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Is there anybody in the presidential race that most people can agree would be a good president?

If all three potential presidential candidates, Sen. John McCain, Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. Hillary Clinton, were represented by slice of good old apple pie, right now they would each be approximately 33.333 percent of the pie.

I think it has been well established that not one candidate is going to satisfy the American people’s desire for one elite and completely likeable candidate.  So perhaps, if we don’t agree on politics, then maybe we need to look at their entertainment value.

In an article on www.foxnews.com entitled McCain Jokes With Letterman On ‘Late Show’, Sen. McCain showed his humorous side as he traded jabs with the host of the Late Show, David Letterman.

After taking the verbal assault from Letterman pertaining to Sen. McCain’s looks, Sen. McCain struck back with his own interpretation of what Letterman looked like.  Sen. McCain said Letterman, “looked like a guy whose laptop would be seized by authorities.”

Sen. McCain has had the difficult challenge of trying to stay in the public’s eye.  With the Democratic Party infighting, all focus has been on Sen. Obama and Sen. Clinton.  Most voters aren’t interested enough in following Sen. McCain around as he tries to gain support from his own party.  He most likely felt the best way to get a majority of young voters to stay interested was to showcase his quick wit on a popular late night talk show.

We’ll see if this strategy pays off for him in November.

Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. Hillary Clinton are tearing the Democratic Party apart.  They have completely alienated each others supporters, and Sen. John McCain is going to benefit from it.

Many of Sen. Obama’s supporters are dissatisfied with Sen. Clinton and say they would actually vote for Sen. McCain over Sen. Clinton if Sen. Obama is not the Democratic Presidential Nominee.  In an article on www.cnn.com entitled McCain May Peel Off Obama, Clinton Supporters, 41 percent of Sen. Obama’s supporters said they would vote for Sen. McCain over Sen. Clinton if this occurs. 

Conversely, 51 percent of Sen. Clinton’s supporters said they would vote for Sen. McCain if Sen. Obama won the Democratic nomination to run for president.

In either scenario, it appears this is a win-win situation for Sen. McCain.  McCain doesn’t have a Republican opponent to drag his name in the mud and tear the Republican voters apart.  All he needs to do is to be seen on television shaking hands with veterans and visiting children in hospitals.  If he can do this, his likeability will go up.

With the Democrats bickering so much, it’s no wonder they won’t be able to get the vote of the others supporters.  After all, according to this article, 44 percent of the Democrats polled like Sen. McCain.

That smells like trouble for the Democrats.

With most of the focus of the political primary races being on the Democratic fight between Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. Hillary Clinton, Sen. McCain wanted to focus his energy on uniting the Republican party and strengthening his support around the world.

Sen. McCain was in Jordan trying to express how dangerous Iran has become, unfortunately divulged some information that is most likely confidential.  He said, “Al Qaeda is going back into Iran and is receiving training and are coming back into Iraq from Iran,” according to an article on www.foxnews.com entitled McCain Mistakenly Says Iran Allowing Al Queda Fighters Into Country, Later Corrects Error.

Not only is this mistake a huge breach of confidence on the behalf of Sen. McCain, but also adds fuel to the Democrat’s fire that McCain doesn’t understand the severity of this issue.  The fact that Washington never acknowledged that they made the connection between Iran and Al Queda fighters demonstrates that Sen. McCain may have sealed his fate.

Sen. McCain is known for speaking his mind.  This straight-talker may have just talked his way out of a presidential term.  He is in desperate need of a public relations crisis consultant.

Most people acknowledged that Sen. John McCain would be the Republican nominee to run for the presidency several weeks ago.  Now after assuming more than 1,191 delegate votes to claim the party’s nomination, he is officially the Republican’s candidate for president.

Sen. McCain’s only threatening rival, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, bowed out of the race for president after being swept Tuesday night in the primary elections of Texas, Ohio, Rhode Island and Vermont, according to an article on www.cnn.com entitled McCain Wins GOP Nomination; Huckabee Bows Out. 

While this all appears to be good news for Sen. McCain, it seems possible that he could be forgotten during the heated Democratic race between Sen, Barack Obama and Sen. Hillary Clinton.

What can Sen. McCain do to remain visible while the Democrats fight for the right to represent their party?

According to an article at reuters.com entitled McCain Now Has Challenge Of Staying In Public Eye, Sen. McCain will be traveling all over the world to remain visible in the presidential race.  He will also spend much time strengthening his support from other Republicans.

Sen. McCain has trips planned to visit many different places to discuss his policies.  It’s important for him to talk about issues that separate him from the Democrats, but should be careful not to back himself into a corner.  While Sen. Obama and Sen. Clinton are fiercely battling each other, they are both beginning their campaigns to take on Sen. McCain.

The end of the Democratic race for the party’s representative for the presidency is going to be brutal.  They will most likely dig up old information to make all others look bad.

As long as Sen. McCain can answer the accusations in a proper manner, and perhaps take the moral high road in the smear campaigns, he should be at an advantage when the divided Democrat voters decide who they want to vote for in November’s presidential election.

Radio talk show host Bill Cunningham made a sarcastic link between Sen. Barack Hussein Obama’s middle name and terrorists in the middle east at a campaign rally in Cincinnati on Tuesday.

