Rick Davis defends McCain rallies: "He was a POW!"
By SilentPatriot Sunday Oct 12, 2008 2:00pm
McCain campaign manager Rick Davis took to FOX News this morning to defend the dangerous, out of control vitriol coming from McCain's rallies. His argument? John McCain was a POW!
"Look, Chris, I think we have to take this very seriously. The kind of comments made by Congressman Lewis, a big Obama supporter, are reprehensible. The idea that you're going to compare John McCain to the kinds of hate spread in the '60s by somebody like George Wallace is outrageous. Where was John McCain when George Wallace was spreading his hate and segregationist policies at that time? He was in a Vietnam prison camp serving his country with his civil rights also denied.
"Nobody knows sacrifice like John McCain does, and the idea that Barack Obama didn't address this issue directly, had his campaign walk out there with a half-baked statement that didn't even address the comments made by Lewis as related to John McCain. Barack Obama should apologize to John McCain directly for the kinds of comments made by John Lewis yesterday and that should be the end of this sordid affair."
What a WATB. The McCain campaign's central message is that Barack Obama is a an un-American terrorist sympathizer. Who the hell are they to complain when a civil rights pioneer rightly condemns them for creating a hateful atmosphere not seen since the tense days of forty years ago. McCain was right when he told Rick Warren that John Lewis was one of the wisest men he knows. It's just a shame that he now won't heed his advice.
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at the Suberbowl Halftime show and he'd get a pass for being a POW and "An American Hero."
...as long as there was no "wardrobe failure'....
McCain killed innocent women and children. McCain is a beast.
This is what I found when I used "the Google" and searched for:
USS Forrestal, McCain
http://judicial-inc.biz/82jjohn_mccain_and_th...
It seems he actually caused the missle from the aircraft behind him to fire into his, "my friends", with his silly "shennanigans".
Well, that resulted in the deaths of many of his fellow serviceman (132?).
They had to fly him off the carrier in a chopper so that the remaining crew didn't kill him.
Well, what do you expect from someone who graduated 5th from the bottom of his class?
He is not a FUCKING HERO, he's a FUCKING IDIOT, he should be put in a home, like NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Come on 527's, PLEASE USE THIS, PLEASE.................
Outtie.
But he did not stick around to help with damage control! You have to admit he has been very lucky jumping out of a plane that was on fire to escape the bombs going off from his own plane! Having caused four or five crashes he should never have been given full pilot status but he was the Admirals son! He was not that lucky when by his own words he admits ignoring the SAM that was causing his avionics to warn him he had a missile lock which if he would have heeded he could have avoided being shot down but he like the present president is more mouth on flying expertise than actual deeds! And that gamble cost him 5 years in Hanoi what will he cost us with that piss poor judgment of his? And even his time in Vietnam hands is questionable as to what kind of hero he is especially to other vets watch other vets tell a different story on SongBird McCain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXjWguoFbpI&fe...
I take that seriously as a VietNam Era Veteran, I almost deployed in 75, and retired from the Army served 1974-1994
I will readily call any American service(person) a Hero.
Unless, their willful actions caused others to unnecessarily die.
I did not serve, and I'm not sure I could survive what veterans go through (combat or not).
I am only replying to you because I went to Snopes.com and was surprised that I did not find any info regarding "USS Forrestal, McCain".
Your intro said McCain did not cause the missle to fire.
I asked Snopes to look into whether he "wet started" his jet.
If he did, then he did cause that tragedy.
Personally, there are a ZILLION reasons why I would not vote for McCain/Palin.
Additionally, it doesn't even get to that, since I am SO PROUD of Obama and what he means to this country.
You, though, my friend, and I'll leave off the quotes here, are DEFINATELY an AMERICAN HERO to be someone who served our country in the Armed Services and can speak his mind and see what is best for our country.
Peace. (oh crap, I have to calculate 2+2, another plus of being a Dem).
WTF does McTard being in a prison camp have anything to do with George Wallace and his racism. Is there no subject you can bring up that they don't raise McGramps POW status. .
My friends, want to have fun the next time you're at a McCain political rally? Make sure you have your bingo card handy!
John McCain Political Rally Bingo Card: http://www.flickr.com/photos/matthigh/2932630...
Enjoy!
Is McCain the Manchurian candidate
Davis’ lame excuse doesn’t hold water. McCain’s past Vietnam experience is irrelevant. The fact is McCain and Palin were instigating this for a very long time and now a violent mob mentality has set in among his supporters because of it.
always looks he just got done chugging a keg of cider vinegar. He's so creepy looking.
That's exactly what I was thinking. He kind of reminds me of the Wart Hog that sang Acuna Matata(not sure that's how it's spelled) in the Lion King movie..,,
I think he looks like Jeffery Dahmer. Creepy is right.
