McCain's More of the Same
By Nicole Belle Tuesday Jun 03, 2008 8:30am
It's been a stressful time coming to the end of the primaries. Feelings have been running high across the spectrum, and isn't it kind of John McCain to give us a little comedy to help us all relax?
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What's that you say? This wasn't a comedy sketch? Could have fooled me. From the very first sentence when he declared himself to be in New Orleans (and not "N'awlins," but "New Or-lee-ens") when he was in fact in Kenner, Louisiana, the speech was a non-stop laugh fest of strange and nonsensical rhetoric. Proving that he's not above co-opting more than Bush's presidency, he spoke before a green backdrop reminiscent of the one used by Arnold Schwarzeneggar, covered with a modified Obama campaign slogan. Politics 101 says you don't let your opponent frame the debate...McSame still hasn't figured that out? And the choice to make a speech at that time, just before the polls closed in Montana and South Dakota and Obama was scheduled to make his speech? That's comedy gold, because there was no way the networks wouldn't pre-empt him.
Pundits and party elders have declared that Senator Obama will be my opponent. He will be a formidable one. But I'm ready for the challenge and determined to run this race in a way that does credit to our campaign and to the proud, decent and patriotic people that I ask to lead.
Maybe the argument that McCain is ready for the challenge would be more persuasive if he at least acknowledged that in this country, it's the VOTERS that declared Obama would be his opponent, not pundits. But hey, his party doesn't seem to put a lot of stock in the democratic process.
Now if you want to get serious, the DNC has done a little fact checking on McCain's speech--they were able to hang through the whole thing, more power to them-- and found it remarkably fact free:
JOHN MCCAIN'S RHETORIC VS. JOHN MCCAIN'S RECORD
MCCAIN IS AS CLOSE TO BUSH AS THE SENATE HAS TO OFFER
MCCAIN TONIGHT: "This is, indeed, a change election. No matter who wins this election, the direction of this country is going to change dramatically."
- REALITY: McCain voted with President Bush 95 percent of the time in 2007. According to Congressional Quarterly, He also has a record of heartily supporting Bush on some of his most controversial priorities, including the Iraq war and comprehensive immigration reform. In 2007, as he ramped up for his second White House run, McCain voted with Bush 95 percent of the time, according to Congressional Quarterly, which tallied votes McCain was present for on issues in which the administration took a position." [Arizona Republic, 4/6/08] McCain had the highest rate of support in the entire U.S. Senate. [Congressional Quarterly, 1/13/2008]
- REALITY: John McCain is promising to take the Bush tax cuts to reckless new extremes. McCain's Own Tax Cuts Would Double Cost of Extending Bush Tax Cut. The New York Times noted, "The McCain campaign put the cost of his tax cuts at roughly $200 billion a year, but its estimate did not include the cost of making the Bush tax cuts permanent, which would more than double that figure." [New York Times, 4/16/08]
- REALITY: John McCain is willing to keep our troops in Iraq for 100 years, Long Term American Presence In Iraq Analogous To South Korea. At a New Hampshire town hall when McCain was asked "President Bush has talked about our staying in Iraq for 50 years." McCain responded: "Maybe 100" and "that would be fine with me." McCain explained his 100 year remark by drawing an analogy to the long-term American presence in South Korea: "We've been in Japan for 60 years. We've been in South Korea for 50 years or so. That'd be fine with me as long as Americans are not being injured or harmed or wounded or killed." [McCain Town Hall, Derry NH Opera House, 1/3/2008; New York Times, "The Caucus," 1/11/2008]
MCCAIN WAS SILENT WHILE WAR WAS FAILING
McCain Tonight: I disagreed strongly with the Bush administration's mismanagement of the war in Iraq. I called for the change in strategy that is now, at last, succeeding where the previous strategy had failed miserably.
FACT: McCain Was Late To Criticize War.
McCain: "No One Has Supported President Bush on Iraq More Than I Have." During an March 2008 interview on The Mike Gallagher Show, McCain stated, "no one has supported President Bush on Iraq more than I have." [Think Progress blog, 4/2/08]
Rich: McCain Failed To Stand Up When It Counted. "He didn't just vote to authorize the war; in response to a question from Tim Russert in September 2002, he lent his military credibility to the administration's undermanned war plan. When Gen. Eric Shinseki, the Army chief of staff, challenged that strategy in a February 2003 Senate hearing by calling for ''several hundred thousand soldiers,'' Mr. McCain did not speak up in support. ... The one part of his Iraq past that Mr. McCain does want us to recall now is his subsequent criticism of the war's execution. But contrary to his current claims, he never publicly demanded Mr. Rumsfeld's head. And when Mr. McCain did call for more troops in Iraq, he was again in sync with Democrats like Joe Biden, with whom he made that case on ''Meet the Press'' in August 2003. Rather than dwell on this ancient history, Mr. McCain said last week, we should talk about ''what we are going to do now.'' But his answer to ''what we are going to do now'' in Iraq is merely more of what he did then." [Op-Ed, Frank Rich, New York Times, 3/2/2008]
McCain in 2003: "I Have No Qualms About Our Strategic Plans" in Iraq. "I have no qualms about our strategic plans. I thought we were very successful in Afghanistan," McCain told the Hartford Courant in March 2003, just prior to the Iraq invasion. [Hartford Courant, 3/5/03]
November 2003 - McCain: I'm a Great Admirer of Secretary Rumsfeld. On a 2003 appearance on MSNBC's "Buchanan & Press," Bill Press told McCain, "Your comments calling for increased troop levels in Iraq "imply at least a criticism of" Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, asking the Arizona Senator: "Do you still have confidence in Secretary of Defense Don Rumsfeld?" McCain replied: "I'm a great admirer of Secretary Rumsfeld. He's part of the president's team. I support him. When I came back in August, Bill, I said, look, these people on the ground are telling me things are going to get a lot worse unless we do something different. And in August I said we needed more of the kind of troops that I just described." [MSNBC, "Buchanan & Press, 11/6/03]
McCain: No, Rumsfeld Shouldn't Leave Post; "Things Go Bad in Wars" and We Adjust. Press agreed with McCain that things were not going as well as the administration had originally asserted in Iraq, asking McCain: "The man in charge of the post-war plan in Iraq was Rumsfeld. The man in charge now is Rumsfeld. He's obviously not doing the job. Wouldn't it be better for him to get out of there?" McCain replied: "No. Look, things go bad in wars. I was watching a thing last night about the Korean War. One of the great blunders in history was committed by General MacArthur when he refused to accept the evidence that the Chinese were coming...But the American military adjusted...You have to adjust and we have made some adjustments." [MSNBC, "Buchanan & Press, 11/6/03]
MCCAIN HELPED BUSH BALLOON THE DEFICIT
McCain Tonight: [Bush] and I have not seen eye to eye on many issues....
