McCain to Pennsylvanians: I couldn't agree more with Murtha that you're all racists!
By SilentPatriot Wednesday Oct 22, 2008 10:15am
John Murtha stuck his foot in his mouth last week when he told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
"There is no question that western Pennsylvania is a racist area."
Looking to take advantage of the gaffe and impute Murtha's comments onto Obama, McCain brought it up during an event in Western Pennsylvania Tuesday. Unfortunately for him, he couldn't have botched it any worse.
"You know, I think you may have noticed that Senator Obama's supporters have been saying some pretty nasty things about Western Pennsylvania lately," McCain told the audience in the town of Moon Township. "And you know, I couldn't agree with them more." I couldn't disagree with you. I couldn't agree with you more than the fact that Western Pennsylvania is the most patriotic, most god-loving, most, most patriotic part of America, and this is a great part of the country."
Oops. The look on the faces of the people behind him is classic.
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God what a putz.
That wasn't a gaffe
It was a freudian slip
This campaign is one big cup-o-crap. WWW.FilthyRichmond.coM
Exactly. He had a major gaffe handed to him on a silver platter and he botched it big time. What a joke of a looser.
HAHA! I nearly choked on my sammich watching that clip.
You almost feel sorry for him.
Nah.
Not after he vetoed all his fellow Prisoners beer ...
Not after scolding us for not accepting Sarah Palin.
Too old! Too old! I'm getting tired FOR him!
The NRC calls for a do over.
I feel kinda bad for saying this, but I wonder if the cancer has gotten to the brain?
He just isn't right.
Cancer does often metasticize to the brain, or at least it did in the olden days when I used to be a nurse.
It just seems like he isn't all there.
He was an incompetent doofus as a young whippersnapper... he finished at the bottom of his class, crashed planes left and right, and his only achievement in life seems to have been captured by the enemy.
Like they say in the old world, you can't get anything from a jar that was empty to begin with. And age, most definitively hasn't helped here.
He is just way over his head on this one, just like Bush. The main problem is that when things are "good" it is easier to sell an idiot like the current dumbass in office. But when things are bad, the cracks are patently visible.
and well said, if you don't mind me sayin' so...
I so agree with you.
I could not believe he gotten this far to be honest with you.
Campaigning is exhausting for a young man. I think the whole 2 years of campaigning, along with the stress of knowing you are going to be defeated in less than 2 weeks is really draining on him.
It could be that, or some good old-fashioned senior moments, Lord knows I've had a few.
But it's the whole catastroph*ck of his campaign that is an awe-enspiring wonder. A campaign like this should be resulting in a 20 point lead for Obama, You'd think. That's the bigger wonder.
On intrade, Obama has picked up another 4 points today, to push out to 87/13 to just win the election. Electoral votes for Obama has been holding at 364 for around a week. Since the last debate, there has been no tightening of the race. If anything, it's back to trending slightly more for Obama. Unless there are widespread voting irregularities, this still seems to have the potential for a landslide.
My sister is pretty forgetful and she feels sorry for McCain. When asked if she would vote for him or even herself, you'll get a definite "No" out of her.
I couldn't disagree more! I agree with what was said lately, and on behalf of all patriotic, god loving, pro-American people, I agree er disagree - that you agree with the nasty things the obama campaign has said, and I agree with ...
Oh f@ckit! Can I run for president now?
check out cindy mccain slightly shaking her head in disbelief.
Geriatric goof must have some not yet indentified disease worse than Dementia.
The guy's hilarious.
Now BBC did an interview with people from the area Murtha was talking about long before Murtha made the comment. Yes in the BBC interview many voters expressed their racism for Obama on camera. One of Obama/Biden campaign headquarters was attacked with racial words. As one lady with her husband say " We will never vote for a N---er in this town or the town over". Facts and TV interviews don't change the facts of what some people say or think.
Another gaffe?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gS9MlylX4I
"The rates were ****.. were cut in the Bush years."
Clearly the campaigning is starting to affect him more every day. A sure sign that his age is certainly an issue that should be part of the conversation. The only ones who are not concerned are those who want Palin in the White House anyway.
