Comments on: McCain Makes Gains In Four Key States

Washingtonpost.com Poll: McCain Leads In Colo.; Obama Has Small Leads In Mich., Minn., Big Lead In Wis.

[aldon61]

also lack judgements in friends like Rev. Wright , Bill Ayers , father Flaeger, Tony Retzko...and his 20 years membership with Trinity . If he has such good judgement why the 20 year association and why the denouncement at the end ? Obama is not up to the task , the Media created him and wanted to force it down to the Americans'''' throat . People will wake up and fight this injustice!


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Posted by alohaone1 at 03:40 PM : Jul 24, 2008
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Read the next post please.

[aldon61]

For those who are saying that Obama lacks judgement because of who he calls "friend", then I would offer GW Bush''''s friends like Karl Rove, oil industry execs, and perhaps some of the disgraced republican reps/senators who have displayed their own moral deficits. Let''''s look at McCains friends then and see that McCain probably has friends with questionable character or controversial views. Guilty by association applies to everyone, if you want to hold that standard. And nobody comes out smelling clean if we applied that standard.


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Posted by ixoye_02 at 03:56 PM : Jul 24, 2008

Well put!

[aldon61]

Barack''''s a nice guy, but his policy''''s will continue the great divide of this country.


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Posted by ProMacLaura at 04:05 PM : Jul 24, 2008
What has divided our country is George Bush. McCain will continue most of Bush''s policies, and the wound will just grow deeper. I don''t know if Obama is going to be the answer, but I know where we''re heading, and I don''t want to go there.

[noloyalisti]

I really don''t believe these polls, first of all because it is being reported by the manipulating corporate media and also because I don''t believe there are THAT many ignorant brain dead people like McBush and McSame in this country. It just doesn''t make common sense.

[aldon61]

he has shown that he is incapable of admitting mistakes , he thinks that he is always right and when he is wrong , he dances around it.


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Posted by alohaone1 at 03:51 PM : Jul 24, 2008
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You know who you''re describing, don''t cha? GEORGE W. BUSH!!

[promaclaura]

Did you see that the NY Times refused John McCain'' Op-ed piece on the same subject Obama''s was about published the week before. The NY Times said John''s piece had to altered to fit their parameter''s. I thought these type of news stories were supposed to come from the man himself, not the news organizations. That is far from being a fair shake.

[promaclaura]

John McCain''s appeal cover''s both sides of the aisle and he can call Democrat''s his friends just as easily as Republican''s. If we want our government to work together in this crazy world then John''s the man. Barack''s a nice guy, but his policy''s will continue the great divide of this country.

[ixoye_02]

I think McCain is getting a fair shake. If McCain cannot distinguish/distance himself from the policies of GW Bush, then that is McCain''s problem. I''ve talked to many voters in my area. And for many of them, McCain represents more of Bush''s policies.
For those who are saying that Obama lacks judgement because of who he calls "friend", then I would offer GW Bush''s friends like Karl Rove, oil industry execs, and perhaps some of the disgraced republican reps/senators who have displayed their own moral deficits. Let''s look at McCains friends then and see that McCain probably has friends with questionable character or controversial views. Guilty by association applies to everyone, if you want to hold that standard. And nobody comes out smelling clean if we applied that standard.

[alohaone1]

Young presidents who has been able to handle the difficult jobs:
1/ JFK: 12 years SEnator , WAr Hero.
2/ Bill clinton: 2 term governor .

Obama can not compare to these 2 above , yet , he talks and acts like he is Ronald REagan ( who single-handedly took on the Soviet Union) . Such Arrogance is not a good trait for a young and inexperient Senator , who is untested so far and who has shown misjudgements times and again in his friends and in the Surge and worst yet , he has shown that he is incapable of admitting mistakes , he thinks that he is always right and when he is wrong , he dances around it ....No Obama!

[promaclaura]

Alot of democrat''s were voted into congress based on GW''s image, knowing the picture was like waving a red flag in front of a bull. The approval rating of this same congress is less that GW''s. It just shows that blind anger voting does not alway''s elect the best candidate. It''s hard to watch a party run their election against George Bush again. I wish they would give John McCain a fair shake, doesn''t his moderate standing over the years outshine the year''s GW was in office?

