Comments on: McCain Unveils Tough New Rhetoric

Republican Presidential Nominee Vows To Fight For New Direction As Polls Show Him Behind Obama

[erb0087]

"We cannot spend the next four years as we have spent much of the last eight: waiting for our luck to change," McCain said.

And we won"t be doing that, Senator.

Our luck is about to change.

[babooph]

Johns great ,but at his age the only "new" direction is 6 ft down.

[nearl4511]

Was really pleased to see Obama today stop the crowd from Booing McCain. Telling supporters that we don''t need booing and hostility....just "need to vote!"

He won''t get any credit for it from the other camp, but he is taking the higher road.

[freeman99z]

We must get ourselves "Back to the Constitution". Every other ideology has failed even though the face name of it changes......Whoever can lead us back,....will be the greatest American of all time. ---------------------------------
You''re right what we need to do is get back to the constitution, away from the christian theology that bush has imposed for 8 years.

[daffy64]

When supporters started chanting "No-Bama, No-Bama,"

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Umm. Shouldn''t they be chanting for their own candidate?

[shingles1]

We should just start calling McCain Adm. James Stockdale.

Who am I and why am I here?

[daffy64]

"We cannot spend the next four years as we have spent much of the last eight: waiting for our luck to change,"

Amen to that. No more Bush style policies. Obama ''08!

[nearl4511]

New Direction. Yeah we heard "FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT","JUST WHERE WE WANT THEM."

Boy is that exciting. Freeze Gvt spending (that always helps in a recession -- - NOT).

YAAAAAWN.

[sallievoter]

"......Palin hasn%u2019t broadened McCain%u2019s appeal; she has narrowed it to a shrunken Republican base that is seething with resentment, often openly bigoted and clearly insufficient to win the election. The vituperation that marks rally after rally on the Republican side is alienating voters. Palin, who is now far more barracuda than hockey mom, has become the symbol of it.

Sarah Palin glaringly fails that test; she provided instant gratification, but then the bubble deflated. One reason the McCain campaign became so distracted in September was its constant scramble, from Troopergate to the Biden debate, to keep up the pretense that Palin is minimally plausible. And what kind of %u201Creformer%u201D picks a running mate under active investigation for abusing the power of her office?

Now when Americans think of McCain%u2019s vice presidential choice, they see him as someone willing to do anything, say anything, to get elected. The impression overhangs his entire campaign. Maybe that%u2019s why, in his latest game plan, Palin has been assigned to a back seat on McCain%u2019s express to nowhere.

Even some mainstream Republicans have concluded that Palin is proof that party loyalty can ask too much.

excerpt from http://www.theweek.com/article/index/89750/3/3/McCains_unraveling_began_with_Palin

[ioweign]

McCain Still Won''t Condemn Comparing Obama To Bin Laden

Dana Bash raises the remarks by Virginia''s GOP state party chair urging canvassers to tell voters that Barack Obama and Osama Bin Laden are both friends of terrorists, and John McCain again refuses to condemn them, instead attacking John Lewis, who had absolutely nothing to do with the issue at hand.

[elkc]

It is really sad when Hank Williams Jr. becomes the poster-child for the republican party...It must be the drugs...send him off to Betty Ford!

[maggietexas4]

It doesn''t matter if McCain comes up with some wonderful plan in the next three weeks. As long as he has Palin on the ticket, Americans won''t vote for him. These are troubled times and she just isn''t smart enough or qualified to be VP or possibly president. I get sick when I think that some people vote for the person they want to have a beer with. I vote for who I want in a meeting with world financial leaders. I will vote for the smart and educated Obama/Biden and you know what. . . . I would rather have a beer with Obama or Biden.

[troutfisher4]

I feel sorry for McCain. He seems to be lurching in one direction after another, trying anything out of desperation. It is painful to watch.

