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re: Carole

"Go ahead and put this guy in office, its just too bad that the rest of us who know better than to elect Obama will have to suffer from your recklessness. You are putting ALL of us in jeopardy."

Sorry if we folks just aren't listening to you...
We have suffered through eight years of your recklessness and the jeopardy that you voted in for us – excuse us for wanting something different.

I'd like to know...precisely how, John McCain has been "tested"?
Are we to believe that enemies of the US are all cowering a quaking in fear that this oh so powerful statesman and diplomat may be elected? Other than out and out fear mongering, what is his point? It sounds a lot like GW Bush-style bluster and bravado.

Hey Mike....

You're an idiot!

WHAT HAS MCCAIN BEEN TESTED IN? I WANT TO KNOW. because he was a POW will not stop terrorists from attacking. a new pres no matter who it is is going to be tested.

I don't get it, McCain had flip-flopped on several issues, yet the Obama campaign never uses it. what gives?
1. McCain was against the Bush tax cut, now he's for it
2. He was against alternative fuels, now he's for them.
3. He was against fiscal regulation, now he's for it.
McCain has sold every principle to get a vote. I used to admire him, now I just pity the man.

Either candidiate, I belive will be tested. Based on what we've seen so sar it is Obama who would take the deliberate, conidered approach after listening to the right people.

Take a look at the tweo campaigns. You have to wonder who McCain has been listening to and the quality of advice and help he's accepting. And those are people of his own party and for the purpose of an election. Can you imagine his response to an international crisis? Stunts would be even more dangerous if performed there.

We can't afford YAMS (Yet Another McCain Stunt).

The fact that Obama has a name that Muslims can relate to is a plus. I think that if we were attacked by Muslim extremist, Obama would handle it that cool composure that he is famous for while intelligently executing a plan of attack. The Muslim community around the world would relate to Obama and have a better outlook toward the United State that we could cross racial divides and elect someone such as Obama. It shows that Americans regret the Bush years and put someone in the White House to bring, not only our communities together, but the world’s communities together as a whole. If attacked by Muslim extremist, the moderate Muslim community around the would be outraged.
I think that if McCain were to be elected, Muslim extremist wouldn’t care about testing him. They would just attack because they view him as more of the SAME and moderate Muslims or the rest of the world would not even sympathize with us for being so ignorant as to pick someone with the SAME foreign policies as the last 8 years.

JOHN MCCAIN……………………..MORE OF THE SAME

Independent voter

And the McFail campaign conveniently leaves out the fact that Biden also said that Obama has a steel spine to handle whatever upcoming crisis might mateialize.

Michael in MO, you want to talk about jokes? Jokes is what McCain's pick as a VP is. Jokes is what her comments result in. Jokes are the people that look at McCain's poor judgement, rash decisions, and hypocrisy in nasty campaigning and imply that people who vote Obama are jokes. PEOPLE LIKE YOU now that I think about it.

Joe Liberman, former VP Dem Nom now Independent supporting Mccain said in June 2008, "The next President will be tested here in the United States and abroaded. It will take strong leadership to handle those situation". When McCain was contronted by Brian Williams about this, McCain said "Well, Liberman is supporting me and I have been tested". Why is what Liberman said is different than what Biden said and they both said the same thing?

To Michael in MO:

The world laughing at us hmm, let's see, over 100,000 people in a country who is at odds traditionally with the United States, show up to hear Obama speak, and they cheered wildly..yeah, it sounds like they are laughing at us, not. Look McCain supporters, if McCain and Palin would not continuosly give the media something negative to talk about, then there would be more positive about McCain and Palin. And your right, there are a few million of you who hate the fact that the media is excited about Obama, well except for those Fox types, there is a nation of over a 100 million, that are as excited as the media. So Michael in MO is it wrong for the media to report facts instead of rumors? Thank god for Factcheck.org or the Repubs would continue thier onslaught of lies. Furthermore Michael, you sound a bit bitter like you candadite, my vote is in as with many others, Obama will lose only if he decides he does not want to be President. Like at said at the begining of the Primary, Obama will win because there are more of us who love his ideas, his direction for the country and his character, than more of you that hate the color of his skin.

McCain is so desperate... and to be honest, I am getting really afraid here... Bush has won the White House twice using lies and McCain is resorting to the same tactics...

Please Obama supporters, we need to make sure everyone gets out and vote.... we have a VICTORY scream stuck in our throats and we are ready to let it out but we have to hold on for 11 more days and continue our support and efforts to make Obama our new president.

OBAMA !

John and Palin! What is wrong with you? Leave Obama alone. You are not going to win this election if you keep talking Obama and your new friend Joe the plumber. You need to talk to me because I am independent and my vote is still undecided. Tell me about your economy, education, health, foreign and new energy policy. Don't copy stuff from your speech. I am tired of the old stuff. You are the candidate with the experience and I think you need to be yourself. There is a reason why people call you maverick because you are an independent thinker. Why can't you talk about your 30 years as a senator? Please leave Obama alone and focus on me who has no job, no health insurance and no money to pay my mortgage. You have 10 days to convince me. Good luck!

Yeah... because McCain is some sort of demi-god that terrorist attacks are instantly foiled or better yet... he's like Superman, the man of steel!! Terrorist bombs and bullets will bounce off his chest!!

McCain is already responsible for escalating tensions between Georgia and Russia... and is just a sneeze away from getting our nation into a war with Russia should he become POTUS.

McCain is just too RISKY. We cannot afford to have this man become our President. I don't care what Biden says... and besides, there's a shred of truth in what Biden says anyways! Of course Obama is going to be tested as soon as he gets into office.

Foreign nations ALREADY know what kind of jerk and warmonger McCain is and how he will jump to war at the drop of a hat... it's Obama that they are unsure of how he will react to the unknown variable... how he will react to the proverbial name-calling or 'missile-crisis'. It's Obama calm and peaceful nature that a rogue nation will need to upset in order to see what he's really made of, and see if he's all talk and no action or if he'll lower the boom on them.

THAT'S WHAT BIDEN WHAT TALKING ABOUT, YOU REPUBLICAN MORONS!!

WAKE UP, AMERICA!! VOTE SMART... NOT MORONIC!!!

IT WON'T WORK OLD MAN. YOU MAY WANT TO APPLY FOR UNEMPLOYMENT.... AND THEN YOU'LL KNOW HOW THE REST OF US FEEL....

O8AMA

Joe Biden gets excited and says some things that are 'going to happen'... Number one: He's not a fortune teller, and cannot actually predict the future. Number two: Because of Number one, the Republicans contention that America will be attacked because Joe Biden said it will therefore you now have good reason to vote for McCain is without merit. Unfortunately the person the Republicans are trying to persuade with this logic, may not have the capacity to see the simple failure in that thinking. But... It won't matter. The Electoral College lead that Obama has looks to be insurmountable.

Wait until America wakes up on November 5 and figures out that they just put the country into the hands of a guy with less than one year's experience and who missed 45% of the Senate votes. Talk about next morning regrets! Except we won't be able to call and cab and get rid of this mistake – we'll be stuck for four years!

Obama should come out with an ad which has the WHOLE QUOTE in it. You know, the part where Biden tells the audience that "they will find out that Obama has a spine of steel"?

I'm going to go back to bed. Wake me up when its Nov 4th and I'll go vote for Obama and be happy all this junk from the McCain camp will be done and over with.

MCCAIN HAS NO HONOR PERIOD

McCain will try everything, Well, I am ready to hear about his plans for America, are there any? Is fighting the only thing he feels comfortable doing!!

I was soooo proud to vote for OBAMA today!

Barack the VOTE!!

John McCain–no explanation of policies, plans, vision...more of the same 'look at the other guy' ad.

A tired and worn out tactic as McCain has been retreading this tiring message time and again over the past couple of months.

Tell us your vision for America McCain.

But no...we get more of 'the other guy', 'him', 'that one',etc.

And how exactly has McCain been tested? Is it because of military service or from being in Washington for over 20 years? How does that make him 'tested'?

I have served my nation, in the military, through wars, regional conflicts and I have been involved in the ongoing wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Does that make me tested too? Can I run in 2012 on that logic?

One choice

One vote

Obama/Biden '08

I have no problem with Biden's comment. The last of that comment was "'and find he has steel in his spine". Of course the majority of people don't seem to read much further than headlines and certainly don't do any research on their own.

Nadine, check your facts on job losses...Goldman/Sachs will lay off over 3,000 (Henry Paulson old company he was CEO of), Chrysler to lay off or remove 25% of its white collar workers and to eleminate 1,200 employess on a nite shift at one plant. Jobless claims at 470,000 last week (that is a recession according to the US Labor Dept)....and the Republican still hold the White House. Someone mentioned "spreading the wealth" is communism...NO, communism is when the govt controls production of everything, AKA Russia, China when they came up with their so-called 5-year plans....Socialism will NOT work in an international capitalist economy like we have now. The conservatives, republicans, or nationalists are labled the "right-wing".....right-wing means "supporting the rich, capitalist, big business INTERESTS against the interests of the ordinary or poor." Hence, greed as shown by Wall Street, etc.

All presidents are tested. John McCain/Sarah Palin, as usual, thinks Americans are stupid. JFJ was tested. Reagan was tested. Most importantly, Bush was tested with 9/11. I guess McCain/Palin honestly believe if they are elected, it will be a cake walk.
OBAMA/BIDEN '08

"It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama…we're going to have an international crisis, to test the mettle of this guy."

HA! McCain is so stupid, he's saying 'it doesn't have to happen' - what - because he'd be president? Oh sure, right, he'd handle it just like he handled the economic crisis huh? Suspend his white house while he paces back and forth trying to figure out what to do. Look, McCain is no more 'experienced' than I am to handle a crisis. In fact, I am more prepared than he is. He just bluffs a good game, just like Palin tries to do. He has the wrong judgment, the wrong temperament, the wrong vision, the wrong decision making, the wrong no how. So this is a stupid ad, and Joe Biden is telling America that if Barack Obama is tested in this way, he is the only one who can handle this. Go Obama/Biden '08!!

There's no doubt Obama's campaign has been superior to McCain's. However in less than 90 days, for the first time in his life, Obama will have real responsibility. The slick speeches (he is a very good speaker) and the record amount of money spent on the camaign, in cluding the record amount spent on negative advertising won't count for anything come noon on January 20th. After that, this is all on his clock.

He won't and shouldn't get much of a honeymoon by blaming this solely on the Repubicans (though they can take their share). Fellow Democrats such as Dodd, Frank, Waxman and Schumer share a lot of the blame for the advocacy of loans to unqualifed borrowers and stonewalling any attempts to reign in Freddie and Fannie. And remember, it was Bill Clinton that signed the biggest de-regulation bill in November 1999. The Fed also shares in the blame for too low interest rates and failure to recognize the resulting potential problems in the financial markets.

If (hopefully) the Dems don't get 60 Senators, it will be up to Obama to follow through on his pledge to work across the aisle. He should anyway, but if Pelosi and Reid have no impediment to their free-spending plans, Obama will have no incentive to stand in their way.

The tables will turn in less than 3 months. Based on all the hero-worship I see on these boards and in the news media, I'm expecting perfection.

Give it a rest!! It's not rocket science. Of course, the enemies of the U.S. are going to test our new leader....WHOEVER HE IS!!!!! The economy is not going to improve in a hurry. It took 8 lo-o-o-o-o-ong years for this administration, through lack of regulation, to get us here. What a disgusting, calculating, sickening election this is! Can't wait 'til it's over. Maybe, just maybe, we'll be offered candidates who are experienced, knowledgeable, educated, credible and honest in 2012.

John McCain is an evil, desparate man. He wouldn't know the truth if it came up and bit him in the butt. I shudder to think what this odious creature and his equally odious running mate will do to this country.
I hope he gets exactly what he deserves. OH, wait, he already did -
caribou barbie!

Have they nothing to say for themselves?, their ideas, what they want to do? All they do is talk about Senator Obama. And so is the world, but not the same way as Senator McCain and Gov. Palin.

And, no matter which senator wins, it will take generations to repair the damage done to our country in the past 8 years.

See if you Reps. can follow me here: If you are worried about a Dem. vice president messing up in the face of an international crisis, just THINK about what could happen if BARBIE PALIN gets to be v.p.!!!!!!!!! Doesn't that scare the you-know-what out of you????

CNN you had showed Joe Libermann stating that Clinton and Bush were tested in their first year as President why aren't you showing that anymore.
John McCain is using this as a "Weapon" against Joe Biden when his buddy Joe Libermann said almost the same thing.

I keep hearing about this lawsuit questioning if Obama's a natural born citizen ??? Why doesn't the Obama campaign put a stop to this smear ???

Yes, I am sick and tire of the negative adds. If you are negative in your campaign, you will be negative in office. There is a fundamental correlation between the two.

McCain has never been tested. He has never been president so how had he been tested. We neeed to ask the questions when, Where, How, and What

John McCain, you are fake as a snake!

Biden's comment is taking out of context because the end of the quote is that Obama has a spine of steel and will be okay. second, what about the economy like jobs. still struggling with this McCain.

This all you got??

Pathetic attempt by the republicans....

Go Obama

Ok, then where was the outrage when Lieberman said that before? This is bull and everybody with an ounce of intelligence sees this for what it is. I would never trust McCain for President, Palin for VP or more scarier Palin as President. don't care WHAT the Republicans say. They cannot say with any integrity that they would vote the Democrats back in the White House after 8 years of failed policy. They used the courts to wrest the power away from the Democrats 8 years ago (twice) and now the world can see what a leader who is a C-Student can do, with his phantom Vice President Crusty Cheney. I pray the Americans want to come together and remove all threats to our security.

Republicans, try to set a more better image for your children or grand-children(or great-grandchildren for McCain.) Show you can run a clean campaign next time when you fail in the election.

McCain's Private Visit With Chilean Dictator Pinochet Revealed For First Time

Lieberman said the same thing about McCain not so long ago.

What bothers me the most is that McCain makes these statements like "I've been tested" and "I know how to catch Bin Laden". But he does not offer anything specific to back it up. Honestly, how exactly have you been tested as a new president? Why hasn't he shared his plan to catch Bin Laden with the Bush administration?

Why? Because he hasn't been tested, he doesn't have a plan.

I fear our enemies will walk all over us testing McCain after making bold statements like these.

Nice McCain, because 2 years of slime has worked SO well for you. I wouldn't attend my own defeat if I was you either. The sooner you are off the national stage and out of the Senate, the better.

Correction: McCain and Palin.... Not Biden and Palin.

Vote early for Obama-Biden and run these two GOP clowns back under the rock they came from. There is an opening in Alaska for President an VP after session from the USA.

Im a Obama fan. I agree that McCain campaign is using scare tactics and its all about the economy. I also think Joe THE BIDEN will make a great VP. But I do remember the day he said this and my heart came up to my mouth. If only Joe would excercise some contraint.

McCain's obviously a dying old man, and Palin a noob who doesn't know where Spain is. Do you seriously think we wouldn't be attacked as soon as Palin takes office? McCain's obviously blind in one eye already; I give him six months tops before the melanoma kills him. He won't release those medical records, of course. Then even Mexico and Canada will be pressing us for concessions, and what will they do, get Cheney back?

just another example of a failed campaign and and a even worse ticket..as bush will always be the worst president in our history..McCain/Palin will long be remembered as the most ineffective and ridiculous ticket we have ever had to suffer through..

Oh boy I can't wait....I can't wait....this national nightmare is almost over. Can you iamgine what things will be like in just a short year or so now once President Barack Obama is elected. I can see it now....terrorists will be setting off dirty bombs in our cities, the stock market would have plunged below 6,000.....gas prices will be back way above $4.50 a gallon.....most people will choose not to work because it will just not be worth it to work....small businesses will be boarded up coast to coast....Hugo Chavez enjoying himself in the Lincoln Bedroom......but then out of the darkness comes President Barack Obama and then he delivers the speech of his life....solving all of our country's ills with just those magical words......I will be so inspired....I can't wait....go Barack!

McCain is more out of touch than we thought. If he seriously thinks he wouldn't be tested as CIC, than he is in for a HUGE surprise. What and arrogant tool. Just because he has seen it all before doesn’t mean his administration would be above an international crisis. Typical Republican mentality coming into play here. Does he seriously think he is so privileged that he won't get tested if elected? EVERY president is tested. War and terrorism know no political affiliation.

So we would be better having a war-monger leading the country?

Imagine what would have happened if we would have had someone like McCain as President during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

People said Kennedy was untested and he only guided us through one of the most dangerous times in our country's history.

The military leaders wanted to invade Cuban and hisotry has proven that this would have trigered a nuclear exchange.

Thank God we had an intelligent leader who was capable of engaging in diplomatic efforts to head off a near calamity.

Who out of Obama and McCain do you think would do better under similar circumstances?

My bet is that if McCain were President then, we would probably not be here.

My friends, if you elect me, I can guarantee you that America will never get attacked again! I know how to catch Osama bin Laden but I won't tell you how unless you elect me! Country first!

For one thng Obama's 30min.talk does not cost 60 mil, that person is just wrong and for another thing we are tested at least every 6 months from one source or another, we've seen how Capt. Crunch will handle it , with lies, smears, and fear, just be greatful they will let you keep your senate seat

I'm a Republican, but won't be voting for McCain. What's wrong with him and his campaign? All they know how to do is run very negative, scare tatics ads. I used to respect McCain, but after seeing how he has run his campaign, I have lost all respect for the man. He is nothing but a very bitter, angry old man.

I've run campaigns for local Republicans in the past and if I was running your campaign you would be talking the issues the American public wants to hear–not attacking. Karl Rove's approach to campaigning won't fool the people this time.

Biden is a loose canon and is only a heart beat away from a Obama. Lets not forget that Obama smokes and is a candidate for cancer, along with the Presidency. Lets also not forget that Michelle and Barack have an appetite for Champagne, Cavier and Lobster, none of which is good for your health.

Hey Tabitha, the difference would be that if McCain's tested he'd fight back, as opposed to Obama who would go talk with them, without pre-conditions.

See, Obama and all you who support him are under the misguided impression that if you just give everyone a chance, or give everyone a hug that things will be better. Sorry Barry (and Tabitha and anyone else who foolishly believes this), history has shown that the only way to deal with those who do harm is to do harm to them, only more of it. The kid with the biggest stick wins, and Barry wants to show up with a leaf. Nice try, but this is the real world, not your all's la-la land.

And to all you working on the lies and false claims of Palin's wardrobe, just how much is Michelle Obama spending while Barry has her in hiding so she won't put her foot in her mouth? Bet ya it's a lot more than 150, 000. Of course, the media would never investigate that! Fair and impartial my backside!

President Obama = America in danger, plain and simple.

NOBAMA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's sad when I look at what has happened to the Republican Party. Thanks to Palin/McCain, they have divided their own party and have made the Democrates even stronger. By them whining about Obama taking a private plane and to see his sick grandmother while Palin buys her 7 year old an expensive purse?? And exactly how are Palin's children learning? Home school? Private school? No School from what I see. As Palin preaches that we should rely on the bible for guidence, she omits that she must have lacked the abstinence part in her own house. Maybe they skimmed over that part or the words were to big for her to pronounce.

Note to Palin–Before you preach to me what I should do between my legs, make sure that you follow the same rule with your children!!

Biden and Palin are so pathetic. At this point they are looking for a lifeline. Yesterday, it was George Bush (imagine that!) and now it's Joe Biden. What's next man?? This is too funny!

John McCain sold his soul to the Devil. He trumpeted around in the past as a moderate. (personally, I always thought that was a fake). Now he turns to the conservative right for additional votes. Put's a nobody on the ticket just to get some disgrutled Clinton voter's and look what happens? His time to have been president was back in 2000. Back then the public decided to give ole dufuss another term. It was his best chance. Too bad Karl Rove was against him. Now at 72, he's washed up, desperate and it shows. Nobody in their right mind is going to put up another four years like the past eight. NOBODY!
Early voter for Obama/Biden.

Cnn please post this!
I have to comment on the polls. To all those McCain supporters that claim the polls are biased. Well, then please explain why the FOXNEWS(aka republican network) poll has Obama with a 9 point lead???????????? WAKE UP and realize your candidate is wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy down!

Obama can definately handle any test that comes his way. He's got the wit, intellect and leadership skills to do it.

I'm posting this here because there's no way to post a comment below Ruben Navarrette latest "commentary"

Ruben Navarrette (and many others) should spend 5 minutes on YouTube and listen to the whole conversation between Obama and Joe The Plumber.

