Thread: McCain frightens me!!!

Am I the only one? this guy alway seems like he is going to explode any second! Him personally, I am not frightened of. What I am frightened of is him wielding the power of the Presidency!
Again, am I the only one?

Surviving so far the ongoing demonstration of that wielding I'm not scared anymore.
Plus he's not going to win anyways

No, I think he's our best bet to keep Hillary/Obama out of the White House. What scares you? I don't agree with every position he holds, but I think he has more integrity and metal than any candidate of either party.

Jordan

He makes good oven chips though.

Originally Posted by jnich67

No, I think he's our best bet to keep Hillary/Obama out of the White House. What scares you? I don't agree with every position he holds, but I think he has more integrity and metal than any candidate of either party.

Jordan

Amen...except for Huckabee, who is my favorite, but who won't get the nominations.

Think about our President confronting Al Quaeda, or the Russians...I like the idea of having a hard guy with simmering rage! I don't want some pushover wallflower pussy-footing glad-handing waffle-waffle liberal-in-moderate's clothing! We need to show our enemies that we mean business. Serious business!

I'll tell you what scares me:

A LITTLE HISTORY QUIZ
It's just a short one, only 6 questions.If you don't know the answer
make your best guess. You don't need paper or anything. Answer all the
questions before looking at the answers.

Who said it?

1) "We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common
good."
A . Karl Marx
B. Adolph Hitler
C. Joseph Stalin
D. None of the above

2) "It's time for a new beginning, for an end to government of the
few, by the few, and for the few...and to replace it with shared
responsibility for shared prosperity."
A. Lenin
B. Mussolini
C. Idi Amin
D. None of the Above

3) "(We)...can't just let business as usual go on, and that means
something has to be taken away from some people."
A. Nikita Khrushev
B. Josef Goebbels
C. Boris Yeltsin
D. None of the above

4) "We have to build a political consensus and that requires people to
give up a little bit of their own...in order to create this common
ground."
A. Mao Tse Dong
B. Hugo Chavez
C. Kim Jong Il
D. None of the above

5) "I certainly think the free-market has failed."
A.Karl Marx
B. Lenin
C. Molotov
D. None of the above

6) "I think it's time to send a clear message to what has become the
most profitable sector in (the) entire economy that they are being watched."
A. Pinochet
B. Milosevic
C.Saddam Hussein
D. None of the above

Answers:
(1) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton
6/29/2004
(2) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton
5/29/2007
(3) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton
6/4/2007
(4) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton
6/4/2007
(5) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton
6/4/2007
(6 ) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton
9/2/2005


You scared yet?

Originally Posted by YesSheDoes!

Amen...

Think about our President confronting Al Quaeda, or the Russians...I like the idea of having a hard guy with simmering rage! I don't want some pushover wallflower pussy-footing glad-handing waffle-waffle liberal-in-moderate's clothing! We need to show our enemies that we mean business. Serious business!

I would agree except my view of McCain is that he is an angry liberal in conservative clothing, I mean after all, he was responsible and co-auther of a bill that is considered the largest abridgment of our first ammendment rights and he was all for the amnesty for illegal aliens and to this day he insists that it had nothing to do with amnesty!

I submit that a vote for McCain is a vote for an angrier, slightly more conservative Hillary! I don't relish the thought of either of them in the oval office!

Originally Posted by jockeys

I'll tell you what scares me:

A LITTLE HISTORY QUIZ
It's just a short one, only 6 questions.If you don't know the answer
make your best guess. You don't need paper or anything. Answer all the
questions before looking at the answers.

Who said it?

1) "We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common
good."
A . Karl Marx
B. Adolph Hitler
C. Joseph Stalin
D. None of the above

2) "It's time for a new beginning, for an end to government of the
few, by the few, and for the few...and to replace it with shared
responsibility for shared prosperity."
A. Lenin
B. Mussolini
C. Idi Amin
D. None of the Above

3) "(We)...can't just let business as usual go on, and that means
something has to be taken away from some people."
A. Nikita Khrushev
B. Josef Goebbels
C. Boris Yeltsin
D. None of the above

4) "We have to build a political consensus and that requires people to
give up a little bit of their own...in order to create this common
ground."
A. Mao Tse Dong
B. Hugo Chavez
C. Kim Jong Il
D. None of the above

5) "I certainly think the free-market has failed."
A.Karl Marx
B. Lenin
C. Molotov
D. None of the above

6) "I think it's time to send a clear message to what has become the
most profitable sector in (the) entire economy that they are being watched."
A. Pinochet
B. Milosevic
C.Saddam Hussein
D. None of the above

Answers:
(1) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton
6/29/2004
(2) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton
5/29/2007
(3) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton
6/4/2007
(4) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton
6/4/2007
(5) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton
6/4/2007
(6 ) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton
9/2/2005


You scared yet?

Yes, I am. My point was that I'm scared enough of Hillary to overlook my differences with McCain (including those pointed out by JMS). I think he's the only choice we have if we want to beat the Dems. Even though I disagree with McCain on those few issues, I do think he's a genuinely good man and I trust him to gather wise people around him. I can't say the same for the others.

Jordan

I usually don't get into these postings. I'm just too old for the stress.

But, some of us on this board are democrats. And, brace yourselves: I'm also a former union officer. It was a teachers' union, sort of union light, but a union non the less.

I highly respect John McCain. He's truly a hero. Yet his projected policies of never ending war, and renewed tax cutting will do nothing to dig us out of the deep hole the present administration has created. And, without a military draft, it's just to easy to send other people's kids off to war when yours are at no risk.

Our country has crumbling infrastructure, an imploding medical system, and is basically financially bankrupt. It was Eisenhower, a republican, who prophetically warned of this type of scenario. The old McCain, a budget hawk, would have heeded this.

This old union guy has one more parting thought for you. The decline of the American middle class correlates almost perfectly with the decline of the American labor movement.

Originally Posted by uofi1963

I usually don't get into these postings. I'm just too old for the stress.

But, some of us on this board are democrats. And, brace yourselves: I'm also a former union officer. It was a teachers' union, sort of union light, but a union non the less.

I highly respect John McCain. He's truly a hero. Yet his projected policies of never ending war, and renewed tax cutting will do nothing to dig us out of the deep hole the present administration has created. And, without a military draft, it's just to easy to send other people's kids off to war when yours are at no risk.

Our country has crumbling infrastructure, an imploding medical system, and is basically financially bankrupt. It was Eisenhower, a republican, who prophetically warned of this type of scenario. The old McCain, a budget hawk, would have heeded this.

This old union guy has one more parting thought for you. The decline of the American middle class correlates almost perfectly with the decline of the American labor movement.

I appreciate your opinions and the thoughtful way you presented them. I am a moderate Republican. Our country has a number of problems, and I fear many of them have more fundamental causes than this policy or that policy - election finance reform, is an example. If I thought any of the Democrats would address these problems in a meaningful way, I would consider voting for them. I don't think that is the case. I like McCain's willingness to cut against the grain (note the shaving reference here ) and if there is anyone I trust with the lives of our young men and women, it’s him.

Jordan