John McCain calls Americans 'My Fellow Prisoners'
By John Amato Wednesday Oct 08, 2008 11:12am
John McCain is definitely a bit frazzled after last night. (h/t Jeff and the Jed Report)
McCain: Across this country, this is the agenda I set before my fellow prisoners.
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First??
I went to a website once called www.prisonplanet.com I think.
Ran by a guy named Alex Jones. Conspiracy Theorists is an understatement.
But this lip slip and the article I read about martial law and the
bailout on huffington post making me think. Hmmm.
prisoners of our consumption, laziness, addcition to tv, hatreds, fears,
prisoners of our past.
I hate Alex Jones too, he's nothing but a fear monger.
I mean 2 years ago the guy was saying that soon the economy would be purposefully imploded, and that there'd be a huge financial attack on the middle class.
Oh.. wait..
the problem w/alex jones is he's only right like 70% of the time and that 70%, like you said, wont happen for another two to four years.
anyway, i cant decide if this was freudian or simply shellshock.
I've been following Alex Jones for some years now, and it's true... he was on top of this one.
Owww! Diet cherry coke hurts when you snort it out your nose!
I think he's finally lost it.
McCainchurian is on the "Old Folks' Diet".
He's losing weight because he's losing his mind.
And he is as slim as his chances of winning.
watch sawa's reaction. hilarious.
"Fellow prisoners?! Wha?... Oh, goody, oh goody, oh goody! I can see the guys out in the hall with the straight jackets and the thorazine! This means I'll get to be the candidate and every patriotic American will vote for ME!!!!! (And Todd). Rev. Muthee was right! He HAS made me a way to be president so I can lead all the evil doer Obama supporters into the end times! Praise the Lord!!! John McCain has LOST IT!!!!!!"
That's what he gets for not choosing Lieberman.
Ol' Joe would have leaned in and whispered a correction in his ear.
Sarah just stands there.
LOL!!!
..like McSame sometimes lets the truth slip out.
http://theprogressivepost.blogspot.com/2008/1...
Calling us prisoners is the first bit of straight talk I've heard from McCain in a while.
We're all prisoners of a right-wing free-market theocratic nightmare.
Yeah...but we gets lotsa cheap stuff from China!
Finally Sen. Mccain speaks the truth ..
Finally Sen. Mccain speaks the truth ..
Not yet, thank the Almighty. Only if you get more Bush-league human rights reductions passed like the kind you used to oppose before you wanted to get elected.
McCain Went on to Explain How His POW Experience Would Shape His Presidency
http://satiricalpolitical.com/?p=2937
WTF? My Fellow Prisoners? Has McCain totally gone over the edge now?
OMG....OMG....He does have PTSD! Now we know for sure.
WOW.
This just keeps getting better and better.
McCain is acknowledging what living under a McCain/Palin administration would be like.
POW flashback?
But then I just laughed and I laughed.
We are prisoners, in a sense. We are property of the US Government. Our sole purpose in this land is the serve the interests of the upper class and their corporations. We are also here to fill the tax coiffeurs with gold. That is all that matters to them. If you don't believe me, try and renounce your citizenship and move elsewhere. See what the conditions are.
Yeah, he definitely has dementia, but that wasn't a gaffe.
we are all prisioners of the last 8 years...
And sadly, he didn't even catch his mistake. He is as bad as bush.
...I noticed a similarity there as well. He seems to pause in anticipation of a thunderous ovation for no more than forming and delivering a complete sentence.
I'll grant him that his sentences are a tad more complex and coherent than those proffered by our current f%^ktard in chief, but it terms of substance, they are almost twins.
I honestly can't understand why anyone with a brain would support this punch line of a man.
Oh... 'with a brain'... nevermind...
saw tailend of this speech. meghan mccain looked so pained and uncomfortable. she looked like she didnt want to be there.
Oooh...ohhhh...I want to be Number 6!!
I am a free man! Hahahahah...
Not according to Bush and his buddies.
What would Freud say?
Sometimes a cigar is a big fat phallic symbol...
A question from the press core indicated that Paulson's Plan already had in it the bailout of home mortgages and Paulson just confirmed it.
