McCain picks up Mass., N.H. support

Bipartisanship and ? Maverick McCain.

Dear concerned citizens of America and Mass Media of the U.S.A.
As a concerned registered independent voter, forensic psychiatrist, disabled American I made my decision to vote for Obama-Boden ticket.

It is sad, unfortunate, and tragci that Temperamental and Angry McCain is out to play and create discard, mistrust and distress around Obama with the Vail of claim that he will bring bipartisanship in Washington DC. He is destroying him claim every by painting Obama naive. It is tragic, sad, and unfortunate that so called Maverick McCain has already generated a disdain and demeaning face off in the debates and bailout suggestion. Obama is real Presidential and he maintained a smile during the debate and while McCain had a constant grin and disdain towards Obama.

Yours sincerely,

COL. A.M.Khajawall [Ret] MD.
Forensic psychiatrist, Disabled American Veteran and Iraq
Freedom team. Grass roots California leader per Senator McCain's

PS: It is sad and unfortunate that Hon, Temperamental and angry Maverick McCain had a constant grin and disdain towards his debater[s ]. Do not blame palin blame ? Maverick McCain.

Now that Republicans are faced with further losses in Congress and, perhaps, the presidency, bipartisanship has become their code word. It is a euphemism for deadlocked government and Republican obstructionism. After the Republican near ruination of the country, we need a period of unified government under the Democrats to recover.

there's always some nut job who can be quoted for anything; McCain has as much chance of winning massachussetts as obama has of getting elected governor of alabama

On The Lowell Sun's support of McCain: 'When the phone rings at 3 a.m. in the White House, who do you want to answer it?' We want President McCain picking up that phone," the endorsement said.

So, we want someone who chooses a near village idiot for a VP, and lurches around during times of calamitous financial crisis? Definitely choose someone with a bad temper with his finger on the nuclear trigger. Good thinking in Lowell.

Yes Mccain is defitnitly putting his country first by picking a completely inept vice-president as a ploy to steal disgruntled hillary voters to win the election

I read this somewhere....

In core moral issues, where this man knew what the right thing was, and had to pick between good and evil, he chose evil. When he knew that George W. Bush's war in Iraq was a fiasco and catastrophe, and before Donald Rumsfeld quit, McCain endorsed George W. Bush against his fellow Vietnam vet, John Kerry in 2004. By that decision, McCain lost any credibility that he can ever put country first. He put party first and his own career first ahead of what he knew was best for the country.

And when the Senate and House voted overwhelmingly to condemn and end the torture regime of Bush and Cheney in 2006, McCain again had a clear choice between good and evil, and chose evil.

He capitulated and enshrined torture as the policy of the United States, by allowing the CIA to use techniques as bad as and worse than the torture inflicted on him in Vietnam. He gave the war criminals in the White House retroactive immunity against the prosecution they so richly deserve. The enormity of this moral betrayal, this betrayal of his country's honor, has yet to sink in. But for my part, it now makes much more sense. He is not the man I thought he was.

And when he had the chance to engage in a real and substantive debate against the most talented politician of the next generation in a fall campaign where vital issues are at stake, what did McCain do? He began his general campaign with a series of grotesque, trivial and absurd MTV-style attacks on Obama's virtues and implied disgusting things about his opponent's patriotism.

And then, because he could see he was going to lose, ten days ago, he threw caution to the wind and with no vetting whatsoever, picked a woman who, by her decision to endure her own eight-month pregnancy of a Down Syndrome child in public, that he was going to reignite the culture war as a last stand against Obama. That's all that is happening right now: a massive bump in the enthusiasm of the Christianist base. This is pure Rove.

Yes, McCain made a decision that revealed many appalling things about him. In the end, his final concern is not national security. No one who cares about national security would pick as vice-president someone who knows nothing about it as his replacement. No one who cares about this country's safety would gamble the security of the world on a total unknown because she polled well with the Christianist base. No person who truly believed that the surge was integral to this country's national security would pick as his veep candidate a woman who, so far as we can tell anything, opposed it at the time.

