Important Questions George Stephanopoulos Must Ask John McCain This Sunday
By Cliff Schecter Friday Apr 18, 2008 5:16pm
Many have already pored over the ins and outs of a Democratic debate tailor-made for "Enquiring minds" earlier this week on ABC. Well guess who just happens to be coming to dinner...or This Week, this weekend?
Why none other than John McCain!
So in the spirit of seeing how all the candidates deal with "scandal," or just being queried about everyone they have associated with since that 6th grade teacher who crossed the street against a red light (do you denounce her Senator Obama? Denounce and reject her!?! Or perhaps just reject?), here are some questions that John McCain should be asked on your show this weekend, Mr. Stephanopoulos (sorry, old habit from when I had you as a professor at Columbia).
First a great list I came across, and then a few of my own I found in my research for my book The Real McCain. This list is from Perrspectives, a fantastic compilation, in my always humble opinion:
1. Do you agree with Pastor John Hagee that war with Iran is the fulfillment of biblical prophecy?
In February, you shared a stage with Pastor John Hagee and said you were "very proud" to have his endorsement. You also called the Reverend Rod Parsley, a man who said of Islam "America was founded, in part, with the intention of seeing this false religion destroyed", your "spiritual guide." Do you believe America's mission is to destroy Islam? Do you join Pastor Hagee in believing the United States must attack Iran to fulfill the biblical prophecy of Armageddon in Israel in which 144,000 Jews will be converted to Christianity and the rest killed? Is that why you joked about "bomb bomb Iran?" If not, why will you not renounce the support of Hagee and Parsley?
2. Doesn't your legendary temper make you too dangerous to be trusted with the presidency of the United States?Your anger, even toward friends and allies, is legendary. You purportedly dropped the F-Bomb on your own GOP colleagues John Cornyn and Chuck Grassley. In the book, The Real McCain, author Cliff Schecter claims you got into a fist-fight with your fellow Arizona Republican Rick Renzi. Allegedly, you even publicly used a crude term, one which decorum and the FCC prohibit us from even saying on the air, to describe your own wife. Which if any of these episodes is untrue? Don't your anger management problems make you too dangerously unstable to be president of the United States?
3. Doesn't your confusion regarding basic facts about the war in Iraq, including repeatedly citing a nonexistent Al Qaeda-Iran alliance, make you unfit for command?
On four occasions in one month, you confused friend and foe in Iraq by describing Sunni Al Qaeda as being backed by Shiite Iran. Then you showed a misunderstanding of the U.S. chain of command when you claimed you would not back shifting forces from Iraq to Afghanistan "unless Gen. [David] Petraeus said that he felt that the situation called for that," a decision which Petraeus himself told you and your Senate colleagues only the week before rests not with him but with his superiors. Doesn't your lack of understanding and judgment when it comes to basic facts of America's national security disqualify you as commander-in-chief?
4. Given your past adultery, should Americans consider you a moral exemplar of family values?
You are the nominee of a Republican Party which claims to support so-called "family values." Yet you commenced an adulterous relationship with your current wife Cindy months before the dissolution of your previous marriage to your first wife Carol. Should Americans consider you to be a moral exemplar of family values?
5. Doesn't your flip-flop on Jerry Falwell being an "agent of intolerance" show your opportunistic pandering to the religious right?
In 2000, you famously called the late Jerry Falwell "an agent of intolerance," a statement which may have cost you the decisive South Carolina primary. But as you ramped up your next presidential run in 2006, you embraced Falwell and gave the commencement address at his Liberty University. When Tim Russert asked that spring if you still considered him an agent of intolerance, you said, "'no, I don't." Why shouldn't the American people consider you a flip-flopping opportunist who cynically courted the religious right to further your 2008 presidential ambitions?
6. Given your wealth and privileged upbringing, aren't you - and not Barack Obama - the elitist?
You have called Barack Obama an elitist. Yet you recently returned to your exclusive private high school, one which now costs over $38,000 a year to attend. Your wife is the heiress to a beer distribution company, reputedly owns 8 homes and has a net worth well over $100 million. Your children all attended private schools, academies which also happened to be the primary beneficiaries of funds from your supposed charitable foundation. Shouldn't the American people in fact view you as the elitist, and a hypocritical one at that?
