Huh. Is this what the Republicans mean when they talk about strong leadership?
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And the neocons think this man should be in the Presidency. Wow.
Strong stench of delusions of entitlement.
No, this is more like Senator McCain trying to make a joke and sounding like a sarcastic smartass.
This campaign has REALLY done a number on his charm. He tries to be Reagan, his hero, but this whole fall is full of FAIL- he’s snippy, he’s lost his “base” in the press, he resents sharing the stage with Senator Obama. It’s really awful. I think John Weaver (his ex-aide) is right- they should have let McCain be McCain on the campaign trail. It might not have worked, but he’s lost a lot of middle America that was inclined to positively view him before the Bushies decided to have him be Bush 2.0- rigidly on message and so on.
Instead, they have the worst of both worlds: you get the randomness of the Palin pick and parachuting into DC for the bailout negotiations, and a campaign full of spin, juvenile talking points and flip-flops based on the news cycle that’s completely undermined his image. The sad part is Hillary’s campaign was pretty undisciplined and clueless at times… and they probably did a better job against Obama than McCain’s campaign is doing (granted, the overall gestalt favors a Democrat, but some of the things the McCain campaign’s done have just been terrible, optically and substantively).
Lies told by John McCain.
Samples:
5. McCain has repeatedly accused Obama of supporting higher taxes on people making as little as $42,000 a year. “Two times, on March 14, 2008 and June 4, 2008, in the Democratic budget resolution, he voted to raise taxes on people making just $42,000 per year,” McCain said this week. But this is a misleading claim: Obama’s votes were for nonbinding resolutions, which supported allowing certain Bush administration tax cuts to expire but didn’t actually have the effect of raising taxes.
6. In a July visit to Colorado, McCain told voters: “I want to look you in the eye: I will not raise your taxes nor support a tax increase. I will not do it.” Last Sunday, however, McCain acknowledged to ABC’s George Stephanopoulos that his health care plan could lead to some people paying taxes on employer-provided health insurance.
7. McCain’s campaign claimed adviser Rick Davis had taken a leave of absence from his firm, Davis Manafort, and vigorously attacked a New York Times story suggesting that Davis had profited from Davis Manafort’s relationship with mortgage lender Freddie Mac. “Mr. Davis has seen no income from Davis Manafort since 2006,” wrote McCain spokesman Michael Goldfarb, who called the Times story “demonstrably false.”
“Mr. Davis has never — never — been a lobbyist for either Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac.”
But Davis Manafort was receiving $15,000 monthly payments from Freddie Mac as recently as August, and while the payments didn’t go to Davis personally he still stands to gain from the success of his firm.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QIGJTHdH50
A pretty amazing speech by the AFL-CIO’s Richard Trumka. To see a white union man take on racism this way is very moving. Something truly profound could happen in this election, if we want it to:
eponymous@3 — Yep. Bad self-deprecating humor and not much more, if you ask me.
6 Cyn
Unions suck–unless you belong to one.
Watch for the Employee Free Choice Act to pass in 2009 and president Obama to sign it into law.
Hey wingers, where’s todays Rasmussen poll? Hmm. I haven’t see it–wonder why?
Oh, I think we all know…
Notice Cynical avoids the subject of the post, because he really sees nothing wrong with having a dictator, as long as it is his dictator.
Way to be above the fray there Goldy. You lost one point on my Matty Meter with what is obviously a contextual remark. You were at a +4….now down to a +3. You wanna share the larger video?
@12: Sounds like a recent diatribe from no-spin Bill, who said that Bush is in a race to the bottom with (James? Pat?) Buchanan.
Mr. Cynical,
Can you sell me a goat cheap? Or maybe I could trade you a slightly used pig for one. I got rid of all the lip stick.
The democrat tards on this blog would be a little more upset about taxes if they actually
paid any. It took me a while to figure it out.
You stupid fucks are hoping Obama actually sends you 1000 so you can balance out your
Blockbuster account and start renting movies
again. Pathetic.
McCain would be alot better dictator than
B. Hussein the muslim traitor. You tards have
reached a new low, never thought I’d see
what is transpiring.
I just hope democrats taste like chicken.
Where is the smartest man in the world, Al Gore? We need you Al. Save us John Kerry!
@16 “never thought I’d see
what is transpiring”
You have thoughts???
Hey whats with all the goat stuff?
@18 Dan Quayle will be watching tonight with great interest. In a few hours he’ll no longer be considered the dumbest VP candidate in American history.
@20 “Hey whats with all the goat stuff?”
It’s pretty obvious, isn’t it? Marvin and Cynical are negotiating a simple exchange with each other – a pig for a goat. If they’re both happy with the deal, then just let them be.
Maybe mark is interested in goats also. It wouldn’t be surprising.
Hey mark, you like your goats still kicking or fresh killed?
Of course mark might be interested in other barn yard animals. Maybe chickens. Or sheep.
@15: Mark is so stupid he doesn’t even know that Obama will lower taxes more than McCain. He is typical of the right wingers who are so brainwashed they don’t even know a lie by McCain when they hear it.
In addition, I have calculated that Obama will sabve me over 1,000 in taxes plus at least another 2-3K for health care (McCain’s plan will cost way more) and not counting the college tuition benefit. I can’t afford McCain.
I do notice McCain just voted for the pork laden bill that was passed in the senate to entice the House republicans (the one’s Mccain could NOT deliver originally) to vote for it – I spell it HYPOCRITE.