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October 21, 2008 3:09 PM

McCain, Adding Autobiographical Touch, Continues Criticizing Biden

Posted by John Bentley
(CBS)
From CBS News' John Bentley:

(HARRISBURG, PA.) - While John McCain has been hammering Barack Obama in recent days for Joe Biden’s comments about how Obama will be
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tested by a foreign crisis when he becomes president, McCain added a personal detail to the story today.

“We don't want a president who invites testing from the world at a time when our economy is in crisis and Americans are already fighting in two wars. Sen. Biden referred to how Jack Kennedy was tested in the Cuban missile crisis. My friends, I had a little personal experience in that,” McCain said.

“I sat in the cockpit of a flight deck on the USS Enterprise off of Cuba. I had a target. My friends, do you know how close we came to nuclear war? America will not have a president who needs to be tested. I’ve been tested my friends.”

Biden was referring to the showdown in 1962 between the United States and Soviet Union over Soviet missile bases in Cuba when he said last week, “Mark my words. It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy.”
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by benfromnyc October 23, 2008 1:02 AM EDT
McCain isn''t a Jack Kennedy but Obama just might be? Wow! I mean WOW! I don''t remember reading about Kennedy pushing for more government control. I don''t remember Kennedy saying let''s "spread the wealth". I must have missed that chapter in history class?

Irea - you love Obama because he''s a great orator? That''s why he should be President. He used the state senate to get into the US Senate and he used that to get into the Presidential race. All the while that REALLY getting involved in anything. Voting PRESENT all the time. Oh yeah Irea, great man. Because he so smooth when he talks and he connects to people. He connects to lazy people who want hand outs. It so sad that his campaign is no more than a father promising his children he will buy them ice cream when they get home if they are good at grandma''s. So be good at grandma''s Irea, pull the lever and get your ice cream!
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by joanne600 October 22, 2008 11:59 PM EDT
rickway wrote:
In "Faith of My Fathers," John McCain said that he was "excited as hell" about his potential mission during the Cuban Missile Crisis. That doesn''''t show leadership; that shows psychosis.
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The actual quote from the book is: "Pilots and crewmen alike adopted a cool headed , business-as-usual attitude toward the mission. Inwardly, of course, we were excited as hell, but we kept our composure and aped the standard image of a laconic, reserved, and fearless American at war." LOL - you think that shows psychosis? Good God, what do you want the military to do? Perhaps wet their collective pants in the face of a confrontation?
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by democratdad1 October 22, 2008 4:12 PM EDT
McCain is right when he says "My friends, do you know how close we came to nuclear war?".

Thank God we had a Democrat in the White House during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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by rickway October 22, 2008 3:29 PM EDT
In "Faith of My Fathers," John McCain said that he was "excited as hell" about his potential mission during the Cuban Missile Crisis. That doesn''t show leadership; that shows psychosis.
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by irea October 22, 2008 8:40 AM EDT
Sorry, Mr. McCain. You just pulled the plug on my vote for sure. If Senator Obama ... with his greater intellect and with the ease that he reaches out for involvement by experienced leaders (think Buffett and Powell), in your estimation can''t handle a problem, where would Sarah the pitbull be?
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by LFforMcCain October 22, 2008 12:26 AM EDT
This story about Biden telling the truth should be the main story on CBS but is it? Of course not! Because Katie Couric & her band of radical left-wing Obama-loving liberals don''t want people to know the truth about that one! Good heaven! Wake up kool-aide drinkers! NOBAMA!!! He''s not safe for America with his radical left liberal socialist ideals. Obama isn''t afraid of terrorists! Hey, they''re his friends!
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by mlr_08 October 21, 2008 8:32 PM EDT
More "VOTE FOR US OR DIE!!!" fear-mongering tactics.

With the economy the way it is, playing the fear and hate and race cards are just deplorable.

Enough already. We''re looking at the potential collapse of our country''s economic system. A strong economy will keep us strong in the world. We want to cast our votes not on fear but on hope.
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by javalation October 21, 2008 8:29 PM EDT
A simple minded person might believe that being ready to fight is all that was involved in the "Cuban Missile Crisis", however it was the intelligent decision making and negotiating that averted a nuclear exchange. Senator McCain, you certainly aren''t a Jack Kennedy, but Obama just might be.
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by cacatua08 October 21, 2008 8:21 PM EDT
McCain may have been there with his finger on the trigger but he was not the one making the decision to fire! He was not "The Decider"!

What Joe Biden was saying is that it is hard for a new president to not over-react in the old hardline way to prove he is tough enough, in order to silence his critics when an international crisis comes along. It will take courage and resolve for Obama to turn the Ship of State onto a new course.

