McCain is dazed and confused on Education
Wow, check out this clip. McCain is so confused about an education question that Mel Martinez and Lieberman had to step in and answer it for him. Simply pathetic. They were pretty clueless too. (h/t Open Left)
Lieberman: You know a lot of candidates can give you a good answer on education or on health care or on any of the other things that you worry about....You gotta have a president that's going to pull people in both parties together and say OK, you're a Democrat, I'm a Republican, but do you know what's more important? We're Americans and we have a responsibility to deliver to the American people..
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Lieberman goes so far as to say that it's not how a candidate answers a question about an important topic of concern for voters, but that he'll break the partisan wall. WTF? That's the best that he can do? Forget the issues. Who needs to know. McCain looks confused as he looks into the crowd.
Imagine if Obama won the nomination and picked Lieberman as a running mate......
Ugghhhhhh......
PATHETIC
Some Democrats seem deathly afraid this doddering phony actually has a chance to win. To them, I say view this video and think again.
as stomach turning as McStain and whoever that patsy of his are, listening to LIEberman actually made me throw up in my mouth a little.
Joe is an opportunistic jerk.
I don't think that is the only thing McCain is "dazed and confused" about. Same goes for Lieberman, wow.
Well Obama would certainly agree with Lieberman. Maybe the two of them can bring Perot on board to tinker under the hood and Bush to be the "uniter and not a divider." Now wouldn't they make a peachy keen group.
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"I'm glad you asked me about euthanasia because I'm all for it!"
I would love to view the clip..but there aren't any active links in the post. ;(
Poor Grandpa John did look confused. "Why am I here? Is it time for lunch?" Lieberman wants to be veep for McCain. He probably knows this is his last term as senator.
Whew, glad to see the site back up, even if it doesn't recognize me in the comments. I had to fill in my infor.
I saw this event live on tv when it happened and I truly did say out loud, WTF?
First off I have no love for any of these guys but here's the thing. I don't want a candidate that has all these "my way is the right way" answers. I would vote for the guy that does not have a "blueprint" to fix everything, I would want a guy that says...
"I don't know how best to fix things but I will find out from the real experts on the subject and he can tell me how to do it. Then I would use my authority to get it done."
That is the sign of a true leader, a guy who finds the right people and then leads.
O.T. McCain isn't the only one dazed and confused. What the hell is Word Press? I tried to get here a dozen times and all I got was this lousy Word Press.
McCainiac has no clothes.... eew what a thought.
He's a talking point blower like the rest of em (Bar Ron Paul).
McCainiac Vs Miss south Carolina
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Cut the old dude some slack, for Chrissakes! He's 71 years old and probably exhausted from all the campaigning. Would you genuises rather face Mitt Romney in November??? The guy with the unlimited campaign fun and the support of Bush/Cheney Co.???
Be careful what you wish for!
Will some one please tell me why some americans think this fith columnist AIPAC tool has ever or will ever represent American interest?
No old kook left behind.
Silly McCain.
He should have just said CHANGE!
See, it works every time.
What was the question the teacher asked McCain? It's not part of the clip - it was clipped...
Does it matter to Holy Joe whether or not a candidate even answers the question or not?
Btw, if anyone's interested, I'll be live-blogging the SOTU Address. I don't want to give away the surprise but let's just say that because this is supposed to be Bush's last this yea's live-blogging will be themed.
For those of you who'll be tuning in to Pottersville so you don't have to suffer through it, I'd better get a dozen blow jobs, new pair of Star Trek pajamas and three huge bags of Cheetos for doing this.
"Will some one please tell me why some americans think this fith columnist AIPAC tool has ever or will ever represent American interest?"
You sir need to watch more CNN and FOX.
Do not worry, representatives from the Re-Education dept. are on their way right now...
Does it matter to Holy Joe whether or not a candidate's even capable of answering the question?
Btw, if anyone's interested, I'll be live-blogging the SOTU Address. I don't want to give away the surprise but let's just say that because this is supposed to be Bush's last this yea's live-blogging will be themed.
