CNN: McCain announces '08 bid on Letterman

[DeepModem Mom]

McCain announces '08 bid on Letterman
February 28, 2007



WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Setting aside any doubt about his presidential aspirations, Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona announced Wednesday he would seek the GOP presidential nomination.

McCain, who has had a presidential exploratory committee, made the declaration on the "Late Show with David Letterman," taped earlier Wednesday.

"We are going to formally announce it in early April," John Weaver, a top adviser to McCain, told CNN.

Weaver said the time and location will be announced at a later date.

A top-tier candidate, McCain has been a staunch supporter of Bush's deployment of 21,500 additional combat troops....

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/02/28/mccain.running/index.html

[benny05]

1. Snore

I wish there was a smilies here to display..

ZZZZZZZZZZZ

Not about the poster, but about McCain and his so-called coyness.

[shawmut]

11. we have one right here

:boring:


:)

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

2. The expression on Letterman's face is priceless. BTW, this isn't a "real" announcement,

according to McCain's staff, who apparently run the show:

Setting aside any doubt about his presidential aspirations, Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona announced Wednesday he would seek the GOP presidential nomination.

McCain, who has had a presidential exploratory committee, made the declaration on the "Late Show with David Letterman," taped earlier Wednesday.

"We are going to formally announce it in early April," John Weaver, a top adviser to McCain, told CNN.

Weaver said the time and location will be announced at a later date.

John McCain's handlers will be putting him on time out. :rofl: MKJ

[snowbear]

3. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[flamingyouth]

4. He already has a campaign website.*

That's some kind of exciting announcement there.

*And it's in black-and-white, in keeping with his demographic. :eyes:

[TheCowsCameHome]

5. Wake me up when he's gone.

[BlueStater]

6. If we're lucky, it won't take long for his pathetic candiacy to crash and burn n/t

[mucifer]

7. I hope Letterman is mean to him. But, I'm sure that won't happen.

[niallmac]

8. I think McCain will be the only candidate with the promise to

Increase the pace at which we pour our youth and our treasury down the
Iraq rat hole.

[rocktivity]

9. Cue the crickets...

:boring:
rocknation

[hatrack]

10. Bet THAT went over like a turd in the punch bowl . . .

Oh, I'm sorry, this is to show how "in touch" and "hip" he is, right?

[LibDemAlways]

12. I love the expression on Letterman's face. He's thinking

"No way in hell I'm voting for this warmongering asshole."

[BenDavid]

13. McCain Credible????

Sen. McCain on CNN on Sept. 24, 2002: “I believe that the success will be fairly easy.”

Sen. McCain on CNN on Sept. 29, 2002: “We’re not going to have a bloodletting of trading American bodies for Iraqi bodies.”

Sen. McCain on this network on Jan. 22, 2003: “We will win this conflict. We will win it easily.”

What’s that’s called again? Flip-flopping? Senator, we keep all the tapes of these interviews. C’mon!

Of course, you know what this means — it’s time to update the list of McCain’s biggest flip-flops as he transforms himself from maverick hero to right-wing hack. We’re up to 13 now.

* McCain went from saying he would not support repeal of Roe v. Wade to saying the exact opposite.

* McCain criticized TV preacher Jerry Falwell as “an agent of intolerance” in 2002, but has since decided to cozy up to the man who said Americans “deserved” the 9/11 attacks. (Indeed, McCain has now hired Falwell’s debate coach.)

* McCain used to oppose Bush’s tax cuts for the very wealthy, but he reversed course in February.

* In 2000, McCain accused Texas businessmen Sam and Charles Wyly of being corrupt, spending “dirty money” to help finance Bush’s presidential campaign. McCain not only filed a complaint against the Wylys for allegedly violating campaign finance law, he also lashed out at them publicly. In April, McCain reached out to the Wylys for support.

* McCain supported a major campaign-finance reform measure that bore his name. In June, he abandoned his own legislation.

* McCain used to think that Grover Norquist was a crook and a corrupt shill for dictators. Then McCain got serious about running for president and began to reconcile with Norquist.

* McCain took a firm line in opposition to torture, and then caved to White House demands.

* McCain gave up on his signature policy issue, campaign-finance reform, and won’t back the same provision he sponsored just a couple of years ago.

* McCain was against presidential candidates campaigning at Bob Jones University before he was for it.

* McCain was anti-ethanol. Now he’s pro-ethanol.

* McCain was both for and against state promotion of the Confederate flag.

* McCain decided in 2000 that he didn’t want anything to do with former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, believing he “would taint the image of the ‘Straight Talk Express.’” Kissinger is now the Honorary Co-Chair for his presidential campaign in New York.

And now McCain has gone from insisting that the war in Iraq would be easy to insisting that he’s always said the war in Iraq would be hard. And yet, you’ll still find most of the political establishment arguing that McCain’s strength as a candidate is his credibility.

And what exactly is McCain trying to get us to believe. That he is a hero? No! No he's not. No one, myself included is accusing Mr McCain of not having a survival instinct. McCain did not risk his life. He saved his life. And that my friends his called....SELF PRESERVATION....A HERO? NO!
And now Mr McCain wants us to believe he is CREDIBLIE? NO!NO HE'S NOT!