Loser for a loser. McCain knows how to pick'em. A guy that got Giuliani real far. What a joke.

who cares?

it gets worst and worst till we see the fact that Mccain has got nothing to change except his policy George Bush/John Mccain

what is next.?

I'm really worry about the mistake we made in 2000 and 2004 our nation has elected as president Bush. who we are… is how we think.

think again

I hope he does as well for John as he did for Rudy.
They're equally well-qualified to be president. NOT.

These guys are not know for taking the truth very seriously !

Flip-Flopping yet again McSame? tsk tsk tsk….

Further proof that he's not ready. At least have your campaign in some working order. Makes it appear bad against Obama who seems to have his campaign in top shape. Get with it McCain if your planning on being President, which I doubt.

Obama 08

With luck, McCain will enjoy the same success as Duhaime's last presidentail candidate!

CNN) - In one of his first moves to centralize control of McCain's politicalorganization, Steve Schmidt has tapped Rudy Giuliani's former campaign manager,….Mike DuHaime, to be McCain's new political director…………A strategy for winning ………also includes Karl Rove,Mr Black and other Scumbags……..Attack! Attack !….becareful it may comeback to Haunt You!!!

Yes, hire the losers. Good strategy.

I swear if this had happened in the Obama camp it would be front page news and commentors would start saying his campaign is in serious trouble. WHERE IS THE VETTING OF JOHN MCCAIN????

Excellent. Let's hope he'll do as well for McCain as he did for Rudy.

Is this indicative of the haphazard way he would set up his White House team were he to enjoy a miracle and actually win?

He has had more campaign shake ups than Hillary which is saying alot. This man can't even manage his own campaign and he wants to run our country?

So much for that old experience theory, mcwar can't even run his campaign, no way would I trust him to run my country. Obama has run a brilliant campaign and managed it expertly.

Changing the duties of the officers on the Titantic won't matter.

This should REALLY help McSames campaign:) DuHaime didn't do much for Giuliani. Makes you wonder where the good Republican campaigners are. Dumb me! There aren't any:)

Great news for Obama!

Now McCain is going to spend all his time in Florida talking about 9/11!

Hiring people from the brilliant Giuliani campaign? What, were the Duncan Hunter people busy? Hahaha!

Ah! Flip-flop!

Although, I do wonder whether these guys are selected on their ability to defend their positions, or if they are selected based on their ability to claim their opponent is "flip-flopping," in any vaguely correct sense of the term.

Of course, with this media, i suppose these are the same attributes…

"I will oppose any tax breaks or good deals for the gas and oil industry also."

–John McCain at a town hall meeting in Rindge, NH, 11/18/07

So where's that Straight Talk Express now? Now he says he will give the oil companies a $4 billion tax break.

Just a small example of what you get with John McCon.

That's right! Keep re-aranging the deck chairs on the Titannic!

Okay, this is the guy we want at the controls for our country? He had four months jump start to get his campaign together, and he's just doing this? This guy can't even run a campaign? How anyone can call Obama Nobama baffles me. At least he has a structured campaign, whether you agree with him or not.

you mean to say that John McCain had 3 months on Barack Obama and he still could not get it right? i guess thats why McCain finished 894th out of 899 at the Naval Academy, his bad judgment is probably a contributing factor to the 6 planes McCain crashed. i wonder if John has enough sense to throw his "Hispanic Outreach Director" Juan Hernandez under the bus like he is doing so many of the others who worked so hard to get him where he is, i mean Hernandaz proclaimed in his book: "the illegal alien invaders he urges to become settlers in the USA. Hernandez believes all Mexicans and Mexican-Americans in the USA should become dual citizens and consider themselves Mexicans first, "to the 8th generation." He believes there should be no border at all between Mexico and the USA, ever. "
perhaps McCain can hire Vicki L. Iseman, she has had a great "working relationship with him in the past.
or perhaps he can ask Feingold to help him again since: "His McCain-Feingold bill has destroyed much of the rights of people to take part in the political process the way they see fit. This bill remains unConstitutional and a major affront to the First Amendment protections on the right of free speech."
when will people get the fact that John McCain is a puppet, a tool used by Big Oil and special interest groups?
WHAT ELSE DOES JOHN HAVE TO HIDE?

