Romney pushes McCain’s endorsed-by-Hamas line.
Romney pushes McCain’s endorsed-by-Hamas line.
On Friday, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), referring to Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL), told conservative bloggers that “it’s very clear who Hamas wants to be the next president of the United States.” Now one of McCain’s top surrogates, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, has picked up on the line of attack, telling the Reno Gazette-Journal that “the recent endorsement by Hamas” was “revealing”:
ROMNEY: I think Barack Obama was more of a blank sheet. I think the primary revealed more about him than perhaps he would’ve liked. The recent endorsement by Hamas of his candidacy is I think the kind of development which people find revealing.
QUESTION: What do you take that to mean?
ROMNEY: Well, I think he’s said in his first year he would be inclined to visit with [Iranian President] Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, [North Korean President] Kim Jong Il, [former Cuban President] Fidel Castro. I think they find that appealing.
McCain and Romney’s scurrilous attacks are reminiscent of the over-the-top rhetoric of hardline right wingers like Rush Limbaugh and John Bolton. Earlier this month, Limbaugh claimed that “Islamofascists are actually campaigning for the election of Democrats” while Bolton contended in January that “the Mullahs in Tehran” want the Democrats to win.
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Hey Romney, no one is listening to you, except for your typical brain dead troll.
April 27th, 2008 at 12:26 pmGo away. I’m sick and tired of this scare mongering.
You know what scares me, the price of food. I haven’t seen many “Islofamicts” lately, but I see 5 a carton cereal.
take care
tony and guidedog Lido
Well, I hope Mitt Romney isn’t tapped to be Secretary of State or anything. He might have to learn that Fidel Castro is no longer in power in Cuba.
April 27th, 2008 at 12:31 pmIt’s amazing how idiots breed idiots. ARE AMERICIANS STUPID TO BUY THIS CRAP!!! LETS SHOW THESE IDIOTS IN NOVEMEBER WHERE WE STAND.
April 27th, 2008 at 12:31 pmOh, and Mitt, al Qaeda told everyone that they hoped Bush would win in 2004, so if you’re going to bring this crap up, bring up the fact that our number one enemy supports the president. If that doesn’t matter, than neither does anything Hamas says about Obama.
April 27th, 2008 at 12:33 pmhere it is! i knew i’d seen it, then it went away, and now it’s back…
and i still haven’t recalled where i read yesterday about, was it an alqaida leader?, who is hoping for a mcCRAZY presidency…
gee… i wonder if a guy named BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA had any idea that these
kinds of attacks would rain down on him and his parade, on the road to change…
it’s gonna be very hard to maintain the high road with these sick characters…
if anyone can, it’s BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA…
at least it’s more educational that bj’s and blue dresses… and cackling… etc…
April 27th, 2008 at 12:33 pmInteresting, because Ahmadinejad may not be around for a chat much longer. He’s taking a lot of heat for his crappy economic policies.
April 27th, 2008 at 12:39 pmWhy isn’t anyone asking why these folks are so intimate with the islamofascists that they know all their thoughts? Could any Americans who believe this be any stupider?
April 27th, 2008 at 12:40 pm“the Mullahs in Tehran” want the Democrats to win.
I seem to have missed “the Mullahs” endorsement.
Of course, if “the Mullahs” did endorse someone, it would mean they want that person’s opponent to win. You see, the Persians ain’t stoopid, unlike the Goopers and their ovine herd.
April 27th, 2008 at 12:42 pmI bet you Al-Qaeda will endorse Obama if they could make another video from a cave somewhere in “allied” Pakistan. Because they know how to use reverse psychology (you idiot, McCain). How do you get your enemy to do what you want them to do? Tell them the opposite. Want war? Then endorse the one guy from the “enemy” who wants peace. McDrain and the gang please note - Hamas is playing you like a little toy drum. And you are walking to their beat. McPain should wake up and think a little bit more. Think. Think. What do Al-Qaeda want? What do you think Hamas want? Chaos so they can recruit more. Anarchy so they can continue a mindless war. They want one thing and will tell you the opposite. You think you can trust what they tell you? They are playing you for a fool. You played into their hands in Iraq. And you are going to play into their hands again. You stupid, stupid man. http://angryafrican.net/ 2008/ 04/ 26/ i-angry-african-endorse-mccain/
April 27th, 2008 at 12:44 pmIt seems pretty clear to me that if groups like al Qaeda, Hezbollah and Hamas have done pretty well under the current administration. They deal with such group on the fringes with force rather than at their center there heart. McCain’s (McSame) would continue that. Groups like these are very media savvy. They know what makes American politics tick. It’s reverse psychology.
