McCain: ‘I will win in January.’
By on Jun 2nd, 2008 at 8:10 pm
McCain: ‘I will win in January.’
Sen. John McCain had one of his infamous “senior moments” while speaking at a campaign rally in Nashville today. “If we do everything right — and we can and we will — I will win in January,” he said, “and I will be the next President of the United States.” Watch it:
By January, McCain will have nothing to win. The presidential election takes place on November 4 of this year. The inauguration — which McCain will presumably attend as either the new President or a returning Senator — occurs on January 20, 2009.
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I wouldn’t hesitate to reming his supporters to be sure to vote in January. :)
June 2nd, 2008 at 8:16 pmA new record even for McShrub! Two errors in ONE short sentence. The bar is raised!
June 2nd, 2008 at 8:16 pmI don’t mean to be ageist, but given the intense pressures of campaigning, is it possible that McCain is suffering from some sort of … cognitive impairment?
This sort of thing sounds eerily similar to what filtered out of the White House during Reagan’s second term.
June 2nd, 2008 at 8:19 pmI take exception to the term “Senior Moment.” Just tell it like it is: the sorry young (he is younger than me) bastard is out of his ever-lovin’ mind. Why bother making a point of his continuous SNAFUs when nobody really gives a good rats ass. The Rethugs have thrown him under the bus long ago and are just using him to get the Dems to spend money on the Presidential contest instead of the other crooked incumbents. TP would be well served to publish the record and future criminal records of every Rethug that is dumb enough to run again.
June 2nd, 2008 at 8:20 pmNo, dammit, he was referring to the all Boca Del Vista Phase III scrabble tournament, which takes place Jan 18 - 21st every year. Geez.
June 2nd, 2008 at 8:20 pmMcBurns
http://www.simpsonstrivia.com.ar/ simpsons-photos/ wallpapers/ mr-burns-wallpaper.gif
June 2nd, 2008 at 8:26 pmYeah, we can’t expect the old coot to know shit like what month the election takes place in, he’s got lobbyis..er, staffers to do that for him.
June 2nd, 2008 at 8:27 pmThis numb nuts is lucky to remember his name…What a MAROON!
June 2nd, 2008 at 8:27 pmDoes that mean Bush will lift Martial Law (of course, the election is cavcelled) in January and then install McBomb for Prez?
June 2nd, 2008 at 8:31 pmI just read this to my wife and her comment was: “Take an Old Person Pill, dude.”
Perfect.
June 2nd, 2008 at 8:31 pmoops.
#10 I meant cancelled (obviously)
June 2nd, 2008 at 8:31 pmWell, maybe he’s planning to enter the NHL skills competition during All Star week in January. I wonder how his slapshot is?
June 2nd, 2008 at 8:40 pmHey, I will win in February and I’ll be President! Of our homeowners association. No one else wants the damn job…
June 2nd, 2008 at 8:42 pmchappymeg, with those cheeks and jowls, his slapshot would be more like slapstick.
June 2nd, 2008 at 8:43 pmHopefully he’ll do neither, win in November or attend the inauguration in January, because he’ll be in jail with Phil Gramm.
June 2nd, 2008 at 8:45 pmWith all these lapses piling up, does McAddled have someone to make sure his shorts are on right?
Or is the slit in the back easier for diaper change?
June 2nd, 2008 at 8:55 pm**banging head on desk**
June 2nd, 2008 at 8:58 pmMcCain could be right. January is when congress ratifies the electoral college. Remember how in 2000 a lot of us wanted Gore to put up a fight in the congress.
If the electoral college splits 269-269 then McCain would have to take the fight to congress. Those state delegations would vote for the winner in the house and the senate would vote for the winner. There are many cases where we could get 269-269. Obama wins Iowa, Nevada, and Colorodo and all the kerry states except new hampshire and we get 269-269. Obama gets Ohio but loses New Hampshire and picks up the one delegate in the ohama district in Nebraska and you get 269. Obama wins Iowa and Colorodo and Nevada but loses New Hampshire and gets to 269. Obama wins Iowa and Colorodo and New Mexico but loses New Hampshire and gets to 269. Obama wins Iowa and Colorodo and picks up the Omaha delegate.
McCain might be thinking that his options to get to 270 are very limited and his best chance is to get to 269.
It McCain was thinking strategically he might be referring to January 3rd when the congress meets to ratify the electoral college.
