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Why McCain Went Negative

August 10, 2008 01:27 PM ET | Paul Bedard | Permanent Link | Print

Didn't like Sen. John McCain's "Celebrity" ad featuring snapshots of Paris and Britney? Sorry. It's probably just the beginning of a long, negative campaign. And here's the reason, according to our friends at the Quinnipiac University Poll: "This election is about Sen. Barack Obama, not that Senator McCain is not an important figure. But Senator Obama is either going to win or lose because Americans are going to decide that he can sit in the Oval Office and that he's able to do it. And clearly a myriad of polls are showing that Americans are skeptical," says assistant director Peter Brown. "From Senator McCain's point of view, he has no choice if he wants to win but to convince the American people that Senator Obama is not fit to be president of the United States, and you don't do that running a positive campaign."

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Captain of what? Idiotsville?

What Moron actually took the time to try and write such absolute trite and garbage???????????Where do these white trash ignorant beings spawn from?????????? What kind of mentally challenged individual spews this kind of toxic vomit????

The same kind of person who respects someone because they say they are a war heroe...who leaves his first wife when she is injured and no longer pretty...the kind who marries a young chicky poo for her money...the kind who buddies up with another dimwit who has run our country into the ground so deep we may never see the light of day again!!!! Your kind buddy!! Mr. Captain of the dimwit squad!!! The same man who agrees with sending our fine young men into war to die for what?? oil??

Not go after BinLadin but go after what?????????for what????????

It is brain dead do do's such as yourself that stand there say yea to McCain and his little cheer leader who thinks she can see the Russians from her back door...you all belong together in the same ward at the same place they give electric shock treatments. In your dreams you are Captain of anything but the mentally challenged individual you are.!!!

Certainly hope that you have not spawned any beings like you what a world we would have then!!!!!!!!!!!

I am a bit worried....

The tone of those who are against Obama seem to sound more than a little like the barking of rabid dogs. They kick up a huge noise over nothing that makes sense. I am an undecided voter at this point. I am not sold on all of Obama's policies - change is a frightening thing after all. But McCain is not offering me any viable alternatives. He seems to want to continue the status quo and there is no doubt in my mind that the status quo needs to change.

The thing I am yet to make up my mind on is whether Obama represents the RIGHT change. Change is needed, but it has to be carefully planned change.

All the best.

What is the fear with us, Americans?

Did Obama say America will not be protected? Will not have soldiers and their missions? NO! People who think in a box find it hard to see what is outside amd that is the mentality we need to kill! America is ready for a president, yes, a president concerned with the well being of the American people, and not busy with the killing innocent people and never achieving anything! Mcain is just fit, yes, only fit to make Americans THE ENEMY OF THE WORLD, the world will comtinue to hate Americans and consequently continue to bomb americans under Mcain! He is also too old for this, probably overexperienced and therefore very confused! Listen to his next interview: CONFUSED!

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