McCain Distorts Polling Data, Labels Bush’s Iraq Critics ‘Schizophrenics’
McCain Distorts Polling Data, Labels Bush’s Iraq Critics ‘Schizophrenics’
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) repeated his false assertion yesterday that most Americans oppose a timetable for Iraq withdrawal, but went further in criticizing the American public, calling them “schizophrenic” about their position on Iraq:
“Americans are really kind of schizophrenic about this issue,” Mr. McCain said just prior to a fund-raising lunch for Rep. Dan Lungren, a Republican of California. “They’re frustrated, and they want us to get out, but if we ask the American people if we should set a certain date or a calendar, they agree with the president, and with me, and with Dan, that is a recipe for disaster. We have to have conditions on the ground that indicate we can withdraw.”
As ThinkProgress has previously documented, a majority of Americans reject Bush’s “stay the course” policy and want the U.S. to set a timetable for the withdrawal of forces from Iraq. Rather than exhibiting waffling attitudes about the war, polling data has shown an unmistakably clear trend in recent months. Mystery Pollster writes, “Looking at the questions pollsters are now asking about prospective Iraq policy, I see fewer differences and far more consistency, a finding that may reflect a gradual hardening of opinion.”
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McCain’s comments are beyond disgusting, so he needs to resign immediately, and seek therapy for his unstable behavior! He is a complete disgrace to the US Senate and to the citizens of Arizona > shame on him!
September 11th, 2006 at 12:09 pmMcCain is … well, like most Republicans it seems - he’s a weasel. I give him credit for actually seening what war is, but it seems that he’s lost his way.
September 11th, 2006 at 12:10 pmTo get unfair and snarky, he should know about mental illnesses…
September 11th, 2006 at 12:12 pmSorry mc cain…I boycott you along with ABC,FOX and the rest of the LIERS.
September 11th, 2006 at 12:14 pmThe Con in Conservatives
September 9, 2006
The front page article “Senate panel disputes prewar claims†by Greg Miller in the Press Democrat is closing in on the Bush administration by drawing the curtain back, revealing the sordid deception and treachery in how this administration got this country into a war in Iraq. The big ticket items such as Iraq’s involvement with al-Qaida and its intentions to use WMDs against the United States were non-existence. The source of this intelligence didn’t come from the CIA but from the Iraqi National Congress, at the basement of the Pentagon, created by an Iraqi exile and Iranian sympathizer by the named Ahmad Chalabi and Vice-President Dick Cheney. In short, every assertion the Bush administration made for the war in Iraq was an out right lie. Bush, Cheney, and Remsfeld went out of their way to either to ignore or refute counter intelligence from the CIA’s position as well as the rest of the intelligence community that Iraq never had any WMDs at the time or was involved with the destruction of the World Trade Center. What’s worse is all this was available to the public before the war but the right wing as well as the mainstream media kept the light off the truth but was unable to bury it. That’s why there was a movement against the war before it happen. It’s obvious now why Senator Pat Roberts buried this revelation, Phase II, during the presidential election of 2004.
September 11th, 2006 at 12:16 pmHe just insulted the majority of America. Good luck with that presidential thing.
September 11th, 2006 at 12:18 pmJudging by McCain’s past comments about Bush and his current coziness (rivaled only by the Liberman kiss) and his complete turnaround on right wing religious fanatics it looks like McCain is the one suffering from schizophrenia.
September 11th, 2006 at 12:19 pmNo Limit Hypocrisy
September 10, 2006
The front page and headline article of Sept. 11 by Derek J. Moore by the Press Democrat was one heck of a commemoration of this tragic event. I believe Mr. Moore did fairly well to portray the event in an even handed manner, especially the front page introduction. The fly in the ointment of this piece isn’t the article itself but the photo piece that heralds it. The photo is a composite of four photos in one: Old Glory flapping, President Bush staring, Osama bin-Laden staring back, and a fireman’s helmet, signifying heroism. This composite contradicts the very text of the article. But before I continue I must state this: Our hypocrisy can go only so far—mine included. The image of the flag has been exploited to no end. Its patriotism has been lost in a blender. President Bush had stated that the attackers of 9/11 hate us for our freedom and yet since that horrible event he did his best to curtail that very freedom. And then there Osama bin-Laden lurking about, his head still on his shoulders. President Bush’s first order of business—and promise—was to parade bin-Laden’s head on a stick. It’s been five years so the question is: What’s the hold up? Now the helmet, the Heroes of Ground Zero. Bush did one great photo op with an old firefighter and that’s it. Five years later, nearly all the firefighters along with thousands of government workers are dying from the site’s air pollution and the majority of them are deny of medical and worker’s compensation. Where is President Bush? Is there no limit to this hypocrisy?
