those were not jokes……they were responses to people joking about waterboarding people…..you know that and still you distort. Your people are the ones that find it amusing so don’t try to smear your shit on us.

http://www.newsprism.wordpress.com

Welcome to the normalization of TORTURE.

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Comment by tombaker — February 20, 2008 @ 12:50 pm

Do you think he’ll wear an earpiece for coaching during debates?

Can’t wait to see McMaverick stutter and stammer searching for answers at the debate podium, while Obama carves circles around him, praising and honoring his service. Mc will be out-classed, out-gunned, and out-spent, and help finish off the GOP franchise for the foreseeable future.

My assertion is that McCain might be numbed to his own previous suffering, but that he’s showing a politically convenient amnesia to the sacrifices of the guys he was imprisoned with, by making statements like this. And I fail to see how your personal experiences are relevant, unless both you, and fellow prosecutors were the victims in crimes. It is an inapt comparison.

Huckabee and Giulliani are both just too ignorant to take their stupid remarks seriously — they expose themselves as the fools they are.

“I really have no problem with the jokes McCain has been saying about torture. I was a prosecutor and I can tell you that you do very well develop a gallows humor. ”

And convenient amnesia for the suffering of the guys he served with. Nothing like belittling their sacrifice. That’s a little bit different, don’t you think?

Comment by barfly — February 20, 2008 @ 11:54 am

You and I are on the same side as progressives and (most likely) Democrats. There are such better issues to attack McCain on. I really do mean it about the gallows humor. I speak as a person who did stand over the bodies of those murdered in my jurisdiction. We cracked jokes that (quite frankly) I am embarrassed to remember. Most people in high pressure situations do crack bad jokes. McCain is no different. It is his inability to understand the bad taste of doing this in public that attacks his judgment to be president. I think that it is a sign of old senility.

a young, vibrant, intelligent, forward thinker

and propped up beside him will be senile, violent-tempered and OLD McWar, himself.

Comment by Wayne — February 20, 2008 @ 11:45 am

Yup, yes, and yeah…

It used to be called the “water cure” when not called water torture. How benign was that?

A rose by any other name, and all that……

McCain is featured in this Oscar parody as the star of a nominated film:

Check it out.

And convenient amnesia for the suffering of the guys he served with. Nothing like belittling their sacrifice. That’s a little bit different, don’t you think?

GO OBAMA GO!!! HILLARY IS TOAST, McINSANE IS BURNT TOAST.

Buck Fush

The incidents really just show someone who does not exercise a lot of common sense in making statements in public. This is what concerns me concerning the incidents. Just as his hair trigger temper (something I also suffer from, however, I neither desire nor would be qualified to be President – dictator, yes) really makes one wonder as to whether he would be able to draw together an effective team or work well with others (Congress.) However, we would all want someone with such a temper with his finger on the nuclear button.

- His hypocrisy should concern us all – the trophy wife and divorce – tend to be historical in nature by itself. The straight talk express that seems to be fueled by convenient flip flops in position and pandering.

“Don’t make me have to stick things under your fingernails!”

Our good chief justice Scalia:
‘“Seems to me you have to say, as unlikely as that is, it would be absurd to say that you can’t stick something under the fingernails, smack them in the face,” Scalia responded.’

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/02/12/scalia-torture/

The “debate” is manufactured. Waterboarding has been prosecuted by this country as a crime since we prosecuted our own soldiers in the Philippine occupation (1898 to 1911).
Thats over a century of legal president set.

The fact that there is even a false “debate” is repulsive.