This has gotten to be a parody of itself. Rudy Guiliani, the longest and most self-absorbed day of his life, didn't overwork 9/11 as completely as this POW meme.
Congressman Lewis knows more about sacrifice than McCain.
Well, that cinches that! Now we know he's a pow because we've seen his PTDS every day on the trail.
Personally, I think if a comparison is to be made then we should consider comparing McCain to the Taliban's Mohammed Omar. Omar and McCain use the same methods to radicalize their followers. The only difference thus far is that McCain's supporters haven't resorted to violence, yet.
This would be a great time to bring this up - a real smack in the face to Lewis (in a right wing political way) but someone has cried wolf one too many times..:(
Davis doesn't even make any sense anymore. And probably if John McCain hadn't cited Lewis as one of the wisest men he knows, Lewis wouldn't said anything. Since McCain used Lewis' name, Lewis has every right to say any damn thing he wants to.
Now we discover that Rick Davis has been meddling internationally. Rick Davis is now tied to Oleg Deripaska and it's circulating all over the internet like wildfire. The story appears in www.thenation.com about how Rick Davis, of David Manafort, has been working for the most ruthless olegarch, Oleg Deripaska....the kremlin secrets McCain doesn't want us to know.
So when McCain says "we're all Georgians", he's only telling you half of the story. What he has done is to support the Kremlin in a variety of coups.
Maybe someone can give Rick Davis a clue. We are well aware of McCain's POW status since the primaries - a noun, a verb, and POW.
However, most of us now know the "real POW story" - the story which John McPOW and Ricky, the flubbed nosejob, Davis doesn't want you to know.
Here it is again. Send it around the internet. Maybe then someone will be kind enough to send it to Rick Davis - to clue him in, too.
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20081006/schanberg
Thanks for the link!
They know their moron base doesn't read. So all they have to do is repeat it everyday for Faux News and the Limbaugh networks. Unfortunately, they haven't come to terms yet with the fact that their base is now down to about 28%.
He's paid top dollar to help run America into the ground on behalf of the corrupt and super rich.
Does this remind anyone of the guy Cheney shot in the face, and then after the shotgun blast victim was released from the hospital, he actually apologized to Cheney? What the hell is wrong with these people, how is it the victim's fault? And that of course reminds me of Palin forcing rape victims to pay for their own rape kits.
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Dear Rick Davis,
What part of the HATE TALK EXPRESS is acceptable?
R E M E M B E R:
It wasn’t the Democrats that called Obama…
… A Halfrican!
It wasn’t the Democrats that called Obama…
… Unpatriotic!
It wasn’t the Democrats that called Obama…
… A Muslim!(btw, is being Muslim a bad thing?)
It wasn’t the Democrats that refer to Obama…
… As a terrorist!
It wasn’t the Democrats that call Obama…
… Osama!
It wasn’t the Democrats that call Obama…
… Hussein!
It wasn’t the Democrats that said Obama…
… Palled with terrorists!
It wasn’t the Democrats that cried…
… Kill him!
And for that, Obama should apologize?
America.
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...and for someone else's statements.
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Dear Rick Davis,
So, being a POW is license to tolerate HATE in your party?
Doesn't that meant HATE is acceptable when it isn't confronted for what it is?
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I'd be pretty cautious about drawing the obvious parallel between being a POW and the hate-baiting and illicit, amoral behavior they've been perpetuating at their rallies.
We already know that John McCain has an anger management problem; commonly known as PTSD. We've seen clips of it in the Senate; we've seen him acting like a maniac at the craps tables.
Now Rick Davis actually draws the parallel between his being a POW and the obvious diagnosis of PTSD - the anger and rage factor - which they've been trying to hide during this campaign?
Either I don't get it or they've all gone insane. Does anyone in that campaign actually know what they're talking about?
Does anyone in that campaign know the meaning of the word unified 'strategy'.
Today Palin's out there contradicting McCain on Korea; what will it be tomorrow?
The McCain * Palin Daily Circus is more apropos.
"Russia's virtual takeover of Montenegro was a key geostrategic victory - and it was achieved by the help of John McCain and his top aides."
Here's the full story:
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20081020/ames_be...
It has all the hallmarks of an inside "coup" aided and abetted by Rick Davis and John McCain.....rigged elections, and the whole shot.
Now you can see what kind of men these two sickos actually are. In our faces, they speak of freedom and the rights of the Georgians; in private they are working for the Kremlin.
John McCain is a serial liar as is Sarah Palin.
THIS TICKET IS THE FIRST EVER IN THIS HISTORY OF THIS COUNTRY OF TWO CANDIDATES WHO HAVE BEEN LAWFULLY ACCUSED OF ABUSING POWER.
