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Friday, August 22, 2008

A Bad Week for John McCain

This clip was posted on YouTube...a few days before McCain couldn't answer a reporter's question regarding how many houses he and his wife Cindy owned. It essentially makes fools out of those people who think that Barack Obama is elitist.

How out of touch is John McCain? The number one issue on people's minds is the economy and he continues to go after Obama on foreign policy experience. Couple this with the accord that is about to be signed between Iraq and the United States regarding a troop withdrawal date and....why should anyone vote for McCain again?

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Funny, haven't seen much about this story in the "liberal" media (CNN, MSNBC, FOX)...it makes me if it would be the same if Barack Obama had 8 houses.

Anonymous said...

I can tell you that it would be on the news 24-7 with the deep voice saying, "How will Obama overcome this obstacle? Is he really an elitist?"

Anonymous said...

God damn it! How dare you criticize John McCain! He worked hard for all those houses.

He had to marry a rich former beauty queen 18 years his junior, whose dad had the third-biggest Anheuser-Busch distributorship in the country, and left it all to her when he died in 2000.

Cindy made him sign a pre-nup, so of course McCain doesn't know how many houses he has. They're Cindy's! They file taxes separately, so how could he know anything about them?

And besides, they're not really houses. They're just condos. Multimillion-dollar condos. That are quickly losing value in this terrible market. My God, he's probably lost a couple of million dollars on those six houses. Or was it seven?

Anonymous said...

I agree tom. It's the same thing with the Georgia Wikipedia gaffe. If Obama had done it, the idiot brigade would have forced the "liberal" media to cover it which they would have ad nauseum. The deep voice there would have been saying, "Is inexperience going to be the undoing of the Obama candidacy?"

Anonymous said...

"He had to marry a rich former beauty queen 18 years his junior, whose dad had the third-biggest Anheuser-Busch distributorship in the country, and left it all to her when he died in 2000."

That sounds like your loser Kerry that you all voted for. Nice choice of words blk. Kerry's first marriage was to a rich woman. Then he divorced her and married someone even richer than his first wife - a woman who married a republican, got the inheritance when he died, and Kerry just lept right into the scene.

Markadelphia, it's not like you would ever admit McCain had a good week so why read your blog? Keep feeding those half truths on here, people may read your blog but believing what you type is something else entirely.

Anonymous said...

A bad week? Just look at your electoralvote image on the front page of your own blog markadelphia. You believed it when Obama was way ahead. Do you believe it now or do you conveniently pick and choose which polls to believe? You want to talk about gaffes? Obama is a gaffe machine.

Last May, Obama claimed that Kansas tornadoes killed a whopping 10,000 people: "In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died — an entire town destroyed." The actual death toll: 12.

Earlier this year in Oregon, he redrew the map of the United States: “Over the last 15 months, we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been in 57 states? I think one left to go.”. You've all seen that clip.

Later on in the year, in front of a roaring Sioux Falls, South Dakota audience, Obama exulted: "Thank you Sioux City...I said it wrong. I’ve been in Iowa for too long. I’m sorry."

Explaining why he was trailing Hillary Clinton in Kentucky during the primaries, Obama again botched basic geography: “Sen. Clinton, I think, is much better known, coming from a nearby state of Arkansas. So it’s not surprising that she would have an advantage in some of those states in the middle.” On what map is Arkansas closer to Kentucky than Illinois? You got a differnt map than I do Tom? Jeff?

Last March, on the anniversary of the Bloody Sunday march in Selma, Alabama, he claimed his parents united as a direct result of the civil rights movement:
“There was something stirring across the country because of what happened in Selma, Alabama, because some folks are willing to march across a bridge. So they got together and Barack Obama Jr. was born.” Obama was born in 1961. The Selma march took place in 1965. His spokesman, Bill Burton, later explained that Obama was “speaking metaphorically about the civil rights movement as a whole.” Yeah, whatever.

In Cape Girardeau, Missouri, Obama showed off his knowledge of the war in Afghanistan by honing in on a lack of translators: “We only have a certain number of them and if they are all in Iraq, then it’s harder for us to use them in Afghanistan.” The real reason it’s “harder for us to use them” in Afghanistan: Iraqis speak Arabic or Kurdish. The Afghanis speak Pashto, Farsi, or other non-Arabic languages.

