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McCain Palin present themselves as reformers?

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CEDARBURG, Wis. (AP) -- John McCain said Friday the sagging economy has brought "tough times all over America" as he made a splashy debut with Sarah Palin in critical Midwestern states as the newly crowned Republican presidential ticket.

A crowd of thousands cheered the Arizona senator and Alaska governor as they presented themselves as a team of reformers eager to challenge Washington's political establishment.

"John McCain doesn't run with the Washington herd," said Palin, the 44-year-old Alaska governor and surprise pick as McCain's running mate.

"It's over. It's over. It's over for the special interests," McCain promised. "We're going to start working for the people of this country."

Twelve hours after leaving the Republican convention in Minnesota, McCain and Palin were cheered and applauded by a throng of thousands that wound down several streets of Cedarburg, a traditional Republican enclave within Democratic-leaning Wisconsin.

McCain's campaign put out an ambitious estimate of 12,400 people at the rally. Cedarburg's population is about 11,000.

"Isn't this the most marvelous running mate in the history of this nation?" McCain said of Palin, who introduced him as "the only great man in this race, the only man in this election ready to serve as our 44th president."

Two months before the election, small towns are a key target for McCain as he tries to lure independent and blue-collar voters essential for him to win.
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    • I listended to Mccains speech, here is what I personally viewed and learned...

      The man McCain is from a long lineage of warriors. His ancestry was resolute with war.
      Hence the man was born into war. He runs his campaign as war is his touchstone to the people!

      Born, raised and winding his life through in and about war, he tells his story...

      It does not seem to matter to him that the Vietnam War in which he served, was an imperialistic national blunder to "stop communism from taking over the world!"
      The pro war hype of that era would have the nation believe we were in grave danger- "fear" was once again the guiding light!

      I was there as a young boy. I witnessed this abomination of our nation going into war- “stop the communists, they are taking over the world!” That was the word of the day. "The domino effect will..."

      McCain, even to this day feels betrayed by the American peace movement as to why the Vietnam war was lost. This is familiar ground for the war culture that now has manifest itself in the Iraq War!
      A war that McCain said we needed and voted for!

      Yet another war that will go down historically as a political assignation of our constitution and our cultural beliefs!
      Another huge loss of national equity and our beloved youth all because of political ego and the lack of political wisdom!

      Wars are won or lost by the rightness of the participants! This is something viably important that McCain and conservatives don't grasp!

      As our nations history goes we have never lost a war when we were right but now we have lost wars because we were ideologically wrong! It's not just about military strength- its about wisdom and justice!

      McCains campaign, and his video bio are sequenced within his life of war.

      Service and gratitude of and for his country is based on his war experience.

      His biography finally sequences into his career as an AZ. senator.
      Twenty-six years of senatorial time are blurred into nothingness!

      His voting record parallels the GOP- a 10% difference from the GOP is supposed to define his presidency, and his given name the “Maverick?”
      His record cannot be hidden, his ideology is full of contradiction- flip flops!

      President Bush said, “Im the War president, Im the War president!”
      It most definitely seems there is another one named John McCain following in the wings!
      I truly hope he is not the one!

      McCain says he's different then Bush, he's not the same!
      Yet who was in the program directors chair off the convention stage as though he were directing the entire RNC proceeding?

      Karl Rove!
      McCain is the same as Bush- divisive, self-righteous, a fist-swinger with no answers for change from the destitude that his own party has created!

    • 3 years ago
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