CNN

The only reason Obama made this trip is to make it look like he knows whats going on. The whole trip is sham just like Obama himself. It's been easy for Obama to sit on the sidelines and let the big boys play. Now that he has been invited into the big game it really show how inadequate he really is to play the game.

Sen. McCain, 70% of us STILL oppose the surge and we know that we are not "winning" in Iraq. All that has happened is that the "insurgents" have gone into hiding and are biding their time until we are gone. When that happens, they will take over Iraq, transform it into the Islamist state they've always wanted, and declare Jihad on the West. Bye bye Iraqi oil!

Criticize all you want, because we aren't listening. We don't need an old man with old ideas at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. There will be no Bush III administration, so don't give up your Senate office just yet.

Franco, you don't know where Barack stands on issues because you don't listen or listen but don't understand what he is saying. Instead you rely on the McCain campaign and the joke of a media to clarify things for you on what Obama says. Come on man, open your big ears and listen or at least go to their websites and read for yourself because everything is detailed there!! Unless of course you can't read!

What happens when we win in Iraq? is Al Quaida defeated? is our economy and prestige restored? Do we acheive energy independance? Is Osama Bin Laden brought to justice? We have been asked by a Soveriegn Nation to leave. Why should we insist on staying? whats the end game? I think we should restore Democracy in America and Give Al Quaida a real war! John McCain is a great American. Pleas don't Disparage him. His foreign policy decisions will seal his fate come election time....Republicans have replaced social welfare with corporate welfare and they have deferred to an administration that was both careless and reckless. The time of reckoning is upon them.

How many times is Obama going to visit Iraq this time out? He could stop off in Kuwait for an hour or two, swing back thru Basra or Kirkuk and presto – a foreign policy expert with three trips to Iraq under his belt. And think of the savings in jet fuel.

Why can't Obama just go away!!! Oh that's right because the media and CNN won't let him!!!!

Hillary 2012 & McCain 08!!!!!

Obama = NEVER!

Since when does a Senator aka Wacko Barako make foreign policy?

I thought Congess did that, right after they lower gas prices.

Good for McCain. He needs to expose Obama for the empty suit, mouthpiece, that Obama is.

Let the debates begin.

McCain 08

@David Armendale

Only your logic. The inverse would be that McCain would not want our troops staying there 100 years if they're being injured or killed.

The fact is that McCain doesn't want our troops there any longer than they have to be, but the timetable will be based on conditions and not just an arbitrary goal set by politics.

WOW! At theis stage, Obama shouldn't even say a word. McCain is out there getting his Grumpy Old Man on. Thankfully this process is almost over.

WOW! This post seems to have several experts on war and strategy! Folks, war is hell. It may sound harsh to say this, but the men and women in the armed forces "volunteered" so. There was no draft or anyone forcing them to fight for our freedoms and protection. I personally do not care for either candidate. It is time to do away with both parties and elect an independent to the presidency. McCain is clueless on most issues, and Obama has no substance. Oh well, just my 2 cents worth.

In response to: "Hillary is the Only One Who Can Beat McCain
I don't care what Obama or McCain say and do between now and November, millions of Hillary backers will never vote for Mr. Selected Not Elected Obama. I live in Florida, and i won't forget who disenfranchised me.
PUMA PAC"

I really hate to burst your bubble, but the only one that disenfranchised you, was your own Florida state politicians-who are Republican if you didn't know this!
Grow up, learn about your own state gov't and quit blaming others just to satisfy your bruised ego. My goodness, you would think that no other woman will try to run again, let alone Hillary? The female gender will have another try in 8 years-even I will jump on that bandwagon! But stop propagandizing a ridiculous notion–Hillary actually tried (& succeeded) to pull the wool over the eyes of the Florida electorate. Hoping to tug at your heart strings and sense of so called "fairness."
You can't agree AND sign to the DNC rules before Iowa, and then change your position after you start losing. Didn't make sense then, and doesn't hold water now!!! Get a grip folks.

I think Obamas opposition to the surge was the correct thing to do. The surge may have brought the violence down slightly, but, overall it hasn't done anything to allow the Iraqi government to take over its own problems. Obama has been right in going against the republican stance that the war had merit and it has proved that they were right and everyone else was wrong. All McBush does is whine and complain about Obamas inexperience. You gain experience with time.McCain needs to stop complaining constantly about Obamas inexperience, and concentrate on what he would do to bring the country out of the terrible mess he and Bush have created.

Boy this is really getting SCAREY ! We have candidates with NO experience vieing for the highest position in the US Government. WHERE ARE THE HR people? Hey VOTERS – that's you/us !

Any competent "company" hires the most experienced, educated, QUALIFIED individual. We have seen, heard and observed these people for the last two + years. Shouldn't that be enough time to make an intelligent decision? We don't need them to suddenly get more" Experience" for us to decide. THIS IS TOO IMPORTANT A JOB to do " on the job training." ! It's also NOT a personality race. Since we did't get great choices for either "party" I think its time to PAY ATTENTION TO OUR DECISION. It's possible to WRITE IN your choice ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

John McCain is a desparate old man that is out of touch with reality. His time has come and gone and he needs to go somewhere and sit down and shut up. Barack Obama had the wisdom and foresite to know that going into Iraq would be a mistake and McCain has gone along with George Bush 95% of the time on all of his failed policies. McCain's so called experience is what has gotten this country into the mess that it is in. Ask yourself do you really want to continue down this road of destruction for another four (4) years?

McWho??? plezzzzz – he and his little leprechaun two-facedsaywhat youwanttohearsohecangetahead – Lieberman – honestly need to crawl back under the rock they came from..

I just hope the American people are smarter than these two think we are and vote the right guy in – well, at least the better of the two – into office so this country can finally have decent leadership.. !!!

the question is,

WOULD MCCAIN EVER LISTEN TO HIS OWN PEOPLE,

never mind the Iraqis,

who overwhelmingly want the US troops to LEAVE IRAQ TO THE IRAQUIS asap?????????

honestly, DOES MCSHAMELESS THINK he can fool anyone if he tells the same lies often and long enough?

LOL

CNN is Obamaland

McCain is rapidly becoming "candidate criticism" for everything. Voters want solutions not continuous negative attacks. McCain said he wanted a substantive debate on the issues. Looks like he has quickly broken his own rules.

----–only idiots would vote for mcBush, only idiots!!!

Wow an anti BHO comment appeared here than vanished...we can't have that now...keep the up the censorship...it's good for the lemmings

What nonsense! Obama went abroad with his political campaign and media entourage and you claim McCain broke the "water's edge" rule? How 's life in that tank, CNN?

McBush represents old politics, old Cold War mindset, old policies, old economics, old times, and will be crushed in a LANDSLIDE this Fall.

Obama gets criticized for not having more foreign policy "experience", but when he goes overseas on a fact-finding tour, he gets criticized. Shows how desperate the Repugs are.

McCain has broken more than a political rule – he has broken moral rules when it comes to protecting US servicemen and women – he was not in favor of the (Webb) bill to increase benefits to vets – how dare he! He wants to keep US troops in Iraq indefinitely even when the Iraquis want us out and even though a few years ago he said we would have to leave when the country no longer wants us there. He is no 'commander in chief' – he is just more of Bush and Cheney's bulling policies abroad. read this from the NY Daily News:
Opinions | 07/16/2008
I'm a lifelong conservative activist and I'm backing Barack Obama
BY LARRY HUNTER
I'm a lifelong Republican – a supply-side conservative. I worked in the Reagan White House. In 1994, I helped write the Republican Contract with America. This November, I'm voting for Barack Obama.

Oh so it's okay for the Dems to break the rules and I remember all you left wing dems yelling that Obama wasn't doing anything wrong by calling out McCain while he was traveling but when it gets turned around you all call foul....then again isn't that want you dems always do?

The media is allowing McCain to outright LIE. This is NOT the first time Obama has met with General Petraeus. They had direct communications with one another in the last Senate Hearing meetings regarding Iraq. It is beyond comprehension why the media continues to allow McCain to portray false claims against the facts.

Sadly, there are other examples with McCain's stance against the GI Bill while taking false credit. His claims that Obama is against nuclear energy when Obama has not taken nuclear energy off the table if a responsible manner of disposing wastes is technologically developed. McCain's false claim against him for not doing more in the Senate Foreign Relations when McCain has missed ALL of the meetings. Where is the accountability please?

Democrats do this all the time to President Bush.

I have no idea what in the heck this article is talking about. This isn't news, it as an opinion piece attacking Senator McCain.

McBush leads in the category of "nation of whiners." He is the biggest whiner I have ever seen in any presidential race. Thanks McWhine!

Well I don't think there is anything wrong with McCain said. The media is covering Obama over there like he knows what the hell he is doing. He is over there campaigning nothing more. Lets see when Obama returns what he has to say about Iraq and pulling out.

Shut up CNN, the Dems and Obama have gone aborad and met our enemies and trashed this president for 8 years. Don't you dare try to lecture us on McCain.

I am thinking of voting for Obama, but you got to realize that Obamas traveling is a political ploy...so this is an absolutely stupid story...what else would you expect a candidate to do....get real guys..I know you want him to win...but really

I wonder if Mr. McCain has forgotten that he supported a governor from Texas for president in 2000 who had much less foreign policy experience Senator Obama.

McCain is Insane – and reading the few and the crazy(supporters of McBush) they are just out of touch.... how dare he talk bad about Obama when we are in this BIG OLD MESS because of his votes! read the blog from the solders wife ... this war is shameful and our son's and daughters are dying over there because we have cow boys running the white house.... Keep the Faith ... no matter how much mud he slings CHANGE IS COMING – OBAMA 08!

Senator McCain has NOT broken any political rule. Breaking a Rule of What? Ideas of how to run the Iraq War? How ridiculous. There is no argument that Obama is a Green Horn and knows absolutely Nothing about the Iraq War or Foreign Policy. Senator McCain hasn't broken any political rules, for there are NONE. According to Obama, who knows nothing about the Iraq War, the Bush Administration doesn't know how to run the Iraq War. In the opinion of many, Obama is totally out of line to criticize our President Bush and his Administration. Be specific, CNN: Just how did Senator McCain break any political rule? The Democrats and Obama think there are No Rules! Problem is and CNN should face facts: Obama is not qualified to be a candidate for President of the United States.

When asked how many more years US troops might stay in Iraq, John McCain said maybe a hundred. "AS LONG AS Americans are not being injured or harmed or wounded or killed, it's fine with me."

Would logic not dictate that the inverse of this conditional statement is that McCain would NOT be fine with troops remaining in Iraq if they ARE being injured or killed?

One of Obamas central themes throughout the primary was his opposition to the war and his insistance on a timetable for leaving. In fact, the whole democrat party has been in lock step in their opposition to the war and their criticism has definately not stopped at the waters edge. So why are we making a point of Mcains actions.