Besides, it was in Obama's Plan two weeks ago. John McCain once again shows his recklessness in trying to hitch hike on everything that comes down the pike....and claim credit for it.
Hank Paulson just put McCain's Resurgence Plan to bed once and for all.
It was Paulson/Congress's plan which, BTW, Obama had itemized in his 4 point plan which Congress adopted a week ago.
Obama had this in his plan two weeks ago.
ahahahah! McGambler loses again!
Helluva Freudian slip. Perhaps he's having flashbacks to Viet Nam. Perhaps he feels himself imprisoned by the deep ruts in the low-road he's chosen to finish off this campaign. Either way, he's not thinking clearly and not focused on his outgoing message to voters. Most likely more focused on his own inner turmoil.
He's gonna make Obama a prisoner too?
This is just spooky...
That'll be Grandpa's Freudian slip for Obama.
And even if you substitute Americans for Prisoners, it still doesn't make a lot of sense.
Has nobody made the reference to a "captured audience" yet?
Heyyy-oooooooo! (bike horn, cymbal crash)
Also note the word "clarity" was ironically timed to fall out of his mouth immediately after.
Scary as a heart attack or a case of malignant melanoma!!
If he can't handle the rigors of a 1.5 hour debate without being able to control his demons, imagine him in a crisis, where many, many lives are at stake. Will he capitulate to the aggressors in return for safe haven for himself and his family?
This guy and his end-times-loony-one-heartbeat-away eye candy are an obscene joke perpetrated on our country by the thieving, murdering Republican Party.
I don't think that they have any intention of allowing a free election. Why start now after eight years of rule by "The Party?"
I don't call this eye candy sitting under a pound of pancake make-up and fake wigs, do you?
I'll say it again: beauty is only skin deep but ugly goes all the way to the bone.
I mean "eye candy" in the Republican sense. Pancake makeup you say?
I thought it was bondo.
aw shucks and golly gee - say it ain't so schmoe! But alas and alak, 'tis!
Hank Paulson just made McCain's Resurgence Plan another comic sound byte, folks.
Hank Paulson was asked specifically if the buying of home mortgages was part of "McCain's plan" or if it was already adopted previously in the original plan (which was Obama's 4 point plan)....
Paulson left no doubt that it was already in the plan and that it would be implemented as time goes along. He never gave credit for it to McCain because, as we all know he was AWOL during the negotiations...sitting there like a mute - making a big splash about suspending his campaign.
So the key point in McCain's speech last night and today's stump talk is, once again, another attempt to take personal credit for something he hasn't done.
This is and has been part of the Paulson Plan which also had all of Obama's requirements bundled into it.
There is and never was a real "McCain Resurgence Plan". Once again, he lied.
Nobody laughs.
Yup, the food's bad. You get nothing for hard labor. And the infirmary will kill you.
I'd welcome some real flatulence as a sign that this man has human blood coursing through his veins.
The daily and constant "brain farts" are what's killing him - from the inside out - called "mets to the brain" from his incurable and Stage 3B Invasive melanoma.
Check out Americablog from earlier in the day, if you haven't already, for one of the meds he's taking in addition to whatever he's being perscribed (or just taking out of Cindy's purse). Ablog's been all over McCain's physical problems in recent days.
But taking junk dreamed up by a steroid-junky ex-football maniac is asking for a stroke before the election.
McInsane farting wouldn't prove he has blood coursing through his veins. It could simply be outgassing from the rot occurring in his still-animated corpse.
"My fellow zombie bigots"
Was it the zombie who was wrapped in bandages and walked around stiff-legged? I think I got my monsters mixed up??
I think you are thinking of the Mummy
Biden said epitaph instead of epithet this morning when discussing the recent Republican campaign rallies. Not nearly as bad as this one. Wow.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/27081...
Biden video on Today Show
Note at the end that Palin was also invited on the show, but declined.
... is toast
That poor bastard. Reminds me of Bob Dole in '96 when the RNC had thouroughly beaten the fun out of him towards the end. I suppose McCain would seem more like a maverick if he didn't let the RNC (and Rove) call the shots.
On the bright side, there's probably plenty of money for McCain in Viagra endorsements post-election.
Cindy gets photographed with a real smile for a change.
Collagen doesn't do it for ya'?
