Chris Wallace asks McCain if he wanted to tell America: "I told you so," as if McCain should have won the election
By John Amato Sunday Mar 08, 2009 1:02pm
Sen John McCain has been acting not like a statesman or a man who got his ass kicked in the general election, but like a spoiled rich kid who is angry that his daddy didn't buy him a new Corvette for spring break. I've never seen the loser of a Presidential election so quickly oppose everything the winner is proposing and ran on in their battle for the presidency. Usually they will have more dignity and honor as the new term begins.
FOX News has been relentless in it's 'Just say No to Obama,' coverage in what they try to pass off as a news channel and today Wallace tried to reach for the stars in idiocy with this exchange. At the end of the interview he asked McCain how he thought PRESIDENT Obama was doing in the job and then said something I had to rewind a bunch of times to see if I wasn't hallucinating.
Wallace: How do you think he's doing so far?
McCain: I think he's working very hard. I think he continues to have the support of the majority of the American people. I think he's making very serious mistake in this budget which will have very dangerous consequences in increasing taxes no matter who it is....
Wallace: You ever feel like saying ' I told you so?"McCain: Oh, I'm sure that would be pleasant feeling, but the point is we're in such a severe crisis....
"I told you so?" WTF is that? How dare Wallace ask that question? Have you no decency, sir? President Obama barely has had a chance to sit down in the Oval office and grab a cup of coffee and this jerk is basically calling him a failure and touting John McCain's ideology as the correct one even though it was that ideology that got us into this mess.
And America solidly rejected John McCain and Sarah Palin to run this country. And it's the same ideology that is being used to obstruct every move Obama makes to try and dig us out.
Do these right wing hacks understand that Obama's legislation hasn't had time to work or even fail at this point? There basis of criticism is all the about the stock market. The "STOCK Market!" The gasbags in suits that put us in this position. Do they also not understand that America hates Wall Street at this point?
And then Wallace asked McCain about his daughter's dating problems. Wow, the daughter of a beer heiress multi-millionaire whining about her love life because guys want her to be their Cindy. I'll have more on that one in due time.
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a) No, it's not an appropriate question to ask, "Do you ever feel like saying, 'I told you so'?" after Obama's been in office for a month, and passed an economic stimulus package two weeks ago. That's obviously a biased, leading question meant to PROVE that Obama has somehow failed.
b) Bush spent 8 years redistributing money from average Americans to the wealthy (the richest 1% went from owning 50% of the wealth to 90%; the richest 0.1 percent now own 50% of the country's wealth). Are you okay with taxing the poor and giving to the rich?
c) How is raising taxes on the top 2% and lowering taxes on 95% of Americans taking from the rich? Particularly when they already pay LOWER tax rates (after breaks). (For example, Warren Buffett admitted that he paid 17% in taxes while his own assistant paid 32%.)
d) I would certainly argue that when MORE PEOPLE get tax breaks, then MORE PEOPLE have money to spend and that will help create a broader economy. Tax breaks for more than just the rich COULD VERY WELL create a stimulus to the economy.
e) One thing's for certain: Tax cuts and breaks for the rich have contributed to the situation we're in now. Because that's the policy Bush followed for 8 years.
f) You forget, the people voted for Obama BASED ON his word. So how is it "payback for political favors" to keep your word?
You seem to be ranting and parroting ditto-head propaganda without a reasoned argument.
to a comment that's apparently been deleted. Nevermind.
imagine if this rageholic phony won?
I saw him during the campaign, and never want to hear from him again. I know who he really is now. A self-interested windbag.
BTW, Remember he said, "I can come up with $100 billion, just like that." Now's the time to get to work on that (loser McCranky).
Dipshit Harper's government is going to stimulate to the tune of 40 billion dollars for next year. To understand how much money that is, Bill Gates could pay the tab himself. Sad.
The M$M is irrelevant. They are squawking into a vacuum. They are the mouthpiece of the Corporatists.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA What bufoons. it's going EXACTLY as we wanted, predicted and hoped. Even MORE people would have voted for Obama now. What a fool.
McCain later said he misspoke, He was referring to President Bush !!
