Mccain Hides under his Wife's Skirt as she savages Obama

In reports on Cindy McCain's speech at a Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, campaign event, the CBS Evening News, Fox News' The Live Desk, and the Politico's Jonathan Martin all noted McCain's attack on Sen. Barack Obama that his "vote to not fund my son when he was serving sent a cold chill through my body." However, none of their reports pointed out that Sen. John McCain himself voted against legislation to fund the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, as Obama noted during the first presidential debate on September 26.

On the October 8 edition of Fox News' The Live Desk, co-host Martha MacCallum repeated Cindy McCain's attack on Obama, saying: "[W]e don't usually hear that kind of talk from Cindy McCain, but she was very outspoken. And she said that it sent a chill through her when he fought to turn down funding for the troops in a Senate bill in the past. So, some pretty strong words from Cindy McCain today." Similarly, on the October 8 broadcast of the CBS Evening News, correspondent Chip Reid reported that "Cindy McCain, John McCain's wife, jumped into the fray today, sharply accusing Obama of abandoning the troops by voting against funding for the war in Iraq." And in an October 8 blog post, the Politico's Jonathan Martin quoted Cindy McCain's comments after noting that she "took one of her most personal shots yet at Barack Obama today."

However, none of the reports noted that Sen. McCain voted against a March 2007 bill that would have funded the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and would have provided more than $1 billion in additional funds to the Department of Veterans Affairs, as Media Matters for America has noted.

By contrast, on the October 8 edition of NBC's Nightly News, chief foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell played the clip of Cindy McCain's attack, and then noted: "In fact, Obama voted against money for the troops once, in May 2007 -- he said because the bill didn't include a timetable for withdrawal. But John McCain also voted against a troop-funding bill two months earlier for the opposite reason: because that bill called for a troop withdrawal."

Additionally, none of the three -- Reid, MacCallum, and Martin -- mentioned that Cindy McCain previously told NBC's Ann Curry, "My husband is absolutely opposed to any negative campaigning at all."
http://mediamatters.org/items/200810090004
I miss the old Cindy McCain. The one who used to go to rallies and sit huddled in the corner looking as if she thought the audience had a communicable disease. Now, shes right up there on stage, standing behind her husband and making disgusted faces when he rails on about the opposition. And shes started railing herself. (The family that rants together ...) Obama is waging the dirtiest campaign in American history. His votes on Iraq were votes not to fund my son when he was serving.

Remember when the McCains wouldnt talk about the fact that their son was in Iraq? Oh well.

Maybe Cindy is trying to hold her own against Sarah, who is with John almost as much as she is. I miss the old guy-guy McCain who had so many male pals around he looked like a walking fraternity reunion. Now, hes starting to resemble an ambulatory patient accompanied by female attendants on an outing.

Palin has been pressing the line that people dont really know the real Barack Obama, and who could make the argument better than a woman who weve already known for almost six weeks? Really, shes like one of the family.

Weve gotten so close weve already learned that she didnt actually sell the plane on eBay, didnt actually visit the troops in Iraq and didnt really have a talk with the British ambassador. As soon as we get the Trooper thing and Alaska Independence Party thing and the tax thing figured out, shell be an open book.

And shes got a point about Obama. True, hes been campaigning for 19 months and has been interviewed by everybody from Meet the Press to Mens Health. Which would be O.K. if we were talking about somebody from a small town rather than, as a McCain campaign co-chairman noted delicately, a guy of the street.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/11/opinion/11collins.html

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[MorganAnsons]

McCain voted no, cause he wants war, Obama cause he wants it to end.

People only here the voting record, but they always fail to actually look at the Bills, and read the fine print.

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[uncledave10]

Im voteing for Obama

[spade760100]

Wtf is it with MSNBC attacking republicans all the time i wish news channels would expose the real flaws in each party and not try to prove one is better b.c they clearly both suck and need to wake up and quit the shit

[32789S]

I love watching Sarah Palin's face as their saying this :P

[theMeteorgames]

@punanibuzzed

2012 is a fake. They said the world would end tons of times. 2012 is the end of the Mayan calendar. What did the Mayas do when their calendar ended? They started a new one! One good thing is going to come from 2012. I can't wait to see the looks on their faces when nothing happens!

[theMeteorgames]

@MaxWood803

She said a smile and a charge. AS In they are optimistic in the face of danger.

[johnnyandthepnuemoni]

hahaha who watches msnbc? nobody... lowest ratings, most worthless reporting, everyone there is sucking Obamas dick

[PrUnEJuIcEtHeThIrD]

Wow how sad.

Notice how McCain trusts her wife to talk more than his vice-president Sarah Palin?

[guthixpreist49]

they should have asked for obamas head!

[daddymak9]

And to think, we could have had the nation's first retarded vice president AND the nation's first retarded First Lady. Oh well, they're now irrelevant.

[telamindel]

how did mccain get his hands on that thing

[72whitegrapes]

Republicans are sleazy ,lying,thieving,phony patriotic cowards,and hopefully they'll be out of the White House for decades to come.