Tom Ridge: "John Bush... err... John McCain is his own man"
By SilentPatriot Thursday Sep 04, 2008 9:00am
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Brokaw: But the fact is, Governor, that you had eight years of a Bush administration, and a lot of Republicans in Congress for the past eight years. So why wouldn't the American people say, 'look, they had their shot, we're gonna change?'"
Ridge: Because John Bush...because John McCain is very much his own man. Because John McCain brings a different style, a different approach to the Republican leadership.
Mark Sanford, Bobby Jindal and Mitt Romney have all fallen into the same trap. Why can't Republicans answer the simple question of how McCain will be different from Bush? McSame indeed.
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HA!!!!!
Ridge, you asshat!
In Freud Veritas
John McBush! Yeah that's the name. lol what a maroon
i thought that is what i heard. nice job .
MCBUSHIN FOR THE PUSHIN
blah blah blah
The problem is if your swimming in shit you get accustomed to it and don't notice it after a little while.
Did you see how much makeup McTired wore at his convention. he had more slathered on than his wife (that c**t).
The Republican Legacy
The United Shithole of America
John Bush/Sarah Pawlenty
what a ticket !
Maybe Ridge was just getting back at McSame for dissing him for veep
I think it's pretty clear from all the 'slip ups' that reslugs don't have any confidence in or any real support for mcstain. They don't care either. So long as they maintain their stranglehold on everything they really don't care what figurehead they've got up front. So long as the populace continues to behave and bow on cue.
Last night,, while forcing myself to watch George W McCain or John S Bush, it struck me that he looked similar to Mason Verger in "Hannibal". That same look of way too much plastic surgery, and just as soulless.
EVERYONE SHOULD WATCH AND HELP SPREAD THE WORD ABOUT THIS creepy promotional video for a workshop at Wasilla Assembly of God (Sarah Palin's longtime church)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJnhRhJW35o
When you watch this video REMEMBER...this was Sarah Palin's church for nearly her entire life.
The man with in the leather jacket donning a goatee was Sarah Palin's pastor from 1999 till 2002.
She continues to have close ties to this church and is involved with workshops there.
That's what Obama is inheriting. A Shithole left by Bush and Company
He could be nailed to a cross on Friday and pop out of a tomb on Sunday and I STILL wouldn't vote for John McCain.
(No scolds please. I was born Catholic, 'kay?)
It's not even an original thought, ferchrissakes.
"John
BushMccain is his own man ..."That's precisely what Joe Sleazerman said in HIS speech, with the same dippy grin. Grab a fracking thesaurus, for heaven's sake.
Strangest of all was McCain's attempt to dissociate himself from the very party he was pitching his appeal to. The net effect was to lay all the blame for the mismanagement of US affairs on George Bush's doorstep, and hope that the voters don't notice that George W. Bush is not the only person running the US government (or that the Republican Party has been a full partner in the enterprise).
Freudian slip much?
When I heard McCain say "A Change is Coming", the first thing I thought of was Depends. Then that thought and mental image grossed me totally out.
jakflorida32169 @ 15:
You weren't BORN anything. You were baptized in the Catholic faith and raised Catholic, but you're not BORN Catholic.
(I was raised Catholic. Maybe we should start a support group ...)
i'm stunned by the complete silence in the blogosphere with regard to obama's interview with o'reilly. obama's biggest problem is people are still consumed with talking about palin -- and mccain's got everyone right where he wants them. sarah palin won't talk to the press? well, that's all anyone's going to talk about -- and it's not going to hurt mccain with the base because palin made her disdain of the press a centerpiece of her speech the other night.
let's put country first here and go back to examining which candidate has a vision we can agree with and an ability to further that vision.
obama did really well in his time with o'reilly. it was interesting to watch the push/pull dynamic and obama's ability to maintain control -- he chose when to ebb, he knew when to flow in order for there to be a coherent conversation.
yesterday was a first of four parts, the others will air starting, i think, monday.
here's the link at youtube for part 1 of the obama interview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJWqNRVbxgQ
go obama go!
Site Monitor: Or you could be patient and see what is coming up. We are covering the O'Reilly show, it is just publishing later.
