Behind the scenes of the McCain biography tour courtesy of McCain Blogette.

h/t: McCain Blogette

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In other news: Barack Obama has raised $1.5 Billion for his children’s college fund campaign in the last two hours.

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h/t The Median Sib

U. S. Senator John McCain’s presidential campaign released a new web ad. The title of the new ad is American Heroes and tells the story of one of John McCain’s personal heroes. It is the story of Episcopal High School teacher and football coach, William B. Ravenel, who had a profound impact on McCain’s life.

You can also view the video at the John McCain website

Script For “American Heroes” (1:40-Web)

ANNCR: Our heroes help tell the story of America.

We know them well.

They’ve been inventors, athletes, rock-stars and presidents

They inspire us to dream.

Make the right choices.

Live up to their example.

But it’s not always the famous who inspire us.

Sometimes the heroes we need are right in front of us.

For John McCain, one of his heroes was in the front of his high school classroom.

William B. Ravenel was that hero.

He was the English teacher and football coach who inspired students to live the honor code.

“I shall not lie

I shall not cheat

I shall not steal

And I shall turn in the student who does.”

The teacher who believed in exoneration and redemption.

When one of John McCain’s classmates violated the rules and admitted to the infraction.

It was John McCain who declared that forgiveness was the best remedy.

Mr. Ravenel was the teacher who helped John McCain understand honor and redemption.

In his days of learning, John McCain realized that teaching is among the most honorable professions.

The honor code in high school was much the same as the honor code John McCain’s life taught him.

For John Sidney McCain, the honor code taught by his parents and reinforced by Mr. Ravenal in high school was just the beginning. …

On Monday John McCain will embark on his Service to America Tour. This tour is an opportunity for McCain to introduce himself to Americans through stops, speeches and interactions throughout America. His speeches will be on a more personal level than we have ever heard from him before.

…. he will introduce himself to the nation through a series of speeches and visits that trace the life of a man indebted to his nation, humbled by the opportunity to serve his country, honored by his family’s love and deeply moved by his fellow Americans’ courage and sacrifice. The tour will highlight the events and figures that shaped his views of right and wrong, forgiveness and grace and the tradition of service and sacrifice ingrained in him from generations of McCains. This “Service to America” tour will fundamentally be about the future of America and the change John McCain will bring as president, informed by the values that have guided his life.

Senator Lindsey Graham was on Hannity and Colmes last night and responded to the dems repeatedly distorting John McCain’s statement that the United States will have a presence in Iraq for up to 100 years.

The liberals are very good at sound byte politics. They knowingly distort and take statements out of context, repeat their sound byte repeatedly until many in the public start believing that their version of events is true. If you don’t keep close tabs on politics and depend on the old media for your information there is no reason that you wouldn’t believe that John McCain expected our troops to be fighting the Battle of Iraq for another 100 years. In reality, we need to remember that we’ve had troops all over the world for many years. Troops have been in Japan and Germany since World War II (over 60 years) an no one seems concerned about that in the least.

Hillary Clinton spent the St. Patrick’s Day weekend working the crowds at parades and giving speeches wearing a green scarf adorned with Irish clovers. Barack Obama spent the weekend with weak attempts to find the right set of words to get himself out of the corner he’s painted himself into by running as the candidate who transcends race while having spent the last twenty years attending a church that is astonishingly racist. I also imagine that he spent a large part of the weekend with spin doctors working on a speech he is to give tomorrow that is supposed to fix this entire situation for him. Words. Its all about words.

While the democrats were busily working on their respective campaigns, McCain made a surprise visit to Iraq. It is his eight trip there since the beginning of the war (did you know he’d been that many time? Right. I didn’t think so). He was traveling with fellow Senators Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) and Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.). While McCain visited Iraq and met with official there he stayed largely out of view. That doesn’t stop the leftists blogs from declaring that he was there for photo-ops and political gain.

The only political gain involved in his trip to Iraq had to do with progress in relations with the government of Iraq.

