-
Website
http://www.americablog.com/ -
Original page
http://www.americablog.com/2008/08/so-rick-warren-lied-and-andrea-mitchell.html -
Subscribe
All Comments -
Community
-
-
Top Commenters
-
Popular Threads
All Comments
If getting a buy in from the religious bigots in this country is the right of passage to a Presidency I for one want out of this country.
and why they will reject McSame. Their records will do them in and there is little to save them from the record. Lies won't cut it for a third time but election fraud must be prevented this time.
Guess not.
By the way, John, you should follow up on McCain "cross in the dirt" story: Very suspicious.
Apparently, the same story appears in Gulag Archipelago (released in US in 1973), and McCain never mentioned the story as something that happened to him until his fairly recent book.
I think he just stole it from Solzhenitsyn and figured it would play well with the Evangelicals.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/8/17/173...
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/8/18/769...
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/8/17/165...
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/8/17/171...
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/8/17/122...
It took a preacher to show the major networks how thy should conduct a discourse between our Presidentual candidates that would give the public insight on the Presidentual candidates views, their proposed solutions to problems, and Rick Warren’s format shows us the events and people that make the prism and lens that has shaped and is shaping each of the candidates views of the world: this lets the public get past all of the side issues and see who the candidates really are and what their values and priorities are.
What this forum revealed is McCain sees every issue through the prism of his experience as a POW in Vietnam and the War in Iraq. When asked about his Christian experience, he talked about a Christmas he had as a POW. When asked about his most important decision, he referred to his decision to remain a POW. When asked about how evil should be dealt with, should evil be confronted, negotiated with, or destroyed. McCain said destroyed and goes on a rampaged about chasing Osama to the “gates of hell.” When asked who were the people who he would consult he named General Petrius. This is the man that half the country wants his finger on the button”.
Senator Obama answers were thought out, they took into consideration dissenting viewpoints and explained the logic of why he came to the conclusions that caused his decision. All the CNN commentators said that Obama is indecisive because he actually explained his answers and John McCain was considered decisive because every answer was short with no explanation of how he came to his conclusion. Obama was in fact decisive, he just thinks, takes dissenting views into consideration before making a decision.
What I found alarming is that no one from CNN was troubled by John McCain “tunnel” vision of America’s problems in terms of Viet Nam or Iraq. John McCain has some mental scares from his experience as a POW. I feel sorry for the guy but he should be on a couch in a psychiatrist office and not at the President’s desk in the oval office.
What I found even more troubling is no one on Americanblog was writing about how all of John McCain’s answers on Rick Warren's debate had a back drop of Viet Nam or Iraq. This should have been the topic of the day. I can’t believe no one else picked up on this. We have a “nut” job being seriously considered for president by half the voters and we are talking about the Olympics and if McCain cheated.
AMAZING
I agree that religion should not have the influence that it does but I
will have to disagree that the forum that Rick Warren used was not
effective in getting past the none sense and really see who the
candidates are and what influences their thinking. Out of all the
interviews that I have seen, this one really revealed the impact of
McCain's POW experience and the residuals that still lingers from that
experience. Maybe McCain's cheating and getting the questions in
advance was "a blessing in disguise" because in his attempt to appeal to
Evangelicals he scared off many independents and made the case for being
a "Bush clone" more viable.
Econprofes
tragic years. The question is how far must America fall under the failing
"leaders" who can only survive with threats of fear and war. Ron
**************It's only a deal if it's where you want to go. Find your travel
deal here.
(http://information.travel.aol.com/deals?ncid=ao...)
The result of pure Socialism (Government control of resources) is the Government, more accurately the small group who actually are the leaders of the Government, will own 90% of the resources and 90% of the population will to make due with 10% of the resources. The most notable example of pure socialism was Stalin reign in Russia. Both economic systems result in an economy with a very small segment of the population that is unbelievably wealthy while the rest of the population will be unbelievably impoverished and no middle class.
