Far Right Rejects McCain After Obama Apology »
Posted By Neophile 1 year, 8 months ago in NewsThe conservative goodwill John McCain rallied in the wake of a critical New York Times story last week on his relationship with a lobbyist appears to have evaporated over a dust-up with a radio host.
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Neophile1 year, 8 months ago
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joeeddie1 year, 8 months ago
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NoSpinDave1 year, 8 months ago
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so, umm, Neo...isn't this kind of like Barak O'Bama apologizing and backtracking from the endorsement of the racist.......err, I ment Reverend Louis Farrakhan??
Yea, thought so. Works both ways Neo, but I never expect you to be intellectually honest about that.
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Spadecaller1 year, 8 months ago
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McCain knew about this and allowed it. Don't be fooled for a second. He lied about not knowing or having met Cunningham; they met and talked.
Dirty politics... Send out the attack dogs and then pretend to be the virtuous defender of fair play. Quite disgusting!
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canadianrancher571 year, 8 months ago
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At beginning of the presidential campaign I said that there was something that I liked about McCain and I still have the same feeling. The man has a certain amount of dignity and that seems to be frowned upon by the extreme right. Those who wish to abandon him because he has the balls to apologize are the people who have supported the present administration and their policies.
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MonkeyBiz1 year, 8 months ago
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"Those who wish to abandon him ... are the people who have supported the present administration and their policies."
McCain is also a supporter of most the present administration's policies, particularly on Iraq. It is to his credit that he doesn't (publicly) support the unbridled hatred that the rest of his party exhibits towards the dems, but he ought to be ashamed that those kind of tactics are part of his party's personality and the only way they can win elections.
I have a lot of respect for McCain, but I vigorously disagree with much of the conservative clap-trap that he espouses. I am particularly dismayed at his remarks about staying in Iraq for a hundred years.
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smithichie1 year, 8 months ago
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I don't know about his dignity, but what about his judgment in letting this guy open up his rally in the first place? It's like having David Copperfield open for you and then complaining he did magic. If you don't want magic, don't have magicians open for you.
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Blackacereturn1 year, 8 months ago
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IanFraigun1 year, 8 months ago
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Though many of his ideas do not impress me at all. Especially his waffling about torture and commiting to 100 years in Iraq I agree with you.
McCain is more of a gentleman than any other republican and Obama is the same among democrats. I hope and believe if we see a McCain/Obama election we will see the cleanest and least mud slinging campaign in over 50 years. For once I can see most of a campaign being about issues which should be the only thing people use to make their choices.
I know who I will choose, but respect both for their conduct and avoiding the deep mud pits so far in this process.
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NoWayMan1 year, 8 months ago
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if McCain was still trying to secure the GOP nomination and stay in the good graces of those on the far right, then he wouldn't have apologized.
but at this point, since he's already locked up the nomination, he's now starting to court the general populace, which means moving to the center.
that's why he apologized for cunningham's idiotic comments. he didn't do it because he's dignified or has integrity. he's simply being a politician.
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canadianrancher571 year, 8 months ago
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Lurch1 year, 8 months ago
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how early in Kerry`s campaign did he say, "I voted for it before I voted against it"?
McCain`s "100 years in Iraq" comment is the same, only worse, much worse because it means he intends to continue the sell-out of America, our military, and our future for the benefit of a few powerful special interests.
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tchef1 year, 8 months ago
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I'm not a McCain supporter, but that said I think his comment on being in Iraq for 100 years is taken out of context. He was stating that we would be there in a capacity like we are in Europe, or South Korea. They are building a huge base there. It's going to be manned. He wasn't referring to a total occupation like we have now.
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Searchbeam1 year, 8 months ago
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In the 90's, I had a lot of respect for McCain for his integrity and "Tell it like it is" kind of brutal honesty!
That has all evaporated after his foolish support for Bush's policies and his absence on the issue of wounded veterans.
Lately, he has been showing a previously unnoticed character flaw of telling bald-face lies and purposely hitting his opponents with sneak attacks and later apologizing after the damage has been done.
His Straight Talk Express has lost its wheels of credibility and is now floating in a cesspool of dirty politics.
This is not the John McCain I respected and admired. He looks like an evil twin of himself.
Until recently , he had a halo around him for being a national hero. Now he reminds me of Duke Cunningham, another hero whose wings were clipped by corruption and greed and is currently serving time in Federal Prison System! Poker games, Cuban Cigars, rowdy parties and call girls, and everything else that goes with it - Duke had it all!
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hyperbola1 year, 8 months ago
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I lost all respect for John McCain in the late 1980s when he was one of the major corrupt Senators in the Savings and Loan scandal that cost american taxpayers about $600 billion.
My opinion was confirmed prior to the 2000 election when McCain was again involved in corruption for personal profit (and the "woman" emphasized by the NY Times is mostly a distraction from that corruption).
My opinion was reiterated when McCain repeated his corruption during the current administration in corporate corruption for Clearwater.
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ProudBlueTexan1 year, 8 months ago
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"Lately, he has been showing a previously unnoticed character flaw of telling bald-face lies and purposely hitting his opponents with sneak attacks and later apologizing after the damage has been done."
That has been the gop Way, the M.O., since the 2000 campaign, at least. It is the natural extension of their prime motivator: Steal what you want; leave it to a broken judicial system to correct. That's your gop, your repugican party, and don't forget it.
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GHOSTWHOWALKS1 year, 8 months ago
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McWar doesn't deserve respect. For crying out loud check his record. He's for giving amnesty to illegals, flip flopped on torture, first he was against it, then caved in to Le Muffette, failed to uphold the people's business, love lobbyist, has got a clue about the economy, and is nothing but a lying sob.
