McSame, "But I am running for the office of Commander-in-Chief."

Would somebody tell him he is a candidate for the "Office of President of the United States." It's not only about killing scary brown people, it's also leading the rest of the country; specifically setting the tone of the discussion.

We cannot take 4 more years of the this hateful, kill first then kill some more policy.

THE FIRST RESPONSIBILITY OF THE PRESIDENT IS TO UPHOLD THE CONSTITUTION!!

DK, "McCain Blows his top". About the 3 or 4th paragraph. What an asshat.

Seems those front pagers missed it.

JESUS WAS NOT A REPUBLICAN....SO WHY IS MCCAIN GOING AFTER ALL THESE INSANE PREACHERS OF HATE WITH LOOSE SCREWS AT EVERY MOVING PART?

McCain was never a man of principle; he was a man of I want it, gIVE it for me, or I'll grab it myself. Sounds familiar? Maybe Mrs. Mommy Bush and Mrs. Mommy McCain should be given truth serum and made to talk to the press about how their their little boys George and John, respectively, got to be this way. We may note a lot of similarity in the way daddy's name was repeatedly used as a cover and to put son at the front of the line ahead of the more deserving....THAT'S A GOOD START FOR MAKING THE CASE THAT MCCAIN IS FOUR MORE YEARS OF BUSH.

Again, don't look at Vietnam-- where McCain participated and Bush evaded, like Bill Clinton. Look at how they flowered. Normally I wouldn't hit at McCain because I too had illusions about he being a straight guy....But now I realize that he's as queer as a three dollar bill ("queer" as not straight forward, up front and candidd....not a straight truth express). McCain's main problem is that for him Wash DC was a palypen, not a place where he goes to serve the people who sent him there and do very serious things. His office is not renown for constituents services, if you're not an able contributor, I'm told by family in Arizona and he's not known for putting the well being of the little people ahead of the big ones. And looking at McCain from Congress to Senate one sees a straight line to a potential Bush in the White house for four more years...If there's room for doubt about that, looking at how he campaigns one sees a true-blue Bush. So, what kind of Bush would he be as President? Well, the kind Bush would be 10 years from now and that's scary because people who finally grow up at 40 and get old at 70 don't seem to have much time to put a lot of software into their hardware.

Let's compare him to Obama. Obama is a neophite who RIGHT FROM THE START chose to make his campaign a CHANGE from the campaigns of others so that, when he wins the presidency, the change in camapigning would position him on a straight line to change Wash DC. That's what attracted me to him most, his cocool consistency and his control in the face of slander and indecency.

I am stricken by this man's demeener compared to, let us say, Jesse Jackson. I can understand the reluctance of those elderly Jews in Florida who spoke to the NY Times and expressed reluctance to vote for a "SHWARTZA," given their experience with Jackson....Not that I think it less racist, but it is based on the big bruhaha over his "Hyme Town" characterization of NYC. But one would hope that enough of the Jewish tradition would have survived in these elder Jews so they might look BEYOND the mere similarity of color (off by a few shades, but let's let that pass).

WHAT OUTRAGES ME IS HOW HILLARY WORKED THESE OLD PEOPLE WITH BAD MEMORIES, PROVOKING FEAR, FROM DECADES AGO, WHO CAN'T SEE THE DIFFERENCE OF SHADES AND JUDGE A PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE, LITERALLY ONLY SKIN DEEP. AND, IN CASE THEY DIDN'T MAKE THE CONNECTION, SHE LEFT IT TO PRESIDENT BILLO (HE SOUNDED LIKE BILLO, NOT LIKE THE CLINTON I THOUGHT I KNEW) TO INVOKE JACKSON IN A MANNER AS CRUDE AS THE TENNESSEE REPUBLICANS' USE OF A BLOND CHICK TO TURN WHITES AGAINST FORD IN THEIR CAMPAIGN COMMERCIAL.

I GUESS IN THAT CONTEXT MCCAIN THOUGHT HE COULD GET AWAY WITH HUGGING REVEREND HAGEE LONG ENOUGH FOR FUNDAMENTALISTS TO SAY: "BY GOD MCCAIN IS A DEFENDER OF WHITE-SUPREMIST CHRISTIAN AMERICA THAT WILL BRING ABOUT THE RAPTURE THROUGH SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL'S NUCLEAR ARMEGGEDON!"

AND THEN, ONCE MCCAIN'S BONA FIDES ARE ESTABLISHED WITH THE JESUS FREAKS, HE CAN DUMP HAGEE AND GO AFTER THE ENTREPRENEURS WHO WANT, NOT ONLY THE DICE LOADED THEIR WAY, BUT THE POT ALSO MADE BIGGER. THAT WAY, HE THOUGHT, HE COULD BAG THE METAPHYSICISTS AND THE MATERIALISTS ONE AFTER THE OTHER.

