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McCain Veers Off Script, Talks About His Cancer Battle
The Wall Street Journal - Washington Wire ^ | 2008-07-25 | Elizabeth Holmes

Posted on 07/24/2008 10:05:32 PM PDT by rabscuttle385

The original draft of John McCain’s speech at the Livestrong Summit Thursday evening made no mention of his own struggle with cancer. The text made a jab at Barack Obama, emphasized the need for improved health care and vowed to take on the tobacco industry — but excluded all references to the Arizona senator’s bout with melanoma.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; cancer; election; electionpresident; healthcare; lancearmstrong; malignantrino; mcbama; mccain; mccainlist; mccaintruthfile; mcqueeg; mcrino; mcstrawberries; rino; rinocancer; socialist; traitor
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McCain is part of the RINO cancer that's running amok within the GOP.
1 posted on 07/24/2008 10:05:33 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
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Eeeee. McCain really wants to lose this election, doesn't he? Between stupid gaffes (showcasing his dementia), whining about Obama and the media, poking conservatives in the eye, pandering to La Raza, and reminding voters about his cancer...

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2 posted on 07/24/2008 10:07:38 PM PDT by rabscuttle385 ("When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat." Ronald Reagan)
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You sure seem to complain more against McCain than obama..

Agenda?


3 posted on 07/24/2008 10:07:40 PM PDT by MartinStyles
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I'm done with McCain bashing. Either you vote for him or Obama wins. You decide.
4 posted on 07/24/2008 10:08:22 PM PDT by originalbuckeye
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They want obama to win. There’s a good sized obama fan base on here that wants to bash McCain to death, and this is a clear example.

The MSM does it, so do these anti-McCain obama lovers.


5 posted on 07/24/2008 10:10:42 PM PDT by MartinStyles
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To: MartinStyles
Agenda?

Obsessive to the point of being sickening.

6 posted on 07/24/2008 10:10:59 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (My 80 percent friend is not my enemy. Ronald Reagan)
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To: Graybeard58

Either obama is paying them or McCain did nasty things to their grandmothers.

I can’t figure it out. These people aren’t conservatives to support obama.. And they fight like hellcats against any notion that McCain just may be a reasonable Republican.


7 posted on 07/24/2008 10:14:42 PM PDT by MartinStyles
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To: Graybeard58

And whatever you want to say about McCain.. he is a war hero.


8 posted on 07/24/2008 10:16:08 PM PDT by ConservativeMan55
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To: rabscuttle385

Obama: Oh, he’s just playing politics, blah blah blah blah ....


9 posted on 07/24/2008 10:17:04 PM PDT by InvisibleChurch (the opposite of anything is holiness)
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To: ConservativeMan55

Who’d have thought you’d see ‘conservatives’ stooping to this level of health attack?

I’ve about seen it all by the McCain haters/obama lovers.

It’s unreal


10 posted on 07/24/2008 10:17:14 PM PDT by MartinStyles
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To: MartinStyles

I am not overly fond of McCain either but I don’t feel compelled to bash him post after post after post and I will most likely vote for him, the alternative is obama.


11 posted on 07/24/2008 10:17:18 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (My 80 percent friend is not my enemy. Ronald Reagan)
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To: MartinStyles

Ehh..rabscuttle is consistent, but to bash the guy when talks about surviving Cancer (twice) seems...borderline psychotic.


12 posted on 07/24/2008 10:19:29 PM PDT by padre35 (Conservative in Exile/ Romans 10.10/Eze 11.2)
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This is not exactly a winning tactic.

I kinda thought Mr. McCain might have a sense of tactical awareness, considering his background.

He just keeps giving the OPFOR enough cannon fodder to last two or three lifetimes.

The libs will use this and anything else that he hands to them against him.

I hope there is someone out there in campaign adviser land that will clue this candidate in as to what is a negative scoring as opposed to a positive scoring statement!

Geeze, he needs to realize that there are certain things, when mentioned, that will bring down your popularity faster than a lead balloon with an anchor attached to it!

I mean GEEZE already!

13 posted on 07/24/2008 10:19:58 PM PDT by R_Kangel (`.`)
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To: MartinStyles

McCain did nasty things to my state.


14 posted on 07/24/2008 10:20:43 PM PDT by donna (The Latino community holds the election in its hands. -Barack Hussein Obama)
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To: MartinStyles

The agenda is usually just getting attention here on FR.


15 posted on 07/24/2008 10:20:56 PM PDT by roses of sharon ( (Who will be McCain's maverick?))
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To: MartinStyles

They were around here in 2004 and 2006, too. I haven’t decided whether they’re just zealots or infiltrated trolls working to “divide and conquer.”


16 posted on 07/24/2008 10:21:16 PM PDT by JennysCool
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To: roses of sharon

I think you have the correct answer.


17 posted on 07/24/2008 10:21:47 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (My 80 percent friend is not my enemy. Ronald Reagan)
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To: rabscuttle385

You must miss the Clintons.


18 posted on 07/24/2008 10:21:49 PM PDT by InABunkerUnderSF ("Gun Control" is not about the guns. "Illegal Immigration" is not about the immigration)
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To: JennysCool

They were around in 92 too, I remember the Perot types VERY clearly.


19 posted on 07/24/2008 10:21:59 PM PDT by MartinStyles
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To: donna

lol


20 posted on 07/24/2008 10:22:21 PM PDT by ConservativeMan55
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