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pax
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Mon Sep 01, 2008 4:14 pm |
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Is John McCain the best qualified to be President?
I'm interested in hearing from people who are leaning toward voting for McCain-Palin.
How is John McCain well-qualified to be the next President of the United States? Please provide specific details.
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| dithers
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Mon Sep 01, 2008 5:01 pm |
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Re: Is John McCain the best qualified to be President?
| pax wrote: | I'm interested in hearing from people who are leaning toward voting for McCain-Palin.
How is John McCain well-qualified to be the next President of the United States? Please provide specific details. |
I don't have time to go into many specifics right now as it's nearing dinner time and I'll be signing off. But as you know, when we started this discussion in earnest several weeks ago, I opined that Conservatives weren't voting for McCain as much as they were voting against Obama. Even Ann Coulter said she'd vote for Hillary before she'd vote for McCain. As much as I've never liked Hillary I was ready to see her as POTUS if it meant Obama was not.
As the election gets closer conservatives have been slowly warming up to McCain in his own right. The announcement of Sarah Palin as his running mate now has the Conservatives extremely pumped up and motivated.
You know without my going into detail that I think McCain's stance on taxes is the way to go as we've hashed over it many times. The American people are not ATM machines set up for endless withdrawals by the govt. simply because there is money sitting there. Clean up their own waste and pork barrel earmarks before ravaging our wallets.
Anyway, I know I haven't really answered your question and sorry to end abruptly but my oven timer just dinged so must stop for now.
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| billybob
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Mon Sep 01, 2008 5:39 pm |
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Re: Is John McCain the best qualified to be President?
| dithers wrote: |
I don't have time to go into many specifics right now as it's nearing dinner time and I'll be signing off. But as you know, when we started this discussion in earnest several weeks ago, I opined that Conservatives weren't voting for McCain as much as they were voting against Obama. Even Ann Coulter said she'd vote for Hillary before she'd vote for McCain. As much as I've never liked Hillary I was ready to see her as POTUS if it meant Obama was not.
As the election gets closer conservatives have been slowly warming up to McCain in his own right. The announcement of Sarah Palin as his running mate now has the Conservatives extremely pumped up and motivated.
You know without my going into detail that I think McCain's stance on taxes is the way to go as we've hashed over it many times. The American people are not ATM machines set up for endless withdrawals by the govt. simply because there is money sitting there. Clean up their own waste and pork barrel earmarks before ravaging our wallets.
Anyway, I know I haven't really answered your question and sorry to end abruptly but my oven timer just dinged so must stop for now. |
This was just such a nice reply, I had to comment. Quite honestly I now find this section of RU a bit overwhelming with so many articles (now) and not much actual discussion - so I wanted to say how very much I appreciate how you took the time to respond to Pax, and I will try to come up with a response also, as it would seem Pax is sincere in his post.
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| K Hemingway
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Mon Sep 01, 2008 5:46 pm |
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Re: Is John McCain the best qualified to be President?
| billybob wrote: |
This was just such a nice reply, I had to comment. Quite honestly I now find this section of RU a bit overwhelming with so many articles (now) and not much actual discussion - so I wanted to say how very much I appreciate how you took the time to respond to Pax, and I will try to come up with a response also, as it would seem Pax is sincere in his post. |
If that was directed at ME...the NOW comment...I'm just trying to add some balance to the smears and post some actual facts to try to get a SINCERE discussion on the issues going. . 
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| woebedamned
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Mon Sep 01, 2008 5:58 pm |
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Re: Is John McCain the best qualified to be President?
delete -- too negative
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| yankee-in-france
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Tue Sep 02, 2008 4:59 am |
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Re: Is John McCain the best qualified to be President?
| K Hemingway wrote: |
If that was directed at ME...the NOW comment...I'm just trying to add some balance to the smears and post some actual facts to try to get a SINCERE discussion on the issues going. . |
-- and thank you for that, K. They have been informative and not too long.
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| billybob
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Tue Sep 02, 2008 6:15 am |
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Re: Is John McCain the best qualified to be President?
| yankee-in-france wrote: |
-- and thank you for that, K. They have been informative and not too long. |
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| SavannahStar
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Tue Sep 02, 2008 6:28 am |
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Re: Is John McCain the best qualified to be President?
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If that was directed at ME...the NOW comment...I'm just trying to add some balance to the smears and post some actual facts to try to get a SINCERE discussion on the issues going. . |
I very much appreciate your articles, KH. For way TOOOOOOO long there was nothing but.....well, you know what. Disgusting spam with salacious thread titles.
