WASHINGTON, Oct. 9, 2008

Cindy McCain: Obama Campaign Dirtiest Ever

Wife Of GOP Nominee Suggests Democrat Doing What's Best For Himself, Not The Country

  • Cindy McCain, wife of Republican presidential candidate, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., center, flanked by her daughter Meghan McCain, left, and Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., smiles prior to a town hall-style presidential debate between nominees, Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama, and at Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn., Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2008. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

    Cindy McCain, wife of Republican presidential candidate, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., center, flanked by her daughter Meghan McCain, left, and Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., smiles prior to a town hall-style presidential debate between nominees, Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama, and at Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn., Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2008. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)  (AP)

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(AP)  Cindy McCain has accused Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama of running "the dirtiest campaign in American history."

In remarks reported Tuesday by The Tennessean, she said she initially did not want her husband John McCain to seek the Republican presidential nomination after a brutal primary struggle in 2000 against George W. Bush.

"The days of Ronald Reagan and Tip O'Neill are what we need to look to: a divided government but a government that needs to agree to disagree," Cindy McCain told reporters after visiting children at a Nashville hospital and prior to the presidential debate. "We're now seeing polarizing factions, people politicizing things that should be about what's best for America. Instead, they're doing what's best for themselves."

The Obama campaign declined to comment.

In 2000, John McCain lost the GOP primary in South Carolina to George W. Bush due in large part to insinuations that he fathered an illegitimate child. The couple adopted one daughter, Bridget, from Mother Teresa's orphanage in Bangladesh.

Her comments came as the McCain campaign's tone has become increasingly harsh.

Nearly every TV ad McCain ran last week was negative, compared to just 34 percent of those by Obama, according to an analysis by the Wisconsin Advertising Project released on Wednesday.

Also on Wednesday, Cindy McCain criticized Obama for voting against a bill to pay for the troops in Iraq.

"The day that Sen. Obama cast a vote not to fund my son when he was serving sent a cold chill through my body, let me tell you," she told a Pennsylvania crowd before introducing the Arizona senator and his running mate Sarah Palin.

In fact, Obama consistently voted for Iraq troop financing except on one occasion. In May 2007, he voted against a troop-funding bill because it did not also specify steps for a withdrawal.

And McCain has not always voted for money for the troops. On one troop-funding bill supported by Obama, McCain missed the vote and encouraged President Bush to veto it, because it did call for withdrawal.

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by coollbreezz October 12, 2008 2:58 PM EDT
I wonder what Cindy Hinsley was thinking when she and John McCain was committing adultery in her Hotel room in Hawaii in 1979, where they launching his run for president? Did she mean to play the roll of a home wrecker?
http://joeland7.wordpress.com/2008/10/06/mccain-lied-about-his-divorce-and-remarriage
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by dreamwhiz1 October 11, 2008 10:58 PM EDT
There are two clueless *** in the news these days; Mccains'' wife, and Mccains'' running mate.I think all three need to be arrested for inciting mob-like hatred and vigilantic mindlessness.Since when has it become ok to urge supporters to"kill" your opponent or lop off his head? Inciting riotious behavior is a very serious offence and needs to be dealt with. In this country, no man or woman is above the law.
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by misha128-2009 October 11, 2008 3:54 AM EDT
And yet another Republican response for Cindy McCain:

Rep. LaHood, who has represented Illinois'' 18th district for seven terms and is retiring in January, told WBBM Radio that Palin should control the racially-charged heckling at her rallies:
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by misha128-2009 October 11, 2008 3:53 AM EDT
Another Republican response for Cindy McCain:

John Weaver, John McCain''s former top strategist, says the Republican candidate is making both a moral and a a tactical mistake by letting abusive hecklers have free rein at rallies:

"People need to understand, for moral reasons and the protection of our civil society, the differences with Senator Obama are ideological, based on clear differences on policy and a lack of experience compared to Senator McCain," Weaver said. "And from a purely practical political vantage point, please find me a swing voter, an undecided independent, or a torn female voter that finds an angry mob mentality attractive."
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by misha128-2009 October 11, 2008 3:52 AM EDT
Republican response for Cindy McCain:

Former Republican Governor of Michigan William Milliken tells the Grand Rapids Press that he''s "disappointed" in John McCain and the campaign he is running:

He endorsed John McCain in the presidential primary, but now former Republican Gov. William Milliken is expressing doubts about his party''s nominee.