For those of you who'll be tuning in to Pottersville so you don't have to suffer through it, I'd better get a dozen blow jobs, new pair of Star Trek pajamas and three huge bags of Cheetos for doing this.
Darth_Romney @ 17:
Yes...
If it ends up Hillary vs Mccain, it will be close. Romney comes off as too slick I think.
But seriously, whatever you think of his politics, Mccain has sacrificed for the country so he's due a certain degree of respect. Alot of the comments people have made here are really pathetic...
Everytime I see Lieberman, I want to smash my new LCD...
Like the Canadians on this site.
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McCrazy is dazed and confused, period.
What was that gesture he did with his hands after he stopped talking? It appeared to suggest he didn't know what to do. Kinda sad really
This is pitiful. They should go back to talking about war n shit.
Ld @ 25:
Respect is earned not granted, that is true. However, in the same sense that actions are needed to gain it (respect)... actions can also remove it.
Whatever respect McCain had requested for his service in the US Navy have long been overshadowed by his actions as a US senator, and political candidate.
In any case, I guess that at least we show far more respect to this turd of a human being, than most right wingers showed for Kerry in 2004. One good turn deserves another, I say. However, I am sure that liberals have far more class and compassion and I doubt that if McCain was to be the GOP candidate, you will see any "Hanoi Hilton Rocks" tshirts at the democratic convention. Saint McCain surely took his time to come against the swift boaters, and he surely though those purple hear band aids were mighty funny during the GOP convention.
So Mr. McCain is going to have to try harder to earn my respect, getting shot down can only give you so much benefit of the doubt.
I will be very surprised if McCain holds together physically and/or mentally all the way through the convention..
Even if he does, the strain of the run up to the election will more than likely take him down.....With Lieberman, we should be so lucky....
Translation from Lieberspeak:
Does America want a president who understands the issues or a president who understands he's an American?
When ever I hear someone saying that they are home schooling their children I cringe. I know that I would never be able to teach anyone Algebra, completely beyond me, and many other subjects in which I am deficient. I don't see how anyone can teach their children to be more capable than themselves. And I come from generations of educators.
VietVet8666 @ 27:
yep.......sometimes I wonder.
Break the partisan wall?
surely he doesn't mean dictatorship now does he?
He's a senator from Connecticut, not Florida. WTF is Lieberman doing there anyway?
but getting back to McCain........he new he was going to need help out there..........that right there disqualifies him.
LIEberman is wrong. We need MORE partisanship, not less. We need it from Democrats, who have failed to comprehend that the Republican standard operating procedure is to bait the Democrats into working with them, then take and take and take, but never give.
What's the compromise between Democrats who think abortion should be safe, legal and rare versus Republicans who think summary execution of doctors who provide reproductive health services is acceptable?
What's the compromise between Democrats who think Social Security should be a government run old age pension and catastrophic insurance plan, and Republicans who want to use that money to enrich speculating investment bankers and stock brokers while impoverishing senior citizens?
What's the compromise between Democrats who want to leave Iraq and know we never should have invaded in the first place, and Republicans who think staying there for another hundred years is OK, and who can be counted on to ALWAYS, ALWAYS tell us everything in Iraq is "great," and that if we stay just six more months (and six more months, and six more months, and six more months), they KNOW everything will be better.
What's the compromise between Democrats who like the Constitution and the written law, and the Bush administration and its enablers, who believe warrantless wiretapping and searches and detentions are acceptable, and that the Geneva conventions are "quaint?"
What's the compromise between Democrats who want to track down and kill Osama bin Laden, and Republicans who "just don't spend that much time thinking about him?"
What's the compromise between Democrats who appreciate the rule of law and Republicans who will rig elections and use the power of the prosecutor to jail Democratic candidates they regard as election day threats?