C. Hussein Jr. @ 10:
Priceless! Republicans don't know who is on the ticket, but they are sure gonna vote for em' coz they have an "R" after their name.
eric @ 8:
I agree...he struck me as looking like a waked body....
pissed off patricia @ 18:
Thanks. POP, now I have that image in MY head. EEEWWWW!
jakflorida32169 @ 15:
Not sure about the cross thing but my understanding is that every evening ,as the sun sets...the lid opens
I wonder what palin's solution would be to the dilemma of dwindling ice floes for polar bears?
He/they fell back on the prisoner-of-war narrative as the main reason voters should elect him. If he/they trots it out again, it will start to sound like a sob story.
Excuse me, Shadowgm Hussein I was BORN male. But you're correct on the other. I mistyped. Support group? Nah. Left the church behind many, many years ago to get closer to God. Been workin' out fine.
pissed off patricia @ 18:
Funny you should say that. I saw an amusing photoshop of just that thing. mcsame below the words "a change is coming" and he's holding a package of depends in his hands. Cheap shot but funny none the less.
karen marie @ 20:
Thanks for the link, I've been wanting to see the interview.
I'm a bit stunned about the non-coverage as well.
karen marie @ 20:
I saw it on a rerun of the show this morning early. I never worried about Obama being on the show, I knew he could handle a sack of shit as well if not better than anyone. He was great and as you say, he picked his battles wisely and handled himself with dignity. BillO tried to screw with him but Obama kept the conversation on track and made points when he needed to. Obama was the adult and bill looked petulant.
LibertyLover @ 23:
Oh, now I understand what that means. Ew, but funny.
LibertyLover @ 21:
What will they do if the Fox Chyron operator generates the ballots?
karen marie @ 20:
I snorted when O'Lielly called himself a "journalist". Edward R Murrow must be doing about 10,000 RPM by now
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/09/04/us/politics/20080905_WORDS...
karen marie @ 20:
1) I don't think anyone's had time to view it
2) I don't think too many people can stomach the interviewer for very long.
3) I'd rather not give O'Really any ratings whatsoever, thank you very much.
Peter G @ 24:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGasNwvtpUc
Peter G @ 32:
Methinks mcgramps more ready for Cheron.
ysbaddaden @ 25:
Cheap bear skin coats for all republican women ?
John Bush was Edie Brickell's percussionist!
That's a ticket I'd vote for. The Slogan? "What I Am Is What I Am."
LibertyLover @ 35:
And to that I say...word!
John Bush indeed! Listening to McBush, it sounds to me as though he is simply reading words - words he himself doesn't even believe. HE'S the empty suit in this race.
Oh, the things you say before you answer a question before thinking about what you are saying.
C. Hussein Jr. @ 38:
Wolf pelt boots for EVERYONE!
What a bunch of hollow dingbats. We made the problem, and we want change too. Change from what? Well, Obama has no experience.
I am realizing how hollow the republicans are. George Bush sucks, but, John McCain is different. How? No one will say. The record doesn't appear to say.
Now Sarah Palin is going to be sheltered but everything is off limits and sexist. This shit has to stop! We the people of the United States of America cannot stand for this.
As my Grandpa used to say, he was a Republican through and through, "you can't teach an old dog new tricks."
How true how true.
LibertyLover @ 35:
I didn't watch it.
LibertyLover @ 35:
i absolutely agree with you on numbers 2 and 3. as for 1, i personally was looking for anything OTHER than the rnc convention to watch and was frustrated that i was not able to find this until this morning (don't have cable/satellite) online.
but seriously, watch the interview, the segment is only 7 minutes, and obama is able to overwhelm o'reilly by how competent, adult, attentive AND relaxed he is.
really, go watch obama's interview -- let's get the buzz going on it!
link to part 1 of 4, at youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJWqNRVbxgQ
obama shouldn´t help legitimize oriley. he´s not gonna get any oriely viewers to vote for a "coloured", so why even do it... he ignored fox this long... i put this move in the dumb obama move category along with:
1. Fisa
2.AIPAC, VFW speeches
3.Afgan escalation pledge
4.Patriot act yea vote
5.oreily interview...
i´m sure there are some i´m forgeting
Damn liberal media technicians: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrG8w4bb3kg
Views: 1,037,567 (on this copy of the clip alone)
That is just classic. I need a t-shirt or bumper sticker with that quote.