McCain Voted for Four of Five Bush-Republican Budget Resolutions Totaling $9.8 Million
McCain Voted for 4 of 5 Bush Budgets Adding to $9.8 Trillion in Spending. McCain supported four of the five Bush budgets that the Senate voted on from 2001-2006.
2001: H. Con. Res. 83: $1.95 Trillion [2001 Senate Vote #98]
2002: McCain Voted to Table [2002 Senate Vote #134]
2003: McCain Voted No [H.Con.Res. 95; 2003 Senate Vote #134]
2004: S. Con. Res 95: $2.45 Trillion [2004 Senate Vote #58]
2005: H.Con.Res. 95: $2.6 Trillion [2005 Senate Vote #114]
2006: S.Con.Res. 83: $2.8 Trillion [2006 Senate Vote #74]
SEE NO EVIL: MCCAIN DIDN'T LOOK FOR CORRUPTION IN CONGRESS AND DIDN'T FIND ANY
MCCAIN TONIGHT: "When I fought corruption it didn't matter to me if the culprits were Democrats or Republicans. I exposed it and let the chips fall where they may."
REALITY: McCain's Toothless Committee Failed To Investigate Congress, Said No Need For Reform
McCain Acknowledged That Members Had Responsibility In The Lobbying Scandal, But Refused To Investigate Member's Actions In An Investigation That "Ignored" Congressional Republicans. McCain acknowledged that Members were responsible for their conduct in Congress surrounding the lobbying scandal, saying, "Many cast blame [for the Abramoff Scandal] only on the lobbying industry. But, we should not forget that we, as Members, owe it to the American people to conduct ourselves in a way that reinforces, rather than diminishes, the public's faith and confidence in Congress." But during his investigation, McCain refused to include the legislative actions taken by Members of Congress saying, "We stop when we find out where the money went." The Associated Press reported that, "The intervention by congressional Republicans...was all but ignored in recent hearings on Capitol Hill led by [McCain], that examined Abramoff's lobbying inside Interior. [Senator McCain, CQ Transcriptions, 1/25/06; Roll Call, 3/10/05; AP, 11/17/05]
McCain's Abramoff Report Said No Need for New Lobbying Laws Following Abramoff Scandal. The report by released by John McCain and the Senate Indian Affairs Committee in June 2006 on the Abramoff investigation argued that "no new lobbying restrictions are needed to prevent schemes like those used by former lobbyist Jack Abramoff." In addition, "despite a pledge by McCain two years ago to get to the bottom of a now-convicted lobbyist's influence-peddling, his committee's 373-page report does not detail the relationships between Abramoff and the dozens of lawmakers to whom the lobbyist helped funnel hundreds of thousands of dollars in tribal political donations." [Arizona Republic, 6/23/2006]
MCCAIN PUTS TAX CUTS AHEAD OF RENEWABLE ENERGY AND JOBS
MCCAIN TONIGHT: "If America is going to achieve energy independence, we need a President with a record of putting the nation's interests before the special interests of either party."
FACT CHECK: John McCain voted against tax credits to encourage renewable energy and create jobs. And h's proposed bit tax cuts that would reward big energy companies to the tune of nearly $3 billion
- McCain Repeatedly Voted Against Tax Credits For Renewable Energy Production.
McCain voted against an amendment to extend the renewable energy production tax credit and clean renewable energy bonds programs for four years including $290 Million for renewable energy R&D on Solar, wind, geothermal, biomass, hydropower. [2006 Senate Vote #42, 3/14/2006]McCain Voted Against Major Energy Legislation Providing $18 Billion In Energy Related Tax Incentives. McCain voted against the passage of the Energy Policy Act of 2005. The bill would overhaul the nation's energy policy and provide for approximately $18 billion in energy-related tax incentives. [2005 Senate Vote #158, 6/28/2005]
McCain voted against an amendment to establish tax credits for investments in renewable energy technologies, incentives for new energy efficient residential construction and tax deductions for increased energy efficiency in commercial buildings. [2001 Senate Vote #125, 5/21/2001]
McCain's Proposed Tax Cut Undermines His Proposed Environmental Plans. "A global warming plan that weans America off dirty energy requires taking a stand against the huge utility & energy companies. But John McCain's tax plan seems slightly more interested in lining their pockets. An analysis from the Center for American Progress Action Fund finds that John McCain's massive corporate tax cut would save America's ten largest electrical utility companies and ten largest energy companies over $2.8 billion. (This is in addition to the $4 billion tax break for America's five largest oil companies.)" [ThinkProgress.org, 5/13/08]
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McFrist
I haven't laughed this hard in a long time! Daily show may need to
give mccain a guest spot....