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djrevelky1 year, 8 months ago
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I wouldn't go as far as to call him a liar... but to set the record straight...
1. McCain is for amnesty.
2. He did change his mind on torture, after open floor debate. Do you prefer your politicians so rooted in their opinions that they can't be swayed either way? I thought that was what you hated about Bush...
3. McCain does love lobbyist, show me a member of the US Senate that doesn't? (please do, seriously...bring on the negatives but name a member of the Senate that doesn't work with lobbyist and take their money or free food?)
4. McCain himself DID admit that he knows nothing about the economy. That is an improvement over Obama who refuses to comment on that...I have to give the economy nod to Hillary.
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Mdiar1 year, 8 months ago
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cushi1 year, 8 months ago
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He doesn't know it, but he's the repugnicon sacrificial lamb. They know they don't stand a snowball's chance in h*ll of winning in 09, so they are sacrificing the expendable one as well as getting rid of somebody who could sell them all down the country, like he should've in the first place instead of selling his soul to them.
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grungeplunge1 year, 8 months ago
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Going more for the mainstream voters now seems a tactically sound approach - but it won't do a lot for his overall credibility. Then again, more often than not we can see that same "credibility" being instrumentalized as an initial avalanche trigger, soon forgotten about and brushed over by the purported onslaught of "The Realities" - exposing it as the blatant put-on it always was. Yes, these (and I'll count in Obama squarely in that crowd) are politicians, that's all.
And as Groucho Marx so famously put it: "The secret of success is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake those, you've got it made."
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ETproductions1 year, 8 months ago
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I truly love how they eat their own. I only hope that at some point, the lunatic right fringe of the GOP bolts to form a rabid wrong third party, and the GOP of Eisenhower can resurface and give the Democrats a challenge. One party rule is only good for the party elders.
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Obaku1 year, 8 months ago
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McCain is in big trouble.
He just can't win the argument on Iraq - public opinion is against him, and the "distraction from Afghanistan" rebuttal just gains more ground every day.
He has already shot himself in the foot as far as making a case on the economy.
He is in no position to contest health care. And the Dems aren't even making the best argument - that the healthcare system is in principle no different than the other systems which all Americans agree everyone is entitled to equal access to basic services - education, and the legal system. And we already have a 'public healthcare system' - the VA, the military hospitals, the Public Health Service, the CDC, the NIH...
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Obaku1 year, 8 months ago
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And there is an EASY case for how to take over the 'private' system - eminent domain! At least the government taking over private hospitals for a public systems meets the Constitutional test - "PUBLIC USE" - and "just compensation" to the shareholders of HMOs and such is a lot cheaper than building new hospitals and clinics.
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Obaku1 year, 8 months ago
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This does not take into account that the educational system, and the judicial system are also FUBAR as they are.
Anytime you want them fixed, I am available to be absolute ruler - for 90 days, and 90 days only.
Sorry I can't do it without absolute authority - but y'all have seen what Congress is like. I will, however, sign a binding contract on the 90 days, in an international court, with the entire U.S. military and the Secret Service sworn to enforce it.
Yes, I am THAT sure!
I will change just one word of the original Constitution (the word 'FIRST' must be inserted into the 5th Amendment - just as it is in the Texas Constitution), or the Amendments, although I will be adding a 'definitions' section, because the lawyers/ politicians can't be held to account without it - which is why they include such a section in every bill they pass.
Apparently, 'NO' needs a very specific instruction!
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Searchbeam1 year, 8 months ago
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crespi,
I think there was no such thing as a "NeoCon Revolution". In plain simple terms it was hijacking. They came and "squatted" on the Conservative party. It will be important to remember who NeoCons are. They are the visible part of American-Israeli Political Action Committee (AIPAC) and their crawling space is New American Century, an organization infested by cowards who never wore uniform (unless they worked in fast food chains while they were in school or college). They have a Hitler-like view of dominating the world. These creeps have infiltrated all levels of Dumbya's administration just like the "Graduates" of Liberty "University". If you choose to read the names of NAC members, it will be an eye-opener!
They will jump like rats from Dumbya's sinking ship. The exodus may have started already.
If Dems win this election, NeoCons will have a long Siberian winter of 8 years, if they are not put in prisons or tried in the Hague.
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IcCaRus1 year, 8 months ago
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who cares what the leadership think. the PEOPLE are supposed to rule america, and the PEOPLE have voiced their opinion. John McCain is their choice, so the GOP should get over it and back him.
same for the dems, the PEOPLE should choose. whoever has the most delegates going into the convention, is obviously the PEOPLES choice, and the super delegates should honor that choice.
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Charlson1 year, 8 months ago
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His apologies just like his campaign are disingenuous. He knew who Cunningham is and what he's like and so did his campaign handlers. And his apoligies are always after the fact and not when he really should have made them. Just like the "bitch" episode.
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jovial1 year, 8 months ago
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What a great story to wake up to. McCain apologized for Cunningham. Good on him. Maybe Bush/Cheney would have improved approval ratings if they grew some balls and did the same thing all along. Instead they turned a blind eye, and now they will go down in history as the worst Presidential duo in history. LOL! Thanks for this story, Neo, it made my day.
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getreal11 year, 8 months ago
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Cunningham must have let some Ammo out of the bag that McCain was planning for future use on Obama. There is probably some fact to it because that is what it will take to sway those votes. People don't like to be led on any more. Say what you mean and mean it when you say it.
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NVRob1 year, 8 months ago
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It will certainly be difficult (if Obama is the nominee), to beat him. The media is in love with him. There will be many apologies, and so much care will have to be put into everything that is spoken by McCain, or the media will turn it into a racial issue. They did it to Hillary on a statement that had nothing to do with race causing her campaign to waste a bunch of time and effort on apologizing.
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