McCain has no place for Cheney on GOP podium

He might be the most powerful vice president in history, but Dick Cheney is also one of the most divisive.

So, the conservative American Spectator reported this morning, Republican presidential nominee-in-waiting John McCain has decided not to offer the vice president a speaking role at the GOP Convention in Minnesota.

Cheney is still a rock star with the rock-ribbed conservative base, raking in needed money for Republican candidates and Republican causes in red states. Last week, according to the Montgomery Advertiser, he raised $150,000 for the Alabama Republican Party with a single appearance in Birmingham.

But according to the Spectator, the Arizona senator is not among Cheney's fans and sees the vice president as a distraction. The Spectator reported:

McCain and Cheney famously do not get along, and with McCain's focus being almost exclusively on attracting independents and women to the polls, it's not a surprise that engaging Cheney isn't on the top of the list.

Cheney press secretary Megan Mitchell insists the two men are allies. "The vice president has a great deal of respect for John McCain and as of last Friday was out campaigning for him," she said.

-- Johanna Neuman

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[COL. A.M.Khajawall [Ret]]

Dear American Citizens and the Press

As a concerned citizen, I consider it is my duty to bring following message to you all.

"We the citizens of the United States of America have the ultimate responsibility to elect the " Right Candidate" to lead our nation, out of our huge present and future internal and external challenges as well as opportunities. This is to prevent depression and isolation in-spite of being the only superpower in the world morally, democratically, economically, and militarily.

We need to consider the "critical qualities and characteristics" of our presumptive presidential nominees at the time we vote.

In my personal and professional opinion the critical considerations are as under:


1. Calm, cool, and collected " temper " [ Presidential Temperament ].
2. Sound and sustained "Judgment and Caliber".
3. "Thought-fullness and togetherness" of purpose and positions.
4. Minimum "ex-poser and exploitation" around "Washington and Washington insiders".
5. Renewed " Vigor and Vision " for our Greatgrand Nation.
6. Foreign policy based on " American Values, Virtuous, Vastness".

Stay informed, stay involved, and stay engaged. Do not allow some partisan media, pundits, pollsters, and perpetual political opinion makers effect your vote in the wrong direction.

Don't be effected and duped by "Psychological Terrorism" that is directed at common American people without their full consent and awareness.

Long live U.S.A and its diverse but democratic people.

Col. A.M. Khajawall [Ret] MD., ABFM., ABDA.
Chief Consultant: World Wide Porfessional Consultants[WWPC]
Colonel, USAR/MC Combat Stress Control[Ret], Disabled American Veteran and Freedom team.
Consultant Psychiatrist: CA State, Medical Board of California, and Los Angeles Mental Health Department
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PS: McCains Temper and looseness is in the way.

[Bruce becker]

McCain once infamously said on the Letterman TV show, one night in 2001, in the run-up to the Iraq war, that a SOURCE had told McCain that the ANTHRAX, a weapon of mass destruction which had been used to attack the Congress, and too-liberal NBC, was the work of IRAQ.

Now we learn it was actually the work of bio-terrorism experts of the US war dept, working in Maryland.

WHO WAS McCain's 'SOURCE'?
Did you know that using "propaganda',
such as a TV show,
to lead the US of A into a war,
on false pretenses,
is a crime? Yes it is.
And whom do you suppose is that source, whom McCain so far manages to keep a secret from even the FBI, no less NBC, and you readers?
The way he hems and haws in the video, (check it out on the internet)
you get the feeling maybe old John has pre-knowledge
that this 'info' is really propaganda.
Ah well. Anyone else want the truth from our 'war hero' on how he was lead by a SOURCE to draw Congress and the people into war on a false premise?
Do tell, Mr McCain. You have some answering to do. Soon you too will be a celebrity, more like O.J, than like Obama though.

[thebob.bob]

There needs to be a plank in the GOP platform calling for the prosecution of Bush and Cheney. The Republican 'chosen one', Bush needs to be exorcised by the Party. The number of registered registered Republicans is falling like a rock. G8d is punishing Novak for leaking Plames name. The Bible belt is feeling HIS wrath. Imagine what HE's going to do to Republicans. Repent sinners, there's still time.