September 11th, 2006 at 12:20 pmHe is confusing schizophrenia with split personality. What a bonehead. How many people can you insult in one statement.
September 11th, 2006 at 12:21 pmSTAY THE CORPSE
McCain’s campaign motto 08
September 11th, 2006 at 12:22 pmlook at what bush did because he had a personal grudge against saddam hussein. who could realisdtically trust mccain to act rationally after spending years being tortured in a north vietnamese prison? is this really the man we want in control of our arsenal? the guy is a missile head who thinks the best solution in any dispute is violence. we don’t need more of this shit.
September 11th, 2006 at 12:22 pmFive years since we were attacked we have idiots like McCain defending going to war with the wrong country. The people who brought those towers down haven’t be heard from the US. Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. And the media just needs to show anyone who thinks attack Iraq as good ideal needs to be exposed as a mental patient.
September 11th, 2006 at 12:25 pmHere’s some straight talk for Mr. Straight Talk:
It’s really pretty simple, Senator. The American people were sold a bill of goods. They were lied to. Repeatedly. Egregiously. On multiple topics, everything from the cost of the war to the length to the outcome. They are still being lied to about the prospects for success. We, the American people are fed-up with lying asshats like you and you should thank your lucky stars it’s your colleague Jon Kyl who’s up for re-election this year and not you.
September 11th, 2006 at 12:25 pmhe should know about mental illnesses
Yeah, but he doesn’t know much about schizophrenia. Unless he really means that most Americans suffer from delusions and auditory hallucinations whenever Iraq is discussed.
Hey McCain, why not just be completely offensive, and say, “Americans are really kind of retarded about this issue…”
September 11th, 2006 at 12:26 pmKinda pathetic, I would rather he address the 35% who suffer from Stockholm Syndrome who choose to embrace failure of a dry drunk.
What is the flavor of the kool-aid today Rape-public-cans?
September 11th, 2006 at 12:26 pmIs there any public timeline showing the times the INC met with the Bush administration or any other gov’t agency i.e CIA or the DIA? One of Phase II conclusions is that the INC gave false information and the CIA had severed financial ties but I’m interested in the continual contacts between the prinicples.
September 11th, 2006 at 12:27 pmHeh, I’m not crazy. Everybody else is crazy. Yeah, that’s it. I’m not schizo, it’s the war critics. First they’re for it, then they’re against it. Crazy, man. What? I hear voices. I don’t even have one of those little receiver thingies in back of my coat, yet. But they tell me that everyone that disagrees with me and Dick are crazy. That’s the ticket.
September 11th, 2006 at 12:30 pmSo let’s see 70% of Americans are traitors, stupid, pro Islamic, and schizophrenic. What a great strategy on the republofascists part to insult 70% of Americans into voting republican.
September 11th, 2006 at 12:34 pmBlah Blah Blah, McCain… And the conditions on the ground are ???
September 11th, 2006 at 12:34 pmAnd if the civil war ..uh, oops,sectarian strife continues to escalate, will those “conditions on the ground” ever be met????
McCain is back in VietNam.
September 11th, 2006 at 12:35 pmNow, why do you think the American public is schizophrenic about the war?
It’s because we keep getting conflicting stories, dumbass! And we’ve gotten samplings from both sides of the issue just from you! So who’s the schizophrenic here?
September 11th, 2006 at 12:37 pm“schizophrenic” = out of touch with reality or “split” from reality. Increasingly, Americans are anything but that. The war supporters are dropping their shovels and going for back-hoes to dig their hole.
September 11th, 2006 at 12:39 pmAlright, I gotta split some hairs, its only appropriate.
Unlike popular belief, schizophrenia is not multiple personalities, as McCain is implying. Schizophrenia is the suffering from hallucinations, delusions, loose assiciations, tangential thinking, intrusive disturbing thoughts. Its when you see people having conversations when no one else is there. Yes we all talk to ourselves, but you know the difference.
