Mc Cain arrived in Michigan for a private fundraiser for big donors and then left. The people of Michigan are hurting but he attended a private fundraiser. Whenever he comes here (Michigan) it is for Big fundraising purposes but not to listen to the “little people” of Michigan. Maybe he should think carefully that one big donor has the same vote as one ordinary person in Michigan.

Obama arrived in west Michigan and greeted the people at a large venue that was free to the public. He packed it. Who do you think the people Michigan will remember. I hope the masses of the people will outvoice the big donors. We had eight years of Big Donors cashing in their bucks to the White House.

I think Mc Cain has to remember about “We the People”. Maybe this year “We the People” wil finally have our say.

Wow, I hope that we win this war and get the hell out of Iraq. George Bush is a great President. We need John McCain to ccntinue his policies. Vote for John McCain in November!

Succeeded at what? Did you find those weapons of mass disstruction? Is the country of Irac now safe from opression? Have less of our soldiars been killed this month? What pray tell Mr. McCain, is your definition of success!!!!

If we have succeed in Iraq, why are we still there.

In May 2003, George Bush said that the major military operations in Iraq was over.

Sounds like McCain is again taking his cues from George Bush(making hopeful statements about the war while our troops are in harms way).

How many years ago did Bush say, “MISSION ACCOMPLISHED”?

Cogswell- The Hillary voters will remember in November how the DNC and Obama treated them in Michigan.

Would it matter if Obama put an “‘” in his name? If he did, he would appear to be Irish - O’Bama! What a sack of malarky!! He is completely about appearance, never about reality. And for the rest of you - a successful surge doesn’t mean the War is over - it just means the surge was the right change. What’s your thoughts on O’Bama going to Iraq (or is it Irac)? I thinkit is to pull hm away from Stateside contrevoursey so he doesn’t step on his crank and push the superdelegates eve further away. Look into it - they aren’t to happy with his “switch-hitting.” And man, what a great first lady Michelle will make. Maybe, if we are all lucky - she could become senator some day and run the democratic party even further into the ground and run for president………….a Michelle and Hillary ticket in 2020!!! Maybe they can fist bump.

Thank you, John, for your leadership and courage in standing up to President Bush, Rummy and the Dims and advocating the SURGE strategy back in 2006/7 - it HAS WORKED, and will work in Afghanistan, also.

Even OBama had to admit the SURGE worked (!) - and VERY recently removed derogatory and degrading anti-SURGE retoric from his web site (OBana is FULL of hype and retoric) !!!

OBama and the DIMS wanted to “CUT AND RUN” (with dates) which would have been a DISASTER!!!

Finally, despite all the HYPE and Charisma - OBama is simply NOT QUALIFIED to be President, period.

- moreover, the USA cannot AFFORD an European Socialist Liberal to be our President…

******* PRESIDENT McCAIN !! ********************

Once again Obama is correct with his foreign policy.

“White House Says U.S., Iraq Agree to Seek ‘General Time Horizon’ on Troop Withdrawals”

First McCain said Obama was irresponsible for saying he would attack Al Queida in Pakistan if their was solid intelligence. Since calling Obama ‘irresponsilbe’ our miliarty has attacked Al Queida 4 times in Pakistan.

McCain calls Obama naive and reckless for wanting to set a timetable to get out of Iraq. Next thing you know the sovereign Iraq government demands we set a timetable.

McCain calls Obama reckless and an appeaser for saying he will sit down with leaders of countries unfriendly to the U.S. 3 months later the U.S. successfully appeases and negoitiates with N. Korea (’axis of evil’) and they begin to dismantle their nuclear plants.

McCain and Bush call Obama an appeaser and irresponsible for saying he wants direct diplomacy with unfriendly countries rather than threats of war. Just yesterday the State Department announces they are sending a top level official to Iran to sit down and have direct talks.

Obama has been saying Afganistan needs more troops and equipment for a year now while McCain barely mentioned it. Obama makes a big speech about it and McCain follows Obama’s coattails and states what Obama has been saying all along.

Who has the judgement?

Obama is an empty suit.

McCain is a senile loose cannon.

Say your prayers folks.

Thes two losers say alot about

the bad choices we have made as a culture.

To tj Stelten:
Are you not aware of the recent removal by U.S. Troops of 550 metric tons of concentrated uranium from Saddam’s stock pile???……..I wonder what he was planning to do with it?? hmmmm. No weapons of mass destruction, eh?

