Comment from The POW Warrior
Time: March 4, 2008, 3:52 pm

Here is reason #6 …

http://powwarrior.wordpress.com/2008/02/02/the-measure-of-the-man-why-john-mccain-doesnt-measure-up/

In short, if POW/MIA Families don’t support John McCain, what does that say about him?

The POW Warrior

Comment from Vote Obama
Time: March 6, 2008, 9:32 am

#7 He’s endorsed by current president George W. Bush

Comment from rkalajian
Time: March 6, 2008, 10:13 am

This is not the right person for the job. Nothing will change with McCain in the office.

The time for change is now.

Obama, FTW!

Comment from MRK
Time: March 6, 2008, 10:19 am

[Citation Needed]

Comment from GOP
Time: March 6, 2008, 10:20 am

so where are the lists for hillary and obama?

thats what i thought.
retarded propaganda

Comment from AJ
Time: March 6, 2008, 10:27 am

Democrats.org isn’t loading right now. When did McCain say that he believes Christianity should be a prerequisite for holding the office of President?

Comment from Harry S. Truman
Time: March 6, 2008, 10:27 am

Number 2. Does this mean World War II isn’t over yet?

Comment from A.Nieves
Time: March 6, 2008, 10:29 am

He flip-flops because he understands that if he spoke his mind and told people how he really feels, he would scare this nation to death.

This is the same guy who said in 2000 “I hate the gooks, I will hate them as long as I live”. McCain has serious emotional scars and issues that concern me. The comment above mine posts additional eye-opening information I wasn’t aware of.

I’m more worried about what McCain is capable of than what Bush has actually accomplished - and that’s saying alot.

Comment from anon
Time: March 6, 2008, 10:39 am

“keeping American forces in Iraq for 100 more years”

Educated readers should think about differences between the war being over and left-over troops. There is a distinction between the two issues and to merge them together in a single context is misleading.

1. The war is basically over. yes we have troops, but are we really at war? no, we’re not.

2. Troops always stay behind years afterwards. We still have troops in Japan and S.Korea. This is what he is referring to when he says 100 years. Yes any government will want troops to surpress insurgency. Just until the place is stable. After that, they are just there..

Comment from Flying Squirrel Mario
Time: March 6, 2008, 10:41 am

And as for the Christianity thing, who gives a shit. God doesn’t exist.

Comment from Seth Tanner
Time: March 6, 2008, 10:47 am

That’s it, that is all you could come up with. That he is religious and flip-flops a fraction of the time that Hillary or Obama does. You forgot to mention that he is REPUBLICAN. So the five reasons to fear him come down to him being republican?

Comment from David Walker
Time: March 6, 2008, 10:47 am

….
I’m sorry you’re …. I don’t know what to say.

Your first three “points” are religion, so lets group those together. As a clear liberal-hippe you probably stand somewhere on the outside of religion. Having the standpoint of being Atheist or the like. What does it really matter what his beliefs are on religion? Being Agnostic myself I see the whole thing as: as long as he doesn’t “talk to god”, he should be ok.

Point #2. The war, I believe his meaning was kind of the stance on the Korean War. Why has no one brought this up this whole election? We’re still there on the DMZ! Why not make it a point to bring those fine boys home? Oh wait, it’s not in the media….god-damn liberal media.

Point #1. I don’t know where I personally stand on the issue either. It’s one of those questions about knowledge. I know the far rightwing people will say “Well condoms are not 100% safe”, they are full of shit (well being right 99.9% is pretty damn good, unless you want to get every womans tubes tied) It’s a fine idea to bring them condoms and say “use these”, but giving people something doesn’t make them do it. Look at smokers. Just because we know it’s bad doesn’t make us stop.

Your points are…well…meh. I would enjoy hearing more of your ideas if you ever care to email me. I like these kind of discussions, and I bet you have other interesting points as well.

Cheers!

Comment from none
Time: March 6, 2008, 10:55 am

Number two isn’t a reason. Someone can say both and not be a flip flopper. Soly judging by this pages context, it sounds like to me he is saying that if needed, he would keep the troops in for a 100 years but he thinks the war will be over soon. Meaning, he can’t predict the future.

Just being fair. I don’t like McCain. I perfer Obama but I still don’t vote because the whole system is corrupt and I don’t want to enable it.

