July 3, 2008
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McCain, wife Cindy, and Joe Lieberman visited the Basilica of the Our Lady of Guadalupe Thursday.
McCain, wife Cindy, and Joe Lieberman visited the Basilica of the Our Lady of Guadalupe Thursday.

MEXICO CITY (CNN) – News conferences, like baseball games, can sometimes be plagued by rain delays. Just ask John McCain.

The Republican presidential candidate had to stop a session with reporters in Mexico City Thursday afternoon as heavy rain fell at the Ixtapalapa police station. McCain made faces as joked about the weather during the interruption. Reporters then had to gather at the edge of the podium at McCain's feet to hear as his words competed with rain echoing off the metal roof.

Asked if this was the oddest news conference he ever held, McCain said "Certainly the most unusual." He joked that the rain was a result of his visit to the Basilica of the Our Lady of Guadalupe earlier on the day, and he had noted earlier rain is good luck in his home state of Arizona.

Rain issues resolved, McCain discussed the shake-up at the top of his presidential campaign. He called the moves "a natural evolution of our campaign as we become more and more of a nationwide campaign, with increased staff and increased responsibilities."

The Arizona senator called his three-day Latin American swing an excellent visit, saying he is encouraged by U.S. relations with Colombia and Mexico as he was relations with Canada during his visit to that nation last month.

McCain returns to the United States Thursday night, and spends the holiday weekend with his family at their ranch in Sedona, Arizona.

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POINTING FINGERS!!   July 3rd, 2008 9:00 pm ET

New York…….Vote for McCain, stay in Iraq and beat back the Islamist radicals, stop Obama the ultra-liberal who will cave to terrorists for lack of understanding of the reality of what's at stake. A vote for Obama is sheer ignorance or lunacy……….You are an IDIOT

Obama 08

christine   July 3rd, 2008 8:55 pm ET

i think the media and mccain took obama's words wrong when said refine his iraq policy refine means remove unwanted substance, or improve something, what if he was saying he is going to remove our troops after he visits iraq, i think if they is progress on the ground why should we keep our troops there instead of payingattention to afganistan these reporters have to be very careful if they dont understand some of the words they should look them up in the dictionary, this is what led us to go to war, just running and printing things that the republicans or what the compaigns tell them that why we are in this iraq mess, and now we are paying for it at the pump, because they were sold on this iraq war instead of doing there jobs asking questions, but no they quickly run with the wrong thing and make it a big thing especially washington post, huffington post, msnbc they are no longer good smart journalist anymore america please work up

Gene   July 3rd, 2008 8:50 pm ET

Is McCain planning to be back in the US on the most Patriotic of holidays?

I mean… I could care less really… I don't believe that not being here on the 4th makes you unpatriotic… but that fact that McCain beats down Obama about the most insignificant symbols like Flag Pins, trying to describe him as being unpatriotic… him not even being in the country during our independence day would be a far less trivial symbol of patriotism.

But then again… he'll probably be back tomorrow.. I'm only asking the question.. I don't know if he's coming back.

Farrell, Houston, Tx   July 3rd, 2008 8:44 pm ET

I wish my retirement home was in the White House instead of Shady Pines. Boy, you have to give it to McCain, he thinks big about his plans for retirement while a lot of seniors think about what's for dinner or is it time for bed, or trying to remember if they've had dinner. God Bless America.

Connie   July 3rd, 2008 8:41 pm ET

I am sure that Canada,Mexico and Columbia are all breaking ground for the buildings they are going to need when they get the new jobs MCBush promised them.Free trade is they get are jobs free , they trade us there people who can not survive on the low wages they get in those countries.People had better wake up Obama is our only hope.Just say NO to John McBush. Barack Hussein Obama 08

Connie "Hussein" Sturgeon

Danel   July 3rd, 2008 8:39 pm ET

That's fine with me New Yorker as long as you're the one in the front lines in Iraq.

Lexa   July 3rd, 2008 7:59 pm ET

It seems that the general election is a 'mere' 4 months away - to say that anyone is a clear winner at this point is ludicrous. McCain has his opinions - longer war presence in Iraq, Bush-like economic package, and a reputation as someone who works both sides of the House. Obama has his opinions — better health care for Americans, shorter American presence in Iraq, an economic plan to pull the country up by its bootstraps, and a plan to improve diplomatic relations between the US, and the rest of the world. It will be fun to see how it plays out, rain or shine - I'll bet rainy election days are not good luck in AZ!!

RJ, CA   July 3rd, 2008 7:58 pm ET

Loved the bumper sticker I saw yesterday:

ANNOY THE LIBERALS
Work — Succeed — Be Happy!

