McCain to crowd: 'Don't be scared' of Obama presidency [**FLASHBACK 10/11/2008**]

CNN - Political Ticker ^ | 2008-10-11

[rabscuttle385]

LAKEVILLE, Minnesota (CNN) – John McCain heard boos at a town hall meeting Friday night after the Republican presidential nominee called for the crowd to be more respectful towards rival Barack Obama.

“We would like you to remain a true American hero,” an elderly military veteran told him. “We want you to fight.”

“I will fight, but we will be respectful,” McCain said. “I admire Senator Obama and his accomplishments and I will respect him.”

When the crowd began to boo, McCain told them “No, no. I want everyone to be respectful.”

[Melinda]

Sorry, but I think posting old articles to keep the hate stirred up for this man shows strange and obsessive behavior. And so will the comments I'll no doubt receive for that opinion. But honestly, we get it already. For those who don't, they never will.

[kabar]

You can thank open and winner-take-all primaries for that. McCain became the presumptive nominee of the party with just 31% of the primary vote. And he was the only top tier candidate of either party who could not win his home state primary with 50% or more of the vote. The MSM and the GOP establishment [read RINOs] helped nominate the oldest man ever to get the first time nomination of his party and package him as “change” despite the fact that he had been in Washnington for more than 30 years.

[dk/coro]

“In the long run, I think the GOP will be better off...”

Although I will not split hairs on that statement, I suggest that students of history re-read closely the waning days of the Weimer Republic in Germany, circa 1933; and examine closely the subtleties of Hitler's rise to power — and the incremental successes of National Socialism; endorsed and supported by an exhausted German populace.

In the period following the 1933 installation of Hitler as Chencellor, the internal dissent was essentially fragmented — but dealt with by the political leadership with increasing brutality and effectiveness.

And, please remember that the timespan between the advent of National Socialism in 1933 Germany to Chamberlain’s “Munich” capitulation was well short of two U.S. Presidential terms.

The rest is history — with the utter destruction of the Fatherland and the deaths of 10 million humans.

Not to worry. Nothing like that could ever happen to the United States of America.

Right !!! And, I just happen to have a bridge to sell you.

Rant over. /dk/coro

[dbrew2u]

McCain said. “I admire Senator Obama and his accomplishments and I will respect him.”

Yep...he stated this just before he lost another Presidential Election .

[Peter Libra]

I had the impression that John was bone weary already. Not a criticism, but considering his past and age, it was an inevitable situation. He realized that a successful election campaign would literally doom him. Yes, doom him as they tried to doom a much younger and fitter President George W. Bush. Today, I warrant there could hardly be two more happier men inwardly. John seemed to gain a more youthful appearance - AFTER he lost. GWB has earned that, no doubt, observing the scene today.

John knows just what he was doing. IMHO

[Semper Mark]

After Palin’s speech at the convention, it—was—over!
And then came the orchestrated financial crisis and it was over again...over for McCain.

His actions when the crisis first hit, if he weren’t so pitiful, it would have been comical. I have to wonder what a wealthy 72 year old man could even want at that stage in his life, that would be worth selling his country out for.

[kittymyrib]

McCain is a poster boy for term limits. He has lost it.

[rogue yam]

He has lost it.

He lost whatever he had in the Hanoi Hilton.

[OKSooner]

"But I have to tell you, I have to tell you, he is a decent person, and a person that you do not have to be scared as President of the United States. "

That particular sentence is the point at which Yosemite Sam lost the election.

How decent of him.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

John is senile!

[Vaduz]

Republican presidential nominee my question what idiot alloewd him on the list to run of president must be the same one that put Dole on the list smelles like somebody too bribes from the democrat party hooker photos in safe?

[Broker]

Watch Obama’s rhetoric in action: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=77052

[TheOldLady]

Absolutely. But I’m not thanking them and can’t post on a nice, decent forum what I am thinking about them.

[AmericanSphinx71]

I am still convinced McCain threw the election. He allowed Palin to be maligned and Obama to be president to punish the Conservatives he so desperately hates.

[rabscuttle385]

Sorry, but I think posting old articles to keep the hate stirred up for this man shows strange and obsessive behavior. And so will the comments I'll no doubt receive for that opinion. But honestly, we get it already. For those who don't, they never will.

ping!

[EagleUSA]

He makes FDR and Carter look like conservatives.
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The tragic fact that Obama got elected, shows how liberals run on PURE EMOTION accompanied by a total lack of attention TO FACTS. How do you define a country where half of the electorate are self-centered, ignorant village idiots??

A socialist country??

[Syncro]

Sorry, but I think posting old articles to keep the hate stirred up for this man shows strange and obsessive behavior.

That is not why this was posted.

To color it in that light is disingenuous to put it mildly.

And to post a false reason for it's posting and then say it shows "strange and obsessive behavior" is...well kinda strange and obsessive.

And so will the comments I'll no doubt receive for that opinion.

If you wish to mischaracterize my comments to you in this reply falsely as that, I'm sorry you don't see how you are in error here.

Yes, "we" get it.

The thousands of people that have signed up at Free Republic (and the tens of thousands of lurkers) since Nov 2008 need to see this and be reminded (or shown for the first time) of McCain's political nature.

Those that are intimidated by your histrionical comments, well that's a shame but your mission was accomplished.

Yes, there are some over the top comments about McCain, but he brought it upon himself.

The shameful, spiteful, envious way he treated Sarah Palin from the very beginning was despicable.

[nathanbedford]

This argument over John McCain is but one more skirmish in the war for the soul of the Republican Party. The argument is not over whether John McCain has been castigated enough for being an ineffectual candidate. The argument is whether the party should go left or right in searching for a path out of the wilderness. So John McCain is attacked because he is a figure of the RINOS in the party.

The RINOS do the same thing every day when a fresh article comes out denigrating Sarah Palin as one did concerning her problems finding McCain operatives with whom she could comfortably pray.

I agree it would be better if we argued issues rather than personalities but that is not human nature. As Saul Alinsky said, personalize your enemy, fix him and destroy him. We are in the midst of a Darwinian struggle for the soul of the Republican Party and, therefore, for the soul of the nation. We cannot do this except when we are in the wilderness where we are today. The process must go on and it must be brutal if it is to be effective. One side must kill the other and articulate a message so compelling that it draws the world to us. We cannot compromise our way out of the minority. We have to become pure and tempered.

[Cheetahcat]

McQueeg Rat Quisling Liar and Saboteur.

[ChrisInAR]

McCain is a poster boy for term limits. He has lost it.

Term limits are totally unnecessary, & are currently unconstitutional @ the federal level. If the voters would get their head out & start supporting OTHER candidates, term limits would be a moot issue....but the problem is that they don't: they keep on going back to the same old RINO candidates election after election & then support limiting the choices I (& everyone else) get to make when things don't go their way. It's insane!