As expected McCain will follow the republican strategy of saying anything, whether it is true or not, to get elected. He has no morals, no values and no sense of decency. Its get elected at any cost and be self serving and help the wealthy donors who funded your campaign. It will be tough to beat the threshold Bush set. Is this the kind of person America needs running the country?

Voters, please get rid of these lying hypocritical [R] politicians. They pander to the pathetic right wing of this counrty, who does not have the best interest of this country at heart. Just view the statements made by the various idiots posting on this blog that badmouth Obama, or "liberals", or whoever who just want to extract us from a war that should have never been started and continued. We need to move on and re-prioritize for the real war on terror.....something that the right wing and Mr. McCain apparently have no stomach for.

And these [R] politicians and their right-wing stooges call themselves "conservative".....YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!

More CNN bias!

Just one more proof that McSame is exactly what we've said he was all along, a doddering, drooling senile fool who has no morals, dignity or self-respect.
To think that this man could already come as far as he has in the presidential process speaks evil of the Republican party.
This man is nothing more than this century's Tail Gunner Joe or Tricky Dick. His promise to run a positive campaign is just another one of his lies – prompted by the fact that he has no rational or intelligent programs of his own.
Maybe he needs to change his name to something more reflective of his true character – John McScum.

Take the Aricept McCain, NOW!!! You call Obama out for missing a vote, and claim you were there...oops, no you weren't. You do not know the difference between Shia and Suni. You claim to have never voted against Vets funding, but you did. You think countries still exhist that have been gone for years, you think Iraq and Pakastan boarder each other. You bankrupted a S&L with the Keading Five, yet now you are an expert on the Economy.
On second thought, take 2 Aricept and see if you can get into the research study on an Alzheimer's vaccine!!!

Correction CNN- McCigarette Man is on the DEFENSE not offense. Unless you meant offensive. He is that.

McCain is a disgusting form of human, and a very shameful representation of America. His moral ethics reflect that of an old man who has reached the grumpy and intolerable stage of life. He needs to retire, his ethics have been completely lost.

WOW. McCain has done more for this country than you could ever dream of. Get off the couch fatboy and do something to contribute to society. All you clowns pointing fingers and crying need to shapen up. If the american people really wanted change they could have done it a long time ago.

HILLARY WAS RAPED BY THE THUG OBAMA LIKE A STREET CRIMINAL

VOTE FOR HILLARY OR McCAIN!!!

Well Robert – When President Obama takes over the white house, isn't it nice to know he has our support – unlike BUSH or McBUSH!!! (who will probably end up despised like his counterpart if he's in the white house four to eight years). Hey McBUSH, WHAT DO WE WIN WHEN WE WIN THE WAR!!!!! TELL US THAT!!!!

dupe me once, shame on me
dupe me twice, shame on you
dupe me a third time....its a McCain administration

AMERICANS WANT OUR COUNTRY BACK!!!!!!

McCain is a cry baby loser. Just another sleaseball republican.

John McCain's "performance" on NBC "Today" show this morning was snarky and filled with cheap shots. It is a sad sign of the inadequacies of this ancient statesman. He's too old. He's too set in his ways. He's too much of a war-monger. He needs to fade away after November!!!

Dear God, McBush, please shut up. You only want to continue the war for another hundred years because your concern is not the American Soldier, but like Bush, Cheney, and the rest of the EL
ITE, it is all about OIL for you! Your plan is more of a coup than anything else!

How depressing, the choices always come down to bad and worse. Not happy with either of the choices.

Why is CNN not mentioning how McCain threw Gramm under the bus late last Friday night?
It also appears McCain did not learn anything from the Clinton campaign about the effects of all the negative ads. It cost Hillary the nomination and will do the same to McCain. Where are McCain's plans for America? We are all sick of the "kitchen sink" mentality.
This is a great opportunity for McCain while Obama is out of the country
to build himself up but like everything else, he is blowing it.

He spent too much time in that tiger cage, he's gone crazy I tell ya !

(shoots twin pistols in the air and screams "yeeeeeeeeeeehaaaaaaaw !!!! )

Wait... McCain who? I haven't heard about this McCain guy in the news much. I thought Obama was already elected President. He's all the news ever talks about.

Hopefully people have gotten my sarcasm...

Senator McCain's criticism of Senator Obama does not carry as much weight as it is used to be. Indirectly, President Bush's group are contributing to the weakness of Senator McCain's arguments. The time-horizon agreement is more in line with Obama than McCain. Even more so, Iraqi leadership's stand. Thus, McCain's stay in Iraq argument disagrees with not only Obama but also with Iraqi leadership. And that will not be an easy sale to the American people.

This IDIOT has not said a positive thing for us and our troubles

He actually thinks that attacking Barak will win him an election.

HELLO McWar advisors......IT'S NOT WORKING.

Ross Perot would later say, "After [John McCain] came home, Carol walked with a limp. So he threw her over for a poster girl with big money from Arizona and the rest is history."

McCain is desperate! It is a lost election for the warmonger! (From an ex-Republican)

I am really beginning to dislike McCain almost as much as I do Bush.There was a time when I thought i could vote for him. First he criticizes Obama for never having gone to Iraq and then he criticizes him for going. He sounds like Rover.
I know that many people were terribly disappointed that Hillary did not win. I was fortunate because I decided early on that I would support the one that the majority wanted. We had two excellent candidates and they both fought very hard.I believe that she will be given an important job in Obama's administration and she will do her very best.
This was more about the popularity of each candidate. Now let us get back to the importance of the fall election. Remember WHY it is so important to beat the Republicans. Let us all stand together and WIN. Because Hillary did not win, would you rather have more years of this frightening war? Do you want to worry constantly about losing your home or your job? Do you want more years of high gas prices, and $4.00 a gallon milk? Aren't the worries about our huge deficit more important than the candidate? The loss of allies, the secrecy of this administration,the cover-ups and torture and constantly being lied to? Do you want to allow more terrible things like New Orleans. It was his slow and uncaring action that I criticize. Do you want to have to worry about your Social Security being terminated? McCain wants privatized Social Security. Think what those rich people have already done to the average citizen.That was one of the things Bush wanted . Do you want to continue with the arrogant administration breaking every law in the book , AND GETTING AWAY WITH IT. The Democrats should be held responsible also because many of Bush's offences should have called for impeachment and Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the house. stated that
Impeachment was not on the table. Obama is a well educated man and I ask every Democrat to put aside their disappointment and fight for the election of a Democrat.The recovery of our nation is truly at stake.

Desperate measures for desperate situations. Barack Obama is competent and then some; so many wish it weren't true because foreign policy is the only foothold McCain has left.

What a pathetic hypocrite McCain is. On the one hand, it was morally wrong for Obama to "attack" him while he was in the middle east... but now that Obama's abroad, it's A-OK for McCain to attack him. I guess "he did it first" is the justification here. There's a principled stand, Republican style, if ever I saw one.

You can put a bottle of perfume on a PIG and he still smells like a Pig.

Obama is not qualifed to be President of the United States.

All the trips abroad and all the speeches don't change the fact that he has no experience and no accomplishments to warrant being our
President.

I have one question for CNN, Where is the money coming from to support Obama. The so called poor and minorities that support him don't have the money, so where is the money coming from.

Are we getting money from the Middle East? How about checking this out and do your job instead of promoting the left wing darling of the media.

Willy its you that lost your shine go back to bed /wake up then go read Meghans blog .
Gramps McShame 3 times removed needs to retired as his brain already has .

Obama's hypocrisy knows no bounds.

And the list goes on and on for McPhony patriot

This man can't even get the borders right. This morning he talked about the Iraq/Pakistan border. He really seems to be grabbing at straws. We all know about his walk in the market in Iraq with helicopters overhead and the fact that he doesn't know anything about the economy. The man who promised to campaign without attacking sure hasn't kept his promise. Wonder what else he would forfeit if he became President? Hopefully that won't happen. The John McCain of 2000 was much more electable than this John McCain. Will the real John McCain please stand up.

Obama is CAMPAIGNING in Iraq. He's fair game.

I am a Republican Mom of 3 , who supported Bush and have always been republican.
I have to say that is seems as is Bush, McCain and Maliki are moving towards Obama's position.
Obama, who has not been there as much as they have seems to have a better plan for Iraq and has been right that the focus should have been on Afghanistan which Bush and McCain are also now coming to.
Obama has earned my vote !!!.

Also notice that Bush has now decided that we now need to engage our enemies such as Iran which they started to do.
For once this Republican is going to cross party lines and vote for a Democrat, I may not agree with all the Democratic Positions but looking at the Economy, Iraq and the way both men have run their campaigns, Obama has certainly earned my vote. I also like the way the rest of the world is responding to us, our image has been so tarnised abroad, Obama has gone there with humility and a willingness to dialogue with people.
Let's us restore America's image and show that we are the true leaders of the world and vote the best choice-Barack Obama.
This republican from Georgia and her entire family will be doing so.

Did this thing turn into nothing but all about war campaign?
Who cares if McCain was a POW?
By the way has anybody vetted into why, out of many American soldiers in Vietnam, including many of my own personal friends, McCain was captured and not them? Lets discuss this if you are McCain supporter and you have gutts to to argue that a POW status equates to a presidential office qualification.
Is it about military juntas or democracy?

How many "photo ops" has McCain taken since he announced his candidacy for president? I can think of at least two. One to the Middle East with Joe Leiberman and one to South America. I wonder if the media will mention that little fact.

Iraq/Pakistan border? Are you kidding me? By itself, it might be an understandable slip...but this guy has also thinks Czechoslovakia is still on the map, needs Lieberman whispering in his ear to tell the difference between a Shia and Sunni, and believes Vladimir Putin was president of Germany. Sure, 90% of the American people may not know these things either, but McCain isn't running to be 90% of the American people. Joe Citizen down the block won't meet with foreign heads of state and insult them with his ignorance – the President just might.

The GOP has never stopped at the water's edge. They spent the entire Clinton administration trying to undermine his successful foreign policy. It is sure to continue with Obama.

Obama supporters should think twice about criticizing candidates who claim they would run a positive campaign... Obama attacked Clinton almost daily,

the prez power is limited just as judicial and congress, people need to realize obama or mccain cant make things bettter in a snap.

Obama is Both ways on his policies not a flip flopper, both ways is worst than a flip flopper and i seen it all on youtube.

The war was and is wrong. Iraq did not attack America. It were certain people at the top who asked Paul O'Neil: "Find me a reason to enter Iraq" Since there was no reason, it was a FORCED war.

Now McCain keeps on defending what was wrong in the first place. Just to provide evidence that the wrong was right!

Why would a reasonable leader just hang in there to WIN!

WIN WHAT?

The oil resources that benefit the oil companies and those who are their shareholders?

Did oil get cheaper meanwhile?