He would find out how honestly, thoughtfully and respectfully Obama discussed his tax plan with Joe, who, on his side, was just making up facts hoping to catch Obama in some kind of contradiction.

Go listen to that and you will find out that the whole "Joe The Plumber" argument by McCain is just another distraction.

McCain says = I know where he is my friends, I can get him my friends '

McCain says = I have been tested my friends , our enimes won't test me my friends '

McCain says = I have more experance my friends '

McCain says = I have voted 90% of the time with our President ..... my friends '

ok ok Alfalfa ..... get over yourself.

Still...I'd much rather have Obama/Biden to fend for us, whatever the challenges may be. After all, look at what this nation has reaped under the GOP regime!

You certainly don't want to be on the wrong side of history...for you just might live long enough to regret it.

The choice is clearly yours: Hope or Hate. You decide.

Obama/Biden ~ "United we Stand."

It is obvious that Obama has not experienced and the 'brothers' are pulling for him. Will the 'brothers' pull for him, if they need to be deployed to settle differences? I'd like to see Obama deal with the likes of Putin... Putin will play with him like he's a new Christmas gift...It's a dangerous world and Obama is, simply, a community organizer. Obama, get experience and rerun in the next election...

I haven't made a comment in a while but I feel like other people that negative ads only help MY CANIDATE BARACK OBAMA!!!!!!!!!!!
Joe Biden did make those comments but it'e true. The way the world is heading any PRESIDENT ELECTED WILL BE TESTED THANKS TO "W". I also hope BARACK"S Grandmother will be able to see her grand child be elected.

Obama/Biden 2008

Biden must really believe this. Remember, he told Obama that the presidency was no place fo on the job training!!!!

I don't know about you, but if I was planning to do something rotten, I'd be crossing my fingers that The Senior Moment and his semi-sentient sidekick, The Incredible Babbling Woman, get elected.

So how can Sarah Palin actually attack Obama for not have enough foreign policy experience? Being able to see Russia from her office window does not make her a foreign policy expert.

This was Obama's own running mate making the comment. It is bound to happen. Obama is weaker on foreign policy and defense than McCain, that is unequivocally true.

When I was younger and idealistic, I was a democrat. Thinking that Republicans were smarter and richer. Boy was I wrong. By the begining of my professional career I had shifted to the Republican ideology. Now that the party has been taken over by zealots, bigots, and morons, I am forced to change affiliations once again. Does this make me an Independent?

"...GOP is running out of ideas fast" From Chris in NC..

I can't see that the Republicans have had any "NEW" idea since the Emancipation Proclamation.

Obama HAS been tested... and he's come through every single time...
from how he opposed the Iraq war to how he handled the Rev. Wright fiasco.
McCain just tries attack ad after attack ad. He has shown no remorse or shame in these horrific ads.
And he has shown no remorse for palling around with Watergate criminal and domestic terrorist G. Gordon Liddy. I wonder why nobody is asking about that?

I am sick and tired of McCains scare tactics! How could anyone trust such a sleazy man? We all see how he is constantly lying on Obama and doing whatever it takes to win in Nov. Why would anyone want someone like that running our country? If you think Bush ruined our country's great name think about what McCain would do. He is no different than Bush. He is running the same campaign as him and it may be possible that he even lies more than Bush. Imagine that!

Hey, didn't McCains shifty friend, Leiberman, say the same thing about the office of the President? You gotta love how the Republican spin-miesters take a sincere (and likely true, given the MESS that the Republicnas have put us in) comment like this while their own darling VP candidate takes GOP divisiveness to a new level by backstabbing her own running mate.

It's called SPIN.

Bottom-line is Obama or any other President will be tested. We have an economy that is wreaked, widespread corrupt corruption, two wars going on and Russian sitting on the sidelines. Obama has what it takes when he is tested like most of all past presidents.

Bidens comments are the best thing to say at this time, but why are Americans so afraid to hear the truth?

McCain just gets sleazier and sleazier. Obama mentioned in the 3rd debate that there is always something that happens that one can't forsee, and that is what he is prepared for. He has the wherewithall to see through any crisis objectively, and to act in the best interest of the people. Basically, I see an ad like that once, and then I just ignore it the rest of the time.

Oh yea vote McCain – just like Al Quaida hopes you will...LOL Obama gets endorsed by Powell- McCain gets Al Quaida... IRONIC??
All of this is rediculous- Lord only knows that Joe Biden was talking about- I cant even defend it, but I think he was elluding to the fact that either one of these guys- hopefully Obama will be the one to be tested early in their Presidency by one thing or another.
I wish Joe would just stick to his speeches though some of the things he says are just boggling- no worse than Sarah Palin though...lol lets be clear on that!
Either way at the end of the day the Republican party is scrambling to all but ditch both McCain and Palin because they are realizing along with the rest of us that the ticket isnt good for anyone involved!
150,000 on clothes then has the audacity to say " She needed clothes" well dam she could have gone to Macy's- but Neiman Marcus? Yea she is just like every other Target mom...lmao there goes that personality line! I'm Joe the Millionare should be the next but tour they do- now thats more reality!! Wonder how the contributors felt about seeing thats what their donations went to. Listen I would rather Obama take his campaign plane to Hawaii to see his sick grandmother- than know they are going on shopping sprees so the candidate can look cute for her fans! Disgraceful LIARS!!

Obama has the best interests of our country and our people in mind with all of his plans. Vote Obama on Nov 4th!!

What a lame campaign that McCain/Palin are running. When are they going to grow up and act as professionals. It's always the same rhetoric, stealing lines from the Obama campaign. It's getting old, just like McCain. he mispeaks, attacks, misrepresents, misleads.

McCain and his surrogates no longer represent family values that the Republican Party used to extol. He is the only candidate that had multiple marriages and went against one God's commandments. He still exhibits traits of a juvenile that had not yet grown up.

Why state the obvious, Sen. Biden. Of course all President's are tested, however, just try for once to put a sock in it. Stay on the course Sen. Obama has clearly laid out . You do yourself or our cause no good straying off with these words that give the opposition ammo. And by the way speak to Con. Murtha and give him the word that his racist discription of his own district (which may or maynot be true) are as equally unhelpful. This thing can slip away as it did in2000 and 2004. Go Dems.Change for USA is paramount.

Still...I'd much rather have Obama/Biden to fend for us, whatever the challenges may be. After all, look at what this nation has reaped under the GOP regime!

You certainly don't want to be on the wrong side of history...for you just might live long enough to regret it.

The choice is yours: Hope or Hate. You decide.

Obama/Biden ~ "United we Stand."

i don't believe the robbery victim in pennsylvania.that B on her face looks like she scratched it up there with her own fingernail.she wish she could say barrack obama did it.first there was joe the plumber,now there's sally the crime victim.she's nothing but a lying strumpet.they should ARREST her

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Wow Biden looks scary ! This fear is making me change my vote. I will now vote for Obama

This is Obama's method – create a crises of fear and it will make the sheep follow.

Make people afraid of being called racist and it will make them not critisize.

Make people afraid of financial crisis and they will vote for you.

Make people afraid of Obama's ability to create a future mystery crisis and everyone will stay in fear.

This is the new order – be afraid and obey. OR use the next few years to support the 3rd party of your choice! McBama has lied to you.

Forget six months: the world is going to be testing the next President for the next four years, and maybe beyond. I'm convinced that Obama can meet those tests with intelligence, a cool head and a willingness to meet with and talk to experts, allies and adversaries. McCain? Not so much... I truly think that his sarcasm, quick temper and close-minded approach will make any crisis he's faced with that much worse. America doesn't need that - we're deep enough in already at this point.

We dont want a person who will start wars in the whitehouse, a person with a bad temper, we want Obama.

How funny, most democrates I know are cowards, and yet here is one democrate who wants people to stand with him during a crisis.

Keep up the good work Joe! You are reminding people exactly why they should NOT VOTE FOR OBAMA

And Again !!! Panic runs in the family.

John McCain's brother, Joe, called 911 because of traffic. Can you imagine if WE ALL did that every time we're stuck in traffic?

I guess the wealthy elitists have their privilege.

McCain is moving up in the polls, as people start to finally see who Obama is and how weak he will be as a president.

With all due respect, John McCain has been tested. His final grade was an F. Surviving capture is remarkable. However, avoiding capture is extraordinary. Moreover, capturing the enemy and bringing peace is the ulitimate goal. John McCain did not complete the mission.

John McCain, you tell us that we should trust you because you survived being a POW. Well, I would like to know how can we trust you to prevent America as a whole from becoming a POW... The answer is you can't. Why? Becuase you could not prevent it from happening to you.

To late John, I voted early and my vote went to Obama/Biden.

Well at least we've seen how Barack reacts to outrageous challenges and attacks. All McCain has done is bounce all over the place.

As far as I know, McCain hasn't been tested either. He's a Senator with zero executive experience just like the other guys.

listen to biden, but dear god, don't vote for his team! LMAO!!

But, McCain knows how to win wars!! I just wish someone would tell me which War he has won!! This is so stupid. If McCain won, he would be tested too, and lord only knows what tht hot head would do. I am just fine with my choice of Obama, thank you.
I am so sick of the McCain campaign it is not funny. Everything is so easy to him – like in the one debate where he says fixing Social Security would be easy – I have seen no plans.....What about finding Osama Bin Ladin – he knows just how to do that too – but in 7 years he just won't tell anyone unless we elect him president! And now he is calling Obama every name in the book. Trying to call him a Socialist, too. I loved the clip that Jon Stewart showed the other night where McCain was saying the same thing Obama told ole Joe the Plumber, but I guess that was the McCain version 1.1. I voted Republican in some past presidential elections – not all – but I will proudly cast my vote for Barack Obama on Nov. 4. To me, judgement is everything, and for McCain, Palin was the last straw!

Such a shameful distortion!
I mean wasn't Georges Bush tested on 9/11!! Please!
Experience or not, all new presidents get tested on the first real crisis they face!
And I'd seriously rather have Barack Obama's judgement and Joe Biden's experience than an erratic Mccain and ignorant Palin.

Vote for a Change we can Believe In! Obama Biden 08/12

It'sa shame that the media doesn't want to bring this up. McCain has to spend his money trying to show the truth. Conversely, the media digs up any meaningless thing they can find about Palin and repeats it over and over again. The media is so Obama's biggest supporter, and that ain't right...

The fear Mongering Repug-NEOCON THUGS are here.

Beware of flying objects they may be kitchen sinks. I guess Joe the plumber is not working for McCain so he's using Joe the Senator now. Give it up McCain we are so tired of your negative bs.

Our family voted Obama/Biden.
GET OUT AND BARACK THE VOTE!

There will be a bigger International crisis with McCain and HE will initiate it. Forget about North Korea announcing they will active their nuke program again to see how Obama will respond. McCain will most likely immediately target Russia due to the Georgia crisis. He will push them into a new cold war and take credit for saving the planet from Communists once again.

If you can't rise to the occasion to become a hero, create a situation in which you can.

Joe Biden is cocky and sick, just like Dick Cheney. American people are smart enough, we know Obama has no experiences or real records, or any life-time government-achievements, that is why he says ANYTHING, and promises ANYTHING, to fish for votes. We need a leader who has been tested, in a dangerous world, especially after 9/11. Democartic party, just like Jimmy Carter, is always for big government-control, big well-fare system, bigger spending, higher taxes, more regulations, and less freedom for people. It is sure socialism, that does not work in many Asian and European countries.

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If anything, the international community will test an old man (who cannot even check his email and is probably developing the early stages of alzheimers and cant remember if he had his medicine today or not) and a woman who inspires about as much fear in the international community as Michael Jackson would have if he would have been selected as McCain's running mate. The McCain campaign is desperate and is in the process of self-destruction. Within the McCain campaign, campaign staffers are taking shots at each other through articles. I have had enough of this nonsense.

I must be missing something.

WE ARE LOSING JOBS NOW............

Biden's subconcious speaks again. He is as scared of this nobody from Illinois getting elected President as everyone else.

It most certainly will happen to McCain.

Doddering, semi-senile, prone to fits of unfocused anger and erratic impulsive actions, he would be the best choice for an international crises, the best choice of America's enemies.

McCain would launch an unguided ill-conceived, and poorly prepared response that would crash this country onto the rocks. Our economic devastation would be complete.

China would become our Master, a petroleum drug dealer supplying our habit in exchange for our subservience.

Another tempest in a teapot.

Nothing can steer me away from voting (which I mailed today) for Obama/Biden '08. EIGHT IS ENOUGH!!!!

McCain meant to say "I've been TESTY!

I was at the rally and what is not being reported is the rest of the comment.... the world will test Barack Obama .... we are going to have an international crisis, to test the mettle of this guy just like what happened to PRESIDENT REGAN, CARTER, KENNEDY AND GEORGE BUSH, and he can handle it, he has what it takes

McCain has run the sleaziest campaign in American history. The GOP's are going down, HARD!

McCain I have one thing to say to you. Why are you still playing tit for taat. This childish, stupid and show that you can't and should not be a leader. You have no galls, backbone or leadership skill to lead this country.

Obama has said it best. John McCain you don't get it. The American People are tired of you nonsense and pathetic ways. Growup no that is not the word, McCain get a life that will comfortable for your speed and nonsense in life. Now let's be clear about one thing, you wear depends and no belt. Everytime I see you on TV you are grabing for your pants.

Go to the retirement home and watch TV and send Palin back to Alaska for Tasergate and 1st Dude.

This is my answer and paid for by a US Citizen.

Why are they wasting there time on Ads. By now everybody has pretty much made up ther mind. If not it is those that are trying to convince t hemselves that they are not really racist. SO they are basically struggling with their conscience. Vote for who you want to, neither candidate will be able to fix the problems in the first four years it took years to get to this point. What it will take for us to get back to a strong economy is stop being selfish, quit worshiping material things like cars, cloths BIG screen T V, and money and turn your ways back to God.

Voted already in Virginia...I'll be watching the World Series instead of these ads !!!

What McCaine doesnot want to talk about is the economy.So,he goes on talking about the bad side of Obama,which almost always is an exaggeration or a lie!

Go listen to Michelle Obama now!
She is the one who is authentic (no lipstick required!)

When Caribou Barbie is in the White House, she will be tested, and she won't then be able to ignore questions she doesn't understand.

McCain is 72 and has had 4 bouts with cancer. He likes to tell us his mother is alive and well into her 90's. But he never mentions his father died at 70 – two years younger than he. And that is a MUCH more relevant indicator of his mortality.

I'm confused. Why doesn't this ad mention Joe the Plumber?

What McCain can't grasp as Al Queda has already succeeded in their crusade against the U.S. as he has America spending 10 billion dollars a month in a foreign nation in a dumb war and the economy has put the U.S. on the verge of a financial collapse.

and let's go back and look at Biden's FULL comment...

“Mark my words. It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. We’re about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old senator president of the United States of America.”

“Remember I said it standing here if you don’t remember anything else I said. Watch, we’re gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy.”

“He’s gonna have to make some really tough – I don’t know what the decision’s gonna be, but I promise you it will occur. As a student of history and having served with seven presidents, I guarantee you it’s gonna happen.”

“We’re going to face a major international challenge. Because they’re going to want to test him, just like they did young John Kennedy. They’re going to want to test him. And they’re going to find out this guy’s got steel in his spine."

Let's see, he used the word BRILLIANT to describe Obama. Then he says that the world will find out he's got steel in his spine.

Sounds to me like the McCain campaign is grasping at anything they can at this point.

The picture accompanying this report looks like a Halloween vision - fear won't work - not this time! Hope will always overcome hate and fear!

Obama/Biden for America!

And Obama will meet those challenges with "a spine of steel" also something Biden said, but of course, the Repubs have so TWISTED that entire episode that it is just beyond recognition now. John McCain sat in a cockpit during the Cuban Missile crisis and claims he has been tested? Because he SAT? Because he was a prisoner? No, my friendS, anyone would be tested as Biden described and besides, McCain is the only candidate who has now been endorsed by Al Qaeda. NOT the guy I want in the big chair!
OBAMA/BIDEN '08 & '12 YES WE CAN!!!

KofTX

that indeed was the real point. They're gonna find out just how much GRIT and determination Obama has in his soul whereas McCain and Hussy have no soul and no spine whatsoever!!!!!!!!

OBAMA
Biden
Bring it on home O8

OBAMA-Biden . you have my vote

I'm tired of this negative garbage from McCain, Palin and the RNC. They are pathetic. Lose gracefully. Your bony grip on power is at an end. People want change and we ain't buying what McCain is sellin'!

Obama will be able to handle any crisis because he has the temperament and judgement to surround himself with the right kinds of advisors. That's what makes a good leader.

"It's over Johnny, it's OVER!" - movie quote from Rambo

Obama/Biden 08!!!

Why CNN do you not report the rest of that speech that he has steel in his spine...

I certainly think what Obama's VP pick boldly states is accountable and deems looking into.

McCain always makes statements like this with NO PROOF!! I know how to get Bin Laden-I know how to end this war-I have been tested-and the answer is This is Pie in the Sky-He has no clue or his campaign would be telling us what his policies are instead of Grand Pronouncements or Obama attacks. McCain WILL be tested and will like his whole campaign run around yelling and angry and talk about fighting-He will attack and we will be in WW III. Or, President Palin who is already ,as I write, planning her Presidential campaign WILL be tested and then we're sunk for sure because Caribou Barbie REALLY doesn't have a clue and everyone in the world knows it-except for her GOP(God's Own Party) followers.

ANYONE WHO HASN'T BEEN POTUS IS NOT EXPERIENCED AT THE JOB OF POTUS. How hard is that to understand??? It's not about experience, McCain. It's about readiness. Just ask Hillary. She spouted off about her experience, and as we all know, she's now campaining for the guy who she was more experienced than. Again, if you haven't held the job, you cannot possibly be experinced at it. DUH

CNN, why are you repeating each and every distraction coming from the McCain campaign?

Obama has ice in his veins. The man is smart, calm, tough, and in control. He could of used his brains and charm to make a killing as a corporate lawyer, but he chose to serve the public instead. I am more than comfortable with him at the helm.

Of all the political ads out, this is a simple one that replays what Biden said. If he had clarified the comment at the time, then playing only a part of the comment would be wrong. Why are Obama supporters on this blog so upset with McCain running the ad? They should be upset with Biden and the person who chose a human gaffe-machine as a running mate. a

Remark doesn't indicate how Obama will handle this any/crisis,
but he will and with authority, as all new presidents face the
same things from doubters. We are already in a severe crisis
financially and that will take some "pulling together" by all of U.S.
Parties aside we better get it right and fast the 1st time or this is
gonna get ugly! McCain offers no help with his devisive/smear tactics
and will require a lot of "sucking up" on his part to ever get back his
credibility, if ever. palin is just a another "mouth" with no intelligence
backing it up!

Another desperate attempt by the George W. McCain camp and the Main Stream Corporate Conservative Media to sway votes. There is nothing that Biden has said that can even be construed as anything other than observation and experience at work.

Maybe once Obama gets in, we can have some media reform.

i'm 100% for Obama, but seriously, Biden, that was pretty stupid comment.

McCain should have sought better advisors from the start. His campaign and campaign tactics are an indication of how effective his administration would be. I certainly don't want his continued bungling to represent me on the global stage.

McCain and Palin are running out of bullets- their baskets of dirts are almost running dry-thus resorting to using J-Biden words to attack Obama- it won't work Joe or can I say Joe to plumment. Obama and Biden has my vote.. GO OBAMA

No landslide. Wait and see. Obama is sooooooooooo unprepared. You sheep that follow him will be the undoing of this country.

This is not a time for on the job training. Nor is it baseball. No time to send a rookie in to clean up.

Leibermann said the same thing about McCain in regards to this. Its old news

(CNN) — John McCain's brother, Joe McCain, apparently had a heated call with a 911 operator over a traffic jam he was stuck in, CNN affiliate WJLA reports.

Looks like anger and an elitist feeling of privilege runs in the family...

Ridiculous. The rest of the international community respects Obama. Anyone that is going to attack the U.S. would attack no matter who is president. And what happens if palin is in charge? You think she would be any more ready?
McCain isn't tested. Don't be fooled.

MORE NEGATIVE ADS.........

ZzZzz.

Palin in the white house scares me more than what Biden says. Come on MCCAIN just give it up. If you just tell the truth about your plans for America you might gets some votes (doubt it but maybe)

Joe, please, don"t say anything else.!!The race is tighter than the media reveals so every rally is crucial. The slighest mix-up could be fatal. Just, sit back an enjoy the ride!!

