, counter-claims and accusations needed to demean the opposition and to make a case for our respective votes. But, this year the consequences of the wrong decision could be tragic.

I know John McCain. For several years, he was a neighbor. He visited my company a number of times, first as a freshman Congressman and later as a US Senator. He was brash, arrogant and short tempered. I am not a big fan of the Senator McCain I came to know.

On the positive side, he has been in the service of our country for most of his seventy-two years. John McCain is a patriot. He spent more than five years as a POW, in the hands of our enemies, during the Vietnam war. He had command (management) experience as a Navy officer. He made a career of exposing wasteful spending. He has repeatedly worked with members of the opposition (Democrat) party to benefit America and Americans. As McCain is fond of saying, he has the scars to prove it. No reasonable person can doubt his claim to serving a cause greater than himself.

I do not know enough about Barack Obama to make an informed judgment. There are several reasons why Senator Obama is a mystery to me. First, he has a very thin resume. His supporters recoil when the Senator is called an “empty suit.” But the fact is, Senator Obama has very little experience as anything but a celebrity politician.

Barack Obama is touted by supporters and by the press as the first African-American Presidential nominee. Even that most basic claim is only half true. Obama is a multi-ethnic American. It is neither good nor bad, it is simply a fact. Golfer Ernie Ells has a more valid claim to African ancestry than has Barack Obama.

If Senator Obama was a white American of Irish ancestry, named Barry O’Baman, he would have been laughed off the political stage, months ago. Barry O’Baman would have been dismissed as overconfident and under qualified. His phony Presidential Seal, phony Greek pillars, and his “citizen of the world” speech in a foreign country would have finished his political career.

So, why is Barack different? Well, a great story sells in Hollywood, and, his is the perfect story for progressive (liberal) Hollywood. The media play no small role in attempting to shape public opinion. When the story exceeds reality, Hollywood and the mainstream press choose fantasy, every time.

We live in a troubled world with very difficult challenges ahead. The American Presidency is not an Affirmative Action set-aside to appease guilt ridden liberals, and it is no place for an inexperienced celebrity rookie. Our very existence could ride on our decision.

This was nothing more than a stupid joke. The fact that anyone is trying to make something of it is a great example of how devoid they are of information to discuss real issues

Please, it's the McCain nasty campaign that whines about every little thing. If Obama steps on an ant they cry foul. He was clearly talking about McCain's non-solutions when he made the pig-lipstick comment, if you watch the previous few minutes; yet McCain, who has used this term himself, WHINED about it for days.

PHONY PALIN is a loser, a rather mean and cruel person. Let's see, if there were 50-100 people better qualified than me for VP, and I had a daughter in a difficult situation, would I "not blink" and go after the job, knowing that she would be in the view of millions? I don't think a decent person would.

As the Comedy Channel showed, Bush had used that "no blink" phony phase many times as he wanted to start the Iraq War, kind of a tough-talking macho term I suppose. So now are we to think Phony Palin thinks she is a cowgirl and has to go to war at the first chance [ England, you don't spell your words properly, we are not blinking and going to war with you !!! ]

The serious issues are the Republican Iraq War and how it has nearly BANKRUPTED THE US !!$$$$$

Is there any reason to give this bunch another chance, even McCain admits the country is in bad shape, why isn't he honest about how HE has been part of the problem!!! HE HELPED START THE IRAQ WAR !

McCain ..Blackberry? More like a boneheaded lie

He is old enough to have invented the Backberry.
The Fruit one that is.

McCain is lost and has no clue about our economy.

McCain feels Americans and our Economy are sound.

McCain voted 90% with Bush.

McCain will be a Third Bush Term.

We cannot afford that, America!

Elect Barack Obama for President!

Obama/Biden

CHANGE WE NEED!

None of us are obligated to "knock off the Bush bashing" since he and his oil/war profiteers are virtually totally at fault for our economic crisis. Typical sympathizer, demanding that others negate and ignore the truth and stick to their version of what is important to discuss. It may not be the solution to resolving these issues, but it feels DAMN GOOD to call Bush and his buddies on their BS excuse making, unrealistic blame game (Bush and McCain are great at it)and turn back on them, some of the same rhetoric that they have used to excuse the inexcusable these past number of years!