[alohaone1]

With the war in Iraq has come to a success after the SURGE , with the conflict in AFganishtan heating up , with Iran continual playing with the World community , with Russia threaten to move Nuclear bomber into Cuba , it is clear that we need Mc Cain in the White House . The President of the United STates is a demanding job and is not the job for a 3 year junior senator . The youngest President who was up to the task was JFK , who is a 12 year senator and who was already a WAR HERO by the time is run and who is clearly better at policies and where he was heading than BArrack Obama , with his empty rhetorics. Obama has shown his incompetence in opposing the Surge , when faced with a difficult situation , one that needed solved , he chose to cut and run , well , we all know how that played out in Vietnam. Obama also lack judgements in friends like Rev. Wright , Bill Ayers , father Flaeger, Tony Retzko...and his 20 years membership with Trinity . If he has such good judgement why the 20 year association and why the denouncement at the end ? Obama is not up to the task , the Media created him and wanted to force it down to the Americans'' throat . People will wake up and fight this injustice!

[starleo146]

Why starleo14672 - I thought you claimed to be an independent.


Dems shoulda nominated...

Posted by RosieOd4Prez at 03:28 PM : Jul 24, 2008

I am an independent and I am independently voting for Obama Mc Bush is Bush and had enough of that

[promaclaura]

I wouldn''t count Hillary supporters out, many are as mad as a hornet and they''re watching the media continue its favorable coverage of Barack. I don''t think that is the way to pacify it only adds salt to the wounds. I can''t tell you the name of the organization but it is something like "Hillary supporters for McCain". I don''t know, maybe they think that will get her in the White House in 2012 or they just plain think he is closer to Hillary''s policies than Barack.

[starleo146]

don''''t have faith in CBS anymore. Editing McCain blunders and reporting only polls McCain wins.

Did anyone notice the giant red EXON MOBIL ads over over this web page?

Could CBS want McCain to win because he supports drilling? Pleaseeee....this is so obvious.

Posted by JDMO2 at 01:18 PM : Jul 24, 200

CBS is glad to let everyone think they are the liberal press, but the CEO, Bob Shaifer, who had Mc Bush on so many times I Wanted them to change Face The Nation TO THE Bob AND John SHOW Katy Couric are all republicans. And fox news had over 600,000 petions saying there bias reporting has to stop with the lies

[rosieod4prez]

Why starleo14672 - I thought you claimed to be an independent.


Dems shoulda nominated...

[starleo146]

If Barack does not choose Hillary as his V.P. has does that effect his standing?

Posted by ProMacLaura at 03:21 PM : Jul 24, 2008


Yep, it shows you never do what everyone expects, just do the right thing, and if he does that he has nothing to fear.We have lived the last eight years in so much chaos, and the doing what a party expects, look where we are.

[rosieod4prez]

"Republican John McCain has quickly closed the gap between himself and Democratic rival Sen. Barack Obama in several key battleground states even as the Arizona senator struggles to break through the wall-to-wall coverage of Obama''s trip to Europe and the Middle East this week. - article



People are starting to see Obama for what he is. They are starting to recognize that he will say anything to the current crowd. It doesn''t matter if he contradicts what he said to the folks in the last city, they aren''t there to see that he is a flip-flopping flam-flam man.



Hmmmm..... yet inspite of the liberal press, McCain makes gains. Yup, it is true, you can''t hold down a good man. And, you can fool some of the people all the time and all the people some of the time; but, Obama, you can''t fool all the people all the time.

[promaclaura]

If Barack does not choose Hillary as his V.P. has does that effect his standing?

[vranger]

"Democrat''''s are alway''''s in our economic affairs, huge entitlement programs are proof of that. Economic prof''''s state that trickle down policies work. Look how well Clinton looked due to Reagan and Bush. CEO''''S of companies are what gives the average joe a bad taste in the mouth. Being married to a CPA/Financial Controller for american manufacturers has laid bare before me how companies work. Tax breaks for companies promote raises, more jobs, better training and better insurance it''''s just fact. When companies are taxed for entitlement programs it actually backfires for middle-class workers (lay-offs, no hiring, loss of insurance and no training programs). The saying that companies pass off any raised taxes on the consumer and workers is true."

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EXACTLY! Every election cycle the Democratic candidate bashes big business as the enemy of the common man. This belies the fact that without those businesses, those ''common men'' have no jobs and careeers. Are the Democrats just too stupid to understand this? No. They understand it perfectly, but they think their lie sways voters, and they stick to it every time.

[promaclaura]

You forgot to mention Nader causing his havoc. Running an anti-war campaign will hold sway for those who believed that Barack was the no-war candidate.