Schadenfreude must be the only feeling he has left. Pathetic.
Unfortunately Chris Wallace may have been basically correct when he asked that question as Obama is already proving during his very brief tenure in office that he can murder innocent civilians in third world countries just as easily as Bush did and just as indifferently as McCain surely would have done. Simply because a Democrat appears to care and approaches foreign policy with a smile does not mean that he is any less malevolent than a Republican.
yeps. Obama couldn't wait put get some blood on his hands after he just lifted it from Lincoln's Bible.
Obama continues the US Empire project =
Obama as guilty as Bush.
I agree that I want Obama to stop with the empire building projects started by Bush, but I don't agree with your stated equivalence.
It's very important for the people of Iraq and Afghanistan for the US to disengage carefully. No one would be served by a repeat of the Khmer Rouge.
He's been in office 45 days. Let Hillary Clinton get some work done before you equate her to Kissinger.
disengage carefully?
sort of like how the disengagement in Vietnam went?
come on, stop repeating the talking points of the government.
agree with TBT.
Furthermore, there is going to be hell to pay when the truth of the AIG bailouts and of FDIC actions is revealed to the American people.
even at the age of 90 or whatever Mike Wallace, I dont believe, wouldve asked such a question. 'Fair and balanced', McCain's ass! CNN's John King asked this same question a few weeks ago of McCain. sheesh, GOPers love to cry 'liberal media' then how would they explain fox news? Fox news carries the water of the Republicans. duh.
And after 8 years of do-overs for Bush but Faux and the right wing can't even allow the new guy to get through his 2nd month before saying he's a failure.
As I always say there is no greater enemy to America then the Republican party!
about the 3 posters, solus ipse, truth be told and erroll. They seem to want to cheer the repugs, too.
Ron
Unfortunately, as to be expected, you seem to equate any criticism of the great Obama to come from the right while apparently never believing that Obama can be criticized from the true left. What you failed to do [because you cannot] was refute what I had written. Obama has ordered air strikes into Afghanistan and Pakistan which have resulted in innocent women and children being ripped apart and slaughtered by 500 lb. American bombs. That is not conjecture but a fact. Even the mighty Obama cannot have those people, who never threatened anyone in these United States, rise from their graves to rejoin their families.
For the daughters and sons and mothers and fathers and brothers and sisters who have needlessly lost their loved ones, it is too late. They are gone, never to be returned to them. And all because of the murderous liberal interventionists' policies of Barack H. Obama. Or do their lives not count because they are not American?
is these same people critisize almost every move that Obama makes. And I agree that innocents shouldn't be in the middle of this, but it does take time to study the realities of the situation before pulling out. We don't know what the generals are telling Obama. Give him a chance.
I can do nothing but laugh at the litany of concern trolls that were quite silent during Bush's reign of fun and games. And now that Obama is in office, voila! Now they gain their ability to speak...
It is a miracle!
Those 3 trolls all joined in at basically the same time: right after Obama was elected. Ignoring them is the best course of action. The "ignore user" button is a godsend....
I guess it didn't bother you when we were doing that under Bush right?
I fucking love how people like you will put up with any amount of bullshit from Bush and friends and then turn into the most militant hypocrite when you are out of power. Why don't you go check on how many Iraqi civilians were killed or had to flee their OWN country because of Bush. Where is your conscience on that one Erroll? Huh? Where? Your indignation is ridiculous and so are you. Fuck you piss me off. And that takes a lot.
Where you named after Erroll Flynn? Swashbuckle much in tights?
Joyraelene
You are again doing the same thing as other posters are doing by your less than inelegant and intelligent response and that is assuming, as I stated before, that if anyone dares to disagree with the [alleged] antiwar president that that person is bizarrely aligned with the right. As for your equally absurd claim that I will "put up" with anything from "Bush and friends and then turn into the most militant hypocrite when you [this may come as a shock but I was never elected into office] are out of power", I strongly suggest that you check the archives of Crooks and Liars. If you were to actually go ahead and do that, you would find that I was one of the most vociferous critics of the Bush administration when they were in power. It does not help your case at all when Obama, that [alleged] agent of change, decides to vacillate on whether to prosecute one of the most criminal administrations in the history of the United States.
