Change is coming, McCain promises
After one speech after another demonizing and belittling Barack Obama, Republican presidential nominee John McCain sought tonight to convince voters that he has the vision and skills to change Washington -- not his Democratic rival.
"Let me just offer an advance warning to the old, big-spending, do-nothing, me-first, country-second crowd," McCain declared in his acceptance speech. "Change is coming."
Voters in every poll say they want change in the nation's capital, and even though McCain has been in Congress for 26 years, he highlighted his maverick reputation to argue tonight that he is the one who can bridge the partisan divide and reform Washington.
"When we tell you we're going to change Washington...you can count on it," McCain pledged.
His maverick reputation means he knows who he works for, he said: "I work for you."
McCain took the stage, reconstructed into more of a town hall format, after a video about his life, especially his military record. "John McCain, John McCain," delegates chanted, then "USA! USA!"
The Arizona senator paid tribute to his primary opponents and then President Bush, though he has distanced himself from him, saying that the president led the country through the "dark days" after Sept. 11.
"I won't let you down," he told his supporters, then reached out to undecided voters, saying he plans to earn their trust.
Then he told Obama: "We'll go at it for the next two months," citing big differences on policies but pledged, "you have my respect and my admiration."
"But let there be no doubt, my friends, we're going to win this election," McCain declared as delegates rose to their feet.
At least twice in the opening minutes, his speech was interrupted by protestors, who were shouted down with "USA" chants and removed by security.
McCain said he has a record of fighting corruption and reminded voters of his support for the troop surge in Iraq. "I don't mind a good fight," he said, but "what you fight for is the real test."
He named specific people who are struggling in the economy or who need help, and said, "They matter to me." One of them was Matthew Stanley, the New Hampshire soldier who died in Iraq and whose bracelet his mother gave McCain, who continues to wear it.
He criticized his own party for being changed by Washington and losing voters' trust, then vowed that the party of "Reagan and Lincoln" will "get back to basics".
He warned that Obama will raise taxes, increase government spending, close borders to trade, and enact a government-run healthcare system. After each assertion, the delegates booed.
(Obama would dispute the characterization of his positions, pointing out, for instance, that he wants to cut taxes for those making less than $250,000 a year, while letting President Bush's tax cuts lapse for those making more.)
McCain then launched into a laundry list of his proposals on education, energy independence, and national security, among other issues.
McCain then went into his strong suit -- defense and national security.
"We face many dangerous threats in this dangerous world," he said. "But I'm not afraid of them. I'm prepared for them. I know how the military works."
"I know how the world works, I know there's good and evil in it," he added.
He pledged to use all his knowledge and relationships with world leaders to build a stable peace.
"I hate war, it's terrible beyond imagination," McCain said.
McCain closed his speech with his pledge to serve his country. "I've been an imperfect servant of this country for many years. I've been a servant first, last, and always," he said.
He told in detail his 5 1/2 years as a prisoner of war, which he said taught him the greatest lesson of his life -- that no one can stand alone forever, and to serve a cause greater than self.
"I fell in love with my country when I was a prisoner in someone else's. I loved it not just for the many comforts of life here. I loved it for its decency; for its faith in the wisdom, justice and goodness of its people. I loved it because it was not just a place, but an idea, a cause worth fighting for. I was never the same again. I wasn’t my own man anymore. I was my country’s.”
Mocking Obama, he said he wasn't running for president because he feels anointed.
"My country saved me, my country saved me, I cannot forget it," McCain said. "And I will fight for her as long as I draw breath, so help me God."
The Obama campaign just issued this response to McCain's speech: “Tonight, John McCain said that his party was elected to change Washington, but that they let Washington change them. He’s right. He admonished the ‘old, do-nothing crowd’ in Washington, but ignored the fact that he’s been part of that crowd for twenty-six years, opposing solutions on health care, energy, and education. He talked about bipartisanship, but didn’t mention that he’s been a Bush partisan 90% of the time, that he’s run a Karl Rove campaign, and that he wants to continue this President’s disastrous economic and foreign policies for another four years. With John McCain, it’s more of the same.
“That’s not the change Americans need. Barack Obama has taken on the special interests and the lobbyists in Illinois and in Washington, and he’s won. As President, he’ll cut taxes for 95% of all working families, provide affordable health care to every American, end the tax breaks for companies that ship our jobs overseas, and eliminate the oil we import from the Middle East in ten years,” said Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton.
