He is NO HERO.

A Real Hero would have Saved someones Life while risking his own or sacrificed himself for another or others.

He was just a PISS POOR PILOT who allowed himself to be captured alive instead of taking as many of them with him as possible. He was then broken by the Viet Kong and he Spilled his Guts

He RATTED!! That COWARD..!

Now in 2008, he wants to claim that he will never surrender to Terrorists. He already did 40 years ago.. lol

Thats the Mental problem he has.. He's Angry at himself for being BROKEN as a POW.
He takes it out on everyone but himself..!

He is Dangerously Stubborn because of Guilt for Ratting Out while he was a POW. He Lives a Fantasy of believing that nothing can ever Make Change him or make him rethink unless he wants to.
He has promised himself he will never be weak again.. Even if being weak is for positive reconcilliation or other worthy reasons.

In a Word…
He is SICK.

pushes for free trade before he goes to Mexico yo give away more jobs

To all you Hillary or nothing and McCain supports:

If after reading this you can honestly look in the mirror and say McCain would make a better President by sending your jobs and your kids overseas to die for foolish causes you really have some deep hate issues in you that you may not understand. That issue is and I'll be blunt is that some people would rather have this country go to hell in a hand basket before allowing a black man to be President. Please don't be that hateful. We all bleed and are human beings.

Try and understand this concept

United we Stand…….Divided we Fall!!!

Yeah and if J.C. Was a "lousy commander in chief" … What is G.W.?

What was John McCain? A LOUSY PILOT?
And a NON HERO… People just felt sorry for a guy that spent 5+ years in a POW camp.
Some American Still feel pitty for him for diferent reasons.
BUT..
Why should America keep suffering just to help John feel better??

Enough..!!
If POW's make such wonderful leaders..show me one other POW that has beoome our President.
Wouldn't we have already had numerous Psychologically or Physically Damaged Presidents by now if POW's make the best Commanders in Chief??

GAy American- Do Republicans go to a special school to learn to walk around with their heads up their arses or are they born that way?

Here's some "straight talk" for you, Senator McCain—-
–You will never be President!

Now let's see how well you like someone else taking the job you thought was yours!

This man keeps his foot in his mouth. You have to wonder what the republican party is thinking, or do they know that they lost this election already after 8 years of Bush?

Free and fair trade, my friend?

How about that airplane deal you handed to the French?

Free and fair?

To whom? Your lobbyist advisors?

Gag me.

obama is the same as Mccain when it comes to free trade
they say one thing then runs to other countrys and tells them not to
worry it will still be free trade

Job Re-training?? Does he really think someone who's been working in a factory for 20+ years, maybe aged 45+ or so really wants to re-train? Re-train to do what? If the factory was the main source of jobs in the town, what will re-training do for them?

I'm all for free trade, but our trade deficit is horrendous. We are buying everybody else's goods, but who is buying ours??

Case in point - the Auto industry. Japan is building factories in the US - how many US automakers are buinding factories in Japan or anywhere else?

I understand your pain my friends. Jet fuel for my multi millionaire corporate CEO wife Cindy's private jet have gone out the roof. I may consider flying less.

Free trade itself is not the problem. The fact that Republicans used free trade to sell out America's workers so that their Billionaire Corporate cronies could send our jobs to China for a dollar a day slave labor is the problem. Is McBush stupid to think we can not see this? Or just very old?

He is Talking Straight..

He straight out no longer has the sense god gave him.

He is soo optomistic,,
He has such foresight… NOT..!!

He will NEVER withraw from Iraq.
America will NEVER get its industrial foundation back.

Pray to God that he is NEVER our President..!!!

McClown is out of touch!

OUR SO CALLED PATRIOT HAS SOLD US

TO AS MANY OF HIS LOBBYISTS AS HE COULD.

HE & HIS CREW ( BUSH, CHANEY ), HAVE DONE US

MORE DAMAGE IN MANY WAYS THAN THE ENEMY

MCBUSH FOUGHT A HALF CENTURY AGO. MAKES ONE

WONDER.

Wow, the nerve to stare American auto industry in the face and preach NAFTA…Wow, just wow…This is the same guy that supports drilling for oil off our coastlines for our "psychological" benefit.

By process of elimination: Obama For Prez!!!!

We need smart Ohio republicans in to bring back fiscal reponsibility in this country!

McCain is promising fiscal responsibility using the same Bush economic policies. He is a nut case. These policies have been proven to FAIL in the past 8 years.

Dollar is at an all time low.
Jobs are leaving the country
Oil is at all time high.
Deficits are at an all time high.

TIme to vote for Obama!

…and make Hillary the Chief Economic Officer.

Bring the deficits down and strengthen our currency to help bring oil futures down.

"USAF Staff Sergeant", are you aware that by identifying yourself by your rank and branch of service (if in fact you're not an impostor), your participation in published partisan political discussion of this sort is in direct violation of DoD DIRECTIVE 1344.10? Get with the program, airman!

GAY American- Democrap? That's about as lame as one of McLame's speeches.

McCain is the only moderate running. He is the only one that will get fair and meaningful legislation. Obama will bankrupt the country in his wealth redistribution project. And all people making over 75k will suffer higher taxes. Obama as President and te Democrats with 60 in the Senate is a night mare scenario for anyone who wants to work as they will not be happy until all business are either offshore or not-for-profit. Obama is the most liberal Senator with backing from left groups a

….“I understand the pain” of families affected by manufacturing job losses, McCain said, but he added that many “labor intensive jobs” were not coming back to America.

Instead, he said his job re-training proposals coupled with an “emphasis on new technology” in the automotive sector would boost employment….

Straight out of one of Obama's speech. Did anybody catch this? He's been copying Obama's speeches all across America?

At least Bush was likable — at first!!!

