All clear on threats to McCain offices

I would hate think that this is the desperate behavior and mentality of McCain's opposition.

You cannot get any lower than a democrat. Threats and white powder envelopes sound about right.

I also would hate to think that this is the desperate behavior and mentality of his own campaign. That way of thinking could work both ways.

Oh come on! McCain aides probably did this to themselves to distract people from the fact that their candidate doesn't even know how many houses he owns!

Where was Ayer's?

Republicans are all a bunch of hicks. they are the reason bush has destroyed out country for the last 8 years. If you vote for mccain, you are just voting for another george bush to be in office. Another republican will destroy our country for sure. sometimes u just gotta do what you have to do to make sure we can have a great president like obama in office. McCain wants nothing but more war and doesnt understand anything about middle class american people and families, considering he is the heir to a 100 million dollar fortune. stop being racist and screwing ur sisters, you bunch of republican ignoramuses.

Probably sent by Karl Rove.

Old me--- you can get lower by being a republicsn with statement like that. It probably was done by a republican for some free publicity stunt.

lower than a democrat would be the republicans headed my McCain to try to get limited slow thinking people that the democrats are doing this. it's unbelievable how stupid some people are in this country ...

Classic Karl Rove move. He has someone send something that looks threatening to his own candidate, but it is carefully orchestrated to result in no real harm. The result is everyone suspects his opponent. Smear by innuendo. He has done it before. It is a Karl Rove signature piece.

You're right, old mo. It's definitely a democrat, because the dems have a monopoly on insanity. Like the guy who sent the exact same kind of letter to Olbermann and others and was inspired by.... Michelle Malkin. She's a liberal democrat, right?

We should be thankful that this weirdo didn't actually hurt anybody- not pointing the political finger around like a bunch of reactionary partisans.

Here's hoping none of these crazy powder senders ever truly sends the bad stuff.

Of course, the conspiracy theorist would suggest that the McCain campaign did it themselves in search of a sympathy vote.

You cannot get any lower than a democrat? Oh yes you can. How about the kind of miserable, misanthropic moron who could write what you just did? Idiot.

Wow, talk about desperate. It is just as likely that someone from the McCain campaign or someone unrelated to either campaign sent it. And as far as low blows, end justifies the means, no one competes with the right wing nut jobs.

Why do you assume that it was a democrat?

Excuse me! I sure ddin't see where this was in any way connected to the opposition. I would be more apt to believe it was a Republican tactic to get sympathy and cast a shadow on the opposition.

It's disgusting and ridiculous to try to attribute this to "McCain's opposition" or the Democrats. Whoever did this is a twisted person, but there is no evidence that the person was a Democrat. You can't get any lower than a conservative who would politicize a tragedy like this to advance his own candidate's chances in November.

Last time this happened we were told it was terrorist activity and it allegedly turned out to be a government scientist.
Don't make the assumption that a "democrat" or "McCain's opposition" are responsible for this latest stunt.
You have ZERO proof and are just spewing filth by doing so.
I could just as easily make the ridiculous assumption that the "Republicans" or "McCain Camp" did this in order to keep the "Illusion of Terror" alive and well.
Then both of ours comments would be equally ridiculous.
This was done by some lone nut who is upset at the current state of America, both Dem and Rep alike. Don't Play the blame game.
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Could this be a Republican ploy to show that the "terrorists" fear a McCain Presidency?

Excuse me! I sure didn't see where this was in any way connected to the opposition. I would be more apt to believe it was a Republican tactic to get sympathy and cast a shadow on the opposition.

Really? Superpower and Old Mo, really? Those are two of the lamest comments ever posted in the history of online comment posting. Desperation? You can not get any lower than a Democrat? What are you two doing, picking your asses? That must be what you're doing, throwing your syntactical feces all over this comment board. Get a life!!

I resent the supposition that this came from a Democrat! It could have just as easily been someone inside the MCCain Campaign trying to garner attention for the Senator who gets less air time than Barrack Obama.

Well the FBI may try to blame their current scapegoat Ivins for this one, too! Oh thats right, he's dead.

uh, more like mccain and his camp need another opportunity to remind the American public that "THREATS ARE EVERYWHERE, AND I AM A HAWK MAVERICK WILLING TO PREEMPTIVELY STRIKE ANY NATION/PERSON"

It figures that the Rep's would try and pin this on Democrats. The vast majority of true republicans are paranoid that someone is going to take their "cheese", it's really ironic that in doind so, they throw all logic out the window and say "the democrats" are crazy.

McCain was never tortured, at least by Pres Bush's definition.

Or maybe his supporters sent it to the offices to bolster fear and show the voters that "terriorism" is still alive and well..whether domestic or international.

