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Posted on 01/19/2009 9:49:59 PM PST by VictoryGal
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Barack Obama honored his vanquished Republican rival John McCain on Monday, describing the Arizona senator as an "American hero" while the Democrat prepared to assume the office that both men fought bitterly to attain.
Obama and McCain clashed repeatedly on the campaign trail over foreign and domestic policy in sometimes heated exchanges that occasionally veered into the personal.
But Obama made clear that period had passed even as he predicted the two would not always get along in the future.
"John is not known to bite his tongue and if I'm screwing up, he's going to let me know. And that's how it should be," Obama said, adding -- to applause -- that the presidency was just one branch of the U.S. government.
Obama will be sworn in as the nation's 44th president on Tuesday.
He spent the evening before his inauguration at dinners honoring McCain, former Secretary of State Colin Powell -- who broke with the Republican Party to endorse Obama -- and Vice President-elect Joe Biden.
(Excerpt) Read more at uk.reuters.com ...
Cue up “Endless Love” because the smoochfest between 0bama and McCain will seem like an eternity.
Now that I am using Obama’s name as a swear worse than f#ck, I say to Baby Killer Obama,
Obama you!
McCain, for your future treasonous conspiracies with the libs, Obama you too.
I have nothing but contempt for McCain.
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too bad he had to throw Sarah Palin to the wolves to comply with his masters...
McCain looks like a very old Montgomery Clift in that pic.
McCain fought bitterly for the office? When did this happen? How did I miss it?
I saw a pathetic, whiney old bore and a prissy manchild spouting cliches.
First of all, if McCain had fought “bitterly” for the presidency, he would have taken Obama apart piece by piece and left him withering in his own contradictions. Ayers, Wright, Abortion, Birth Certificate, Columbia Record etc. etc. None of it ever mentioned. So please, do not use the words “fought bitterly” because it didn’t happen.
Second of all, it’ easy to work with John McCain. Working with republicans will be much more of a challenge.
Let's see the McCainiacs defend this one.
McCain, a stalking horse for the one????
America has committed suicide.
We need to rally to Conservative Principles.
Maybe the new fuhrer has provided us an opportunity — to regain our Conservative Values.
I know quite a few who were very vocal McCain supporters during the primary. They were THAT sure that the “maverick” would bring in the moderates and independents to our side.
They are all very quiet right now.
The sooner McCain is gone (along with the rest of the RINOs, the better.
Goebbels would be embarrassed by this amateurish crap.
They could at least TRY to make the propaganda believable.
“Maybe the new fuhrer has provided us an opportunity — to regain our Conservative Values.”
Bingo.
Sad it had to come to this.
If he would embrace and exhault Palin, then I’d be impressed.
McCain is not a RINO.
He is what the word Republican means.
Big Spending.
Ideologically a mess.
Poorly educated in economics.
Bi Partisan.
Boob Baiting Conservatives.
He is very much, solidly a Republican. A word that some deluded, forgetful people think means limited government, low taxes, strong property rights.
Shakespeare said you are what you do. Republicans are big spending larger government, less liberty, more laws party.
There is a difference between Democrats and Republicans. A warm bucket of spit.
I guess The One didnt show the photo of the “American Hero” recovering from skin cancer?
McCain is a cheap date.
Juan McCain has not yet begun to infuriate us. Obama’s filibuster buster.
More like a diseased, skanky fifty-cent whore.
big question is....why did he win the primaries?...oh, thats right ...we so called conservatives and Republicans decided to eat our own and forced by our indifferance Thompson and Rudy out...as well as Mitt....all of who could have given a better preformance than McInsane.....
instead of coming together, we were at each others throats....
and then enough decided they didn't want to vote this year and others decided to give third party candidates their vote, thus ensuring the Rats take many Senate seats and the presidency.....
Yikes! Please remove that horrible visual image.
You know full well that I voted third-party for POTUS, and I do not regret that vote one bit. McCain screwed the pooch with his bailout (i.e., Socialist pork festival) escapade.