I remember the last time a young, dynamic Democratic candidate ran against an out of touch war veteran GOP candidate.
It didn't work out too well for the old guy that time around either.
He tried to steal the limelight from Senator Obama and instead he showed the vast difference between his knowledge and speaking style and that of Senator Obama. Nice going Senator McCain. You came across as half asleep and Obama rocked the country with his speech.
The green background reminded me of the old green chalkboards in schools. He has a strange way of ending each of his sentences with an eerie smile and often times a wink. Why?
Instant EPIC comedy right here! Pass this shit around please ;)
After listening to McSame's laughable, crazy and unbelievable speech it's so obvious Reslugs still can't be trusted to be truthful ever.
When the presidential debates start, McBush is going to look angry, disheveled, old, and like a shell-of-a-man when appearing next to Obama.
I can't wait for the debates. THis guy will implode, if he doesn't have a heart attack straight up. He is so bad, the media will not be able to cover and lie for him effectively. It wasn't always the case, but I think he has aged VERY badly in the last 8 years, and his speaking, debating, policy and thinking on his feet skills have seriously eroded. He is worse than Bush is that department now, too.
Besides sounding boring, looking pasty and having an inappropriate affect, the speech was fine. (snark)
What was with that scary, creepy, serial killer, smile??
The McCorpse speaks....
And to continue. I have great respect for Sen. McCain. I respect his public service, his service in the armed forces, but the fact is...he's simply out of touch. He's missed his time. This country needs to stop looking backwards. Yes, granted, GWB was not an "old candidate" but he certainly was out of touch.
The Senate is a sausage making factory, and Sen. McCain can be an effective sausage maker. But the White House requires LEADERSHIP...REAL leadership. Not the dictatorial, narcissistic leadership of the present occupant, but leadership that provides vision for the future, vision that includes ALL Americans.
This country is again being presented with a real opportunity for change. An opportunity to right the wrongs of the last 25+ years, an opportunity to bring us back to our place as the most progressive, compassionate and positive force on the planet.
I really do pray that we don't screw it up.
Obama '08
Proof we're better people:
Obama praises McCain's military service, and his supporters applaud heartily.
McCain praises Clinton's courage and inspiration to women...silence.
1996 at the DNC, Democrats praise Bob Dole's military service, and Democrats applaud heartily.
2004 at the RNC...well, Republicans didn't exactly praise John Kerry's military service.
We are better Americans than them.
You gotta laugh when it begins and he says he is in NOLA when it says at the bottom of the screen that he is not. Anything after that kinda gets lost.
With all the praise he lavished on Hillary, maybe he would like her on his ticket.
McStupid's speech was the worst, most painful, uncomfortably embarrassing political talk I have ever heard. He then ended each sentence with that weird yellow teeth smile of his. He can't read the teleprompter.
I think John McCain secretly thinks he's Barack Obama... He claims he's the candidate of change (he said it 33 times in last nights speech), he's says Barack Obama represents "politics of the past", and his new campaign slogan is "A LEADER WE CAN BELIEVE IN" a paraphrase of Obama's message...
I guess it's true - the mind IS the first thing to go.
At the risk of being obvious
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.......................deep breath............AAAAHHHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
I think you meant Kenner, LA, not Jenner, LA...though I could be wrong. Kenner is a suburb of New Orleans though. It's where the airport is.
NO ONE in New Orleans pronounces it "Nawlins" unless you're some sort of idiot of working for an ad campaign.
It is pronounced "New OR-lens" by we that live here. "New or-LEENZ" is ok as well. "Nawlins" is the mark of a fucking moron.
I couldn't take more than 5 minutes of listening to the ridiculous lies. He looked & he sounded like a robot. One whose batteries were almost out of juice.
His phrase "right change" was laughable BUT Obama has got to make very clear what HIS concept of change (the sane kind) is or I'm afraid some people WILL be fooled by the clueless Repubs again.
Clinton & Obama both blew him out of the water. With hope AND substance. And reality.
Mike @ 13:
The Republicans run on hate, fear, bigotry and division- so this is no shock.
It seems every month the Republicans pick a new group of people to hate, be it gays, Latinos, muslims, etc.....
Republican talking heads like BILLo are the hight of unprofessionalism=- they yell, insult, and even threaten the opposition.
Democrats often walk the higher ground by not sinking to the level of Republican filth- but there are times when we need to hit back, and tweice as hard. Democrats should have dragged Bush kicking and screaming from the White House, and impeached and tried his fascist ass..
McCain really just doesn't stand a chance this election year against Obama, that isn't over confidence or pom pom waving, it's reality. When you watch the two each make their case it's a no brainer Obama makes a more compelling case and moves crowds better.
McCain comes off like a sincere old man trying to compel people with the que cards in front of his face that we all know he is reading. Obama looks like a driven man saying what has been on his mind for for years to a room full of people he has known all his life.
pissed off patricia @ 4:
McCain has been undergoing therapy to disguise his prominent facial ticks as winks for the last 35 years.
