Duncan Hunter on Obama: 'I think he has great teeth'
By John Amato Friday Oct 24, 2008 6:15pm
Oh boy, where to begin? Tweety asks Duncan Hunter about John McCain's chances in the general election after a new NY Times poll came out saying that Obama has a 13 pt lead: 52-39. Hunter says McCain was way down before and while not eloquent, he knows how to spell the word "win" and his foreign policy background is a winning issue. Typical surrogate talk and then Matthews brought up the fact that the Rick Davis-led campaign never focused on Iraq, but instead hit the very petty, low brow personal attack points that we've seen many times before.
Matthews: ....all these diversions they've used. The fact that he might be anti-American...this whole thing about socialist. Joe the plumber. What's that got to do with the security issue you say?
Hunter: I think John is wrong in that case. I think he has been tested. He was tested on Iraq. And here was a guy with great teeth, great speaking style, excellent politician and a superb debater, but when it came to the major issues...
Matthews:...we just heard from Congressman Hunter that the winning piece of this man's vocabulary, the winning piece of his resume is that he has a nice smile, he has good teeth. Is that your assessment of Barack Obama, he's the first African American with a real shot to be President of the United States and is 13 points ahead of his Republican rival, that he has good teeth?
Hunter: Also a good debater and very eloquent.
Sounds like Duncan Hunter is describing an award winning horse. Even Matthews caught on and when he called Hunter on the "teeth" remark, Hunter didn't try to say he misspoke, only that Obama is a good debater and very eloquent.
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How do animals like this get on TV? Does Matthews think he is running the freak show at the traveling carnival?
"How do animals like this get on TV? Does Matthews think he is running the freak show at the traveling carnival?"
forget them getting on TV... how do they get ELECTED!! this is a dude that is making laws!!
*shudder*
PRESIDENT OBAMA! Get used to it!
Those chickens before they hatch. Polls, mean nothing.
What about the Brady affect?
Something else to chew on, a bit of history for you.
Polls can be wrong, have been wrong, and will be wrong from time to time, but by all means, keep counting :)
Let's talk on the 5th.
Let our voices be heard 365 days a year.
McCain has lost this election. the support for Obama is coming from all sides of the political spectrum. Even i like this guy even though i do not agree with him 100%. I voted for him on Monday and if i could would vote for him again. I will in 2012 unless a more serious, intelligent and progressive challenger comes along.
The only way he will lose this election is by the republicans stealing this election again. The white house is getting involved after the supreme court sent back OH wanting to disfranchise voters. Is this the way you really want to win an election? I wouldn't approve if it was on the democrat side.
Duncun Hunter must be a frustrated slaveholder wannabe. Or he has a severe case of bite me envy.
Bigmama writes: "Duncun Hunter must be a frustrated slaveholder wannabe."
That's it! That's what it reminded me of -- at slave auctions the potential owners would feel the slaves' bodies all over to check their bone structure and muscles, and then would check their teeth. This is also what one does before buying a horse. And here we are in the 21st century...
It was so frustrating watching this guy because the democratic guy wasn't responding at all--he didn't get the chance and then when he did, it was weak. Hunter kept saying Obama was wrong on "the" issue of our day--Iraq--because he didn't support The Surge (tm). But, that ignores that Obama was absolutely RIGHT on Iraq -- when he said we shouldn't invade Iraq in the first fricking place.
three out of eighteen success points, a failure in anybody's book.
McCain has been in DC for 26 years. Obama for 3-4. And somehow Obama is responsible for the deplorable condition this country is in.
McCain has no national security creds. He, like Bill Kristol, has been wrong on everything.
The McCain of 2008 is not the McCain of 2000, and most people know it. He's feeble minded, unhealthy and his first major choice as a presidential candidate was to pick Sarah Palin. What kind of judgment is that?
Country first? I think not. McCain first. Definitely.
Yeah, McCain is trying to fan the flames of racism, anti-intellectualism and xenophobia while our country falls into another Great Depression.
Same thing a wee man with a big mouth and a funny moustache did some eighty years ago.
that a short little woman who purports herself to be a Hockey Mom with a Polar Bear pin is taking up the slack with her hate rallies.
McCain is dangerous, yes. But Palin is worse.
You obviously have issues with your own teeth. My guy can do wonders for you. Oh, and don't forget to floss! It helps. Big time.
Slave traders used to judge the quality of their potential purchases by checking the quality of their teeth. I remember that from watching "Roots." I have little doubt that this is how Duncan Hunter judges minority politicians.
Snowball writes: "Slave traders used to judge the quality of their potential purchases by checking the quality of their teeth. I remember that from watching 'Roots.'"
Woops -- I should have read all the posts before posting myself.
Republican congressman are very observant about men's teeth. If you have dentures, you're a pal to a Republican man, baby.
Iraq has been, is, and will always be a lost "cause." People like Hunter keep clinging to it as if there's some "victory" to be had. There is no victory in war dumbass! Everyone loses in war!!! Freakin' idiot.
it messed up the code in the post and I couldn't fix it. Jamie had to re-structure the post...lol
Don't cha hate when that happens? :-)
Damned computers - sometimes.