If this is the case then everyone should be quivering in their boots because Sarah Pallin is extremely far off when it comes to her foreign background/experience- get real
McCain/Pallin now that's scary-please don't take us there

The world is going to test whoever is elected, it doesn't matter whether it's McCain or Obama. The question who will have the poise to handle the situation, and it most likely will be Obama, because the manner in which McCain has run his campaign is indicative to how he will run the White House (insane, flip flopping, rash decisions), he will want the "launch codes" before making a rapid, RATIONAL decision.

Better President Obama than senile McCain and airhead Palin

Maybe Biden was warning about what McCain and Palin might be planning to do when they don't win.

and 9-11 would not have happened if President Gore was where he should have been instead of resident bush. Thats right.... count them 3500 uncounted ballots and it equals a Gore presidency.... Ok ok I'll never get over it!!!!!!

RIght down to the end, the Republicans are bankrupt of message and still choose to attack the opponents instead of focus on real issues and their own capabilities. Face it, John, it's over. You're just looking desperate now. And pitiful.

NOBODY is really undecided now– regardless of what they tell pollsters who keep lavishing attention on them.

The next week will see a landslide of people finally making up their mind, and it won't be for McCain/Palin, neither.

Obama is not fit to be President. McCain has more than enough experience. McCain/Palin 08

I HAVE HAD IT!!

Does the McCain/Palin machine and RNC really think the majority of American people don't have access to news sources to see when a quotation is being used out of context? This negative campaign has really gotten out of hand and reeks of desperation and is really below either candidate.

Now Obama hasn't been an innocent bystander in this as well but from what I have seen, his negative ads appear to steer clear of personal attacks.

I personally would love to hear either candidate junk their "talking points" and take some time to honestly address the VERY REAL issues this country is facing. The economy is falling apart and some tough choices are going to have to be made.

A war that we shouldn't have gotten into is being waged with no clear objective for victory that is costing billions of dollars a month that could and should be used elsewhere. I currently have family members in Afganistan and am very supportive of all our military and the sacrifices our country has asked them to do. I do feel it is time to rethink our priorities however.

So vote your consience not looking at a candidates age or skin color. VOTE or don't whine about the results if they don't go the way you wanted.

yeah more on the girl with a BACKWARDS "b" on her head. she had to have done it herself..
makes you think about the kind of people who support mccain...
willing to hurt themselves for the good od the party.. almost like those female suicide bombers...

SCARY!!!!

I have no doubt that President Obama will handle any national emergency with diplomacy and intelligence. What a nice change that will be!

McCain has been tested all right, and captured and tortured, and, oh yes, we STILL lost the war. Since when is getting shot down and captured a good thing?

what's the point? it will be six months before mccain slips/falls and breaks a hip, leaving nutjob moose hunter palin at the helm. THAT is a much scarier scenario folks. VOTE OBAMA.

McCain has no consistent message. They've been all over the map and nothing is working. Now his own party is turning on him. Even Scott McClellon is endorsing Obama.

Obama has been speaking of change, hope, and progress from day 1 and he's stayed on message the entire way through. America wants a leader who can keep calm in a crisis, not someone who runs around like a chicken with its head cut off whenever something goes wrong.

Ok, I am getting fed up with McCain's nonsense. This is just a new scare tactic McCain is trying..and trying to see if tit sticks to the wall with voters. Why can't he for once, come up with a plan about the economy, and how he wants to "shake things up Washington" He says he wants to shake things up, but how? Where is your plan McCain?

It's too late, your scare tactics won't work; time is up. I am voting Obama!

Obama 08!

I feel sorry for McCain. Not only McCain is desperate, his supporters are too. They have stolen my Obama yard signs four times already!!!

McCain and his campaign are using tactics that create FEAR. The American people will not be swayed by McCain's FEAR tactics. I dispise these tactics and have no respect for John McCain. He and Palin don't get it. I am an independent voter who will enthusiastically vote for Barack Obama!

bush was tested and he went after the wrong country no matter what the threat macian would bomb bomb bomb iran need sombody with a IQ this time obama

A agree with McCain 100%:

"I just have to rely on the good judgement of the voters not to buy into these negative attack ads. Sooner or later people are going to figure out that all you run is negative attack ads, you don't have much of a vision for the future or you're not ready to articulate it." (McCain, 2000)

I would rather have Obama tested than have McCain REACT in a crisis. Never mind what Palin would do should McCain die in office leaving her at the helm. Every negative ad equals thousands of lost votes Johnny so, please, keep it up.

McCain has not been tested. Tortured, he has been, but not tested.

One more thing. The only change Obama is bringing is that a democrat will be in office. It will still be same old two party politics, and that of the democrats-big government, raise taxes, spend spend spend. The thing that worries me the most is that it is likely that one party will have complete control. No matter which party, that is never good for the country. Look what Bush did with his first term–look what the complete control of the Dem's did in the 70's. Now look at when Clinton was in office, there was a Rep. congress-the most positive comes out of a checks and balances system, with debate. From the debate comes the best possible solution and it forces both sides to work together. I feel that if either man wins, both sides will work together because neither party has done that for 8 years, but if Obama wins, we will not have that-we will only have a one party government doing whatever they please.

I'm not sure how anyone could misconstrue what Biden was talking about; then again, I'm smart enough to know not to vote Republican.

Folks McCain can't even have an original thought....they just showed an old ad on The View. They were doing a segment on the nastiest Presidential campaigns of all time and showed a Lyndon Johnson campaign ad from 1963-64 about fear of a nuclear attack. This ad smacks of being a copycat of that..

If you really want to win this election Johnny boy, quit diddling in your diaper and come up with some new material!!!!

Desperate and Feeble, so sad.

Time for some grey matter in the whitehouse for a change.

Obama/Biden 08

I want McSame to clearly define how he has been tested... LOTS of soldiers were captured in Vietnam.. doesn't make them any more prepared for an attack in the modern world. Erratic in normal everyday life=erratic in a crisis. Give me Obama's sound judgement and level headedness anyday.

Obama is a big spending show off who will get into office and run all of us into the ground with taxing us big time. He is having a 30-minute 60-miilion dollar time slot next week, andis planning a big hoopla in Chicago if he wins, which I guess he already knows he is going to. I guess if you cheat (like voter fraud with Acorn) you can pretty much figure you are going to win.

He is not your saviour folks – he is politician who is all out for himself – period.

He will be tested because our enemies know he is weak. They see an opening and opportunity to do us harm because Obama is willing to give them the opportunity. McCain is older, but oh so much wiser. He cannot be fooled by people who want to kill us. There is no nice talk with these kind of people – Obama is plain nuts if he thinks so, and America will suffer for it.

Go ahead and put this guy in office, its just too bad that the rest of us who know better than to elect Obama will have to suffer from your recklessness. You are putting ALL of us in jeopardy.

McCain has been tested just like Bush and failed. Remembered the Katrina? war on terror? Economy? When all the evidence showed that the economy is in the downturn and McCain said "the economy is fundamentally strong."

FEAR ... FEAR .... Fear .... Scared .... scared ...
Stop spreading fear and scaring people, John.
We need some uplifting message ... tell us you will use your magic wand and make DOW go up by 1000 points in the next hour ... I'll vote for you! If not, please go home with your buddy, W. Did you see that W was hunkered down in the warmth of the White house when the world market collapsed last night, and ours almost ready to hit the 'stop limit' this morning.

Go get to work and come out with positive confidence boosting message ....

Oh say its not true Joe, didn't you say that during the Primary Season.
I will be holding my breath for 4yrs folks. As far as I am concerned I will most likely vote for Obama, if I do, he is on the bubble for the 1st term, and I better not hear of a 2nd before 3yrs are completed Successfully.

2012 Clinton followers are WATCHING

AND YOU GUYS THINK BUSH HAS MESSED STUFF UP , LOOK AT MCAIN 'S COMMENTS PERTAINING TO RUSSIA AND CHINA , IF THAT'S NOT STARTING DOWN THE WRONG PATH THEN I DON'T KNOW WHAT IS.......THIS MAN DOES NOT NEED TO BE POTUS .

The OLD GOP fear machine isn't gonna work this time!! And Joe Biden isn't the boogeyman!!!

OBAMA/BIDEN 08/12!!!

Hmmm...
Using fear as a political weapon... Pundits and talking heads all working in concert... God's on their side...

Where have a heard this before?... Hmmm.... Oh yeah!

Terrorist: (n) a radical who employs terror as a political weapon; usually organizes with others of like mind in small cells; often uses religion as a cover.

Obama/Biden '08

The more of these McCain attacks I see, the more eager I am to vote for Obama. The "scary" images they keep trying to invoke (love the one with the dark shadow crossing over the baby's face) are getting to be almost funny in their desperation - hey John, let's work some mushroom clouds into the next batch, okay? Or maybe a pile of severed limbs. Wait - do both!

Honestly, is John McCain deliberately *trying* to lose this election? As if Sarah Palin didn't do enough to sink it on her own.

they are going to use scare tacticts again, just like Bush and and the war-monger Cheny.. "the easiest way to control people is to ly to them" .... L Ron Hubbard..

Is this all you got, John? It's not going to get the job done... you need to pick off over 100 electoral votes from Obama's blue states and turn them red.
Have you got the kitchen sink ready?
Just 11 more days to go now, and you and dumb dora can exit the scene.

Every President is tested.

Obama/Biden '08

I think we all know that the next president will be tested, regardless of who it is. Personally I have much more faith in what will be Obama's response. I don't trust McCain in the least.

That said, this was a pretty bad gaffe on Biden's part. I like hearing him speak his mind, and he was probably right, but this was a stupid thing for him to say so close to election day. I must admit McCain produced a pretty good ad from it. Fear-mongering at its best, but you can't blame them for doing. Biden set them up.

As usual they take it out of context... and he would show he has a spine of steel would finish the quote. . .
sad, shameless, desperate.
I am so tired of these guys trying to scare me out of an obvious choice.

what is REALLY scary, is the possibility of a President Palin.

Same tactics of hate-fear-divide. When will the GOP learn that this is not working for us. I am a conservative republican but this approach is stupid. Instead of fixing the issues looks like my leaders are creating more problems for MCCain.

Another disgusted republican for Obama. Hey, I cannot be worse off than where I am today. BTW I did vote for Bush.

Let's see: McCain was tested during the Cuban Missle Crisis: doing what? Nearly flunking out of the naval academy (894/899)? Crashing training aircraft at an unprecedented rate? Or was he tested when he was on the board of the group that was funding death squads in South America and engaging in Illegal Iran-Contra operations.
More likely, he was tested when he pandered to Keating of the Keating Five.
Where is this man's honor. He has done an extremely good job of dispelling the notion that he is an honorable man during this campaign. A "Joe the Fraud" bus tour just about sums up his campaign.
Americans need a respite from this kind of campaign that offers no hope or promise for the future, only despicable lies, distortions, etc. in reference to "that one".
Frankly, after he loses this election, he should be censured by the Senate for his behavior in this election.

Is anyone even listening to McCain anymore??

If McCain he won't be tested, then it's because the world sees him as more of the same. Secondly, just like Palin, the GOP is using sexism, racism and terrorism as way and means to get white folks to get out and vote, regardless of the issues at hand. The GOP is counting on you and your ism of choice. Thirdly, people must understand that the presidency is not just a person, but an institution. If Obama is elected, he will have the hardest time getting past all these ism's.

New Presidents have always been tested. This is nothing new,

General Powell stated on Meet the Press: "The problems will always be there, and there's going to be a crisis come along in the 21st or 22nd of January that we don't even know about right now. "

I didn't see the Republican's jump all over that one.

You guys are always looking for a way to "headline" McCain or anything to do with his campaign in the most negative light possible. Its absolutely ridiculous and grossly obvious to millions. If you somehow think this is persuasive to get voters over to your "boy's" side, its doing nothing but backfiring all across the country and the world. Do you have any idea how much the world laughs at our bias, market-driven media, and worse, how gullible our 30″ sound-bite culture buys into it all, without doing their own research? If Obama in fact wins, this country truly deserves the @#!~ its bought itself. But then, who really cares what Obama's policies are about, its more important that he prompt "hope" and "change" and, oh golly, he's just so "kewl." What a joke.

Imagine if, instead of John Kennedy, John McCain had faced Russia during the Cuban Missle Crisis. With his anger management problems, we'd all be dead!

Haven't we had enough cowboy "diplomacy" these past eight years?

Vote for sanity! Not for an angry former POW who is still fighting Vietnam in his mind. And his heir apparent, a fake "hockey mom" who spent more on clothes than my house is now worth...

Do Obamabots still think that he was a great choice for VP? Stand up Chuck, let them see ya. Oh my God, what am I saying? At least I can find some sort of humor in this. Great choice Obama!

MORE---FEAR----TACTICS-----MCSAME----GOING----OUT----WITH----A----BANG----NOT----GOING---TO---WORK---–THIS---TIME

WE = ARE = ONE = NATION

I'll take my chances with Obama/Biden, thank you.

Republicans for Obama!

If McCain should win, lets hope that his temper is not that of his brothers. Unreal. However, having watched McCain, it would not suprise me if his was worse.

HOW was McCain tested as CIC? When dropping bombs from 20,000 feet in Vietnam he had to decide what music to play. THIS IS IN HIS OWN WORDS!!! sheesh
In the Cuban missile crisis, he says he was on an aircraft carrier with target instructions. (not fact checked yet)
He was a mess up in the military who would have been drummed out if not for being born into an Elite military family. TRUE
As a POW, he sang quickly, ITS IN HIS BOOK!
(One former POW in a Forum says the photos of McCain in a nice hospital bed proves everything. On Wikipedia, it says the uncooperative pow's were summarily executed.)

Booga booga booga! Eat your veggies or the socialists will come get you! Watch out! Obama isn't ready! Be afraid, We'll hold your hand.

I'm not afraid McCain/Palin. I am not that ignorant. You're only delaying the inevitable. Give it up. We're over the sleaze and slime throwing. Obama will win.

Is it true that Sarah Palin, in an interview on Wednesday, could not answer the question, "what is a precondition?"

CNN-
You should rename your ticker blog "Catharthis for frustrated liberals." My goodness!

When was McCain tested ?? Lou Dobbs will agree with McCain on this and anything else negative regarding Obama before the election.

i think that they should test obama so that everyone can check and see exactly what a joke he is, when he gets his "governement" policies in place and the country begins losing jobs, because they are paying higher taxes, which makes it more lucrative to move over seas. Where will we be then huh???? Obama - people signing praise to how wonderful he is - children singing his name - what a joke

We've already seen what Mccain does when a crisis hit. He PANICS.

No thank you. I'll go with Obama the smart guy. And guess what, he will surround himself with smart people.

Who does McCain have? Todd and Sarah Palin!!!!

:I want this country to realize that we stand on the edge of oblivion. I want everyone to remember *why* they need us!

What we need right now is a clear message to the people of this country. This message must be read in every newspaper, heard on every radio, seen on every television... I want *everyone* to *remember*, why they *need* us!

Paid for by the RNC and approved by John McCain

(from the movie "V for Vendetta")

McCain and Palin are pathetic and desperate, like a dying dog biting at the ankles of its killer.

Hmm...lets see BIDEN or PALIN...
You gotta be kidding. She's not even in the same league.
Watch out world, in 11 days the USA is BACK

Oh.... that's all the right has?

Can you say President OBAMA?

Boo Hoo for the rethuglicans.....

Vote for McCain and there will never be another international crisis, ever again! We'll also get magical ponies to build our roads and schools, so we'll never have to pay taxes again, either!

John McCain has been wrong on almost every foreign policy decision he made within the past 8 years. WRONG on Iraq...WRONG on Afghanistan

confusion and chaos do not a President make.

We have an international crisis now it defy wont be over by December ... so if he is elected he will face a crisis. But the problem he alway have a well oil team in place to handle it.

I am sure that what Biden was saying was taken totally out of context. I believe he means that any new President will be tested. It has happened historically. I don't know what McCain is talking about, that he has been tested. Was he talking about when he was a POW? Well if that is the case all the POW's were tested. He needs to let that alone now. He wasn't the only one captured and tortured.

PRESIDENT OBAMA sounds like music in my ear,,looking forward to a bright and prosperous future... and thank you President Clinton for a job well done during your presidency...

McCain keeps saying he's "already been tested." What does he think, that Al-Qaeda, Hezbolla, Putin and Kim Jong Il will say, "Oh. OK." ?

McCain's test was was more than 40 years ago. He's older. He's tired. He's confused. Nope, I see no reason our enemies would try to retest him.

who proofreads for you people on the ticker articles? "Michelle Obama is STEPPING IN HER HUSBAND..."? I mean really...c'mon. LOL

Not that CNN will ever post my comment, but here it is:

How was McCain tested? He was a pilot. A pilot gets orders and carries them out. My husband did 13 years in the army and had been to Iraq twice. Is he tested enough to be president? I don't think so. John love to mention his military service, but he conveniently leaves out the other 4 taxpayer owned aircraft he managed to destroy, but loves mentioning the 1 that he was shot down in. A pilot follows order, McCain had absolutely nothing to do with resolving the crisis. By saying that he won't be tested like Obama, is McCain guaranteeing that we won't be attacked? If so I would love to know how he is able to issue that guarantee.

PRESIDENT OBAMA sounds like music in my ear,,looking forward to a bright and prosperous future... and thank you President Clinton for a job well done during your presidency...

'Conveniently' Biden has not been honest... Imagine how much Obama has been saying 'Joe watch your mouth or we're going down'. Biden/Obama are hypocrites...They, definately, have the fundamentalist's vote. If they are elected, America... start building your bunkers...

MC F*E*A*R!!!

Not this time!

The new McCain campaign slogan: Fear We Can Believe In!

McCain was tested a month ago ... and he freaked out, suspended his campaign, and went out to dinner with the Liebermans.

If the US was ever tested in a McCain presidency, John would be found hiding under his desk yelling at the walls and Palin would be on a videoconference winking and flirting with the aggressor.

This would be comical if it wasn't so serious!

I'll take Obama's level headed, calm, well thought out, well advised responses any day!

Pathetic!

McCain has already been tested via his choice of VP candidate– and found grossly lacking in depth, wisdom and just plain common sense. With all the qualified and talented female Rebs out there, he chose "that one." Pathetic. Imagine what kind of inane choices he would then make as Pres. !

You bet the world will test Obama – and he'll rise to the occasion just as he's done every moment since choosing his life path. Calm diplomacy and intellect not seen in the past eight years will be the calling card.
If I were you GOP – I'd worry more about Al Qaeda endorsing McCain (that's a terrorist group Sarah – not a restaurant...)

"And I can see Russia from my house..."

---------------–The line is clearly drawn, and

Collin Powell said it best.

McCain says: I've been tested.. Please someone tell me how McCain has been tested.. If you call sitting on a ship off the coast of cuba during the cubian missle crisis a test i don't think so.. He has never had to make a critical judgement or handle a crisis.. and if his vote to go to war with Iraq was a test then he failed..

How can you trust Obama in a national disaster what has he done to prove that he could handle it, he is nothing but an empty suit, and how much did the democrats spend on Michelle clothes, nobody knows that do they oh how could we ask such a question. I must be racist since I could question Obama..silly me.

obama/biden by the greatest margin in the history of the united states. Mcshame is pale'n by comparison...

SAY NO TO TRICKLE DOWN GREED!!!!

Yup and George Bush was totally unprepared for 9-11. looks like Biden was being a realist. Once again McCain = Bush

That's all you have? Is this it? Man, McSame/Failin' have proven nothing but desparate measures lately.

As an independent voter. I struggle with all of the attacking going on.
There has been so much talk about Obama being tested.

Mccain released just under 2000 pages of health records. If in the event Palin as VP has to feel McCain's role as President. How do you think she will handle being tested?

In all honesty, even Mccain has not been tested. Fighting in a war and leading one for the country are two different experiences. Just because I work at the factory doesn't mean I can run one. We need to focus on the now and not the what if. Enough scare tactics already.

What I want to know is: When was McCain tested? And, what executive decision making experience does he have? So what if he has been in Washington for a gizillion years - that makes him part of the problem and not part of the solution!

wow this reeks of desperation GOP
Stop your hate calls by the way they are annoying
This 65 year old white woman is voting for Obama

Signed an Ex-Republican

We need a tested leader, not a novice. Obama is a rookie in the international scene. Do you really think a Major corpoartion you would hire a rookie to replace their CEO? Would Warren Buffet hand the reins of his portfolio to someone just learning about the market?

Please folks, get real.