Great point.
The GOP puts out there as their first string candidates TWO people who've been accused of abusing their power...
Read that again...
... BOTH have been accused of abusing their power!
And the GOP supports that?
What's a Troopergate?
What's a Keating Five?
Had Enough Abuse of Power?
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Davis's picture needs to be in the dictionary under douchebag.
I agree but I'm not certain it can occupy two legitimate places - it's already there under botched nose jobs and "how many boogers can we count in Rick Davis's nose today?
If (Heaving forbid!) John McCaveman were ever to become President, and he accidentally started World War III in a 'Senior's moment' - would we be expected to forgive him because he had once been a POW? What if he got a blow-job from an intern?
these guys. The $500K a year and into the stratosphere per year wealthy aren't going to fix it.
This is great news - some polls which seem to indicate that McCain's Moose Is Cooked! Time to fight back by shipping these frauds back to parts unknown.
Bowers takes a look at the Washington Post's state presidential labels:
Obama +13.8%: Battleground state (PA)
Obama +10.4%: Battleground state (NH)
Obama +10.0%: Battleground state (NJ)
Obama +9.5%: Battleground state (IA)
Obama +9.0%: Battleground state (OR)
Obama +8.2%: Battleground state (MN)
Obama +8.2%: Battleground state (MI)
Obama +8.8%: Battleground state (WI)
Obama +7.3%: Battleground state (NM)
McCain +6.8%: Leaning Republican (GA)
Obama +5.1%: Battleground state (VA)
Obama +4.0%: Battleground state (CO)
McCain +3.8%: Leaning Republican (IN)
Obama +3.5%: Battleground state (OH)
Obama +3.1%: Battleground state (FL)
Obama +3.0%: Battleground state (NV)
McCain +2.2%: Leaning Republican (WV)
Get it? Every state in which McCain has a lead, even if it's just 2.2%, is a "leaning Republican". Every state in which Obama has the lead, even if it's over 10 percent, is a "battleground
So you can see that the polls are simply being kind to a broken down old POW who once had integrity and class.
From the looks of these stats, it's over for McCain.
John Lewis is not an Obama surrogate. He doesn't work for Obama, and did not make his remarks on Obama's behalf. Why should Obama apologize for some random guy's opinion? If anything he is McCain's adviser. After all McCain is the one who voluntarily said he would go to the wise John Lewis for advice. Now he's getting some wisdom, and he doesn't seem to want Lewis' sage opinion on race relations.
Then John McCain owes all Americans an apology for the hate spewed by his supporters.
Let's hear it, Johnny boy.
POW or POS?
Davis, Palin, McCain, and his supporters filled with hate speech do NOT get an apology because they ARE racist.
Fuck you, Rick Davis!!!
Is this guy totally nuts? Has he ever heard of the Patriot Act?
The behavior at the McCain Palin rallies is the lowest form of dispicable human behavior we've seen in 30 years and this twisted f*ck named Rick Davis expects people to apologize to these racist pigs?
Stick a fork in this guy - he's cooked.
What's more this country is telling these hate baiters and racists that we will have none of this type of dangerous behavior in our public dialogue.
They're trying to regress this country back 50 years (aw shucks, say it ain't so, Joe!). Their intention to incite riots at their rallies and it's condemnation deserves no apologies.
IT'S THE MC CAIN CAMPAIGN WHO HAS TO APOLOGIZE PROFUSELY TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE FOR WHAT THEY EACH HAVE PERSONALLY DONE TO SO TOTALLY ABUSE THEIR POWER OF THE LECTERN AND THEIR VIOLATION OF THE PATRIOT ACT.
Americans simply cannot trust McCain or Palin to represent us with wisdom and judgment after what we witnessed this week at their rallies.
These were "hate rallies" and nothing more of any substance. They have clinched the fact that John McCain and Sarah Palin not only are ethically challenged individuals who have been admonished for their abuses but who are "serial abusers" of power now as well.
How is this any different than the past 8 years of George W. Bush?
It's not.
Polls are just today beginning to reflect the diastrous damage which their hate rallies have done to their level of integrity and respect.
By Wednesday of next week, these polls will show an even more marked drop for McCain....then the final blow will be dealt during the debate on Wednesday so we will be going into next weekend with an double digit Obama lead nationally.
anonymous (not verified)
I agree. I think that, in the coming weeks, we'll see a lot of Republicans joining the disaffected, openly claiming that they can't support McCain if he continues to behave like this.
Well, I have something to say to any Republican personality who gets on tv and says that:
Not enough. You need to disavow the culture that has fanned these flames for so long to enable you to win elections on false pretenses. It's your political culture. You are a part of it. Have you defended FUX News? Stop. Condmen it. Have you defended the use of gay marriage as a wedge issue? Condemn it now.
