McCain announces Florida events
UPDATE: Hillsborough County Commissioner Mark Sharpe and the McCain Tampa Leadership Team will host the grand opening of John McCain's new Tampa headquarters at 12:30 p.m. at 124 Platt Street (Corner of Bayshore Blvd. & Platt St.).
The McCain campaign has announced five Florida fundraising events. They are: Monday in Jacksonville at 5 p.m. at the Mussallem Galleries; Wednesday at the Boca Raton Hotel & Club at 5 p.m. (tickets: $2,300); Thursday at the West Palm Beach offices of Smith & Ballard at 9:30 a.m.(tickets $2,300); Friday in Coral Gables at 7 p.m. at the Kadre residence (tickets: $2,300); and Jan. 29 in Tampa at noon at The Tampa Club (tickets: $1,000).
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but.............
johnnie will neverever be able to tell us what "victory" in vietraq looks like because it is impossible to "win" a war on another countrys soil, half a world away, with minimal forces and a local population hostile to the invading forces.
ask the british regarding the war for independence, to name only one example out of manymany!
but we can count on a large number of stupidheads actually believing him!
idiots!!!!
Posted by: | January 18, 2008 at 07:21 PM
Notice the price on Jacksonville where the Navy is... no $2300 entrance fee. Pandering extraordinaire.
Oh Johnny, you'll be 72 if you win and 80 if you serve two terms.
Time to retire gracefully.
Posted by: 80 in 2017 | January 18, 2008 at 07:53 PM
McCain may only run for 1 term
Posted by: | January 18, 2008 at 08:07 PM
John McCain is an awesome HERO-something this country doesn't have nearly enough of. He is the only person running for president who understands the incredibly dangerous situation right now in the middle east, and the only candidate who can safely navigate us through solutions. Most people don't really realize how quickly that whole area could move to a nuclear nightmare, but McCain does. There is no more important issue to us and to the world.
Posted by: | January 18, 2008 at 11:29 PM
McCain is giving Mitt a whuppin' in South Carolina!
Posted by: | January 18, 2008 at 11:31 PM
What's mitt going to do about the mid- east; hire a focus group and some lawyers to tell him what action to take?
Posted by: | January 18, 2008 at 11:32 PM
I like McCain's idea of really securing the borders. We'll never be able to send all the illegals back to where they came from but we can darn sure keep more illegals from entering!
Posted by: | January 18, 2008 at 11:34 PM
Who's bought off your politician?
Lobbyist:
Hillary Clinton......$567,950
John McCain..........$340,365
Mitt Romney..........$229,475
Rudy Giuliani........$212,100
Barack Obama.........$76,859
John Edwards.........$18,900
Commercial Banks:
Hillary Clinton......$935,568
Barack Obama.........$865,856
Mitt Romney..........$600,091
Rudy Giuliani........$598,501
John McCain..........$538,700
John Edwards.........$153,650
Oil & Gas:
Rudy Giuliani........$545,058
Mitt Romney..........$309,933
Hillary Clinton......$220,550
John McCain..........$189,935
Barack Obama.........$106,112
John Edwards.........$27,850
For a complete list: www.opensecrets.org
And what will they get for all that money? They get to write legislation like the new bankruptcy laws. They get to set our Energy policy, our Trade policies, our Immigration policies, etc.
Don't you think that it is strange there has been no effort to secure our borders since 9/11?
There is a reason why nothing gets done in Washington. As long as Big Oil can write our Energy policy we will always be dependent on foreign oil. And as long as China can set our Trade policies we'll always have record trade deficits. And as long as companies like Tyson Foods can buy off Sen. John McCain to write (& Sen. Barack Obama & Sen. Hillary Clinton among others to sign & support) legislation like the Comprehensive Immigration Reform bill, we will always have broken borders & all the drug/human trafficking that goes with it.
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Posted by: Chris Rice | January 18, 2008 at 11:52 PM
11:52-If our government did not insist on being so very regulatory of our nation's businesses, there would be no need for lobbyists or lobbying. Government itself can be blamed for causing business to try to protect its interests in the nation's capitol where no one and nothing is safe from legislators' desire to control. If we had a true free market, the marketplace would be all the regulation business needed. The point: Less regulation equals less lobbying
Posted by: | January 19, 2008 at 12:58 AM
McCain is a loyal American, and war hero. He is not afraid to take on the beltway establishment, or the Republican party bosses who care more about their own personal power than making America better. Sure he has some warts and isn't perfect on all the issues, but unlike Romney, McCain knows what he believes in. Unlike Rudy, he's done more than just be at the right place at the right time (9-11) to get a lot of press. And unlike Fred Thompson, McCain actually wants the job. Go McCain! America needs a real leader, not some liberal Democrat or another Bush type Republican who only cares about the elite in Washington!
Posted by: | January 19, 2008 at 10:31 AM
how long we gonna be in vietraq, johnnie?
how much is it gonna cost us?
in dollars?
blood and limbs?
exactly how many american lives will be sacrificed to keep two, or maybe three, populations that HATE each other at bay while we siphon off a much oil as we can?
how come osamabeenforgotten is still out there and alive, johnnie?
exactly WHAT IS THE OFF BUDGET DEFICIT to finance this fiasco, johnnie?
LEADERSIHP, HAH!!!!!
simpering syncophant, afraid of the chimp and his drones, thats what johnnie is!
GOD help and save this country from such as him!!!!
Posted by: | January 19, 2008 at 11:28 AM
***McCain HQ Grand Opening***
Come out for the fun!
*Free hot dogs and soda.
*Live entertainment.
*Free healthcare, education and a special pathway to citizenship for the first 12 million illegal immigrants to attend!
See you there.
Posted by: | January 19, 2008 at 11:59 AM
John McCain can only win if he can convince folks to be scared. He wants to fight a lost cause with money we don't have which will continue to deteriorate our friendly relations around the world. We know the war was a mistake based on lies fed to us by the Republicans, why would anyone want to continue the lie?
John McCain was a pilot that bombed villages from 20,000 feet killing many innocent people. He was careless and was caught by the people he was bombing, held captive and released.
There was nothing smart about the Vietnam War; John McCain was a follower, not a leader. He wasn't smart enough to stay out off the war, he wasn't smart enough to keep his plane in the air, and he wasn't smart enough to not be captured. Nothing in any of his military record says hero to me. A hero runs into a burning building to save a life, McCain bomb the buildings from 20,000 feet and he wasn't even smart enough to do that right.
McCain is not a hero; he's a victim of his family traditions, a victim of his own inadequacies, and a victim of a war that was fought for the wrong reasons. Two wrongs don't make right, justifying Iraq through the eyes of Vietnam and trying to reestablish our credibility in the world by continuing this Empire Building in contradiction to our constitution will only end badly.
Following McCain will only lead us to further disaster in life and treasure.
Posted by: | January 20, 2008 at 12:36 AM