He can replace people daily, but it won't help. He is an old madn with old ideas.

I will write Hillary on my ballot in November…

Bradley In Colorado It won't work, McCain. I know what you're trying to do, and believe me, you won't find any good dirt on Obama. It's like the lyrics from one song: "Ride the tiger! You can see his stripes, but you know he's clean!"DITTO!!!!!

Bailing water out of the boat with a sieve.

CNN) - In one of his first moves to centralize control of McCain's political……organization, Steve Schmidt has tapped Rudy Giuliani's former campaign manager
Mike DuHaime, to be McCain's new political director, a top campaign adviser……tells CNN.Until last week, McCain had no political director at headquarters –highly unusual for a general election campaign. ……..WONDER-Y-

THREE TRYS and YOU MCSAME are OUT!!!

So is he going to tell McCain too that all he needs is Florida to win the elections?

MORE ZIG ZAG AND MORE FLIP FLOP FROM JOHN MAGABY.

Again? Exactly how long is it gonna take before the RNC realizes it is not the political director who needs replacing. It is the candidate!

You got the guy how got bush elected along with rove, we can already see that his policy's are just recycled bush policy's and this is the guy the republicans want in office? If the dems don't get are heads out of our backside we will see awhole new bush admin in the white house…

BARACK THE VOTE!!!!!!

BARACK SEBELIUS 08

It STILL won't help you..it's not the packaging that needs changing, it's the McPresent inside that needs to be regifted..

Thus, a testimonial to McCain's attention-deficit-disorder style of decision-making.

DuHaime….sounds French to me. Aren't they socialists? Don't Republicans denounce them as cowards and incompetents? What church does he attend? Does his wife use botox? Is she proud of her country…whatever that is? Does he have any experience? Is he too old? Too white? Is his middle name "Bin Laden"?

We need to know these things. Otherwise, this election campaign could degenerate into a discussion of the issues and we can't be havin' that!

He can centralize all he wants.

Just as Obama has turned over his campaign to the "whiz-kids" of the DNC. The problem with both candidates isn't their appeal so much as their similarity regarding essential ideals of moderately conservative Americans regarding their government.

More doesn't mean better!! You can change things without creating a new agency, department or program!!!
Both are similar in that to date: no conversations nor agenda items exist addressing reigning in government growth, costs, duplicationm ir redundancy. Neither is willing to consider even small reductions in the armed services or foreign aid budgets–or meaningful changes to social security and human services programs.

We are tired of paying ever increasing taxes that are funneled into untested but costly new programs–while they continue to ignore shoring up healthcare, social security, and infrastructure. BOTH candidates agree these needs require attention–but neither has the guts or vision to be a good chief executive and rechannel our tax dollars from other bloated or unecessary government agencies or departments. In the end they only differ by miniscule degrees. This is not the change we desire!!!

Mcbush can add whoever he wants, he's still a senile, angry old man that will continue bush's policies for the next four years.

That's okay, looks as though Obama is turning into the typical politician with his fancy play on words- who would have guessed!

In the article below you can see some foot work, ON IRAQ,"If you look at our position, it's been very consistent. The notion that we have to get out carefully has been a consistent position," he said.

Then Obama backs off the orginally strong statement above by saying this, "So a lot of these statements that I've made have been entirely consistent," Obama added.

Which one is it Obama, a lot of them or all of them?

I love politics

They are really this stupid. Wow, I underestimated their lack of intelligence! Maybe they need to rewind the tapes and see how bright Rudy's campaign manager was in the Primaries. Anyone remember the oh we'll just wait it out till florida strategy and how well that worked!

Your headline is misleading. It incorrectly implies that a "new" political director has replaced an old one. It would be more correct to say "McCain campaign gets political director".

Not sure what to say about this but its one board that is still open as it doesn't have anything to do with the bobomb. how come any neg press on him closes in 6-10 replies?

