McCain's press conference MSNBC--very thin-skinned re his "surge" troop level gaffe!

McCain seems a twin of Bush--not inquisitive, a "gut-thinker," and seemingly not at all concerned about the "details"--the facts on the ground, that is.

Eight years of that shit would be a ridiculous insult.

"it's long and it's hard and it's tough and there will be setbacks."

It's McXerox!

And, do note the foreign policy advisor defending McCaiin--none other than PNACer/neocon Randy Scheunemann!

The man doesn't know what the HELL he is talking about & none of the news organizations report on these discrepancies. I heard him say this yesterday, that we had returned to pre-surge levels, when even I know that we haven't....

If we elect this man as POTUS, we deserve him, what a sad state of affairs....

almost sounds like his mentor * when he said when he looked into Putin's soul, geez, please do not let this guy in the WH, we don't need another mental case in the WH.

GUPTA (voice-over): We're learning just how extensive McCain's operation for melanoma was in 2000. Doctors removed 34 lymph nodes in his neck. Doctors say the high number was due an abundance of caution. He still has swelling that is obvious.

McCain's had melanoma removed four times. The most recent in 2002. There's a 66 percent chance of it recurring within ten years. Eight years have already passed.

Also new, McCain had skin cancer taken off his leg in February of this year. Squamous cell carcinoma. His campaign insists it's under control. Blood pressure, 134 over 84. Fine. Cholesterol 192. That's down from 226 just five years ago. It looks like the medications are helping here.

He's also had an operation to reduce the size of his prostate. He smoked two packs a day for 25 years up until 1980 and had polyps removed from his colon, but no signs of cancer from any of those.

He was beaten and tortured while a POW. His shoulders were both broken. To this day, he can't lift them over his head. And doctors say he may need both shoulders replaced.

He does get dizzy from time to time, especially when tipping his head back. Diagnosis? Vertigo, a problem with his inner ear.

As far as fitness goes, medical records had him at both 5'6" and 5'9". We'll go with 5'9". Weight 163. That puts his BMI at 24. Pretty good pushing the normal limits. His heart and circulatory system were all within normal limits for a man his age.

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0805/24/hcsg.01.html

When Bush was governor of Texas, he had a new license number and record issued for himself, and in it, he went from 5'9 to 6'0 tall. McCain is doing the same thing. He's claiming to be 3 inches taller than he is.

McCain is very thin-skinned about EVERYTHING. And that is a very negative characteristic in an already seriously flawed candidate. I think it's something that is often referred to as a meme.

Rarely do they address the criticism. They just attack Obama on a personal level. It just comes off sounding like an angry old man.

...yelling at cloud? :)

protect him on sensitive, emotional matters that left McCain vulnerable.

Then McCain spent 2004 betraying that man.

helped liberate.

with no security and it was peaceful.
Come to find out they had 100 person security force and 7 helicopters.
How could Obama top this WHOPPER!

"My friends, We will not surrender in Iraq." It sickens me but his minions seem to eat it up.

Obama's campaign seized on the slip-ups, holding a news conference with Sen. John Kerry to blast McCain on the troop-level mistake.

I can feel it. :bounce:

Note to politicians: Don't hold a major press conference for Q&A right after a book is published accusing the press of not doing their job. :rofl:

what it deserves in the end.

I can look you in the eye, my friends, and you will see the emptiness inside, my friends, because you see, my friends, I sold my soul to K Street, my friends, I WILL NEVER SURRENDER *angry fist gesture*.

;-)


"(...)
The McCain campaign is battling aggressively to limit media pickup of McCain's mistake, telling reporters that they shouldn't be nit-picking about what was merely a "verb tense" mistake. But judging by the first round of coverage in The Washington Post, the Obama team is getting the story told its way...

McCain Asserts Return to Pre-Surge Iraq Troop Levels
Sen. John McCain has attacked Sen. Barack Obama for not traveling to Iraq to see the "facts on the ground." But a recent statement by McCain about troop levels has his opponents raising questions about his own knowledge.


That's exactly the coverage the McCain camp doesn't want, and that the Obama camp does want. Will the rest of the coverage follow suit? It seems like flubbing a fact about troop levels is a bit of a gaffe for someone who regularly attack his opponent's experience and fitness to be commander in chief."

http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/

Remember when he said in 2000 that the media was "his base."

The more you open your mouth, the more foolish you sound.

Reporters were actually giving the McCain campaign a hard time, and I missed it? Is this the land of make believe? McCain is thin skinned on EVERYTHING. I generally think that Maureen Dowd is a troll, but I think she made a couple of good points last Sunday on Meet the Press. McCain sees every criticism of one of his policies as an attack on his integrity, and gets defensive and attacks the other person's integrity. What a fucking narcissist.

for some reason he thinks he's a genius. Wow....

Obama On McCain's Troop-Level Gaffe: "Anyone Running For Commander-In-Chief Should Know Better"
By Greg Sargent - May 30, 2008, 6:26PM

The Obama campaign is in good spirits as Friday's happy hour rolls around, chiefly because they clearly won today's political skirmishes with John McCain. They got McCain to admit he was wrong to use General Petraeus' photo in a political attack. And they put him on the defensive over his flubbing of a fact about troop levels in Iraq.

And Obama will continue to squeeze the troop-levels gaffe -- in which McCain wrongly said that we'd drawn down troops to pre-surge levels -- in a Montana speech tonight. Prepared excerpts from the campaign:

(see link): http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/05/obama_on_mccains_troop_gaffe_a.php