SNL: John McCain Appeals To Voters
By Nicole Belle Saturday May 17, 2008 5:30pm
Republican presidential candidate explains some considerations that voters might want to consider in selecting their next president:
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Good evening, my fellow Americans. I ask you, what should we be looking for in our next president? Certainly, somebody who is very, very, very old.
But just as important, we will need a leader of courage and principle. Someone who is willing to do what is best for this country. Even when doing so is unpopular. Such as putting an end to runaway government spending and especially, congressional earmarks, those wasteful pork barrel projects sneaked anonymously into bills by members of Congress as a favor to campaign contributors or powerful local interests.
Most of these projects are at best unnecessary, such as $15 million to the US Postal Service for a commemorative stamp honoring Tom Delay’s appellate lawyers. Whose idea was that? Or this bit of pork: $160 million to the Department of Defense for developing a device that can jam gaydar. Now I don’t know if this is anti-gay or pro-gay or if such a device would even work. But I do know this: jamming gaydar is not a federal responsibility. That’s something best left to state and local governments.
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He was so lame.
He's got about as much appeal as a dose of the clap.
Embarrassing. And a little schizoid.
His Weekend Update spot was better.
I went to bed after that. Not realy funny-and TOTALLY unappealing.
Johnny Walnuts.
Why SNL? Why these appearances from the campaigners on silly TV? I'm starting to think that this whole race is one big joke on the American people. And the rest of the world. I betcha there won't be an election.
Actually, for the most part, I believe McBush DOES NOT appeal to voters.
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Couldn't bring myself to watch. Whenever I see McCain, Bush, Rove, et al on the tube I just feel sick. Can't stomach the sight of them, let alone listen to them speak even if it is comedy.
John McSame'sperformance reeked of desperation. His campaign really thinks that acting like an jack ass on SNL will grab the youth vote.
I predict that McKeating will have a meltdown. Maybe it will come at a news conference or during a debate with Obama or during a speech once the campaign revs up and these guys are on the stump 16 hours a day. Not only is he a flip-flopping jerk, but too old and incompetent. It WILL happen. Once the scrutiny begins, he will be as embarrassment.
McCain for Fürher!
I read the script, but didn't watch the video. He already irks me so. I couldn't stand if he were elected and we had to listen to him for 4 years. Especially after 8 years of bush. Republicans always speak to the lowest common denominator, and I find it insulting. (Is that my own ego?)
I can only laugh at bush when Jon Stewart picks it/him apart. Live, direct from bush, it just makes me furious.
Huckabush announced that he wants to be McKeating's VP running mate Please Lord, Let It Be.
http://www.rawstory.com/news/mochila/Huckabee_says_he_would_like_to_be_M...
that wasn't so bad. About average for politicians coming on comedy shows. It's been a tradition since Nixon showed up on Laugh In and said "Sock it to me".
I watched it live and it was horrible. I wanted to go to sleep. McCain has this bad habit, like many out-of-touch politicians of delivering prepared remarks in a slow, calculated manner that fails to deliver its message. This comes out seven-fold when he tries to deliver a punchline.
Don't worry it's all coming down to Obama and Clinton.
If at the Democratic Convention it's a shocker and they finish is a tie, they just have a Jack Daniels shot contest and who ever is left standing takes it.
Most of SNL's audience was probably wondering why the random geezer with the deformed face was rambling at them.
First of all the old fool was up well past his bed time. Second, McWar was about as funny as penile discharge. I once had a girlfriend who had a grandfather like McStupid and he would just sit in the living room with us all night, telling his ridiculous old man tales. I just wanted a quickie and that old fucker cock blocked me all night. I was actually happy when that old bastard took his last snooze.
Kyle @ 17:
Do they even know who McCain is?
Someone remind McCain....
Soldiers, Navy Seals, Marines, Veterans, Air Force Officials and County Officials
ARE Watching the Bush Rove Cheney Crime Mob Very Close
Also.... Still waiting for McCain to explain how his Justice Department would handle Rove, Bush Cheney and all the crimes over the last seven years. Or would his Justice Department also be appointed by the Crime Family?