So I have described it seems, someone from the Bush admin, or many.
September 11th, 2006 at 12:46 pmThe world stood with us after the events of 9/11. So is all criticism of the Bush Cabal and their crimes against humanity a mental illness to ReichWingNuts? So it would seem…
[from: news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060911/ap_on_re_eu/sept11_world_remembers ]
… Critics say Americans have squandered the goodwill that prompted France’s Le Monde newspaper to proclaim “We are all Americans” that somber day after the attacks, and that the
Iraq war and other U.S. policies have made the world less safe in the five years since…
…Even German Chancellor Angela Merkel — an advocate of closer ties with Washington — had veiled criticism of the United States, saying: “The ends cannot justify the means.”
“In the fight against international terror … respect for human rights, tolerance and respect for other cultures must be the maxim of our actions, along with decisiveness and international cooperation,” she said…
…New Zealand’s Prime Minister Helen Clark joined many when she said: “No, we’re not more secure since 9/11.”…
…Israel’s Haaretz daily expressed disappointment and cynicism in an op-ed piece that said: “This is Sept. 11 five years later: a political tool in the hands of the Bush administration.”…
Ah, something the Bush Cabal can be proud of. NOT!!!
September 11th, 2006 at 12:46 pmSend McCain an email and let him know that you are not suffering from schizophrenia or delusions, but perhaps he is. His views do not reflect those of 60% of Americans.
September 11th, 2006 at 12:48 pmI am reminded of former Gov. George Romney who said he was brainwashed about Vietnam and it cost him a shot at the Republican nomination for President.
Sen. John McCain has learned that lesson. Instead he is saying that the majority of the American people have been brainwashed on Iraq. While that may play with the brainwashed Republicans that want to stay the course it cannot be a winning strategy for November 2008.
September 11th, 2006 at 12:52 pmThis man’s reputation has plummeted into the toilet. Shame on him.
September 11th, 2006 at 12:57 pmElections turn politicians into carnies.
September 11th, 2006 at 12:57 pmNotice there are two types of Republicans today?
RATS - Jumping ship to save their own asses. George? George who?
SHEEP - Still dining on the dung curds of a failed administration and failed foreign policy.
Pssst Mr. McCain…there is a bit of dung curd on your lip you may want to wipe.
September 11th, 2006 at 12:57 pmI think Billy at #20 is right. McCain, like many who fought in Vietnam, may feel guilty that the U.S. did not remain in Vietnam so they could somehow “win”, however nebulous that term is. By remaining in Iraq, he may wish to somehow undo what happened in Vietnam, which was having the U.S. leave that beleagured country. Someone should ask McCain and Bush and Cheney and Rumsfeld have many more American deaths it will take before the U.S. pulls the plug on that debacle in Iraq.
September 11th, 2006 at 1:04 pmMcCain, you’re a political whore!
September 11th, 2006 at 1:04 pmMcCain has been in the Senate too long. The result of this is an addled brain. For too long you have tried to please everybody, and therefore you lose your moral compass. You lose any sense of right or wrong, of what is compromise and what is principle, and you become “mush.” This was evident when he went to the right-wing fundamental school to make “nice”, and it is shown almost daily as he vacillates between kowtowing to Bush and railing against him.
September 11th, 2006 at 1:05 pmThank you, Senator Flip-Flop.
Any and all respect I had for him evaporated when, after evertyhing the Bushies did to him in the 2000 election in South Carolina, he embraced Junior; when, after describing them as destabilizing forces in the Republican Party, he now embraced Falwell and Robertson; when, as a veteran himself, he can see what this despicable government is doing to them, and he continues to support this travesty of a war.
Enough, Mr. McCain. You can sit down and shut up now.
September 11th, 2006 at 1:08 pmSenator McCain,
Have you picked out who will be the last soldier to die in Iraq, yet?
September 11th, 2006 at 1:11 pmThat’s not schizophrenia. It’s Bipolar, or Manic Depressive, or Passive-Aggressive. And that’s what our leaders do to Americans.
You would think McCain would be better educated about these terms.
