Comments on: McCain, Obama Spar Over Al Qaeda in Iraq

Frontrunners Trade Barbs Following Obama's Debate Comments

[antoniof123]

Posted by JEGibbons at 09:02 AM : Feb 28, 2008

If your statement is 100 percent true then why do the vets disagree with the general (in fact many generals disagree). VoteVets.org has many vets and yet you say they don''t know what they are talking about.

I am afraid that you are being lied too because each time a general said something that was contrary to Bush and his people he was forced out.

That in itself is a problem. Sorry but maybe some of these other groups are speaking the truth and you don''t want to here it.

[jegibbons]

j whitman:
And as if Gen Petreus was not enough, may I sugggest that you read all the negative news in the media since the surge that reveals the real truth about The Surge. OH? That''s right you can''t because the press has stopped reporting such.
DUH? I wonder why that is? Even the dummy dems in congress aren''t saying the surge isn''t working anymore. BELIEVABILITY!
John McCain has it. Burak Obama doesn''t.
Ain''t no more complicated then that.
Both men BET POLITICAL TABLE STAKES over this an McCain won. Next topic?

[jegibbons]

To: Mr. (j-whitman). You either believe Gen.Petreus or you don''t. There is no room for interpretation here. You asked me for my proof that the Surge was working. And so I offered you Gen Petreus''s sworn congressional testimony. Then you tell me to read something on a website by the group Move-on!
Do you see the problem here?

BELIEVABILITY! Take the sworn testimony of a military, career professional, with impeccable credentials who has witnessed this action first hand versus the politically charged blog writer, doubtless some pimple faced teen, anti-war pacifist who neither understands military operations nor geo-political considerations but who operates with an admitted burning political agenda as long as your arm.
DUH! Rationality PLEASE?

[realpatriot1]

michael302,

If McCain is so knowledgable of foreign policy as you believe(a belief that I don''t share0 then why did he vote to get us into this mess?

Senator McCain needs to use that little finger to get the Iraqi government to meet its benchmarks and for the Iraqi Army and Police to take over the security of their country.

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What the Times Didn%u2019t Tell About McCain

by Robert Scheer
As Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain twisted briefly in the wind kicked up by that New York Times story suggesting he had swapped political favors for the personal favors of an attractive lobbyist for the telecommunications industry, I kept waiting for the public policy punch line. Surely the Times would spell out just what it was that McCain had delivered to big media beyond what the paper originally reported: an all-too-typical congressional request that the FCC speed up its review of a broadcast licensing dispute.

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Vicki Iseman, the lobbyist in question, is praised on her company%u2019s Web site for her %u201Cextensive experience in telecommunications, representing corporations before the House and Senate Commerce Committees,%u201D and for %u201Cher work on the landmark 1992 and 1996 communications bills.%u201D Now that%u2019s a biggie, because the 1996 legislation, although you would never have learned this from the mainstream media at the time, opened the floodgates for massive media consolidation, thus rewarding media moguls for their many millions in campaign contributions. McCain was a big player on that Commerce Committee at the time, and I expected a Times revelation as to just how Iseman got McCain to help gift the media barons with their dream legislation.

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One of the early winners was Rupert Murdoch%u2019s News Corp., which quickly became the biggest owner of television stations, bolstering its lineup of media properties such as TV Guide, HarperCollins and Twentieth Century Fox; quite a gift from legislation signed by President Clinton, which perhaps explains the warm relationship that subsequently developed between Murdoch and Hillary Clinton. Murdoch sponsored a fundraiser for Clinton%u2019s senatorial re-election campaign in 2006, but when asked during the Iowa primary about Murdoch%u2019s vast media holdings, including Fox News, the New York Post and The Wall Street Journal, Clinton ducked the question. Avoiding any reference to Murdoch, she conceded that %u201C%u2026 there have been a lot of media consolidations in the last several years, and it is quite troubling.%u201D

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It%u2019s not easy to maintain an evenhanded appraisal of McCain as he appropriates the Bush mantle. Of course, I wouldn%u2019t vote for him; he is willing to let the Iraq war go on for a hundred years, and at the rate of at least $200 billion a year, that makes a mockery of his efforts to defeat earmarks and other wasteful government spending-beginning with the massive waste in the Pentagon budget that he has done so much to expose. His capitulation on President Bush%u2019s use of torture is even more appalling. But it is absurd to attempt to pigeonhole McCain as a patsy for corporate lobbyists when he has been in the forefront of key efforts to challenge their power.

[dddcohen]

Mc Cain showed his hot head, inability to understand of subject matter [if this is his strong subject national security - wow - the republicans are in trouble] and lack of judgement with his comment ''Alqaeda in Iraq'' this demonstrates clearly his lack of judgement that is the pattern in the banking, real estate, commerce.

Obama is correct there was no ''Alqaeda in Iraq'' before the invasion - if this is what the best republicans can offer, they will lose the white house.

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McCain Rated As America%u2019s Worst Senator For Children

mccain3332.JPGToday, the Children%u2019s Defense Fund Action Council released its 2007 Nonpartisan Congressional Scorecard. CDF reports some positive news, particularly that average scores for members of Congress %u201Cimproved from the previous three years with more Members scoring 100 percent than in 2004, 2005 or 2006.%u201D

Many, however, did not fare so well. Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) received a 10 percent rating %u2014 the worst in the U.S. Senate.

CDF ranked members on 10 votes affecting children:

1. Increase minimum wage (H.R. 2)
2. Increase funding for children with disabilities (S. Con. Res. 21)
3. Protect children from unsafe medications (S. 1082)
4. 2008 Budget resolution (S. Con. Res. 21)
5. SCHIP Reauthorization (H.R. 976)
6. College Cost Reduction and Access Act (H.R. 2669)
7. SCHIP (H.R. 976 - motion to concur)
8. DREAM Act (S. 2205)
9. Funding child health and education (H.R. 3043)
10. Improving Head Start programs (H.R. 1429)