Please John and Sarah, in the name of everything decent....

[Clio the Leo]

PLEASE say something kind about Barack now.

PLEASE restore my faith that you have SOME shred of decency left in you.

Campaign against him now if you must, continue to lie if you feel that's your only hope but PLEASE, tap deeply into those "Christian" virtues you claim to have.

And show compassion.

[loyalkydem]

1. Don't

hold your breath.

[trueblue2007]

I don't think they will. I think McCain and Palin are HEARTLESS

[crossroads]

26. True that! Counterfeit christians!

[Klukie]

2. Don't hold your breath. n/t

[TheCowsCameHome]

3. Just calling him president-elect will suffice.

if you can't say anything civil..............

[vanderBeth]

4. Maybe John. Wouldn't hold my breath with Sarah.

God, I still feel terrible. :cry:

[Lumpsum]

5. McCain MIGHT revert back to some deceny and say something.

But Palin won't.

[Chulanowa]

35. My thoughts as well

Somewhere behind all the shit of the last year, I think there's still a basically good and decent guy somewhere within McCain. He might be wrong, he might eb a grouchy old fuck, he might be unlikeable, but hey, for most of his career, he's at least been an okay guy with his head pointed in the right direction.

Palin, however, is a freeptard-in-chief. She'll repeat the claim from the crazies that this was "intentional" if she's allowed to say anything. Hell, if the McCain campaign keeps her silent, I'll take that as a sign of shreds of decency

[Lilyeye]

6. Didn't Palin bash Joe Biden when his MIL died?

[boozepusher]

21. Link?

I must have missed this.

[AspenRose]

23. .

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/07/palin-criticizes-biden-wh_n_132753.html?page=2

[boozepusher]

27. Ok

[Schulzz]

7. Maybe there is hope for McCain, but I would not hold my breath

for Palin. :(

[Phx_Dem]

8. I think McCain will. Don't hold your breath for anything nice from Palin.

[stillcool]

9. fuck them...

they have no decency..why should they now?

[Overseas]

10. I could care less. Actually hope they stay in character and continue being mean.

I don't want McPanic and Failin getting any sympathy points at this stage. They don't deserve any.

[No Elephants]

11. He'll make a statement of sympathy and keep running his negative shat.

[scheming daemons]

12. I'll settle for them NOT saying anything bad about him

[LisaLynne]

13. Palin will just say something vaguely insulting and self-serving ...

if she says anything at all. Like she did about Biden's late wife during the debates.

[RamboLiberal]

14. Well now we'll see if they have any decency left

I wouldn't bet on it.

Cut the negative crap, run on your platform. Quit attacking the man personally.

[CakeGrrl]

15. Good luck with that. Don't count on it. n/t

[monmouth]

16. Their campaign has been over for a while anyway, they

should just shut it down...

[demokatgurrl]

17. not holding my breath on this one. n/t

[TrogL]

18. They are not followers of Christ's teachings

Don't hold your breath

[Clio the Leo]

28. I know, but that doesn't stop them from pimping out their "Christianity" when they need to. NT

[deadmessengers]

19. My guess

McCain will release a statement through the campaign's press office today, and mention it during his concession speech tomorrow.

[Debi]

20. I'll guarantee it - the disgusting Rev. Wright ad will be shown on Monday Night Football

They have no decency...

[dissemination]

22. I am sure they will. No need to use her death for more bashing at

at this point.

[Laelth]

36. Welcome to DU!

The United States is a LIBERAL Country.

:dem:

-Laelth

[StreetKnowledge]

24. The Real John McCain would have already done that

But the fake, Roveite-operated, running with Caribou Barbie McCain won't say a damn thing.

I hope when this is over, really, that McCain tells the GOP to suck his dick. He's a better man than this.

[kath]

30. Please read this article:

If you think McCain is a good man, you are seriously deluded. He's ALWAYS been an asshole - this is nothing recent.

