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By Frank Fuhrig and Chris Cermak Sep 5, 2008, 4:15 GMT
McCain promises 'change,' slams his own party (3rd Roundup)
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It's funny to hear that from him. He was a maverick, but three years ago, he began to toe the party line to run for president. He didn't always vote with Bush 95% of the time, that started when he wanted to move up.
It's strange how fast he can change his tune. The other day, experience was everything and Rove was on TV saying that Obama would make a 'political' VP selection with no experience. Now it's McCain who chose a woman known only for mooseburgers and her child's pregnancy.
Speaking of which, I recommend this story about Palin to anyone who wants to get to know her beyond the media hype. I can't link to it, so just Google 'palin email crosscut' and find it yourself. It's the top link.
That said, I wish she was someone already known. She's the least experienced, least well-known Republican Senator or Governor. There are ten others, nine of which were eligible to run with McCain. And she's barely outside the bottom 10% of the Republican party in experience. McCain could have picked a more experienced woman if he wanted to put America's interests ahead of those of his campaign.
McCain trashes his own party's record and then asks us to believe that his party is the solution to his party's poor record. It's sort of like your cousin who borrows money, refuses to repay it and then tries to convince you to loan him more money because he has changed.
McCain is part of the group that screwed the American citizens. He is part of the problem not the solution. He has no distinguishable difference with Bush on economic or foreign policy. He rightly asks people to enlist in the military because his foreign policy will require more depolyments for war.
The Republican nominee is not the solution to the problems that the Republican party caused.
The Obama Campaign's Out of Control Spending (abridged)
Compared to the McCain campaign, Obama has spent three-and-a-half times as much on payroll and benefits, ten times on event staging, two-and-a-half times as much on travel and lodging, and three times as much on food and meetings. Despite being given free protection from the Secret Service, which has proven sufficient for other candidates, the Obama campaign has spent nearly $400,000 on outside security consulting, nearly all of it paid to a security firm that specializes in dangers emerging from 'political instability, acts of terrorism, kidnapping, white collar crime, and cyber-attacks.'
Although the Obama campaign has portrayed itself as 'frugal' for making staffers take public transportation from O'Hare, FEC reports of the campaign's spending paint a very different picture. Obama's overhead is $10 million more per month than McCain's, and this is likely to increase substantially given his campaign's out of control spending and lofty plans for the general election.
Obama recently told reporters, 'I've never been a big entourage guy. … And that takes some getting used to.' Well, the size of Obama's campaign suggests he's gotten used to the idea very quickly. Before even locking up the nomination, Obama's paid staff was already in excess of 700 people. In the last month, Obama has hired dozens if not hundreds of staffers, and his National Field Coordinator said the campaign anticipates deploying more than 2,000 paid staffers to every state in the country. Sending 15 paid staffers to Texas might make a good sound bite, but politically speaking, it is flushing money down the toilet.
A paid staff of 2,000 is unheard of in the history of presidential elections. Consider that it's five times larger than Bush's campaign staff in 2004, which is the next biggest ever assembled. Indeed, Obama will have more people working on his campaign than President Bush currently has in the whole White House. And if Obama spends like this when he needs to raise the money himself, one can only imagine what he'll do when he can instead tap the tax coffers of the U.S. Treasury.
I like strong women. Maybe because I am one. I'm not threatened by other women's success. I applaud it because it raises the possibilities for all of us.... Judge us on our merits.
John McCain has surrounded himself with strong women. He pays them the same as he pays his male staffers. He's of an age where he could call women 'sweetie' but he doesn't.
Our John has said over and over we need to stay on offense. Not be victims. Wah, my former party threw me out, wah, can you believe what they said? Governor Palin is no victim. Had Senator Clinton delivered that speech during the primaries we would have a very different race right now. She would have been called shrill, too, of course. Shrill is code for - you just said something true I can't spin, wah!
If you had told me a year ago that I would watch the Republican convention and not the Democratic, that I would have switched to No Party Affiliation, that I would be voting Republican I would have told you to get off the pipe. If you had told me that it would be the Democrats criticizing a woman for not staying home with the kids I would have called you nuts. But, here we are.
As John said below, Governor Palin is the point of equal rights. You can't say she got where she is because of her husband, father, brother, uncle, grandfather or any other man. She got where she is by herself. She doesn't want to pull the ladder up after her and she acknowledges the women who came before her.
That is a great message for all women.
