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By Mike Finnigan Wednesday Sep 24, 2008 10:00amDownWithTyranny!: McCain's latest stunt backfires...badly. Some observers believe the real motive for the Psychogeezer's latest gimmick is to keep Sarah Palin from spending another moment of unscripted time in public. But count on McCain - if he shows up for the debate - to try and work his surge-centric attack on Obama's judgment into every answer, no matter what the question. Some of us remember a time when McCain always called for withdrawal of troops.
Bob Geiger:Bush asleep while Iraqi fraud funnels millions to al-Qaeda
David E's Fablog: Albert Brooks explains it all for you
The Satirical Political Report: Cheney asserts a link between Saddam and Mortgages of Mass Destruction
LAist: Michael Moore is giving away his new movie
OFF THE BEATEN PATH: Minnesota Independent, Youtude, Women's Lens, Just a Moment of Miscellany,
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John "Maverick" McCain reminds me of George "T-bone" Constanza. My friends, it doesn't matter what you call yourself if the name doesn't fit.
I find those youtube clips totally out of context. Why should Mac want troops in Somolia and Haiti? They have no proven oil reserves. After all we know Iraq is oil first, last, and always
Bush = Fear
McCain = Incoherence
Palin = Supidity
Quite a trifecta.
JimboSlice @ 2:
Ever since the Emancipation Proclamation, big business has seen the slave labor market dry up.
What is the status of the
Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act and the Organized Crime Control Act?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racketeer_Influenced_and_Corrupt_Organizati...
'BUSH PAULSON' SCHEME ... legitimising Financial Fraud... Coup D'etat.... Much Like Germany in 1933?
To Support and Defend.....AGAINST ALL ENEMIES (and wall street crooks), FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC
Someone should inform THE SOLDIERS, GUARD and the NAVY SEALS of all the Crimes against the Constitution, Obstruction of Justice, Criminal Investigations and ALL the HARM that the BUSH CHENEY MOB has done and is still doing.
OPEN THE BOOKS NOW and prosecute before they do any more harm to our Country and People.
HAH! Love the Brooks clip from David E's blog. Really does nail the bailout plan, doesn't it?
(Ehrenstein, please don't come over here to post your appreciation for the link. I, for one, don't want to see you drag over half the wingnuts in the world when you forget your tact again.)
So...Arlen Spector, R-Utah was on Imus this morning...and he blamed the financial crisis on...wait for it....waaaaaaait for it....BILL CLINTON.
It is now official. There is NO ONE in the Republican Party capable of honesty, and for whom I have any respect.
Poor McCain. Brave enough to spend 5 years in a POW camp, but is now running away from Obama.....
this is a good one page read on financial crisis. specifically phil gramm. not sure but i believe congress
had the votes to over ride veto from clinton.
http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2008/07/foreclosure-phil.html
Please post this everywhere that will take images.
http://www.zweg.com/dump/photo/palin_scream.jpg
Yes it was a political ploy, but one that was meant to postpone Friday's debate to the following Thursday. Thursday's VP debate will then be cancelled forever. They cannot let Sarah out of the box again; she spouts more Bushisms than Bush himself.
In addition to the current orchestrated financial fraud ..... Stop the other fraud...
good...
OHIO VOTERS IN foreclosure can vote, says Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner.
http://www.newsnet5.com/politics/17553158/detail.html
CMINCA @ 11:
Jes** Chri**, I hadn't even read the TPM, I was half-kidding. I cannot believe this is actually true. A totally transparent political ploy. Just disgusting.
Karl Rove's Koolaide Wagon runs off into ditch. His "Twilight Zone" reality has run its course. No one, I mean absolutely NO ONE, buys the Republican brand anymore.
Rancid, putrid, god-awful stinking mess.
Famous Republican Quotes
"Thank God, George W. Bush is our President"
"The insurgency is in its last throes"
"We gotta fight em there, so we don't have to fight em here"
"He's got 'em"
"He's got 'em"
"He's got 'em"
"The economy is fundamentally sound"
"We will be welcomed as liberators"
"We don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud"
The Smiths @ 5:
The problem is that many- if not most- of the cases we're addressing here aren't example of crimes. There was massive deregulation in late 2000 (December of that year, iirc) that allowed these banking houses to gamble away the country. You can't write new law to prosecute NOW the actions done before the law is passed- that would be ex post facto prosecution, and very unconstitutional.
Is Friday's debate on or off?
What's the difference between Bush and Palin?
Palin once blessed to be free from 'witchcraft'
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A grainy YouTube video surfaced Wednesday showing Sarah Palin being blessed in her hometown church three years ago by a Kenyan pastor who prayed for protection from "witchcraft" as she prepared to seek higher office.