"John Bush... err... John McCain is his own man."
Asswipe Ridge.
He said the "Democrat party."
You know, it's even the simplest of things coming from these guys that piss me off. How many repugs have you heard take their cue from Rush Fucking Limbaugh?
Screw Tom Asswipe Ridge
Why do these so called religious people lie so much?
And why does Ridge think all cats are witches?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
General Jack D. Ripper @ 50:
The party should be called the Regurgicans. All they do is Regurgitate the same news some asswipe says and then everyone says did you hear what so and so said. And it is just like a bad game of telephone. Guaranteed, no one goes to the source to find out what the hell is happening. It would hurt their Saudi backed pension if they went against the brethren.
I beg to differ.
He is not his own man.
He is a puppet like ANY pResident selected for us by their corporate owners.
Wasn't this guy on the short list? Well now I feel the Repuge are competant. Between this and the old bag who introduced Palin as Pawenty, I think Repugs are senile.
Get this....
Just now on NPR, Diane Reims just read an email from a "committed Christian." She said that she was appalled at Palin's and the GOP's repeated attacks on community organizers. She said that Jesus was a community organizer; Pontius Pilate was a governor!
I bet that person really wasn't a "committed Christian," but that bumper sticker I saw on a previous post is getting out there!
harley @ 51:
I have always found that on average, the most "religious" people are the most dishonest people. In all my days of getting lied to or screwed over, 99% of them claim to be good quality Christians. Doesn't make all of them bad, I know many good people, but anyone claiming to be superior because of their beliefs usually will screw you over.
I work in the management of a cable company. It is a running joke that porn is viewed 4 times more in the bible belt than anywhere else. Weird huh? Do what I say, not what I do.
Heckofajob there Ridgey!
L.A. Confidential @ 14:
That is what the whole country is inheriting from the Bushevik criminals: A legacy of intentional fuck-ups so enormous as to be practically insoluble. You/we will live with the destruction and ruin and chaos for the rest of you lives. Mebbe Sara Palin's yet unborn grandson will live long enough to see them expunged. But I doubt it...
The Democrats should be able to orchestrate a landslide against these clowns.
Unfortunately, then the country will have Democrats at the helm.
The Democrats have controlled Congress for two years and precisely what do we have to show for it?
Nada.
harley@51, My mother is a righty and she's a pathological liar. She lies about her past(She used to be a Democrat, and swears to this day, she's always been Republican) She lies about her age, and she is a hypochondrac, and she uses her illness for sypathy.
.
Next week, they'll swap em : Palin/McCain
Weak ass McCain got hijacked by the extreme radical moonbat far-right. His balls finally shriveled up and fell off completely.
At this point, its the full-on Bush supporters + insane religious conservatards versus the rest of us that want change.
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barkin @ 47:
What's your point? Then STFU and vote for McCain. There aren't that many options today, bub.
I like Obama better then I have liked a pollitician since I believed the lies of ronnie reagan. I voted for ronnie twice and the first king george once before I realized how bad they had fuc#$d America. I never voted for the imbecile we have in the whitehouse today and cannot understand what anyone voted for such a stupid greedy fool! I knew he was a liar from the first time he said he was a uniter not a divider at that moment I new that we had the biggest liar we had ever had running for the office of president. Now after seeing what they have done, the whole party it's enough to make one ill. I still cannot understand why anyone would support anything georege and dick have done?
I guess republicans like to have their money stolen and their family killed.
I know they love to know other people are getting tortured and killed, it excites the christian base to know that their president is killing innocent men women and children if far away lands. As long as they don't have to see it the absolutely love it. I guess it makes them feel safe and powerful?
Hey guys who would Jesus Kill? how many thousands would Jesus bomb?
He did say turn that bomb on them didn't he?
You guys must really feel good about this? It is what god wants isn't it?
ysbaddaden @ 25:
Switch to moosemeet.
Q. What's the difference between a Republican ticket and a pig?
A. We're not sure but it's definitely not lipstick.
The latest Rightwing line: "Let's catch up with history."