Police traced the person who mailed that envelope to a person in jail who has a history of such behavior who is in no way connected to the Democrats. Just shows how partisan and lacking in objectivity old mo is.

I would hate to think this is desperate behavior on the part of McCain supporters... Who benefits from inciting fear in the public? The candidate that looks like a majority of the population, despite being more detached.

I will vote for a real republican candidate like Barr...

You should be more concerned that these hoax threats are a clever ploy to allow the public to lower their guard and then when a real threat emerges, it is treated as just another hoax. The is the essence of bioterrrorism; initial fear followed by apathy.

It is analogous to a car thief shaking your vehicle enough to make you think it [alarm system] is malfunctioning and after you disable, it they steal it. Same with these threats, give them enough fakes and they will fail to realize a real problem until it is too late.

Treat these incidents as genuine problems, for if not the bioterrorist has been sucessful in their mission.

There a psychos in both parties. More likely than a its a pro-lifer.

You know what would be even more pathetic? 'Hypothetically' sending these letters to themselves for the exposure over nothing. I mean, its not like BUSH ever did anything like that. You know, fabricating anthrax evidence, fear mongering and any other lowly deed to falsify their image in the publics eye.

You know what would have been even funnier? If McCain sent them to his own houses... that is if he can even remember where and how many he has in his muddled mind.

They were found to have been mailed by a prisoner. What a ridiculous statement that this would have anything to do with the official Democratic party.

Put the shoe on the other foot, if the same envelope arrived at an Obama office. Would one be wise to assume that a legitimate member of the Republican party would do such a thing? I would think that the Republicans would defend against such a statement as being ludicrous (as it would be).

Before you get all stupid on me with your religious, right-wing rhetoric (e.g. lies gleaned from forwarded emails), I'm neither a Democrat or Republican, just a person who uses his own brain to think..

Cant get any lower? How about the multiple times Obama's offices have been vandalized (spray painted/broken windows) here in Indiana. This stuff happens every election year and I doubt it was Obama "suppporters", more likely it was anti-war elements.

Oh come on Old Mo...think critically here and don't vote for either...both parties are corrupt and don't give one whit about the people or their problems...they're only interested in keeping their hold on power and money...no wonder the USA has a crisis of self confidence...

Obama is desperate and he does have the Ayers, Rezko, Farrakhan & Wright crazies working for him.

Deranged, rabid, criminal obama supporters. Just par for the course!

RIGHT ON ! Down with the left !

Lol... what do you expect. This is the same class of people who will key your car because it is nicer than theirs. Democrats are scum. "Give me free handouts and we will still hate you for it" should be the moto of the democratic class

I would hate think that this is the desperate behavior and mentality of McCain's Advisers.

This is McCain's campign trying to show him as some kind of Republican warrior being "targeted". It looks like the McCain and the Republicans are back up to the old scare tactics again.

Actually, it kind of sounds like something McCain's staff did themselves. Strange that this hit the papers so fast (like, about 10 minutes after it was supposedly "discovered." Don't they usually try to keep this sort of thing underwraps until they have time to investigate so the sender doesn't know they have succeeded?

Unless, of course, nobody thought this was a credible threat. Hmm...

yeah, because violent extremists are normally LEFT wing... oh wait...

I am a staunch conservative Republican, but realize that the person or group responsible for the hate mail and "white substance" was just a sick minded jerk or jerks ... they come in all denominations and political view points.

I imagine sending these harmless substances to your own party for the compassion and immediate assumption by far right wing fanatics like the knuckleheads above would be quite effective.

P.S. the far left wing and far right are all bizarre individuals!

Oh please... Blaming the democrats is rediculous. It obviously the work of some sick individual. It is offensive and wrong to even suggest that "McCain's opposition" or the democrats as a group had something to do with it. Its as idiotic as suggesting that Mrs. McCain's hand sprain was the result of a vast democratic hand-shaking conspiracy.

Grow up! Its just this type of extremist nonsense that detracts people from the real issues of the campaign. If we want to win in 08 it will be through addressing the issues people are concerned about, not by the retoric of hate.

Its an inside job. nothing more.

There will be plenty of desperation for the both of you, on November 5th. See you in 2016 suckers.

You gotta be kidding me! Where were your snide remarks when Dems and the Media was receiving the REAL stuff??

Probably a sick media stunt by McCain and the RNC.

What a surprise. White powder found at McCains office. What next? Threat of a war or something? Here we go again. FEAR FEAR FEAR. Soak it up fools!

Unfortunately Americans seem to be known more for stupidity than brains

Carl Rove sent them. That is much more likely then a democrat.

