John McCain breaks promise of sticking to issues and not relying on sleazy politics: He will not stop the Robo Calls
By John Amato Sunday Oct 19, 2008 10:31am
Chris Wallace played the sickening Bill Ayers robo calls and insists he will continue the political strategies that he said he would never use. Wallace even brought up a Bill O'Reilly clip of him saying his campaign would not be about Ayers, but about issues that are so important to this great country.
WALLACE: But Senator, back — if I may, back in 2000 when you were the target of robo calls, you called these hate calls and you said...
MCCAIN: They worked.
WALLACE: ... and you said the following, "I promise you, I have never and will never have anything to do with that kind of political tactic."
Now you've hired the same guy who did the robo calls against you to — reportedly, to do the robo calls against Obama and the Republican Senator Susan Collins, the co-chair of your campaign in Maine, has asked you to stop the robo calls. Will you do that?
MCCAIN: Of course not.
McCain only hates things when they are targeted at him. These robo calls are vital to his campaign and are all he has left. We know the kind of man he is when his back is against the wall and he turns to the Lee Atwater politics of personal destruction. John McCain employs his usual tactic of filibustering Wallace whenever he brought up a tough question for him and said that he would not even listen to Rep. Susan Collins, who asked McCain to stop using those horrible robo calls.
LA Times:
Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins, facing a tough reelection fight, urged GOP presidential contender John McCain on Friday to stop making automated calls into her state linking Democratic nominee Barack Obama to a 1960s radical.
"These kind of tactics have no place in Maine politics," said Collins' spokesman, Kevin Kelley. "Sen. Collins urges the McCain campaign to stop these calls immediately.
Even the odious Norm Coleman asks them to stop. McCain, have you no decency?
Sen. Norm Coleman (R-MN), who called for pulling all of his negative advertising Oct. 10 (though the NRSC was running anti-Franken ads), has called now for all "attack ads and phones calls" to be pulled across the country, including robo-calls paid for by the Republican National Committee. "It's time for all of these attacks to end," Coleman said, per a release, during his Obama-sounding "Hope Express Tour."
NARRATOR: You need to know that Barack Obama has worked closely with domestic terrorist Bill Ayres, whose organization bombed the U.S. Capitol, the Pentagon, a judge's home and killed Americans.
(END AUDIO CLIP)
WALLACE: Senator, back in 2000...
MCCAIN: That is absolutely true.
WALLACE: Can I ask the question?
MCCAIN: No, no. But before you do, that is absolutely true. And I don't care about Mr. Ayres, and old — and his wife, who was on the top 10 most wanted list. I care about everybody knowing the relationship between the two of them. That's legitimate.
Senator Obama and Bill Ayres served on a board of the Woods Foundation and they gave $230,000 to ACORN. What's that all about? He said that he was just a guy in the neighborhood.
He wasn't just a guy in the neighborhood. We know — we need to know the full extent of that relationship. That is an accurate robo call.
WALLACE: But Senator, back — if I may, back in 2000 when you were the target of robo calls, you called these hate calls and you said...
MCCAIN: They worked.
WALLACE: ... and you said the following, "I promise you, I have never and will never have anything to do with that kind of political tactic."
Now you've hired the same guy who did the robo calls against you to — reportedly, to do the robo calls against Obama and the Republican Senator Susan Collins, the co-chair of your campaign in Maine, has asked you to stop the robo calls. Will you do that?
MCCAIN: Of course not. These are legitimate and truthful, and they are far different than the phone calls that were made about my family and about certain aspects that — things that this is — this is dramatically different, and either you haven't — didn't see those things in 2000...
WALLACE: No, I saw them.
MCCAIN: ... or you don't know the difference between that and what is a legitimate issue, and that is Senator Obama being truthful with the American people.
But let me tell you what else I think you should be talking about and the American people should be talking about. In the debate the other night, I asked Senator Obama to repudiate a statement made by John Lewis, a man I admire and respect and have written about, that connected me and Sarah Palin...
WALLACE: This is the congressman and civil rights leader.
MCCAIN: Civil rights leader, American hero — that connected me and Sarah Palin to segregationists, to the campaign of George Wallace, and even alluded to the bombing of a church where four children — four children — were killed. And I asked him to repudiate that statement.
I have repudiated every statement made by any fringe person in the Republican Party. And it has come up from time to time, and it probably will. The fact that Senator Obama would not repudiate that statement, I think, is something the American people will make a judgment about.
That robo call is accurate — is totally accurate. And there is no comparison between it and the things that were done and said in South Carolina.
WALLACE: I want to ask you about William Ayres. Last may, Bill O'Reilly asked you about Ayres and also about Reverend Jeremiah Wright. And here's what you had to say. Let's watch.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
MCCAIN: This campaign is not going to be about — in all due respect, about Reverend Wright or Mr. Ayres. It's going to be about vision. It's going to be about a plan of action, for the American people are hurting right now.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
WALLACE: But, Senator...
MCCAIN: And that's exactly — and that's exactly what the campaign is about.
WALLACE: Senator, let me ask the question.
MCCAIN: Yeah, sure.
