Respect is earned. John McCain can....
Posted By: sam on 2008-11-05
In Reply to: Just goes to show what kind of country - we've become and we should be proud of...
respect him if he wishes; I will respect him when he earns it.
I do, however, respect his accomplishments. He has truly lived the American dream. That is one of my problems with him. He knows that you can, through ambition and hard work, go anywhere you want in this country. No one helped him, no one redistributed wealth to help him. He should try to guide people to take the path he took, not take from others to pay people to stay where they are. THAT I would respect.
There was a lot about McCain that I did not like...however, I did trust him and respect his lifetime of service to this country.
Only time will tell (to quote OP) what an Obama presidency will do to....or for...the country.
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Respect has to be earned...it is not a God-given right!
You cannot demand respect, you must earn it! I have the right to respect or not to respect whomever I want! If you are one of the people I do not respect...too bad! Apparently, I do not feel you are worthy of my respect, which is my right!
I think he has earned a bit more respect and credibility
so sue me.
AS IF BUSH EARNED RESPECT???
Oh now that was funny....thanks for the laugh, I needed that!!!!
sorry, he has not yet earned my respect and blind faith ..
I did not decide who to vote for until 3 days before the election.
This blind faith people are espousing for OBama scares me as much as SOME (not all) of OBama's ideas!
My biggest concern -- so many promises .. that always is a red flag to me.
We should by nature be hopeful but wary at the same time.
HE will have my undying blind faith and support once he earns it.
He has my respect for being in the office of president, and I will try to honor his wishes and comply with what he "changes" ...
John Glenn and John McCain were cleared of having acted improperly....
improperly but were criticized for having exercised "poor judgment." Interesting that 4 of the 5 were Democrats. Still..John McCain has publically said he was sorry for his part in it, that he was wrong in what he did and has apologized for it. Like I said before, I respect that. Everyone makes mistakes. No everyone is man enough to own up to them and not hide behind Nancy Pelosi and the DNC like Chris Dodd and Barney Frank are doing. Now THERE is a pair to draw to.
I was always one that said if John McCain ran...sm
I could definitely vote for him. He has so disappointed me during this presidential election. He seemed to have abandoned all his maverickness and has been pandering to the right wing republicans when he is really a moderate. Today, for the first time in a long time, I see that he is being a maverick again and saying, wait, not so fast, it should not be so easy with no oversight, CEOs should not be making millions when their companies are going under. A very confusing time.
John McCain
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Go John McCain!!!!
I heard some other stuff that went down in that room, but since the source would be bashed on this board, I'm not saying until it shows up in the media somewhere else.
I doubt it will, though, as McCain and the republicans are too much the gentlmen, to say what actually went on, and what was said by whom at times.
John McCain
I could feel a little sorry for him if he were not so mean and willing to do anything to win. For pete sake, he is 72 years old. he has few years left. He has a lovely family and many great homes. Whey does he not enjoy his final years getting to know his children? He was in Washington and only went home on the weekends. Sometimes we just have to realize that we are not going to achieve a dream. I have accepted I will never be a naturally thin person. It took 30 years, but I know it now. He has been honored for his service and had many years in Washington. he is putting so much wear and tear on his aging body with the physical demands of campaigning. He is doing damage to his cardiovascular system with the seething anger and contempt. If my grandfather at age 72 decided to run for mayor, I would say come on grandpa, that is ridiculous..
John McCain
At 72 he still has quite a few years left, God willing. AND, he has more experience than Obama will ever have. He knows more about foreign policy, war, economy, everything than Obama will ever know. Obama with 143 days experience? He can't even talk without a teleprompter.
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.
'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 .... 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 is okay with this and campaigning for him. We wouldn't accept this in our own line of work, yet some are okay with this for the President of the United States of America?
Come on folks, we are not voting for the next American Idol!
John McCain was a
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Just a little about John McCain
*Voted to eliminate overtime pay for 8 million American workers
*Voted to allow companies to cut and eliminate pensions for their long-term employees.
*Voted to weaken OSHA and workplace regulations designed to prevent injuries on the job.
* Voted against the Employee Free Choice Act (H.R.800) 6/26/07.
*Voted for a National-Right-To-Work (for less) Act (S.1788) 7/10/96
*Voted to allow employers to hire permanent replacements during a strike (S.55) 7/13/94.
*Voted against granting collective bargaining rights for state and local police andfirefighters (H.R. 3061) 11/6/01.
*Voted against granting collective b argaining rights for TSA screeners (S.4) 3/7/07.