Your attempt to claim that I am a hypocrite is about as credible as your bizarre reference that I am somehow supposed to be a homosexual in drag. It is always gratifying to see how [alleged] liberals will attempt to smear someone by claiming that he or she is homosexual.
Regarding the deaths of Iraqi civilians, approximately 1.3 million of them have been killed since the U.S. illegally and immorally invaded their country in March of 2003. But that number is actually double that since Clinton imposed an embargo upon Iraq in the early 1990s which caused anywhere from a half million to a million Iraqis, mostly children, to die because food and medicine were not able to get into their country.
The point I was attempting to make, which seems to have eluded you, is that their is very little substantive difference between the Democrats and the Republicans. If you have any semblance of an open mind you may wish to read the following books:
* The Liberal Defence of Murder by Richard Seymour which, as the title implies, explains how liberals in different countries around the world have been quick to start wars of aggression during the past one hundred years or so.
* Savage Mules: The Democrats and Endless War by Dennis Perrin which demonstrates how the Democrats have been just as militaristic as their Republican counterparts.
* The Democrats: A Critical History by Lance Selfa which explains from a leftist point of view how the Democrats have continually failed to keep their promises of helping the working class and the poor while making sure that the large corporations and U.S. militarism are safe under Democratic administrations.
You crudely claim that I am engaging in "bullshit." As I have attempted to explain, I do not see why Obama should be considered a better deal than either Bush or McCain [the lesser of two evils theory] since, as I stated earlier, he has already murdered, like Bush, many innocent civilians. Certainly not as many as Bush but he does seem to be on his way of attempting to match Bush's totals if he has enough time to bomb enough people in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and who knows how many other countries. Keeping 50,000 or so troops in Iraq even after his phased [as opposed] to immediate withdrawal plan is finally completed will never, understandably, win the hearts and minds of the Iraqi people as they will soon realize, as the Afghans and the Pakistanis have, that there is very little difference between a Democratic and Republican president of the United States.
For what it's worth, I don't always agree with your postings but you've come up with a solid rejoinder to Joy.
Sec. Humanist
Thank you for the kind words. I find it ironic though that, if my memory is correct, I have often agreed more than disagreed with your comments that you had written in the past.
Canadian troops manage to control themselves and avoid shooting civilians. So do the other members of NATO who signed on to reconstruct and police that ruined country. I wonder why American troops have such itchy trigger fingers? You can't blame Obama for THAT.
Barbara in BC
I was with you until your last sentence as I am baffled as to what your point may be. As I wrote earlier, it is upon Obama's orders that the U.S. air force has dropped their bombs upon the Afghans. Therefore, I and the Afghans can certainly blame Obama for needlessly killing innocent civilians who were never a threat to harm anyone living in the United States.
Here is the problem for Obama and the United States. As long as he, like Nixon and Bush before him, continues to slaughter innocent people, Afghanistan will become the graveyard of America just as if has been for other countries such as Britain and the Soviet Union.
Obama seems intelligent enough. The question is does he do the wise thing and withdrawal ALL troops from Afghanistan and Iraq or does he attempt to emulate Nixon and Bush by attempting to bomb the Afghans and the Pakistanis and who knows how many other people back into the stone age [to recall the words of former General Curtis LeMay during the Vietnam War]? The more American soldiers that are in the Middle East, the easier it is for the terrorists to gather recruits for their cause. One has to wonder if Obama will ever grasp this obvious truth.
I can also blame Obama for wanting to leave as many as 50,000 troops in Iraq [it can even be more if military officers in Iraq have their way] as well as 140,000 civilian contractors and mercenaries in Iraq after his phased [as opposed to immediate] withdrawal plan has been finally completed. I seriously doubt if most Canadians would want to have foreign troops on their soil which, of course, is exactly what Obama is planning to do in Iraq.
exactly , i agree whole heartdly ! that any one believed obama was a man of peace, they only have to have listened to his swearing allegiance to the most vicious warmongering bastards in the mid east , the isralies , heard him say bushes mistake was not in attacking iraq and afganistan but that he just didnt do it smartly, if you cant see the simularitys in bush and obama your not paying attention, sure obamas throwing you a few uselss crumbs better grab onto them folks because tha! tha! thats all folks! as porky would say , wars the order of the day its big buisness, and big buisness controls obama and this new clinton bunch in washington, as for as one poster put it if you dont like a certain posters views put them on ignore user, as far as im concerned its the chickenshits way out, dont like a poster look to see whos posting and skip it, got an open mind then read it , got a closed mind put it on user ignore ,
He's a damn sight better tha all three.
