Are you saying you think McCain's campaign platform remained consistent between 2000 and 2008? If not, what you're saying doesn't make any sense.
Yep...kind of like what liberals did with McCain.
A relic of a bygone era.
She will not be President, she had her chance in 2008. Democrat voters rejected her then, they will reject her now.
The misogynistic fuckers are lured in like flies.
She will not be President, she had her chance in 2008. Democrat voters rejected her then, they will reject her now.
Are you saying you think McCain's campaign platform remained consistent between 2000 and 2008? If not, what you're saying doesn't make any sense.
I still think its way, way, way too early to be decided or even guessing who to vote for.
I'm even giving Hillary a fair chance at my vote.
Dead broke.
A relic of a bygone era.
She will not be President, she had her chance in 2008. Democrat voters rejected her then, they will reject her now.
Got mad at John for this as his 2008 platform was way worse than his earlier presidential election platforms.
By the time he got to 2008, John McCain was not the man or candidate I had previously thought/hoped he would be.
Before 2000, his words and his openness and his willingness to challenge Republican orthodoxy made him seem like a rational breath of fresh air.
Therefore, I was mystified when he kissed Dubya's ass after Dubya beat him out for the nomination in 2000 while employing some truly scurrilous dirty tricks and slurs.
By the time he got to 2008, John McCain was not the man or candidate I had previously thought/hoped he would be.
But, yeah, I'm with eskimospy re: those several fiercely anti-Obama posters here who, in the course of slagging Barry, praised Hillary as a far better, standd-up, non-Muslim communist alternative.
I was startled then by what looked like hypocritical Hillary praise by them, and I immediately thought about how, if and when she ran, they would do a complete about face and show their true colors.
Cliffs: Not analogous to the McCain situation at all, imho.
In the South Carolina primary, McCain's momentum was halted by a strongly negative Bush campaign. Although the Bush campaign said it was not behind any attacks (more on this below), locals who supported Bush reportedly handed out fliers and made telephone calls to prospective voters suggesting among other things, that McCain was a "Manchurian candidate" and that he had fathered a child out of wedlock with a black New York-based prostitute (an incorrect reference to a child he and his wife had adopted from Bangladesh). McCain won primaries in Michigan, his home state of Arizona, and a handful of Northeastern states, but faced difficulty in appealing to conservative Republican primary voters in spite of demonstrated support from Democrats and independents. Bush's victories in states like California and New York as well as conservative Southern states gained him the nomination long before the Republican Convention.
Allegations were made that Karl Rove was responsible for a South Carolina push poll that used racist innuendo intended to undermine support for McCain: "Would you be more likely or less likely to vote for John McCain for president if you knew he had fathered an illegitimate black child?"[2] McCain campaign manager Richard Davis said he "had no idea who had made those calls, who paid for them, or how many were made," but in the 2004 film Bush's Brain, John Weaver, political director for McCain's 2000 campaign bid, stated, "I believe I know where that decision was made; it was at the top of the Bush campaign." Rove has continually denied any such involvement. The existence of such a poll is disputed since no recording of the poll has ever been documented (about 20% of robocalls are usually recorded by answering machines). ].
Haha. Mitt Romney says Hillary out of touch because she hasn't driven a car in 18 years.
This coming from a guy who purchased an elevator for his cars.
US “Pivot” Sends Asia Fleeing Toward China
When former-US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced the US “pivot to Asia,” she and the policy wonks who dreamed it up probably imagined it as a well choreographed geopolitical masterstroke. In reality, it was more like an elephant crashing through the jungle, sending all in its path fleeing for cover well ahead of its arrival.
The empty rhetoric accompanying its announcement never materialized. Reading between the lines, what the “pivot” actually meant, was the doubling down on attempts to subvert, corral and otherwise twist the arms of Southeast Asia, South Asia and East Asia into arraying themselves for Washington’s convenience and gain, against the growing influence and power of Beijing.
American designs have unraveled everywhere from Malaysia to Thailand and the only steps of this pivot still in good form appear to be in Myanmar and the South China Sea where budding political subversion is growing in one and an escalating strategy of tension is growing in the other. Despite these “successes,” the prospects of Myanmar resigning itself to a future with close and growing ties to Beijing are unrealistic.
Likewise, the notion of a remilitarized Japan somehow containing China is untenable and more so each passing day.
Those capitulating today to Washington’s attempts to reorder Asia will only be setting their nations back in the years to come when ultimately the “pivot” fails, and all that is left is China and those nations that decided to move forward together with it on its way up.
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While the finance industry does genuinely hate Warren, the big bankers love Clinton, and by and large they badly want her to be president. Many of the rich and powerful in the financial industry—among them, Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein, Morgan Stanley CEO James Gorman, Tom Nides, a powerful vice chairman at Morgan Stanley, and the heads of JPMorganChase and Bank of America—consider Clinton a pragmatic problem-solver not prone to populist rhetoric. To them, she’s someone who gets the idea that we all benefit if Wall Street and American business thrive. What about her forays into fiery rhetoric? They dismiss it quickly as political maneuvers. None of them think she really means her populism.
Kind of.
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