*Keating-5: Federal regulators wanted to seize control of the failed Lincoln Savings & Loan Association but McCain intervented to try to prevent that from happening.
*McCain claims he paid for the Keating for the flights to his private home in the Bahamas, but he conveniently could not produce the receipts. Keating donated $112,000 to McCain's campaigns for the House and then the Senate.
*His current campaign for president is essentially run by lobbyists with close ties to big oil companies, Fannie Mae, UBS and Blackwater. FedEx Corp, founder and CEO, Fred Smith is a close friend who Mccain views as a perfect candidate for U.S. Secretary of Defense.
*McCain voted to give tax breaks to companies that send American jobs overseas. He voted against overtime pay, against Davis-Bacon protections and against extending unemployment insurance.
* "I-the fact is that I'm different but the fact is that I have agreed with President Bush far more than I have disagreed," McCain said on Meet the Press onJune 15, 2005. "And on the transcendent issues, the most important issues of our day, I've been totally in agreement nad support of President Bush."
*McCain mirrors Bush in another important way: his indifference to the plight of Americans who fall victim to disaster. He voted twice against creating a commission to investigate the botched response to Hurricane Katrina--and later he said he voted for every investigation into Katrina's aftermath.
*McCain is the staunchest advocate fo free trade in the U.S. Senate. He voted for every disastrous free-trade agreement since NAFTA. He strongly supports a trade deal with Colombia. He's a leader in the effort to open the border to dangerous trucks from Mexico.
Just a note about Palin's Wasilla Police Department. Their employees voted 29-9 to join the Teamsters Local 959 by a vote of 29-9. The election was recently certified.
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How any serious middle class American worker can vote for this man is beyond me.
To John McCain:
Hey Johnny, where was Joe today? Pretty funny thing when you're holding a rally and call your little campaign mascot up there with you, and he's not even there! Sucks to be stood up in front of all those people!! I guess his newfound fame is more important! LOL Now that's loyalty.
And you believe John McCain?
Yes, we are all entitled to our opinions but I would hope that we would all base our opinions on FACTS without preconceived prejudices.
John McCain
I am referring to the following "post."
McCain's body language just is not right.
McCain always comes across as poisonous, ready to explode. His eyes were almost popping out of his head.
His body language just is not right!
I guess your body language would not be right either if you had every bone broken in your body in a concentration camp as he has had every bone broken in his body. I guess if his facial features and eyes are not to your liking, maybe you should be shut in a chamber and tortured and have every bone in your body broken. Not only that, but pulled up on a rope and have your legs tied behind you and around your arms so that your ribs start cracking, and you are hung suspended like that. I guess maybe your obama boy, smooth talking, prancing candidate could come and save you.... Maybe he could have a rally for you so Bruce can be there screeching "born in the USA, but love communism. Yeh, maybe they could do that for you.
An American hero and you say things like that. How sad for you. How very sad.
Where does John Mccain Fit In
Just something else to ponder. Is there a place for him in the admin? What is his special area of expertise?
I'm not thinking the cabinet, but just any position where he could do a good job?
JOhn McCain on the issues...
http://www.johnmccain.com//Informing/Issues/17671aa4-2fe8-4008-859f-0ef1468e96f4.htm
John McCain's Adultery
For a guy campaigning on family values, John McCain has broken up a lot of marriages. When he met his first wife (a swimsuit model), she was married to another man. After breaking that marriage up, she stuck by him loyally as he went off to war and was a prisoner for 5 and a half years. When he returned to America, though, he found out that she had been in a car wreck and wasn't as pretty. So he had a series of affairs, by his own admission, and dumped his wife and adopted family for a younger, very rich blond (now Cindy McCain.) Cindy, the daughter of a wealthy Budweiser beer distributor, was addicted to prescription narcotics and even stole hard drugs from a medical charity that she ran. In February, 2008, the New York Times ran a big article about the unusually close relationship between John McCain and a young telecommunications lobbyist named Vicki Iseman (who looks uncannily like Cindy McCain did when SHE was 25). They became so close that his staff, convinced they were having an affair, confronted both McCain and Iseman, telling them to back off. Now, a lot of people have criticized the Times for hinting without actually saying that McCain had sexual relations with that woman. But really, it doesn't matter. It's a matter of record that he accepted money and favors from her, spent a lot of time for her, and did favors for her clients. Among other things, McCain wrote two letters -- from a draft provided by Vicki Iseman -- to the head of the Federal Communications Commission -- which was way out of line, since McCain headed the Senate Commmerce Committee, which controls the FCC. McCain's pressure was so outrageous that, even though McCain was in charge of funding his commission, the FCC commissioner wrote a letter back rebuking him for his interference, at the height of McCain's "ethics in government" campaign.