Why not? He worked wonders for the Guiliani campaign, didn't he? From one losing campaign to another…

He can freakin hire Gumby and Pokey for all I care, it ain't gonna help.

Hope this guy does as much for McCain as he did for Rudy; that was really a brilliant campaign.

Well, that means that Obama was giving McCain a big headache. Now that McCain knows that CNN and Fox News flip flops too, he (McCain) feels he can win.

Mccain Doesnt Know How To Run His Campaign And Thats A Preview Of How He Would Run The Country! Mccain Lacks The Judgement To Be President!

The Bush Repubs and Mcain are going down in a hand backet this year. The American people will make history and vote to change the way Washington has been running thing over the last 8 years.

The dismal economy, the war, lost of jobs and houses are the legacy of the current republican administration.

The democrats will fix the economy the country.

Obama 08 & 12.

Whatever!. He is still going to lose.

He is running a very poor campaign and not showing good judgment in management skills. It has been said time and again a poor campaign is a sure sign of a bad administration. McCain is proving this to be true.

Hiring someone from a campaign that never took off seems like an unwise move, to me. Shouldn't McCain search for people who have actually developed strategy that won.

Good job, John. Hire that revolting loser's staff member. I guess maybe you're campaign will now be "a noun, a verb, and 'I spent time in a prison camp' "

im still waiting for the mccain camp to come out with an ad detailing obamas lies in his ad called dignity. obama said he himself brough welfare rolls down 80%, lie, and he did this and that, also lies, but i heard the political analysists say that mccain needs to hurry upp and dispute the ad before the people begin to think that its true.

Now we are going to hear a lot about 9/11

Oh great. That's all we need. Now it'll be "noun-verb-9/11 McCain"> I've had enough already.

Not sure that a redesign on the same old message will help ???? I stronghly suggest that the Republicans consider DRAFTING a new Candidate at their convention. You all are in a world of hurt…..NO MATTER HOW MUCH CNN tries to cram McCain down our throats. I always thought that the purpose of the PRESS was to report NEWS …NOT DRIVE OPINION…..CNN Executives needs to listen to some of their reporters and the stories being broadcasted……hedges on paid political Advertising.

The other thread is closed already, so may I please post here:

Kerry's remarks about McCain are a complete joke! In the past, Kerry asked McCain to run as his VP on a bipartisan ticket!

That's right–Kerry wanted a Kerry/McCain ticket!

As for lacking judgment, we know that the award for THAT booby prize goes to Obama. Hint, hint: racist church, anti-American church, Ayers, Rezko, eternal flip-flopping…

Isn't this the same guy who had Rudy campaigning in Florida only?

All the political directors in the world won't help the Republicans this time around since their agenda won't waver from the Bush policies.

The problem is the Conservative ideology is the problem and their only defense is to label the other candidate as a Liberal. Facts are Conservatism has simply evolved into the rich getting richer and poor getting poorer philosophy.

If the American people look around at other modern societies and the benefits their citizens enjoy and come to realize this is all due to Liberal or Socialist ideals then maybe they have a chance to change their mind set and reap the benefits.

MCCAIN NEEDS ALL THE HELP HE CAN GET. BUT THAT'S NOT GOING TO HELP….

First McBush, Now McGiuliani.

Come on. Just bring in Rove and get on with it.

My friend

good.. he can add to his loserness.

Well, good luck to McCain with that crack team in place. We all know how well Guiliani's big strategy worked out.

Steve Schmidt has tapped Rudy Giuliani's former campaign manager,
Mike DuHaime, to be McCain's new political director. in other words,Mcfailure tapped the manager of a failed campaign to managed another failed campaign.this is good news

This guy should be a winner for McCain. Look at what he did for Guiliani's campaign. LOL

Here we go again. Cannot believe McCain hires and supports a group of people that did such a smear job when he was running
against Bush.
Shows you how desperate he is and does not say much for his
integrity.