In Oregon, Obama pleaded ignorance of the decades-old, multi-billion-dollar massive Hanford nuclear waste clean-up: “Here’s something that you will rarely hear from a politician, and that is that I’m not familiar with the Hanford, uuuuhh, site, so I don’t know exactly what’s going on there. (Applause.) Now, having said that, I promise you I’ll learn about it by the time I leave here on the ride back to the airport.” We can only assume on that ride, a staffer reminded him that he’s voted on at least one defense authorization bill that addressed the “costs, schedules, and technical issues” dealing with the nation’s most contaminated nuclear waste site.

Last March, the Chicago Tribune reported this little-noticed nugget about a fake autobiographical detail in Obama’s “Dreams from My Father:”
“Then, there’s the copy of Life magazine that Obama presents as his racial awakening at age 9. In it, he wrote, was an article and two accompanying photographs of an African-American man physically and mentally scarred by his efforts to lighten his skin. In fact, the Life article and the photographs don’t exist, say the magazine’s own historians.”

How about when Obama told a Portland crowd over the weekend that Iran doesn’t “pose a serious threat to us”–cluelessly arguing that “tiny countries” with small defense budgets can’t do us harm– and then promptly flip-flopped the next day, claiming, “I’ve made it clear for years that the threat from Iran is grave.”

How many more passes does he get from you guys?

How bout white people being typical?

Don’t forget his “Bitter and clinging to guns and Bibles.”

Or talking about buying argula at Whole Foods in a state where there are no such stores.

Or saying “I never heard those sermons” in a Church he attended for 20 years.

And let’s not forget his stirring speech in May where he evoked the stirring imagery of the American Flag and his love for the freedom it represents by evoking the visual memory of the Flag drapped over his father’s coffin. Problem is, his father was a Kenyan citizen who died in Kenya in a DUI accident. If there was any flag adorning his father’s coffin, it wasn't a US flag. Is he lying there or is that just no big deal to you guys.

How about his brother, who still lives in a hut in Kenya? Google that one.

Mark Ward said...

"How many more passes does he get from you guys?"

Do you seriously think that Obama is mentally incapable of being president based on these gaffes? I find it laughable considering that Bush is the worst public speaker this country has ever seen.

Obama isn't perfect. I never have said that he is. He is the best candidate we have had for president since 1960.

What I find interesting about your list is that most of your list is devoid of any real issues. My main point with this post is that McCain has no real grasp of the problems are economy faces, which is obvious based on his lifestyle. Heck, he even admitted last year he didn't understand the economy. That's a serious problem....much more serious than saying 57 states instead of 47 states.

I also find it hard to believe, Steve, that Iraq signing an accord with the US on troop withdrawal HELPS McCain. His whole strength is Iraq. Take that away and what does he have?

You may have also noticed that I haven't really made a big deal about McCain's gaffes (e.g. Iran is training Al Qaeda). His thinking on how to deal with the economy and terrorism is quite flawed and that's what I am going to continue to point out.

Anonymous said...

Real issues? At 10:19 am yesterday, how many houses McCain owned was a real issue to you. Plenty of people accused mccain of cheating at the rick warren thing, that isn't a sign of obama doing well there. Then a zogby poll was released this week showing mccain ahead of obama and you claim that it was mccain who had the bad week? I find you laughable because you jab at bush for being a bad public speaker yet give obama a pass saying it doesn't matter when obama does it. That's equally laughable and everyone can see your double standard.

How about these -

"Just this past week, we passed out of the out of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee -- which is my committee -- a bill to call for divestment from Iran as way of ratcheting up the pressure to ensure that they don't obtain a nuclear weapon." --referring to a committee he is not on, Sderot, Israel, July 23, 2008

"Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel's. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under a McCain...administration. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under an Obama administration. So that policy is not going to change." --Amman, Jordan, July 22, 2008

"On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes -- and I see many of them in the audience here today -- our sense of patriotism is particularly strong."

If public speaking is important as you claim, it is important for everybody.

Steve