John McCain: Remember Him?

Please do not be annoyed with me and call me mean or a spoiled sport. The scripted texts sounds to me no more moving than listening to a Shakespearean actor on stage playing his part very well. Sorry about the fact I need to wait until real action follows during the Presidency.

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The above comment is about Senator Obama, who despite his great oratorical skills, is considered inexperienced by many.

Professor do make sure to highlight Senator Obama's achievements before he started running for the presidential campaign.

You can't see anything because your too busy talking to Sally Quinn. Clap clap, more wienies for the wienies.

Please do not be annoyed with me and call me mean or a spoiled sport. The scripted texts sounds to me no more moving than listening to a Shakespearean actor on stage playing his part very well. Sorry about the fact I need to wait until real action follows during the Presidency.

posts 53, 54, 55 missing

Choosing a Catholic VP is the next best thing Senator Obama can do to becoming a Catholic himself to influence Catholic votes, which at the moment are not his for easy taking.

BGONE, a successful politician only needs to have good leadership skills to motivate others and enough wisdom to choose the best advice from among the many he is offered by those who know their subject well.

BGONE, there is no doubt Senator Obama will win. You might as well get used to it. He is an extremely smart politician with an army of the very best advisers and top notch speech writers, so there is nothing to worry about.

Has Obama won yet? When does the fun begin?

One thing Senator McCain should refrain from doing is negative campaigning. It is a sign of desperation and does not put him in a good light. He should emphasize the merit of his policies and weakness of Senator Obama, the advantage of his experiences etc.

Senator Obama has already shown great class in this regard without lashing at anyone and not lashing back at anyone who criticize him. Senator McCain could learn from it. Even if McCain loses the election (all indications are that he will) let people remember him as a gentleman. He should campaign in a way that he can exit with grace, brave and gentlemanly in defeat, as Senator Mitt Romney did.

Rev Rick Warren is to be praised for his neutral, non-partisan stand in the election issue. That would have been the right way for the God Vote. Becoming a campaign blog for Senator Obama is about becoming part of power politics not about assessing politics as a neutral outsider.

John McCain,

There are no winners in this shame and sham of a war and less honor to sacrifice the men and women of Our Once Great Nation in the face of one of the seven deadly sins, Greed. This war has no winners except the corporate money changers that will and have sold their souls for oil and its profits.
You had all week to make your platform known and all I saw on your news clips was you going on about you opponent. Whaaaaa, whaaaaa, whaaaaa you sound like a spoiled kid spreading half if any truths?
My dad was also a POW of Japan and you Had my vote early on, Now? Who knows?

The present administration ran our economy to the ground hence causing high unemployment. What does that do? That as you know run the economy into the ground, start a war in some part of the world and use the unemployed as sacrificial lambs.

Win a war that was a lie to begin, wake up and listen to your own words. Your thought process is making more enemies to our countries national security. Ego has no place in this campaign.

Maybe this explains why McCain is so standoffish.
Hello! Anybody home?

http://www.OneNewsNow.com

for an in depth look at what the Kenneth Copland ministry is doing to America. [goes for all tax free, tax exempt, tax deductible ministries]

only religions own real estate including gas and oil wells. Nice to see a republican senator going after them.

A very important hero working behind the scenes of Senator Obama:

David Axelrod

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jul/27/barackobama.uselections20081

For those that don't know what to say there's two possibilities, say nothing or say everything. McCain says nothing while Obama never shuts up yet never says anything.

"Change we can believe in" needs some detail. When he says he's going to build bridges to the rest of the world and tear down walls exactly what is it he's suggesting he will do. I can imagine a bridge from San Francisco to Tokyo but don't think it's practical. The only wall I am aware of is the one separating Mexico and the US that the Mexicans are continually working on, hole here, hole there. Is he intending to remove that wall? His mouth is moving, words coming out, his head switches from looking left to looking right, the crowd is cheering wildly but he isn't saying anything.