The story here is not who these groups ‘endorse’ but what American political players are willing to give them a vote. In this case it is McCain and Romney.
April 27th, 2008 at 12:46 pmRomey who? Anyway… out of the thread but on the subject of MacCocaine and Iraq:
“I think the victory will be rapid, within about three weeks.”
John McCain, January 28, 2003.
“It’s clear that the end is very much in sight…It won’t be long. It, it’ll be a fairly short period of time.”
John McCain, April 9, 2003.
“Well, then why was there a banner that said mission accomplished on the aircraft carrier?”
John McCain, responding to assertion by Fox News’ Neil Cavuto that “many argue the conflict isn’t over,” June 11, 2003.
“I have said a long time that reconstruction of Iraq would be a long, long, difficult process, but the conflict — the major conflict is over, the regime change has been accomplished, and it’s very appropriate.”
John McCain, June 11, 2003.
“I’m confident we’re on the right course.”
John McCain, March 7, 2004.
“We’re either going to lose this thing or win this thing within the next several months.”
John McCain, November 12, 2006.
“My friends, the war will be over soon, the war for all intents and purposes although the insurgency will go on for years and years and years.”
April 27th, 2008 at 12:48 pmJohn McCain, February 25, 2008.
why is it that no one stands up to call the republican immature idiocy what it is: immature idiocy.
why is it Americans stand by and say nothing while being treated as morons by the republican immature idiots?
April 27th, 2008 at 12:52 pm.
Weeks=>months=>years=>a century=>a millennium.
April 27th, 2008 at 1:04 pmNice projection there! McWhatever is merely expanding horizons.
Find out what the MSM isn’t asking Obama and/or wants you to know about;
Barack Hussein Obama
April 27th, 2008 at 1:04 pmhttp://bhobama.blogspot.com/
Given such “logic”, these so-called “patriots” must surely have demanded Reagan’s impeachment when he committed the unforgivable sin of meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev in the 1980s?
And for a more recent example, where was their outcry when Rumsfeld was nominated to be the Secretary of Defense? After all, he shook hands with Saddam Hussein in 1983, at the same time that teh Iraqi army was gassing Iranian soldiers, while the United States supported his efforts. For a photo, please go to http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB82/
Hypocrisy reigns supreme!
April 27th, 2008 at 1:04 pmHis magic underpants made him say that…
OR he had just gotten a new infusion of Kool-Aide from Cheeeneeeyyy’d office.
These “republican immature idiots” are so far on the outside of reality that it astounds me the depth of their stupidity can be measured…it’s limitless!!
Will there be a jail cell in the Hague big enough to hold them all?? If not, I’m sure the money can be stolen from the $ 4 billion a week we are sending over in duffels …..
April 27th, 2008 at 1:13 pmlike, jimmy carter is a “bigot” for trying to make peace…
go figure…
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i can’t find, right off, the story i’d read… have an outside chore to finish up,
before the SAM SEDER SHOW at 3 (4east), and rain is due…
i could even be mistaken… that’s happened before…
April 27th, 2008 at 1:14 pm:-)
pluege Says:
why is it Americans stand by and say nothing while being treated as morons by the republican immature idiots?
Nearly half the voters chose an utter moron to be Preznit; not once, but twice. I’d say there’s ample evidence that a significant number of Americans are morons.
April 27th, 2008 at 1:21 pmMcCain, Romney, etc seem to know a lot about what AlQaeda wants to see as the outcome of the election.
I wonder how they came across that sensitive information and whether they are ripe for a visit from the FBI to disclose their sources.
Are they talking to terrorists? Why do they hate America?
/sarc off
April 27th, 2008 at 1:24 pm#18 that a significant number of Americans are morons
so true….And who are these private enterprises that continue to endorse the likes of Limbaugh? Im all for free speech for him but more for common sense. Coomon sense and practical thinking is out the window
April 27th, 2008 at 1:27 pm“Blessed are the peacemakers,for they will be called sons of God.” — Matthew 5:9
“You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that? And if you greet only your brothers, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that? Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.” — Matthew 5:38-44
Oh, yes, that would be Jesus Christ.
