...on Letterman tonight.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/02/28/mccain.running/index.html

Quote :

"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Setting aside any doubt about his presidential aspirations, Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona announced Wednesday he would seek the GOP presidential nomination. McCain, who has had a presidential exploratory committee, made the declaration on the "Late Show with David Letterman," taped earlier Wednesday. "We are going to formally announce it in early April," John Weaver, a top adviser to McCain, told CNN. Weaver said the time and location will be announced at a later date."

Now if they will just give him the damn nomination.

2/28/2007 8:07:24 PM

Worked last time!

2/28/2007 8:11:20 PM

2/28/2007 8:13:20 PM

Thats funny. Mostly because he is a big fucking joke.

2/28/2007 8:56:42 PM

talk about a hypocrite

[Edited on February 28, 2007 at 8:59 PM. Reason : and i used to really like this guy. i would've voted for him 2000]

2/28/2007 8:59:05 PM

FLIP FLOP MOTHA FUCKA

2/28/2007 9:02:44 PM

come on, McCain

no whammies

no whammies

2/28/2007 11:33:26 PM

[stop]

3/1/2007 12:03:41 AM

Let the McCain v. McCain debate begin...

3/1/2007 12:37:11 AM

^^^^^Same here.

3/1/2007 12:38:15 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioy90nF2anI

3/1/2007 9:05:51 AM

i heard that he had sexual relations with a black woman.

3/1/2007 9:13:15 AM

Quote :

"and i used to really like this guy. i would've voted for him 2000"

I did

3/1/2007 9:19:23 AM

I liked straight talking McCain but I am not so sure about the pander to the fundies McCain.

3/1/2007 9:50:53 AM

agreed....and i feel the same way about giuliani. i liked him until the last presidential elections...he just coughed up republican talking points at every opportunity rather then doing what got him elected in the first place.

3/1/2007 10:07:17 AM

It's just too far enough to even begin to guess who the real front runners are going to be. We all know what could happen between now and primary time.

3/1/2007 10:23:38 AM

All candidates pander in order to get through the primaries. Unfortunately for McCain, the divide between libertarianesque Republicans and Christian conservatives is so wide that he looks like a hypocrite jumping back and forth to tell everybody what they want to hear.

3/1/2007 10:48:37 AM

Didn't McCain about a year ago publicly criticize Jerry Falwell for a few things then like 3 weeks later he did a speech at Liberty University?

3/1/2007 11:00:01 AM

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"All candidates pander in order to get through the primaries. "

agreed, and thats why i was so turned off by giuliani, he wasnt even running (yet) and he was doing it.

3/1/2007 11:02:59 AM

^^ yeah, he called him an "agent of intolerance" and compared him to Louis Farrakhan, but I believe it was much more than 3 weeks before he made a speech at Liberty Univ.

3/1/2007 11:19:04 AM

^^^ watch the youtube link up there

[Edited on March 1, 2007 at 11:20 AM. Reason : df]

3/1/2007 11:20:15 AM

Some interesting things from the CB site.
http://www.campusblender.com/message_topic.aspx?topic=256235&page=1

Quote :

"I would not support repeal of Roe v. Wade"

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/campaigns/wh2000/stories/mccain082499.htm

Quote :

"I do not support Roe versus Wade. It should be overturned"

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,252699,00.html

Here's a short video that contains a really quick flip flop on gay marriage.
http://movies.crooksandliars.com/Hardball-McCain-FlipFlop.wmv

[Edited on March 1, 2007 at 11:22 AM. Reason : .]

3/1/2007 11:22:01 AM

^^no sound at work but i will watch later

[Edited on March 1, 2007 at 11:22 AM. Reason : ^^]

3/1/2007 11:22:28 AM

^^He thinks Roe V Wade should be overturned, but he doesn't want to be the one to have to repeal it. What's so hard to understand about that?

[Edited on March 1, 2007 at 11:49 AM. Reason : 2]

3/1/2007 11:49:22 AM

Quote :

"Thats funny. Mostly because he is a big fucking joke. "

I'm not saying he deserves to be president, but he deserves a little more respect than that. Air force pilot from 1958-1981, Congressman from 1983-1987, senator 1987-present. This man has spent almost his entire life serving our country. I'd much rather have him in office than some rich lawyer who spent one term as senator.

3/1/2007 12:28:09 PM

I guess I'll just throw my vote away this year


I'm not voting for mccain or rudy

3/1/2007 1:12:57 PM

not voting is as good as voting for a liberal!

