A minimal reflection on the John McCain moment
The stars are aligned. A change must come.
Boy, am I relieved! I just learned this from watching the John McCain Republican video.
“134 men died that day. Somehow John McCain was spared. Perhaps it is because he had other things to do.”
Feeling all warm and fuzzy now. I’m sure everything will be alright.
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He had other things to do like have his mother sue Carol McCain
That’s creepy.
I have the utmost respect for John McCain’s service, but that’s an inappropriate way to present it.
Perhaps those other 134 men had nothing to offer to society or their families, they were expendable
Only bit players in God’s plans.
Maybe they were democrats?
Say what you want about McCain but I was really impressed by what his wife has done with her life.
You mean coming back from her felony conviction for stealing narcotics from a noin-profit agency’s drug cabinet, hiring high priced lawyers with her inheritence money to get her a plea bargin when you or I would have gone to prison?
yes, that’s commendable.
It’s funny how Republicabns like to talk about accepting responsibilty…when it comes to others.
We all know that god loves republicans. Speaking of which did anyone catch the editorial today in the d and c in which Bob Lonsberry was called out for his further hypocrisy on the out of wedlock birth issue.
When young black and predominantly poor women get pregnant they are (well fill in the blanks) when well off daughters of republican candidates get pregnant wells that fine.
The gist of the editorial is if we have sympathy and compassion toward one, we ought to have compassion towards the others too.
We all have skeletons in our closet, but I thought you’d be happy with the good things she’s accomplished. Apparently you are too partisan to do that.
Do you mean sympathy and compassion as in the new edition of “Us” magazine, or the reason why the Palin family had to announce Bristol’s pregnancy in the first place?
You lose again Elmer.
It’s one thing to have skeletons, its another to use power and money to escape responsiblity.
Here’s my fav with Cindy…every night she wore a nice diamond brooch, “USMC NAVY” and spoke of her husband’s sacrifice in Vietnam.
How quaint.
Problem is when John was in the Navy he was married to another woman who stood by him as he was away and when he came back adjusting to civilian life.
He dumped her for the rich chick…
Not exactly my kind of conservative value.
“…had to announce…”
Please stop.
Perhaps as Barbie’s daughter was about to pass security on the way to the convention the nice officer would ask, “Excuse me miss, is that a basketball under your dress?”
I imagine you hate Bill Clinton then for his infidelity? And his wife for putting up with it?
Your bitterness is showing. I don’t even dislike the Clintons
Palin has a favorable rating by 33% of Democrats!
There is a strong partisan gap when it comes to perceptions of Palin. Eighty-nine percent (89%) of Republicans give her favorable reviews along with 33% of Democrats and 59% of voters not affiliated with either major party.
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/election_20082/2008_presidential_election/palin_power_fresh_face_now_more_popular_than_obama_mccain
If they all agree that John McCain is the man to support, along with Palin who has her own version of “Troopergate” going on…I would like to know why the political signs up do NOT proudly proclaim “Republican” on them? Neither do their TV commercials! It must be embarrassment, because when I look them up on the internet, I find they are indeed Republican. Guess they don’t want to advertise that aspect of their political office attempt.
You’re kidding right? The announcement was made in response to stories coming from the Left Wing Blogosphere, insisting Trig was actually Bristol’s child.
As an example, from the Boston Herald;
“While Barack Obama has said people’s families are off limits, it was the left-wing bloggers who alleged that Bristol was really the mother of Palin’s fifth child, Trig - forcing the governor to announce the teen pregnancy.”
Haven’t seen any Obama signs. Do they have Democrat on them?
??????
http://store.youdecide2008.com/cafe_detail.php?item=297472675
http://www.positivelybarack.com/2008/08/23/obama-biden-bumper-stickers/
Try a google search for Obama/Biden bumper stickers and lawn signs and see how many mention party affiliation. I gave up half way through page two - zero results. I have to believe name recognition is far more important than party affiliation when you’re paying a “by the letter” per unit price.
