Posted on 10/18/2008 9:54:02 AM PDT by StAntKnee
"McCain is a classy man. He pulled it off with elegance and wit, without coming off as petulent or condescending. It is so refreshing to hear a politician admit "I screwed up." My heart skipped a beat at that moment.
I have to admit that I was starting to have doubts about McCain and was leaning towards Obama. But when McCain grabbed that microphone from that anti-Obama woman and defended Obama while his own audience booed him, I began to understand why McCain is such a remarkable and very non-Washington kind of guy.
And his appearance on Letterman, and remaining graceful under Letterman's constant fire, sealed the deal for me. I like McCain. I can trust him at his word. I may disagree with him sometimes, but I can always bank on his sense of honor and sacrifice. This is the exact kind of president that America needs during these uncertain times: a man we can trust."
Posted by: mike | October 17, 2008 at 11:10 AM
In case you need reminding why he's different from O: He can actually say the words: "I screwed up."
Here:http://www.thrfeed.com/2008/10/mccain-gives-le.html
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You know, the more I see of McCain — I grudgingly have to admit I may have been wrong about him — at least character wise.
He also has that remarkable ability to surprise you. Could we have counted on anyone else to pick Sarah Palin over a more conventional choice?
I do think that perhaps we chose the wrong man in 2000. McCain has demonstrated that he is more of a fighter than GWB ever has been. He also has not been ‘bred’ for the Presidency unlike some.
McCain is the best man to be POTUS. I can understand John Cleese’s concerns about Sarah Palin, but that doesn’t change the fact that McCain is a man of proven integrity, honour and courage. Exactly the kind of man who should be president, as long as he doesn’t die in office and leave Mrs ‘Soccor Mom’ in charge....
My BIL sums it up by saying McCain is a gentleman. IMO Our society has forgotten what a true gentleman is.
Yeah, screw the policies of each candidate. The touchy-feely crap is much more important when electing a President.
McCain’s 15 minutes at the Alfred Smith dinner the other night was nothing short of awesome. I watched it again last night and laughed just as hard. Where has this John McCain been? Reaction from the crowd towards McCain’s words and his jokes was very telling. Obama and his boys have not won this thing. They may want to put that order for the drapes on hold for a while.
The ability to admit you made a mistake rather than realising it but ploughing on regardless is not a quality worth considering?
What was said about Palin?
I do believe she is not ready to be president, but I do believe she is free of the scum that makes a Washington insider. Perhaps four years of service will make her a better leader.
I'm not saying that, but it isn't the only reason to vote for someone. Anybody can say they're sorry, but do they mean it? I believe McCain to be a sincere man. Obama could say he's sorry too, and many folks would believe him, yet there would be no sincerity in it. McCain has always been a gentleman when dealing with his opponents, and he's taken his knocks because of it over the years. I don't think I could ever be as gracious as he has been and he deserves alot of credit for it. But whoever wrote that blog entry is an empty-headed moron. Deciding who to vote for simply because they can say they're sorry is just as bad as voting for someone because they're black or goodlooking. It's a shallow reason.
This honesty and love of country has been McCain’s character for a very long time, and he has proved it under “24”-like conditions. I agree: it was disarming for him to go on Letterman, humorously deflect all of Letterman’s little jabs, and say “I screwed up.” What the hell is there for Letterman to say after that??
I was going to vote for McCain. I’m actually starting to like him now too.
To ohiogrammy, from an Okie greatgrampaw:
I'll take Sarah over the UberMessiah Obamarama any day in the week as the President of the United States.
And twice on Sundays.
It’s funny that you say that. I supported McCain in the 2000 primaries. I had to get over an instinctive dislike of Bush when he became our nominee, because he reminded me exactly of the frat boys I refused to date in college. Not that I felt that was a fair assessment of mine, but I had to push past it. Once he won, I was extremely grateful that when the TV announced the President was to speak, it was not Bill Clinton any more. (And not Al Gore, either.) And it seemed that Bush handled 9/11 very well. But he’s let us down a lot over the last 8, and one wonders what the world would have been like if McCain won the first time.
Sarah has not been brainwashed and biased in HARVARD .
She could completly refresh the US political class if she stays HERSELF.
OSABAMA is already roten with a scary background.
She is not!
In the meantime, I'm adding "I like pie, do you like pie?" to my list of eternal stump noises.
Along with My Friends and That's just not true.
I have a suspicion that John Cleese is not going to be FR’s favourite python when they see this.
Don’t agree with what he says about voting Obama though, McCain is the best man for the job, but what he says about Palin is fair comment IMHO....
When he started in about our stupidity of voting Bush in twice I had to stop. Look at our other choice, Kerry! Oh please
As for Sarah, I do think she could be president someday, I just don’t think she is ready, nor is BO.
She is a heckuva lot more ready than Obumbly.
The media has driven home THEIR point of her not being ready. They have people buying into it.
Those stupid asinine interviews by dumb and dumber made me sick. I mean come on asking about stuff that most normal people do not even know. It was like she was being given a test for citizenship or something.
Bottom line is I see and hear a woman with a quick wit who is fast on her feet when confronted with issues. We need leaders who are in tuned instead of out of touch.
Her leadership has been proven already through her handling of all the garbage thrown at her. She sure did not react all childish like Obama has.
His conspiracy theory about George H. W. Bush's role in his son's election was new to me--I never realized the first Bush was in charge of the secret police.