WALLACE: But, Senator, according to a New York Times poll this week — and let's put it up on the screen — there you can see it — 62 percent of independents now think you're spending more time attacking Obama than explaining what you would do as president.
Haven't you gone on the attack against Ayres because you're behind?
MCCAIN: Facts are stubborn things. Senator Obama has spent more money on attack ads against me than any campaign in history.
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McCain was creepy again on FOX. He wouldn't even let Wallace get the questions out before he answered with certitude that his course was the correct one. Certifiable indeed.
With every day, McCain reminds me more and more of Ed Begley's character (Juror #10) in "Twelve Angry Men".
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050083/quotes
FAUX is like Lee Cobb standing up to turn their back on him.
Now all we need is an E.G. Marshall to tell McCain to sit down and shut up.
McCain admits he's using these robocalls because "they worked" and he's hoping they work again. He should keep in mind that they worked in 2000 in a Republican primary in South Carolina. Countrywide with the entire populace, probably not so much.
Can't win on the issues then he'll try to win in the gutter. Way to go J. Sidney McCain!!! You are the personification of honor and truth in politics. Hope you enjoy the rest of your short political career.
where do they keep pulling out the "Obama has spent more on negative ads" talking point out of?
"where do they keep pulling out the "Obama has spent more on negative ads" talking point out of?"
Do you really want to know?
Lets say that I hope they wash their hands afterward....
I imagine he has spent more on "negative ads" for several reasons.
1. McCain calls ads that are against his campaign issues negative though they have not been personal attacks like McCain's
2. Obama has had a lot more money to spend on ads of all kinds.
3. The percentage of the campaign ads that are negative (mentioning the other candidate) is NEAR 100% for McCain, and I believe about 40% is the highest I've seen for Obama.
The bottom line is if McCain had $10 about $9 would have been spent negatively attacking Obama and Obama outspending 4-1, $40, would have spent $10 if he ran 40% construed as negative.
Personally since Obama does not address McCain's personal past which is not squeaky clean, I don't see ads against the issues at hand as "negative" but then I am looking forward to an Obama presidency which I expect to be hugely different than the last 8 yrs of the worst President in history.
What John McCain suffered through in Vietnam as a POW is unimaginable and honorable, but something needs to be said about the man today:
John McCain is a COWARD. He has utterly refused to put his "Country First" and has fallen back on every disgusting, dishonorable, shameful political tactic his advisors can come up with to try to salvage a victory against Obama.
The fact that McCain has embraced ALL of the people responsible for smearing him in 2000 leads me to conclude that the man has no spine. I fear for an America where this man is the president and Sarah Palin is one heartbeat away.
John McCain has demonstrated poor judgment, erratic reactions to the unforeseen and worst of all, sheer dishonesty. Keep this man as far from the White House as possible.
Hey Arizona...while you're at it, vote him out of the Senate, too. Kthxbye.
you heard what he said during the debates about his standing up for what's right and going against his party when he thought that what they were doing was wrong. Here in my home state, all I ever see are negative ads approved by Barack Obama about John McCain. I am really tired of those ads. And I wonder if you and I are talking about the same man when you refer to John McCain as a man who does not put his country first (Now, where did that come from and what makes you say that!!??) with no spine who has poor judgment and erratic reactions to the unforeseen (huh?) and who has been dishonest. And your implication about Sarah Palin. If she were a Democrat, a liberal and an outspoken feminist, would you say the same thing? I highly doubt it. I actually admire Barack Obama as a person, and if he were a Republican, he'd have a far better chance of getting my vote, although his lack of experience does concern me, a lot. I also like the way Joe Biden came across during the debate. But the problem is that they are Democrats and I do not agree with their ideology. There are things that are questionable about Mr. Obama's involvement with ACORN and that has to do with money. The fact checker after the debate said that he did not tell the entire truth about his involvement with them. And as for Mr. Ayers--I'm not really sure what to think about his association with a former 60s radical who was once a Weatherman. At any rate, I am a born-again follower of Christ, first and foremost, as well a Conservative and that is why I will be voting for John McCain. I just wonder what prompts you to make the statements you do--from what specific, substantiated instances that are without spin that have occurred do your conclusions arise?
So, he's defending the calls because "they work" and saying he won't pull them, but his campaign is all about the economy? right, I'm buying it, just like I'm believing that Joe the nonPlumber who makes $40,000/year is going to create jobs and save America.
Finally, he's lying when he said he repudiated every nasty thing said about Obama--he didn't repudiate the VA GOP president who compared Osama Bin Laden to Obama, he said he needed context. Why does no one call him on that LIE?
...you can see the scornful desperation in his expressions.
I can't wait to give this clown the one finger salute when he sets into the sunset in 2 short weeks.
Um...economy is a trashy mess, with more to come. People are losing their jobs and homes. Where the hell are all these donations coming from if Americans are hurting so much? Choice boils down to paying mortgage or donating to one of the major political parties, and yet new contribution records are set every month? Who is donating this? Who has all this money?
But most of us are still *basically* OK, the financial meltdown isn't having an immediate effect on everyone (check back in a month or 2 though!) I'm considering my donations an investment of my future. People are desperate for change & $$ is the only way to change that. One month I couldn't pay my cell phone bill because I gave so much to Obama's campaign. Also, many people who never have donated to campaigns for have this time (several friends I know of & comments on blogs).