September 11th, 2006 at 1:13 pmDropping the lousy psychological terminology McCain used, it can be said that Americans have mixed (i.e. nuanced) thoughts about the war on Iraq and the war on terror. Many Americans are concerned that our presence in Iraq is counterproductive and aiding the recruitment of new terrorists but increasing the disillusionment in that part of the world. Many Americans also recognize that our leaving will speed up (not cause) the civil war in Iraq and are uncomfortable with us doing nothing to try to prevent that. The real issue, though, is that BushCo should have had these concerns before the attack on Iraq and put those concerns before the American people for discussion and thoughtful consideration prior to the attack. We had no need for an immediate attack, except to bolster the agenda and “image” of BushCo. Now, they and their continuing supporters should be held accountable for it all. The rest of us either did not believe them in the first place or don’t now and, therefore, are not the problem.
September 11th, 2006 at 1:13 pm#15
Where did you get the impression that the drunk was dry? I am not sure calling DUHbya a dry drunk is an insult or a compliment. If it were me to whom you have reference I would prefer you call me a roaring-ass drunk plumb out of my mind. That is better than thinking I would do what DUHbya has done if I was sober. Youth will yield to age, immaturity to majority, ignorance to education, and drunkenness to sobriety, but stupid is forever. Long live DUHbya and McPain!
September 11th, 2006 at 1:16 pmMcCain and the republicans feel that they only way to “win” against the terrorists is to break every law that the United States has, void every Constitutional guarantee, and descend to the “level” of the terrorists - mudering, torturing, rendering, and intimidating friends and foes alike. It’s unbelievable that grown men who hold elected office hold the opinion that the only way to save the coubtry is to completely violate all the things the US stands for, and if we oppose torture, murder, and becoming terrorists ourselves then we are the terrorists and the government needs to destroy “us” Americans. We “Americans” will be the cause of our own “downfall” and therefore we need to be spied on, rendered, tortured, and even murdered by our government to protect “us”. That’s the true schizophrenia, the schizophrenia of republican fascism.
September 11th, 2006 at 1:19 pmHmm, so, McCain is really saying:
“Vote For McCain, Schizo’s”
It has a certain bumper sticker appeal.
September 11th, 2006 at 1:21 pmIn translation, I think McCain is saying that he can’t add up the American attitude on the colonial misadventure we’ve created. I thought that was what politicians were best at, figuring out what The People is really thinking and reconciling the contradictions, so I’m beginning to worry about his professional capabilities.
Let me provide a translation for the senile: We The People realize that the Iraq thing can’t succeed anymore. But we want the outcome- failure of the “democracy” and withdrawal- to be the Iraqis’ consensus decision, not ours. That decision will come in the form of toppling the al-Maliki government and outbreak of civil war.
The reality is that the al-Maliki government is permitted to exist until it fulfills the one job for which it exists in Iraqi and right wing American government official eyes and that of their supporters, which is the killing of Saddam Hussein mostly because he offended American vanity and suppressed Iraqi regional and tribal powers.
September 11th, 2006 at 1:22 pmI’ve been asking people that I thought would have watched the movie and to my suprise I can’t find anyone.
September 11th, 2006 at 1:23 pmLet’s see if i got this right. I am “crazy” because i am criticizing the handling of our military forces by this adminstration. McCain is not “crazy” because he fully supports the reckless killing of our citizens under the command of this administration. Okay. But for what it is worth.
McCain was a barely passing Annapolis graduate who received a family legacy admission, since he wasn’t qualified to attend (i too have all those skeletons). He believed in a war that was already being questioned by the citizenry (okay we were crazy back then too). He chose flying, somehow succeeded in that (wait for it), joined the squadron with the highest death tolls (there is a reason they put marginally qualified pilots altogether), was shot down, captured, held, confessed, survived, came back. Why was he captured if he really believed in the war and this nation (live free or die)? Why did he then confess to avoid torture while others refused and suffered?? Well one might think that volunteering to serve in a useless war, against an enemy that couldn’t be identified, then selecting the one group in which to serve that scored the most US deaths, getting shot down, getting captured, etc… were hallmarks of someone who is not mentally stable. But remember, because i served in the military yet continue to criticize how this administration’s abuse of its military, i’m the crazy one.
September 11th, 2006 at 1:28 pmIsn’t it ironic that Repubs. are always accusing us of being exactly what they are? Rumsfeld calls us appeasers. Cheney calls us liars. McCain calls us schizophrenic. And Bush is now quoted as saying all Jews..”they’re going to hell”
Sounds like a classic case of projection for all of them.
They are very very sick puppies.