U.S. and Iraq come up with a Time horizon, which means the length of time for which an investment is made, or held, before it is liquidated. Timetable is schedule listing the times at which certain events, such as arrivals and departures are expected to take place. Hum, sounds very much the same thing. It is amazing to me that people cannot see that things are falling into the very place that Obama said we should be. Leaving Iraq and attacking the very people we need to be in Afghanistan and Pakistan, Bin Laden has been there laughing at us. McCain has said that he agrees with Bin Laden that the central point of war was Iraq, has he heard of diversion? I sure would not believe anything that an enemy says, especially the man, if that is what you call him, would tell us. For a very long time now, Obama has said that Afghanistan-Pakistan should be where we should go.

To TJ Stelten:
Do you no know about the 550 Metric Tons of concentrated uranium recently removed from Saddam’s stockpile??? What do you think that was for????? Sounds like weapons of mass destruction to me!!!

Comment by Tracey D
July 18th, 2008 at 1:39 pm
To TJ Stelten:
Do you no know about the 550 Metric Tons of concentrated uranium recently removed from Saddam’s stockpile??? What do you think that was for????? Sounds like weapons of mass destruction to me!!!

Hey Tracey, care to provide a link or some sort of proof for this statement?

How does one measure success? Is it when our President states Mission Accomplished? or now McCain = McBush states we have success … Let measure success by asking the troops or the families of the troops who brother, sister, mother or father, daughter or son lost their life in support of this war…. you know the war in Iraq where the Government want us to leave…. It is a big mess it is not successful and the mission is not accomplished…. Or perhaps the real mission that is accomplished was not clear to the American masses … perhaps it was all about making maximum corporate dollars and the average Americans are just expendable.

“We have succeeded …”

Typical McCain-speak. Succeeded at what? Bringing down the violence in select areas of Iraq? Yes, the surge has done that. Succeeded in getting closer to success in the Iraq war? Hmmm… can Sen. McCain coherently define what that means? What does this success look like? How will we know it when it happens? By what metrics will this success be measured?

It is time that we as a country get beyond these platitudes and sound-bite phrases. We haven’t succeeded in making our country safer. We haven’t succeeded in caring for the welfare of the citizenry.

Sen. McCain, please. Either explain how you are going to lead this great nation out of the economic/security fiasco that the Bush administration has gotten us in to, or go back to the senate.

“WE HAVE SUCCEEDED” no, its just you McCAIN and BUSH and the REPUBLICAN PARTY!! the rest of AMERICA didnt even agree to go to WAR over Weapons of Mass Distrution or was it OIL?? AMERICAN’s have LOST there children fighting this WAR and AMERICA has to foot the BILL for it BILLIONS of dollars and you think We Have succeeded?? YOU ARE SOOO OUT OF TOUCH with AMERICANS. to TOP all this off we still are in another war “OSAMA BIN LADEN” was the whole purpose of these WARS and BUSH cant even CATCH him?? why? BIN LADEN’S family might cut ties with the BUSHES ummm……. and you all called OBAMA a “Flip Flopper”?

OH YEAH and OBAMA has been right from JUMP! pull the troops out in 16 months please OBAMA because the Republican party will be telling us something else by the time its said and done.

Embed, why are you blocking my comments?

I am so ashamed when I read the majority of conservative posts on this site as to the educational level achieved in this country. Very rarely do I read someone who is anti-Obama who can put sentences together properly, or spell. I often see and hear “smack talk” about Obama supporters being elitist, latte drinking, and Prius driving yuppies (as if that was a bad thing). LOL

Isn’t higher education an American ideal? Why do the most intelligent, well written, open minded posts seem to come from these “liberals”? I personally think that the most educated Americans are in the best position to vote wisely.

Fox news seems to cater to the lowest common denominator and attempt to sensationalize the news in an effort to reach those who really don’t care to read or think too deeply. If you are one of those who can’t spell or write properly, please be open minded enough to consider whether you are truly educating yourself well enough to make an informed opinion in November.

As I read the Obama support statements it could not be any clearer to me how gullable most of these folks are. Now that the McCain is George Bush campaign strategy has failed they are now making a feeble attempt at world politics by sending Obama to Iraq for a visit. Obama went to Michigan at a public speech and told them about his vision to turn the auto plants into plants that make windmills and pound a bunch of sand up the wolverine states hindend hoping to gain some quick votes from people who obviously believe anything they hear. Now we get to hear about how Obama is a war expert from his fans even though he is once again completely clueless about the subject. Let’s face the facts here folks. Obama is a junior senator with only 7 years of experience in the illinois state senate and the only reason he was even elected then is because the other guy dropped out of the race due to a divorce sex scandal that the Democratic machine in Illinois made sure hit the papers even though they were all allegations and were never proven but it was enough of a smear to get Obama elected the state senate. This is an undeniable fact to anyone that has followed this guy’s political career. Then he tells us all of his records from his state senator career are lost. Then somehow he manages to get elected as a US senator through another shady election deal and 3.5 years later he is running for President? He has no experience in foreign policy. no leadership qualities, no political history at all. He never once crossed party lines and has always been a staunch Liberal supporter. His book is full of factually proven half lies, he did not grow up a poor inner city black child as he would like for the idiots to believe. He is nothing, he has nothing to offer, He has done nothing except a few community drives in chicago. He knows nothing of the position he seeks to fill and is full of a childish naive outlook on being President. He is nothing, offers nothing and will do nothing. He is simply another Liberal puppet to do the bidding of the likes of Pelosi, Reid, Kennedy’s and the rest of the Liberal idiots in our government. He never stood up to them before and HE WILL NOT CROSS THEM IF HE GETS ELECTED EITHER. Why don’t all you Obamaites take your blinders off and stop being such fools to this empty suit…..

