cbc5g
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Tue Jun-03-08 04:57 PM
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McCains speech tonight: "I'm the real agent of change!!" |
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Edited on Tue Jun-03-08 04:57 PM by cbc5g
Drudge claims McCain will have a speech tonight and "start" his campaign against Obama.
EXCLUSIVE: MCCAIN SPEECH TONIGHT: THE GENERAL ELECTION BEGINS Tue Jun 03 2008 17:04:27 ET
John McCain will launch his general election campaign against Barack Obama tonight at 9:00 in New Orleans, Louisiana. In a speech that will praise Senator Clinton for her "tenacity and courage," McCain will recognize Obama as the Democratic party's presumptive nominee.
EXCERPT:
You will hear from my opponent’s campaign in every speech, every interview, every press release that I’m running for President Bush’s third term. You will hear every policy of the President described as the Bush-McCain policy. Why does Senator Obama believe it’s so important to repeat that idea over and over again? Because he knows it’s very difficult to get Americans to believe something they know is false. So he tries to drum it into your minds by constantly repeating it rather than debate honestly the very different directions he and I would take the country. But the American people didn’t get to know me yesterday, as they are just getting to know Senator Obama. They know I have a long record of bipartisan problem solving. They’ve seen me put our country before any President -- before any party -- before any special interest -- before my own interest. They might think me an imperfect servant of our country, which I surely am. But I am her servant first, last and always. ….
I disagreed strongly with the Bush administration’s mismanagement of the war in Iraq. I called for the change in strategy that is now, at last, succeeding where the previous strategy had failed miserably. I was criticized for doing so by Republicans. I was criticized by Democrats. I was criticized by the press. But I don’t answer to them. I answer to you. And I would be ashamed to admit I knew what had to be done in Iraq to spare us from a defeat that would endanger us for years, but I kept quiet because it was too politically hard for me to do. No ambition is more important to me than the security of the country I have defended all my adult life.
Senator Obama opposed the new strategy, and, after promising not to, voted to deny funds to the soldiers who have done a brilliant and brave job of carrying it out. Yet in the last year we have seen the success of that plan as violence has fallen to a four year low; Sunni insurgents have joined us in the fight against al Qaeda; the Iraqi Army has taken the lead in places once lost to Sunni and Shia extremists; and the Iraqi Government has begun to make progress toward political reconciliation.
None of this progress would have happened had we not changed course over a year ago. And all of this progress would be lost if Senator Obama had his way and began to withdraw our forces from Iraq without concern for conditions on the ground and the advice of commanders in the field. Americans ought to be concerned about the judgment of a presidential candidate who says he’s ready to talk, in person and without conditions, with tyrants from Havana to Pyongyang, but hasn’t traveled to Iraq to meet with General Petraeus, and see for himself the progress he threatens to reverse.
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He also plans to court angry old white women who are mad that Obama took her "inevitable nomination".
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Tue Jun-03-08 04:57 PM
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1. (crowd breaks out in laughter) |
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Tue Jun-03-08 04:58 PM
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2. Change of Depends, maybe. |
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Tue Jun-03-08 05:00 PM
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4. shit. I was typing that! |
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Tue Jun-03-08 05:01 PM
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7. Great minds and all that. |
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Tue Jun-03-08 05:03 PM
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Tue Jun-03-08 04:59 PM
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3. an agent of diaper change |
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Thank you!
I'll be here all week.
:)
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Tue Jun-03-08 05:00 PM
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5. Uh, Mr. McCain, if I may? |
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:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
If this guy still had a few working brain cells - which, at this moment, is doubtful - he'd spend tonight writing his concession speech.
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Tue Jun-03-08 05:01 PM
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6. That worked out so well when Clinton tried it |
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Tue Jun-03-08 05:02 PM
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8. Here's our Official Agent of Change photo |
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Put it on every billboard in every city he tries to spew this crap.
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Tue Jun-03-08 05:02 PM
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9. Voted 100% with Bush in 2008 and 95% of the time in 2007 |
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Boy, that's some real change.
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Tue Jun-03-08 06:10 PM
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24. Curious...Do you have links to those stats? |
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I don't want to be hostile at all to you, but if they're true, they'd be damn handy to show to a few on-the-fence'ers come the GE. :evilgrin:
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Wed Jun-04-08 09:20 AM
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Tue Jun-03-08 05:04 PM
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11. zzzzzzzzzzz zzzzzzzzzzzzz |
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and he puts the entire city to sleep. GO GET HIM OBAMA!
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Tue Jun-03-08 05:05 PM
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12. His whole first paragraph is about how he's not like Bush even though he voted 100% with him |
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And that Dems will claim he's Bush and Americans "know its not true". ROFL. McCain better pray that Fox News and Drudge run this years MSM like in 2004.
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Tue Jun-03-08 05:07 PM
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13. Yes, he changes living people to dead people. |
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Tue Jun-03-08 05:09 PM
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14. LMAO. Someone who has been in Washington. 30 yrs is calling himself a change agent. |
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Obama should blast the shit out him
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Tue Jun-03-08 05:14 PM
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15. Obama really needs to use the Bush Line" "He can run but he can't hide" |
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Tue Jun-03-08 05:53 PM
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Tue Jun-03-08 05:59 PM
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17. Nice try, you angry old fuck. |
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Co-opting your opponent's message is just going to expose you for the disgusting flip-flopper you are.
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Tue Jun-03-08 06:02 PM
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If so he's in worse trouble than I thought.
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Tue Jun-03-08 06:05 PM
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Tonight would be a good night for him to concede.
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Tue Jun-03-08 06:06 PM
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20. Evidentl;y he is the Secret agent of change |
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disguising himself as rigid non-moving mass of political concrete while actually being a liberal cheetah, swift, agile, and ready to pounce on left-wing vision of the future.
He must be good at it, because I would have never suspected a thing had this not leaked...
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Tue Jun-03-08 06:06 PM
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21. Did he yell that at a cloud? |
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Tue Jun-03-08 06:07 PM
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22. McCain as an agent of change? |
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:rofl::rofl::rofl:
Excuse me....I might keel over with laughter.
:rofl::rofl::rofl:
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Tue Jun-03-08 06:11 PM
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25. he's the agent for insanity |
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Tue Jun-03-08 06:13 PM
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26. haha .. His new preamble . I'm so different . "xerox .. xerox .. xerox .." nanannanabooboo |
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Tue Jun-03-08 06:15 PM
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27. Poor strategy on the part of the GOP |
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By telling us now what to "watch for" from Obama, they are also revealing what they fear about him.
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Wed Jun-04-08 09:22 AM
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he changes at least twice a day.
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