...How would McCain handle all Bush Crime Family Threats and Retaliation?
...How would McCain handle those Spitzer type smears that occurred under the guise of covering up the real crime(s) and stories.
Make no mistake.
It IS worse than Watergate.
REAL journalists are documenting all the crimes and the deaths.
...Keep Documenting and Forwarding all Bush Crime Family Threats to the
the Real News Media, County Boards and States Attorneys
I have to say that even tho' I definitely wouldn't want McSame for Prez., I've always liked that he has often been willing to be the butt of joke at his own expense.
Whenever I hear Bush speak (God, that nauseating giggle of his) I really want to wretch, where-as, only occasionally when McCain specks (say, whenever he talks about his politics) I just throw up a little in my mouth.
Quite the improvement really.
Bill @ 2:
Yes he is.
He is appeasing the bitter lower classes.
Remember, this is ALL BILL CLINTON's FAULT! I was waching the Arsinio Hall Show the night Bill came to play his sax. Big difference between then and now...
Then the candidate had a little bit of musical talent!
Now the candidte has no comedic sense.
L.A. Confidential @ 19:
No, but can name all of the contestants from this season's American Idol.
Yes, I'm bitter.
Meh. Reverse Ace was better than Giuliani, not as good as Huckabee.
I can't laugh at any of those hawks. People are dying because of their policy. Not funny.
you know, it was pretty funny and self deprecating. i certainly don't care for McCain, and he's as awkward a comedian I've ever seen, but the writing was good anyway. the bit about a device that jams gaydar was pretty awesome.
McBush and Cheney Cant stop Democracy or the Truth
..or a Crowd Of 75,000 in Portland
- The Size Of A City who came to share ideas on how to deal with and expose McBush
...Including many Soldiers families, Veterans and Public Officials.
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/05/18/record_obama_crowd_t...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwINBO9fu-I
Grandpa Death looked BAD on SNL. The writing wasn't good, and he was STIFF.
McCain uses self-deprecating "humor" to distract his critics and the new media because he is semi-alert enough to semi-realize he is rightly perceived as a time-bomb ready to go off at any moment. He is too spry for a seventy-one year old, with the possible exception of Jack LaLanne, who himself at ninety is an energetic aberration. I suspect McCain is on HGH and/or amphetamines and God knows what else. I am waiting on the day that Obama dismantles him in debate.
So he's campaigning for Obama now?
Mike @ 11:
It's Fuhrer, and McPapen would be best suited to be Il Duce. To be Fuhrer at least implies a brain in the skull to get there. To be Duce...not so much.
How to Market Obama to Your Republican Friends
by Press to Digitate
Sun May 18, 2008 at 08:12:19 AM PDT
As a [now formerly] lifelong Republican, a [Goldwater] Conservative, and a former GOP activist, operative and professional campaign manager, now ardently supporting Sen. Barack Obama, I feel that I have the proper perspective from which to advise this audience on how to "sell" Obama to your Republican friends, relatives, and business associates.
There is a large reservoir of discontent among Republicans who are dissatisfied with John McCain as the GOP nominee. As the recent 25% votes against him in the now uncontested primaries indicate, this dissention is far deeper and more persistent than it will be among Clinton Democrats, when the dust settles in August. These votes, and those of other Republicans now disenchanted are ripe for the picking this fall - IF you know how to make the case to these people.
Below the fold I'll try to give several viable talking points which should hold you in good stead with most any Republican you come across, talking politics with between now and the election...
McCain's best performance by far on SNL came neither last night nor during his 2002 rendition of a Barbara Streisand medley. Instead, McCain was most animated - literally - during a fall 2004 episode of the NBC comedy which ran just prior to the reelection of George W. Bush.
In October 2004, Saturday Night Live animator Robert Smigel created "John McCain's Speech," a TV Funhouse cartoon that comically depicted McCain's anguish in stumping for President Bush after all the slurs he had endured at Bush's hands back in 2000.