McCain may be saying something but evidently we'll never know what. NBC scored a new high last evening by announcing a full hour of their anchor interviewing Obama and showing a 30 second clip of Obama speaking in Germany, "tearing down walls..." McCain got equal time of course. He's shown holding hands and walking with the Dalia Lama -roughly 3 seconds. Then the two along with the senator from South Carolina holding the other hand stop and McCain acts like he's about to say something. Must not have been important for then they switch away from that scene and on with the news.

So far I feel I have a choice. I can vote for blabber mouth who says everything yet says nothing or the one who says nothing. That tells me that my vote won't do much this time. Events are beyond the control of government. Reminds me of conditions around 1939-41, when "things happened automatically."

For the "God vote" to keep head down might not be such a bad idea. "Values" are getting so scarce the price might well be out of reach -supply and demand. The demand is low while the supply depot is completely empty, maybe a damaged one that no one wants anyhow covered with dust over in the corner.

This on a lighter note

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/gerard_baker/article4392846.ece

Up to this time Senator Obama's bid for the most powerful office in the world has gone to plan like a carefully directed Hollywood blockbuster, perfectly managed with perfect backdrops and perfect script. No need to fear that it won't continue to be managed like that as long as it is necessary. Image and media consultants, policy advisors and speech writers all play their part behind the scenes to make everything a grand success. Get ready America. History is being made everyday. No need to worry, Barack and Michelle Obama are a power couple who will do America proud.

Way to go until casting the vote - compare policies, compare policies, compare policies...

Jaques my boy its pretty obvious to anyone with a brain that McCain is collecting ammunition and biding his time.

McCain knows quite well that until after the conventions most of what is being said is being mostly ignored by about 60% of the electorate. So he is collecting data hoarding his resources and waiting for the post convention campaign to begin.

Not everyone who is going to vote in this election is a political junkie like we are and for them right now there are more interesting things on TV than a political Campaign that started way to early and has not produced from either side a candidate that they are overly fond of.

Now for the good news and a test.

According to NBC News we are now, 1.3 trillion government supplied, (created) dollars into bailing out financial institutions. Given that it takes 11 semi trucks to haul 10 billion dollars in 100 dollar bills:

1. How many semi trucks are required to haul 1.3 trillion dollars in 100 dollar bills?

2. How many semi trucks are required to haul 1.3 trillion dollar bills?

3. The caravan of bumper to bumper semi trucks required to haul 1.3 trillion dollar bills will stretch from New York City to where?

American "values" are so high they reach well beyond the moon climbing "Jacob's ladder" on the way to money heaven.

What is perceived to be good news by the financial pundits is that we're in better shape than any other country in the world. The dollar is still the, "king of kings." Don't take much stretch to say the "Almighty Dollar."

1. I am the Lord thy God. I am the Almighty Dollar. You will find me in a fire fueled by burning money.

Jim:

Only one of Hitler's lies counted for much. That would be the one he told to himself and believed. All great disasters come from violations of the 11th commandment.

11. Thou shalt not believe thy own lies.

This tells us the successful minister, Billy G for example doesn't believe a word he speaks. That is explained by, "lies that cause people to believe are moral."

We are at the brink of a great disaster. If I'm wrong about Billy G and the gang then they are violators of the 11th. In that case we can expect an equally dramatic cure to the one that fixed Hitler believing himself. I think and hope they're only guilty of violating the 12th commandment.

12. Thou shalt not patent God.

However, McCain is way ahead in the "values" (such as they are) polls. In the past the values have amounted to enforcing one's patent on God with a lot of help from the government. Trouble is there are so many Gods. When God's fight for their rights to the power, the kingdom and the glory of Almighty God look out.

BGONE, you asked "did Hitler lie?"

Whoa. Is it possible to count how many times he lied?

This blog has become a political campaign link for Senator Obama. Any hope of finding neutral above political unprejudiced analysis of religion and politics has gone out of the window. Anyone can be bought by power it seems.