And for the first time in my life, I didn't have to vote for the lesser of two evils.
No matter who you source, you are pissed a Black man is in your precious "White House"
You comparative claims are skewed, dishonest and inaccurate. Your biased claims are apparent when you compare President Obama's 48-Days to Bush's approximately 2,920 Days. Maybe someday when you knock that chip off your shoulder things won't seem so bad.
It's easy to second guess without the relevant national Intelligence. Like you folks always say... He's not the messiah. I understand some people are just whiny. Before you make accusatorial claims, please make sure your facts are fair.
"US President Barack Obama said, in an interview published Sunday, that the United States is not winning the war in Afghanistan and hinted at possible talks with moderate elements of the Taliban."
[ http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Obama_considers_... ]
Fox Noise is screaming like McCain/Palin would have had the economy up and running by now. God forbid if those two idiots had won, we'd be in a WORSE position. Remember McCain's "plan" for healthcare?
FNS would be saying "What are you liberals complaining about? It's only been 45 days!" Once again, IOKIYAR.
Let Barack and Joe do their jobs. And let the armchair Republican quarterbacks direct their hate, jealousy and criticisms to a brick wall.
I don't cheer republicans. pay attention.
sounds republican to me.
guess you wernt on here when bush ruled the roost ! one mans bitch is another mans sweetheart ,
If Obama manages to get the economy going again, it will open the way for him to further his visions for America even more. That will spell disaster for the Republican Party for many, many years to come. They will not see the inside of the White House for the next four years, if things go well, another four. If things continue to go well, they can probably kiss next four after that good-bye as well. The GOP is white-knuckle terrified.
I'd like too see them spank Johnny with a fine for breaking his own law...
> FireDogLake's Jane Hamsher Delivers McCain FEC Complaint
[ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-u3WbiCcQ8 ]
Remember his secret plan to capture Osama Bin Forgotten ?
If he were a "real American" (vs. a "fake American") he would share that secret in the interest of "national security". But as he's not sharing, I guess he doesn't care.
1 - Had McCain won the election Phil Gramm would have been, who knows, Sec of the Treasury.
2 - Reread number one.
Here today in the NYT is Gretchen Morgenson: A.I.G., Where Taxpayers’ Dollars Go to Die
The ongoing scandal of AIG.
Wow.
That is a really scary thought.
needs to be put out to pasture. It's a black hole for government money.
By the way, what is the logic behind the "I told you so"?
McCain told us to vote for him? And we should have because...?
Or is it something else? I don't get it.
Wallace and other Republican newspuppets can try to reframe history, but memories of the Bush Disaster Years are still vivid. Obama is bravely trying to fix the mess that a lack of oversight did to the American economy. We can stop trusting "businessmen" to do the right thing. Because all they did was take the money and run.
Are we playing games in the schoolyard here? One would think so with Chris Wallace's level of dim-witted repartee. WTF does Chris Wallace have for brains? Don't answer that - we already know. He's a total dolt.
RIP - Chris Wallace as a serious interviewer. He's now become "america's new dittohead buffoon".
remember what he told us. Oh right. The economy is in good shape. Now if only we'd all listened.
I quit watching television on Sunday morning after 9:30 AM CST some time ago. I listen to the radio, play MP3's, read the newspaper, or take a nap instead.
The Sunday morning talking head shows have almost no Democrats and certainly no professional economists on board, so what's the point of wasting my day off? McCain lost, so who the hell cares what that guy thinks about anything? The only points presented are those of the congressional minorities. Again, who the hell cares what the losing side thinks?
