John McCain: The WORST Psychic In The World!
By Nicole Belle Wednesday Jun 25, 2008 8:45pm
Just in case you were wondering about his political acumen and judgment, check out this quote from 1973 about Watergate:
Well, here's what McCain said (about Nixon and Watergate) at the time, according to the book that I'm currently reading entitled Man of the People: The Life of John McCain by Paul Alexander, pp. 81-82:
Finally, in the article, McCain discussed the major political story that had unfolded since he had returned: the controversy that had surrounded President Nixon as a result of the Watergate scandal. "It has certainly made me sad that this situation should have arisen," McCain said about the man who had welcomed him home only a few months earlier. "However, I feel that, in the context of history, Watergate will be a very minor item as compared with the other achievements of this Administration, particularly in the area of foreign affairs. I do hope that this country will get over Watergate and get going again on the very serious problems that we're facing today." Clearly, McCain had misjudged the impact that would come from Watergate and how it would define, for at least the remainder of the twentieth century, Nixon's presidency.
Puts a whole new spin on his "third George W. Bush term" strategy, doesn't it?
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John McBu'ush. A Loss Leader.
So, Stephen Colbert created a contest dubbed Project "Make McCain Exciting" which called on people to find a way to make McCain fun. This is one entry, that while not the hot, and up-and-coming "McCain Girls", but it DOES make him seem somewhat "interesting". The creepy part he had all along.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8G9jA-FGGd8&eurl=http://www.towleroad.com...
I'm no psychic but I'm pretty sure if McCain was he wouldn't be running for president.
mccain's right.
watergate's small potatoes compared to teaming up w/ lbj and all the other beneficiaries of jfk's untimely demise to get 58,000 of our boys killed in some worthless scrap of jungle half a world away.
for NO GOOD GOD DAMN REASON.
Wow. Old and another Miss Cleo.
If Nixon faced trial for his treasons then maybe we wouldn't have had to deal with the leftovers arising to do their neocon damage.
Holy crap! Is it me? or does he look older in each picture that is posted.
I mean, I'm 71 and he looks like he could be my pappy.
The Viagra must be sapping his vital manly fluids pretty fast.
I still run into people who think Nixon was misunderstood.
Compared to the shit we're in now, Watergate is a frakkin' parking ticket.
How many from the Nixon administration hung around to join the Dubya administration?
I thought Rummy nailed the "worst psychic" award in perpetuity with his Iraq predictions?
See "Bullfrog" at number 4... couldn't have said that better myself!
Ironic, isn't it that McCain is THE PERFECT candidate for the Republicans this year. His military experience makes him a political "expert" on foreign war... EXCEPT HE's NOT... and his "Maverick" persona makes him seem like "his own man..." EXCEPT HE ISN'T...
Which means that The Republicans could end up with another four-year-lock on the White House... or they could be washed out to sea in the annels of American Political History. I am eager to see how it turns out.
Paul Alexander must have been one starving writer to take on that commission. Lucky for him he wasn't Pinocchio or he'd have a walnut colored walking stick permanently stuck in the middle of his face. Man of the People, my ass.
CowBoy Bob in Austin @ 12:
mccain is a weak candidate in many respects but not if the war and/or potential war is the primary issue. i'm probably wrong about this but i believe the gop had romney and giuliani back off so not to beat him up and expose him.of course we both know this is why obama is drifting to right/center...to offset mcBush's free pass because he was a pow..40 years ago....this war/attack has set everything up for the NEOCONS
In a way, I gotta agree with McCain on this one. Watergate is nothing compared to what we see today. But I don't think McCain meant it that way. So, he gets no credit.
I keep reading it as "worst psychotic in the World"
Watergate.
Lets see, well , we have breaking and entering( the oppositions headquarters).
WireTapping said office.
nope, nothing there to be ashamed of.
Yeah, if this guy gets elected, we're fucked.
mudshark @ 17:
oh, I almost forgot, Conspiracy to commit treason.
Man he's old.
McCain's Resume: Military service, Career politician
McCain's never had a job outside the public dole. Maybe a paper route, and that must not have gone well because he's gotten all his money from his wives and the government since.
Must we revisit the competition Dick Cheney and Bill Kristol are providing for this coveted accolade?
To be fair to Johnny Flip-Flop-Lately, you can argue it's minor, if you compare it to the abuses of power committed by Bushco.