McCain fans ask yourselves WHAT and WHO and WHOSE MONEY are you supporting?

I guess you missed Nancy Pelosi's trip to Syria, Jimmy Carter's criticism of our foriegn policy while meeting with Hamas PM Haniyeh, or Hillary Clinton's pilloring of General Petraeus. I guess it must be all right with you when Democrats criticize a Republican President's foriegn policy but unfair to criticize the Democratic nominee's foriegn policy during a campaign.

Where have you been for the past eight years? That''s right you've been lead cheerleaders for the Demoncrats. Sorry, I forgot.

Do you think either of these guys really knows anything about the economy. Political outcomes are set up to be decided by zealots who don't have real jobs and therefore have time on their hands to go out and mess up my life.

Neither of these guys represents me. I don't really care what they say or when they say it. These are politicians people! Both of them. If you think anything they say now really matters after November, you're kidding yourself.

The senile old man has nothing new to say, so he criticizes. Where is Joe Lieberman (to whisper things into his ear when he gets forgetful) when you need him, eh?

Got that right!!! Expose Obama for the empty suit and the sham he is!!! This junket isn't anything but grandstanding and another example of his ignorance, vanity and ego. Has the clown fist-bumped anyone yet? Maybe the liberal media will cover that?

McCain apparently believes the US should be a military state, run by generals.

I lose respect for John McCain every single day.

Hey, did you hear he's concerned about the hard struggle on the Iraq – Pakistan border? You know, the non existent Iraq Parkistan border?

C'mon MSM – enough grace on the gaffes, this is a serious issue.

Lord help us.

YOU GO McCAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SAY WHAT YOU WANT!! WE DON'T NEED A NOVICE LEADING OUR COUNTRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

To Chris: Why isn't it up to the Iraqi people when we leave? What the heck right do the voters of America have over the nation of Iraq? Some Americans truly are out of touch aren't they. When are you going to learn that Iraq, or any other nation, isn't America's sand box to be treated however we see fit? You're right that "It is not up to Obama to determine when we leave Iraq.

It is not up to McCain when we leave Iraq.

It is not up to the military when we leave Iraq"

IT IS UP TO IRAQ WHEN WE LEAVE IRAQ AND NO ONE ELSE!!!

OBAMA 2008!!!

Gee, how long do you suppose McC's had his retort prepared?

Does anyone listen to these right wing commentators like Rush Limp and Sean Hannity? These people sound like the biggest cry babies in the world. If Senator McCain is running for president of the United States why does it seem like he is actually running for the right wing of the party. CNN will you please call these people out for their obvious bias and their seemingly unrelentless support for the Republican party and in extension John McCain. Will somebody please call these people for what they really are a bunch of "Whiners".

Isn't asking a General when to end a war like taking candy from a baby. Doesn't anyone remeber Patton?

The McCain campaign is right, this trip overseas is purely political.

Why didn't the Obama campaign allow Ryan Lizza of the New Yorker to go along with the media that is covering this circus? Could it be that Axelrod wants to send a message to anyone who would dare vet this unknown clown who is running for president of the United States?

Amen to that... Obama is only using the trip abroad to foster the idea that he is knowledgeable about foreign affairs. This is nothing but a political ploy to keep the media focused on the message and not the messenger. Those of us who know the "messenger' will not fall for this ploy and will continue to oppose his candidacy.

If he does get the nomination in Denver, we will not support him. Traditional Democrats, Independents and Moderate Republicans reject this imposter as unqualified to be President of our United States.

Just Say No to Obama.

responding to "vote 4 none of the above" The fact that Obama is the democrat nominee is achievement in it self,
you wouldn't choose a 71yr old as your quarter back in any attempt
to win. We are in a new era which requires new understanding for Mr MacCain's camp lets hope it not true what is said of old dogs, as for Obama's willingness to attempt something new is refreshing.

lance valentine

Wow, a lot of interesting comments, most of them remarkable and reflecting the truth. One perspective is missing. Yes, more than 4.000 brave American soldiers lost their lives. Does anybody even care of the hundreds of thousands Iraqi people, I mean innocent civilians who died in Iraq and are still dyeing in Afghanistan many of them by the so called "friendly fire" and misjudgement?

Gotta luv all the Obama haters... To have haters means that you are doing something right. So keep up the hate and Obama supporters, show a hater some love today, give them a hug or something...they might feel better.

Go Obama!!!

This is a total joke. This is all McBush has, in the end, I trust Obama 100 times more with the war and economy of the United States.

Obama '08

Hopefully McCain will treat our country better than he treats his wives. McCain we don't want anyone that will abandon our country for a younger richer country!

All the Obama supporters should make a note that Obama did not bother to show up for Afghanistan meeting while he was on the commitee but he did have time to show up for Oprah. He is putton on another one of his shows to make his blind supporters gloat in his so-called foreign policy credentials. People, just wake up. But elect him because of his skin color, elect him if he has substance.

In many ways, I am beginning to feel sorry for McCain. He is obviously flailing right now to keep his own campaign together and create some kind of message and Obama is soaring. While, I am an Obama supporter, I never expected the GOP to be this weak or produce such a sad candidate. It really is astonishing. If this is the best that he can do it is going to be a long 3 1/2 months until President Obama becomes officially elected.

So much for McCain taking the high road this election season.

TO WOLF:

I would LOVE to see McCain on a 10-speed bike racing against OBAMA!!! LOL

That would be a sight to see!!!!

It always amazes me how no one has foreign policy experience, when no one else ever had it until they went to the White House.

Clinton, Gore and Carter have all gone overseas and SLAMMED this country and our President.

Obahma is listening..to the people who want the war to end, and he will listen and look at things when he is abroad.

i fear that mccann is haveing senior moments. moments of memory loss and confusion, do we need that?

Didnt McCain taunt him into going? Now he criticizes it? I am so disappointed in McCain. I think we all thought he was better than this.

Another left leaning story from a leftist news organazation. The heartland of this country is not going to vote for Hussein, we are already sick and tired of hearing about him. He's no Kennedy and never will be no matter how hard the media tries to hype him. I'm still waiting for them to tell me something he's done???

McCain get a grip already... you wanted the man to go to Iraq now that he has and doing a lot more than you did there. You are crying wolf. Be careful what you ask for that is all I have to say on that one.

McCain is really pitiful, I really feel sorry his camp, no matter how they dress him, up as soon as he opens his mouth everything falls apart.

Uuuuuhhhhh, wasn't MCCAIN the one who ADVISED Barack to go to Iraq - So why is he complaining now?!? My friend, you are confusing me!

CNN – Tell me this? Why do you pick and choose mostly pro-Obama comments over McCain? Why not all comments to express the views of all people rather than CNN's? On the aol message board, everyone's comment is published and there are more pro McCain posters. Also check out the aol straw poll. The entire nation is RED!! McCain '08.

How can anyone lead this country who doesn't even know how to use a computer.?

What is with McCain, does he not have anything else to say. He has been harping on this for over a month now. And it looks like Bush is taking his cues from Obama. McCain has labled Obama as Dr NO, or MR No, yet McCain is appearing more and more to be, how did Gramm say it... a whinner. It is always the same ol thing coming from his mouth, but a majority of it is laced with mis-stated facts, half truths and some out right lies. However considering that he does not know his world geography or confuses it so much, one has to take into consideration that his age is catching up from him. McCain is starting to remind me of my old cranky grandfather that cant seem to let go of the past and live in the present.

Obama again gets a free ride from the press and McCain is depicted as evil and calculating. If this is the taste of the coverage we get of Obama when he is not even the official Democratic nominee (please remember that for those of you who are putting Obama '01) I can only imagine what it will be like when and if, God help us, he is elected President. With that kind of media and Obama's legions of followers this country is in for some bad times.

Reality starting to settle in with Johnny boy...very reactionary...trying to plug every hole that Obama's campaign opens. This election will not even be close.

McCain is as two-faced as they come. First, he criticized Obama about not going to Iraq and maintained a "clock" to keep up with how many days without a trip to Iraq. Next, he criticized Obama for going to Iraq and accused Obama of going for "political" reasons.

During the Democratic primaires, McCain himself took a trip to Iraq, claimed that it was not political, proceded to mistake Sunni for Shiite, confused Al Queda for Iranians and (today) mixed up Iraq and Afghanistan! McCain is no foreign policy expert!

Indeed, the wheels have come off of the "Straight Talk Express."

And he did a very good job of it on "TODAY" despite repeated attempts by Meredith Viera to interrupt him.

franco, then you are deaf and blind. It is all right in front of your face.

McCain must not remember the plan when we went into Afghanistan and then Iraq. We were going (1) get Osama Bin Laden, (2) rout the Iraqi military, (3) be welcomed as liberators, (4) eliminate the Taliban in Afghanistan, (5) help establish a western friendly democracy in Iraq, and (6) secure a reliable source of oil from a friendly government. Did I get that all right?

Let's see we accomplished #2, but failed #1 and #3. Numbers 4, 5, and 6 are still looking doubtful. How do we prevent Iraq from cozying up to Iran after we pull out? When, if ever, will we be able to pull out and end up with a western friendly democracy?

How may lives and how much money have be wasted in Iraq. How much more will it take? Just wait until we start rebuilding. How many more contractors are we going to make rich with over-generous contracts and poor oversight?

I do not believe that reducing violence against our troops five years after going in was one of our goals. If McCain wants to say that a mess that has recently become slightly less of a mess is a victory, then I don't want his as my president.

WOw, just another demonstration of the Media LOVING on the liberal left. At the end of the campaigns take any news service and count the # of positive and negative reports on each candidate. I'd put my house up on a bet that the ratio of negative vs positive reports for B.O. (appropriate initials) will be greatly overshadowed by McCain. Why? Because the media wants to control what everyone thinks. Total bias is happening here and it sickens me.

B.O. for Czar of the U.S.S.A. or McCain for President of the United States?

I'll take the latter.

Obama's trip overseas-Another act.
Mc Cain should be picking apart this guys record Mc Cains needs to get rough on this sweet talker... Mc Cain needs to go where Hillary could not as a fellow democrat–

Excuse me....when Nancy Pelosi visited overseas the MSM was in such an uproar about the visit we didn't get any other news for a week. WHEN did this so called policy start. When obama said so...figures.

First, McCain, he's on a tour to listen to military commanders AND foreign leaders. Did you forget aout the second part of that sentence? Second, it's ok to "break the rules" because you think it's a political tour? Bush also thought it ok to "break the rules" when he spoke in Isreal. The more I see/hear from you, McCain, the more you really do sound like Bush. Can you teach us all the trick of speaking out of both sides of your mouth?

McCain is such a LOSER..Enough of your crying game McShame..Go relax in your darn rocker already...The TRUTH hurts, old man.....The only reason that the surge is working is because our Government is paying the radical cleric Al-Sadr not to attack our men and woman there..Didn't think we knew that huh McShame? And why did you go to Iraq last time with a bullet proof vest and had over 200 soldiers guarding you when you went to the open markets? And had Apache helicopters over head protecting you? Hmmmm seemed like you weren't scared...