This is ridiculous! EVERY PRESIDENT IS TESTED! It doesn't matter what party they are from. Does McCain think that if he is elected that Al Qaeda won't test him? If McCain is elected, we are REALLY going to get tested!

Palin should be the last one to say that someone is not ready.

OBAMA/BIDEN 08!

Why the big deal about the next President being tested. We already know this.

The next President is going to face an economic crises, two wars, trying to locate Bin Laden, a poor U.S. reputation around the world, an energy crunch, global warming and trying to govern a country that remians politically divided.

So to say the next president (Obama) is going to be tested as if this were an idea that suddenly dawned on everyone is ludicrous.

Target this:
During a discussion with Palin about her $150,000 wardrobe expenses she said: "Oh, if people only knew how frugal we are".

I submit to all of you that this statement is indicative of the level of stupidty and delusion that is rampant in the GOP. Even more importantly it is indicative of the level of contempt that the GOP holds for the intelligence of the electorate: that they can go out and spend $150,000 on clothes while the country sinks into a depression, and then with a straight face tell us that they were frugal, and expect people to unquestionly buy that explanation, is a sign of political insanity. And the sad thing is, the neo-true-believers will buy that explanation and DEFEND it, happily joining the insanity.

Get these nuts out of office and off the back of my country!!!!!!

Must.....grasp.........straw..............must ..........win......any..cost...............

I will vote for Mc cain no matter what the left media says about him.

If Barack steals this election I will make a four year pledge to boycott him by limiting my spending to necessities only. No luxury spending.

If all republicans did this we can make his term a failure by affecting the economy. Our republican senators must also drag their feet.

Barack obama our first token president. Affirmative action at its highest level.

I can not wait to say, i told you so.

Umm...for the comment up top, Al Qaeda does not endorse McCain, they actually endore Obama, and before him Hillary. Do some research please. "Shmoozing with the Terrorists" is a great book written by an award winning journalist that gets interviews with high level terrorists. Check it out, we all might learn something from it.

Doesn't have to happen? The nation will be reeling for years behind the irresponsible decisions of the current president

Anyone of them would be tested as president of the USA. John continue's to say "l've been tested", I beg the differ, you haven't been tested as President of the USA. Maybe you consider your choice to stay as a prisoner of war is testing and gives you the right to think that that is suffice reason enough, well I don't think so.

Obama

We do not know Barack Obama.

We only know what ‘they’ have allowed us to see, excepting for what we learned listening to Dr. Jeremiah (“God d_m America”) Wright, and from Michelle Obama (“we're a country that is just downright mean”).
Obama is not who ‘they’ want us to think he is. Listen to Obama’s messages: they are aimed to divide America, he plays the race card, he injects feelings of resentment to the Latino community, his messages paint a world of doom and gloom. His messages are aimed to make you feel as if Obama is the only way forward.
This is no coincidence, this is all being done by design.
This is a technique detailed in Saul Alinski’s Book for Radicals “They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and change the future.”

The whole Obama phenomenon is based in carefully orchestrated props and make beliefs.
YOU are being played.

Oh John...whatever happened to the centrist from the year 2000 . I can BET you that if you were still to go back to who you once were, you'd only close the gap in the polls and get back some of your lost respect from conservatives who are shocked at the constant negativity and selection of an inexperienced running mate who's not making her case very well.

Smears didn't work (Who is Barack Obama?, Ayers, Acorn)
Now they resort to fear. Be afraid. When are the republicans going to move past this type of campaigning? It may have worked in the past but it won't work this time. I saw an ad in Memphis,TN yesterday that showed Obama saying that he didn't want his daughters to be burdened with a child and then the ad went to say you should be scared to vote for Obama because he has no regard for human life. Unbelievable.

Obama/Biden '08

Nice ad. According to Joe Biden, we might see another terrorist attack if Obama is elected. This guy was better than Hillary?

PUMA

My sentiments exactly...

Obama-Biden landslide...it is time for this unintellectual display of ridiculous politics to end...let's get back to the business of caring for the needs at hand.

Go OBAMA!

They are just throwing stuff at the wall and seeing what sticks.

Unfortunately for the Repubs, NOTHING is sticking.

The McCain campaign failed a while ago. These ads attacking Obama backfired. I have only seen ONE ad (played three times) in the past month that was a positive McCain ad... all the rest were attacking Obama.

The people realize that when all you do is attack your opponent, and not talk about what you'll do for the country that you offer NOTHING.

Phil the Engineer (a new demographic), Better to have been tested in the past, than to be untested with no background or experience. Oh wait, he was a community organizer–RIGHT!

McSame you are a desperate old man, all the negative ads, the names calling from your VP, yourself and the Rupublicans, McSame you are a disgrace to the Americans here in America and the World, we don't want a President who breed nagativeand desparation. We want a Leader with honor, integrity, Obama show that kind of Leadership that will get us out of this Mess that McSame & Bush created. Why is mcSame never wera the FLAF PIN, he criticized Obama for not wearing one. McSame you and Palin continue to FLIP FLOP on everything that comes out of you mouths. Please CNN print my comment. Thanks

watching with great dismay how desperate McSame/Palin/RNC has become. Why are they so erractic. McSame, you better jump ship now and endorse Obama/Biden and free yourself from these low-road politics.

God Bless America, God Bless Obama/Biden.

As much as McCain likes to claim he's already been tested, and his enemies know not to mess with him or whatever bunk he's saying now, the reality is that he's never really been tested because he's NEVER BEEN PRESIDENT. Until you are THE commander-in-chief, responding to a terrorist attack, you will not know what it's like. Telling the president what to do as a senator is not nearly the same thing.

One should also consider that most of the world hates McCain and loves Obama – so it's much more likely we'll have another attack under McCain's government, especially considering he and Palin won't even consider talking to half of them (what if they ask about the Bush Doctrine???)

All Biden is saying that an attack will test any president that comes into office. Carter was tested with the Iran hostage crisis. Reagan was tested with Russia and Libya, Bush Sr. was tested. Clinton was tested with Libya and the first World Trade Center attacks. Bush Jr. was tested with 9/11. Any new president that comes into office, whether it is McCain or Obama is going to be tested. It is a sad fact. This is the world we live in.

you people are all talking non-sense again. people who votes for obama = well, good for u. People who votes for Mccain = well, good for u also. all u people try to write something that make sense isntead of all of you just bickering on this web site. MAY THE BEST CANDIDATE WIN. SO THERE.

I couldn't comprehend Bush x 2 voters and I cannot comprehend how anyone can support and vote McCain/Palin. These type of people are uncomprehendable to me.

Everybody knows Biden trips over his tongue from time to time, an anybody who's seen the entire clip (and some news outlets have shown it) knows what he was trying to say, and it's the exact opposite of what Mccain wants us to believe. Biden is just Joe, smart and funny and a straight shooter and gosh darn lovable but occasionally saying some really dumb stuff when his mouth hops off the train of thought. In other words, imperfect like the rest of us.

But seriously, the big question in all this is does McCain honestly think nobody will dare test HIM if elected? Are you kidding me? And he says Obama has an ego! Just like he says Obama is the elitist when he's the one who married a fortune, he says Obama is the liar when 99% of his entire campaign has been thoroughly debunked.....you get the idea. Cant' stand a hypocrite.

Christmas comes this year on November 5th, when we start calling Barack Obama President-Elect.

Fear tactics are a desperate attempt to win and a sure fire way to lose.

I think McCain needs to start thinking long term and the damge he is doing to himself after the election is over. Who he was before he ran and who he is now, is not the same person people respected.

I would much rather have a calm and colective in-control guy like Obama than that angry and bitter liar like McCain should there be any crisis in our country.

Plus, I don't even think Palin is qualified to leave the state of Alaska and visit the lower 49 much less be VP and run the Senate.

Police aren't believing attack victims story. Asking for polygraph. No witnesses in a business district with 20 + restaurants and 20 + taverns, many businesses, very crowded area. No picture of her at ATM, which every user is photographed. No photos on any bank or city cameras. Backwards "B" on face. thepittsburghchannel.com

I can't wait to see what The Daily Show does with this ad.

Is it possible the GOP doesn't want to win this one? They are throwing as much garbage at the voter as possible.....hmmmmm.....what do they know about the next four years that we don't?

I hope Americans are smart enough to realize that this comment by Joe Biden is being taken completely out of context. It is shameful how the one individual who promised to wage a clean campaign is resorting to the lowest denominater -FEAR!

I would have thought that every one in the US had had their fill of these tactics.

I offer a twist to the famous line ; We have nothing to fear but those perpetrating fear !!

do the math. $150,000 divided by 8 weeks of campaign = $18,750 per week. Sure sounds elitist to me.

You guys are delusional if you think Obama has this in the bag. Look at the polls... McCain is still drawing between 40 and 45% on just about every national poll, but the comments on this website are about 100% pro-Obama. There are people out there with jobs who don't just troll around on the internet that will vote for a proven leader, not the celebrity hype that is Barack Obama.

Deperate measures require desperate action, and MCCain is grapping at any point to make his case. The problem is that he is out of touch with the majority of americans. His silly attacks does nothing to improve anything. What Americans want and need are Jobs, a stable economy and end to the wars. The focus should be on improving american lives and the republicans had eight years to do something positive, what Bush and company did is run our country into the ground, got us in a war we didn't need to be in, and gave their rich buddies billions. McCain would be more of the same.

McCain and Palin will lead the world into a nuclear war, probably because God told them to. Nut jobs.

it's a say and do anything politics for the GOP.

Let's not think that Barack is going to win by a landslide and not show up to vote.

he will only win with a landslide IF WE SHOW UP TO VOTE.

TThat's all

Still...I'd much rather have Obama/Biden to fend for us, whatever the challenges may be. After all, look at what this nation has reaped under the GOP regime!

You certainly don't want to be on the wrong side of history...for you just might live long enough to regret it.

The choice is yours: Hope or Hate. You decide.

Obama/Biden ~ "United we Stand."

Anyone notice that at the end of the ad it doesn't say elect McCain and Palin? It just says elect McCain. I'll bet the ad writers did not want anyone to even try to imagine how Palin would be tested and how she might respond if she became President. McCain responding to a crisis is scary enough, but the thought of having to imagine Palin's response to a crisis should scare everyone.

When has McCain been tested in the political arena – when at the end he did not back down ? He's has never been in an Executive position – the closest was as Chairman of the Commerce Committeee – when he failed to regulate well.

The chagne we need is in the offing
we can't afford 4 years of the same policies that have taken us downhill.
NO WAY, NO HOW NO McCain&Palin

OBAMA&BIDEN

Whenever Mccain was tested he failed. We don't need a failed leader with poor judgement.

Breaking News:

I've heard that McCain has a secret plan to get us out of Iraq and Afghanistan. He will begin implementing his new plan January 21.

CNN: why are you publishing such pointless "commentaries" by Ruben Navarrette of the San Diego Union Tribune?

Ruben (and many others) should spend 5 minutes on YouTube and listen to the whole conversation between Obama and Joe The Plumber.

He would find out how honestly, thoughtfully and respectfully Obama discussed his tax plan with Joe, who, on his side, was just making up facts hoping to catch Obama in some kind of contradiction.

Go listen to that and you will find out that this whole "Joe The Plumber" argument by McCain is just another distraction.

Walking on the surface of the moon however acting like a third world country when it comes to election being prepared that anybody can steal the election and this is another "nice history":

Biden remarks = McCain/Palin
soft on crime= Rudy G.
Blame Bush= McCain
real Americans= Pali
Joe the plumber=McCain
socialist=McCain
welfare payments=McCain
spreading the wealth around= McCain
hate liberals=McCain
terrorists= Palin

What is coming next?

Does anybody understand this?

I will definitely take my chances with the younger more thoughtful candidate than with the older experienced candidate who gave absolutely no thought to Sara Palin as his vp choice.

I am voting for Obama, but whats up with Biden! I mean, no matter how you see his comments here, it was a real bone head thing to say, especially knowing that Republicans are experts at getting folks to vote for them based on fear. I am sure the Obama campaign has asked Biden to chill out.

I personally think Joe Biden is an idiot but what does he know that maybe we should know. Is he privy to info that shows we're in danger? Shouldn't that be shared with the American public before an election that could put us in danger? I want to know....

Mc Cain your too divisive–a house divided cannot stand
.
Seems your aren't going to president – get over it–take your meds and go away.and while your at it can you at least do something about those nasty yellow teeth

LANDSLIDE–OBAMA 08

Nope. Still not working.

Try...sending money!

Nope. That won't work either. We can't be bought.

Obama 08!

Surely, Biden meant an attack on the U.S. didn't have to happen, period. At least when he and Obama are elected, the billions of dollars being spent in Iraq, "The one place where we know Bin Laden isn't", will be spent elsewhere, hopefully back home where it's desperately needed.
PLEASE PEOPLE, VOTE NOV. 4th.

We all knew what Senator Biden was talking about. He has the forethought that while Senator Obama has been attacked here in the US, by the Republican party and it's attack dogs, the world has been watching. The test may just be to see if Senator Obama will be true to his word in establishing the dignity and respect of the US around the globe. What was said did not mean that warfare is imminent. McCain has run out of ideas completely.

"Gird your loins"

Will we recieve Gov't manuals/instructions on how we do this, Joe?

Every new president is tested. Biden is right. McCain is wrong – he hasn't been tested, he's never been President. My support goes to the guys who are intelligent and even tempered, thank you.

Joe Biden knows that the next president will inherit crisis regardless of who wins. This ad is nothing but a scare tactic and John McCain is desparate.

Ha ha ha ha...this is all McCain can come up with? It feels like McCain campaign is a conspiracy to make him lose. Karl Rove's guys are deliberately trying for him to lose as a payback for old mavericky times of McCain.

No real ideas so everything is a twist of reality in hopes of creating confusion, fear, and uncertainty. Biden did not say that only Obama would be tested. Why not run on the real issues instead of twisting the truth and telling outright lies?

Vote early to make sure your vote gets counted. Vote OBAMA.

Go early voters.

Registered Republican "voted" Obama/Biden 08

Believe me, if such a test is to occur, you want someone like Obama in the White House FAR more than McCain. Obama is incredibly intelligent, calm and measured. McCain’s limited intelligence is well documented (graduated 894 of 899 at Naval Academy). More importantly however, McCain is notorious for his temper, as demonstrated by his multiple blow-ups on the Senate floor. If John McCain or someone like him had been president during the Cuban missile crisis, we would have had a war. Look what happened last time we had an arrogant idiot in the White House with a short temper?! He invaded the wrong freaking country!

McCain was tested as a POW resulting from his own mistakes at the helm of an aircraft. He also coughed up secrets while being interrogated. He is a terrible excuse for a politician and it is sad that the polls are so close at this point in the election. it proves how UN-EVOLVED WE ARE AS A COUNTRY. Other countries call our pre-disposition to race in this country, "CRAZY" I agree. If we elect Mccain, you think the world view of our country is bad now? Just you wait...idiots. OBAMA/BIDEN all the way

Janet, I'm so certain that you were a McCain supporter–NOT! Get real!

More of the McCain ignorant BS, Joe Biden is right...when Obama is elected President. McCain would be tested also, if he had a prayer of being elected...which he doesn't. This type of thing happens practically everytime anyone is elected President. It is not a new concept!
The big difference between McCain an Obama is that between the two, only Obama has the temperrment, judgement and intelligence to handle such a political test.

What a joke. This is all McOld has to cling to?????????

President Barack Obama!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

hey cnn

did you really check to see if obama's grandmother is really sick or is it just another story made from obama camp to get sympathy votes.

pls don't parrot the obama camp talking point without doing the proper reporting – don't be lazy do the investigative reporting and take the word of another, remember when you the mdia did that last time bush took us to war cause you were too lazy to check up on facts and just went along with the bush administration just becuase they said so. and you were too lazy to do the real reporting and ask the tough questions

Even others in the government have stated that the new president will be tested. For McCain to say that he won't is a false confidence in ones self. Does he think for one min. that everybody is scared of him? So he was in the Cuban Missile Crisis. He did not have to make any of the decisions. He was not the President. While he is a hero for what he went through, that does not make him quailified for the oval office. There are hundreds of others who were pows also. They are heros as well, but you don't here about them, or hear about people bragging about them. McCain better understand and so should the American public that nobody in the wold is afaid of McCan except those of us who fear another senseless war.

If the terrorists of the world want to test the US...they will, regardless of who is the next president. McCain keep on telling us he has been tested....what does that mean? Sitting on a warplane waiting for orders from someone else to attack Cuba is commendable, but does not mean that every other pilot waiting along McCain is also qualified to be the next president. The higher ups making the decisions were tested, not the fighter pilots.

Stick with Obama, he will bring the change required to get our lives back in shape and the respect of the rest of the world !!!

Hmmm...GW Bush, John McCain, or Barack Obama. If I had to pick one leader of the three in any crisis I would pick overwhelmingly Barack Obama. he is the smartest and most level headed choice.

Obama/Biden in 08!
And My vote will count and I will help to make HISTORY!

We've come full circle. Back to the scare tactics. I actually feel sorry for the guy.

Repubs,
You really need to take a long hard look at your party between now and 2012.

So,

If Sen. McCain had be President in 2000, 9/11 never would have happen!

I am totally disgusted about the press from the left wing media and people on this board have waged against a man that asked Obama a question and a woman who has been attacked. You people should be ashamed. It is amazing how hateful everyone has been, but most of all the dems here. You are all animals.

McCain has it right though. Hillary had it right.. BIDEN had it right. OBAMA NOT READY TO LEAD. Not experienced, not right for this country period.

Joe knows what he's talking about. When the "test" comes I sure don't want ol' McWar standing there with his finger on the nuke button just itching to punch it!

Obama/Biden '08-'12

And there was me thinking that today might be the day that McCain-Palin actually proposed a policy or an idea of their own. How foolish.

BTW John, however much you try and spin it, Biden never made the corollory you seem to desperately read into his comments: that they WOULD NOT test you if elected. His whole point is that the next president, whomever it might be, will face such a test.
And as much as your collection of angry facial expressions and incessant "My friends" would be invaluable in such a scenario, I'll stick with Barack if you don't mind.

McCain is just desperate.... He takes Biden's comments out of context. Why doesn't he play the whole comment? For me and many I know, the McCain/Palin (McPain?) ticket is much less trustworthy... No matter how much you try, we won't be tricked once again. For real, needed change in Washington, vote Obama/Biden '08!

Go Obama/ Biden!

COME ON NOW REALLY
How can anybody with any intelligence vote Republican.
Just to remind you.
The Iraq War.
4187 killed for no reason.
The Valery Plame affair.
The lawyers who were fired because they did not agree with the Bush white house.
Larry Craig... Libby and all the others.. Carl Rove...Dick Chaney. and too many crooked things to mention.
And you want more by voting for McCain/Palin. Anybody who even considers voting for them should be in a mental hospital.

This 'Joe' is probably right. No doubt any new president will be tested in the first years of an administration. Obama's up to the challenge. McCain would be on vacation and Palin would be shopping for more clothes.
Let's just vote and get this overwith.

Obama/Biden '08

This is all taken out of context. The pundits are reducing Senator Biden's comments to this incomplete sound bite!! Please recognize that he finishes his argument about Senator Obama's ability to handle an international crisis because he (paraphrased) has got a spine made of steel.

What about you friend Joe Leiberman who made the same comment in defending you during the primaries. The fact that you say nothing will happen if you are elected is a little arrogant. I believe it doesn't matter who is elected this country will be tested. Also, your statements saying that you will balance the budget by the end of your first term is also arrogant. The fact of the matter is Senator McCain, you will do or say anything to win this election. I hang my head in shame, with the Republican party is acting the way they are, it is no wonder why we are hated in the world.

Yes, your boy is probably going to win...and the joke will be on all of you Kool-Aid drinkers. When the small businesses in your town close because of O'bama's insurance requirements, just tell them to eat "CHANGE!"
One question. Will white people be eligible for free cheese this time?

McCain has already proved that he can lead us into unnecessary wars and his proposed economic policies of corporate welfare have already been tested by Bush. He doesn't need further testing.