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Oh, please.....he pledges to end the rancor? His ads and his VP pick and his statements all prove otherwise. Same old, same old. McCain has not taken the high road yet in this campaign. It seems just like the Bush administration: say the opposite of what you actually do, and say it often enough, the people who don't pay attention believe you are telling the truth.
We have a chance to fix all this, and I am so afraid we won't.
After so many extremely vicious and divisive speeches over the past couple of days, how does John McCain think he'll be able to bridge the parties? It's clear to me that the Republican party wants more of the same -- power, money, and the ability to make very bad decisions for this country.
How many batches of KoolAid did they go through to elicit such horseshit enthusiasm for a candidate who stepped/slept on more lines than he delivered?
I have never seen such a sorry excuse for a speech, or a more anesthetizing performance.
I am not a member of the liberal elite, but can't fathom this nonsense, which is beyond insulting on so many levels.
Jonestown Redux.
Well now we know Gawd Almighty IS John McCain. Apparently he is going to fix EVERYTHING, but he sure doesn't say HOW!
What the heck is he talking about?? McSame won't bring any change - certainly not for the better!
I don't expect he believes his own kool-aid induced delusions. Will anyone else?
Your editor is on sick leave? Re-write this. It's awful.
At least he wasn't condescending and mean spirited like his running mate Palin, but it's going to take a lot more than one speech to convince me that the Republican Party is really going to change at all after what we've seen them do over the last 8 years. Does he really think he can convince us so easily?
They are voracious predators and hunt using a classic example of lie-in-wait or ambush.
the fight is on . cant wait to the face to face debates!
a little too long and boring address, expecially to the independents and non-republics. John Macain may be a war hero but there is more that is demanded from a Presidential candidate -- especially in the area of judjement.
McCain doesn't work for anyone but McCain, like Bush.
As an America I don't need McCain, and Palin up there spreading
horrible lies about their opponents. This is why they can't be
President or Vice President, they never talk about issues
of the middle class who make America, all they care about is
tearing down Obama and Biden, Bush was the same way and look
where we are today.
McCain is a foul mouth, hot tempered person who lies and doesn't care
about anyone but himself, Hmmm I wonder who this sounds like.
Bush and McBush nothing will change it will only get worse.
teh
Borring, It sounds like Karl Rove wrote his speech. It's uncanny how much his speech sounded like it could have come from the shrub's mouth. I guess if worked last time,why not? There's plenty of fools left to fall for same empty promises from 04'.
Wow, we got some haters already posting...they couldn't be waiting to blast McCain could they???
I am neutral and still undecided.
I have watched both democrats and repubs convention in full now. I think the only speech that DID outline change and that DID say he would cross the line is McCain.
There are going to be jabs between the parties. That is nothing new.
\Mc Cain is playing dirty politics as usual. Is that what he calls change? Why should we vote for him?
Did Obama write McCain's speach? Talk about plagerism, McCain took everything from Obama's speach that his focus groups liked and just cut and pasted it into his (well acutally his speach writers cut and pasted, McCain doesn't write speaches, Obama does). McCain used to say Obama didn't have enough experience, so he picked a VP with way less experience than Obama. Then McCain used to say that Obama has lofty ideas but doesn't ever explain how he is going to accoplish them, so now McCain delivers a speach where he tells us that he will make everything good again but he doesn't even hint at how he will do it.
I wish people who didn't know anything about what the candidates positions are, weren't allowed to vote but alas in America any red neck with a pickup truck can get his but over to a poling place and vote for anyone who makes them feel "proud to be an American". Speaking of which, doesn't McCain have any shame at all about using his 40 year old POW staoies to get votes?
I thought Obama was the one with style but no substance in his speeches....
Oh, well, change is coming. It came. McCain is now running on celebrity and image.
Obama is running on policies that matter.
Bellicosity reigns supreme.
John McCain wants to fight and wants you to join him.
Trained to use a hammer, he sees clearly: there are nails out there and they need a hammerin'
I hope you all enjoyed the Iraq adventure, if this man wins the presidency we'll be seeing more where that came from.
"Fight, stand up and fight!" he invites.