Deep deep down in a part of their conscience (that is barely awake) is a part of them that knows exactly what they are.
September 11th, 2006 at 1:56 pmHere’s a little McCain “schizophrenia” for ya…
Taking The “McCain†Out Of “McCain-Feingoldâ€
So much for standing on principle: “Maverick†Senator drops sponsorship on signature issue; Feingold, Shays, Meehan trudge on without presidential contender
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), perhaps the politician most frequently associated with campaign finance reform, has dropped his name out of the latest reform legislation.
McCain’s former partners on campaign finance—Sen. Russ Feingold, and Reps. Marty Meehan and Christopher Shays—introduced a bill Wednesday addressing the public financing of presidential campaigns. But 2008 presidential contender McCain was conspicuously absent from the lead sponsorship.
According to today’s New York Sun,
The bill is largely identical to a measure all four men introduced in 2003, but this time around Mr. McCain is not on board.
A spokeswoman for Mr. McCain, Eileen McMenamin, did not return calls seeking comment for this article, but several people involved in discussions about the legislation said the senator’s absence was related to his widely expected bid for the presidency in 2008.
McCain himself once said, “Reform is a process. It is not a one-time fight.†[McCain Senate press release, 11/21/01]
“Unfortunately, McCain doesn’t seem to believe his own words.†Said Senate Majority Project spokesperson Christy Setzer. “Voters today can smell cynicism like piranhas smell blood and react the same way. It’s a matter of time that people realize that if John McCain doesn’t believe in his principles, then why should voters believe in John McCain?â€
Although certainly the most stunning and obvious display of McCain retreating from previously held “convictions,†McCain has been quietly retreating from his campaign finance reform stance for a while. Turns out, McCain stands on principle only when he’s not running for president.
September 11th, 2006 at 2:02 pmAnd people still votes for Republicans!
Maybe Americans are schizophrenics.
They seem to forget one insult to America after another.
Is it a battered wife syndrome thing?
They keep getting abused but don’t do anything about it and keeps on making excuses?
Or is it abused child mentality.
That it is their fault for Republicans keep on abusing them?
Just deluding themselves that few select republicans from government to corporate media are for them and their values?
Just like hating and blaming others(non-republican) for perceived ill of American culture?
Logic and reason escapes me.
September 11th, 2006 at 2:08 pmthe more republicans call the American people stupid, the better.
September 11th, 2006 at 2:12 pm.
Here’s more schizophrenia from McCain.
McCain Faults Admin. For Painting Iraq As ‘Some Kind of Day At the Beach,’ Ignores Own Rosy Rhetoric
The AP reports that Sen. John McCain “faulted the Bush administration for misleading Americans into believing the conflict would be ‘some kind of day at the beach.’â€
[McCain] said the administration had failed to make clear the challenges facing the military. … McCain said that talk “has contributed enormously to the frustration that Americans feel today because they were led to believe this could be some kind of day at the beach, which many of us fully understood from the beginning would be a very, very difficult undertaking.â€
McCain appropriately criticizes the administration for painting an unrealistic picture of the situation in Iraq, but he conveniently neglects to mention his own rosy assessments as he was cheerleading the nation to war.
While McCain hopes the public will see this as another example of his “straight talk,†here are some quotes that McCain wants you to forget:
Hardball, 3/12/03:
MATTHEWS: Are you one of those who holds up an optimistic view of the post-war scene? Do you believe that the people of Iraq or at least a large number of them will treat us as liberators?
MCCAIN: Absolutely. Absolutely.
MATTHEWS: And you think the Arab world will come to a grudging recognition that what we did was necessary? I mean by that the modern Arab leaders, the people that we have to deal with.
MCCAIN: Not only that, they’ll be relieved that he’s not in the neighborhood because he has invaded his neighbors on several occasions.
Hardball, 3/24/03:
September 11th, 2006 at 2:12 pmMATTHEWS: Do you think it’s working? Do you think we’ll shake them — shake them to the roots so they will give up eventually and avoid a huge bloodbath of people?
MCCAIN: I don’t know how long they’ll hang out. It doesn’t take a large number of people to cause difficulties in house to house fighting we’ve just seen that in southern Iraq. But there’s no doubt in my mind that we will prevail and there’s no doubt in my mind, once these people are gone, that we will be welcomed as liberators. These guys are the real bad guys and they’re telling everybody, we’re going to shoot you and so, of course, we’re not being welcomed cause they’ve got people that will kill them if they do. Once that’s done, I’m confident.