Here some thoughts for consideration ---

Sen Obama was raised white, he merely happens to have a black skin. He has had an elite education among whites. The all black elite wife came much later.

It is the mess Pres Bush made of his terms in eight years even internationally which carried the reputation of the party along with it that gives Sen Obama an easy break. Afghanistan and Iraq put the US into the bad books of Muslims worldwide so Sen Obama's Muslim father and step father and step siblings in Muslim Indonesia work positively all the way.

Sen Obama's black skin works for him for anyone can see he is half white and was raised as an elite fully white. It adds to making history for the US to have a black president who is in fact white in all respects except the color of his skin. Sen Obama is in the unique position to speak to the blacks as one of their own because of the color of his skin and his wife, speak to whites as one of their own because he is half white who has been raised an elite white.

After eight years of one party people want a change of party. This works in Sen Obama's favor.

Senator Obama has been made into an icon. Now he only has to try to live up to it.

Jim, Hitler doesn't "lament being Jewish" but denies his 1/4 Jewish side. You're accusing him of lying for he swore an oath that he was not Jewish and therefore qualified to marry Eva. Did Hitler lie?

There is a parallel of a sorts. Let's hope it doesn't go quiet that far.

Looks very much like the next few years will be rather hard ones for the country. When it becomes clear that Obama, (should he win) can't fix it discussion is likely to shift to his black half. History tells us that people ask a lot more of government than government is capable of delivering. The mess we're in has no easy quick fixes yet it's necessary for candidates to say they have them.

Anonymous:

You missed one.

Voodoo priestess suffers sever back pain after sticking hat pin into doll in a ceremony intended to punish a stupid jerk. Worked. Nothing beats success.

Obama wrote in one of his memoirs of an inner struggle he's had with the fact that he is white and he made the conscious decision that he would identify with the black side of himself when he refused to be called "Barry" by his white grandparents. Does this not remind you of Hitler's Mein Kamph (My Struggle) in which he laments being Jewish? Someone better get Obama some serious counseling for this struggle he's got going on inside of himself or old whitey's got some rough times ahead. Heil Obama!!

You all don't get it. McCain doesn't need to reach out to the religious right anymore than Obama needs to reach out to the liberal left. Just as the liberal left have nowhere else to go, neither do the religious right. It's really become either Obama or NObama -- and looks like the NObama crowd's picking up some momentum.

Paganplace says,

"And anyone don't like (my kind)" can just wait until we are done in by our own stupidity...

oops-

"A woman accidentally stabbed herself in the foot with a 3-foot-long sword while performing a Wiccan good luck ritual at a central Indiana cemetery.

Katherine Gunther, 36, of Lebanon, pierced her left foot with the sword while performing the rite at Oak Hill Cemetery, police said.

Gunther said she was performing the ceremony to give thanks for a recent run of good luck. The ceremony involves the use of candles, incense and driving swords into the ground during the full moon.

Gunther said was aiming to put the sword in the ground, but hit her foot instead.

"It wasn't the first time I performed the ritual, but it was the first time I put a sword through my foot," she said.

Gunther immediately pulled the sword out of her foot, and her companions took her to Witham Memorial Hospital, where she was kept a couple days for treatment.

No charges were filed, police said. The Wiccans were warned that being in the cemetery in the city about 20 miles northwest of Indianapolis after posted visiting hours constitutes trespassing."

McCain's just hoping to go back to the days when the 'Religious Vote' would come out frothing for anyone called 'Conservative' ...so all Dominionist radicals and mainline quiet bigots can feel they're all really in the same camp... When it's all about the money. Just sanctify the money...

Bush kinda spoiled th Fundie thing with his later-hushed-up insistence 'God Told Me To Invade Iraq!' Much fanfare at the time, and inability to admit 'defeat' even though the conditions of victory got downsized to 'Sometimes fewer people get blown up one month than the previous one, we should stay in... and if more people die this month, it's that 'Liberal Media' making a big deal out of....what we just made a big deal out of last month...'