Redneck from Kentucky   July 3rd, 2008 7:56 pm ET

I wouldn't stand in front of a stage even on a beautiful day to listen to John McCain. I certainly wouldn't stand in the rain to hear one of his boring speeches. I would think he would be in the USA the week leading up to the 4th of July. I guess Mexico and Colombia are the only places where he could get an audience.

ripped off democrat   July 3rd, 2008 7:54 pm ET

How anyone can vote for someone who learned their morals by going to Rev. Wright's racist and hate-filled church is beyond me. Too bad the DNC stole the nomination for Barack. I can't vote for a racist.

McCain '08! or Hillary '08!!! NO RACISTS = OBAMA

RJB   July 3rd, 2008 7:54 pm ET

Why don't they just keep him there with Joe L

Anonymous   July 3rd, 2008 7:54 pm ET

Joe has become McBush's poodle, following him everywhere.

gary   July 3rd, 2008 7:49 pm ET

NEW YORKER YOUR 100 % RIGHT. HRC WAS OUR ONLY REALISTIC CANIDATE, BUT AMERICA GETS WHAT THEY ASK FOR.

JIM...TX   July 3rd, 2008 7:48 pm ET

New Yorker are you nuts???? Stay in Iraq an beat back the radicals….just yesterday Dummy Bush says we have to have MORE troops in Afghanistan to fight the infadels where we should have been all along! Staying in Iraq forever does not equate to us EVER being safe again.

charles   July 3rd, 2008 7:46 pm ET

Where is McCain's flag pin, he must be anti American

Mike   July 3rd, 2008 7:42 pm ET

LOL even mother nature is tired of McBush.

Ambrose Smith, Borrego Springs, California   July 3rd, 2008 7:42 pm ET

Isn't that Joe Lieberman in the picture too? "Mr. Tag Along"?

Timothy   July 3rd, 2008 7:41 pm ET

Vote Mccain and we wil be sorry with Mccain it will be more of the same. American People please look at the results of our ECONOMY!!!! Elect Mccain we will be sorry.

rexx   July 3rd, 2008 7:39 pm ET

Rain is good.

mike frm caroline va   July 3rd, 2008 7:37 pm ET

just the two guys i want to tell this to. i want to thank you redumlicans for this mess we are in. four more years of idiots like bush sr. and jr. and the mexicans will be finishing the border fence to keep us from moving over there illeagly. do all of you suffer from poor judgement or are you just trying to fit into a society that you cant and never will be able to afford.

Saad from NJ   July 3rd, 2008 7:35 pm ET

I have real high respect for Senator McCain and have contributed to his campaign but the amount of Joe Leiberman I am seeing by side, if my fellow Americans elect him as our President, it will the saddest day of my life and perhaps for our country.

MD in CT   July 3rd, 2008 7:32 pm ET

Let's see if "New York" is old enogh to remember Vietnam. We were needed to stay in Vietnam to prevent the Chines Communists from taking over Southeast Asia. We kept fighting and fighting until …we lost. Guess what, the Chinese may take over the world but not as Communists but as
Capitalists. Some people never learn. Don't let them run the government anymore,.

Ula Nejad- Sacramento Ca   July 3rd, 2008 7:27 pm ET

That is the John McCain that I know. Just be himself. He really doesn't have to try too hard to prove himself. He only has to make his case in detailed and practical manner. Our Lady of Guadalupe showed him how. More rain in Arizona. Go Arizona!

Xavier   July 3rd, 2008 7:22 pm ET

McCain is such a two face. First he was pro-Mexico, then he was against it. Now he is kissing up to them, and they call Obama a flip-flopper. McCain actually wrote the book.

Lesley   July 3rd, 2008 7:19 pm ET

Yes, John McCain is all wet!

Hispanic For McCain   July 3rd, 2008 7:18 pm ET

Hispanic for McCain. That right the Latinos will support John McCain and all those Polls that Hispanic are for OBAMA NOT TRUE!!!!! The Puertorican people don't trust OBAMA. the Mexican Nation don't trust OBAMA, the Cuban People and Yes great people don't trust OBAMA. So Latinos we all know that OBAMA is not to be trusted go for McCain. Liberals Dem hate this and Guess what you LOSE again!!!!!!!

Chris in Va.   July 3rd, 2008 7:17 pm ET

Vote for McCain, stay in Iraq for 100 years, start a conflict in Iran, hell why not Syria while we're at it. Bring back the draft. Better yet mandatory military service like in Israel. You certainly don't mind your child dying in a foreign land to satisfy the appetite for blood of a war monger. If that isn't "sheer ingnorance or lunacy" I don't know what is. Remember, John wants YOUR child also!

not important   July 3rd, 2008 7:17 pm ET

Ah he had Joe Liberman with him again? John McCain would be a puppet of Joe Lieberman, Phil Gramm and Charlie Black. Those people would tell McCain what to do the same way that Cheney and oil companies tell Bush what to do.

We are the world   July 3rd, 2008 7:15 pm ET

What color was the shower? golden?