Can you imagine what McCain, Romney and their disciples would be saying about Jesus if he was running for President?
April 27th, 2008 at 1:49 pmIt is obviopus that President Obama scares the pee out of these pathetic Repugnicunts. Every single right wing freak is pulling for Hillary because they feel they are hopeless against Obama.
Well you shitfor brains should practice saying President Obama, President Obama, President Obama…..
Then clean up that little puddle on the floor.
April 27th, 2008 at 1:50 pmI’d say there’s ample evidence that a significant number of Americans are morons.
You and several snivelers here would know all about that…of course, that’s all you would know about.
“At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child - miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill disciplined, despotic, and useless. Liberalism is the philosophy of sniveling brats.” - P.J. O’Rourke
April 27th, 2008 at 1:51 pmDoesn’t really matter. Right wing knuckle-draggers are the only ones that still listen to this idiocy anyway.
April 27th, 2008 at 1:52 pm“Blessed are the cheesemakers?”
April 27th, 2008 at 1:57 pmI’d say there’s ample evidence that a significant number of Americans are morons.
You and several snivelers here would know all about that…of course, that’s all you would know about.
QED
April 27th, 2008 at 2:07 pmThe Republicans I know don’t know what a Hamas is~
April 27th, 2008 at 2:08 pmWinghunter Says: Something wingnuttery stupid
quoting P.J. O’Rourke does show us you have the intelligence of a pile of rocks.
Quoting him here is similar to quoting O’liely or Limburger, it makes you look like a total tool, fool.
April 27th, 2008 at 2:09 pmthere’s ample evidence that a significant number of Americans are morons.
April 27th, 2008 at 1:21 pm
Look! There’s one now!!!
April 27th, 2008 at 2:15 pmR4epublican dictionary:
April 27th, 2008 at 2:17 pmHamas - A spread made from cooked, mashed chickpeas, blended with tahini, lemon juice, salt and garlic.
Winghunter Says:
cavjam Says:
Actually, what he said about a significant number of morons is absolutely correct, and most of them support the Republican Party (because they are conservative). There is nothing new to this observation.
“Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.” - John Stuart Mill
April 27th, 2008 at 2:19 pmSo is Ahmed Yousef’s endorsement, using “we” as in “Hamas,” irrelevant to the campaign? I certainly know may supporters of Israel who find it relevant. Perhaps if this were a false attack we should condemn it, but I’m not sure here; if you put the “endorsement” in the proper context, I think it can be fairly discussed.
April 27th, 2008 at 2:23 pmOf course, rightwingers have nothing to say about the transparent fearmongering spewed by the likes of Limbaugh, McCain, Romney, etc.
In their minds, anyone demanding accountability is a “spoiled child” -never mind that, in their quest for an authoritarian father figure, they never fail to support George Bush and his failed presidency.
It’s amazing how much irony can fit in a rightwinger’s pointy teeny tiny little head, and how unaware they are of it.
April 27th, 2008 at 2:23 pmthirdparty Says:
So is Ahmed Yousef’s endorsement, using “we” as in “Hamas,” irrelevant to the campaign? I certainly know may supporters of Israel who find it relevant. Perhaps if this were a false attack we should condemn it, but I’m not sure here; if you put the “endorsement” in the proper context, I think it can be fairly discussed.
You lie.
April 27th, 2008 at 2:30 pmI certainly know may supporters of Israel who find it relevant.
Then let them go vote in Israel’s elections, this is the United States of America.
April 27th, 2008 at 2:32 pmKeep up that all war all the time talk McCain and see how low your favorability range can go.
April 27th, 2008 at 2:33 pmFear-mongering, confrontation, belligerence, saber-rattling, threats, and so forth — all reasons why you will never succeed in your bid for the presidency.
I also join with those who say that a Hamas “endorsement” of a candidate means they actually want the opposite person.
April 27th, 2008 at 2:37 pmMcCain and Romney think they know the mind of Hamas — but they’d never pass psychology 101.