McCain would have to win the popular vote and get to 269 and pressure lawmakers in states he won to vote for him in the house. Like Stephanie Herseth said in 2004 she would vote for bush if kerry and bush ended up tied. Herseths vote would have counted as South Dakota’s delegation because she is the only member of the house.
McCain might be thinking strategically. McCain has a lot more options to get to 269 than to 270.
June 2nd, 2008 at 8:59 pmBlame it on the Geritol that McCain missed taken today.
June 2nd, 2008 at 9:01 pmThere are others ways it could end later than scheduled. If there is a recount like in ohio or florida. It could be tied up in the courts maybe this time until january.
If it is 269-269 mccain and obama would be going all out to get one elector to switch which would hand them the victory.
It sounds like a gaffe but I put McCain’s chances at getting to 270 at less than 5 percent but he probably has a 15 percent chance to get to 269.
It so happens that so many of the swing state scenarios in the southwest like nevada, colorodo, new mexico combained with scenarios from iowa and new hampshire add up to 269.
Don’t underestimate McCain. He isn’t stupid. He was a pilot and had his IQ tested at 133.
June 2nd, 2008 at 9:03 pmMost of you people sound like a bunch of know-nothing dumbasses to me. The popular vote takes place in November, but a candidate does not win the election until the members of the Electoral College (the Electors) cast their votes for President and Vice President on the first Monday after the second Wednesday in *December*. I mean, duh.
(My remarks are tongue-in-cheek, of course. I mean, how many people know stuff like that, especially since the Electoral voting process is never shown on television, aside from C-SPAN?)
June 2nd, 2008 at 9:03 pmSorry, jasonsix, I didn’t see your comments before I posted mine.
June 2nd, 2008 at 9:06 pmI really doubt that McIIIrd wasn’t misspeaking. His capacity for malspeech is unequaled in the political landscape.
June 2nd, 2008 at 9:07 pmTo Subodim: The congress actually ratifies the vote on january 3rd. The congress always meets on that day every two years.
The December date you might be remembering is when Gore conceded on December 13th.
Gore presided over the ratification of the electoral college on January 3rd. This was when all the congressional black caucus members couldn’t get one senator to stand up. It was in Moore’s movie.
Also in 2004 January 3rd was when Boxer stood up and protested.
McCain was correct you don’t officially win until January when congress certifies the electoral college.
McCain is a lot of smarter than people give him credit for.
June 2nd, 2008 at 9:07 pmMcCain might be thinking strategically. McCain has a lot more options to get to 269 than to 270.Tactically perhaps, but the Bush/Kerry race offers few precdents that are valid for this race. In ‘04, the economy wasn’t so clearly on a downswing, and the republican wasn’t facing such stiff resistance, both from sectors of his own party, as well as the larger electorate. I think 269 to be quite a stretch. He’ll be lucky to break 220.
June 2nd, 2008 at 9:09 pmMcCain is not old.
6 supreme court justices are over 70.
Justice Kennedy is 71 he is in his prime.
Scalia is 72 and still has a sharp mind.
Justice Stevens is 88 and has a sharp mind.
Ginsberg is 75 and has a sharp mind.
24 senators are older than McCain.
Feinstein is 74. Levin is 74. Biden is 67. Reid is 67.
Pelosi is 68.
Ron Paul is older than McCain and has a sharp mind. Ron Paul is 72.
Colin Powell is 70.
71 is the new 61.
June 2nd, 2008 at 9:09 pmjasonsix Says:
McCain was correct you don’t officially win until January when congress certifies the electoral college.
McCain is a lot of smarter than people give him credit for.
Nothing more desperate than a Republican trying to make their candidate look good. I do believe McCain is smarter than you, though, Jason. Much, much smarter.
June 2nd, 2008 at 9:13 pmIs someone missing the point that McIIIrd has shown on numerous occasions, a predilection to mixing up and just plain old not knowing facts a presidential candidate should know?
Like how many troops we have in Iraq, that Mosul had a suicide bomber attack the day he said it was all quiet on the Iraqi front, I could go on and on and on…
He’s not the sharpest knife in the drawer…
June 2nd, 2008 at 9:13 pmOh, and my Dad is 87 and sharper than McIIIrd.
June 2nd, 2008 at 9:13 pmMcCain is a lot of smarter than people give him credit for.
Hold tight to that. Ignore the many lapses.