McCain has demonstrated in the last two months that he does not have the character to be president of the United States. And that is why it is more important than ever to ensure that Barack Obama is the next president. The alternative is now unthinkable. And McCain - no one else - has proved it.

McCain once had my admiration for his bipartisan efforts, but he has shown in the last eight years that he is willing to do whatever it takes to further his goal to be president including naming as his running mate a woman profoundly ignorant of most important issues likely to face a president soley to appeal to the "conservative base" of his party, to whom he now panders.

With McCain's health problems, of which we the public are largely ignorant, a vote for McCain is a vote for Palin for president and a vote for continued saber rattling and probable wars.

Eldora Katz

Yet McCain complains consistently about liberal bias in the media! All over the country the editorial pages are full of pro Republican hyperbole. Our local rag has a letter every day extolling the virtues of our Republican congress woman plus Parker/Broder pieces. The truth is that in Republican eyes anything that isn't absolutely in their favor is part of a liberal/socialist bias. This country is built around our rights to express dissent, something the neocons are not too subtely attacking.

The rabid attacks on Kathleen Parker over her piece questioning Sarah Palin's ability to be VP shows that they will even tear down their own if they step out of line. It is concerning to me to see just how far we have gone toward totalitarianism in the last eight years and that McCain looks set to continue down the same path.

Obama has no record of bipartisanship save for his recent legislation regarding 'loose nukes'. As this was unanimously passed, anyone could have introduced it, which is why Obama pounced on it.
There is also a great deal of information coming to light about his involvement with ACORN, both in regards to voter fraud and ACORN Housing, which was a direct contributor of the housing meltdown. Obama has consistently shown that he is lacking in ethics, not to mention he is dangerously naive in foreign affairs, no matter how many answers he memorized for the debate. I do NOT want to live in a socialist country, which is exactly Obama's plan.

If you want Obama to serve 8 years, vote McCain in 08. Go ahead and root for Obama, but vote for McCain. Bush will hand him a poisoned chalice, the problems he has created are so large that Obama will be forced to take unpopular stands to correct the issues thus limiting him to 4 years, much like Carter taking over from Nixon. Look at the long view, Obama fails in his first term, thru no fault of his own and Palin is elected in 2012. Just like Carter to Reagan hand off. Elect McCain, He is the only one grumpy enough and principled enough to get done what needs to get done in the next four years. Then Obama can take the next 8.

With McCain going through all those gyrations, flip flopping hourly, nominating a Domionist "agent of intolerance" as a "heck of a job" Vice Presidential nominee.

And this after repudiating legislation he, himself was the sponsor of, and voting against it. Making 34 anti-US propaganda tapes for the Vietnamese, and then refusing their reward of early release. Attacking a woman in a wheelchair there to talk about her son killed in Iraq, as well as the normal clenched sneering hatred of those he opposes. Lieberman is his primary "across the isle" and not such a reach.

Call it Erratic, call it Crotchety, call it being a Drama Queen , but the only relation to Maverick is a case of Mad Cow Disease

I’ve thought about this long and hard, and for me it really comes down to the “What Have You Done?” question. In every election, every candidate says they can save the country. They have grand plans of how they will make this country great and its people happy. Personally I believe none of it. I don’t care about TV Ads, Newspaper articles, and even the debates I take with a grain of salt. Both candidates will try and rip the other apart. That’s the name of the game. I fault neither candidate for it, because they both do it. But like I said before I want to know what you have done.
Now Obama give wonderful speeches and says all the right things, but what has he done? Why is he different than every other candidate in the last thirty years? Why should I trust him? On the flip side of the coin you have McCain. He doesn’t give great speeches and doesn’t always say the right thing. But I can look back in history and see what he’s done. I can see they he’s done what he felt was right for the country no matter who he toes he stepped on. He is one of the few politicians I know that will go against his own party to do what is right.
And That Is Why McCain Has My Vote…

Obama is a criminal and McCain a closet liberal. We don't have much choice but I'll be damned if I'm going to let that criminal communist racist friend of copkillers become our president!