“At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child - miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill disciplined, despotic, and useless. Liberalism is the philosophy of sniveling brats.” - P.J. O’Rourke
Go figure. This is how I would describe conservatives.
April 27th, 2008 at 2:39 pmWinghunter is a fact-free wing-nutter… He obviously believes lies and innuendo.
April 27th, 2008 at 2:42 pmthe spoiled child - miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill disciplined, despotic, and useless
Gee, that sounds like a description of George Bush!!
April 27th, 2008 at 2:43 pmHi Winghunter:
April 27th, 2008 at 2:51 pmYou still hanging around? Wanna talk more silly talk? I love that sort of thing. Black and white thinkers are my favorite
To the clueless rightwingers in this thread:
April 27th, 2008 at 2:51 pma) this is the US, not Israel,
b) Hamas holds seats in the Palestinian parliament; whoever is the next president of the US will have to talk to Hamas, like it or not,
c) you made up your mind about Obama, based on what someone you hadn’t heard of until today said of him? I truly feel sorry for you.
Based on McCain’s comments (and Limbaugh’s, and Romney’s, and the trolls in this thread), we can confidently say that it is the rightwingers who are more than willing to let Islamic extremists decide the outcome of the elections in the US.
As a matter of fact, not only are they going to let it happen, they are gleefully working towards making it a reality.
Why do reichwingers hate America?
/sarc off
April 27th, 2008 at 2:57 pmWhy isn’t Romney spending time down in Texas working on the polygamist debacle. There’s a situation he might have some understanding of. How many mothers do you think his five sons really have?
April 27th, 2008 at 3:05 pmWell Romney might be right. Obama is smart enough to realize you have to talk to your enemies. Isolation, sanctions, military force just makes things worse, as evident by the catastrophic treatments of Iraq and Palestine
Obama might not change much in US Israel-policy, but Hamas possibly recognizes Obama as the least bad candidate for their people. Because situation for the Palestinians will certainly deteriorate if Hillary “I strongly support the apartheid-wall” Clinton or John “I’m honored by endorsement of CUFI-pastor Hagee” McCain is elected.
Of course Romney doesnt give a rats ass about the oppressed Palestinians. He just wants to smear Obama saying hes dangerous because he considers talking to “evil people”
April 27th, 2008 at 3:41 pm#23 Winghunter Says:
You and several snivelers here would know all about that…of course, that’s all you would know about.
“At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child - miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill disciplined, despotic, and useless. Liberalism is the philosophy of sniveling brats.” - P.J. O’Rourke
Liberalism-a political or social philosophy advocating the freedom of the individual, parliamentary systems of government, nonviolent modification of political, social, or economic institutions to assure unrestricted development in all spheres of human endeavor, and governmental guarantees of individual rights and civil liberties.
There is the definition of Liberalism. Nowhere does is say anything about sniveling brats. What is does say however is that Liberalism allows Freedom, Nonviolence, Civil Liberties and Unrestricted development. It is ironic you would make that particular comparison. Since you have had the freedom of unrestricted development obviously; you are condemning something you have been enjoying your whole life.
And who is the sniveling brat again?????
April 27th, 2008 at 3:59 pmWinghunter….
Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear. ~William E. Gladstone, 1866
April 27th, 2008 at 4:04 pmLook at that. The questioner accepts that Hamas has “endorsed” Obama. What connection to the McCain campaign does this questioner have? This is typical right wing yellow journalism. And if the campaign is this uncivil by the Republicans in April, what will it look like in October. Limbaugh has already called for riots in Denver this summer. Where is the backlash to this hate? Are there no good Republicans left?
April 27th, 2008 at 4:50 pmHey wingnuter,
Would you and your ilk prefer:
a world which you shared with “Islamo Fascists” but NO aethiests,
OR
a world shared with aethiests but no “Islamo-Fascists?”
Just askin’
April 27th, 2008 at 5:26 pmDallasNE Says:
Are there no good Republicans left?
Most of the good ones already left the party. The majority of Republicans still in office are just plain nucking futz.
April 27th, 2008 at 5:33 pmAnyone care to speculate who the KKK would endorse, as long as we’re playing this game?
April 27th, 2008 at 5:51 pm“At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child - miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill disciplined, despotic, and useless. Liberalism is the philosophy of sniveling brats.” - P.J. O’Rourke
O’Roarke should know about sniveling- he did it on a monthly basis at National Lampoon. Yup, there’s a real intellectual!