LIEberman wants compromise with Bush and his enablers? First let them acknowledge their wrongdoing. Let them be impeached and tried. Let them be convicted. Let them be punished. No truth, no acceptance of responsibility? Fine, then no reconciliation, and NO COMPROMISE!
theWalrus @ 1:
Right, imagine if I had a trained seal who could fly and spat out gold coins when I asked him to.
It's about as likely to happen. *Every-freaking-body* knows who Lieberman is. He might end up McCain's running mate, but not another Democrat. He's already burned his bridges--he's campaigning with one.
So, Senator Palpatine wants to follow in the steps of Darth Cheney... and become emperor behind a dazed and confused president
Of course a lot of the criticism directed toward McCain, regarding bringing together both parties and thinking that will trump actual hard facts on topics, can also be directed toward Obama; who often rattles on about "change" and uniting parties but doesn't often articulate his positions. Shelby Steele's new book about Obama goes in depth on this issue.
ndib @ 7:
Apples and oranges. *No one's* going to "unite" around McCain (or Lieberman, for that matter) because neither of them has ever been a uniter. Obama doesn't carry that albatross.
Move on, please.
has he been drinking?
it's obvious that Lieberman wants(oh so very badly)to be VP.......so he can(maybe)be Prez.....going with McCain has the best odds of him doing just that!
Lieberman is looking for another veep space on McCain's ticket.
Vote for McCain/Lieberman! They have a catchy slogan!
"Out with the old, and in with the older!!
What a spoof!
This was the rehearsal for the new Reality Game show,
'Pick the Idiot'.
The casting was great, the costumes were ok, the script was lousy. No one would ever believe the stupidity of that script. They're gonna have to do a lot of work before that ever makes it to an OK for a pilot.
Hell, there was no way to 'Pick the Idiot', they were all idiots. Bad show.
I know there is more to hate about the man, but I hate the way Joe Lieberman talks. It makes me want to fall asleep. I wasn't old enough to vote in the past two elections and have always wondered why people thought Al Gore's campaign was boring, especially since I found him entertaining in an Inconvenient Truth.
McCain/Liebermann could pose a big threat. I can just hear the Unity 08 people supporting them while Lou Dobbs talks non-stop that Independents are finally going to run the country thanks to him. How is it possible to take everything bad about the Republicans and incorporate it into one candidate?
McCain/Lieberman.......Dumb and Old and Dumb
McCain/Lieberman........Dazed and Confused
McCain/Lieberman........Dead and Half Dead
Yuck. I take it Republicans have all but tossed in the white flag on this election after the Bush fiasco. Must suck to be Republican right now.
No, he's just dazed and confused.
McCain is probably wondering why he's up past his nap time.
Joe sees the handwritting on the wall. He is one senate seat away in the next election from loosing his committee chair. As McCain's veep, and possible future president, he can snake his way back into relevance and into starting more American taxpayer funded wars for Isreal, Big Oil and Defense contractors.
Ruthless People @ 53:
...Lieberman doesn't give two shits about those people. It's all about him and his neocon warmongering agenda.
Saw the Governor from Florida endorse McCain what is this the Attack of the White Haired Tools? Hope it's more like that hair commercial ( no play for Mr Grey)
Who even listens to these guys Lieberman should be striped committee seats he's no democrat and he's sure no independent
Isn't it great to see the (I) Lieberman voting all the time with the (R) and now campaigning for the (R) Mc Cain yet he is allowed to daucus with the (D)....
Kick his ass out or at least piss on his shoes, please!
There's been a lot of talk about resurrecting Reagan's corpse to compete for the (R) nomination. I say you've almost got you're man. McCain is Reagan - just without the personality and sense-of-humor but with all that ol' fashioned Alzheimer goodness. If they could only transplant Romney's 'Big Boy' haircut and Tancredo's hatred of brown people into McCain's balding head, We'd have ourselves a god-damn Gipper-stein.
I'm both infuriated and amused by Joe's "you’re a Democrat, I’m a Republican" example. Whoops.