Wrote two racist books- Racist friends abound (Wright, Farrakhan, etc) - Terrorist friends (Hamas) - Enemies of the US running his campaign (ZB, Soros, etc)- Soros paying for it with dirty money from outside US - Has two bills in the Senate to relieve us of BILLIONS more money sent out of the country - Friends caused Fannie Mae fiasco because they were all on the dole - A disciple of Saul Alinsky one of the worst communist radicals from the 60s - Carried on crack-smoking bisexual activities even though married, as late as 1999 - With one socialist “bailout” bill apparently on the way to passage by Congress, two more are pending—both of them sponsored by Senator Barack Obama. One is the Jubilee Act, which would cancel as much as $75 billion worth of Third World debt, and the Global Poverty Act, which would cost an estimated $845 billion. Total potential cost: $920 billion.

All you need to know about John McCain is that during the 2000 presidential election, a Rove protege named Steve Schmidt helped mastermind the smear of McCain by insinuating that his adopted child was actually the result of an interracial affair. And that today, Steve Schmidt is McCain's campaign manager.

Perhaps someone should tell Rep. Ferland from Charlestown to do some reading before she makes such foolish statements that Obama has no significant bipartisan achievement. Rep. Ferland, look up Tom Coburn, R-OK, and Dick Lugar, R-IND. Obama co-sponsored bills with both of these gentlemen, and both bills were passed into law. If she just doesn't like Obama for some reason, she should be totally honest and not make statements that are obviosly ill-informed.

It is refreshing to see principled and thoughtful media outlets and Democrats endorsing McCain. Some of the strident little Obamanistas on this site need to take a maturity check and reconsider their positions. McCain is not perfect to be sure, but at least he is a man who acts with conviction and abides by his "country first" principles. Obama is nothing but a preening and posing little egomaniac (take a close look at his conduct before the cameras, how he walks, positions his hands and arms as though he were a carefully choreographed model for GQ) . He has done nothing in his life other than promote himself. The little egomaniac, despite having no career accomplishments, has already penned two autobiographies. he has never passed a meaningful law, he voted "present" 130 times in order to avoid taking a public stand on an issue that might be used against him later, and he is constantly changing his web site (most recently to delete his nonsense about the troop surge being doomed to failure) to rewrite his positions on the issues. Do any of you Obamanistas recall obama saying that NAFTA has to be canelled (but then crawling to the Canadiens and teling them his speech wsas "just words")? Do any of you recall Obama crying that the Iraq war was "lost"? Do any of you recall Obama advocating the positioning of US Forces in Kuwait and Saudia Arabia so we can RE-INVADE IRAQ AS NEEDED? Do any of you people actually listen to this moron when he advocated a preemptive invasion of pakistan (oh yeah, it has nukes and an unsteady government, but what the heck), ? One cannot listen to this megalomaniac without understanding he is not the "man on the white horse". In my lifetime I have seen other megalomaniacs promise "hope and change" in tough times. Whether the megalomaniac was Hitler or Castro the result was always the same, a free people ended up enslaved.

Hey NHampshire-
If your gonna write nonsense, have the guts to put your name! We as Americans should ask for more than this stupid smear attacks. We are in the worst financial crisis our country has seen since the great depression and you want to smear. No wonder we have a dimwitted president, cause dimwits voted him in! Look at the issues, not the smears. Barack Obama is better to lead our country, he will create more jobs, more green jobs. His tax breaks for the middle class will be higher than the ones McCain proposes, although he hasnt mentioned the middle class once since the debate. Barack Obama wants to get us out of the war, not keep us in a stupid war! The next President needs to be a man of sound judgement who truly puts country first. John McCain has not put country first, he picked a highly inexperienced VP, who would take the country over if something happens to him, which its quite possible since hes 72 and has battle cancer 4 times. He has a temperment that can not be accepted in the White House. Barack Obama understands the issues and is the best choice, based on the issues, not based on right wing smear tactics. America we are better than this! We deserve better than this smear nonsense, stand up against it!

