Desperate, desperate John McCain

[kcalbnad]

lol look at that fake crazy smile XD

[neutronbastard]

O, look at his big, fat, shit-eating grin. To be so proud over nothing...

[Robisnotafag]

holy shit to his right u see young eminem lmfao looks like eminem kinda

[kidstalkpolitics]

See DEABTE WARS - MCCAIN'S DEBATE COACH

[IJoeChavezI]

thats easy ... obama is

[thinkingworks]

Lose the war, win the war. It's not really possible. How can we win a war with weapons against extremist relgion/culture/terrorist groups that don't have a unified command.  Shooting rarely makes them change their minds to be more peaceful.

[777overjoy777]

You are thinking! If either candidate wins, we are in trouble as a nation. I say we need to get on our knees and pray. If we can straighten our moral lives and turn back to God, we are doomed no matter who becomes president. We will deserve to lose our freedoms and be taken over by Communists, Moslems or Homosexual Activists (not all homosexuals are activists). We would deserve it since we would not be able to govern ourselves.

[Toxicunderground22]

whoever votes for obama is a blindless fool who do not care about usa.

[thinkingworks]

What does "blindless" mean exactly?

[ProudAmer08]

Obama has the power to make people dream to see america turn back to be the light , the greatest democratic country , the guide of the world , this man is special ,in the media era he can conquest the heart of people and only in this manner is possible save the world ! with him europe and usa will be closer and it is better for everyone , for economy and military collaboration too

In this moment world need a man As Obama

[oppesdaman]

The audience looks like a bunch of robots, most of them are just clapping because the guy next to them is.

[itfigures]

ugh that fucking grin. applause must give mccain a huge rod. well big for him anyway.

[jetmech001]

just say no to muslim goat herders. VOTE McCain!

[milowent]

yeah, mccain likes to fuck sheep instead.

[jetmech001]

so did your father.

[JonM90]

They have the same position! their rhetoric is meaningless. Both candidates will leave a force in Iraq. Neither one wants to get out it. This argument is nonsense, there no difference on their stance, just different wording.

[marcemelliza]

Obama has flip flopped on too many issues to count and has associations with people (rev wright) which seriously question his character.

[milowent]

and mccain called his wife a cunt and was part of the keating five. let's hope neither candidate wins or loses because of stupid non-issues shoved down our throats by the press.

[marcemelliza]

with all due respect, I do not consider spending 20 years in a church with anti American sentiments a non-issue, not to mention that this man has no real proven experience. This is my first time posting a comment and I probably will never do it again.  Not that I can't take the heat, but I'm not going to change anyone's mind.

[milowent]

well, you're probably right that youtube comments don't persuade people, but its ok to vent, right?

[marcemelliza]

Obama has flp flopped on to many issues to count and has serious

[jacoby121]

could someone please explain to me ONE good thing that obama will do because i dont see ONE SINGLE THING about him that people like if obama is elected i see: dying babies lost wars powerful terrorists homosexual marriages loss of security revoked rights higher taxes face-to-face negotiation with terrorists BUT THE POOR PEOPLE GET THEIR FEMA RIGHT? and dont pull that "poor new orleans people" thing on me i live in new orleans and my friends and family quickly and easily recovered from katrina

[cheeted]

and to think I thought this guy was likeable. He'll say anything his handlers feed him, and that grin afterwards...despicable

[mkymkus]

what a loser.

[jeffbatt2000]

Why is he a loser. If we listened to the Community Organizer, we wouldn't have doen the surge and would have lost this war that we are now winning. Doesn't make that YOU a loser?

[beanie0911]

It's a shame that a man who bases a lot of his campaign on his amazing tenacity and endurance as a POW:

A) perpetuates a war that potentially leads others to the same fate

B) criticized Obama for not wanting to suspend habeas corpus at Guantanamo - shouldn't this have been a no-brainer for McCain? He was in Vietnam's Guantanamo!!!!!

Really, as usual with the Republicans, the opposite of what they say is true: McCain WANTS more war because it makes him look better (allegedly).

