<p>McCain’s potty mouth doesn’t bother me in the least (although if he did call his wife a c***, I’d have a problem with that). However, his famous, hair-trigger temper DOES concern me, as does the possibility that he’s not as mentally sharp as used to be. He’s had lots of slip-ups and misspeaks lately, enough to make one wonder. … I don’t see Obama the same way you do. Not at all.</p>
<p>The criticism that Obama didn’t care about the troops is so bogus. On the very day he was expected to go, he gets a call from the Pentagon telling him he can’t go with the staff he has with him. It’s against the rules. They were very clear that they didn’t want him to go, so he didn’t. I don’t think Presidential candidates go anywhere without some kind of staff to do the advance work. They saw no way to legitimately make it not a part of this campaign trip.
Obama should have made it more clear in the beginning why he felt he had to call it off, and maybe McCain wouldn’t have jumped on it. Maybe.</p>
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<p>McCain needs to announce his VP (Romney, if he’s smart) and start talking about the economy. Following Obama and trying to react and criticise every little step only makes him look weak.</p>
<p>I’ve wondered lately if it would be possible for the Republicans to have a “do over” for their nomination.</p>
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<p>Thank you, cronie! McCain needs to shut up about Obama and start selling his own agenda to the American people. (Though I hope he doesn’t pick Romney.)</p>
<p>I agree that it probably won’t be Romney. Romney spent $$$$ of his own money to find out that Republicans aren’t comfortable with the idea of an LDS president (no matter how conservative he claims to be). I doubt those same people would be comfortable voting for a ticket that included Romney running with a guy in his 70s.</p>
<p>“I’ve wondered lately if it would be possible for the Republicans to have a “do over” for their nomination.”</p>
<p>He’s not nominated yet, and he may get confused as to what city the nomination is supposed to take place. (Maybe he should change Packers/Steelers to Vikings as a memory device.) I know that’s cruel, and the thing is, I once voted for him - but this is a different “him”.</p>
<p>Romney is the least scary of the other Republicans who ran with McCain. While I prefer Obama on the issues, I’d much rather see a strong, smart, competent and slightly more moderate conservative on the Republican ticket such as Romney, in case McCain were to win. We need someone who is at the top of his game at this very important time, both domestically and abroad. I seriously worry that McCain is not up to the task.</p>
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<p>I believe the military were even going to supply some photogs for the visit.</p>
<p>Guess if he couldn’t exploit the visit for his own political gain then he wasn’t interested. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>And then where does he get off saying that he canceled the trip “out of respect for the soldiers”?</p>
<p>Messiah -> Pariah
How long will it take?</p>
<p>Oh, man, that Obama is just pure evil! :D</p>
<p>Hindoo - glad you’ve seen the light! :)</p>
<p>I have to say I wish that Obama had gone on that visit to the wounded soldiers. He could have gone all alone, since his campaign staff was not allowed. He does visit soldiers at Walter Reed and without fanfare. I think the excuse for not going is rather lame.</p>
<p>marite–He’s probably being “handled” to within an inch of his life. I think that’s pretty much the norm these days in the world of high-level political campaigns. Alas.</p>
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<p>I told y’all earlier in the thread that someone needs to shave his head to find the 666 ;)</p>
<p>Anyone seen the sequels to the Omen -</p>
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<p>HUH? Could it be? I hear tubular bells in the background (oh wait, wrong movie, that was the Exorcist)</p>
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<p>starring… Bobby Jindal!! Couldn’t resist.</p>
<p>GOOD one! 
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<p>marite - you got a chuckle out of me w/ that one! Funny!</p>
<p>Isn’t there something about the antichrist being a “smooth talker” or something like that? I was going to look it up, but I didn’t really want to give credence to the idea that Obama could be anything but a newbie who has overestimated his own suitablilty for POTUS. (I know he has lots of support, but the dems do need a candidate & I attribute his nomination to the “Anybody But Hillary” effect).</p>
<p>“I have to say I wish that Obama had gone on that visit to the wounded soldiers.”</p>
<p>He DID visit the combat support hospital and wounded soldiers in Baghdad, and didn’t make a big deal about it.</p>
<p>But we get so caught up in the McCain-biased media that McCain even gets to dictate what gets discussed.</p>
<p>This part of the tour was not an official Senate visit, as the DOD said it had to be in order to be allowed. The other two senators (when they visited the hospitals previously) had left the tour, along with the Senate staff. At this point, it was only his campaign staff that he was travelling with. The hospital visit was to be a stopover between two campaign speeches, and it had been planned by the campaign staff. In other words, it was a campaign event, not a official senate event. There is no way he could have gone legitimately in as anything other than as part of the campaign at that point.<br>
The visit had been previously approved, but apparently at the last minute someone in the DOD looked carefully at the rules and decided that it shouldn’t be allowed as planned. Had he finagled it and had his campaign waiting at the entrance, it still would have been a campaign tour event. </p>
<p>Then we would have heard his detractors saying he was flaunting the rules. I don’t see this as an excuse, but as the campaign trying to make the best of a situation. He would have much preferred to go in.</p>
<p>Okay, I’m all for the “anybody but Hillary” effect, but choosing the antichrist is going a bit too far! ;)</p>
<p>Poor Bobby, I think he’s going to have to wait for a starring role on the biggest of political stages…</p>
<p>You’re starting to scare me with this “antichrist” talk, bz. I thought he’d already arrived and has been sitting in the Oval Office these past eight years. ;)</p>
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<p>NO, Bush is too stupid to be the spawn of satan.</p>