I think people are doing without so they can afford to donate - it's that important for us this time.
That's my answer too. I've never donated to a political campaign before, but I'm giving what I can as an investment in our future. It really is that important.
Although I haven't donated to the Obama campaign it's the same thing for me. I've never donated before to political campaigns, I'm not well off finacially and behind a few months on some important bills, but still donated some small amounts to several progressive Congressional candidates. I think a lot of working Americans are letting a few bills and/or monthly spending items go by in order to invest in a better future. Too much at stake these days not to!
and my 401K have been totally plundered but thankfully I still have a job and a home, so the economic impact for me is on paper (for now). So I have contributed small amounts to the Obama campaign, as well as to the Democratic candidate running against Michelle Bachmann (even though I am in IL).
I suspect there are millions of people giving small amounts to Obama like me, so he is setting records.
I think Coleman saw the "he's an Arab" clip from the woman from Lakeville MN and had the bejebbies scared out of him. His party is helping to create a violence in this country that could end whatever it is that was ever good. He is, although he doesn't like to admit it, fairly liberal. He's just an opportunist.
Seriously, is there anyone, aside from the Repukelican "base" that can't see the unadultered lies spewing forth from McSame's mouth?
I used to respect John McCain, thinking he was a half way "decent" Republican. No more.
I really, really hope he loses in a huge landslide because of this negative campaigning.
The landslide we all want is not going to happen. Short of McCain being caught on tape admitting that his position on abortion is complete bullshit... the right is going to turn out enough zombies to make this thing at least vaguely competitive.
at all appreciative of being referred to as a "zombie". That is not really a very intelligent statement to make, neither does it do much to further the cause of the Democrats. I am a person who really thinks about things and that is why I would not retaliate by calling anyone on the so-called "left" a derogatory name; neither does it honor or bring glory to God for me to do so.
The only concern that might bother him a little is that there might be some discord after Diebold and dirty tricks hand him the election.
There has been plenty of evidence that the last two presidential elections were seriously rigged - and very little outcry.
It can happen again. Tell all of your friends and neighbors. It never happens to someone voting for a republican.
http://www.wvgazette.com/News/200810170676
How can you say that about me? I can't believe you could say that. What makes you say such a horrible thing? It's just unbelievable that you could think something like that about me. I don't know where you get that kind of information.
etc....etc....
Grampy McFuckup is toast.
LOL!!
Here - enjoy :)
Now...just think of the damage John McCain can do around the world. He is a ball of fire rolling through a field of grain.
John McCain has been one hell of an effective U.S. Senator.
what a shame that his legacy will be this caustic campaign.
what a shame!
I used to hate what Bush, Chaney and Rove did to McCain. It was so slimy, base, junior high. It was just so uneducated, unsophisticated, trashy. That loved child stuff. Ick. McCain was a victim.
And he's willing to do the same thing? He's willing to let his party do the same thing? That tells me a whole lot about what his character really is. I don't need to hear about his POW days. The McCain I need to know about is right in front of me.
McCain has not only done the same thing, he's hired the SAME PEOPLE to do it. That's what makes it 100 times worse.
This shit he's doing is rubbing off on the other Republicans and they want it stopped.
This crazy old man is just plain dangerous. Just because something "works" that doesn't make it right. I'm surprised he didn't bring up the ten town hall meetings he wanted to have with Obama. Obama's refusal to do those has been his excuse for all the other dirty crap he's pulled.
The best reply to that nonsense was Colbert: If only Tina Turner had agreed to the town hall meetings Ike wanted to hold . . .
It's the standard excuse offered up by bullies and abusers: I wouldn't beat you if you'd just do what I tell you.
Of course, the irony here is that when Obama did meet McCain in a town hall, he cleaned his clock.
thanks to Karl Rovian devisive and racist hate crime tactics.
Here is the nail in grumpy mcbush's campaign coffin
Meet The Press: Colin Powell Endorses Barack Obama
By Logan Murphy Sunday Oct 19, 2008 9:00am
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell appeared on Meet The Press today and as expected, he endorsed Democrat Barack Obama. Powell didn't just endorse Obama, he scolded John McCain for his scurrilous campaign tactics and his purely political choice of the highly unqualified Sarah Palin as his running mate.
“I don’t believe [Palin] is ready to be president of the United States,” Powell said flatly. By contrast, Obama’s running mate, Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware, “is ready to be president on day one.”
As with other Republicans this campaign season, Powell voiced great concern about the far right turn the Republican Party has taken which is leading to it's demise.
“I truly believe that at this point in America’s history we need a president who will not just continue ... basically the policies we have followed in recent years,” “We need a president with transformational qualities.” For that reason, he said, “I will be voting for Barack Obama.” Read on...
Powell's endorsement will have little effect on Democrats, but he is an icon of the Republican Party -- which is where the true impact of this endorsement lies.
Tags: Barack Obama, Colin Powell, Endorsements, John McCain, Republican Party
Watch the video, read the Comments
http://crooksandliars.com/logan-murphy/meet-p...
I don't think Colin Powell endorsed Barack Obama... sounds to me like he endorsed Joe Biden.