And he’d be a Bush-league idiot, if, after this many years in the senate (and two campaigns), he didn’t know when the electoral college met. He’s just not processing his own thoughts in a rational manner. That bespeaks creeping senility.
June 2nd, 2008 at 9:15 pmlol food on your family all over again
June 2nd, 2008 at 9:17 pmno “brilliant insight” or “election critical thinking” or “electoral college voting issue” . . . just a simple case of a near sighted dog continually chasing a parked car and smacking the wheel once too often . . . .
June 2nd, 2008 at 9:17 pmObama said there were 57 states.
Obama called the leader of canada the president of Canada when Canada has been under parliamentary rule for 140 years. Canada has no president. The leader is the prime minister.
Obama said 10,000 people died in a tornado in kansas.
Obama said 100 million died in burma.
Obama called sunrise florida sunshine florida. Was that a senior moment?
Obama called sioux falls south dakota sioux city iowa.
Obama didn’t know auschwitz was in poland. Or he made a gerald ford type gaffe not knowing poland was occupied by the soviets.
Clinton called the current prime minister Helen Clarke the former prime minister.
Obama is particularly numerically gaffe prone. He was trained as a lawyer. He has shown on numerous cases to be gaffe prone on numbers.
June 2nd, 2008 at 9:18 pmScalia is 72 and still has a sharp mind.
Not when he can’t give a rational explanation for his belief that we don’t torture, “because it isn’t punishment.”
And I question your hold on reality for asserting it.
June 2nd, 2008 at 9:19 pmObama called sioux falls south dakota sioux city iowa.
Wow.
They’re a hundred miles apart.
Yup, he’s clearly out to lunch!
June 2nd, 2008 at 9:21 pmjasonsix Says:
“McCain might be thinking…”
I doubt that he has the ability.
McCain is old! I am older than he is but younger in all respects except the age of his wife’s family money. When that fool was flying airplanes I was building missiles to shoot them (the other side) down. Obviously my success rate was higher than his. His IQ may be 133 in some system but that same system puts his shoe size at 150. Mine, by the way (shoe size) is 285 (purchased in Shanghai 2005).
June 2nd, 2008 at 9:22 pmjasonsix said: “The December date you might be remembering is when Gore conceded on December 13th.”
No, actually I’m thinking of the day that was set by Congress for Election Day. Somewhere in Title 3 of the United States Code, it says that Electors shall cast their votes on the day I mentioned. (Sorry I can’t remember the specific citation.) I think the Twelfth Amendement says they should all meet on the same day in their respective state capitals, and it changed the original procedures that were outlined in the United States Constitution.
In any case, there’s a lot of technical mumbo-jumbo, and you won’t find it all in one place. (Or on television.)
June 2nd, 2008 at 9:23 pmI dub thee . .
No Brain No Pain McCain.
June 2nd, 2008 at 9:24 pmYes the electors choose on december 13th but congress doesn’t certify the results until January 3rd. And Congress decides the winner if it is tied 269-269.
McCain had to be referring to congress making it official.
You aren’t officially the president elect until congress certifies the electoral votes until january 3rd.
McCain has attended many of the official ratifications and he probably remembers 2000 and 2004 so McCain was 100 percent correct in saying he will win in january because you can’t officially win until january anyway.
June 2nd, 2008 at 9:31 pmhttp://darrylwolkpolitics.blogspot.com/ 2008/ 05/ record-fo-mccains-gaffes.html
June 2nd, 2008 at 9:31 pmDementia doesn’t care how old you are.
June 2nd, 2008 at 9:31 pmjasonsix Says:
Yes the electors choose on december 13th but congress doesn’t certify the results until January 3rd. And Congress decides the winner if it is tied 269-269.
McCain had to be referring to congress making it official.
He “had to be” because otherwise he looks like a goofball, and we can’t have that, right?
No matter how desperately you spin around and around, the fact is that no one “wins” in January, no matter what date they take office. They “win” in the general election, which is in November.
I bet if McCain had said he would win in April, you’d figure out some way to make that “correct.”
Your entertainment value, though, is almost nil.
June 2nd, 2008 at 9:36 pmI wonder if the troll calling himself rogers knows how many different territories vote in our presidential primary? Add that to the 50 states and see what number you get.
Now John McInsane should certainly know you get elected in November, having been in congress for as long as he has.
June 2nd, 2008 at 9:36 pmHey Zep, how’s it going?