7. What is your religion, really? And has the answer in the past changed as the South Carolina primary approached?
I want to ask about your seemingly ever-changing religious beliefs. In June 2007, McClatchy reported, "McCain still calls himself an Episcopalian." In August 2007, as ABC reported, your campaign staff identified you as "Episcopalian" in a questionnaire prepared for ABC News' August 5 debate. But as the primary in evangelical-rich South Carolina neared, in September 2007 you said of your religious faith, "It plays a role in my life. By the way, I'm not Episcopalian. I'm Baptist." But in March 2008, Pastor Dan Yeary of your North Phoenix Baptist Church refused to comment on why you have refused to finally undergo a baptism ceremony. Congressional directories still list you as an Episcopalian. In the past, you've said, "When I'm asked about it, I'll be glad to discuss it." So what is your religion? And couldn't Americans be forgiven for assuming your changing faith is tied to your changing political needs?
8. Didn't President Bush betray you with his signing statement on the Detainee Treatment Act? You claim to be against torture, but aren't you a hypocrite for voting "no" on the Senate waterboaring ban?
You've said that "we can't torture or treat inhumanely suspected terrorists we have captured". And in December 2005, you famously reached a compromise with President Bush on the Detainee Torture Act banning cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment of detainees. But just two weeks later, President Bush issued a signing statement making it clear he would ignore the compromise you just reached. Then in February 2007, you voted "no" on a Senate bill banning waterboarding. Isn't it fair to say President Bush betrayed you with his December 30, 2005 signing statement? And isn't it fair to say you caved to the right-wing of your party on the issue in order to win the Republican nomination?
9. Why did you flip-flop on the Bush tax cuts you twice opposed? Why do you now support making them permanent for the wealthiest Americans who need them least?
You twice voted against the Bush tax cuts. Now you support making them permanent. In 2001, you said, "I cannot in good conscience support a tax cut in which so many of the benefits go to the most fortunate among us at the expense of middle-class Americans who need tax relief." Now, according to the Center for American Progress, your tax plan would cost more than $2 trillion over the next decade and "would predominantly benefit the most fortunate taxpayers, offering two new massive tax cuts for corporations and delivering 58 percent of its benefits to the top 1 percent of taxpayers." Isn't it true that you flip-flopped on the Bush tax cuts? Isn't it fair to say that you now favor a massive expansion of the federal budget deficit in order to fund a tax giveaway to the wealthiest Americans who need it least?
10. With the economy tanking, shouldn't Americans be concerned over your past statements that "the issue of economics is not something I've understood as well as I should?"
Americans consistently report that the economy is the issue that concerns them most. Yet more than once, you proclaimed your ignorance when it comes to the economy. In November 2005, you told the Wall Street Journal, "I'm going to be honest: I know a lot less about economics than I do about military and foreign policy issues. I still need to be educated." Then in December 2007, you admitted, "The issue of economics is not something I've understood as well as I should." Shouldn't the American be worried about President McCain's ability to lead the United States out of recession? Given your past statements, shouldn't the American reject out of hand your claim that "I know the economy better than Senator Clinton and Senator Obama do?"
All of these are fantastic questions, now let me add two from The Real McCain:
11) How can you call yourself a straight-talker in light of the fact that you have changed your positions or rhetorically flip-flopped on the following issues: Abortion, Creationism in science class, immigration, intervention abroad, tax cuts for the wealthy, civil unions, a Martin Luther King holiday, the Confederate Flag, the Christian Right, Bob Jones University, whether Rumsfeld did a good job, whether Dick Cheney is doing a good job, whether President Bush is an honest man, a Patient's Bill of Rights, global warming, campaign finance reform in general, public financing of campaigns specifically, lobbying reform, whether the War in Iraq would be "easy," whether Sunni and Shiite are working together, whether "Iraqi blood should be traded for American blood," military readiness, how many troops are necessary for the suge to succeed in Iraq, ehtanol subsidies, the continuing existence of a minimum wage, closing the gun-show loophole, healthcare for children...and I could go on, but how about we start with those?
12) Finally, if Barack Obama must account for everyone he has ever passed within a 100 square mile radius of, then here are some associations you might want to explain, with the indicted, the white supremacists and the downright corrupt: Rick Renzi (indicted), Terry Nelson (racist ads against Harold Ford in 2006), Trent Lott (pining for a Strom presidency), The Wyly Brothers (corrupt), Bob Perry (Chief Swift Boater), Richard Quinn (white supremacist), Rev. Richard Land (homosexual hate), Ken Blackwell (Ohio election suppression), Charlie Black (lobbyist and according to John Gorenfeld's new book, Bad Moon Rising, Reverend Moon lover). That would be a start.
