Obama: we don't 'owe' McCain presidency

I feel sorry for McCain's war wounds and the torture he suffered at the hands of the North Vietnamese. But pity is no reason to elect someone president.

McCain uses his 5 years as a P.O.W. as a defense for any lie he's caught in or goofy statement he makes. Anybody who thinks we can unilaterally boot the Russians out of the G8 just plain isn't smart enough to be president. And God knows after 8 years of Bush we need a smart president.

Obama is running with no resume, no political accomplishments, just a background of Chicago Machine corruption and a winning smile. We owe him our vote even less.

"Anybody who thinks we can unilaterally boot the Russians out of the G8 just plain isn't smart enough to be president. And God knows after 8 years of Bush we need a smart president."
Posted by: markg8 | August 27, 2008 3:46 PM
Who ever said unilaterally? Anyway markg8, Obama's choice for VP -- Joe Chia-Hair Biden -- is also in favor of booting Russia out of the G8. So now you think it's a pretty good idea, right?

As a Vietnam veteran who spent plenty of time splashing around the rice paddies I have nothing but respect for anyone who was a POW during those years. However, POW status does NOT translate into an automatic qualification for the nation's highest office. Senator McCain - convince me that your vision for America is better than Senator Obama's. As of now, I haven't heard anything that makes want to vote for four more years of Republican rule.

MJ I find no evidence that Biden said we should kick the Russians out of the G8.

Can't happen unless the Russians vote to kick themselves out.

Obama wrote and passed (with Coburn of OK) the most sweeping congressional ethics reform in a generation. He wrote and passed (with Lugar) not just nuclear non proliferation legislation but conventional arms non proliferation legislation too. He proposed a 16 month timetable to leave Iraq which the Iraqis right now are demanding Bush follow.

Your turn. What's McCain done? 26 years in Congress and what do we have to show for it?

Here's one, he's been on the Sunday morning talk shows more than any other senator in history. He's been on Jay Leno's show 14 times, that's more than Paris Hilton. John McCain is quite the celebrity.

It was a horrible time for the country, but especially for those men who sacrificed parts of their lives while in captivity.
They earned my respect, and in a way we owe our present and future to them, BUT that in no way means that they are qualified nor does it mean that I want them to lead me there.

Obama seems to believe he's owed the presidency because he can give a speech. The man has no accomplisments and no business accusing the veteran of anything.

Posted by: markg8 | August 27, 2008 5:04 PM
I stand corrected: Biden did not address G8 because he (unlike you, it seems) understands how meaningless the symbolic organization is. Biden addressed Russia vis-a-vis the WTO, and keeping them out.
Now to correct you--
> Coburn (R, OK) wrote the ethics reform legislation you mention over the course of many years. Obama did a relatively small amount of work on the language, rather late.
> Ditto Lugar and Obama with nuclear nonproliferation legislation (which began as the Nunn Lugar Program)
> Obama has
Nice try. Getting back to Biden, tho -- there is much about him to disrespect, but he would have made a better presidential candidate than Obama by a factor of at least 50.

Posted by: markg8 | August 27, 2008 5:04 PM
I stand corrected: Biden did not address G8 because he (unlike you, it seems) understands how meaningless the symbolic organization is. Biden addressed Russia vis-a-vis the WTO, and keeping them out.
Now to correct you--
> Coburn (R, OK) wrote the ethics reform legislation you mention over the course of many years. Obama did a relatively small amount of work on the language, rather late.
> Ditto Lugar and Obama with nuclear nonproliferation legislation (which began as the Nunn Lugar Program)
> Obama has
Nice try. Getting back to Biden, tho -- there is much about him to disrespect, but he would have made a better presidential candidate than Obama by a factor of at least 50.

Posted by: markg8 | August 27, 2008 5:04 PM
Obama has repeatedly backed away from his "pledge" to withdraw from Iraq. The most recent flip on that was just this July in Fargo ND.

Senator Obama, just what have you done that you may think you are owed the Presidency? Get over yourself Senator, you couldn't endure what Senator McCain endured as a POW, you moan and groan like a little girl over being compared to Paris in a political ad. You know what you can do with that "riff" (what the heck is a "riff" anyway?)

Interesting how the veterans and deployed troops are pouring so much money into Obama's campaign and so little to McCain. Interesting too that George HW Bush lost reelection; Bob Dole lost; Gore and Kerrey lost. Military service is commendable, but not a qualifier for the Presidency.

McCain's chief torturer supports McCain for POTUS. Why isn't anyone asking him about this? Does he accept this guys endorsement?
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7459946.stm

CM,
Now that's oddly,,, hilarious.
Manchurian Candidate anyone? Maybe somebody should toss McCain a queen of diamonds and see what he does??

We may not owe McCain presidency for being a HERO, but we don't owe Obama presidency for being BLACK !

He went after the people he was running against long ago, eliminating them for questions on signatures so they couldn't even run. Now, he's gone after and eliminated Hillary and Bill using the claim of RACISM against them. He used it on G. Ferraro as well. He tried to use cries of RACISM to eliminate McCain too, but it didn't work.

Obama's judgement, several and counting radical mentors, FAR LEFT view on how he plans to turn AMERICA degraded, heavily controlled, wealth re-destributed country....NO, not even because he's BLACK would I put him in there.