He wants to end partisan rancor, but enjoins the faithful to fight while the theme song "barracuda" pounds in the background..."your're gonna burn, burn, burn, ....barracuda..."
(Didn't get around to the draft this time....maybe we'll get to hear more about that next time)
Confrontations with Iran, Russia, and North Korea... are eagerly envisioned.
Classic Republican focus on outside affairs while skipping through domestic issues.
I agree with #10 But one has to admit that the only 2 that have true potential president experience in this election is McCain and Biden and unfortunately Biden has been wrong most of the time.
Good speech. Great man. I've been on the fence but this speech helped me see that McCain is the very kind of person that I want for president.
Borring, It sounds like Karl Rove wrote his speech. It's uncanny how much his speech sounded like it could have come from the shrub's mouth. I guess if worked last time,why not? There's plenty of fools left to fall for same empty promises from 04'.
GOOD JOB JOHN
YOU GET MY VOTE
Looks Like I will vote for McCain/Palin. As an Independent I can only say both sides are embarrassingly negative. Palin has made the difference for me. Her voice is the only one of the four I can listen too and actually believe.
same old POW speech........ Boring!
It's pretty obvious that McCain is the real deal, and that Nobama is all talk. There is no comparison...hands down McCain is a straight up leader.
I can't believe we have two months to go. I'm exhausted just watching the conventions, or at least I was until McCain's speech put me to sleep and ended the agony.
Obama '08!
McSame is apt. I can't believe a word of what he says. Anyone who would pick a running mate the way he picked Palin can't be trusted. He's 72, has had cancer, was a POW, isn't it time he retired to Palm Springs?!?
For those of us who have morals and convictions, McCain's speech was very encouraging in comparison to the liberal agenda that Obama fed us last week. Obama may be a smooth talker but I hope we do not have to see how lacking in experience and judgment that he is when America is faced with a challenge. At least McCain has the experience and the backbone to face those challenges!
I was bitterly disappointed in the speech delivered both by Palin and McCain. Its obvious the Palin part of the ticket is to gain support from women that possibly may have voted for Hillary. Does anyone find it strange that Palin is from Alaska (BIG OIL STATE)? I was a die hard republican once, and have withdrawn sadly from supporting that party. I simply cannot vote for more of the same. I am a veteran of the Navy, and I can respect McCain's position as a POW, however, it does not soley prepare him to lead this country. Sara Palin's experience and background should be questioned. If something were to happen to McCain in office, then she would be president of the United States. Being a govenor of a state that has a population of 519,000 people for 20 months cannot possibly prepare you for the magnitude of running the greatest country in the world. I am disapointed in all that is going on politically in this land. Sadly disapointed. I hope the American people see through this farce. May God have mercy on us.
Clearly the ravenous grasp of reality has loosened its grip on his sun-addled brain. I imagine once you cross the line into pathological lies, theres no more need for the petty annoyances of facts or truth. I cant wait for the eventual revelation that Obama is actually Bin Ladin!
Congress has been controlled by the democrats.... btw.....
This play on nationalism is insulting. True credit is owed to this P.O.W.; undoubtedly. That however does not make a president in this era capable of "change". Show me that you are in touch with my, our, issues! I wish I was not so disappointed...
My father is 72 years old, and I can't get him to change from Internet Explorer (his default browser) to firefox. John McCain is 72 years old, doesn't know how to use a computer, but is going to change how Washington DC operates. What's he going to do. Hand out #2 pencils?
Palin's speech last night was written by a White House speech writer. Current administrations words, brand new face/maverick to deliver the message. Now theres change we can believe in.
With who Obama!!! O man you are too funny!!
my brother, a democrat, says wait for the debates also. well, on one hand we have the canidate trained and well versed in debating as a law professor and on the other hand we have a real person. i fear, all the debates will show is how can pass out the bs the quickest and with the most college words.
why not judge on merit rather than words. this country is so lost in obama worship it has lost sight of reality.
Right on, John McCain!! You are a true American hero and the only candiate qualified to be Commander-in-Chief! The only candidate that will help us build and maintain a strong defense, seal our national borders, and stop the radical Islamic terrorists from taking over! Any true American will vote for John McCain!!