I don't write this to pile on Mr. Stephanopoulos. I have usually found you to be a fair-minded host. Yet, if you are to right the wrongs of that debate, please give equal time, and make John McCain answer for aspects of his political career which are much more relevant than a flag lapel pin to whether he or Barack Obama would make a better president.
Cliff Schecter is the author of The Real McCain: Why Conservatives Don't Trust Him And Why Independents Shouldn't.
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Since McCain's all of this and the sort of amoral person that thinks starting a third unwinnable war will somehow win the first two, why is he a serious candidate again? Have I entered some sort of Bizarro world?
What happened to Keith Oblermann's video? ANyhow, here is what I had to say:
Wow. Maestro! Master of the Fame~!
Pardon my language, but this is the reason why Keith Oblermann is on DIck Cheney's "shit" lists, as well as many other people I presume. lol
Keith is one of the few, the rare, and the proud journalists that will use his privileged platform to say the things that most folks have itching to come off the tip of our tongues. And do do it so artfully and masterfully is awesome. He is well-deserving and worthy of praise!
Great Job Keith! I hope to see John, and fellow caliber Bloggers join Keith one day fora nice televised sit around. Good Idea, heh? John, why not pitch it to Keith?
Keep it up Boys! Great Job
They'll ask questions like.
Will your wife be the boss when your in the White House?
Will you use the White House bowling alley?
How will you decorate the Oval Office?
Large or small screen TV?
General_Rennenkampf @ 1:
Your to smart for your own good. Welcome to the club.
While this was great stuff from Keith, as always, I kind of wish he wasn't laughing; these are all (well, mostly) legitimate questions that Stephanopoulus is obliged to ask if he's going to be unbiased. Now he can laugh these off, too.
Nonetheless, great job by Keith, as per usual.
(CNN) -- A day after four of Sen. John McCain's top political strategists stepped down, the co-chairman of his Florida campaign was arrested Wednesday for allegedly offering an undercover police officer money for a sex act, Titusville police said.
Florida state Rep. Bob Allen faces charges of solicitation for prostitution after he was arrested in a Titusville city park that had been under surveillance, police said.
He allegedly offered an undercover police officer $20 for the unspecified act. His attorney, Philip Lupo of Titusville, said the charge was a second-degree misdemeanor.
Brilliant! Absolutely Brilliant! Although I love Keith dearly, it shows how sad a state our media has become that we have so few anchors who actually do their JOB!
Senator McCain - there is clearly something wrong with your face. Do you denounce and reject your defective face?
ronnyg @ 5:
But you know, the effect of laughing added to the sense of lunacy and immaturity of the previously asked questions by Lil' Georgie Stephanopolous. It showed that those questions were silly and baseless. It also goes to show how Charlie and George were able to keep a straight face, all the while it seemed as ajoke. what makes it worse is they actually took them for serious...sad
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/07/13/mccains-florida-campaign-co-cha...
We could also Digg into his military records. And re-evaluate how great of a P.O.W. he was if we wanted to do what the Republicans would do to us. And have done.
Politics and all it's derivatives and spin offs is the entertainment division of the Military Industrial Complex now.
We were warned but it went right in one ear and out the other.
Here is as negative an article I've seen on John McCain. It is written by a disgruntled right winger no less.
http://www.wcltam.com/news/special/articledetail.cfm?articleid=23261
Something to put in the election related files in my opinion.
L.A. Confidential @ 4:
That doesn't answer my question. Is America stupid enough to elect someone with more cojones/stupidity than Bush?
General_Rennenkampf @ 13:
Yes.
When Bush was viable in 2000 I couldn't believe it. When he was viable in 2004 I really couldn't fucking believe it.
That McCain is viable now just makes me sick.
CafeenMan @ 14:
(Facepalm).
Forgot me own maxim:
Never underestimate human stupidity, you will always be disappointed.
How did Bush make the election close enough that stealing it looks plausible?
does your chewing gum loose its flavor on your bed pan overnight?? answer me you old dick!
Here's one.
Mr. McCain do you enjoy the fact that there are many jaded Hillary Clinton supporters who are willing to vote for you, provided Barack Obama wins the Democratic nomination?
