Posted on 08/29/2007 7:36:07 AM PDT by meandog
BURBANK, Calif. (AP) - Republican presidential candidate John McCain said Tuesday the public is yearning to hear the truth from politicians, and he didn't spare his troubled campaign from a critical self-appraisal.
"We are doing so poorly I thought maybe I would announce on this show that I'm running for president," McCain told Jay Leno in an appearance taped for broadcast Tuesday night on "The Tonight Show."
"We have obviously made mistakes," the Arizona senator said.
Lagging in fundraising and national polls, McCain said he was relishing the underdog's role and remained enthusiastic about his chances in 2008.
Americans "are looking for someone who will tell them the truth, whether they happen to like to hear it or not," he said. "I think too often politicians tell them what they think they want to hear, rather than what they believe."
(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.myway.com ...
OK, since we are free to talk. I what this corrupt senator out of Congress and never be elected to anything again.
Makes Fred look good by comaprison with the “top 3”
McCain’s campaign IS a joke.
McCain was the instigator of the amnesty bill which would have legalized 10-20 million illegal immigrants and added 40-100 million more 'citizens' through family connections.
To me, there is nothing worse than actively trying to sell out the country.
Spoken like a dumb nuke--apparently you spent too much time aft as an EOOW and the neutrons got you; you sound like Jimmy Carter!
Unlike the Commie-Vampire Dims, who have sucked the lifeblood out of everything good about their country for 40 years.
‘Say what you want, at least he’s not a double-talking Romney or Giuliani draft dodger.’
No, he’s just a clown that verbally abuses the GOP base for Chris Mathews and Letterman’s personal entertainment on a routine basis going back a decade or more. One that kids himself into believing he lost the 2000 primaries because of ‘Rove’s dirty tricks in South Carolina’. A man who’s arrogance is only exceeded by a famous temper that would be infamous if not for the liberal MSM ‘covering for him’ so as to make him available to HURT conservatives.
A man that had to ‘think about it’ when asked to cross party lines and run as Kerry’s VP candidate for two weeks.
You cite he doesn’t engage in ‘doubletalk’?
I’d say the fact he actually weighed Kerry’s suggestion for more than three seconds is the most damning thing of all, and an example of ‘doubletalk’ given he claims to be a Republican....
instigator: and Bush, and Cheney, and Gonzo, and Chertoff, and especially Romney's former Senate campaign chairman who was just arrested trying to play pass the salami in the airport little boys room...
Keating Five
come on. get real.
yeah, but my stomach sours when I hear about his open border pollicy, and our liberal welfare system.
...what planet are you on? Joseph Liberman was Kerry's running mate...any notion of McCain on it (despite the constant FR rumors here) would have been like John Birch being Joe Stalin's second in command.
What campaign? There’s still a campaign? After all that shamnesty nonsense?
Give it up already!
Well, they don't call him "Straight Talk" for nothing and as far as the Rummy opinion goes, he got that one straighter than all the rest!
A man that had to ‘think about it’ when asked to cross party lines and run as Kerry’s VP candidate for two weeks.
“...what planet are you on? Joseph Liberman was Kerry’s running mate...”
I’m from the planet where Al Gore had Joe Lieberman as his running mate in 2000.
And its the same ‘planet’ that saw John F Kerry approach this turd called John McCain about running as his Vice President in the 2004 election.
Any other really dumb questions you’d like to ask me?
..it didn't get any better from that point on...I think I hear Dog ..humming..."give me three steps"...:)
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