Sure. German history, circa 1933.
mudshark @ 34:
Ah, the NYT is the prime example of that "libural media." Besides, I have proof that this article isn't telling the truth and is lying. They show the 'word' "9-11" only twice, and they don't mention the 'word' "P.O.W." at all.
karen marie @ 20:
McCain's cynical choice of Palin is bearing fruit.
Nobody is talking about the fact that McKeating would sell his mother to become POTUS. Other McCainisms that are not being discussed
Votes 95% with Bush
Sealed military record.
McCain's hotdogging caused USS Forrestal fire; over 100 dead
McCain was Charles Keating's go-to guy in Keating Five ripoff
McCain claims to have been tortured in Hanoi Hilton; supports torture by Americans.
McCain's nickname while a POW: Songbird
Questionable land-for-legislation in AZ; fellow AZ repuke colleague Rep Rick Renzi recently indicted for similar deal.
Etc etc etc....
But it's all about the sacrificial Palin now, isn't it?
maleman@65, She'll blame in on Moose and Elk flatulence. And offer no solution.
One thing about reslugs they always make it perfectly clear that they're all reading from exactly the same page of talking points. You'd think they'd learn to change it up a little. At least try using different wording people. It's bad enough they all sound like talking points zombies but when you see it all together in the endless mashups all over the net it makes them look completely ridiculous.
They need to just start prefacing all their statments with "I was told to say this..."
Anyone else think Ridge seemed a little uppity in that clip?
Yawn...Grandpa needs to go to bed, it is way pass his bed time.
P.D. @ 69:
The solution will be of course to drill more. That will kill off more of the wild life so not only will they not be producing all that planet killing methane [them and the trees, such foes of the environment] but there will be fewer of them to have to protect. So it's a win-win-win scenario.
karen marie @ 20:
For the life of me, I don't know why Obama did it. Nothing to be gained. O'Reilly is a vicious, anti-intellectual smear merchant of the first order. I found it embarrassing that he cajoled Obama into admitting the Surge[tm] worked. I see no good coming from this. Fox is milkiing it and god knows what they'll show next week.
McBush Rules!
Ambitious youth will work long hours for 40 years to pay for entitlements and to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure. Cons will drill to keep the cars fueled.
Marge@73, The GOP won't be satified until they rape all the land and destroy all of Gods creature for they're lust for money and power.
Shadowgm Hussein @ 19:
I'm a little late to this thread, but I was also raised Catholic until i resached my teens and realized what bullshit Catholicism is. How about a bumper sticker: "I survived a Catholic upbringing"?
L.A. Confidential @ 76:
Reveling will be permitted once weekly at a designated area for revelers. No shopping, european style leisure or sinning allowed on Sundays.
Is there any way that we can get the Dem pundits to start calling the Republican party the Republic party. Just like Ridge and the other window lickers keep doing to Democratic?? Why does the "MSM" never correct these filth ??
Tag @ 80:
The chances of that are about as good as staying alive when you hit the ground after jumping from a plane without a parachute.
The MSM IS a tool of the System. Run by oppressors.
I mean seriously get real the Cons want everyone to carry a lunch pail to work at some smoke filled factory for $2.50 a day.
That would be Utopia for them.
Tag @ 80:
I call them Repu'ublicists.
i.e., Ba'athists without beards (or balls).
John Bush! That says it all doesn't it! Way to go Ridge boy
theWalrus @ 74:
Oddly enough, people who don't pay attention to politics think Bill O'Reilly is a respectable figure. Not until my awakening in the last 4 years did I realize this. People, especially moderate righties, think that he is a go to guy for news. I think it will open a few doors for people who have never heard Obama speak who still think he is a liberal muslim. It will also take the hate edge off of him when people see that he is actually really intelligent and not a bad option like they thought.
Tom Ridge: “John Bush… err… John McCain is his own man”
What mcgramps like to hum to himself whilst shaving in the morning.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iqw8m2shH54
Why can't McCain answer a simple question: "What will you do differently than George Bush?" This talk about style, approach, etc. is an obvious smokescreen.
L.A. Confidential @ 82:
Yeah, you notice why you never see Barack Obama actually speaking? Because when you do it makes people realize there is an option that is not shitty that is actually uplifting.
