Obama campaign: McCain 'got confused again'
Tuesday, John McCain delivered a high-profile speech on his Afghanistan policy, and unfortunately for his campaign, it didn’t go well. He went from opposing more troops in Afghanistan, to supporting more troops, to saying the troops shouldn’t come from the U.S., to saying some of the troops should come from the U.S. Ultimately, McCain ended up supporting the same policy Barack Obama has been articulating for months.
Yesterday, the Obama campaign kept the pressure on.
Building on Tuesday’s news cycle, when the campaigns’ respective speeches on Afghanistan dominated headlines, the Obama camp organized an early morning conference call on Wednesday. Senior foreign policy adviser Dr. Susan Rice and communications strategist Robert Gibbs were offered up to reporters. Dr. Rice opened the proceedings by calling McCain’s Tuesday speech “surreal” because of the candidate’s newfound emphasis on the need for more U.S. troops in Afghanistan. (Later in the afternoon on Tuesday, after his speech, McCain appeared to be trying to take some of that back, when he noted that an increased troop level could potentially be achieved by using NATO forces.)
“Up until a few days ago, his view was that we hadn’t diverted any effort and attention from Afghanistan to deal with Iraq. That there was no need for additional American forces in Afghanistan. That all, in effect, was going well,” Dr. Rice said Wednesday, adding: “Yesterday, he woke up and came to the sudden conclusion that indeed Afghanistan merited more strategic focus — something the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff has been saying for months — and that we would therefore be willing to put in additional combat brigades. But then he got confused again, as to whether those needed to be American or NATO [troops] or some combination thereof.” [emphasis added]
Apparently, conservatives are offended by the frequent use of the word "confused." But if the shoe fits....
Obama - Funk Soul Brother!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGeVtzqFlUY
McFlippity is McFucking McOld, so stop McComplaining about McCain, McALright McAlready!
He's more than confused, McCain hasn't a clue.
McCain isn't confused. He just has no idea what he is talking about most of the time. He is a mental lightweight, maybe even less informed and more of a gut guy than Bush. My neo-con friends are gut guys and it is that part of the electorate who will back McCain because their gut tells them so. There seems to be too much rot gut going around these days.
'Course, the WH hasn't kept congress informed, that might be part of the problem. Not that McCain wouldn't be operating in the dark anyway.
see http://cabdrollery.blogspot.com
I read the national review link and the writer apparently is upset that the Dems might actually be learning message discipline. Perish the thought...
I read the national review link and the writer apparently is upset that the Dems might actually be learning message discipline. Perish the thought…
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Cherish the thought...it needs to happen for the democratic party this time.
Confused = McCain = Bush = 3rd term = Confusion
Conservatives want us to come up with another word for "confused". How about the term befuddled or ignorant or uneducated or untutored or just a tired old man who brains hurts from trying to keep up with the vigors of campaigning. If McCain doesn't have the energy to campaign, he certainly won't have the energy needed to be president.
.....and "confusion" is one of the hallmarks of the diagnosis of "Senile Dementia"!
The Senator from my state of Arizona is an embarassment. It appears that he will do or say anything
to become president. If I am to judge by recent photographs, he's even trying to learn to smile. Or maybe he's just neoconstipated....I never thought that "flip-flop" would be the preferred accusation.
I still think that the man is going through the early stages of Alzhiemers.
New Nas song & video rip Fox news. He blasts the TV network as “visual cancer” and “digital Satan” on the track.
* I’m not a follower of hip-hop, I dabble a bit. I just heard the track and video
But you have to see it, read it or JUST DOWNLOAD IT.
Lyrics: Nas - “Sly Fox”
Verse 1:
The sly fox / Cyclops / We locked in the idiot box
The video slots / Broadcast the Waco Davidian plots
They own YouTube, Myspace
When this ignorant shit gon’ stop?
They monopolizing news / Your views
And the channel you choose
Propaganda / Visual cancer
The eye in the sky / Number five on the dial
Secret agenda / Frequency antenna / Doctor mind bender
Remote control soul controller
Your brain holder / Slave culture / Game’s over
What’s a Fox characteristic? / Slick shit
Sensin’ Misinformation / Pimp the station / Over stimulation
Reception / Deception / Comcast digital Satan
The Fox has a bushy tail
And Bush tells lies and Fox trots
So I don’t know what’s real
Chorus:
Watch what you’re watchin’ / Fox keeps feeding us toxins
Stop sleeping, start thinking outside of the box and
Unplug from the Matrix doctrine
But watch what you say Big Brother is watchin’
Watch what you’re watchin’ / Fox keeps feeding us toxins
Stop sleeping, start thinking outside of the box and
Unplug from the Matrix doctrine
But watch what you say Fox 5 is watchin’
Verse 2:
The Fear Factor got you all riled up
O’Reilly / Oh really?