He's more of the same and proud of it!
Lisa in FtW @ 2:
I don' think Jon Stewart has to worry about mccane replacing him.
Poor McCain, he's going to get rocked in November. His speech was terrible.
Hillary's was terrible, too. It wasn't gracious at all. But I guess nobody expects her to be.
tim @ 19:
Oh and BTW, anyone who actually spells "New Orleans" as "N'awlins" deserves DEATH
McCain may be more of the same, but he is better than another stupid fool
Kenner is where the New Orleans airport is located. It's ten miles from downtown. It's like being at LaGuardia and telling the crowd you're glad to be in Manhattan.
Not another senior moment, just another utterance from a man who's sure he's right and doesn't have a clue that he's making a fool of himself.
As much as we may enjoy watching McCain circle the drain for the next several months, there is a downside. Last night Sy Hersh moderated a Nation's Institute event for Jermemy Scahill, Laila Al-Arian and Chris Hedges and reiterated that this administration intended to bomb Iran. Among the reasons he sited was a fall surprise intended to boost McCain faltering candidacy.
BT @ 26:
If there was ever a time for her to show some graciousness, it was last night. She missed a great opportunity.
Poor old man. He's so pathetic. I feel really bad for him.
Sachem @ 29:
Oh Jesus! Imagine that man standing in front of that green background being in charge of our military. Hell, imagine him being in charge of anything. How comfortable would any of us feel?
McSame's speech last night would have been comedy gold if it were not so creepy.
Mike @ 13:
The reich-wing scum at the 2004 RNC mocked and humiliated the military.
Sachem @ 29:
O.o Bomb Iran? With what army and what airplanes? Does Sy Hersh have magical aircraft-making powers we don't know about?
Mike @ 13:
Yes, we treat the opposition party with more respect than they treat you. How well has that worked out, exactly?
Limp-Dick Blimpaugh @ 10:
It isn't a natural smile, it's a rictus grin that occurs when he hits the "Smile" stage direction. If you watch closely, you can see one side of his smile happen, then the other side, like he's putting on a pair of pants and his legs are stiff.
Standing in front of green screens is a requirement for effective CGI special effects and has been used by Hollywood for years when they need to put actors in unrealistic or dangerous situations.
I think you can see where I'm going with this...
I bet the Republicans wished they had super deligates and could pick someone else.
Different Anonymous @ 38:
LOL, I sure do. This guy is probably worse of an actor than ol' Raygunn, at least Reagan starred in a good movie (Hellcats of the Navy.)
We haven't had free elections in eight years. The Repugnicans win elections because they fix elections: FLA in 2000; OH in 2004. I really worry about that. Plus, they have the advantage of the partisan SCOTUS.
Democrats and Republicans already starting to work together. Historical moment indeed.
Clinton Supporters Offer To Help McCain
Matt Burns, the spokesman for the GOP convention in St. Paul e-mails to say that the RNC's convention office in St. Paul has received numerous telephone calls in the last few hours from people who identify themselves as Clinton supporters asking how they can help Sen. McCain.
Mick Fowler @ 41:
Actually, not since 1877. The GOP didn't invent this, the 19th Century Democrats (not at all what the Party is like today) did.
The 19th Century Dems were basically today's GOP anyhow, what with arguing in favor of slavery and all, so they were a wee bit different as a political party.
kep306 @ 39:
I agree. Republicans, in private, must just shake their heads and wonder how they got stuck with this candidate.
dennis @ 42:
Did Rush encourage them to do it?
I thought it ironic that he was "in" New Orleans at all. "Yes, New Orleans. I remember New Orleans. I was cutting a cake for GWB while it's residents were drowning."
here is a question for you all-
Right wingers, like BillO have had a blind obedience to Bush for 8 years, and have long equated the act of questioning the president as being tantamount to treason.
If Obama is elected, will they still demand respect and reverence for the president, or will they try and tear him down?
Will Republicans demand a rolllback of the expanded executive powers they felt Bush had every right in seizing?
@29:
No, it's perfectly fine for someone in Kenner to say he's glad to be in New Orleans. It's part of the New Orleans greater metropolitan area. Politically, it makes more sense too, because Jefferson Parish, including the home of white flight, Metairie, is the most crimson of red.
I agree with the other guy: anyone who says N'awlins is a tool. Also, under no circumstances say "New Or-lee-uns". Two syllables only, thank you.
He reminds me of a psychopath who's about to enter a school with an assault rifle.
We must stop this giggling killer!
pissed off patricia @ 45:
I don't know, po'd patricia. Why don't you call in and ask. 1-800/282-2882
I'm sure he'd love to hear from you.
If he did and Hillary supporters obliged, then how wonderful to see the two parties' acitivists working together to get things done. Maybe we are entering a new post-partisan era.
My favorite moments were when there were supposed to be applause lines in the speech and a shill in the audience had to do the cheer leading. Better yet, when he said that he would be accused of running for "Bush's Third Term" and the audience, so used to reflexively applauding the Bush name, started to applaud the idea of "Bush's Third Term." He has a lot of heavy lifting to do and he's simply not capable.
That's Kenner, brah!