June 2nd, 2008 at 9:36 pmjasonsix Says:
McCain is not old.
Really? What do you know about senility? Are you 71?
You are generalizing here and that does not work. Everyone is different. Some older folks are affected with what I like to call ‘creeping’ senility’ and others are not. Just like some people who smoke get lung cancer and some who smoke, don’t.
It is obvious to anyone who looks, without prejudice, that McBush has made way, way too many silly errors and misstatements to conclude that he is stupid, in fantasy or lying. His problem is senility over which he has no control. And it will get a lot worse in the coming years. This alone should disqualify him from being the POTUS. And the public should be made aware of this strongly in the next few months.
June 2nd, 2008 at 9:39 pm.
Senator McWho?
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June 2nd, 2008 at 9:40 pmAll this name calling of the mccain’s. His family walks the walk. One son enlisted at 17 to join the marines and just got back from a combat tour from Iraq. Another son is graduating next year from the navy academy. Show McCain some respect. He gave it all for his country. To this day he can’t even lift up his arms to comb his hair. You can’t get much lower than to make fun of a disabled POW.
June 2nd, 2008 at 9:40 pmLaughing as usual Zoo. You?
June 2nd, 2008 at 9:40 pmYou liberals are supposed to be a bunch of bleeding hearts, so why not give McCain a well-deserved break! How can he not occasionally misspeak when he’s actively trying to determine at any given moment whether he’s supposed to be giving a flip message or a flop message?
June 2nd, 2008 at 9:41 pmWell Jasonsix, you seem to forget the smearjob McCain got at the hands of his own party.
June 2nd, 2008 at 9:44 pmSame, Zep. Otherwise I’d be screaming. ;)
June 2nd, 2008 at 9:44 pmjasonsixyears old thinks McCain’s character, competence, and consistency are off limits because he’s a disabled POW. What the hell was he fighting for, then? The Bill of Wrongs? Freedom to Agree with Authority? Life, Liberty, and Trivial Pursuit?
June 2nd, 2008 at 9:45 pmPatrioticLiberalChristian Says:
June 2nd, 2008 at 9:41 pm
Sorry, PLC. Maybe we could help Grampy with an “even/odd day” schedule for his flip flops?
June 2nd, 2008 at 9:45 pmWe need McCain.
McCain voted against keeping troops in lebanon.
McCain said he will turn over areas to the iraqis and let them deal with the insurgency and bring our troops home.
McCain’s foreign policy is a lot like Bush SR.
McCain would make a historic leader. McCain comes from the silent generation. The generation between the great generation and the baby boomers. They walk the walk. They aren’t like the neocon baby boomers like Kristol.
McCain/Powell would be a historic ticket.
June 2nd, 2008 at 9:46 pmPatriotic I never said you couldn’t question his politices.
I was referring to the childish McInsane, Mcold.
All this name calling is different than not being for his policies.
McCain fought for others to have the freedom to do whatever they wanted. I just said it was disrespectful the vitriol that the left uses against McCain.
June 2nd, 2008 at 9:48 pmjasonsix,
We do NOT need McCain. The last thing we need is four more years of Bush policies — which is exactly what McCain has promised.
June 2nd, 2008 at 9:50 pmZooey, I think we’d need a morning and evening schedule. Maybe we could market a “Flip-Flop Reminder” container, like those medication reminders. Or we could just elect Obama.
Seriously, I don’t really like attacking McCain on the basis of his age. I think the real issue is that he is trying to be Everyman’s Maverick, pandering so much that he really can’t keep facts straight. Plus, I doubt he was that fluent with facts when he was young.
June 2nd, 2008 at 9:51 pmjason6six6,
The Congress certifies the electoral collage results.
The general election takes place in November.
Who crosses the finish line first… WINS!
So, did Scott Dixon win the Indy 500 AFTER they certified the results? Or when he crossed the finish line? Did the Loyal Christians(R) cheering McWho on parse it like you did? Did they each and everyone of them, see these nuances?
June 2nd, 2008 at 9:53 pmJebus. Grampy McSame’s life seems to be one lo-o-o-o-ng, nightmarish senior moment…
June 2nd, 2008 at 9:53 pmTo Max but if it is 269-269 Congress decides the winner in Jaunary. Under than scenario you cross the finish line in Jaunary.
June 2nd, 2008 at 9:54 pmSeems to me Jasonsix that a vote for McCain is a vote for the neo-cons and more of the same reckless fiscally irresponsible course we have been on for sometime.