Yaya. McCain's just hoping if he keeps his mouth shut people will *assume* he's the Fundie candidate.

And anyone don't like me, hey, vote for Bob Barr: He tried real hard to outlaw my religion, that Libertarian, he.....

Political instability can be planned. And it can be taken advantage of too by the planners. The righteous would never do anything like that unless, "lies that cause people to believe are moral."

Rather interesting how the price of oil is so sensitive. With only a 2 to 3% decrease in Americans using gasoline the price of oil is tumbling. This tells me that the "green" faith will survive this one.

Big oil in conspiracy with big automotive made a bo bo and poo pooed in their own mess kits. When they "killed the electric car" they used the faint of making the hybrid but failed to tell the Japanese. And the terrified Japanese auto makers not knowing it was a ruse "met competition" with their own hybrid that works like a charm to reduce gasoline usage.

If a 3% drop is usage does all this much damage to the price of oil, around 15% so far then the hybrid will drive the price of oil to near zero. Hybrids reduce usage by as much as 50%. Remember, 50% less burned means 50% less smog too so greenie wins another one.

While GM feverishly rushes and retools to make the electric car and it's own hybrid Toyota has a 6 month waiting list priced at, "what the traffic will bear" which is every seller's dream come true. Let's face it. "What's good for GM is good for the nation" is now, "what's good for Toyota is good for the nation." Get your new Toyota hybrid made in Blue Lake Mississippi, Japan.

And the winners are the Bush gang and green faith. Did I say Bush? I meant to say McCain. Who needs alternatives when the fuel depot is overflowing. So far that's been the rule and the gasoline tanks are overflowing at the distributors.

They got this much straight. During the Reagan, "anti green" years oil was deregulated so they could put alternatives out of business. The cost of making a gallon of ethanol remains the same and is rising while the price of gasoline can and is in the interest of control being reduced, just like before. Will the hybrid punish them for their arrogance this time or will they win again?

The subconscious and therefore very subtle thing that folks want in a car is range -how far will it go on a fill up of whatever it is that powers it. That is now being brought to the conscious. Hybrids go twice as far before one needs dirty one's hands pumping gas, plugging in or giving it a sniff of something.

The Green God vote is on the losing political and economic power side but can't lose. They aren't winning. It's the other side imitating Gerald Ford.

Lots of people believe in a Supreme Being who knows our every thought and guides us daily.I suspect that most people do not accept or support some or all of the doctrine of organised religions simply because it exhibits such poor moral and ethical standards and seems to be mostly about the self aggrandisement of the heirarchy and their power over others and not about goodness at all. What is needed is a President who will serve the Nation well.Athiests are just as supportive of goodness as the religious, they just believe it is an evolutionary trait of humanity.I would rather see a competent, patriotic and good non believing President than an incompetent, unpatriotic and bad deeply religious one. Let us stop navel gazing and seek the best leader.

Jacques Berlinerblau:

The demise of the religious movement, the mysterious missing God vote reminds me of what happened to the conservative movement during, 1960-1976. This election looks a lot like the '76 election to me much more than 1960. Obama is "scheduled" to win the way Jimmy Carter won on a backlash.

I remember Gerald Ford. I didn't know Gerald Ford personally. He wasn't a personal friend of mine. But I can tell you anyhow that John McCain is no Gerald Ford.

I miss the good old days when I could go into any night club in the country and find a comedian with a Nixon mask saying, "I'm a foreign policy expert. Get me a broad and I'll show you what I can do." Chevy Chase made a career imitating Ford's inability to chew gum and walk at the same time. Those were the days and they came at the end of conservative power, without the God vote and a screwed up economy that was screwed up by instability in the mid east, oil.