PUFF…is that what you do(puff) in your spare time while thinking up these stupid posts of yours? If you really were a HRC supporter an think McSame is the one to vote for now….I question your mental stability:)

Take your free and unfair trade to a convention of people that want to hear about free and unfair trade John McTrade!

I can't believe McCain would come to my state and tell the families that have had to accept jobs at Walmart after their factories up and moved to Mexico and China in the last few years. We don't need retrained old man; many college educated folks with many years of experience are competing for minimum wage jobs just to survive.

You have no idea what it's like…no idea at all.

MCBUSH CALLS IT FREE.

IT IS NOT FREE TO US.

IT HAS COSTED US PLENTY.

"McBush has got to be the second dumbest nominee ever, take that back I think Bush may be even smarter then McBush. Keep talkin McBush, you are guarenteeing a Obama/Clinton win. Democrats will rule the next 16 years. Thanks GOP for screwing us and making us mad for so long you won't be in power for a long… long time."

- You were probably saying the same thing in 1976. How'd that work out?

Ask the disabled wife he left for a rich home wrecker if he "feels the pain"? See what she has to say about the matter. He'll feel some pain come November. You can take that to the bank!

MCBUSH PUSHING FOR FREE TRADE IN ORDER TO

EXPORT OUR LAST FEW JOBS.

THAT'S OUR PATRIOT FORE YOU. ALL NATIONS EXCEPT

HIS OWN DESERVE SOME OF OUR, OUR, OUR, TAX DOLLARS,

EXCEPT AMERICA & AMERICAN TAX PAYERS, SLEAZO.

NO SLEAZO, NOT HERE & NOT NOW.

John McCain efforts aided in sending a $35B contract to build the next generation Air Force refueling tanker overseas to Airbus.

As such, he played an important role that sent tens-of-thousands of US jobs overseas.

This as a result of his hatred and vendetta against the Boeing company. With little information, McCain claimed that a plan to lease the tankers wasn't sound. A detailed and intellectual look at that arrangement proved otherwise.

I agree that we need to start buying MADE IN AMERICA stuff, problem is usually the prices are too high. Prices of USA stuff needs to be brought down a little, I'd rather sell 10 items @ $10 is than sell one at $20, that's what companies need to learn. You see items sitting on store shelves and no one buys them until they go on sale/clearance. If we lower prices, people buy more, the economy is stimulated, creating more jobs….no more foreign stuff, no more shipping jobs overseas (would you rather make $10/hr on a job that used to pay $15 or would you rather not have a job?). Only company executives make money by laying off people and shipping jobs overseas. The real answer is to start your own business. As a business owner you control you own hours and you get great tax benefits. There are many home based businesses around. Most people I talk to would rather work 2 jobs than take a chance to improve their lives. I'm tired of people complaining about their lives but refusing to do anything about it!! Read, read, read…go to the library and read books like THINK AND GROW RICH, RICH DAD POOR DAD, THE GREATEST SALESMAN IN THE WORLD, THE SECRET…we can make our country great again, we just need to start at the bottom….a journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step…come on America, take that step!

Who gets a cold in the middle of summer? I would keep my eye on his "cold" to see how long it lasts.

McCain should save his breath.

Wow. A ticker that actually talks about a candidate's stance on an issue? Run for your life! The end must be coming quickly!

There is NOTHING Free about TRADE… It an oxymoron…

No McCain… That's all I can say. I wouldn't give him one minute of my time. I find it hard to believe that he feels my pain.

well, let the free market figure it out.. isn't that the party line? oh, well, McCain doesn't have a platform… it changes situationally and has little substance.

OBAMA 08

J in Houston said:
Giving the auto industry money will not keep work here. Lowering corporate tax rates, opening up foreign trade, expanding infrastructure, and lightening regulation WILL. Look at the reasons companies moved to Mexico and Canada. Those are the ONLY same reasons they will come back.

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

ALL OF THAT "HAS" BEEN DONE…

With the Republicans having the House, the Senate and the WH for six of the last eight years…. ALL OF THAT WAS DONE…

TODAY'S ECONOMY IS THE "RESULT"…..

Simply_kris, NE, I keep telling people McCain doesn't look well at all, and now he has a "slight cold". I hope he can get better before he gets worse, but he looks like his health is declining.

MCIDIOT JUST SCREWED HIS CAMPAIGN…..

John McCain, do the sreams of agony from your fellow POW's as they were being tortured while YOU smoked cigarettes, sipped tea, and ate cookies with the NVA ever keep you awake at night ? I didn't think so. You are just as immune to the cries from the American people.

president obama woulod never trade our jobs to other countries.president obama will fix everything and then we'll make all republicans move to iraq.

Typical NeoCon BS. Policy can get jobs back to the US; but poor old McCain is blinded by "free trade" ideology. http://www.bluebarking.com

James, get your info correct. Study what was said and how it was said. Oh! I'm sorry, your just another democrap!

Free trade… isn't that what led us to the huge China trade deficits? Isn't it also what we continue to deny European companies whenever we feel like it?
We are really inconsistent around the world about trade.

when i read the head line "mcain calls former pres. lousy, i thought you were talking about bush (boy blunder)… carter may have been a lousey pres. but did no where near the damage that this bufoon has done. my great grand children will be paying the tab for boy blunder and darth cheny………….

Is this a joke like, I haven't beat my wife for weeks. That Sen. McCain told a reporter earllier???

Let's see,, so far these "free trade" agreements have cost America many thousands of blue collar jobs, our manufacturing ability has been seriously diminished placing us in peril if a real war ever breaks out. We now have lead painted toys for our children and unsafe food to eat. The dollar is losing it's strength around the world. Our national security is compromised by "globalists" who care nothing about our safety as long as the conduit through which imported trash makes it's way to American markets remain open. We've created a small army of wealthy businessmen who have little ability for business and much talent for exploitation.