The american public is thirsty for change. Change from the old politics and policies of the past. Change to a more positive direction for this country. ZI, for one, welcome the prospect of change. Senator Obama has campaigned on a platform of change. Change we can count on. So, when we, as voters, enter the polls this November to lower our collective buckets into the wells of change we must choose the well that has substance to draw from. Despite all the rhetoric, I firmly believe that those who choose the Obama well will find it dry with no depth to draw from, Much like the accomplishments of the man, there is nothing rally there except an attractive wellhead that is, in reality dry. Perhaps, with time and strengthening that will change over time to be a viable source to draw from, but not in the next four years. The only hope for change that will happen is from McCain. I , for one, want change and not 4 more years of Bush. That's why I believe McCain is our best choice.
In truth what I saw of it is the same. A lullaby song around the real issues. An almost blatant act of plagiarism. The most ridiculous thing in all of the whole thing is they seem to prey on the uninformed! I sat there listening to his claims about Obama/ Biden .. raise taxes?? IF Anyone was listening to anything said by Obama it was AGAINST raising taxes for the middle class!. What is it to these people that they would INSULT the intelligence of the middle class by lying to them??
To me it's clearly a statement. "listen to us o ye mindless sheep. Listen and bleet to the song of the great Shepard."
Snoooooree.... To say not an uplifting speach is to mention the obvious.
John McCain withstood five and a half years of horrible torture without buckling. He has my utmost admiration. Why is it so effing much to ask of ourselves, as a nation, to withstand just four years of torture with him as president? Come on people! He has waited long enough for payback...give it to him.
You people are ignorant and uninformed.
All victims of the Teachers union that has ruined our public school system for 60 years no doubt.
Liberalism is a dismal failure everywhere it is applied.
We've heard three days of mudslinging, demeaning, insulting, mocking fearmongering rhetoric on top of having to sit through hours and hours of McCain's biography. Enough!!! This is one independent who is voting for Barack. At least he has vision. The Republicans are still stuck in the past.
If you have been paying attention to McCain's career, you should know that he has worked for bipartisan solutions and that is what is needed to solve problems. Does anyone seriously think we can solve our problems with only one set of solutions? Obama has never shown even the slightest interest in working with anyone other than far-left extremists. McCain's speech tonight was great!
Well now we know Gawd Almighty IS B. Hussein Obama! Apparently he is going to fix EVERYTHING, but he sure doesn't say HOW!
This is what I really meant to say but I'm still choking on the Obamessiah kool aid.
It's fascinating that McCain has finally chosen to accept Obama's claim that "change" is what's important in this election. Can we expect him to similarly try to coopt more of Obama's platform?
Never underestimate the stupidity of the American people!
In the end they' ll elect a devil himself rather than put a "n....r" in the
White House. I predict McCain presidency and I predict myself getting the hell out
of this entropied capitalist labor camp of a country.
It came to me tonight during the GOP convention that this Presidential race is very much a race about White American power. As I looked over the sea of white republicans (with a few strategically placed token blacks) that the entire Republican format is actually all about maintaining the upper white class male domination of America. Christianity, Corporations, Energy. 5% of all the wealth in America is owned by a small group of Deep South White Males. Woman are not equal, Blacks are not equal, gays are not equal, jews are not equal Asians, South Americans, Arabs, Indians you name it...we are all a step down from the white catholic male. America is diverse. Break the domination. Spread the wealth. All men and woman are created equal. Only Obama can save America.
Sarah Palin is very vibrant for a nursing mother. How does she get to Juneau with the state plane at ebay? Why is her pregnant daughter in charge of her infant brother with special needs? Sarah does not believe in Sex Education. She is a staunch supporter of incest and rape with her declaration of never any abortion for any reason whatever. She and McCain are twentieth century people with outdated ideas.
Which convention was he talking to? At this one, he was the only speaker who wasn't a rancorous, partisan, no-vision-having flunky. John McCain is a good and respectable man but his party deserves a beating for the 10 years it's spent dragging this country downhill, and it's just too bad if McCain has to get caught up in it.
look at all the democrats here talking trash. boy are they scared of what just happened. HAHA. wet your pants you hopeless animals, you act like children; making rhyme games with McCain's name. McCain will win; so get used to it.
As speeches go, I think it was slightly above average. Nowhere near Obama and Palin though.