Could it be true that history repeats? All issues really are economic and haphazardly controlled by Ayatollahs. God always suffers when Ayatollahs fail to agree with each other. We know God now suffers. Rodney King was only dreaming with, "can't we all just get along." Give them a chance and they'll, "treat you like a king." Rodney King that is with, "a thousand points of light in a kinder gentler America."

Pretty dopey article, considering all of the important issues to be discussed.

RCP Average today

Obama leads McCain by 4.3
Democrats lead Republicans by 11.6

Chances of Senator Obama winning still very high, Democratic lead is good predictor.

The public want a different party. Period.

Why did McCain call his wife a "cun*"? Why did he joke about rape? Why did he take out a marriage license while married? Isn't that a crime? Why does he continue to have sexual relations with women his daughter's age? Why did he really get kicked out of the service? Was it for the sex with subordinates -- a crime in our great military?

Do your best to keep him afloat, but McCain is really doing well of late, eh?. So well he is still sinking in states he should be well over 50-55% in. BTW, did you discuss Obama with Sally before or after that great piece of journalism on the the psychic predicting the election?!

Bravo Pam! More of such stuff please, not Senator Obama as preacher. That turns people like me, who believe there is a good reason to keep State and Church separate, off.

Sorry, I should have attributed that - it's from Biography.com.

For Judith - a bit of Obama bio, since you don't seem to know...

"Obama entered Harvard Law School in 1988. In February 1990, he was elected the first African–American editor of the Harvard Law Review. Obama graduated magna cum laude in 1991.

After law school, Obama returned to Chicago to practice as a civil rights lawyer, joining the firm of Miner, Barnhill & Galland. He also taught at the University of Chicago Law School. And he helped organize voter registration drives during Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign.

Obama published an autobiography in 1995 Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance. And he won a Grammy for the audio version of the book.

Obama’s advocacy work led him to run for the Illinois State Senate as a Democrat. He was elected in 1996 from the south side neighborhood of Hyde Park.

During these years, Obama worked with both Democrats and Republicans in drafting legislation on ethics, expanded health care services and early childhood education programs for the poor. He also created a state earned-income tax credit for the working poor. And after a number of inmates on death row were found innocent, Obama worked with law enforcement officials to require the videotaping of interrogations and confessions in all capital cases.

In 2000, Obama made an unsuccessful Democratic primary run for the U. S. House of Representatives seat held by four-term incumbent candidate Bobby Rush.

Following the 9/11 attacks, Obama was an early opponent of President George W. Bush’s push to war with Iraq. Obama was still a state senator when he spoke against a resolution authorizing the use of force against Iraq during a rally at Chicago’s Federal Plaza in October 2002.

"I am not opposed to all wars. I'm opposed to dumb wars," he said. "What I am opposed to is the cynical attempt by Richard Perle and Paul Wolfowitz and other arm-chair, weekend warriors in this Administration to shove their own ideological agendas down our throats, irrespective of the costs in lives lost and in hardships borne."

"He's a bad guy," Obama said, referring to Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. "The world, and the Iraqi people, would be better off without him. But I also know that Saddam poses no imminent and direct threat to the United States, or to his neighbors, that the Iraqi economy is in shambles, that the Iraqi military a fraction of its former strength, and that in concert with the international community he can be contained until, in the way of all petty dictators, he falls away into the dustbin of history."

"I know that even a successful war against Iraq will require a U. S. occupation of undetermined length, at undetermined cost, with undetermined consequences," Obama continued. "I know that an invasion of Iraq without a clear rationale and without strong international support will only fan the flames of the Middle East, and encourage the worst, rather than best, impulses of the Arab world, and strengthen the recruitment arm of al-Qaeda."

The war with Iraq began in 2003 and Obama decided to run for the U.S. Senate open seat vacated by Republican Peter Fitzgerald. In the 2004 Democratic primary, he won 52 percent of the vote, defeating multimillionaire businessman Blair Hull and Illinois Comptroller Daniel Hynes.