"He is not the McCain I endorsed," said Milliken, reached at his Traverse City home Thursday. "He keeps saying, ''Who is Barack Obama?'' I would ask the question, ''Who is John McCain?'' because his campaign has become rather disappointing to me.

"I''m disappointed in the tenor and the personal attacks on the part of the McCain campaign, when he ought to be talking about the issues."
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by ixoye_02 October 10, 2008 11:48 PM EDT
Oh Cindy...life is just not that bad...just go home and take some pain medications...you''ll feel fine afterwards.
Cindy is another ******* who just has to feel insulted because she doesn''t understand why seemingly good bills get voted against esepcially when there are provisions that are unacceptable....just like McCain voting against a bill that would have equipped our troops too...the difference was the timeline for withdrawl. Get a clue...you''re certainly rich enough to buy all the clues you need. Your indignation is like crocodile tears....fake as the smile you wear!!!
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by mairin27 October 10, 2008 10:07 PM EDT
Mairin27 being the most delusional of all! Going out and cutting and pasting psychobabble to justify her own neurosis and psychological disorders.
Posted by GetRealTex at 05:56 PM : Oct 10, 2008

There you go again. Can''t post anything original. I have been telling you for several days that you have true signs of mental disorders and your response...is what to use what I have posted and try to turn it on me. Your PROJECTION DISORDER- Also it is very obvious that you do not know what the true meaning of neurosis is...no not your webster definition but I digress.

You are a very sad excuse of a woman backward in every single way.... Your lack of originality and intelligence is showing.

When faced with a real question that you can''t look up in Marion Webster or google you pull a Palin.

You bloviate and bloviate and listen to no one or nothing that does not fit into your narrow little mind and narrow little view. Because you know better than anyone else... Only a fool would think that your constant rants give you any credibility. You are the epitome of moral turpitude and completly devoid of the ability for enlightened thinking







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by mairin27 October 10, 2008 9:29 PM EDT
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JUMP, SHOOT, SCORE!


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Posted by dj282008 at 06:22 PM : Oct 10, 2008


Ahh- LOL. Very funny
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by dj282008 October 10, 2008 9:29 PM EDT
I just used it in a thread that she was in. I wonder what her response will be. TBC
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by dj282008 October 10, 2008 9:26 PM EDT
hey slow,

drop me an e-mail anytime. dj292009@gmail.com
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by dj282008 October 10, 2008 9:22 PM EDT
"In response to your support request, we regret to inform you that the "GetRealTex" Ignorant Hate Vending Machine only comes with rudimentary processing abilities. It cannot answer specific questions, as the designer left out a logic chip on this model.

Please do not try to press logical questions, as it only confuses the unit and makes it start spewing out nonsensical copy-and-pasted messages at an alarming rate.

If you have asked a pressing question, we regret that a response will probably not come for some time, if at all. As the GetRealTex unit cannot think for itself, it requires that answers be restocked from an its owner, who apparently abandoned this unit some time ago."


JUMP, SHOOT, SCORE!
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by clovisbuford October 10, 2008 9:08 PM EDT
Oh, don''''t worry about it, I''''ll either be celebrating McCain''''s election, or laughing my arse off because you socialist democraps will be getting what you deserve....communism at it''''s best
Posted by GetRealTex at 05:58 PM : Oct 10, 2008
errr so the Republican government ,president , treasury secretary is nationalizing banks and industires , Privatised profits and hand the losses to the tax payeers to take .. you know whats next Get Real Texas ? I lay you odds the government invests directly in banks , yes the tax payer .. why? because the republican claptrap about deregulation and let the markest do what they want to do is a failure.. and how do I know this? watch the news darlin . FDR and his "socialist " programs pulled us out of the last depression ,and have been still successful can you imagine if your Social Security had been invested in the current market like republicans insisted on including Mccain? Reality is ugly Get Real Texas. All of us are gonna suffer for some time for what republicans ahve manged to do to this great country in 8 yrs.
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by dj282008 October 10, 2008 9:06 PM EDT
I am saving your words, IN 2012 I want you to eat your words. And you can save mine

If I am wrong I will eat my words

If you are wrong you will eat your words.