No rally needed / I’ll tie you up
Network for child predators, settin’ ‘em up
Myspace pimps, hoes, and sluts
Ya’ll exploit rap culture, then ya’ll flip on us
And you own The Post, and ya’ll shit on us
What is their net worth?
They gon’ try to censor my next verse?
Throw ‘em off the roof neck first
While I’m clicking my cursor
Reading blogs about pressure they put on Universal
It gets worse while I’m clicking my mouse
While they kickin’ my house
They figured us out, why a nigga go south
It’s either he caught a body, no sleep they watchin’!
I watch CBS / and I see B.S.!
Tryin’ to track us down with GPS
Make a nigga wanna invest in PBS
Chorus:
Watch what you’re watchin’ / Fox keeps feeding us toxins
Stop sleeping, start thinking outside of the box and
Unplug from the Matrix doctrine
But watch what you say Big Brother is watchin’
Watch what you’re watchin’ / Fox keeps feeding us toxins
Stop sleeping, start thinking outside of the box and
Unplug from the Matrix doctrine
But watch what you say Fox 5 is watchin’
Verse 3:
They say I’m all about murder-murder and kill-kill
But what about Grindhouse and Kill Bill?
What about Cheney and Halliburton?
The backdoor deals on oil fields?
How’s Nas the most violent person?
Ya’ll don’t know talent if it hit you
Bringin’ up my criminal possession charges with a pistol
I use Viacom as my firearm
And let the lyrics split you, who do you rely upon?
They shoot shells at Leviathan
I’m dealing with the higher form
Fuck if you care how I write a poem
Only Fox that I love was the red one
Only black man that Fox loves is in jail or a dead one!
Redrum / Political bedlam
Don’t let the hype into your eyes and ear drum
Murdoch own Fox, not A-Team with Baracus
And he hate Barack ’cause
He march with the marchers
Spoken:
I pledge allegiance to the fair and balanced truth
Not the biased truth, not the liar’s truth, but the highest truth
I will not be deceived, nor will I believe, in the propaganda
I will not fall for the okey-doke
I am tuned in
Outro:
Watch, cause they’re watching
Watch what you’re watching
Better watch, cause they’re watching
Watch what you’re watching
Me-me-me-media
Misleadin’ ya
Watch what you’re watching
Wow, the Neocons have a whole new alphabet. They now spell WHINING with NRO.
It was TOTALLY in step for the McNeocon to have McGramm come out and spew the latest neocon babble about Americans being whiners. It is totally in line with the neocon playbook: Whatever they say about the country is really about themselves.
I Never heard a bigger bunchof McFucking whiners ever. Everything, Whine, whine, whine. The NRO is just full of whining.
The government isn't bailing out FreddieMa and Fannie Mae fast enough, good, enough, deep enough, to protect my investment, WAAA, WAAA, WAAA. And yet, they have the McBalls to call if Capitalism. Hey you McFucking McPussies, in Capitalism, you RISK YOUR INVESTMENT! McScumbag McTraitors.
While McCain’s confusion over the facts may appear to be just fodder for late-night comedy routines, it has very serious aspects. The Republican spin masters should not be allowed to misrepresent these episodes as harmless gaffes, and the main stream media should not be allowed to ignore them completely or treat them light-heartedly as innocent mistakes. Taken as a whole, they represent a growing concern that McCain’s faculties are no longer up to the task. This Nation cannot afford another four year mistake on top of the eight years we’ve already lost.
McCain Proposes More Troops for Czechoslovakia-stan
How about using "senior moment" instead?
I'm not sure what's more... confused over at NR; The false equivalency put forth of loaded metaphors versus the simple word 'confused' or the idea that using the word 'Kosher' would imply a connection to Islam.
No, neither McCain nor the National Review writer are confused. They're simply fucking morons.
So what you are saying is, that McCain and Obama has the same military policy for Afghanistan - escalation.
For YEARS, Bush has been thumbing his nose at ideas coming from the Democratic party... then, when he REALLY needs to do something to solve a problem or LOOK like he's trying to solve a problem, he does what the Democrats have been pushing for.