It's weird that they lied in this statement about what they found in New Hampshire -- after the white powder envelope was found in Denver (with a name on the return address by the way -- he's an inmate with a history of writing threatening letters), a letter was received in Manchester with a Denver return address. Understandably, they were concerned at the time, however, they later found out that this letter was not a threat and did not contain white powder, it just happened to be from Denver. Why are they still calling it a "similar letter" when it wasn't?

Yeah, not all a sensible move like shooting a bunch of liberals at a Unitarian Universalist church or shooting the head of the Democratic party of Arkansas. White powder in an envelope is just pure evil compared to those little pranks.

That, is sarcasm by the way.

it's more likely that Mcain's own office sent this to convince the american public that terrorists don't like republicans and you DON"T want to be like a terrorist do you? so vote John Mcain b/c terrorists don't want him in office.

sounds about right with this administration. also, did you guys know that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction.. BAWAAHAAA..! LOL..! this country is full of redneck idiots..!

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This has republican dirty trickster Karl Rove's fingerprints all over it. Early in his career he bugged his own candidate's office to create negative publicity for his opponent. Fear, fear, fear, fear, fear, fear, fear. Now vote GOP like good little lemmings.

This is more shameless fear-mongering, just like the anthrax letters after 9/11 -- which turned out to have come from the U.S. government itself. McSame and his followers have no limits to how low into the gutter they will go. The attempts to pin this on Democrats is just one more example of a long, shameless tradition of deceit, combined with tragic ignorance.

Blaming the other party is just stupid. This is some no-class individual who wants to make a name for himself.

McCain probably had it sent to his offices to fire up the fear mongering machine!

to poster 2: did you ever consider that this was sent by a fellow republican? they love using those fear tactics!!

Looks like another stunt by McCain's camp for cheap publicity.

I would hate to think that this is the desperate behavior of a Karl Rove style
ruse to get people to suspect Democrats of unconscionable behavior.

Sending yourself threats and white powder in envelopes sounds about right.

I believe that it was a McCain supporter who sent the packages. Everyone knows that this sort of coverage only helps his campaign. Why would a Democrat do something to help McCain? Well.. then again... there are those Hillary types...

It was probably sent by William Ayers.

How very conveinient when McCain just happens to be getting slammed for his "homes" memory lapse...interesting distraction to be sure.

Sounds like typical republican scare tactics - create an atmosphere of fear then try to capitalize on it. From the very deep and slimy bag of Rove dirty tricks -- expect more in the coming weeks.

Sounds like the typical fear-mongering left-wing radical scumbag liberal DUMMYCRAPS at it once again! Sending hate mail, blogging their collective a$$e$ off 'til they are BLUE in the face!

Only a DUMMYCRAP would pull a crazy, insane, out-of-his mind stunt like this!

Guess what, DUMMYCRAPS? Say HELLO to President John McCain in January 2009, because Osama O'bama doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell of being elected. He is an empty shirt puppet of the greedy DNC and can't even make a single decision on his own.

McCain 2009 !!!

Your knee jerk reaction without thought is typical of John McCain so I can see why you obviously support him. You have to know that the general public reaction would be that it was his opposition, so why would they do it? There is a greater possibility that McCain supporters would do this to get non-thinkers like you to believe that it WAS his opposition. Talk about desperation. Think hard and long before you vote in November.

Old Mo- what on earth are you talking about? The senators who were sent anthrax letters in 2001 were Daschle and Leahy - both Democrats.

There's no democratic connection here. Of course, that doesn't stop ignorant republicans from making false accusations.

How are you better than a hypothetical liberal conspiracy theorist suggesting (with no evidence) McCain supporters sent him powdered sugar to draw attention away from Senator Obama's VP selection and democratic convention?

An inmate serving time in jail sent these letters. This is not representative of the democratic party. Democrat or Republican, the issues are more important than antics of a few fanatics.

I am amazed and saddened by how nasty we Americans are, in an election year. This is an election about who we prefer to be president. This is a election of how we want the country governed over the next 4 years. It is a reforendum on how we should (or should not) go to war (and over what); how we should tax our citizens to pay for government programs (and what government programs we want); how we should address the problem of mostly foreign oil - which has recently impacted our citizens in harsh ways.
This should not be about sniping, and character assasination (on either side). Democracy is about the majority weighing the choices and making an informed vote.
Educate yourself on the policies of the candidates, and vote. If you believe strongly in one set of policies or the other (most do) - then discuss what you want for the country and why. You opinion may not change another's mind - but it is a much more productive activity than sniping (either side).

Typical. The coments from Republicans on this site suggesting a Democrat did this. I'm sure Karl Rove will let you kiss him. Nice job.

Now can we get onto to the next war please......

Wanna see Republicans CUT and RUN! Restore the DRAFT Today.

