McCain on Obama's Speech: I'm Not Surprised He Didn't Thank Bush, That's Just Not In His DNA (Video)
Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, August 31, 2010, 7:55 PM
Senator John McCain spoke with Sean Hannity on Barack Obama’s Iraq speech tonight. John McCain said, “I’m not surprised he didn’t thank Bush. That’s just not in the DNA of the individual, apparently.”
McCain wasn’t impressed with Obama’s lackluster speech.
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John S commented:
That would be typical McCain. I just regret that we didn’t get to hear “the surged worked!” six or seven times in a row.
Seriously, Obama’s whole speech was empty rhetoric, so why would we expect any substance on the issue of Bush’s Iraq strategy?
Rachelle commented:
I didn’t watch. I never watch him. I never listen to him. He is an ignoramus in love with himself.
I suspect that he will go down as the worst president in history, and it will be Democrats who will complain the most about him because their brand is damaged to the point that they look like the party of treason.
kato commented:
Any utterance by Obama can usually be characterized as arrogant, mendacious, and graceless.
Jim Rose commented:
Daaammmn! Obama just got served!
1 commented:
McCain is right, though; when you telegraph your punches, you lose.
pm commented:
“…our friends are discouraged, our enemies are encouraged…” It’s what we’ve come to expect from that man.
I can’t bear to watch or listen to him either.
Paula-Okc commented:
Sarah Palin has just unseated a ‘dynasty’ in Alaska. On to the White House!!!!!!
Bill Mitchell commented:
Friends, we are witnessing the de-pussification of the Republican Party. Somewhere, Reagan is smiling.
“The Tea Party is not the Republican ship. The Tea Party is the wind in the sails of the Republican ship to steer her back on course…”
jomojava the infidel commented:
It is obvious that al-Bama lacks what Beck has driven home all year:
HONOR
kato commented:
Rachelle, the only problem with your prediction is that academe and journolism/media are overrun with left-wing liars. Who is going to write and who is going to publish/broadcast the ugly side of the messiah, the most brilliant black man to walk the face of the earth, the author of the “two most candid memoirs ever written by a political figure.”
Obama was carried into office on a tsunami of propaganda, and even today, journolists continue to destroy what little credibility they have left in order to preserve the reputation of their “historic president.”
Ask GE (NBC) CEO Jeff Immelt what he thinks of Obama, if you can get him off his knees.
Bill Mitchell commented:
I am willing to bet at this point that CNN has conducted a “flash poll” after Obama’s speech and have found that his approval rating has surged to 65%.
Like all of their flash polls, Democrats will be given an obscene advantage in the sample (have been known do go as high as 23 points in the past).
Valerie commented:
I’m glad I voted for John McCain for President. I wish he had won.
kato commented:
The Obama phenomenon should be the final nail in the coffin of mainstream media. After serving as a virtual arm of the Obama campaign, after presenting the public with a fairy-tale story largely based on the liar’s own assertions about himself, after covering up or playing down his associations with a racist spiritual mentor, left-wing terrorists and Chicago criminals…I could go on, but suffice to say there just ain’t any credibility left.
donh commented:
Waste of a highly paid ivy league speech writer. I appreciate all the extended metaphores about the stormy seas, ship of state, steel of the ship et al, but the delivery betrayed sincerity. In the end the speech was about doubting Bush for handing Obama a costly obligation that has obstructed the communist revolutionary plan to do more for the poor. Yes thanks to Bush and this military burden Obama can only help government employees, and we just haven’t had anything left over to hand out to you people in need, but keep the faith ! The war is now over and Obama has turned the corner.
Brooklyn commented:
Really an irony…
The Maverick who was so bitter, he voted against the Bush TAX CUTS, is now commenting about a certain DNA, which he has shown at times.
Vanity, ego, temper, etc.
I remember when John McCain was running for the Presidency, he dishonestly tried to claim credit for the SURGE as well. No doubt he was advocating for more troops earlier, but the SURGE was a product of altering strategy, not just a boost in forces.
McCain remains part of the problem, and it is too bad we cannot get him to step aside in a classy manner.
Of all the People to have talk about Obama’s ugly nature, McCain is one funny choice.
Kenny Solomon commented:
“McCain wasn’t impressed with Obama’s lackluster speech.”
That’s perfectly ok.
Other than his amazing and heroic time in ‘Nam, I’m not impressed with McCain, so I guess we’re even.
Rock commented:
His rhetoric in support of the troops was admirable, unfortunately his connections with Jodie Evans and her Code Pink slugs invalidates his lofty praise. Until he calls her out and exposes her for the slim she is, how can anyone accept his praise as anything but gaming us and the troops.
