McCain chides a newly feisty Obama as 'testy'

I'd get testy, too, McCain. How many lies from your campaign does Obama have to let slide?

Lies, lies, lies. That's all McCain has to offer and the American public is so stupid that they're buying it. The voters will get what the big oil companies pay for. A PTSD-ridden old man who cheated on his hospitalized first wife to take up with a new cutie, then let Ross Perot pay her medical bills. A man who couldn't fly a plane well enough not to crash it. A guy who doesn't know squat about economics. A jerk who votes one way and says he's voted another. A nitwit who has supported Bush's criminal activities from the beginning.

Yeah, I'm getting testy, too.

Good for McCain. Unfortunately nothing he says makes him worthy of being elected as president. It's the same crap you hear on Faux Mews.

10 things you should know about John McCain (but probably don't):
John McCain voted against establishing a national holiday in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Now he says his position has "evolved," yet he's continued to oppose key civil rights laws.1 According to Bloomberg News, McCain is more hawkish than Bush on Iraq, Russia and China. Conservative columnist Pat Buchanan says McCain "will make Cheney look like Gandhi."2 His reputation is built on his opposition to torture, but McCain voted against a bill to ban waterboarding, and then applauded President Bush for vetoing that ban.3

McCain opposes a woman's right to choose. He said, "I do not support Roe versus Wade. It should be overturned."4 The Children's Defense Fund rated McCain as the worst senator in Congress for children. He voted against the children's health care bill last year, then defended Bush's veto of the bill.5 He's one of the richest people in a Senate filled with millionaires. The Associated Press reports he and his wife own at least eight homes! Yet McCain says the solution to the housing crisis is for people facing foreclosure to get a "second job" and skip their vacations.6 Many of McCain's fellow Republican senators say he's too reckless to be commander in chief. One Republican senator said: "The thought of his being president sends a cold chill down my spine. He's erratic. He's hotheaded. He loses his temper and he worries me."7 McCain talks a lot about taking on special interests, but his campaign manager and top advisers are actually lobbyists. The government watchdog group Public Citizen says McCain has 59 lobbyists raising money for his campaign, more than any of the other presidential candidates.8 McCain has sought closer ties to the extreme religious right in recent years. The pastor McCain calls his "spiritual guide," Rod Parsley, believes America's founding mission is to destroy Islam, which he calls a "false religion." McCain sought the political support of right-wing preacher John Hagee, who believes Hurricane Katrina was God's punishment for gay rights and called the Catholic Church "the Antichrist" and a "false cult."9 He positions himself as pro-environment, but he scored a 0—yes, zero—from the League of Conservation Voters last year.10

Not experienced enough? Experienced in what? Life? Politics? Look where political "experience" has gotten us. So Obama's not a career politician - is that really what we want? We need fresh views and new ideas in Washington. A lack of "experience" in this context is not a negative, it's a positive.

McCain has an anger and memory problem and does a terrible job simply running his home finances with megabucks income and unpaid taxes on some of his several homes. He is out of touch with the average American working just to maintain low average living standard. Obama 2008

Hit him hard Barack Obama.

There's this gut feeling I have that Obama is smart enough to know he'll have to be creatively tough for a Democrat if he's going to beat down the Republican campaign machine. If it's wrong, I can't imagine facing yet another four years of GOP dictatorship.

After the deficit Bush is going to leave us with, how can this quote from McCain really resonate with any Republicans:

"Celebrities like to spend their millions. Barack Obama is no different. Only it's your money he wants to spend."

Whose money does he want us to believe Bush has been spending? It's as though McCain thinks we're all suffering from amnesia.

Those Republicans sure can't take what they dish out, can they?

McCain, denounce John Corsi's book, do so specifically and do so in strong language. Then and only then will I listen to a word you say about "negative campaigning" by your opponent.

I don't believe Obama honors anything. He dishonors his grandmother, which is mighty sleazy. He can't discern a terrorist (Ayers) when he sees one. He terms a baby as punishment, thus dishonoring human life.

This time IS the time where Obama should be selling his "politics" over the "politics" of McCain.

Where's the compelling reason to support Obama? He has every opportunity to sell his positions on issues. It's up to him to convince Americans that his inexperience doesn't matter. It's McCain's job in part to point out that Obama is an inexperienced pop-star.

