McCain To MoveOn: Get Out

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Arizona Senator John McCain has taken criticism of anti-war group MoveOn.org to a whole new level: He is suggesting that the organization "ought to be thrown out of this country."

The liberal advocacy group angered Republicans earlier this week with a full-page ad in the New York Times criticizing Gen. David Petraeus as he prepared to testify before Congress. The ad, which asserted that Petraeus was "cooking the books" on the situation in Iraq carried the headline, "General Petraeus or General Betray Us?"

Republicans condemned the ad and the party's presidential candidates have taken it up as a cause on the campaign trail. The campaign of Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani took out its own ad in the Times criticizing MoveOn and tying the organization to Hillary Clinton. McCain has begun carrying a blown-up, laminated poster of the MoveOn ad to his campaign stops.

And speaking at an event in Hudson, New Hampshire last night, CBS News' Dante Higgins reports he once again displayed the ad and said: "It's disgraceful, it's got to be retracted and condemned by the Democrats, and MoveOn.org ought to be thrown out of this country."

Today, the McCain campaign clarified the senator's comments for CBS News. "Senator McCain, like most Americans, is appalled by the MoveOn.org ad. Last night he expressed his outrage in words that did not convey his intended meaning. What he meant to say was that MoveOn's smear of General Petraeus' character should have no place in the American political debate."

[onecanmatter]

screen_name..

Are you still in kinder..practicing the only letters you have learned so far? Funny how they (the only letters you have learned) enabled you to spell out the same thing over and over. Even our children are being brainwashed by Bush cronies in the schools today!! You are not cute, original, intelligent nor even a person with his own view. You are made from the same cookie cutter as Bush Jr, Bush Sr. and as far back as the Bush Dynasty goes. Don''t be proud of your self..hang your head in shame that you have to monopolize the board with the same eight words over and over. Too bad people have to hide behind a screen and a screen name in order to say their eight words..in public after about five times people would leave you sitting alone in your misery!!

[onecanmatter]

If you think this all Republican hype, than why did the French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner today warn that Iran''''''''s failure to renounce nuclear weapons could lead to war?
by Bizzz

Iran finds it''s self in a VERY perilous situation with people like Cheny and Bush in office, now they have found a "patsy" like the general to continue with their game plan. Frankly in as much as I detest the very thought of ever using nuclear weapons, does Iran not have the right to at least attempt to protect them selves? They have only been given a role in this whole dastardly affair because of 1. Their religion. 2. Bush''s intense hate of those who do not think and behave as he does. 3. Bush''s even more intense greed to have what the other guy does, no, not have to have more than. 4. Bush''s mental status will be the beginning of the end, we have been warned since day one. He loves to see people suffer (blows up frogs with fire crackers, hunted down his brothers and shot them with BB guns, impregnated his high school sweetheart, then being the ANTI abortion person he is took her to the nearest abortionist, he couldn''t even hack a cushy position in The AF so as being the pampered little boy he is he said, I don''t wanna play any more and took his toys and left!
My worst fear is that if we don''t get him and the rest out NOW, he will come up with a plan to remain in office indefinately! Who feels this could very well happen? Any one have any thoughts about this last statement?

Sara

[onecanmatter]

MCCain you should hang your head in shame!! You of all people KNOW what our young men and women are going through in Iraq and yet you are agains''t pulling them out? I wonder? How would you have felt if we as Americans decided not to pull out of Viet Nam or what if we hadn''t gone back to attempt to resuce all the prisoners of war? Is it PSTD that makes you want to cause so much suffering to others as you claim to have suffered? What are your REAL motives? Maybe you need to join Rove and spend more time with your family. Or perhaps join Gonzales in the hall of SHAME? Goes to show the old saying still holds true..
"You lay down with dogs, you wake up with fleas"!!
Enjoy your new found fame as the now infamous POW McClain.
Sara

[onecanmatter]

McCain, you lost one race for prez and it doesn''t look good this time either.You as a POW boggles ones imagination that you could possibly go along with what Bush has done to our military, our AMERICA and we as Americans. Who did you say you are now? I seem to have forgotten as the McCain I once watched way back when is NOT the same McCain you have become today!! Who are you to order a group like MoveOn to get out of the country? Have you brushed up on the Constitution recently? Last I heard we still have free speech, or is it that MoveOn tells the truth, is that what galls you?

[jb_in_td]

It is unfortunate that the ad ran worded as it was.
The more unfortunate aspect though is that Johm McCain took the bait and has shown himself not as an unflappable thinking candidate, but as a grasp at anything like the behavior we all expect from *** Cheney and Co. Move on dot org is not speaking for me but I agree with 90 percent of what they say and how. I am an independant who would never vote for another local, state or national office Republican after the multitude of wrong moves that this administration has made with the lock-step permission of the then, Republican controlled Congress. We will one day know the full extent of the sins the country has committed in the past 6 years as a result of the actions of those in office to represent all of us.

[matchspring]

I am a member of Moveon.org, and I feel McCain should be removed from the country for attempting to defame our good names. He is a facist, and belongs with the neo-nazis, not Americans. Asking that we are removed from the country for expressing our first amendment rights? Pitiful. We should draft McCain to Iraq, since he is such a big supporter. Who is with me?

[nmfit]

How can anyone belive what the general has to say when his predecessors have either been pressured to retire or fired by the Bush administration?

Bush doesn''t listen to his generals, so why should the public? Ah, by-the-way, the president is the decider, not the general ... or did we forget?

[j4401]

To: Indievoter

A retired General once said,"war is all about the money period." I do not think this has changed, do you?

[radicalme0]

So why doesn''t CBS first of all print what MoveOn.org has to say about General Petraeous and then investigate whether what it says is true or not and then print that, and then investigate what ties MoveOn.org has with Hillary Clinton or any other Democratic candidate and then print that. OR would that be too much like journalism and perhaps expose McCain''s and Guliani''s outrage as nothing but posturing and Petraeous as a liar and Republican operative? Oh but you wouldn''t want to damage your boss George Bush, now would you????

If I were running for US President, I''d run on the policy of taking away the broadcasting licences of all the major television networks and breaking up their parent corporations after charging them with Conspiracy and Fraud.

[dj49770]

Glad to see that Senator McCain has the same fine grasp of the First Amendment that he does of the Middle East.

What a complete and total clown.