AMERICAblog: McCain has to campaign in Arizona. McCain is barely ahead in the state where he has the most houses
michaelt
· 1 year ago
mccain had another home you know. for 5 years. because he was a POW. i bet you didnt know that.
mikep
· 1 year ago
You're right, this should be a huge story. But then so should the fact that Gore was unable to carry his home state in 2000. That was the reason he lost, not the stuff that happened in Florida. I could be mistaken but I don't believe that anyone's ever won the presidency without taking their home state. But the liberal media couldn't face the truth, and didn't want to confront the reality that Gore was despised by the people who knew him best.
iLarynx
· 1 year ago
Yeah, and look what they got instead. Those Tennesseeans are real geniuses.
lucky hussein
· 1 year ago
by 'stuff in Florida' do you mean: voter caging (of verterans), generally discouraging voters in certain districs, illegal/tampered ballots, disastrous supreme court decision, tampered voting machines, corrupt state politicians?
No, I think losing florida was much worse, by delegates, by illegal and never-investigated activities, overall harm to our democracy, on every level possible. On the other hand, Gore stumbled plenty, but not that much.
RobertSeattle
· 1 year ago
Gore lost Tennesse by 3.86% - not exactly "depsised by the people who knew him best". Lets get rid of the ridiculous Electoral College and this kind of crap won't matter.
RonNYC
· 1 year ago
I watched the senile fool on Leno last night. At first, he seemed OK, making the usual self-deprecating jokes about being old. Audience like it. And then, apropos of nothing, he just launched into his "I spent five years in a Vietnamese jail..." At first, I thought he was making fun of himself, but no, this is now part of his schtick.
Soundboy_jeff_meanie
· 1 year ago
but he really dislikes talking about it.
/snark
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
OT:
The campaign season's hottest gotcha game -- six degrees of William Ayers -- has suddenly become a bit more complicated for John McCain and the Republican Party.
It turns out that Ayers, a 60s-era radical and former Weathermen member, is linked to GOP Gov. Mark Sanford through their work for the University of South Carolina.
his dog was liberated from a puppy farm after one year of captivity!
Soundboy_jeff_meanie
· 1 year ago
just in from CNBC... John McCain is stil a former POW.
lucky hussein
· 1 year ago
off topic but, tom hartman is talking about how tv coverage is totally slanted michelle obamas speech last night. They showed black people smiling and white people talking or looking bored. Now, apparently all the networks have the same tv feed which apparently was faux news? unbelievable.... apparently this was the case on cnn anyway.
An all the pundits followed-up on the slanted video with saying how the dem blew it and nothing happenned. hmmm..
Soundboy_jeff_meanie
· 1 year ago
didn't you see the sign behind John in those pictures earlier??
CNN = POLITICS
I think they meant it to read that CNN covers politics...
I took it to mean that what GETS covered is political.
RobertSeattle
· 1 year ago
Do you get one vote for each house you own? :-0
scottinsf
· 1 year ago
Only if you're in Florida and your name is Ann Coulter.
moreleesafer
· 1 year ago
speaking of the witch ( who is always dressed as if she is on a perpetual walk of shame after being turned out at a Republican cocktail party). Anyone else notice she hasn't had her harrgard butt on the morning shows in a looooong time?
LisaLV711
· 1 year ago
That's okay. He was a POW. (Well it seems to work for everything else.)
NewDealDem
· 1 year ago
In 1988, the media asked whether Mike Dukakis should stay home and try and win Massachusetts, or campaign in other states. In 2008, will the media ask whether John McCain should stay home and try and win Arizona, or campaign in other states?
I think we already know the answer -- and McCain losing support and not even breaking 50% in Arizona has to be good news for John McCain!
moreleesafer
· 1 year ago
the polls show us winning the electoral votes soundly. As long as nothing terrible happens (like Obama is caught chatting with an underage boy online) he should squeak by. BUt we need more than a squeak. we need to win by a big margin so that the bigots can't say "oh it was just luck."
