McCain deflates his own "tire-gauge" attack
By SilentPatriot Tuesday Aug 05, 2008 9:00pmAfter all the stupidity and charade surrounding the GOP's attack on Obama --including this lampooning by Stephen Colbert -- for proposing a common sense approach to increasing fuel efficiency, McCain is forced to admit that it's a pretty good idea.
The surprise came during a telephone town hall meeting McCain held on Tuesday with voters in Pennsylvania.
“Obama said a couple of days ago says we all should inflate our tires. I don’t disagree with that. The American Automobile Association strongly recommends it,” McCain said.But he kept up his broad criticism of Obama on energy: "I ... don't think that that (inflating tires) is a way to become energy independent."
Would that be another flip-flop, McSame? Contrary to the Team McCain attacks, Obama never suggested that properly inflating your tires and keeping your engine tuned alone will make us energy independent. But as is always true with the Republican distortion machine, facts and context never get in the way of a good smear... even when the attacker admits that the target of the smear was right all along.
There are more Colbert/Stewart videos on the campaign available at Indecision '08.
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Mcshame is such a foppy c^nt.
*floppy
My spelling is terrible this evening.
McCain should never, ever, ever use the word "flipflop" again.
What is there left to say... I'm running out of words...
If America works this way, and it does, we're in for 8 years of McCain...
But McCain said.. But NASCAR says... (head explodes). How in the hell is this moron pulling closer in the polls?
Three weeks and a bit, then McCain can go home to his BBQ,
That video isn't playing for me ...
McCain flips so much, that Schouls should name a flip-flop for him. I got it "McCain Waders". You can use them to manuver around all the crap he is spreading!
Did he finally notice that everyone was laughing AT him and not with him?
I haven't seen McCain get that worked up since his wheels went off the wagon over the metric system http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7YTf08xjpE
wow...what a surprise mcBush playing the uninformed and the informed...this will stick for some and the rest well.....he was just kidding can't you take a joke....
"The ACLU: Fighting For Your Right To Express Your Wish To Piss On #24!"
It might work.
Eric Hussein in Ottawa @ 8:
IIRC, another Canadian has had the same problem with the Comedy Central embeds...seriously. I think that might be blocked up there.
there are actual idiots out there who think 'inflating your tires' is Obamas energy policy.
Andy K Jong Il @ 14:
They are.
And to think O'Liely had the balls to say his audience is smarter than Coberts. Christ, the problem is O'Lielys audience is watching propaganda, while other people are watching comedy. Think of the irony.
if mccain isn't the closest thing to a twenty-first century version of captain ahab obsessed with his white whale(the presidency), i don't know who is. uh-oh, i just thought about bill clinton and george bush and dick cheney and rumsfeld and wolfowitz and...
Barrett D @ 15:
that's because mcClown told them it's his policy. i'm pretty tired of this bad talk/judgement crap. then he goes to the media (church) and ask for forgiveness routine typical(R) then start it all over again.
McCain= shit for brains.
mudshark @ 20:
he's going to be a rubber stamp for k-street ,military industrial complex,oil and wall street....if he gets elected
we're fxxked.....dean said it last night on k.o. it will the same as bush.
Love that Mavericky straight talk.
mudshark @ 20:
Why are you insulting shit?
Campaign slogan for McSame:
"Maverick McSame: His name may sound like a contradiction but that's just in your head, like the mental recession, so quit whining!"
An ebayer is selling the tire gauges and donating part of the proceeds to the Obama campaign. I see some low-life, er, I mean person who treads on higher moral ground than the rest of us has used the seller's question forum to heckle him. ("Q: Screw Obama! I'am going to watch your retarded auction just to see if you sell anything you loser...") Of course, the heckler isn't bright enough to look at the Purchases History link to see that many have already been sold.
I'm so sick of these people. I think I'll go buy a couple tire gauges.
http://tinyurl.com/54tdc7
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJGVU521aoA
You have to admire the McCain/Rove attack machine--every second they spend talking about tire gauges and off-shore drilling is another second not spent defending the failed Republican policies where McCain has played a major role.
Of course he now expects to walk away unharmed. All week he's used this in his knocks on Obama and the dutiful 23% immovables applaud.
Dems don't do sheep bleating like the Repubs so they will let this go. BAD... if he can be a war hero by incessant repeating then he can be labeled as stupid by the same method.
someone just let the air out of the tires OF THE STRAIGHT TALK EXPRESS !!!!!!!
Moral Compass @ 27:
Mission Accomplish..........again
With all due respect (And I do NOT intend to vote McCain at all) I think the cards pretty much speak for themselves and I feel like we on the left are getting sucked into the same game the GOP plays on us, that of being nit-picky about faults. It is very clear that McCain or ANYONE who backs what amounts to the WORST 7 YEARS OF MY NATIONAL LIFE will NOT get my vote. My GOD... do you think a few stupid cheap-shot attacks upon a mans credibility would sway me at this point?! McCain is probably a great grandpa, but people get REALLY UGLY at his age when it comes to politics. WE NEED FRESH LEADERSHIP, not the same old meatloaf we have had for decades now.
