McCain doesn't pick up on Michelle Obama joke

FIRST Michelle Obama said "ADULT LIFE" not her entire life SECOND: I don't know about the rest of you but the last 8 years aren't exactly something to be proud of. A war that was waged because we were lied to. Thousands of dead and wounded Americans and Iraqis. The economy in shambles. Gas prices through the roof. Global warming IGNORED. Hurricane Katrina. And this is just the short list. Maybe we should spend less time on a sentence uttered by Michelle Obama and more time educating ourselves about McCain and Obama so we don't end up with 4 more years of disaster.

Whether or not McCain "got it", he gave the correct answer. More importantly, if he did get it, he did a good job of avoiding a potentially hairy political situation which would have made much more press than this blog column. Attacking Michelle Obama is probably something that McCain's campaign wants to be careful about- especially where the candidate himself is concerned.

I took that comment of Michelle Obama as This is the first time in my adult life etc. as That this is the first time a black man has been able to run for President. Me? I am voting for Radack Obama, it time for a change in the White House.

McCain does not make sense and often takes both sides of an issue. It has become almost impossible to know what McCain stands for due to his crazy jumps from one side of an issue to another side. Here is the latest example: McCain goes wobbly on AMT repeal http://www.americablog.com/2008/06/mccain-goes-wobbly-on-amt-repeal.html#disqus_thread

Yes, please attack Michelle GOP, that will win a lot of women. /snark

willhelmina78 this is not meant to be offensive, however his name, to make sure you are not confused in the voting booth this fall, is BARACK Obama - - not Radack.

Actually, pretty classy answer, surprisingly--even if it was a mistake on McCain's part.

The GOP goon squad is out in full force today. Of course that wench Cindy McSteal-a-Husband is proud of her country. I would be too if I inherited $100 million.

Since 1983, in votes in the House and the Senate (where he has served since 1987), McCain has cast 130 votes on abortion and other reproductive-rights issues. 125 of those votes were anti-choice

Among his voting lowlights:

He has repeatedly voted to deny low-income women access to abortion care except in cases of rape, incest, or danger to the mother's life (although McCain is now wavering on trying to put these exceptions into the party platform).

He voted to shut down the Title X family-planning program, which provides millions of women with health care services ranging from birth control to breast cancer screenings.

He voted against legislation that established criminal and civil penalties for those who use threats and violence to keep women from gaining access to reproductive health clinics.

He voted to uphold the policy that bans overseas health clinics from receiving aid from America if they use their own funds to provide legal abortion services or even adopt a pro-choice position.

to Naomi at 4:30: that was the most assinine suggestion of the day. the old man doesn't get it, get it?

Yesterday, John McCain cancelled his attendance at a fundraiser with Clayton Williams, who gave the following advice to rape victims: "As long as it's inevitable, you might as well lie back and enjoy it."

McCain's campaign cited that remark as the reason for his cancellation.

But it turns out that Williams had already raised $300,000 for McCain -- and now McCain says he is keeping it all.

What he should do is take that $300,000 and donate it to a violence against women crisis and prevention center.

By taking the cash, McCain is exposing himself as a total fraud -- clearly, the only reason he cancelled the event was to avoid bad press. Will the press let Teflon John get away with another slick move?

Here are the highlights, via Campaign Money Watch: One hundred and eighteen lobbyists aiding McCain's campaign have received $496 million in lobbying contracts from domestic clients since 1998.McCain has received $1.2 million from lobbyists, their spouses, and their firm's political action committees, and his 70 lobbyist-bundlers have raised at least $4.15 million for him so far.McCain has received more than $8.9 million from his lobbyists' clients and their affiliated PACs. http://www.campaignmoney.org/mccain

McCain Flip Flopping list

*McCain pledged in February 2008 that he would not, under any circumstances, raise taxes. Specifically, McCain was asked if he is a "?read my lips? candidate, no new taxes, no matter what?" referring to George H.W. Bush?s 1988 pledge. "No new taxes," McCain responded. Two weeks later, McCain said, "I?m not making a ?read my lips? statement, in that I will not raise taxes."

* McCain is both for and against a "rogue state rollback" as a focus of his foreign policy vision.

* McCain considered and did not consider joining John Kerry?s Democratic ticket in 2004.

* In 1998, he championed raising cigarette taxes to fund programs to cut underage smoking, insisting that it would prevent illnesses and provide resources for public health programs. Now, McCain opposes a $0.61-per-pack tax increase, won?t commit to supporting a regulation bill he?s co-sponsoring, and has hired Philip Morris? former lobbyist as his senior campaign adviser.

More McCain flip flops

* McCain has changed his economic worldview on multiple occasions.

* McCain has changed his mind about a long-term U.S. military presence in Iraq on multiple occasions.

* McCain is both for and against attacking Barack Obama over his former pastor at his former church.

* McCain believes Americans are both better and worse off than they were before Bush took office.

* McCain is both for and against earmarks for Arizona.

* McCain believes his endorsement from radical televangelist John Hagee was both a good and bad idea.

* McCain?s first mortgage plan was premised on the notion that homeowners facing foreclosure shouldn?t be "rewarded" for acting "irresponsibly." His second mortgage plan took largely the opposite position.

* McCain vowed, if elected, to balance the federal budget by the end of his first term. Soon after, he decided he would no longer even try to reach that goal.

