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Obama criticizes absent McCain on Senate floor, McCain hits back hard
Politico.com ^ | May 23, 2008 | Jonathan Martin

Posted on 05/23/2008 5:48:26 AM PDT by libstripper

Jim Webb's GI Bill passed the Senate today with a bipartisan majority, 75-22. Clinton and Obama were both there, but McCain is in California today on the fundraising trail.

Obama used the opportunity to once again tie his rival to the president.

"I respect Sen. John McCain's service to our country," Obama said on the Senate floor this morning. "He is one of those heroes of which I speak. But I can't understand why he would line up behind the president in opposition to this GI Bill. I can't believe why he believes it is too generous to our veterans. I could not disagree with him and the president more on this issue."

The McCain campaign responded by issuing a sharply worded and lengthy statement in the senator's name. McCain notes his support for an alternative to the Webb measure, but points out his own military service and points out Obama's lack thereof.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 110th; bttt; election; mccain; obama; veteran; webb
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To: AxelPaulsenJr
We need to drop the attacks on our own man and promote comments like this one that Senator McCain made in his response to Hussein Obama.

The problem we have with this election is McCain is terribly deficient in many ways, his view on AGW being the worst and all too close to Bary Bozo's. However, that much being said, he's still no where near as bad as Barry Bozo. That leaves with the problem of how to keep the good McCain and get rid of the bad McCain. My only answer to that dilemma, weak as it is, is to attack McCain whenever he does something wrong and support him when he does something right, while realizing that, at the end of it all, I'll at least put my mark beside his name. Not much, but something. If you have any better ideas, please share them.

101 posted on 05/23/2008 8:13:02 AM PDT by libstripper
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To: Condor51
By the time Barry graduated from Law School in '88 he'd have been too old, at 27, to enlist in our military. 26 was the cut off age back then. I hope JUAN Amnesty McInsane ain't goin down the, 'You didn't serve so shut up on all things military' road. That's a loser (as the left found with Cheney).

BS. Barry Bozo could have done what many of us, myself included, did, and join ROTC in undergraduate school, get his active service date deferred until he completed law school and passed the bar, and then completed his active service. Face it: like McCain or not, and I don't, Bozo's an anti-American Marxist/secret Muslim who shouldn't be let near the White House, except on a public tour and with a guard.

102 posted on 05/23/2008 8:21:34 AM PDT by libstripper
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To: yoe

Thanks for posting that. The idiots in the MSM only report on the personal tit for tat and totally skip over the details of McCain’s counterproposal or the reason why he is opposed to the one Obama supports.


103 posted on 05/23/2008 8:23:36 AM PDT by Huck ("Real" conservatives support OBAMA in 08 (that's how you know Im not a real conservative))
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To: libstripper

Hey Hussein! Shut the H*** up.


104 posted on 05/23/2008 8:28:55 AM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (Typical white person, bitter, religious, gun owner, who will "Just say No to BO (or HRC).")
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To: libstripper
BOOM!!!

Impressive.

105 posted on 05/23/2008 8:31:24 AM PDT by blam
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To: libstripper

Talk about his a$$ getting handed to him in a basket, BO won’t forget this one and he deserved every word of it.


106 posted on 05/23/2008 8:38:12 AM PDT by jazusamo (DefendOurMarines.org | DefendOurTroops.org)
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To: bray

I dislike that view. You don’t need to have a particular experience to offer a critique of it. You just need to have your facts in order to avoid the blowback :)


107 posted on 05/23/2008 8:38:34 AM PDT by nicola_tesla ("Life is Tough... It's Worse When You're Stupid".... John Wayne)
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To: Niteranger68
Obama is a two-bit bastard child born to a pimp married to an atheist slut.

Trouble is those are perfect Democrat credentials.

We already had a two-bit bastard child born to a pimp married to an marxist bitch serve as a two term president.

108 posted on 05/23/2008 8:41:45 AM PDT by Wil H
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To: Condor51

what you said - in spades


109 posted on 05/23/2008 8:46:09 AM PDT by nicola_tesla ("Life is Tough... It's Worse When You're Stupid".... John Wayne)
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To: Always Right
Let’s see, Obama has spent over half of his Senate career on the campaign trail and he is criticizing someone else??? Mr. Green Jeans needs to shut his trap.

As much as I hate Obama, McCain's voting record is worse.

In the current congress, Obama has missed 41.8% of the votes and McCain has missed 60.0% of the votes.

110 posted on 05/23/2008 8:46:29 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.)
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To: B Knotts
Who’s advising Hussein on this stuff? Anyone with any political smarts would know you don’t go after McCain on military issues, especially when your own candidate has no military service.

Especially when he's not even there to answer. Pretty wormy. The media will be screaming racism again, I mean how dare McCain chastise the magic negro.

111 posted on 05/23/2008 8:48:15 AM PDT by Snurple
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To: libstripper
Obama just got...


112 posted on 05/23/2008 8:53:17 AM PDT by Hatteras
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To: MurryMom

Ahhh! Another visit from the Left’s Toxic Avenger! How utterly entertaining!!!!


113 posted on 05/23/2008 9:19:02 AM PDT by Chances Are (Whew! It seems I've once again found that silly grin!)
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To: libstripper
If you have any better ideas, please share them.

I guess I am just envious of the manner in which dims support their nominee. "See no evil, hear no evil, SPEAK no evil".

114 posted on 05/23/2008 9:30:03 AM PDT by AxelPaulsenJr (John McCain: If you don't blame the dims for high oil prices, I will not vote for you.)
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To: tsmith130

“Are we allowed to talk about his ass?”

tsmith130: No...he’s already said his wife is off limits.


SNAP!!!


115 posted on 05/23/2008 10:14:27 AM PDT by Christian4Bush ("In Israel, the President hit the nail on the head. The nails are complaining loudly." - John Bolton)
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To: 1rudeboy
And I will not accept from Senator Obama, who did not feel it was his responsibility to serve our country in uniform, any lectures on my regard for those who did.

"DOWN GOES 'SAMA! DOWN GOES 'SAMA! Err, I mean "DOWN GOES 'BAMA!" /Howard Cossell

116 posted on 05/23/2008 10:16:49 AM PDT by Christian4Bush ("In Israel, the President hit the nail on the head. The nails are complaining loudly." - John Bolton)
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To: Chances Are
Ahhh! Another visit from the Left’s Toxic Avenger! How utterly entertaining!!!!

"She Who Really Must Not Be Named" is the perfect definition of the DriveBy Troll...witness its work...one stupid post, never to be heard from again, gone to troll on another thread. And we are here to clean up its shite.

117 posted on 05/23/2008 10:31:34 AM PDT by Christian4Bush ("In Israel, the President hit the nail on the head. The nails are complaining loudly." - John Bolton)
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To: avacado

“Peter Sellers plays “Chance the Gardener” of a wealthy estate where he’s the gardner and has never left the property until the owner dies. He’s a dumb as a box of rocks”

Life imitating art.


118 posted on 05/23/2008 11:04:06 AM PDT by imskylark
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To: MurryMom

So you were thinking of voting for a Republican for the first time in your life??

Pray for W and Our Troops


119 posted on 05/23/2008 2:30:40 PM PDT by bray (If everyone hates you, you must be doin something right?)
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To: Always Right

BTTT!


120 posted on 05/23/2008 2:35:31 PM PDT by The Mayor ("A man's heart plans his way, but the Lord directs his steps" (Prov. 16:9))
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