Unless you're one of the few who benefit economically from trade agreements, there's not much to be happy about. If I were receiving consolation from McCain, I'd be angry enough to spit in his face. Much the way our government spits in ours when it facilitates the rape of America.

In 1992, Clinton said similar things about free trade and about retraining workers in America. I have a feeling most of you Obama supporters would have backed Clinton then. It is actually a good moderate position, which should resonate with independent voters, and it is one that McCain has been fairly consistent on.

Oh, and don't even bring up the Keating Five scandal, unless you want to discuss Tony Rezko. In each case, the candidate in question exercised poor judgment but likely did nothing illegal. So let's just ignore both scandals, because neither one helps us much in comparing the two candidates.

This Man McCain is not looking for a Job to feed his family nor is he looking for health insurance is has money from the VA and the Senate to finance his Health care cost as well as the money from his wife.

Hell, he just shipping your jobs over seas you won't miss a pay check elect John McCain he really cares for you family…

Don't he????

The Prestigious ST. LOUIS COMPANY being sold to overseas company. But they plan no changes!!!! Like jobs, unions. No changes!
Wonder who Missouri will vote for with the most awesome Company in St. Louis being "sold" on the Block to be "removed" from sight. Oh, is that what the stockholders want? Money? ALL for MONEY adding to their own fortunes.Forget the workers and the jobs.

I figured it out; Archie Bunker is running McCain's Campaign and Mr. Magoo is his deputy. I take that back, they could do a better job. Does this Idiot realize how many potential vote he lost today by attacking President Carter. He call Carter a lousy President while endorsing the worst President in history. Bush and his Gang are real WAR CRIMINALS and McDumb goes after Jimmy Carter. Someone tell the old FOOL to shut up. he would have scored more points by criticizing BUSH.
I wish that I could feel sorry for the Republicans but I Can't, they deserve this stomping that's coming in November.

at least mccain tells the truth about those jobs being gone for good. oblahblah just babbles on endlessly about hope, as in "i hope they believe this change crap, cuz i dont have a real plan"

Darth Vadik, it's the greed of the unions that killed American manufacturing. If they had allowed US plants to modernize and become more efficient, they would have lost some jobs. By forcing inefficient work rules into contracts, they are losing ALL the jobs. If you could pay a foreign worker the same in a day as you pay a union worker in an hour, and get a better product, why wouldn't you do that? Also, independent trade groups have concluded that NAFTA has had a small net POSITIVE effect on the US economy.

"Outsourcing is good for the Economy"

-John McCain

Please. You people that hate Obama, get past your racism and see that our economy is at stake here.

Obama '08!

McCain and the Rich Republicans have no worries. They get everything free. That is the main reason for their lack of understanding. They can charge the gas and repairs to company credit cards. They get sweetheart deals on cars, homes, vacations, you name it. They still are thinking of the 'Trickle Down Theory' that Reagan/Bush pushed on us. If you want to build up America, you have to build the foundation first. The middle & lower income workers need better benefits & pay. We need 40 hour weeks (or less). We need Straight Talk. A Plan of Action and have the plan executed from our elected officials.

he said his job re-training proposals coupled with an “emphasis on new technology” in the automotive sector would boost employment…

REPUBLICAN DOGMA FOR THE LAST 30 YEARS….

HOW'S THAT "LONG TERM" BULL WORKIN OUT FOR "YOU" GUYS?

And the Catholics? Did they vote for Bush. And Pat Robertson spoke
so highly of Bush when he was running. With his eyes closed, everyday, he said, We know who to vote for??? WINK! Wink!

From a Catholic.

Man I sure wish we had a good choice but we dont. The republicans are insane to have picked this man. I dont like either one I'm staying home . GOD bless america we are going to need it .

Don't trust the man. He reads everything off the teleprompter and
now has recently is reading notes. Not good at that either.

McCain forgot where he came from. Don't care about the economy
or the people it affects. Just pretends. Who wants a man for President
that hangs, "with the fat cats". He'll change alright! In saying what the
American "people" want to hear. PLEASE! Not another mistake. Please, and did the evangelicals vote for BUSH. GOOD JOB!

How devoted of Cindy McCain to go to Vietnam last week check book in hand to pay hush money to the Vietnameese government to keep evidence of Mc Traitor's treason against our country filed away. At least Benedict Arnold had the decency to not show his face again after the Revolution. You sir have no decency, and are a traitor.

What an idiot! That's like walking into a biker bar and Harley riders are gay! I can't wait till nov to see this sorry old man lose…

Hey Mightingale Sing, McCain only had twenty one (21) combat hours that included flight to and from target. not very much by any standard. He spent the rest of his time defending America as a POW. There were many POW, so i guess we should make them all President. Defending America; that's what members of the Military do you idiot.
McCain did what thousands of us did but he is no hero. He was awarded a lot of medals that he did not earn or deserve. Please cut the HERO crap, it didn't happen.

Have you ever noticed that all the post that deal with Hillary and Barack fill up really fast? And the McCain post stay open forever. I think that's a sign of how things will go in November. His messages put me to sleep and I don't for one minute think he's the candidate of change. What do you honestly think John McCain will change, his sleeping habits?

Obama, who will hit the ground working hard for us.

"McCain, battling a slight cold" - with due respect, how much longer?

Selling out MORE Americans just like you sold out your country and fellow POW's. You should not be running for president but upon arrival back in the U.S.A. should have been promptly tried for treason. TRAITOR!!!!!

That pressure from behind you're feeling from McCain is not "free trade" — he's pushing something else your way….did you get a kiss first?

To all you [R] kool-aid drinkers: you guys enjoy your "push" time with McCain.