The truth is that John McCain's behavior is the end-product of the way in which you guys have won elections for more than two decades. Thanks for noticing when it became obvious. Now offer contrition for your part and condemnation for all of it.
Tax rebate, food stamp money possible in aid plan AP - Sun Oct 12
WASHINGTON - After consulting with Barack Obama, Democratic leaders are likely to call Congress back to work after the election in hopes of passing legislation that would include extended jobless benefits, money for food stamps and possibly a tax rebate, officials said Saturday.
Tax Rebate? Food Stamps?
Come on idiots this is the extent of your creativity, force of will and imagination?
This is the last roundup baby it's time to pay for your laziness and caving in to Bush.
My head damn near spun around on this one:
Rick Davis "Barack Obama's campaign should apologize to John McCain for John Lewis's remarks."
Isn't this the same McCain campaign that claimed Lewis was one of McCains advisors, an absurdity Lewis later debunked?!
Fer chrissakes, if you guys are gonna continue making these U-turns in the middle of the fuckin' road, will you at least use a turn signal?
Until then, Davis,
PARDON MY FRENCH, BUT YOU'RE AN ASSHOLE.
And raise you ten. Rick Davis is the largest human anus on the planet! This guy thought they said "trains" instead of "brains" and he jumped on one.....lights are on/only a deviat is home.
John McCain was in a prison camp when George Wallace was making his hatemongering speeches that insighted people to violence. No wonder he doesn't realize how dangerous these kinds of tactics are (tongue in check).
Good thing we have CONGRESSMAN LEWIS WHO WAS AROUND THEN to tell us what this kind of vile rhetoric leads to.
PAY ATTENTION JOHN AND SARAH or you could go down in history as starting a race war in the USA
And here I thought they'd buried that old chestnut. And they're trying to compare based on the fact that McCain's prison term and Wallace's run occurred at roughly the same time?
While it may convince a base with no critical thinking skills, how can they think the other 75% will buy this hogwash? If anyone gets hurt, I hope Davis gets a looooooong prison sentence.
Also, C&L may want to check the ads on this site. I'm looking at a "Yes on Prop. 8" banner right now.
Citizen: Mr. Davis, why is McCain's campaign stoking fears about Obama?
Davis: We're not. You owe us an apology for saying that.
Citizen: You say that Obama "pals around with terrorists." That's not stoking fears?
Davis: The Obama campaign is the most negative in all of history going back even to Ancient Athens and their campaigns.
Citizen: Uh, well, what about your campaign? Isn't it stoking fears to say that Obama "pals around with terrorists?"
Davis: He does.
Citizen: He does?
Davis: Yes, he pals around with terrorists.
Citizen: Aside from the tenuous connection to Bill Ayers, do you have proof that he "pals around with" terrorists.
Davis: I never said he pals around with them. I'm saying his campaign is negative, and he owes us an apology.
Citizen: You just said he pals around with terrorists.
Davis: No, you said that McCain went negative. I disagree, but you don't want me to have free speech.
Citizen: Actually, sir, you said---
Davis: No, I didn't. You did. And you should be ashamed of yourself. Especially for supporting someone who pals around with terrorists.
Citizen: Good grief.
Davis: No, the country doesn't need grief, but that's all you have to offer.
Citizen: I give up.
Davis: Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, Obama's campaign has surrendered, and John McCain will be the president.
Lmao!
It's astounding how any batshit crazy talking points put forth by the Repukes are reported as God's own truth yet when the Dem's level headed response is made nothing appears. F$%#U MSM.
Face: All they ever had was McCain's POW status but when people read the Nation's new "real POW/MIA story" which directly involved McCain in a complicitous relationship with the US Government and the White House as head of the Foreign Services Committee and the intentional cover-up of those POW's left behind (families in this country have all testified about this who have lost their loved ones), there will be nothing left.
When they start dragging out McCain's tired old POW story, you know it's about time to throw in the towel.
Lookey, lookey - if this past week is any indication, I'd say the new faces of the white supremacist regressive movement would be Secessionist Sarah and John McKeating. They may make the history books - not for getting into the White House - but for being two candidates who did everything in their power to have us return to the days of race riots. What an accomplishment! The rest of the world will look at us as "easily conquerable" if that occurs. "easy pickins".
so let me get this straight...Davis says Obama needs to apologize to McCain because Lewis rightly pointed out the ugly racist and violent statements springing forth from McCain/Palin rallies, et completely ignores the racist and violent statements from McCain supporters?
Re. Damn. Diculous.
How to Sell Your Soul to the Devil
By Rick Davies, John McCain
If you are in a hurry and want to know the quickest way to sell your soul to the devil, skip the steps below and just ask any person serving on the McCain Presidential Campaign.