I have faith that President Barack Obama will win this battle. Listen for the howls from the talking heads when the five big zombie banks are nationalized before the end of this month!
When can we start accusing FOX News, Rush Limbaugh and others of sedition?
I hope Obama has a plan to break up the media monopolies. Rupert Murdoch's chunk of that needs to be first on the chopping block. I wish we had laws making the treasonous nature of Fox punishable by law. Corporate media and repigs tried to make speaking ill of Bush anti-American, I want to see the same principle applied to President Obama.
You're an attractive young woman. You'll find someone. This will all pass in about a decade .......or two.
I'm sure Chris Wallace negotiated a pay raise to ask that stupid assed question.
Can you imagine? vp lipstick-on-a-pig making a total ass of herself everytime she opened her mouth. They'd probably have her tied up downstairs in cheney's old bunker, hiding her from the public.
And old john mcAncient himself....good God. He'd be making smart ass jokes about everything...of the same quality as his "bomb bomb Iran.." etc. What a damned moron.
Now he gets the luxury of sitting back and pointing his twisted finger at the man with intelligence who has the task of fixing what his f*cking party broke for the last 20+ years.
Oh, whoa is me. We would be in the same shit-soup we were in with the goof-ball and darth vader running the country. God save us!!
Thank God Obama won. It ain't gonna be pretty, but he'll get it done over time. And as for this dying breed of pathetic, self-centered butt f*ckers...they can eat shit and bark at the moon. They will ALL eventually be replaced. Good riddance to bad rubbish!
that is what he said?
John's fired up!
What serious reporter would ask a question like that?
The stimulus package was passed, what, a week ago? I'm no Nobel-Prize-winning economist, but certainly, you cannot expect to see the results after a week or two.
So what, the fact that the economy is STILL in the tank is PROOF that Obama FAILED? And Republicans were RIGHT? Pathetic.
Wallace is sewage. And he gets worse every time a re-Thug flushes the toilet.
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Tweety's show is crap just like all the other talking head shows.
I'm in tears.
I'm going to bed.
I can't take all this anymore.
I need some Valium....
You all are KILLING ME...
Good night....adios...farewell....goodbye...
My throat is killing me...
listen - i think fox news is a complete joke...but its a free country and they can ask any idiotic/unfounded/krazy question to whomever they want. to claim: " how dare he ask that question" what if ppl were ask u mr. amato: " how dare u write this article?" fox news is a joke lets treat it like that.
so the people in the country are worried about where their next meal is coming from, but meaghan is worried about dating...and we should care?
Why in the H... Isn't the news media making the statements that this total destruction is the creation and results from Bush , Cheney and the republican's policies for the last 8 years and were planned for all hell to break out when the republicans left office...
Just the stupidity of the conversation which is trying to tag these criminal acts and destructions of our country to Obama and the democrats is beyond belief..
What is even worst is the fact that the democrats are not making Bush , Cheney , Rumsfeld , Rove , the republicans and the democrats if they are involved in these criminal act pay for their actions of the past 8 years...
This BS about not being able to prosecute Bush's administration's treason , torture , Illegal spying , Lies for war in Iraq , criminal policies to cause the economical destruction to our country is also un-believable....
Didn't Obama criticize McCain for not being able to multi-task in the presidential election??????
Well someone should ask Obama and the democrats the same question now...
McCain can now, according to FOX, said "I told you so" because Obama has failed to fix in 8 weeks the damage that McCain et al did in 8 years?
Where do these people get the gall?
When in Presidential history has the Goddamned loser been allowed to come out of his customary hiatus to so quickly criticize the winner? Listen Grandpa, the entire Nation told you and your shitty, antiquted ideas(?) to fuck off!
"I told you so"?? Is Wallace referring to McCain's insistance that "the fundamentals of the economy are sound"? What exactly did McCain say during the campaign that was correct? Would the economy be any different if McCain had been elected? We're only 8 weeks into this administration. Not much can be done in 8 weeks.
Ok, I think this is actually the worst interview question I have EVER heard.
HE agree's with the war because Obama is going to continue it. He wants to keep 50,000 people there. I bet it will be more, especially the contractors.
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