As it turns out, the only thing John McCain hates more than George W. Bush is the thought of not becoming president himself in 2008.
For more details, see:
"McCain's 2004 SNL Appearance Still His Best."
While John McCain's four-star Admiral father ensured him a prized appointment to the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, his performance - 894th out of 899 cadets in his class - does not attest to diligent effort, whereas Barack Obama (from a broken home, on food stamps) won competitive academic scholarships to Harvard, which he proved himself worthy of by graduating Magna Cum Laude ("With Highest Honors"). Its been a long time since any politicians of either party could talk convincingly about "The American Dream", but Barack Obama can, because he lived it. Without handouts, family patronage, or inheritence, he pulled himself up by his bootstraps from the Chicago ghetto through his own hard work, enterprise, and initiative to become President of the Harvard Law Review, one of the most prestigious scholarly legal journals in the country. Which President is more likely to make a difference in the lives of people, and motivate them with initiative to best achieve their individual God-given potential?
Wow, Darrell Hammond's McCain impersonation is getting REALLY GOOD! That sounded just like him, with just the right bit of condescending yet trembling voice. Outstanding!
And kudos to the makeup team at SNL, whatever prosthetics they used made Darrell look just enough like McCain, but then just a little more extra of that "creepy old geezer" look to the makeup, it really did add to the comedic edge. Bravo, SNL. Good work all around!
Does John McCain appeal to voters as much as this?
Obama Draws Record Crowd Of 75,000
i don't support mccain and wouldn't vote for him in a million years, but i thought it was funny. i don't know how many republican presidential candidates would agree to use the word "gaydar" multiple times on national tv - especially in an era when any video like this is sure to be sampled into youtube videos over and over and over during the campaign season (and his term, if he happened to win) - so you got to give him that. it was much more ballsy than i expected, and i thought it was well done...
Janet @ 38:
Mmmnnnn...I no think so.
The whole 43,000 miles of road to 900 miles of road today.
Do the people whose relatives died on under the collapsed bridge in Minnesota think that was funny?
McCain tries to joke about ecoli conservatism.
I so look forward to drinking debate parties. I agree that the McMeltdown is a coming.
it used to be nice when a politician occaisionaly showed their funny bone on these things. it used to be a glimpse into the non political (aka human) side. but lately it seems too much. they're everywhere! and they're not actually funny. its a grab for votes, which really diminishes the humanity aspect of humour.
McCain passed up the chance to speak at an Asian American Pacific Islander town hall meeting in Irvine, CA this Saturday in order to appear on SNL. Maybe it's because his campaign was afraid he'd get PTSD in front of a large Vietnamese crowd.
On a side note, Sen. Clinton made an address via satellite, and Sen, Obama phoned in and answered questions directly.
HAHAHAHA, a future free from debt. Man, McCain, that's fucking hilarious!
McCain's YouTube Problem Just Became a Nightmare
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEtZlR3zp4c
McCain’s YouTube Problem Just Became a Nightmare
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEtZlR3zp4c
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Pretty soon, we will have to change the headline of this thread to John Mc Cain appalls voters. And we need to get on the MSM's ass to stop treating him like he is some harmless geezer. He is a senile, clueless fool with a broken moral compass.
The joke was obviously on McCain. It was a self-roast.
Left&Left @ 18:
warm and fuzzy memories, eh?
Hey people. Don't make fun of the next Presidunce of the United States. Sadly, he'll slaughter the Dems cuz politics is about as predictable as (insert your own word here)........age is on his side. There are more old and feeble than there are young and motivated unfortunately and old and feeble vote for their own.
ConcernedCanuck @ 51:
Thanks for your "concern."
xoites (One White Vote for Obama) defends Constitution @ 52:
I stand corrected. Literally.
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/05/18/record_obama_crowd_the_size_of.html
He appeals to voters? ROFL
Did he ever get a crowd of 75,000 to come and see him like Obama did in Portland today?