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| Katie
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Tue Sep 02, 2008 6:33 am |
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Re: Is John McCain the best qualified to be President?
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I very much appreciate your articles, KH. For way TOOOOOOO long there was nothing but.....well, you know what. Disgusting spam with salacious thread titles. |
I really like everyones articles and KH with you here it really gives it balance. 
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| dithers
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Tue Sep 02, 2008 9:01 pm |
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Here's why I'm voting for McCain and it has nothing to do with what he proposes. So I'm not even going to bother blathering on about one thing or another on his agenda.
Though he is not the ideal candidate IMO he is head and tails above Obama. And here is why I feel that way. John McCain represents to me America as the great county I've always loved and known it to be.
America may not be perfect but name me one country on the face of this earth that is perfect - or even one person that is perfect. I am tired of people telling me that this country that I love is bad or broken and somehow lacking in compassion or has no soul. I am tired of people telling me the rest of the world thinks so little of us. That is not true. If America did not matter to the rest of the world they would not care so much about what we are doing. People would not be streaming across our porous borders in search of a better life. Oddly enough that's the reason given by the America pooh-pooher's on the one hand to excuse illegal immigration even while they are telling us how much our country sucks.
I am not inspired by a presumed leader who tells me my county is broken, a man who tells a 7 year old girl that he is running for President because this country is no longer great. I am not inspired by a man whose wife finds her country a mean place, by a man who sits in a church pew for over 20 years and listens to hate-filled diatribe directed against his country and many of it's citizens. I am not inspired by a man who looks at Communist China and tells me they are doing something right while lamenting how much his own country could learn from them. I am not inspired by a man who tells me all Americans must dig deeper and give more of their own hard earned money even while he gives but a mere 1% per year from his own pocket to charitable causes and his half brother lives in Africa on $12 a year. I am not inspired by a man who promises to reach across the aisle and end the bitter partisanship this country has known for the past 8 years who at the same time constantly bashes a sitting President who was elected by a majority of the people - not once, but twice. I am not inspired by a man who wants to replace my liberty with a govt. that is involved in nearly every aspect of my day to day life. There are those who will try to say "But Obama and the left, the liberals - we love America" But if you love something you do not seek to change it. And change is what they promise. Not improvement or tweaking - but change. That says to me that they don't like the America that I love.
I remember the great feeling of family we all felt in the wake of 9/11. Bush standing on that pile of rubble speaking through the bull horn and the crowd chanting U.S.A - U.S.A. I remember the hard-working blue-collar construction workers from all over the country voluntarily leaving their families and jobs behind for a little while and streaming across America's highways heading to NY to clean up that pile of rubble that had been the World Trade Center. I remember the night the President addressed the nation in the days that followed and even the rabid Chris Matthews commenting that he'd "hit it out of the ballpark" with his speech. I remember people driving around with flags flying from their cars (a bit silly but it was so great to see people have such national pride). And I remember Todd Beamer saying "Let's roll" and the bravery of his fellow passengers on United Flight 93. Those brave citizens who gave their lives to save the Capitol - and now we have a man who would be President who - no matter what level the relationship - does not condemn another man who exactly thirty years earlier bombed that very same building for which Todd Beamer and those others gave their lives.
But in the intervening years we've been bombarded non-stop by cheap rhetoric from the left and the MSM who have constantly hammered and chipped away at that family unity. They have been yelling for years now that America and Americans (or at least those who make over $250K a year) are bad. And they've told us over and over that our pride was nothing but crap because America is bad. Very, very bad. And because they feel that way, they want to believe and continually tell us the rest of the world feels that way too. I'm very angry about that. I'm very sad about it too. Because they were and are wrong.
People are not inspired to achieve greatness by someone who tells them they are already somehow inferior or lacking in soul. A true leader leads by giving people confidence and pride in themselves and not by telling them they are bad or no longer as great as they once were. My guess is that many of us pretty much thought and believed we were still those same great people and the same great nation we always have been. And now this man who would be President - comes along and tells us we are wrong in that belief. I am not inspired by a man such as this.
America and her people have always stood at the front of the line to give to others around the world - with her own flesh and blood in times of war and with the hard earned dollars of her citizens during wars, famines and other worldwide catastrophies. American's are the most generous people on the face of the earth.