Why do you want more of the same culture of corruption Jasonsix?
June 2nd, 2008 at 9:57 pmSenior moment? More like dirt-stupid moment:
http://static.crooksandliars.com/ 2008/ 05/ mcbush-mccain-bush.jpg
People misunderestimate just how dumb Johnny McSame truly is.
June 2nd, 2008 at 9:58 pmjasonsix said: “Yes the electors choose on December 13th but congress doesn’t certify the results until January 3rd.”
You know, I think you’re right about when the election is actually decided–it happens in January when Congress ratifies the Electoral College vote. McCain, whose life revolves around such technicalities, might have been thinking of that when he talked about “winning” in January. Point granted.
But I would like to respectfully point out that our election laws do not specify particular dates (such as Decemeber 13 or January 3); they refer to days with descriptions such as “first Tuesday in November” or “first Monday after the second Wednesay in December”, so the dates are usually different every election year. During the 2000 election, I think the Electoral College cast their votes on December 18, right on schedule (with all of Florida’s contested electoral votes going to Bush, rightfully or not).
June 2nd, 2008 at 9:58 pmZooey McCain is far different than Bush.
McCain for closing gitmo
McCain for signing Kyoto.
McCain voted against bush and cheney energy bill in 2005 that Obama voted for.
McCain is for CAFE standards.
McCain is against drilling in ANWR.
McCain is for importing prescription drugs from Canada.
McCain is for allowing negotiation to bring down the drug prices.
McCain is for the international criminal court.
McCain is for affirmative action.
McCain is so completely different than Bush.
McCain is for allowing the media to have access to Dover Air Force base.
McCain was a POW. McCain put his life on the line for this country. McCain is so different than Bush.
McCain comes from a different generation than Bush. McCain is from the silent generation not the bratty spoiled baby boomer cheerleader like Bush.
Anyone that compares McCain to Bush must like to lie.
McCain would make a historic president. He said he would go before congress like the british PM.
WE NEED MCCAIN.
June 2nd, 2008 at 9:58 pmPatrioticLiberalChristian Says:
June 2nd, 2008 at 9:51 pm
Whatever we can do to help. ;)
June 2nd, 2008 at 9:59 pmjason6six6 says:
We need McWho… ?(!)
He was tortured and didn’t resist. Then, later in life, votes to allow the torture of ANY persons, even US troops.
We need McWho?
He used his GI Bill… and votes to deny a new generation of Vets, a higher standard of compensation because… they deserve it?
We need McWho?
He can’t keep his Jihadists separated from his Islamists and insurgents and don’t even ask him what is the difference between a Sunni and a Shiite… without LIARman there to correct him… K?
We need McWho?
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June 2nd, 2008 at 10:01 pmjasonsix Says:
June 2nd, 2008 at 9:58 pm
Hello? Are you really that clueless?
June 2nd, 2008 at 10:01 pmTo Sub,
I believe the december date is flexible but I remember that when Pelosi was sworn in reading how the new congress is always sworn in on January 3rd. I could be wrong but I remember reading that.
June 2nd, 2008 at 10:02 pmZooey, yes, Jason really is that clueless.
June 2nd, 2008 at 10:02 pm#61 jason6six6 says:
What, did you forget the 2000 elections and how the State of Florida’s Supremes decided that one…
Or is that just a McMoment you’re experiencing?
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June 2nd, 2008 at 10:04 pmjasonsix said John McBush has a 133 IQ. I suppose to dimwitted republicans that is high while to others he’s just a bright person.
If McSame is supposed to be so smart why did he graduate near the bottom of his Naval Accademy class?
June 2nd, 2008 at 10:06 pmMcCain didn’t vote for torture. He voted against making the intelligence agency have the same field manual as the military. That is not voting for torture. The CIA would have had to follow word for word the same field manual as the military. The army field manual only allows a certain number of interogators. The CIA field manual allows more. They are more highly trained in interrogations. They shouldn’t have the same field manual.
McCain has done more to end torture than anyone. His bill which became law stopped waterboarding and made the geneva convention the law of the land. McCain’s bill stopped those dogs being used against prisoners.
McCain has done so much good. Without McCain we would have never found out about Jack Abramoff. McCain took the side of the little guy. McCain took the side of the american indians and sent Abramoff and his crooks to jail.
McCain is a truly historic leader. He is the leader of our time.