"McCain has supported the war effort and soldiers from the start."
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Obama has had it right from the beginning. He said that war in Iraq would be a "dumb war". McCain ignorantly said it would only last a short amount of time.

McCain consistently gets very low grades from groups supporting vets. Obama has supported our troops much more as seen by his voting for benefits for vets.

I'd like to ask John McCain how you "Win" a civil war between two factions of another country and ethnic group. His interview on the Today show was pathetic: the same sentence repeated time and again about the surge working. The surge is not the war; we wouldn't have had a surge if the war had been "working" in the first place. The surge was a band-aid to fix the mistakes we had made long before. Did Obama oppose the surge? Yes, because he had the foresight to know that it would only cause another diversion from the real war on terror in Afghanistan – which it has. We've now spent even MORE money in Iraq, trying to buy ourselves a so-called "victory" that isn't possible.

You can't "win" a civil war in which we are not the opponents. We're the instigators. We can't "win" anything – so Republicans, and John McCan specifically, need to stop saying "we're winning." Winning what? More debt? A crappier world reputation? More hatred from countries around the world? I don't want to win that. Keep that prize for yourself, John McCain.

I'm an Obama supporter, but I don't think a rule has been broken here. This trip is political so McCain can pick him apart while he's abroad. Besides, as an Obama supporter I want to see McCain contrast himself with Obama and continue to remind the American people that he: McCain wants us out of Iraq.

Mcshame is just mad because he Now that if Obama is perceived as strong on Foreign Policeis he loses the only advantage he's got Mcshame is felling his Campaign go down the drain and I love it Obama 08

How many times will we allow ourselves to be fooled by republican propaganda.If we let them build fear in our hearts about fellow American patriots,like Obama,Kerry(A veteran),and Al Gore,we will pay the same price that we have paid for the last 8 years.

In the comments above, those who support Obama refer about all the good things he has to say. However, it is interesting to note, that he has never done anything of substance. In ten years as a lawyer, he had zero appearances in Chicago courts. During that time, he was third, fourth or fifth chair in Federal Court, and then only sparingly.
As the neighborhood organizer, he took credit for removing asbestos from Chicago neighborhoods. He reported in his book that he was the primary mover, never mentioning Ms. Johnson, who singlehandedly led a seven year process to get rid of the asbestos. Most of it is still there, and Obama is long gone.
Now, if you really think he is the next Messiah, try your darndest to come up with some substantial accomplishment.

It is with unmitigated pleasure that I watch the demise of the Republican party as they make fools of themselves libelling Obaam at every turn.The American people are tired of their lies and tired of their absolute incompetence except for lining the pockets of their friends.
Every bit of news is driven by Obama;everything is a response to something he proposes.Do they have any ideas at all? I dont know what they polls are showing but Mcain's conduct indicates that he must be way behind otherwise he would be promoting his ideas instead of attacking obama's.If I was Obama I would totally ignore McCain and not respond to a single attack.Just put together a highlight reel of Mcain's numerous flip flops and gaffes.In fact he should put it on a cd and sell it to raise funds.We already have a delusional imbecile in the White House ;the last thing we need is a senile imbecile in th White House.

McCain breaks political rules. It is an interesting headline, sure to grab attention, but I headlines should reflect reality.

It seems that Obama is the one who has taken politics off-shore by going abroad to "boost" his political credentials. Even if it isn't a political stunt, McCain is free to criticize the trip in any way he wants.

In reality, the "rule" referred to in this article is that candidates don't put down other candidates in front of foerign audiences. Politics should be left between our shores, meaning, you don't badmouth your opponents abroad. It doesn't mean that you can't denounce a shallow opponents headline-grabbing trip overseas.

Spin is often interesting, but in this case, inaccurate.

It looks like McCain wants some attention

Iraq and Pakistan don't share a border. Call that out CNN!

I have been reading the comments. Obama is our saviour, not for just this country but for the whole world. Once he is the supreme leader of the World, everyone will be living in harmony. I heard that not only do Europeans endorse him, so do the martians. I dont care that he really hasnt accomplished anything and he does not have a lot of experience. This world won't be a better place until all the big bad corporations (even though they employ "average" people and provide a goods and services that we want) are destroyed.

Oh yes we can destroy this country, yes we can. Obama '08

boy – you obamanites come out like roaches when he's attacked. How funny!

This has thehe smell of desperation. Oddly enough, it's that "old man" smell.

The "terrorists" and malcontents in Iraq are determined to achieve one goal with the US. Make sure that a US victory is a Phyrric Victory.

Question of the day:
Is declining a Phyrric Victory a loss or a win?

Criticized him AND created a real security situation by claiming where Obama would be and when. That seems like the real story here, not that I've seen it covered in the MSM anywhere.

This backstabbing flip flopper can't stand up to our future president face to face, he has to wait for him to go to Iraq (as he asked Mr. Obama to do) before he attacks (which his wife said he wouldn't)

How transparent do McCain's lies and doublespeak need to be before the republicans swith over and vote for change we can believe in?

Aldultering gambler, No!

Obama, Yes!

So when McCain travels to the middle east it is not political?
He railed against Obama for not going; now he rails against the Democratic nominee for going .... sounds jealous and wishy washy to me.

DR Ramsey, thank you for your comments.
I have a nephew who had to drop out of pre-med twice to go to Iraq. He came home with stories that are to horrible for many of the people here to imagine.
As a veteran myself I still remember the condition of my friends who returned from the Gulf War. I was appauled from the begining that we were sending our children once again to this region.

Military commanders DO NOT set policy or determine there own goals. They follow the orders and pursue the goals given to them by there comanding officer. There advise as McCain is talking about is advice given specifically on how to acheive the orders that Bush as Commander in Chief has provided. If the ordrs change the advice changes.

McBush has the dead shark eyes. Bye gotta go puke now.

McBush is such a jerk
Let me correct that
MsSame is such a OLD OLD OLD NEARLY AT the END, SENILE senile , JERK!
Its getting to the point I cannot stand watching McAGAIN, just like BUSH. he even has the same smerk on his face.

Hillaryboy My friends are democrats and you surely are no democrat!!

When you really think about this....none of these guys have experience in Iraq or the middle east. Just becasue John McSame was shot down and was a POW does not mean he is qulified to make military decisions. Hell, he has been out of uniform for a tleast half of his life (whic is a looooong time). None of these guys are on the ground in Iraq and the only people who have been in the middle of all the danger has been the troops. I could care less of what people think as to how long we need to be there. Lets here from the troops and find out what they want!

BHO cannot make any judgement on the middle east from one trip in 900 some odd days and 143 days in the US Senate. McCain has every right to criticize BHO. What a piece of work he is.

It is not up to Obama to determine when we leave Iraq.

It is not up to McCain when we leave Iraq.

It is not up to the military when we leave Iraq.

Regardless of anyone's experience, it is up to the voters.

BUSH is paying the Sunnis NOT to shoot our troops!!!!! So is the SURGE really working???. Obviously not...

NO WONDER Bush cannot come up with a "timed" withdrawal plan – he does not know HOW to get our troops out without a "blood bath"!!!

Think about it – we would have to "SNEAK" out of there. Why??? Because once there is an indication to the Sunnis and others that we're pulling out and they're not going to get paid anymore – ALL HELL IS GOING TO BREAK LOOSE!!!

How many would opt for McCain as a doctor in any way, shape, form or manner?

From listening to McCain it sounds like he want to turn the USA in a MILITARY JUNTA!

The United States of America is a democracy for THE PEOPLE and by THE PEOPLE........ Policy should NOT be formed by the Military..... McCain is a traitor!

And who wanted to have a civilized election? Now who can you trust? It isn't McCain!

I don't like people who lie about being Republicans then turn around and bash them on a website. Man up to being a liberal, though I know what shame that can bring you.

McBush is just jealous of Obama's intellect (which HE CERTAINLY LACKS!), as well as his youth. He is afraid that Obama will make a complete fool of him, which he has already done since his trips to Afghanistan and Iraq.

Sorry, I got so angry over this jerk I mispelled A-M-ERICAN. Guess it's my own Vietnam experiences taking over again. This guy sucks!
Signed: USMC Vet.

Do people honestly believe that Senator McCain is an expert on foreign affairs and military strategy? The man retired as a Captain, he didn't command a fleet or a ship, probably a squadron at best... So where has he gained all this experience in military affairs? I don’t buy it!! Both candidates have the same experience in foreign affairs, but I’ll give Senator McCain time served for being in the military.

Actually, I think Obama is the one who is guilty of this. McCain has supported the war effort and soldiers from the start. The media bias is both visible and disgusting.

Hopefully the McCain campaign will LISTEN TO THE AMMERICAN PEOPLE !
As I read the polls, at least 75% of us want us out of Iraq NOW.

McCain needs to remember that American people are THE deciding factor here and not the General, not his campaign advisors and certainly not his "Vietnam Veterans for Mistruth" buddies.

Everybody needs to recognize that this man will NOT pay attention to the electorate no matter what.

What Senator McCain fails to mention is that the surge would not have been necessary if he and his republican party cohorts went after our 9-11 enemies in Afghanistan instead of strutting our stuff in Iraq in a foolish attempt to grab "OIL"

John McBush now promises to continue with the same policies that have brought our country into economic ruin and we STILL have not addressed getting the "REAL ENEMY"

It's TIME FOR A CHANGE IN WASHINGTON DC" Boot the GOP bums out of office!

There is nothing that Obama can offer without experience. Photo ops mean nothing . Experience is the only thing that counts in matters as important as this.

Republican and PUMA supporters have given a new name to shameless...
How can somebody vote Bush over Al Gore (for republicans) or vote Clinton over Bush Sr. and then cry for Obama's inexperience. It's makes me sick.

I thought McCain said that he doesn't know that much about the economy, now he is an expert and knows more than Obama. IS THIS A FLIP FLOP or where you just told to say that.

1) If figures-the headline says McCain breaks rule, a rule the Dems have been breaking since day one. Ex: Dems picking apart Bush on a constant basis whether or not he's abroad.
2)So-I should vote for obama becuase everyone else & Oprah thinks its a good idea?
3) If I were General Petraeus; I'd retire right away if obama wins. It's going to be a total disaster of (possibly) Biblical porportions. He's already flip flopped on Afganistan, what's next? Negotiate with terroists? Hello Jimmy Carter..

CNN WHAT DONT U PUT MY COMMENTS.

Mc cain is a power ranger, honestly since when does mc Insane have experience in foreign policy?
Ok this guy traveled 20 to 40 time in Iraq and obama 2 times in Iraq and one time in afghanistan.