That summer, he was invited to deliver the keynote speech in support of John Kerry at the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston. Obama emphasized the importance of unity, and made veiled jabs at the Bush administration and the diversionary use of wedge issues.

"We worship an awesome God in the blue states, and we don't like federal agents poking around our libraries in the red states," he said. "We coach Little League in the blue states, and yes, we've got some gay friends in the red states. There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq, and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the Stars and Stripes, all of us defending the United States of America."

After the convention, Obama returned to his U.S. Senate bid in Illinois. His opponent in the general election was suppose to be Republican primary winner Jack Ryan, a wealthy former investment banker. However, Ryan withdrew from the race in June 2004, following public disclosure of unsubstantiated sexual allegations by Ryan's ex wife, actress Jeri Ryan.

In August 2004, diplomat and former presidential candidate Alan Keyes, who was also an African American, accepted the Republican nomination to replace Ryan. In three televised debates, Obama and Keyes expressed opposing views on stem cell research, abortion, gun control, school vouchers and tax cuts.

In the November 2004 general election, Obama received 70% of the vote to Keyes's 27%, the largest electoral victory in Illinois history. Obama became only the third African American elected to the U.S. Senate since Reconstruction.

Sworn into office January 4, 2005, Obama partnered with Republican Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana on a bill that expanded efforts to destroy weapons of mass destruction in Eastern Europe and Russia. Then with Republican Sen. Tom Corburn of Oklahoma, he created a website that tracks all federal spending.

Obama was also the first to raise the threat of avian flu on the Senate floor, spoke out for victims of Hurricane Katrina, pushed for alternative energy development and championed improved veterans´ benefits. He also worked with Democrat Russ Feingold of Wisconsin to eliminate gifts of travel on corporate jets by lobbyists to members of Congress."

More than one reporter has mentioned Senator Obama's arrogance. The other reporters are either not noticing or are too busy creating a media icon to replace President Bush to really care.

I find it very depressing that a guy like Obama... who literally comes from nowhere is running to be president. He is in his late 40's and he has absolutely no accomplishments to show after his graduation from Law School and his subsequent nomination win. He stands up to the press cocky as ever...Saying that he 'always opposed the war in Iraq.." Of course he opposed the war in Iraq... He wasnt even in the senate to approve the war let alone oppose the war. Furthermore, he has over 200 "present" votes in his three year (two years of which he has been running for president) tenure in the senate... He definitely doesnt seem like someone who can make rash decisions ... rather when the tough gets going he will say "I'll be back...PRESENT"

Such a trip can be rationalised but gentlemanly in the strict sense it is not. O well, it is politics after all...

Surely there are other ways to be briefed about international politics than making a highly publicised political trip on the eve of an election to take full advantage of the incumbent President's unpopularity abroad?

Dear Stumped,

Is it poor etiquette for an opposition candidate to take a high-profile foreign trip, criticizing the U.S. president and acting as if he were head of state? Whatever happened to the notion that partisan politics stops at the water's edge?

Sally Allison

"How fair was it to Senator McCain, even for that matter to President Bush, for a presidential candidate to make an overseas trip in the heat of an election campaign and talk international politics as if he were already the President of the US?"

Oh, stop it!

Any senator can go if he wants to, and McCain did so in the not-too-distant past - with Leiberman, remember?

If Obama *hadn't* gone, everyone would be criticizing him for not knowing what was going on internationally. Damned if you do, damned if you don't...

How fair was it to Senator McCain, even for that matter to President Bush, for a presidential candidate to make an overseas trip in the heat of an election campaign and talk international politics as if he were already the President of the US?

Senator McCain is simply who he is with no apologies to either party. What you see in McCain is what you get. No rock star appeal but a good old sense of knowing where he comes from.

People ultimately vote more from their hearts than from their heads. There is no way of knowing what the heart chooses.