SO MCCAIN HUNG ON TO HAGEE & CO'S "EVENGELICAL" ENDORSEMENT ALL THROUGH THEIR INSISTANCE THAT THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IS THE WHORE OF THE DEVIL....THAT THE NEW ORLEANS DESERVED TO KATRINA FLOOD BECAUSE THAT "SODAM" WAS A DEN OF GAYS PARADING...AND THAT "GOMORA," NEW YORK, HAD 9/11 COMING BECAUSE IT WAS ALLOWING GAY PARADES TOO.......ON AND ON AND ON...IT WAS ALL FINE FOR MCCAIN *UNTIL*-- OH MY GOD!-- HAGEE WENT OFF AND DESCRIBED HITLER AS THE AGENT OF GOD'S WILL SO THE SURVIVING JEWS COULD CRAWL OUT FROM THE ROCKS AND STATR THE STATE OF ISRAEL. DON'T YOU BELIVE IT, HAGEE HAD SAID THAT OFTEN BEFORE-- ON TAPE-- WITH NOTHING TO HIDE!

I guess Catholics, Louisinanians and New Yorkers can be passed up for the teeming masses of enraptured fruit cakes in Middle America, but not when the Holocaust victims are deemd victims of God's Will so that Israel can again come into being: unacceptable because McCain needs their campaign contributuins....This is not something that suddenly happened yesterday; but McCain's campaign figured that if the neocons and Likudniks still honor this fat maniac, he could too and still roll in the Jewish cash....BUT NOT WHEN IT BECAME PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE!

Now they have a new line: Hagee was not McCain's pastor for 20 years. DO YOU SEE THE TYPICAL KARK ROVE BUSHIT IN THAT?....THAT'S ALL THERE IS TO THE MCCAIN STRAIGHT TALK EXPRESS--*BUSHIT* TO GREASE THE WHEELS.

McCain will suffer from his own mental frailty because he's going to be ambushed with all these things and he will panic as he tries to first make light of it...then lie his way out of it...or, finally, blow his top and try to smoke it out of sight in rage. Bit by bit, the truth-myth will disappear, the "express will slow down and the inner works will be very visible. Finally, the streight decelerate into a downward curve, in line with Newtonian physics, heading toward the center of the earth-- which we call "the planet's center of gravity" but Hagee calls "HELL"!

So, fellow Catholics, remember that McCain chose and stood by *HIS* POLITICAL pastor, expecting Hagee's anti-Catholic kind of people to be "his base." So what about it....well, we Waps and Mics and Polaks and Bohonks, we are expected to go for McCain no matter what because we have no choice but to say: I DON'T WANT A NIGGER IN THE *WHITE* HOUSE!

I hope my kids remember this: THE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT IN 2008 HAND PICKED HIS CAMPAIGN'S POLITICAL PASTORS-- *HIS* PASTORS, FOR HE DID NOT SIT IN THE PEWS WITH THEM AT THE PULPIT, PERFORMING A CHURCH SERVICE. INSTEAD, MCCAIN CAME TO STAND NEXT TO THEM AT THE PULPIT TO HONOR THEM, HUG THEM AND GRATEFULLY ACCEPT THEIR *POLITICAL* ENDORSEMENT-- so much for the separation of church and state....THEIR POLITICAL ENDORSEMENT OF MCCAIN IS EXACTLY WHAT HE WANTED AND HE KNEW WHY THEY WERE GIVING IT TO THEM BECAUSE HE NEGOTIATED HARD TO GET IT...SO THEY ARE *HIS* POLITICAL PASTORS THAT *HE* WALKED ON HIS KNEES TO GET.

McCain knew all about the Wright sacandal and thus musat have "vetted" his CHOSEN PASTORS-- THE ONES HE *CHOSE* TO APPEAR WITH HIM--> THEN HE HUGGED--> PRAISED THEM--> AND THANKED THEM PROFUSELY FOR THEIR ENDORSEMENT. I wonder if he was wearing knee pads!

When he did that, McCain accepted that America is an Evangelical Jesus-freaks nation and that he will do their will as their servant, for they would expect nothing less for their endorsement....They make that clear to all candidates they support, from dog-catcher on up. And all this about how Jews were brought to the WILL OF GOD through his instrument HITLER and the HOLOCAUST so that Israel could be imposed on the Jews of the world, McCain figured must be OK because Zionists all over the world and in Israel were fetting Hagee as a hero in Jerusalem just last week. WHAT MCCAIN FAILED TO UNDERSTAND IS THAT THE NEOCONS-- TO WHOM HE SOLD HIS SOUL-- HELD IN THE HAND OF MCCAIN'S LITTLE MINDER DEMON, LIEBERMAN-- DO *NOT* SPEAK FOR THE JEWS. THEY ARE A BAND of SECULAR NON_OBSERVANT EX-COMMIES AS INSANE AS HAGEE, WHO LIE PRETENDING THAT THEY SPEAK FOR ALL JEWS AND CALLING ANY JEW WHO OPPOSE THEM, "SELF-HATING JEW." THEY ALSO THINK ALL AMERICAN CHRISTIANS TO BE NOTHING BUT "DUMB GOYIM." AND SINCE WE'RE DUMB GOYIM, THEY PLAY US DUMB STEER ALONG UNTIL WE'RE CORALED INTO THE REPUBLICAN SLAUGHTER HOUSES.