Some on the right have called Obama the anti-christ.
McCain is proving that he is the anti-class.
I have also heard this Obama=antichrist business, and my response is that they might as well vote for Obama so that the antichrist can take over and we can get that rapture we've all been waiting for.
Maybe someone should ask some of these zombies what it says about our Justice system and law enforcement apparatus, and the Bush Administration in particular, that they are allowing the anti-christ to campaign unimpeded for the presidency. That is, if they honestly believe that he is.
And besides, doesn't fundamentalist christian doctrine state that the anti-christ is going to be a Jew born in Europe?
I mean, not that sticking to any sort of beliefs has ever been important to Republicans when it comes to gaining power.
McCain is only using these robocalls because Obama said no to his town hall debates - if Obama asks him to stop smearing him with robocalls who knows what the next step will be! One guess is actual feces throwing!
This man has sold his soul for a chance to win (and not a good chance either): http://brainrageblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/bli...
From the third debate transcript in answer to McCain's bringing up Lewis and Obama not repudiating him.
Obama - "...I do think that he inappropriately drew a comparison between what was happening there and what had happened during the civil rights movement, and we immediately put out a statement saying that we don't think that comparison is appropriate."
So it isn't a repudiation if you don't use the word 'repudiate' in your statement? McCain's desperation is palpable.
These calls are completely different! Those other hate calls were about ME, and these are about my opponent! See? Totally different!
John McCain's hypocrisy infuriates me. But by the time it's all said and done, I kind of feel sorry for him. What a sad way to be remembered.
hatred, lies, and racism is not to be pitied but derided. McCain deserves heaps of scorn for his behavior.
WALLACE: But Senator, back — if I may, back in 2000 when you were the target of robo calls, you called these hate calls and you said...
MCCAIN: They worked.
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"They worked." That's all John Syndey McCain cares about. Truth and objective reality and ethics be damned.
AND he's asked and answers this question on FOX-News/RepublicanPropagandaChannel!
If THIS doesn't reveal the absolute cynicism fueling the McCain machine and agenda, then what will?
I think he said "they were", not "they worked".
People are finally getting to see what drives McCain and what his core truly is. No one who has a strong core of convictions would allow themselves to be turned into the complete opposite of what they truly are.
Truth is, history shows that McCain has never had a strong core to himself, his history in the Navy was a small blot of complete failure, salvaged only by his direct connection to power through his father and grandfather's high military positions.
The man was a failure and a mindless, privileged party boy in naval academy (fifth from bottom in graduate lineup), was a screw-up who downed five planes in training and in actual service, whose "suffering" at the hands of the North Vietnamese is highly questionable and who has proven over and over again to be nothing more than an upper class manipulative privileged son with no real talent or shining intelligence; just sheer hunger for power and privilege and little compass to tell him when he's stepped over the line and thus should stop.
Also, his facial tics indicate possible tardive dyskinesia, as a result of long term use of older psychotropic drugs.
The man is a minefield of hazard and is self destruction is long overdue.
Can someone tell me who Willam Ayers and the weathermen have killed, other then themselves? From my researched the only bomb they made that went off was when it blew up 2 or 3 of their own members by accident. They don't seem that effective as terrorist.
Now, John McCain. He has actually dropped bombs on people. Mostley civilians. So technically he's killed more people than Bill Ayers.
I'm not a weatherman supporter BTW. But facts are facts
They are bullshitting us. They just want an excuse to run against themselves.
I can feel in my bones -- please no puns. This will be the undoing of the John McCain campaign. There is not enough support from his own Party to keep this kind of attack politics going.
Also, this shit about Joe the Plumber will crash and burn into scandal when the ties to the Keating family comes out. Can you imagine how much that is going to hurt the McCain efforts? Lets see, his VP has been officially charge with unethical behavior, he' s stood behind something he said he would not do, and now, with a few choice polls, he claiming a comeback and victory. Get a life John McCain. A truthful life.
Joseph
The election is slipping away...and with it whatever remained of John McCain's integrity, honesty, values and sense of morality.
He hss truly become a pathetic, angry old man.
The very best part of this is that it happened on FOX. If there are any decent regular fox viewers, they had to be alarmed by what McCain said. Had any other Sunday show talked to him like that it would just be considered part of the "liberal" media.
Before we go to far and give Fox any credit... they're only doing what any gang-banger, mafioso, etc., worth their weight in salt does... know when it's time to get the fuck off a sinking ship, so that you don't go down with it and can live another day to... in this case to smear, propagandize and generally lay waste to decency and fairness in American politics.
I don't think I can express how sad watching this video has made me. I think McCain truly believed every word he said there. I think he has become a complete shell of a person and this campaign, and the loss of this election is destroying his mind.
After watching this, all I feel is sadness, remembering the honorable moderate I once thought he was.
Fucking politics...
McCain has been swept over to the dark-side. He's like any run-of-the-mill gang-banger, drug dealer, racketeer, mafia-thug or thief... that is, they live that way for so long, with so little motivation to act differently, that they actually start believing slowly that getting through life that way is morally correct... and then after a while they get so hardened to it that their brains literally cannot comprehend acting any differently, let alone seeing the point of acting differently.
baby jesus sometimes hears robo prayers and never answers
That must be why I get a busy signal when I try to dial you up.