Comment from fred
Time: March 6, 2008, 10:56 am

Changing denominations? Obviously you don’t understand what it means to be a Christian. Denominations are very similar in many cases, and the individual church congregations can be very different. Denominational differences often have more to do with a person’s personality than their beliefs. Choosing a church to attend is a process people go through many times in life (at many different states of personal growth and change). When a married couple is choosing a church to attend, they often have different personalities, and one of the couple may end up compromising their preferences for their spouses benefit. Some couples attend multiple different churches of different denominations to satisfy both individuals.
To be a Christian means you believe Christ is your Lord and Saviour, and that the Bible is the word of God. Beyond that, it is just preferences and minor philosophical differences. No one should ever be criticized for changing denominations. It is a very personal decision.

Comment from Lt. John Borner US Army
Time: March 6, 2008, 10:58 am

Elect McCain and we will be in wars in Columbia, Pakastan, Iran, Iraq as well as Afganistan financed by selling treasure notes to China.
This will upset energy markets moving gas to $5+ per gallon.
When Bush took over the White House and gas was $1.46 and through
Bush’s foreign policy it was $3.22 today here in Florida.
McCain=Bush=War and a financial crisis.

Comment from Dee
Time: March 6, 2008, 11:10 am

“…but I still don’t vote because the whole system is corrupt and I don’t want to enable it.”

That’s a terrible reason not to follow. Being a nonparticipant in the political process leaves pretty much no room to try to effect change. I *do* agree that it’s difficult to fix systems from within, but until we have a viable, outside-the-box alternative, we have to work with what we’ve got. Same thing to say to all of the people that didn’t vote and have hated Bush for eight years.

Comment from Capt America
Time: March 6, 2008, 11:18 am

At three in the morning, when 71 year old McCain answers the phone, it’ll take him twenty minutes to remember where he is . . .

Comment from Tyson
Time: March 6, 2008, 11:21 am

“I still don’t vote because the whole system is corrupt and I don’t want to enable it.”

At first I liked your insight in that comment, but in truth, he would rather keep our troops there. Why? I’m not sure - I remember sitting at home crying in front of the TV the night the “shock and awe” campaign started. What a stupid idea. Anyway, by not voting, you are further enabling those most “corupt” to remain in power. By inserting even one vote, that is one set of ideals to add to the movement that controls the whole system.

Give it a try; it doesn’t hurt a bit.

Comment from schenn
Time: March 6, 2008, 11:58 am

Im not voting as I refuse to cast my vote to corrupted indiviuals that will bow to whatever the corps pay them to do.

If I DO vote, I’ll be writing myself in.

Comment from dd
Time: March 6, 2008, 12:22 pm

Say hello to Barack Obama!
Obama is a 32nd degree Prince Hall Freemason! The next U.S. President will be an occult member! Will it be McCain, Obama or Hillary? One thing is certain, the Illuminists who have taken control of America already know. Presidents aren’t elected, contrary to public opinion, they are privately chosen at Bilderberg meetings years before any elections ever take place.

Comment from Atheist
Time: March 6, 2008, 12:39 pm

It sure seemed that McCain used the “presidents should be chosen based on their religious affiliation” as a campaign line and never really seemed to believe it. I am not sure this is any better than actually believing it, but he has, in the past, seemed fairly middle road about the issue of religion in politics.

http://www.atheistrevolution.com

Comment from defcon
Time: March 6, 2008, 12:40 pm

The military industrial machine is backing obama and hillary, and mccain is not a patriot like most ppl make him out to be, when he was a pow he was interrogated and he admitted to giving out all information even his commanders names and ranks which is against the military policy, the only thing he was allowed to give out was his name/rank/ssn and he changes his mind about everything all the time, he is pro-war and agree’s with most things bush does, so if you want real change im thinking ron paul and at the least obama.

Comment from Anton
Time: March 6, 2008, 12:46 pm

5 Reasons to relax:
5.His views on Christians don’t matter. Even if he wanted to he could not change anything to favor any one religion (unless it was scientology or islam)
4.So? What do we care? Seriously this is the filler
3&2. The “100 years” thing is the only “flip flop” I know of and “soon” could be 100 years for all I know.
1.He’s not sure about anything.

2 Real reasons to hate McCain
1. He is in love with the war and is a GWB puppet
2. He does not understand economics and we NEED someone who does.

IMO [McCain=Clinton</=Obama]=us screwed again.

Comment from Mike
Time: March 6, 2008, 12:55 pm

The first two are kind of the same thing. So are the next three. You could only find 2 reasons?

How about the fact that he is older than dirt and Reagan’s mind was going at this point.

Also don’t you think that anyone that was tortured for 5 years may be a little unstable?

