John McCain: New Improved ‘Centrist’ Obama Easier to Work With, My Friends
**Written by Doug Powers
Do you think he actually wonders why he lost in 2008?
The president has become more centrist, which makes him easier to work with, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said Thursday.
Speaking with Bloomberg Television a day after a private meeting with President Obama, McCain said he could picture working with Obama on several issues going forward.
“I think there’s a number of issues we could work on together, and I think it’s pretty clear that the president has really pivoted to a much more centrist position, which I think makes it much more for us easier to work with him,” McCain said.
John McCain often reminds me of a trout that just got hooked and is thrilled that the fisherman has agreed to meet him halfway.
(h/t Cubachi)
**Written by Doug Powers
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I am so sick of all things McCain, from father to daughter to wife…get out of the bloody picture, finally, completely, and forever! Thanks for Vietnam, but cripes, how long do we have to put up with this crap? And Arizona, you did this to us for another full term! Really?
McCain had no intention of winning in 2008. He threw the election.
More reaching across the aisle now that he’s got six more years. Nice going Arizona.
From me to you Grand Pa McCain — STFU and sit in your rocker and go to sleep. Please!!
Wait unitl he teams up with Dear Reader for another amnesty try. Traitors all.
I don’t know why he has not put the “D” after his name already. OR, perhaps “L” for Loser…I mean Liberal!
Maybe pop brings his daughter to meetings.
Nice. I’m glad McCain the Hardliner(TM), from the 2010 senate campaign, you know-”build the dang fence” etc, is still kicking./sarc
McCain’s torture in Vietnam is textbook example of Stockholm syndrome in his capability of working with mendacious cutthroats of the left wing variety.
Shut up, Grandpa. The only Republican who can win the presidency is a true conservative. Run, Sarah, run!
Every body who was surprised by the return of the Maverick give a big yell………………… (cemetery quiet, crickets in distance)
The truth is that BOTH candidates in 2008 were ineligible. McCain was born in Panama, not on a military base. Obama was born a British subject. McCain agreed to not raise Obama’s ineligibilty after the Senate passed a fig leaf declaring him eligible. That resolution, by the way, noted that McCain’s two citizen parents were what made McCain eligible. Obama voted for that resolution, apparently agreeing that two citizen parents are required for natural born citizenship.
We have no Constitution.
We have abdicated it by not enforcing it.
Translation: Obama wants to get re-elected and he’s willing to use me as a means to that end.
Thanks a bunch Arizona! McLame to the rescue, OBambi needs his ole moronic pal, yet again.
Virginia Patriot, you are CORRECT! He DID throw the election, because he didn’t want to deny such a fine, clean, neat African-American the opportunity to be President. It’s SO obvious.
Yes, thanks for Vietnam, but go home already! Go home to that awesomely hot wife of yours and stop mucking everything up!
And TELL YOUR STUPID DAUGHER TO SHUT UP ALREADY TOO!!
Wait, her?? He must have another wife I’m not aware of.
I’ll take his daughter, with a mute button.
Sorry, The Panama Canal was a US Territory before Carter gave it up.
You got it right the 1st time, the man has gone from a hero to a stain on America.
And his father and mother were US citizens. His father was stationed at the canal on official duty with the Navy.
If not being born on a military base is the criteria to not make one a citizen then you have a whole lot of people in America, born to parents who are US citizens that you would have to deem non citizens (including me).
Good news though! Megan is waiting in the wings.
Outside of the media and Arizona,I really doubt that anyone cares what any of the McLame family think, say, or do.
The Republican party through the election from the get go in my opinion. I believe that they felt with how badly Bush had taken a beating in opinion polls and at the hand of the press that there was no way they could win, so they figured why not let McCain have his turn.
File under;
How Can We Miss You
If You Won’t GO AWAY!
John McCain
Newt Gingrich
Harry Reid
George Bush
Jeb Bush
Nancy Pelosi
Barney Frank
I’m sure many here could add more to the endless list of
barnacles on our hull!
Let’s face it – McCain did everything he could to lose the election. He is and has been for years a RINO!