This all sounds like "who stole the strawberries". Captain Queeg...The Caine "McCain" Mutiny.
Lynching "worked" too, Mr. McCain. Is that next?
Don't give him any ideas. The old coot is crazy enough. I feel no sympathy for him at all. He's not old and stupid, he's old and mean. The last fu*king thing we need now is an old angry mean man in the oval office with a goof ball woman in the veep's office.
With the ugly turn he's taking in his campaign, I wonder if McCain is giving any thought to the atmosphere he's creating if he somehow wins. Does he really think he'll be able to "reach across the aisle" as president after all the ugliness he's putting out there?
I admire Sen. Collins, Sen. Coleman, and Gen. Powell for speaking out against vicious robo-calls, derrogatory mailers, and sleazy personal attacks. A groundswell of strong objections to these tactics from American voters is called for. We must and we can act to fight back and reject them, not only with our votes but with our voices. Flood the offices of national, state, county, and local GOP Chairman with emails, letters, and phone calls. Mail racist, ethnic, and terrorist fear-mongering pamphlets, newsletters, and fliers back to whence they came with your comments. Reject robo-calls. Write your local newspapers. Copy correspondence to candidates running for office in your area.
Last week, I heard one pundit say that you can tell how a candidate will lead the country by the way he conducts the last month of his campaign. What John McCain has shown that there is no length to which he would not go to achieve his personal ambitions. Not only will he use his position to incite and condone division, hate, and violence, but he will make no attempt to control mob-like mentality, threats, and violence. Not only will he encourage lies, smears, and distortions, but he will defend them as "legitimate issues," "totally accurate and truthful." Sounds familiar, doesn't it?
In my opinion, there is not a shred of honor or integrity left in John McCain.
franken?? that man shouldnt talk
Republican Senators Susan Collins and Norm Coleman are urging McCain to stop these despicable robocalls?
Rats. Sinking ship.
They themselves will feel the heat from the dirty campaign he's running. They don't want to be the party of ugliness right now. All Republicans are probably feeling the same way.
McCain sold his soul the day he kissed Falwell's ring. Each time it becomes easier. The rationalizations come easier and the seeming ability to draw distinctions between what was done to him and what he is doing allow him to remain delusional. He really is pathetic, like an old lion no longer able to fend for himself. After begging the American people to accept the biggest taxpayer bailout of banks in the history of our country he has the gall to bulge his eyes and call Obama socialist! Anyone could take 10 minutes at Google and see where McCain has flip-flopped on EVERY SINGLE principle he ever had.
McCain was for ACORN (02/20/06) before he was against ACORN.
no one was ever charged or convicted for the bombing of the judges home
the only evidence that it had anything to do with the weathermen was a book written years later
and ayres and his wife were never convicted of anything because of prosecutorial misconduct....in other words, they attempted to trump up charges on them
mccain...sold his sould for the nomination
he now becomes a footnote in history
As I understand it, Ayres and his wife gave themselves up to the police, but because the FBI had used illegal wiretaps and some other stuff, the case could not be prosecuted.
Geez, even FOX is throwing his filthy campaign in his face.
This is one desperate angry man. Wow.
pull these this week. He can't have known what Powell was saying at about the same time. This may be the week he has an aneurism.
Desperate lies from a desperate man.
You know the final nail is in the McCain campaign coffin when FOX News, concerned with not being further marginalized itself, goes into survival mode and starts being truthful about McCain to his face.
Collins and Coleman be damned. McCain will not budge from his robocalls until people like Chambliss and Dole start whining about it.
As it is, if you lose your race because you live in a state where over half the population is lucky enough to be born with brains... so what if you get caught in the cross-fire of people getting disgusted with republican politics?
if the illegal purging of voters doesnt win mccain the election...then make sure that obama gets constant questions in regards his character throughout his presidency
mccain has no morals left
if he does lose, he needs to resign from the senate
"It worked"
Seems to justify everything he's doing now. It worked then. Hopefully, it will not work now.
* The Question Wallace didn't ask: "Senator:...Why did you hire the same guy?"
Answer: Because he does good work?
Dumb like a fucking wall!
John McCain said, "I have repudiated every statement made by any fringe person in the Republican Party." I wonder if he heard Michelle Bachmann (R/Minn.) accuse Obama of being anti-American. Do you think he'll repudiate that fringe Republican? Should he repudiate Palin, too?
That he hadn't repudiated Palin was my first thought when I read that. And you're right Bachmann should definitely be repudated also if he wants to be honest about repudiating the crazy fringe statements.
Know what else is absolutely true Senator?
1) being the "family values conservative" that you are you left your own wife for a younger richer woman. Obama is still married to the woman who birth his kids.