Psychiatrist: John, we’ve determined that you’re not really paranoid.
September 11th, 2006 at 2:19 pmThat’s the good news.
McCain: What’s the bad news?
Psychiatrist:Everyone isout to get you!
As a husband of someone in the mental health field, I have to ask again how long we as Americans will keep confusing schizophrenia with multiple personality disorder?
Schizophrenia is a chemical process of the brain, and it has nothing to do with having multiple personalities.
Schizophrenia has to do with aural hallucinations and irrational thought patterns. Knowing this, I would guess that George W. Bush is schizophrenic and the American public is just fine.
September 11th, 2006 at 2:21 pmYou never know whose side this guy is on. First he attacks the bushchild, next you see him wiping the spooge from his chin. What a maroon.
C’mon Arizona, loose this turd.
schizophrenic (?), not quite sure of the spelling, Nazi appeasers, slave owners, facists, umm, am I missing one?
I may be all of the above according to the repugnit party, but I dont SUCK the CHEESE COVERD DICK of the Cheese dick in charge.
How’s it taste, McCain?
September 11th, 2006 at 2:28 pm“I see fewer differences and far more consistency….”
Between Bush and McCain.
September 11th, 2006 at 2:38 pm“C’mon Arizona, loose this turd. “ Comment #50
In due time, my friend, in due time.
First Kyl in November and McCain when due.
September 11th, 2006 at 2:47 pmDidn’t I hear something about this guy collaborating with the enemy?
September 11th, 2006 at 2:52 pmSchizophrenic? Maybe so. I do hear voices in my head telling McCain to kiss my ass.
September 11th, 2006 at 3:07 pmAs ThinkProgress has previously documented, a majority of Americans reject Bush’s “stay the course†policy
Faiz,
Pres Bush’s policy has never, ever been “Stay the Course” .
Our Great (mis)Leader has always rejected that phrase and emphasized the need to “Change and Adapt”.
The poll shows the majority of Americans reject the Left’s agenda.
/sarcasm off
September 11th, 2006 at 3:14 pmAs ThinkProgress has previously documented, a majority of Americans reject Bush’s “stay the course†policy
Faiz,
Pres Bush’s policy has never, ever been “Stay the Course” .
The Great (mis)Leader has always rejected that phrase and emphasized the need to “Change and Adapt”.
The poll shows the majority of Americans reject the Left’s agenda.
/sarcasm off
September 11th, 2006 at 3:15 pmMy apologies for the double post….
September 11th, 2006 at 3:17 pmThat’ll show ‘em! hahahahahahaha! All that money down the drain! It just proves that “you don’t fool with Mother Nature” and “you don’t tamper with recorded History”…..this is priceless!
September 11th, 2006 at 3:31 pmIf I were McCain, I’d be careful about carelessly throwing around adjectives which clearly describe himself these days. Wow! If anyone is schizophrenic, it’s him and his flip-flopping allegiance…..first a Democrat/then A repug…..what’s next for him after BushCo denounce him about his stance on torture? Independent next??
McCain has lost serious credibility with the american people since siding with the Thugs. What ever credibility he earned as a POW and patriot, he’s “spent” and he’s pretty finished up with the american people.
Like the route taken by Colin Powell, McCain’s just a few steps behind him on the way out the door.
September 11th, 2006 at 3:34 pmwrong postes being allocated here….this one should have gone to the mockumentary being “trounced” in the ratings by football….oh well!
September 11th, 2006 at 3:35 pmPolitics do indeed make strange bedfellows. After what GW’s campaign did to McCain in South Carolina, you would think the guy would be a little P.O.’d at them!?
September 11th, 2006 at 3:46 pmWhile everyone is rightfully angry with McCain, why is he appearing at fundraisers for Dan Lungren? Lord! Dan Lungren already has more than ten times the funds on hand that his “opponent” has; make that alleged opponent, who is singlehandedly running for the grand prize of most inept campaign category.