American workers need to learn to compete against foreign workers, plain and simple. The government doesn't send jobs overseas. Employers do because the labor is so much cheaper in terms of hourly wage and benefits. American workers have consistently negotiated a standard of pay that is out of step with what can be gained overseas or in Mexico. If you want to keep manufacturing jobs in the US, workers have to be committed to producing the highest quality product possible, and producing as many of them as possible. Even with the rising cost of shipping, language programs for managers, foreign IT support, learning how to establish a footprint in a foreign country, etc, it's still cheaper to produce in foreign countries. Cheap laborers in other countries are willing to punch a clock for low wages, what makes the American worker think that companies would rather have someone punch a clock for a high wage? Everytime a candidate panders to the American worker and just tells them what they want to hear, they're doing more damage than the guy who isn't afraid to talk straight and say, "No, the jobs aren't coming back." What a politician CAN do is work to make sure that the other countries are playing fair, that they're not using slave labor, child labor, or things of that sort. That has to be negotiated, unless you want a one-world government policing everyone.

someone please tell McWar to just shut up!

I mean really, do people really even listen to him. What we need is 4 for yrs of the same.

NO thanks McWar

NO thanks!

vote Obama!

Mccain can push anything… but Obama will push McCain away in Novemeber.
OBAMA (2008 -16)

You know, it has occured to me why Hilary's supporters would rather vote McCain than Obama. Say anything, be everything, or just flip flop your way right into the White House. Yea right. The morons that vote for these bozos best remember that they get the government they deserve. So when the pandering ends and you are worse off than today, don't be one of those remorseful voters in a few years and expect sympathy from me. Oh yea, and experience? If George Bush and Company and the current Congress (both parties I am afraid) represent what experience can give us - it is time for a change.

Ca

McBush is an idiot

You two-faced hypocrits call Mac old then you worship Mandela. What a bunch of liars.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25411378

It is painfully obvious that the only thing this fool has said that is true is that he knows nothing about the economy. The United States is a consumer spending based economy. If any intends to repair it, they better think about how to get those blue collar workers re-employed. As long as they can not spend, everything will continue to slide further down the toilet. The trade agreements must be renegotiated and jobs from new energy policy implemented. Electrical grid and rail transportation infrastructure need serious work too. All McCain can do is look at them and say "Your job isn't coming back." McCain was not a good student (even with the little bit of education he has), he was not a good pilot, he was not a good husband to Carol, and he will not be a good president.

Straight talk my foot. McCain should be fighting for Americans to have jobs. Instead he is out there sending over our jobs to foreigners because they "helped us in the war on drugs"? Are you kidding me? Is he running for President of the USA or Colombia?

Yea John that means we should expect more outsourcing of jobs since that would be good for corporate profits for the wealthiest in the country.

Okay, there goes the Ohio. Keep talking McCain. You're doing great. LOL

Obama 08

Someone ask mcCain how its possible to be competetive against countries like China whose workers receive peanuts for pay, have no benefits, work in unsafe conditions where environmental concerns are nonexistent, and cannot complain lest they lose their jobs if not their lives. People who believe America can compete and win in such a business environment are fools and Bush and McCain are included.

We are in the condition that we're in because it was by design. Our current president is and has always been heavily vested in oil and energy, which is what lead him/us to Iraq. Now look at the profits being made by oil/energy companies. Oil has always been his focus. Now, it's clear that McCain's focus is on foreign affairs and his story (including his ancestry) is one of military and war. If you think his history coupled with his focus won't play out in war, you are delusional. What's sad is that, much like with Bush, our domestic situation will go neglected while he pursues his personal agenda. Now to be clear, I don't pretend to know what that agenda is, but I do strongly believe that to carry it out, will involve military intervention.

Double talk:

Every trade agreement is not totally fair….BUT

Insisted that free trade was a net boon for the economy and called for approval of the Colombia Free Trade Agreement…which is not fair for Ohio & Penn.

Shows how savvy this dinosaur is - walk into an auto plant tell the workers how happy you'll be to send more jobs across the border.

No wonder he is disliked by both parties.

McCain was "in" a war with thousands of POWs, so are all are brave men and women, we are proud and respect, honor all, not just you McCain! But that gives McCain no experience to become President ! McCain says he has the experience–Westly Clark 4 Star General– his whole life was dedicated and still is career expert–He says himself– McCain that gives you no experience!! McCain did he not vote NO on the GI Bill for Vets?

The problem isn't free trade…it is closing the tax breaks to companies who ship our jobs overseas. Our workers end up competing against lower wages to workers in other countries ON TOP OF government incentives that benefit companies to ship the jobs out. That is just nuts.

This is why I love John McCain, he isn't afraid to tell people what they don't want to hear. You think Obama would tell them the same thing to their faces? Of course not, he would pander to them and tell them free trade is the cause of all their problems whether it was true or not. I love the Straight Talk Express.

McBush is just a goofy little old man who needs to start working on his bucket list.

Who would have thought of an old coot battling a cold? Maybe the cold meds are making him say all the flip flops from day to day. Not even week to week.

**Is McShame going to scare the Ohio citizens with gay neighbors like Rove did in 2004?

Mac is talking truth. Obama is now a trade advocate. He was for it then against it and is now for it again. If you can't see a liar when he lies to you, then I would consider you lying to cover his lies. Are you people all on drugs? Obama tells you lies on an hourly basis and you try to lie his way out of it. And PLEASE…………quit pulling out the AGE-CARD !!! Wisdom comes with experience and time. I will always respect my elders, that is a quality trait in any civilized culture. I will bet you people are the same low lives that will not help and older woman accross the street or even open the door for her, but snatch her purse and laugh while you run to the drug dealer to spend the stolen money. Just quit the age discrimination, how would you like it if we discriminated against you for being sick in the mind. GOD, what a bunch of evil in these people.

As McCain's drops lower and lower in the polls his true colors emerge. Wishing for an attack on America to help his chances, disregarding and disrespecting Obama's public service, calling a great American Jimmy Carter,"lousy", embracing the hateful right-neck anti-Catholic, anti-Jewish preachers, tying himself to Bush's failed policies are all losing propositions for an America that desires change.