Have a look at Obama lying:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yb9nuPRgNDg
I've been an imperfect servant of my country for many years. But I have been her servant first, last and always. And I've never lived a day, in good times or bad, that I didn't thank God for the privilege.
Long ago, something unusual happened to me that taught me the most valuable lesson of my life. I was blessed by misfortune. I mean that sincerely. I was blessed because I served in the company of heroes, and I witnessed a thousand acts of courage, compassion and love.
On an October morning, in the Gulf of Tonkin, I prepared for my 23rd mission over North Vietnam. I hadn't any worry I wouldn't come back safe and sound. I thought I was tougher than anyone. I was pretty independent then, too. I liked to bend a few rules, and pick a few fights for the fun of it. But I did it for my own pleasure; my own pride. I didn't think there was a cause more important than me.
Then I found myself falling toward the middle of a small lake in the city of Hanoi, with two broken arms, a broken leg, and an angry crowd waiting to greet me. I was dumped in a dark cell, and left to die. I didn't feel so tough anymore. When they discovered my father was an admiral, they took me to a hospital. They couldn't set my bones properly, so they just slapped a cast on me. When I didn't get better, and was down to about a hundred pounds, they put me in a cell with two other Americans. I couldn't do anything. I couldn't even feed myself. They did it for me. I was beginning to learn the limits of my selfish independence. Those men saved my life.
I was in solitary confinement when my captors offered to release me. I knew why. If I went home, they would use it as propaganda to demoralize my fellow prisoners. Our Code said we could only go home in the order of our capture, and there were men who had been shot down before me. I thought about it, though. I wasn't in great shape, and I missed everything about America. But I turned it down.
A lot of prisoners had it worse than I did. I'd been mistreated before, but not as badly as others. I always liked to strut a little after I'd been roughed up to show the other guys I was tough enough to take it. But after I turned down their offer, they worked me over harder than they ever had before. For a long time. And they broke me.
When they brought me back to my cell, I was hurt and ashamed, and I didn't know how I could face my fellow prisoners. The good man in the cell next door, my friend, Bob Craner, saved me. Through taps on a wall he told me I had fought as hard as I could. No man can always stand alone. And then he told me to get back up and fight again for our country and for the men I had the honor to serve with. Because every day they fought for me.
I fell in love with my country when I was a prisoner in someone else's. I loved it not just for the many comforts of life here. I loved it for its decency; for its faith in the wisdom, justice and goodness of its people. I loved it because it was not just a place, but an idea, a cause worth fighting for. I was never the same again. I wasn't my own man anymore. I was my country's.
I'm not running for president because I think I'm blessed with such personal greatness that history has anointed me to save our country in its hour of need. My country saved me. My country saved me, and I cannot forget it. And I will fight for her for as long as I draw breath, so help me God.
If you find faults with our country, make it a better one. If you're disappointed with the mistakes of government, join its ranks and work to correct them. Enlist in our Armed Forces. Become a teacher. Enter the ministry. Run for public office. Feed a hungry child. Teach an illiterate adult to read. Comfort the afflicted. Defend the rights of the oppressed. Our country will be the better, and you will be the happier. Because nothing brings greater happiness in life than to serve a cause greater than yourself.
I'm going to fight for my cause every day as your President. I'm going to fight to make sure every American has every reason to thank God, as I thank Him: that I'm an American, a proud citizen of the greatest country on earth, and with hard work, strong faith and a little courage, great things are always within our reach. Fight with me. Fight with me.
Fight for what's right for our country.
Fight for the ideals and character of a free people.
Fight for our children's future.
Fight for justice and opportunity for all.
Stand up to defend our country from its enemies.
Stand up for each other; for beautiful, blessed, bountiful America.
Stand up, stand up, stand up and fight. Nothing is inevitable here. We're Americans, and we never give up. We never quit. We never hide from history. We make history.
Thank you, and God Bless you.
Anybody can spout a load of crap into a microphone - it means nothing.
What counts is DEEDS, contribution, history and experience.
All that matters is what a person HAS DONE, not what they say they are going to do. I can do that, but it does not mean I will do it.
McCain has done a lot in his long career, including fighting for his country and many years in politics, mostly defending what is right against his own party and others. OK he was a coward in Hanoi, but once home he can let loose his verbal defiance in safety.
Obama has done NOTHING. His career and contribution to the improvement of American society can be put on a postage stamp with heaps of room left over. he is no more than a coffee-boy jumped up to stardom.
The guy is a nobody, lifted up by crazy whites trying to achieve what Hollywood has not - A BLACK American President ! They tried the same sickening adventure with a WOMAN for President - but it failed.
