McCain: NBC 10/26/08 Part 1 of 4

John McCain on John McCain
"Meet the Press" 10:38am
Interview

TOPIC: Polls, Economics, Political Philosophy

TRANSCRIPT:[...]
BROKAW: One of the things you've bee saying, over the course of your campaign, is that Senator Obama has neither the experience nor the judgment to be President of the United States. We've got some polls on how he's doing with the American Voter on some of the critical issues of the day. This is the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, that was taken from October 17th to October 20th [...READING POLL NUMBERS: HEALTHCARE- OBAMA +39; ECONOMY- OBAMA+21; HOUSING CRISIS- OBAMA+21; TAXES- OBAMA +14; IRAQ- MCCAIN +5]. This is not the pundits or the media elite, this is a broad based poll across the country...

MCCAIN: That I don't agree with, I don't agree with...

BROKAW: People making judgments about who's qualified to...

MCCAIN:...their with their conclusion that I'm 11, or 12 or 14 point- whatever it is. We have polls, including I think a Zogby poll, showing us three or four points behind. So if you want to continue referring to a poll that I disagree with, I have to start out our conversation- I don't agree with that. We are closing, and we have been closing.

BROKAW: But it's not the only poll, Senator, a number of polls show...

MCCAIN: Oh, and it's not the only poll that shows us close, so, ya know, I'm sure we don't want to spend the morning arguing about polls that are accurate or inaccurate, but I will stand before the American people with my view that I think that we cannot find small business people and their, or their employ, small business people, who have employees without health insurance that he's gonna fine them if they don't have the insurance policy that they want, that Senator Obama wants them to have. That if they have children that don't have health insurance that Senator Obama wants them to have, that they will be fined, that he wants to spend an additional trillion dollars, I'll stand on those issues, I'll stand on them and I'll take the verdict of the American people, and I guarantee you that two weeks from now you will see, this has been a very close race, and I believe that I'm gonna win it.

BROKAW: I don't want to dwell on these polls unduly...

MCCAIN: Here were go again...

BROKAW: Even if you had a big margin of error...

MCCAIN: I can give you, I can show you, again, a Zogby poll, and our poll and other polls that will show different numbers than the one you're showing...

BROKAW: Those are the big universe polls...

MCCAIN: You're starting out, in all due respect, with fundamental assumptions that I don't agree with. So it's hard for me to respond to assumptions that I don't agree with.
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LABEL: JM JM NBC 10-26-08 10.38 (LAD#55) Zz

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[startupbuildervideos]

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[ThomasAUSTRALIA1]

To andyjalc,

Invading a foreign country, killing innocent civilians, causing havoc and mayhem, displacing tens of thousands of people does NOT make one a "hero" or a "great person". This is the behaviour of a terrorist. When will you Yanks stop glorifying war?

[andyjalc]

John McCain is a war hero. He is a great person and people should not criticize him becuase when you do that, you are criticizing your own country. McCain has had a lot of experience and has done a lot of great things. Some with other democrats. Ever heard of McCain-Finegold and McCain-Kennedy. So, I guess they are idiots becuase they associated with McCain???!!!!!!

[StupidVds]

RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!!!! IT'S A CONSPIRACY!!!!! Ok, then what about the three vietnamese women who just came forward and said they served as sexual rewards to McCain when he was a POW? One of them was 8 years old at the time, the other two were 10 years old. Each time McCain gave up military secrets to the enemy he was rewarded with sexual favors by vietnamese children who were brought in by his captors. The three women are now under government protection, locked away until the election is over.

[vidlivs]

Obama is much more evil. A shady Chicago politician who would do anything to get power. This includes covering up a murder of a gay choirmaster in his trinity united church, so that he could cover his homosexual affair with him. Look up Larry Sinclair, and Donald Young. This has been hushed by the liberal media, because they are in on the Obama conspiracy. Open your eyes. The Democrats have silenced this, by threatening Sinclair and his family, like they tried to do with Joe the plumber. awful.

[StupidVds]

John McCain is not just a disgrace to his uniform but to ALL of America as well. Not only should he not be allowed to run for public office, he should have been placed on trial and executed by the American government upon the day of his return from Vietnam. Along with being a traitor, McCain is a misogynist pig; one of those sleazy douchebags who abandons his wife for a younger women. McCain is pure evil racist and misogynist scum to the core. Hopefully someone will get to dance on his grave.

[gmcjetpilot]

There you go again spinning his tax plan (the socialist one LOL). YOU ARE SPINNING & SPREADING LIES. That's duplicidous & douche baggy. STOP IT! $250,000 is the threshold for familes and $200,000 for singles, as it has been. Biden said $150,000 because that's actually the middle of middle class families, not policy. What the FUCK is wrong w/ YOU?

McCain him self said tax cuts for the rich was irresponsible. Giving WORKING MID CLASS A BREAK IS NOT Socialism either! Spread the wealth? OH NO!

[gmcjetpilot]

I'm sick of petty BULL SHIT. McCain says "I'd never delay the world series." BS his convention delayed start of the NFL season. In fact only the pre-game was preempted. I mention it because IT'S SO PETTY LIKE THE GOP. GROW THE F UP. I want an adult in the white house, distinguished intellicually & academically. F all the BS about who is more patriotic, who is more LIKE THE FOLKS. I don't want some one like the folks, I want some one WAY SMARTER than the folks. Joe plumber? FU

[gmcjetpilot]

GOP/McCain campaign is about charicter assassination w/ lies. McCain distributed many grants to mid east expert Khalidi's Palestinian research org, one worth $1/2M. Flag PIN? Obama had it all 3 debates, McCain ZERO. Rediculious! LA times tape? They brought it up! The event had notable republicans just like the Edu board Obama sat on w/ Ayers!

GUILT BY ASSOC! Than it means Republicans are all felons, like Ted Stevens, Randy Cunningham & Bob Ney. Gingrich, Hastert, Delay all left in shame.

[gmcjetpilot]

I'm sure you're a nice well meaning person; apologies for hurting your feelings, just screwing w/ you. You spew the same tired meaningless GOP conservative propaganda, demagoguery and frankly most is wrong, pointless, exaggerated, irrelevant & ad nauseam.

There are liberal leaning judges, media, websites, groups & people, as there are conservative. Conservative groups have and had tremendous influence in the Gov. I'm all for it good discourse, but be critical of both. USA needs to focus.