John, ya coulda been a contenda…..

He is pretty brave. He could talk about something else without opposing free trade. Both Clinton and Obama tried very hard to trash free trade in order to win voters in Ohio. McCain is indeed a different politician, a straight talker. But when the economy is not good (3 consecutive weeks of steep stock market decline!), he is likely to lose. If Democrats have a better candidate than Obama, McCain is sure to lose. Fortunetely for McCain, Democrats are going to nominate someone with very little experiences. McCain still has a fighting chance and I would give McCain 45% chance to win the Presidency despite problems with Republicans and Bush.

Almost half Americans still think Obama does not have enough experiences. Obama has a few months U.S. Senate experience (other times, he has been running Presidency) and a few years State Senate experiences and a few years community service experiences. He has no other experiences at all including those in private sectors. People will hestitate to give the world only superpower to such an unknown figure. If Obama was a stronger candidate, McCain should be 20% behind, not only 4 or 5% behind. Since he clinched nomination, the oil price is keeping rising, the stock market has been tanking for three weeks in a row. Obama only got moderate boost to lead only by 4%?

He feels our pain - oh, that is empathizing with us. We don't want empathy - we want results.

My questions to CNN is at age 72 is McCain receiving social security in addition to his Senate salary? Just wondering.

Reps. McCain set out to break Our Unions–lost jobs, lost industries, lost manufacturing shipped over seas! Start new jobs $8.00 hr– no unions– so we can start over with lower wages. Take it or leave it attitude–

Well, give McCain credit for one thing - he was able to find an open GM plant in the United States.

Here is a fair trade agreement. You tell other countries that want to trade with the US that they will set the perimeters. You bring 100 million worth of product into the US we will send that same amount into your country. You set the taxes and tarriff rates and whatever they are thats what we will charge also.

America watch youselves with this old fool. McCain stands for all this is wrong with America right now. McCain=Bush!!!

well….we will see if the folks in Ohio can see as well……Mc Cain…..just keep Bush in office then

I do not think he understands the "pain" we are in at all. He is extremely rich, he has insurance, he has a pension, he has security…no there is no way he understands the pain of the economic times we are living in. He is arrogant and out of touch with this comment.

"…said he would be "glad to streamline" the dispute mechanisms included in trade agreements."

Doesn't that mean re-negociate? Isn't that the very thing he was criticizing Obama for?

IDIOT!!!!

Free Trade has hurt both USA & Canada! Both economy's are tied together, and if one loses the other loses jobs!

Just like all the off shore jobs left the USA , Canada lost the same!
One only has to realize that USA has over 300M people Canada only has 31M! Therefore, it doesn't take much for the economy in Canada to drop!

So whatever the Politican say is just another B.S. Story, wether in the USA or Canada, we both have the same old stories and lies regarding the economy!

India, China, and other off shore slave labour from the Coporations who charge triple the cost of merchandise, while making billions for their own pockets!

Just what retraiing is he thinking?? Not everyone can go into the medical professin or want to work in the service indrustries. Why not work on trying to get manufacuring jobs either back or new manufacturers to take the place of the ones that left. Lets get back to
Made in America" products.

I like it, Obama paints McCain to be like Bush. And now isn't it fun that old man McCain is taking the same strategy and comparing Obama to Carter who had low approval ratings. McCain has no original thoughts.

McCain…..Iunderstand the pain” of families affected by manufacturing job losses, McCain said, but he added that many “labor intensive jobs” were not coming back to America…….LYING OLD FART!!!!

What McCain proposed is GREAT, and it is working. It was designed to get us motivated, brainstorming ideas and discussing it. I think the old man has much wisdom. Instead of talking about how we are going to tax innovation to death, like barack wants, let’s start innovating. Barack says new ideas, reach for the stars, yes we can. But as soon as we start actually doing it, him and his supporters come right out and say "No, we can't". Sounds pretty two-faced to me. Before one starts shooting down everyone’s dreams, he needs to live up to his own potential. I have not heard ANY new ideas from that fool barack, he just craps on everyone else’s ideas and efforts, and has nothing to offer other than HOPE. McCain is not just hoping it will happen, he is out making it happen and I am a democrat that supports Mac all the way now. I now see who just is going move this country in a positive direction, unite us and get us motivated again. Mac is back, and he has this democrats vote. McCainocrats, let's unite around this guy. He obviously is the one that has what it takes, walk, not talk.

McCain is very very very scarey.

That does it for me I am back IN THE FOLD , Convinced that Only Obama the almighty one has all the answers. He will get my job back from Mexico. He will provide me and my family with health care. He will lower the price of oil and build refineries so that the gas is cheaper. Paradise, Paradise in America. We will all live in harmony.

Oh My God I just woke up from a bad dream. Obama was elected.
Thank God it was only a dream.

GO AHEAD PEOPLE VOTE FOR THIS IDIOT AND WHEN YOU HAVE NO JOB CANT FEED YOUR KIDS AND NO CAR TO FIND A JOB AND POSSIBLE LOSE YOUR HOME WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO THEN BE HERE POSTING WHY YOU HATE JOHN MCCAIN!!!!!!!

Enough of this; "pander"; from both sides………………….the American people need more than; this back-and-forward, "Reality side-show soap opera", that we are getting every day. Some people are really in "dire straits" here, so stop the pandering for my vote………………….By Nov. , it want matter!

Check out the web site: Vietnam veterans against John McCain.
It's unbelievable! In addition, he's now wearing a rug.

NEITHER PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE HAS THE ELECTION LOCKED UP.. IT IS A LONG, LONG WAY TO NOVEMBER.
DEMOCRATIC UNITY IS FAR FROM A REALITY UNTIL THE VP RUNNING MATES ARE NAMED BY BOTH CANDIDATES

O.K. McShorter, you said enough. I am convinced that you will not be president next year or any years. YOU ARE DONE.