This is another really good example of why voting for John McCain will give us Bush's THIRD TERM.
McLiar also yesterday performed the pander of the year....at the NAACP Convention McFool told the BLACK AUDIENCE the sad story of how when in captivity the Viet Cong captors informed him that Dr. Martin Luther King had been assassinated. McStupid passionately explained of how that news profoundly effected and depressed him and his fellow POW's. Of course McOld failed to mention the many times he said no on the MLK holiday vote.
All politics aside for a moment if I met mcsame while walking down the street I would see an aged and unwell man whom I would probably feel a little bad for knowing by the look of him that he's on a downward slope to his final days. He is quite obviously not well. It is effecting him in every way and it is most definitely hurting him mentally. I don't care how outraged the idiot gopervs get about the truth, mcsame is sick and elderly and should be spending his days sitting in the sun, not hauling his decaying ass around the country.
He can barely remember what lies he's supposed to be spewing and I suspect his continued flip-flopping has more to do with his accidentally being exposed to a television before he begins talking. He just absorbs what he hears and repeats it, no matter what that might happen to be. No wonder he's got an army of lobbyist minions running around trying to "explain" to everyone what he "meant" to say.
Hahahaha,
so we have choice 1: Machievellian guy who has no experience with the sort of issues he'll be facing thanks to all those piling up of failed policies, and choice 2: A guy who's not there mentally who's even less prepared to face the coming clusterfuck.
Shit, we're fucked.
Personally I would have used "senile", but hey that's just my personal semantics. Hit em with a brick, like George Carlin said.
McCain needs to go to the retirement home not the white house.
Sarcastro @ 16:
What? The National Review can't even bother looking up the meaning of the term Hallal? Yes, Islam is basically Judaism with the old kill-the-Canaanite mentality still active, but still....
knud @ 17:
In a nutshell: yes.
They want to fight the guys that have beat every other foe previously. At least Obama'd get out of Iraq, though so the # of clusterfucks shrinks to 1.
I don't think McSame is confused, I think it is more likely that he is not really that smart to begin with. But if calling him confused gets the repubes all PO'd, then say it often and say it loud.
Johnny Clueless!
You can see the difference, right? We report...You decide. More...http://www.tagg-lines.com/2008/07/bush-and-un-bush-not.html
General_Rennenkampf @ 24:
I wonder how you manage to form intelligible words seeing as how you are talking out of your ass. That’s got to take some special talent. Now replace “Islam” with “Judaism” and suddenly you're crying "Oh no, anti-Semitic".
Hypocrisy knows no bounds.
Up State @ 29:
What? No, that's fact. The only thing separating Muhammad's religion from Judaism is that Muhammad created a universalist Arab religion, whereas due to a number of factors Judaism is weakened tremendously. Judaism has Tanakh, Islam Quran. Islam has Sunnah and Shariah, Judaism Talmud and Halakha. In terms of the Abrahamic religions, Judaism and Islam have far more in common with each other than either does to any branch of Christianity, from Anti-Ephesians to the Western and Eastern branches.
If stating a fact, namely that Judaism and Islam share intense features in common and both have a martial air to them at times (vis-a-vis the 1948 War, the Yemeni Jewish kingdom, the Khazars, and so forth for Judaism, and Islam's history of expansion by the sword (that history, incidentally distorted by mutual misunderstanding in many cultures, from Hindu India to West Africa, to the former Byzantine Empire, and so forth) is hypocrisy, I shudder to see what else might fall under that category.
OK. I looked it up on Thesaurus.com. Which of these synonyms do you think the NR would prefer in place of "confused"?
Roget's II: The New Thesaurus
Main Entry: confused
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: Mentally uncertain.
Synonyms: addled, addlepated, confounded, confusional, muddle-headed, perplexed, turbid
Synonym Collection v1.1
Main Entry: confused
Part of Speech: adjective
Synonyms: addled, addlepated, asea, at sea, befuddled, bemused, bewildered, chaotic, discombobulated, disconcerted, disorganized, disoriented, foggy, hazy, helter-skelter, incoherent, indiscriminate, lost, misled, mistaken, muddy, mystified, nonplussed, obscure, perplexed, puzzled, random, stupefied, tumultuous, unglued, vague
Confused? The man is Lost in Space. He should retire today, sit back, and let Cindy make him more money.