IE is the standby
or the new Mozilla Firefox alternative.
Firefox Minefield (beta), supposed to be 50% faster than Firefox 3
so refreshing and editing is icky.
uummmm...while I'm sure this has been noted elsewhere, but "teeth" were among the attractive indicators of a healthy slave...just like horses and other livestock...is Hunter channeling some ancestor???
I'm pretty sure he didn't mean anything by it but the image from "Roots" of a prospective buyer checking a slave's teeth popped into my head, though doubtless because that part was highlighted for me. Had it not been, I probably wouldn't have noticed it.
never look a gift horse in the mouth. Every time I read your name I think about Hunter S. Thomson, a guy that knew what he was writing about!
First, it was Michelle Bachmann and her channeling of Joe McCarthy. And then, there was John McCain and Sarah Palin with their throw back to the George Wallace style of politics. And then, Duncan Hunter.
How much would it cost for the GOP to have a racial sensitivity course? Probably less than Sarah Palin's wardrobe. /snark
he cut off the democrat immediately
Although I gave Tweety the benefit of the doubt with the Bachmann issue, there are always some things that he does that make me wonder about him.
Duncan Hunter is a war mongering thug, ties to Duke Cunningham and Blackwater who should be ousted from his cozy job in DC. Enough said.
starts talking in the clip, read the scrolling news along the bottom of the screen. It's all positive stuff about Obama. Hah.
that was great! mclellan's endorsement flowing by while dunkindonut can't stop babbling.
and I love it!
Now who on this entire crazy planet could possibly give a RATS ASS what
that dipshit Duncan Hunter has to say ? It is my fondest hope that with
an Obama victory we can at last say good bye to most of these right wing
whores and they can crawl back under their fucking rocks....
I don't want them crawling back under their rocks. I want them arrested and tried for all the anti-American comments and misinformation they've been feeding the public for decades. I want them convicted for all the lies they've fed us for years, thus endangering us far more than any terrorist ever could.
when you can't even defend your own candidate, say anything lousy and silly about the opponent. Dubcan Hunter sounded like a moron.
Hunter loves Obama's, Hates McCain's teeth?
Gods, I hate Duncan Hunter. We keep trying to get rid of him, but he's like a vampire or something - he keeps coming back to life. He's retiring this year. Only problem? HIS SON is running for his seat. It's like a fricken dynasty or something. LUMPKIN FOR CONGRESS!
So he’s got him some good teeth AND speeks reel good? Well, DAMN Duncan, get hims out of the field and make hims a “house servant”.
What an idiot.
sorry
Duncan Hunter is a bigot - he proved that over and over again a year or so ago when there was all that ruckus about the illegal immigrants.
Could someone please enlighten me about McCain's "foreign policy" background? - other than the five years he spent in Viet Nam?
I've also heard him, McCain, say, "I know how to win wars." Anybody know what war(s) he won?
Strategy: Crash all your planes, and eventually one will make it over enemy lines.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNLhsu0CzXw
for the 100 Years War, the Great War, and of course the Invasion at Normandy
one red fleet, one blue.
He recreates the 'Gulf of Tonkin' battle every night.
When the shampoo runs out, he use the empty bottle to recreate 'Sink the Bismark'
and hunter is a putz
What a concession to Obama! Whew, I bet that physically hurt him to say. lmao
Everytime I hear one of these so called republicans speak all I hear is lies.
I would think by now that thse people would be so ashamed that they would just resign and go hide some place.
republicans make me ashamed of my government, ashamed of the way they have mismanaged the public trust.
I still cannot believe that bush has been in office for eight years. Eight years of hell on earth, lies, hundreds of thousands of people murdered, crippled, tortured, a ruined economy, schools that are unable to educate our children, the worst health care system of any developed nation.
How can anyone be so stupid as to vote republican?
How?
The only good thing that came out of this is that Americans are waking up and seeing the GOP for what they really are. Besides that, just consider the republican run just another thing McCain has crashed into the ground.
But Obama has also been right on national security issues where the "man who knows how to win wars" John McCain has been completely wrong. McCain remains focused on Iraq while Afghanistan continues to be lost. Obama was one of the first to recognize this and came up with a idea to thwart the Taliban's gains. Meanwhile, McCain continues to try and figure out who is who in Iraq.
what, the 6th or 7th time in the last week or so you've posted a Chris Matthews video where he's nailing someone from the right; do you think maybe now you can give this guy a break? Yes, he's goofy sometimes, but he does a lot of the work we've been begging someone in the media to do, and quite often (which is usually why you post his stuff, not so often because you think he's a doofus).
C'mon, if you're gonna' keep deriding him and calling him Tweety, then stop using him as a "left wing tool."
I totally agree with ronnyg. For someone in the MSM who is not Olberman or Maddow, Chris Matthews has really gone after some of this f&cktards like a pittbull. lay off...