Mike… you said it all….

"You've got my vote, if gas goes to $10 a gallon, you still have my vote!

I would ride a skateboard to work before voting for Obama."

Shows you'd rather vote for someone who would ruin our lives than to vote for Obama.

You deserve to be labled as a criminal against this country… voting to purposely ruin this company even knowing that McCain will continue to do just that.

James, SC - your reading comprehension skills need some work. Unless you read another article, McCain did not tell anyone in Ohio that the trade agreements would need to change. He did promise to “do everything in [his] power to make sure that trade practices practiced by our trading partners are fair and equitable.”

So McCain, unlike Obama, has not changed his stance on free trade, and if you read any objective analysis of NAFTA, you will see that it has helped America as a whole.

Give 'em hell, John! You're a plain speaker, just like Truman. You say it the way it is and let the chips fall where they may. That's what I want in a president: honesty, integrity, courage.

Hey everyone! Did you hear McShame's comment about President Carter. He called Carter lousy. Man, this comment sure speaks poorly for the so-called war hero, McBush, and so much for his so-called honor and his above board election campaign. I see that Karl Rove has convinced this poor old man to attack every Democrat. Sure is early to be this desperate. I can see a repeat of the 1964 Goldwater defeat and GOP disaster. All Republican candidates appear to be distancing themselves from this loser! Don’t call Carter lousy. Look at Bush and remember that McBush voted 95% on all of Bush’s policies, actions and lies. And McCain is trying to tell us he feels our pain! Who is he trying to fool?

Our country is such a mess.
McCain is the only candidate that can bring us together.
He's a maverick, a superstar.

Go McCain!

What will you be re-training people to do, get jobs in India and Mexico? Since we know you will look the other way when your buddies in big business get tax breaks here while sending jobd overseas.
But you understand their pain, really. When was the last time you had to decide between paying for high blood pressure medication and utility bills. Do you even know how to budget?

I get it now you have to say one outrageous thing a day to get free publicity, 84 mil isn't what it used to be.

NEOCONSERVATIVES HAVE DEMONSTRATED OVER AND OVER AGAIN THAT THEY ABSOLUTELY DESPISE BLUE-COLLAR AMERICANS. WHY DO SO MANY PERSIST IN VOTING FOR THESE PEOPLE WHO ARE OUT TO DESTROY THEM?!

"FREE TRADE" is nothing more than a Manchurian Candidates cover name for "Destroy American Lives"

Its interesting that when the truth is revealed to us we somehow overlook it. James Carville a prominent journalist made it clear the political thatre behind the nominating process for the Democratic party. Meaning the entire process was planned. Duly McCain's - a patriot having served this great country well in war - general elections loss is a tactical one for the greater good. As Larry King live stated: if we do not involve our emotions in the political process, perhaps we could see more clearly. America is maturing as a result of visionaries like Bill, Hillary, McCain and the Bushes, and very soon Obama. These are political revolutionaries serving a great country.

Perhaps our American workers will remember McCain's comforting words in "a macro sense" when they lose their jobs.

Oh yeah, he really does know their pain … especially when he goes back to visit his $100 million wife in Arizona.

The Colombia Government is a "Godd Government"???? I hope McCain has no plans of mimicing such a good government here in the US — Please no!!! Why does McCain say these kinds of things? Is he cursed?

CNN may as well change their name to FOXJr. It's all for McWarmonger. All the way, all the time.

Well as bad as former president Carter may have been, no president tops the incompentence of the current president!

go home!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! mcshame

Didn't he just come back from Canada where he told the folks there that he will NOT change anything about our trade agreements??

So now he tells the folks in Ohio that some trade agreements need to change.

FREE TRADE DOES NOT WORK

THAT IS WHY 100 OHIO AND PENNSYLVENIA FACTORIES HAVE CLOSED IN THE LAST 20 YEARS

BUY AMERICAN?

EVEN FORD IS MADE IN MEXICO

WHY?

SO A FEW BIG FAT WHITE GUYS CAN GET RICHER, AND THEY DONT EVEN HAVE TO PAY THE "DEATH TAX"

CONGRADULATION IDIOTS

BRING BACK THE TARIFF SYSTEM

REMBER THE MOVIE GUNG HO, IT DOESNT HAPPEN ANY MORE YOU JERK , i mean McCAIN

McCAIN SHOULD JUST SHUT UP

the old man lost it.

you go to a midwest state pushing free trade. I think mccain needs a long nap.

Every 4 years so (election years) we hear about these so called "job-retraining" proposals. Yet they never seem to materialize after the elections are over. Instead, jobs leave the US by the millions annually and go to India and China, while at the same time, we continue to import millions of foreigners from around the world for the sole purpose of taking American jobs under programs like H-1 and L-1.

McCain is part of the problem. He has backed the current administration on every issue that has sent our jobs overseas and brought all these foreign workers here. And Hillary Clinton is no friend of the American Worker, either - look up TATA Consulting.

We need Obama, he is the only one who sees it different. Clinton and McCain have been working the system too long.

The Colombia Government is a "Godd Government"???? I hope McCain has no plans of mimicing such a good government here in the US — Please no!!! Why does McCain say these kinds of things? Is he cursed?

Hey Peter Hamby, McCNN - you keep cutting my remarks. Free campaigning for Mc What's his name again?

The senator should be investing in our auto companies investing in new products that really compete with the Japanese engineering. US cars are not durable, and the US auto companies cheapen parts, and beat up their suppliers to do more for less. If we engineer and produce better cars, we get a world market - please no more beating up US labor - it's the management and philosophy!

Hey Peter Hamby - you keep cutting my remarks. Free campaigning for Mc What's his name again?

