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McCain has us over a barrel on bin Laden
Friday, Oct. 10, 2008 | 2:03 a.m.
Why I changed my mind and must vote for John McCain:
Yes, I know. I’m real sorry, my friends, but I feel I have no choice.
I watched the debate. If you missed it, here’s the clincher: McCain told us he would “get Osama bin Laden.” Not just talk. No weasel-worded qualifications and no “maybes.”
McCain told us he positively knows how to get him, knows exactly what to do and knows precisely how to do it. He would never make such a clear, positive statement if it weren’t true.
Now, you might say: “That’s not sufficient reason, because even if he loses, McCain is a patriot, a war hero, and he certainly will share that knowledge with Barack Obama.”
Unfortunately, I have to disagree. Look at it this way; if he would be willing to share that intelligence with Obama, he surely would have told George Bush, the commander in chief of our armed forces, who would certainly have called Gen. David Petraeus, and bin Laden would already be dead or captured. But he’s not. So, if he won’t tell Bush, why in the world would he share with Obama?
And that, my friends, is why we have no choice but to elect John McCain.
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Too funny, Stanley!LOL
Sir, you have done the opposite and convinced me to vote for Obama. If a leader can be as childish as what you have described, then we need an adult like Obama to be our president.
"So, if he won't tell Bush, why in the world would he share with Obama?"
First of all as with John McCain I am not your friend. If he knows where he is, which he doesn't, he being a patriot is more the reason for telling Bush were he is. What an ignorant statement to make.
Stanley, don't worry, most of us get your satire.
This is just too much. Oh my god. If he knows where Bin Laden is then HE IS A TERRORIST! That's why I'm voting for Obama. hehehe.
This letter is more of the big joke that the left continues, not funny and not a joke, your future is at stake. crazy newspaper probably wrote the letter anyway.
This letter is the joke the same way all these phony new voter registrations are happening across the country, with money they (acorn) were given directly from the Obama camp.
God thats funny, fake an election, and then want other countries to take us seriously.
"God thats funny, fake an election, and then want other countries to take us seriously."
Oh, is the irony thick with this statement......
2000 was only 8 years ago, how soon we forget...
tokaloshe your candidate's campaign is a joke, his vp pick is a joke, his mortgage bailout is a joke and his attacks, that have been proven false, on Senator Obama are a joke.
Lets not leave out the misleading use of Sen. Obama's middle name by you intolerable McPalinites to lead people to believe his is Muslim, which is a joke too.
Obama is not ashamed of his name, but it seem you are or you would not be using a sudo-name.
Well tokaloshe and all of your comrades, on November 5, 2008 you too may hear "Barack Hussein Obama is the President of the United States of America".
So put that in your pipe and smoke it.
I still can't figure out if this letter is satire or serious. I wonder why super-patriot McCain has been withholding his information on how to get Obama. Maybe it's not exactly treason, but if he knows, and isn't telling...
hussein is his middle name and it is a muslim name. never said anything derogatory about it.
He prefers nobody uses his middle name though.
hmmmmm what is he hiding.
Anyway Farrakhan today said that Barrack is the chosen one. listen when the chosen one speaks. (gives me the heebie jeebies) Farrakhan went on to say that the whities owe his islam nation the whole world.
Uh, people, hello? Yes I wrote it, and yes it is satire. But I didn't make up the part about McCain assuring us he knew how to get Bin Laden.
It reminded me of a similar statement many, many years ago. Richard Nixon, campaigning for the presidency, told us he had "secret plan" to win the war in Vietnam. Like McCain, I'm old enough to remember that ploy, and I'm sure most of you are too young to have even heard it.
OSAMA BIN LADEN IS A FAIRYTALE.
Cooked up to scare the sheeple into giving up all the freedoms their ancestors died for.
tokaloshe, So you know Sen. Obama personally?
Or you are reading his mind when you say he does not like his middle name used?
Who cares what Mr. Farrakhan said about Sen. Obama. Everyone has an opinion.
And as for his other remark, the days of lynching and "White Only" businesses are not too far behind us and did exist in his lifetime and for that matter in McCain's lifetime. Mr. Farrakhan helped to change that injustice.
I know, judging by your attitude on here you would rather have things the old way.
You seem to be running out of straws faster than McPalin.
tokaloshe, So you know Sen. Obama personally?
Or you are reading his mind when you say he does not like his middle name used?
Who cares what Mr. Farrakhan said about Sen. Obama. Everyone has an opinion.
And as for his other remark, the days of lynching and "White Only" businesses are not too far behind us and did exist in his lifetime and for that matter in McCain's lifetime. Mr. Farrakhan helped to change that injustice.
I know, judging by your attitude on here you would rather have things the old way.
You seem to be running out of straws faster than McPalin.