But mc cain wont have to travel all this time in iraq if they wont be any war at all from the begining.

Ok obama is an empty suit but what about mc cain.

honestly to say that mc shame will be a good comander in chief just because he has been persecuted in vietnam, commonnnnnnnnn guys.

Hom many soldiers were hostage and tortured in Iraq?
Does it mean that all of them are good to be the next us president.

What about the economy? Mc aim doesn't give a clue, He just want to be elected.

USA is like a continent on his own; you can't let someone with bad marks be the next us president.

What about hussein obama, yeah this is middle name and? who cares. This guy at list went to university and run a good primary campaing.

anyway in Europe, no one want a republican because they use fear monger and they wants to make war with everyone.
We dont say anything but we just hope that he doen't get elected.

honestly the gop are a bunch of losers and jokers.

Merci beaucoup (thank you very much)

Cordialement (sincerely)

Julien

this is what it would look like In 2013, after McCain’s four years of Bush-style fiscal irresponsibility, tax breaks for corporations, and more tax cuts for the wealthy, America would have a $780 billion deficit (4.3% of GDP) and national debt of $8.5 trillion (47% of GDP). That’s over $1.5 trillion more debt than would be accumulated under a continuation of current Bush policies.

i think we can do better than that. no thanks
change coming soon

America is the weakest it has been ever because of the weak character of the people WE put in office, people like John S. McCain. he will stoop to the lowest level to gain self obsessed power. he is not for "the people" but for the big business and big oil co. that have bought him. we see he is after all JUST LIKE BUSH...with his swift boaters and dirty tactics. if John Mccain were the man he is trying to dupe us in believing he is, why wont he release his Military records?
AMERICA...lets not make the same mistake we made 8 years ago.

To all Obama supporters on this posting.....WOW Folks...maybe you should wake up and smell the roses. No one in the Senate voted to go to war....it was to authorized the President to move forward if all other avenues had been covered. Bush started the war and circumvented the Senate/House. McCain stood up to Bush/Rep when it was clear that Rumsfield et al were wrong in their approach. He is the one who pushed for the surge. Obama's only answer has been to go along with the funding...and plan an exit without thought or foresight. Obama's economic proposals will put the country into a depression...and economic depression for those who think I was talking about a medical condition.

And FYI Jack...not discrepencies.....flip flops! Much different. You need to get educated about what you are talking about!

Wake Up!!! Obama has the training wheels on his bike regarding every facet of the United States.....McCain has the 10 speed and is about to win the race. Experience, analytical ability, honor......Vote for America!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Vote McCain!

What a flip-flopper!

McCain looks more and more each day as a very bitter man and not the one to be President. It looks like McCain is going to lose the race on his own. To run on fear and more fear will just not get him the job. McCain is not the same person he once was he does not seem to have retained any of his independant thinking he once had.
Paul
Texas

Franco-
Don't feel bed about not knowing where Obama stands. You and many other people clearly have not seen any reason to actually go to his website where he states his policies and objectives. So, no worries. Don't inform yourself, just watch and listen to right wing news stations and pundants and you will get all of the unbiased info you need on Obama.

Senator McCain had best be careful in resulting to low blows of Senator Obama. It did not work for Hilary and it will not work for McCain. Hilary felt entitled to the nomination and McCain feels like he is entilted to the White house because of his service in the Military. McCain needs to understand that this election is up for grabs. No One is entitled anymore!

Amazing......we went to Iraq on a lie and the right have been trying to defend it ever since...Man up and admit the conflict in Iraq was wrong.

Yet McCain and Bush are following Obama in foreign policy. They are adopting his strategies: talking to Iran, increasing troops in Afghanistan and time "horizons" for Iraq. McCain is just contradicting himself again.

Well, here we go again. Obama, Obama, Obama. That's all the poor guy knows. He knows talking about Obama is the only way he can stay awake and keep his small audience awake. Go away McWar and take your policies with you. We all know next week you will be using the same talking points as Obama. Pathetic.

Go away-find a rocking chair and chill.

McSHAME IS CLUELESS. end of story. next?

If you have to use "Mc_____" (with some childish insult inserted) and type in all caps then it's pretty safe to say you have absolutely nothing to contribute to any political conversation ever. You're probably perfect for a professional sporting event though. Just throw your colors on and scream.

For all their "picking apart" of Obama's Iraq plan, they selectively chose to ignore that his plan DOES involve a "conditions based withdrawal", which they now irresponsibly accuse him of not having.

You know the more McCain talks about this, the more people are reminded that it was people like him that put us into this quagmire to begin with. And now, those that botched the first attempt at success are trying to instruct those who were right all along on how to fix things?

Let me ask you something: if the guy who builds your house messes up the concrete foundation, are you going to listen to him when he tries to tell you how to fix it? No. You go with the guy who knows what he's doing, not the guy who screwed it up. It's that simple.

McCain cannot pick apart Obama's Iraqi policy when he went along with Bush on the ivasion of Iraq. The Iraqi war has failed only because we had no right going invading this country based on false "pretense". America needs someone who'll be able to lead this country in the right direction and not be someone's "lap dog".

THE LAST KICKS OF A DYING HORSE!

Sour Grapes!!!!!!
Can we vote now?

McCain is still dreaming and forgetting that Iraq does not share borders with Pakistan.

If we had Obama's judgement, we would not have been in in the war of lies, and lost over $2 trillion, 4000 soldiers dead, over 30 000 injured seriously.

McCain – Bush Iraq war was a war of lies!!

Funny how people full of nonsense feel intelligent when all shouting in unison...even when shouting nonsense in unison.

I am GLAD that our presidents are not elected strictly based upon the votes of simpletons like the vast majority of commenters here.

"Hope," "change," blah blah blah. Hogwash. Obama cares about no one but himself. If you don't believe me, wait by your phone for his call after he's elected...you'll be waiting a loooong time

Get used to this. The Republicans are running so scared that they will say or do anything at this point. Of course it will all be for our security. You know we will be under attack as soon as Obama wins. This is just part of the fear mongering that will be used from now until November. It's old, It's offensive to any thinking person, and it is time for it to stop. These old farts are ruining their party more that any Democrat ever could, just by being themselves. No Republicans to the White House, Congress, or Senate in November, and for a long time to come. Sorry.

The old man ought to shut his mouth until Sen. Obama gets home from this cirtical trip. For a guy who says he is better equipped to be Commander in Chief, he certainly is showing poor judgment today.

FORGET ALL OF THIS CRAP – LET'S GET ON WITH THE DEBATES.... I cannot wait until the REAL debates begin!!! Now that's Exciting!!!

Obama – as tall as he stands – will EAT McCain alive!!!

GO OBAMA!!!

So the surge was successful? We are winning the war? I'd like to see the evidence of that rather than just George W. and his twin John McCain flapping their lips.
What hard core evidence is there that the surge was successful and we are winning the War?
Can MCcain and Bush back up their words with numbers and facts?

The republicans will lose this election on their own without help from Obama for being elitist enough to think the American public can not think for themselves and can be brainwashed into believing everything the president says, just because he said it.
We will have a democratic president come January 2009.
Thanks you.

The Iraqi leaders back Obama's plan in Iraq, and no amount of Bush arm-twisting will change that.

Obama 08'

MCSHAME IS VERY CONFUSED. FIRST OF ALL HE COMPLAINS OF OBAMA NOT GOING TO THE MIDDLE EASE THEN HE COMPLAINS HE IS THERE MUST BE ALZHIEMERS. I AM SO TIRED OF HIS COMMENTS AND COMMERCIALS ABOUT VIETNAM. WE SHOULDN'T HAVE BEEN THERE EITHER. GOOD THING THAT MCSHAME DIDN'T SERVE IN THE CIVIL WAR OR WE WOULD HEAR ABOUT THAT OR IS THAT COMING. WE NEED YOUNG BLOOD RUNNING THIS COUNTRY AND I AM A 60 YEAR OLD PERSON WRITING THIS. TIME FOR A CHANGE OBAMA 2008 JIM HALL

A iraq/pakistan border gaffe ticker would be nice CNN. You are talking about how McCain was attacking Obama and didn't mention that he can't even get his facts straight. The funny thing is that McCain went on all the shows this morning because he knows his back is up against the wall now that Iraw wants us out.

McQueeg is taking advantage of his one big chance to make war a meaningful part of this election.

Once Obama is back in the States, everyone's attention will be focused on this stinky economy and the quality of life that has declined steadily throughout the Bush years. No one will care what McQueeg has to say about "the surge" then.

There’s nothing left for McCain but to attack. This is the only way to keep people from knowing how far he is from the truth. Guy can’t even tell there is a whole country (Iran) between Iraq and Afghan leave alone the Persian Gulf when asked about the situation in Afghan and he referred to the border between Iraq and Afghan. But then again it’s a far away place and since they are closer to each other in his mind they must share a border, never mind Czechoslovakia still exists in his mind. And this is decades long foreign policy experience I can count on???

You democrats are insane! You show your true colors in the responses that you are the blind leading the blind. George Bush's biggest enemy in the war on terror has been you. He has not been able to fight this war because his hands have been tied by the flower and sandal wearing crowd. Now that we are having success you guys have switched your complaining to other things. Phil was right-we are a nation of complainers for political power. Obama should be hanging his head in shame when he meets the troops-but I'm sure all of that will be scripted for him. The man is only as good as what the teleprompter says to read. Have you heard him without it-It makes GW look smart.

McCain doesn't even know that Iraq and Pakistan DO NOT SHARE A BORDER. Come on CNN, start reporting the news instead of trying to manufacture it.

McCain has every right to show the flippy-floppy and ever-changing political stance of Obama. Obama says what his audience wants to hear. He was courting the far left, then he courted the left, now he's courting the left-of-center, yet the Media don't show the inconsistencies. Why is that?

McCain is Experience, Obama is Distain of Experience. Who knows what's going on? A Military man who was held hostage in a foreign land for years or a child who lived in Indonesia and attended Primary School?

The man or the child. Your choice. The man is McCain, the child is Obama. Think about it long and hard.

Hmmm Obama's strategy was to fail. McCains was to try to succeed. It sounds like Obama should change his strategy to No We Can't. Because when it comes to his policies he just cant get them right. The media covers Obama like a God, and when McCain criticizes him legitmately it's running a negative campaign. But when Obama criticizes McCain he elevates the debate...give me a break. Liberals pull your heads out of your collective rose smelling rears and get a dose of reality he was wrong and will, when he comes back from Iraq slowly but surely back off of the 16 months. He will slowly but surely back off of all of his plans and become just another canidate. What has McCain done, stayed the same moderate pain in the rear to both the conservates and the liberals that he's always been, and someone who's willing to work with everyone...even if they are wrong.