I've heard he's already signed onto Big Pharma; specifically to replace Bob Dole in the ED commercials. Actually I thought he might break into one last night with all that pacing around....like a geriatric bull who lost his gonads.
At this point in his fossilization process, not even Viagra could bring life back to his wizened, dried up old stick.
Wizened? Who are you talking about? I don't know any Republican candidates whom that adjective would apply to.
wizened means withered or shriveled not anything to do with wise.
First we were all Georgians and now we are all prisoners. Wonder what we will all be tomorrow.
Probably part of the fossil record.
My fellow fossils....kind'a works don't it?
David Brooks: Sarah Palin represents a fatal cancer to the Republican party. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/08/davi...
I'm just loving that the right is criticizing Palin in such an upfront way. Lovin' every minute of it.
David Brooks was such a sexist bastard.
* DEMENTIA *
I wrote McCain off a long time ago. Now in light of the recent debates, his continuing errors, and his choice of a bimbo for a running mate, He remains non-entity. The real enemy is not mccain and his threat to obama in the election. the real threat is the economy. each day we sink a little lower into oblivion and the legacy of GW becomes more and more a reality. It's truly ironic that the only thing Gw will have been successful at is his vow to bring the country down. He a few DOW ticks from doing just that. Will Obama have enough smarts to counter once he gets into office. that's a good question. i hope he does, but given the task, can anyone right this sinking titanic. There has to be a way in the legal system to oust GW before he allowed to wreak any more havoc. Pelois, off the table, knows it must be through impeachment followed by a trial and eventual incarceration. Ingratiate yourself to us, nancy, and go for it.
It's one or the other. He is either beginning to have flashbacks on his Vietnam holiday (where he signed confessions and collaborated) or we are seeing the solid signs of dementia coming through the desperate attempts to chemically suppress them.
This guy's marbles are cooked.
So are Palin's, making this a very well meshed ticket.
Don't tell me he knows how we feel. He was faking it, pretending to be one of us.
Won't work, John Boy. We already know you aren't
Epic FAIL!
I mean, it's clearly a flub, but still. LOL
But he didn't realize he said it and that's the scary part
"John, can you hear me? What's your name John? John, do you know where you are?" - McPain's Aides
The man remains a captive to his own unrbidled greed.
In his addled, geriatric exhaustion, in the wake of another tiring battle royale with "That One", Senator McLame accidentally lets a piece of actual truth flutter into his brain from somewhere deep out of the collective unconscious and fly out his tormented, lizard-like, shapeshifting piehole. Angels, demons, gnomes, fairies and extradimensional entities of all types dance, rejoice and celebrate the brief cosmic accident, captured on video for our inspection. Meanwhile the prisoners prepare to take the Presidential Pepsi Challenge, choosing which brand of sweet fizzy-water they will be allowed to swill for the next four years of their inevitable march toward the soup lines and FEMA detention camps.
It wasn't a mistake. Contextually, given his campaign, it was a reinforcement of his attempts to ingratiate himself with the American public.
If you think it was a flub, you're a fucking moron blinded by the same idiocy as those on the other side of the fence. You were just raised and socialized differently.
Lost his marbles.
Next up: losing his temper again.
Then: losing the election.
Such a creep ...
I enjoy every second of this bitter old man, his thug-bitch's along with their hate spewing, exclusive party's demise. This Nation would be a better place without them.
I can't tell if this is an edit or not...
I highly recommend that everyone read an article in the current issue of Rolling Stone...."Make Believe Maverick"
The article outlines his career in the Navy, the 5 years he spent as a POW along with 600 other fellow soldiers. His numerous plane crashes, his whoring around not to mention his need to please father and grandfather. How he dumped his wife and married the beer heiress, her drug addiction, the Keating 5 and even how Reagan actually stopped having anything to do with him after he left his wife who was paralyzed. And then there is his inner circle. The same men who obliterated him in 2000 and are now navigating his potential win for the White House. There is nothing Maverick about McCain. He is a self serving narcissist always has been and always will be.
Straight Talk Express
How do you even make this mistake? "My fellow people" doesn't sound right.
maybe "my fellow pensioners?"
I guess he will have to say anything to try to connect with us.