Obama was maybe counting on "castrating" McCain like he did Hillary, PC style.

Recently, Fox News presented two evenings of biographical documentary on Obama and McCain. After Saturday's Forum with Rick Warren, this UNDECIDED voter began to lean toward McCain. Unfortunately for McCain, Fox News presented a thorough – and hopefully accurate - walk through the accomplishments and personal lives of both candidates. To be quite frank, aside from John McCain's admirable loyalty to comrades in the Hanoi Hilton, we know the following: Poor and Disruptive student, bottom of his class at Annapolis, jerk-off womanizing less than stellar pilot, to wife and children with an extremely wealthy woman 20 years his younger, divorce, 30 years as a professional politician, defended a con-artist billionaire as member of the "Keating Five", worked to pass a bi-partisan but highly ineffective McCain-Feingold Act, profane outbursts of temper, knee jerk reactions, is in favor of re-instating the draft (as of today). Aside from the behavior of a few Obama supporters (aka Rev. Wright) and some experimentation with drugs in his late teens, Obama seems to be the exact opposite of the John McCain portrayed in the Fox bio: brilliant student, Harvard Law Review President, faithful husband and father, 20 years as an activist working with the "poor in spirit", controlled and thoughtful temperament. AS A CHRISTIAN I AM OBVIOUSLY CONFUSED REGARDING WHO I SHOULD VOTE FOR…or am I ?

P.S. After nearly 10 years of Republican policy, we still have abortions, gay people, war, and excessive greed.

All Obama should harp on is this.

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Whatever McCain is paying his new strategist, double it. What a platform. If Obama doesn't respond, he's weak, if he does, he's testy. And this from the guy known for his temper and outbursts.

They have no shame and certainly no platform so they just swing the bat and hope the ball smacks into it. Conversely if Obama can't handle it, he's not ready to be president.

So while I think it's stupid of McCain in a perversely brilliant sort of way, I also think Obama will rise up to meet the challenge and then we'll see the real measure of the man, which I believe will be phenomenal when he's president.

He will win of course and this is wonderful training for commander-in-chief. Small-minded rhetoric is not.

Ahh, hahahaha, John McCain, after spending the last weeks blowing poison darts at Obama now thinks he's 'FEISTY' when he holds a shield up????

Give me a break! This is just delicious. I hope he does choose that clown Lieberman as a VP and flush himself down the drain, he is not the McCain of 2000. The maverick part has made a hasty departure leaving only the gross and disgusting part behind.

Too bad Obama is the alternative for most people...

John McCain chided his Democratic rival on Wednesday for getting "a little testy"

NO! Tell me that Senator McHotNoggin did NOT have the audacity (senility?) to go there!?!

OBAMA GO!!!

There is a MW radio station called "six thirty WMAL". It sounds like time stands still for this station and sure enough if you can tolerate 10 minutes listening to Sean Hannity you'll agree that his style of simplistic conservatism has no courage to move forward and it gets to be nagging with distaste.

John McCain's ads and talks are the same. Whites Republicans Evangelicans etc. don't be brainwashed by Hannity's style of indoctrination He is just repeating the same tiresome stuff dishonorably to drag Obama down to McMcain's level. Surely one can love America but not be proud of it especially when there are people like John McCain and Hannity around. Add Mark L. and Rush L. to the list.

Having totally switched off I am signing off.

Cantankerous, crotchety curmudgeons insist on the natural virtue of economic irregularity, and expect you to honor that. Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac-- McCain fans agree, pwning God and Country is the way to be.