Way to go - compare policies, compare policies, compare policies...

Senator Obama is to a great extent an icon created by the media. Without playing the pastor, talking only policies and the real causes he stood for and fought for before the bid for president is what should define him as a politician.

Did Senator Obama fight for black equality in his political days? For any cause consistently? That is the real Obama.

Senator Obama is a brilliant politician who knows how to use his strengths, turn lemons into lemonades and strike when the iron is hot. His blackness is a great advantage this time round for the US wants to create history and the world is ready for it. His opposition to the Iraq war and his Muslim connection, (read: Muslim father and step-father and time in Muslim Indonesia) gives him an international support that is not available to Senator McCain.

Claude:

Does that mean you're going to vote for Obama? Ronald Reagan was a divorced man from Hollywood and you know how "loose" things are in Hollywood.

Dukakis may well have lost the election inside the voting booth. Most voters had never seen his name in print. Inside the booth they didn't connect his name to him and not "knowing" him checked off the other one they did recognize. That can happen to Obama, a strange name though not as difficult to pronounce as Dukakis. Sadly, most Americans are too busy to watch the news or read a newspaper.

Evangelicals are given two choices. Either stay where they were or vote some other issue(s) their pocketbooks being advised. There is no pro everything they want candidate. Many are not paying enough attention to know that the GOP candidate isn't like all the others. They will vote McCain on reflex. That means the best Obama can hope for is to convince the ones paying attention his ideas are best.

Only evangelicals that don't eat and drive will be difficult for McCain. Most of the rest blame "green" people for the cost of food and gas. The GOP got the evangelicals last few times at bat. This time Obama is stuck with greenies. And if that isn't bad enough an original green leader has defected because there is more oil being leaked from the floor in Santa Barbara channel than the original spill, 1969 that empowered green and expected to become an ecological disaster that could have been avoided by drilling a long time ago.

In short, your "values" voters this time around are the ecologists. Evangelicals are being blamed for Bush and ecologists are being blamed for what has happened on Bush's watch. The value of value voters is negative is what that says. It also says that McCain wins, not blamed for Bush and not blamed for what has happened and even has the simple minded "drill" solution. Obama should dump green but conventional wisdom says he won't.

T Boon Pickins with his TV campaign saying, "we can't drill our way out" is McCain's worst nightmare. Let's wait and see who if anyone T Boon endorses. My guess is neither.

I wonder if all those Democrats who are threatening to vote for McC know about all his positions.

The God vote is going to have a difficult time combining its concern for family values with the facts of John McCain's divorce and subsequent marriage. He began an affair with his present wife while married to his first wife who stuck with him through his years as a prisoner. After a divorce, he married his present wife a month after the divorce. Where are family values here?

This one leaves me speechless. Not much to add. Maybe that the candidate getting the most free press will win as long and he doesn't look like a gopher with his head stuck out of hole while riding around in a tank. Remember all that free publicity for Duquakis?

*Yawn* Evangelicals are depressed that we're stuck with him, but we're going to do our duty and vote for him regardless. We know he doesn't give a rats rear-end about God, but for a pro-life, pro-family constituency, he's still better than the alternative.

John McCain - The Incredible Shrinking Candidate.

Quite honestly, I'm surprised the Rs are sticking with McCain. His candidacy coupled with the hatred of bush is going to result in the Rs getting slaughtered this fall. The Rs would be better off dumping McCain and running a Powell/Rice ticket.

"We need your help to counteract the liberal establishment and fight back against the New York Times by making an immediate contribution today."

This is how McCain's minions responded to his essay on Iraq being returned by the New York Times for editorial changes.

I'm getting tired of this crap.

Please, please, Jacques...

Tell us what you REALLY think!

(waves at Athena)

Did the author down a six-pack before writing this? If not, then what was he smoking?

Agreed. Incoherent as well. Jacques, are you sure that one of your undergrads didn't write this?

A pointless, space-filling column.