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McCain: Obama 'Absolutely' Qualified to Be President
Wash Post ^
| 4/6/08
| Zach Goldfarb
Posted on 04/06/2008 8:57:27 PM PDT by pissant
Sen. John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee for president, said Sunday that the leader for the Democratic nomination, Sen. Barack Obama, would be "absolutely" qualified to be president, should the voters elect him. But, he said, "I believe that my talent and my background and my experience, which has led to my judgment, ... qualifies me more."
In his first Sunday talk show appearance since locking up the GOP nomination last month, McCain criticized Obama and others for making too much of his comment that the United States could remain in Iraq for 100 years, or a period similar to the length of the U.S. presence in Germany and South Korea.
"Senator Obama and anyone who reads that [comment] knows that I didn't think we were in a 100-year war," he said on "Fox News Sunday."
Days after going to Memphis to mark the 40th anniversary of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, McCain repeated that he "was wrong" to vote in 1983 against establishing a federal holiday to honor King. He added, as he did Friday, that he thought better of his mistake in time to back such a holiday in his home state of Arizona.
McCain also confirmed that he would meet next week with Secret Service officials next week and expects to have agents protecting him "shortly thereafter." McCain previously had refused such protection.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; larrysinclairslover; makeitstop; mccain; obama; rino; unfit
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Is it his socialist economic theory, his aversion to the 2nd AMendment, his foreign policy credentials, his anti-american perspective, or his hook-line-sinker belief in the fraud known as global warming?
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posted on
04/06/2008 8:57:27 PM PDT
by
pissant
To: pissant
Is it his socialist economic theory, his aversion to the 2nd AMendment, his foreign policy credentials, his anti-american perspective, or his hook-line-sinker belief in the fraud known as global warming?Just one hardcore and unapologetic liberal, shamelessly sucking up to another of its wretched kind.
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posted on
04/06/2008 8:59:31 PM PDT
by
KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
(McCain "conservatives" = hardcore liberals who nonetheless appreciate the occasional tax cut.)
To: Jim Robinson
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posted on
04/06/2008 9:02:13 PM PDT
by
KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
(McCain "conservatives" = hardcore liberals who nonetheless appreciate the occasional tax cut.)
To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
Please. McCain’s just trying to be classy. And he knows that he has to be, if he’s to keep the Democrats tearing themselves apart, instead of tearing into him.
To: pissant
After watching that interview, I concluded that folks can stop wishing for him to choose a conservative veep.
He clearly stated he wanted someone that shared his “principles and priorities” and someone who would “carry on his agenda” in the event he could not complete his term in office.
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posted on
04/06/2008 9:02:45 PM PDT
by
calcowgirl
("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." P. J. O'Rourke)
To: pissant
McCain, McCain, McCain, leave the koolaid alone.
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posted on
04/06/2008 9:02:48 PM PDT
by
Kackikat
((No strong national security, and the rest of issues are mute points; chaos ensues.))
To: pissant
John, just shut-up and maybe YOU’D be qualified to be President. Your yapping is going to get you in trouble.
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posted on
04/06/2008 9:03:00 PM PDT
by
madison10
To: pissant
MCain is an idiot...and proving it daily. I suspect Obama will use that clip to his advantage in the Fall campaign.
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posted on
04/06/2008 9:03:33 PM PDT
by
TheBattman
(LORD God, please give us a Christian Patriot with a backbone for President in 08, Amen.)
To: calcowgirl
After watching that interview, I concluded that folks can stop wishing for him to choose a conservative veep.You know it. I know it. ;)
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posted on
04/06/2008 9:04:41 PM PDT
by
KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
(McCain "conservatives" = hardcore liberals who nonetheless appreciate the occasional tax cut.)
To: pissant
Headline = You're right, John, what was I thinking...we should all vote for him instead of you, then. /sarc
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posted on
04/06/2008 9:04:49 PM PDT
by
NordP
(Yeah...Clinton didn't inhale and Obama didn't know 'nothin' 'bout Rev Wright bein' wrong)
To: pissant
McCain is the designated fall guy here, just like Kerry was in 2004. And Dole in 1996. The fact that he has to keep repeating “I’m a conservative Republican” at every appearance just goes to show he’s anything but that.
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posted on
04/06/2008 9:05:10 PM PDT
by
Rob112586
("...a decrease in the quantity of legislation generally means an increase in the quality of life.")
To: TheBattman
Yep. Dumb move by McCain, but that isn’t exactly a surprise.
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posted on
04/06/2008 9:05:16 PM PDT
by
Carling
(It's Danny, Sir)
To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
Under the United States Constitution he is absolutely qualified to become President, and so am I.
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posted on
04/06/2008 9:05:19 PM PDT
by
Sooth2222
("Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of congress. But I repeat myself." M.Twain)
To: pissant
HRC and BHO are both liars, JM is is proving himself to be as dumb as a post.
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posted on
04/06/2008 9:05:57 PM PDT
by
svcw
(I reject your reality and substitute my own.)
To: pissant
Other than having attained the age of thirty five and being a natural born citizen , I can not think of a thing that qualifies obambi for POTUS . Absolutely ?
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posted on
04/06/2008 9:06:42 PM PDT
by
kbennkc
(For those who have fought for it , freedom has a flavor the protected will never know)
To: DrGunsforHands
"Please. McCains just trying to be classy."It isn't working ... he continues to look like the doddering fool that he is.
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posted on
04/06/2008 9:07:02 PM PDT
by
JustaDumbBlonde
(If you don't want a liberal in the White House, don't nominate one and expect me to fall in line.)
To: pissant
Meanwhile, if Osama Obama said McCain was not qualified to be President, he’d finally be right about something.
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posted on
04/06/2008 9:07:22 PM PDT
by
Rastus
Comment #18 Removed by Moderator
To: pissant
What’s this? McCain telegtaphing he’s going to take a dive before he even enters the ring?
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posted on
04/06/2008 9:08:51 PM PDT
by
DGHoodini
(Tin eared zeroes and Hollypukes comin...)
To: pissant
Is Obama a native-born US citizen, 35 years of age or older, who has lived in the United States for at least 14 years?
Then he’s qualified.
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