It's interesting that Nixon wasn't impeached for what he did to Cambodia and Laos or what he did to the radicals of the time (denying countless people and groups of basic contitutional rights). I have to agree with Chomsky, there were far worse offenses during his tenure that he could have been impeached for, what he was punished for was going after the other major party. Worse was done against less powerful groups, including the millions killed in SE Asia, his mistake was turning the guns against the elites here and the other party they control.
Here's Chomsky's article on Watergate, with a small taste:
http://www.chomsky.info/articles/19730920.htm
"The Dean-Colson list of enemies, a minor feature of the whole affair, is a revealing index of the miscalculations of Nixon's mafia and raises obvious questions about the general response. The list elicited varied reactions, ranging from flippancy to indignation. But suppose that there had been no Thomas Watson or James Reston or McGeorge Bundy on the White House hate list. Suppose that the list had been limited to political dissidents, antiwar activists, radicals. Then, it is safe to assume, there would have been no front-page story in the New York Times and little attention on the part of responsible political commentators. Rather the incident, if noted at all, would have been recognized as merely another step, inelegant perhaps, in the legitimate defense of order and responsible belief."
"The general reaction to the Watergate affair exhibits the same moral flaw. We read lofty sermons on Nixon's move to undermine the two-party system, the foundations of American democracy. But plainly what CREEP was doing to the Democrats is insignificant in comparison with the bipartisan attack on the Communist Party in the postwar period or, to take a less familiar case, the campaign against the Socialist Workers Party, which in the post-Watergate climate has filed suit to restrain government agencies from their perpetual harassment, intimidation, surveillance, and worse. Serious civil rights or antiwar groups have regularly discovered government provocateurs among their most militant members. Judicial and other harassment of dissidents and their organizations has been common practice, whoever happens to be in office. So deeply engrained are the habits of the state agencies of repression that even in the glare of Watergate the government could not refrain from infiltrating an informer into the defense team in the Gainesville VVAW trial; while the special prosecutor swore under oath that the informer, since revealed, was not a government agent."
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I'm sure John McSpoke meant not to say that Watergate was an achievement... NO?
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I think he was saying that Watergate was little compared to what Nixon did well during his term in his eyes. He will hate "gooks" for the rest of his life and thought we should have bombed the people in SE Asia MORE, so maybe he was referring to that.
G String @ 22:
This is the same Chomsky who didn't think giving support to Holocaust deniers was a bad thing, right?
As one far greater Cambridge intellectual told me once, "Noam Chomsky is the academic in town most likely to spout off like he's an expert on things he knows nothing about."
Why people on the Left bother to listen to that old crank is beyond me.
[cue the ranting of Chomsky-ites]
I think I'm going to have a Lewis Black moment after reading that.
McDole would say that Nixon did well in foreign affairs. That's because the rapprochement with China is viewed as a major foreign relations coup. But what has it led to (or should I say "lead" to?): toxic dog food, Wal-Mart products so cheap American companies can't afford to manufacture anymore, and the polluting of an ancient and beautiful country by an expanding economy run on fossil fuels.
The Arizona senator's daydreams of empire are well illustrated by his downgrading of a Constitutional crisis to a minor event -- as if Watergate could ever become but a footnote in history. Inexcusable! McDole is completely out of touch with the middle class, his own generation, the American people, and anyone not living on the teet of the heiress of a beer distributing fortune.
He sure as hell missed out on the 35 years of republican retribution for Watergate. They've done a hell of a job of getting back the dems though, although they're still pissed that Clinton weaselled his way out of Blowjobgate.
Sounds like he cares for much for the policies that he can't take into account the importance of the way the administration acts. The goal justifies the ends sort of thinking I would be very careful before I'd let him have an administration of his own.
Talk about bad judgment. No wonder he really thinks Bush's policies are so great.
So would that make him the best physic in the world?
Great prediction, McBush! High-five!.....oooppps, my bad.
"This is the same Chomsky who didn’t think giving support to Holocaust deniers was a bad thing, right?"
Do you people ever look into the crap that you say?
He didn't defend the man, France's free speech laws are horrible, nothing like this country. He wrote a short article talking about the need to protect more than anything the right of people to say things we DON'T agree with. Stalin was fine with free speech as long as you said things he agreed with, the test is giving rights to people to say things you disagree with. He also called the man's work ridiculous and without merrit. As a radical, it makes sense that he would take that stance, besides, what the hell does that have to do with the points he was making? ANOTHER right wing trick, ignore what is said and focus on the person saying it. God, some of you liberals ain't any better or more independant minded than the "conservatvies".
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