America’s economy is based on socialism keeping capitalism in check by elected officials governing, legislating and adjudicating on behalf of the good of the people who elected them. The power of the populous to elect or not elect the leaders of the Government through voting give sovereignty to the population; voting is the vehicle that ensures the elected officials in a Republic do what is best for the people who elected them.
Capitalism makes sure that an economy does not skew too far to socialism (Government control of resources) and Socialism makes sure Capitalism (Large Corporations control of resources) does hoard all of an economy’s resources so they can exploit the greater portion of the population.
The problem with America is that the Corporations control the government by controlling our elected officials with money. The politicians become “puppets” for the Corporations and they use the politicians to transfer wealth from the richest segment of our society, the middle class or the middle 80% on the income scale, to the second richest group, the top 5% on the income scale. The middle 80% of the income scale has 90% of the votes so the top 5% divide this middle 80% by getting the middle 80% on the income scale to get passionate about irrelevant issues so they will fight amongst each other about extraneous issues like gun control, being patriotic, abortion, etc. While the middle income level is fighting each other on those issues they are transferring the wealth of the middle class by moving factories out of the United States, which take jobs from Americans, and ship the products back for Americans to buy without an import tax being levied on those products.; Oil companies forming a cartel to fix oil prices and supplies; voting machines that can be manipulated to change the outcome of an election.
If the American public does not wake up and use their sovereign power to vote and make sure that they vote for officials who will work on their behalf, instead of the top 5% and make sure their vote is not being controlled, The United States will move toward Feudalism.
same as it ever was.
Pastor Slick is on Larry King Live tonight...send in some questions for him-
cnn.com
And to suggest that McCain was a POW so he would never ever lie is absurd. McCain acts like he is the only person in the world to have something bad happen to him and that somehow makes him very special and he should be elected President based on that one fact.
Has anyone on the McCain scheme team explained why he was late.
Oops, wrong Evangelical.
e and then be able to give pre-scripted replies. In a fair debate, McSame will be destroyed since he no longer has the mental capabilities to think and respond. The key is, as always, a level playing field. There is no comparison between the two candidates on a level playing field.
Maybe McCain should just use a variation of the excuse Dubya gave when Katie Couric confronted him about the mysterious "lump" that appeared on his back during the first 2004 debate: perhaps it was a poorly designed 'cone of silence'... I bet Mrs. Greenspan would buy it!
And in doing so he has boxed himself in at the top of a ladder - there is nowhere for him to go – he can’t back off or elevate his positions and narratives – he has left himself exposed and vulnerable when he meets Obama in future debates.
Come on, Warren knew McCain wasn't there...and SHOULD of told the audience.
So for Rick Warren at the beginning of the show to say McCain was in an oslation booth would be a LIE.
Any time his campaign answers with POW people should immediately reply, Keating 5.
Those of you who do not know anything about this should Google it and read about it. It tells a lot about his character and the business dealings of his wife and her family.
Bill Bennett got him off easy.
Mc Cain has not been judged as anyone else has, he always has gotten a pass because of his past "experiences". Is this the type of man we want in the White House? The rest of the world will not give a damn about this. And then what will Mc Mcain do??? And then, God help us all.
That's because his staff was feeding him all the stuff he needed straight from their Blackberrys
Remember when McCain said he didn't like to tal about his POW days?
That's obviously over, since he brings it up every other sentence
Instead of holding it at Pastor Rick's megachurch, how about sitting down with one of the MoveOn.org guys with a nice, huge progressive audience.
How decisive! How presidential! How Big Strong White Male!
He won! He won!
Why even have an election!!! woooohoooooo!
The McCAin records in the military and in the Congress tell the tale of his real qualifications. The rest is the myth created to substitute for reality. Is McCain another GWBush? The record tells it all and not the creation of mythical worship. Where are the medical records & financial records? You decide.
McCain the POW cheated on his wife so why couldn't he have cheated in this case? Wallace sounds like Hannity....providing cover for McCain because he's a POW.