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McCain Praises Pelosi, Gore And Hillary

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The get drunk folks are having a bad day to start out with- a 5 drink one to start the day!!! :wink: :lol:

So old McCain thinks Pelosi is an effective leader and an "inspiration to millions of Americans-eh :???:

And he has high praise for Al Gore and his advocacy on the issue of climate change--and thinks his plan is doable :???:

Lets see- if he drops his warmongering- and backs a health care plan and supporting the US folks over Iraq- he'd be on the same line as Obama... :wink:

I think the old boy is losing it....Age is showing...Either that or desperation has set in....But as was shown with GW- what they say while campaigning means nothing once they get in office.....

McCain extends olive branch to Pelosi, Gore
Carla Marinucci, Chronicle Political Writer


Wednesday, July 30, 2008

(07-29) 19:02 PDT — Republican Sen. John McCain, engaged in increasingly sharp attacks on rival Barack Obama, pledged that if elected president, he would work closely with Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, praising her as an effective leader and an “inspiration to millions of Americans.”

I respect Speaker Pelosi. I think she’s one of the great American success stories,”[/b] McCain said during an interview with The Chronicle prior to a fundraiser at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco.

“We talk about (New York Sen.) Hillary Clinton and her inspiration to millions of Americans. Speaker Pelosi has been an inspiration as well” in a role that is “in many ways … more powerful than the president.”

And McCain also had high praise for the 2000 Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore and his advocacy on the issue of climate change. McCain recently raised eyebrows in GOP circles by calling “doable” Gore’s suggestion that the country could become entirely energy independent through use of renewable resources within 10 years.

“I agree with his goal,” the Arizona senator said Monday of Gore’s idea. “I may disagree with all the ways of getting there. But I again want to emphasize my respect for the former vice president’s leadership on this issue and his continuous leadership. And I am in no way trying to get into a fight with him.”
Agreement on goals

McCain said that while he differs with Gore on the importance of nuclear power, “I do believe that his goals and his priorities and the visibility that he’s given the issue has been good for America and the world.”

His praise for two Democrats who are regularly in the bull’s-eye of the conservative talk radio and the right-wing blogosphere is likely to draw fire from Republican loyalists, who consider Pelosi and Gore to be the evil twins of liberalism.

“It drives the talk radio crowd nuts when McCain does not wage war on Pelosi and Gore,” said Hoover Institution media fellow Bill Whalen. McCain, he said, likely was trying to reach out to moderate and independent voters during his San Francisco visit.

Whalen said McCain’s reluctance to criticize Gore is understandable because the former vice president is not running for office. But many Republicans believe that Pelosi, who met Tuesday with Obama and Democratic Party leadership in Washington, should be squarely in McCain’s sights.
Advice to get tough

“At some point, the McCain campaign has to make Congress and the Democratic majority an issue in this campaign … it’s something McCain has to wrestle with,” Whalen said. There are three key issues at stake, he said: “The bad performance of the Congress - the reason why the approval rating is 9 to 14 percent. The second is what they want to do when Obama comes into office.” The third is the issue of divided government - whether Democrats should indeed control both houses of Congress and the White House, he said.

“He has to get rougher - and his problem in the election is the GOP brand,” especially with stories like the indictment on Tuesday of Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens, the most senior GOP senator, he said.

“You have to fight fire with fire. (He should say) if the Republican brand ain’t so hot, then what about the Democratic brand?”

But McCain’s “first instinct is not to go negative or go to the punch. He tends to pull the punch,” said Whalen. That may have to end soon, he said, because “he’s got two challenges ahead of him: Obama is hovering close to 40 to 50 percent in the polls, and has to be dragged down, and McCain is in the low 40s and has to be pumped up.”

With the campaign - one of the most exhaustive and lengthy presidential competitions in history - heading into a critical period, McCain in recent weeks has taken a sharper tone as he has been sorely challenged by both a tidal wave of attention and skillful positioning from Obama.

The Illinois senator galvanized international attention last week with a trip that included a historic address to 200,000 Germans in Berlin and meetings with leaders in Iraq, Afghanistan, Israel, France, Germany and Great Britain.