Chkn Fryd commented:
So there is still a difference between the Senator and the President which continues after McCain’s latest self-reinvention: The Real Conservatives of the Valley of the Sun? So the President lacks honor so says the guy who hired the campaigners who did the hit job on his family in 2000. Yeah Conservatives, that’s bringing classy back.
Robert commented:
Obama bashed Bush with this sentence, same old crap.
“Unfortunately, over the last decade, we have not done what is necessary to shore up the foundation of our own prosperity. We have spent over a trillion dollars at war, often financed by borrowing from overseas.”
president narcissus himself has destroyed business with his policies and anti-American rhetoric.
wanumba commented:
McCain needed media face time for gravitas. End of it.
He’s got amnesty on his agenda and he spends money and runs scary ads just like a Democrat: $21 million dollars spent to win a primary with a 20% voter turn-out against a conservative who had $3 million. And his $21 million war chest to defeat a fellow Republican was comprised partly of a chunk of money he hoarded from the presidential election.
Remember McCain telling Palin he wasn’t going to use up scarce campaign resources in Michigan, and his campaign grumbling at Palin “not a team player” when she argued to go for it?
Well, well. He sat on MILLIONS and used those funds – raised from Republicans to defeat a Democrat in a national presidential election – to defeat a Republican challenger in a senate primary race.
McCain said, “I chose lying” and he’ll “do whatever it takes” to stay in power.
He’s the one who wouldn’t tolerate any criticism of Obama during the campaign. But let his campaign leak leak leak against Palin, well, okay.
Put on a credible senator, if there are any.
Term limits is the ONLY solution for that group of hangers-on. Two terms MAX and OUT. They will NOT reform themselves.
wanumba commented:
Notice how McCain isn’t bothering to challenge Obama on his pathetic treatment of Governor Jan Brewer and the Obama-promoted boycotts of the state?
A fellow Republican defending Arizona from executive branch unConstitutional abuses, but McCain only rouses himself enough to issue one Hans Blix “strongly worded” statement which went nowhere.
The Senate is supposed to stop any POTUS who overstep their bounds. Checks and balances.
Perhaps McCain was busy pulling strings to make sure his inarticulate Valley Girl “like um you know” daughter got her book deal, though. “Me and my friends.” Gah! Gaah!
If (R) McCain could pull that off with a Democrat media monopoly, how come he can’t get the media to highlight the Obama abuses against AZ?
Guess McCain doesn’t know what (R-AZ) is supposed to mean.
MVH commented:
It sounded like first 10 minutes, or so, of the speech could’ve been given by President George Bush, himself.
However, the speech was hypocritical. Obama opposed so much that not only would assist our troops but keep Iraq from becoming a slaughter house. Quite frankly, as senator, Obama undermined the former CIC as well as our troops! He certainly looked uncomfortable reading his speech. He kinda had that deer-caught-in-the-headlights look.
Too bad that McCain wasn’t as blunt about Sheik Obama’s squishiness during the 2008 Presidential Campaign!
carol-Christian Soldier commented:
why is mccain still around?!! and
why do the pundits at FOX keep having him on–
mccain – feingold -&-mc amnisty- keep coming to mind!!!
thank you – AZ for 1070-
thank you NOT for mccain!!
C-CS
Callipygian1 commented:
You can choose to look one week into the future, or much farther. Saddam Hussein had the 4th largest army in the world, and certainly the largest in the middle east. This army was in the control of a certifiable madman that threatened the stability of the entire region. His invasion of Kuwait signaled his intentions, and the brutality he displayed to his own people indicated that no person or country was safe from his reign of terror. George H Bush disarmed him and brought stability to the region temporarily.
When Hussein refused to abide by sanctions and insisted on flexing muscle, current intelligence gathering suggested that George W. Bush needed to make decision, and chose to move miltarily.
Based upon the intelligence and other factors he was presented with, he made the decision he thought best. You can disagree if you think it was wrong, but he made a decision, he didn’t vote “present”, and there is no doubt whatsoever that he loves America.
I think history may make these last two decades appear in a different light after the clouds of war are completely dispersed. It remains to be seen how the Iraqi people respond to the gift paid for them with American blood.
James commented:
God bless you President George W. Bush, the greatest president in american history. obama couldn’t carry your jock strap.
Granny commented:
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August 31st, 2010 | 8:10 pm | #5
McCain is right, though; when you telegraph your punches, you lose.
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Obama intends to lose. As he said, his focus is to change the fundamental fabric of America. Wearing out or military equipment & demoralizing our military is vital to that effort.
P. Aaron commented:
Where was this McCain in 2008…
when it mattered?!
Spider commented:
Some people don’t understand that fire burns until they stick their hand in the flame. It looks like we needed to set America on fire in order for the ‘great middle’ of the country to understand we are being burned. My g*d why are we so stupid?