McSame.....latest Repug sock puppet. Senility is why they chose him this time around; years earlier he would have been more difficult to handle.
Bismarck @ 22:
timbale @ 15:
jeff @ 11:
This should make for fun debates. Please don't let him have any major health problems before November.
"Befuddled" is more than appropriate.
Captain Bitter Whiner Husein Kangaroo @ 34:
Couldn't agree more. Just keep the old idiot alive until the election and can not WAIT for the debates.
The Obama camp will KEEP the pressure on that dumb old fool.
If repugs don't like something political against them, do more of it, that means it's working!
Poor John. He has three main problems:
1) He's too stupid to be president;
2) He's too old to be president; and
3) He's too dishonest to be president.
Anybody who suffers from all three simultaneously is bound to be confused.
I suspect that when we get to his age we might all get a little confused.
oh really @ 38:
Sounds like bush
mcsaame=bush (#1, #3)
It's obvious with how this blog and its blogers walk in lock step, that you're all sharing one brain ... while you conveniently neglect Obama's brilliant mis-steps ... like: Obama saying that there are 57 states.
Lee @ 41:
Eh, I like partisanship in sources. I would actually have less of an issue with FOX News if it would drop the pretense of being apolitical. Partisanship is good because it exposes that when you study the Right and Left views of an event and put them together, you can see somewhat what it's like. Pretending to be apolitical and nonpartisan when obviously otherwise (the media, conservative and otherwise (referring to Air America not the RW boogeyman Librul media, here)) is a hindrance for all concerned.
Gee, thanks NRO, for assisting the Dems by repeating the instances in which McCain demonstrated his confusion. And this:
... is why no one takes whining wingers seriously.
Lee @ 41:
Yes because when Obama messed up, he really DID think that the U.S. has 57 states. Is that your point? That Obama really thought at the time that the U.S. has 57 states? Because McCain repeatedly making the same mistakes with respect to a litany of foreign policy issues, matters of basic history, and inability to ever off a coherent thought on matters of international affairs beyond the "victory" rhetoric strikes me as a little more of a big deal.
"Confusion" is flip-flopping endlessly. I think it fits.
Instead of Confused we use:
McCain was again Perplexed by the Bewildering choices in troop deployment strategies he was further Mystified as to how Obama could raise 52 Million dollars in June and more than a little Befuddled as to why he was lagging so far behind in contributions. McCain was also Baffeled how Obama could be 8 points ahead of him in the poles when his campaign, the Stright Talk Express, has such a cool name.
General_Rennenkampf,
You might want to point out that Obama makes a mistake every once in a while. McConfused makes them dozens of times on a daily basis. One is acceptable. The other is confused and can't function on a daily, even hourly basis. One of these days we'll see McConfused with toilet paper sticking out of his mouth because he forgot which end is up.
Those conservatives are correct. Obama is overusing the term "confused."
The trouble is, he is too much the gentleman to use a more accurate term, "My worthy opponent is fucking nuts!"
"Confused" is much more flattering than "doesn't have a f&*$ing clue of what he's talking about".
skyreader7 @ 50:
That's another point as well, Obama makes mistakes at a reasonable level. McPapen dishes them out like LSD at the Summer of Love.
You know what? In the greater right vs left argument we are supposed to be the rational, sane, decent adults. As such yes, it is offensive to me that the campaign, which I wholeheartedly support, is using the word confused in a deliberate manner not unlike the Fox/Reifenstahl method. There is too much at stake for us to roll in the filth with pigs - and the pigs only enjoy it anyway.
Here's my favorite part:
Apparently, conservatives are offended by the frequent use of the word “confused.”
Conservatives are "offended."
Apparently they have me confused with someone who gives a fu@k.
repuglitards don't like the word "Confused" ???
they got any suggestions for a synonym ???
stupid ???
Ignorant ???
Retarded ???
Senile ???
Incompetent ???
which words do the repuglitards like better ???
And the press will only focus on a word. How predictable, how infantile. The republicans wail and moan and name call. They control the message. Its not just the press either. Almost no one on this post is discussing the issue, a few but not the majority.
They snap, we jump. Scream about a word and the dems will fall over themselves to correct it.
MadLib62 @ 54:
Not to pick on MadLib62, but this is exactly my point. How is 'confused' a dirty word? And why do we have to defend it?
Lets get on track with this post and every new one to follow. So, what about the issue at hand? Next poster start ------
p.s. tell Bill Press to stop hating on Obama.
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