As to Murtha's comment being "foot in mouth", I disagree. He simply had a rare moment of speaking the truth. Unusual for a politician, but I'm sure he knows his district well enough to make a statement like that. I don't know the area, but it could certainly be true that it's a predominently racist area. There are many such areas in this country unfortunately.
I am lucky to live in Austin, TX, a small island of progressive sanity in an otherwise backassward state. Being insulated is a luxury I have and I am constantly reminded of how lucky I am when I travel to the eastern and northern parts of Texas. West Texas and the South are less racist than the north and east , but the point is that there are large sections where the mouth-breathing, slack-jawed yokels are representative of the dominant culture. I agree, Murtha simply had a moment of brutal honesty, and although politically damaging, it is probably true. Very much as if a Texas legislator were to say the same thing about Beaumont, Orange, Dallas, Denton, and other places in this state. Just glad to be an Austinite where Travis County will be blue again this election year. Weird and proud!!!
I agree. Having grown up in a small town in southern oklahoma, I find the right wing indignation to be hollow. Anyone who has grown up in these small towns and worked in the various factories, warehouses etc would agree with Murtha.
Now, not every person in these places is like that but a sizable number are.
You get a better view of the hot girl in gray from the link at Huffington Post! :)
...there's nothing more that needs to be said, just laugh. I love how convincingly he said "I couldn't agree with him more..." hahaha
If you flick your tongue out when you take the oath of office does it count?
is it a forked tongue?
He and Palin might consider retiring from the campaign trail and just let things ride until the election. They seem to be doing themselves more harm than good at this point.
If you saw Obama today before and during the press conference, you knew you were looking at the next president of the United States.
The giggling teenagers versus the responsible adults. It is a remarkable contrast.
It truly is. Obama is serious and intelligent. Not every line has to end in a giggle. He could step right into the oval office today. He has all his plates spinning nicely and he's on top of things. He can deligate to the people who know what the hell they are doing. He's ready.
So am i.
So are we all!
Now if we can just hold our breath for 13 more days, we'll be good to go.
I can see it now.......McCain as President:
Did I say Bomb Iceland? Oh crap I meant to say Bomb Iran - is it too late to change the orders? What they've already dropped? oh crap.
I doubt he'd say, "Oh crap." I think he'd just carry on and say what he meant to say as if nothing happened. Who says you can't kill two birds with one stone?
Each day I look for something funny to make my day. Today it would be this. Thank You John McCain. McCain has to be kicking himself in the butt. How does one recover from such a huge mistake?
He just needs to say the words "real America," "God-loving," and "most patriotic" to get the crowds cheering again.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_condit...
Go to Drudge and see his race-baiting. A pic of black preachers laying hands on Obama with a headline about a landslide bigger than Reagan...Desperation.
I won't give drudge the hits, I never look at drudge, it should be called dredge or dreck
re: the names... smudge or just plain old fucktard works too.
That was both painful and amazing at the same time.
..... people didn't just walk off the stage.
....they don't listen to him either.
The racist residents of western PA, where I live, are going to be mighty angry come Nov. 5 when we have a black man elected president.
this stuff truly writes itself with these fools!
There are so many nails in McCain's coffin the wood hs split, and the corpse is starting to show.
That wasn't a gaffe. That was a freudian slip. The GOP are run by racists, and they have been ever since the dixiecrats changed sides back in the '60s. And they know it perfectly well. The 'Southern Strategy' Nixon and Reagan perfected wasn't an accident, they knew full well what they were doing. And their heirs to the GOP are still doing it knowingly and with great gusto.
Exactly!
McCain would do well to stop his attempts at comedy and sarcasm. He isn't good at it and it makes him look old and foolish. He should try being serious and positive.
His attempts to be clever are distracting from his message.
grandpa will forget to wear his Depends while behind the podium.
A classic "senior moment"
"God-loving" does not make one "non-racist". In fact, it generally works the other way around.
we've had 8 yrs of a president who has to be the most inarticulate, ineffective communicator in history. we sure as hell don't need another.
"patriotic, God loving" and some folks in the U.S. are still clearly bigots hiding behind those little crosses around their necks as they go to church on Sunday. About as far away from what Jesus "allegedly" said about loving your neighbors as yourself. There are bigots out there and hopefully the youth vote will leave the bigots behind
Whats next?