1)Find a cold room that has not received sunlight for three days and large piece of natural parchment paper that also has been in total darkness for three days.
2)Draw a large pentagram on the parchment paper and place it on the floor in order to protect yourself. Stay inside the pentagram from beginning to end. Treading outside it will make any mistake permanent.
3)Saturate the air with incense of your choice, and conduct the ritual in solitude to maintain full powers of concentration.
4)Take a vial of goat's blood (not sheep's blood, ever!) and scatter drops within the pentagram--but not outside it, and not on your feet. After the scattering you must not tread on the blood, otherwise you will carry it with you outside the pentagram.
visit www.sellyoursoul.com for more details or just call McCain Campaign Headquarters
I was just reading a report that McCain is considering a "new" economic plan. What is new about tax cuts? That is all McCain ever offers. McCain peddling those tax cuts is like watching a snake oil salesman peddle his wares.
Davis aka Skeletor is a huge reason the McCain campaign is in the TANK! Thank god, McCain was as desperate as he was to have hired this friggin moron to steer the McCain campaign into a cliff. And, not unlike McCain's own naval flying experience. When it's all over, I hope these two losers will enjoy eating the flesh off each other like the good ghouls they are.
Has anyone else noticed how more and more of the bobblehead conversation is steering toward "The Bradley Effect" lately?
It seems that if we go into this election with Obama polling into a sweep, that when we wake up in the morning and he has "lost" the media will attribute it all to the fact that that "certain" percentage of voters polled lied and voted their racism at the polling places.
The "Bradley Effect" can account for anywhere from 4-8% of the vote on Election Day.
The Obama camp is blowing off the idea. What do all of you think?
They've played their hand already so it will be our responsibility to do some observing at the polls in our communities.
The BradleyEffect is their spin tactic to explain why the polls will be shown to be wrong when the hack the machinery on November 4.
The Bradley Effect is pure, unadulterated bull$hit.
In fact, voting rights organizations knew the wingnuts would begin spinning this; surprisingly it's being spun prematurely as though it could be used to plant a seed. No seeds planted by any of this. People know what's happening and will bring anyone even remotely associated with vote hardware tampering to swift and immediate justice this time.
Forewarned is forearmed: Go to www.blackboxvoting.org and www.bradblog.com to stay updated on the ongoing chicanery of the Bush/Rove/McCain diabolical vote rigging campaign.
go to www.blackboxvoting.com to get involved in helping to keep these elections honest.
Abbywood,
I have predicted for a long time that, as the election approached, we'd hear more and more about it. Now, please do not misunderstand me -- the Bradley Effect is real. There will indeed be many who will balk at voting for Obama simply because he is black. But the media is not interested in that.
The media is laying the foundation to EXPLAIN AWAY THE FRAUD. If McCain manages to ascend to the White House, we'll hear all sorts of retrospective about how Americans just weren't ready to vote for a black person after all. It will be a lie. It will be a way to keep the conversation from going to the fraud that took place.
Frankly, we don't know how the Bradley Effect will transpire. There may even be a reverse Bradley Effect --- people who think they'd never vote for a Democrat, much less a black Democrat, who will find themselves doing so in this economy, much to their own surprise.
Whatever happens, we can't let the conversation get steered away from fraud should the Bradley Effect become the reason de jour for McCain's startling win.
WTF
That is some of the most twisted logic I have ever heard. Davis is a deluded hypocrite.
That's right....but you're using sound logic. No one left in the McCain cadre of dunces uses sound logic any longer.
It's all holds barred and all hell's broken lose for this gang of wingnut extremists as they shoot themselves in the foot - over - and over - and over again....every day of the week.
As if we haven't been remined a zillion times since it's the only real integrity this man has ever had....but here's what's worse. With the new findings about John McCain's "real POW story he doesn't want you to know" we realize that his being tortured was only half of a story....the rest has been hidden and classified; that is, until now.
When you realize that it was McCain's own error in judgment which got him shot down and imprisoned, it all begins to point right back to what
we've ever known about this man. He's a wingnut who doesn't have the sense of judgment to get out of his own way....his "stunts" over the past 3 weeks have sealed that conclusion. But don't believe me, check this out for yourself:
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20081006/schanberg
"... in the '60s by somebody like George Wallace is outrageous. Where was John McCain ..."
gosh, just how long was mcBOMB a POW?
Dang will you look at his nostrils! He could snort a kilo up one side and not miss a beat.
This guy Davis is a lobbyist who doesn`t know that Davis was an adviser to McCain.So of coase, he takes the victim role .Poor John.Just because he incites fear and hate mongering,What the hell,man he`s a POW.
I meant that Lewis was a McCain adviser.