Have someone wheel you out into the sunshine, bebs.

Bear in mind that the negative comments above are from Obama supporters who are paid to scour the internet for anything negative and spin it to their favor.

I have lived in Massachusetts my whole life and I'm fairly liberal.

I will be voting PROUDLY for John McCain in November and I know MANY other Bay staters who are planning to do the same.

Whewwww....some sanity has shown itself in my former home state. The facade called "change and hope" is peeling off the media's annointed one. Obama is all style and no substance.

Remember, "call me if you need me" said Obama during the middle of one of our gravest economic times.

Don't worry obama, we lost your phone number.

In McCain's mind, Country First = McCain First.
But he's been in the pocket of corrupt bigwigs like Charles Keating ever since he got to Washington on his rich second wife's dime.

I remember McCain decrying his own party's corruption, saying 'we pursued power over principle". Now we see McCain choosing power over principle. By trying to win the presidency at any cost, McCain is cementing his reputation as just another power-hungry politician. He knows he can't possibly win in 2012, so he has to abandon principle and try to trick the country into voting against Obama. Sad end to what was once considered a decent career.

McCain is the only real choice in this election. Obama has proven nothing but his ability to work as the golden boy of the the Chicago corrupt machine.

Frankly that the Democrats put this neophyte radical hack at the top of their ticket has woken up the masses to just how twisted the radical left has corrupted the party. I know more former lifelong Democrats voting for McCain than I saw with the Reagan Democrats. Most have swore to not return to the Democratic party until everyone in office that supported this no resume terrorist buddy-making anti-messiah is out of office completely.

No amount of blogging by the Obamabots is going to change the fact that America can see through this Hitler wanna be.

Google John McCains ten worst blow-ups
any man who calls his wife a trollop and the "c" word in public is unfit for office
any serviceman who makes propaganda films for the enemy is no hero
McCain sold his soul to Falwell, gambling interests, Bush's war and on and on
pitiful

Thanks you Lowell Sun and Hector and Doreen... great thinking I imagine it was not always easy to see through the bias, prejudice, race-baiting and bullying however, you did and chose the BEST candidates that are in this race now. I too will be voting for Mc-Cain -Palin -first time for everything as a life-long Dem it will be my first time voting for a Republican-at least these folks love America and are not afraid to work each day for the people and also with other who do not share their opinions fully however, do share working for AMERICA!!!

MJO

What a joke! We all know the voters in Lowell, Lawrence and Haverhill are under-educated, zealous catholics, welfare-check entitlement happy, lazy, and old. The same with their even poorer in-bred clan living across the NH/ MA border. They have no sense as to what's best for the country.

They shouldn't even be allowed to vote! How can their vote count as much as mine anyway?

Obama/ Biden '08 all the way!!! They have the intelligence to do what's best!

most liberals like Obama
all losers like Obama
the world like Obama
because they want everything free hand out to them and of course the world love to see America loses its power. Wake up America if you don't want to this country becomes socialism. It's scary!

Citizens of the United States:It is time for a good old fashioned huge dose of common sense. Are we paying these men to run for president or to represent us in Washington as ELECTED officials McCain went back to Washington to d hisjob and was ridiculed for his action.Obamanation said call me if you need me, and he went up in the polls.Or was it just that Obamanation hadn't had time to consult his advisors yet-OOPS! Biden thinks Roosevelt was president at the beginning of the depession, and that he used a device that wasn't invented to calm a nation.Where was the criticism then? Come on peoplePUT ON YOUR THINKING CAPS

most liberals like Obama
all losers like Obama
the world like Obama
because they want everything free hand out to them and of course the world love to see America loses its power. Wake up America if you don't want to this country becomes socialism. It's scary!