I rest my case!!!!!!
xoites (One White Vote for Obama) defends Constitution @ 52:
Sorry. As an avid reader of your posts, I know how much that stings. It happens everywhere even where I live. The main culprit is partisan politics. Old people get into a pattern of voting for the same party over and over and over, and unless the Dems can motivate these same people showing up for their candidacy race to actually go out and vote in the election, that is exactly the result. McCain. I know where I live, I get to listen to the older generation yap about how they are conservative, their parents were cons, their grandparents, etc, etc, etc. And guess what? My "riding" is always conservative in every election. They don't learn.
Love your headline C&L--what voters does he appeal to exactly? Oh, I know, the uninformed, the deluded, the old Repugs with no brains of their own. That's about 25%. Should be a wild ride there John. Think you can handle the adulation?
Carol @ 54:
Is the federal election in Portland today? I thought that Obama was still nothing more than a party candidate. I hope/wish that this is a sign of things to come, but, election turnout is never as high as in the primaries. Even where I live. Thousands show up for some politicians and you'd swear it was going to be a landslide election. Only to find out only 60% decided to vote.
ConcernedCanuck @ 55:
If Obama and Hillary and McCain were in a three way race McCain would come in third.
I have no idea where or why you come up with these day dreams but you are welcome to them.
ConcernedCanuck @ 55:
so you read tea leaves, just like a lot of "old folks", eh?
you know what irritates me? can you imagine SNL in the Ackroyd-Curtain-Belushi-Chase etc. era having Ford (or Eddie Murphy era with Ronald Reagan) on the show and try to help him be funny and reach out to young voters?!?!?!?!?!?!?! how times have changed, and not for the better. goddam corporate media. doesn't Lorne Michaels still produce it? whatta sell-out creep.
Norbert @ 60:
GE runs the show at the "NBC"s, not Michaels. Russert leads the News charge and SNL is always up for renewal, season by season.
This is peanut,Mr. McCain compared to just one day of war spending.
That's what eating up the budget,and sinking the dollar more down vs. world currencies.It is the war spending.
Mr. McCain:
You,Lieberman and all whom you surrounded yourself with will waste more billions on your future wars than all this pork your are talking about.
If you are interested and serious about saving billions of dollars and helping US taxpayers, then please try to solve our international problems peacefully...
Mr. McCain, the word 'negotiating' in not even in your dictionary,nor it is in Lieberman's or the war loving NeoCon cabal that you and Lieberman surrounded yourself with.
So,please.....You can't have it both ways...trying to look like you are a taxpayer money saver,but in the same time you are willing to continue having wars and war spending.
xoites (One White Vote for Obama) defends Constitution @ 58:
Day dreams? Does that explain the McCain popularity in the polls xoites? All I can say is I really hope that the people in this picture http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080518/capt.41d4f2c997834f1baa804bd... get off their lazy asses and actually vote in the real election for once. Most won't and you and I both know that isn't a "dream" but a reality.
xoites (One White Vote for Obama) defends Constitution @ 58:
he really hates our freedoms, here.
I have really never watched this hmm lady, except on a few video clips like this. All I can say from those few brief interludes is "how in the hell did this cretin ever get a microphone in her hand?" She has deep mental problems. The only redeeming thing on that video clip was that that her skirt did not fly up and send me into convulsions. I think she has the potential to unseat Coultergeist as most loathsome female.
miss_kitty @ 5:
There, I fixed it for you. Not to mention the 5th guy in his campaign resigned today(maybe yesterday) with ties to a lobbyist.
Or is the lobbyist, hell, I can't keep up with them anymore.
What a pathetic attempt to cash on on what they percieve to be the "hip youth" vote they are so lacking. Scripted parody recited by a marginally coherent old fart who has amply demonstrated his willingness to sell-out to the Neocon/PNAC cabal.