I see this all of the time. I mean look at this guy. This is who these people find a much more "likeable" and qualified person for the job of POTUS. Really. My hunch is that these are the same "democrats" who thought it would be fun to have a person like bush be president, the first time and chickenshit enough to vote for him the second time because they believed the "war president" rhetoric.
General_Rennenkampf @ 13:
Yes. You just happened to be more evolved then others.
Sounds good to me.
Might even ask him, "Can America afford to have a first lady that steals recipes from prominent sites and labels them "family recipes" on her own?"
Better yet, let's have a debate between the spouses of the three top candidates. Cindy McCain would debate Michelle Obama and Bill Clinton. Maybe we could get the great journalistic minds of O'Reilly and Hannity to host the debate? It wouldn't really matter much who hosted the event, when it was all said and done Cindy McCain would be seen for what she really is...
CafeenMan @ 14:
I told the gang here last year McCain was going to be the Neocons man.
PNAC's NWO champ.
General_Rennenkampf @ 13:
I think it's not so much a question of stupidity, but one of indifference, racism, and greed.
If people are convinced the government is broken (and lo they should be, as it seems this was one thing bush was successful in doing), and john mccain is promising to cut taxes on wealthy people, and the alternative is somebody who, like mccain, is another DC professional who's been making and breaking promises and taking bribes for a lifetime (aka clinton), then yes, they'll vote their pocketbook and elect mccain.
If Obama is the alternative, i think he'll win hands down, and america is NOT stupid enough or racist enough to fall for tactics like the ABC debate and/or the junk emails that go around (have you seen the recent one....whoweee they're insane)
If George Stepho doesn't grill Mccain tomorrow, i'll doubt i'll ever watch that network again
General_Rennenkampf @ 13:
you still dont get it !its the electronic vote machines that win elections not politicans!
thepoetryman @ 19:
The cons will use this type of thing and say. . . see, the liberals-left-America haters are always talking about personal privacy rights but here they are nosing into peoples personal lives.
Since we let the USSC decide who was going to be President in Dec 00 we've lost a lot of ground.
ohio progressive @ 21:
But, wait, John McCain's cutting taxes for the 1% that gets 40% of the wealth pie! Why would the much larger middle and lower classes elect him? It makes no sense, this does.
Anybody who is middle or lower class that votes Republican is stupid. Hell, I'm from a heartland small rural town, and I'll choose Hillary over McCain, as at least Hillary won't be stupid enough to start Unwinnable War III. But people hate her again, why?
Another question: what's a party that thinks government doesn't work doing participating in government? Remember my background, these are new questions for me.
General_Rennenkampf @ 1:
I'm with you on that. I feel crazy myself. Like a victim in some cosmic joke.
ohio progressive @ 21:
Oh yes they are buddy.
keith olbermann had a great list last night... is this connected?
my 'puter is running extremely slow right now... takes forever to link...
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Orangutan. @ 25:
Slaughterhouse Five. Try to be like Billy.
Wait a sec, if you guys don't wont silly questions asked then whats the point of asking McCain these silly questions, two wrongs don't make a right... Just raise enough hell to the networks and it will not happen again........
There's a lot of questions that could be ascertained from this damning article on the old John McCrazyCain.
Orangutan. @ 29:
Never make Lame Stream MIC Media. Which is who controls every aspect of these TeeVee debates.
Would you rather shit on the American people, or urinate on them? Please choose one.
Senator McCain, Senator Clinton said that you, like herself, have a lifetime of experience. President Clinton said that you, like his wife, are patriotic Americans. After Super Tuesday Senator Clinton disparaged MoveOn and left wing activist, as reported on Huffington post. Do you think, Senator McCain, that Senator Clinton would accept your offer to her to be your vice presidential candidate if Senator Obama becomes the Democratic nominee for president?
1 General_Rennenkampf Says: Since McCain’s all of this and the sort of amoral person that thinks starting a third unwinnable war will somehow win the first two, why is he a serious candidate again? Have I entered some sort of Bizarro world?
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Yes. You live there. It's called the USA, in 2008.
CafeenMan @ 14:
mccain is only viable against clinton, i don't believe these polls...
once the primary ends, ithe polls will begin to reflect the reality....mccain will never see the lead thereafter, head to head with obama...
