John McCain not likely to heed call that he swell nation's jobless ranks
No sign yet that John McCain plans to follow the most well-publicized piece of unsolicited advice he's received of late: the recommendation from leading conservative Bill Kristol that the Republican "fire his campaign" because, the columnist asserts, it's "now close to being out-and-out dysfunctional."
Kristol's proposal, of course, had no chance of being taken seriously by McCain. Although a sweeping staff turnover ultimately served the candidate well in the battle for the GOP presidential nomination, a similar move three weeks before election day hardly would quell qualms Democrats like to raise about his temperament.
For the record, though, here's what McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds -- presumably one of those with a risky job status -- had to say about the shake-up suggestion when asked about it by Fox News:
"I know Bill Kristol is an intelligent guy. I just don't think what he had to say was very intelligent."
-- Don Frederick
Andrew Malcolm's immigrant parents repeatedly stressed the importance of active participation in a democracy. Early lessons included learning the alphabetical list of states by watching televised roll calls of national political conventions. That childhood exposure led to a lifelong fascination with politics, including 40-plus years of covering them and a brief stint practicing them as press secretary to Laura Bush in 1999-2000. A veteran foreign and national correspondent, Malcolm served on the Times Editorial Board and was a Pulitzer finalist in 2004. He is the author of 10 nonfiction books and father of four.
Johanna Neuman is a veteran Washington correspondent for both The Los Angeles Times and USA Today, having covered presidents and politics as far back as Ronald Reagan. A former president of the White House Correspondents Assn., she authored a book on media and foreign policy, “Lights, Camera, Wars.” Most recently she was co-author of the 
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I am sure McCain will provide more jobs. He is the right guy to be President. He is intelligent, concrete and can do the math and has nothing to do with Bush, he is a completely different personality.
I cannot stand Obama with his intellectual jabbering, he never gets to the point and his arrogant posturing as if he thinks he would be able to accomplish more than every single person with the sticky-out ears nor Biden with the slitty eyes and his evil grin.
Plus stop doing smear campaigns of Palin, she tells flat out the truth, she is an intelligent person and a tough woman and very well eligible for vice president. And her remarks about Alaska's proximity to Russia ( Beringstrait) and commercial agreements are plain truth and are of course evidence for her first steps in foreign policy.
Obama has no experience in foreign policy at all.
Plus not every US President could show before taking office experience of foreign policy.
So what is this smear campaign against the Republicans all about?
"The Obama-supported, far-left group, ACORN, has been accused of voter registration fraud in a number of battleground states."
"Plus: Obama's common work with Ayers on a Board."
Nobody can wipe off facts and these are facts, he worked with him on a Board, he had the choice to say No to such a joint work. This is not loyal to his country to work with someone on a Board who bombed the Capitol, police headquarters.
I had never worked together with such a state enemy.
With regard to Bush, he was President in tough times of terror attacks, he kept the States at least safe. Would you prefer to eat your money in front of a bombed house? All of you should think once why Bush had to spend so much money on Foreign Policy, I would say to keep America safe.
Posted by: Gina | October 13, 2008 at 01:32 PM
Nice try, Gina. And, you are right, if you are talking about the McCain of 8 years ago. He's just not the same person. For some reason he bought into the Bush/Rove handlers and the public is not buying it anymore. We might be dumb but we’re not stupid. When Alaska’s bipartisan investigation publishes a 200 page report specifically concluding that Gov. Palin violated Alaska’s rules of ethics and she responds by repeatedly saying that she’s pleased that it found she did not violate the ethic’s laws, you have to wonder? The old John McCain would have stepped up to the plate. No more.
Posted by: Jon Sandler | October 13, 2008 at 07:49 PM
Good grief Gina, do you even read what you say before you push the send button? The very thing you accuse others of, you do. This is a regular problem I have noticed in the comments I have read from your side. Do you even know what ACORN does? There can be no voter FRAUD there. people who fill out voter forms incorrectly will not matter. The person showing up to vote must have ID. mickey mouse is not going to show up at the polls. It does not matter how many forms he fills out. Some well known REPUBLICANS work on the same board with AYERS. How old are you. You seem be stuck in the 60's. You want to talk about Palling around with terrorists, when your crowd voted in the biggest terrorist in this country. President Bush. For gosh sakes learn to read and get your information from other sources than the Republican hand book. I guess the intelligent OBAMA does frighten the ignorant.
Posted by: loren gallo | October 15, 2008 at 09:59 AM