That is bad for MSM, they want the next 4 years of people tuning in, wondering what the hell is going wrong with the country. That gets ratings! If people are happy with government they aren't watching the news, they are out doing something with themselves.
maleman @ 65:
Is that like a meet and greet?
theWalrus @ 74:
yeah, yeah, yeah, i'm on board with what you're saying -- but did you watch the interview? with all of those negatives, obama is STILL brilliant!
the best way to take the conversation back is to take the conversation back. obama attempted to do that by going on o'reilly and he succeeded in terms of the interview itself, but if nobody watches and/or talks about the interview and the views expressed and how that contrasts with mcgrumpy/mcmoosekiller, the country will lose.
put country first, hold your nose, watch the interview at the youtube link -- your day will be significantly brightened. here’s the link at youtube for part 1 of the obama interview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJWqNRVbxgQ
go obama go!
FG @ 88:
He and his campaign are completely devoid of ideas or an agenda for action it's a campaign about feelings and symbols.
That was great. Missed McCain's acceptance speech but I keep seeing this clip of him saying "I don't work for the party, I don't work for myself, I work for you" or something along those lines. My question is if McCain works for us (the people of the USA) why is he so insistant on keeping up a war the vast majority of us want to end?
General Jack D. Ripper @ 50:
They always forget the s in Democrats and add it to the end of Internet.
harley @ 51:
Hey hey now...I find that objectionable
But then I'm an objectionable guy
So leave my pussy alone.
McCain could have said "we promise we are going to give every American the jobs they don't want to do" and the crowd would have erupted into a Nuremburg-style display of jingo-patriotic symbolism.
I'm starting to wonder if the Republicans are doing this purposely.
Republicans (and others) deliberately confuse "Obama" with "Osama" but slips trying to distinguish between John McCain and George Bush. McCain may have been "his own man" once but hes not anymore and Republicans are well aware of that. Thats why they are so "united" right now behind George B.. John McCain.
As for Obama going on the Factor. Its a bad idea but during the primaries Obama actually promised O'Reilly to his face to come on the show after the primaries. A stupid promise to make but a promise is a promise
FG @ 88:
But, but, but...he was a POW!
karen marie @ 91:
Of course, I watched the interview. And CNN just played a snippet. So? I still think it was a mistake and can guarentee you that the Right will be doing some careful, selective, manipulative editing on it. Expect to see a Republican ad with Obama saying .."Yes, the surge worked...beyond our wildest dreams..."
How can that be helpful?
McBallandChain @ 86:
I've been watching BillO the Clown for a number of years; in fact, I've been watching him even more the past couple of years. I don't know why. It raises my blood pressure. But, it gives me a chance to send him emails which apparently he disagrees with because he has read at least 2 of them last year on air and at least 4 of them this year on air.
BillO may come across as intelligent and fair and not the hot head his reputation is during the Obama interview; however, I've watched him long enough to know that perhaps he is intelligent, but he is a third rate bully who will be calm and collective for a big interview with Obama to get ratings but will yell and scream and completely lose it when interviewing someone like Phil Donahue whom he considers to be a left wing loon.
Play me out....some things never change....fuck it, Bill....do it live!
karen marie @ 91:
He did great. He didn't let O;Reilly control the situation.
In retrospect, watching the Republican National Convention was like watching "Waiting For Guffman", Part II.
StirFry @ 63:
i am tired of holding my nose to make a vote that won´t count anyway because of the broken machines... my point is: revolution or get the hell out of there... i did the latter... the fact that there are 2 options speaks volumes to your alleged democracy and freedom... enjoy living your lie, bub...
Republicans = Party of (very) scared white people and their exclusionary beliefs disgust me. This is why the lies are coming fast and furious. Virtually everything coming out of the RNC machine is a lie. The press has done nothing wrong, but now they are on the defense. There is right, left and center press, but to lump them all into a "Palin hating group" is just plain brilliant (If it works) . Now, they have given a reason for Palin not to speak to the press. McCain MAY have had the true beliefs that he was the best candidate, but not being disappointed that we did not buy into that, he has sold his soul to Karl Rove and friends. Probably not the first time has has done that, trying to match daddy and grandpappy.