June 2nd, 2008 at 10:06 pmSomeone has to test this old bastard for alzeimers…
June 2nd, 2008 at 10:08 pmTo Max the 2000 election the electoral college vote was 271-266 with one elector for Gore abstaining.
The issue was the 27 electoral votes from Florida. The issue wasn’t that it was tied 269-269.
June 2nd, 2008 at 10:08 pm*
Give the guy a break… he’s over 500 in dog years.
PEACE
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June 2nd, 2008 at 10:09 pmGore still could have fought to win on January 3rd. Congress constitutionally could have ignored the supreme court in 2000. Congress constitutionally doesn’t have to certify the electoral college vote. Kerry supporters wanted them to do that with Boxer protesting.
June 2nd, 2008 at 10:10 pmI met McCain in person and he appears much younger. This is a guy who hikes the grand canyon. He has a firm handshake.
TV makes him look older than he is in person. In person he seems healthy.
June 2nd, 2008 at 10:12 pmJason-
June 2nd, 2008 at 10:12 pmMcCain is an historic leader if by that you mean he is history…
I certainly would have preferred McCain to Bush in 2000, but Bush made sure that didn’t happen by distorting McCain’s record but McCain is making sure he won’t win in 2008 by embracing Bush’s record.
The Republican party is dead for the next 10 years at least, get used to it…
I also met McCain in person and he seemed quite nice.
June 2nd, 2008 at 10:14 pmI’m happy to have him visit the White House, I just wouldn’t want him to live there.
jason6six6 says:
The bill McWho wrote was over written by the Decider with a simple signing statement. What does Johnny say about that? … *crickets* A man of character and honor would at least say something concerning “HIS” bill being usurped… NO?
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June 2nd, 2008 at 10:15 pmjasonsix Says:
In person he seems healthy.
June 2nd, 2008 at 10:12 pm
Yeah? So did Jim Fixx. What’s your point?
June 2nd, 2008 at 10:17 pmIf this is Tuesday, I must be Belgian?
June 2nd, 2008 at 10:18 pmjasonsix Says:
McCain has done so much good. Without McCain we would have never found out about Jack Abramoff. McCain took the side of the little guy. McCain took the side of the american indians and sent Abramoff and his crooks to jail.
You’ve absolutely convinced me. McCain really needs to be a Senator.
June 2nd, 2008 at 10:20 pmTo Max McCain is also against signing statements. McCain has said signing statements aren’t constitutional. Obama has said he will keep the Bush policy of continuinig signing statements.
Obama voted with Bush on the 2005 energy bill. McCain voted against Bush.
Obama for signing statements. McCain against them.
Who again is more like Bush?
June 2nd, 2008 at 10:24 pmWe all know what the excuse will be: “Sen. McCain simply misspoke.” Okay, I’ll accept that (with several grains of salt — say enough to repave the Bonneville Salt Flats). But even if that were true, doesn’t the man ever LISTEN to what he’s saying?!?! If he did, he just might catch one or two of these misspeaks and correct them in his next breath.
June 2nd, 2008 at 10:25 pmJasonsix -
Your dogged support of McSame is pitiful . . . McSame VOTED 95% with the Bush Agenda (Congressional Record) last year and has an 88% “Bush Time” rating for “The League” . . .
May indeed be “for” all you list, but as per usual, his voting record exposes his bullshit record . . . ask any Vet on his “support” for a decent G.I. Bill, or stand on torture, economics, “talking with da enema”, vote AGAINST MLK Day, lack of support for Katrina (until THIS year), flip flop on Taxes, Immigration and women’s rights, rated “WORST Senator” in Congress by Children’s Defense Fund, voted against child health care, a campaign filled with lobbyist many repping foreign anti-democratic regimes, a ZERO rating on the environment from the League of Conservation, and is one of the richest Senators in Congress, yet, he finds the need to also draw $28,000 a year from the “broke” Social Security System . . .
We “need” McSame like we need a “Depression” . . .
And if being a POW makes one a “Hero”, why not select Jessica Lynch as his VP and we get TWO HEROES and a WOMAN in the WH!!!!!!
June 2nd, 2008 at 10:25 pmAnybody who choses Phil feckin’ Gramm as his economic adviser is prima facie dumber than a clod of baked mud.
June 2nd, 2008 at 10:26 pmDangerous, stupid, and forgetful are no way to become president, son. Obama in a landslide. Get over it, rethugs. You deserve much worse.