You don't get it McSame
it is not staff members that need to be changed, it's the candidate that needs to be changed along with your policies

Sorry McCain, no matter who you pick as your political director, you will still lose in Novemver. All Americans have chose their next president who is Barack Obama.

Obama '08

Go ahead and keep desperately reshuffling the minions. All the king's horses and all the king's men won't serve to get this doddering rage-a-holic elected.

Not gonna help.

Just when you think McCain's campaign is getting on track with centralization, they go and put Guliani's campaign manager in as the new political director. Is this getting ridiculously funny or just plain sad? I'm leaning more funny. What do you think?

This move makes sense….Rudy's strategy worked out so well for him that this is a no-brainer. ;p

It doesn't matter what McCain does, he is still not electable. I don't care who McCain was running against, I would NEVER vote for him. He has no electability appeal WHATSOEVER.

Minorities’ and women should never hold a position of authority over a white man, these are not just my beliefs but the principles this nation was founded on. This is the way God intended it to be, that is why this is in the fix that it is now in.

McCain is the only candidate that can begin to restore order to this great nation of ours.

So we can expect the lies from from the McCain camp to be more original now? Is that the point of this?

well i hope they start asking obama why and then question his answers like ABC did and CNN won't . there are videos after videos of what he as said in the past many of them on CNN yet when he distorts and lies about it and tries to justify it no one calls him on it. i surely hope someone starts making him answer . my first choice of course would be Hillary. obama insults my intelligence and McCain still as to convince me.

How is this guy going to run the country?

His campaign is in a state of constant flux.

If he can't stabilize his campaign how can he stabalize his country?

Food for thought:
McCain's father was a military man his entire life. When McCain was old enough his father's advice to him was to go into the military too. All the McCain's have ever known is military, military, military. If you were in John McCain's shoes would you ever vote not to flex military muscle?
Attack the enemies that are a real threat. Use brains and not just brawn.
Obama in 08!

All they're doing is re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic…..

this is perfect. giuliani's former campaign manager… giuliani ran what many pundits called the most unsuccessful campaign in the past 4 decades. so now mccain taps the guy who was behind that disasterous run. pretty much sums up mccain's vision and his ability to use good judgement. but i guess all you need to do is look at his voting record to see that.

This won't help him.

Could this be good news for McCain? Mike DuHaime ran Giuliani's campaign. Once the favorite to win the nomination, the Giuliani campaign crashed and burned early in the primary…

McCain is frightening. On the other hand Obama is pretty bad too. Obama's ideas don't fit his ego. I have been a democrat for 30 years and will not be supporting this con man in the fall. This will be the first election cycle that I have not voted. I am saddened that my party has chosen this do-nothing, know-nothing, egocentric, arrogant person for our nominee. Obama is much like G.W. Bush, all rhetoric and swagger, no substance.

Is this the "rocket scientist" who came up with the Giullani "wait until Florida" strategy?

There is only one great man in the race.
McCain '08. It's obvious.

John McCain

Pro Life
Pro Military
Love of Country

Can anyone remeber the 9/11 message of Giuliani?

Now we know exactly what McCain is trying to do.

************************************

THIS GUY LOST IN THE PRIMIRIES DIDN'T HE?

QUESTION AND ANSWER

Q: Obama said he would aggressively pursue a campaign finance agreement with his opponent. Did he do so? Why did those efforts fail?

A: Counsel from the two campaigns did meet, but it was immediately clear that an agreement wouldn’t be workable. The idea of an agreement on public financing was to limit the influence of special interests and big donors on the campaign—but after the
McCain campaign decided to manipulate the system, and given that they had already been spending private money on their general election campaign for months, it was readily apparent that an agreement would only serve to give McCain, the RNC, and Republican 527s a leg up.

McCain and the RNC had no intentions of having a honest campaign. Before this years elections ends McCain will have flandered millions of dollars from the public finance system….money that should be use to help rebuild the states that were damaged by the Mississippi River, finish the clean up of New Orleans, more medicine for the sick and poor. McCain is for himself and he's a puppet for the Bushes'.

America we need a president that does care about the people in our great country….Obama is by far the only candidate that truly cares.