Don''t tell me your not wrong because you have no clue
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by dj282008 October 10, 2008 8:58 PM EDT
Pack your bags, because in November I have a funny feeling that when you loose the election, your going to leave this country
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by clovisbuford October 10, 2008 8:52 PM EDT
GetRealTex ,WellHell13, Stormy one , Rowdy wiccan , has more personalities than the five faces of eve and facts never enter into it , I await her posts on Nov.5th not only for national elections , but the fact that texas is probably gonna have a democrat majority in the house and the end of Tom Craddick ,,cie la vie ,, thats the way it goes I will be eating "Freedom Fries" and lone star and giggling . What do I know, like colbert says "reality has a liberal bias"
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by clovisbuford October 10, 2008 8:46 PM EDT
Almost all of the old media, and roughly half the country, thinks Obama has a right to negotiate on behalf of the United States of America, and that George W. Bush does not.
This is dementia. But it exists.
Posted by GetRealTex at 05:11 PM : Oct 10, 2008
I assume GRT is reffering to obamas Iraq trip yanno what 90% of the country does think at this point is GW is irrelevant and has gotten us intoi a deep hole , now as far as Obama and the Iraq trip let me give you verifiable news on that story ." Officials of the Bush administration who were briefed on the meeting by the U.S. embassy in Baghdad also support Obama''s account and dispute the Post story and McCain attack.
The Post story is "absolutely not true," Hagel spokesman Mike Buttry told ABC News.
Buttry said that Hagel agrees with Obama''s account of the meeting: Obama began the meeting with al-Maliki by asserting that the United States speaks with one foreign policy voice, and that voice belongs to the Bush administration.
A Bush administration official with knowledge of the meeting says that, during the meeting, Obama stressed to al-Maliki that he would not interfere with President Bush''s negotiations concerning the U.S. troop presence in Iraq, and that he supports the Bush administration''s position on the need to negotiate, as soon as possible, the Status of Forces Agreement, which deals with, among other matters, U.S. troops having immunity from local prosecution.
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by dj282008 October 10, 2008 8:44 PM EDT
Or a liar in her mind.

GetRealTex suffers from several psychiatric disorders:
1)Projection- attributing one''''s own unacknowledged feelings to others; includes severe prejudice, severe jealousy, hypervigilance to external danger, and "injustice collecting". (projection is a primitive form of paranoia, so it is common in today''''''''s world)
2)Immaturity - used in childhood and adolescence, but mostly abandoned by adulthood, since they lead to socially unacceptable behavior and/or prevent the adult from optimal coping with reality
3)Distortion - a gross reshaping of external reality to meet internal needs
4)Delusions - an unshakable belief in something untrue. These irrational beliefs defy normal reasoning, and remain firm even when overwhelming proof is presented to dispute them.
5) Self-loathing- which turned outwards manifests itself as rage towards others.

Then of course she just might be possessed to which I suggest Ms. Palin''''s preacher "witch doctor" to perform an exorcism.

HA HA HA HA, oh wait thats ok, because Sarah is a republican. You know, they can''t do wrong. I mean they are the perfect people and everyone should look up to them in awe
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by mairin27 October 10, 2008 8:42 PM EDT
Yet if someone posts the same about McCain that person is biased. Man you can''''t win with her. She thinks we live in the country of Burger King, She always wants it "her way"
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Posted by dj282008 at 05:22 PM : Oct 10, 2008
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Or a liar in her mind.

GetRealTex suffers from several psychiatric disorders:
1)Projection- attributing one''s own unacknowledged feelings to others; includes severe prejudice, severe jealousy, hypervigilance to external danger, and "injustice collecting". (projection is a primitive form of paranoia, so it is common in today''''s world)
2)Immaturity - used in childhood and adolescence, but mostly abandoned by adulthood, since they lead to socially unacceptable behavior and/or prevent the adult from optimal coping with reality
3)Distortion - a gross reshaping of external reality to meet internal needs
4)Delusions - an unshakable belief in something untrue. These irrational beliefs defy normal reasoning, and remain firm even when overwhelming proof is presented to dispute them.
5) Self-loathing- which turned outwards manifests itself as rage towards others.

Then of course she just might be possessed to which I suggest Ms. Palin''s preacher "witch doctor" to perform an exorcism.
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by dj282008 October 10, 2008 8:38 PM EDT
I''ll be on somewhere. I will be on this page so check here for me.
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by dj282008 October 10, 2008 8:31 PM EDT
Oh, no worries, DJ - she admitted what I was waiting for.

Good luck on getting your question answered!

Nah, she gave me the answer I was looking for. She proved to me that she had to use a youtube video to cite as a source to show obama was teaching hate. Funny she keeps telling me I have not looked, but I think thats in the top 5 results, so clearly she has issues either proving her facts or she just does not want to admit she''s been caught
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