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Contender, The (2000)
IMDB rating: 6.80
Plot: After his Vice-president suddenly dies, the President (Jeff Bridges) who is near the end of his final term, decides to leave a legacy by selecting a woman to fill the position. Enter a Senator (Joan Allen), who has shifted from the Republican Party to the Democratic. Initially appearing to be the perfect candidate, an allegation suddenly appears that she had been involved in a sexual orgy as a 19 year old in college. The confirmation committee chairman (Gary Oldman), a Republican, leaks the information to the press, while using the press discussion as a forum to bring it into the hearings. The chairman desires to get a Governor (William Petersen) into the office. The Governor had become a national hero when he attempted to rescue a young woman from a car that crashed from a bridge into deep water near where the Governor had been fishing.
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Parties aside, are there any folks thinking maybe we'd have been better off with McCain after all? Read on.?
I’ve started to hear a few comments on TV & internet over the past month about this. The following is some of what I’ve gathered, mixed in with my opinion of course.
The aftermath of the Feingold-McCain bill seems to have made just a few folks and reporters wonder as we’re all fed up with the Jr. High mentality that’s been running DC, even before Obama. No limits on Union & Corp donations to campaigns has raised a red flag for some apparently.
I can’t figure out why the Republicans didn’t get some McCain stories out besides the prison camp – it was very clear that Obama’s campaign was far superior, regardless of the contents.
From more than one source, before & after the elections, I’ve learned that McCain was ripped off & lost all his campaign funds about 6+ months before the primary. He started with nothing from scratch. Didn’t dip into the wealth of his wife’s family. Bought a coach plane ticket to NH, was met by some local yocal of the Party, and started walking the streets again to rise like a Phoenix from the ashes. But we didn’t hear about it then.
Whether we like the guy or not, that shows character. He is actually relatively moderate, so he couldn’t have been as offensive to folks as other more extreme platforms were during the primaries.
It also has come up that he could have paraded the pictures of his non-white adopted child to hang out the race card, but he declined parading his family in front of the media – that’s a good protector of those he cares about. I want someone like that to care about me & mine.
After the campaign, the news outlets revealed that George W.’s administration did NOT favor or like him, but he was thrown in with Bush. If he had W’s camp behind him, he probably would have won.
My editorial: The only contender, besides Biden, who had a strong reputation for reaching across party lines, persevered staying relatively clean for years (I was poly-sci major back in his earlier days), had the contacts in DC to pull strings to get things done, and we let this go? I was hoping for a McCain/Biden ticket, or someone to cross party lines and bring us back together.
I think, don’t know for sure, Rush Limbaugh referred to McCain as being "a slower road to Socialism". He didn’t like him, so there goes the ultra conservative accusations.
This is no offense to Obama, or any party member, I’m a boring, yet not on-the-fence moderate. A voter with no party – worked in HR, hiring & training employees. The "resumes", and how they were presented during that campaign, don’t make sense at all to me. I think the Republicans had one of the most moderate, candidates, with a proven track record (whether you agree with his policy or not), they’d seen in decades.
What do you think? I like all perspectives, please be nice – it’s Sunday.
Yes. Big Difference.
McCain is about 50% Democrat.
Obama is about 75% Communist.
I didn’t like McCain.
But Obama is Destroying the Future for our kids and grand kids.
Demsmierda | Jan 31, 2010
I favor Obama but McCain is a genuine American hero who deserves all of our respect
OMG How I wish he was our president instead of Bush
I promise I will never speak against him
George | Jan 31, 2010
Not to my way of thinking. He may be quite nice personally but some of his actions and comments worried me and the words and actions of Palin worried me even more. Their words seemed to incite violence and Palin seemed to draw some of the most violent groups. Some might say why judge McCain by Palin,,,,have too since they were running as a team.*
firewomen | Jan 31, 2010
We can’t know what would have happened if McCain had won. I certainly wanted him in 2000 instead of bozo the clown and I would probably have voted for him in 2008 if he hadn’t allowed the selection of Palin as his running mate.
I would have liked a McCain/Obama ticket or a McCain/Biden ticket.
Susan, Independent Texan | Jan 31, 2010
I don’t think we’d be better off with McCain. That dumbass voted for the TARP bailout, which makes him a traitor to America as far as I am concerned. And he had no real agenda or vision that I could discern. I am also a moderate, by they way, but leaning conservative (fiscally more than socially so) who also doesn’t have a party.
His Divine Shadow | Jan 31, 2010
Mr. McCain served his country valiantly and deserves all due credit for that, but at least part of the reason he lost in the Presidential race against Obama is because many voters were old enough to remember the Keating Five, and could not in good conscience vote for someone who had improperly interfered with a fraud investigation with the explicit intent of protecting a friend.
Would you lie to a judge to protect an old friend if you knew he was guilty? If you would, that makes you a fine & loyal friend, but also makes you unsuitable material for the presidency…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keating_Fiv e
ThinKabootit | Jan 31, 2010
Even though liberals/democrats are jumping obama ship, they are not jumping the democrat/liberal ship!
I know, it makes no sense at all, right!! One ship is an anchor for the other!!
Miles from Michigan! | Jan 31, 2010
I’ll stipulate what everyone agrees to: McCain is a genuine hero who deserves our respect. But McCain hasn’t impressed me in the past few years. He’s thrown away his own earned reputation as a maverick with an independent streak to kowtow to his own party’s extreme base over and over.
He had the cajones to vote against the Bush tax cuts, but later said he supported making them permanent. He repeatedly lied about his own publicly stated reasons at the time for opposing Bush. He took an independent position on immigration, got hit by the right, and backed down. He took an independent position on climate change, got hit by the right, and is now passionately denouncing the same proposal he supported as a candidate. And most obviously, he nominated an obviously unqualified running mate to appeal to the far right.
McCain has always been interested mostly in national security. His security policies are consistently aggressive; in every debate over the past 20 years, he has supported military intervention. If he had won, I think we would have had an ugly bargain with the congressional Republicans backing McCain’s propensity for excessive military action in return for getting a free hand to impose their own extreme ideas in domestic policy. A McCain presidency would have left Bush looking like a triumphant success.
A M Frantz | Jan 31, 2010
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