I meant that Lewis was a McCain adviser.
You know, that POW shit is getting to be really old hat. insanemccain's status as a POW has been used in every conceivable way to excuse every conceivable wrongdoing.
insane and caribou barbie ARE trying to incite racial hatred and they think we're so fucking stupid that we dont know what theyre doing! They are both ethically, intellectually and morally challenged!
"Nobody has sacrified as much as John McCain." Excuuuuse me! What about the thousands of troops who died, who are horribly maimed, who have lost their minds? insanemccain owns 13 houses and 7 cars. he wears $500 shoes, travels in private airplanes. Doesnt sound like he's suffering much to me!!
rick davis is a fucking asshole and HE owes an apology to every soldier who has been wounded in the rethug's ILLEGAL oil war and to the families of the soldiers who died in that war. And until he does apologise to all those people, he can bite me!
Excuse me, but weren't there POW who happened to be African American too? Arent there hundreds of thousands of African Americans who have served and are serving NOW in the military? WHAT message does this bigotry send to them? Your only good enough for cannon fodder but not good enough for President?
I was a Teenaged Werewolf myself.
Here's the truth about the lack of integity of John McCain. No one has suffered like him? I beg to differ. How about the soldiers we knowingly left behind? What do their families think when they see this John McCain who did his best to cover up the fact that their loved ones were knowingly left behind and the fact was classified? How about them, Johnny Integrity-less?
Read this and cry:
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20081006/schanberg
From NBC/NJ's Athena Jones
In a statement, Obama-Biden spokesman Bill Burton writes that, while Obama does not agree with the comparison of McCain's campaign to those of segregation advocate George Wallace, he does believe that Rep. John Lewis is justified in his condemnation of "the hateful rhetoric that John McCain himself personally rebuked just last night," as well as Palin's assertion that the candidate "pals around with terrorists."
Here's the full statement: “Senator Obama does not believe that John McCain or his policy criticism is in any way comparable to George Wallace or his segregationist policies. But John Lewis was right to condemn some of the hateful rhetoric that John McCain himself personally rebuked just last night, as well as the baseless and profoundly irresponsible charges from his own running mate that the Democratic nominee for President of the United States ‘pals around with terrorists.’ As Barack Obama has said himself, the last thing we need from either party is the kind of angry, divisive rhetoric that tears us apart at a time of crisis when we desperately need to come together. That is the kind of campaign Senator Obama will continue to run in the weeks ahead,” said Obama-Biden spokesman Bill Burton.
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/1...
"The minute they see me, fear me
I'm the epitome - a public enemy
Used, abused without clues
I refused to blow a fuse
They even had it on the news"
-- PE, 1988
If anyone doubts McCains imbalanced and depraved sense of judgment, just look and listen to the CHOICES of Rick Daavis and Sarah Palin for key positions. IN ALL OF THE REPUB PARTY and its consultants-WHAT does this say about McCain that he would choose such low quality bottom feeders as these two?
Maybe this gentleman would be interested in reading what JOHN LEWIS, his target here, was going during those 1960s:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lewis_(politician)#Early_life_and_activism
NOBODY has the right to question John Lewis's love of country or his patriotism, ot his activism. He has "served his country" as well if not better than John McCain.
There is this very basic rule of human interaction. If you do not want people to think you are a racist hate monger then it would behoove you not to act like a racist hate monger. Demanding that one person apologize to you because another person pointed out that you are acting like a racist hate monger is priceless!
Didn't McCain crash a plane into the USS Forrestal and kill 133 soldiers?
McCain also has a friend whom McCain defended against a heroin trafficking rap that killed a black man at a rally that led to the Voting Rights Act.
Maybe Davis wants to be careful here.
So one of the three people McCain admires most in the whole world and would seek advice from gives his advice and McCain and his people are outraged??? McCain's campaign staff knows perfectly that they are trying to stir up the racist leanings and fears in people. These are smart people. Amoral, but smart. I don't buy their phony outrage.
Lewis should have compared PALIN to George Wallace. It's not McCain's fault his followers are getting so riled up.
No. Not at all. He has no control over his own campaign. He's the innocent bystander in his campaign. Thansk for pointing that out Ali.
So one of the three people McCain admires most in the whole world and would seek advice from gives his advice and McCain and his people are outraged??? McCain's campaign staff knows perfectly that they are trying to stir up the racist leanings and fears in people. These are smart people. Amoral, but smart. I don't buy their phony outrage.
What's ironic about saying mcgramps was a POW during the George McGovern era, is to this day, mcgramps refers to "gooks."
And whether people think it was too little too late, McGovern tried to compensate for his past actions.
)O(
Ali
I disagree. If they speak in your name, with your blessing, as your surrogate, you are responsible. The buck stops at the top, so to speak. Not to mention that the "riling" up didn't happen at one isolated event and most certainly happened at rallies he was present at.