NOW, AS USUAL, *LATE* MCCAIN MAY BE REALIZING THAT LIEBERMAN AND THE NEOCONS ARE JUST MORE FRUIT CAKES WHO THINK THEY OWN HIS SOUL BECAUSE HE STOOD WITH THEM TO THANK THEM FOR THEIR ENDORSEMENT, AS HE DID WITH *HIS* POLITICAL PASTORS....THIS IS WHAT SHOWS THE MCCAIN CHARACTER-- HIS ATTEMPTED STUPID SCHOLL BOY LIE THAT HAGEE IS NOT "MY PASTOR FOR 20 YEARS."

NO, SENATOR MCCAIN, HE IS NOT YOUR PASTOR OF 20 YEARS, HE IS YOUR POLITICAL PASTOR *NOW*! THE FAT OX YOU RIDE NOW BECAUSE HE'S CONVENENENT. AND ALL THE BULLSHIT TRAIL HE LEAVES BEHIND IS ALL THERE IS OF THE TIRE MARKS OF YOUR STRAIGHT TALK EXPRESS.

You're too old to do magic tricks, Senator McCain. You will end your life losing a presidential campaign. That places you below Bushit GW Bush who at least won, by hook or crook, the presidency twice....So once more, by acting as a low life you will again establish that you are a lesser low life than GW Bush. But the scumbag "experts" you hired-- much like your previous ones-- those ex-"true friends" of yours who previously went through all your campaign money before you could say: "what the...?"-- are duping you into thinking that you can back out of any cesspool into which your drive full trottle and act as if your Staight talk bus is not full of shit.

For a lot of POW collegues of yours November 2008 will be a sweet revenge, for you will then be seen by the whole nation much as they had seen you for so long. But if you have any dignity left, put it ahead of your avarice for the Oval Office and decide to lose honorably instead of lose like a dirty lecher.

SURE, SURE, THE RACE CARD IS IN YOUR BACK-POCKET. BUT AS YOU STROKE IT CONFIDENTLY WITH YOUR FINGERS HAVE A LOOK AND SEE IF YOUR FLY IS OPEN. GUYS OUR AGE TEND TO FORGET OUR FLY OPEN, SOMETIMES WE EVEN TO RETRACT OUR HARDWARE....SO DON'T BE SMART BY HALF, TRYING TO RECRUIT ALL THOSE RIGHT-WING SCUMBAGS WHOM WE BOTH KNOW EXACTLY WHAT THEY ARE. TAKE A POSITION YOU'D BE WILLING TO DIE FOR AND DIE HONORABLY. IF YOU LOSE WITH DIGNITY, YOU WILL REDEEM YOURSELF AND *ONLY THEN* WILL YOU BE HONORED AS THE STAIGHT TALK EXPRESS.

If you want to put emphasis on some of your words, you can do so with a little "html".

There is a link to a handy look-up table above the message box when you are writing your comment/reply.

There are two of them, one for smilies and the other for making words bold or italic.

and leaves both hands free for "recreation".

...we both know where our hands have been.

The office McCain is seeking, the only office for which he admits he is qualified is commander-in-chief. McCain does not want to bother with all those nasty little Constitutional add-ons such as titular Head of State, leader of the Cabinet, treaty making or policy/program creation. He just wants to fly Air Force One and make wars. Could he make it any more clear?

...will he change the oath?

Now that I reread it and now that he is okay with torture, I believe he will execute the office.

That kind of thinking gets people killed. Fucking asshole.

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Plot strats? Did he demo Leadership over a whole group, like a Commander of an air craft carrier...?

In the realm of Commanders...McCain is a ROOKIE....he was a PILOT....not a Leader, a bomber is not a Leader...

...James Stockdale

(It seems the GOP followers are altering Stockdale's Wikip*dia page in the hopes of not making their boy Johnny look bad.)

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It is a function or duty of the officeholder of "President of the United States" and only applies to those in the military.

Someone should tell these repuke idiots to read the Constitution.

I had two CinC's when I was in the military, Ford and Carter, and haven't had one since.

...claiming Bush** is "our" commander in chief at every opportunity.

Uh, not if you aren't in the military -- which most of you aren't, you chickenshit morans.

To American civilians, the person who inhabits the WH is the President. Or as in the current case, the pResident Evil.