UNITED we stand, DIVIDED we fall. We are certainly divided. Divide and conquer. Left vs. Right. There are powerful forces behind both parties and they want us to point fingers and ridicule each other in the childish manner that is evident in these comments. I personally don't see much of a difference between the 2 candidates. They both advocate war, taxes, big government, elitism, globalism, and preying upon your fear to get you to vote a certain way and accept certain conditions. We need to embrace love, not fear.

And so once again, we Americans show how Olympian we are at jumping to conclusions that fit our prejudices. Way to go folks. Probably the only exercise you get.

And while you're all distracted and thinking you're oh so-o-o-o witty, we've got real problems like people jumping to more conclusions while real problems go without any proper evaluation (e.g., "global warming," the transfer of billions of energy dollars to our enemies - etc.)

The truly scary thing is that your vote counts?

Ayers has never been convicted of any crime, even though people call him a "terrorist" all the time.

And the original anthrax letters (the ones with actual anthrax) were all aimed at Democrats.

Given the offices this guy sent them to (NH & CO), you'd think this guy was trying to help McCain, not threaten him. But I guess you guys don't pay attention to state polls and watch meaningless national polls instead.

"Republicans are all a bunch of hicks. they are the reason bush has destroyed out country for the last 8 years. If you vote for mccain, you are just voting for another george bush to be in office. Another republican will destroy our country for sure. sometimes u just gotta do what you have to do to make sure we can have a great president like obama in office. McCain wants nothing but more war and doesnt understand anything about middle class american people and families, considering he is the heir to a 100 million dollar fortune. stop being racist and screwing ur sisters, you bunch of republican ignoramuses."

This is what you call intelligent prose??? Do you even understand that your keyboard allows for capitalization of proper nouns, or do you even know what a proper noun is? Before you attempt to put your thoughts in print, and accuse others of being ignorant, you may want to think about purchasing a style guide and dictionary.

To the commenters blaming democrats, or mccain's campaign.. please stop.

No matter what, there are always people like this who act menacingly on their own. please stop attributing their actions to either party's members as a whole. no one wants this kind of thing in politics.

In what kind of country can a guy be held without bail for 11 months before any kind of conviction?

Ridiculous overreaction. If someone really wanted to kill with a powder, they'd use an imperceptible amount. It would still be lethal.

Smells fishy to me.

Could somebody from the McCain Camp have wanted to take the focus off his Many Mansions?

A co-worker of mine said she heard that John McCain broke Cindy's hand and that he has battered her before. Has anyone else heard this? I also have heard that he's called his wife the "c" word in public.

I find this strikingly odd, considering mccains campaign fuels and breeds off of terrorism, and could use this to their advantage, even though white powder attacks haven't happened in over 7 years, its funny how it reappears at the mccain camp, and then its blamed on a guy sitting in a jail cell who obviously has no way shape or form of getting and sending white powder let alone envelopes to mail such rhetoric.

i smell bull****

Both parties suck completely. Left and Right, morons and idiots all. Both are complete whack jobs.

he he he dirty fear mongering politicians at it again.

"Unfortunately Americans seem to be known more for stupidity than brains."
Ain't that the darn truth...just look who is ahead in the polls.

Ridiculous overreaction. If someone really wanted to cause harm this way, they would use an imperceptible amount. It would still be lethal, and they could put it anywhere. This is another False Flag.

It's good that the white powder threat was a hoax and not the real deal.
I guess it only cost them a few days disruption.
Where it came from is a moot point.
The fact is that political action is gaining a whole new meaning here and it's not too pretty.
I'd like to see an end to all of the petty BS and a clean, honorable race run by BOTH sides from now on.
But I don't believe that they're capable of cleaning it up though,..........and THAT'S a shame, isn't it?

everyone knows mccain and the republicans would pull this stunt, and guess what? ta dah! stay tuned for more.

Politics has always been a dirty game. Problem is, there seem to be alot more wack jobs out there these days.

I am a registered voter, it doesn’t matter what party, but it does matter that we do vote. I personally vote for the best person for the office. And hope and pray I’ve done my homework and voted for the right person. I have read enough of the comments here and all I can see is there is a lot of hatred and the pointing of fingers. You know the old saying; when you point your finger there is three pointing back! When I first read the story about the white stuff sent to McCain’s campaign headquarters my assumptions were some sicko sent it. Not a Republican or Democrat, or from the McCain group or the Obama camp. I really like what Informed Voter (69) and lanceelcamino (71) had to say.

Please, stop pointing your finger, stop calling each other names. We’re all Americans, hopefully, and we need to stand together now or we’ll hang separately later. Do your homework and vote for the best person. That’s all we can do!