GOOD CHRIST, ENOUGH with the POW excuses already!
McCain is FOREVER stuck in the past. He has no future.
But don't count mcgramps out yet. In the last week, another state court recognized gay marriage, so expect them to run on that for the next 3 weeks or so.
)O(
If the GOP steals this election, too, which group do you think they'll round up for the camps first?
Well, i hope it's me. At least the Salvation Army and the Red Cross will bring my care packages and I won't have to say I was a part of any of it.
Not if you're gay. The Salvation Army thinks being gay is immoral.
We had a Christmas gay dance and the admission price was a new toy or game for underprivileged children. When we took a truckload to the Salvation Army, they refused to accept our newly bought toys. "They were gotten through immoral means and would taint the children that touched them." So we took them to a sane chairty.
Edwin
That's terrible. Ok, so I'll refuse my salvation army pack and just take my red cross one. Deal?
Wallace gave his famous line "segregation today, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever!" in 1962. That was five years before McCain was shot down in Vietnam.
However, in 2005, McCain joined the segregationist CCC in endorsing George Wallage Jr. for Lt. Governor in Alabama.
and when ABBA had their first hit?????
I've been doing a bit of my own unscientific research. Yesterday I was all over YouTube, for hours, with the most vile (yet clever) attacks against anyone supporting McCain/Palin. Normally, my Email would be filled with about 100+ replies today, telling me to kill myself, etc. Today there was only one; about the economy. Yesterday a Republican Emailed me to say that while they disagree with my standpoint, I made a very convincing and coherent arguement that they are now thinking over.
I loves me the net.
I can't believe the McCain campaign can stoop so low as to demand that Obama apologize. When I heard that ignorant woman speak in Lakeville MN I was appalled. Seriously if your political and civil education consists of Rush and Bill O'Really don't vote. Get a real education. Anybody who calls Obama an Arab and is afraid of him (the candidate who makes sense) should be embarrassed to stand up in public. Unbelievable. We are a nation of dumbazzes.
John McCain has repeatedly expressed his admiration for the late Chief Justice Rehnquist who was well known here in Arizona for his minority voter suppression activities before he was appointed to the Supreme Court. And the Senator's knee jerk support for killing affirmative action? Nuff said.
McCain-Palin's insecure God...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5g0d3_KE5js
Dear republiKKKans, neocons, evangeliKKKals, racists, secessionists, bigots, and fellow travelers who have worshiped George Bush for 7 years: [Deleted. OTT. Site Monitor]
If they're saying that Lewis tends to make "reprehensible" comments and spout "outrageous" rethoric what does this say about the man that considers Lewis one of the three wisest people that he knows that he would rely on heavily in an administration? Surely some one who relys on the counsel of "reprehensible" and "outrageous" people isn't fit to govern anything?
Not about the issues is it Rick? No shit, genius, To you, it's about lies, deception, and distortion, thanks to your crap ass campaign--because that's all you have left. You don't have real world solutions---but all the time in the world to defame and smear others. Fuck you, you filthy pig, and you will get what you deserve on Nov. 4th when your pandering liar of candidate gets his fool ass kicked.
I have friends who endured the horrors of being held prisoner by an opposing force during war. Most of them don't discuss it much and none of them use their experience as a "get out of jail free" card for everything from lying to people, to farting in church.
McCain's political exploitation cheapens the heroism of those endured the same - or worse, than he. I'm a non-partisan kind of guy, but this disgusts me and it infuriates me that this vulgar little lobbyist pimp is on television trying to sell POW-ness as though it were a new brand of antiperspirant.
No wonder McCain is losing. I'm nothing special. If I can figure this out, anyone can.
Sorry, Dude, but nobody knows sacrifice like half of Americans. You certainly don't.
"Davis was paid $2 million over five years as president of an advocacy group set up by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac."
See: http://www.usnews.com/articles/opinion/2008/0...
Rep. Lewis clarifies controversial remarks about McCain, Palin
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Georgia Rep. John Lewis said Saturday that controversial remarks he made comparing the feeling at recent Republican rallies to those of segregationist George Wallace were misinterpreted.
The civil rights icon issued a statement Saturday evening which said a "careful review" of his remarks made earlier in the day "would reveal that I did not compare Sen. John McCain or Gov. Sarah Palin to George Wallace."
McCain said Lewis' earlier statement was "a brazen and baseless attack" and called on Sen. Barack Obama to repudiate it.
[...]
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/12/mccain...
"Where was John McCain when George Wallace was spreading his hate and segregationist policies at that time? He was in a Vietnam prison camp serving his country with his civil rights also denied."
