McCain: Quotes Chairman Mao and ex-Mayor Daley

Thank you, Senator McCain, for supporting our troops first and waging a political campaign second. Your resolve will deliver the White House.

Go John! I'm coming to appreciate his ability to shoot straight.

McCain said, closing with a customary little campaign-trail joke in a state where only a Huckabee-esque "miracle'' will stop McCain on Tuesday. "I’d like you to remember the words of the late Mayor Daley of Chicago…

"Vote early and vote often.’’

I've always the upside of death is that I can finally vote in Cook county!!!

Obama 2008

Your resolve will deliver the White House.

Posted by: Jeff | February 29, 2008 11:41 AM

Barf! Talk about love letters. Jeff, perhaps you can talk about Sen. McCain's resolve during Somalia. If you don't recall I can always copy & paste the entirety of his "cut & run because we've won" speech on the floor of the Senate.

I won't vote for him but I definitely appreciate his injection of humor into this, however corny.

Oh Noes! Is he really unpatriotic?

This picture proves it

A Republican urging people to vote? Amazing! That's a pretty big change from their usual registration challenges and phone jamming tactics. I guess he really is a maverick.

Senator McCain, if we wanted a comic in the White House we'd be voting for Huckabee. Just like if we wanted a war hero in the White House, we'd have voted for John Kerry.

RE: The recent BS McCain has been spouting about "surrendering in Iraq."

Sir, you are a creepy old man. After eight years of Bush, I am still astounded by the audacity of your talk. You speak a hard game on lobbyists, yet you are in bed with them, literally and figuratively. You talk of experience in foreign policy, yet is it obvious to the vast majority of this country that you have been wrong on the single greatest foreign policy disaster of my generation.

Yet you want to push your flawed line of logic like shit with a broom. Until this whole freaking election stinks. Well, let me enlighten you right here and now.

YOU WILL LOSE!

America has moved past the smoke and mirrors that was the Iraq war. But here you are, still wearing a magicians cape, looking like a deranged fool. We are no longer going to shoulder this political hobbyist's war with the bodies of our friends and family.

When I watch you and your warmongering clown cohorts smile while you talk about Iraq and possible commitment for a 100 more years, I feel ashamed to be an American. Ashamed to know people like you have held the reins for so long.

Right now, I have friends over there. I care very deeply about these people. And yet you smile when you talk about endangering their lives indefinitely. Just so we can defend a country from itself, after attacking it for no good reason. You, a man who served and suffered in uniform. It's beyond tragic..it's pathetic.

This year, your words and your arse will get handed to you. Your lies will not infect the electorate, and you will only appear in history books as a footnote. This legacy, this ball and chain of a war you have associated yourself with was, is and will always be considered a mistake by those who look objectively upon it.

YOU WILL LOSE!

“I believe, as president of the United States, I can inspire a generation of Americans to serve a cause greater than their own interests,’’ McCain said

You mean like improving conditions here at home instead of waging an illegal war for oil.

Agreed!!

It was NOT Richard J. Daley who said, "Vote early and vote often". It has been attributed much earlier to Al Capone. Please don't denigrate the legacy of Da Mare.

Barf all you want. McCain's speech on Somalia was dead right. Why stay if the Clinton administration wasn't going to give the troops what they needed to win? We don't have that problem (the Clinton administration) now.

"THE CHAIRMAN SPEAKS"

Thank you George Bush National Guard Country. "We found the emails" Yes, America we found George Bush's National Guard Records and I am proud to stand before you not as the "LAPDOG" of the "DARKEN DOORS OF THE WHITEHOUSE" but like the Great Chairman Mao said, "IT'S ALWAYS DARKEST BEFORE IT'S TOTALLY BLACK"

So lets not turn the WHITEHOUSE OBAMA BLACK AMERICA.
Don't call me don't waste my time, I'm very "dogmatic" about this message!

But we found the emails, we found the lost documents proving that our KING GEORGE W, BUSH actually did serve amongst the men and women IN THE TEXAS NATIONAL GUARD, IS NOW SERVING ITS 4TH TOUR OF DUTY today.

Mr. McCain are you ready?
Was there a point with the totally "black" reference?
in your OPENING REMARKS to the nation?

I disassociate myself with myself and any hard or unforeseen words of choice this morning!

Go John! I'm coming to appreciate his ability to shoot straight.

Posted by: Steve S | February 29, 2008 11:59 AM

Republic Party creepy old man John McCain/Bush is a liar, he started calling himself a "straight-talker" right after he got busted for his involvement in the Keating scandel and even he admit's that it was a PR move to try and save his crooked butt:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioy90nF2anI

Barf all you want. McCain's speech on Somalia was dead right. Why stay if the Clinton administration wasn't going to give the troops what they needed to win? We don't have that problem (the Clinton administration) now.

