Cindy McCain: Attack Dog?
Wednesday, October 08, 2008 at 4:00 pm
Cindy McCain, wife of Sen. John McCain, has long played a supportive role on the campaign trail. She frequently introduces him, praises his record and appeals to female voters to support him. However, in the last couple of days, she has taken on the role of attack dog.
Yesterday, before the presidential debate in Nashville, she accused Sen. Barack Obama, somewhat hyperbolically, of running “the dirtiest campaign in American history.”
Introducing her husband today at a McCain-Palin campaign rally in Bethlehem, Pa., the normally soft-spoken McCain blasted Obama for failing to support the troops in Iraq.
From Politico:
Amie Parnes reports from a McCain speech in Pennsylvania that Cindy McCain again went after Obama directly today, and accuses him, more or less, of endangering her son’s life.
“The day that Sen. Obama cast a vote to not to fund my son when he was serving sent a cold chill through my body, let me tell you,” she said. “I would suggest Sen. Obama change shoes with me for just one day. I suggest he take a day and go watch our men and women deploying.”
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has become Sen. McCain’s vehicle of choice for attacking Obama on his ties to former Weatherman William Ayers.
Now his wife is attacking Obama’s patriotism and campaign tactics.
McCain has done neither. It seems the McCain campaign is using the two women to make claims that the Republican presidential nominee is unwilling to make.
Are McCain’s strategists attempting to capitalize on the fact that the Obama campaign can’t easily hit back at Cindy McCain without looking like jerks?
Again, does McCain’s unwillingness to “go there” himself tell us something about how he views the legitimacy of these attacks?
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Comment posted October 8, 2008 @ 3:06 pm
Cindy's husband also voted against troop funding, when the bill included a timetable for withdrawal, as Obama has repeatedly pointed out. Did she get a chill that day, too?
Cindy recently whined that Obama has run “the dirtiest campaign in history”. Is she high? AGAIN?
If Dems were like Repubs, Cindy's opiate addiction, thefts, and adultery, as well as her father's racketeering conviction, would be brought up in every ad, every interview and every speech.
While the media frothed at the mouth about Michelle Obama's 'anger', the nonexistent 'whitey' video, her 'first time I'm proud to be an American' gaffe, Cindy McCain smugly weighed in with, “I've ALWAYS been proud of MY country!”
The second Mrs. McCain has been treated with kid gloves by the MSM. Her criminal and immoral behavior has not been mentioned once by a major news outlet in this election cycle.
If Michelle Obama was an admitted opiate addict and thief, an adulteress and a home-wrecker, and her father had been convicted on racketeering charges, can you imagine the media bloodbath that would have ensued?
I have a question for Cindy McCain: Were you really 'proud of your country' when you were stealing drugs?
Comment posted October 8, 2008 @ 9:05 pm
I wonder why she left out the fact that McCain voted against funding veterans and that he got a D rating from Veterans.
Comment posted October 9, 2008 @ 5:27 am
Cindy McCain has no right to say such things about Obama and voting against funding for troops when her own husband and father of her son did the same thing. They have said so many awful things about Senator Obama. Is he to blame that his children are too young to serve in Iraq? Is he to blame that he was too young to go to Vietnam? Who is Cindy McCain? How in the world does she know how the rest of us live? Is her background spotless? Look at Sara Palin. She is under investigation at this very moment. The last debate and the PA speeches brought tears to my eyes. Especially, the debate. John McCain, in a tirade, pointed his finger Obama's way and referred to him as a “That.” It made me think of a scene from “To Kill a Mockingbird.” Here Senator Obama sat while this man put him down as though he wan an unequal. The word that indicates a “Thing”. Nobody, including Obama, wants to use a race issue here. However, it sure looked like it during that debate. How dare anyone refer to a US Senator as “That”. He is a man just like McCain and should be recognized as one. It was heartbreaking and I am a 61 year old white woman from suburbia.