The old, tired, two-faced moron got two things right. Yes, New Or-lee-ens is one of two proper pronunciations. New Or-lens is the other. New Or-leenz and N'Awlins are the mark of the ignorant. And although Jenner should be Kenner (he was in Kenner) and Kenner is not New Orleans proper, it is a contiguous suburb where Louis Armsrtrong International Airport is located, and it's ok to say you are in New Orleans. If he was in Jennings, 150 or miles away, you could mock him.
This is about as far as I can go in defending anything he says. So he's got the roadies telling him where he is and how to pronounce it. Big whoop. Obama!
General @ #36 in response to me @ #29
Do not kid yourself. We have several carrier groups in the gulf ready to go a any time. Adm Fallon's resignation was the tip off that this is coming. He was the firewall for this insane policy.
We've got to remember that these delusional oilpatch psychopaths believe that leaving office without doing what they want is a waste of power and political capital. And who is going to stop them? Pelosi, Conyers, Reid ?? Yeah right.
Immediate impeachment of the Vice President is still called for. Hersh went on to say, with profound body language, that " this administration will be lethal until 11:59am on January 20th". Maybe Wexler is willing to move, but the bozos named above will block him.
It was most frightening of all when he said, "Never before in our country's history have we faced anything like this. Never." There's a lot more to this, Hersh couldn't elaborate further because of his professional obligations to the New Yorker.
Bush_MUST_Go @ 20:
Yep, 5 mins. is my limit and I'm hoping to see his teleprompter take a dive like it did a few months ago. That was so funny to listen to his voice trail off in time with the teleprompter dying. Thanx for the yucks, Crash!Go get'em you fucking idiot!
dennis @ 50:
Dennis has Fat Rush's number. Wow, what a surprise.
Pontchartrain Pete @ 53:
Yet no mention from anyone of Obama in Sioux Falls, SD saying "Thank you, Sioux City!". Or in Sunrise, FL asking "How's it going, Sunshine?"
Night of the Living Dead.
Sachem @ 54:
Wha?
The Iranians have the frickin' Sunburn that means that Sunburn missle + Aircraft Carrier = Pearl Harbor damaged squared to the cubed degree.
And we've never faced anything like Iran? Bwahahahahahahaha (at Hersh, not you.) We "faced" plenty of states like Iran. Grenada, Panama and Mexico in the Revolution come to mind. None of those were what I call threats.
This is ridiculous that the GOP is shaping the Islamic Republic as somehow worse than the Soviet Union. And even more ridiculous that people are stupid enough to believe it. Funny, I remember that before 9/11 the Big Scary OtherTM was supposed to be China, not frickin' Iran!
Tell me, did somebody change the dial on the timeline I'm living in so the Iranians are reviving either the Achaemenid empire or the Sassanid empire?
...
None of this is even rational! How is Bush's band of goons selling this?
Sachem @ 54:
With my tinfoil hat squarely in place this thought came to me. Suppose, just suppose, that Hillary knows about this and she's staying in the race thinking if it happens the super delegates might turn to her as the nominee because of her experience in congress and her knowledge of the war.
Okay, the hat is off now and I'll use the tinfoil to line the broiler pan.
prines @ 57:
More proof that the reich-wingers do not care about real issues....flag pins, bowling scores, former pastors, middle names. No wonder this country has gone to sh*t under the GOPigs over the last 8 years.
dennis @ 57:
pissed off patricia @ 60:
LOL, like Hillary would have been any better off than Obama as the nominee. The same kooks that would shoot at Obama would shoot at her, too.
And like that would even work for the Democratic base. If something like that happens, God will be kind to us and give us another 1860 (prior to secession, not the period after South Carolina seceded, the period when regional candidates ran for office), much less what might happen in terms of the chaos.
dennis @ 57:
Least he knows the sect that comprises al Qaeda ; and he doesn’t claim he’s a foreign policy and national security “expert”………..
*Sorry about the earlier screwed up post*
YAWN ... too bad McCain doesn't have any original ideas.
You know, many people in the U.S. don't really know their country. Most people of other countries know more of the U.S. history than people living in the U.S.
History is hardly taught in schools anymore (except in other countries where they not only study it bur dissect it.)
The word democracy does not appear even once in the US constitution. For that matter it does not appear in any state constitution. The US is not a democracy. Its a Republic. If you want to live in a true democracy move to Holland.
Obama gives us hope to become a real Democracy, one that hopefully will see an end to government run by the 1% and the Corporations..
bigironal @ 55:
McBush is ridiculous and looks fragile and weak. McBush, this shell-of-a-man, is going to be exposed as a mentally handicapped and unfit candidate over the next 6+ months.
mccain on why he would be failure for the lgbt community
http://queersunited.blogspot.com/2008/06/john-mccain-bad-for-america-bad-for.html
I think the Republicans know they're fucked and they're letting McCain have it because he can cap his political career with the thrill of running for President.
Typical Republicans - they promise you one thing then fuck you in the drive through. Ol' John likely doesn't even realize he's just the token opposition.
MCMetal @ 64:
Those are real issues. Reich-wingers don't care about them. The GOPigs is the party of flag pins and middle names.
Nicole, you need to fix this: "when he was in fact in Jenner, Louisiana,
no, he wasn't in "Jenner, Louisiana, he was in Kenner, Louisiana.
Hagee, The Pro-Hitler Preacher and McCain Friend, Had Influence In Bush White House
dennis @ 57:
Run, Forrest, Run! I'm sure that one will be a winner with you.
In the meantime, 100 years, 100 years, 100 years!
IgnoranceIsNotBliss @ 70:
Take a gander at that backdrop ?
