Sen. John McCain, who has long been identified in the media as a self-professed "maverick," says in a new interview that he never thought the word applied to him.
"I never considered myself a maverick," McCain told Newsweek. "I consider myself a person who serves the people of Arizona to the best of his abilities."
That's a striking comment in light of the number of times that the former Republican presidential candidate has embraced the term; at a town hall meeting in Michigan in September of 2008, he said, "Sarah [Palin] and I don't agree on every issue -- what do you expect of two mavericks? To agree on everything?"
The McCain campaign also ran an ad during the presidential campaign calling McCain "the original maverick." (check it out above.) There was also a spot in which McCain and Palin are identified as "the original mavericks," which you can see here. McCain even referred to himself a maverick on an appearance on "Saturday Night Live" shortly before the election.
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Posts: 4674 From: Houston, TX USA Registered: Jun 2003
For me, the point is that he proudly promotes his willingness to become a maverick, and work with 'the other side of the isle', in passing legislation that conservative republicans oppose. McCain-Kennedy on immigration (amnesty), for example.
Now that he has his tail in a crack in Arizona, "I'm not a Maverick".
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pokeyfiero Member
Posts: 16189 From: Free America! Registered: Dec 2003
I think McCain really screwed up that interview. I don't know why he is running away from the maverick label. He was proud to be one for years. Maybe he is having a change of heart after seeing that all these years of bucking the party has lead to him losing th election and Obama's travesty of an administration.
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Posts: 9042 From: brookfield,wisconsin Registered: Dec 1999
I'm not a McCain fan in the least, so please keep my response in this context.
There is no issue here. At all. Either you are biased against him and trying to make something out of nothing, or you can't understand a really not difficult scenario.
A lot of OTHER people described McCain as a maverick. So within that public context that others were imposing on him, he referred to himself that way in the public forum on the campaign trail.
INTERNALLY, he never saw himself as a maverick and saw himself as a servant.
There is no conflict here. Other people may consider you a super-nice guy. So if you were on the campaign trail, you might present yourself as Mr. Nice Guy because that is what everyone thinks of you. And COMPARING YOURSELF TO YOUR OPPONENT, you may be. When on the inside, you may use a different measuring stick than your opponent, and not feel you measure up to being that nice a guy.
So that is no dishonesty and deception. McCain in public and compared to his opponent, is ok with describing himself as a maverick. But when he judges himself on his own against his own measuring stick, he doesn't assess himself that way.
Man. It isn't even that hard to think that one through. What is your problem? Asking seriously, not insultingly. I don't get what your issue is.
Now Obama. He is a socialist through and through AND everyone SHOULD have known it based on his behavior of the last 20 years, but he SAID he wasn't. THAT is a problem.
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Once you come to terms with the fact that 90% of everything that comes out of a politician's mouth is BS, politics will be a lot less stressful for you.
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Posts: 27083 From: Safe in the Carolinas Registered: Aug 2000
It is. See, Obama says he's not a socialist. But he is.
That's well and good but the point is people have the heads so far up Obama's ass that everytime they are forced to admit to themselves that the guy is mostly bullshit they have to find something to bolster their past choice. Come on, who gives a **** what McCain said about being a "Maverick" It isn't an issue and McCain himself is a non issue.
The worst dug in deep offenders of the obvious are the racially motivated ones. Not just blacks but mostly. They will stand by "their" man no matter what. Like cheering for your home team. Of course anyone else that doesn't like Obama is a racist.
White guilt Black pride Hope and changers Anti "the man" Bush haters(I can sympathize)
All a bunch of people now thoroughly discouraged and maybe even embarrased that they voted for the guy and he fooled em. **** the facts lets find some innocuous useless totally irrelevant info about a guy that doesn't matter so I can feel a little better about being voluntarily ****ed in tha ass by Obama.
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Posts: 27083 From: Safe in the Carolinas Registered: Aug 2000
I wouldn't call him a traitor. He is a genuine hero. Who among us would have chosen to stay in the hell hole as he did.
He DOES need to decide where he stands on the issues however.
His daughter is running all over the country, in front of every tv camera that she can get, spouting progressive bs, much of it the same as Obama and his crew. She learned that at her daddy's knee. She wasn't trained differently.
McCain has made much of his willingness to work across the isle and he has done it in opposition to the party with which he affiliates himself. At the beginning of the campaign he made a big deal of his desire to be a different kind of leader. As his campaign progressed I became nauseous with him because of his "Fight with me" chant. That was the last we saw of the warrior.
He is only a maverick when it comes to being a true conservative, in opposition to his party and I'm tired of him. Why is he NOT a maverick when it comes to aligning with democrats? Why isn't he a maverick when they stick a knife in his back?
