John McCain's Top Priorities: Getting Your Vote, Questioning Obama on Iraq, and... Golf?

In anticipation of the general election, the McCain campaign just revamped its website to focus more specifically on his contest with Barack Obama. The front page now has four main tabs that visitors can use to access the rest of the site. They are, in this order: "Decision Center," "General Election," "Obama & Iraq," and "Golf Gear."

Golf gear?

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It's no surprise that John McCain wants you to donate money, and of course he wants you to know what he thinks of his opponent. But what he wants just as much is for you to head out to the green with your buddies, McCain golf pack in tow.

The disdain you may notice in my voice is not because the maverick is trying to sell us something—in the modern campaign, every candidate needs merchandise. It's that he's pushing golf, the classic sport of the leisure class. Even George Bush, historically oblivious to the pain of the common man, claimed recently to have given up golf because he couldn't bear the irony of trying to perfect his swing while troops died in Iraq. "I don't want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the Commander-in-Chief playing golf," he said recently in an interview with Politico. "I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal." McCain apparently didn't get the memo...perhaps he was out golfing?

Comments

At least he's selling something useful. And I'm getting pretty sick at this point of people still claiming golf is a game for the affluent. If you actually believe that, than you're as out of touch as the politicians you criticize.

Posted by: dan on 06/06/08 at 6:00 AM Respond

so what if McCaine is a dbag who
flogs golf gear? better off to focus on his role in the Forrestal Fire that killed 132 of his shipmates, which haunts him today, and his starring role in the Keating 5 bribery scandal.

this man as commander in chief?

Posted by: Sandra Goode on 06/06/08 at 1:10 PM Respond

MC-CAIN’S EXTRAORDINARY EXPERIENCE

Considering his:

• Sacrifice of American Wealth and Blood for the Sole Benefit of Israel
• Amnesty for Illegal Mexicans Aliens Usurping Jobs and Services
• Outsourcing of Jobs and Technology to China
• Early Release from Captivity for Military Secrets
• McCain-Feingold Legislation Suppressing Freedom of Speech
• McCain-Leiberman Control Gun Legislation
• Slander and Ridicule of Huckabee, Romney, and Ron Paul
• Roberts and Falwell, “agents of intolerance”
• Roe vs. Wade Sacrificial Killing of Children
• To “occupy Iraq for 100 years”, “bomb Iran”, and “just keep Afghanistan”.
• Veto of Bush Tax Cuts
• Keating Five Crooks
• Unsolved Recession and Inflation Problem
• Unsolved Heath Care Problem
• Unsolved Social Security Problem
• Long Scandalous, Contentious, and Non-Productive Political Career

Can such an incompetent and dishonest politician; and such a pretentious Christian and patriot, insanely dishonoring Christian culture and Constitution rule, ever be trusted to cherish and honor the American People?

With Leiberman Neo-Liberal Princess Hillary burnt at the stake by the victorious Kennedy Liberals, shall the Reagan Conservatives give this notorious Podhoretz Neo-Conservative puppet, Insane McCain, a date with presidency, or a date with the Republican firing squad?

Google: Mearsheimer Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy; Stricherz “Why the Democrats are Blue”; Wall Street Journal “McCain-Feingold”; “Keating Five Fraud”; Human Events “Ron Paul Interview”; Who Would the World Elect; McClelland "What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception”.

Posted by: Jeugenen on 06/07/08 at 5:31 PM Respond

Former Senator, Phil Gramm, Texas (oil companies) McCain's primacy financial advisor was a major contributor to the current financial crisis.

Gasoline Prices
"In the long term, gasoline prices will soon continue their rapid rise, because those prices have little relationship to supply/demand factors (and) are being manipulated upward by energy traders," he said.
http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/business/story.html?id=ecb962b7-7837-42f8-ad2c-f201d1a0f6bd

"In the long term, gasoline prices will soon continue their rapid rise, because those prices have little relationship to supply/demand factors (and) are being manipulated upward by energy traders," he said.

Foreclosure Phil
Years before Phil Gramm was a McCain campaign adviser and a lobbyist for a Swiss bank at the center of the housing credit crisis, he pulled a sly maneuver in the Senate that helped create today's subprime meltdown."
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/05/29/9274

Phil Gramm, Bill Clinton, and the Sub-Prime Financial Mess
Listen to Michael Greenberger on NPR’s Fresh Air http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89338743

How McCain's Top Economic Adviser Helped Create Subprime Meltdown
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/29/how-mccains-economic-advi_n_104054.html

Bear Stearns, Housing Subprime, Enron, Gas Prices - Former Senator Phil Gramm
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/23/business/23how.html?pagewanted=print

Posted by: Linda on 06/07/08 at 6:15 PM Respond