The Dems and Obama project nothing to me other than doom and gloom. Like Chicken Little - the sky is falling, the sky is falling. They depress me beyond words and take away my hope. When people are depressed they do not have the will nor gumption to get up and fight. They would rather lay down and quit.
And that, my friend, is why I am voting for John McCain.
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| GeorgiaMom
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Tue Sep 02, 2008 10:13 pm |
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Wow...Dithers summed it up perfectly and I totally agree with everything said. I don't trust Obama and I don't like his policys. It's easy for me to pick McCain over Obama. There's no comparison when it comes to experience. There's no comparison when it comes to leadership and there's no doubt that McCain would continue to provide a strong military. Leadership and a strong military are prioritys from where I sit.
You know what's really scary? 8 out of 10 blacks I work with say "I gotta vote for Obama because he's a brother". What!!!!!! Omg...that's like me saying "I gotta vote for Hillary because she's a female". It's scary that making history takes priority over the person. We're talking about the person to lead this country people!!! Doesn't it scare democrats that Obama was good friends with someone proud of the bombings that went on in America. Doesn't it bother citizens that Obama attended the church where the Reverand says "God Damn America" and calls it the "KKK of America". Twenty years he was loyal to this Reverend. Doesn't it concern anyone that his wife has never been proud to be an American?
All I can say is be careful what you wish for.
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Tue Sep 02, 2008 10:59 pm |
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Aides Say Team Interviewed Palin Late in the Process
By Dan Balz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, September 3, 2008; Page A01
ST. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 2 -- Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was not subjected to a lengthy in-person background interview with the head of Sen. John McCain's vice presidential vetting team until last Wednesday in Arizona, the day before McCain asked her to be his running mate, and she did not disclose the fact that her 17-year-old daughter was pregnant until that meeting, two knowledgeable McCain officials acknowledged Tuesday.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/09/02/ST2008090203591.html
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Wed Sep 03, 2008 12:43 am |
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New pictures of Sarah Palin's pregnant daughter, 17-year-old Bristol Palin, have emerged,
and it looks like this girl is one who hows to have a blast ...
Sometimes literally! Whether she's playing with firearms or posing with baby daddy
Levi Johnston and other pals, Bristol's life is a non-stop party.
At heart, the Republican V.P. nominee's daughter is your typical All-American girl:
hunting, pregnant and drinking underage (presumably not all at the same time).
http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/
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| olympic
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Wed Sep 03, 2008 3:01 am |
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Barbra Streisand slams Senator John McCain in her latest blog calling his Vice Presidential choice, Governor Sarah Palin, "a transparent and irresponsible decision all in the name of trying to win this election."
Barbra calls McCain's VP choice a "Hail Mary" saying, "[It] sent a very clear message to America about how he views female voters."
"Women, he thinks, will vote another woman into office regardless of the candidate's values, experience and political positions."
Streisand writes, "I believe John McCain chose Gov. Palin because he truly believes that women who supported Hillary--an experienced, brilliant, life-long public servant--would vote for him because his Vice President has two x chromosomes."
This all new post from Barbra's blog is called, "McCain doesn't Get It: Women are not that stupid."
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| GeorgiaMom
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| resigned wrote: | New pictures of Sarah Palin's pregnant daughter, 17-year-old Bristol Palin, have emerged,
and it looks like this girl is one who hows to have a blast ...
Sometimes literally! Whether she's playing with firearms or posing with baby daddy
Levi Johnston and other pals, Bristol's life is a non-stop party.
At heart, the Republican V.P. nominee's daughter is your typical All-American girl:
hunting, pregnant and drinking underage (presumably not all at the same time).
http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/ |
Even more reason to vote for McCain. His VP pick is not only a female, but a mother with normal kids. I love it! Being a huge supporter of the 2nd ammendment, this picture should be framed. That's another thing I liked about Bush. He had teenage daughters who tried to do normal teenage things, but usually got busted because the media was lurking 24/7
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| dithers
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Fri Sep 05, 2008 12:03 pm |
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| resigned wrote: | New pictures of Sarah Palin's pregnant daughter, 17-year-old Bristol Palin, have emerged,
and it looks like this girl is one who hows to have a blast ...
Sometimes literally! Whether she's playing with firearms or posing with baby daddy
Levi Johnston and other pals, Bristol's life is a non-stop party.
At heart, the Republican V.P. nominee's daughter is your typical All-American girl:
hunting, pregnant and drinking underage (presumably not all at the same time).
http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/ |
C'mon - we could post some pics of punks with their pants hanging down to their ankles which is pretty disgusting to look at too, IMO. And those drinking and other pics we saw from those kids in Mountain Brook didn't exactly show paragons of virtue.
