is this really the best argument he can come up with? Wow, he is going to lose by a LOT!

This is Silly season...Poor McBushSame...He does not what to do anymore...It is sure is sad to be a republican....

He's a socialist and the second coming of Bush?

Jeez. Personally, I wouldn't mind if Obama was a socialist, but fergoodnessake, he's most certainly not. I see him as something of a centrist; the difference between him and, say, Bill Clinton is that (imho) Clinton went to the center based on a cynicism, a belief that the center was the most opportune place. Obama, OTOH I think, actually holds principled centrist views on many things. He thus doesn't always mirror my own views, yet I am more excited about his impending presidency than any other in my lifetime (and I'm over 40).

Plus, Michelle is neither a trollop nor a c*nt.

Wow...Can McLame be any more pathetic than he already is? I guess he saw his polling numbers in Nevada...lol

McCain reminds me so much of another war hero, Duke Cunningham. Both of them seem kindof dumb but quick with the
retorts. Marcus Stern on Duke:

After his arrest, Cunningham argued that no matter what sort of gifts he received, everything he did was good for national security and the country. What he was really doing was plundering the defense budget year after year. Meanwhile, this was a guy who ranted on the House floor and attacked people who wanted to cut the defense budget. When former Congresswoman Pat Schroeder stood up to challenge him he called her a socialist and told her to sit down.

how is Obama a socialist literally the day after being just like George W. Bush?

how can people's brains even conceive of this crap? and why haven't the reporters in McCain's press pool laughed him out of the race by now? are they all really stupid enough to eat this up without challenging totally contradictory assertions less than 24 hours apart?

way to keep it classy mcsame

He could have at least said, "As far as I know, he isn't."

McCain was referring to the National Journal Senate voting record study that showed that in 2007 Barack was further to the left than Bernie Sanders, the Independent Socialist from Vermont.

Santa Claus has a red suit/
He's a Communist!
And a beard and long hair/
Must be a pacifist!

What's in the pipe that he's smoking?

A socialist? Well, OK; I think I'd rather have a "socialist" than a "Corporatist", or a "fascist".
Give all the money and services to the little people (me), not the corporations. Does "socialist"= "one who provides for American Society ( the people) rather than "corporate private interests"?

I bet John and company are just dreading Obama's trip to Europe and the mid-east...all those cheering crowds. "Why did I ever suggest he go to Iraq... I'm screwed!!!

Hope Obama campaign responds to this. It's a prime opportunity for mocking McCain, in a respectful way of course.

McCain is an idiot.

Socialist?

Howsabout that thar GOP Socialism?

Bailing out Freddie and Fannie.

It's repugnantcon Mad Libs.
Let's all get out our favorite fascist pejoratives style guide and start filling in the blanks!

You bet, Gemini, and a look at the Obama economic/tax proposals reveal forward thinking and reasonable compromise, not an extreme position to be found:

http://www.barackobama.com/issues/economy/#tax-relief

I can't see Socialism in Obama's policy propositions. His stance on the absolute need to curtail the lack of oversight in the industries that form the backbone of our economy is not socialism, it is common sence survival instinct. The people trying to stick a Socialist lable on BO are the fat cats who don't ever want their well to run dry.

The GOP and their buddies in the military complex are deperately trying to stop the impending cut in their income stream = Obama presidency. McCain is (sadly for them) the best propaganda outlet they have right now.

The KC Star is a right wing rag. McBush says Obama is out of touch with mainstream America?? This from the guy who is just learning how to connect to the internet and can't use a Blackberry?

This sounds like McCain's "Not as far as I know" moment.

oops, Zod beat me to the punch...

Obama is sooooo NOT a "socialist." There is not a 'socialist' in the world who would endorse a single one of Obama's policy recommendations. He's a milque-toast centrist with strong CorpoRat sympathies.

If Obama were asked if McCaint were a radical, I'd bet a buck he'd skirt the issue, flim-flam some kind of non-answer and smile, broadly.