Oops - I take that back. I looked through a few more. What party is the “Democratic Stuff” party? It is an awful small mention, maybe the company just is trying to hype their product by piggybacking Senator Obama.
Actually Elmer, no they don’t. Just drove past one on the way back to the office after running some errands. Partial picture of the US Flag, Below that “Obama/Biden” and under that, “www.barackobama.com
And many towns have time limits on yard signs - can’t put them out until 30 or 60 days before the election depending on your town. Since some towns actually remove signs (and destroy them), people are careful with those resources.
Let’s give the public some time to learn what Palin is really all about - the fundamentalist end-timer rhetoric will eventually be discussed.
I suspect many opinions will change when people realize she doesn’t believe in evolution. The scientists among us will speak out.
At that level, everyone knows. I agree that I find it frustrating when the local signs don’t include that - but that goes for both parties.
What??? So people who just got hold of a “Obama/Biden” sign for their yard didn’t put one up mentioning they’re Democrats because of a town ordinance? So, by your reasoning, they’re going to take the first sign down and put up another later with “Democrat Party” boldly displayed somewhere on it just prior to the actual election?
Try doing a google search on Obama/Biden, either with yard signs or bumper stickers as part of the search criteria. I did and found 95% of them on the first three pages (I stopped after that) make no mention of their party affiliation. How about the common sense answer to your musings is that since any of this stuff has a per letter pricing structure the people buying them are far more concerned about name recognition than party affiliation. Ya know, marketing brand recognition and that sort of thing.
I would think that if a voter is not educated enough to know that Obama is the Democrat dude and that McCain is the Republican dude we are probably better off if they stay home on election day.
huh? I think she was just commenting on why there weren’t more signs out yet.
Yep, I think Andrea’s right on the nose with that. where are you coming from Wormwood?
I was answering “Jazz”. She implied there is an underlying reason the McCain signs have no party affiliation on them and I disputed that argument. As most posts about a topic do, this has morphed since then.
To answer your other question la, I’m coming to you from my office, why?
ok, you replied to Jane, so that’s where the mix up was.
OK, bad computer. This was in response to Elmo.
You like to create conclusions from thin air. If that makes you feel better, good for you.
I don’t hate these people, they are what they are.
Bill lied and he was punished appropriately. He doesn’t deny it today nor does he condem others for lapses in their personal lives. He was wrong.
Whatever you think of Hillary she made a personal decision to stick it out. That’s a conservative value. better or worse, with all their faults, ’til death do you part…
Its a family value thing.
Cindy stole drugs from a non-profit agency, commited adultery and refuses to acknowledge what she did was wrong.
Not very conservative.
here’s yours…
You’re kidding right?
Yes, it was those mysterious left-wing bloggers. The ones who secretly direct the McCain campaign. (I can hear the theme from Twilight Zone now…)
Of course only those awful “left wing bloggers” would have noticed Barbie’s 17 year old daughter waddle in like the Hidenburg.
Certainly the extremist in the religious right who like to berate everyone else for having loose morals, would have simply thought she had gas…
The “Bush-Palin” signs have the Republican logo on them.
He lied under oath - if he wasn’t pwoerful he would have spent time in jail just like the common people would
DINOs
Go to the DU site and you will see numerous postings that insist Trig is actually Bristol’s child, not Sarah’s. Nothing “mysterious” about it. It’s there.
He’s saying that regardless of the rumors, they would have to admit it because she would be showing soon if not already.
Perhaps you are not familiar with the case, his guilty plea or the sentence he received.
Andrea,
Thank you.
One could hear in Barbie’s speech the Rovians at work. Instead of saying anything positive or meaningful all we heard was meaningless hate drivel.
Poor Sarah, “I’m the victim…boo hoo… I’m gonna fight those meanies at the evil elite media.”
“I’m a pit bull with lipstick…watch me growl…grrrrrr”
I’ll bet the Ruskies are shivering in their jackboots!