Did anyone see that very large one page picture of McCain in front of the very white crowd? I don't want to live in a country that looks like that, run by one group anymore. I didn't fully realize what it looked like until my middle age. I have many friends of color, age, race and religions and sometimes they sense my embarrassment. I see why they do not trust wealthy (O.K. mostly whites). I don't anymore either.
Lets face it, the election will fall mainly upon your perception of color. If you fear others and truly believe that only anglos should rule, you vote (R), if you wish to recognize that the world (not just the country) you will at least consider (D).
Send money now to the DNC or Obama camp directly! YOU Need to do it, do not just write stuff here and leave it at that. How much do you think your country is worth? DO IT NOW!
BobbyG @ 99:
My friends, for five long years as POW in the service of my country, I didn't have a bush.
Alice X - (Chomsky Nader) - status quObama - change you can pretend in - @ 60:
Kinda hard to get anything accomplished when you have an obstructionist republicans and a president that vetoes everything Democratic.
Question:
Towards the end of McCain's speech last night he said: "don't like something about this country? then get out there and change it...and listed a bunch of examples.
Didn't all of the things that he suggested sound an awfully lot like "community organizing" to you? It did to me.
Mentioned on the Stephanie Miller show:
"Change" to the Republicans means getting a different person to do the same thing.
lol
galmud @ 98:
I think that on whole, it was a good gamble, just like meeting up with McCain in the church. Everyone knows he's going into the lions' den. Contrast that with the GOP's delicate hothouse VP being sheltered from that nasty Fourth Estate. A gamble, but one with better odds than would appear on the surface. Remind me never to play poker with that guy. ;-)
barkin @ 47:
Obama just handed Bildo the dream all republicans yearn for.
The opportunity to make tons of cash on the back of a black man.
Is it any wonder your country is so screwed up?
McBallandChain @ 86:
Agree 100% . Also, you could see Billo pressing to get the "gotcha" comment out of Obama and he was having none of it . If he had, they would have interrupted McCain's acceptance speech to show it on the Jumbotron.
Let's face it, Obama has to navigate a minefield between now and Nov. 4th . He has to keep his base energized who want to hang any Reslug in effigy, he has to placate the Hillary backers and he has to introduce the specifics of his plans to the fence-sitters and yes, even the Fox crowd who will get a non-stop assault of bullshit from the Rovians. Don't forget, there are those on the right who don't like McCain. Just as there were Reagan Democrats, there are probably Obama Republicans, and he has to spend at least some time courting them .
theWalrus @ 100:
It is not. You never let an adversary frame the debate.
My response would have been:
"Bill, let me stop you right there. Arguing about the relative merits of this surge is irrelevant to the fundamental issue, i.e., had we not invaded Iraq, had we kept our eyes on the prize in Afghanistan, we might well have largely wrapped things up by now, many thousand of deaths and billions of dollars fewer. We'd not have had the morally eviscerating infamy of Abu Ghraib, and bin Laden might well now be dead or in custody.
We might now be focused on electing a President, rather than simply a "Commander-in-Chief" -- a focus that assumes that our all-consuming national priority is and will indefinitely be inevitably nothing more than managing wars at every turn.
So, I stand by the correctness of my original Iraq judgment. The current ostensible necessity and short-term efficacy of the surge does nothing whatsoever to refute the soundness of my judgment."
Others have touched on it here, but one thing I've learned over the years and believe me I know how to spot it:
REPUBLICANS = FEAR
(Like they say: you go with what you've got!)
LibertyLover @ 109:
Change to the republican is what you throw in the basket at a toll booth. You can't teach an old dog new tricks.
How foolish would we be to expect someone to change something they themselves created? Has that method ever proven successful anywhere?
pissedcanuck @ 111:
while i appreicate you calling it my country, i know that it is SO not mine... it´s just where i happened to be born... the war party took it from me long before i was born...
I think that in establishing that McCain is 4 more years of Bush, that one should look at foreign policy, since the Iraq war has amounted to a $1 trillion screw-up, a fiasco that has so far benefited Iran more than any other nation.
McCain's principle foreign policy advisor is Randy Scheunemann, another neocon from The Project for the New American Century, a neo-con think tank. Scheunemann is a paid lobbyist for the nation of Georgia, hired to entangle the U.S. into fighting Georgia's battles with Russia.
Pat Buchanan has come up with a few talking points about Scheunemann. He represents a soft target for the Democrats.