I wish people would pay less attention to speeches and campaign commercials and the media circus. The best way to tell where someone's going is to look at where they've been. Look at Obama's and McCain's voting records, then decide.
All the insults and personal attacks, by both candidates (yes, Obama's doing it too) is childish, and alienating those looking for real change.
Kind of odd: Wednesday night they mock community organizers and then Thursday night tell you go out and serve the country (and then get mocked at the next Republican convention for doing it?)
I am not interested ina Presidential leader who is experienced in war....I am interested in a President who is experienced in peace.
If McCain really is for change then he better change his stand on illegal immigrants and English as the official national language. In poll after poll Americans want English as the one and only official national language so why isn't McCain making it a campaign issue? Also since 9/11/2001 illegal immigrants have murdered 27,000 Americans. That doesn't include those killed by drunken illegals in car accidents. More Americans are being killed within our own country by illegal invaders than troops being killed in Iraq and Afghanistan and McCain and Obama ignore that and want to make them citizens. Our jails are overflowing with illegal immigrants. How can McCain & Obama be so stupid as to believe that if legalize illegals they will become law biding citizens? McCain is too bull headed.
Something scares me about the Republican conservatives. Are they going to push creationism into the schools? Are they going to take away a woman's right to choose? Are they going to make it easier for more and more Americans to die from gun wounds? Are they going to let people who can't stand up for themselves fall through the cracks? Are they going to make rash decisions about serious subjects based on their selfish ideas of right and wrong? Are they going to ridicule intelligence and thump the Bible as the ultimate intelligence? Is all that going to make us safe and free? I'm afraid their rhetoric is so categorical that it will put us all in jeapordy. Their convention was a circus of rants and to elect them will see the hopes of many trampled for a long time to come.
Mcsame, is right ! There will be change ! Barack Obama
is it more important to be a democrat a republican or just maybe a good american? I think that perhaps people align themselves with a party with no regard to the last choice.
I am a former Bostonian that moved to Houston TX 10 yrs ago. It was music to my ears to hear him talking about increasing drilling in the Gulf. We will get OIL back down to 50 a barrell with Macain...
What is McCain doing, endorsing Obama?
What a soppy display of sheer political rhetoric !!
Absolute pedantic ideology with no substance.
McCain offered not ONE plan on how he was going to make all these changes.
It was really a pipe dream speech by someone who should just settle one of his seven houses and turn out the lights.
How gullible does he think we are ?
Not ONE SOLUTION !! Just WHITE NOISE !!
You're all a bunch of liberal hipocrites. Your candidate states he has a lot of respect for John McCain, then launches into the same old political slaughter house rhetoric, but it's OBAMA so it must be true and it must be OK. All hail OBAMA, Baaaaaa baaaaa, go on little scared sheep, go on now and follow the great I Am - You bunch of idiots!
at this time in history, Americans does not need a leader who is experienced in war, America needs a leader who is experienced in peace. I am going with Obama!
We still don't know who John McCain really is - it's certainly not what he projects to the public. He's just like Bush - crafty - impulsive - antiscientific - goes with his gut instead of the facts -and I see a lot of "projection" when he throws rocks at Obama. Both McCain and Palin are scarey. JC
Why did Obama turn down the daily town hall debates? Because he is the media's boy he cannot succeed without their propaganda and hiding of information. Obama would get creamed except in the tv debates where they will give him the questions beforehand and tell him what to say, then have their phoney pundits praising him after. McCain says what he believes, not what some focus group tells him to say. Obama is just like Bush, an elite person with a smirk on their face who thinks they are better becase daddy was rich or they got some affirmitive action appointment. Obama wants to say we are ignorant hillbillies clinging to our bibles and our guns, but we will show him in November why you should not look down on the American people
I consider myself a very politically-centered individual and an open-minded responsible voter. John McCain just secured my vote with a speech that I found to be more honest and honorable than anything Barack Obama could ever say.
That was probably the most boring speech I have ever heard! What did I learn? His mother is 96, he was tortured, he changed, oh and he admires Obama. After all that abuse about Obama being a community organizer, he's telling everyone to serve the community..."teach someone to read...volunteer". Meanwhile Romney says "stop asking for help and get up by yourself". Weird convention...
He seems like a very nice man...but...He should be head of the Military or Defense...wow I'm in SHOCK!
