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Here's yet another instance of the liberal press continuing their offensive against Senator McCain. Apparently they don't want the American public to know that Hamas is rooting for an Obama win this November, so they're out there doing all they can to smear McCain so that folks don't get the truth.
The Washington Post should either fire their editors or send them to remedial education. They should be ashamed that they let this garbage get printed.
Despite his reputation in the media as a charming maverick, McCain has shown that he is also happy to use Nixon-style dirty campaign tactics. By charging recently that Hamas is rooting for an Obama victory,
McCain isn't "charging". A senior Hamas leader said that "actually we like Mr. Obama. We hope he will (win) the election [...] and he has a vision to change America." Why isn't that the story, rather than a distortion of McCain's statement?This clown James Rubin continues:
Follow this link for the rest of the story.
UPDATE: Over at Hot Air, Ed Morrissey goes further in depth on this subject. A must read.
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Unfortunately I got knocked off today's conference call because my phone crapped out. Amazing isn't it? ;)
Needless to say I was able to get a good portion of the call. Once other bloggers post about it, I will link to some of them as well.
Here's some highlights.
Senator McCain wanted to highlight his speech from this morning regarding what he wants America to look like after his first term in office.
McCain believes that we will have won the war in Iraq. The Iraqi government as well as the military will be in total control of their country.
The American troop presence will be smaller but not gone.
Senator McCain would love to debate either Senator Obama or Senator Clinton on how we are doing in Iraq. McCain believes that the facts on the ground will make it easy for him to win that debate when it comes.
On the recent developments in Lebanon, McCain said it now looks like a proxy war between Iran and the US, who are each backing sides. He went on to say that Obama's willingness to unconditionally sit down and talk with the Iranian leader Ahmadinejad shows "the highest naivety" and further proves that he does not have the knowledge, experience, or background to be in charge of our national security.
McCain also questioned just exactly what Obama wants to talk about with Iran?
When asked what it would take for him to have a sit down with Iran, McCain listed 4 preconditions.
- Iran needs to denounce it's call for the destruction of Israel
- Iran needs to halt it's development of Nuclear weapons
- Stop exporting weapons and terrorist support into IraQ
- Iran must stop the exporting of state sponsored terrorism
Senator McCain was asked about Obama's changing positions on things like free trade. McCain pointed out that he has seen Obama say one thing in front of a crowd in one state, then go to another and say the opposite while in another.
On Newt Gingrich, Senator McCain said that he would like to sit down and talk with Newt. He said that Newt " has some of the best ideas of anyone in this country."
On the energy crisis, Senator McCain feels that Nuclear power has to be a component in the future.
One questioner asked if by highlighting 2013, does that mean McCain would be giving an "exit timeline date." McCain responded that 2013 was not setting a date of any sort. That's where my phone bit the dust.. ;)
UPDATE: You can find a good writeup on the call here.
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Once again the NY Times is showing it's true colors with the latest cheap shot against Senator McCain. Over at Hot Air, Ed Morrissey takes a look at what they're trying to pull now. In this junk journalism episode, they're now questioning whether Senator McCain's particular Vietnam experience is the reason why he (wrongly in their eyes) supports the War in Iraq.
In the New York Times’ upcoming edition of their Sunday magazine, they take a look at John McCain’s divergent views of the Iraq War from those of his fellow Vietnam veterans. In The McCain Doctrines, Matt Bai reports that most of these colleagues (with the noted exception of Bob Kerrey) attribute McCain’s support for Iraq to the fact that he didn’t serve on the ground in Vietnam — and that his years as a POW somehow “sealed” him away from the war’s lessons:
It's amazing folks. It's like having a political party war room that sits over there and spends every waking moment wondering how they can subvert McCain's candidacy. The problem is, they're supposed to be a paper of objective journalists giving us all the news that's fit to print! Fat chance on that....
Follow this link to get the rest of the story from Captain Ed.
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Over at the Politico, Jonathan Martin is reporting that Senator McCain met with pastor Joel Osteen last week. Osteen is an amazing speaker and possesses communication abilities second to no one in my humble opinion.
Osteen, 45, is part of a new generation of Christian leaders and pastors the non-denominational Lakewood Church in Houston.
Asked about the get-together, a McCain aide said the candidate sought the introduction.
"McCain thinks he is a fascinating person and wanted to meet him, so we set it up," said the aide, declining to comment on what the two talked about.
McCain's campaign, which did not share word of the meeting, has been dogged by another meeting the candidate had with a Texas pastor for the past two months. But unlike San Antonio's John Hagee, Osteen is not seen as a very political and policy-oriented pastor. He largely confines his sermons to upbeat, and at times light-hearted, lessons on life.
Osteen pastors what has been called the largest and fastest-growing church in America. In 2005, he moved Lakewood's sanctuary to the former home of the Houston Rockets. But Osteen is not just a power in East Texas. By virtue of his books and, as important, his televised sermons, he reaches into millions of American homes. Lakewood's Sunday services are available each week in markets across the country.