In the past few elections, we Democrats have largely been fielding Republican attacks. This time around, hopefully we have learned that the best defense is offense.
I think people like Palin are designed to keep people like Scheunemann under the radar scope. Right now, there is no awareness about this guy, and the fact that he represents a continuation of neo-con foreign policy identical to what ensued under Bush.
Economic policy is also identical to Bush. McCain proposes tax cuts for those over $2.87 million of 4% reduction, and for those $66,000 and below, a 1.4% reduction. Below $37 thousand, McCain proposes a modest 0.7% reduction in taxes. McCain pledges more wars, but no proposals to pay for them, which will result in more deficits, a dollar that will continue to weaken, which will kick in the inflation tax.
Obama on the other hand has more modest tax cuts of around 2% for those making under $160,000. Obama would increase the tax cuts percentage as income declines, reaching a 5% tax cut for those under $18,000. Obama proposes tax hikes for only those making $600,000/year and more (the top 1%), so when you hear the television commercials about Obama raising taxes, these individuals are who the commercial is referring too.
McCain is a continuation of Bush, whereas Obama represents change. If McCain is so "experienced" why hasn't he learned from his mistakes instead of putting people like Scheunemann in charge of his foreign policy. I think I've heard that McCain has said that if he knew back when Iraq started what he knows now, that he would still support the war. McCain is, from a foreign policy perspective, economically, and with Palin, ideologically, 4 more years of Bush. And I think that Scheunemann represents a viable target in this upcoming war with the Republicans.
C. Hussein Jr. @ 10:
Ba ha ha ha, you beat me to it.
Funny... I think I would have asked him. "Tom, Do you think it might be time in the McCain campaign to dust some of those fake terror alerts?"
barkin @ 116:
Please, please, for the sake of humanity...Get all your friends off their asses and TAKE IT BACK!
StirFry @ 63:
Wow... how mighty "democratic" of you.
Your reply is a simple and concise visualization of what is so wrong with this country.
LibertyLover @ 21:
Sadly, too many Americans vocabularies are limited to the letters (R) and (D).
fastfeat @ 122:
Sorry, that should have been ...Americans'...
Of course John
BushMcCain is his own man!That's why he ran to the loving arms of the very people he once called 'agents of intolerance.'
That's why he's so big on drilling, because the oil companies think it's a great idea, too.
That's why he has to have his buddies Joe Lieberman and Lindsey Graham remind him of the difference between sects and political factions.
What's not to like? [/sarcasm]
Froid would have a field day with these fucks! JD
Ask John McCain about Mai Van On.
Who was the REAL war hero in Viet Nam?
Mai Van On.
Click HERE, or HERE.
Obama does Not Need To "Play" In O'Reilly's Back Yard
It is good Barck Obama wants to answer his critics. However, when one of those critics happens to be from a known bias network, nothing good can come out of it.
C&L showed us an uncut version of the interview. You can bet there is another edited version of the same material being shown with a different narrative. This version will sound similar to this: "Obama fails to admit he was wrong about the Surge, even though he knows it was successful." My point, they have all the time in the world to play with a wealth of material Obama provided with this interview.
Bill O'Reilly sits on the edge of outrageous comments for very extreme non Democratic viewers. With luck, Obama may turn one less bias viewer over to support him. The time and energy, not to mention the zero return, was not a wise investment of valuable time. It is for that reason, this interview was a lost no matter how you look at it.
Joseph
"Let's catch up with history, we're behind and there's a democrat congress that's helped to keep us behind.."
So then he praises McCain for reaching across the isle...
They sure are doing their very best to blow our minds, aren't they?
Two thoughts,
1) Ridge should buy some more Duct tape and plastic, the winters coming and now he can use it to heat his home in addition to protecting himself from dirty bombs.
2) He blames the mess of Washington on a "Democrat Congress"? Well, for one it's DemocratIC, not Democrat and Barack is not running for Congressional control, perhaps Ridge would be happy if the tables were turned. Give the DEMOCRATIC party the PRESIDENT'S VETO PEN and they can get back the Congress (and ferchrisake they had both the Executive Branch AND the Congress for SIX YEARS and look how much fun that was.