Incidentally, anyone else notice that the PNAC web sight account has been suspended for non-payment? LOL - These fuckers won't even pay their bills once they are through using you. PNAC Website
And before I forget, Blow Me, Newt, Kristol, et al.
wait! there's more
McCain's Chief Strategist Defends Lobbying Work With Dictators
McCain's Lobbyist Scandals Prompt Additional Scrutiny
The Huffington Post | May 16, 2008 10:59 AM
Big GOP Losses In Congress Likely, Even If McCain Wins
McClatchy Newspapers | Steven Thomma and Margaret Talev |
May 18, 2008 06:32 PM
Whoever wins the presidency this November, it's all but a slam dunk they'll be working with a Democratic Congress. And it probably will be a stronger Democratic majority with more votes than it has today.
Even normally optimistic Republicans conceded in recent days that the landscape is stacked against them after losing their third special House of Representatives election in a row, all in what had been safe Republican districts.
"A large segment of the American public doesn't have confidence in the Republican Party," said Rep. Tom Cole, R-Okla., the party's chief political operative for House races.
"It should be a really good Democratic year in both chambers," said Stuart Rothenberg, editor of the Rothenberg Political Report. He's one of the three most authoritative nonpartisan voices on congressional races, along with Charles Cook of the Cook Political Report and Larry Sabato, the director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia.
OK
Count the Votes,
There are Red States and there are Blue States
In 2004 the margins in the Red Ststes were huge in favour of the GOP.
The Demographics have not changed much since then.
29 % of the electorate think Bush . Rove, Condi, Rumsfeld and the Neocosns
have done the right thing.
15 % of the elevortate in any country , will vote for anythng .
In the long term !
Well , you ( the. American tax payers)are paying for it .
The End Gane for this cusade?
Has anyone really audited the costs of this Iaraq Crusade??
Voting patterns are hard to change .
What will be the swing in Congress in 2008 ??
Maybe a 20 swing in favour of the Dem's at best.
What will be the swing in the Senate in 2008 ??
Maybe three to four in favour of the Dem's.
If you are lucky.
mccain should face it; he isn't the man he use to be five minutes ago.
to quote the Nastalga critic Not Funny+Not Funny=Not F***ing Funny!
SCHRODINGER'S CAT @ 70:
I just can't wait to watch the debates between Obama and McCain. :)
To the tune of "Barbara Ann" "Dumb Dumb Dumb! Dumb Dumb McCain!"
That was probably a fairly progressive audience laughing at McCain's self-depreciating attempt at humor. Although the internet is an unsafe place for some, exacerbating their obsessive and anti-social behaviors and leading to increased paranoia, it's reassuring to know most people can still keep 'politics' in perspective.
SNL was painful to watch, watching McCain was embarrassing.
As was said in an earlier blog - SNL is now so lame and all I have remaining is the habit.
Gretchen @ 8:
I find absolutely nothing funny about what those bastards did to OUR country. You can't even laugh on a human level, because they are such inhuman beasts themselves. Repugs, the party that killed happiness.
bigbrother2084 @ 6:
money, SNL is free (expensive to buy) airtime from corporate supporters.
Mac got several minutes totally free airtime, which is worth millions.
Obama has $50M cash in hand and $600K in debt
Hillary has $30M cash in hand and $15M in debt
McPoverty has $11M cash in hand and $700K in debt
Hey, give McCain points for trying. I caught part of his skit and it was funny. Sadly so, but still worth a chuckle. I don't support him, agree with his stated policies nor approve of his lifestyle, but I will proudly defend his right to make a fool of himself. He deserves that much.
No dice grandpa. He prob had interns tell him about SNL. Another thing younger than McCain, both interns and SNL. He's grasping, the republican brand is awash, Rove who strived for 100 years of republican rule is inicted, Bush is in the tanks. Thank you for waking up up America. Bush says that history will judge him. History will reveal that his dynasty made billions off Americans via oil revenue. How convenient to say "history will tell." Anyone could say that as they will be long dead.
John mccain is about as appealing as a shrimp cocktail left out on a counter in 100 degree tempertures for a month.
CoIntelPro against Repug DoucheBaggery @ 70 Says:
“A large segment of the American public doesn’t have confidence in the Republican Party,” said Rep. Tom Cole, R-Okla., the party’s chief political operative for House races.