[usdesertdweller]

McCain has said clearly he does not want war. But war was brought on us by a borderless cult insistent on world dominance.

Your point (B) should have you scratching your own head.

[beanie0911]

No head scratching here - I didn't criticize McCain for supporting or not supporting the war - I criticized him for allowing the US to treat militants at Guantanamo in the same unbridled, unregulated way that he was treated and held in Vietnam for so many years. He should know firsthand what it's like to be held against your will by an enemy country - his judgment seems extremely off if he supports us doing it to others today.

[cicerohood]

Sad. To see an honored veteran reduced to this sort of pathetic demagoguery is shameful.

Go home, John. You've served your country. You deserve a rest.

[Moviebro]

The Warhawk cry!

[strandwolf]

Outrageous demagoguery.

[PootNTate]

What a sad sad man.

He is a shell of the guy we knew in the 1990's, or even 2000, now he's nothing but an out of touch, senile old GW Clone with early stage dementia.

Obama may not win in a landslide, but my pre-game prediction is he gets around 30-32 states and about 100 more electorial votes than this sad old man does.

[jeffbatt2000]

You couldn't be more wrong. Have youever ssen Obama speak without a teleprompter? It's embarrassing. Believe me, a couple of debates and town hall meetings, without his prepared speeches, will show what an empty suit Obama is. The man stutters worse than Bush when he's asked questions at a press conference.

[PootNTate]

Clue Phone (ring ring) they ALL speak with a teleprompter. The only difference is McCain has late stage cataracts and can't read the damn thing, oh, and Obama (Unlike McCain) Writes his own speeches. Sorry Pal, say what you want about Obama, but when it comes to public speaking, the guy not only beats McCain hands down, he's also one of the best Orators of the last 100 years. No contest.

[dariidar]

Watch debates.

[beanie0911]

Excuse me... have you ever been to an Obama rally? The answer to your question is a resounding yes, I have seen him speak without assistance. I went to one of his meetings at 10:30 PM one night in Indiana, with Obama arriving after visiting several other events throughout the state during the day. Not only was he full of energy, but he had no notes, cue cards, teleprompters, or other aids. He just spoke. Get your facts right.

[jeffbatt2000]

Yes, sure he did. Will you be alright if he loses?

[onlyloveendures]

Desperate man.

[RadariG]

My God, the man has the public speaking skills of a tree stump. Memo to campaign: instruct candidate not to grin like an idiot whenever his audience wakes up to clap at him.

[jeffbatt2000]

Have you ever seen the Community Organizer speek without a teleprompter? He staggers and stutters worse than Bush during a press conference. If McCain is so bad at speaking, why do you think Obama is so afraid of doing town hall debates with him?

[RadariG]

I've seen Obama in person and on television off the prompter, and he does amazingly. A few speeches in which he MOMENTARILY stumbled have been excerpted by some people as evidence to your point, which is bogus.

And why should Barack go to these town hall meetings? He's avoiding them because it would put Johnny Appleseed back in the headlines when otherwise he's stuck on page six; McCain can't generate media coverage the way Barack obviously can, so why would Obama help him do it?

[jeffbatt2000]

Are you kidding me? For all the advantages Obama has, including an overwhelmingly biased press and gargantuan advantage in money, he's just barely ahead of McCain. There are very few polls where he is outside the margain of error with McCain. Obama should be running away with this and he's not. It's embarrassing how cocky and arrogant he is when he's only up on McCain by a few points. Just wait till the fall, he'll make more and more of these "gaffes". This guy is not ready for the big leagues.

[RadariG]

It's kind of amazing to me that right-wing criticism of Obama from average-joe-posters is just as unfocused and all over the place as McCain's rhetoric.

Who isn't ready for whom now?

[slitrobo]

I've noticed that too. I think it's coming from over-seas agitators.

[jeffbatt2000]

That's because there's SO many reasons for a thinking person to not want Obama. And for all his advantages, it's hilarious to me he's not running away with this race. He's only even with John McCain, who comes from the party with the least popular President in polling history. What are all these liberals in the Obama cult going to do when this guy loses? There could be mass suicide...