Looks like he's from and talking on Mars ; who the hell was the set/stage designer ?
Cyclops from the X-Men ?
Stevie Wonder ?
♠Bangkok-Bob♠ @ 65:
Exactly. The Founders hated democracy, which is one reason the Conservatives look back to the 18th Century so much.
True democracy died out in Athens, and true democracy on the Athenian model requires city states to exist, and trust me, most city states in ancient Greece were theocratic hellholes by today's standards. Athens was the one rose rising from a pile of manure in Hellenic-era Greece.
That was some funny azz shit from Shecky McCain last night.
Much better than any SNL skit or even Jon Stewart.
He looked like he was in his first day of teleprompter class to be a weather person.
What a fucking jack ass. It is even funnier to think he is probably wearing a diaper.
Obama is getting a roaring standing ovation at AIPAC right now.
Dr. (Bitter Hussein) Matt @ 71:
A Presidential candidate who made Gay Marriage the wedge issue in 2004 and said Jesus was his favorite philosopher had ties to a shallow dip**** like Hagee? Shocked, I tell you, shocked I am.
Happy National Zionist Ass Kissing Day everyone.
General_Rennenkampf @ 77:
Yeah, I admit it's a bit anti-climatic.
"It is reported by biographer Robert Timberg (“John McCain: An American Odyssey”) that right up into his twenties, he remained a strikingly violent man, "ready to fight at the drop of a hat". This rage seems to be at the core of his personality: describing his own childhood, McCain has admitted to having a quick temper and a short fuse (see his book “Worth the Fighting for: A Memoir”) and he has confessed that as a youngster “at the smallest provocation I would go off into a mad frenzy, and then suddenly crash to the floor unconscious. When I got angry I held my breath until I blacked out!” Then, his parents would be forced to soak him in cold water, clothes and all, to wake him up."
This is a little quote I happened across on the Internet. McCain is a man who is admittedly filled with rage, and who has the same sociopathic tendencies as Georgie Bush, which makes him even more dangerous for our country and the world.
Take a gander at that backdrop ..
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Yes, this is what happens when you piss off the entire qay community. You end up with a set that was designed by someone who use to work on Hee Haw............
Clinton's "concession" speech last night was hilarious. Heads exploded all over Obama's blogs.
McCain's speech was just awful but the gop have this:
"For about 30 minutes, Michelle Obama launched into a rant about the evils of America, and how America is to blame for the problems of Africa. Michelle personally blamed President Clinton for the deaths of millions of Africans and said America is responsible for the genocide of the Tutsis and other ethnic groups. She then launched into an attack on "whitey", and talked about solutions to black on black crime in the realm of diverting those actions onto white America. Her rant was fueled by the crowd: they reacted strongly to what she said, so she got more passionate and enraged, and that's when she completely loses it and says things that have made the mouths drop of everyone who's seen this.
The "tape" is a DVD that Trinity United sold on its website, and possibly offered free for download up until March 2008 when Trinity's site was scrubbed and the DVDs were no longer offered for sale."
The Obama's hate whitey.
Dr. (Bitter Hussein) Matt @ 76:
Bush and Condi even sent their thumbs up to Obama.
Amazing
To me the one word that describes McCain, his speech, his delivery of the speech and the background too, is "pathetic"
L.A. Confidential @ 82:
Here you go
my wife said it best.."he sounds like he is talking to 6 year olds.
willie @ 85:
Mentally, they are.
getalife @ 81:
Yeah, yeah, we've heard all about it. Funny thing is, no one has seen it.
Dr. (Bitter Hussein) Matt @ 84:
Thanks for the lead. I can get those at wholesale and store in bulk to sell to you guys at some point in the not to far off future.
My take? What on earth do they think they will gain putting that codger on stage with Obama? I've seen him in the GOP debates, he is good in comparison to those empty suits but he cannot win to a TV audience. Obama will shred him on intangibles. Kennedy/Nixon times ten.
getalife @ 81:
I am white and i hate "whitey." I hate the prejudiced assholes who say to me, "Don't go into that neighborhood, there's 'Brother's' down there!"
I hate the whitey's who can look at the disproportionate number of black men in prison and think black men are supposed to be there. I hate the whitey that thinks he is superior and knows all about black people when he never actually met one.
I fucking HATE whitey.
I have nothing against white people.
Thanks again Nicole for providing a ready reference for the future.
I fear that repeating these points for 5 months may lose some steam but it has to be done. Rove 101 says keep on repeating your point again and again and it will become a fact....the difference is that these ARE the facts!!
L.A. Confidential @ 88:
So, you're finally going to cash in your shopping cart filled with cans. Good for you. Hopefully you don't see an Obama bumper sticker on the way...we wouldn't want you to break down crying in the middle of street on the way to the store.
Will McCain get us out of Iraq? NO!
Will McCain concentrate on the economy? NO!
Will McCain stop outsourcing jobs? NO!
Will McCain be sensible and represent America? NO!
Even with 90% of Americans wanting Iraq over & done with, Bush still refuses to be our President.
McCain says 8 more years of Bush. NO! No! NO!
moondancer @ 89:
Maybe they're feeling that Obama will be stunned by McStupid's yellow teeth and his constant stating of "my friends" that's about as real as a snake oil salesman's smile ............