Who cares about bipartisanship? The democrats will likely win enough seats to outnumber GOP opposition. With Obama in office, at least something will get done.

I am the very model of a modern VP candidate
I know the holy plan--to nominate me head of state
I know the doctrines scriptural I can quote the laws--if biblical
From stem-cells, gays to pro-life, guns, in order evangelical.

I am very well acquainted with policies political
I understand affairs, both domestic and the spiritual
When it comes to banning books, I’m teaming with a lot of news
With many cheerful facts that I cannot share with you.

I am very well acquainted with creationist biology
We should supplement its teaching with biological mythology
In short, I know the holy plan--to nominate me head of state
I am the very model of a modern VP candidate.

I know where baby’s come from and how to lobby on the Hill
Though when it comes to teenage sex, I’m still against the godless pill.
I agree with Bush’s Doctrine, though not sure just what it’s for
And talked with Russia from my house with binoculars and semaphore.

I can build a bridge of funds from Washington to East Fork,
And know how to say “no thanks” but please set aside our rack of pork.
I can lift myself by bootstraps—be they John’s or Hillary’s
Then stand on shattered glass with shoes that are way too big for me.

In short, I know the holy plan--to nominate me head of state
I am the very model of a modern VP candidate.

McCain is different from the ultra right maniacs of GOP, agreed..and he is kind of a maverick. It is not just any change this country needs..it is the right kind of change..change that will make this country competitive, change that can enhance America's moral standing in the world, change that will allow every child an opportunity to be all he or she can be. McCain doesnot come across as having such a vision for America. Selection of Gov Palin enhances the fear - that McCain might do some disastrous change without a clear goals and strategy.

Reading these comments, it looks like we could use $700 billion put toward education. This is just embarassing.

"They have no sense as to what's best for the country.

They shouldn't even be allowed to vote! How can their vote count as much as mine anyway?" - posted by Wellesely grad

I wasn't aware that fascists had "the sense as to what's best for the country" though I suppose they always have thought so. This is also embarassing. The shame of Wellesley. I hope you were kidding.

On judgment, on intelligence, on issues, on policy, on quality of campaign, on the only decision by each so far, their VP pick, overwhelmingly the best candidate has been Obama. On the quality of blogs, facts versus outrageous make it up as we go along statements, policy versus name calling and smears, again it favors Obama. Just read the blogs, listen to talk radio and you will see the lowest form of discourse imaginable. I respect Republicans, who can forgive McCain for Palin, respect Obama, and on the issues, choose McCain. I can't stomach the people who parrot talk radio and say we shouldn't vote for Obama, because he is a gay, racist, Muslim, communist, who at the same time is Hitler incarnate, the Devil and the antichrist. Anyone who goes beyond sound bites and isn't a committed Republican who listens with an open mind and is not a racist pretty much supports Obama. It is why he is so popular amongst those new to the process who are listening. Obama will be a great president and those most against him know it and fear that the uninformed will then see how they've been lied to and hold them accountable.

sharon,

If you'd like to see a nice example of someone unable to "consult his advisors" do a youtube search for the video where McCain is asked his opinion regarding health insurance coverage of viagra (covered) versus birth control (not).

McCain hardly did his job. He didn't even read the plan. It was three pages long.

The Lowell Sun endorsement for McCain will have little impact in Mass. Nationwide, there is a major exodus from the McCain camp. . The movement away from McCain is not too surprising. He seems irritable and tired, to be running out of energy. He is flailing about and gives the impression at times that he has all but given up. McCain's recent erratic and risky moves include: (1) the choice of Palin without properly vetting her, (2) the attempt to cancel the first debate, (3) the attempt to insert himself in the bailout negotiations and look like he was in charge. These moves are not paying off in these unsettling times and his comment that the economy was fundamentally sound as the crisis was emerging was a major gaffe. We should expect to see the gap widening even further, absent any more surprises.