25 percent of the country thinks bush is great, even now.. 10 percent hate minorites, 5 percent think he's an al qaeda plant.....the remaing 60 percent of americans are sane and would never consider a vote for mccain
CafeenMan @ 14:
We wouldn't have the problem bureaucrats if not for the the dazed, loser populace that is the problem. We can't nanny them over it. How would you make honest long-range self-interest compelling to an over-fed overstimulated entertained society? What would be the straw that broke the camels hypnosis?
ohio progressive @ 21:
Too bad LOST is on ABC :(. I will definitely stop watching ABC News, though.
I'd also like to know what he has to say about his use of his girlfriend's, I mean Lobbyist-Associate's 727 during his 2000 campaign, later used to fly a cadre of Saudi Royals out of the country less than a week after 9/11.
(is that too close to being about an actual issue?)
In Bush's defense, (I hate that phrase), a John McCain presidency in 2001 would have been disastrous. Can you imagine his temper and the reaction that would insue when Bin Laden launched his attack? McCain might have made Bush seem rational.
Bush, at least, in 2001 only invaded Afghanistan, and waited almost two years later to invade Iraq. McCain would have a two-front war from day one: Afghanistan and Pakistan. And if you think Iraq is a nightmare, imagine trying to occupy Pakistan....
So, we're fortunate Bush won only in that Bush never got the hubris to invade the Pakistanis. With his temper, McCain would have....
God, that's terrible when Dubya's actually better than someone.
Brad @ 36:
a candidate that wasn't a lifetime career member of the culture of corruption in dc, as was kerry, as was gore....
obama will break it.....howard dean would have broken it in 2004....but the party was embarrassed by the way the righties made fun of his scream, and booted the best man....
General_Rennenkampf @ 39:
Note-I once was a Bushie, and now I despise George Bush. I am in no way defending how bad things are now, merely pointing out how much worse they could have been.
Brad @ 36:
At this point, we can hope that this younger, more informed, more liberal generation will eventually change this country. Vast parts of the country are hopeless right now. We just have to live with it. That's why I think McCain will win the election. There simply aren't enough reasonable people in this country as of now. We have to be patient.
JeffS @ 42:
We. can't. afford. a. President. McCain.
Do you want to see Unwinnable war III? A winning tactic would be constant repetitions of "Iraq for 100 years!" and his flip-flopping. After all, that's how the Repubs roasted Kerry. It would be ironic if it did work on McCain.
L.A. Confidential @ 31:
I'm not talking about top down dynamics. I think the importance is informing bloggers throughout the country and see where the story goes. I'm not sitting around waiting for ABC to make me happy and I don't think the blogs have fully fleshed out this story either. In fact I hadn't heard it until I read the article.
General_Rennenkampf @ 43:
For that to work, we would need a media that is not in McCain's ass. And we'd need a ruthless Democratic Party. And we'd need millions of independents who aren't "undecided" after 8 years of the worst presidency in history.
You and I have two votes. That's all we have. We are surrounded by millions of morons. That's the problem.
Go speed racer go!
ohio progressive @ 40:
Cons are going to go after Obama with his weather underground connections, shady real estate dealings, drug use, muslim background, etc, you name it. None a legitimate concern of course but fair game anyway to Rove.
Obama has the skill to make any attack look like childish nonsense being hurled at him. Hopefully the public will see that and not think, wait, he's weak, he's not fighting them.
Kerry tried that and it didn't work.
JeffS @ 42:
i disagree...the problem is less with the people than the parties....
if you put clinton up against mccain, he'll win, because of apathy and greed, not stupidity....she's been in dc forever padding her pockets, and, let's face it, she voted for this war we're in... (kerry and gore were similarly pathetic candidates)
obama against mccain is no contest....there are not enough racists or dummies, even working together in blissfully bitter ignorance, to get the unqualified old man even close to the white house.
I'm impressed with the influx of new posters/commenters with some brains and fresh ideas. the Clinton/Obama pigpile,sandbox,clod throwing crowd was gettiing tiresome. Welcome! At least we came demonize Mcmuffburgercain and feel good in the morning.
Orangutan. @ 44:
Mickey Mouse ABC isn't going make you happy I agree. This story though you linked and it's various spin offs and interpretations has been circulating around for a while. On the Ron Paul blogs, give me liberty or give me death type blogs.
Whether the Laptop-Wifi and Latte crowd takes it serious remains to be seen.
JeffS @ 45:
That's terrible. Because Bush has already pushed us up to the edge of the abyss. McCain would tip us right over and we'd go splat.