June 2nd, 2008 at 10:27 pmTo Jess now you know that those numbers are misleading.
Ted Kennedy votes with Bush over 90 percent of the time. Most votes in congress are on non partisan issues. Naming a post office, celebrating this or that. Most votes in congress are on mundane matters.
McCain was campaigning last year. He voted very few times.
McCain has a moderate record. He last year got a 65 rating from the ACU.
How can anyone be against McCain. He is a great leader.
June 2nd, 2008 at 10:34 pmTo Jess McCain is a hero because of after three years he had the chance to leave and didn’t. Also McCain saved the life of his comrade who was injured when McCain himself was injured.
McCain had his teeth knocked out, injuries never allowed to heal, had his arms tied behind his back and hung to break his arms repeatedly.
Think of what it would be like to go through life like McCain and not ever be able to lift your arms up. Think of all the leisurly things McCain can’t do. That is why McCain likes to hike. He can’t play baseball or basketball. He can’t even comb his hair.
Now after three years of hell McCain said no I won’t go home until I leave with my comrades.
McCain is a hero and if the american people really knew about the true character of McCain this election would be a landslide for McCain.
June 2nd, 2008 at 10:38 pmObama the other day made the same quote on quote gaffe.
Obama said he would be able to pick out a new church in January when he knew what happened in the election.
Why January?
It is hypocritical to bash McCain when Obama said the same thing.
By winning they mean finality and taking office.
June 2nd, 2008 at 10:41 pm90. jasonsix Says:
How can anyone be against McCain.
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The entire GOP extra-chromosome right-wing GOP base — since 1999 at least, and way before that in most cases.
Now they’re stuck with sloppy fourths, and they hate it.
June 2nd, 2008 at 10:41 pmLike Custer needed one more Indian, idiot.
June 2nd, 2008 at 10:53 pmI think the needs DEPENDS now that he can’t remember when the election is. I know Joe Lieberman doesn’t want to have to clean up the mess when he shits himself on stage. So his advisors had better buy a whole bunch of DEPENDS, they are easier to change. They also need to make sure he gets his fiber so it’s not runny. There is nothing worst than runny old fart shit. I really hate to see Grandpa McShame running around forgeting were he is, what day it is, and who he is. This makes the Republican party look really weak when the have to nominate the oldest guy on the planet who can’t remember his own name. But I have to admit Cindy is a nice old hottie. What the heck is she doing with lame pecker grandpa with the white comb over?
June 2nd, 2008 at 11:00 pmjasonsicks doth protest too much. I think he’s not feeling all that confident with Grampy.
June 2nd, 2008 at 11:01 pmSo if McPain becomes the next Supreme Court appointee to the Oval Office, who will be placing their hand inside his head, moving his eyes and mouth, ala Charlie McCarthy, while tossing his subjects more clumps of excrement from the Straight Jacket Express?
Deadeye Dick, KKKarl Rove or will they work in shifts?
McCorpse’s lapses must elicit misty-eyed nostalgia for those who long for a reprise of Ronnie Ray-Gun’s addled second term.
June 2nd, 2008 at 11:16 pmNewest McCain official (Michael Goldfarb, Deputy Communications Director) says the president has “near dictatorial powers”:
http://www.salon.com/ opinion/ greenwald/ 2008/ 06/ 02/ goldfarb/ index.html
June 2nd, 2008 at 11:21 pmPresidential candidate Ronald Reagan, in August 1980 said “80 percent of air pollution comes not from chimneys and auto exhaust pipes, but from plants and trees.” Later, Reagan arrived at a campaign rally to find a tree decorated with this sign: “Chop me down before I kill again.”
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98. Keith Says:
Saw that. Kind of thing that’d give McSame wood — 20 years ago. Now it prob’ly gives him a Kingsford charcoal briquet.
June 2nd, 2008 at 11:40 pmjonny, I’m sure righties would not mind if Obama had “near dictatorial powers”.
June 2nd, 2008 at 11:43 pmKeith, — arse, meet turnaround bite.
June 2nd, 2008 at 11:48 pmJason: you mentioned all these old people still in their jobs. That is admirable.
However, to think that it is wise for any of them to START a NEW job is just plain stupid.
He has no administrative experience: never a governor, never a mayor, never ran a business.
And he’s had melanoma four times. For someone with no hands on experience, and in questionable health, I take a look at the p[eople around him who may actually be running things–and there it’s just appalling.