Comment posted October 9, 2008 @ 6:36 am
McCain “has been running a seamy campaign originally designed by the bad seed of conservative politics, Lee Atwater. Atwater relished teaching rich, white Republicans to feign a connection to the common man so they could get in office and economically undermine the common man.:” (1) However, McCain's biggest problem has been his poor judgment in picking Sarah Palin!
McCain's fear is that “the Evangelical swoon for Palin could fade if it turned out that they were aware that she continued to hold fast to Pentecostal practices and beliefs. Palin's most consistent religious home has been the Pentecostal church of her youth. Though her family left the Wasilla Assembly of God in 2002, just before she launched her campaign for lieutenant governor, Palin has continued to return. The now-famous prayer to protect her from witchcraft took place during a visit in 2005, three years after Palin's official departure. She returned again as recently as June 2008, making reference to that earlier service and crediting the African pastor's prayer with leading to her gubernatorial victory. And when she works from the state capital, Palin attends the Juneau Christian Center, an Assemblies of God congregation. It is this Pentecostal association that most concerns and confuses the McCain campaign. As Minnery makes clear, millions of evangelicals have accepted Palin because of her membership in a Bible church. But there is no denying that mainstream Evangelicals and Pentecostals, while political allies on many social issues, have historically had significant tensions over theological differences.”
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,859…
Then there is also: “PALINS' UN-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES! Imagine if the Obamas had hooked up with a violently anti-American group in league with the government of IRAN!
Oct. 7, 2008 | “My government is my worst enemy. I'm going to fight them with any means at hand.” The quote is from Joe Vogler, the raging anti-American who founded the Alaska Independence Party. Inconveniently for Palin, that's the very same secessionist party that her husband, Todd, belonged to for seven years and that she sent a shout-out to as Alaska governor earlier this year. (“Keep up the good work,” Palin told AIP members. “And God bless you.”) ALSO, Palin quoted James Westbrook Pegler, a facist and racist, in the V. P. debate?”
http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/10/07…
Recently, the conservative David Brooks called Sarah Palin a cancer on the Republican party, those are harsh words! She has become an embarassment, so much so, that the unexperienced and unqualified Sarah was allowed to use Flash Cards at the debate, and yet she is too unintelligent to go on Meet the Press (like all the other Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates have all these years), or she has to have John McCain Babysit her even when she is interviewed by Fox, of all stations!
How long will the American public stand for this hoax perpetuated by Camp McCain? Because, after all, she would be a “Heart-Beat Away.”
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/08/opinion/08dow…
Comment posted October 9, 2008 @ 4:19 pm
cindy mccain needs to be in jail for getting drugs in other people's name. If I did this I would have been put in jail. She is a fake.
Comment posted October 11, 2008 @ 4:02 am
First, the pit bull needs to be chained up in the junk yard and muzzled.
Second, John McCain voted consistenly not to allow Martin Luther King Jr. day as a holiday.
John McCain defended South Carolina for flying a confederate flag over their capitol.
John McCain appointed a racist pit bull who can't tell the truth as his running mate.
The media shouldn't be focussing on Obama's acquaintance with Ayers, but McCain's ties to Hitler (yes they were both alive at the same time) and with the KKK.
Third, now they are letting Barbie Doll speak because the first two keep getting in so much trouble. This should be interesting.
Comment posted October 11, 2008 @ 11:02 am
First, the pit bull needs to be chained up in the junk yard and muzzled.
Second, John McCain voted consistenly not to allow Martin Luther King Jr. day as a holiday.
John McCain defended South Carolina for flying a confederate flag over their capitol.
John McCain appointed a racist pit bull who can't tell the truth as his running mate.
The media shouldn't be focussing on Obama's acquaintance with Ayers, but McCain's ties to Hitler (yes they were both alive at the same time) and with the KKK.
Third, now they are letting Barbie Doll speak because the first two keep getting in so much trouble. This should be interesting.
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