It really frosts my cookies, too, because Dan Lungren is a weasel, and no one — NO ONE — is digging into his sleazy background. He’s an apologist for not only Bush, but NIXON. His father was one of Nixon’s closest friends, and Danny Boy’s wife worked in the Nixon White House. People, wake up please! Dan Lungren is in the pocket of every corrupt lobbyist in D.C. Right now he’s engaged in skimming money from crooked land developers and contractors that have a self interest in ensuring that a hydroelectric dam is built OVER AN EARTHQUAKE FAULT just northeast of Sacramento so that they can build even more houses and commercial buildings in a flood plain. A catastrophe waiting to happen! Think Katrina and multiply it ten times over.
Furthermore, Lungren was in cahoots with Duke Cunningham, Grover Norquist, Tom DeLay, and is still in cahoots with Jerry Lewis, John Doolittle, Richard Pombo, Ken Calvert, Kaloogian (Ca-50) — the list of crooks he’s taken campaign contributions from is mindboggling. Trust me. I’ve been researching this goon for months now.
September 11th, 2006 at 4:07 pmMcCain needed to look in the mirror on that one.
Who can’t decide which side they’re on, McCain? Hmmm?
September 11th, 2006 at 5:05 pmMcCain has flipped out. He has sold his souil to the right for a shot at the top job…
September 11th, 2006 at 6:02 pmA mind is a terrible thing to lose.
September 11th, 2006 at 6:31 pmThis really pisses me off. I am tired of Cheney and Rummy calling us Americans terrorists and appeasers. We need to all call and write Senator McCain and remind the bastard who exactly pays him for his awful job of sucking up to Bush. Americans need to stand up, you better stand up now or this is what kind of abuse you can expect from these Republicans. What are you afraid of Mr. McCain? What do they have on you that would make you turn on the American people?
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Michelle, you’re going to write to a guy with a severe mental problem to tell him to stop having a mental problem?
McCain is unstable. Bushites crucified his election chances by accusing his wife of having a “black child”, they smeared his family and he still grovels at their feet hoping they will spit on him some more. you can’t ever fix that kind of psychiatric pathology with a letter expressing your discontentment.
September 11th, 2006 at 6:45 pm“Americans are really kind of schizophrenic about this issue,†Mr. McCain said
Well when the people here such an abundance of lies and fear factor rhetoric what do you expect?
And now we see again that one of our so called ‘leaders’ is not be being truthful adding even more confusion;
“This administration,†Bob Graham, the former Senator and chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, told me, “does not seek the truth as a basis for its judgments, but tries to use intelligence to validate judgments it has already made.â€
A number of current and former intelligence officials have told me that the administration’s war on internal dissent has crippled the CIA’s ability to provide realistic assessments from Iraq. “The system of reporting is shut down,†said one person familiar with the situation. “You can’t write anything honest, only fairy tales.â€
The New York Times and others have reported that in 2003, the CIA station chief in Baghdad authored several special field reports that offered extremely negative assessments of the situation on the ground in Iraq—assessments that later proved to be accurate. The field reports, known as “Aardwolfs,†were angrily rejected by the White House. Their author—who I’m told was a highly regarded agency veteran named Gerry Meyer—was soon pushed out of the CIA, in part because his reporting angered the See No Evil crowd within the Bush administration.
hear no evils see no evil speak no evil..but blame the people for being Schizophrenic. Right.
September 11th, 2006 at 6:46 pmI find it difficult to report on this man’s mind.
September 11th, 2006 at 7:09 pmYou’d think he spent enough time in the hilton. Brain damaged! And probably been turned down at the VA for lack of funds.
A vote for this guy is “war forever”.
Lizard face.
September 11th, 2006 at 7:22 pmSadly Bones (#67), I think you have about nailed it!
September 11th, 2006 at 7:33 pmJeebus, McCain, stop!
Just stop…you won’t be able to live with yourself…
Watching this is just so painful.
September 11th, 2006 at 9:57 pmI’m an Arizonan and an adult living with bipolar disorder.
I find McCain’s comments personally offensive and exploitative of every American whose life has been ravaged by mental illness.
Blog entry about it tomorrow.
Phone calls and perhaps a personal visit downtown tomorrow, too.
September 11th, 2006 at 11:12 pm‘Staying the course’ is nothing but delaying the inevitable.
September 12th, 2006 at 12:09 pmIraq, in my opinion, will become an Iran-type theocracy, with or without splitting into three. Whether that happens this year, next year or ten years from now determins how many more people, Americans and Iraqis will die and how many more $ billions get dumped into Iraq.
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