Ok I am tired of the whinning about Iraq, when Peral Harbor was bombed 2,117 MILITARY personel ended up DOA, when the Twins were hit 3,000 regular people at work were DOA. It was ok for FDR to entern 120,000 Japanese Americans but for Bush to hold how many Terrorist it is a crime. So going to war because the military was attacked is better than going to war because civilians were attacked. Go figure. I guess you need to be military for this country to care if you are attack.

Please provide a link to the story about the US removing 550 metric tons of Uranium from Iraq. I would imagine that if we had found 100 Ibs of Uranium, Bush would have had it flown it the White House Rose Garden for a quick press conference

Hopefully someone will show Obama how to properly salute while he is overseas.

“Obama Campaign Unveils Details of Overseas Trip”

and it is an ‘EMPTY’ paper bag- stenciled “change” ………………………..

And today, McCain is telling us to expect spectacul attacks in Iraq before the election…..hmmmmm…..guess we should ask him to define ’succeeded’

Today, McCain stated he predicts a huge terroist attack on our forces in Iraq before the Nov election. Is this what he meant by succeeded in Iraq?

trillions dollars later you think you won an occupation. what a joke. our economy in shambles and now you say a terrorist threat is due from Iraq.did you win or did you loose. just another reason for your request of 100 year deployment
we cant stand another 8 years of the same .

time for change

michaelraythompson, people like you are so dumb

I am sad to say I am a republican when this guy McCain does so many twists and turns in what he says…..it is very disappointing….What happened in the primary fellow republicans….Bush is starting to sound better again

ok, iraq,”almost done,” WHAT ABOUT AFGHANISTAN!!!!
why dont we rush into there and get the stinking terrorists
all of those errorist on 9/11 were from Afghanistan, that should be where we go next or shouldve went but noooo, Iraq was more important…
NEVER TRUST REPUBLICANS, THEY ARE LIARS!!!

Prime Minister of Iraq has asked for US to give a timetable of when the US will be withdrawing its troops from Iraq? Can somebody please tell Fox news affirmative action hires - Hannity, O’Reilly, and Limbaugh, and even Senator McCain? After all, they didn’t get where they are based on their qualifications? If we give them a timetable to withdraw the troops, then what platform will Senator McCain be able to run on? By his own admissions, he doesn’t understand economics!

Senator Obama once again has shown the insight and correct judgement that we need in a Commander in Chief and President.

Obama ‘08

OK Tracey D, you need to actually read an article on the subject and not just listen to what people on the radio say. The yellow cake that was removed was from an known Iraq urinaium processing center in Iraq. Everyone knows that Iraq had the capability of producing WMDs but with the constant bombings and Saddam’s craziness there was very little actually processed for for WMDs. And the WMDs that Bush said they had never turned up. Saddam was crazy, we all acknowledge, but was he such an imminent threat to the US that we needed to send thousands of US troops and spend BILLIONs of dollars and loose THOUSANDS of lives…….I think the jury and history has confirmed that the Bush administration was extremely corrupt and just wanted their agenda, not protect the American people.

I will be interested to see what the high school American history books in 10 years will say on this subject.

Obama will figure a way to take credit for success in Iraq!
Here he says “Obama said he planned to remove combat brigades from Iraq by the summer of 2010. He also said he would send at least two additional combat brigades to Afghanistan.”
WHAT happened to his “I will bring the troops home”?
Long forgotten by Obama and MSM by now. Soon the surge will have been Obama’s idea and any success to come from it.
Where Obama has said he would invade Pakistan “on actionable intelligence” just what intelligence is he talking about? The same intelligence that led congress vote in favor of taking Iraq? OH YEA!
What a complete and total idiot he is!
Obamabots are brain dead protestors without any hope!