Obama briefly looked like he might have something good to offer in his opposition to the war in Iraq, but he has long since abandoned that. He is more than ready to inherit all the Republican wars and keep those fires burning. Obama-Biden really sucks as a choice this time round -- they offer nothing inspiring to vote for at all.
In his own way, McCain is every bit as bad as Obama. They are very different in many ways but each is in his own way pernicious and both are owned by the people who pull the strings behind the stage.
The sole spark of interest and hope in this presidential election is Sarah Palin. Since she agreed to be on the same ticket with McCain, the question remains about how far she has decided to compromise on her original core values and beliefs in order to get ahead in the system. But she is the one thing in this campaign that a person can actually feel good about voting for. I will probably vote for her, while hoping that McCain croaks early in his presidency.
What a bunch of ungrateful whiners. What's in it for you, right? Do you hear youselves? Your self-centered attitudes ARE the problem.
As to the poster who talked about McCain's speaking ability--That's almost totally irrelevant to presidential ability, for all that it gets used to decide the process these days. Pay attention to what the candidates say, not how they say it! The last thing we need to do is choose leaders based on charisma.
it would appear that reporting the news without opinion is dead on the net - i was amazed by the "but obama would dispute that" section - its terrible journalism. let people make up their own minds - just report the facts.
I liked the speech. It sure was better than Barack's speech last Thursday. His speech was so boring bloggers can't remember it. I'm a former Democrat turned Independent who got sick of the bleeding heart Demo Gods wanting everything for nothing. I see in my own district what the Democrat in the House has been doing for "her people" absolutely nothing. Today that same Congresswoman's son admitted defeat by admitting his guilt in court. The soon to be EX-Mayor of Detroit is a so called Super Delagate which means doesn't do crap for the people. I want someone whose main goal is to work for the people. I sure don't want someone as Commander in Chief whose main goals reek of socialism. I've done my research and I sure don't want to live in a country full of Socialists. Which is why I'm choosing McCain/Palin in November.
McCain is 100% right on, and he knows exactly what type of people you are who write these condescending criticisms: you're the same type of people who derided soldiers who had fought on their behalf. You hear what you want to hear - McCain has always been the type of politician who doesn't care what's popular, but he cares about what he thinks is best for his country - take his authoring of the immigration bill that was disgracefully shot down by conservative media for example. That was not for popularity - it was for what he believed was best for the country. You don't hear him giving specifics? I heard plenty tonight, and he has plenty of specifics on record to back up what he says. I've listened carefully for an Obama argument that will explain just what Obama intends to "change" and more importantly, how he will really do it. And yet the sliver in your enemy's eye is so easy to spot. It always is, but please, try to use some intelligence. I have investigated deeply the issues facing our country, I have scrutinized the stances and the records of both of these men, and Obama comes out of that inquiry looking like a waif of a shadow of a leader. Can he speak? Yes, he certainly can. And there's not much more to him, to his political record, to his social record, to him in general. I read a bumper sticker that resounded with me: "I already have a Savior. I need a president."
Boston, sorry but your extreme bias is again showing. You must do something about that because remember, the press is support to report the news, not try to brainwash its readers like is done in the communist countries. Or did your reporters go to school in one of those countries; sounds like it. I hate articles in newspapers that are not just the news like I used to read and could make up my own mind. You are doing a disservice to the American people and to our country. I have started to quit reading the hard papers and just select the ones on the internet that I believe are reporting fair and accurate reports, regardless of which candidate they are reporting on. But you, dear journalists and editors of the Boston paper, have stepped way, way over the line to fair reporting. I can only hope that newspapers likes your lose readers and go out of business.
McCain has been in Washington for over 26 yrs - how much more time he needs in Washington to deliver on "change?"
I was a Hillary supporter, giving chance to McCain. Selecting Palin for VP shows it's all Republican party business as usual again: pit-bull mentality, guns, hunting, anti-environmental attitudes, isolating US from the rest of the world, talking but doing little in terms of the economic good of the common person - in summary only representing a segment of whites, instead of the national majority. Even the convention hall crowd did not represent the US demographics.