Obama Proposes ‘Tire’ Gauge to Monitor McCain’s Consciousness
Yeah the McCain camp definitely didn't think this one through,especially with NASCAR endorsing the tire gauge.
Boy Howdy...BuRp!
pinkobait @ 33:
What kind of "leader" doesn't have enough sense or integrity to turn down a bad idea when his campaign handlers suggest some ridiculous tack like this? The message I get is that he's just another obedient goober who does whatever he's told.
conservatard: "b.bu.but most cars have tire pressure monitors. "
StirFry: I'm sure your 97 Dodge Ram pickup does not have a TPMS. All new vehicles starting with 2008 models are required by law to have a TPMS. However, TPMS do not replace tire gauges. But then again, you probably drive with engine light on all the time.
I thought everyone knew how inflated tires save on gas, and make your car safer. Shell Oil once ran a commerial on car maintenance, and tire inflation was included. I thought McCain bunch watch the dumb box (TV).
Jerry @ 16:
Canadians can view DS/CR clips at www.thecomedynetwork.ca
Both shows had at it again tonight with even more mockery of this most idiotic of McLame's idiotic attempts to blow off Obama. Watch for Stephen's plea on behalf of Ignorant Americans... it's pure genius...
tom @ 6:
Because 45% of the American people are sooo fucking stupid, they can't make the most basic of connections!
Look at the horrible economies (except for the richest 5%) of Reagan and the Bush family crime syndicate I & II. Contrast that with Clinton's economy, and this should be a no-brainer for anyone with an I.Q. larger than their shoe size!
Anyone that is, except for your average knuckle-dragging, mouthbreathing, red-state NASCAR moron.
At this point all the winger talking heads must be silently screaming at McCain, "STOP CORRECTING YOURSELF! WE'LL NEVER GET OUR LIES TO STICK IF YOU GO BACK AND CORRECT THEM!"
They'll continue to smile and spread their smears but you know that inside they are desperatly wishing they could ressurect ol' Ronnie of Regan as their cantidate so that they could once again worship him properly, so sad.
More hypocrisy for the US gitmo lovers :
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7546376.stm
There is a funny fishy something about tire inflation. The auto-manufactures sometimes recomend a tire pressure below the max inflation of the tire itself. Tires have a max of 35 for most passager car tires, some are 44 max psi.
Tire stores that you go to for oil changes and maintenence will set your tires to manufacturer specs, SOMETIMES BELOW MAX inflation. You need to specifically say you want max presure put in your tires.
It is ok to put 35 or 44 in your tires even if the car only wants 28-30. If you own a car like a miata 35 may actually be too much for the suspension to handle, making the tires bounce while driving down the road decreasing efficiency.
Overinflation will make the center tread stick out like a dome, underinflation will make the side tread stick out .
So many cars and so many tires kinda make it hard to know what presure is the best.
When is McCain and his supporters going to grow up and realize he is running for the higest elected office in this country?
I don't believe that it's a lot of Americans that really support this man, but even the few that we know of, just makes you sick to think that some people are so shallow.
You have to wonder if these forks are gluttons for punishment or what.
McSame's campaign is the one needing a tire gauge. It's more deflated than his wife's chest was before the implants.
You should find a clip of rush limbaugh yesterday to play on the site. He was talking about all the people who will be having blowouts on thier cars now with "over inflated tires" due to Obama's suggestion.
How does an *sshole like that get 400 million?
B-B-B-But he's a maverick?!?
What I wouldn't give to go inside the brain of a McSame voter. Must be nice and scary in there...
Really, has this stupid old man(who truly should be in a convalescence home) said anything right?
Will you please stop using McSame? It is incredibly obnoxious and otherwise detracts from your posts on C&L. Thanks much.
Alex @ 46:
McSame, McSame, McSame, McSame.
There. It's out of my system for the next five minutes.
By the way, didn't his votes support Dubya (Chimpy) Bush 100% this past year?
How is he NOT Bush's third term?
I'm tearing my hair out down here in Texas, not to mention having flashbacks, with my Repub buddies backing of McT-Rex. I ask them, if he is such a great candidate, why couldn't he beat numb nuts in 2000?
Numinous @ 47:
I'm not arguing against that, I generally think that anyone who is a candidate of the Republican party becomes the machine's spokesman. There isn't any significant difference between the last person and the next. It's just that childish language like that takes away from posts. Same shit with "McCain Media"...overused and stupid. How is anyone supposed to take someone seriously who writes in such a retarded rhetoric?
Geez, McCain CANNOT even run a campaign, how is he supposed to run the United States of America! He's just a pathetic old man at this point. Retire McSame. Just retire.
john McCain is so stupid
John mccain is not cool at all he is super retarded
john McCain should think about some of the issues that he and obama are in conflict with. For instance the gay marriage he doesnt believe in it, obama believes in it but thinks that it should be the church decision whether or not to marry them. everyone should have the right to their own opinon and make their own decision on who they would like to spend the rest of there life with. Obama & mccain should find some common ground.
You guys should stop arguing about things through the Internet and do something instead, like go out and protest.Do a boycott and that way your voice wil be heard. You guys think that Obama and McCain are going to be reading all your opinions.
Memo @ 55:
You are right
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