Insane McCain is even more ignorant that Bush.
Which means he'll probably get the nomination.
Ld @ 25:
Pathetic is pandering to the home-schooled crowd. Pathetic is letting someone who looks like Droopy Dog tag along who had to start his own political party, named after himself, and is being constantly attacked by the guy who now heads it...
i think mccain is taking hgh. by the way, are members of congress randomly drug tested. if not, why not, as they pass laws allowing drug testing for corporate employees. if it is good enough for us, it's good enough for them.
McCain is to the rePIG-licans what Katie Holmes is to Tom Cruise - someone to watch and control by whatever means necessary. Looks like LIE-berman has the job right now.
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andy @ 15:
Not to worry - he wears camo adult diapers.
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Lieberman found his hawk of choice to push his zionist ideologies. I don't care if people get offended by my comment but it's what I believe.
Iran ditches the US greenback and decides to deal in Euros instad, besides oil and money what are any other reasons to bomb Iran?
well I hope he doesn't eat any pretzels.
Otay @ 60:
Whatever, dude! You'll come to understand an entirely new meaning of the word pathetic when President Mitt Romney takes the oath of office a year from now! You'll get your wish and the old 'pandering' war hero will go off into that good sunset, and you'll have the corporate anthichrist, Lord of Kolob who will make Bush's presidency look like a f*cking golden age!
McCain's not 'dazed and confused', the reason he's looking up at the wings toward his staff, with his hands spread in supplication, is that he's pissed, and wondering where the hell his staff diaper-guy is, 'cause his Depends is loaded, he's out in public, up on a stage, the center of attention, and he's about to dump a load in front of the world.....and yet he's wondering, because he can't quite trust his mind anymore, whether he already took a dump, and tossed his Depends, just before walking on stage, but forgot, and put the old, loaded Depends back on.....or whether he's just having a bad dream, and if a shot of bourbon would bring him back....or....
theWalrus @ 1:
What makes you think he would do that?
I think Romney and McCrazy are BOTH beatable. You'll see come November.
Liebermen. God where to start? So it doesn't matter if John McCain's policy proposals are opposite of what you think is best for the country, what matters is that you come together and "get it done" for America. Is he the dumbest man in politics?
Grampa is too old for the job. The intent is, of course, to have another puppet in office, so that the military-industrial complex and corporations can continue to rape and pillage The People.
Lieberman: what a stinking piece of crap. Connecticut: once again, THANKS for helping America go down the shit-hole by putting this creature in office.
This entire primary season is like living a nightmare that won't end.
Funny, I don't remember Lieberman campaigning with that kind of gusto in 2000. Certainly wasn't that full o' piss n vinegar the last time he was Florida trying to tie up an election.
I don't want to talk to no stinkin' republicans about anything! Fuck those bastards!
Their vision of America, is a sick, twisted, perversion, of everything that once made this country great. I never thought I would live to see the day that I would be embarrassed for my country. Rot in hell you GOP pricks!
They took a 48% "mandate," and shoved a huge pile of fascist shit down the rest of our throats. They stole our money to create an aristocracy, treated every American who was not part of their millionaire corporate crony peer group like a dirty diaper, and now that the country would like to hang them by their nut-sacks, we are supposed to be all nice? WTF?
The only thing I want to hear from repukes in the future, is their cries of unfairness, when the 75% democratic majority tells them to STFU, and go sit in their permanent status minority corner.
i just watched the clip, and dont know what the big deal is
mccain and lieberman clearly just see something going on in the distance and pause to look.
stop making a big deal out of nothing
I don't get why John McCain's answer was supposed to be bad.
Because he let the other people on stage speak, too? That's why they were on the stage.
Joe Lieberman (to crowd): ...you’re a Democrat, I’m a Republican...
Freudian slip much?
if mccain doesnt want himself labeled old and infirm, this sure as shit aint the way to do it
i keep hearing the pundits say that a mccain/holy joe ticket would be unstopable
please god, let that be the ticket....its a total train wreck waiting to happen
Sure John McCain will bring people together like Joe says and John's 85 % republican line voting proves out.