RNC speeches lacked substance, so did most of the DNC speeches. I'm leaning towards "Biden-Obama" ticket or staying home. Still elections are 2 months away. Focus needs to turn to issues and more importantly on substantive approaches of solving them. Americans are not fools - they don't get sentimental from speeches and vote, they use objectivity when voting. I am just another person in Michigan still looking for a real, substantive debate on "change."
so this is one thing that still bothers me. Obama would not say the pleg of alegance? we all wont change, but look at our choices.
Vote for Obama! He will change everything with Rainbow Unicorn Farts!
I am a pro-life, Catholic mother of four children. Before I decided to stay home full time to take care of my kids, I worked as an attorney.
I attended Catholic schools from K-12, have participated in pro-life rallies in Washington, and have been a regular lector at Sunday mass for the past 10 years.
I am also a true Independent voter. I voted for President George Bush, for President Bill Clinton twice, and for President George "W" Bush twice.
All that said, I cannot bring myself to vote for Senator McCain with Governor Palin on the ticket. Governor Palin's doctrinaire willingness to impose her values, morals and religion upon on those she governs (for example, cutting funds to an Alaska transitional program for unwed mothers) is the antithesis of what 38 years of living as part of the one holy catholic and apostolic Church have taught me.
Let me conclude by praying the Prayer of St. Francis:
"Lord, make me an instrument of your peace;
where there is hatred, let me sow love;
when there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
and where there is sadness, joy.
Grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console;
to be understood, as to understand,
to be loved as to love;
for it is in giving that we receive,
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life."
McCain looks and talks like a grumpy old man, except to use the word change every so often.
Sorry John. You deserved to be a nominee 2000 ... but Karl Rove & co. swith boated you and we got the imbecil instead. Now it is impossible to believe you as an agent of change. And change we need.
My friend Ret. Col. Edison Miller served the same amount of time with John McCain as a POW. And according to Col Miller everyrting McCain said about how he was treated by the guards is total bullshit. He was a screaming cry baby always wanting more attention by saying his father was an Admiral and his Grandfather was an admiral. His arms were not broken twice, his arms were fractured before he came to Hanoi Hilton.l Col. Miller is trying to get his true story out but the conservative talk show hosts want not part of the truth. Exposure of McCain must be made before it's too late in the game. Especially, the GI's who suffered in the ditches and now their VA Hospital support is going to be cut by McCain if he gets in. His motto is to keep fighting until we will. What a box of cornflakes? These are serious and dangerous time and a hothead like McCain is putting our entire nation into harm's way.
you say you want someone for peace. Hello people!!! there are billions of people in the world that are at this very moment trying to KILL US. Iran, Russia, China along with every muslim extremist. Have you ever heard of the twelfth immum. Chances are you will very, very soon, if you have not already. The president of Iran thinks the world has to be in a world war for his messiah to return. If you bothered to read the Bible that you put down, you would see that it tells you and i everything that is going to happen and is happening right now. This sacred book was written more than 2000 years ago and it has never been wrong on anything. Wars and rumors of wars, earthquakes in divers places, problems with no solutions, one world government, the reformation of an Israeli state after more than 2000 years, never has a nation been reborn after such a time. The rise and fall of every world power, ever. increase in knowledge, people traveling to and frow over the earth, round earth, ocean currents, I suggest you pick up a bible and READ IT you might figure out what is really going on. As for darwins theory, yes, it is still just a theory, being taught as fact. the more scientists try to prove it the more impossible it seems that it can be. Evolution is impossible, study the facts. We've been duped!! Thank you God for people of faith coming into office. If politicians spent more time on their knees praying and less time taking kick backs from lobbyists the country would be in much, much better shape. Do some research and see what taking God and prayer out of the schools has done for this country. and there are more people dying from cigarettes in a week in this country than have died in the whole war/wars since 9/11. yes, people choose to smoke, it is a free country. people also voluntarily join the armed services, shock, gasp, that is why they teach them to kill people and give them weapons is to defend our country. That is their JOB, no one held a gun to their heads and forced them. Hello Liberals!!!! Why don't you just invite the Iranian president over and put him in the white house, that would bring peace on all fronts Hmmmm? Put Obama in and see if it doesn't happen. The Japanese had diplomats here in the country at the same time they where dropping bombs on Pearl Harbor. Can you not see that the anti war sentiment that lett world war 2 get going, is the same now as then. If you don't wake up now, you will find you won't be able to wake up at all. We will all be dead from stupidity. Yes, I want someone in the white house that knows more about the world than doing community service. someone who went to school to learn to fight, and not just in court. I am a member of The Salvation Army. Let our country continue to fight for freedom and I will support it. Let the candidates put their hands on a Bible and "know" what is written inside it. I want to vote for them. I have sat out voting a few years, but not this time. McCain/Palin YOU have my vote
McCain is for CHANGE!!!!....CHANGE?...CHANGE? where have I heard that before?