[cfin5]

We must get ourselves "Back to the Constitution". Every other ideology has failed even though the face name of it changes......Whoever can lead us back,....will be the greatest American of all time. Anybody with a different vision of any kind, in this hour we have inflicted ourselves with through gullibility in sloth,.....are the enemies our FOUNDING FATHERS warned us about.

[ioweign]

McCain Vows To Fight For New Direction

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John is an airdale and doesn''t know the fantail from the bow...

[kazoodan]

The tax issue is soooo interesting. Let''''s see If you are an Obama supporter you will not get a tax increase unless you are successful finnaciallyt . SOOO I guess you should vote for Obama Socialism to keep yourself in the lower tax brackets ?? Some incentive huh ??

Posted by berniew4 at 02:01 PM : Oct 13, 2008

Yeah, I''d MUCH rather take home 100% of $30K then 75% of $250K. Sheesh.

[mominmaine]

The conservatives are jumping ship because McBushies are not and never have been about less-government and reigned-in spending...neither had Reaganites. They are and always have been liars and manipulators. They have consistently spent us into oblivion, wrecked out economy while pretending to be about less government...but in fact they only like less government when it costs them (the fat cats) less...they are very happy to have MORE government when it means intruding on your privacy (e.g., listening to your conversation with your Canadian cousin, declaring that you cannot legally commit to a same-*** loved one, deciding what an individual should do with her uterus...etc., etc.)...but if it means responsible stewardship of programs to help new Americans and single moms...for example...get on their feet, off the dole and evolve into productive members of society...as case after case shows occured under Clinton''s programs...

[letreasonwin]

%u201CACORN to McCain: Have You Lost That Loving Feeling?%u201D reads a release by the organization this afternoon, noting that McCain was the keynote speaker at a Feb. 20, 2006 Miami rally cosponsored by Acorn to build support for a comprehensive immigration reform bill co-sponsored by McCain and Sen. Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts. The bill never passed Congress.

%u201CMaybe it is out of desperation that Sen. McCain has forgotten that he was for Acorn before he was against Acorn; he was for immigration reform before he was against immigration reform; and he was a maverick before he became erratic,%u201D Lewis said.

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2
008/10/13/acorn-fires-back-at-mccain/

[joker1944-2009]

See she took lessons from Obama;

Posted by Mccain08NC at 09:01 PM : Oct 13, 2008

My post states clearly Palin lying. Your post are a bunch odf GOP talking points that, if you had any sense at all, you''d realize are backfiring on McCain.

If you are going to show Obama supposedly lying, try posting actual quotes, ok? Otherwise you look like just another sad, stupid moron posting the same tired, baseless lies.

[dburfears]

McCain LIES and LIES and LIES about Annenberg "BOARD", OBAMA, and AYERS

McCain''s campaign is LYING about the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC), set up by the Annenberg Foundation to reform public schools. Walter Annenberg is a well-known philanthropist and CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN.

%u201CThe idea that the Annenberg Challenge was somehow the extension of the Weather Underground of the 1960%u2019s, that is just one of the most LUNATIC CONTENTIONS I can imagine,%u201D says Mike Flannery, political editor at the CBS Chicago affiliate WBBM who covered Chicago politics for 35 years. "Those of us who have covered politics in Chicago... simply don''t recognize the caricatures and the RIDICULOUS descriptions of this group."

Flannery says the other people on involved in the CAC with Obama and Ayers were "BUSINESS TYPES AND REPUBLCANS."

Obama chaired the board of the CAC but he DID NOT SERVE ON THE BOARD WITH AYERS. Ayers served on a SEPARATE advisory board.

%u201CThis was NOT the Bill Ayers and Barack Obama show,%u201D says Ken Rolling who was the Executive Director of the CAC and ran the organization, %u201CIt was created by a hundred people.%u201D

Rolling says that the CAC funded programs with the following purpose:

teacher training
music education
initiatives to strengthen parental involvement in public schools.
after school programs
improvements for literacy
arts programs
support for new school council candidates
education research

MCCAIN knows he LIES

MCCAIN HAS LOST ALL HONOR