Of Course Obama's trip is purely political. If he truly cared about the issues in the Middle East or had any true desire to better understand the situation, he would have traveled there years ago. But rather than doing that, he conveniently waited until he had the nomination to make the trip. McCain on the other hand, has traveled there many times, has served in the military during war time and has two children in the military – one who served in Iraq – it seems pretty clear who has a firmer grasp on the realities of military conflict.

We need to join together and stand against this tyrant to be. More of the same bush/cheney is NOT what America needs!

Meghan

Thank you for your husbands service.. What you said is something America believes, but this sham of an administration can't wrap its brain around it.

America is starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel and IF America elects McCain, I fully believe we will end up in WW3 and that is something WE all need to worry about.

McCain claimed he wanted to stay away from personal attacks, well that's out the window. Whats next John?? Your a tired old politician who is violating Social Security laws by making too much money as a United States Senator and collecting Soc. Sec. payments. If a average person who collects SS payments, and they earn more than allowed, they lose their benefits, But the law doesn't apply to McScam!. Your a disgrace to TRUE, Native Arizonan's like myself. Go back to Iowa and retire John, for the good of the country!!

Jason L.
Chandler, Arizona
And I approved this message!!

Shut up old man.

McBush is so far out of touch with reality that the only thing he can do is criticize, his ideas are stale and contrary to the vast majority of Americans. I look forward to November when he will enter the old folks home and keep his mouth shut.

Another McCain gaffe? Say it isn't so! More and more, McCain seems totally inept.

Hillaryboy – you are full of crap. Stop spreading propaganda. Quote your source.

As a democrat, I agree with John McCain. I also know Obama economic policies will not work. Most of them are from Jimmy Carter era. And we learnt a hard bad lesson from it. I rather go through 8 more years of McCain policies then Obama's failing ideas on economy. And sky high taxes, I was reading that Obama wants to add .10 cents to each gallon of gas and .14 cents to diesel when he gets into office.

McBush's new ads are completely inaccurate. They point out discrepencies in Obama's statements, over a period of TWO YEARS. So McCain is saying that the conditions in Iraq cannot change over a period of two years? Not only that, if you truely listen to Obama's statements, most of them haven't changed, Obama just phrased them differently. McCain is distorting everything Obama says. Look this war has gone on long enough. When can we end it? In another hundred years or next March? Even the Iraqi government wants us to leave now (disregarding a base similar to the ones in Japan and Germany and other nations)

Talk about biased reporting. McCain breaks a rule. Whose rule? CNNs? Obama is a candidate, not the president. Perhaps criticism of the president should stop when he/she travels for state reasons to foreign lands, but surely this does not apply to political candidates. Who said it did? And what about McCain's reply that Obama did the same while McCain was out of the country?

Reading these entries kind of reminds me about how a group of people hearing the same message will change the content as the message is spread down the line. How can we all be priveledged to hearing/reading the same information regarding both McCain and obama, and come away with two entirely differant views. I think that two many people get their information from misinformed sources, and not from the ones that really know what they are talking about. Although I personnaly do not care much for McCain, but I will vote for him, the alternative scares the crap out of me. obama is reckless, dangerous and to risky to be the commander in chief. He is riding a boat that is destined to sink, and h wont even be smart enough to be wearing a life preserver.

the only 'subjects' Obama is correct on, is the same ones he is mouthing, which Pres. Bush has already talked about.
Good for McCain for 'speaking up'; Obama seems to get by with it all the time, without 'press' comment.

First, back inthe earlier days of the campaign, Senator McCain says he does not understand the economy. Then he putsGraham in charge as economic advisor and he calls us whiners and says the economy is fine, the recession non existant and that its all in our heads... (I guess I imagine 4.08 a gallon too) and now McCain says

"I have far more experience on the economy than Senator Obama," he said on NBC. "I'm very strong on the economy. I was chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee on Science and Transportation, which addresses all these issues."

Being on a committee for science and transportation fails to show me how this man has economic experience deep enough to fix an economy that even the brightest and best are struggling to sure up.

If anyone thinks Obama is visiting foreign nations because he "cares," they seriously need a wake up call. He's obviously there because of political reasons on top of his arrogance.

He is so full of himself it's not even funny. His records show that he is not even seasoned to lead the presidency, much yet a McDonald's franchise.

Any money, when Obama returns to the United States, he is going to be more right wing than liberal.

The Media (McCain calls his base) should pick apart McCain. The future of our blood and treasure is depending on it. General Wesley Clark was right. Because you crashed a plane in Vietnam and was captured by the enemy, doesn't make you qualified to be President especially, when you made 32 propaganda films for the enemy. When released, he apologized for doing so, but that doesn't cut it with me. He is no hero, he never was. He is just another Bush screw up. However, Bush did get higher grades in school than McShame. Now that's something to be frighten about.

Mc Cain versus Mc Abel

:Experience and wisdom matter"...yeah John, but only if one HAS experience and the wisdom to apply it truthfully, legally, and humanely. The Bush administration did none of the above, and it looks like McCain is following the path carved by Rove....only this time, the American people will not be bullied, terrified nor cheated out of an election. This time, right will prevail. Can you imagine for a second if Bush's Supreme Court had kept out of 2000, and Gore had been President? Does anyone for a moment think we'd be in Iraq, or that Bin Laden would still be free, or that oil would be $4.50/gallon? Christians, indeed-these people are fascist pigs who only want to protect their fortunes on the backs of the rest of us.

Also..If the republican party are so serious about the War on Terror, then why have we not gone after the KKK, Bloods, Crips, and others that do harm to other americans everyday?? We need to clean our own backyard first before forceing any country to be different.

You've GOT to be kidding! "Politics ends at the water's edge"? Democrats, including Obama, have been attacking Bush's policy for years, no matter where he traveled. That phrase, by the way, didn't used to mean you don't criticize a person when he is traveling. It meant that you defer to the President on foreign affairs, so as not to undermine his authority to negotiate treaties. That one has been dead for years, because the Democrats killed it!

I don't care what Obama or McCain say and do between now and November, millions of Hillary backers will never vote for Mr. Selected Not Elected Obama. I live in Florida, and i won't forget who disenfranchised me.

PUMA PAC

How is it that Republicans are blamed for a Democrat Congress? Do people understand how the government works?

SHUT UP!!!!!!

Is anyone actually listening to McSame while Obama is gone? The entire world can't wait for Obama to win this election. They are tired of the same ole politicians that have no respect for the rest of the world. Bush sends a negotiator to Iran for talks, but wait, he can go, but not talk. Haha! The Repubelicans are a joke and are in the process of being phased out of America. I can't wait for 1/20/09.

McSame needs to straighten out his arms and stop repeating "My friends" to everyone. He has got to be the dumbest person ever elected. All he did in his life was get shot down. He's a fake.

I was a former John McCain supporter, but he has proven over and over again that he is willing to say and do anything to get elected. He use to be a man of principles but since running for the rupublican nomination, he has sold out his position on fiscally responsible tax cuts and immigration reform. When he was asked by Anderson Cooper whether he would support his own Immigration Bill, McCain back-peddled and said, he would support an effort to export all illegal immigrants (All 13 Million of them.. which is ridiculous considering that we only export 200,000 a year right now and spend billions doing it... where does he propose we get enough police officers to go kicking down doors and finding these 13M illegal immigrants?).

in addition, he, like many of our 'leaders' (Bush and Clinton) failed to admit their mistakes. Going into Iraq was not justified. But now that we are there, we are responsible for them to gain back the government and infrastructure stability they had before we bombed their roads, bridges and power plants.

McCain is a sellout.

HET RSP YOU ARE AN IDIOT PERIOD. WE NEED TO GET THE PEOPLE RESPONSIBLE FOR 9/11 AND HONOR THE LIVES FOR THE PEOPLE WHO DIED.

Kyle in SD July 21st, 2008 11:46 am ET

"I'm very strong on the economy." HA! WOW! McCain is making this too easy! And um, chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee on SCIENCE and TRANSPORTATION???? I'm sorry, perhaps I'm wrong, but how does THAT committee address all of our economic issues?!?

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Yes, he is strong on the economy. And yes, you are wrong - it sounds as if you have been sleeping in a cave, as you have just proven to us that you are. You should realize that science and transportation (internet and vehicles, airlines, etc.) are key in our economy. I work on Wall Street and am very much aware of the market, and if you think science and transportation are not a huge part of it, you obviously are not speaking with knowledge, experience but rather your love for Obama.

Senator Obama's Foreign Relationship subcommittee chairmanship has not addressed nor proposed anything of satisfaction. That's what you should be concentrating on - focusing on your Obama's leadership on a committee. Leadership I might add of which there is none.

Why use resume when you could use curriculum vitae? At least it reads better.

Obama is perfectly correct on all subjects discussed overseas. McCain needs to retire!!!. The wars over there have been a waste. If we wanted to do something we should of went in full force and took the country over, not just fight little battles here and there and looking for one person at a time. It is time to get our troops out of there!!!!

McCain we haven't won anything over there!!!!

McCain will be elected. Obama's shine is gone. he's just another democrat liberal controlled by the DNC.

McCain and his surrogates are sounding more and more like that parrot that says only one annoying phrase over and over again! "The surge is working, the surge is working"!

Yet McCain in his effort to attack Obama while he is overseas makes McCain makes another verbal gaffe about Iraq and Afghanistan sharing a border.

A pattern is definitely emerging from McCain, which is the middle east is all the same.

Voting for McCain in 2008 is a dangerous and risky game!

Coming from a soldier's wife I hope you will all listen very carefully to what I have to say. My husband has been deployed to the Middle east 4 times since 2002. There is no reason for us to be in Iraq. The soldiers are not fighting the Taliban and Al Queda like the news wants you to believe. They are fighting in the middle of a civil war between the Sunni and the Shia. The soldier's are being used as the iraqi police force and it's not right. We never should have involved ourselves without the support of NATO and we shouldn't be there now. I am all for a withdrawl as soon as possible. Even if the surge worked to curb the violence our troops were encountering it still doesn't justify staying there and fighting a civil war for a country that would like to see us leave in the first place. The government doesn't tell you what's really going on and until all of that comes to light the American people are still going to be convinced that our soldiers are fighting the Taliban and AlQueda in Iraq, which they are not.

MCCAIN IS A WRECK

OF COURSE THE MAN WITH AN AWEFUL TEMPER STILL ATTACKS OBAMA AS HE TRAVELS. HOW SAD!

That's part of the surge strategy.

Our tax dollars are going to those who were killing our soldiers

So many things to comment about in this article. I thought it was going to be about how McCain talked about Obama's travel plans when a seasoned politicians should know better for safety reasons.

Now as for McCain. Obama is against the war. Question, if the surge worked, why do we still have more troops in Iraq than before the surge. Why haven't surge troops been removed??? Also, McCain's statement implies that only those that serve would be able to make decisions about the war. Last I checked, the army worked for the government and not the other way around. Officials are suppose to make decisions based on the facts and calculation not their experience because almost all of them do not have that. So what are you saying McCain. Considering the fact that you do not know who is on the Iran border (watch morning show), I seriously doubt your "experience".