Is he so arrogant to think the American public are so naive, we wouldn't notice he's now CHANGED over to Obama's campaign? I think it's called Stealing...
Obama said "It's not about me it's about you"
Mccain said "It's about you and serving you".
DRILL BABY DRILL...why doesn't he say that it will be at LEAST 7 YEARS before any of that oil reaches the consumer? what do we do until then? I know invade IRAN...or maybe Russia.
McCain is for CHANGE!!!!....CHANGE?...CHANGE? where have I heard that before?
Is he so arrogant to think the American public are so naive, we wouldn't notice he's now CHANGED over to Obama's campaign? I think it's called Stealing...
Obama said "It's not about me it's about you"
Mccain said "It's about you and serving you".
DRILL BABY DRILL...why doesn't he say that it will be at LEAST 7 YEARS before any of that oil reaches the consumer? what do we do until then? I know invade IRAN...or maybe Russia.
To "danny", #74, that is a total lie. Check "factcheck.org". That story has been checked and rechecked for months now. IT IS TOTALLY UNTRUE
When McCain talks about “winning” the Iraq war I get confused. In order to win a war all you have to do is kill so many Iraqis that the other ones surrender. We’re really good at killing people. That should not be a problem. The trouble with the “war of terror” is we’re having trouble finding the people we want to kill. Because it’s a police action not a war!
BTW, I stumble a clash yesterday and overlook to post it but anyway this clash video is entitled Obama v. McCain on Iraq & Afghanistan. US Presidential candidates have clashed sharply in recent days on Iraq, Afghanistan and the War on Terror. Watch both two statements, who do you think or believed is right?
You couldn't get a job at McDonalds and become district manager after 143 days of experience.
You couldn't become chief of surgery after 143 days of experience of being a surgeon.
You couldn't get a job as a teacher and be the superintendent after 143 days of experience.
You couldn't join the military and become a colonel after a 143 days of experience.
You couldn't get a job as a reporter and become the nightly news anchor after 143 days of experience.
BUT....
'From the time Barack Obama was sworn in as a United State Senator, to the time he announced he was forming a Presidential exploratory committee, he logged 143 days of experience in the Senate.
That's how many days the Senate was actually in session and working.
After 143 days of work experience, Obama believed he was ready to be Commander In Chief, Leader of the Free World, and fill the shoes of Abraham Lincoln, FDR, JFK and Ronald Reagan. 143 days?
We all have to start somewhere. The senate is a good start, but after 143 days, that's all it is - a start.
AND, strangely, a large sector of the American public seems to feel comfortable with this and campaigning for him.
We wouldn't accept this in our own line of work, yet some are OK with this for the President of the United States of America?
Come on folks, we are not voting for the next American Idol.
Is he talking about his Depends?
Yeah I'm sure all the powers to be in the Republican party are supporting him so he can "change" them. The guy that voted with Bush 90% of them time is all about "change".
And I'm sure after his vitriol filled hatefest of a convention he is going to end "partisan rancor"
Hes a uniter, not a divider, just like his mentor Bush!
It is all said and done. OBAMA IS ELECTED PRESIDENT! John McCain ran a good campaign. After the dust has settled, McCain shows great sportsmanship. John has also mentioned his wonderful speech to the people(both democrats and republicans) insisting that we forget about the past and move on. He lost the election but still loves this country, as he is still determined to help strengthen this country we call not just the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, but home as well. He is still one of the great Patriots of this country, and we have to be thankful for that. Now, lets just acknowledge what we have experienced on the 4th of November, 2008 at 11 PM. A new president is elected. We have to look to the future and do our duties as Americans in order to allow Barack Obama and his cabinet to do theirs. This will, as we can expect, will result in sacrifices. Obama once said,"This(his presidential plans) isn't going to happen over night...it will take baby steps" indicating that times will be tough, but we can answer. WE WILL ANSWER.