3/1/2007 1:34:23 PM

Good. I hope he gets through the primary but the far right is so nutty I'm sure he won't. He's the only Republican, as of now, that I'd vote for... unless McCain loses and Hillary wins the D primary, in which case I'd abstain.

[Edited on March 1, 2007 at 1:44 PM. Reason : EVERY politician flip flops..]

3/1/2007 1:42:55 PM

Right now I'm leaning towards Guiliani. But once I see everyone lay their cards on the table I might change my mind.

3/1/2007 1:46:06 PM

sucks that republicans aren't even republicans anymore

3/1/2007 2:07:00 PM

Quote :

"This man has spent almost his entire life serving our country."

I will give you his military service. That is something to be respected for.


... but the life of a congressman/senator is hardly serving one's country these days.

3/1/2007 2:17:11 PM

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"Air force pilot from 1958-1981"

Not to mention 5 1/2 years as a POW which left him with permanent disabilities. As an interesting side note, the North Vietnamese offered to let him go because his father was the Commander of the Navy's Pacific Command, but he refused. Like everyone else, I'm not saying he deserves to be President, just that he's not a joke.

3/1/2007 3:34:19 PM

I had a lot of respect for him way back when because, although I disagreed with him on a lot of stuff, he seemed like he would keep it real. The past year or so, though...yeah. Fuck that.

3/1/2007 3:45:29 PM

^^yeah, Navy pilot (not USAF)

3/1/2007 4:02:49 PM

^ thanks, I meant to type it in, not sure why it slipped my mind.

3/1/2007 4:17:51 PM

so what was your opinion of the swiftboat attacks? did you defend Kerry?

3/1/2007 6:16:21 PM

I didn't vote for him, but I thought it was kinda messed up how they threw him under the bus. It is a lot easier to support a guy with an unblemished military record over Kerry though, so I'm not sure if Kerry's military background is a good analogy.

3/1/2007 7:30:58 PM

i dont remember kerry having any bad remarks on his record

3/1/2007 8:17:36 PM

I guess its not technically on his record but I was referring to the claims made by his peers and commanders that he lied about his involvement in the war and made false accusations of war crimes. Could be bs, but it certainly doesn't strengthen his reputation as a military man.

3/1/2007 8:25:45 PM

John McCain needs to dust off his lightsaber.

He has a lot of enemies on the Dark Side to battle.

3/2/2007 12:16:05 AM

ill take a guy who had his military service lied about over a guy who skipped out on national guard duty.

3/2/2007 12:17:18 AM

well, yeah, but that only gets you through the republican primary.

then do you choose a progressive democrat or a suckup to the religious right?

3/2/2007 12:24:45 AM

he's not going to get past the republican primary. he's pissed off too many republicans in the past. unless of course the field of republicans is really pathetic in '08.

3/2/2007 10:09:06 AM

Quote :

"so what was your opinion of the swiftboat attacks? did you defend Kerry?"

I was pretty angry about it, actually. I didn't like how Kerry pretty much ran on the fact that he was a Vietnam vet . . . the whole "reporting for duty thing" was pathetic, but I definitely didn't appreciate the attacks on his service. Was it all he tried to make it out to be? Maybe, maybe not, it was definitely better than Bush's.

3/2/2007 10:16:31 AM

i thought bush criticizing anyone's military record was about the most ballsy political move i've ever seen.

3/2/2007 10:17:43 AM

Quote :

"I'm not saying he deserves to be president, but he deserves a little more respect than that. Air force pilot from 1958-1981, Congressman from 1983-1987, senator 1987-present. This man has spent almost his entire life serving our country. I'd much rather have him in office than some rich lawyer who spent one term as senator."

it may have been said, but wont he be like 72 when the election comes around?

3/2/2007 12:49:11 PM

Quote :

"ill take a guy who had his military service lied about over a guy who skipped out on national guard duty."

I thought he served the national guard, thus not having to go overseas? Ya know, national guard?

3/2/2007 1:23:41 PM

yeah bush didnt exactly flee to canada or anything

3/2/2007 1:27:10 PM

^^he went missing for a while

3/2/2007 1:30:25 PM

^^Dude, fleeing to Canada woulda been more honorable than what Bush did.

I'm not gonna harp on the fact that Bush was a punk ass rich kid because I'm a bit of a punk ass myself, but let's not pretend his "military service" was admirable in any way. That's offensive to the guys who actually did their part and made sacrifices.

3/2/2007 1:47:07 PM