Show me a John McCain who says he will re-hire Richard Clarke for national security–who would put James Lee Witt in charge of FEMA again–show me an environmentalist in his entourage–and I’d listen.
But his brain trust is filled with lobbyists and lunatic preachers. And the best I can say about McCain is that he’s careless.
We can’t afford careless.
On the rare occasions when Hilary or Barack get asked questions on policy, they are sharp, they are prepared, they can explain their ideas in detail. John McCain smiles, acts folksy, jokes, and doesn’t do it.
This country is in deep trouble. The middle class can’t afford their houses, health care, or to drive their cars. We are pariahs in the eyes of the world and our military is falling apart.
I am sick and tired of stupid, careless people who don’t know their stuff, sit in their machine-generated bubbles, who wait for their staff to put together their positions for them, and who have never shown the least ability to actually solve real-world problems . I’m tired of competence and intelligence being denigrated in favore (once again!) of folksy charm.
We can’t afford any more incurious, intellectually lax, incurious, unprepared clowns in the White House. The next one will put us smack dab into has-been second class nation status.
June 3rd, 2008 at 12:48 amdid I say incurious?
June 3rd, 2008 at 12:50 amI am not a McCain fan by an means, but he could have meant he would be inaugurated in January. He just got the whole thing ass backward. To be honest these type of gaffes should cost him dearly, but the media seems to be very willing to give McCain a pass on most things.
June 3rd, 2008 at 1:17 amjasonsix likes to hold shriveled old man scrotums in his mouth.
June 3rd, 2008 at 4:48 amBest be careful about discussing senior moments, when Obama has had several of his own.
Has the “creative class” decided to follow up its pushing white males and all females out of the party by pushing seniors out, too?
So who’s left?
Carolyn Kay
June 3rd, 2008 at 6:57 amMakeThemAccountable.com
rogers Says:
Come on…”senior moment”?.How many ppl even know the president wins, but doesn’t take office in november…he can be said to be right either way..
But then, as long as where resorting to grammar nit-picking, obama did have a “junior moment”, which was less forgivable..
Regardless. McSenile is a TRAITOR to the USA, just like the MURDERER Bush the COXUCKER punk TRAITOR to the USA.
McClellan has confirmed what REAL Americans ALREADY knew: Bush and his PNAC WAR CRIMINALS committed TREASON against the USA.
And deserve the PENALTY for TREASON in “wartime”.
June 3rd, 2008 at 7:11 amMcCain/Powell would be a historic ticket.
Historic losers. Even the black community doesn’t support Powell anymore.
June 3rd, 2008 at 7:35 amPowell SOLD OUT on February 5, 2003 in his presentation to the UN of the LIES about Iraq and WMD.
Powell was quoted as telling the people who wrote many other LIES into his speech that he wouldn’t say them, adding:
“This is bullzhit”.
Unfortunately, he still told the BIG LIE, and thus became another of Bush’s beeyotches like McStupid.
Powell will live quietly, PRAYING that God doesn’t send HIM to ETERNAL DAMNATION that awaits Bush and Cheney for their GENOCIDE.
June 3rd, 2008 at 7:44 amDefinition of a “SENIOR MOMENT”:
1) Thinking that there are 58 states in the U.S.
2) Seeing dead soldiers in an audience.
Want more examples of Obama Carter’s “senior moments”???
June 3rd, 2008 at 8:07 amLOL, If McBush wins, I will move to Brazil. Can you imagine another 4 years of Bush? that is EXACTLY what youll get with Bushes “mini-me” McBush! LOL.
JT
June 3rd, 2008 at 8:14 amOnline PRivacy when it Counts
FU JK
June 3rd, 2008 at 8:41 amI guess he figures it will take the Supreme Court a couple of months to get around to appointing him president.
June 3rd, 2008 at 9:26 amjonny Says:
Anybody who choses Phil feckin’ Gramm as his economic adviser is prima facie dumber than a clod of baked mud.
Ah yes, Phil Gramm, author of the Commodity Futures Modernization Act, otherwise known as the “Enron Bill”.
There is even talk that McCain would make Gramm his Treasury Secretary. Just think, the author of the Enron Bill in charge of the US Treasury. How scary is that?
June 3rd, 2008 at 9:34 amWill somebody please change his diaper, give him a bottle and put him to bed????
June 3rd, 2008 at 9:49 am