The video shows Palin standing before Bishop Thomas Muthee in the pulpit of the Wasilla Assembly of God church, holding her hands open as he asked Jesus Christ to keep her safe from "every form of witchcraft."
"Come on, talk to God about this woman. We declare, save her from Satan," Muthee said as two attendants placed their hands on Palin's shoulders. "Make her way my God. Bring finances her way even for the campaign in the name of Jesus. ... Use her to turn this nation the other way around."
Chuck @ 17:
On. Obama will be there. There will be an adult undergarment representing McCain.
constituent @ 9:
the GLB (no, not them) Act passed the Senate with 54 votes...It needs 67 to overturn...
So, yes, The clenis fucked us on purpose...
But that's pretty much how he treated everybody and everything...
Liberal AND Proud @ 20:
That Depends.
Liberal AND Proud @ 15:
"Bring it on"
Liberal AND Proud @ 18:
well they're both reaking dripping, feculent pussies, so that ain't it, right?
Liberal AND Proud @ 18:
Lipstick?
Re: Liberal AND Proud @ 7
There are a dizzying number of connections between the Wall Street and "inside the Beltway" crowds, on both sides of the aisle.
It's no wonder Barney Frank is getting a lot of bipartisan cooperation in rounding up the votes. ;)
Liberal AND Proud @ 20:
Excellent!
If McBush doesn't show, Obama should take the opportunity to speak and answer questions.
woody, tokin librul @ 21:
Yeah...ok...this is all Clinton's fault.
George W. Bush wasn't really President for the last 8 years. In fact, the GOP didn't control the Congress from 1980 till 2004, there really wasn't a Republican in the White House from 1980 till 1992 and from 2000 till President.
This is all just a dream, and Patrick Duffy is standing in your shower.
Re: Andy K @ 16
Thanks for injecting some well-needed sanity.
Liberal AND Proud @ 7:
The erosion of Glass-Steagall began in the 80's under the Reagan administration.
McCain/Palin must be stopped NOW!
Howie Kurtz reports that McCain's people say Palin may do one - ONE - press conference before the election.
WTF!!!! One?
Plus McCain wanting to postpone the V.P debate
Again this is unacceptable
McCain is Bush and I'm not sure can survive his first term as president - that leaves Palin in charge
F*ck it, this is absolute bullsh*t!
Something has to be done NOW!
Chuck @ 27:
He could answer for McCain too. Since the debate is on foreign policy he could respond with McCain talking points:
More wars
The Surge
100 years, 1000 years 10000 years
The Surge
The Surge, my friends
My friend, General Petreaus
More wars
The Surge
Chuck @ 17:
Not long ago I heard a lady from the college there say they were going ahead with holding the debate. She didn't know if McCain would be there or not. They have spent 5.5 million local dollars preparing for this and I forget how long the planning has been going on. She said a lot of people have put in a lot of effort and hours to be ready. So they are ready and waiting.
If McCain doesn't show up, he'll look like a total schmuck. If he does show up, he'll look like he lost a battle. I think at this point to win this thing, all Obama has to do is show up and bring along that great big smile of his.
CMINCA @ 30:
Anyone with any intelligence knows that. Which gives you a good idea of the intelligence quotient of this country.
Back in 2000 I actually changed my party affiliation to vote in the republican primaries so I could vote for McCain. At the time he seemed to be the only candidate in both parties that seemed to have the nation's best interests at heart.
Not any more though...
Liberal AND Proud @ 28:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/wallstreet/weill/demise.html
The Long Demise of Glass-Steagall
The demise began under the Reagan administration, when Greenspan became Fed Chairman - I blame Greenspan for most of this mess. He quits, knowing what is about to happen, then shows up on talk shows talking absolute shite.
short video. mccain stumbling/bumbling on what palin
brings as far as national security.
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/11/mccain-palin-energy/
pissed off patricia @ 33:
Grandpa will be there. No one is putting up with GOP bullshit anymore. The media is fed up, the public is fed up...the folks running this debate will hold it with an empty chair for McCain if they have to.
Honestly, I hope he doesn't show up. No, wait....what would be even better is if he walked in late.
Either Palin is dumb as dog shit, or the McCain campaign isn't being fair to her by keeping her locked up and giving the appearance that she is. If I were her I would say let me speak or you can take this veep nomination and cram it!
Liberal AND Proud @ 34:
I'm sure some people on this blog were born during the Reagan Era of voodoo economics, when the whole "trickle-down" theory became the talking point of the day, week, month and year. It is worth repeating and repeating loudly. I've heard this blame on Clinton quite enough. I'm not a fan of Clinton, but he did not cause this. Reagan began it, Bush Sr. solidified it and Jr. blew it out of the park.
Gee, how come the trolls are out there screaming for more deregulation, and railing against big government, and screaming about Bush creating more big government than ever before?
Wny? Have they lost their nerve? Have they enlisted?
