’)McCain at the VFW yesterday:
Behind all of these claims and positions by Senator Obama lies the ambition to be president.
Ah, but in a previous moment of candor, McCain felt quite differently about political ambition as a motive for running for president. That is, when he was doing it it was okay.
I thought it was pretty obvious that his point was about Obama saying whatever he needed to say to become president, not that ambition to be president is bad. Are you leftists really that bad at comprehension?
“I thought it was pretty obvious that his point was about Obama saying whatever he needed to say to become president,…”
If that’s what he was trying to say, then that implies that Obama takes policy positions based on popular opinion…but that contradicts the right’s caricature of him as an elitist socialist out of touch with the views of the majority of Americans.
Er, no. Obama told the left what they wanted to hear during the primaries. Now he’s telling everyone else “what he believes” in a way that seems more moderate than how he actually voted repeatedly. Abortion is a perfect example. Obama’s pathetic performance at Saddleback was all about trying to have it both ways. He’s trying to keep you leftists happy without freaking out the majority of Americans. It’s beginning to fail.
Well, you know what they say..money talks..
After Obama’s “flip” answer on Abortion…it’s over for me. For the first time, in my 45 years, I called a GOP campaign, McCain Headqaurters tonight, and gave them $$ I really can’t afford to give.
OW, et. al., you guys thought Dukakis got his butt kicked?
Wait till this Fall. If you can’t win over a pro-choice, Massachusetts Democrat. LOL .
JK
Er, no. McCain told the religious right what they wanted to hear during the primaries. Now he’s telling everyone else “what he believes” in a way that seems more moderate than how he actually voted repeatedly. Abortion is a perfect example.
Indeed, McCain was against Jerry Falwell before he was for him.
Whatever. I’ll stick with the funny and correct Matt Taibbi when two years ago he nailed McCain as “drooling for power like a fruit bat with rabies.” Word.
JK, admit it, you’re just upset that, unlike Clinton, Obama didn’t try to stifle the voice of college students.
“Obama told the left what they wanted to hear during the primaries. Now he’s telling everyone else “what he believes” in a way that seems more moderate than how he actually voted repeatedly.”
JWG: This is comical. McCain has done a total flip flop from the McCain of 2000 so he can appeal to the right to become president. In other words, he’s doing with the right what you’re accusing Obama of doing with the left: saying what they want to hear to become president. But it seems more obvious with McCain than with Obama, because McCain is the one who has done the total flip flop from what he was in 2000.
JK,
Am I reading that correctly? You say your a “pro-choice, Massachusetts Democrat” and your voting for McCain? That’s a very strange choice.
“…it’s over for me.”
…you guys thought Dukakis got his butt kicked?
Wait till this fall.”
Well, that settles it then. Because YOU (JK) are now against Obama, that automatically means that he is going to get his “butt kicked” in November (rolls eyes). Little egocentric, are we?
Strait talk, Maverick, War hero, Foreign policy expert John McCain is good for mumbling only to win war when can’t remember his enemies name between Hezbollah and al-Qaida or border of Iraq is Afghanistan or China.
“My Friend” McBrain when you are not capable to figure it out in which century US invade Iraq, no one should blame you because of your fade memory to turn your calendar since 19th century.
Mr. McSame, please look for different currier fits your disturb brain ideology. Go to where you belong like nursing home, or open a restaurant to cook ribs for your lobbies friends, rather than start new insane war with Russians KGB Empire to cause extreme damage to our people, country and world already did last 8 years, you and your close and lovely friends Bush and Cheney.
As he’s previously noted before JK got scared of the scary black man and is voting for McCain. In all likelihood JK is a phony because for someone who is pro-choice to vote for McCain is pretty stupid. I mean, if you’re pro-choice and don’t like Obama, well then go vote for Nader or Bob Barr or something. That would actually make more sense.
I find all the con/media handwringing over Obama to be kind of funny considering he’s ahead in most polls and is way ahead in every way possible than John Kerry was at this point in the campaign in ‘04. Then again the cons/media told us last year this time that Hillary Clinton was going to be president, so…
JK is the spawn of a poor man’s Peggy Noonan, a poor man’s Kathleen Parker, and a poor man’s David Brooks.
Thanks for your concern, JK.
I just want you all to know that I’m a lifelong NRA/Moral Majority/Focus on the Family member and also a president of the Church of Latter-Day Saints. I’ve protested at abortion clinics and same-sex marriages. And I’ve decided I’m voting for Sen. Obama.
And that means Sen. McCain is gonna get Bob Doled.
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I find all the con/media handwringing over Obama to be kind of funny considering he’s ahead in most polls and is way ahead in every way possible than John Kerry was at this point in the campaign in ‘04
Ahhh, the return of “the bubble”. I guess you haven’t seen this…
… or this…
… or this…
(Broken up to avoid the moderation monster)
This election is by no means over, for either candidate. And while Obama does have advantages over Kerry (fundraising and base excitement for starters), he’s not “way ahead in every way possible”.
We still have VP picks, the conventions, and the debates to go, which is when the non-obsessives like us start tuning in. THEN, we’ll know where the race is.
Obama has more money than previous Dem candidates, but anyone who thinks he’ll have more money–in toto–than McCain is nutty as a fruitcake. The Bobbi Fleckkman Principle is as immutable as the Laws of Thermodynamics.
Well, duh. He says it like its a bad thing.
Selective perception.
What a great way to justify who you are voting for.
What a great way to run for president.
What a great country, if it McCain.
We will truly deserve what we get if we can’t accept someone who dares to be intelligent in public.
“I find all the con/media handwringing over Obama to be kind of funny considering he’s ahead in most polls”
National Polls
Reuters/Zogby: McCain +5
LA Times/Bloomberg: Obama +2
Battleground: McCain +1
We will truly deserve what we get if we can’t accept someone who dares to be intelligent in public.
Some may get the government they deserve if McCain can pull this off, but I won’t.
Republican party saying Obama is “ambitious” ca. 2008 means they think, and want the rest of the country to think, that he’s an “uppity n*****.” Simple as that.
Lee Atwater is up at McCain from hell.
*smiling up at McCain, that is
Not this time.
Duros: I’ll see that and raise you this.
As a side note, that’s another “Not this time”
Works for me. =)