And Obama was 8 years old, had nothing to do with the alleged acts of Ayers and Rick wants a free pass?
I'm so sick of the POW bs. Anyone incompetent enough to be captured by our enemies is not qualified for public office. That's 5 years he was under the influence of a foreign entity. And obviously he's a deranged babbling idiot as a result.
So Rick needs to STFU and get out of politics. We've suffered enough as a nation with the likes of him and McDummy messing things up. No more lobbyists! No more McCain! No more fundamentalists! No more republicans!!!!
Rick Davis continually likes to tought that Sen John Sidny McCain III
has sacrificed like no other man in America ever could.
McCain himself briefly sais in the past, "there were others that suffered much more than he".
Rick Davis never has publicly displayed any grief or thankfulness for any of the U.S. Military that died and did not return from vietnam alive, WHICH MCCAIN DID RETURN ALIVE.
I never seen Rick Davis at the Vietnam Memorial Wall?
I Rick Davis using John McCain's service to cover his (Davis') lack of military heroics?
I dont mean to dis anyone who was unfortunate enough to get caught by those we were invading (like the Vietnamese)... but WHAT in the hell does THAT have to do with qualifying someone to lead a nation? With regard to presidential candidates, I DONT GIVE A RATS ASS if the candidate was a POW... really... I don't.
What? What am I missing here? If I am a POW in a Viet Cong prison, how can I be serving my country? In fact, I let my country down!
They fucking caught me! That's why I'm being tortured. I bombed the fucked out them civilians, I killed them, ravage them, and then, let them captured me. I fucking deserve to be tortured and be castrated. No. Not the family jewells!
Ricky has as serious delusion problem.
go to this and you will see JUST WHO McNUT is. Its all about HIM
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/m...
Rick Davis, God bless his pointed little head, is missing the point. If he wants to present that premiseas a way of somehow excusing McCain's choices and behaviors and condemn someone who calls McCain out on it, then the obvious reply is, "Then, John McCain ought to know better than to resort to the racist, hating-baiting rhetoric that he has been relentlessly and deliberately spewing. Because he should know better, and must be presumed to, in fact, know better, it makes his actions all the more reprehensible. John McCain is even more blameworthy than he would otherwise have been. More, this behavior and sets of choices that John McCain has made offer one more proof that John McCain does not learn from experiences, including those that should have burned the lesson deep into his soul".
Ever notice how these GOPer ideologues seem never to have developed the capacity to consider the consequences of their thinking, their choices and their actions? Rick Davis is a perfect example of that failing.
Now, let's be real: One of the reasons McBush is so hell bent on winning this war in Iraq---a war that was both unnecessary and illegal---may have more to do with being affiliated with a war many in the world view as America losing. The way the soldiers were treated when they came home wasn't very fair, and the Viet Cong were a totally different type of enemy America had seen. There is honor in serving one's nation. Yes, there were many other brave soldiers of all races, creed and colors (and even sexual persuation) that were POW's, but McBush's time in a POW camp must have been especially troubling---that is, according to him.
Now, about his judgement. It was proven that it wasn't good when he sided with Bush on 90-95% of his ridiculous and inept policies. He proved it when he selected Caribou Barbie to be his running mate. He proved it when he publicly blindsided his own party on last week's presidential debate, claiming that, if elected, he would order the Secy. of Treasury to buy up all the bad debts in the housing market. That would give the financial industry an extra $300 billion on top of the $700 billion bailout they've already received. There is nothing left to prove, as far as his judgement is concerned.
Being a POW does not qualify a person to be president. Pointing out the truthful encounters Obama had with Ayers is politically correct,but that is not what Davis is doing, nor does the RNC ad. Be specific - Ayers was hosting a number of politicians and he invited Obama. Correction one: Obama's political career had already started - that wasn't the beginning. Obama served on the very large Annenberg Foundation Board to advocate for needy people of South Side Chicago. Ayers was on the board as well. Correction two: There is NO evidence they ever even sat near each other at any of these meetings. Find that out and I might be convinced there was some kind of connection there. Obama lives in the same neighborhood as Ayers. Correction three: When Obama says they are neighbors. That is true. Yet there is NO evidence that they have any connection now other than that. I noticed that Davis points out that McCain was a POW when George Wallace was a known politician, then why not remind us as well that Obama was 8 when Ayers was the radical anti-Vietnam protester. Obama didn't know any more about reformed Ayers' past than Davis is claiming McCain knows/knew about Wallace.
Yes, he was a POW. But now it sounds like Scott Kurtz's Batman parody comic strip where Batman's answer to everything is, "My parents are dead!"
http://www.pvponline.com/my-parents-are-dead/
Why are all McBush Reslugs liars sooooooo damn ugly, creepy, bathroom stalking looking?
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