In my opinion, Barak is going to EAT McCain in the general election, 60/40 or so......yes, we are going to lose a little to your hardcore lunchbox and low information Appalacian racists in the Democratic part (and the rest of those people are probably part of the hardcore 30% Kool Aid drinkers), and small portion of bitter (racist) Hillary supporters, but those will be more than mitigated by Republicans crossing the line, independents, and new young voters........
Who ever recommended that green backdrop should be fired! He looks like Bush when he's giving another failed policy speech and trying to use catchy slogans to sell his point. When you contrast that with Obama who is speaking in the middle of 17,000 people, if pictures are a 1,000 words, then this will be a long election for the Republicans.
McLame is going to be destroyed in the debates. His only chance is if -- like Bush -- he wears a mic so his staff can give him the answers during the debates.
L.A. Confidential @ 82:
Why would they do that? and if they really did, it shows how stupid the bush crowd is. Obama spent most of is speech bashing the hell out of bushes and McCains policies.
I fear the day that John McCain is broadcasted in High Def!
Was McLaughable doing a robot dance last night ?
getalife @ 81:
I heard there's footage of Michelle saying :
I found it. Here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acp3pQSgwS0
scratch that first part ("I heard...")
MCMetal @ 93:
Recall the temper tantrums and fits of rage by McBush during the GOPig presidential candidate debates. Wait until McBush has to face a well-spoken and factually-based Obama. Hopefully there will be a defibrillator back stage.
StirFry @ 100:
One of the most hilarious poems ever written. :)
McCain will get even funnier as his RNC election team falters and his temper gets shorter and shorter with all the stumbles. Hilarity will ensue.
getalife is a poster usually seen on HuffingtonPost giving the most vitriolic anti-Obama posts, believing every single smear, even Larry Sinclair type stuff. Ignore him.
I don't think the tape exists, at least not in the way its being described.
xoites defends Constitution @ 89:
Gion @ 105:
We know. He's been seen whining and ranting about Obama on many, many blogs.
Q) What's the difference between a hillary supporter and a reich-winger?
A) Nothing.
Jack Jett @ 79:
Naw as someone pointed out, its a green screen ...so they can Chroma key Mccaint's 'speech' into a backdrop of the Iwo Jima flag raising for the ads. The Backwash won't know the difference.
I live in a town in the Midwest with over 100,000 people. Throughout this primary season, there have been signs for many candidates... but not ONE sign for McCain. This is unprecedented in this town which is very nearly evenly balanced between the 2 parties.
McSame (or McGoofy with that scary "grin") looked bad enough on his own, with all those applause lines which he managed to mistime while responding to the tepid applause from his shils... errr... audience... but then, he had the terrible misfortune to have his speaking efforts appear in direct contrast with one of the greatest speakers (and speeches) I have ever seen - delivered before an ecstatic audience numbered in the tens of thousands.
I think you can see where I am going with this... Poor old John McCain - I would feel sorry for him, and his pathetic performance, were he not also so dangerous.
Dr. (Bitter Hussein) Matt @ 102:
McLaughable is going to attack , attack , attack with his "surrender in Iraq" bullshit ; it's all he's got , and it's pretty weak.........
Hillary lost, get over it, she supports Obama/America now. Fact.
One of Obama's appearances drew over 70,000
Did McLaughable get that many votes in a lot of states during the horseshit GOP primaries ?
Says a lot about your party when your "best candidate" is a 72 year old clueless wonder .............
xoites defends Constitution @ 103:
"..then his house, I start to wreck, got no reason, what the heck!! " :))
L.A. Confidential @ 87:
Yeah, speaking of selling, I saw you under a Los Angeles viaduct trying to sell bootleg porno tapes.
mcain speech
look /read
10 o'clock
12 o'clock
2 o'clock
grin /wink
repeat
apeman @ 114:
Say "my friends" x100
Left&Left @ 15:
---So I said, "Mr. Hayman, It's me george Costanza, JFK, ... " He doesn't move. So I said uh, "Can't stand ya'", "Can't stand ya'" He turns and smiles, the little baked bean teeth. I get up to run away, but something was holding me back. It was Heyman. He had my underwear. There I was on the steps of the 42nd St. library ,a grown man, getting a wedgie.
Dr. (Bitter Hussein) Matt @ 115:
Don't forget to say the Democrats want Government to solve all our problems.
If we can just stop it from creating most of them it would be a great start! All we need is people running it who are not trying to smash it into the largest tree on the side of the road.
Poor Johnbob McDole.
McCain needs to avoid smiling, because it makes him look that much more like he's got one foot in the grave.
I accidentally stepped on a "Morning Joe" (i scraped my shoe off afterwards). Beady-eyed Joe interrupted Matthews commentary on the historic significance of Obama's nomination with a neatly packaged tirade containing "the bitter comment", Rev. Wright, and some other mole hill. I think Mika was sitting on Joe's lap.
I bet that McCain messed himself when he heard the news about Obama last night.
"He did WHAT??!" *squirts*
This is what "we" have. We have facts about what McCain says and does in policy. It isn't the made up scare tactics that will be used against Obama. It's not, he could be a secret muslim trying to take over the country nonsense.
We can't let them get by with their empty attacks.
Obama should adopt the slogan "A Leader In Whom We Can Believe", which looks better grammatically.
I didn't watch McCain's speech but in reading what he said, I agree with one thing and only one thing. Obama was picked by pundits and the Democratic party rules committee and super delegates. I would also add caucuses which are not one person, one vote. He seems to be real lucky in the way he wins his elections. His first election to the ILL state house was won by him challenging and eliminating everyone on the ballot and in running for US Senate he wound up running against Alan Keyes after other candidates were eliminated for various reasons. Now again he winds up running against McCrazy rather than a real opponent.