2) Keating 5
3) you're so vile your high school nickname was "McNasty"
4) You were in incompetent flyer which is why you crashed 3 or more airplanes that we the taxpayer had to foot the bill for
5) you, like the current supreme court installed mistake in the oval office, are an underachiever finishing at the bottom of you naval academy class
6)you economic adviser Nation of Whiners Graham was an archetect of the current financial crisis
7) your party in the one that has been in control of all 3 branches of government for most of the past decade and since then this nation has gone to hell in a hand basket pretty much in every measurable way
8) you voted with the most hated president in US history 90% of the time
9) The unrepentant conservative terrorists who share your values, Tim McVeigh, Eric Rudolph and Dick Cheney have killed far more Americans and far more recently than Ayers
10) you have 8 houses, 13 cars and an airplane. Obama has 1 house and 1 car. You're an elitist!
....robo calls about this anyone?
The unrepentant conservative terrorists who share McCain's political philosophy, Tim McVeigh, Eric Rudolph and Dick Cheney, have killed far more Americans and far more recently than Ayers.
When are we going to hear about those robo calls?
J. Sydney McCreepy is seriously losing his mind.
One of the greatest mysteries that will be more closely examined will be just how Mccain came to pick Palin to be his VP. While most people tend to agree she isn't qualified for the position, what isn't as clear is how Mccain passed up battle hardened qualifiers like Kay Bailey Hutchinson - a woman who easily withers the testicles of any liberal.
It's true that the short list of GOP females is shorter than what could be considered healthy for a party that is supposed to vibrantly represent all Americans, but it is suspected that the Mccain campaign was seen as doomed in inner republican circles almost as early as he had secured the nomination. All indications point that no one wanted to risk their political neck on a sinking Titanic.
mcCain
Not remembered as a war hero, POW, or maverick - but as a honest-to-god crooked, lying piece of $&%*. What a great legacy you have given yourself mcCain.
I have the GREATEST respect for those who have served our country, and especially those who have been interned in the course thereof. But McCain has overused his POW chits, while the despicable, devisive conduct that he has charged his campaign with leads me to the conclusion that if I ever encounter him face-to-face, I will spit in his face. All AMERICANS should consider doing so.
I will simply turn my back on him so he can kiss my @ss. On second thought, that creeps me out....I will just walk away.
This kind of reactive jerky campaigning is reminiscent of the reactive jerky style of the current administration.
If this doesn't work, then try that, and if that doesn't work, then try another one, until one works.
From Katrina, Iraq, and this financial mess, it's all been one misguided reaction after another. There is no leadership. Unfortunately, McCain is following the same tactics, and it is not a wonder that McCain == Bush.
Actually the three deaths attributed to the weather underground were their own people. They blew themselves up making a bomb in a Greenwich Village townhouse.
So "technically" it's a 'true call' as McCain says, but it's also deliberately designed to mislead people and fire up the mouthbreather base, some of whom may ultimately decide to take a pot shot at Obama to save America from this "terrorist" pretender to the presidency.
What McCain is doing is monstrously irresponsible.
If McCain is a hero, I'm glad I'm a coward.
McCain is a lying snake. So what else is new?
His biggest problem is that he is living in the past.
His "legitimate" issue is almost 50 years ago.
So is his wish to re do the Vietnam War. It completely pisses him off that we LOST THE WAR.
He can't stand it that we LOST THE IRAQ WAR TOO.
AND
We are loosing the Afghanistan WAR.
There are no good wars. There is a good defense, but IMPERIALISM is what these guys are all about and they somehow think IMPERIALISM is legitimate and even heroic.
Sick people.
John Lewis connecting him to the Birmingham bombings that killed 4 little girls?
How many Vietnamese did McInsane kill from 10,000 feet before he became a "war hero"?
He has the same unwavering certainty as George W. Bush.
Scary that these people are in leadership positions
I'm tuning out the rest of this election. I just can't stand to even listen to McCain anymore. It's like Hilary at the end of the primary....shut up already, you've lost.
"I promise you, I have never and will never have anything to do with that kind of political tactic."
I don't think he meant robo calls by political tactics, but the kinds of attacks against him.
So, in a strict legal sense he's right, the attacks aren't the same.
Still, in a moral sense, they've hit rock bottom long ago.
The reason John McCain picked Palin was to prove to the conservitive base that he was "their kind of guy", nothing else. Nothing else matters to him. Just winning the race so that he can say, "I'm better that dad or granpa! I outrank them!" So of course integrity and honesty falls by the wayside. Did anyone really expect anything else from the man?
John Sidney McCain III was born and raised on his great-great Grandaddy's Mississippi plantation where prior to his birth (he isn't that old) the family kept and sold slaves. The ole man McCain also fought for the Confederacy under the Confederate flag( which John Sidney McCain has called a 'symbol of heritage').
McCain's also apparently impregnated black female slaves leading to black relatives with the surname McCain.
They have family reunions every so often but John Sidney the Senator has never showed up nor has he ever admitted he is the spawn of slave owners and traders.
http://www.sfltimes.com/index.php?option=com_...
i would feel sad for him if it still wasn't so close.
The man can't go for more than a minute without lying or contradicting himself. He doesn't care about Ayers, but he's going to bring him up. Riiiight.
Every day, McCain starts to remind me a little more of The Penguin in this clip from the 60s Batman show:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l63SRpGXBHE
Congratulations, John. You throw the mud but then hide behind the tree after doing so. You've descended completely into the George Bush/Karl Rove pig sty. Obama won't sink to your level even tho he has ammo such as the Keating 5, G. Gordon Liddy, the Alaska Independence Party, Troopergate, your blond hot tottie influence peddling girlfriend, etc, etc, etc.