Funny.
maybe someone told him that he used the phrase "my friends" way too much and he slipped up and said something else. He does seem to be losing some of his cognitive abilities.
Does he lose his Senate seat this election too? Is he completely out of politics when he loses this Nov?
During the debate I almost felt like reaching inside my teevee and shaking McCain's fuzzy little head after hearing "my friend" issuing from that guy for what felt like a hundred times...
Stating "My friend" over and over again the way McCain does sounds like a circus side show snake-oil salesman would say to get you to buy their elixir...
Ok...not an image I needed.
well then I'd turn off the CSPAN cause nothing you can imagine can compare to seeing it. And let me tell you that's still nothing compared with being there. When I worked up there quite a few years ago those wizened old men were leches. I got my bum patted a lot. Blech!
What is it? .... nails being driven into what's left of the mcpain campaign.
Is someone under so much stress that he is begining to have Viet Nam flashbacks?
My step dad, whom I loved dearly had massive short term memory loss because of extreme lack of blood flow to his brain. He had many mini strokes, and blockage in his heart. He refused to have open heart surgery.....(for many years).. until he had no other choice. The good thing was, he forgot all about the surgery almost instantly. Long story short..... when I first noticed his memory loss, he was giving someone his address. He didn't forget his current address, but was giving an address from 40 years ago. That was the first sign I saw. Eventually he couldn't remember what he was doing 5 minutes ago.... but at the same time could tell you in detail about his time in the army, being a Merchant Marine, or talking about stories when he was a kid in 1935! There is something definitely going on with McCain.
Palin's reaction says it all. She is thinking oh my god he is doing it in public! McInSane's slip is a sign of dementia. He is not in the here and now, he is time traveling in his head. I read on another site that McInSane is taking a natural supplement to increase his energy and his memory. It is a supplement that is used for people suffering from dementia and alzhiemers. Romanaski, from the Denver Broncos, peddles it and he has admitted that McInSane is taking it.
"My fellow prisoners"
That about sums it up...
does anyone else have this video up? I tried here and on youtube and in both places it plays for 3 seconds without sound and then freezes.
Try going over to Daily Kos, they have the video up
Cheers POP, but it's also YouTube based and not working for me. Guess I'll either have to wait until I get home or for KO to put it up tonight. He can't miss this one. ;)
They don't call him Alzheimer McSame for nothing.
John, your Freudian slip is showing!
Has he reached Heart of Darkness levels? Hanoi Hilton slip? This is beyond a gaffe. This down right scary.
Whether it was a flubbed metaphor, a quote out of context, or a Freudian slip, we are all prisoners of John McCain's war now. Indeed to hear him elsewhere talking feverishly about his war-winning prowess, one might imagine a McCain administration's wars as mass market productions rather than the boutique wars of the Bush and Clinton eras. How will he justify his wars? Well, dontcha know he was chosen by the greatest people in the world and to question his judgment is to question their judgment, and besides... 9/11... POW. How will he pay for his wars? Apparently by buying up all the defaulted mortgages in the US and cutting taxes. Perhaps some rethink is needed on that last bit.
She has sang and nobody listened.
By by POW Maverick guy and stupid incompetent running mate!
Oops, that's bye-bye! I must have McLame disease..
Finally, McLiar says something honest, albeit by mistake. "Fellow Prisoners": that's going to be an apt description for American
citizenssubjects, thanks in no small part to McCain's complicity in turning this country into a totalitarian police state.Jesus, but I wish that corrupt old douchebag would just go home. He's done enough harm to this country.
I enjoy every second of this
Wed, 10/08/2008 - 13:03 — Left&Left (not verified)
I enjoy every second of this bitter old man, his thug-bitch's along with their hate spewing, exclusive party's demise. This Nation would be a better place without them.
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You do realize your statement is internally inconsistant don't'cha?
Kind of like me this morning, after having a gulp of hooch everytime mcgramps said my friends. I was drunk before I knew it.
)O(
John, your Freudian slip is
Wed, 10/08/2008 - 14:02 — Radian (not verified)
John, your Freudian slip is showing!
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Ooh...la la...faux pas.
)O(
The wheels on the bus go round and round.....
For months, it's been bugging me:
WHO DOES CINDY McCAIN REMIND ME OF???