McCain has accused Obama of being willing to lose the war in Iraq in order to win his presidential campaign - a remark that has drawn criticism from critics who called it unseemly.
Pelosi’s view

Pelosi has recently pounded McCain for what she said has been an energy policy that she argued is a virtual continuation of the Bush administration’s failed efforts. The speaker appeared at a San Francisco gas station earlier this month to charge that McCain has failed to take action on ideas that will reduce the price of gas at the pump now - including cracking down on price gouging, enacting a “use it or lose it” policy for oil companies to drill on the 68 million acres of undeveloped federal oil reserves and suspending the filling of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

McCain, asked about those criticisms Monday, sidestepped the direct issue of “use it or lose it.” Although he did criticize her for failing to hold a vote on offshore oil drilling, he said he would extend a hand to work with her on a variety of critical issues.

“I promise you that I respect her,” he said, “I will sit down with her when I’m president, and will say ‘Let’s work together,’ ” he said. “If (the late House Speaker) Tip O’Neill and (President) Ronald Reagan could, then certainly John McCain and Nancy Pelosi can. … I think she’s been very effective.”

McCain also downplayed criticism from California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger - a Republican and an endorser - who dismissed the idea of lifting federal offshore oil drilling moratorium as “blowing smoke.”

“I have said the states should decide. And Gov. Schwarzenegger has made his position clear. So has Speaker Pelosi,” he said.

But he said as an added incentive to coastal states, “one of the things I would do is offer them a higher share of the revenues. There are certain budgetary problems that exist, as we all know,” he said. “It’s their coastal waters, and I would offer them more of the revenues.”

John McCain in his own words

In an interview with The Chronicle on Monday, John McCain addressed a number of issues. Among them:

On Gov. Schwarzenegger’s criticism that lifting the federal moratorium on offshore oil drilling is “blowing smoke”: “Gov. Schwarzenegger has made his position clear. … The governor of Florida has had a different position. … One of the things I would do is offer (coastal states) a higher share of the revenues. There are certain budgetary problems that exist, as we all know. It’s their coastal waters and I would offer them more of the revenues.”

On how he would handle sanctuary cities like San Francisco: “I would push for federal action to carry out a federal responsibility. And a federal responsibility is immigration. …If you have secure borders and you have a temporary worker program that has to do with tamper-proof biometric documents … you address the issue of the 12 million people who are here illegally, and you don’t have to worry about all that.”

On former Vice President Al Gore’s contention that America can be energy independent in 10 years: “I don’t think it’s doable without nuclear power. I do believe we can become energy independent, but I think it will (involve) nuclear power, wind, solar. … It requires all those things, including offshore drilling.”
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Comments of the the Get Drunk folks
For Pete’s sake.

Why is the man even running if he agrees so whole-heartedly with the kraziest kooks of the supposed opposition?

Barkeep!

5 Martoonis :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
 
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I can't believe noone has been backslapping their Champion for his praisal of Nancy and his high praise of Al Gore and his enviormental plans :???: :wink:

I got an interesting article in the e-mail today--This fellow doesn't like anything the Bush boys are doing or the policy of either Obama or McCain....

Looks to me like Obama is the more fiscally conservative- at least paying for what he wants to spend on the US infrastructure and to the benefit of US folks ---rather than nationbuilding in Iraq or wherever and putting those costs on the debt of our children and grandchildren....

Meanwhile, Paulson and most members of Congress apparently feel that increasing the size of the U.S. budget deficit and potentially burdening households with an enormous tax bill is the right thing to do — as long as that decision allows borrowers to stay in homes that they can’t afford and for privately owned home lenders such as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to forego bankruptcy.


To be more specific, the U.S. Senate on Saturday approved the most socialistic government intervention in the housing market since the 1989 response to the savings and loan crisis. It's the most egregious attempt to aid troubled borrowers since the creation of the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation in 1933.


The housing bill — since signed into law — grants the Treasury Department authority to safeguard the nation’s two mortgage finance giants, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, by spending potentially tens of billions of dollars in taxpayer funds (or government borrowings) to prevent the collapse of those publicly held companies. Now that President Bush has signed the bill, the Treasury will have the right to buy unlimited stock in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.