Make-Believe Maverick
A closer look at the life and career of John McCain reveals a disturbing record of recklessness and dishonesty
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/make_believe_maverick_the_real_john_mccain

excerpt:

At Fort McNair, an army base located along the Potomac River in the nation's capital, a chance reunion takes place one day between two former POWs. It's the spring of 1974, and Navy commander John Sidney McCain III has returned home from the experience in Hanoi that, according to legend, transformed him from a callow and reckless youth into a serious man of patriotism and purpose. Walking along the grounds at Fort McNair, McCain runs into John Dramesi, an Air Force lieutenant colonel who was also imprisoned and tortured in Vietnam.

McCain is studying at the National War College, a prestigious graduate program he had to pull strings with the Secretary of the Navy to get into. Dramesi is enrolled, on his own merit, at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces in the building next door.

There's a distance between the two men that belies their shared experience in North Vietnam — call it an honor gap. Like many American POWs, McCain broke down under torture and offered a "confession" to his North Vietnamese captors. Dramesi, in contrast, attempted two daring escapes. For the second he was brutalized for a month with daily torture sessions that nearly killed him. His partner in the escape, Lt. Col. Ed Atterberry, didn't survive the mistreatment. But Dramesi never said a disloyal word, and for his heroism was awarded two Air Force Crosses, one of the service's highest distinctions. McCain would later hail him as "one of the toughest guys I've ever met."

On the grounds between the two brick colleges, the chitchat between the scion of four-star admirals and the son of a prizefighter turns to their academic travels; both colleges sponsor a trip abroad for young officers to network with military and political leaders in a distant corner of the globe.

"I'm going to the Middle East," Dramesi says. "Turkey, Kuwait, Lebanon, Iran."

"Why are you going to the Middle East?" McCain asks, dismissively.

"It's a place we're probably going to have some problems," Dramesi says.

"Why? Where are you going to, John?"

"Oh, I'm going to Rio."

"What the hell are you going to Rio for?"

McCain, a married father of three, shrugs.

"I got a better chance of getting laid."

Dramesi, who went on to serve as chief war planner for U.S. Air Forces in Europe and commander of a wing of the Strategic Air Command, was not surprised. "McCain says his life changed while he was in Vietnam, and he is now a different man," Dramesi says today. "But he's still the undisciplined, spoiled brat that he was when he went in."

McCAIN FIRST

This is the story of the real John McCain, the one who has been hiding in plain sight. It is the story of a man who has consistently put his own advancement above all else, a man willing to say and do anything to achieve his ultimate ambition: to become commander in chief, ascending to the one position that would finally enable him to outrank his four-star father and grandfather.

In its broad strokes, McCain's life story is oddly similar to that of the current occupant of the White House. John Sidney McCain III and George Walker Bush both represent the third generation of American dynasties. Both were born into positions of privilege against which they rebelled into mediocrity. Both developed an uncanny social intelligence that allowed them to skate by with a minimum of mental exertion. Both struggled with booze and loutish behavior. At each step, with the aid of their fathers' powerful friends, both failed upward. And both shed their skins as Episcopalian members of the Washington elite to build political careers as self-styled, ranch-inhabiting Westerners who pray to Jesus in their wives' evangelical churches.

In one vital respect, however, the comparison is deeply unfair to the current president: George W. Bush was a much better pilot.

[xloadiex]

25. Tucker Bounds came on

MSNBC right after the announcement and didn't utter a word. Consider the source.

[RagAss]

29. Can you say Souless pieces of shit?

[ladjf]

31. I like the way you think Clio the Leo. nt

[dgibby]

32. The McCain's just released a very nice statement re:

the death of Obama's grandmother. Just read by Wolf Blitzer on CNN. No work from Palin yet.

[alsame]

33. They won't. They don't want to humanize him and are afraid he'll

get some sympathy votes.

[phleshdef]

34. Palin will be talking about ACORN registering someone to vote in her name before the day is over.

I'm so disgusted with her at this point that I wouldn't put it past her.