Everyday I read stories about 17 year olds using guns - but instead of using them to hunt moose - they're using them to rob, rape, murder and otherwise harm society at large.
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| apodixis
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Fri Sep 05, 2008 12:12 pm |
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Re: Is John McCain the best qualified to be President?
| Quote: | K Hemingway wrote:
If that was directed at ME...the NOW comment...I'm just trying to add some balance to the smears and post some actual facts to try to get a SINCERE discussion on the issues going. . |
| yankee-in-france wrote: |
-- and thank you for that, K. They have been informative and not too long. |
Your contributions have been great, K. Glad to see that interest in politics is finally really taking off here at RU.
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Fri Sep 05, 2008 12:24 pm |
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| dithers wrote: |
C'mon - we could post some pics of punks with their pants hanging down to their ankles which is pretty disgusting to look at too, IMO. And those drinking and other pics we saw from those kids in Mountain Brook didn't exactly show paragons of virtue.
Everyday I read stories about 17 year olds using guns - but instead of using them to hunt moose - they're using them to rob, rape, murder and otherwise harm society at large. |
I don't see any moose in that picture.
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| apodixis
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Fri Sep 05, 2008 1:24 pm |
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Those are shotguns, and a pistol.
Moose are hunted with hunting rifles.
( The guy's thuderstick might be an over-under rifle-shotgun )
Pull !!! 
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| pax
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Two days ago John McCain rejected bailing out American Insurance Group. Today he favors it. Yesterday, he appeared to reject Spain as an ally of the United States. That's news to me. In response to a question on Palin's plans for economic improvement, he replied "she was a point guard on a state championship basketball team." On Monday, McCain called the fundamentals of the economy 'strong'. Yesterday he said we're in 'a total crisis.' Dispassionate observers, including many lifelong republicans, are calling McCain a liar for endorsing his dirty campaign commercials.
Barack Obama repeatedly demonstrates steady commitment to moderate bipartisan policy, imho.
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| gwen
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Thu Sep 18, 2008 5:52 pm |
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Re: Is John McCain the best qualified to be President?
| K Hemingway wrote: |
If that was directed at ME...the NOW comment...I'm just trying to add some balance to the smears and post some actual facts to try to get a SINCERE discussion on the issues going. . |
I enjoy your articles.
She may have been referring to my posts too. Just because opposition posts are given is no reason to whine about it...
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| gwen
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Thu Sep 18, 2008 5:55 pm |
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| GeorgiaMom wrote: | | Even more reason to vote for McCain. His VP pick is not only a female, but a mother with normal kids. I love it! Being a huge supporter of the 2nd ammendment, this picture should be framed. That's another thing I liked about Bush. He had teenage daughters who tried to do normal teenage things, but usually got busted because the media was lurking 24/7 |
I hardly call her kids representative of "normal" from what I have seen or read about them - dysfunctional and lacking parental attention and guidance is more like it.l
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| gwen
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| pax wrote: | Two days ago John McCain rejected bailing out American Insurance Group. Today he favors it. Yesterday, he appeared to reject Spain as an ally of the United States. That's news to me. In response to a question on Palin's plans for economic improvement, he replied "she was a point guard on a state championship basketball team." On Monday, McCain called the fundamentals of the economy 'strong'. Yesterday he said we're in 'a total crisis.' Dispassionate observers, including many lifelong republicans, are calling McCain a liar for endorsing his dirty campaign commercials.
Barack Obama repeatedly demonstrates steady commitment to moderate bipartisan policy, imho. |
McCain knows this is his last hurrah. If he doesn't win this time, he is out of luck. He is really out of touch and tries to say all the right things even if he knows he is wrong. Kerry had nothing on McCain when it came to flip flopping. He chose Palin just because she was a woman and he desperately needed a boost to his campaign. He now has his own cheerleader with him all his stops. He obviously did not vet her throughly...
Pathetic...he is certainly not the man that claimed he always did what was best for the country...
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| Isanah
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From what I heard Obama has only been a Senator for about 6 months. As the lesser evil, McCain might be the lesser. Though I'm not decided yet. To me, they both suck!
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| Isanah wrote: | | From what I heard Obama has only been a Senator for about 6 months. As the lesser evil, McCain might be the lesser. Though I'm not decided yet. To me, they both suck! |
Sworn into office January 4, 2005
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