To accomplish its goal of bailing out the nation's home-mortgage holders, the bill also raises the national debt ceiling to $10.6 trillion — $800 billion higher than the current ceiling.


Not to be outdone in implementing irresponsible government programs, the Bush administration projected this past Monday that the U.S. federal budget deficit will widen to $482 billion next year, which would represent the highest percentage of the nation’s total output of goods and services since the last recession ended in 2001.


The significant increase in the deficit has resulted largely from the cost of funding the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, with military operations there already totaling more than $500 billion.


According to the Tax Policy Center, a non-partisan group, McCain would increase the debt by $5 trillion by 2018, while Obama would increase the federal debt by $3.4 trillion in the same time period. (Remember, Obama expects to repeal much of the George W. Bush tax cuts, while McCain would extend them. Obama's spending plans presume higher taxes will offset costs.)

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Boy the get drunk and gag down McCain boys are really going to be tipsy tonite- be a few dui's if they slurp them all down after work... :wink: :lol: This is one is good for 4 toddy's....That puts the day up to 9...... :lol: :lol:

Global warming, stem cell research, tax raises, stronger enforcement of the disabilities act, more Mexican workers...When you want to bet he puts out a Hillary style Health Care plan :???:

McCain: I Am An Unabashed Conservative
July 30th, 2008
Another one that almost got by us, from a delighted Associated Press:


McCain tries to show independence and conservatism
By BETH FOUHY, Associated Press Writer

SPARKS, Nev. - Republican presidential candidate John McCain tried to strike a balance at a town hall meeting Tuesday between the independence he boasts of and his avowed conservatism.

“As many of you know, I’ve been called a maverick, someone who marches to the beat of his own drum,” McCain said proudly before being peppered with questions on offshore oil drilling, taxes and stem cell research from a largely Republican audience that nonetheless displayed a range of ideological views…

But McCain also told a disabled woman facing home foreclosure that he would step up enforcement of the Americans With Disabilities Act and assured a self-described cancer survivor that he supported stem cell research.

That prompted local resident Doug Englekirk to tell McCain that he and other conservatives weren’t thrilled to be supporting the Arizona senator.

“There’s a lot of us voting against Obama more than anything else,” Englekirk said to McCain. “Over the years there are a lot of issues I’ve disagreed with you about, and I would like to know how do you assure me and other conservatives that you will hold to our values and give me something to be excited about?”

Many in the audience applauded.


Pressed by McCain for details, Englekirk criticized McCain’s support for immigration changes and campaign finance limits, his participation in the so-called “Gang of 14″ bipartisan compromise on the appointment of federal judges and his “falling in with the global warming crowd’s agenda.”

McCain assured Englekirk he was an “unabashed conservative”
and noted that his Gang of 14 efforts led to confirmation of a number of Bush’s judicial nominees.

“I am in keeping with the vision of one Ronald Reagan,” McCain declared.

But McCain did not back off his belief in global warming and support of alternative energy development, which is the centerpiece of his plan to revitalize the nation’s economy.

“Climate change, my friend, I have to tell you with all due respect, is real. It’s real and the question is how do we address it,”
he told Englekirk. “Suppose I’m wrong and there’s no such thing as climate change. All we’ve done is give our kids a cleaner planet. But suppose I’m right and we do nothing? Then what kind of a planet do we hand off to our kids and our grandkids?”

During a discussion of immigration policy, McCain, who once championed legislation that would have allowed illegal immigrants to remain as guest workers, toggled between the views of angry voters on both sides.

One farmer, near tears, told him she could not get enough workers to pick olives and citrus in her family’s groves.

“The only able-bodied pickers we can get are from Mexico,” she said to loud boos.

McCain insisted he believed border security was paramount, a remark that drew loud cheers. But said he understood the woman’s dilemma, promising to “deal with a temporary worker program … so that a temporary worker is truly temporary.”

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The get drunk and gag 4 McCain folks call this a 4 martooni article:

If Mr. McCain is trying to show his independence from conservatism — and even rational thinking — he is doing a bang up job.

In fact he sounds “abashed” all to hell
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