McCain on Georgy Stephanopoulus

[chance1]

Good job by the Mav

George tried hard to knock him down, knock him out - he finally gave up - wonder if he'd be so tough with his old boss' wife - nah

McCain kept the interview going - made his points about the economy, Iraq, Obama, taxes plus

really good - worth a listen

McCain in short - hit it outa the park

good points included:

1 - countered the WP story this am "mccain - question of temperament" - georgy try as he might did not lay a glove - it's funny lotta JUBBERs are sooooooooooooo angry yet McCain being angry about pork barrel spending is somehow a bad thing - yeesh

2 - he supports continuing the tax cuts now - didn't support them back then - his whole pt is that spending is what's important - and he's gonna cut wasteful govt spending - says he will find $100B "tomorrow" in cuts

3 - he doesn't want the govt running health care - wants individuals and families to make the calls

4 - ripped Obama on Mr. Ayres - who obama has not condemned - the guy is not unrepentent about the bombings - obama then compared ayres (terrorist) to senator tom coburn - wow - coburn is a dr. as well as senator - mccain talked to reconciliing with anti war faction and vietnamese - obama is friends with ayres while he was unrepentent about his activities - georgy was speechless - mccain says that borders on outrage - georgy says obama says he doesnt' agree with comments - mccain says then why not condemn?

5 - georgy says hagee is like ayres (kinda) - mccain says he condemns the anti catholic church comments - but is not willing to reject his endorsement - admires his advocacy for israel +

6 - georgy says dems say a vote for mccain is a vote for war with iran - mccain says he has spoken to french/british leaders - get democratic nations (league of democracies) together to sanction iran - says iran's economy blows - that the russians have blocked sanctions

7 - mccain says iraq if we left would get worse and we'd have to go back - and it would be worse - its not about the time we spend there (100 yr comment) but the casualities incurred - says he was the first to knock bush/rumsfeld strategy - says things r getting better

oh well - take a looky see


http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=4689908&affil=wabc

 

[WYSIWYG]

Looks like your interested in voting for the old man and another 8 years of the Bush Agenda!

 

[lazycrockett]

This old man bit is gonna piss off the older voters and make them turn to McCain in November.


Remember Elders actually vote, while historically the youth never turn out.

tread carefully.

 

[chance1]

Looks like your interested in voting for the old man and another 8 years of the Bush Agenda!

I'm interested in the best person for the job

not gonna hold it against Obama that he's black
not gonna hold it against Hillarty that she's a woman
not gonna hold it against McCain that he's old

one term John

I think it's what we need

as for Bush agenda - think again - McCain is the anti Bush Repub which is why he is resonating so well with reasonable people

good bumper sticker though

 

[throbbing1]

There's too damned much politics in Politics! Obama is clearly the right man to lead this country (USA) for the next 4 years (at least)!

 

[Spensed]

...as for Bush agenda - think again - McCain is the anti Bush Repub...

You never have explained how.

McCain supports Bush's econonic policy (making the tax breaks for the rich permanent, etc).

He supports Bush's foreign policy (staying in Iraq for 100 years, if need be).

He supports Bush's pro-relgious right an anti-gay social policies.

What major things on Bush's agenda does McCain actually disagree with?

Don't worry I won't hold my breath waiting for an answer.

McCain has a track record of anti-gay campaigning and has promised to appoint more anti-gay Supreme Court justices. Supporting him is like a black guy supporting a racist.

 

[tmb1]

How did he hit it outta the park? And what is hitting it outta the park for you? Because he didn't have a rage reaction to George's question and murder him right there!? Many things he said are just either a continuation of Bush or pandering to get elected. And as far as my temper here, I would be the first to say I probably shouldn't be in charge of "the bomb" and neither should an old, angry 6 year POW. God knows what he is capable of because of his time as a POW. No disrespect, just that mentally it can't be good(especially since he shows signs of a very bad temper.)

 

[Spensed]

...And as far as my temper here, I would be the first to say I probably shouldn't be in charge of "the bomb" and neither should an old, angry 6 year POW. God knows what he is capable of because of his time as a POW. No disrespect, just that mentally it can't be good(especially since he shows signs of a very bad temper.)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/19/AR2008041902224_pf.html

 

[tmb1]

Its not just his temper that worries me, its almost a sense of some sort of "revenge by war mongering" feeling that I get. People say they fear Obama for his lack of experience, well I fear a million times more what I will call McCain's PTPOWSD(post tramatic prisoner of war stress disorder). I don't trust him to be in charge of our troops, plain and simple.

 

[grantt]

I'm sorry I missed "This Week" on ABC this morning.

I liked it when George gave it to Obama on the on the recent debate. Obama was flustered because he can't stand being second guessed by anyone. Obama was clearly uneasy that night.

Stephanopoulus might be easy on Hillary, but he would never be on McCain and I am sorry I missed the show. Have to catch up on that one.

McCain COULD be the best choice out there. And I agree, it would likely be a one term President. With that, McCain's running mate could be very interesting.

As for McCain being Bush all over....that's bull. He's had to convert a lot of his own party to get the nod. He COULD be a good unifier. Obama will not......or from what we KNOW of him so far.