Americans want to whine about jobs being sent overseas, but then they also want cheap goods imported from overseas and sold at Walmart. Well, which is it? We can thank ourselves, not Bush or the GOP, for creating a demand for goods so cheap that they could in no way be manufactured here. Next time you buy a shirt that says, "Made in China," you can thank yourself for sending jobs overseas.

McCain's interpretation of free trade is more unfair trade deals such as NAFTA, outsourcing more jobs to India and China at the expense of American workers, and giving more tax perks to big money lobbies that send jobs overseas.

Sure he feels the pain…with his wife providing him an income of over 6 mil a year! He has no idea what it is to try to live on a normal Americans' wages.

This is the same guy who pushed to send a 35 -40 BILLION dollar contract for the airforce's re-fueling planes to be built in France in order to "save" (he says) taxpayer dollars. Of course he didn't see the harm in sending our tax dollars to Europe instead of keeping them here nor did he take into account the loss of thousands of jobs at Boeing. Then there we are, exporting our technology…again. Smart, very smart….a deep thinker indeed. Hey! Where are these jobs we are all to be re-trained to do??

McWar feels your pain. There was this one time that his trophy wife's bank account went under 100 million, talk about hard times.

Maybe McWar can find a way to rip down President Carter for this one.

Every 4 years so (election ears) we hear about these so called "job-retraining" proposals. Yet they never seem to materialize after the elections. Instead, jobs leave the US by the million annually and go to India and China, while at the same time, we continue to import millions of foreigners from around the world for the sole purpose of taking American jobs under programs like H-1 and L-1.

McCain is part of the problem. He has backed the current administration on every issue that has sent our jobs overseas and brought all these foreign workers here. And Hillary Clinton is no friend of the American Worker, either - look up TATA Consulting.

We need Obama, he is the only one who sees it different. Clinton and McCain have been playing the game too long.

(CNN) — John McCain directed his trademark straight talk toward a former president, flatly calling Jimmy Carter a "lousy" commander in chief………..YOU are an IDIOT…….ONE thing you and MR Carter have in COMMON is OLD AGE …………BUSH is not as low as you are although he is responsible for 4,000+ killed in IRAQ ….Talk about the issues that matters and not the name calling ……..What leadership Position did you hold in the NAVY …………..RESPECT for a FORMER President is automatic…..if you disagree with his policy but name calling………….Deep BOTTOM ……………..YOU OLD FART!!!!

Hey , I like John's message. He is appealing to me.

I wish you could see him as I do. He is straight forward and will tell it like it is.

He won't give a cotton candy speech with no substance. No, McCain is the real deal. He is a true patriot and will defend our country and our values. He is not some limp wristed senator from Illinois who bowls a 39 and thinks that is good. Give me a break.

We live in a great country and I don't want to see Obama's changes. We don't want to return to the Carter days and the heavy rolls of the Welfare Queens in their cottage industry of taking never ending handouts.

Free trade is a joke. Before Clinton signed NAFTA (North America Free Trade Agreement) into law, the auto industry and related industries were booming. Now Michigan, Indiana, and Ohio are almost "ghost" states when it comes to industry. Remember NAFTA was a GOP thing, Clinton upset the plot by winning the election. Signing NAFTA was supposed to had been Bush's(Sr.) crowning achievement. McCain have the nerve to talk about free trade. The only thing free, is american jobs being freely given abroad. Wake up America, vote Obama. At least he have a heart for the working man, the GOP don't give a d–n about the working man.

McShame calls former Pres. Carter "a lousy commander in chief" which means Bush is the best commander in chief and that's why he supports him. Ohio and nobody else should want McCain as a leader because the whole world knows Bush is the worst president in history but McCain supports him.

If NAFTA is so great, then how come we have the same amout of illegal immigrants from Mexico sneaking into the United States?

And the war on drugs is a proven failure as well. Why is McCain sticking to outdated failed policies? In fact why is he even running? He may as well give his concession speech right now.

These moronic comments don't seem to include Obama's "overheated rhetoric" he used during the campaign, i.e. "NAFTA is a disaster." Now, of course, he is all for it. I've noted an interesting corollary between Obama supporters and the use of something other than standard English or bumper sticker philosophy. I wonder why.

You go McCain!

You've got my vote, if gas goes to $10 a gallon, you still have my vote!

I would ride a skateboard to work before voting for Obama.

Obama has no clue, vague talk with no substance.

detroit deserves him …. how long can we run cars in gasoline ?

Yeah, Ohio's only lost a quarter of a million jobs since Bush got in office. They won't mind more of the same.

If McCain empathizes so genuinely with the modern economic anxiety of common people, why did he appoint Phil Gramm as his chief economic adviser?

Keep in mind that Gramm has lobbied for foreign banks who have only been exacerbating the increasing weakness of the dollar, and actively voted AGAINST a recent bill that would have protected borrowers from the kind of predatory lending that caused the subprime mortgage crisis and the accompanying economic downturn.

Based on that alone, it's clear that John McCain cares nothing for the economic hardships of the American people. He, along with all his fellow Keating Five goons, should be rotting in jail for their corruption.

I thought John McCain wanted to win in Ohio-what could be thinking?

If free trade is so great, how come the economy is doing so lousy?

More of the same failed free trade agreements are not the answer, and McCain is not the right person to solve the problems affecting the average American.

PATRICK HENRY, I bet you never worked a day in your life,your probably just another oil barron.

If you put a tax or tariff on a product, who pays for it? The consumer. You, me, your next door neighbour, the person who supposedly lost their job because of free trade. Let the economy take care of itself and quit taxing it.

He's desperate. He's losing in the polls. He's trying to get as far as possible from Bush. McIdiot cannot connect with conservatives because he's a closet liberal. Let him talk. Soon he will sound just like Bush and he is bound to lose some red states during the 2000 and 2004 campaigns. Ha! Ha!