As soon as the Convention ends and the Democratic VP is settled, the truth about John McCain and the danger he poses to America will be exposed. Truth, Not Lies will be told about John McCain and his ambition to create and engage in Foreign Wars of Aggression. His Impatience for Diplomacy and preference for War.(Ref: the Russia/Georgia conflict). Americans will be informed about McCain's Economic Policies that favour the Rich and has no concern for the poor and Middle Classes. About his Arrogance and Temper that will see an Unstable Cabinet and Conflict after Conflict with Congress. With an increasing gridlock between the President and Congress. McCain is more like Cheney than Bush. Cheney is Arrogant but Smart in his support of the American Elite and will do anything possible to ensure the privilege position of the Big Corporations. Bush is Unconcerned about Americans Opinion on his MisRule to the point of being Uncaring and unperturbed.But his jovial personality and his wife's compassion makes him less dangerous than Cheney or McCain (remember Cheney is the Architect of the Iraq War not Bush. Bush is the instrument of Cheney's mission and ambition for America). McCain like Cheney is Arrogant. He is Obsessed with War and the Defeat of perceived Enemies of America. He is only concerned about the Welfare of America's Elite. McCain is of the Elite Privileged Ruling Class and is their Political Representative. He belongs to the Military Elite Branch, which is the most revered of all the Elites as they, by virtue of their military role, defend the power, privilege and wealth of America's ruling class. John MC Cain, however, is an angry man in the evening of his life, who wants revenge for his treatment in a POW camp in Vietnam. A treatment,he feels is below his Elite Status. His revenge is to show his perceived enemies (of America ?) that they will be punished for supporting the Viet-Cong during the Vietnam War). The danger is, who were the supporters of the Viet-Cong? They were Russia and China. The major Nuclear Powers are the USA, Russian and China. Could we imagine first time military conflicts with these countries? Or the possibility of War with Russia and China? What connection does McCain have with the Georgian President? Who gave the OK for the Georgian action? This Election is perhaps the most important since the Civil War. It may be a choice between, on the one hand (Obama) - Peace, International Co-Operation and the Resurgence of the American Economy and its People. On the other hand (McCain) - War, International Conflicts and the Continued Economic Downturn and Crisis of the American Economy and more Economic Pressures on it's People. American voters need to decide based on facts and not emotion.

As an Obama supporter, I agree Obama should respond where it is needed. Obama must throw some mud at McCain. John McCain has a lot of factual positions that are ripe for picking a fight. And taking him off message.

The Obama camp seems to be expert defenders rather than expert offenders. Maybe they need some personel changes in the war department, I am available .

The McCain camp are using the tactics from the Karl Rove play book that got GW Bush elected twice and the Republicans via John McCain appear to be using it with success once again according to the latest poll results.

Ms. Sidoti, a member of the Associated Press, wrote:

"In ads and speeches, he *worked to plant the idea in voters' minds* that Obama lacked the experience and substance to be president."---Not very objective or sophisticated writing here. Did McCain say these words? If not, what words did McCain say to lead to Ms. Sidoti's conclusion, printed as fact?

"McCain also reversed himself to support offshore drilling amid high gas prices, and that new message has helped unite dispirited Republicans."----I think Obama's the one most famous for reversing himself on this issue---following McCain's lead.

"More recently, the Arizona senator struck a hawkish stance during Georgia-Russia conflict in the hope of turning the campaign conversation to his strength — national security."

---I wonder if it has occurred to Ms. Sidoti that Senator McCain's statements were about Georgians and Russians, rather than about "turning the campaign conversation." McCain, like many Americans, is genuinely and justifiably concerned with the situation there. He has known the Georgian President, who is only 40 or so, for a long time, and likely considers him to be a friend.

John McCain had the conviction to use the parable "we are all Georgians" and to provide moral support to a people facing overwhelming odds, while some were hiding from difficult questions about European history from reporters, and others were doing who knows what.

It is shameful that so many in his own country, our own country, held John McCain to scorn for speaking in the way a man of McCain's experience and stature SHOULD. McCain wasn't calling for war; he was expressing moral support. McCain dropped in the polls after stating his support for the Georgians, and he likely knew he would. If you watch the footage of him taking the time away from his campaign to EXPLAIN what was going on in Georgia to his audience, you will notice their reticence---they cheered wildly over getting cheap gasoline and DRILL DRILL DRILL!!!!

Sen. McCain's recent rise in the polls is not because of the Russo-Georgian conflict; it is because of the Saddleback Forum. And a rise there should be.

I feel that Obama should throw mud right back in the face of McCain. While the press is blaming Clinton style campaigning on Obama drop in poles let not forget it was the Bush style of dirty tricks and camping, look who were on his staff then and who is on John McCain staff now.

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