 

[tmb1]

I trust McCain because both of his sons are in the military and one is a 19 year old Iraq veteran, so yes I trust him to guide our military than any Harvard elitist. PTPOWSD???? Is that a self assessment based on nothing? By him having temper shows that he is human and not a political moppet who has to act and smile a certain way in public. McCain can't be worse than Hillary who use to throw objects at her Secret Service agents when she got pissed.

Obama is CALM and RATIONAL. Traits that I definitely want in a president.
Are you for real? Having a temper shows he is human. Thats shows no rationale for voting for him to be our president. Thank god you only have one vote! And by the way he DOES smile and hide it in public. Duh!

 

[kneelin]

Obama is CALM and RATIONAL. QUOTE]

That's not what I saw during the debate . . . he may have been attempting to appear calm but his hesitations and words betrayed him.

 

[chance1]

You never have explained how.

McCain supports Bush's econonic policy (making the tax breaks for the rich permanent, etc).

He supports Bush's foreign policy (staying in Iraq for 100 years, if need be).

He supports Bush's pro-relgious right an anti-gay social policies.

What major things on Bush's agenda does McCain actually disagree with?

Don't worry I won't hold my breath waiting for an answer.

McCain has a track record of anti-gay campaigning and has promised to appoint more anti-gay Supreme Court justices. Supporting him is like a black guy supporting a racist.

please do ......

hold ur breath

mccain v bush on the economy - mccain will cut spending - bush was a liberal spender - his greatest failure - nothing like bush - making the tax cuts continue is based on necessity - combining them with cuts makes sense

mccain would have stewarded the war correctly - his call for more troops from the get go and calling for rumsfeld's head on a platter was certainly not like bush

ur 0 for 2 spensed

mccain has fought with the RR his entire career - getting their support for the election is just smart politicking - see obama/hillary for similar "agregious acts" - like moveon.org or dailykos or rev wright or al sharpton or .......... fill in the blanks

0 for 3

inning over

as for ur anti gay ravings - u got nada - except that mccain supported roberts, who is a good man

u still there?

or did u hold ur breath?

either way - mccain is not bush - not even close - and his polling is proof that the public does not think so

keep printing those bumper stickers

 

[NickCole]

Looks like your interested in voting for the old man and another 8 years of the Bush Agenda!

Obama disagrees with you.

He doesn't think McCain would be as bad as Bush.

This weekend he said:

"You have a real choice in this election. Either Democrat would be better than John McCain," Obama said to cheers from a rowdy crowd in central Pennsylvania. Then he said: "And all three of us would be better than George Bush."

 

[chance1]

^considering the past month of this campaign and obama's frequent "foot in mouth" moments, id say

this was one of his more lucid moments

 

[grantt]

Oh really? From the looks of it, they converted him. I've not noticed any of the Republican party changing. But I have noticed that McCain's conservatism has risen significantly in the past couple of years.

I'll give you this: McCain did back down over the McCain-Kennedy Immigration bill. It was a fiasco. The vast majority of Americans opposed it and so it died. Thank goodness!

Immigration will be high up there in the next administration. Everyone talks immigration reform, but no one says what they think that should be. The next President will face hell over this one.

McCain will be strong in facing that issue because he already knows what to expect.

 

[byro]

It's not enough to say, "McCain isn't as bad as Bush." A vote for McCain is a vote for the Republican party. Republicans controlled every branch of our government for six of the past seven years. See JohanLarson's post, http://www.justusboys.com/forum/showthread.php?t=211902 for what that has brought us. If you can still vote Republican after seeing that litany of horrors -- a litany that can't be explained away or blamed on others or outside forces (no, not even 9/11 and Katrina) -- then further dialogue really and truly is pointless.

 

[NickCole]

If you can still vote Republican after seeing that litany of horrors -- a litany that can't be explained away or blamed on others or outside forces (no, not even 9/11 and Katrina) -- then further dialogue really and truly is pointless.

Shutting down discussion when opponents see things differently -- which is what Obama supporters REALLY do versus what the Obama message of unity and hope and changed politics PRETENDS to be -- does not bring people together and does not solve problems.



"Who cares what you think?" -- President George W. Bush reponding to an American citizen who saw things differently than he did, July 4, 2001

 

[byro]

Shutting down discussion when opponents see things differently -- which is what Obama supporters REALLY do versus what the Obama message of unity and hope and changed politics PRETENDS to be -- does not bring people together and does not solve problems.

Wow, Nick. For you to, by inference, set yourself up as a promulgator of open dialogue is, well, surreal. For a looong time I tried really hard to take you seriously, but you've finally made that impossible.

(Save your time and don't bother to reply; we'll just agree in advance to ascribe this conclusion of mine to Obama's all-pervasive and evil influence on my way of thinking. I'm a zombie; I can't control myself.)

 

[Supernature]

as for Bush agenda - think again - McCain is the anti Bush Repub which is why he is resonating so well with reasonable people

McCain is anti Bush? Really? Last I recall, Bush endorsed McCain. Has McCain rejected and denounced Bush?