I think that there is one great difference in these two men

Obama has said as president he will give the orders and the Generals will carry them out

McCain has said he has great respect for our Generals and will follow thier advice

its easy for us to sit here and make judgements on a war, but the real person who needs to make these judgements is Gen. Petrius(however you spell it) and his leaders who are over seas. When they feel its time to pack up and leave then fine. We dont need an old Senator or a young Senator making that call. Mccain has been around long enough to learn that politics shouldnt determine things, which is what Obama is doing, and we should listen to people who know.

i could tell you all day long how to build a house because that what i do, my wife on the other hand cuts hair. now i have been to her salon and watched her do it, but if i try and tell someone how to cut thier hair im going to mess it up. Lets let our Generals decide when the war is over

but regardless of all of this i could never vote for someone who stands so opposed to the Word of God in some major ways on issues of Gay Marriage and Abortion. i would rather pay $5 a gallon for gas then to have God’s holy scripture disregarded

McCain keeps saying stupid stuff.

He didn’t have to say that.

The surge worked and that’s fine.

He is just reminding us of the blunder Bush

made when he declared mission accomplished.

I loathe Obama and McCain is such a boob.

Embed still put bug on my blogs.

I have a comment for the “media”, the very group of followers of Senator Obama.
The “Media”, the one that is supposed to be impartial only report news as it is.
I am totally ashamed of the Mass Media, that made such ado about a trip that
Senators have been making for years to war zones. The “Media” that new that
is to report the facts as they happen not glorify. The “Media” the same people from
every network that is pushing and has pushed so hard for Senator Obama.
In the sixties we had PAYOLA, who remembers that, pay to get your record heard?
Well the “Media” must be getting a kick back from the OBAMA campaign or promises
of special treatment. What ever the reason, this is the most dishonest way to do
business since the late 50’s and early 60’s. If or when Senator Obama is elected
the “Media” can say they did a good job. If he turns out to be a poor President
who does nothing to help this country. You can thank the “Media”, they helped
get him elected.

Response to the Comment by CJB in CA, July 18 2008

Hi CJB: You just hit a right nail on the head! Obama is simply NOT QUALIFIED to be
elected as our leader for this greatest country on earth. He even shouldn’t had been
“selected” by the Dems. to run for the president of the United States, but those hypocritical politicians did it!
He just don’t have any advanced administrative EXPERIENCE to fill in that highest position in order to handle those toughest affairs domestically and internationally.
This is not an “on the job traing” position, a solid leadership and comprehensive EXPERIENCES are the MUST as the job is taken by day one!
Obama possesses none of these two elements for the job, period!
We need to wake-up all of his blindly worshipers, so that they’ll be able to realize the TRUTH. This guy in not a right/real person for The “CHANGE’ nor for the “JUDGEMENT”!
The only thing we may admire him is that his skillful public speech ability is much better than those snake-oil salesmen at the country fairs.
Talk is cheap, we all know about it. For any big political talk without having any EXPERIENCE to surport it, it’s even way, way too cheap to be believed in!
God bless America!

Chrene

To Tracey:
you need to go back to school and get educated on uranium it takes more than just astock pile of uranium rods to make a nuclear weapon and I raq didnt have the funds nor the technology to turn those uranium rods into nuclear weapons. It would be like having old gun powder and nothing else. SO THEIR WERE NO WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION

I’m confused. McCain claims Obama was wrong about the surge. OK, we bomb Iraq based on a lie. Then we claim success because we are helping stop the violence that our actions created. The surge doesn’t make the decision to go to war the right decision.

That’s right TJ. The liberal media (Make Everyone Dumb in America) always hoped there were no WMD, and there is…tons of it!!! Obama can’t even wipe his nose, he ain’t no Commander in Chief. I wished he would go to Zimbabwe. All you Hillary supporters–hope you vote for McCain. If the DNC can screw over someone as powerful as Hillary, they’ll screw you over too. The Iraq War is a success, only approx 4000 American casualties compared to millions of casualties in former wars. Way to go Bush. Even though the stinkin’ looney left demonized you in the media, you stuck to your guns, and you’ve kept us safe. All you liberals need to read a bunch of history of this great country of ours so you can see what real MEN and WOMEN are made of. They weren’t a bunch of unpatriotic cowards like ya’ll are. Okay. I’m done preaching.

Check out utube and see how many times McCain flip flops and doesn’t quite know what he’s talking about. It’s amazing.

[...] Senator McCain has declared Mission Accomplished 2.0: “I repeat my statement that we have succeeded in Iraq, not we are succeeding, we have succeeded in Iraq. The strategy has worked and we now have the Iraqi government and military in charge in the major cities in Iraq.” [...]