McCain must have read the pre-releases from Don Rumsfeld’s new book and is now out to prove that his capriciousness is at least as bad as Rummie says it is.
“Centrist”, “moderate”, “liberal”… they are all euphemisms for “no principles”, “on the take to the highest bidder”.
John McCain is officially insane. There is no doubt in my mind. He actually has been taken in by Obama after all the PROOF that Obama is a marxist. Brain dead. Unplug that guy and let him go quietly into oblivion. ANYONE who is fooled by the sudden turn of Obama into a centrist is crazy. Obama is a commited marxist. He has not changed his agenda, only his rhetoric. And McCain is just STOOPID enough to fall for it!!
John McCain is a citizen, just not a natural born citizen, because he was born in Panama, the country, not the canal zone, which was U.S. territory at the time. Obama is not a natural born citizen becuse of his foreign national father giving him dual citizenship at birth. I honestly don’t know whether he is a citizen or not. He could still be an Indonesian citizen by the name of Barry Sotoero.
Figured McCain would become all “Mavericky and reach-across-the-aisley” soon as the GOP actually got some power back. Now he can resume his customary role of backstabbing conservatives.
Hey McCain, this “reaching across the ….” has got to stop. Don’t you know you are being used?
And to the voters of AZ … thanks for nothing.
While on the subject, thanks to the voters in NV for Reid.
NOT
I agree. I hope the ‘R vs.D’ people are happy.
After having said that, I think it is best to remember that John McCain is not going to help us when we really need him, so please don’t help him by defending him with one more diatribe about his ‘sacraficial’ military service.
I would expect nothing less from a RINO like McCain. Regarding the list from maisy, I would not include Newt, W or Jed; I like them all and I think they have a positive place in the party. I don’t agree with anybody on every issue; but if we throw everybody we ever disagree with under the bus, we won’t have a party.
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All of them are amnesty supporters.
Amnesty is national suicide.
What does party matter if we don’t have a country?
My boy Johnny. The elections in the bag, fooled those stupid ex-californians who now reside in Arizona again, and it’s time to LEAD these backasswards conservatives out of the stone age. We need comprehensive immigration reform. We need new rules on elections and campaigning now that my old idea was found unconstitutional. We need ME.
I guess by “Republican Party” you mean the 9,838,910 people who voted for him in the primaries.
Shut up yourself you dufus.
John McCain : Conservatism :: Justin Bieber : Heavy Metal
Doing the same things over and over again is the definition of “insanity.” McCain has not learned this lesson.
Neither of these public servants can be trusted. One is showing his stupidity, and the other his inexperience.
The fruits of their labor (a la McCain-Feingold), will get the American people hosed yet again.
John McCain : Conservatism :: Prius : NASCAR
If it may please you Your Most Heinous, your ice floe awaits without!
Is “stupid” or “backstabber”, or ?both? printed on McCain’s t-shirts?
McCain : Conservatism :: Vernor’s : Guinness
Incorrect. Any person born abroad to parents that are American citizens that are on official duty in a foreign country are to be considered natural born citizens. I went through this when I joined the Army in 1992. I was born in a small town outside of Stuttugart Germany (not on a military base) I have a statement from the State Department stating that I am a natural born citizen and am afforded all the rights of a natural born citizen.
Never trust a man that says ‘my friends’ even after everyone around him has mocked him for doing so.
That’s nothin’. Lindsey Graham has a birth certificate saying he’s a Male!
No…it’s a little yellow 3M sticky that says, “Kick me!”
last time I checked it was not the voters who approved who it is that is on the primary ballot…
Ahh…that is what Obama is doing in the picture for this post by MM…
Red State Septic – Yes, her. What, you don’t think she’s hot?
Okaaaay, then….
I remember during the 2008 elections I said “Every time John McCain reaches across the aisle, a Conservative gets punched in the face.” Thanks for proving me right again, McCain!!
McCain gives Obama his seal of approval, right after Palin gave McCain hers. Remind me again why we’re supposed to regard her as the leader of the Tea Party movement?
