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jdsport8 says:
I used to like McCain, but now he's becoming kind of awkward and weird - It just seemed like he wasnt talking about things that were important...does anyone else think he just might be too old?
gweiner says:
I didn't like the format of this debate. It seemed like they were kids fighting in a sandbox complaining about who ran worse attack ads.
mstevenson says:
I was really surprised that some of the broadcasters said McCain was strong in last night's debates. I felt like he was making petty accusations and spent more time defending himself, and not really even his policy - but more his feelings. Obama's right, American's don't really care about the candidates' hurt feelings right now - we have a financial crisis, uninsured citizens, a broken education system, environmental issues and natural disasters to worry about. People want to hear about solutions - not schoolyard fights.
jexa114 says:
I felt that Obama won hands down. He was able to remain calm and collected while McCain acted snide with his accusations, and then trying to get sympathy from the American public that Obama hurt his feelings. Get over it man, you put yourself in the position, let's try and talk about what's important for our country.
horns_fan_125 says:
you guys have a really good point...and ya know senior citizens do tend to act childish...and yes i did just call McCain a senior citizen...he is one
kag1234 says:
Barack Obamam is what our country needs.. we can not have 4 more years of Bush's failed policies. Joe Biden and Barack Obama together is a genius pair. Sarah Palin was a member and active at conventions of the Alaskan independence part, a party put together to make Alaska a seperate country, do we want a civil war with the vice president of the United States fighting against the U.S? The thought of Sarah Palin being a 71 year old mans heart beat away to the United States of America is troubeling, terrifying, and deadly. I want to end my comment with a stroy that I urge you to read... John McCain, the "Family Man" and "the conservative all around good guy American" has a hidden past.. please read and check the source. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1024927/The-wife-John-McCain-c....
>>>>>>McCain likes to illustrate his moral fibre by referring to his five years as a prisoner-of-war in Vietnam. And to demonstrate his commitment to family values, the 71-year-old former US Navy pilot pays warm tribute to his beautiful blonde wife, Cindy, with whom he has four children.
But there is another Mrs McCain who casts a ghostly shadow over the Senator’s presidential campaign. She is seldom seen and rarely written about, despite being mother to McCain’s three eldest children.
And yet, had events turned out differently, it would be she, rather than Cindy, who would be vying to be First Lady. She is McCain’s first wife, Carol, who was a famous beauty and a successful swimwear model when they married in 1965.
She was the woman McCain dreamed of during his long incarceration and torture in Vietnam’s infamous ‘Hanoi Hilton’ prison and the woman who faithfully stayed at home looking after the children and waiting anxiously for news.
But when McCain returned to America in 1973 to a fanfare of publicity and a handshake from Richard Nixon, he discovered his wife had been disfigured in a terrible car crash three years earlier. Her car had skidded on icy roads into a telegraph pole on Christmas Eve, 1969. Her pelvis and one arm were shattered by the impact and she suffered massive internal injuries.
When Carol was discharged from hospital after six months of life-saving surgery, the prognosis was bleak. In order to save her legs, surgeons
had been forced to cut away huge sections of shattered bone, taking with it her tall, willowy figure. She was confined to a wheelchair and was forced to use a catheter.
Through sheer hard work, Carol learned to walk again. But when John McCain came home from Vietnam, she had gained a lot of weight and bore little resemblance to her old self.
Today, she stands at just 5ft4in and still walks awkwardly, with a pronounced limp. Her body is held together by screws and metal plates and, at 70, her face is worn by wrinkles that speak of decades of silent suffering.
For nearly 30 years, Carol has maintained a dignified silence about the accident, McCain and their divorce. But last week at the bungalow where she now lives at Virginia Beach, a faded seaside resort 200 miles south of Washington, she told The Mail on Sunday how McCain divorced her in 1980 and married Cindy, 18 years his junior and the heir to an Arizona brewing fortune, just one month later. <<<<<<<
tays_1gurl says:
I agree that McCain is too old to be running.He's at risk for too many health issues to be trying run the country right now.
2ctheocean says:
I agree with tays-1gurl. I think that Obama is at the perfect age to run and has some great ideas as well.
dwelley says:
I agree with what you said, but Obama was also on the defensive and many of the acriminating things that McCain said, were not disputed by Obama so thats why i believe he won
ECO says:
I used think that when Mccain would do the debates with Obama maybe someday he might actually come out on top. But unlike my expectations he did not. Now it is up to America to choose and I really hope they choose wisely. If they don't we will end up in a twist of lies and government scandals. Then at that interesting time you will begin to wonder what else would happen if John Mccain becomes the president of the USA.