The visit included a briefing by senior U.S. military officials in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, according to a U.S. military official familiar with McCain’s schedule. The city has emerged as one of the last major urban strongholds of the Sunni insurgency. McCain then flew to Haditha, the western Iraqi town where, in November 2005, U.S. Marines gunned down as many as 24 Iraqi civilians. He walked through a market.

McCain was scheduled to meet with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, according to Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih. While Salih did not see McCain on Sunday, he said McCain’s “message has been consistent in the past saying Iraqis have to take responsibility and deliver on political progress.”

Salih said it was important for Iraqi politicians not to get involved in U.S. domestic politics but that his colleagues were “keenly aware of the debate in the United States.” Most important, he said, was a “solid long-term partnership” with the United States and a commitment that the American government “continue to look at Iraq as an important mission that cannot be allowed to fail.”

“Abandoning Iraq is not an option,” he said.

In an interview with CNN, McCain discussed the enormous stakes involved in the decisions that are being made in regards to Iraq.

Again he states the facts are on his side, that withdrawing troops too fast would undermine the security gains and create a climate where political reforms were even more unlikely.
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“We are succeeding. And we can succeed and American casualties overall are way down. That is in direct contradiction to the predictions made by the Democrats and particularly Sen. [Barack] Obama and Sen. [Hillary] Clinton.

“I will be glad to stake my campaign on the fact that this has succeeded and the American people appreciate it. Now will we be able to succeed fast enough? Will they be able to — al Qaeda be able to come back? That is a tough question. They are on the run, but they are not defeated.”

Crossposted at Blue Star Chronicles

Juan Williams is 100% right about the situation that Barack Obama is in right now with his mentor Reverend Jeremiah Wright. Obama is a blank screen upon which you can project whatever it is that you want the man to be. He is black, he is white, he is the most left-wing radical liberal in the Senate or he’s the man who can reach across divisions to bring about unity. He is whatever you want him to be at whatever moment in time you want him to be that.

As Juan Williams so accurately points out, we’d like to know WHO Barack Obama is. Unfortunately, I’m not sure that’s going to be something we can learn because I’m not sure that Obama knows who he is.

video via: Hot Air

Barack Obama had nothing but praise and adulation for his racist minister, The Reverend Jeremiah Wright until he got trapped like a rat and had to come out and disavow what his close friend and mentor of twenty years has been preaching from his pulpit. The hate spewed from this man’s mouth is nothing short of shocking and astonishing.

Barack’s window of opportunity to deal with this crisis in his campaign came and went without a peep from the presidential contender. Then, seemingly quite reluctantly, Barack came out to be grilled on his association with the hate monger Jeremiah Wright. Barack’s weak and unconvincing argument that he happened to not be sitting in the congregation on the days that the Reverend decided to rant on and on about the evils of the white race and the importance of separatism, segregation and keeping the black race forever in a state of victimization strained credibility to say the least. It would seem, from Barack’s words, that the only two times that Jeremiah Wright said such hateful things happened to be the two times that Barack skipped church.

I don’t know. It looked to me that the song and dance of Jeremiah Wright was very well practiced and was pretty much his mode of operation. Who knows, maybe it just happened that those isolated instances of hate-filled speech just happened to be the times it was caught on tape and just happened to be the times that Barack Obama wasn’t at church.

Do you believe him? Or is Barack just too cowardly to own up to his own culpability? Maybe Barack just thinks we are all just that stupid.

Newsbusters reports that in spite of Barack’s claims that he hardly knew what Jeremiah Wright was preaching, he was actually quite close to the man. (well, DUH!)

This video comes from Little Green Footballs and it looks like YouTube was reluctant to carry it. You know how it is. The main stream media knows better than us what we should and shouldn’t hear and see.

On March 15, 1973, John McCain was released from a North Vietnamese prison camp the Americans called the Hanoi Hilton. He was held for 5 1/2 years as a prisoner of war and released 35 years ago today.

The video is called Journey to Freedom.