I'm sure pretty much everyone has heard about McCain not knowing how many houses he owned. At no point is "I don't know," the answer that people want to hear to this question! Especially those working class voters that wanted to vote for Hillary. I'm sure he was sitting there thinking "If I say 2, they'll check up and know I lied. If I say 7, they're going to make a big deal out of it... Hmm... Aghhh... I DON'T KNOW."
I've been in McCain's shoes before. No, not the exact situation, I know that I only own one house.
It reminds me of WAY back when I was 19 or 20. We had all been drinking heavily all evening and Lee and I got stopped by two police officers (it may have been because I was laying on the ground). Anyway, one of the cops asked me how much I had to drink that day. My thoughts were flying... If I lie and say "two" or something conservative, and then he gives me a breathalyzer, he's going to know I'm lying. But, if I actually tell him the truth, he'll know I'm wasted and arrest me. So, I'm having an internal conflict and I finally just said "Enough." Perhaps John McCain should have used that one. I didn't get arrested or ticketed that night, so clearly it worked!
Showing posts with label McCain. Show all posts
Showing posts with label McCain. Show all posts
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Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Even McCain's friends don't want to vote for him
Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel, one of McCain's "good friends" is annoyed with what McCain has been saying about the Iraq war."I'm very upset with John with some of the things he's been saying," Hagel added. "And I can't get into the psychoanalysis of it. But I believe that John is smarter than some of the things he is saying. He is, he understands it more. John is a man who reads a lot, he's been around the world. I want him to get above that and maybe when he gets into the general election, and becomes the general election candidate he will have a higher-level discourse on these things."
Hagel, who is not running for reelection in November, has become an outspoken critic of the War in Iraq and he said in April he is open to the possibility of endorsing Obama's candidacy.
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Poll: McCain's hard to beat
Maybe it was the month CFunk spent bashing McCain with blogs like "McCain the foreign policy expert?", "John McCain's real views on immigration", and my favorite title: "McCain the jerk"...
Or, maybe it is the fact that McCain is basically my political opposite...
But, I just can't believe that McCain is pulling this kind of approval!
WASHINGTON (CNN) — A new poll out Wednesday suggests Sen. John McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, will be a difficult candidate for the eventual Democratic nominee to beat in a general election match up this fall.
According to a just released Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll, McCain would be in tight races with either of the remaining Democratic presidential candidates.
McCain is statistically tied with Sen. Barack Obama, 44 percent to 42 percent, and ahead of Sen. Hillary Clinton by 6 points, 46 percent to 40 percent. The poll's margin of error was plus-or-minus 3 percentage points.
The poll also showed McCain with a 61 percent approval rating, a number higher than both Clinton's and Obama's in past polls. (A CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll earlier this month measured Clinton's approval rating at 52 percent and Obama's at 58 percent.)
The Arizona senator holds a clear advantage on dealing with the war in Iraq, according to the poll, and holds a 9 point advantage on economic issues over Obama, despite having acknowledged that area is not his expertise. Though the poll finds voters favor Clinton by 10 points over McCain to handle the economy.
The same poll also showed Obama with a 6 point edge over Clinton nationally — a finding that's consistent with several other polls out earlier this week that indicate that the senator from Illinois is the frontrunner in the Democratic race.
Or, maybe it is the fact that McCain is basically my political opposite...
But, I just can't believe that McCain is pulling this kind of approval!
WASHINGTON (CNN) — A new poll out Wednesday suggests Sen. John McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, will be a difficult candidate for the eventual Democratic nominee to beat in a general election match up this fall.
According to a just released Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll, McCain would be in tight races with either of the remaining Democratic presidential candidates.
McCain is statistically tied with Sen. Barack Obama, 44 percent to 42 percent, and ahead of Sen. Hillary Clinton by 6 points, 46 percent to 40 percent. The poll's margin of error was plus-or-minus 3 percentage points.
The poll also showed McCain with a 61 percent approval rating, a number higher than both Clinton's and Obama's in past polls. (A CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll earlier this month measured Clinton's approval rating at 52 percent and Obama's at 58 percent.)
The Arizona senator holds a clear advantage on dealing with the war in Iraq, according to the poll, and holds a 9 point advantage on economic issues over Obama, despite having acknowledged that area is not his expertise. Though the poll finds voters favor Clinton by 10 points over McCain to handle the economy.
The same poll also showed Obama with a 6 point edge over Clinton nationally — a finding that's consistent with several other polls out earlier this week that indicate that the senator from Illinois is the frontrunner in the Democratic race.