Archive for the 'John McCain' Category
No One Speaks About My Maverick That Way
Posted on June 30, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under 2008 presidential election, John McCain, the media | Leave a Comment
The media will fight to the death to protect its beloved and sainted hero.
Rick Klein, blogging at ABC News:
Clark’s comments seem to miss a vital point about the McCain campaign: Yes, his military service is part of his stock campaign biography, but McCain is not running on that record nearly as much as he’s running [...]
Why Does Wes Clark Hate America?!?
Posted on June 30, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under 2008 presidential election, John McCain, Wesley Clark | Leave a Comment
Someone needs to stop this Wes Clark character from running around spitting on our troops. I don’t know who he thinks he is1, but he has absolutely no standing to impugn the experience of St. John McCain. The man was a prisoner in the Hanoi Hilton, for chrissakes!
What is “General” Clark really a general of, [...]
A Bit More Fairness, Perhaps
Posted on June 27, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under 2008 presidential election, John McCain, Richard Nixon, Uncategorized, Watergate | 1 Comment
I’m obviously no McCain supporter in this election (other than the part where I’m constantly propagandizing for him), but this attack strikes me as a bit over the top.
Well, here’s what McCain said (about Nixon and Watergate) at the time, according to the book that I’m currently reading entitled Man of the People: The Life [...]
More McCain Green Screen Awesomeness
Posted on June 26, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under 2008 presidential election, John McCain, Madonna, The Colbert Report | Leave a Comment
From last night’s episode of Colbert, this entry is even better than the Pulp Fiction one:
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Awesome Entry In Stephen Colbert’s ‘Make McCain Interesting’ Green Screen Challenge
Posted on June 20, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under John McCain, Jurassic Park, Pulp Fiction, The Colbert Report, movies | Leave a Comment
This is hysterical1:
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Personally, I would have inserted McCain into the dinner table scene from Jurassic Park. (You know, the one with, “Rape of the natural world!” “The only one on my side is the bloodsucking lawyer!” “You slapped it on a plastic lunchbox, and [...]
Nice Of Them To Finally Admit It
Posted on June 20, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under 2004 presidential election, George W Bush, John McCain, Republican party, Swift Boaters, ratfucking, the media | Leave a Comment
Jonathan Martin has an interesting article at the Politico discussing the current non-existence of any “Swift Boat”-style groups preparing to fight for the Republicans in this presidential election. While sources from both parties tell Martin they expect the eventual emergence of the groups, no one has yet come forward with the willingness and the money [...]
Things I The American People Don’t Care About
Posted on June 19, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under 2008 presidential election, Barack Obama, John McCain, campaign finance | 3 Comments
Yes, obsessive watchers of politics (myself included) care about Obama’s decision to opt out of public financing, but I’m 99% certain that the following statements are true of 99% of the people who will vote in November:
They don’t really know how the public financing system works.
They don’t particularly care how it works because they know [...]
Habeas For All
Posted on June 17, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under 2008 presidential election, John McCain, Osama bin Laden, detainee abuse, habeas corpus | Leave a Comment
This is the new McCain attack?
In a question posed toward the end of the call by Stephen Hayes of the Weekly Standard, the McCain campaign might have found a new talking point with which to emphasize the possible effect of the Gitmo decision. Hayes’ asked if – in the campaign’s interpretation – the Court’s decision would mean [...]
It’s Just Sailor Talk
Posted on June 12, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under 2008 presidential election, John McCain, The "c-word" watch, The Daily Show | Leave a Comment
Jon Stewart finally picked up on John McCain being a borderline-abusive douchebag. I can’t seem to find the right clip, but if you select the full episode video, the bit is about 3 minutes in.
Here’s a screen grab that is now my desktop wallpaper:
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Not Good Enough
Posted on June 11, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under 2008 presidential election, Iraq war, John McCain | Leave a Comment
Marc Ambinder (and I’m sure others will make similar arguments; his just happens to be the first I saw) is already accusing Democrats of playing unfairly with McCain’s “not too important” remark regarding bringing our soldiers home from Iraq. In summary, Ambinder believes that Democrats ought to acknowledge the context of McCain’s comments, in which [...]