In 2001 I was a fanatic Bushie and YEC. In August 2005, the first seeds were planted. In September/October, the seeds turned into a tree.
If McCain is elected, this country will have an American Hitler in no more than a decade after his term.
For some fun, watch this
pissed off patricia @ 52:
I'm not in the mood for fun. Not with the neocon monster we're facing looming on the horizon and threatening to swallow this country whole in Nov.
General_Rennenkampf @ 51:
Ahhh you see were it's going. History does repeat itself. It can't happen here? Oh yes it can.
L.A. Confidential @ 47:
it didn't matter with kerry...he was a DC lifer, and that engenders apathy, low turnout, indifference.....he was a horrible candidate, especially considering dean was a contender....
the righties are preaching to the choir on all those non-issue issues....look at the big flap on the abc debate...i was surprised at how much of a newsstory that was, and i think it indicates how americans are indeed above all the frivolous baloney and meaningless distraction issues....
nobody cares but the righties, the racists and the morons....that's 40% of america....the righties and the morons will have low turnout....
mccain has no chance against obama...(conversely, clinton has no chance against mccain)
L.A. Confidential @ 53:
Okay, whatever you say.
well at least at the end of the yellow brick road lies the end of the rainbow! were off to see the wizzer!
pissed off patricia @ 52:
Ohmagawd! I'm laughing so hard I can hardly write this Good one pop! Now,I need a break.
pissed off patricia @ 56:
LA Lightenup and watch it. It's a hoot.
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David Hawes @ 59:
Alright I'll watch it later. Just so I don't become a complete "fuddy duddy".
L.A. Confidential @ 62:
Not just for that reason but because McCain will be elected, get us all killed and do you want to spend your last year or two on Earth bitter and miserable?
L.A. Confidential @ 62:
Alrighty then... I can't waterboard you into my clever trap.so I'll just watch it again and try not to fall off my chair This Time.
CafeenMan @ 63:
No sir I do not it's heartbreaking enough seeing whats going on but how to not be bitter and miserable for this last chapter of my life is a pressing question I contemplate often.
I don't want to have to abandon people, or hope for a brighter and better future just to do that.
Yeah, like this old fart could really drive the bus? Give me a break.
He is what's left over once they eliminated all the total goof balls. He's the "most palitable" of the bunch of losers.
I feel embarrassed and ashamed for the repug party. It once had a purpose. Today, it's the laughing stock of the world.
Y'know these are good questions. McSame will be around for some time. People can ask him the questions in public over and over. He can't always dodge 'em.
L.A. Confidential @ 54:
Oh, yes it can, and it's going to (Not that you disagree).
Republicans now are gestating a proto-fascism in America. But when the shit hits the fan like it will in the next year or two, militarily, economically, and socially (referring to xenophobia and racism here, the Racism ain't dead, he's been in a coma and is coming out of it), that tends to birth fascism.
Bush-Republicanism isn't fascism, it lacks a lot of the crucial elements both of movement fascism and regime fascism. But when it all goes south....
hoo, boy are we in for it. Remember, America going fascist won't just affect here.
Tough questions for McLame????? From ABC?????
Hey, I got some beachfront property in AZ I can let you have real cheap.
Let me know how the tough question thing works for ya though.
Obama's response to John McCain's criticism that Obama did not
denounce former president Carter for having met with Hamas
should be, "I do not "denounce" any past American president.
I may criticize a former president's politics, philosophy, legislation,
or lack thereof, but I will not denounce a past American
president. I'll leave that to the republicans."
McCain must have forgotten that he is campaigning for president
of the United States.
Senator McCain, why do you keep saying that Shillary and Barak would make a good president when you know they should not be nowhere near the white house?
Hulk @ 66:
I don't now how this guy survived captivity for so long in Nam. The supposed severity-trauma of his injury's and psychological traumas would turn anyone into a basket case if not just the post traumatic stress syndrome alone.
I suppose being coddled by Nixon and Co could speed the process of "burying it" until something clicks in in the future and it all explodes forth.
L.A. Confidential @ 72:
That's my point when I said that McCain in 2000 would have not only attacked the Afghans, but also the Pakistanis. God help us if McPapen has to deal with a 9/11 or an Oklahoma City....
General_Rennenkampf @ 68:
When the economy and the American Dream (whats left of it) goes someone, some new party is going to come out of nowhere and blame someone for all of the countries ills.
Unless we are incredibly lucky. I hope thats the case but it doesn't look good.