I keep on noticing that CNN is still playing the same game. The headline is: "McCain breaks big political rule". Which gives the impression that McCain is doing something wrong, but in reality when you read the story, well it is something that has been done in the past, nothing knew. CNN keeps following the same "strategy" pro-Obama as in the headlines for Mrs. Clinton (my candidate *sign*): "Clinton acting negatively" when she had to defend herself from unreasonable attacks and "Obama defending from attacks" when he was correctly questioned. As in any consumer oriented country, the media will pick the product people need to buy (or the president they need to vote for). Is there any "fair and balanced" network out there?

What nonsense! This is an accepted custom when dealing with sitting presidents, not presidential candidates.

When mentioning how well the surge work don't forget to mention How the Bush Administration is paying the sunnis not to kill our troops. That's the only reason why more Americans Soldiers are not being killed. Don't for get how we're begging the Mehdi Army to continue the cease fire. NO matter how many troops we put in Iraq that will not solve the cituation.

Tom:

"I look forward to the same, tired, "McSame" or "McBush" comments which lack any real grasp of the facts of fundamentals. Try all you want, but on this issue McCain is dead on correct."

Amen.

Texas Republican for OBAMA!!!!!!!!! McCain needs a nap.

Make it Barack Mc Abel

Oh, "gross misjudgment"???? Give me a break! McSame you agreed to a war and as a result of that, we lost thousand of lives. Now THAT's gross misjudgment.....

Looks like all of the Hillary supporters have lost interest in these postings.

The NY Times has rejected an op-ed written by John McCain rebutting an op-ed by Barak Obama published by the newspaper prior to his Iraq war trip. The editor (who was a Clinton White House staff member) said he would welcome a re-write, and would publish a McCain editorial which "mirrored' Sen. Obama's. Could they possibly be more biased without running a front page headline which simply said "Obama is the Messiah, McCain is the devil"?

Sorry, I forgot Back Mc Abel over John Mc Cain

McCain's policy has cost us countless lives, trillions of dollars, and we still don't have bin Laden. Thank you McCain for nothing.

McCain doesn't know what planet he's on, whether or not he's wearing his diaper, or if his wife fueled up the Double-Talk Express, how can he possibly attack someone else's policies when he won't remember what he said an hour from now. Back to your bamboo cage, Johnnie Boy!

I'm really sick of Bush and McSame using the troops as political pawns of the Republican Party..I'm still trying to understand how being a POW makes you an expert on foreign policy..McSame should be explaining the failures of the Bush administration foreign policy that he supported..Not this time McSame..Your Party's failures have awoken the sleeping giant..The American People..Go Obama..

Does ANYBODY think the splurge will make it into the military academies as textbook, brilliant battle strategy? .page 892.. then you pay the enemy bags of bribe money and promise it will continue for 100 years!!!

If Obama is going to campaign overseas...then he is not off limits at home while away. Thank you CNN for bashing McCain with your stupid headline.

This is a campaign trip nothing else.

Obama doesn't even know how to spell war.........much more how to defend this country against one.

McCain isnt' listening. These guys want us out of their country!

McCain doesn't know geography -

"I think it's serious. . . . It's a serious situation, but there's a lot of things we need to do. We have a lot of work to do and I'm afraid it's a very hard struggle, particularly given the situation on the Iraq/Pakistan border," McCain said

McCain doesn't care about the economy – Botox Barbie has him set for life.

McCain didn't win any wars !!!!!! He was a captured incompetent pilot.

Shut up McCain.

First, they complain that Obama haven’t been to the Middle East. So now they see that Obama is shining abroad they start throwing mood. It’s funny when people say that McCain has more foreign experience because he’s been 8 times in the region. Let me tell you something, you can be to a foreign country 100 times but that does not mean you understand more foreign country. Same, you can visit 100 times the Louvre Museum and claim to be an expert in French Impressionism...Maybe, there is a guy who only visits that museum 1 time but knows a big deal about it. Just a though.

Why does McCain think just because he was a prisoner of war and sat in a box for a couple of years...that he has experience..?..If he was all that he wouldn't have been captured in the first place...........Obama makes sense....that's the important thing...seems like he and the Iraqi leadership are on the same page.

Is attack all you know grandpa?? Try articulating your plans for once without sending everyone to sleep. You might have a better chance...just a thought!

So what if he's bringing it up while Sen. Obama is traveling? Hasn't Obama broken many customs of the past already?

Grow up CNN.

Senator McCain was wrong on going to Iraq in the first place. 4500 lives would have been saved and trillions of dollars would be invested on americas needs. The government took its eye off Afghanistan were Al-Queda calls home and the ones who attacked us on 9/11. Not one was an Iraqi.

Where exactly is the 'Iraq/Pakistan border’?
CNN PLEASE REPORT!!!!!

Asked by ABC's Diane Sawyer Monday morning whether the "the situation in Afghanistan in precarious and urgent," McCain responded:

"I think it's serious. . . . It's a serious situation, but there's a lot of things we need to do. We have a lot of work to do and I'm afraid it's a very hard struggle, particularly given the situation on the Iraq/Pakistan border," said

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzz......we're going out of Iraq! Change your mind now and acknowledge the reality old man!

That never was the rule. For all my life the rule was that a candidate wouldn't attack abroad wouldn't attack the US public policy or the incubent's execution of it . Obama's supporters in the media and elsewhere are making up such rules or modifying them to suit their purposes. Do just a little research please.

In the world of politics, it used to be a hard-and-fast rule: "Politics ends at the water's edge"..." Since when do the Republicans follow rules anyways? Look at Bush & Cheney: Trashed the Constitution, condones
torture, etc.

Um before the economy "wasn't (McCain's) strongest suit".... Is he senile or just a liar?

I NEVER SAID THAT BEFORE!!!!!!!!! WHY DO YOU NOT WANT TO PRINT ANYTHING NEGATIVE ABOUT MC BUSH!!!!!!!

McCain = Bush = Status Quo (Failure)

You can't WIN a surge in an immoral invasion of choice of a sovereign nation for the sole purpose of controlling its oil at the cost of almost 4,500 U.S. soldiers and countless Iraqis and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis now refugees while the real terrorists are permitted to thrive in Afghanistan and Pakistan while sending us videotapes.

McSame is a LOSER of the worst kind. He is a warmonger.

The U.S. taxpayers are not going to continue to watch $10-15 billion a month flushed down the toilet of the Bush/McCain War.

Withdrawal IS a WIN for the American people. To hell with the politicians, neocons and chickenhawks. The Iraqis want us out of there, too. Period.

McCain is a disgusting form of human, and a very shameful representation of America. His moral ethics reflect that of an old man who has reached the grumpy and intolerable stage of life. He needs to retire, his ethics have been completely lost.

Obama '08

Ok so Obama did it to McCain and now McCain is doing it to Obama. Where was the "Obama breaks big political rule" headline when McCain was out of the country.

If CNN really had the "best political team" it would be a little less obvious who they were pushing in the general election.

McIdiot is reaching. He is so desperate. I can't wait until Obama agrees to hold town hall meetings with this idiot say he can squash him once and for all. They underestimate Obama as if he's weak when it comes to town hall meetings, they better think again.

The Obama ship is sinking. He is a false prophet with one year of Senate experience. One hundred trips to Iraq won't erase his lack of political expertise. McCain will win in November because experience and wisdom matter.

Do they talk about anything except Barrack when he's 3000 miles away?

Keep going McCain...people are seeing you for what you are. An old man w/ no solutions. Amazing how all the Gov't officals over there support Obama's beliefs. Amazing how even GW's administration has started to do what Obama has suggested w/ Iran.

Obama did not ask the media to tag along, therefore CNN needs to tell the story how it really is happening. The media wants to follow along because this will give broad perspective of coverage on rebuilding our WORN OUT AND CORRUPT COUNTRY that we call USA. Our image across seas SUCKS and unless you have been there please don't try to comment against my post.

First hand experience is everything. At times I wanted to hide my identity as being American and we have Bush and Senate to thank for that.

What about something on McCain referring to the non-existent Iraq/Pakistan border during this morning's interview with Diane Sawyer?

McCain is so full of it, NOW he's strong on the economy... give me a break!! This guy is all about War and that's the kind of president he would be if elected. I think he would be worse than Bush on that front. The economy would continue worsen and the military would continue to stretched and fail overseas under McCain's rule. This old man is a joke. He clearly represents old politics, old standards, outdated rules, beliefs and policies, and old ugly men. He is no more qualified to be president than Bush was and we all know how that turned out.

Obama '08/'12

“gross misjudgment”???

Why don’t you talk about not getting cold hard evidence on Iraq being close to getting nuclear weapons or had nuclear weapons before you & Bush voted to start an unwarranted war?

Plus, why didn’t you use the same strategy for North Korea and Iran? Both of these countries are far closer to getting or actually already had nuclear weapons yet no war? Hmmm, maybe you realized that war is not always the answer!!!!

McCain & Bush’s vote to start an unwarranted war was the true “gross misjudgment”

You're criticizing McCain for this? This is an old adage that Speaker Pelosi didn't heed, either. But I doubt that CNN had the same criticism of her.

Before McCain's strategy "to do exactly the same in Afghanistan" is given any momentum, SOMEBODY should try to track where the millions went that were paid off in the 'splurge' to the terrorists in Iraq.
Has Obama ever been asked if he agrees with McCain and Petreus that the way to win wars is give bags of money the enemy?
What if, and really think about this, what if they are using those millions to fund an attack on American soil?
I just don't hink it's 'intelligent' to give bags of unmarked bills to terrorists, then claim 'victory'.
If a country will 'not negotiate with terrorists' to free live hostages, why would they pay terrorists to cease fire?

Senator McCain,
The troops want out of Iraq.
The American people (70%+ of us) want out of Iraq.
The Iraq prime minister and its people want US troops out of Iraq.

So, which one of these have you supported up to now?

Which one (here's a hint: ALL THREE) has Senator Obama supported?

You've been wrong on this thing from the beginning.
We shouldn't have gone in amd you allowed whatever perceptions to guide you to be an early advocate of this war.
You suggested it would be easy (not so to those 4,100 troops who died there, and the countless others who've been mained; or their families who have to deal with the tragedy of the outcome)
You said we'd be greeted as liberators
You then said whomever said it would be easy was not being honest

You've been all over this, but haven't been right about it. By the way, what parts of the Iraq Study Group (ISG) did you agree with and which parts did you oppose?

NO ONE is right all of the time. And we can't possibly hold you to that. But, you've been wrong so many times on this, and for that, we can properly lay your record at your feet. By the way, was it about the oil after all?

....its their military judgment.........not there military judgment....