Milo Blankenstern @ 123:
Many of those "hard-working white people" who voted for Clinton because Obama is black will think the slogan is incorrect or sounds funny.
pissed off patricia @ 4:
Because he's lying.
Mister Anderson @ 98:
Already had that experience on my HDTV. I had to breath in a bag to keep from fainting.
Bluesage @ 124:
I voted in a caucus in Nevada. I had one entire vote. You don't seem to know what you are talking about.
Bluesage @ 124:
Lucky? Lucky like Tiger Woods lucky. You just don't and never will get it. The "various reason" is that no descent Repub(oxymoron) in our state wanted to waste their time or money against a overwhelmingly strong and popular opponent. Feel free to keep searching, but there's nothing there.
I will vote for Obama in Nov. because I just can't imagine what a McSame presidency would do to our country. And I hope that Obama will be a success and we don't all have buyer's remorse by June. I just don't have a lot of faith in the voters in this country and he will have hurdles. The media for one may just decide to throw Obama overboard and go back to their first love, McCrazy and as ridiculous as McCrazy sounds to us, he has the respect and a comfort zone with voters. As stupid as he sounds to us, we have to remember that Obama didn't do very well in debates either. A lot depends on the moderaters. Right now I just have a feeling of dread about the coming election.
xoites defends Constitution @ 128:
Looks like someone has bought into the Clinton talking point of caucuses not being representative of the people.
Very creepy speech.
It's sad the guy can't even extend his arms. We know the reason for that. You'd think his long-ago experiences in Vietnam would have made him a seeker of peace instead of a bellicose warmonger.
A broken, pitiful man. If he weren't such a Bush licker, I'd feel sorry for him.
xoites defends Constitution @ 117:
You know, the Republican "small government" line for the last 40-odd years has been Grover Norquist's "I just want it small enough so I can drag it by the throat into the bathtub and drown it." Would you hire a manager whose stated purpose is to destroy your company? Well, lookey-here, that's exactly what we've had.
Trolls can be so ironic, I just love them.
xoites defends Constitution @ 128:
How many voters did your "one entire vote" represent in the caucus? Do you really believe that a caucus has the same legitimacy as a primary where all voters can go to the polls and vote? What about all the people who were working in Las Vegas that day and could not attend a caucus but could have made time to go to the polls and vote? Maybe you are the one who doesn't know what you're talking about. Get off your high horse, looks like the poor thing is ready for the glue factory.
slippy hussein toad @ 67:
Kathryn Harris for VP! Yeah, baby, it's their turn!
That speech was painful to listen to..... he sounded very old both figuratively and physically....he was nothing but negative..... there was no energy... no inspiration.... he sounded like someone just handed him the speech and said just read it... this guy lacks the talent to be the leader of the free world... there are zero new ideas here.... just a continuation down the wrong path... i don't know why anyone would want to vote for this maverick... maverick meaning crazy old man maverick... this guy should be retired not running for President.... what a joke... the Republicans really have nothing...
from the above analysis of his speech and the fact checking.... this guy McCain just lies, lies and lies...
McSame is a senile douchebag who needs to retire. Who can look at this yellow-toothed fossil and think "powerful world leader?" I think cranky, old grandpa. I loved the location for this "huge" speech. The basement of some VFW hall in front of 30 of his dearest friends. It takes a lot for McSame to be the youngest guy in the room, but by golly, he was on this magical night. What a crowd. A bunch of snoozing geriatrics.
Same tired GOP talking points. Obama will raise your taxes...he won't keep you safe...blah, blah, blah. Turn the page already.
Lord, that grimace he does. Just gives me the willies.
That smile is very Ed Gein-ish.
"Giving Children Nightmares - McCain '08!"
Personally, I think McCain should change his name to McClone. All he has done over the years is go where ever the political winds take him. He never goes against the grain and if he does try it, he doesn't do it for very long. If someone seems popular to the public he copies them. When that fails he follows another leader. McCain was a clone of Bush and now, since he is trying to distance himself from Bush, he is trying to clone his campaign into something like Obama's. McCain is no leader. He is a follower and always has been.
"Bah! You kids get off my lawn!..."
getalife @ 80:
The king of Flip-Flop land spoke last night.
It was laughable to listen to McSame solutions for the 47 millions Americans without health...
This guy is out of touch indeed. He and his wife are covered very well and have no worries about their health cost,but that's not the same with millions and millions of Americans.
McSame still thinks,and trying to sell us his fairy tale that AhmadiNajad of Iran is the only problem that we need to worry about.
This country cannot afford another Neocons war executed by candidate McWar.
He sounded like Andy Rooney. Hell, he looked like him too.
I'm starting to have this vision of him showing up at the convention and saying: "Oh hell, who am I kidding. I'm too old for this. You want to do it, Romney?"
Limp-Dick Blimpaugh @ 10:
I thought it was more like a s**t eating grin. This guy SERIOUSLY reminds me of the old geezer who comes our of his front door yelling "you damned kids get off my lawn" If most of the MORONS who CLAIM that they will vote for McBush, since their gal Hill didn't get her way, wise up & vote for Obama (with or without her on the ticket) Barack will kick McSame's old ass!!!
D.G. Bowman @ 134:
McSame can't extend his arms, but he can certainly get down on his knees in front of Chimpy.
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