You don't have to go past #1. He's into another generational commitment, when we haven't finished our involvement in South Korea, the Philippines, Japan, Germany, Israel and numerous undercover operations in South America.

Now that the Republicans have outsourced so many jobs to Asia and imported so many new dependents from Mexico and South America....who in the hell is going to pay for all these foreign entanglements? Not the rich. They got their permanent tax cuts. We didn’t.

McCain would do well to concentrate on formulating plans to rebuild middle class America and protecting our border rather than adopting Iraq. All the Republicans care more about their multinational corporate interests than they do their own countrymen.

If they don’t want to be Americans anymore, why don’t the Republicans move to Dubai? Nobody will miss their arrogance, incompetence, or corruption.

McCain is running as a stealth candidate in his own party. Go figure.

Maybe w is buying a little lot in Paraguay for John,too? They may as well all move there, because after w is done it`s hard to see any of them having a job.That`s O.k. you can all take leave of this country.

I actually don't care what's wrong with John McCain. I can tell you what's wrong with Democrats. What I'm hearing from the average clear thinking reasonable American is, with the present Democrat field of hopefuls for president, the only ones who really make them think about voting for them, are Dennis Kucinich and Barack Obama. Here's why, people are saying including myself, everyone of the Democrat hopefuls except Dennis Kucinich and Barack Obama voted to give the president permission to go to war with Iraq. What the hopefuls are saying is, "if they knew then what they know now, they wouldn't have voted for the war." To make a long story short, what they're really saying is they were misled, dooped, fooled, bamboozled by George Bush. The average American is saying, "if the hopefuls were misled and bamboozled by a person with George Bush limited mental capacity, then why should we believe they won't be misled and bamboozled by our enemies."

LOL allcaddesign,

I am in complete agreement. All the dems AND republicans who voted for this war should resign. Barack Obama is the only candidate I will support. John McCain is arrogant and dumb. He actually thinks he knows better than the majority of Americans. I not only hope he loses his party's nomination in 08' I hope he loses his seat in the senate the next election cycle. Whatever respect I had for him because of him for being a war veteran is long gone after his current behavior. Can anyone post a clip of him on Jon Stewart where he tells the American people what side they're on? Maybe put it on youtube?

oops nevermind,

Just scrolled further down on the blog, its there.

cheers

What's wrong with McCain?
At this point, wouldn't it be easier to list what's right with McCain?

Sen. McCain is about the only war veteran I know of that is a war hawk. It seems to me that by far the majority of war veterans have become doves. His comments "Bomb, Bomb, and Bomb" refering to Iran worries me. God help us if we get another President that thinks we'll improve our standing with the world by being more aggresive. God help us if we get another President that thinks our standing in the world isn't important!

How low this once good man has sunk.

The Daily Show provided serious proof of McCains decline on two occasions. The first was when he appeared on Stewart's show last night. McCain had to resort to comparing his position and comments with that of Dick Cheneys, just to make his look better.
Stewart's questions were deadly. And the roar of applause for that 'America' answer really brought tears to my eyes
The night before, at the tail end of the show where Jon signs of in a flurry of applause and gives the name of his guest for the following night. The minute he said McCain, the entire audience stopped applauding and booed.
So:

Dear John,
It's over.
Love,
America!

**
I do have good BREAKING NEWS news from Arizona. Well good for Democrats and the world but extra nails to McCain.

A new poll just came out:
"Arizonans ready to set troop-withdrawal deadline"
They support the Democrats plan by a 9 point margin! 51% to 42%
http://www.azdailysun.com/articles/2007/04/25/news/20070425_front%20page_7.txt

To Governor Dean:
The last two Arizona congressional elections were ignored by Emanuel's DCCC. And our state's Demcratic party is pretty weak.
Rick Renzi and McCain are very vulnerable in 08!

FBI and FEC investigations combined with his being named the #13 most corrupt politician in America open Renzi to a final defeat here in my district #1.

Please help us find 2 lions to run for these seats! And start asking Arizonans for special donations for a major Democratic effort here! We need your people here.
Sadly half of our local volunteers never showed up last time because they just weren't pumped up enough to believe we could win.

Help Arizona elect its first Democratic Senator!

I was there at the announcement and sent this impression to my DFA group:

If you're a presidential candidate it's not a good idea to drive your big blue bus into a dead end, so you have to back out when your speech is done and the wags on the street observe that it might just be significant that to start your campaign you have to back up.

McCain's visit to Portsmouth was a sorry event. They'd bused in busloads of people from Massachusetts and there were vehicles with MA plates parked throughout the neighborhoods. The hot dog vendor had been contracted to provide free dogs, but the drinks had to be paid. There was a pen for protestors inside the park, but a bunch of us preferred to stand on the grass of the approach to the bridge.

McCain's big blue bus with blacked out windows arrrived a little late and pulled right into the park so McCain wouldn't have to walk but a few feet to the microphones. We didn't hear much of his speech. It seemed very flat and there was little applause. The most common words were "no" "challenge" and "opportunity." Although there was a hint about people caring about something other than themselves, McCain made a big point of enumerating things HE wasn't going to accept (high unemployment, government waste, abused soldiers).

When he was about done, a dark blue suburban drove up over the curb and parked on our grassy embankment and disgorged what the peacenics thought were Secret Service because they had wires in their ears. Since I don't think Senators are entitled to Secret Service protection before the primary is even held, I sort of egged on people who wanted to object to this illegal parking. Typically, the driver said he'd gotten permission from the police to leave his vehicle essentially interfering with traffic and although one traffic cop seemed not to be imterested, one of the group got another one who negotiated with the "security" people and got them to move along. They thanked us protestors "for coming" and then added "that's what America is all about." To which I responded that it's not about illegal parking; it's about people obeying the law.
Not that I think it really matters since McCain looks like toast.

