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.
(Excerpt) Read more at blog.washingtonpost.com ...
I understand what you’re saying, but I don’t consider McCain’s comments as “classy” .. I consider them ignorant.
If McCain cannot see how UNQUALIFIED Obama is .. then I seriously question McCain’s JUDGEMENT.
I mean, sometimes the truth has to reign. If McCain cannot bring himself to tell the truth about an opponent .. then how is he going to tell the truth to the terrorists ..??
I don’t know whether to laugh or cry at your picture and comment in your post #37.
All I know is I have tears in my eyes.
No, that's what Obama got from his gay lover/cocaine buddy, Larry Sinclair.
If McCain is seriously going through 40 names of possible VP choices, then many of these choices, like it or not, are probably also conservative choices for VP. McCain truly knows that he can seriously still lose the general election without enough conservatives voting for him. How many conservatives do truly end up voting for McCain on November 4 is anybody’s guess at this point in time. It truly continues to be painful for conservatives to not really have any major conservative candidates for POTUS to both support and vote for in ‘08. God help the U.S.!
ANd what Chris Matthews gets every time Obama speaks....or farts.
I’m not a big McCain fan, but to have everyone jump on his comment based on the Washington Post’s take is not thinking straight. During the interview, he was taken off guard by the comment, and did say as a brush off, if the people vote him in then he’s qualified.
The MSM’s Obama Worship strikes again!
Every day McCain just keeps proving what a dumbass he is.
If I have to vote for classy, I'll write in Freddy Blassie!
McCain is making it more and more difficult to envision my being able to hold my nose/my breath long enough to vote for him.
If he continues to piss on conservatives, many that I know just won’t show up in November.
I doubt he’ll be successful in fund raising just from the “moderates,” but other than being compelled by fund raising imperatives down the road, I don’t see him going “right.”
Those of you who hung on so long to the Huckster’s candidacy can thank yourselves for letting McLame slip through...
Sigh...
Well yes.
For one, he is unqualified to be POTUS. He only recently finished potty training.
For another, that's one of McCain's clear advantages over this child, which McCain just threw away. To win, McCain is going to have to convince a lot of I's that Obama is a wet-behind-the-ears, radical socialist. This has the advantage of being both correct and a really good political argument. Why McCain won't make it is beyond me.
There would be a firestorm unlike any, 100 times worse than Jeremiah Wright Debacle, if McCain were to make a stupid statement like that.
A firestorm on the issue would be great. The more the left raves about how mean it is to call him unqualified, the more normal people hear and think about the issue. A good percentage of them will reach the obvious conclusion that he is not.
“McCain: Obama ‘Absolutely’ Qualified to Be President”
To McBots everywhere,
Try using bleach to get the BS Express tire tracks out of your clothes. At least until your hero Mcbackstabber outlaws bleach in the name of his God, Glo-bull Warming.
Yours,
Conservatives Everwhere (trying not to laugh at you too hard)
It wasn’t as horrible as some of his performances. He bumbled on a few points and came off o.k. in ohters (if you like hearing him tout bipartisanship, and such).
Transcript:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,347033,00.html
I will say that he was better than John Kerry, who he preceded on Fox today. ;-)
Is the American electorate stupid enough to elect a corrupt, radical but glib anti-American Marxist who happens to be an empty suit, or,
...to elect a corrupt, radical, power-mad yet un-glib anti-American Marxist who looks at best comical in any suit, esp. a pantsuit, or,
...to elect a corrupt, lying, RINO and fiscally dishonest (see Keating 5), incompetent former pilot (didn't land in FIVE different aircraft in which he took off, if you didn't know that...) infected with dildonic plague who is also, apparently, borderline psychotic and working hard at becoming senile, and, even on a bet, couldn't find his ideological ass with both hands, a mirror, and a map on a sunny day?
The answer to the question above is, apparently, ''YES!''.
Screw 'em all. Write in Calvin Coolidge for president.
He could say nothing and let us suspect that he has poor judgement. But Mavericks never stay quiet, do they?
Okay Mr.Across the Aisle man, don’t say anything that may be negative against the opposing candidates. Sheeesh.
Okay Mr.Across the Aisle man, don’t say anything that may be negative against the opposing candidates. Sheeesh.
Time for a third party and fast! It ain’t over until the fat lady sings or until we give up. In the least we should have someone ready if something happens to him before the election. What then?
I expect McCain to offer to campaign for him at some point.
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