Vote Obama

This guy Duhaime should give you the BUMP you need John, my friend. After all, he did a "Heck-of-a- Job" for Rudy!!!

I guess he didn't get the memo. Seems like he doesn't know what he is doing. Had the election locked up for months and he is just now getting things in place? Pitiful and not a leader at all.

really….? the guy that ran the campaign that spent 5 million per vote… that guy? As a DEM… I applaud this move

Makes sense, since Giuliani's campaign was such a success.

It doesn't really matter, though, since based on the way McCain's been running his campaign so far, this guy will be replaced, and then his replacement will be replaced.

John, just admit you don't have a clue as to what you're doing. And then kindly just go home.

Obama 08

McCain is turning this charade into a circus. This same Campaign Manager helped Rudi secured less than 50 votes in Florida with over $49million. If his Rudi Florida strategy was devastatingly flawed, what magic will he perform with McCain if not cripple him more. Food for thot!!!

Go Obama you can attract millions more, you are destine to Rule and you will be the next U.S.A President.

Republicans are failures, with their hate and divisive politics. Mcsame may recruit the best politicians in the world his not fit to be President his too old and ugly for my liken, go with your war and flip flops in all issues.

Title should read "McCain camp gets a new GOP nominee!" That's the only way they can win, get rid of this temper tantrum baby.

McCain promotes a R.Guiliani staffer—big mistake! McCain will lose for sure this November.

The professional experience of managing Rudy Giuliani's campaign to achieve its unique record (spending nearly $40 Million to get practically nothing!) is exactly the skillset John McCain needs right now to help his campaign gain traction. This decision is consistent with his other decisions though - like his support of all morally bankrupt and proven failures that Bush policies are.

McCain looks like something out of an horror movie. I can't stand looking at him, he is soooooooooo old. What is going to do for our nation but have a heart attack or stroke.

Oh good, more noun, verb and 9/11 lingo.

Congratulations Mr. McCain on choosing the man who sank former favorite Giuliani's campaign to run your campaign into the dirt. This should make things even easier to prevent a third Bush term.

Obama/Clinton '08

and McCain becomes more and more like a standard Republican

Mcain is surely doomed to pick Guliani's campaign manager. Guiliani ran the worst Presdential campaign in histoory by pputting all his hopes in the Florida primaries.

I don't think anything anyone could do would change the fact that McCain is McBush is Bush's third term.

Come'on America, say it with me:

NO BUSH THIRD TERM!

let's hope he does what he did for giuliani's campaign….run it right into the ground. and giuliani had waaaaay more personality than mccain does.
OBAMA 08!

And exactly how long was Giuliani in this race? Going from bad to worse.
Yeah…McCains got the decision making power we should all admire.

( not )

We're losing 500 men per year (40 per month) in Afghanistan alone, not to mention Iraq.

And the neglect of the Afghanistan war means there is no plan being executed to guarantee the outcome.

More changes………………..after 3 months when will you start campaigning for America's best interest. We all know what
McCain stands for but what about your plans for the future.

Look how well he managed Giuliani's campaign

WELL WELL ANOTHER LOSER LIKE RUDY……..TALK TOUGH BUT NOTHING ELSE.

It's a bit sad that the only thing McCain related that is news worthy these days is him getting or firing an adviser.

Looking at the picture of this DuHaime character, he'll fit right in at the McCain camp….. he looks rather shady.

Yeah, the guy who ran Giuliani's pathetic excuse of a campaign is the guy I would pick as well…

Obama '08

Now the Bush/Cheney campaign team is complete to do the same they always did….!

John MCcain saying Obama words cannot be trusted? He is the one that cannot be trusted because he also flip flop on so many issue than Obama did. And CNN why can't you write about Mccain flip flop? You now concentrate more on Obama's word than MCcain. when survey was done by Bill, the survey showed that MCcain flip flop more than Obama, Why not bring that to your round table. He has not better experience than Obama when it comes to running the country. Yes, he was a military man and has being in the senate for many years what has he do for the country and for his home town. CNN since you claim you are the trusted name in news please do not be bias. I HOPE YOU POST MY COMMENT BECAUSE YOU NEVER DO. Please let him talk about what to do about the country than attack. We need someone to help put the country on track not someone that is not. He worn the nomination a long time and he still did not have an agenda for the economy when will he have one? Why has CNN not reported about that?