April 27th, 2008 at 6:03 pm“Pelly pushes Fright Wing Myth of Amadinijad Saying Israel Should be ‘Wiped Off The Map’”
Tonight on CBS 60 Minutes… (… israeli airforce… bomb iran prep…)
…
i guess paybacks are hell… gotta supplement the truth with a little propaganda
once in a while… … or is it the other way around…
uoy…
…
good time to put this out there, pass it around:
JStreet - A new pro-peace, pro-Israel political voice
sam was very excited about this…
it’s time to quit listening to the right-wing war mongers…
…
the scalia segment was a real eyebrow raiser also…
April 27th, 2008 at 8:12 pmthe guy’s got quite a complex… top it off with only child syndrome…
yee-ikes…
Hamid Karzai survives assassination attempt
April 27th, 2008 at 8:35 pmTelegraph.co.uk - 57 minutes ago
By Tom Coghlan in Kabul President Hamid Karzai has narrowly escaped assassination in Kabul as Taliban militants attacked Afghanistan’s largest annual military parade.
Video: Karzai Escapes Unharmed After Taliban Attack AssociatedPress
Militants attack Afghan president, killing 3 others International Herald Tribune
Times Online - Xinhua - AFP - Daily Times
Democrats should say:
I didn’t realize we were letting the terrorists choose our Presidents!
April 27th, 2008 at 8:42 pmKaty you’re better than I am. I turned of the propaganda before Scalia was over so I didn’t see the rest. What a self-absorbed jackass. HE has the nerve to say HE doesn’t believe in activist judges. Sure, not unless he’s the activist.
April 27th, 2008 at 8:54 pmMcCain can’t win on the issues so he is left with mean-spirited attacks along with fear and hate. 70% of American’s think the country is headed in the wrong direction.
So, what would McCain do to right the ship. He would out-do Bush on tax cuts, the very policy that started us in the wrong direction. Don’t believe me then read this.
April 27th, 2008 at 10:52 pmhttp://www.reuters.com/ article/ topNews/ idUSL2719096320080427
Voice_of_Reason Says:
Why has Hammas endorsing Obama on April 16 not gotten sufficient coverage in the MSM? The people deserve to know when a terrorist organization wants a particular candidate to win so that we can take that into consideration.
April 27th, 2008 at 10:44 pm
Exactly! Just like when Zawahari said al Qaeda wanted George Bush to win in 2004. The people should be told stuff like that, right?
April 27th, 2008 at 11:24 pmNice try Romney, but I’ll take the 100 years of death and poverty from the wife abuser for a hundred Alex. 24/7 for the next six months: why not a hundred…a thousand? Bye bye McAncient.
April 27th, 2008 at 11:53 pmWhat about the Burmese junta’s endorsement of McCain?
April 28th, 2008 at 12:05 amAll the incompetent, corrupt, bankrupt g.o.p. has left is the Big Lie.
April 28th, 2008 at 12:07 amWhat about China’s endorsement of McCain, Voice of Treason?
Neoconservatives and the New World Order, what a joke Romney is. His old man is spinning in his grave.These guys keep putting Johnny (warmongering) McCain behind the eight ball every time they open their pie holes.I don`t think they realize that nobody on the left nor to many on the right really care who Hamas is backing, it`s not likely they`ll be voting in November.This is what I mean by saying, these people on the right(RIECH)will say and do anything to keep the White House and this wormongering going.
April 28th, 2008 at 12:37 amJust prior to the 2004 Presidential election, it was already well established that whenever there was an allegation that bin Laden had released a new video (with the usual disclaimer that the authorities were in the process of verifying authenticity), George W. Bush’s popularity increased temporarily. A new video purported to be bin Laden surfaces on the Saturday before the election. Chimpy “wins” in what we were told was a very close race.
Sure looks like bin Laden (or whoever he was) wanted Bush to be re-elected.
April 28th, 2008 at 1:38 amYeah, yeah and Saddam was 45 minutes from launching…
April 28th, 2008 at 9:06 amMitt Romney - Dick Cheney’s brain in Rock Hudson’s body.
April 28th, 2008 at 6:47 pm