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I wouldn't call him a traitor. He is a genuine hero. Who among us would have chosen to stay in the hell hole as he did.
He DOES need to decide where he stands on the issues however.
His daughter is running all over the country, in front of every tv camera that she can get, spouting progressive bs, much of it the same as Obama and his crew. She learned that at her daddy's knee. She wasn't trained differently.
McCain has made much of his willingness to work across the isle and he has done it in opposition to the party with which he affiliates himself. At the beginning of the campaign he made a big deal of his desire to be a different kind of leader. As his campaign progressed I became nauseous with him because of his "Fight with me" chant. That was the last we saw of the warrior.
He is only a maverick when it comes to being a true conservative, in opposition to his party and I'm tired of him. Why is he NOT a maverick when it comes to aligning with democrats? Why isn't he a maverick when they stick a knife in his back?
I agree with you on his war efforts. Truly courageous, but he is turning his back on his nation when it truly needs him. Would he have taught the enemy how to get the jump on his fellow soldiers, or join with them in fighting during war? Then why is he joining with those that are doing harm to this nation politically? He is spiitting on everything he fought for. My name would never be on a bill cosponsered by Kennedy or Feingold. Lieberman? Maybe.
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Posts: 21401 From: In a Van down by the Kern River Registered: Jul 2003
Last I knew, you didn't live in AZ. You can't vote for or against him. You have something like 4 clips here about so it must matter to you a lot, I'm just curious as to why it does?
Obama has enough problems keeping Michelle's mouth shut about proclaming where his home country really is
Hey--knock it off--this is all about John McCain and mavericks. Next thing ya know, someone will be bringing up something that is actually relevant in the world today or mentioning all the lies coming out of Washington DC. Yep, still waiting on Cspan's coverage of the healthcare debates Still waiting for some Obama worshipper to explain why my annual average healthcare costs are going to increase about 3000% when Obama swore before God, Congress and everyone else that they would decrease.
Ooops--sorry--let's just keep it about McCain/mavericks, since that's SOOO important in our insignificant little lives.
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Posts: 21401 From: In a Van down by the Kern River Registered: Jul 2003
PHOENIX – Arizona Sen. John McCain is taking to Twitter to slam President Barack Obama, this time in an exchange with a star from MTV's hit reality series "Jersey Shore."
In a preview for the show's next season, Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi laments that she doesn't use tanning beds anymore because "Obama put a 10 percent tax on tanning."
She says, "McCain would never put a 10 percent tax on tanning, because he's pale and he would probably want to be tan."
McCain, a skin cancer survivor, replied Wednesday on Twitter, saying "u r right, I would never tax your tanning bed! Pres Obama's tax/spend policy is quite The Situation. but I do rec wearing sunscreen!"
Snooki replied: "Haha Yes!!"
The federal health care overhaul championed by Obama is funded in part with a 10 percent tax on tanning-bed services.
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Posts: 27083 From: Safe in the Carolinas Registered: Aug 2000
McCain....True American war hero. I cannot vote for him for one reason. 6 years of the Hanoi Hilton. I would not be the same person coming out of that place. I feel for him, and his trials, but that would scar a man forever. I could not see someone going through that, then have to run a country like the United States. But yes, Mcain.... True American hero. (Just my opinion. Nothing more. Nothing less. )
Tanning tax.....I don't tan anymore, but definately used to. I wonder why there is a tax on something that only pertains to white America? No tax should ever apply to the color of ones skin. This is what is happening now. The year is something like twentyten?
So, we're now 4 more trillion dollars in debt today than we were in November of 2008, and this is what you decide to post about? Are you aware of what's going on???
Originally posted by 82-T/A [At Work]: So, we're now 4 more trillion dollars in debt today than we were in November of 2008, and this is what you decide to post about? Are you aware of what's going on???
Giving the threads started on Pennock's--mine falls right in amoung the group.
I would never presume to tell you what you can and can't post on Pennock's... it's not mine to make that demand anyway... and I don't think I would anyway if it was my board.
I just think it's odd that you would post it now? (Although I see it's from April).
I mean... McCain lost the election... that was almost 2 years ago now... don't you have anything else you disagree with that Republicans are doing? It just makes me think that maybe you're not about the issues, but just being a cheerleader for the Democrat party.
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I cannot vote for him for one reason. 6 years of the Hanoi Hilton. I would not be the same person coming out of that place. I feel for him, and his trials, but that would scar a man forever. I could not see someone going through that, then have to run a country like the United States. But yes, Mcain.... True American hero. (Just my opinion. Nothing more. Nothing less. 
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