General_Rennenkampf @ 73:
McCain was storming around the halls in D.C. on 9/11 like an enraged madman demanding we nuke.
A lot of people forgot that story.
David Hawes @ 59:
Thanks david at 58, I thought it was funny too.
L.A. Confidential @ 74:
I don't necessarily think it will be out of nowhere, the two blocs that are going to form this future fascism already exist. The Theocratic Dominionist Right, and the Plutocratic Right.
When it all goes south and those two merge, we'd be lucky to get a Pol Pot, much less a Hitler.
L.A. Confidential @ 75:
I never knew it and thought about putting that Kabul and Karachi would have been nuked, but I never suspected I was that right...
General_Rennenkampf @ 77:
Exactly. And seeing the truth is painful. Which is why people avoid it all costs. Introspection hurts.
General_Rennenkampf @ 51:
McCain will never be elected...
americans are not as stupid as you think, and the democratic party won't make the same mistake that cost them the 04 race, and boot a progressive outsider for a conservative corrupt hack....dean for kerry in 04, clinton for obama in 08.
mccain can only beat clinton, and she's already lost the nomination....
mccain will never be any closer to the office of president that any anonymous american joe out there....
Nice tiny blog post with insecure "I went to Columbia." Hate to troll but while we're on the elitist watch, why not include GPA? I'd never mention my own creds which... (praeteritio)
General_Rennenkampf @ 78:
If we would have been smart. We should have been out of both Afghanistan and Iraq years ago with an effective diplomatic solution in place with the help of allied nations.
We blew that big time.
L.A. Confidential @ 82:
Of course the Right Wingers claimed fighting smart was appeasing the Terrorists.
L.A. Confidential @ 83:
Yeah. One thing I never understood was that if "terrorists" wanted to destroy Soviet America, the best thing to do would be something like Iraq, basically placing the army as a sitting duck for them to tear apart.
Bush's folly here is going to cost us dearly...
Orangutan. @ 12:
Wow. Potent stuff. I smell a 527.
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General_Rennenkampf @ 84:
And we hear people comment of the damage Regan did. Hilarious. The guy was a lightweight compared to these Pirates. He did willing set the stage for them though.
L.A. Confidential @ 83:
When what they really meant was "We cannot profit personally by diplomacy."
miss_kitty @ 88:
Or, we cannot personally profit without dropping bombs in which case we will have to make more bombs, weapons, etc etc.
Destruction Inc.
Americans more and more are waking up to the failures of Republicans. McSame won't be elected for this reason. We're looking at a President Obama, get used to it.
come the show this week with georgie s..........he won't
even ask one of these questions, but will suck the ass of
mcfuckhead. watch and see...........
L.A. Confidential @ 87:
Reagan at least had the good sense to cut tail and run in the 1980s. Bush is just playing into terrorists' hands. Why does George Bush hate America?
Here's one...
Under President Clinton's policies the stock markets more than tripled while oil generally stayed flat. Under President Bush's policies the stock market is generally flat while oil has more than tripled. Considering that Clinton also created four times as many jobs as Bush has, isn't it obvious that Clinton's economic policies have proven to be superior to those of President Bush?
Al Gore @ 93:
Just watching Bush's presidency unfold turned me from a diehard Rightist into a leftist liberal (yes, I said it, muhahahahahaha.)
I don't get it. Wasn't the idea to ask 'character' questions? I think my list (posted on a previous thread) is much better for that kind of thing.
1. Did you call your present wife a trollop and c*nt?
2. Did you have an adulterous affair at any time in your first or second marriage?
3. Did you physically assault a congressional colleague?
4. Have you attended church every Sunday for the past 8 years?
5. Do you denounce, renounce, abjure, and condemn Pastor Hagee’s damnation of Catholics and all other works of the devil?
6. Why were you the only pow to betray your country while at the Hanoi Hilton?
7. How many millions does it take to be an elitist?
8. Did you marry for money?
9. Why wouldn’t your wife lend you enough money early in the primary so you wouldn’t have to go begging for public financing? Doesn’t she believe you will win?
10. Who handles the finances in your family and how often do you visit all of your 8 homes?
11. How do you tell the difference between a Sunni and a Shia ?(this is a trick question, not really a way to judge an old man’s eyesight)
12. Does Lindsay Graham have sleepovers at your house and if so, how many doors down the hall?
13. If Sen. Lieberman’s wattles have pups, will you give them a good home?
14. Do you have nicknames for all your friends, enemies and body parts like the current prez and did you call your wife a c*nt? Oops, did we already ask that? Well, didja?