So, was McCain sleeping with her, hoping to sleep with her, or being subconsciously manipulated by a cute young woman? It doesn't really matter. He was being led by his groin into ethical violations. Let's face it, he was 64 at the time and is 72 now. Whether he is still cheating or not, he seems to be led by his dick; witness the videos of McCain checking out Sarah Palin's butt during the speech where he introduced her.
My post was about John McCain
not Bill Clinton. Our economy almost crashed last week and it may still. Things have not been this bad since the depression. Anyone who is planning on voting for John McCain should understand how deregulation (which he has supported throughout his politcal career) played a role in what happened last week. They also should understand what his involvement in the Keating Five scandal was and how that relates.
71.54% match with John McCain
42.86% Obama.
John McCain also said he is a good man and there is no..sm
reason to be afraid if he is president. Selective hearing?
john mccain said this homeslice....
"The problem... is that most members of Congress don't pay attention to what's going on."
Does John McCain "kill you," too?
I am prepared. I need no on-the-job training. I wasn't a mayor for a short period of time. I wasn't a governor for a short period of time. (John McCain, October 21, 2007, describing how he's ready to lead on day one, before selecting his running mate who was a mayor for a short period of time and a governor for a short period of time).
John McCain has given a plan.
John McCain believes our schools can and should compete to be the most innovative, flexible and student-centered - not safe havens for the uninspired and unaccountable. He believes we should let them compete for the most effective, character-building teachers, hire them, and reward them.
If a school will not change, the students should be able to change schools. John McCain believes parents should be empowered with school choice to send their children to the school that can best educate them just as many members of Congress do with their own children. He finds it beyond hypocritical that many of those who would refuse to allow public school parents to choose their child's school would never agree to force their own children into a school that did not work or was unsafe. They can make another choice. John McCain believes that is a fundamental and essential right we should honor for all parents.
As president, John McCain will pursue reforms that address the underlying cultural problems in our education system - a system that still seeks to avoid genuine accountability and responsibility for producing well-educated children.
John McCain will place parents and children at the center of the education process, empowering parents by greatly expanding the ability of parents to choose among schools for their children. He believes all federal financial support must be predicated on providing parents the ability to move their children, and the dollars associated with them, from failing school.
I am voting for John McCain because
he is for smaller government and less government spending. He has more experience with foreign policy. He has been in the military and knows first hand what our troops go through. He won't raise taxes during an economic crisis. He won't tax businesses more which will help them survive and be successful therefore creating more jobs for Americans. He wants alternative energy sources which (once you get the crazy freaks who are environmentalists to shut up) will create even more jobs for Americans and keep money here in the USA instead of giving it to people who want us dead. I also in good conscience cannot vote for Obama because of his beliefs when it comes to abortion and gay marriage. I also believe that when it comes to party politics, John McCain will stand up to his own party if he doesn't see eye to eye with them and I just feel that is something Obama will not do.
This is excluding other feelings I have about Obama, particularly his associations that people refuse to see and acknowledge. One radical association is one thing, but Obama has many and I've always been raised to believe that birds of a feather flock together.
John McCain's future
After seeing Cindy smooching some biker dude, maybe John should check in at home more often.
On CNN this morning, John McCain picked...sm
Sarah Palin because of her ideology. She was never veted. Investigators are in Alaska now doing so. Smart move John.
John McCain knew when he announced
SP as VP, although he first lied and said he didn't know that she is pregnant. Once a liar always a liar.
Biden on Barack : John McCain
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=hF7Q0ghdTn4
My opinion only. If John McCain was truly a maverick...sm
and wanted to have a fool-proof ticket, he would have nominated Michael Bloomberg the mayor of New York City for VP, but that would not have cut it with the religious right, I think he would have brought the most votes switching from Democrat Independent and ensure him the presidency.
I have complete faith in John McCain. ...nm
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Like JOHN MCCAIN - Keating 5 Scandal
I guess JM is a crook, too
http://www.mahalo.com/Keating_5_Scandal
JOHN MCCAIN HAS HAD NO EXECUTIVE EXPERIENCE
"I certainly honor his service as a prisoner of war. He was a hero to me and to hundreds of thousands and millions of others in the armed forces, as a prisoner of war. And he has traveled all over the world. But he hasn't held executive responsibility," said Clark, a former NATO commander who campaigned for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004.
