Politico: McCain Has Selected His VP
Sen. John McCain has chosen his running mate, whom he will notify on Thursday, a senior McCain campaign official told The Politico’s Mike Allen.
McCain is planning to roll out his VP choice in a large rally in Dayton, Ohio, at noon on Friday, followed by join appearances in Pennsylvania and Missouri, sources said.
Over the past few days, the media’s focus has been narrowed to three potential options for McCain: former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty and Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman.
Romney seems to have garnered the most attention, in light of Barack Obama’s selection of Joe Biden as his number two. Romney is thought to have the ability to hold his own against the Delaware senator, who is known for his formidable debating skills. But the controversy over McCain’s failure to state off the top of his head how many houses he owns could mean that picking Romney—a multimillionaire businessman with four houses of his own—would open the Republican ticket to charges of being out of touch.
Sources close to the McCain campaign have indicated that Lieberman, an independent Democrat, is very much in the running. But choosing a pro-abortion rights senator who caucuses with the Democrats could leave next week’s Republican convention in upheaval.
McCain is planning to roll out his VP choice in a large rally in Dayton, Ohio, at noon on Friday, followed by join appearances in Pennsylvania and Missouri, sources said.
Over the past few days, the media’s focus has been narrowed to three potential options for McCain: former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty and Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman.
Romney seems to have garnered the most attention, in light of Barack Obama’s selection of Joe Biden as his number two. Romney is thought to have the ability to hold his own against the Delaware senator, who is known for his formidable debating skills. But the controversy over McCain’s failure to state off the top of his head how many houses he owns could mean that picking Romney—a multimillionaire businessman with four houses of his own—would open the Republican ticket to charges of being out of touch.
Sources close to the McCain campaign have indicated that Lieberman, an independent Democrat, is very much in the running. But choosing a pro-abortion rights senator who caucuses with the Democrats could leave next week’s Republican convention in upheaval.
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See all 63 CommentsThe country is going into a major economic depression with over 5000 banks are already bankrupt today with more day by day.
President FDR''s economic Bretton Woods policy is needed to fix current economic collapse. This policy caters to the 80% of the forgotten people and threatens the oligarghy''s wealth and whose ultimate goal is to rid of all governments, peoples'' sovereingties and Constitutions and ultimately install fascism.
Who cares who it is. It''s just more of the same Bush/McCain/Republican failure of the last eight years.
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Internet rumors are surfacing Sen. Susan Collins to be his VP to specifically take away Hillary unhappy supporters - women, the working class, Catholics, etc. She is attractive, articulate, has debate skills, etc.
What do you think?
If it''s so important to recognize McCain as a hero(or celebrity, if you will) then he should release his full military records so that the voters can determine for themselves if that''s truly the case.
Until that happens he''s no more a hero than the vets who post on this blog and are called traitors if they don''t tow the conservative line.
McCain has my respect for his service and sacrifice in Vietnam. He doesn''t have my respect for his Senate record or the sleazy campaign he''s running.
Biden said it best; "We don''t need a good soldier, we need a wise leader."
Obama will win for several reasons:
1. First off, mitochondrial DNA studies establish that ALL H. Sapiens ----- yes, you KKK morons, too ----- originated 200,000 years ago in sub-Saharan Africa. Face it, %u201Cwe all the same, brother.%u201D
2. Most of you prejudiced whack jobs are too stupid to vote or will forget.
3. McCain was a POW collaborator, not a %u201Cwar hero.%u201D (Read his co-authored book: Faith of My Fathers ----- apparently he was too stupid to write it on his own). BTW: McCain didn%u2019t %u201Cchoose%u201D to remain a POW, as he hypes ----- he was mandated by the military to remain a POW or face court martial. Standard procedure.
4. McCain believes Iraq shares a border with Narnia.
Incidentally, it doesn%u2019t matter who McCain picks, although Lieberman does show a definite homoerotic fascination with him.
Hey, that%u2019s fine, though. *** are cool people. It%u2019s my fellow Caucasians who are the problem: You know, the wealthy white warmongers like Cheney, the corporate fascists, the homophobic evangelicals and the trailer park xenophobes ----- they%u2019re the ones that cause most of the problems in our country.
Rush Limbaugh - Drug Addict
George W. Bush - Drug Addict and alcoholic.
Cindy McCain - Drug Addict
mr2258 - hypcrit
McCain is a hero......
Posted by edabel2 at 04:26 AM : Aug 28, 2008
I''''ve heard this before but specifically how is McCain a "hero", and btw I''''m speaking as a non-hero ex-serviceman who served the same time McCain served.
McCain crashed 5 military planes at enormous cost to taxpayers. That tells me he is incompetent.
Yes he spent over 5 years as a POW but that doesn''''t make him a hero. He claims that he refused offers of freedom from his captors. Actually had he taken their offer he would have faced court martial charges for disobeying a standing order. The senior ranking officer at the camp had already issued an order that acceptance of offers of freedom will be only on the basis of seniority.
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If one can win an election by being a POW, then McCain will win--however there are thousands of troops from WWII to current who have been POW''''s and some walking around without limbs, with brain injuries and a vast array of medical problems, BUT they are''''t using that to promote themselves.
My uncle got shot up in Korea, had a purple heart---he had silent pride--as do many.
So you go ahead and vote for someone because he keeps repeating his POW experience (Songbird John), I''''ll vote for someone who has plans and ideas for all Americans to make us the USA we have always been proud of!!!
It is rumored that he has chosen Phyliss Diller!!!!
Believing that since Obama is such a "celebrity" (according to McCain''s own ads!), and that McCain himself is already somewhat of a "celebrity" appearing on every late night show in production, that his VP should also be a "celebrity" who is also well known!
Besides, since he is running on the usual reliable neocon Fascist Nazi program of "FEARRRRR!!!", the addition of Diller on the ticket would strike FEARRRRR into the most fanatical "terrrrrrorist" out there, as well as any Liberals, Progressives, Whimpo-crats, and anyone else interested in preserving the environment and protecting the Constitution from neocon Fascist Nazi "improvements!"!
SIG HEIL, BUSH!!!!
sig heil, THE GREAT CELEBRITY, McCain!!!!
They both love war as long as it isn''t their family doing the fighting.
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