Comments on: In New Ad, McCain Dubbed "The Original Maverick"

[kissamaarse]

What a joke, JukeBox John a maverick. It is a myth. He has voted the Bush neo-con line at a rate higher than 90$ during Bush''s time as president. McShame never met a lie or a flip-flop he did not like, and the Double Talk Express is pathologically hypocritical.

[kennedy7955]

Yeah, the country is broken. McCain has been in power for over 30 years. He is the establishment and he is responsible, as much as anyone in our government for the deficit, war and every incompetency of the US government.

[jimfinster]

This is pretty cynical, considering he has been part of the Washington establishment most of his adult life.

[idnnsg]

vranger says, "I''m a LOT better off now than I was 8 years ago"

You may be "better off", but the COUNTRY is NOT.

One of the biggest LIES repugs like to spew is this "self-reliant" crappola. They like to think they are all "self-made winners" and that everyone who isn''t winning is either too lazy, or too stu.pid, or just too "liberal" to deal with economic realities. But the world DOES NOT work that way.

The last "great white hope" of the repug party, GW Bush, took the country from unprecedented surplus to unprecedented debt in just a few short years. He redistributed the wealth in this country from the many, gave it to the few, and he has destroyed this country''s infrastructure (transportation, jobs, healthcare, education, etc.) in the process. If we continue down this path, soon the many will be nothing more than slaves to the few. There will be no middle. So, if you haven''t yet risen to the level of multi-billion-dollar international corporation, and if Johnny McSame wins this election, you can just kiss whatever small gains you''ve made goodbye! It won''t matter one bit how good you think you are at managing your finances!

[omega39-2009]

Washington is broken alright and dinosaurs like John McCain are the reason why...

[jcpok]

Vranger-

First, why is McCain contradicting what he said just a few months ago? During the primary, he indicated we are better off than we were 8 years ago. Now, he says were worse. Which is it? Why is he so confused? Is it possibly pandering?

Second, by almost any economic measure (real incomes, access to health care, net worth, savings rate, job creation/loss, etc.), the average American is significantly worse off now than they were when Bush took office. These are just facts based on empirical evidence. In fact, it is highly likely that Bush will be considered the worst President in terms of economic performance since Herbert Hoover.

Your post is more of an indication of your indifference to the people harmed by Bush''s disastrous economic policies than it is an indication of economic knowledge. As for the latter, it appears you have very little.

[mattcat25]

John McCain will be over SEVENTY FIVE YEARS OLD at the completion of the next Presidential term. It%u2019s highly unlikely a man with his advanced age will be able to be an effective leader for much of this term. The demands of the Senate aren%u2019t measurable to what he might face as the President. McCain may seem (at times) during this election to be in control of his faculties but, this will diminish over the next couple of grueling years if he were to be elected as President.

[idnnsg]

Read what k2345 Posted at 01:28 PM : Aug 05, 2008

He makes is abundantly clear that the GOP REALLY had to scrape the bottom of the barrel to get a candidate as thoroughly UNQUALIFIED as McCain!

[vranger]

jcpok,

I''m a LOT better off now than I was 8 years ago. Our mortgage is paid down to almost nothing. Our income has increase drmatically, far exceeding inflation. We buy pretty much whatever we want to, and we''re middle class.

We don''t mismanage our budget so close to the line that a spike in gas prices causes calamity, and we don''t get our politics from the lies (and likes) of Michael Moore (guess what, he''s in it for the MONEY, and he makes it by leading the ignorant down the garden path - Moore Tools, we call you LOL).

If you can''t hack it, get back to blaming the source, yourself, rather than any convenient target the bandwagon happens upon.

2.6% of borrowers may face foreclosure (that''s higher than the percentage that IS in foreclosure). The other 97.4% of us who know how to figure out a payment and a budget are doing just fine, thank you.

[jcpok]

Why is it that CBS posts and freely distributes nearly every one of "Free Pass" McCain''s ads?

This is really becoming a blatant and egregious example of the extraordinarily special treatment being afforded McCain by the media.