DuHaime managed Rudy's campaign so brilliantly that McCain hires him to manage his??? Great choice, John. Really inspires a voter's confidence in your judgment.

Right, like this is going to work. Obama is going to wipe the floor with McCain come November.

This dummy couldn't help Mr. Liar Rudy Giuliani, how is he going to help McBush!! LAUGH!

Good move.

McCain 08

Couldn't you find a worse picture of Mike DuHaime ? Don't we want to compromise the republicans as much as possible? Isn't this CNN?
Please scour through the archives more throughly to find a picture that more resembles what your readers expect? Those sniviling little rat faced snakes that they are? Those who dare to run against Obama! How dare them!

Let me ge this right, they are going to use Rudy Giuliani's former campaign manager? HAHahaha… Did they not see what happened to Giuliani's campaign….. I couldn't make this stuff up.

so you hire the guy who ran Giuliani's completely failed campaign…Its clear that Rudy actually lost because of a poorly managed campaign. So you hire that guy. I was already voting for Obama, but man, is McCain really in it to win it?

these people are like roaches coming out of the woodwork.

Hope he has better luck than Rudy did…….

Yeah, because he did such a bang up job for Rudy.
But, maybe it's because they have a theme in common. Blah, Blah, Blah, 9/11, Blah, Blah, Blah P.O.W.

This is just another indication that McCain doesn't have a clue about running a presidential campaign or how to take suggestions from people who do. Typical.

That's interesting , and encouraging for Democrats. From the top tier of Republican candidates for President, Giuliani ran one of the worst campaigns.

It won't help. And taking Guilliani's failed campaign director is a sure fire way to ensure a loss. McCain can figure on an early mid-winter vacation.

Please try to keep up Mr. McCain. Shuffling staff, organizing and reorganizing, and building a campaign that consists of little more than criticism of your opponent is not going to get you in the White House.

MCcain start to souffle his campaign staff. Remember that was what happen to HIllary. How many times has MCcain done so since the primary started. If he cannot put competent people to help him win, instead he keeps making changes in his staff, that is a warning sign of trouble. How can he chose competent people if is becomes president? His he going to change all his cabinet people in their position to make things work, Boy we are in for a big rid if he wins.

Well he did such a good job with Rudy. I mean what a track record. I can just see what DuHaime is whispering in Rudy's ear in this caption.

" Rudy, now remember, Deny, Deny,Deny.. got it?"

This just in, I heard that all McCain voters will get the first flight out to Iraq and a rifle all expenses paid!
Vote McCain in 08!

The guy didn't help Rudy's Campaign, and he won't be able to help McCain's either! McCain is surrounded by losers. McCain is the King of Losers!!!

McCain the guy who betrayed America and confessed to being a War Criminal, which resulted in VIetnam torturing U.S. Soldiers till they would confess like McCain.

McCain the guy who had an affair with a woman 18 years younger than him, while his wife was disabled at home from a car wreck. McCain the guy who divorced his wife, and within 30 days married his mistress Cindy!!!

McCain the guy who was investigated for Political Corruption as part of the Keating 5.

McCain the guy who had an affair with a female Lobbyist, while his 2nd wife Cindy was at home drugged up on medication that she stole from a Healthcare Organization.

McCain is a Dirtbag!!!!!
McSame Ole Bush Lies and Politics!!!!!
McSame Ole Clinton Sexual Affairs!!!!

I don't know why McCain continue to surrender himself with tainted politicians

-Karl Rove -DIRTY and "Bushy"
-Swift Boat vets- Very dirty and "Bushy"
-Bush Campaign manager - dirty and "Bushy"
-Six Lobbyists advisors - dirty and "Bushy"

Why does McCain deny running for Bush’s 3rd term?