THERE HE GOES WITH FEAR TACTIC'S , PLEASE DON'T LISTEN TO THIS FOOL , THEY HAVE NOTHING TO RUN ON , SO WHY NOT TRY AND SCARE THE PEOPLE INTO VOTING FOR US ? THIS IS THE SAME OLD DOCTRINE THAT BUSH ADMINSTATION HAS USED , IF ANYONE IS SERIOUS ABOUT NOT HAVING REPUBLICANS IN THE WHITE HOUSE FOR A VERY LONG TIME ,TAKE THE TIME TO READ THE PNAC DOCUMENT 'S . i'M SURE MCAIN FOLLOW'S THESE PRICIP[LE SINCE HE 'S ALWAYS FOR WAR " BOMB ,BOMB IRAN , THESE ARE THE KIND OF COMMENTS THAT A POTENTIAL PRESIDENT SHOULD NOT BE MAKING ,THAT'S WHY WE NEED A RATIONAL THINKER LEADINDG THIS COUNTRY ,NOT SOMEONE WHO SHOOTS FROM THE HIP AND ANSWERS QUESTIONS LATER

McCain, just how have you be tested? By voting with Bush 90% of the time? You FAILED miserably!! Read some of these blogs from people around the world....It appear to me that they welcome Senator Obama in a positive manner....Lord for bid we get another four (4) years of you and Bush!!! Oh, by the way, another former Bush team member endorse OBAMA!!

CHANGE IS RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER!!!

another example of the mccain campaign twisting and distorting the real context and meaning of a statement to their own desperate ends...

PATHETIC.

I would rather Barack Obama be at the helm of any DECISION in the white house... period.

Obama /// Biden 2008

Bad commercial for the GOP and the reason is – all people have to think about is if the McCain/Palin ticket were to win and something were to happen to McCain – those foreign leaders would have a field day testing us for sure if Palin became President. Simple logic.

I would rather have Obama in the White House in the event of a "crisis" than Johhny "wanna be" McCain because chance are he would have a heart attack and then we would be stuck with a hockey mom!!!

McCLOWN is in FULL PANIC MODE!!

I almost feel sorry..........

NAAAAH, he is just a CLOWN!!!

Some people just don't learn . . . . . . . .

On one hand McCain seems to indicate if Obama is elected, there is no doubt he will be tested. On the other hand, McCain seems to think that he, himself, will not be tested. Both statements may very well be incorrects. McCain has presented himself as a war-mongering, jingoistic, erratic "leader". He is exactly what those who would do us harm will test. Anything they can do to make the US look like a stupid, bullying country will work for them. McCain will very easily be drawn into a conflict that will make us look even worse than we do today. There is no doubt Obama will be tested too, but he has proven to be a thoughtful, analysing, careful leader. He won't be so easily drawn out.
McCain is a marginal Senator. He'd make a lousy president. Obama has proven in his short career that he is a much better leader than McCain. Experience isn't worth a spit, if you don't learn anything from it. McCain has proven to be a very slow learner.

So doesn't Biden's suggestion of a crisis suggest what Obama may be able to do as Presidient will be limited? I hear all this "change" babble yet what can Obama change? He and the Democrats were just as culpable in the present financial crisis as any Republican. With the economy in the tank and a mushrooming, huge national debt, he won't have much to work with. And if he does give everyone under $250,00 a tax break (offering breadcrumbs for votes?), the debt can only go up. He says he'll take away tax breaks from oil companies but the price of oil is spiraling downward so his move could only now hurt oil companies and so also hurt their employees (most of whom probably don't make $250,000 a year).
I may be cynical but I don't see any big change coming. Like Ron Paul and Ralph Nader say, we have two relevant parties in this country and both are corrupt and almost the same.
Seriously, if Obama becomes president I"m supposed to believe all our problems go away?

A new President will ALWAYS be tested. This applies to McCain as well as Obama. Neither candidate has faced being the leader of the free world during a national or international crisis.

If McCain thinks it won't happen to him, he is seriously deluded. I'm voting the candidate who knows it will happen, who will be prepared for it, and who has shown us that he has calm and steady hand in times of trial.

They are SO desperate, it's pathetic. Do we really want these people governing our nation? Is this all they got? Again?

I can't wait for this election to be over.

OBAMA-BIDEN '08

The Military backs John McCain/Sarah Palin. So do I. So do most Americans. You petty bloggers can now go out and get a real job.

McCain you have Palin as a running mate and you are 72. This only reminds us that they will really try Palin. The team Obama and Biden VS McCain and Palin. I vote for Obama and Biden. I can not wait until after this election is over. I am so tired of your game of try and do anything.

obama up by nine. says it all.

Obama/Biden/Pelosi/Reid.........the end of democracy.

I just love that - "they won't test me because they know I've already been tested." Because you were a POW almost 40 years ago? No, hon, world leaders would test (and have tested) virtually any and all new presidents in modern history in a variety of ways.

Oh, sure, McLame is so well-respected by the rest of the world that they would never test HIM. That's why al Queda (sp?) has "endorsed" him on their own website and want him elected president. Definitely, that makes me feel SO much safer with McLame.

Hope, not fear. GObama '08!

Being shot down does not mean you were tested. Waiting to take off on the flight deck does not mean you were tested. Time for a new direction away from people like you McCain. You were not always this way and it is sad to have seen you fall so far.

The McCain Palin campaign is parsing words again. Biden said

"if Obama is tested, his challengers will find out he's got steel in his spine"

I'm so tired of McCain and Palin using only the words which serve their twisted, evil needs.

Bogus fear mongering in an attempt to prevent Obama Voters from having their voices heard LOUD and CLEAR through Early Voting and on November 4!! This man has moved below grasping for straws. He now is digging in the gutter.

Biden is right, look at the crisis we are in now.. It's surely will be a challenge and it will definitely be something else with the financial system. Gosh! Is this all that McCain has to offer us? McCain should spend his time focusing on the economy and what he will do to fix it. McCain spends 90% of his time talking about Joe the Plumber and linking Obama to Ayers.

MCCAIN YOUR ATTACKS AREN'T WORKING, COME UP WITH SOMETHING ELSE!

What is McCain saying he's going to do for any of us. (NOTHING)

OBAMA/BIDEN 08

Joe was talking a bout the statistics from previous presidents it’s increasingly becoming a common thing so McCain’s Ad does not add up because under McCain we will be going to war anyway. The writing is on the wall, look at Joe McCain calling 911 for traffic jam, Sarah Palin firing brother in law it’s going to be a mess abuse of power and then add on top of it deregulation and uncontrolled tempers we will be in war with the whole world while, privatizing social security and we will undergo another Keating 5 when retirees lost their savings. Enough. Joe is an intelligent man he knows what he was taking about, we’d rather be prepared that being caught unaware, and personally I don’t think it will happen.
Go Obama and Joe

We don't know how Obama will react because we don't know enough about him since the media has not check into his background

Looks like McCain is trying to change the topic once again from the economy. Man this is truly pathetic

Why did Biden made such a stupid comments. He should keep quiet and let Obama win.

and is that all he has ...........please he is DONE. and he can thank PALIN for his lost..............

What Joe Biden said is not Different than what Joe Lieberman said. I don't believe that people should take whatever Joe Biden said for Gospel like a prophetic message. Those Republican scary tactics won't work this time. The Republican doom with the selection of Sarah Palin, the least educated person in the face of high Politic. She is pathetic, incompetent, ignorant, unqualified, so uneducatated, she seems having difficulties to put a simple phrase together. McCain's judgement is really at test on this election. He lost all the respect of the people that used to admire him as a leader, he lost all his loyalty by bashing President Bush to get elected! What a shame!

Biden is a loose cannon who would be a disaster as VP. But the liberal media , of course, concentrates it's fire only on Palin's gaffes.

Joe's remarks were a preface to his main point that Obama WILL be ready for such a challenge. Another 'out of context' attack by an increasingly desperate GOP campaign.

I'm with you, Scott on the bogus attack thing. The woman who was supposedly attacked is a McCain campaign staffer. Even the police are saying her story has been inconsistent each time they talk to her. And yes, why someone carve the letter "B" on her face backwards.

I don't think the USA will face any test more threatening than the economic crises we are facing right now. Both candidates are facing this major test right now and the USA electorate could see how each candidate is responding. No need to speculate on the future.

just hate and fear!!!

Why doesn't this surprise me? It is so old!

OBAMA-BIDEN '08!

Your message is not working John. Surrender and go home with your beautiful wife peacefully. It's way over!

The only reason that 95% + of people benifit from Obama's plan is because over 35% do not pay taxes and will get a free check for doing nothing. So he is in essence buying the presidency by getting all these people to vote in order to get the free money.

It is a smart winning strategy, however it is not right and I am shocked not 1 person in the media is calling him out on it (that I have heard of anyway)

Joe is right. Almost every single president has had to deal with a crisis in their first year of office. Remember when the Chinese forced one of our Navy planes down only 3 months into GW's presidency. Khrushchev tried to face down Kennedy in Vienna during his first year of his presidency. Hitler came to power in the first month of Roosevelt's presidency in 1933. The list of these challenges during our history goes on and on.

Look, we've got a lot to deal with right now anyway. McCain would have to deal with something like this too. It's a matter of who you believe will handle the situation in a level-headed and intelligent way. My vote is for Obama and Biden because I don't think McCain has the temperament and Palin certainly doesn't have the chops to deal with something big.

What I don't get is that he's trashing Biden for making those statements, but yet he comes out and says, "no one will test me." Thats borderline cocky and to me, that would make people want to test him to shut him up and show him that he's not all that he thinks he is. Not to mention, I guess he thinks he's all big and bad just because he was a POW? Please. All of the respect he received for being a POW went down the drain when he started running a scumbag campaign. I don't vote for jokes, so I'm voting Obama!

I can not believe how John McCain has become such a desperate liar.
He and the RNC have dropped to a new low. Barack Obama does not deserve these attacks. He is probally the most moral canidate we have in many years. Vote for Obama.

Either new president will be tested.

There is a very big difference between what Biden said and the usual Republican attack.

Biden said "They’re going to want to test him. And they’re going to find out this guy’s got steel in his spine." Effectively, "They'll test him and they will regret it." Very different from McCain's "They'll test him and we'll regret it."

The McCain-Palin campaign is the ultimate road to nowhere. Keep up the good work. Here's a thought, add even more negative adds, you'll go nowhere a whole lot faster. I cn not wait for 11-04-08. I will be dancing in the streets.

Biden says some stuff, doesn't he? Oh well, he's still a pretty straight shooter. can't be mad at that.

And bin Laden wants McCain to win.

Enough of this nonsense!!

It's still the economy, stupid!

Get real, the fear card has been played already and it's not going to work this time! People need to listen two the whole statement by Biden. John McCain is losing it for thinking anyone in this world is afraid of him and his former maverick status. "My friends" we need to Vote for Change!

Obama '08

Oh would McCain and the rest of his minions give it a rest. Joe Biden was talking about how well Obama will meet the challenge! Talk about taking things out of context!!!! For John McCain advertise otherwise is libelous and ludicrous. Does he not know that the Internet exists and other people use it all the time to investigate his stories? What is his campaign thinking?

What a desperate and ridiculous AD. McBush's Pal Joe Lieberman said the exact same thing as Biden did one month ago. Almost word for word. McBush has become a sad joke.

Scott in Atlanta: Sarah Palin was brought to play the "Black male victimizing white woman" card. That is not working, now they need to find other women claiming to be victimized by black men. Unfortunately she carved the "B" neatly looking in the mirror, not realizing it would be carved backwards. lol.

A pathetic, desperate end to a pathetic, desperate campaign. I'm with Joe Klein: after the disgrace and humiliation of his defeat wears off, McCain will beg forgiveness. None will be given.

This is such a sick campaign trick, just like Bush more fear, fear, fear if you won't vote for me on the issues maybe I can scare the vote out of you.........and you don't think MCCAIN isn't going to be tested, he'd be the first one to be tested, age 72 just to see what the old man will do...........and I just read that the $150,000.00 that was spent for Palin and her family for clothing was also for her soon to be son-in-law that they were dragging around..........why did they have to cloth the family? OK buy a few dudds for Palin but when they make a quarter of a million dollars I think they could have paid for the kids and the boy that got their daughter pregnant.......Here Obama is with his dying grandmother and McCain sets out on still his nasty lies ......... what a dishonorable man...........

iF " Palin's $150,000 shopping spree had Republicans disgusted, then the report that her makeup stylist cost $22,800 for the first two weeks of October should have them livid. The stylist, Amy Strozzi, was apparently paid more than any other McCain staffer during that period. "

Barbara you are an idiot. How dare you look at propaganda video's of someone who was tortured and say those things. Maybe you should think of how you'd react if the same things were done to you.

we don't need any more of this divisive, vicious, neocon tactics.

Senator McCain has convenently left out the remainder of that quote. Shame on us as Americans if we allow this "Fear and Smear" tactic to work.

These ads won't work because the kool-aid all these Obama supporters are drinking is spiked!!!

If Sarah Palin breathes wrong she gets hammered. The MSM are sickening this election. I believe the best candidate should and will win; however, I do not believe that CNN and MSNBC as well as the New York Times, etc need to be expressing such biased views toward Obama.

They did it against Hillary and now McCain. It is obvious that they want Obama as President and don't care who knows it.

I never thought I'd see the day when I would say that Bill O'Reilly and Greta Van Sustern have been the most fair and balanced (no pun intended) in their coverage of the election.

Tim Russert would roll over in his grave to see how liberal MSNBC has become. Boy do I miss his type of interviewing. It was tough but fair. FAIR!!!! Come on MSM its said when almost 60% of coverage for McCain is negative vs. 28% for Obama. 50-50 would be much better.

Baseless arguments from the MCcain desperate camps. Of course if they were smart enough they would realise that every president gets tested when they are elected, the 9/11 was George bush's test, where he practically messed it all up, and also messed up the economy. So Obama would have to face all the crisis and i know there is more we do not know about that Bush 8 years has caused. MCcain keeps saying he has been tested, i would like to know how he has been tesed, because i am 100% sure he has never been president. One reason to vote for Obama is Sarah Palin, cuz i wouldn't want a woman who knows nothing about the position she is running for to become president, and she still talks like a 4th grader.

so the replublicans should learn by now that negative campaigns just backfires and never really help.

If John McCain actually believes that there is nobody out there continuously plotting against us then he is the naive one. Clearly, McCain's straight talk has taken the "fork" in the road that leads to manipulation. That makes him dangerous, he has implied that if he were voted in as president that we are not in danger of attacks. We must always be aware and never let our guard down; and in all probability who ever is voted as president will not deter any planned attacked.

McCain is consistent if nothing else. Not one time has this man laid out a clear cut plan on any of the issues other than to continue Bush's policies. He spends his money slamming Obama daily. McCain says he's been "tested" – he has not been tested as POTUS so where's the testing? As for the lady with the backwards B on her cheek – maybe the cutter was dyslexic as well as broke.

Michelle Obama is the one who is authentic (no lipstick required!)

Has anyone seen a McCain ad on TV in the past 2 weeks that was NOT negative?

There is a reason Obama/Biden are surging ahead in polls: They took their platform to the public and educated them, keeping it clean and productive, while McCain/Palin went on the attack once the polls started reflecting a widening gap.

Do they really think we are that stupid not to notice this flawed tactic?

Why are they taking Biden's remark's out of context? Why won't they play the next few lines of his remark?
Truth is best. Lies are bad.
But half truths are the worst form of lies.

Biden is right, look at the crisis we are in now.. It's surely will be something else with financial... Gosh! Is this all that McCain has to offer us. McCain should spend his time focusing on the economy and what he will do to fix it. McCain is spends 90% of this time talking about Joe the Plumber and Obama.

What is McCain saying he's going to do for any of us. (NOTHING)

OBAMA/BIDEN 08

Hey McCain: I got my 401k statement this week and the market is down another 300 points today. Can you take a second to run an ad telling us how you're going to fix the economy? And don't tell us about extending Bush's tak cuts to the rich or cutting earmarks.

Out of gas – Sputter, sputter, sputter! Sorry guys you are closing the gate after the horse got away. Keep on preaching to the choir of lost sheep, the Obama campaign will benefit this!

Ummm...the whole election/campaign thing is a test and McCain is the one who is failing. Obama appears to be getting an A.

NEWSFLASH JOHN & BARBIE: Your candidate was "tested" eight months into his Presidency...the result? An illegal war (where are those WMD), over 4,000 of our troops lost, bin Laden still causing trouble, and the Taliban growing again. Our economy is in the tank due to your greed and deregulation....yeah...oh, I'm listening...NOTE

Voted early in FL...Republican for OBAMA!

We need him to be tested. Will demonstrate his leadership and ability and will deter others from trying once they see this man is no BS!!

McCain stop fooling yourself, ur ads are d lowest road in history.......have a focus. ur campaign sucks and I'm voting for Obama/Biden ticket

Americans wake up, let's decide our future by electing Obama/Biden '08

HA, serves Obama/Biden right. Joe should learn how to think before he speaks. He's made alot of GAFS the past few weeks. If I were Obama, I'd be wondering what I was thinking.

The woman who said she was attacked and mutilated by an Obama supporter will likely be exposed as a hoax.

As for the election, the race is probably a lot tighter than the polls are showing and McCain can still pull ahead and win.

What scares the heck out ouf ME is the idea of Sarah Palin being President. Although in that case, we won't be tested. She already provided enough edivence of her stupidity..

Negative, negative, negative, negative.

McCain has nothing positive to say about himself.

And imagine if he had another health crisis, and Caribou Barbie was in charge. That should be enough of a nightmare to keep anyone from voting for McGrumpy.

And McCain is supposed to be able to handle the Presidency because he can't handle a campaign? No thanks.

Fool us thrice?

Nope – can't afford it.

that ad by mcbush is misleading, they took out a lot of context of what biden really said. took out that "every president are tested in their first 6 month, but with obama he has a spine made of steel".
give it up mcbush, getting tired of your joe shmoe and lies.

GO OBAMA-BIDEN 08 & 12

That's just Biden being Biden - trying to bolster his own international cred and imply that Barack will need him there to navigate the int'l crisis.

Joe is like the drunk best friend who can never shut up sometimes.

All presidents are tested in some way. The rest of the world wants to get an idea of who we've elected.

McCain is delusional, if he thinks he won't be "Tested. Whomever is elected will be tested.

What does he think, that our enemies will see the great warrior, maverick, in the white house, and run for the hills?

Ridiculous...

There isn't enough Old Spice on the planet to mask the scent of desperation wafting across the aisle from right to left.

I've yet to understand McCain's claim that he has been tested. How does flying a plane under strict orders on what to do constitute a test? I guess by test he means following directions and not screwing up, but history tells us he wasnt that good at that either. I just don't get it. If he was a General in charge a war then maybe but even then that's just part of the President's responsibilities.

Again, how exactly has McCain been tested that makes him the better candidate? Nobody can be prepared to be President. Good judgement is what you need and that is what McCain has been lacking these past 3 months and is what Obama has proven he has.

To Ed,

I will take my chances with MCCain, he has been to war, NOBAMA has not....as far as it relates to the leader of the free world, Obama has not even been closely tested at anything, maybe just saying present.

and some of you want this man in the White House?

John's campaign isn't convincing. All I hear them do is attack. Their platform seems to be "Do you really want the other guy?" That is why they are losing. The last time I heard any policy discussion from McCain that wasn't part of a debate, he offered his horrible economic plan, which he seems to have abandoned. Senator Obama talks about fixing problems. Senator McCain just attacks Senator Obama.

You know what i have been doing and it seems to clear things up for me...i have just beed reading the transcript of what what all 4 candidates are saying, no reported intervention or soft voices, just their words.

Really enlightening. for both sides.

give it a try, make up your own mind, rather than just being sheep

Hilarious. I'm having such a good time watching the vermin scurry.

The most telling part of all of this is McCain claiming that an incident won't happen if he was elected...

...because he has been tested, he's been there. And that is it. He does not put forward anything else. It is the same nonsense as I know how to win wars.

Really John? As far as I can tell, and have read, you were shot down because of recklessness, and have held no administrative position in anything to do with a crises. The latest one, financial, showed CLEARLY that you have no clue as to what you are doing, and absolutely nothing to offer.

Peace.

So now McCain thinks he can avert a crises that he barely acknowledges exists, but that Biden can't, simply because Biden knows there is going to be a problem?
Am I the only one having trouble with this messed up GOP logic?
I would think that being prepared is what its all about!

It sure seems like they will do anything to take the public's eyes off of Palin's total lack of any ability to be president, and McCain's lack of a viable solution.

Another EX-Republican for Obama here.

The idea that at this stage of the campaign McCain is spending advertising dollars to attack something Joe Biden said is ludricous. It is especially absurd when you consider that what Biden said is an historical fact. What McCain has done is distort what Biden said, and then used that distortion to attack Obama. Biden did NOT say that Obama's inexperience would invite an attack. He said that new president's are frequently tested by their adversaries. The "experience" factor is a McCain add-on. The scare-tactics and distortions being used by the McCain/Palin ticket are grotesquely irresponsible.

