If McCain is the 08 candidate, send these picture to everyone you know...

President George W. Bush joins Arizona Senator John McCain in a small celebration of McCain's 69th birthday Monday, Aug. 29, 2005, after the President's arrival at Luke Air Force Base near Phoenix. The President later spoke about Medicare to 400 guests at the Pueblo El Mirage RV Resort and Country Club in nearby El Mirage. White House photo by Paul Morse

The second photo was taken on the same day Katrina hit New Orleans. This is how the President and Republican candidate responded. See the link here--> http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/08/images/20050829-5_p082905pm-0125-515h.html Notice that there is no mention of what else happened on this day.

It's almost as if Bush would rather be anywhere than there with McCain. I can't understand why he keeps going back to the party that treats him like shit.

Checking to ascertain if The Leader's deodorant is working is a dirty job; but someone has to do it.

Who better to see if The Great One passes the sniff test than John McCain?

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at this "manly embrace" as more of an ace and gary scene. Most republicans can't stand McCain anyway so I doubt he would get the nomination. He's also a bit too old for everyones taste now. That's the latest vibe on the freepers site. I occasionally lurk there to keep an eye on the enemy.

It's so creepy, and gross.

Just like Lieberman is a closet repug. It's no secret that Bush detests McCain, after all, look how Bush vilified him and mocked his Vietnam hero status during the 2000 election. Most neocons that I know can't stand McCain, they consider him a traitor. There is no way McCain wins the '08 nomination for the GOP. Too bad he's so puppy-dog loyal to that party, despite the way they've treated him. We could really use him. Imagine a Kerry/McCain ticket in '08.

Welcome to DU and all but I there's no way McCain is any kind of Democrat.

The idea sends chills down my spine.

Too many big wet sloppy ones there.

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last week, that talked about Condi running with McCain. If there is one thing that African Americans will remember of Bush's legacy, it's how he handled Katrina.

This shows how McCain didn't think Katrina was important enough to cancel his photo-op birthday party with Bush.

like 3 years, every day fresh hell and false hopes - kerry - continually, fitz... honest people trying and failing - many.

http://presidentkerrydeceptions.blogspot.com/

Village Voice article Feb 2004 about Kerry's staff shredding information that over 1,000 POWs were seen in eyewitness accounts but Bush Senior wanted to spend the money on major drug trafficking from Vietnam. from Kiss The Boys Good-bye

http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0408,schanberg,51276,1.html
When John Kerry's Courage Went M.I.A.
Senator covered up evidence of P.O.W.'s left behind

by Sydney H. Schanberg
February 24th, 2004 1:00 PM W
"Did America Abandon Vietnam War POWs?" by Sydney H. Schanberg

"Follow the Microfiche"

Senator John Kerry, a decorated battle veteran, was courageous as a navy lieutenant in the Vietnam War. But he was not so courageous more than two decades later, when he covered up voluminous evidence that a significant number of live American prisoners—perhaps hundreds—were never acknowledged or returned after the war-ending treaty was signed in January 1973.
The Massachusetts senator, now seeking the presidency, carried out this subterfuge a little over a decade ago— shredding documents, suppressing testimony, and sanitizing the committee's final report—when he was chairman of the Senate Select Committee on P.O.W./ M.I.A. Affairs....

Finally, Peck said: "From what I have witnessed, it appears that any soldier left in Vietnam, even inadvertently, was in fact abandoned years ago, and that the farce that is being played is no more than political legerdemain done with 'smoke and mirrors' to stall the issue until it dies a natural death." ...

What did Kerry do in furtherance of the cover-up? An overview would include the following: He allied himself with those carrying it out by treating the Pentagon and other prisoner debunkers as partners in the investigation instead of the targets they were supposed to be. In short, he did their bidding. When Defense Department officials were coming to testify, Kerry would have his staff director, Frances Zwenig, meet with them to "script" the hearings—as detailed in an internal Zwenig memo leaked by others. Zwenig also advised North Vietnamese officials on how to state their case. Further, Kerry never pushed or put up a fight to get key government documents unclassified; he just rolled over, no matter how obvious it was that the documents contained confirming data about prisoners. Moreover, after promising to turn over all committee records to the National Archives when the panel concluded its work, the senator destroyed crucial intelligence information the staff had gathered—to to keep the documents from becoming public. He refused to subpoena past presidents and other key witnesses.

When revelatory sworn testimony was given to the committee by President Reagan's national security adviser, Richard Allen—about a credible proposal from Hanoi in 1981 to return more than 50 prisoners for a $4 billion ransom—Kerry had that testimony taken in a closed door interview, not a public hearing. But word leaked out and a few weeks later, Allen sent a letter to the committee, not under oath, recanting his testimony, saying his memory had played tricks on him. Kerry never did any probe into Allen's original, detailed account, and instead accepted his recantation as gospel truth.

A Secret Service agent then working at the White House, John Syphrit, told committee staffers he had overheard part of a conversation about the Hanoi proposal for ransom. He said he was willing to testify but feared reprisal from his Treasury Department superiors and would need to be subpoenaed so that his appearance could not be regarded as voluntary. Kerry refused to subpoena him. Syphrit told me that four men were involved in that conversation—Reagan, Allen, Vice President George H.W. Bush, and CIA director William Casey. I wrote the story for Newsday.

The final Kerry report brushed off the entire episode like unsightly dust. It said: "The committee found no credible evidence of any such offer being made." ...

Much, Much More...

I think again we'll make a mistake to tie everything to Bush. Even when people disapprove of him, the stink effect is not enough to overcome McCain being viewed as a maverick, an outsider, a guy not afraid to shake things up. It won't be portrayed by the media as McCain being a toadie, it will be portrayed as "Even after the heat of campaign politics, McCain can mend fences." Yes, this is BS but when has something being BS stopped it from becoming conventional media wisdom.

I think we've gotten bitten too many times over the past 5 years putting all our eggs in the anti-Bush basket. Yeah, we need to play that card but I think we rely too much on it time and again when what we need is more reasons for people to be Pro-democrat than anti-Bush. It's got to be a two pronged attack and I think we focus far too much on the cult of personality and relying on one super-person to either be the cause of Bush's downfall or the architect of our victory.

how McCain reacted on that day. The African American vote is important, and this shows how McCain responded on this day as well.

...it's not African Americans that a McCain nom would peel away. It's the independents and moderate dems. The image this guy has is known by those of us here to be nothing more than so much malarky, but the pullback on that curtain requires and will require a lot of digging down deep and scrutiny on the part of the average joe and also the media. Neither of whom in case we haven't noticed, are big proponents of doing actual work to get to know a candidate.