I hate to be the type that says I told you so, but I TOLD YOU SO!!! Check some of my posts just before, and just after the elections in November… OL’ JUAN would revert back to his “MAVERICK” ways shortly after the swearing in in January… SHAZAM!!! Here it is the 4th of February, and the “MAV” is back… Geez, we sure missed him here in Arizona… Remember the old saying, “you get the government you deserve”!!!
Is McCain ever going to reach across the aisle to Conservatives?
GOP votes as a block to repeal Obamacare and suddenly, the “Gangs of McCain” resurface.
There is no “new GOP”. New line of BS but same in the end, the results will be the same as the old GOP.
Mc Cain has had one job. Too make Obama look qualified to be president. He did it well in 2008 and got Obama elected. Now as Obama attacks an ally in Egypt, McCain doubles down, again giving Obama credibility as he disassembles any hope of peace in the mideast.
Exactly, along with her no stance on amnesty, along with all the other top presidential runners for the Republicans in ’12…check Numbers USA for their report card on the candidates.
This is a new one on me, but I’ll bite. Who ran that was left off the ballot?
McCain needs to go away and take his silly daughter with him.
Repeating yourself doesn’t make you right. His father was on a military assignment. My son was born in Germany, but he’s just as much a native born American citizen as you are. Maybe more.
McCain is why true conservatives had no enthusiasm for the last presidential elections; All choices were bad; I had to hope McCain would win, then have to step down due to health and leave it in Palin’s capable hands.
He only gets reelected in Arizona because Pheonix and Tucson are infected with idiots (liberals).
So you are saying that the voters decide whom is listed on a primary ballot? The voters vote in the primary for the candidates that are on the primary ballot, but it is the party who approves whose names are added to the ballot (in most states). Hope that clears it up for you.
Why would you need a statement from the State Department? Same reason the Senate decided McCain needed a resolution?
Citizen, yes, natural born citizen, eligible to be President, no.
Natural born citizen = born in this country to two citizen parents.
I didn’t dispute the fact that the party decides who gets on the ballot. I dispute the fact that it made a difference. Which is why I ask: who was suppressed by the powers that be?
Never. He’s too busy giving the libs a reach around.
Every election year. He relies on conservatives for votes and liberals for a good obituary.
Say what you will about Obama but he’s a star among Polititions. Very Good at lying and shifting eyes. I suspect if the KKK made strong political gains he’ld even say he hates all “people of color”, is white first, and would wear a Klan hood openly. Then the Next week he would say how hateful they were and he’s there for people of Latino decent, because at heart we all are Latino’s.
Truely a standard setter and model for the Modern Politics.
Dear John,
Do you ever wonder how they talk about you at the white house when you’re not around?
Do you ever think about retiring. . .again?
Think about it, please.
P.S. Tell your daughter to put a cork in it.
Damn, I knew it was cold, but I didn’t know Hell had frozen over. I actually agree with you. I’m not wishing an early obituary on him, but I wouldn’t mind at all if he was forced to retire due to health reasons. Or any reason.
I knew that if I lived long enough, we could agree on something, Red
Sooner or later,the people who keep electing guys like McCain, Reid, Pelosi and their ilk will have suffered enough to finally pull their heads out of their arses and get rid of them. Until, we’re all in this together.
I’m more relieved than ever that McCain didn’t get elected. We’re better off suffering under Obama than a RINO.
Jellyfish, Doug. Or squid. Something without a spine.
Yup…McCain is the ultimate RINO. Voted for him as the lesser of two evils. He epitomizes everything that is wrong with politicians, including letting his uninformed daughter run her mouth off insulting real conservatives. Time – To – Go, Johnny!
Is that some kind of birth control I’m not aware of? I agree, though…she should not be allowed to breed. Or, did you mean….
I think most on this board just experienced a collective throw up in the mouth a little.
Actions, John. Not words.
Focus!
Ok, sorry for the misunderstanding of what you had said and thanks for the gramatical correction.