He dumped his disabled wife for a young hottie after she stuck by him during the difficult years?

…Yet, he’s the best choice I see still in the running.

Comment from David
Time: March 6, 2008, 1:04 pm

This list is grossly inaccurate. Mccain’s only comment on the presidents religion is that he may find himself more comfortable with a president the same religion as him. Thats it. I’m a Jew and that doesn’t offend me. People are comfortable with their own.

He also never said he wanted the war to carry on 100 years, what he said is that he would leave troops in Iraq as long as it took to rebuild as long as no American soldiers were losing their lives. As we have done in numerous countries over the last hundred years.

I wont check here, but if anyone would like to discuss feel free to E-mail or myspace me.

Comment from factchecker
Time: March 6, 2008, 1:28 pm

I’m not a McCain supporter but #2 is wrong. He didn’t say we would be there fighting for 100 years. He said we could be in Iraq for 100 years just like we are still in Korea, Germany, and pretty much everywhere else there has been a war. We have bases there with troops stationed there.

Comment from mark
Time: March 6, 2008, 1:33 pm

This can be said about Hillary and Oboma. Both can be proven to flip flpo, all politicians can be. There are things such as change of views and change of hearts. Fact of the matter is this war wasn’t about freeing iraq, and who cares about iraq? This was and will always be about OIL! Once this country stops its dependence on it we will always be in these stupid wars.

When will we stop trying to fix other countries and fix our own. These last 8 years have been a joke. The country’s economy is a mess, the housing sub prime is a real concern. The reactions to this country’s crisis or lack there of is a joke. The things people shouldn’t care about, like abortion and gay marriage are viewed as important things. Those are personal choices the government shouldn’t have any say… hence why we are supposed to be free.

The next president should care about Education which is a mess, thanks Bush and “No Child learns a thing…. i mean left behind”. Economy, the National Budget is a mess. There are so many other things like Illegal Immigration, not stopping it but getting a handle on who is here. This country was founded on immigration so why should it stop now. My grandparents were immigrants so you were your relatives so why should it stop.

People have to take their religious belief’s out of their view of the president. Take out their Racial or Sexual views. People need to open their minds and not be so closed minded and car about religion, and race, and creed, and start caring about the welfare of the human beings in this country… Gay Straight, sick, healthy, poor, rich. All should be taken care of.

Also can we please change the tax structure and make the top 10% pay more then 1% of the nation’s tax and give the tax breaks everyone talks about to the ones who need it!

The political spectrum is a mess, and we will never have a true leader and never be a true world leader until we stop caring about the things that don’t matter and the government shouldn’t control and start caring about the stuff that does.

Comment from Josh
Time: March 6, 2008, 1:45 pm

Why the hell would America fund distribution of condoms in Africa?! LOL.

Comment from scottiedee
Time: March 6, 2008, 1:51 pm

I am not an american but a neighbour to the north - canada. I do not usually care about the US and what it does to itself, but all I hope for is that the American public does not vote in a Democrat as that will be the beginning of the end of the US hegemonic power. All this talk about protectionism and “protecting the American way of life” is BS. Today is a multinational/global world. Protectionism will kill the US and many others will fall with it. As a Canadian I am very frightened with the mentality and way of thinking of our small southern neighbours. And on a different note - stay away from the northern passage - it is undoubtedly Canadian waters and not international!!

Comment from scottiedee
Time: March 6, 2008, 1:52 pm

I am not an american but a neighbour to the north - canada. I do not usually care about the US and what it does to itself, but all I hope for is that the American public does not vote in a Democrat as that will be the beginning of the end of the US hegemonic power. All this talk about protectionism and “protecting the American way of life” is BS. Today is a multinational/global world. Protectionism will kill the US and many others will fall with it. As a Canadian I am very frightened with the mentality and way of thinking of our small southern neighbours. And on a different note - stay away from the northern passage - it is undoubtedly Canadian waters and not international!!

Comment from Troy
Time: March 6, 2008, 2:17 pm

the prerequisite for president is smoking crack. So the fundamental question is: has he smocked crack? This is how the citizens of this country decide the next president.

Comment from Brad Tronchetti
Time: March 6, 2008, 3:22 pm

The Nazi’s never really went away. They are starting to come out of the woodwork all over the place……….

Comment from Reality
Time: March 6, 2008, 4:49 pm

*Smack*, reality just hit you upside the head. Anything can and will be taken out of context, just like this flagrantly liberal site can and will do.