Then it came to me:
Cindy McCain = the adult version of Jon-Benet Ramsey!
If poor Jon-Benet was alive, her worse fate would be to grow up
and become someone as vile and narcissistic as Cindy Lou McCain.
Maybe not in the same high-priced couture, but certainly as
tarted up and spouting the same kind of faux concern.
Oh yeah, another thing:
Did anyone else today hear some Joe Sixpack yell out
"You're hot!" when Palin was about to intro McLame?
I have always thought of her as one of the Stepford Wives. A little too plastic.
A rare honest moment from Mr. Keating Five
I was pretty miffed about her intro and her "cold chill through her body" comment about Sen. Obama's vote against funding the troops. This is a bunch of hypocrisy when Johnnie also voted against a fund the troops bill when it included a provision re: timelines for withdrawal. Did a "cold chill run through her body" then??
During the next debate I think Sen. Obama should make the statement "If you are happy with the last eight years then you should vote for Sen. McCain, if not then vote for me" and walk off the stage. How much simpler can you make it. I can't understand the high number of undecideds right now, what are they waiting for???
They're waiting for the day that they'll be able to cast their vote in the privacy of a booth. Where, you see, they won't have to apologize to anyone but themselves for their racism.
sent a cold chill through my body? How could Snake Eyes tell...aren't reptiles cold blooded?
The look on Palin's face behind him was priceless.
"My fellow prisoners..."
Oh my god, he won?!? NOOOOOOOO!!!
Here's an extended version of the video. It not only provides the context, but also some more nastiness.
At the end, the rally participants begin chanting "NO-BAMA!" So, (a) not only are they not chanting McCain, and are only shouting down Obama, but (b) they're too stupid to realize that plenty of people will not be able to understand their portmanteau, and mistake their chants as support for Barack.
:)
Damn that blonde in the back ground sure has some huge hooters, lol. I Wonder if McGoo gave those puppies a squeeze when wify wasn't looking, hehe.
I'm pretty sure that's his daughter.
You, sir, are a chauvinistic, politically ignorant, sexually perverted animal. To refer to any part of the female anatomy as “hooters” is to take away all women's dignity and rights as a human beings!
They are called TaTas, and yes, they were GINORMOUS!
I don't think a restaurant called TaTas would succeed, even if the food were good. Hooters, on the other hand, has its own airline, I think. And, hey, it gives a lot of women jobs. ;)
I ordered TaTaas at Hooters - they weren't nearly as delicious as the Hooters at TaTaas. Multiplicative deliciousity were they...
Bad moment for PTSD induced flashback.
He's just got that Post stress thing, ... you know - PFFSSTTTD or whatever ... Shell Shock & Awed from gettin' POWed in the Nam.
See, this is the very reason that Screech, the Hostess Twinkie of the North doesn't read the Washington Post....Coot is obviously suffering from Washington Post Traumatic Stress Diss-Order("W"PTSD)...26 years of reading that Fascist rag masquerading as a Newspaper will do that to you...and, also
"Thank you Ladies and Germs!"
Unbelievable......and that's even considering all the stupid things he has said previous to this. I mean, let's just have some fun here and decide to base the election on ONLY the ability to string together a single sentence without sounding like an imcompetent imbecile.
The Republicans have given us 8 years of that winning formula, and now want to extend another 4. Congrats to America if they vote this lunatic into office to continue the trend.
This kind of behavoiour, along with his droopy eye, are all indicative that's he's had a stroke, or several small strokes, recently. I witnessed this happen to my grandmother.
and was just expressing that he understands how people feel when they *have* to listen to him speak and ramble on and on about god only knows what...
I know I felt like a prisoner during last night's debate...
This guy is not fit to be president.
in an old prison flick 'I've had enough of this slop. I'm breakin' out!"
Hey Obama you with me?
This clip is truly one of the lol funniest and oddest things I've ever seen!
having flashbacks to Nam are we?
He's neither qualified nor fit to serve as commander-in-chief.
buhbye mclosealot
Some are still Georgians, but we are ALL Prisoners of "W"! Debt Slavery-Chains we can believe in...
It's so good to hear that McCain understands the virtues of clarity.
At least, I think that's what I heard... but he may have meant clamcakes.
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