Seems Sen. McStain has his own links to radical groups, terrorists. Someone ask McStain about his ties to the U.S. Council for World Freedom, a group who aided rebels trying to overthrow the leftist government of Nicaragua in the 1980s. That happened to land the group in the middle of the Iran-Contra affair, which led to legal trouble with the Internal Revenue Service. The IRS revoked the charitable organization's tax exemption.

This group was created by retired Army Maj. Gen. John Singlaub and was the U.S. chapter of the World Anti-Communist League, an international organization linked to former Nazi collaborators and ultra-right-wing death squads in Central America.

McStain sat on the board of this illustrious group. Maj. Gen. Singlaub has stated publicly to reporters that he and the group certainly had the support of McStain, even though McStain now claims to have resigned in 1984, but records show him still on the board in 1985. In fact, no record at this group shows that McStain EVER resigned.

WHY ISN'T THIS TALKED ABOUT?

I say, shine the brightest light on this sleazebag! Pull all the skeletons out of his closet! Let the American people see McStain for who he really is -- the ULTIMATE Political Insider who has continually profited from his nefarious relationships with his friends.

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The Corporate Evil Empire mass media propoganda, dumbing down, psychological conditioning, brainwashing machine, that's been going on for years, of course.

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If he's this miserable following orders to run a negative campaign, just imagine how miserable he'll be if he attains the office (assuming at some point he realizes that he's not the one in charge).

As far as I can tell, Obama is seeking the office of President.

McCain is running for the position of Puppet in Chief, and will continue to be controlled by his handlers...

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Maverick, my ass.

jdfu!

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.... with negativity, since he's making no attempt to reign in his attack bitch, Palin, who has crossed a line that she's too stupid to even perceive, and is right on the precipice of openly inciting violence against anyone who disagrees with the McCain/Palin ticket's policies.

She is also carrying the race banner, by repeatedly telling her audiences that Obama "just doesn't see the world like you and me".

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What we see is what we'll get if this maverick and Sarah "Cujo" Palin somehow manage to steal this election for a trifecta.

The danger should be obvious to anyone honest about what their own senses are telling them about McCain (his dismissive gestures in their town meeting, the muttered "horseshit" -- twice -- in the first debate, telling the same lie a frozen-faced third time after Obama's put it down twice) and Palin (the golly-gosh amazement at how her remarks are received -- "Who wouldn't shout 'Kill him!'?" the simple-minded, faux-plainspoken cast of her attacks as if disbelieving that anyone could be fooled by Obama's coolness and denials).

What most disturbs me as the "record" of this campaign accumulates is how dark the stain of Rove is growing. I see the same philosophy at work as triumphed in 2000 and then throughout the next 7 years from Rove's penthouse spread in the White House:

If you tell the same lie over and over, insisting on it in chorus, they'll finally believe you in spite of themselves. This tactic must be called, over and over, somehow without descending to rudeness, or we're in for it once he's inaugurated (and she's sworn in over his incapacitated or expired body). Now and then you can see someone reporting that their statements strain the truth at best -- AP did it at least once in the past week* -- but it's still way too rare; as this article points out, the Repub ticket is largely getting a Bush-style pass from reporters and commentators alike. We need to stand up and point it out to one another, stand up on street corners and in writing and call BS on the Twisted Talk Express.

Palin's smiling, head-shaking incitements to riot over the last few days also come at a time when, for family reasons, Biden has genuinely stepped aside (not a McCain-esque "suspension" of the campaign) and left the field to Obama and other surrogates to shoot down these defamations if they dare. Perfect timing or coincidence? I say it exposes their character in a way that should doom their campaign, if only Americans can be woken up enough to vote in their own interests and for the sake of the world. We dare not put the nuclear football in this man's (and this woman's) hands.

* "But while Ayers and Obama are acquainted, the charge that they 'pal around' is a stretch of any reading of the public record. And it's simply wrong to suggest that they were associated while Ayers was committing terrorist acts" [emphasis added].

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"McCain is miserable about having to run a campaign that's antithetical to his persona".

No one forced McCain to hire the very same Karl Rove surrogates to run his campaign.

These are the same people used by George W. Bush to smear McCain, his wife and his adopted daughter.

THEY DISRESPECTED HIS WIFE AND CHILD.

MCCAIN HIRED THEM.

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The media seems unable to reconcile some past fiction of McCain with this crabby, grouchy, volatile octagenarian. Some members of the media, like McCain, are unable to move on. They prefer to see the present through some false, past recollection. No one has done more to perpetuate this myth, ( the mavericky, POW, warhero), than McCain. Sadly it has become as irrelevant and as yesterday as Carl Rove. McCain's testiness maybe more attributable to a sense of entitlement - arrangements that were made with the powerbrokers of his own party that didn't take voters into account - and have proven to be a liability. This is also a man who I believe wants to be president to fulfill a lifelong fantasy of being Commander and Cheif and who can't wait to be in a position to settle some old scores. In order for the media to see John McCain as he is, like many of the rest of us do, they need to look at his past with a modicum of objectivity.

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So many negative ways to describe McCain. Don't forget, he's a 'maverick'. That's supposed to cover all of his shortcomings. I never saw it that way. He is short tempered, angry, has a mean streak and is a liar. He can call it whatever he chooses. ANNA

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So many negative ways to describe McCain. Don't forget, he's a 'maverick'. That's supposed to cover all of his shortcomings. I never saw it that way. He is short tempered, angry, has a mean streak and is a liar. He can call it whatever he chooses. ANNA

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John McCain showed himself to be a cantankerous, nervous, egomaniacal OLD man last night. He wouldn't sit down, he paced around like a caged animal, was snippy and rude to everyone in the building except the retired Chief. He is a tired old man who does not need to be president. Someone should demand that he have a complete physical and mental examination to determine his true state of health. Melanoma aside, he is a former POW who went through H..., both physically, and mentally, he was tortured both ways, and I can't believe that it hasn't left a permanent mark on him. His physical health does not look good, and I am worried about his mental health. Make him get a very publicly open physical and mental exam by some neutral MDs that don't care who he is, just his well being.

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If McCain can't even run his campaign, how does he expect to run a country with over 300 million more people in it than his campaign has?

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