Cafferty: Pres. Bush an Asset or Liability to McCain?

From the Cafferty File:

John McCain has a dilemma of presidential proportions, and that is: how exactly should he use President Bush on the campaign trail?

The president, whose popularity ratings are at record lows, will appear on behalf of McCain this week for the first time since formally endorsing him almost three months ago. Mr. Bush will attend 3 fundraisers over the next 2 days.

The fundraisers will all be in private homes and there will be no press allowed. McCain is expected to join the president tonight in Phoenix. The event was originally scheduled to be held in the Phoenix Convention Center. The Phoenix Business Journal reported that poor ticket sales and fear of anti-war protesters prompted the switch to a much smaller private home.

It's clear that McCain is walking a fine line using President Bush to raise money without alienating too many Democrats and Independents. For example, the only on-camera appearance of President Bush and Senator McCain together is set to happen at the Phoenix airport sometime after 9 o'clock tonight -- long after the network newscasts.

McCain has gone out of his way in recent weeks to separate himself from President Bush on Hurricane Katrina, the Bush administration's arrogant foreign policy, and President Bush's out-of-control spending. But on other issues -- like tax cuts, health care, and the war in Iraq -- the two men are joined at the hip.

Here's my question to you: Will President Bush be a bigger asset or liability to John McCain's campaign?

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[crusa187]

"fear of anti-war protesters" - hilarious!

[gallomex13]

CNN should keep talking about this issue everyday every hour.

[curtisekstrom]

you need 2/3 to override a presidential veto in the case of positive legislation; it takes the active will and participation of the democratic party to keep the war going. Without the money, the Administration would be sunk.

It's just that simple.

Excusing yourself for voting for a party committed to not stopping this generation's quagmire of idiocy is your business. I would only point out that the voter rationale is borderline propaganda by the "two party" state and the media.

[driubi]

You need approximately 2/3rds in the house and senate to do anything that the president doesn't agree with it. Ideally we would be able to vote in a third party in etc - but thats clearly not a real option. Until then i'll vote for the people that are are (at least in part) voting to end the war and pursuing illegal actions of the president rather than those voting against it. Have any better ideas?

[zndprophet]

Bush & McCain couldn't sell enough tickets to have the event at the Coliseum, but Obama sold it out when he visited. Arizona may surprise people in November, we become more and more blue all the time.

Arizonans for Obama

[greatbroad]

That's because when a politician speaks 'peace' (what we want to hear) - they really mean piece.

--as in taking away YOUR piece.

--as in 'homeland security' simply means securing our homeland for their self-serving purposes.

I hope lots of people flock to the movie theater to see "War, Inc." by John Cusack.

p.s. Butler also gave lectures, 'War is a Racket' and essays 'I was a Gangster for Capitalism' similar vein as Naomi Kline's 'The Shock Doctrine'

I am hopeful the truth will set us free.

[greatbroad]

It is easy to find the end of the fascist thread in the United States. (My theory is the US Bd of Education is to mind-mold us into Lemmings.)

Here it is: Smedley D. Butler

He busted the elite industrialists from thier secret take-over attempt during the Roosevelt Administration in 1934; Maverick Marine - the book Butler wrote telling all.

Undaunted, they went to Germany and brought hundreds of US propagandists to sell Hitler. He burned his own bldg, took rights away and became a dictator.

[dogstar7]

"Instead of a cross, an albatross

Around my neck was hung."

[curtisekstrom]

Yes, I did. J. Edgar Hoover busted the bank on whose Board of Directors Bush's Grandfather Prescott Bush sat in 1942 for collaborating with the Nazis. I also read that he had assembled an army for a fascist coup in the United States, but I haven't come across anything substantiating it as of yet.

JFK was killed by the Government; anyone who believes anything different is an idiot. And yes, George H.W. Bush was in the CIA at the time.

No room to agree and add to the rest...

[curtisekstrom]

My second to last sentence should have read: "Blaming only the Republicans..." The fact is that laws are passed by the majority of congress, and the worst of them have been passed with large Democratic support. That is my only point. Rather than fulfilling their promise of 2006 to end the war, they fill up war funding bills with spending the nation can't afford anyway. They have also ignored their duty to prosecute the President for breaking dozens of federal law to pursue his agenda...

[greatbroad]

like cockroaches...

scatter when the light is turned on.

[greatbroad]

Hello, curtisekstrom. Did you know Senator Prescott Bush made the Bush family fortune with the fuehrer? SENATOR Prescott Bush shut-down by the US Gov't in 1951? Google: Bush Family Nazi Connection.

Btw, #41 standing outside Book Depository Building (C.I.A.) as JFK was murdered. Bodyguards removed just previous to this.

#43 has been v/busy putting the final nails in our republic w/NAU Agreement - which will officially end US Sovereignty in 2010. He did this single-handedly w/o congress OK.