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Webb: McCain Should 'Calm Down' on Using Military Service
briefingroom.thehill.com ^ | July 1, 2008 | Walter Alarkon

Posted on 07/01/2008 11:20:13 AM PDT by Joiseydude

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To: mak5
You are exactly right!!!!! Don't lose your thought here....
think back to everything that has taken place where OBAMA has either made a speech or come back to clarify or discuss what has been in the media....IT WAS ALL STARTED BY HIS OWN PARTY,CAMPAIGN,WIFE.....WE HAVE BEEN CORRALED BY THE OBAMA MACHINE....

HE IS IN CONTROL of the media...they start the controversy he disowns,disavows,and comes out smelling sweet..

MORE NEWS TIME,MORE WEB TIME.....PRETTY CLEAVER, BUT YOU, ME AND A LOT MORE ARE CATCHING ON!!!

41 posted on 07/01/2008 11:44:04 AM PDT by Texas4ever (Anything off the dollar menu :))
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To: Joiseydude

Tactic:

Hack for bum Candidate B: Candidate A is a bum!

Hack for Candidate A: Candidate A is not a bum!

Hack for bum Candidate B: Candidate A should calm down on the bum issue.

Public: That’s right. Candidate A needs to get over the bum issue. Keep the bum issue out of politics.


42 posted on 07/01/2008 11:44:12 AM PDT by mbarker12474 (If thine enemy offend thee, give his childe a drum.)
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To: Joiseydude
getting shot down” isn't “a qualification to be president.

Being a snot nosed unexperienced local politician (backed by Soros) from the Chicago area isn't a qualification to be president either.

43 posted on 07/01/2008 11:44:25 AM PDT by antiunion person (President McCain, what a disgusting phrase.)
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To: Dems_R_Losers
Wesley Clark's attack was specifically designed to elicit a public meltdown by John McCain, which the Obama camp planned to pounce on as proof that McCain is a hothead and temperamentally unfit to be President.

I've got the feeling Obama is going to be the one who melts down long before the November election. He has not proven himself to stand up under any kind of pressure.

44 posted on 07/01/2008 11:45:43 AM PDT by 6SJ7
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To: KarlInOhio
Obama's pollsters must see that he has a major weakness against McCain on the military service qualification, so they are trying their hardest to eliminate it early in the campaign.

Bingo. I think it's slightly different though. It's not the military service; it's what McCain's story says about the man's character. I think that most Americans cannot hear stories about what McCain endured and not come away thinking, "Holy crap, what that man endured for his country..."

The Snob is laying the groundwork, attempting to prevent McCain's campaign and surrogates from even telling McCain's story.

The Snob's campaign is ordering the MSM that talking about McCain's history is off-limits.

45 posted on 07/01/2008 11:45:49 AM PDT by manapua
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To: mak5

How much has McCain even said about the issue? I don’t pay really close attention to everything on the campaign trail but I can’t recall ever hearing McCain say elect me because I’m a veteran, or was a POW. He says he is proud to have served his country but never has he claimed his service gave him the experience to be president.

Didn’t Webb hit Sen. Allen two years ago for not serving?? His whole campaign was based on his military service, and how important that was now that he broke with GWB over Iraq. Now he is telling McCain not to use the issue? What a hypocrite.


46 posted on 07/01/2008 11:46:44 AM PDT by TNCMAXQ
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To: Joiseydude

Perhaps Mr Webb would be happier if he was able to put his...ah,”doodle”....in McCain’s mouth.I’ve read that that’s the kind of thing the “honorable gentleman’ from Virginia enjoys most.


47 posted on 07/01/2008 11:47:25 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (The problem with the rat race is,even if you win you're still a rat.)
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To: Spok

“Webb: McCain Should ‘Calm Down’ on Using Military Service”

This is carefully ORCHESTRATED!

The media’s template is that McCain has a temper.

The Democrats will keep trying to antagonize McCain with crap like these Wesley Clark comments to try to get McCain to raise his voice a bit.

When (if) he does, the media will pounce and broadcast the “outburst” again and again and again until the public believes that McCain is unfit to be elected.