There was a fellow, wearing a carboncoalition sticker who wanted to argue about pulling the troops out of Iraq. He's a really confused fellow who's obviously looking for a strong leader who will make the federal government do things like promote rural electrification like they did back home in Nebraska. He seemed genuinely fearful of Islamists coming over to bomb him and glad that we are dropping bombs on them so they won't come here later.
What would seem to be important is to let folks like him know that Democrats know what they are doing.

To make a long story short, what they're really saying is they were misled, dooped, fooled, bamboozled by George Bush. The average American is saying, "if the hopefuls were misled and bamboozled by a person with George Bush limited mental capacity, then why should we believe they won't be misled and bamboozled by our enemies."Posted by allcaddesign on April 25, 2007 at 05:10 PM

I think you are forgetting what the mood and attitude in the country was like back then,. They WERE misled by tampered with intelligence that they believed, because they were still in shock, disbelief, grief, anger over 9/11, and the WH was also immensely sucessful in turning any single display of questioning into anti-american or un-patriotic acts.

Although many like myself did not see the reason at that time to take our men out of Afghanistan and send them to Iraq, these Senators and Representatives were being told that Saddam had nuclear weapons which could reach mainland USA.

I watched Bill Moyers on PBS last night, showing how the Media played right along with Bush and sold the war to the public too. This was one huge effort to convince Congress as well as the public that it was the right thing to do.

So I can understand WHY these politicians bought into it. What I don't understand is WHY Republicans now refuse to admit they too were misled and lied to.

I also watched LIVE House speeches last night as the Iraqi Supplemental was discussed. Republican after Republican got up and said the Same Rhetoric over and over. That Democrats were not supporting the troops. YET, the Democrats were saying "We are GIVING the troops the money, it is the President with a veto who is not supporting the troops".

Yet do you know how many Americans watching that, still easily swayed, naive and gullible believed the Republicans??? Boggles the mind!

MCCAIN NEEDS TO APOLOGIZE FOR HIS COMMENTS OR JOKE HE MADE ON THE DAILY SHOW ABOUT THROWING IED THAT ARE KILLING OUR TROOPS IN IRAQ UNDER JON STEWART'S DESK. REMEMBER JOHN KERRY WHEN MCCAIN WAS THE FIRST TO CONDEMN HIM AND DEMAND HE APOLOGIZE.

I think that bashing McCain as being "too old" is absolutely hypocritical and contrary to the Democratic belief in non-discrimination. I would never vote for him, but his age has nothing to do with that. And what is #7 regarding McCain not being a governor all about? We have lost enough presidential elections by nominating Senators (as opposed to governors), yet still have not learned our lesson. I just wish we could find legitimate grounds on which to oppose McCain... although US politics seems devoid of truth and rationality these days.

After the voters spoke in 2006,i cannot believe this guy is running/ He must be another Bush.

I'm going to reject items 2-6 on the notion that John McCain has to rally his own political party. I really wish that there comes a time when independent voters are courted by political parties BY BEING ALLOWED TO VOTE in the primary elections. Perhaps that's when we start getting our politicians' gut reaction.

His stance on the Iraq war has been a difficult one. Everyone who voted for that war has that albatross hanging on their neck, but few publically accepts it. President Bush so badly bungled the last four (or is it five?) years, and every sitting Republican should be shamed for not giving the President their honest criticism or not speaking their conscience.

John McCain has the very same Albatross as all other republicans - its hanging on a heavy guilded chain. But he has also spoken time & again as a critic of President Bush's pidgeon-footed approach to winning the peace, even back in the time it was political suicide for a Republican to deviate from their scripted "talking points", and renegade Congressmen were tarred, feathered, and railroaded out of Washington. Just like Chuck Norris IS Chuck Norris, this IS John McCain. People may make jokes, but there's also a high regard for who they are.

I'm an independent who will not be allowed to vote in the parties' primary elections. Giving John McCain his time to present his case before the Republican Party, knowing he has a strong alliegance to his conscience, seems quite fair to me.

I don't know about McCain, I get the feeling he has the same pyschological problems Bush & Cheney have. Complete denial
of reality, He's just not right !

The trouble with McCain....?

How about: He is not a friend of our military veterans...?

Just check this site under PEOPLE > veterans and you will see that Cain has consistently voted against improving veteran health care funding. Basicily, what I am saying is that this guy is a liar and a hypocrite.

Send them over to die or be horribly wounded, and then when they come home refuse to care for them & their families. Get off the pot John, those of us who have served are tired of your stink....!

What is wrong with John McCain is that he is just as incompetent with international relationships as the Bush/Cheney Administration is.

When Iraq saw a short but small decrease in violence due to their drafting an oil revenue sharing law a few months back, Mc Cain jumped in it like a fox hole just like Bush, saying that America along with Bush’s surge should be given all the credit instead of the Iraqi Government. Neither one of them know how to encourage Iraq to build on Iraq’s own success. It’s pitiful, isn't it?

What is wrong with John McCain is that he is just as poor with international relationships as the Bush/Cheney Administration is.

When Iraq saw a short but small decrease in violence due to their drafting an oil revenue sharing law a few months back, Mc Cain politically jumped on it like Bush, that America along with Bush’s surge should be given all the credit instead of the Iraqi Government. Neither one of them know how to encourage Iraq to build on Iraq’s own success. It’s pitiful, isn't it?