She has more executive experience with two years as governor than all three of the Senators in the race combined.
In the past 200 years, were there any good presidents who came directly from the Senate? Of the ones who did, it looks like their major accomplishment as president was dying in office.
| President | Major Jobs Before the Presidency | Jobs After the Presidency |
| George Washington | surveyor, planter, general of the Army of the United Colonies | planter, lieutenant-general of all the U.S. armies |
| John Adams | schoolteacher, lawyer, diplomat, vice president under Washington | writer |
| Thomas Jefferson | writer, inventor, lawyer, architect, governor of Virginia, secretary of state under Washington, vice president under Adams | writer, gentleman farmer, rector at the University of Virginia |
| James Madison | lawyer, political theorist, U.S. congressman, secretary of state under Jefferson | rector at the University of Virginia |
| James Monroe | soldier, lawyer, U.S. senator, governor of Virginia | writer, regent at the University of Virginia |
| John Quincy Adams | lawyer, diplomat, professor, U.S. senator, secretary of state under Monroe | U.S. representative from Massachusetts |
| Andrew Jackson | soldier, U.S. congressman, U.S. senator, governor of Florida | gentleman farmer |
| Martin Van Buren | lawyer, U.S. senator, governor of New York, vice president under Jackson | activist for Free Soil Party |
| William Henry Harrison | soldier, diplomat, U.S. congressman, U.S. senator from Ohio | died in office |
| John Tyler | lawyer, U.S. congressman, U.S. senator, vice president under Harrison | lawyer, chancellor of the College of William and Mary, member of the Confederate House of Representatives |
| James Knox Polk | lawyer, U.S. congressman, governor of Tennessee | died 103 days after leaving office |
| Zachary Taylor | soldier | died in office |
| Millard Fillmore | lawyer, U.S. congressman, vice president under Taylor | rogue political activist, chancellor of the University of Buffalo |
| Franklin Pierce | lawyer, soldier, U.S. congressman, U.S. senator from New Hampshire | gentleman farmer |
| James Buchanan | lawyer, U.S. congressman, U.S. senator, U.S. secretary of state | writer |
| Abraham Lincoln | postmaster, lawyer, U.S. congressman from Illinois | died in office |
| Andrew Johnson | tailor, U.S. congressman, governor of Tennessee, U.S. senator from Tennessee, vice president under Lincoln | U.S. senator from Tennessee |
| Ulysses Simpson Grant | U.S. Army general | political activist, writer |
| Rutherford Birchard Hayes | lawyer, soldier, U.S. congressman, governor of Ohio | education activist, president of the National Prison Reform Association |
| James Abram Garfield | schoolteacher, soldier, U.S. representative from Ohio | died in office |
| Chester Alan Arthur | schoolteacher, lawyer, tariff collector, vice president under Garfield | lawyer |
| Grover Cleveland | sheriff, lawyer, mayor, governor of New York | reelected president |
| Benjamin Harrison | lawyer, soldier, journalist, U.S. senator from Indiana | lawyer, lecturer |
| William McKinley | soldier, lawyer, U.S. congressman, governor of Ohio | died in office |
| Theodore Roosevelt | rancher, soldier, governor of New York, vice president under McKinley | hunter, writer |
| William Howard Taft | lawyer, judge, dean of the University of Cincinnati Law School, U.S. secretary of war | professor, chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court |
| Woodrow Wilson | lawyer, professor, president of Princeton University, governor of New Jersey | retired in poor health |
| Warren Gamaliel Harding | newspaper editor, U.S. senator from Ohio | died in office |
| Calvin Coolidge | lawyer, governor of Massachusetts, vice president under Harding | writer, president of the American Antiquarian Society |
| Herbert Clark Hoover | engineer, U.S. secretary of commerce | chair of the Hoover Commission on administrative reform |
| Franklin Delano Roosevelt | lawyer, governor of New York | died in office |
| Harry S. Truman | farmer, soldier, haberdasher, judge, U.S. senator, vice president under Roosevelt | writer |
| Dwight David Eisenhower | supreme commander of the Allied forces in Europe, U.S. Army chief of staff | writer |
| John Fitzgerald Kennedy | journalist, U.S. congressman, U.S. senator from Massachusetts | died in office |
| Lyndon Baines Johnson | schoolteacher, soldier, congressman, U.S. senator from Texas, vice president under Kennedy | rancher, writer |
| Richard Milhous Nixon | lawyer, U.S. congressman, U.S. senator, vice president under Eisenhower | writer |
| Gerald Rudolph Ford | lawyer, U.S. congressman, vice president under Nixon | writer |
| James Earl Carter, Jr. | peanut farmer, governor of Georgia | writer, humanitarian, Nobel-prize winning statesman |
| Ronald Wilson Reagan | movie actor, corporate spokesman, governor of California | writer |
| George Herbert Walker Bush | oil executive, U.S. congressman, U.S. ambassador to the UN, Director of CIA, vice president under Reagan | private citizen; teamed with President Clinton to form tsunami and Hurricane Katrina aid funds |
| William Jefferson Clinton | lawyer, governor of Arkansas | writer, independent ambassador; teamed with President G.H.W. Bush to form tsunami and Hurricane Katrina aid funds |
| George Walker Bush | oil executive, sport team owner, governor of Texas | — |
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