Thursday, November 26, 2009

Campaign 2008

McCain Sees a "Very Contentious" Presidential Election Campaign

But he says, if victorious, he would take a conciliatory approach to governing

Posted August 18, 2008

Reader Comments

jMcinsane

Would John McCain get in bed with the Terrorist... he got in bed with the communist.

John McCain is a TRAITOR who has always had a problem KEEPING his whoring pants zipped.

ask Republican Senator Thad Cochran of Mississippi about John McInsane sanity

McCain

John won that hands down as Obama did not have straight answers and beat around the bush with his answers so much that the pastor did not have time to ask all the questions of him, WAY TO GO McCAIN........

The Right Leader

McCain is the right choice for this country. hes a man who fought for this great country. Honestly what has Obama done, besides being a muslim under cover, who already commented on making deals with our enemies, I feel Obama will sell this great nation to the enemies, and they will surely attack us again. we keep hearing about Obama being the firsst African American to be elected president, well what happened to the caucasion side of him, as his mother is white, why aint it the first Interracial president? WAKE UP AMERICA........

Steve in RI

The race has grown contentious because John McCain has made it so. He has reverted to the standard Rove and Atwater strategy of fear politics, instead of his avowed strategy of issues-oriented and positive politics.

Say it ain't so, John, but we who believed in you in 2000 don't have any clue who you are anymore.

Where have you gone, John McCain, or this the person you really have always been?

Did you take your cues from your father-in-law to become a success?

McCain is the lackey of the wealthy

Let's get something clear. Obama wiped the floor with McCain at Saddleback. Mc Cain said everything the evangelicals wanted to hear and Obama spoke from his heart, sincerely and honestly. I submit that the evangelicals will consider what Obama had to say and respect the differences and the courage it took for Obama to be honest with them, and they will determine that McCain was, as he always is, pandering to them. Do you really think McCain has any genuine feelings about abortion? Come on. Even I could see that he was saying what they wanted to hear. The evangelicals will honor McCain's service, but respect Obama's honesty. To conclude anything different would be to conclude that the evangelicals are really stupid.

McCain

If you really look at MCCain, he would be a TERRIBLE president. Start with he is too old and not in the best of health. Then look at the Keating 5 scandal, being in the pocket of the corporate world, cheated on his wife, married an heiress, is now a senile out of touch multi- millionaire and not to mention a warmonger. I don't need to know anything about Obama to know that I'm voting for him, because he's not any of those things.

Yes, I'm selfish in voting for Obama , it's true. I want this country to get better, not worse, cause I live here , i'm from here and I'm not a millionaire. The Republicans and the Corporations are driving this country into a ditch, and if don't think so, you're probably a millionaire who doesn't worry about health care or opportunity or

social services or the price of gas or food.

I think we should divide the country by Red and Blue, honestly. If the crazy religious fundamentalist want to keep voting against their best interests so that they can rest easy in their homophobic paradise, then let them. You can't reason with these morons. But I think it's unfair that we are supposed to be a united nation but yet if we have liberal(ie intelligent, truth based)ideas then we are traitors.Why aren't the Republicans who robbed the treasury and left the Constitution for dead traitors?

You guys can have Arkansas and Texas, just leave us the East Coast and let's have a real 21st century society.

hypocrite

The campaign is contentious because McCain has resorted to the standard Republican swiftboat, slimeball tactics that got George Bush elected. He'll no doubt resort to voter intimidation to drive down the turnout as well. He's a hypocrite, not a "maverick."

He cannot be serious. McCain's is the campaign that broadcast the Paris Hilton tripe, and who has flooded the tv with negative and false attacks against Obama. McCain is a LIAR and a hypocrite to say such bull. He "expressed hope"? He has had nothing to say but lies ant unfounded attacks against Obama. McCain is the one who brought negativity and tried to focus on ridiculous things like Paris Hilton, and whether or not Obama is "popular". Like we are in high school. McCain....What a bunch of bull.

McCain is a hypocrite and a liar.

McCain thinks the campaign has just somehow 'become' contentious? Could that perhaps have anything to do with nasty ads comparing Obama to Paris Hilton or to Moses parting the Red Sea? Create the contention, then complain that it is contentious. What a piece of work.

NOBAMA

See goes to show you that even when offered a chance to share a stage with his opponent Obama only wants the spotlight for himself. Egotistical Elitist Self Centered. If you're for Obama then you're just as selfish and selfcentered as he is.

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