Posted by: Jeff | February 29, 2008 12:54 PM

Clinton is gone but the problem of the soldiers not having what they need remains.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/02/26/obama.troops/

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/01/31/national/main3774732.shtml

I guess McCain is OK with that now.

Bill Clinton quotes:

1)Now, one of Clinton's laws of politics is this. If one candidate is trying to scare you and the other one is try get you to think, if one candidate is appealing to your fears and the other one is appealing to your hopes, you better vote for the person who wants you to think and hope.

2)The same old experience is not relevant. You can have the right kind of experience and the wrong kind of experience.

3)Big things are expected of us, and nothing big ever came of being small.

4)Success is not the measure of a man but a triumph over those who choose to hold him back.

5)When our memories outweigh our dreams, we have grown old

AND THEN:

6)It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is

Why stay if the Clinton administration wasn't going to give the troops what they needed to win?
Posted by: Jeff | February 29, 2008 12:54 PM

Now where have I heard that before? Oh yeah...Iraq. Tell me Jeff...have we won in Afghanistan yet. The real war on terror? Is it "mission accomplished" there? You're parties idea of eternal whack-a-mole from our pockets grows old.
I hear the cry from the right.......we'll bring you victory ( whatever that looks like ) if it takes us 100 years by God or we'll die trying.

Afghanistan has a truly democratic, representative government. That's more than they've had in 20 years, Bill Hussein R. It won't turn around overnight, but we're certainly making progress.

Besides, Bill, the radical fringe of the democratic party was against the war in Afghanistan, too. I remember walking to work downtown in 2003(I worked near the Board of Trade at the time) and seeing weekly protests of the federal building with Moveon.org protestors chanting "we don't want your racist war."

They didn't care that the Taliban gave safe harbor to Bin Laden. They didn't care that no country opposed removing the Taliban from power. They were just, plain Anti-American.

McCain got Rumsfeld removed and since then things have gotten much better in Iraq. His "lighter, faster military" transformation simply doesn't work in a time of war. McCain said it publicly and succeeded where the democrats, with their anti-military rhetoric, failed. A good lesson in how government works.

Had Bush done what McCain said from the beginning of this war it would be over already or at least the Iraqis would be taking over their own interests. He was very critical of the way Bush and Runsfeld were running it. He was right. SInce Bush started listening to him things have gotten much better. they are not perfect but they have improved dramatically. As a former Marine I find it funny that people with no military experience like Bush and Runsfield think they can do it better than those who have served. Same with Obama, you can crticise McCain and Bush all you want for 2003 but that doesnt change the situation we are in. Downsizing troops is an awful idea. How can you expect less troops to do a job that they can barely do now with even more troops. A phased withdrawal is an awful idea it will just put a hige burden on the troops left behind. Also you cant just pull out because then the Iraqi people would be left to be slaughtered like they are in Africa. McCain has been right all along if you are goingt o committ the troops in harms way they you have to give them what they need to win and committ everything you have. Semper Fi do or die!.

Jeff,
Dead right? Hawk Republicans claim pulling out of Somalia emboldened al-Qaeda. Sounds like they disagree with McCain's prescription back then.

My gut poll tells me that the overall race between John Sidney McCain and Barak Hussein Obama will be very close. I wouldn't be surprised if the paper ballot/machine thing was an issue. It already is in my state. Anyway, Mark Silva you forgot the "Hussein" in show of solidarity. I don't know why but it looks cute when bill r does it.

Roger, you got your CAPS problem fixed!!!! Hooray!

"You say you'll change the constitution
Well you know
We'd all want to change your head
You tell me it's the institution
Well you know
You better free your mind instead
But if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao
You ain't going to make it with anyone anyhow
Don't you know know it's gonna be alright "

"“I believe, as president of the United States, I can inspire a generation of Americans to serve a cause greater than their own interests,’’ "

Let's put this through the 'McBush Discombobulationator';

"I believe, as POTUS, I can require a generation of Americans to die for cause based on lies in the first instance for maybe 1000 years."

Mr.McCain,

How about some specifics? Platitudes are a dime a dozen.
(Irony intended)

McCain; Here's another Mao one for you;

'All political power comes from the barrel of a gun...'

The world and Al-Queada do not scare me. The thought of another man like Bush in Office does!
These people do not care about how much money they spend for an illegal war. Do they think we, the American people are stupid? Gullible yes, as in what happened with the Bush elections, but not stupid.
Lets correct all the wrong we have done in the name of patriotic ignorance and the mad ravings of what I call the first Insane American president ever to serve.
God help us all!