INDEPENDENT WHITE WOMAN FOR OBAMA   July 3rd, 2008 7:15 pm ET

New Yorker………A vote for Obama is sheer ignorance or lunacy……..
And You my DEAR are an IDIOT……..What's at stake is an unjust WAR
and Lies….OBama will be our next PRESIDENT….and if you are prejudice toward him its ok ……stop the name calling ……VOTE for Mr McCAIN its ok.

August Punongbayan   July 3rd, 2008 7:12 pm ET

I am not much of McCain admirer, but the thoughts of Obama leading this great nation is a nightmare that terrifies me. Obama is a wonderful speaker with no substance to back him up. A vote for McCain may not be the best solution to our problems but a vote for Obama will ensure the complete moral degradation of this country. How can he offer change when he just recruited advisers from the old Clinton staff?

A VOTE for MCCAIN is a VOTE for PAIN   July 3rd, 2008 7:08 pm ET

Why can't people start reasoning? This is not a joke. We are in a recession…well, actually more like a depression because of Bush. We are hated around the world because of Bush. We're slowly becoming a third world nation because of Bush. Now McBush wants the same? Think again. The electorate will never be duped again.

Ben   July 3rd, 2008 7:06 pm ET

New Yorker, how desperate for attention are you?

4obama   July 3rd, 2008 6:58 pm ET

"he had noted earlier rain is good luck in his home state of Arizona."
but you wernt in Arizona John, you werent even in America…he is way out of touch.

May be God is trying to tell you something…John. dumpmccain.com

PCS / North Carolina   July 3rd, 2008 6:55 pm ET

Joe Lieberman has only one motive. Get us to attack iran. Remember there were other guys who tricked Bush to attack iraq ( They were Iranian moles sitting in our govenment). Who is Liberman affiliated with ? Go figure. The whole world know it.

New Yorker   July 3rd, 2008 6:49 pm ET

Vote for McCain, stay in Iraq and beat back the Islamist radicals, stop Obama the ultra-liberal who will cave to terrorists for lack of understanding of the reality of what's at stake. A vote for Obama is sheer ignorance or lunacy. ..

New Yorker   July 3rd, 2008 6:48 pm ET

Vote for McCain, stay in Iraq and beat back the Islamist radicals, stop Obama the ultra-liberal who will cave to terrorists for lack of understanding of the reality of what's at stake. A vote for Obama is sheer ignorance or lunacy.

The Surly Scholar   July 3rd, 2008 6:47 pm ET

Heheheheh.

I may not be a praying man, but it's starting to look like even God is trying to drown out McCain's empty, dated rhetoric by dropping a deluge on him.

skunkrat The Marine   July 3rd, 2008 6:46 pm ET

Mr. Raymond Duke, you are another optimistic FOOL. You spend all of your time waiting SOMETHING TO COME OUT ON Sen, Obama while you should focus on getting Sen McCain to refresh his memory or to start telling the truth. Remind him that he & Sen. Cochran were not alone at that meeting and he is going to look like an old!!!!!! senile fool when other collobarate Sen. Cochran's story. He will instantly become dishonest or a mentally depleted old man. I personally believe that Sen. McCain suffered some major psychological damage while he was a POW.

Joker77   July 3rd, 2008 6:45 pm ET

Wow 2 criminal organizations in the same picture. The Catholic church(Molester University) and The Republican Party(Big Oil).

no obama   July 3rd, 2008 6:37 pm ET

I love McCain, but should he be condoning idolotry like that? This is supposed to be an election for Americans, not our neighbors to the south.

Paul in Dallas   July 3rd, 2008 6:35 pm ET

Although I'm voting for Senator Obama I do like Senator McCain very much. I think they are both good men. I like simple stories like this one about Senator McCain because it makes the candidate(s) more human. It's a step away from the stories that bring the absolute worst out of people. I hang my head when I hear "McBush" or "McShame" as much as I do "Obamabots". Most people who post are adults who should know that there are better alternatives than making fun of peoples' names. Whether you like them or not both of these gentlemen are United States senators. I'm sure they have much more respect for each other, even on their worst days, than do so many of their hateful followers have of people they disagree with.

Mark   July 3rd, 2008 6:30 pm ET

One question when is McCain going to start worrying about our contry rather than others?…you know Economy, War, Jobs, taxes…etc..

Geee McCain knows how to dodge these issues well!

chris in va   July 3rd, 2008 6:30 pm ET

Selling us out to the Mexicans now 'eh McShame?

Peter of Oregon   July 3rd, 2008 6:28 pm ET

I've never seen John Keating 5 McCain share a kind moment with his wife. No holding hands… I just see her peering over his shoulder nodding her head.

tedious898   July 3rd, 2008 6:25 pm ET

Raymond….you sir are in serious denial.