Maybe He Doesn’t Really Want To Be President
Posted on June 11, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under 2008 presidential election, Iraq war, John McCain, supporting the troops | 1 Comment
You’re kidding, right?
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Every Republican in the country just winced in unison.
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BWAHAHAHA
Posted on June 11, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under 2008 presidential election, John McCain | Leave a Comment
Too funny. Via Atrios Attaturk.
Sadly, Team McCain seems to have discovered what was happening and took down the comment feature. Still… Adventures in not knowing how to run a campaign website. Like I said, this guy just isn’t very good on the proverbial trail.
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John McCain Is Your Grandfather
Posted on June 10, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under 2008 presidential election, John McCain | Leave a Comment
I think I’m supposed to be making fun of John McCain for his latest campaign trail blunders in which he declared, “Basically, it’s a Google,” and, “I will veto every single beer.”
Unfortunately, I don’t really have anything funny to say about the remarks. I do think they speak to something I discussed at length this [...]
Do You Really Want An Answer?
Posted on June 9, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under "family values", 2008 presidential election, Barack Obama, John McCain | Leave a Comment
Matthew Yglesias on the end of John McCain’s first marriage:
Now I have ample other reasons for thinking Barack Obama would be a better President than McCain, so I’m not going to pretend that this is my key driving force. But I’ll agree with Nick Beaudrot that “I’m really curious what the more explicitly family-values-oriented conservatives [...]
McCain’s Speech
Posted on June 3, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under 2008 democratic primary, 2008 presidential election, Barack Obama, John McCain | Leave a Comment
Obviously I have my biases here, but it honestly feels as thought Senator McCain is more concerned with defining himself as what he is not than with defining himself as what he is. I’m not complaining because he’s attacking Barack Obama; nothing he’s said has been below the belt. I’m merely saying that his message [...]
Straight Talk From The Future!
Posted on May 30, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under 2008 presidential election, Iraq war, John McCain, The Surge | Leave a Comment
Facts have a well-known temporal bias:
On a McCain campaign conference call, Senator Jon Kyl did not concede that McCain had made an error in saying “We have drawn down to pre-surge levels,” instead accusing the Obama campaign and reporters of “trying to nitpick the tense of the verb about the surge troops being home.”
“The surge [...]
Inappropriate Google News Photos
Posted on May 27, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under Google News, John McCain, National Spelling Bee | Leave a Comment
I love when Google News attaches the wrong image to an article. I don’t know why, but I find it hilarious. Here’s a good one (live as of 3:30 pm):
Little John McCain is going to make his family proud!
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Apologies If This Question Offends Any Septuagenarians
Posted on May 23, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under 2008 presidential election, John McCain | 5 Comments
John McCain’s campaign released the presidential candidate’s health records to a small group of select reporters in a traditional Friday document dump. He appears to be in good health, so he’s got that going for him. Personally, I’m less than reassured:
The details of McCain’s health are contained in 1,173 pages of medical documents spanning 2000 [...]
Making Flippy Floppy
Posted on May 23, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under 2008 presidential election, John Hagee, John McCain, Rod Parsley, religion | Leave a Comment
Straight Talking Maverick John McCain is BFFs with fundamentalist Christian preachers during a Republican primary but no longer likes them once focus shifts to a general election. Honest Maverick Straight Talk!
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Israel Must Stop Appeasing Evil Islamofascists
Posted on May 21, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under 2008 presidential election, Israel, John McCain, Syria, diplomacy | Leave a Comment
You’d think Israel would’ve learned something from the lessons of Nazi Germany and 9/11. Instead they’re running around Neville Chamberlaining it up with Syria. Way to give up Czechoslovakia, guys!
When John McCain is president, he can finally sit down with Israel and tell them, “Stop the bullshit.”
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