All people have to do is look at all of Palin's interview clips and then they will all realize "it doesn't have to happen"! Vote for change, not the sleazy cult like McCain-Palin ticket.

pitiful weak scare tactic won't work

NOT THIS TIME!!!!
NOT THIS YEAR!!!!

Obama/Biden

Every president has been tested while in office. Whatever tests Barack Obama may face in office, if John McCain is there instead, he would have to face the same tests.

The Presidency is a test of a politician in itself. (Although you I can't really back that statement with any current evidence from the last eight years.)

There have always been terrorist attacks, the US has been invading and fighting other countries non-stop since the Korean War, and as long as we rely on the Federal Banking and Treasury system, the economy is always going to be a touchy subject.

The President serves the people, not the other way around. Obama just understands that more so than John McCain.

BRING IT ON !!! MISSION COMPLETE !!!!I IV'E BEEN TESTED !!!!
SOUNDS LIKE BUSH TO ME !!!! TOUGH GUY ....

OBAMA/BIDEN...TAKE IT TO THE BANK !!!

I have cast my vote for OBAMA-BIDEN already, please go and vote early, what a difference voting early can make, even if I had not voted early, it still wouldn't change my ,mind. MCCAIN/PALIN ticket, what a joke.

McCain is ruining his legacy. He comes across now as a nasty petty old man. He has lost all his morals. Why doesn't his campaign not get that all of this negative campaigning is working against them? Are they dense -do they not read the polls? I wonder what would happen if they spent 10 days being overwhelmingly positive. ?
I hope they don't. And truly McCain is not positive. That is why he is losing!
Obama/Biden 08 OUT WITH DIVISIVENESS!!!!!!!!!!

My lord! STOP with the scare tactics! Desperation is an ugly, ugly thing and our country doesn't need it anymore.

Nope. Sorry. Not working. Might as well use your advertising money to get Palin her designer clothes from Saks, Neiman, and Bloomingdales.

"Mecca Lecca Hi Mecca Hiny Ho!"
Seriously, suddenly they're putting stock into what Biden says? I agree that something will happen in the next 6 months to test the new president, but how can McCain say that he "won't be tested." That's irresponsible.

Sen. Obama will make better decisions than Sen. McCain in any crisis.
Period.

I wish CNN would post up the comments McCain's buddy Joe Lieberman said in 2007 stating that whoever is elected President will be tested right away. Or how people have stated that McCain would be tested more than Obama because he is older, has a temper, and is a war monger. Yet again McCain releases negative campaign ads, everyone get out and vote on or before Nov. 4, vote for Obama/Biden so we can have real change and regain some respect in the world.

Another VILE ad, another LIE by John McCain. I do not understand how anyone could vote for this man, who has done nothing but spewed lies, hate, fear and division at a time when our Country needs healing, hope and unity!

NO ONE (I hope) is naive enough to think that when Sen. Obama is elected .......all our TROUBLES WILL BE GONE! NOT ONE OF US THINKS THAT.

WE KNOW THERE IS HARD WORK UP AHEAD.

WE KNOW TOUGH TIMES WILL BE WITH US.

AFTER THE MESS THAT THE REPUBLICANS HAVE LEFT IT WILL TAKE SEN. OBAMA'S ENTIRE PRESIDENCY TO START DIGGING OUT FROM THE ...........MESS!

AND THEN WE WILL NEED HILLARY TO COME UP BEHIND HIM AND FINISH UP!

PLEASE AMERICA....... VOTE......AND REJECT THE POLITICS OF HATE-LIES-FEAR-AND-DIVISION!

Wow, they sure made him look spooky! Just in time for Halloween.

End conservative scare tactics. Vote with your mind and your heart. Vote for real change this Nov. 4th (or earlier if your state allows)!

Obama / Biden '08!!!

I have heard it repeated many times by the best of the media that Joe Biden was just trying to bring up the fact that most new presidents are tested, usually early in their first adminstration, by trouble-making nations.

Repubs, you KNOW what he meant–quit trying to spin his comments to make it sound like it was against Obama!

You are the MASTERS of hate, corruption, deceipt, and lies!!

We honest Americans can't believe that we are almost at the end of your reign of nightmarish control!! Any decent American will not fall for your lies this time and WILL NOT VOTE for YOU!!

Barack Obama and Joe Biden are going to WIN, and there will be a cry heard round the world like the world has never heard:

FFFFFF - R - E - E - D – O - MMMMMM !!!!!!

Freedom from the worst adminstration this country has EVER had!!

(An Ohioan PROUD to be for OBAMA!!!)

And YES, we can win Ohio, too!!!

What many of Sen. Obama's ardent supporters seem to be missing is the question "...is their candidate up to the challenge?" What if Sen. Biden is correct? What if a major international crisis is brought to bear? Is Sen. Obama up to the challenge? That is where EXPERIENCE is, in my opinion, critical. And, judging by Sen. Obama's lack of foreign policy knowledge/experience, statements made about who to sit down with and under what conditions, his lack of understanding of how to best use the military, and his willingness to openly commit to strategies as campaign rhetoric, he IS NOT the one to be sitting in the Oval office. Sen. Clinton had it right when she asked "...who do you want answering the 0300 phone call."

Has John McCain forgotten about 9/11? Every President is tested sooner or later. Why should it be any different for Obama as president?

Didnt Joe Liebermann also state that there will be a crisis and McCain will also be tested within a few months if he is elected president? Brian Williams asked them about it on the NBC interview and all they could say was "Oh I've been tested, when I was in the war, blah blah blah"
If their point is that there will be a crisis only because Obama is president, Joe Liebermann has refuted that argument with his statement. If their point is that Biden says Obama is not ready, well we all heard Biden in the ad and he obviously didnt say that else it would have been repeated in the ad, right?
So all they have is what Liebermann said when he himself was campaigning for McCain earlier in the year. I guess if its said about McCain, its ok but if its said about Obama, its not ok.

One word for John McCain and Sarah Palin "Desperate"!

"uhhhh.....so we don't actually...ya know...have any plans, qualifications, integrety or relevance but have you considered..."

OBAMA IS THE DEVIL!!!!!!!

-john mcshame.

We knew that Joe would do this. Its taken out of context, but it still hurts. Sometimes I wish Joe would just stick to his talking points and leave the other stuff out.

However, the only reason I'm voting for Obama is because of Joe. I'm probably a small number of people in that position but that just the case.

He is an honest man, its just that sometimes hes too honest and forwthcoming.

Obama/Biden/Warner/USA '08

Desperation, Desperation. McCain, claims that Obama will say anything to win., except it is McCain who will say anything to win. Witness his attack of Bush' s and the Republican policies for the last eight years. OPPS he voted with Bush and The republicans 90% of the time. Good job John keep attacking yourself. Obama in 08

If MCcain's brother can be so arrogant now, then what if ?! Come to think of it !!!!

I have already voted. Short line. Vote early don't waste your time on Nov 4th. Lines will be long. Go Joe the Senator. He is my man. Obama our next President.

Scott in Atlanta, I thought the same thing the minute I saw her picture on the news. She did it herself in the mirror!

McCain is pathetic.

OBAMA-BIDEN BY A LANDSLIDE right into at total socialist government where thousands of people will loose their jobs because their employers were forced to lay off their workers because they could not afford to pay their employees health insurance that Obama is trying to shove down the nations throat.

McCain has spent the last coins of his reputation for principle and sound judgment to pacify the limitless demands and narrow vision of the far-right wing. His righteous fury at being driven out of the 2000 primaries on a racist tide aimed at his adopted daughter has been replaced by a zealous embrace of those same win-at-all-costs tactics and tacticians.

Stop posting only pro-Obama statements! your bias is showing.

You know, if you keep on telling yourself lie after lie, you begin to believe its the truth. McShame is so deep in lies, he has no idea what the truth is right now. He is living in a world of deceit, shame and greed. I feel sorry for him. I don't wish his position on anybody. He was once a good man. It may be a little while, but I really think he will look back on this campaign hang his head low. He'll realize that his campaign was dirty and disgusting. And then he will regret it for the rest of his life.

Why would Obama be tested? I thought everyone in the world loved him? That's what he has campaigned on.

What next John? The kitchen sink?

This just shows once AGAIN that McCain is either stupid or mentally ill. Everyone knows Biden was speaking facts , every new President is always tested in some form.

The Question is , do we want the smart steady Obama at the helm to deal with the crises OR the unstable erratic old geezer ?

VOTE SMART

VOTE OBAMA

How can Palin criticize Obama for lack of experience? Where did she get her experience?

WHEN ARE THE KOOL-AID, EASILY LED PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY GOING TO WAKE UP AND REALIZE THAT MCCAIN AND PALIN ARE DESPERATE?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

MCCAIN AND PALIN ARE GOING TO LIE, DISTORT, ATTACK, ACCUSE AND LIE ABOUT ANY AND EVERY THING FOR THE REMAINING 11 DAYS.

STOP DRINKING THE DRINKING THE KOOL-AID AND WAKE UP.

THE COUNTRY IS IN A REAL MESS RIGHT NOW, AND IF YOU THINK THINGS ARE BAD NOW, JUST WAIT TO SEE WHAT HAPPENS IF MCCAIN AND PALIN SHOULD WIN.

SAY GOOD-BYE TO YOUR JOBS, PENSIONS, RETIREMENT SAVINGS, 401(k)'s, ETC.

IF YOU DON'T CARE ABOUT YOURSELVES, THINK OF YOUR FAMILY, CHILDREN, COMMUNITY AND COUNTRY!

Biden made that statement just to get McCain off message and have McCain focus on a non-issue. This is further evidence of a lack of focus and philosophy by McCain and his campaign. The Obama campaign has fooled the McCain campaign AGAIN! Can't believe McCain fell for it again.

Fool me once shame you, fool me twice....whatever Bush said....

Unfortunately, obama's inability to manage the crisis of which biden speaks will impact all of us, and not just the blind supporters of Obama like those on this board.

"Take a good look at this face. Remember this face when you go into the voting booth. A vote for John McCain is a vote for George W. Bush." – Will Ferrell as George Bush 10/23/08

Joe Biden stated the truth...Obama has come under so much scrutiny since day one, and the world will want to test him because they want to trust him. I think the McCain campaign would much rather talk about Palin's $150K wardrobe and make-up artist who got paid $22K in two weeks than to discuss her utter lack of knowledge and experience. No one is ever prepared to be President, but you do need knowledge, maybe something like a Columbia U along with a Harvard U sort of education. Knowledge that Caribou hunting won't reveal. McCain the hypocrite keeps talking about Joe the Plumber, and how Barack is naive for wanting to meet with our enemies, but fails to explain why Rummy, Richardson and Bush Senior met with Sadaam on numerous occasions, or, as was revealed today, how McCain himself met with Pinochet years ago, one of the most ruthless dictators in the western hemisphere, I am voting for Obama because I love this country. God Bless America!

Bush was tested too.....what makes Mccain or Obama any different. Our enemies will hate us no matter who is president. Hello? THINK PEOPLE!

How can it be if the race is pretty much even, that 99% of the comments at CNN.com are for Obama?

Moderator? Either Obama supporters don't work and have nothing better to do than blog and post 24/7, or you are only posting the pro-Obama comments.

Just proves to me and many other McCain supporters that you are trying desperately to fix this election, just like the ACORN group.

Congratulations. You are making a mockery of our "democratic" system, and supposedly "unbiased" media.

I'm with Richie....if Obama is gonna be tested because he's unknown what's gonna happen to us if Palin ever gets the big office? I think there would be Russian nukes in the air. Of course – she'd see 'em coming from her house!

Oh! John. Do the honorable thing, and run the rest of your campaign with dignity. Do you really want to go down in history as the smear monger? Your desperation has been obvious for some time now.

John, get a grip!

If you are elected, we will have an International Crisis! And, it will be an International 'Crisis of CONFIDENCE' in your leadership, man!

It's NOT YOUR TIME!

If you are a conspiracy theory fan, the scary part about Joe's comments is that he says it as if he knows already what will happen, that it will be a 'manufactured' crisis, and it will appear at first that they (Joe and O) are handling it wrong, but after its over, you will see they did the right thing.

Why would you say such a thing, unless you already know something is in the works? It's almost like he wants to clarify something because he has a guilty conscience. That scares me.

Even if I hadn't already voted for Obama, this ad wouldn't have changed my mind. Mcain you lost me with Palin. Actually you lost yourself when you chose her. I know you must go to bed every night thinking to yourself.."What have I done?" The answer is....you helped America choose the next President.

With the majority of the world wanting a President Obama, I think the test would fall on the lap of the erractic McCain...where does he get the notion that he is so loved by other countries, they loathe him as much as Bush.

how does one spend $150,000 on CLOTHES???

I am SO laughing my behind off! Such desperation has begotten an ad that is so ridiculous that it cannot be taken serious by anyone with any common sense. How embarrasing for the honest Republicans out there. Obama/Biden keep up the clean campaign. I am proud to be a Democrat!

Another fear tactic. Stop trying to scare people old man! McCain and Palin are the ones that will say anything to get elected. You lost my vote weeks ago with your fear-mongering Bush tactics and stupid choice for VP.

I've been scared already....GW/MCSAME LAST 8YRS IS ENOUGH SCARE ALREADY.

NO 4 MORE YEARS OF SCARY GW!!!!!!

Just another attempt to scare. McCain has scared me so with his erratic behavior, I've decided not to vote for him. I'm voting for Obama

FEAR, FEAR, FEAR...

AND BY THE WAY....

FEAR FEAR FEAR ......FEAR FEAR FEAR

The fact of the matter is, adversaries usually try to target new regimes (no matter who's in office) before you can get "comfortable". I guess Joe telling what could be the truth is not good. Just lie, lie, lie, like the GOP! And if we do experience an emergency, Barack's judgement is soooooooo much better than McSame's! I can see Palin standing on the couch with her hands up to her ears screaming like she just saw a roach or something while John waits for someone to plug in his teleprompter! Don't call 911 and jam the lines though, John's brother won't be able to get his traffic report!!!! Absurd GOP!

Every new President gets tested. Joe Biden said nothing that had been said earlier this year by Joe Lie berman about John McCain. If Mccain thinks he has been tested he better withdraw his nomination for President now. He is not exempt. The enemy doesn't care about any of us so they may even stepup their plans, if there are any.

He claims he can get Bin Laden when he becomes President. Then I was thinking correctly all along. George W and John Sidney have him staked out at Camp David. As soon as they can they'll go there and release him. Otherwise he won't find him and follow him like he promised. Oh well win some, lose some.

Obama/Biden '08 and beyond

One more item.......McCain's "They won't test me....I've already been tested" smacks of Bush's "Bring it On" comment and you know where that got us.

Wow!! They really made him look like the devil. I love Joe.

Go Obama/Biden 2008

Vote! Vote! Vote!

Weak ad. Lieberman has also warned about a looming crisis on several occasions. The same ad could easily be made targeting Republicans. Clearly McCain is just desperate now.

McCain is a fool if he thinks he will not be tested. He is a bigger fool if he thinks he is ready for testing. His experience is that of last century and he is totally out of touch of modern realities. Enemies of USA know that, he will surely be tested by means of bio-terrorism, cyber-terrorism, and economic tsunamies. All the areas where McCain sucks.

This is just becoming sad. All McCain/Palin have left now are scare tactics.
OBAMA-BIDEN '08

Please don't be fooled of this Old Man's scare tactics. Please not again...never again we will be scared into doing some thing stupid.

Never again. Bush was enough. Never again.

why wont you all post my comments!

The south is turning blue as McCain's face gets redder. The angry little man with the angry little campaign isn't going to cut it for this country.

Obama/Biden 2008

Obama will be tested externally and internally.

Externally by places like Iran and Pakistan.

Internally by those who vote for him looking for the immediate relief he's been promising (that's impossible for him to deliver).

But I guess I'd rather have Obama tested as President than have racial violence in the streets because he was elected.

Only Obama supporters are allowed in here !!!!

SEGREGATION !!!

Welcome to the Past !!!

The more mccain pushes this, the more desparate he seems.....it reminds voters each time that mccain had nothing to offer until Biden made a gaffe.....the gaffe has been aired, much like Palin's gaffes....and we have moved on. Everyone except mccain, that is. He has made quite a name for himself in the OLD NEWS CATEGORY--OLD TERRORISTS, OLD SOCIALIST SCARES, OLD JOE THE PLUMBER, AND OLD GAFFES. His campaign advisors are simply beyond moronic.

But go ahead, dude. Keep up the old stuff, because it certainly gives voters the reinforcement that mccain is OUT OF TOUCH.

I love the comment "stoopid ads dont work" from an Obama supporter. I'll let that comment stand on its own. The Dems like to attack Sarah Palin but the thought of President Biden truly frightens me. There is a reason this man has failed miserably every time he has run for the Presidency. He hasn't held a real job – EVER. He makes these comments, like no other president has been tested?

As Senator McCain himself said, "desperate times call for desperate measures"... this is just one more of those from his so-called "campaign".

Lame, desperate, ....why not spend some more money on designer clothes for the Palin family?

This is just so funny.

Um, didn't someone from the McCain camp say something quite similar in the not too distant past? Something along the lines that an international crisis, in the form of a terrorist attack, would solidify McCain as the next president?

Unless my memory isn't serving me correctly, haven't most new president's been tested by some sort of crisis within months of their first term? Some of the more prominent crisis:

JFK – Bay of Pigs
WJC – WTC #1
GWB – 9/11

No one in their right mind is listening to this. Only the ones who are still a part of the republican "cult like" party. Do your research people.

McCain has yet to offer a plan or vision.

His "honoring" of this country is lost, POW or not.

McCain and his bunch of sleaze and fear mongers are absolutely disgusting. They are like a bunch of wounded horses...pleez put them out of their misery!!!!! November he 4th will I'm sure of that. I used to admire Mr McCain even though I didnt agree with his views in most cases. He has long since lost my respect and I suspect that of many many other americans with the dirty and unfocused campaign he has run. We are going through a world wide financial crisis and recession which is affecting millions of people. What we are looking for not only in america but in the Wrld is some real intelligent leadership from America and all we are getting is "Joe The Plumber" "Joe SixPack" Obama is a closet terrorist..My God McCasin grow up and show what leadership you have in the next 120 days or so.

And at the end of Joes speech he said Obama has " A Spine of Steel".
We seem to leave that out. Historicaly every new president is tested within the first year of office. Bush, 9/11, JFK, Cuban Missile Crisis.

OBAMA / BIDEN 08,12

not her clothes..... RNC'S clothes- does it make you wonder that she is the only non- millionaire in this race? biden made 2.5 million dollars last year alone.. in the past 6 years or so his charity donation for this period is 3700.00 total.. then the messiah, if you think he is going to take care of you and the u.s. when his brother in kenya lives in a dirt floor hut and lives off a dollar a day or less... how if he can't help his own blood how is he going to help a stranger...(fellow american) in your eyes i guess the phrase blood is thicker than water apply's in this case

HEY CNN

NOW THAT YOU MANAGE TO TELL AMRICAN PUBLIC HOW MUCH SARA PALIN SPENT ON HER CLOTHES WOULD YOU ALSO PLEASE TELL THE AMERICAN PUBLIC MUCH BARACK OBAMA SPENDING ON HIS FANCY TAYLORED SUITES FROM PRADA GUCCI ARMANI CALVIN KLEIN
SINCE THERE IS FAIR AND BALANCED JOURNALISM YOUR BEST POLITICAL TEAM IN THE WORLD WOULD BE ABLE DO REPORT THAT- RIGHT!

When I ran for office, I was not allowed to use campaign contributions for my own personal benefit. Evidently campaign reform has not reached the McCain/Palin ticket.

John McCain, referring to the October 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, said: "I was on board of the USS Enterprise, I sat in the cockpit, on the flight deck of the USS Enterprise, off Cuba. I had a target. My friends, you know how close we came to a nuclear war." Then, he went on and said "America will not have a president who needs to be tested. I've been tested, my friends." You have been tested? Hummm! Let’s see! You, Sir, were in the Oval Office at that time presiding over the negotiation with the Russians. Right! In other words, you were the Commander in Chief with the authority to call all the shots. Right! But I would say that President John F. Kennedy was the one who was tested. Not the other John. Not you either, John McCain. Sir, in this case, you have not been tested yet. Therefore, you have no scars to prove that you have been tested! Do you? I think the “Straight Talk Express”, John McCain, has some explanations to do to the American people. It’s RIDICULOUS.