This guy is exactly why I refuse to donate any $$$$ to the Republican establishment. When are they going to call this blowhole out. Obama is a patriot–Obama’s State of the Union was great–and now this. Go home John–and get some medication to sharpen that mind. Good grief.
The statement is to verify that I am a natural born citizen even though my birth certificate is in German. You do not have to be born in the United States to be a natural born citizen. Here is a little bit of what is said on the subject regarding legislation dating back to 1790 (in other words our founding father’s):
wish we could rid govt of worthless turds like McVain, he is NO GOOD.
did anyone not get that yet? NO GOOD.
The thumbnail pic reminds me of the scene in “Young Frankenstein” Where Dr. Frankenstein removes the pain suppression clamp from the test subject (old man) and then knees him in the groin!
Something I will never do. Either provide a good candidate or I will find a 3rd party.
McCain makes my stomach turn.
You know, you have two choices, keep your mouth closed and let people think you are smart, or open in and let them know how stupid you are. McLame chose 2.
Mister P said:
In this context, refusing to vote for the lesser of two evils is effectively voting for the greater of two evils.
H. Ross Perot proved that one.
Nah.
HF essentially remarked on a “broken clock”/”blind squirrel” moment.
I smell an amnesty bill in the works!
Begs the question: Who’s the dumber McCain? John or Meghan?
McCain is a doofus.
Zero is an enemy agent of the highest order with the team and the power to destroy our alliances, our defenses, our economy,our liberty, even our raison d’etre.
Get real, we are in the greatest danger we have ever faced as a nation, and owning the House, and even maybe the Senate, cannot block all the evil this man can do.
I do feel quite sick to my stomach that I had to vote for McCain, but if I had voted for Obama it is clear that my stomach would suffer much worse from the obligatory hari-kari.
If Obama’s a “Centrist” then I’m SKINNY! His policies have been further out on the fringe left than even Goerge McGovern’s! Centrist?!? Maybe if this were Red China!!!!!
Then again, Perot’s shepharding of the Clinton victory (assuming it wouldn’t have happened without Perot anyway) resulted in the seismic shift in Congress in favor of the Republicans and jumpstarted the rise of the alternative media.
If H.W. had won instead, it could well have resulted in the further marginalization of conservatives, and probably some more “bipartisan” initiatives (on the heels of things like the Americans with Disabilities Act) that Clinton may not have been able to get away with doing.
Sorry Cogs-If those guys had gotten their way we would no longer have a country! And the struggle continues!
Virginia Patriot is right-and I know Michele agrees that these amnesty supporters are ready to cede the country to Mexico and South America……It defies explanation as to why most people don’t get that- Your country is not a melting pot-It IS though melting before your eyes with the leadership of people like McCain, Jeb and George Bush and Newt “anyway the wind blows” Gingrich…..Sorry they all stink to high heaven!
living in AZ I really only have one thing to say about this a$$hat rino mccain-FFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU…!!
Oh gag me… McCain is spinning on his RINO’s horn again…
You’d think that shtick would get old, or at least too brown to ride in public…
The sesimic shift lasted long enough for the GOP to take the country down to the “first and goal”, where they promptly fumbled and turned it over to the Dems.
McCain is an easy mark for the left. He’s being had by one of the oldest shell games around. It’s almost as old as he is. He only thinks he saw Obama move the thimble with the pea to the center. But, in reality, the center and right thimbles are empty. Come on McCain, how long are you going to keep falling for that one?
Amnesty within 6 months.
With McCain as VP.
Urkel’s action on the drilling moratorium and his plan to ignore Vinson’s ruling on UrkelCare should have been a minimal clue to McCain that Urkel hasn’t changed a bit.
I don’t think McCain fell for a thing. McCain is doing what he’s always done…whatever is best for McCain, like the Gang of 14.
It shows how dangerous an unprincipled RINO is. If McCain is willing to help Oblahblah now, he cares as much for the constitution as Urkel does.
Truly sad that Arizona voters were taken in by him.
Well said.
I want to be first on the next page! Poor John! The only way he can get his name in the news these days is to leave the conservative fold.