"Bomb Bomb Bomb,
Bomb Bomb Indiana...?"
HaHa.
"...and I won't sit down with Idaho!"
N Dakota, Idaho & Indiana - the new axis of evil.
In Idaho
It's a ho named Ida.
)O(
"...and i disprove my message."
"...and I disagree with my message."
Politico reports today that the Republican National Committee spent $4,716.49 on hair and makeup for Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) in September -- in addition to the more than $150,000 the RNC has spent on clothing and accessories for Palin. AMERICAblog points out the amount is just half of what the RNC spends on makeup for Sen. John McCain: The RNC shelled out $8,672.55 for McCain's makeup in September, employing celebrity makeup artist Tifanie White.
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/rnc_spends...
Those two are not cheap to keep.
And yet if you are paying attention you can see his true face quite clearly.
Which one?
Makes that $400 haircut Edwards got look like an absolute bargain....
For someone who could not catch his dick in his zipper, he sure has no problem pissing on his own leg. I think McCain is a lot more down the road than they let on. After a while the lies and the truth mix untill you are not sure of which is which. Has anyone ask "wet start" johnny, how many fingers am I holding up? This one is easy...johnny. One could all most feel sorry for him, that is if he were not a low down skunk and a criminal who has spent his life riding the coat-tails of "daddy and grandpa". Any other serviceman would still be in the brig for half the shit" wet start" has pulled during his " hero" period, *Little Johnny Jones, he was a US pilot,
And no shrinking violet was he.
He was mighty proud when World War III was declared.
He wasn't scared, no siree!
And this is what he said on
His way to Armageddon:
So long, mom,
I'm off to drop the bomb,
So don't wait up for me.
But though I may roam,
I'll come back to my home
Although it may be
A pile of debris.
Remember, mommy,
I'm off to get a commie,
So send me a salami
And try to smile somehow.
I'll look for you when the war is over,
An hour and a half from now!
part of a song by Tom Leher. -CEO,citizens,eyes,open.
Tom Lehrer should be given his fair credit for that song. :)
Edited
Sorry, you did. :)
Plagiarize,
Let no one else's work evade your eyes,
Remember why the good Lord made your eyes,
So don't shade your eyes,
But plagiarize, plagiarize, plagiarize...
Only be sure always to call it please, "research".
Also part of a song by Tom Lehrer. CEO citizens,eyes,open
Medication Fail.
Imagine what McCain looks like when he crawls out of bed in the morning. That not bad enough for you, imagine what cindy looks like as she crawls out of bed in the morning.
We'd have a horror flick bigger than the McCain campaign itself?
Over at www.huffingtonpost.com there is a slide show of Palin in her fancy new duds, but the last picture in the slide show is of Palin in June 2008 in her circa 1980's Walmart outfit. Not quite as attractive in that last pic.
Doesn't McCain say the same thing everywhere he campaigns?
Gawd, he's so predictable. He literally makes me nauseous. And some numb nuts vote for this slime!!
It is an extremely inappropriate remark for a veteran to say, being that we are in two wars and our military is representative of all 50 states.
He probably thinks a racist is someone who has a preference in this race.
)O(
Or a NASCAR fan.
Or just talking too damn much.
I love the way Stepford Cindy bobbleheads her way along through this complete nonsense. Isn't she listening? Probably all that's going through her head is "Thank the Lord for that Pre-Nup."
King Lear/Goneril 08
Pray do not mock me...
You know what would make the King Lear?
The queen au naturale.
Looks like someone missed his nap.
Come on Johnny...put country first and RETIRE.
http://www.americablog.com/2008/10/compare-mc...
Save what little (and I mean little) dignity
you have left for the VFW reunions.
Here's how i would handle this racism issue:
You ask John McCain or Palin directly: Do you want the support of racists? (answer "no"). If he/she answers "yes", leave it at that. it speaks for itself.
If "no", then would you be willing to tell your supporters: "if the only reason you are voting for me is that you don't want a black man to be president, I DON"T WANT YOUR VOTE"
That would be a miracle wrapped in a holiday.