* McCain?s campaign unveiled a Social Security policy that the senator would implement if elected, which did not include a Bush-like privatization scheme. In March 2008, McCain denounced his own campaign?s policy.

* In February 2008, McCain reversed course on prohibiting waterboarding.

* McCain used to champion the Law of the Sea convention, even volunteering to testify on the treaty?s behalf before a Senate committee. Now he opposes it.

* McCain was a co-sponsor of the DREAM Act, which would grant legal status to illegal immigrants? kids who graduate from high school. Now he?s against it.

* On immigration policy in general, McCain announced in February 2008 that he would vote against his own legislation.

* In 2006, McCain sponsored legislation to require grassroots lobbying coalitions to reveal their financial donors. In 2007, after receiving "feedback" on the proposal, McCain told far-right activist groups that he opposes his own measure.

* McCain said before the war in Iraq, "We will win this conflict. We will win it easily." Four years later, McCain said he knew all along that the war in Iraq war was "probably going to be long and hard and tough."

Please, please may there be a video of this . . . it is hilarious.

MatinKos another meaningless attack story aimed at Obama's dirty campaign of "confusion". MartinKOS you will never be close to being a "Tim Russert". You just represent liberal poison in America's wolfpack press. And "this" story is my proof. MartinKOS someone should take you to court for "age discrimmination" just to make the point.

Of course he didn't get it. But, luckily, this time his "not getting it" didn't cost us thousands of young American lives and trillions of U.S. tax dollars. This is NOT the man you want making decisions for your country, your community, your family.

You have to see this video of McCain debating himself...It's a great video..Bravo to Jed Report

http://www.jedreport.com/2008/06/mccain-2005-vs.html

He is FRIKKIN DUMB

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DqR7zis99I

I can see all the Obama supporters with their hands stretched out waiting for our hard earned tax dollars to start raining down on them.

Hey dumb a*s, Bush isn't running for this election. The same way B. Hussein Obama isn't like Carter. Or is he?

Oh gee. What a shock. McDimbulb didn't catch the meaning behind a question. Wow, I'm stunned that McOldie failed to comprehend something.

Michelle, may have said "adult life", but I will say my "entire life" as I am old enough to be her mother. People should get up off of this, that man was trying to be funny and McCain, didn't get it. He is just too old and people his age sometimes have one mind set and the war is his. Bless his heart, he just needs to sit in his rocker, dip snuff and sip corn liqour (beer) all day.

"the last 8 years HAVE BEEN ALL BAD." I can see your extremism has blinded you.

Michelle is that you?

Joe Red: I don't think that a lot of people disagree with the substance of your post. I think there probably was enough intelligence about WMD to justify going into Iraq.

I suspect that the real problem is that once it became evident that there were no WMD, we stuck around...and around...and around...for over five years. Now, almost nobody believes that there were WMD there and yet we are still there five years later and I think a lot of us are wondering why.

We are resisting the idea of a 100 year occupation and we are definitely not in agreement that coming home is "not important". We would like to see the soldiers come home now.

President McCain took the high road. Now that's a president I can be proud of.

Monica's idea of a good time: sit in a rocker, dip snuff and sip corn liqour (beer) all day. Is this what you do after a hard day at the office?

The funny thing is....McCain's answer is what Michelle Obama actually meant!! McCain knows this is how many minorities feel. If it were a white face he would have answered differently. The truth comes out....

If that counts as a "joke," then it's no wonder McCain didn't get it.

The Texan, Republican Clayton "Claytie" Williams, made the joke during his failed 1990 campaign for governor against Democrat Ann Richards. Williams compared rape to the weather, saying, "As long as it's inevitable, you might as well lie back and enjoy it." He also compared Richards to the cattle on his ranch, saying he would "head her and hoof her and drag her through the dirt."

"These were obviously incredibly offensive remarks that the campaign was unaware of at the time it was scheduled," McCain spokesman Brian Rogers said. "It's positive that he did apologize at the time, but the comments are nonetheless offensive." The campaign said it would not return money Williams had raised for McCain because the contributions came from other individuals supporting McCain and not from Williams. Williams told his hometown newspaper, the Midland Reporter-Telegram, that he had raised more than $300,000 for McCain.

The company McSame keeps is pretty bad

Here are the highlights, via Campaign Money Watch: One hundred and eighteen lobbyists aiding McCain's campaign have received $496 million in lobbying contracts from domestic clients since 1998.McCain has received $1.2 million from lobbyists, their spouses, and their firm's political action committees, and his 70 lobbyist-bundlers have raised at least $4.15 million for him so far.McCain has received more than $8.9 million from his lobbyists' clients and their affiliated PACs. http://www.campaignmoney.org/mccain

I take ONE Obama to 100 McSames. You guys are pathatic!!!!!!

Anyone who could be proud of this country's government in the last decade either has stuck their head in the sand or has benfited from the terrible policies...I cant think of one thing that has happened since the fall of the Berlin wall that we could be proud of....Maybe I missed something...so could someone please enlighten me?

Beth I dont think McBarbie has brain damage...I think its drug addiction.

A little nap and he'll be sharp as ever...errr....sharp as a senior citizen with beginning dementia can be.

So, as a McCain supporter, along with I Knew A Phony, my brother in arms, I've resolved to stalk and/or harass Myra. Myra!! You're wrong! You suck! You're fake! Stop being bitter!

For the record, Myra eats babies.

Good call, SDY, good call.