The lead will be “Does John McCain’s temper mean trouble?” Or “McCain’s legendary temper - does it make him unfit?”

It’s a scheme between the Dems and the media.

But the fact that they are resorting to tactics like these now means to me that they are WORRIED.


48 posted on 07/01/2008 11:48:09 AM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim
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To: Miss Didi

Isnt that the way the Media darlings like it!!!

He is running the Show right now.

AS FOR MCCAIN....WE NEED TO SEE SOME TRUE GRIT!!!

AMERICANS WANT SOME WHOOPA## FROM THIS WAR HERO!!!

ENOUGHT OF THE HAIRGEL AND COSMO GRINS...I WANT TO SEE HIM ANGRY AND PROUD OF HIS SERVICE. HE SHOULD LOOK RIGHT INTO THE CAMERA WITH THOUSANDS OF OLD,YOUNG,MEN AND WOMEN OF THE ARMED FORCES AND SPIT...THEN SAY I AM PROUD TO HAVE SERVED THIS COUNTRY AND PROUD OF THOSE WHO HAVE AND ARE STILL...YOU GOT SOMETHING TO SAY...SAY IT TO US ALL

THEN END WITH ALL YELLING A HEFTY HOOOORAH!!!


49 posted on 07/01/2008 11:49:18 AM PDT by Texas4ever (Anything off the dollar menu :))
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To: avacado
How about Obama speak up about his military service!

I'm sure Osama picketed the ROTC office at Harvard once or twice.If that ain't military service then I guess I misunderstand the meaning of the term.

50 posted on 07/01/2008 11:51:18 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (The problem with the rat race is,even if you win you're still a rat.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

ooooH GREAT thought...someone get some pictures of picketing ROTC..AT HARVARD. Could we find a picture of
BHO

Hurry I am sure his Web minions are on it. Destroying all evidence.


51 posted on 07/01/2008 11:53:14 AM PDT by Texas4ever (Anything off the dollar menu :))
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To: Joiseydude

If he used those military props for his campaign, maybe he could change his next campaign motto from “Born to Fight” to “Born to be a Hypocrite”.


52 posted on 07/01/2008 11:54:01 AM PDT by ColoCdn (Neco eos omnes, Deus suos agnoset)
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To: kjo

Liberals can’t remember what they heard this morning, what makes you think they can remember all the way back to 2004 (except to whine about how the election was “stolen”).


53 posted on 07/01/2008 11:55:15 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (G-d is not a Republican. But Satan is definitely a Democrat.)
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To: Joiseydude

Yes, because the contrast with the muslim is too extreme.


54 posted on 07/01/2008 11:57:43 AM PDT by Sig Sauer P220
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55 posted on 07/01/2008 12:03:18 PM PDT by Recovering_Democrat (Just say NObama!)
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56 posted on 07/01/2008 12:06:27 PM PDT by Stingray51
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To: Stingray51

Webb should be ashamed.

I hope these pictures appear all over the internet.

youtube please.

Webb=puke


57 posted on 07/01/2008 12:08:11 PM PDT by Texas4ever (Anything off the dollar menu :))
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To: Joiseydude

Webb is a loudmouthed thug who used to brag about flying a Confederate flag and pointing guns at black people. His blowhard tough-guy act wore thin on Republicans, so Webb became a RAT, since that party loves anti-military phonies like john kerry, wesley clark, and jim webb.


58 posted on 07/01/2008 12:10:37 PM PDT by ozzymandus
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To: Joiseydude
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I'm John Kerry and I'm reporting for duty ...

59 posted on 07/01/2008 12:11:23 PM PDT by tx_eggman (Privatizing profits and socializing losses is no way to run an economy)
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To: Joiseydude
Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.) waded into the debate over John McCain's military service Monday to say that the Republican should avoid using military service in politics.

"If George Bush wants to ask me questions about that through his surrogates, he owes America an explanation about whether or not he showed up for duty in the National Guard. Prove it. That's what we ought to have," Kerry told NBC News in an interview. "I'm not going to stand around and let them play games."

60 posted on 07/01/2008 12:16:30 PM PDT by weegee (CHANGE? A more truthful slogan would be to proclaim Obama the candidate of FLIP FLOP.)
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