I also voted third-party for Senator in Virginia. But don't worry: it wouldn't have mattered regardless. Gilmore ran a pathetic campaign that was DOA.
there isn't one Rat that has done the country well since maybe Kennedy...
not Carter..not Johnson...not Clinton...and now, not the barrista....
keep voting third party and we'll get more barristas and less Reagans....
Sorry.
But anyways, here, have another one. (chuckle)
The only person I remember 'bitterly' fighting for the Presidency was Obama-- with Acorn, his thugs blocking polling places...
I remember McCain spending much of his time defending Obama, actually.
Here we just have to give Obama credit. He’s knows a backstabbing, turncoat, double-crossing attention craving little egomaniac when he sees one.
third party candidates may be okay for very local offices where you have a chance...but state and federal officies....its impossible...
McCain is not his rival.
Did he use his middle finger, this time too?
http://investigatingobama.blogspot.com/2008/11/obamas-middle-finger-give-flip-to.html
“McCain, a stalking horse for the one????”
-You know, if you believe all the theories about the Powers That Be (PTB), you’d half to say it’s a distinct possibility. Imagine all of us stupid clods, believing we are in a democracy when all of this is being deciced over brandy and cigars at the Green Briar or something.
What a sick world if that’s the case? Makes you pray that God will one day get mighty pissed and teach these people a lesson.
Touché.
I must be blind, but I actually thought that the old asshat had made a brilliant move with pickin Gov Palin...
in hindsight I clearly see that he indeed, as usual, screwed the pooch and backstabbed us all because he truly thought that she would be the death of his campaign instead of a lightning rod...
now we have a bought and paid for,filibuster proofed, communist majority in both houses being 'led' by an AFRICAN-american 'Constitutional' lawyer that hasnt even met the most basic requirement of city council, much less President... rule of law is dead, contract has been broken, check the tag if you wonder which side Im lined up with...
We've yet to figure out that it's a political club and none of us are members -- we're just the ripped-off, unpaid, "hired help" for their schemes!
I predict John will be biting his tongue by Wednesday afternoon.
Okay, I am confused. Can anyone point out to me where John McCain fought bitterly to win the election?
Projectile Vomit Alert
It was the half-second he announced Sarah Palin as his running mate. Y’know, if you blinked, you missed it.
I disagree about Palin being thrown to wolves. She comes out of this with more name recognition than McCain or Biden. Obama voters know more about her than they do about Obama. Not being included in that Senate circle of socialists is a huge plus, imo.
The one bright spot of his campaign, elevating Sarah Palin to the national stage. People questioned why McCain didn’t send Palin out to rallies by herself. The reason he didn’t was because she was outdrawing him something fierce and would only go to show how pathetic he was.
At this stage, rabscuttle285, there are even no more chunks of vomitum left for the proverbial FR “Barf Alert!”
It’s not the same effect as voting rat, the GOP loses a vote but the rat doesn’t gain one. It has half the effect.
Before the vote I lambasted anyone who said they weren’t voting McStain, in the future I’m not going to criticize people who won’t vote for RINO losers as bad as him. McCain is more like a JFK democrat than a conservative Republican.
I voted for him and a worthless RINO loser for Senate who was assured of losing big, really I was just voting for the party to register my support for a Republican Senate in a year I knew we were gonna lose a bunch of seats. It was a symbolic vote either way, Trick Durbin was assured of talking over 60%.
If Obama ushers in a dangerous paradigm shift to the left as I fear I’ll stand by my vote for McLame as justified despite his suckage. If he messes up and allows the GOP to make a comeback in 2010 (a mid term gain would be very unlikely under a President McQueeg) and 2012 (with a non RINO Presidental nominee) that would provide justification that it was a good thing McStain didn’t win.
If I knew what would’ve happened in Bush’s second term I’d voted Libertarian or Constitution party for President in 2004.
There’s the Supreme court to consider of course but we’d have better off if Kerry had won. GOP would have scored midterm gains in 2006. And after the VP Edwards sex scandal and financial crisis Kerry would been defeated in 2008. Hopefully a Republican base motivated to do something (Beat Kerry) would have nominated someone better than McCain who almost accepted Kerry’s proposal of gay marriage, I mean excepted Kerry’s offer to be his running mate. Yes the GOP nominated a man who seriously considered leaving the party and joining Kerry.
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