PS: My fav FOX commentary of the night by Sean Hannity, he was agush how well she handled the “crisis” when the teleprompter quit working and she knew enough to read her speech from the papers in front of her.
All I can add is Vladimir beware!!!
A pit bull with lipstick….grrrrr!
And ALL of my comments have been in response to this post from “realgreecer”,
“The gist of the editorial is if we have sympathy and compassion toward one, we ought to have compassion towards the others too.”
The Us magazine cover story and the DU postings are a stark contrast to that. So far, everyone here seems to skim over that without a second thought. Both the publication’s owner and the website mentioned lean Progressive hard.
As a correlation, last spring John and Elizabeth Edwards were “courageous” to move forward with his Presidential bid despite her recurrence of cancer. On the other hand, Sarah Palin is a bad mother for not putting her family first and declining the VP nomination. More nuance I guess.
“There is a strong partisan gap when it comes to perceptions of Palin”
See, ladkiddo, despite the fact that Elmer doesn’t know the difference between a man and a woman, he’s a veritable genius when it comes to political science.
Perhaps he thought that at the Republican party-party the delgates (including the 13 black folk who showed up-Elmer, really who let them in? and why did they make them sit together at the back of the hall?) would publicly wonder “John, what the f**k were you thinking?”
the difference is that Barbie is running for the vice-presidency. A heart beat away from the big desk with the red phone, and these are policy issues.
To compare a woman getting breast cancer with getting pregnant is simply over the top. If you can’t understand the difference ask your wife/girlfriend/mother/the girl next door which she would rather have, a pregnancy or breast cancer.
This matters because Barbie wouldn’t allow comprehensive sex-ed in Alaska’s schools based upon a personal religious belief, despite the fact that sex-ed programs are known to reduce teen pregnancies.
This doesn’t make her “real”, it makes her daughter another sad statistic of failed religious right wing extremist polices.
I couldn’t care less about US magazine or nitwit bloggers at DU, I care about religious zealots and hypocrites running the country, and no one here said anything about Barbie being a bad mom,
It’s her phoniness, her daughter gets to make her own medical decisions, but if she gets to be the big cheese she’s promising see to it the government gets to make yours.
We don’t need government in the examining room telling us what our medical options are.
That’s not Goldwater conservatism, that’s the mark of religious extremism in the republican party.
Fora president of the United States, lying under oath is pretty bad - and he wasn’t really punished
Barbie? I think you are a sexist pig. My girls played with Barbie dolls and the dolls didn’t have 5 kids. If you can’t think of something smart to say, just call her a name.
Elmer,
He was disbarred and paid a $25,000 fine.
This is actually a stiff penalty for a civil case perjury.
Do you just not know the facts or do you say these things to stir the pot?
Is that Elmer calling someone a sexist pig? lol. That’s rich.
Yes, Governor Barbie, a plastic doll with no susbstance.
Hey, guess why they stopped talking about Barbie being Commander-in-chief of the Alaska National Guard at the convention?
I would just like to point out here that the choice of Sarah Palin for VP is doing exactly what John McCain wanted it to do-distract from his candidacy. Had this discussion with Stlo7 yesterday. “Don’t look at the old white guy-look over here at this Chickey-babe”
This post was about John McCain. what is the thread talking about?
Interesting
Elmer,
Are you saying that you’re not a sexist because you let your daughters play with Barbie dolls??????
Elmer, you obviously never had access to the special edition, “Redneck Barbie” with special edition, “Mullet Ken”. They had 13 kids, no access to birth control and didn’t believe in abortion. You could buy the mobile home separately, complete with toilet in the front yard. She comes, complete, with a 1982 Ski-doo and a 30-06 rifle.
I was not referring to the signs for the Presidential Race, people!!! It is the local races I was referring to. If you don’t know, by LAST YEAR, what party Obama or McCain belong to…then you are one of those people that make me throw up my hands in disgust!
But hey…I’m too poor to vote Republican anyway.
bullseye, ladkiddo
Thanks Itchy, but it’s actually bullseye, Stlo7.