I think Biden's comment was a strategy by Democrats to keep the contest alive. McCain is playing in hands of Obama-Biden. Obama camp knows till now not a signle negative campaign worked in favor of McCain and they wanted to keep McCain involved in negative campaing and keep the voters interested in election. Dull and bored campaing from any side at this point will harm Obama only. Obama talked about complecancy. Good strategy Dems. Unfortunately McCain is still involved in failed strategy. I seriously doubt about McCain judgement, first Palin choice as VP then bad campaign.

anytime you have some 1 new stepping on to the court .. they will be tested,,, thats with anything .. but trust and believe when u have the whole world or at least 75-80 % of it happy to see a change and the a new person like Barak will be head of this change along with the american people .. then to whom ever will be trying to test him will have to deal with the 75-80% of the worl tsaying enough is enough and will not allow this to happen oppossed to 75-80% of the world telling Mcshame .. oh well you the 1 that once to keep fighting ...go deal with it urself .. we have no soilders left .. we are still patching up wounds from the bush years... how bout you take your Pittbull with lipstick over there and go gettem .. because the world has had enough and will not back you McShame ....

Splitting rhetorical hairs isn't what turns around a losing campaign. At this point, though, probably nothing can.

When Joe Lieberman made the near exact same comment a while back it was not seen as worthy of comment, and the same is true now. It would not be a surprise to see some kind of test for the incoming 'new' president, whoever that is.

However, given McCain's oddly erratic behavior when faced with more or less any situation (like the economic crisis of the last few weeks...), I think anyone with half a brain would pick the composed and steady demeanor of Obama any day of the week over McConfused.

More of the same 'ol scare tactics by McRage, sorry buddy, not gonna work this time, America is TIRED of being scared.

Does McCain just not get it?

He NEVER addresses the issues that are obviously working for Obama, instead he keeps trotting out these stupid attack ads,

Hey, maybe that's it, and Ron White was correct...

You can fix a lot of things – but –

YOU CAN"T FIX STUPID!

Our enemies want McCain to win so that they have more reason to strip America of it's last thread.

Let's clean up our own house before be shove Democracy down everyone elses throats!

Obama puts out fires, McCain stokes them.

ENOUGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What fools. Anybody with any sense at all knows that ANY new administration is going to be tested by those who wish us harm. Personally, I'd prefer a reasoned response from Obama than an 'bomb-bomb-bomb' response from McCain.

I've already voted for Obama - just waiting for this craziness to be over on November 4.

McCain is desparate will do and say anything.

IT'S VERY IMPORTANT ON NOV 4 2008 TO GO VOTE IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO WAIT IN LINES SEE IF YOUR STATE HAS EARLY VOTING

THIS MAN CAN NOT BE OUR NEXT PREZ

Next they'll figure at a way to turn Obama's grandmother against him. Then Michelle and the kids . . .
These Republicans sure are bottom feeding, scum of the earth!

OBAMA/BIDEN '08

THE LOGICAL CHOICE . . . THE ONLY CHOICE!!!!!!

Somebody ask McCain how he and Palin would handle a crisis... would they push the button first and ask questions later, or just push the button?
We've already seen how he handles his campaign (hate spewing filth, terrorist accusations, race baiting, etc.), and the economy crisis (suspended his campaign)....so, HOW would he handle a real threat??????????? I simply do not truse him or Palin.

Keep it up John Obama will gain a point. We are tired of you two and your attacks. America is not lisenting any more to you

I am John McCain and I approve this message:

MY FELLOW PRIONERS -

"There will never be a crisis again in my administration. Everyone will no longer pay taxes, candy for everyone; not just on halloween. I will fix the financial crisis by using my POW fairy dust. You will never have to worry about paying your mortgages again – I will pay everone's mortgage."

Thums up – thumbs up – creepy grin.

Ouch!

The Village Idiot down to his last Trick in his Bag !

And the world would test the WAR MONGER too...

McCain is delusional...

But we KNOW what a McCain response be = W A R

Most likely, whoever is elected as President, ofcourse they will be tested. It's pathetic the McCain camp is trying to play on fear to win the American vote, much like Bush did in the last election. As it is, we're already in national and international crisis mode. McCain doesn't get it and that's why he'll lose this election. The moment he selected Palin as his running mate it became apparent to me how much he doesn't get. I was seriously considering voting McCain when Hillary bowed out of the Democratic race. Palin does not represent the majority of women in the US nor is she a positive role model for women. She doesn't even hold a candle to all that Hillary was and continues to be. McCain is scary. Palin is scary. Don't let their hate and fear campaign fool you.

Lame! Lame Lame

Wow, even Bill O'Reilly said this was going to happen...He is simply stating what has happened in history. I can't believe how they are spinning this. I was up in the air on who to vote for but it is clear to me McCain/Palin would rather talk to you about why shouldn't vote for Obama rather than why I should vote for them.

Clearly the McCain campaign has nothing better to talk about.

I still have no idea what the Republicans think on many of the main issues because they spend their time talking about the other guy.

John F. Kennedy was tested after he was elected...and he made the right decisions just like Obama will.

McBush and the Pageant Queen once again trying to scare us and not talk about the real concerns of Americans.

Well Americans are not falling for it. Sarah we know you dont read but try reading a poll...you clowns are going to lose..as in McLoser

OBAMA/BIDEN '08/12!

Neiman Marcus, Barney's and Bloomingdale's $75,062.63
Hair and makeup total expenditure of $4,716.49
Children’s shirt $198.00
Excessive power as Alaska Governor

Is this ticket scare the life out of me. I have a question fro sarah? How do you stand and speak with people at your rally "ABOUT JOE THE PLUMBER"? You and Joe the Plumber have nothing in common. Joe is an ordinary man who struggles like the rest of the country with everyday issues. You do not.

Get real Sarah/John!!!

Obama/Biden '08

McCain still hasn't learned that the attack adds are subtracting from his support base, not adding to it.

Many voters would be happy to have Obama in the White House if the nation is tested. He is the only one with the temperment, patience, and state of mind to handle it.

Well if you think there won't be a test for any new President I have a bridge to nowhere to sell you.............oh I forgot after 8 years of Bush's
failed economic policy we are all broke!

It's the economy stupid!!

As a military wife of over 20 years and a Republican of over 20 years this truly sad commercial means nothing. I want my NY primary vote for John McCain back!!!

He is a man of no honor. You don't see Obama making adds out of G. Gordon Liddy, the many many many words out of McCain's mouth that have left all of us wondering and mostly...

His irresponsible pick of Palin and all the hate she spews. My party of family values is a ghost.

Someone please tell me why is McCain letting his campaign still run ads like this. Most of America has already stated that they don't care about negative ads and most of us would rather hear about what McCain will do. It's crazy to see McCain continue to burn himself. Sure, a few of his diehards will love this but most of us are shaking our heads. The McCain campaign needs to start figuring out how to wind down this campaign and figure out how to pay his debt off rather than spend more money. And i don't care what Obama says, I am calling this one, I think the final percentage will be alot more than 9%. And on a seperate note: Why are the Repubs so mad at McCain, they voted for him in the primaries? Just curious.

ok– it's something that biden shouldn't have said out loud. not in the way that most people think though...any new president is going to get tested– history has taught us that. but joe– we're not supposed to be presuming that we're going to win. i'd say, "shame on mccain" for this ad. once again playing on the fear and ignorance of people...but i'm not surprised.

please vote! we can't let this nastiness run our country.

Sure, McCain has been tested...

... 40 years ago!

Here we go again. The GOP ticket both in the past and now needs to make the voters either hate or fear to get elected. The only thing I fear right now is our standing in the world with another 4 years of McCain/Bush policies.

Hey has anyone heard anything about the results of the deposition Palin and her dude were supposed to give today?

Has anyone seen the stock market ............................................................

JOHN TALK ABOUT THAT PLEASE.....................OR shut up

WHAT WILL HAPPEN WHETHER OBAMA OR JOHN IS NEW PRES.

GOD PLEASE BLESS AMERICA

OBAMA/BIDEN 08

Biden was telling the truth that all presidents will be tested in a way in the first year. McCain would be too, whether he invites it or not – by the way, most of them come uninvited. It's pure nonsense to say "I will not invite the test".

What is telling is how the Al Qaeda recently threw their support behind McCain because they claim to want to continue to wear us down militarily and econonmically, and they fbelieve McCain will give them the fuel to do it. Don't take my word for it. Google it.

The US is in need of change and the rest of the world just happens to agree.

The McCain camp just don't understand that these tactics are not working... will it ever sink in through those thick stubborn skulls? GOP is hitting rock bottom pretty hard.

Will McCain ever focus on his own policies, is he trying to lose this race? He is just being the bully, I am truly disappointed that this is a representation of our country.

That's right we are going to be tested and Obama and Biden are ready to face that challenge. On the other hand McCain and Palin want to pretend everything just fine and we have no problems to face. That's why we're in this mess. Face the problems head on, don't ignore them they just won't go away. McCain says there doesn't have to be a problem to face, where is he living? Last time I checked we're right in the middle of one of our biggest messes ever.

Yes, any person especially Obama will be tested because he has to clean up all that dorn mess the Bush Administration leave for him to do. I think that's what Joe meant.

Obama/Biden 2008 & 2012

Joe Biden is prone to colorful rhetoric, and he's been the same Joe for over 30 years. No one is afraid of Joe Biden, and none of his usual gaffes are going to stick - cuz we know who he is. We also know who Obama is after nearly 2 years under the microscope. We don't recognize McCain anymore (from who he was in 2000), and we still have no idea who this Sarah Palin really is.

Yack yack. Biden's point was that the world is unstable and no matter who is in office, they will be tested. If John McCain is so cocky to think that the world wouldn't *dare* test him, because he's soooo tough, all he needs to do is look at how militant Bush has been and realize the world is testing us MORE, not less.

The only way to relax the world is to relax the White House. And John McCain's temperament isn't exactly what I'd call "relaxed."

So tell me.
How much did Obama pay for his EMPTY SUITS ?

Biden's remarks weren't the smartest, but the McCain ad response are even dumber. The public wants the discussion on real issues. Finally.

McCain, you silly old man. I would have thought you would know your History? I thought you were tested?

The hilarious part of this is that Biden said that Obama is going to be tested...as in he's comfortable with Obama's ability to handle anything and that from the very start, entering the White House as President is a challenge. Second, if Senator Biden actually said what that McCain insists he did, McCain's argument that such a crisis would not happen if he is elected is ludicrous. International actors act in self-interest, crisis or not; they won't stop putting something into motion on the international level, crisis or not, just by looking over the horizon and saying "Oh, well nevermind; McCain is in office so we'd better not start a crisis." In terms of foreign policy, this shows a fundamental flaw in McCain's ideology. I doubt that he really means it, though. He must know better than to mean it. It hints at desperation, which is sadly what his campaign has subjected itself to over the past few months. Senator Obama's approach of diplomacy with a trailing iron fist is simple; work problems out swiftly through dialogue and utilizing alliances. If that fails, take decisive action. It's smart policy that has withstood the test of time. Kissinger even approves.

–Your Conservative Democrat Friend from Virginia

I have news for McCain, the CRISIS is already here. Actually, you can pick your crisis. Environment? Got it. Economy? Check. Education? You betcha.

Eight years of incompetent nitwits in power have taken a HUGE toll. My company is laying off thousands at a time when our retirement funds that we've worked for all our lives are tanking...people are losing their homes...and all McCain and the GOP can do is to call names and invoke "frightening" images of "evil Muslims" and near-geriatric domestic terrorists?! GET A CLUE!

History has proven that when times are their hardest, God sends a leader. Only God knows why Obama would want this job, but I thank God that he does, and I pray that guide will guide America back onto the right path, soon.

One of the problems with Obama the candidate who acts as if he is Obama the President, and has since he paraded around Europe, placed a Presidential seal on a lecturn and brought in Roman columns as a back drop to his coronation, is that this grandiosity has spilled over and seeped into mind sets and words – Biden's comments are a reflecton of the grandiosity of taking on the armies of the world. Everyone has become a mirror to Obama's narcissism.

A "smart" citizen/voter EXPECTS any leader to be tested in many different ways ... and even more so the President. Those (especially an enemy) who want to bring a person or a nation down are going to want to find the measure of the man or woman in charge.

Uh oh their losing. Time to ratchet up the fear.

Happy Haloween!
BO08

Now I get it– if we can just used the McCain threat, the rest of the world will tremble and be committed to peaceful solutions. I'm changing my vote. I will now vote for Obama as president and writing in McCain as minister of Defense. For all of those nations that won't negogiate, we can threaten them with McCain and tell them "it does have to be this way"

BoooooooBoooooooo!

McCain's last stand.

The GOP is on it's last leg. McCain wasted so much time on the smears and fears. He should have focused more on what he was going to do as president. The John McCain of 2000 died long ago.

Most of the fear tactics that come out of the McCain campaign will go unnoticed. A new president will always be tested. I feel that Obama is the only one who can deal rationally with any crisis. It is better to be steady than to be erratic and unsure like McCain.

These ads provide further evidence of the McCain/Palin campaign's complete and total desperation. Blindly throwing punches and hoping something actually lands is their new modus operandi. Biden was really saying whoever becomes president will face that (which is pretty clear, an international financial crisis is happening now), but McCain/Palin will grasp on anything they possibly can to scare voters and get back in the game. Very "dishonorable" of their campaign, I'd say.

And this is why I don't think $150,000 for clothes was a bad idea–makes more sense than the money they spent on this ad.

Typical Republican ad...taking things out of context....those that care know exactly what Joe Biden meant with his comment. Just another lame Republican "grasp at last minute straws"...

never vote democrate before it not going to work this time
obama 08

Does it ever stop? I can't wait for this election to be over. I'm tired of watching the desperation of Palin and McCain. It's getting sickening. How can Palin, 11 days before the election, just now address the nation with a special needs/education policy? This doesn't make sense! This is an indication of how their administration would be run, unorganized, untimely and inconsistent...

Please Please vote Obama/Biden!!!!

It will happen as it historically always has, and I'd rather have Obama in there with my life in his hands than an impetuous, unfocused, doddering old fool running around in circles sputtering and making piss-poor decisions as is evidenced by his running mate.

Every new president gets tested, the question is who's got the temperament and judgement to handle such a crisis....i don't think McCain has shown that judgement over the course of this election cycle with his decisions. I don't want a 3rd world war with President McCain aka Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Iran!

Obama/Biden '08!

It is just another political strategy of McCain's campaign of practical politics to alarm the populace with a series of hobgolobins, all of which are imaginary.

Newsflash Repugnants... EVERY new US President is tested in some form or another! They wanna know how much they can get away with. It's the same thing when you have to babysit children, and I know...I'm a Big Brother volunteer! You give these kids an inch, they'll take a mile.

So quit your fearmongering tactics (and on a side note: Joe Biden...you need to shut yer yap and stop giving the other side ammunition for dopey ads like this. Just sit there and be "shush!")

Obama/Biden in '08 – Americans please VOTE VOTE VOTE!!!!

newsflash, the world will test ANY POTUS no matter who it is. we can thank Bush for that glowing collective warm feeling the world has about us.

New polls showing Obama's lead increasing, followed by a new attack ad from the McCain/Palin folks. Hmmm...methinks the GOP is running out of ideas fast! I'm starting to get this mental picture of John McCain in a "little dutch boy" outfit, trying to hold back the water...

Good! Hopefully, voters will continue to understand that Obama-Biden will be No good for our country in economics with their hoax of a tax cut and foreign policy. Go McCain-Palin!!

and Al Qaeda endorses McCain because he will continue the Bush policies and will further damage our economy. .

I will take my chance with the smart, thoughtful, younger guy!!

Obama/Biden 08

Obama Supporters say it with me!

SAY IT LOUD, OBAMA AND I'M PROUD!

SAY IT AGAIN!

OBAMA AND I'M PROUD!!!!!

DON'T FORGET TO VOTE! VOTE! VOTE!

OBAMA 08'

as an obama supporter, i'm shocked it took mccain THIS long to release this kind of an ad... wasn't this a story sunday night??? THIS is why mccain will lose the election. worst organized campaign facing the best organized campaign.

Yeah...Terrorism is the number one issue...

You know what GOP? You think people care about what you say?? Here, let me share with you a secret...

You have an identity crisis. I'm not gonna lie but at any moment, your campaign can errupt. National Security is all you got and quite frankly, people could give a crap about what's next. But since you've been already been "tested" during the financial crisis, I think the American people have made a verdict...

You know, I don't wanna be mean or anything but I wouldn't be too surprised if Al-Qeda edorses you! Why? Because they know everybody in the world doesn't like you and doesn't want you and do you know what they thrive on? They don't live in fear, they thrive on it...

LOL.... Throwing the kitchen sink, aren't they.
Note to Republicans,
We are not buying your fear and smear any longer. We reject you. We will not live in fear. We believe in unity, not division.
Any new leader will be tested. John McCain has not been tested. He does not know how to win wars. He does not know how to find Bin Laden. He does not know how to fix the economy. He doesn't even know how to pick a running mate or run a campaign.
For those who think the AP poll is the most accurate, a note from the AP,
"Experts said the unusually tight likely voter outcome was the result of a restrictive approach for defining likely voters that probably excluded many Obama supporters."
Suck on that you pathetic losers.

Thats right, vote and loose your liberty. Think about it folks, which party consistently enacts legislation designed to limit your rights to free speech, property, and freedom while saying it is in the name of individual rights. Yes Vote, but vote wisely.

These poor pathetic gutter mites need to go away...and will on Nov 4th!

It is read into history, whether you are McCain or Obama, they will be tested! Keep tyring.

Isn't it a very sad day for Americans when the McCain/Palin ticket can spend so much money on smear and spin ads, when the American people need encouragement, hope and answers to the major problems our Country faces today?

Ummmmmm...exactly how is voting for McCain going to prevent problems overseas from coming here? in '00 and '04 people voted "The Protector" into office because of scare tactics, and look what happened...

Sorry John, your attacks ads just aren't working anymore.
Thank goodness for TiVo and DVR systems that allow us to fast forward!
Anyway – do not be swayed by the polls.....get out and VOTE Democratic all the way!
Lets take our country back!

well since acorn has back stepped on there record 1.2 million new voters are are really around 600,000 so the rest are bunk.... and even those are probably fraudulent. this crisis biden is talking about is not the economy. this crisis is already here, you better look to the east for what he is predicting for obama and if you think raising taxes on anyone is going to solve this economy you people better have depression proof jobs or you will all be on the bread line hugging a dumpster for warmth. president hoover tried this and read the history-DEPRESSION

Attempting to scare the American public and possibly encouraging America's potential enemies.... What in God's name are you thinking McCain? This type of ad will disgust and turn off any remaining undecided voters.

Joe Biden is not the only one feeling like the new President will be tested relatively soon after the election, the Pentagon thinks there is a possibility as well. They started strategizing 5 months ago, according to a Pentagon spokesperson on Tuesday.

Sadly, the Obama supporters do not have a clue as to the foul and dangerous conditions with country will be in with Obama as president. They yell change but that change is going to be detrimental to our American way of life. Gone will be your freedoms, your money, your jobs, your dignity. Gone with be our safety....you may think it already is; however, Obama and his fellow Democrats will bring this country so far down that we will be overthrown and cast aside (probably his goal anyway). He hates America, Christians and whites. God save us from this monster.

Why doesn't McCain give it up. Each day he reaches out for a new attack on Obama, reaching and reaching and reaching. McCain just does not get it! None of the negative attacks are working. People are smarter than you are. They know a good person when they see one.

Give it up McCain = you are grasping at straws! The majority of the people want Obama because he is new and fresh and he is not an angry man. He is polite, mature, respected and has a good head on his shoulders to lead this country forward.

Obama all the way! McShame and Falin are going to hate themselves after this election. Falin is already looking at 2012.. Fat chance!

Why don't they play the WHOLE comment... He said ... our enemies WILL find out Obama HAS A SPINE OF STEEL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am EXTREMELY happy I VOTED for Obama.

BARACK THE VOTE..............

OBAMA/BIDEN 08

Obama should come up with an ad featuring BIden defending what he said or an ad saying we do not need another erractic, unstable, temperamental leader at any time of crisis. That is why we must vote Obama as the next President. He is tested in everyway. Remember the primary battle with Hilary. He is tested and he can do it. He is the change that we need in America.

I can't stand to even listen to Obama anymore. I can't wait for the election to be over and see President McCain in office!!!