SHAME ON YOU JOHN McCAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!! As a veteran we dont fight unless a man can defend himself....You advised him to go to Iraq, he is there,,,shame on you, why dont you give as good as you get....My God what a leader....

McCain – You lost me when you supported George Bush after he put your wife and family through the mill. You lost me when you compromised your principals for the "new" Republican party dominated by religious fanatics. Sir, you have lost me.
Vote Barack Obama – time for a change.

The only time Obama seems to listen to anyone is if he thinks they know how to gain him more votes or if they're stroking his huge ego.

PUMA PAC

I look forward to the same, tired, "McSame" or "McBush" comments which lack any real grasp of the facts of fundamentals. Try all you want, but on this issue McCain is dead on correct.

Politicians as a whole always say what people want to hear. And so voters need to rely heavily on a candidate's character and qualities such as fairness, bipartisanship and principle convictions in gauging the ultimate person they will vote for. Because politicians will always say what they think voters want to hear...a candidate with the qualities of leadership is the candidate that will lead this country best because the policies he/she will ultimately push through will reflect these great qualities. I found these qualities in one candidate and that is John Mccain.

Johns team wreaks of desperation.I think he will give up his campaign for health reasons next month,but thats just my view and some people in Europe.

poor desperate hypocrites....have to attack Mr. Obama because there is absolutely no SUBSTANCE to whatever they utter....and he keeps looking more stupid every day...

I have heard from three friends who live in different parts of the country who were PAID to attend town hall meeting and they heard some much talk about Mr. Obama that they donated the money given to them to the Obama for America campaign, buying votes but not succeeding.

It's so unfortunate that Mr. McCain has to twist this around for political purposes. While deaths in Iraq are less, Americans continue to die. If these troops had been been put into Afghanistan instead it is likely we wouldn't be seeing the uprising we have there right now, and we may even have captured OBL. It was wrong to go into Iraq, it's wrong to stay in Iraq, and every American death in Iraq or Afghanistan is blood on his hands. He said he could see having troops in Iraq for 100 years. I think that's preposterous, and I hope the American people don't fall for his warped sense that we're making "progress" in Iraq. The suffering our troops go through each and every day is unimaginable to those of us who sit comfortably at home. Suicide, PTSD, and other permanent psychological wounds are coming home in addition to the dead and permanently phhysically maimed troops. BRING OUR TROOPS HOME!!!!!

McCain and his campaign lied....no surprise, what's this # 1,345,678,321

Mccain, just shut your pie hole. You are so full of crap!

Me thinks the little man makes too much noise!!!

JOHN McCAIN:
In the network interviews, McCain also took jabs at Obama over his proposals to battle the county's economic woes, and defended his own experience on the issue.

"I have far more experience on the economy than Senator Obama," he said on NBC. "I'm very strong on the economy. I was chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee on Science and Transportation, which addresses all these issues."

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By his own admission during the primaries he consistently stated that he did NOT have much experience or understanding of the economy. The more desperate he getrs, the more lying, fear mongering shows itself.

Typical republican games. YAWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wait a minute didnt make just make a big gaffe this morning once again not knowing the geographics............iraq/pakistan boarder each other.....since when? lol oh and by the way....we americans are not stupid mccain and bush....... bottomline maliki statement was correct he wants troop withdrawal...... its no way the MSM, Bush adm. or Mcsame camp can spin this one!!!! get over it...... Mccain is a loser why is he focusing on obama and his trip over seas you would think mccain would be actually talking about the economy or trying to do something constructive.... instead he is trying to bash obama...sorry mccain and mccain supporters it is not going to work!!

Odd since Bush seems to be embracing Obama's strategy on Iran, Afghanistan and a time "horizon" in Iraq.

McCain on Good Morning America today 07/21/08:

Asked by Diane Sawyer whether the "the situation in Afghanistan in precarious and urgent," McCain responded: "I think it's serious. . . . It's a serious situation, but there's a lot of things we need to do. We have a lot of work to do and I'm afraid it's a very hard struggle, particularly given the situation on the Iraq/Pakistan border."

Iraq and Pakistan do not share a border. Afghanistan and Pakistan do.

This from the same "experienced" man who thought Czecholovakia was still a country. This would be laughable ... if it wasn't so tragic.

Yet another flip flop regarding his previous promises not to permit negative rhetoric (attack ads)...

So what else is new? McCain has broken every rule, including his own promise to "avoid negative campaigning". Every word out of his mouth is an attack on Obama. How about some positive spin from the Republicans?

Oh, wait, could the absence of positive spin stem from the fact that all we've gotten from them in the last 7 1/2 years are negative results?

It's the only thing left for him to do. CNN, the headline for today is the Maliki's spokesman said they want US troops out by 2010! He said it in English...and MSNBC has the video. Incase McCain and Bush have told you otherwise. One simple request, report facts as they are and as they happen. That is not bias, but hiding facts that don't suit McCain is heavy bias, and that's what you guys have been doing at CNN

It's time for change in Iraq!
Go Barack !!!

Why should McCain suddenly stop saying what he's been saying all along because Obama is out of the country? If he was attacking the trip itself I could maybe see an issue to discuss, but he's been critical of Obama's Iraq policy from day one.

Like the McCain camp said, Obama attacked while he was out of country – no double standard there, eh? Why didn't this article come out at that point?

What a freaking joke. That was always with regards to foreign policy of the administration and not having political opponents at home criticize it and thereby weaken the nation's position abroad, which is exactly what Obama and the other Dems have been doing for years.

Can we afford senior moments if McCain answers the phone at 3AM – or even 3PM?

Asked by Diane Sawyer whether the "the situation in Afghanistan in precarious and urgent," McCain responded: "I think it's serious. . . . It's a serious situation, but there's a lot of things we need to do. We have a lot of work to do and I'm afraid it's a very hard struggle, particularly given the situation on the Iraq/Pakistan border."

Iraq and Pakistan do not share a border. Afghanistan and Pakistan do.

McCain is a walking verbal error just like Bush. He talks about the non-existent Chzeckoslovakia, Al Quada training in Iraq and this security expert even leaked that US Senators would be visiting Iraq over the weekend. A significant security breach!

Where's Lieberman?

I thought McLame was going to run a positive campaign. All he does is make mistakes and criticize.

McCain is demonstrating the McSAME arrogance of Bush, Chaney and Rumsfeld... Wrapping ourselves in 'patriotic' rhetoric of 'winning' wars (what definition?) when, through McCain's folly and lies of Bush, Chaney and Rumsfeld, LOST BILLIONS of $$$s, THOUSANDS of lives, and years and years to build back the legitimacy of America to lead on the International stage. MOVE ON – VOTE Reality for Change that is Meaningful: TEAM OBAMA

This is ridiculous, this guy keeps yapping about the surge, like that was when the illegal IRAQ war started, for the 1st 5 years, Barrack Obama was rightly against the war, and McCain was in the wrong,
So even if this surge is working, it still does not justify why we're there wrongly and McCain's intention of no time-table to leave. OBAMA has admitted the surge worked militarily,but not politically, and there's a difference.

Time-table keeps up focused on our Goal of leaving that country quickly and therefore forces us to get the job done quickly to achieve our goal and leave
16 months is a long time folks, Barack is not saying leave in 1 month, he says leave in 16months, and that is ample time.

Apparently the rule only applies to Republicans. Democrats have been blasting President Bush – calling him a liar – almost since the beginning of the war in Iraq.

I am a voter, and right now, I do not know where Obama really stands on different issues..............

Such self-serving comments – "I'm glad that Senator Obama's going to get a chance..." – a statement clearly crafted primarily to improve his own chances than to express any genuine sentiment about Obama. It doesn't matter whether it's said while he is standing on our dirt or their dirt – it still is far from anything that might be considered 'straight talk'.

And for all you people who have been on the bandwagon before about Obama being elitist – how much more elitist can you get than "I'm glad my opponent finally is going to learn something that I've known all along."?

McCain says "I'm very strong on the economy." today but during the debates said he doesn't know much about the economy (well that was before voters said it was important). Jeepers John, pander much?

The only thing the surge did was force Al-Qaeda and the Taliban to relocate to Afghanistan. If we're going to take troops from Iraq and redeploy them to Afghanistan, how is that a "success"? The problem with Al-Qaeda and the Taliban still exists.

Paying the enemy billions of dollars to behave till after the elections?Thats why it worked in the short term,but they dont tell the public that do they?

I love the title!

cnn,i am a republican but this is insane ,mccain needs to be called out for this.

All is fair when going after the Media Darling.

There we go. I don't remember Senator Obama attacking Senator McCain while he was on his so call fact finding tour in the Middle East and Central America because at the time he was too busy competing against Senator Clinton for the democratic nomination. I think this behaviour by John McCain and his surrogates tell you a lot about how he will govern as president.

McCain is really starting to get on my nerves, I honestly used to like this guy. Whatever happened to running a civil campaign? And how is he all of a sudden strong, excuse me "very strong," on the economy when just a couple months ago he admitted he didn't understand the economy at all? Talk about a flip-flopper!

Obama/Clinton '08

What a bunch of unprinciapled slimeballs the McCain "Slime Talk Express" is.

If that is all they got – to quote one of America's greatest philosphers – "bring it on".

Hopefully he will listen to the Iraqis. They are telling us it is time to go. It really doesn't matter what the Generals say. If the Iraqis want us out we should leave. The Generals jobs will be to get us out of there as safely as possible.

Iraq Veteran 2004-05

MCSHAME ONLY WRAPS HIMSELF IN THE US FLAG

TO GET A VOTE. HE IS & HAS BEEN a TURN COAT

FOR THE MONEY EVERY TIME. THINK KEATING FIVE.

AND ALL THE FLIP FLOPPING IS FOR THE DIFFERENT

LOBBYISTS THAT COME ON BOARD. SLEAZO IS AN

OPPORTUNIST TO RIVAL ANY LEACH ON THE PLANET.

McCain is desperate.

8 years of voting party lines triliions of loss dollars. while the economy is in shambles and other countries becoming more dangerous on repuglican watch. i dont think you should be saying your winning anything . your stance is a looser .you voted to go to a war that was wrong and you think that an occupation can ever be considered a win.
lives loss , families broken up and billions of dollars lost do not equal a win.

change coming soon

Let's not take them, at their "Words"; let's just hold them, to their "actions".....or "reactions"....

LOL. Ok, so now McCain is an expert on the economy and says he knows more than Obama. How long ago was it that he said he didn't know much about it? As chairman of the Senate's Commerce Committee on Science and Transportation, don't you think Viagra and birth control come up under commerce and science? Yet he says he doesn't know enough about that subject to give an intelligent answer. Depending on the day, McCain is either admittedly clueless or an expert. I guess today is an expert day. He'll be clueless again tomorrow.

Good for McCain. He needs to expose Obama for the empty suit, mouthpiece, that Obama is.