There seems to always be an international incident festering somewhere in the world, like the recent confrontation between Russia and Georgia.
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by wolfi101 October 21, 2008 8:05 PM EDT
Next, we''ll be hearing how McCain single-handedly freed us from British rule during the Revolutionary War.
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by javalation October 21, 2008 8:01 PM EDT
Hamas endorses Obama???? Please name one country where the majority of its people aren''t rooting for Obama... well except for the Republic of Alaska perhaps.
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by janesche October 21, 2008 8:00 PM EDT
I do want to thank you for one thing however, and that%u2019s letting the cat out of the bag on what you and Barack Obama consider %u201Cchange.%u201D Who could imagine such %u201Crevolutionary%u201D ideas as taking even more money out the private sector and giving it to government to %u201Credistribute%u201D%u2013in the middle of an economic downturn, no less? Higher taxes on the %u201Crich,%u201D aka small business owners, is also pure genius. Why? They%u2019ll fire %u201Clittle people%u201D employees to make up the difference. And what can possibly compare with the %u201Cbrilliance%u201D of putting us all in even deeper hock than the NINE TRILLION DOLLARS of debt that you and your cronies have already amassed with years of irresponsible spending?
That%u2019s 35 years in the Senate just for you, Joe. 35 years of insinuating government deeper and deeper into the lives of every American. 35 years of ever-increasing amounts of waste, fraud, corruption and out-of-control spending by a bunch of self-interested, self-aggrandizing egotists.
Egotists whose concept of patriotism begins and ends with one idea: getting re-elected.
And you have the nerve to tell us WE should be more patriotic?
Take your %u201Cpatriotism%u201D and shove it, Senator Biden.
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by janesche October 21, 2008 7:59 PM EDT
You wanna be a patriot, Joe? Here%u2019s a few suggestions: Get you and your colleagues to stop taking earmarks. Cut down on your staffs. Pay for your own health and life insurance. Travel coach. Stop pretending you%u2019re %u201Cone of us%u201D when nothing could be further from the truth. Oh, and one more thing:
Stop spending us into economic ruin%u2013even as you have the gall to tell us it%u2019s for our own good!
Spending other peoples%u2019 hard-earned money isn%u2019t patriotic, Joe, especially when most Americans know that billions of dollars are wasted on out-of-date and ineffective programs. Programs whose primary functions are to bribe certain constituencies%u2013or to make guys like you look good. Take a gander at Congressional poll numbers, Joe. Most of us don%u2019t think you guys look good at all. Most of us think Congress stinks to high heaven.
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by jjlcp October 21, 2008 7:59 PM EDT
Why is it that I can''t find the exact transcript of what Joe Biden DID say over this past weekend? I want to see the entire transcript from beginning to end on that not just a one liner. I don''t want to see what THEY said about it, I want to judge it for myself.
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by DCropp October 21, 2008 7:58 PM EDT
Why does McCain keep stepping into these traps?

More Americans think Obama is better suited for a crisis. Now, McCain keeps emphasizing a crisis.

Americans trust Powell. Even McCain spent decades praising Powell. Now, McCain gives Obama the perfect chance to run ads of why Powell endorsed Obama.

McCain''s running mate has Americans stunned by her lack of knowledge. Between McCain''s age and Palin''s lack of knowledge, this drives votes directly to Obama.

The GOP should have spent money on Congressional races instead of spending it on McCain and Palin.
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by jjlcp October 21, 2008 7:58 PM EDT
Why is it that I can''t find the exact transcript of what Joe Biden DID say over this past weekend? I want to see the entire transcript from beginning to end on that not just a one liner. I don''t want to see what THEY said about it, I want to judge it for myself. You wouldn''t be hiding it from your viewers would you?
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by janesche October 21, 2008 7:57 PM EDT
Here%u2019s some of the things those patriots get just for themselves: staffs of 14 assistants for each member of the House and 34 for each Senator, on average. Top-notch health care and insurance plans. Pension benefits two to three times more than those paid in the private sector on similar incomes. Limousines, and special parking spaces on Capitol Hill and at Washington%u2019s two major airports. First-class travel all over the world. Their own private health clubs, one for the House, one for the Senate. Their own doctor%u2019s office on premises. And last, but not least, a work schedule with numerous holidays and a full month off in August.
All of it paid for by us.
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by jjlcp October 21, 2008 7:56 PM EDT
Why is it that I can''t find the exact transcript of what Joe Biden DID say over this past weekend? I want to see the entire transcript from beginning to end on that not just a one liner. I don''t want to see what THEY said about it, I want to judge it for myself. You wouldn''t be hiding it from your viewers would you?
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by janesche October 21, 2008 7:55 PM EDT
Democratic Vice Presidential candidate Joe Biden thinks paying more taxes is %u201Cpatriotic.%u201D You wanna talk patriotism, Mr. Biden? Here we go%u2026
First and foremost, let%u2019s talk about why Joe thinks people should pay more taxes: to fund a government run with no concept of fiscal responsibility. Zero. This year%u2019s budget is close to three trillion dollars. That%u2019s a number so large it%u2019s almost meaningless, so let me put some meaning behind it: Since the population of the entire country is 300 million, every single American is getting charged an average of TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS apiece by our %u201Cpatriots%u201D in Congress.
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by o_o_rly October 21, 2008 7:07 PM EDT
Just because a bajillion years ago he fought in a war, doesn''t negate the possibility that the U.S. may need to defend itself from attack.

It could just as easily be said that his age and Palin herself (who is completely ridiculed worldwide) could invite an attack.

What horse manure.
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