The calibre of candidates was so sad....hunter included...that they ended up with john mcOld.
Hey, the repugs have got to figure out that insults and low jabs aren't going to get them the White House, nor hold their seats in Congress.
What an ass hat!!
Give it up, Hunter. Your party has thrown everything it can think of at Obama and he's still in it to win it.
better on security, he would be focusing on it and not the personal attacks. Ergo, McCain believes he can't win legitimately on issues.
All the better to bite you with my dear.
It seems Rethuglicans of all stripes are having a major meltdown. Open mouth and expose inanity and worse.
D. Hunter only has a job because he is running in the reddest of red districts in California. His red shipmates in California have been blown out one, after another over the years. There are cross-hairs on his back and he is doomed to be dumped quite soon.
At least Tweety is coming around to his senses.
"The reason the stock market is doing so well is because of the excellent job Bush and the republicans have done in the last 8 years. The confidence Bush inspires is tremendous...."
These guys are nothing but a bunch of old used-car salesmen trying to unload a rusty old Plymouth.
that basically insure no change anywhere when it comes to either dems or repugs
hunter is a flat out racist
this dude makes me sick
Joe H. writes: "These guys are nothing but a bunch of old used-car salesmen trying to unload a rusty old Plymouth."
Hey! I had a '62 Plymouth Fury that I bought in 1976 for $100 and drove until 1982, when I sold it for $500. That car was fantastic. Push-button transmission, a very powerful V-8 engine in a mid-sized car that was colored a weird pale ecru that I've never seen elsewhere, easily worked on by backyard mechanics and even me. That car was way better than John McCain's teeth, so please don't insult its beloved memory.
I've lived south of the mason-dixon and have heard a lot of racist tripe. To this day, rednecks will joke about what a nice smile a black man has or how white his teeth are. This, to them, is an underhanded racial joke. I wouldn't doubt it if the idiot on the show was using a code. Or maybe he's heard this stuff before and is too stupid to realize that it is a racist thing to say.
he prides himself in it
he can basically say what he wants...his seat is protected
Thank you C&L for making me register to post a comment....WTF?
You suck more that the NSA. Seriously, you suck HARDCORE.
Second, the first thing slave traders would check on slave was their teeth. Duncan Hunter is a f-ing idiot of epic proportions.
Third, fu C&L for making me register.
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As far as I can tell, it's Dixie code for good slave stock, and that's all it means. There is no other reason to use that terminology. God I hope the MSM picks up on this.
It's being talked about over here as well: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/25/1544...
he kept talking and talking about the iraq war being the biggest issue, and how obama was wrong.
yet, they are now putting in place a withdrawal plan that follows obama's initial proposal. and generals are agreeing with his stance on afghanistan and pakistan.
mccain simply wants to continue... period. he has said nothing else of substance. stay and win!! yet, he cannot define WIN?!
oh, and... what about the economy?!!
good lord, someone run against this idiot.
I remember when this asshole ran for prez. He sunk without a trace.
I'm not a fan of Matthews, but I do like when he gets these mental dwarves on and gives them just enough rope to hang themselves with.
And when Obama's president he's going to take a big bite out of Hunter and the other cloddish elephants like him.
It's a major embarrassment to this country that we allow such ignorant people onto our television screens.
With all due respect to Obama, I think Sarah Palin has the prettiest teeth of all four major candidates.
The Dunk-ster's spawn is running for his daddy's legac- er, old Congressional seat out here in Scam Diego, home of the Fighting Hedgecocks and the Dominelli Pyramids. Isn't there a box of filth left over from Randy "Duke's" pile of pillage that has Senior Dunk's prints on it? Could someone dig a little deeper and make sure its poured liberally over Hunter before next week - kinda like they do with the Gatorade on the coach at the end of the big football game? Just a thought.
Do you smell the stench coming from Dumbkin wetting his pants and the BO of his Reslug desperation?
Duncan Hunter on Obama: 'I think he has great teeth'
Isn't that how you buy a mule?
My grandfather was a bigot. Not exactly racist but an ignorant bigot who would say something like "Is there something in rice that makes their eyes that way?" when watching an oriental on television. He would say that he didn't have any problems with blacks (using the word "them") but would then go on to relate two stories; one about the black man who operated the elevator where he worked and seemed a nice enough guy and a chase across the neighborhood by police of a pair of black miscreants.
The comment by my grandfather that this news story recalls is his belief that black people smile so much because they want to show of the contrast between their white teeth and black skin. Do black people not smile for the same reason white people smile? Do black people smile more often than white people? Apparently not. The purpose was to show of their good teeth.
So, for me, it's not a stretch to characterize Duncan Hunter's remarks as inherently bigoted.
I'll take this one! How much, slave master?
(I'm off to watch Roots now)
I don't think his teeth are so great.
Duncan Hunter the younger is running for the 52nd District seat -- his opponent is Mike Lumpkin.
http://lumpkinforcongress.com/
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