Comments on: McCain: Obama Is The Wrong Change

Republican Candidate Attacks Presumptive Democratic Nominee's Judgment And Experience

[skyk-2009]

Would someone PLEASE tell this old fool you have to actually PROPOSE change to have it. I can see no change that he is proposing... looks like Bush to me.

[taotxzen]

McCain visits Iraq a half-dozen times, still doesn''t know Sunni from Shi''i or how many US troops are in country

The issue of whether Barack Obama should spend more time in Iraq seems to be gaining quite a bit of media traction. John McCain and the Republican National Committee are pushing the matter pretty aggressively, and media outlets seem to perceive this as a new issue that didn%u2019t play a role in the Democratic nominating fight.

But as campaign talking points go, this remains pretty weak, media interest notwithstanding. For one thing, Obama is planning an overseas trip, including time in Iraq, fairly soon. For another, all of this talk is a reminder of just how little American VIPs learn during codel visits.

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TP highlighted a discussion on the subject yesterday with CNN%u2019s Baghdad correspondent, Michael Ware.

%u201CSenator McCain has been here, what, more than half a dozen times,%u201D Ware said. %u201CAnd we%u2019ve seen him get assessments of Iraq terribly wrong. So I wouldn%u2019t be hanging my hat on the fact that your opponent has only been here once.

%u201CAnd let%u2019s not forget what do American officials get to see? Well, they get to see the rooftops of a lot of Iraqi houses as they chopper over them or across vast expanses of desert. They get to see rooms in the inside of U.S. bases in the Green Zone, both of which are divorced from reality. And they%u2019ll get inundated with military briefings.%u201D

This is consistent with what Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.), a decorated combat veteran and a former Secretary of the Navy, said when he called visits from congressional delegations %u201Cdog and pony shows.%u201D

Filed Under: CNN, Election 08, Iraq, John McCain, Military

[clestes-2009]

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The bloated military, bloated budget, scandels, debt ridden, reckless waste of image and money that is the image now is going to take a very long time to repair. Much longer than the 5 years it took to do the damage. Up until 2003, they were OK. After invading Iraq, the "biggest foreign policy blunder in our history" to quote Chuck Nagel, it has been straight downhill, faster and faster.

If Fossil John thinks suddenly coming out as the candidate for change, after mirroring shrub''s policies for years now, is going to do anything except confuse people, he is wrong AGAIN.

Just as wrong as he was when he claimed that the number of troops in Iraq are below pre-surge level. No matter how his people claim it is all about verb tenses (they HAVE to be pissed at him for making their job so difficult), it isn''t.

Fossil John was flat wrong by 25,000 troops. Just like he was flat wrong about who controls the nuclear program in Iraq (it isn''t the president, it is the religious leader) just like he was flat wrong about Iran supporting the insurgents in Iraq. They are Sunni, Iran is Shiite. Iran supports al-Maliki, not the insurgents.

This is going to be hilarious to watch over the next 5 months.

[clestes-2009]

Oh brother, the rep party is going to make an extreme fool of itself this year. If they had not been so stupid as to allow themselves to be led by the nose into their current disasterous state, I would feel somewhat sorry for them. What change is he supporting, I wonder??

They brought the current state of meltdown on themselves. They abdicated their responsibilities on watching the WH and keeping in check an irresponsible president. Now they find themselves at a complete loss, a complete polar opposite of what their party is suppose to be, and are floundering around to try and find something, anything they can represent to the American people that will be acceptable to their party.

I think most reps are looking past this election and are planning on what to do for 2010 and 2012 although I doubt they will have anything ready by then. They are going to have to go back to square 1 and start rebuiling the party''s image.

[incog-nito]

WASHINGTON - Vice President *** Cheney on Monday rejected a suspension of the federal gasoline tax as proposed by his party''s presumptive presidential nominee, Sen. John McCain. Cheney said it would offer little help to consumers coping with gas prices around $4 a gallon.

The vice president''s critique went further than President Bush''s own comments on the idea, which appears dead anyway.

"I think it''s a false notion, in the sense that you''re not going to have much of an impact, given the size of the gasoline tax on the total cost of the gallon of gas," Cheney said when asked about the matter during a luncheon appearance. "You might buy a little bit of relief there, but it''s minimal."


Even Cheney knows that McCain is a phony who wants to offer bogus promises for political purposes.

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Gen. Ricardo Sanchez: Bush Guilty of %u201CGross Incompetence and Dereliction of Duty%u201D

By: SilentPatriot

It must be nice to retire and finally be free to speak your mind. Retired U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, the man who led American ground forces in Iraq from 2003-2004, has released a new book%u2013 titled Wiser in Battle: A Soldier%u2019s Story %u2013 that takes aim at the Bush administration with some of the strongest criticism to date from a former Iraq commander.

In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, I watched helplessly as the Bush administration led America into a strategic blunder of historic proportions. It became painfully obvious that the executive branch of our government did not trust its military. It relied instead on a neoconservative ideology developed by men and women with little, if any, military experience. Some senior military leaders did not challenge civilian decision makers at the appropriate times, and the courageous few who did take a stand were subsequently forced out of the service.

It%u2019s gonna be hard to accuse General Sanchez of hating the troops.

Hopefully the media will give this book the attention it deserves, even in the wake of the bombshell McClellan book.

[armydog2]

no change with mccain, more of the same bush garbage. Time to face reality jack3213 mccain is another bush term.

[ramos937]

There is no way, shape or form that McCain can claim he wants change. In speech after speech, he has supported Bush''s policies and has stated numerous times that he would continue them if elected President.

[vancouverboo]

Hitler ran on the same platform. He won.

[skyk-2009]

You have to ask yourself a few questions: and if you answer ''''''''yes'''''''' to the first you are lying:
Is Obama honorable?
If he thought the Church he went to for 20 years was wrong why didn''''t he leave it sooner?
Why hasn''''t he been to Iraq in 2 years?
Why does feel it is right to meet with terrorist leaders unconditionally?
Why would he even consider Clinton for VP after disagreeing with most of her poplicies?
Why are you still thinking a Democrat is more credible than a Republican?
The only CHANGE that is possible with wehat we have to choose from is choosing MCCAIN. Time to face reality.


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Posted by jack3213 at 09:38 AM : Jun 03, 2008
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How about you folks knocking this garbage off? We have the WORST in our History in the White House BECAUSE of this kind of garbage. We have a MOUNTAIN of Problems, Problems the Republican Party has PROMISED to fix for decades. We need to focus on what the Canidate''s say they intend to do in addressing those problems. The Economy is the BIGGEST of these problems, followed by Social Security, Medicare, Health Care and the Mess in Iraq. So far, I see NOTHING new in anything that McCain proposes in dealing with any of these problems

[briannorwood]

McCain mantle of change?

Change his Depends, perhaps!

[jack3213]

You have to ask yourself a few questions: and if you answer ''''yes'''' to the first you are lying:
Is Obama honorable?
If he thought the Church he went to for 20 years was wrong why didn''t he leave it sooner?
Why hasn''t he been to Iraq in 2 years?
Why does feel it is right to meet with terrorist leaders unconditionally?
Why would he even consider Clinton for VP after disagreeing with most of her poplicies?
Why are you still thinking a Democrat is more credible than a Republican?
The only CHANGE that is possible with wehat we have to choose from is choosing MCCAIN. Time to face reality.

[inventagod2]

Mantle of Change?
Ohgod, CBS, you slay me with the jokes!
Stop!
Stop!