"You gotta have a president that’s going to pull people in both parties together and say OK, you’re a Democrat, I’m a Republican..."
Look at what he said here!! He expects the next President to be a Republican, not a Democrat. If he were Dem, he'd have said that the other way around. It speaks volumes!!!
Competition works...
Really? Why does everything in public life have to have competition?
Just make good schools for chrissakes!
Homeskooling works?
Really? Yeah, I could see that... maybe if we were living in the pioneer days..!!
Man, even little Laura Ingles went to a public school and nobody ever called her a COMMIE!
Is our Senators learning ?
If not, we ought to make their pie higher.
That's the whole problem.....
You see the corporatists, right wingnuts, free marketist fairytale believers believe that life in general is a race, a competition between having & not having.
You're not 'successful' in life unless you have everything. Do you ever wonder why you see so many commercials about cars & other items that the majority of the public could never afford? Why tv shows & news reports always focus on extravagance & pompous aristocrats/socialites...meanwhile corporate board members/executives get a pass unless they're under indictment???
EDUCATION IS COLLABORATIVE ____ NOT COMPETITITVE. Its a group of people that have FORSAKEN financial gains, to do something THEY TRULY LOVE TO DO. NO TEACHER DOES IT FOR THE MONEY.
EDUCATION SHOULD NEVER, EVER BE A BUSINESS. IN A CIVIL SOCEITY - IT SHOULD BE A RIGHT, NOT A 'PRIVELEGE'. IT PROVIDES A SOCIAL FUNCTION, SO THAT CITIZENS CAN BE 'USEFUL' (to take a corporatist word) MEMBERS OF SOCIETY, CONTRIBUTORS TO THE COUNTRY, THE WORLD.
NCLB should be blown out of existence. Its been perverted by Republicans/Libertarians as a way to destroy publicly funded education. VOUCHERS are BS, CHARTER SCHOOLS are BS..... CHILDREN aren't COOKIES waiting to BE CUT IN THE SAME MOLD. GENETICALLY IMPOSSIBLE, not all children WANT to go to college, THEY MUST HAVE other options...
Instead of spending 643 Billion on Defense MORE THAN THE COMBINED AMOUNT OF THE REST OF THE WORLD/OR THE NEXT 10 COUNTRIES COMBINED TIMES TWO....spend half of that on education...and fix the funding discrepancies in urban areas, bring back after school programs, worker programs, technical school options, etc.
Look at the Japanese/German systems....not privatized, but publicly & fully funded with lots of options so that their next generations will keep their country moving ahead...
nonbeliever @ 69:
That's only if Democrats do not divide like we usually do and hand over the White House to the Republicans.
"My wife Cindy was a special ed teacher when I met her and before...uhhh...before I took her away from that." Yessirree. The Straight Talk Express. Whew. Never knew 71 could look so bad.
McCain's hand gestures are the reaction to someone snapping back at him in the crowd... presumably for not doing a good job of answering the question. McCain does a "well what do you want?" kind of motion with his hands, then continues to look back at the person in the audience. He was obviously shook that he got challenged like that and it was a nervous reaction.
Lieberman is shameful. There is nothing worse than seeing a senior citizen "steal from Wal-Mart." I liken Lieberman to this.
Why is Lieberman still calling himself a Democrat? And why haven't the Dems expelled him yet?
McCain , hey dude if you want to " unite both parties ya need some COMMUNICATION SKILLZ , get it . You don't need them to lie to the Iraqis , by not telling them you want a permanent occupation , but geesuz , we have gone through 7 yrs of mumbling, inarticulate neocon and we don't need ANOTHER ONE .
McLame has Raygun disease. He's a feeble putz.
No wonder McCain's state-Arizona-consistently ranks number 48 or 49 among all 50 states when it comes to supporting children and education.
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