[RadariG]

Mac's only close by the thin rationale that a national poll conducted in JULY can offer you. By the electoral vote, Obama is ten or more points up in states that constitute 260 of the 270 EVs needed to lock. Montana, North Dakota, Indiana, and Virginia, all of which were thought safely red, are tossups. This isn't to say he will surely win, but the race (as it will be decided) is much further from even than the media wants you to think; they're garnering ratings on the concept of a close race.

[beanie0911]

Not true - the RNC raises waaaaaaay more money than the DNC does - and a lot of it goes toward helping McCain. The idea that Obama has a lot more resources is just another talking point that we are supposed to buy into. With all the ruses, how are we supposed to actually debate the issues in this election??

[jeffbatt2000]

Obama has raised more money than anyone in the history of Presidential candidates and he's only up by one point. Doesn't that scare you?

[beanie0911]

"Unlike McCain, who spent more than he raised in June, Obama accumulated cash during the month. While he ruled on the airwaves with ads during the primary season, he refused to match McCain's ad spending in June. McCain devoted $16 million to advertising to Obama's $5 million. Obama is now matching McCain's and the Republican Party's ad spending." - AP, 7/22/08

[jeffbatt2000]

Obama raised to date: $339,216,317

Obama spent to date: $267,545,993

McCain raised to date: $145,466,201

McCain spent to date: $109,829,375

Obama has raised almost 3 times as much as McCain and has spent 2 and a half times as much as McCain, all to have a 2 to 3 point lead, which is within the margain of error of most polls. This suggests that most people aren't falling for his shtick. He's spent almost $300,000,000 to get to 45% in the polls. I think that's funny...

[BabberSher]

yeah, i find it funny that it takes $300,000,000 for the thick headed red states to understand that the last 8 years have lead to a trillion dollar deficit, a poor economy, and dead american soldiers because of a high-jacked GOP by the neo-cons (pick a better economy or an unending war, because the wars is the Main reason in the decrease of the dollar... making 3 million dollars not what it used be, and heading us down the path of 3rd world status)

[jeffbatt2000]

So, everyone who disagrees with you is stupid? Good to know. The economy has been exceptional for most of the last 8 years, BTW, until the beginning of this year. It seems to me that the economy didn't start to slow down until gas prices started to go up. And, it als seems to me that gas prices hovered around $2 a gallon for most of the 2000's until about 2006, when they have gone up $2 in 2 years. What happened in 2006? Oh yeah, the Democrats took over Congress and refuse to do anything...

[jeffbatt2000]

If you really want 3rd World Status, vote for Obama. He doesn't care if the US is strong or not, he's a "Citizen of the World". He doesn't care that gas prices are this high, he just "wished it didn't go up that fast". You wait and see what the Community Organizer wants to do to us. He's already planned over $1 trillion in new spending. That's a million million. That's $1,000,000,000,000.00 How's he going to pay for that? Oh yeah, taxing the hell out of us...

[jeffbatt2000]

One final question, explain to me what a "neo-con" is. I love when it gets used all the time. What do you think it means? I'll give you time to look on wikipedia.

[milowent]

its the equivalent of using "moonbat" for dems.

[jeffbatt2000]

Oh, so you just use it as an insult to dismiss everything somebody says. OK, so, you have such little confidence in your opinion that you have to dismiss everything anyone who diagrees with says. This way you don't have to think and can just keep believing what you say, without thinking about a different point of view. I love open-minded liberal thought...

[milowent]

who's "you"? dems say "neo-cons" and repubs use "moonbats". no one has a monopoly on stupidity in america.

you are commenting furiously today i see. what is your argument? that mccain is trying follow such a sucky president that its amazing that obama is not farther ahead? as to the video at hand, i think its offensive for mccain to accuse obama of trying to lose a war to win a campaign, and mccain is honorable enough to know that. this is rove-induced bullshit.