John mccain is lousy . he would be a poor president. you are the one who can't keep a promise ,ask your first wife.will you please stop talking about Nam your like Rudy who had 911. you see what that got him. nothing . if barack is smart he will not get drawn into a debate, he's winning . mccain is old and crazy my freinds.

As I said before my comment was so rudely deleted, they are VERY united! They're both playing for the team, which includes the people of the United States.

Also, I will post on every blog that has an opening CNN so you can continue to delete my comments if you want to. The PUMA Pac founder, Darraugh Murphy, is a Republican!!! She donated $500 to McCain's campaign in 2000, voted for him in the MA Republican primary (have to be a Registered Republican or "unenrolled" to do so), and did not contribute financially to any democratic candidate's campaign. All the while she claims to be a lifelong democrat! Who's drinking the kool-aid now PUMA people? You've been bamboozled by the Rush Limbaugh in a dress!!!

Obama/Clinton '08

McCain talking about re-training folks with "new technology"??? Please give me a break. From a man who does not know how to use the computer?

McCain is full of it and of course he is for free trade and of course he does not want American workers to have any hope for the future except by offering that he will make sure "free trade" is fair?????

And who does McCain think he is critizing former President Carter. You have gone too too far McCain - Carter is a better man sitting down than you will ever be with your boring, lying, confused talk!

McCain, your whole campaign so far has been about critizing everyone except your own LOUSY, DISHONEST, DIVISIVE President Bush.

You talk about a bandaide on your head - YOUR WHOLE CAMPAIGN is a band-aide waiting to be snatched off by Democrats.

GO OBAMA/WEBB

Yes, green energy labor jobs are coming to the U.S. - hold on mid-Atlantic
states.

Right on McCain you have the economy in mind. Obama has no ideal what to do.

"battling a slight cold"? At least the poor old man will have the weekend to recuperate. Bless his heart!

Hopefully the workers became more hostile when told by McCain that he feels their pain.

I read all the stuff in the Ticker today about Mc Cain ………….and I just have to say it…………he's a funny old fart !!!!

the man talking free trade in Ohio where they lost many jobs maybe because of it. Only John McCain would have the guts to tell it like it is. Obama on the other hand, is totally deceiving to the Ohio people when his rep talked to Canada about the free trade deal.

If we Americans were smart we would only buy "Made in USA" and import our product around the world. Our country is rich with resources and right now we're sending all of our money out the door to other countris. No to NAFTA, no to CAFTA and NO TO JOHN MCCAIN.

POW? He was the ranking officer, he had to "volunteer" to stay behind or he would've gone home against the "code of conduct" and would have been labeled a coward by the Navy.

Yes, Sen McCain does understand the "pain" because he has been involved with ordinary citizens for all these years he has been with the government. That is the reason he wants to try to fix things. He has authored and sponsored many bills that have tried to help Americans.

Obama has done nothing but talk/talk/talk.

His comments should be viewed as an insult to intelligence of every working American.

I can not believe this man could say those things with straight face.

es, Sen McCain does understand the "pain" because he has been involved with ordinary citizens for all these years he has been with the government. That is the reason he wants to try to fix things. He has authored and sponsored many bills that have tried to help Americans.

Obama has done nothing but talk/talk/talk.

McCain 2008. I mean President McCain!!!

John McCain, I have to hand it to you! It must have taken some guts to say what you did in front of those blue collar workers!

But, you STILL DON'T GET IT. MANUFACTURING JOBS ARE DISAPPEARING EVERY DAY. People are losing their JOBS, HOMES, HEALTH CARE, AND ON AND ON, WHILE YOU AND YOUR WIFE CINDY, HAVE IT ALL, HOW CAN YOU UNDERSTAND THEIR PAIN?

How can you stand before these people, and tell them in one breath "I UNDERSTAND THE PAIN" then in the very next breath, you tell them many "LABOUR Intensive JOBS" are not coming back to AMERICA! You are lucky that you did not get Booed, but then maybe you did!

Free trade, but no free labor.

Educate our children to compete in this global economy. Allow PhD's to stay in the sates and work instead of returning to their homelands taking hard earned American education to another economy. Produce more goods that the WORLD needs so our exports will rise. Hold interest rates stable so our dollar can recover and push some of these gas prices down.

And for all that's holy, make cars that don't break down.

Americans CAN compete.

McCain doesn't feel the pain. How can he? McCain doesn't have to worry about how he is going to make ends meet at the end of the month.

There are people crying each day, worrying how they are going to provide for their family, because of a lost job.

If McCain were to walk on my job, I'd get up and go take my break, and return back after he has left. I wouldn't give McCain one second of my time.

McCain doens't know what "a good government is" considering his voting record for Bush policies. Given his track record, he obviously is out of touch with reality.

IN OTHER WORDS:

"I WILL DO NOTHING".

(BTW - tell me how a guy with 8 homes and a private jet "feels our pain"?!)

Go Home McShame! By the way we noticed that you were not at work today to vote on the GI Bill, however you are trying to take credit for it. I did not forget that you have been opposed to this from the beginning. What a disgrace to Veterans you are!

Four more years of NAFTA and CAFTA. Anyone who votes for McCain deserve exactly what they are going to get.

No one in their right mind will take the VP spot with McCreepers.

Oh I forgot, I bet Leiberman is biting his nails waiting for the call for the VP slot.

Leiberman(Independent for Israel) goooo big blue and white!

NOT!

McBush has got to be the second dumbest nominee ever, take that back I think Bush may be even smarter then McBush. Keep talkin McBush, you are guarenteeing a Obama/Clinton win. Democrats will rule the next 16 years. Thanks GOP for screwing us and making us mad for so long you won't be in power for a long… long time.

All this fluff about making things fair. America doesn't want a subjective answer like "fair". That could be interpreted any number of ways. Obama tells us who he is going to tax and who he isn't. Telling us exactly what you are going to do is fair.

He understands the pain???????????
He has a 100% disabled pension($80,000) from the war.