(Ret) General Wesley Clark
"I certainly honor his service as a prisoner of war. He was a hero to me and to hundreds of thousands and millions of others in the armed forces, as a prisoner of war. And he has traveled all over the world. But he hasn't held executive responsibility," said Clark, a former NATO commander who campaigned for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004.
"I certainly honor his service as a prisoner of war. He was a hero to me and to hundreds of thousands and millions of others in the armed forces, as a prisoner of war. And he has traveled all over the world. But he hasn't held executive responsibility," said Clark,
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/06/29/clark.mccain/index.html
John McCain said the same thing on 10/11/2007 sm
He said Hillary Clinton's healthcare plan was "eerily reminiscent" of the plan she offered as first lady in the early 1990s and said "I think they put some lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig."
John McCain actually sacrificed for his country.
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John McCain's Makeup Bill
I wonder if he's using Revlon's Age Defying line?
I don't know if it is true but I heard that John McCain was...sm
silent during the meeting at the White House while Obama asked several in depth questions.
Instead of giving us specifics of what John McCain will....sm
do if we elect him you continue to avoid specifics and, like Sarah Palin, ignore the question and disparage the opposition instead. How is he going to reform Washington, how is he going to make healthcare more affordable, how is he going to freeze spending, and which programs does he consider nonessential? Not your opinion, what does he say specifically he will do.
Although I am an Obama supported, John McCain ..sm
was the old John McCain, stupid supporters degrading Obama, and John saying, no, he is a patriotic American that only wants the best for our country, we just don't agree about what is best. Things were getting very dangerous I think, and I was happy to see him making an attempt to diffuse the situation.
I actually feel sorrry for John McCain...sm
I have always felt that he was an honorable American who served his country well and reached across the aisle for what he believed was the good of all of us. If he had kept with his program, he would be ahead in this election. I am very disappointed that he has caved to the radical right with all the vitreol, hate and misinformation that has become his campaign. He has lost the respect of moderate Americans because of the negative campaign he is running.
If John McCain had stuck to his guns and been...sm
able to run as himself instead of being remolded by the right wing of his party, he probably would have sailed over the finish line. He killed any chance of winning the election when he gave control away.
John McCain is not going to outlaw abortion
Shelly, even if you vote for McCain, he is not going to outlaw abortion. He only says that it should be the states that mandate the procedure, not the federal government.
John McCain supports overturning
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Yeah, John McCain was one to question them too.
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John "The Economy is doing Well" McCain? nm
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Any thoughts on Joe Lieberman endorsing John McCain....
just wondering. I think that could have a real effect on undecided Independents as to which way they fall. Might result in a lot of Independents registering as Dem or Repub now to vote in the primaries who might not otherwise have done so. Very interesting development.
John McCain said she sold it at a profit on ebay. nm
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And neither does John McCain. He is cancer free - see link.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/113705
And at least he isn't at risk for lung cancer like Mr. Obama who smokes like a chimney. That is more worrisome to me.
Yes, McCain has made mistakes in what he has said. So has Obama. But at least McCain doesn't associate with radicals and hasn't had communist mentors, and on and on and on.
The complete text of John McCain's speech, sm
For those who, like me, were not able to hear it on television.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/11/john-mccain.html
Once I found out John McCain committed adultery
claiming "he made a mistake" I never trusted him. Once a cheater, pretty much always a cheater. If he can't take wedding vows seriously, then how could he possibly take running this country and being true to the American people seriously? Trust is a huge issue. I now trust the American people and I've always trusted that Barack Obama was in it to "win it." What a battleground for him to endure.
I think that it is up to all of us to make this a better country, not just the President. We all have work to do. I believe that this historical moment in our society will give us the change we need. It will empower people, young, old, and of any nationality to become winners.
As far as spreading the wealth, yes, I believe that is the key, but wealth doesn't necessarily come in a monetary sense. It comes from the heart. When you are happy and your country is happy, that is being wealthy.
We can thank our forefathers and the beautiful soil in which we prosper for what we have today. I have way more than my parents ever had, and am thankful for that. We will prosper because "yes we can." The key word here is "we."
You are wrong. John McCain called Obama back....sm
personally and agreed to a joint statement. Minutes later, John McCain held a news conference wanting to postpone the debate and suspend his campaign, asking Obama to do the same. Hello?
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