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The great thing about modern technology and sites like Youtube, is that it nails liberals when they try and pull BS like this.
A new kind of candidate? A new hope? More like the same old same old just repackaged to look that way.
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The American Conservative Union has published it's ratings for the year 2007. Senator McCain scored a solid 80 which gave him a life time conservative rating of 82.
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton received a big fat 0 for 2007, while Barack Obama came in at a whopping 7.
Hat tip: Hot Air
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Over the weekend we saw Newsweek do it's best to trash the Republican party in an effort to minimize their ability to attack Barack Obama's weaknesses. Now someone else has decided to carry the ball.
According to Washington Post columnist Harold Meyerson, John McCain's version of America is..well..a racist one.
Here's some of the highlights of his column entitled "McCains America."
His take on the only way Senator McCain and Republicans can defeat Obama.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the sum total of the Republican message this year. That is why McCain's first post-primary ad proclaimed him "the American president Americans have been waiting for." Not the "strong" or "experienced" president, though those are contrasts he could seek to draw with Obama. The "American" president -- because that's the only contrast through which McCain has even a chance of prevailing.
Gee, should I change the name of this site to "Blogs For John McCain Americans"? Nah, too long.
On how us evil Republicans view "our America."
That's not the America, though, that the Republicans refer to in proclaiming their own Americanness. For them, "American" is a term to be used as a wedge issue, a way to distinguish their more racially and religiously homogeneous party from the historically more polyglot Democrats. Such separation has a long pedigree: Campaigning for GOP presidential nominee Alf Landon in 1936, Republican leader Frank Knox said that the Democratic Party under President Franklin Roosevelt "has been seized by alien and un-American elements. Next November, you will choose the American way."
How ironic! There he is trying to do his own "wedge" maneuver with voters by trying to label us as being folks with warped views, while clearly displaying how warped and misguided his own truly are!
Finally, what all us Republicans are really about when bright minds like Harold Meyerson break us down.
There are good reasons Republicans are focusing on identity rather than issues this year: In poll after poll, there's not a single major issue on which the public agrees with them or their presumptive nominee. Not Iraq, certainly. Not the economy. Should the election turn on the question of "What are you going to do for America?" rather than "Are you a real American?" Republicans are doomed. They offer no solutions for the stagnation (or decline) of American living standards, or for the weakening of America's economic power. They offer no resolution to America's war of choice in Iraq. Their party leader, the incumbent president, let a great American city drown. They are the American party, and McCain the American nominee, that hasn't a clue about how to help America in its (prolonged, I fear) moment of need.
What remains for the GOP is a campaign premised more on issues of national identity, aimed largely at that portion of our population for which "American" is synonymous with "white" and "Christian," than any national campaign has been since the American Party (also known as the Know Nothings) based its 1856 campaign chiefly on Protestant bigotry against Irish and German Catholic immigrants. In Appalachian America (the heart of which went to the polls yesterday in West Virginia), as Mark Schmitt notes in the forthcoming issue of the American Prospect (which I edit), a disproportionate number of people write "American" when answering the census question on ethnic origin. For some, "American" is a race -- white -- no less than a nationality, and it's on this equation that Republican prospects depend.
Wow. Truly amazing isn't it folks? According to Harold Meyerson, John McCain's vision of America is in line with that of the Klan. All of us Republicans who blog or opine in various venues might as well be card carrying members of the Aryan nation if we dare to attack Obama on any legitimate issue. Our only hope for a McCain victory according to Meyerson, is to rally around all those racist white Christian voters, you know, the "only real Americans" out there in America.
Is this guy nuts or what?
Why are we all of a sudden seeing such pathetic pieces from what should be respected media outlets?
In my opinion, what's really going on here is an attempt by the far left, MoveOn media to provide covering fire for Obama in advance. Their hope is to head off what happened to John Kerry with the Swift Boat Veterans by creating a premise in the minds of voters that any attack on Obama is nothing more than the last resort of white racist Republicans who know they can't beat Obama without stooping to low down dirty tricks.
Watching the results of this years primary polls, they know all too well that the potential for Reagan Democrats to sink Obama's campaign is far too great to sit around this time and let Republicans unload on him. Now they are clearly launching an offensive in hopes of minimizing anything that Republicans say or do.
The next question is, where will the next piece like this one come from and when?
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Here's video of Senator McCain's speech yesterday outlining his plan on climate change.
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According to Yahoo News, Senator McCain will be appearing on this weekend's Saturday Night Live.
Aides traveling with McCain on in the Pacific Northwest said the Arizona senator will appear on the program, to be hosted by comedian Steve Carrell, although they were mum about the details of his sketch.
Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton have both appeared and been lampooned on the program in recent months. McCain, meanwhile, has been on the show one time previously.
During his weekend in New York, McCain also plans a series of media interviews, including one with Glamour magazine.
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