David Brooks (a total consevative himself) put it best when he said: "does America want to put up with 4 years of McCain? I think not."
Casper the Grumpy (and hypocritical) Ghost, indeed!!
In McShame I see the worse possible combination of Joseph McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Dick Cheney and George Bush. It appears that barring some massive "dirty tricks" in regard to the upcoming election Obama is near certain to win the presidency. McCain will go down in history as being one of the slimiest presidential candidates ever. That will, forever, be his legacy. Way to go, John!!!!!
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Doesn't the theater manager deserve to be held accountable for allowing a few "crazies" to stay in his theater and yell "FIRE!"?
The "McCrazy" one is the theater manager who doesn't throw out those that yell "FIRE!" in his theater!!!
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The really troubling thing is he thinks he's telling the truth with this. His head is so far up his a$$.
I think McCain's political career is over after he loses this election and after his Senate term expires. And he knows it, which is why he's fighting so hard with dirty tactics. I wish he'd just fade away and live a quiet life with his rage.
Of course Onama attacked McCain personally. The method is just a slightly different. Obama attacks MC on the issues while McCain is just on a quest of character assassination.
McCain gets another very important box checked on the sociopath/psychopath qualifying checklist. The socio/psychopath's capacity for moral outrage is limited exclusively to what happens to him(her). It is bizarre to see how they can be completely filled with righteous moral outrage over any real or imagined wrong that is done to them, yet turn right around and commit the very same offense against another. What is so bizarre about their behavior and thinking is that they never feel any sense of contradiction about their actions.
Notice how McCain is completely unapologetic? The man is blissfully unburdened by any trace of a functioning conscience.
True. His reaction was just like Cheney's famous "So?" I guess being a soulless sociopath is a prerequisite for being in the NeoCON club.
Is anyone else a tired as I am of this sleazy old scumbag?
I thought this man was a hero and as it turns out he is only a whiney liar.
For gods sake shut him up before he hurst himself any worse if that is possible!
I met and got to know Sonny Barger the prez of the Hells Angels, one of the original dirty dozen many years ago. We frequented the same gym on A street in Hayward CA, I even spotted him, I think we got along, he called me kid. Does that make me an outlaw biker or a sympathizer to outlaw bikers?
I don't own a motor cycle, I don't own a gun or any illegal weapons, I don't even have a leather jacket and I don't engage in any underground illegal activities.
Hello? Earth to McCain's brain? HELLO!?
I never want to hear the words "honorable" and "John McCain" used in the same sentence again. This man has given up every shred of honor that he ever (and I am beginning to question, if ever) had.
John McCain is a white racist and that is the truth. John McCain is also a WAR CRIMINAL, and no “War Hero.” McCain killed innocent villagers like all cowards do from way above the sky in dropping those bombs on women, children, and men. McCain should have been put on trial for the war crimes against humanity he perpetrated during the Vietnam War alongside his scum-sucking pal, Henry Kissinger. Funny how his little butt-sucking boy Joe Lieberman received five college deferments to escape serving during the Vietnam war. The scumbag Joe Lieberman claimed to be an anti-war and pro-civil rights man at that time. Lieberman never said crap about the Weathermen until this election and the irony is that both he and Ayers both opposed the Vietnam war. It is time to call Lieberman on his hypocrisy regarding his opposition to the Vietnam War. Back to McCain. John McCain's views on women's issues shows him to be a typical male chauvinist pig. The right wing has built its base upon racism, sexism, and homophobia. In election after election whether overtly or under the radar, the Republicans inject racism into presidential campaigns before denying and running from it.
It is time to revive the words racist, male chauvinist pigs and their women apologists on the right, bigots on the right, sexism, and, of course, homophobes. McCain, Palin, and all their apologists fit this description (even if they try to deny it--the more they deny and protest it--the more they fit this category). Right-wingers despise “political correctness” because it disembowels their penchant for being bigots, homophobes, male chauvinist pigs, and yes, racists. That whole “reverse racism” has been a right-wing invention to undercut real talk of white America’s history and legacy of racism.
The GOP are running their usual blustering militarist and misogynist presidential campaign with uber-femme fatale, Sarah Palin attempting to outperform all the X-rated porn actresses to show how she can take orders from Big John and the rest of the right-wing crazy fundamentalists and neocon gurus, and of course the fat slob couch potatoes.
Racism is alive and working in the McCain campaign. Black Agenda Report columnist Paul Street wrote a few weeks back that: "A recent Yahoo/Associated Press/Stanford survey found that white prejudice is costing Obama six percentage points in national polls. Six points sounds low to those like me who are canvassing in the white, small-town field. Consistent with my suspicions at least, the USA TODAY poll finds that whites prefer the atrocious, decrepit, miserable misogynist and war monger John McCain over the outwardly hyper-eloquent centrist Obama by 56 to 36 percent! But even 6 points could be enough to de-rail Obama given the closely divided nature of the U.S. electorate. The last two presidential elections have essentially been statistical ties. The GOP ticket is so malicious and dim-witted and the conjuncture is so poor for the Republicans that Obama may win anyway, but his margin of victory will be far below what a Caucasian Democratic candidate could reasonably expect."