Rep Cole has got it wrong! A large segment of the American public knows that the modern Republican party is nothing but a bunch of fascists pigs who would love to see the American Republic destroyed so they can institute a totalitarian police state. After all they've done toward that end it's a bit hard to ignore.
I don't know how many times it's going to take for people to realize repugs aren't funny.
Listening to McBush stiltedly read jokes someone else wrote for him by definition is NOT funny. How many times can they joke about his age?!? He's old, we get it. It's not funny. He is using his age as a way to say he has the experience needed to move this country in the richt direction.
Start making him read jokes about bombing Iran or sucking Bush's dick for repug support, or make him admit the only reason he's getting the nomination is because all of the other repug candidates completely imploded from scandal and he's been able to cover up his scandals the best.
That would start to become funny, if it wasn't so sickeningly true.
John McCain; the Tim Conway of Politics.
Save the fuel of your wife's plane and the money. You don't stand a chance in November...
John McCain is a nice guy, he tries to do the right thing, problem is , he's been so brainwashed his whole life, he no longer can tell the difference between right and wrong, justice and injustice...it's not his fault poor guy...at least he's in the right party, the Republican party, with all the other brainwashed slobs, and at least he's one of the few in the Republican party who do not hate America or Liberty...he at least tries to do the right thing, even though it's mostly to satisfy his bloated ego...and as for the SNL piece I thought is was not bad and it shows he's got at least enough self confidence to laugh at himself.
Honest George @ 77:
Shame on SNL. Propaganda disguised as lame comedy. One positive that may come of this could be the loss of the youth vote by such a pathetic display.
Gretchen @ 25:
Yah. And they'll vote for McCain because "I just feel funny about a guy named Obama being President."
McCain is disgusting. But that won't stop him from being shoe-horned into the White House.
That SNL audience should be hung up by its thumbs for laughing at that dreadful bucket of spit. Just shows you how groupthink works. "Everyone else is laughing, I don't want to stand out and be the only one not laughing! You gotta show that you have a sense of humor. Me scared."
I don't know when SNL really lost it's way, but it is lost! I was watching Mad TV just before SNL. The last two skits on Mad TV were about health care. One guy ended up living in a box, addicted to crack wit a huge tattooed boyfriend because his life went in the crapper for getting a credit card. The last skit was about the Cookie Monster having to cut off his own foot because he had diabetes and no health care.
We settled back to wait for SNL to come on and John McCain's face filled the screen. We couldn't watch the entire show as it was nothing but a puff-ball show where John McCain was allowed to try to identify with voters by being self-deprecating. Probably made a lot more voters want to go have a beer with him...just gave me a propaganda hangover.
Truth & Beauty
These guys make me sick, MSM doesn't even admit Iran never said they have a nuclur program, What about Pakistan they are being paid billions of dollars for what? If we didn't give them the know how in the first place, would we still be pouring money into their coffers to bribe them not to attack us.
So how does this kind of thing happen, anyway? Does the campaign approach SNL, or does SNL approach the campaign? Who writes the script? I would hate to be the writer who gets assigned to making John McCain hip and funny.
This whole thing with politicians getting on TV to prove how self-deprecating they are is such a strange little social ritual. Making a few lame jokes about his own age really does nothing to mitigate the fact that he is a Cold-War dinosaur who's still trying to win Vietnam for the Gipper.
It would have been funny if an impersonator read the jokes. McCain reading them himself was just weird and creepy. I know that the jokes used hyperbole, but they were grounded in truth. That's why they're funny. But McCain's appearance came across as either him admitting that there is some truth to it or that he is oblivious to his own actions and is not getting the jokes he is telling. Probably the latter, in which case he doesn't realize that he's not sending the message that large spending cuts will help (debateable in its own right) but rather that he supports sweeping, random, and misguided spending cuts to things we really need. So he's either the person the jokes portray or a clueless old man. Neither make him look good.
And then there's the obvious attempt to buddy up to the young people and to get across his hypocritical message of reducing pork.
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