McCain/Palin '08

There is a crisis of some form after every new president comes into office. My question is why does McCain think that he is immune to everything? He knows how to fix the economy, yet he has been able to suggest anything to show he knows. He knows how to fix the home crisis, yet his only suggestion is something that has already been place into a bill that was voted on. He know how to "win" a war, yet he cannot define what it is to win, and even more so he was a POW. Don't get me wrong I thank him for his service, but let's be honest for one second you were a POW which means you weren't even in the fight because you were captured and in a cell. You didn't pull a Rambo, you had to wait until you were saved so what did you learn, not to get captured?

RE: Independent

A vote for McCain or Obama will not stop the economy from crashing soon after the elections – which is what i believe Biden was talking about.

Actually Joe was pretty clear about saying it was a 'generated crisis designed to test his mettle'.

Regardless of who wins, the economy will be in play.

Of course, we all know that a statement where the speaker implores you to "MARK MY WORDS", is just a "rhetorical flourish".

y did this gaffe machinist said those words

Attack, attack, attack, that is all Mc BUSH has left. He has no plans for this nation except to continue the war and then start a new one in Iran. Ms. $150,000 Palin is a joke..... I hear a landslide coming......

Reaching, reaching, reaching ......still nothing for him to grab to save himself.

I wish they would pick one thing and stick with it!!! They are grasping for straws hoping something will work, meanwhile Obama continues to climb in the polls!
Obama/Biden 08

Biden the bumbler, & Nobama the wealth spreader.
What a pair !!! Both dangerous for America.

You know what really scares me? The thought of an angry little man with "daddy" issues and an equally incompetent and dumb well-dressed tart winning the presidency. Now that scares me so much that it keeps me up at night. I have had enough of incompetence, ignorance and excuses!

OBAMA-BIDEN 08

John McCain and his campaign is ERRATIC, all over the places. They have started such a sleazy campaign that I get so surprised. And I am not that stupid to get swayed by such foolish ads.

OBAMA/BIDEN 08/12

I think that what history has shown us since 9/11, and with events in the global community as it is now, that crises are looming, period. My opinion is that I would much rather see intellect over emotion, someone with diplomacy and leadership to handle these matters.
People need to vote with intellect, not because of fear or criticism-

Obama/Biden '08

Man these guess have tried everything. The only ones that have stuck are the people close to him. Reverend Wright. I think this comment by Biden just totally nullifies Colin Powell's great praise. Biden should just shut-up until election day. The momentum is too much and there's nothing that can stop him at this point.

Obama '08

Though I'm pretty sure Joe got his *ss kicked by Obama for making this ambiguous remark...it again gives McCain an opportunity to take the voter's eye off the ball...

Of course every American President will undergo some kind of test...

McCain is testing him right now...and Barack is handlin' it beautifully...

Colin Powell's endorsement should resolve the question on Barack's leadership once and for all !!!

Grant Park is goin' to be packed !!!!

Fear, fear, and more fear.

McCAIN IS A MORON.... THE WORLD IS HEADING FOR A NEW DEPRESSION, YOU DUMB DORA....

You think "crisis" can only mean war or terrorism???

WHAT A FOOL OLD McCAIN IS

Pretty pathetic, its reaching. I certainly believe what Biden said, think about it. There is some serious turmoil boiling in little pockets of the world (Russia/Georgia, No Korea, Iran, Iraq, Afghan, Pakistan) just to name a few. I do believe something is going to happen, and I certainly believe that Obama's demeanor will help when the crisis comes to a head. I believe if it was McCain, his hand would be hovering over that little red button, then what if he has a heart attack, is flatlining and its Palin. With her lack of experience, what is she going to do? Run to her first dude of a husband and ask him what to do?

We know if Palin (or any other Republican) said this or the other gaffes Biden has uttered, this would be leading the news and mercilessly pounded for days or weeks on CNN and the other major (and dying) outlets such as CBS, NBC, ABC, MSNBC, NYX, Washington Post, among others.

Grace and Peace,
Jim

Nay, what's up DOC?

What the Republicans are lying about in this ad (because they lie in every ad) is the fact it does't matter who wins, there will be a crisis. Just the fact that McCain is President will not stop a crisis from happening and it's going to be economic and by his own admission McCain is ignorant on the economy as shown by all the great policy is set forth during the campaign....oh wait, he hasn't talked policy at all this campaign!

Joe didn't say anything different from anyone else. Anyone who gets this position could be tested whether it's McCain or Obama. What matters is how they handle it. I think McCain will go in bomb-bomb-bomb mode and Obama will actually think about the situation.

McCain and the RNC want America to feel like the only people that can protect us are them. Well, they were in power when 9/11 happened. They didn't protect us then. They're not the only people in the world that can run this country. In fact they have run the country....right into the ground.

John McCain's brother, Joe, called 911 because traffic. Can you imagine if WE did that every time we're stuck in a traffic?

I guess the wealthy elitists have their privilege.

In 1996 when Dole looked like he would loose the election, he was advised to tone down the rhetoric and run a campaign that his grandkids would be proud of. He did just that and became a well respected member of Congress with allies on both sides of the aisle.

In 2008 when it looks like McCain is going to loose the election, he has been advised to tone down the rhetoric and run a campaign that would serve his legacy. Instead, he has ratcheted up the attack, has hit numbskull VP candidate shooting off her mouth and is dividing this country.

History will paint McCain as the angry, shallow and bitter old man that he has become.

John,
You will be tested also, so what is your point. And as for how you were tested during the Cuban Crisis, well, all you really did was sit in the cockpit of your plane and the deck of the "Big E" waiting to do what you were trained to do. You did NOT make any decision as to the outcome. And by the way, PTSD is not just confined to enlisted troops as your wife, Cindy, remarked earlier. However, I will say, that perhaps they have much risk of it since they are where the action is, an have the chance to see a buddy killed or wounded and see what they have done to the "enemy".

Joe Lieberman said the exact same thing Biden said earlier this summer. “Our enemies will test the new president early,” Lieberman, I-Conn., told Face The Nation host Bob Schieffer. “Remember that the truck bombing of the World Trade Center happened in the first year of the Clinton administration. 9/11 happened in the first year of the Bush administration.”

If the Republicans are going to lie at least try to make up one that is easy to refute.

More fear mongering from the party that lied us into Iraq.

This guy is a gaffe-machine, but I love him

Whatever happens - terror attack, economic depression, whatever, I want Barack at the wheel.

Arkansas voter who's already cast for Obama/Biden!!!

McCain SHUT UP! and get lost!
I changed my mind on you because I have zero faith in Palin as your VP and she could be President Palin and this scared the hell out of me.
I voted for Obama because I have a tremendous faith in Biden.

Can you campaign come up with any original?

They don't think that McCain will be tested?

Actually, if McCain gets elected, he'll probably have a heart attack before six months is up.

Isn't it peculiar that every time Obama rises in the polls, the stock market takes a major hit?

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McCain still has his head in the SAND!

What's your policies idiot!!!!!!

Stop the negative campaign and lose with dignity...

John come up with a plan. Fear, Fear, Fear.....you would be tested by the economic crisis and guess what it will affect the international markets also.

Why do the Republicans insist upon continuing with these attack ads? Are they THAT afraid that the issues will eat them alive???

Stop the Swift Boat attacks...
Stop the "Splatter theory "attacks...
Stop the "CREEP" tactics...

Talk about the issues, McCain/Palin

Go Obama/Biden 2008

It will not work!!!

Well...if history repeats itself then the US of A will be tested w/in the 6months...as it has in the past w/every president. I'd rather have Obama/Biden than McCain/Palin. McCain is mad at the world and it shows. Palin doesn't think bombing abortion clinics is NOT an act of terrorism but finger points at Ayers. The republican ticket is scary...be afraid...very afraid...and vot early for Obama/Biden

Joe is stupid!

The Ads dont work. Go Obama

The republicans are living in lala land if they think McCain won't be tested just as well and God forbid if Palin takes over and has her finger on the nuclear button. I'm sure she will push the button and ask what does this do? Again, nothing but fear tactics from McCain/Palin.

When McCain said he was tested. "Tested" in what exactly?

This is just another attempt to discredit Obama and it wont work. Obama has not wavered from what he's talked about from the beginning of his campaign. I can't say the same for McCain/Palin. Every week they have had a new attack and that seems like that is all they have. Attack.
Attack, attack, attack.
What else to they have to offer the American people? I want a leader that insipires me. I want a leader that I can respect. I want a leader that I feel I can trust.

That is why I am voting for Barack Obama.

The Democrats have a vice presidential candidate who actually can speak for themself and he's not being investigated for abuse of power.

What the ad fails to mentions that Obama will react with a "spine of steel" and that many if not all presidents will be tested. McCain claims that he was tested but where? Was he President before? No he was sitting in a plane on an aircraft carrier. Was he the one making decisions? No it was President Kennedy.

McCain is no more tested or ready to be president than is Obama. Military experience does not make one a good president – let's not forget that.

Experience in anything does not qualify one to be president and all who hold the position will have on the job training – McCain included if Americans are once again dumb enough to vote the wrong way as they did with Bush.

I would rather have Obama as President should something happen because he is cooler and able to think more clearly than McCain. McCain's age should be a big factor in this election.

The point of that comment was the line "and they're gonna find out he has STEEL in his spine".

Everyone is so NOT listening to the Republican add machine right now. Look at the early voting tallies...People have already attained a necessary comfort level with Barack Obama.

Obama/Biden '08

I'm so afraid of having an intelligent, articulate, calm leader that I think I'm going to vote for a cynical, transparent, inarticulate, enraged senior citizen and his shallow, inarticulate running mate. It's over. It's over. Obama is going to such a breath of fresh air after the stench of this campaign.

Joe knows what he's talking about. The next President will be tested. They always are. I'll take my chances with Senator Obama any day over Senator McCain. I'd like to know how he's been tested as it relates to being THE LEADER OF THE FREE WORLD.... Right, he hasn't.

McCain brother calls 911 over traffic

why does he think he deserves a jet to pick him up from a traffic jam this is insaine

I feel sorry for McCain; he's so pathetic.

I was going to vote for Obama but after Biden mouthed off with this comment a few days ago I can't vote like that anymore. I early voted this morning for McCain.

I guess McCain doesn't believe that a doddering old President isn't going to be much of a target. After the way China slapped Bush around after he was first elected, McCain should be shaking in his Depends.

Biden does not scare me but, when Palin asked the woman from the VIEW to Campain with her????? Are you serious, OBAMA 08

The thing we should worry about is if something happens to him and we are stuck with Palin as President. That scares me

Whether you love him or hate him...that was a good ad.

Don't think it'll make a dent on our lead though!

No he isn't going negative. What the heck is this. Desperate times call for desperate measures. It's the "CHRISTIAN" way. Bunch of haters.

Whom ever is running McCain's campaign should be fire! It they haven't figured out by now that scare tactics don't work anymore, then shame on them. The only chance McCain had against Obama was to go after Bush but now it's too late. And if they are counting on first time voters to not go to the polls and vote on Nov 4th, then they had better start writing that conceding speech for McCain. Early voter turn out is showing that Obama has made it cool to vote.

Biden is trying to tell us something. My husband and I both agree, we think Biden feels like he has made a mistake in running with Obama and is trying to warn us about something. My concern is that Biden was very specific in letting us know that we would not be happy with the choice Obama would make in this crisis but we need to stick behind him. that really concerns me a great deal. Are we being asked to give up our rights as a democracy? Are we giving in to the Islamic terroists who hate us and will kill us because we are Christians or we have friends who are Christians or will we turn our back on Isreal or turn our heads when Russia invades Georgia? I know the economic issue is grave and obviously people around the world are not having trust in our economy even with CNN and all the networks in the tank for Obama. And where is Biden now? Obama camp has shipped him off somewhere. Can't you guys see the signs from Biden, Bill Clinton. They obviously have concerns with us an Americans and are trying to send a message. I will end this as I always do on my comments: Remember the Ultimate Leader is our Almighty God and i will pray for lost souls that you are saved before it is too late.

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Anyone voting for Obama clearly does not understand foreign policy, economics, morals, etc.

Whatever sticks to the wall, huh, John?

That's the most ridiculous and desperate ad I've seen from McLame yet. Why doesn't he even attempt to discuss real issues?

Trying to use the politics of fear??? Forget about the looming international crisis...We've got one on our hands already and McCain doesn't have a clue how to solve it.

Here they go again...just take it and run with it anything. Biden spoke the truth...but forget to say any new president WILL be tested. If McSane what's to think ...they are scared of him and wouldn't attack..he is dead wrong. McSane will also be tested and you know what his response would be BOMB..BOMB

this is not going to work...obama biden 08!!

Can someone please explain to me how mccain has been tested?

McCain thinks the presidency would be a cake walk if we just elect him. I don't think he's given us any basis for believing that. Why should the same people McCain thinks will test Obama would turn into lap dogs for him? Silly man. Is this the judgment we are to expect of the next president?

I honestly fear John McCain and Sarah Palin will blow up the world if they're tested.

Put a fork in them – it's over!

"That One" 08

Fearmongering!
NOT THIS TIME!

I think the money the Obama campaign has raised since McCain took Palin on as his VP says more about what people are really scared about!
The way McCain has run his campaign, just like Hillary says more about him than anything else.
If you can't run a successful campaign – how can you hope to run a country?

It is so sad, so unfortunate, that what used to be a powerful political party has degenerated to these types of ads and this desperate condition.

I predict the McCain bid for the presidency (Palin is not worth mentioning) will announce the end of the Republican party.

McCain brother calls 911 over traffic

But seriously who does this guy think he is, you jam 911 calls for a stupid traffic jam, like he is the only one in the traffic, just like his brother he does not think and this is not knews

If I vote for McCain and something does happen, we'll be in another war. NO THANK YOU!!! I'll take a chance with Obama. It's time for change. I need my retirement money.

This could be a somewhat effective add ALTHOUGH I have already voted for Obama. I do believe this add plays into the FEAR tactics that will gain traction for a few days and then backfire. Just like all of Mccain's depereate tactics have in these last days.

It's the ECONOMY stupid!

Headline news John McCain does in fact know how to use a personal computer but he could not get the swear check to work

I love Obama, but Biden sure comes out with some weird stuff. It's like his mouth is directly connected to his stream of consciousness...

Don't worry Joe. We've got your back. You're experiencng what Barrack has been experiencing for 20 months. There's only 11 more days to go. It won't work. Obama..Yes we can!!!

Joe Biden, the gift that keeps on giving! I would just make a wholeslew of these commercials if I was McCain. I'd open with Biden from the primary debates talking about Obama not being up to the task, something about the presidency is no place for OJT. Then have Hillary with her I have a lifetime of experience, John McCain has a lifetime of experience, Obama has a speech. I'd also back both of those experts with their own words that came after the convention ...HRC- No way, No How.... and Biden, this guy has a spine of steel.....

Then the narrator comes on and says, if the two most experienced Dems can't keep their story straight, how will the new guy fare?

So we have 2 campaigns: One for Obama and one against Obama. Both campaigns talk only about Obama. Is there any other nominee?

FEAR TACTIC. Does McCain think that he would NOT be tested? What a fool. There are numerous crisis' brewing thanks to Bush-McCain. If that's the case, McCain should just plan on a vacation

and if everyone heard the rest of what Biden said... he said we would show the work what Barack is made of. Though no one mentions Al-Qaeda endorsed McCain because McCain will want to continue fighting.

Independent: A vote for McCain or Obama won't stop anything from happening. What sets the two campaigns apart here is McCain saying things like "They won't test me. I've already been tested" *******NEWSFLASH******* No one is invincible here. McCain has stooped to an all time low with this ad: he's using FEAR to try and drum up votes. Ain't gonna happen Johnny Boy.

have i been in a deep sleep. Mcbush in a time of crisis got us to attack Iraq which had nothing to do with 911??? this shows what would happen with Mcbush in 4 more years–what other country would he attack just to be reacting instead of using judgment??? This Mcbush ticket scares me but may bring on what the book of revelation talks about because of their erratic behavior-won't even get into "i can see russia from my window". "I SUPPORTED BUSH OVER 90% OF THE TIME".

The crisis is already here!!! And only one candidate has shown any poise whatsoever on the issue.

Obama the crisis handler!

The new president will be tested ... who do I want leading my country?
Steady Obama with a current view of the world or Erractic John McCain who see war as a solution to control the world. The cold war is over John. What John sees as experience I see as last century tactics. McCain's behaviors during his campaign have been desparate and erratic. I don't think that's the image I want the world to have of us.

Wow Biden looks scary ! This fear is making me change my vote. I will now vote for Obama

John I hear the government will be hiring artist after the election, you can draw unemployment

Obama 2008 – 2012 and in a Bloomberg minute 2016

I believe that an Obama/BIden presidency could be the most corrupt one in years. According to what Biden said, it looks like they are planning a phony attack on Americans to generate fear and make Obama look like a strong leader. George Bush never faked 911. The twin towers falling were the result of a real terrorist attack. This Biden/Obama administration is starting out unbelievable. And Biden is not even likeable. He is nasty. There are going to make George Bush look like the best president in years. I sense a very desperate corrupt administration that even shut Hilary Clinton out. Pretty scary. No fake attack on Americans would get me to think Obama is a strong leader. I hate him.

McClown your ATTEMPT as a scare tactic MAY sway a VERY SMALL FEW but this ad WILL NOT WORK THIS TIME.....
Americans have seen this movie before.......Sequels usually dont have the same effect as the first one.

Barack Your Vote!!! VOTE NOW ......VOTE TODAY....TELL UR FRIENDS!!!!

All they have left is to twist the words of Biden into a spooky ad. So sad...

Colin Powell said the SAME THING while endorsing Obama. He said Bush and Clinton were tested right away and Obama would be too. McCain isn't harping on Powell...only Biden. McCain wants everyone to forget about Powell, I guess!!! That Biden said this only hours after watching Powell say that shows it's not some crazy thing that just popped out of Biden's mouth so please stop trying to turn it into that.

OBAMA/BIDEN 08!!!

McCain has been tested the last couple months...and he's totally failed. Grade F. America deserves so much better and so does the world.

Any new President will be tested......

even the almighty McCain!

By the way, regarding the number one issue, the economy....

Any form of taxation will spread the wealth.

So McCain's tax policies will also spread the wealth…….

the only difference between McCain and Obama is that…..

McCain wants to spread the wealth to the wealthy.

Desperation is so pathetic. I can't wait until November 4 so I never have to see him or paliar again!
mccain/palin = clueless pathological liars!

McNasty.... It's all over.... Back to Arizona to terrorize the people there.......

The woman who claims to have been attacked by an Obama supporter has a backwards "B" carved on her face. Emphasis on the word "Backwards" (Kinda like an idiot trying to carve the letter "B" in their face while looking in a mirror huh???

It sure is mighty neat for someone who was being pinned down by a black man, and carved on with a "dull" knife… She didn't try to turn her head or anything??? Or was he holding her down, both of her hands, her neck (to keep from swiveling) and her face to keep her still. He must have had 8 arms…lol

What a farce…

At this point I really feel sorry for John Mccain, his tactics reek of desperation. I think that the US stands a greater risk with him as president than Obama. If he is elected the country will be so divided and that would provide the perfect oppourunity for our enemies to try something. Even the Bible states that: A HOUSE DIVIDED CAN NOT STAND!!!

FEAR!!! We can't win on the merits, so we're going to try to scare you into voting for us. Don't let the suave black man win, vote for us...or else...

Neiman Marcus, Barney's and Bloomingdale's $75,062.63
Hair and makeup total expenditure of $4,716.49
Children’s shirt $198.00

John McCain’s face when the public found out PRICELESS

McCain need to attack Palin $150,000 wardrobe allowance this what
McCain call desperation to attack Obama/Biden by the way me and
my family, friends already voted early in the election.

Obama/Biden for American

And McCain thinks he WON'T be?

That in itself is enough to make me vote for Obama.

McCain was "tested" in Viet Name – and if you watch any of his propaganda films, you will see that he FAILED THIS COUNTRY.

I voted early for Obama/Biden – the ones with reasonable financial and military advisors.

North Carolina is turning blue. These ads don't work.

And what it's not going to happen if McCain gets in there? Riiiight

ONE NATION

McCain is hanging the last two weeks of his faltering campaign on quotes taken out of context and scary words like "socialism." These sleazy tactics might get low-ifo voters all riled up, but won't reverse the trend toward an Obama victory. Sad, really. McCain is no longer the man I supported in 2000.

So... let's see. If we believe that an attack will come because Obama's not ready, what do we think will happen when Palin takes over after McOld croaks?