Not because his campaign managers sends out a link for a strategy briefing. If his campaign manager didn't realize that the economy and the war were the two biggest issues then he would clearly be the dumbest campaign manager around. John McCain: Arizona senator has warned that any pullout of troops could be disastrous. He has pushed the president to send in a heavy wave of troops to quell the violence and establish order. John McCain (R-AZ), a leading candidate for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination, has been one of the key congressional supporters of the interventionist foreign policies of the George W. In early April 2007, after taking what the Washington Post described as a "heavily guarded walk through a newly fortified Baghdad market," McCain gushed about the progress in Iraq since the president's "surge" strategy began to be implemented earlier in the year. He will make the Bush income and investment tax cuts permanent, keeping income tax rates at their current level.". John McCain may be trying to sell himself as a "maverick" and a "straight talker" who will tell the truth no matter the consequences, but independent, non-partisan watchdog groups aren't buying it. Since Senator McCain wrapped up his Party's nomination, hardly a week has passed without at least one non-partisan fact checker criticizing McCain for distorting his record on something. John McCain does a photo-op in front of a wind mill factory and he's all of a sudden Mr.Green. Our scum leaders are willing to bury our country in debt to get their hands on oil. John McCain : I've been in politics for over 20 years. And for over 20 years, I've had Barbera Streisand trying to do my job. He is a maverick and a moderate. If a maverick is defined as a person who goes against the grain and is willing to take risks, particularly political ones, he isn't it. John McCain is respectable, and while I certainly commend his stands against issues such as torture and farm subsidies, he has become just another politician who sold his soul for votes. McCain-Fiengold, Immigration reform, Iraq he's on the wrong side of too many issues for me to support him, and some of those stands seem to be motivated by political expedience rather than a grounded moral conviction. He believes the Internet offers tremendous promise in terms of freedom of expression, information sharing, and the spread of knowledge and commerce . However, there is a darker side to the Internet. John McCain should reject and denounce his pastor Rod Parsley just like he did in case of his other pastor John Hagee. Anybody who wants to destroy Islam is actually trying to destroy the God of Prophet Abraham. John McCain, Gramm may be looking at a quantum leap in power and influence. Someone should ask McCain how long he's willing to have us stay in Iraq even if we are sustaining casualties. Since he believes it is in our strategic interests to stay there on a permanent basis I doubt very much he'll say that in that case he'd only be comfortable staying two or five or some other relatively short span of years. Someone told me the bug has been corrected. Someone who could become a very good president in his ability to not always conform to the party line. Unlike Obama, who always stays strictly democratic and is an extreme liberal. Article by Christopher West http://whoischriswest.com