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I used to like McCain, but now he's becoming kind of awkward and weird - It just seemed like he wasnt talking about things that were important...does anyone else think he just might be too old?
I didn't like the format of this debate. It seemed like they were kids fighting in a sandbox complaining about who ran worse attack ads.
I was really surprised that some of the broadcasters said McCain was strong in last night's debates. I felt like he was making petty accusations and spent more time defending himself, and not really even his policy - but more his feelings. Obama's right, American's don't really care about the candidates' hurt feelings right now - we have a financial crisis, uninsured citizens, a broken education system, environmental issues and natural disasters to worry about. People want to hear about solutions - not schoolyard fights.
I felt that Obama won hands down. He was able to remain calm and collected while McCain acted snide with his accusations, and then trying to get sympathy from the American public that Obama hurt his feelings. Get over it man, you put yourself in the position, let's try and talk about what's important for our country.
you guys have a really good point...and ya know senior citizens do tend to act childish...and yes i did just call McCain a senior citizen...he is one
Barack Obamam is what our country needs.. we can not have 4 more years of Bush's failed policies. Joe Biden and Barack Obama together is a genius pair. Sarah Palin was a member and active at conventions of the Alaskan independence part, a party put together to make Alaska a seperate country, do we want a civil war with the vice president of the United States fighting against the U.S? The thought of Sarah Palin being a 71 year old mans heart beat away to the United States of America is troubeling, terrifying, and deadly. I want to end my comment with a stroy that I urge you to read... John McCain, the "Family Man" and "the conservative all around good guy American" has a hidden past.. please read and check the source. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1024927/The-wife-John-McCain-c....
>>>>>>McCain likes to illustrate his moral fibre by referring to his five years as a prisoner-of-war in Vietnam. And to demonstrate his commitment to family values, the 71-year-old former US Navy pilot pays warm tribute to his beautiful blonde wife, Cindy, with whom he has four children.
But there is another Mrs McCain who casts a ghostly shadow over the Senator’s presidential campaign. She is seldom seen and rarely written about, despite being mother to McCain’s three eldest children.
And yet, had events turned out differently, it would be she, rather than Cindy, who would be vying to be First Lady. She is McCain’s first wife, Carol, who was a famous beauty and a successful swimwear model when they married in 1965.
She was the woman McCain dreamed of during his long incarceration and torture in Vietnam’s infamous ‘Hanoi Hilton’ prison and the woman who faithfully stayed at home looking after the children and waiting anxiously for news.
But when McCain returned to America in 1973 to a fanfare of publicity and a handshake from Richard Nixon, he discovered his wife had been disfigured in a terrible car crash three years earlier. Her car had skidded on icy roads into a telegraph pole on Christmas Eve, 1969. Her pelvis and one arm were shattered by the impact and she suffered massive internal injuries.
When Carol was discharged from hospital after six months of life-saving surgery, the prognosis was bleak. In order to save her legs, surgeons
had been forced to cut away huge sections of shattered bone, taking with it her tall, willowy figure. She was confined to a wheelchair and was forced to use a catheter.
Through sheer hard work, Carol learned to walk again. But when John McCain came home from Vietnam, she had gained a lot of weight and bore little resemblance to her old self.
Today, she stands at just 5ft4in and still walks awkwardly, with a pronounced limp. Her body is held together by screws and metal plates and, at 70, her face is worn by wrinkles that speak of decades of silent suffering.
For nearly 30 years, Carol has maintained a dignified silence about the accident, McCain and their divorce. But last week at the bungalow where she now lives at Virginia Beach, a faded seaside resort 200 miles south of Washington, she told The Mail on Sunday how McCain divorced her in 1980 and married Cindy, 18 years his junior and the heir to an Arizona brewing fortune, just one month later. <<<<<<<
I agree that McCain is too old to be running.He's at risk for too many health issues to be trying run the country right now.
I agree with tays-1gurl. I think that Obama is at the perfect age to run and has some great ideas as well.
I agree with what you said, but Obama was also on the defensive and many of the acriminating things that McCain said, were not disputed by Obama so thats why i believe he won
I used think that when Mccain would do the debates with Obama maybe someday he might actually come out on top. But unlike my expectations he did not. Now it is up to America to choose and I really hope they choose wisely. If they don't we will end up in a twist of lies and government scandals. Then at that interesting time you will begin to wonder what else would happen if John Mccain becomes the president of the USA.