And the third of my two thoughts is, MAN ARE THESE GUYS EVER DESPERATE! They're not interested in helping ALL Americans, just the ones int their elite little Conservative minority. They're playing to the base, Rove's best tactic, to wedge up the Looney Right Wingers who are TERRIFIED of a centrist ticket Obama Biden. Big Oil has a lot of money in their war chest so let's buck up for long fight.
This idiot is so stupid he could actually say the following, without laughing--(Paraphrase)We're behind in history and it's the Democrat (sic) congress that has us behind....
It's the republicans that controlled congress for most of the last eight years, yet he blames the Democrats!
What an idiot! That's really stupid!
"behind." remember when those maniacs were in charge of all 3 branches of government? when they wanted to basically abolish the filibuster? those were some seriously "behind"-the-times times..
Jack Damage @ 125:
Do you mean Freud
Or f***ing roids?
C. Hussein Jr. @ 10:
Oh, yeah! That was deliberate and intended to leave a mark in November.
And that's Sarah Cheney, not Pawlenty! SaraCuda, the Godzilla who savaged Wasilla (NRA-Alaska), is a blood relative of Dick Cheney, a couple shotguns removed.
Screw Change! John Bush and Sarah "Shooter" Cheney 2008! Four More Years of Bushwacky Dickweederie!
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McBush/Falin'08
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Y.S.
Err thanks, didn't know you were the designated spellchecker today Y.S. but, yes yer right, it is Freud.... Maybe I was having a little froidian slip too thinking these people need a proctologist to pull their heads out of... Ehh, anyway you know what I mean... and these guys are crazy enough... They don't need any roid rages from steroids to come across any loonier than they are....But yea, Freud would make some serious money analyzing these nutjobs.... and their verbal gaffes... JD
Nice Freudian slip!
Do stereo speakers who've been sitting too long get steroids?
DudefromPrague @ 137:
Ol' Siggy was into designer ladies lingerie.
Ooh...la...la...faux pas...
Y.S.@138;
Hmmm Maybe... Would we get 'stare-roids' if we looked too long in shock at a picture of Gramps and sucker/hickey mommy pawing each other on some stage??? Juuuss wonderin..... heheh JD
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The votes of Tennesee go to George S. McCain...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbP7qQ_7Ieg
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Jack Damage @ 140:
No, you'd simply go blind.
And then you'd go deaf after a few rounds of kissy sounds ...
barkin @ 47:
Ok, first of all, did you see the standing ovation from the VFW? They loved him and they didn't want to and didn't think they would.
Now, on the Oreily factor - Oreily screwed the pooch on choosing to dis Bush (had to to look remotely plausable) He also upset any non far right viewers. What he needs now is to bring Moderates to his program and to keep them there he needs to show he can play nice with whomever he is interviewing. These are the viewers Obama can reach. Sounds like a win win.
As much as I hate to see Oreily win.
After watching McCain's speech, I can assure you folks that McCain's presidency will be a reformed one. Bush was out of the convention and that in itself proved that McCain has planned to bring glory back to the American republic. Palin created a sensation to the Republican base and by her presence McCain proved that he is in for a change and women at last broke the barrier.
Vote McCain/Palin!
Jericho @ 128:
Yeah, I wanted to like ridge for calling bullshit on the color codes for terrorism. Then he pulls this crap.
disgruntled @ 145:
It's cognitive dissonance, plain and simple. Fill the air with noise, then toss in a key phrase. The faithful hear that, and that alone, ignoring the rest. You could recite the New York City phone book, add a line about tax and spend liberals, and - presto - that will be the comment talked about in the media and elsewhere.
This is why they want you dumbed down. It's easier to pull this stuff when your audience can't think or follow complex reasoning in the first place.
This would be a very funny ad. Even his biggest supporters cannot tell them apart; cut to Ridge.
Tom Ridge: “John Bush… err… John McCain is his own man”
PRICELESS.
God Bless Tom Ridge.....How could a man who doesn't even look like a Republcan front for these guys? Yet, God, in her infinite wisdom, had him misspeak the truth. John Bush, all-American fighter pilot and pow extraordinaire.
I get more fun out of these "slips" than anything else in the campaign! McSame & McDame The 2008 Let's Go War Party!
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