In an article on www.foxnews.com entitled McCain Apologizes For Radio Host’s Obama Comments At Rally, Cunningham reportedly mentioned Sen. Obama’s middle name three times.  When someone emphasizes something like that so many times, they are undoubtedly making a link to something. 

Cunningham argued that he used Sen. Obama’s middle name in an honorable fashion, and that is no different than using John Fitzgerald Kennedy’s name in public.

The problem with using Sen. Obama’s middle name as opposed to anyone else’s middle name is no one else has a middle name of a demented and oppressive terrorist dictator who killed many of his own people.  

If Sen. John McCain’s middle name was Bin Laden, then we could have a fair race.  But it isn’t.  By reminding people many times of Sen. Obama’s middle name, Cunningham was definitely trying to send a message that if Sen. Obama was elected to be president, it would be no better than to elect Saddam Hussein himself.

The Republican National Committee formally denounced the tactics used by Cunningham Thursday.  In an article entitled RNC Denounces Use Of ‘Hussein’ In Obama’s Name, the Chairman of the Republican National Committee, Mike Duncan, said the election should only be about issues that are critical to our nation.

Let’s keep it clean!

s former campaign workers have come out and given details that strengthen the argument that an affair did seem likely.  To hear more about the details, read John McCain Affair? Links To Female Lobbyist Exposed.

Just when it appeared that John McCain had the GOP nomination all wrapped up, someone had a bombshell to drop.  Why does it seem that all politicians have secrets that could potentially destroy their chances at winning a spot in any particular office?  I would like to believe that Sen. McCain is innocent, and that this is a fabricated story, but it is hard to do so when two sources come out and give the same information to the press.

Most people would like to believe that McCain could not have done this.  He is a war hero and former prisoner of war (not to mention he looks like a lot of people grandfather).  But he is a man and subject to the fall of man.  We all have our pet sins.  Unfortunately for Sen. McCain, his alleged sin went public. This type of smear campaign seems to be the main focus of the liberal media.  McCain has even come out and publicly blamed the New York Times for publishing this article.

In an article on www.newstrust.net entitled McCain Torture Endorsement Lost Amid Sex Scandal Frenzy, it has been pointed out that this was infact a sexless scandal.  John Weever, a former campaign member on McCains’ 2000 staff, stated he personally warned Iseman to stay away.  

 This is a shameless attempt to drudge up something that really was nothing.  Perhaps the media has gone too far on this one. 

The GOP candidacy is all but locked up for Sen. John McCain.  After emerging from the Potomac primaries with a huge win this last Tuesday, Republican endorsements came flying in.  Mike Huckabee is refusing to bow out of the GOP race.  It seems the best thing for the Republican party would be to have one confirmed candidate, to officially begin to strategize their campaign against the Democratic party candidate.  That candidate will most likely be Sen. Hillary Clinton or Sen. Barack Obama.  Both of whom will challenge McCain much more than any of current or former Republican candidates.

In an article on CNN.com, GOP leaders call Republican race for McCain, it is mathematically impossible for Huckabee to win the Republican nomination.  As much as I respect someone for their determination and perseverance, the best possible scenario for the Republican party is for Huckabee to bow out.

McCain has earned the respect of some in the Republican party with his hard-nosed, no-quit mentality.  But, I think you could say the same thing for Huckabee.  I suspect that Huckabee is not staying in this race to win the Republican nomination (this time), but to earn a possible role as McCain’s Vice President.

John McCain seemed to have picked up a huge victory on Super Tuesday, by picking up a party-high 680 delegate votes.  But some conservatives are not at all happy with the early win by Sen. McCain.

Most people that vote for a republican, are voting for someone who is concerned with conservative issues, such as tax cuts, preserving the institution of marriage and the refusal to accept the use of embryonic stem-cell research.  Dr. James Dobson, a well-known Christian with his radio talk show Focus on the Family, criticized Sen. McCain, and even admitted on his talk show that he would not vote for a president if his choices were between Sen. McCain, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.

            If conservative republican’s cannot find in their candidate someone who will stand for their beliefs, then perhaps they will find an alternative candidate to select.  This should make for a very interesting race.  Even though Mitt Romney is trailing Sen. McCain, there are still many states that he could win.  These early wins for Sen. McCain might even encourage conservative voters to overlook their faiths, and vote for a moralist.

Let’s have some Straight Talk!

John McCain tonight in the Republican Presidential Debate totally took a shot at Mitt Romney when he accused McCain of passing legislation to increase the price of gasoline only in the U.S.  It was great to see him point out that Massachusetts did not endorse Romney, their governor, but McCain.  It seems to be apparent that with the line of questioning that McCain and Romney are the favored candidates to run for the office of the presidency.

It’s difficult to know who has really stated what in the past, but there were definitely some heated discussions between McCain and Romney about withdraw dates for soldiers in Iraq.  It was interesting to see the two chuckle at each other’s answers to these questions.  By turning and staring at each other, and totally ignoring their moderator, I felt like they were about to go to blows.

Who’s right?  Everybody is saying that they are being misquoted.  If everything is a misquote, who’s doing the research?  All I’ve got to say is there were a lot of questions involving policy.  Watch out for Huckabee!  He was fiery and had a lot of great ideas.

Overall, I think McCain will be walking away from Super Tuesday with a win.  This will be an interesting race.