Where is the objectivity? Where are the Obama and Clinton lists? Clinton should be by far the easiest one to make a list, and narrowing it down to JUST five would be a tough one for most people.

Obama represents hope, but that’s about it. How does voting ‘present’ a large percentage of the time in the Illinois State Senate prepare one? I think Obama needs seasoning; I wouldn’t trust him yet running a Cub Scout pack, he hasn’t shown himself capable in any leadership capacity yet.

Comment from Chuck
Time: March 6, 2008, 5:10 pm

The short of the long is, it doesn’t matter how many people want the war to end or go on, the war will continue until some distinguishable “absolute victory” is achieved. Google that quotation if you don’t know what it is.

Comment from Mickk
Time: March 6, 2008, 5:22 pm

As someone already said - we’re waiting for Clinton and Obama “5 reasons to be afraid of” now…

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a Republican, nor do I care for any of the nominees in any way (actually, I’m out of the country right now, and I won’t be back for the elections) - but I truly think that, whether you’re a GOP, Dem, none of these, you just shouldn’t loose your own judgement and go all the way to propaganda. And you shouldn’t just close your eyes and vote for the party you like the most. It’s about a man, not about a party.

I see a lot of issues in McCain (although I think your reasons #5 and #2 are somewhat ill-defined and based not on his real stance), I see many different issues about Obama or Clinton that would make me NOT vote on them. I still think that all three of the candidates would bring a change in the US policy. As for now I’m closer to Obama, but… seriously, you can laugh, but I’m still to decide between Obama and McCain. Both have things that I agree with, both have “reasons to be afraid”…

Comment from Darrell
Time: March 6, 2008, 8:19 pm

John McCain is an evil war mongering tool/coward and that is all he is. His wife is freaky looking and we was not born on American soil. He changes his position within moments and is very close personal friends with Cheney/Bush.

He is merely a tool/stool for the fascist elitist’s agenda of world domination- the new world order and a host of atrocities that will make the entire brutal history of society and mankind pale in comparison.

He will have all Americans who disagree with government and congress placed in concentration camps for experiments and termination- and he would not even hesitate to do this.

Comment from TEAM
Time: March 6, 2008, 8:39 pm

Although many of the reasons listed above are BS…I will address these pitiful items as if they were validated by some credible sources…actually I won’t…but I will say that I respect the service John McCain has given OUR country and feel he is BY FAR the most experienced and qualified to lead. For all you Obama fanantics…Name me one significant accomplishment he has achieved in his mere 2 years as a Senator?

Comment from TheFlush
Time: March 7, 2008, 2:14 pm

I’m getting more and more irritated by religious people.
A government based on something that has zero proof, that’s just ridiculous and naieve.
I believe in a set of rules everybody (no matter atheist, christian, jew, muslim, hindu, budhist etc.) can abide by. Religion is something you have in your heart, it shouldn’t be used to suppress others.

Comment from Flying Squirrel Mario
Time: March 7, 2008, 4:13 pm

“When Bush took over the White House and gas was $1.46 and through
Bush’s foreign policy it was $3.22 today here in Florida.”

So think if someone else, say Kerry, got into office, then gas prices wouldn’t have gone up that much? It wasn’t Bush’s fault.

Comment from hucker
Time: March 7, 2008, 8:31 pm

“1. The war is basically over. yes we have troops, but are we really at war? no, we’re not.” hahaha… I’m a Republican and even I know the war is FAR from over. We’ve seen a tiny drop in the suicide bombing rates because the US troops gave up the South and started paying the insurgents to not attack, but if you think having the kill rates drop to what they were a few years ago is “basically over” then keep on dreaming. The sad thing is…… . Obama or Hillary won’t do any better at getting the US out of the Middle East. Look at how well the Dems have done since ‘06 at doing what they promised. Face it - we’re going to stay in the Middle East until our country is bankrupt.

Comment from eddie
Time: March 8, 2008, 10:07 am

bush has responsibility for high gas prices. he is an oil man from an oil family why allowed oil companies to set the agenda with no resistance from the govt. wake up

Comment from Felix Forsythe
Time: March 9, 2008, 10:40 pm

You didn’t even mention his wonderful rendition that Beach Boys song: “Bomb Bomb Bomb, Bomb Bomb Iran”!

Comment from Strait Talk BS
Time: March 10, 2008, 7:49 am

I am not fan of McCain…not by a long shot. But this quote about being in Iraq for a 100 years was not about the war being over. Shoot, after WW2 we have been in Germany for about 50 now.

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