Where are those clarion calls of the conservative class? Where are the progenitors of progressive personal responsibility" Where are the idolators of independence?
"Come on you raver, you seer of visions,
come on you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine!"
Liberal AND Proud @ 38:
Dick Gregory, the assclown that he is, was totally buying into this crap yesterday. He was interviewing Ari Fleisher like Fleisher was some kind of unbiased, independent thinker. It was pathetic.
Where is McCain now that people are back in Galveston? How much do you hear about the efforts to help people in Haiti? I thought the hurricane was so important to McCain that he had to tone down the RNC? Where is McCain now?
pissed off patricia @ 39:
Yes, but you're not a "women can be strong but must be subservient to men" right-wing extremist evangelical nutball. I'm just saying.
for you clinton 'haters' put this guy on your list also. phil gramm was a major player as is bush
And in 1999, Gramm pushed through a historic banking deregulation bill that decimated Depression-era firewalls between commercial banks, investment banks, insurance companies, and securities firms—setting off a wave of merger mania.
But Gramm's most cunning coup on behalf of his friends in the financial services industry—friends who gave him millions over his 24-year congressional career—came on December 15, 2000. It was an especially tense time in Washington. Only two days earlier, the Supreme Court had issued its decision on Bush v. Gore. President Bill Clinton and the Republican-controlled Congress were locked in a budget showdown. It was the perfect moment for a wily senator to game the system. As Congress and the White House were hurriedly hammering out a $384-billion omnibus spending bill, Gramm slipped in a 262-page measure called the Commodity Futures Modernization Act. Written with the help of financial industry lobbyists and cosponsored by Senator Richard Lugar (R-Ind.), the chairman of the agriculture committee, the measure had been considered dead—even by Gramm. Few lawmakers had either the opportunity or inclination to read the version of the bill Gramm inserted. "Nobody in either chamber had any knowledge of what was going on or what was in it," says a congressional aide familiar with the bill's history.
pissed off patricia @ 39:
POP, first...she is dumber then dirt. She may have some knowledge of small backwater town politics, but she is totally out of her league. She is the next step in an evolution begun by GW Bush, where we put people in the White House who have no knowledge of our nations history, presidential history, world history...and honestly are so ignorant, that they don't see ignorance as being a problem.
Second, every time she speaks...you can hear the wind whistling through her head. They can't put her out there unfiltered...if they do...then McCain just gets ridiculed AGAIN....for showing bad judgement in allowing this imbecile to be put on the ticket.
Liberal AND Proud @ 15:
“ "Oh we got both kinds [of music]: We got Country AND western!"
“ "Black and [Muslim]? Where I come from we would'a hung ya' twice!"
Alaska Rep. Accuses McCain-Palin Campaign of Witness Tampering
No big surprise there.
The fact that George Bush could actually make that speech last nite, just shows that he is completely devoid of any sense of responsiblity or accountability to the people he was elected by and to serve.
This whole country...the ENTIRE country has been turned into a sick joke. Our politics has been turned into a sick joke.
We all rant and rave...but the truth is...I am EMBARRASSED. This entire spectacle...and then this MORON coming on tv and bringing on more fear to score political points....McCain playing politics with our whole election process...suspending his campaign...calling TIME OUT...because he is getting his fucking clock cleaned....gawwwdammit...what a sad, sick pathatic embarrassment we have become.
Liberal AND Proud @ 18:
Difficult to tell sometimes. Neither one really has any balls.
StirFry @ 47:
What a fucking shock.
Liberal AND Proud @ 41:
Ahhhh, nothing quite like a little morning Floyd.
Well HERE'S some good news....NOT
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/09/army_homeland_090708w/?rss
displaced @ 35:
The Keating Five held Court in 1989.
Palin has been a train wreck in every serious interview. Your takes on all the debates are right on. Surge surge surge surge surge...
Alice X @ 53:
Yeah, but as John Amato said, it's been hard to understand what happened until someone was kind enough to make that 97 second video. In 2000 when I saw Bush leading McCain in the poles, I wanted to make sure that--regardless of whoever ended up in the general election for the Dems--the Republicans wouldn't have a religious zealot/crackpot running in the election. Sadly, Bush won them all anyway.
CMINCA @ 42:
David Gregory. If only it had been Dick Gregory.
Hangdog David Gregory, KKKarl Rove's dancing partner. Painful to look at, painful to listen to. A real schmuck and GOP media whore.
BigIslandDave @ 56:
I would like to petition that we now call David Gregory...Dick Gregory, as it is more fitting to his character.
All in favor...Say AAAAAAAYE!
Senator Duck-And-Cover
Re: UNSCRIPTED TIME
That link, from Anonymous Liberal, is a perfect explanation of why McCaveman ditched his appearance on the Dave Letterman show yesterday. Two words - damage control.
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