Coming Undone
· 1 year ago
Part of McCain's email
My opponent broke his pledge to the American people to accept public financing during the general election - a pledge I have kept. The Obama Democrats are raising unprecedented amounts of money. They and their liberal special interest allies - Big Labor, MoveOn.org, Hollywood elites and other left-wing groups - plan to spend nearly $1 billion in an effort to mow over Republican candidates with negative and misleading attack ads that will play non-stop across our country's airwaves from now until Election Day - especially in the essential swing states.
Despite what the Obama Democrats and the liberal media would have you believe, my campaign and the RNC rely on the generous voluntary contributions of Republican activists like you for the support we need to answer their barrage of assaults with the truth.
Now is the time to show the Obama Democrats and the media elites how strong and broad our Party really is.
moreleesafer
· 1 year ago
"....oh yeah. And I didn't have access to media or money for 5 1/2 years."
sounds like someone is lying and crying.
Indigo
· 1 year ago
Some financial commentators feel that betting sites are a more accurate barometer of likely voting outcomes than the polls. The current reading "gives the Democrats 243 of the electoral votes, the GOP 175 with 120 votes undecided.” [undisclosed source]
Coming Undone
· 1 year ago
Why are Democrats afraid to say that John McCain was a POW about 40 years ago and the world has changed and our sympathies go out to him and his family because he just cannot move beyond those 5 1/2 years.
If at age 72 and a very, very good life McCain still sees every detail of his life through the eyes of a former POW then he needs immediate inpatient care for his long term PTSD.
Dave of the Jungle
· 1 year ago
I'm committed to helping McCain lose his own state since I live here in Arizona.
Let's do it !!!
osage
· 1 year ago
Every WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq combat veteran who was been in kill or be killed situations knows that survival isn't heroic; it's the luck of the draw. I have encountered very few combat survivors who relish talking about their experiences. And I have never met a combat survivor who uses his past experiences to justify or excuse his present actions.
moreleesafer
· 1 year ago
where he has most of his houses?!
Joe, you made me spit my yogurt all over my screen.
All Comments
No, I think losing florida was much worse, by delegates, by illegal and never-investigated activities, overall harm to our democracy, on every level possible. On the other hand, Gore stumbled plenty, but not that much.
/snark
The campaign season's hottest gotcha game -- six degrees of William Ayers -- has suddenly become a bit more complicated for John McCain and the Republican Party.
It turns out that Ayers, a 60s-era radical and former Weathermen member, is linked to GOP Gov. Mark Sanford through their work for the University of South Carolina.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/26/ayers-...
An all the pundits followed-up on the slanted video with saying how the dem blew it and nothing happenned. hmmm..
CNN = POLITICS
I think they meant it to read that CNN covers politics...
I took it to mean that what GETS covered is political.
In 2008, will the media ask whether John McCain should stay home and try and win Arizona, or campaign in other states?
I think we already know the answer -- and McCain losing support and not even breaking 50% in Arizona has to be good news for John McCain!
My opponent broke his pledge to the American people to accept public financing during the general election - a pledge I have kept. The Obama Democrats are raising unprecedented amounts of money. They and their liberal special interest allies - Big Labor, MoveOn.org, Hollywood elites and other left-wing groups - plan to spend nearly $1 billion in an effort to mow over Republican candidates with negative and misleading attack ads that will play non-stop across our country's airwaves from now until Election Day - especially in the essential swing states.
Despite what the Obama Democrats and the liberal media would have you believe, my campaign and the RNC rely on the generous voluntary contributions of Republican activists like you for the support we need to answer their barrage of assaults with the truth.
Now is the time to show the Obama Democrats and the media elites how strong and broad our Party really is.
sounds like someone is lying and crying.
If at age 72 and a very, very good life McCain still sees every detail of his life through the eyes of a former POW then he needs immediate inpatient care for his long term PTSD.
Let's do it !!!
Joe, you made me spit my yogurt all over my screen.
i aint mad atcha though. that line was worth it.