I've been making only one simple statement today about this year's Gen. Election

Vote for the smart guy! So if American's do that, you do think will win?

The point being, we've had 7.5 yrs of a guy that couldn't calculate a reasonable process to tie his shoes. This time, it would be best if we have President that is intelligent, smart - you know - different from the guy we have now.

Oh…do you get teased about your name alot? If so, its really uncalled for and rude. As a matter of coincidence, the 44th president of these United States will have a funny name too! Guess what that will be? You guessed right - President Barack Obama. You see…there's hope for you yet!

RED STATE   July 3rd, 2008 6:24 pm ET

**** BREAKING NEWS ****

President Bush is secretly a spy for the Russian government. Created by a program known as "Red State,” the current president has been under communist control since the early 80's. Red State has worked out to be the single largest espionage effort by a former communist country that has actually been successful.

The plan, destroy the image of the United States, divide its people, kill off its image as a strong military presence, cripple it's economy and the will of American patriotism.

Fact: President Bush has had a long lasting friendship since he took office with a former KGB agent; the gentleman in question, Vladimir Putin, was the original architect of "Red State." Mr. Putin, also the former president of the Soviet Union, has been working behind the scenes with other communist governments to overthrow the USA when they looked their weakest. The other countries include, China, Venezuela, and North Korea. Unfortunately, North Korea has folded to pressure and the result is the rise of an unlikely Russian ally, Iran.

Don't be fooled fellow Americans we cannot let the continued communist influence in our government be the death of our great Nation.

psittacines   July 3rd, 2008 6:22 pm ET

Must have been hard on the old geezer to spend three days in foreign countries doing photo ops. Mostly I think he' rather send cronies out on junkets and sit around at one of his four homes glorying in being a "real presidential candidate…."

Griff   July 3rd, 2008 6:19 pm ET

And they poured out of Canaan into Egypt?? Yes John, Exodus!!!

al   July 3rd, 2008 6:16 pm ET

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NOW ARE YOU GOING TO TELL BARAK TO GOTO THOSE PLACES TOO? MR. TOUGH GUY? GRAMPA?

Montana is Obama Country   July 3rd, 2008 6:12 pm ET

I wish it would rain every day until the election just to drown out his voice…!!

Phil, FL   July 3rd, 2008 6:10 pm ET

"Rain issues resolved, McCain discussed the shake-up at the top of his presidential campaign"

I thought discussions of politics were a no-no on foreign soil.

Guess there are no rules at all for the Geriatric candidate.

Glenn   July 3rd, 2008 6:08 pm ET

My gosh! just based on McCain's visit to Eurpoe and Latin America, I have just determined that McCain is now either an expert on Foreign Affairs (NOT) or simply doesn't understand that these foreign nationals can't vote for him. Is't a bit suspicious that the freeing of the hostages (certainly a great thing) coincided with McBush's visit? Wonder if Bush knew in advance of the military action and alerted McBush on the sly to try and make him look successful somewhere in the world? Rove will claim this gives McShame military and foreign affairs credibilty (hahahaha) he so desperately needs.

Raymond Duke   July 3rd, 2008 6:07 pm ET

McCain is right. when you are at bottom things have to look up. Even though John McCain is by a long shot of being anybodys favorite the more that Obama and the democrats open their mouths and the more that comes out on Obama up goes John McCain.

M.S. Indiana   July 3rd, 2008 6:07 pm ET

Amazingly it was not thunder storms and earth quakes coming down on Mexico

Sick of Bush!   July 3rd, 2008 6:05 pm ET

What a ploy to appear presidential! I wonder how many visits he made to Mexico before he ever considered running for president……none?

His embrace of the Free Trade with Mexico will continue to increase the flow of American jobs to Mexicans getting paid $2/hour or less!!. Great business for the rich and powerful who own those businesses, bad for us American who will lose our jobs!!

Travis (in the real world   July 3rd, 2008 6:05 pm ET

That's nice….take a weeks vacation globetrotting….

THEN TAKE THE WEEKEND OFF…..so this is what senators do.

His age is showing, he'll sleep all weekend and say he was with his advisors working on a strategy to put the "Flip-Flop Express" back on the road.

EDW   July 3rd, 2008 6:01 pm ET

McBush is superstitious, so that falls in line with his beliefs. People that are superstitious give little faith in God though…

Peter   July 3rd, 2008 5:59 pm ET

I grew up in Arizona. We were thankful when it rained, but never considered it "good luck".

Frankly, I think these were the tears of Our Lady of Guadalupe who was upset that she was being used as a photo-op.

Monica for Obama in Indiana   July 3rd, 2008 5:57 pm ET

I bet as soon as they left the room, O girl cindy bought out the Advil for the arthritis.

Anita from Arizona   July 3rd, 2008 5:55 pm ET

So when is McCain going to campaign in the country he's running for president in? Just curious…

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