McCain lost five U.S. Navy aircraft now hes about to crash his campain how much money did this guy cost in his "public service"
Does that make them "real Americans"? Or more patriotic? I don't get it. What if I don't believe in a god? Does that have anything to do with me being a decent human being, John?
I live in the heart of southwestern Pennsylvania -- South Side, Peetsborg, Pen-sil-vain-I-A, as "The South Side Polka" puts it. Plenty of people here ARE racist and we might as well say it. But today I saw more "Teamsters For Obama" and "Firefighters For Obama" signs than patch Hell a mile [a SWPA-ism]. And I know more n-word users who are going to vote for "that one" than McCain. Down in Greene County, I know know more Zekes and Bird-Dogs and Big Hungry Jims who have NEVER voted, and will for Obama. This map ain't red or blue or even purple, it's black. BO by 12.
"Hooray" [We're not even listening, give us more hollow talking points for team red!] "Boo!" [Our hunger for fear, stupidity and division is insatiable!] "Hooray!"
Murtha should not have issued any apology.
The US is still a deeply racist society - as evidenced by the hate directed toward Obama, and the reaction against all Muslims - or even people who looked like Muslims - after 9-11.
This is an obvious fact that the rest of the world outside the USA can see quite clearly.
agreed entirely...when people yell out hang the terrorist when obamas name is mentioned or say there is no way I would ever vote for a black man for president....ummm, thats racist.....why would you have to apologize??? Someone pointing out that obvious point should not have to apologize as long as the people saying death to obama supporters don't have to apologize! Remember that little thing called the first amendment?? Why does that only protect people that spew hate?
too bad obama has some dignity or he could go around saying mccain said that pennsylvania is racist.....much the same as mccain misquoting biden saying biden said that obama would elicit a terrorist attack.....when biden clearly said obama (like any president walking into the post frat party warzone the white house has become) will have a LOT of cleaning up to do and will be presented with challenges......BUT and the last part of what he said was the important part that was ommitted by mccain and all media outlets is that obama will prove to have steel in his spine! Well in this instance, mccain actually agrees with people that you people are racist...do you want that type of person in charge....someone calling you a racist (when you so clearly are)
As I recall, Robert E. Lee also tried to win it by putting everything into Pennsylvania.
At least Lee got out with his honor intact. I doubt McCain will be able to make the same claim.
It Is All Too Much For The Old Man!
He can't keep his brain straight.
I think it's time to retire to one of
his seven homes, jump into a pair of shorts,
grab a drink and plant his derriere into the hammock
and let the world float bye!!!!
I caught this on Rachel. I cracked up. And she completely lost it. I replayed it with the DVR twice and laughed each time.
lol wut.
Fifty years of asking the local racist town council to be connected to the close by water supply.
Justice finally done, they got water in 2004 and monster compensation package.
The local white racists are fuming and appealing the injustice.
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,859...
Dorothy Montgomery Muskingum County commissioner, somebody who thinks people not like her do not deserve clean drinking water.
Her words came back to haunt her in court.
she told them that even their "grandchildren's grandchildren would not have water."
This needs to be shown to the nation by either Jon Stewart or Keith Oblerman, to think that in the 21stC Bushco paradise, people living in urban areas or on the fringes of towns, are denied access to a water main 200 feet away from their house for FIFTY YEARS, merely because they are black.
Shameful.
Can we start calling him John McGaffe.
Watch the C*nt slip up on HuffPo
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Ya Freaky deaky DUTCHMAN!!!
Ah yesz I like zees von. Datz a keeper...
I live in Western Pennsylvania. Murtha is correct in his characterization of white Western Pennsylvanians as racists. But Western Pennsylvanians are not stupid. Obama will carry Allegheny County, Washington County, and Beaver County. He will also win the state.
I live in Pittsburgh and want to point out something in defense of Murtha. Murtha was responding to an article in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette in which many townspeople from a neighboring county responded to reporters in very racist tones. The article drew alot of attention in Pittsburgh and reactions from many people about how racist the neighboring county seemed to be. I have yet to see any news agency preface Murtha's comments with this article.
Give the monkey some sugar.
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