John McCain cannot help his racism. It is rooted in his family and their structural racist past. As Salon writers Suzi Parker and Jack Tapper informed America back in 2000, with the article entitled, "McCain's ancestors owned slaves," his "great-great grandfather William Alexander McCain owned a plantation, and later died during the Civil War as a soldier for the Mississippi cavalry."
John McCain is surely an idiot for not knowing about his family history regarding its owning slaves. As Parker and Tapper wrote:
"But what McCain didn't know about his family until Tuesday was that William Alexander McCain had owned 52 slaves. The senator seemed surprised after Salon reporters showed him documents gathered from Carroll County Courthouse, the Carrollton Merrill Museum, the Mississippi State Archives and the Greenwood, Miss., Public Library...I didn't know that," McCain said in measured tones wearing a stoic expression during a midday interview, as he looked at the documents before Tuesday night's debate. "I knew they had sharecroppers. I did not know that....This documentation includes slave schedules from Sept. 8, 1860, which list as the slave owner, "W.A. McCain." The schedules list the McCain family's slaves in the customary manner of the day -- including their age, gender and "color," labelling each either "black" or "mulatto." The slaves ranged in age from 6 months to 60 years....I knew we fought in the Civil War," McCain went on. "But no, I had no idea. I guess thinking about it, I guess when you really think about it logically, it shouldn't be a surprise. They had a plantation and they fought in the Civil War so I guess that it makes sense...It's very impactful," he said of learning the news. "When you think about it, they owned a plantation, why didn't I think about that before? Obviously, I'm going to have to do a little more research."
McCain comes from a family of racists and he is also a RACIST PIG. I am not surprised such a man would go to the low-level campaign he has resorted to. I wonder why the media has not talked about McCain's shady past more often? If they are going to dig into Obama's past, it is more than fair to raise the issue that McCain hails from a Racist Family of origin.
One other thing---Being a "conservative feminist" is like being a "recovered" sex addict who just happens to eat lunch every day at the nearest strip club.
You right wingers can go pound your best pokey buddy.
Who transcribed this? I don't like John McCain very much, but it's pretty clear that he says "They were!" and not "They worked."
You're right. That's exactly what he said. Wallace: "you called them hate calls". McCain: "they were". Some of the screeds on this post are based on a simple faulty transcription unfortunately.
Straight up lies. Pitiful. Desperate. Dispicable and disgusting.
The Straight talk express has become "Hate talk express".
No honor left in John McCain.
Please, Senator, it is time to retire and go to the ranch.
These robo calls and the "he's a baby killer" type attacks are John's WMD tactics. Can there be any doubt that as a leader he will resort to actual WMD's if he perceives that he is in a losing position militarily? When someone is under severe pressure is when one's true nature is revealed. It may once have been thought that Obama's campaign against Bush/McCain was a disservice to McCain. It has now become clear that the real disservice is to George Bush.
McCain apparently hasn't learned the lesson that Jim Oberweis learned in '06. Hastert endorsed Oberweis to fill his seat in a SOLIDLY Republican district. Oberweis lost to a Democrat, at least in part because of his campaign tactics - robocalls being foremost. Voters were livid about it. You could say that Oberweis helped defeat himself with those tactics. Welcome to livid, John.
Have you no sense of decency at all?
Goodbye you desperate old fuck. Nobody is going to miss you when you are gone.
I'm really scared should McCain wins the election. He's a confused and bellicose man and he will be a detriment to the nation. He's, gradually, becoming like his running mate, the very arrogant but "mentally challenged" Sara Palin.
Wow, McCain is breath of rancid air, isn't he? Good to know this shit is on it's last leg. So long neo-con dream, our nightmare is over in two weeks!
John's plan, " to get us out of the ditch" is tht his campaign brings us into the Gutter?
McCain may repudiate some at his stumps. But what of his Gov Palin?
She speaks for him, or does she?
McCain cannot attain favor by inciting the worst in people. Bush has proven this.
This is the "I'll say or do anything for my self gain to become president". We saw Hillary succumb to this very desperate point of John's campaign.
Want to send John McCain a vote of "No Confidence"?
If so, go here and sign this petition:
http://www.McCainPetition.com
Gregg
Sorry! But he is.
Frustrated. Angry. Old. Filibustering. Republican.
GO AWAY.
So McCain...
If Obama wins, are you going to CONCEDE to a guy with ties to terrorism?
How can you?
If you do that, your supporters are going to feel used and betrayed...
What then?
Dear Senator McCain,
The Robo calls that "worked" against you took place during the REPUBLICAN PRIMARY. This is the general election. Independent voters see your Robo calls as an ugly and desperate attempt to claw your way to the White House.
Continue showing us your ugly self and we'll continue to feel completely uncomfortable making you the most powerful man in the free world.
-Joe the Strummer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zx_KvCLUTr8
People in his own party are telling him he's wrong on the robo-calls and this smug bastard is so full of himself that he honest-to-God believes he's right. Hubris, much?
What a sanctimonious old bastard McAncient has turned into. Disgusting
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