If by "country" he means the oil companies, energy CEOs, Halliburton, and all of Bush and Cheney's rich buddy "base".

Ultimately, it underscores how little of an energy policy McCain has. They throw everything in there from patriotism to POW to (strangely) the Apollo moon missions to distract viewers from the reality that they don't have a comprehensive or sensible energy policy. They don't have anything beyond the vague concept of drilling for oil domestically. All they have is warm fuzzies about men on the moon and being a "patriot". But no ideas on how to fix our economy, global warming, or ending our dependance on foreign oil through green and renewable energy.

We need real ideas and solutions, not more empty slogans.

The Sloganator.....slogans you can believe in. No need to corncern yourself with reality. What we really need is a news organization in this country other than Jon Stewart, Steven Colbert and Olberman who are not afraid to dig out videos of MCChange condradicting himself on every stand he is currently making.

Good thing. If McSame wins we'll be blowing our brains out four years from now.....

If Mr. McCain plans to put the country first, that would be a first for Republicans, who generally seem to put themselves first to the detriment of the country. And second, it's a bit odd that the ad states, "We went to the moon, not because it was easy, but because it was hard." That statement—unattributed in McCain's ad for obvious reasons—originally was made in 1963 by the president whom Barack Obama is said to resemble most: Democrat John F. Kennedy. I guess the second point proves the first.

Talk about short-sighted. God FORBID this man slime into office. Of course, that's what I said about Shrub.

Notice these ads so far totally avoid the left side of McCain's face?

is more accurate.

Is he more of the same having given up 5 years of his life for us? Or how about when he tried to tackle campaign finance, public corruption and immigration while everybody else tried to run the other way?

I don't get the vitriol. He has decades of history proving him to be an honest, hard-working individual. You may not agree with his policies, but if you don't respect the man it doesn't speak well for your character.

Why do all of John McCain's Ads seem so dark and ominous?

edsylv, I always love the Kennedy comparison since it's so completely moronic. If you take Obama at his word, he would never have invaded Vietnam, would never have invaded Cuba, would never have had his CIA install the Baath party in Iraq, and would never have instituted the trade embargo with Cuba (preferring instead to keep a dialog open)

he's also probably smart enough to keep from calling himself a donut in front of the world at the Berlin Wall.

Considering the OIL PUMP was front and center in tis Ad, you know where McCain's energy policy is headed.

You may not agree with his policies, but if you don't respect the man it doesn't speak well for your character.

It's not so much that I don't agree with his policies. It's not even that I don't agree with his stances. It's that I'm having a such hard time keeping track of what his stances are.

I mean, I'm not naive -- I'm used to politicians reversing themselves, especially when they dive into the craziness that presidential campaigns have become. But ye gods, McCain makes everyone else seem like paragons of consistency. He's so bad about it that even some of the media is beginning to notice, despite the fact that he'd generally get a pass for being a Republican.

"Why do all of John McCain's Ads seem so dark and ominous?"

bernbart - I wonder that too. I have yet to see one an ad of his that had music that didn't creep me out. It's like his running for Sith Lord of the US.

When McCain sold out his values to advance his political career it negated any "fine " things he may have done. I used to respect him at one time ...but he has allowed himself to be manipulated by the Republican machine...even his "clean campaign" has gone the way of his original outrage at many things from agents of intolerance evangelicals to torture

I thought McCain's energy policy earlier this week was to give a $300M prize to invent an energy policy for him.

Huh? We went because it was exciting and we were developing the technology to do it. You don't do something just because it's hard, not if you want to get anything done. How stupid is that?

There is but one thing that is important in the upcoming election. That one thing is strong National Defense. Let all of our ememies (the same guys who are the friends of the anti american Marxists) be simply frightened of us.

Without a strong national defense all this talk about energy, food, redistribution of wealth free everyting that you can think of will mean nothing.

The British Empire a most successful enterprise until Roosevelt and Stalin broke it up did not engender friendship, it was respect and fear.

At the present time since there has been no further attacks on our homeland people are getting jaded, thinking well it won't happen again. Well it will. Now we will not experience an attack here before the election. Such an attack before the election would encourage people to vote for John McCain who the marxist/socialist and our enemies ( same folks) do not wish to see as C in C. The enemies are too smart to pull a stunt like that but after the election of B.Hussein Obama, "Did I mention that he is Black" has a funny name, is accused of being a Muslim all hell can break loose.

McCain will protect you, that is all that is important for the foreseeable future. Down Deep you all know that.

BTW as a little girl Michelle Robinson Obama's mother should have washed out her mouth with soap, indeed.