[jeffbatt2000]

What did he say that's wrong? Obama was against the surge, which worked. We are winning because of the surge. If we listened to Obama, we wouldn't be winning. Obama was asked if he would still be against the surge knowing what he knows now, and he said yes. He said that he knew he wouldn't have the nomination if he wasn't against the surge. So, it's clear Obama admitted that it's more important that he's the nominee than it is that we're winning the war. Is there any other way to look at it?

[milowent]

we aren't winning ONLY because of the surge, though i will admit the surge (i.e., "more troops" -- the word "surge" is so stupid really, but whatever....) also was important. if we listened to obama we wouldn't even be in iraq, and those WMDs would still be lying around everywhere.

just because obama said he would still be against the surge doesn't mean he put winning a war over winning the nomination. and, in the same way, i don't expect mccain to put his honor over winning this election.

[RadariG]

The context to part A of your equation is that Obama's opposition is due to the fact that it overextended the troops and took away most of our flexibility to respond to the escalation in Afghanistan.

As to part B, I would love to see where Barack said "I wouldn't have this nomination if I wasn't against the surge." I'm willing to bet that, if he actually did, that AGAIN it's a distortion of the context.

So yes, one could argue there's a very different way to look at it.

[jeffbatt2000]

Look at what he said, it's right here on youtube. He said he STILL wouldn't support the surge, even though it worked. Why not, if it worked? The only reason I can think of is that he wouldn't be his Party's nominee if he WASN'T against it. Look up "Obama: still against the surge". There's also transcripts of what he said in more detail other places on the internet. He's clearly not for America winnning in Iraq...

[WOO277]

Jeffbatt2000, in an interview he acknowledged that it worked, but at what cost? With serious economic problems and shift of focus from Afghanistan. Obama is right. You have a right to your opinion though.

[jeffbatt2000]

The whole basis of his campaign has been to be against the war and that the surge wasn't working. In a Democratic debate last July he said we lost the war. The point is, now that he has the nomination wrapped up, he's changing his position on the war. He's got millions of people convinced he's "NEW KIND OF CANDIDATE" when in reality, he's just another politician...

[777overjoy777]

I was shocked myself when Obama said he wanted to invade two countries. He is going to make this war bigger!

[soccer08F]

Obama never said he wanted to invade two countries. He stated that he would hunt down Osama Bin Laden, the worlds most wanted terrorist, in Pakistan If the government would not cooperate. On the other hand McCain said that he wants to bomb the crap out of North Korea and that he has made it very obvious that he wants to invade Iran. Not to mention he would probably start a war with Russia. Dont forget he also said we would be in Iraq for 100 years.He is the one that will make the war bigger.

[777overjoy777]

You may be right about this. I don't know who would eventually make the wars larger because only one will be in office. I did like that Obama had a purpose for his wars. It sounded like McCain wanted to negotiate. I believe McCain probably had reasons as well to crush the enemies of the US, make Georgia a Nato nation, etc. The fact was, I was surprised Obama wanted war at all. Someone told me they set up wars because it is good for the economy short term. What do you think?

[tomsoppe]

If you don't agree with me, you just want America to lose.

Whatever you say Sen. McCarthy er McCain.

[nigglefritz]

McCain is a neo-con wack job.

[SoINeedAName48]

Maybe McCain didn't get the memo:

Iraq's Prime Minister, Maliki, agrees with Sen. Obama on having our troops out by 2010.

Bush now refers to our withdrawal as a time "horizon" (damn close to Sen. Obama's timetable).

Bush now thinks it'd be wise to increase troop levels in Afghanistan (there's Obama's judgement again).

But maybe it's just that McCain GOT the memo, but is was an email ... and he can't figure out how to open it up.

Yeah, that's it!

[joeytj]

What a douche! Desperate man!

[McAlzheimers]

He needs to be put in a home, not the White House.

[betterdays105]

The judgement to attack a nation that did not attack the USA nor had any plans to attack the USA.

[dawg9]

does the fact that iraq is a sovereign country now even matter to mccain? why can't he see that it doesn't matter that he wants to stay. they don't want us there past 2010. Get over it McBush

[allencrider]

He's proving more and more that he's totally out of touch and belongs in a rest home.