If I was Obama I would reply with something like :

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Looking at Senator McCain's voting record and his continued support and plan to further extend most all George W. Bush administration policies; it is apparent that Senator McCain is far to the right of his so-called 'maveric' or 'moderate' image.

Senator McCain intimating that I am a socialist is no less rediculous then me questioning whether Senator McCain might be a closet fascist. Distorting our own or each others records and labelling each other, just to win votes is dishonest and a diservice to all the American people we should be focused on serving to the best of our ability.

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mccain is a horrible person

McCain attacks Hillary's healthcare effort
http://sensico.wordpress.com/2008/07/18/mccain-tries-to-attack-obama-but-hits-hillary/

McCain is still running his campaign like Bush 2004. He thinks he has to appeal to "conservatives" in order to win, even though they're not impressed. He thinks he can trade on his image as a "maverick" to get independents to vote for him. With the emphasis of the campaign shifting from Iraq to the economy, McCain has nothing to offer but the same neoconservative policies that have driven this country to the intersection of Wrack and Ruin. So in desperation, he falls back on the typical Republican tactic of demonizing his opponent.

But the American people are wide awake and are sick and tired of these tactics and are not going to be fooled again. A pity that McCain and his advisors are out of touch with America and for that matter, reality.

Better a socialist than a fascist.

69 comments here preaching to the choir and I'm the only who posted a comment at the KC Star site? Shame on you people. We're not gonna win without pushback against this kind of garbage. Please get to work. Here's my comment at their site right next to the video:

McCain said in 2001 Bush's tax cuts "offended his conscience". Now he not only wants to make them permanent he mindbogglingly wants to give the richest 1% even bigger giveaways.

In 1981 we had less than a trillion dollars in nat'l. debt. $990 billion to be exact. It took over 200 years to run up that tab. Two world wars, the Civil War, umpteen recessions and depressions, under Republican, Democratic, Whig and Federalist presidents. All the way back to George Washington and the guys in tricornered hats. Less than a trillion.

Since 1981, in 27 short years of trickle down, supply side economics, we have ballooned that debt to $9.5 trillion, It'll be $10 trillion by the time Bush leaves office. And McCain incredibly wants to add anywhere from $4.1 to $5.6 trillion more on top of it depending on which special interest group he's talking to that day.

We borrow hundreds of billions from the Red Chinese every year and essentially use it to buy oil from Saudi Arabia and Venezuela. We are the biggest debtor nation in the world and he thinks he can balance the budget by doing away with earmarks which only amount to $22 billion a year.

That would be laughable if it wasn't so sad. This guy is the best the Republican party can do? We can't afford John McCain as president.

McCain also mocked Obama's healthcare plan as "Hillarycare" a mere day or so after Carly Fiorina was reaching out to Hillary dead-enders professing how much Sen. Clinton and McCain had in common.

Website http://www.progressivepunch.org shows Obama's voting record. In sooth, Obama is the forty-third (43rd) most progressive Senator . . . Far behind such luminaries as Diane Feinstein and Harry Reid . . . There are 41 Democrats more progressive than Obama and the Independent/Socialist Bernie Sanders.

The truth is that Obama votes marginaly more progressive than Lieberman . . . McCain's best boy buddy forever.

Speaking of flip flops, Jake Tapper at ABC has ignited a flame war by quoting Robert Novak’s column on the resurrection of Phil Gramm as a McCain adviser and surrogate. “But you liberals always say Novak is a liar,” they whine in flame.

In the spirit of those who use Jonathan Swift to defend the New Yorker, here is my modest proposal.

Our nation of whiners is threatened by Islamofacism. Robert Novak has put the McCain campaign at risk by using false anonymous sources. Life, even that beginning at conception, is endangered. Therefore, due to circumstances unforeseen by the Framers, the President is authorized, by a theory of law I may never have discussed but it was classified, to have Novak seized. His rendition will be ordered so he may be taken in a private jet piloted by Cindy McCain to Nicaragua where he can be waterboarded by Rush Limbaugh. We cannot leave this to amateurs like the Army. They might accept false sources from torture…er enhanced interrogation. Like the Steeler defensive…er Packer offensive line.