CafeenMan @ 8:
Senator McCain- how will the citizens of America know that you won't get so angry if a foreign leader makes fun of you that you won't get the nuclear football and start mashing buttons?
Making McCain explain why Black helped set up Moon's coronation in 2004 should be done but, imo, it misses the bigger picture by a long shot.
In 1989 US News and World Report stated that virtually every conservative organization in DC had ties to Moon. He funded major players on the hard theocratic right like Falwell, and Lahaye. He created front groups like the American Freedom Coalition which was designed to gather the Christian "right" for political power. He funded Richard Viguerie. Of course he owns what has been the flagship of the new Moon molded extreme conservatism, the Washington Times. Moon brags about using the paper to "influence America."
In short, Moon has had more to do with the rise of the hard right and the theocracts in our country, thus creating this horror we have now, than anyone. He outspent Scaife doing this and most conservatives don't know he is still alive.
The Moon organization admits that most of the billions Moon has used to mold, prop up and bring to power today's conservative movement comes from Japan. The Unification Church has been found guilty of swindling hundreds of millions of dollars targeting widows in Japan. Seriously. The Unification Church just recently settled with one widow for 2.4 million USD.
No, EVERY conservative, the ENTIRE conservative movement should be made to explain why they have worked with Sun Myung Moon to, in the words of the very conservative first editor of the Washington Times, James Whelan, subvert our nation's political system. Ask EVERY conservative if they are proud of the fact that they rode to power on Moon’s back and his swindled cash.
Here is what Whelan said:
Sadly, most conservatives don't know who their leaders sold their souls to so that their movement could gain power and even liberals refuse to tell them. We still wonder what happened to conservatives and the Republican Party even though it has stared us in the face for 25 years.
Moon is not the fool many want to believe him to be. I can say without ANY doubt that he knows more about how to manipulate our nation than anyone or any group - left or right - and has done so.
The Bush family has recieved millions from Moon and shilled for him around the world. Name one, JUST ONE democrat who has ever mentioned this at anytime, anywhere.
That is truly insane.
mC gains , VC nick name was song bird , check it out ,
Viet Namn Vets against mCcain , what a loser .
It's an uphill battle because the cabal of the news media, intelligence community, and big business have an agenda that does not include the majority of Americans.
There is a silent coup going on in which the neo-fascists of the cabal are attempting to overthrow our democratic republic, because it believes Americans are too passive and easy to mislead. After all, they have been successfully misleading Americans since December 12, 1999.
Quick bs detectors sheilds up. The cabal is on a campaign to turn America
into a capitalist state with the true elitists of the cabal running the economy, because that is what they have been after since they hatched the traitorous plot and by the
looks of things they are pretty certain that they have the battle won. McCain is just a
fool and a servicable tool for the cabal. Cheney's "so" remark is indicative of the attitude of the cabal. Americans are nothing more than cannon fodder and consumers. There are too many of us taking up valuable resources as far as the cabal is concerned.
#99_________I agree with much of your post. An acerbic, intelligent friend told me years ago that the abortion issue was being driven was to ensure plenty of cannon fodder. As he put it-"They don't want to kill them in the womb. They want to save them for the battlefield" .I am not saying I agree,but it was certainly a sobering supposition.
chris @ 71:
According to Article I, Sec. II of the U.S. Constitution the requirements to run for presidient are:
No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.
Why do you hate the U.S. Constitution?
Sorry to burst your bubbles Defeatocrats, but McCain is way ahead of Obama in the polls, particularly Ohio and Florida. Right now this election is McCain's to lose. Wow did you guys screw up this election. You had Bill Richardson, a congressman, governor, UN ambassador, cabinet member, and minority who has been thoroughly vetted with no skeletons (well, except for that "drafted" vs. "scouted" for a pro-ball team deal) and who would have cleaned McCain's clock. But, no, instead of going for the tried and true you dipshits once again pick the novelty candidate...a pretty boy with absolutely no experience but who gives nice speeches. Of course, then it turns out he has all kinds of criminal friends and his biggest life influence is a loony racist pastor who hates America and thinks the government invented AIDS. You guys had it in the bag, but you let your emotions get the better of you and just fucked it all away. Live and learn. Better luck in 2016.
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