Let these political freaks make their pointless speeches and simply IGNORE them.
With such a disgraceful choice for a new President, it is a one horse race - no contest - it just HAS TO BE McCain and suffer 4 years of lunacy until the next fiasco. Perhaps then, we will be faced with a decent and more sensible choice of candidates to vote for.
If McCain wants to distance himself from the Republican Party, why didn't he run as in Independent - ha!
..he took an oath to the Republicans of Arizona and John McCain, as his life plainly illustrates, takes things like that seriously.
That, and doing so would likely strip him of seniorities and committee posts, etc., compromising his ability to work with the people he has been able to be successful with.
This shows a great deal of maturity, and insight, rather than a useless show of worthless protest. After all, even Ron Paul is still a republican.
'Let me offer an advance warning to the old, big spending, do nothing, me first, country second crowd: change is coming, McCain said.'
I would be very impressed ... except for the years McCain spent backing up president Bush and his policies.
--->> HYPOCRISY > LYING > CHEATING > STEELING > KILLING
'Let me offer an advance warning to the old, big spending, do nothing, me first, country second crowd: change is coming, McCain said.'
I would be very impressed ... except for the years McCain spent backing up president Bush and his policies.
HYPOCRISY
LYING
CHEATING
STEELING
KILLING
His previous speeches in the real world says it all. A candidate will say ANYTHING to get elected, and will even sellout his own mother, wife, values, integrity or anything sellable.
Sarah would make a good talk show host at best. Palin, possibly running the country, would confirm my suspicions, that of the typical American voter as being a moron....at best.
That'd be fine, except for the glaring fact that she actually has more executive experience than Barak Obama.
That being the case, one really has to ask how folks like you do such skewed calculations to get to such erroneous conclusions?
Lance, take your meds...
Be afraid, be very afraid, boo, fear, fear, fear, did you know I was a POW? Boo, be afraid, fear, fear, fear, I am different just forget I supported Bush 90% of the time, fear, boo, fear, did you know I was a POW?
Same old tired crap and this morning another sign his party has taken us down the a nightmare economic road. Our unemployment is now 6.1% and rising, people are still dying in Iraq, OBL is still running around, gas is at least 50% more than when they took power, the Republican't senate is on a record breaking filibuster run being obstructionist as only their demented minds can accomplish. 61 dems in the Senate is my real dream, then things may happen.
McSame is more of the same, from the same party, with the same backing and will definately be GWB III. Maverick my as*.
'Be afraid, be very afraid, boo, fear, fear, fear, did you know I was a POW? Boo, be afraid, fear, fear, fear, I am different just forget I supported Bush 90% of the time, fear, boo, fear, did you know I was a POW?'
'Hope 'n Change, Change 'N hope. Hopey change change changey hope hope hope. Bush bad hopey change. changy hope hopey change change, change change change....... HOPE! Hopey changey changey hope CHANGE... Did someone faint down there?' (suckers) Speaking of change, here's my running mate; JOE BIDEN! Because whenever you think of 'change' isn't the first thing that pops in to your head 'Joe Biden'? Oh well, there is still hope.
'McSame is more of the same, from the same party, with the same backing and will definately[sic] be GWB III. Maverick my as*.'
That appears to be all you have left. That and change for the sake of change (tossing the baby out with the bath water) Anyone with a brain in their head can see that there are stark differences between McCain/Palin and Bush/Cheney. I guess that's why you cant see it.
'I would be very impressed ... except for the years McCain spent backing up president Bush and his policies'
You should have a disclaimer on your posts. Something like:
*The following was brought to you by an islamist terrorist apologist who wants the world subjugated under the black flag of islam and sees McCain as more of an obstacle to that agenda then the sell out Obama.
Could there be a better endorsement for McCain then an islamist trashing him?
Oh come on!!! He's not a radical, unless by radical you mean voting with his party 95 percent of the time. Oh, and to the last poster, you sir, are a complete and utter fool, I hope you don't have kids, 'cause if you do, they must be REALLY screwed up. Now good day to you sir!!!
you like a strong woman.
why sure they all smell like sardines.
even mentally challanged can use a computer as proved by the above poster!
'Oh come on!!! He's not a radical, unless by radical you mean voting with his party 95 percent of the time.'
Most votes in the senate are unanimous or passed by unanimous consent, idiot.
'Oh, and to the last poster, you sir, are a complete and utter fool, '
Not a rebuttal, now was that 'Dan the conqueror'
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