McCain campaign throws Social Security’s birthday cake in the trash.
By on Aug 14th, 2008 at 11:33 pm
McCain campaign throws Social Security’s birthday cake in the trash.
In honor of the 73rd anniversary of President Franklin Roosevelt’s signing of the Social Security Act, the New Mexico Democratic Party attempted to sing “Happy 73rd Birthday to Social Security” outside of a McCain campaign office, “only to have the birthday cake thrown in the trash by the campaign”:
While McCain supporters screamed, “Obama sleeps with a Teddy Bear and a night light,” staffers approached the Democratic group, yelling, took the 20 inch sheet cake that said “Happy Birthday Social Security” and threw it away.
Conchita Cruz, the press secretary for the Democratic Party of New Mexico, called the cake trashing a “perfect metaphor” for McCain’s approach to Social Security policy.
View Most Popular
Advertisement
What We're About
What We're Fighting For
What We're Fighting Against
Featured
Subscribe to the Progress Report
Topic CloudView topics sorted by popularity
Afghanistan
Bachmann
Beck
Boehner
Bush
Cheney
Civil Rights
Congress
Corporate Ethics
Dobbs
Economy
Education
Election
Energy
Environment
Ethics
Fox News
Gingrich
Global Warming
Guantanamo
Health Care
Immigration
International Relations
Iraq
Justice
LGBT
Lieberman
Limbaugh
Media
Military
O'Reilly
Obama
Palin
Pelosi
Politics
Race
Radical Right
Religion
Steele
Stimulus
Tea Parties
Technology
Terrorism
Veterans
Women's Rights
Visit Our Affiliated Sites
Reports
In-depth studies on select topics
Got a hot tip?
Have a hot news tip? We'd love to hear from you. Use the form below to send us the latest.
ArchivesBlog Roll
Disgusting – yes, mccain is an incredibly lame candidate – especially after 8 year of dur chimpfurher.
But don’t kid yourself – obama has shamelessly “catapulted” the lie that Social Security, the most successful federal program of all-time, is in crisis.
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/11/why-barack-why
August 14th, 2008 at 11:38 pmHappy 74rd Birthday to Social Security (SS). It was a humane and thoughtful plan created by President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Administration. The vicious, vile and hateful right-wing in America has been trying to destroy it for many years. I can understand why Bush 2 is upset: FDR busted his father for trading with and aiding Hitler and the German Nazis in 1942 by enforcing the “Trading with the Enemy Act” during World War II. Who knows by Ronald Reagan was against SS; probably it was just a knee-jerk reaction by a knee-jerk…
August 14th, 2008 at 11:39 pmThey should have put sprinkles on the cake. Doesn’t Grandpa McCain dig sprinkles?
August 14th, 2008 at 11:40 pmSorry, make that Happy 73rd Birthday to Social Security…
August 14th, 2008 at 11:41 pmSocial Security is almost as old as John McCain….wow, that’s old. It least Social Security is still making since.
August 14th, 2008 at 11:41 pmThat’ll win em votes……keep it up. I love it. You go guys and gals….just show America what you really think.
August 14th, 2008 at 11:45 pmWhen is McCain returning his Social Security money…?
August 14th, 2008 at 11:45 pm” ‘Obama sleeps with a teddy bear and a night light’?” Wow, that’s mature. And so is throwing a cake into the garbage. If they didn’t like the Dems celebrating Social Security outside their office, they could have just ignored them.
August 14th, 2008 at 11:54 pmAnother Joe Says:
You just like putting words in other peoples mouths or are you just trying to make a point that doesn’t exist.
If social security is in crisis it is not because the program doesn’t work, it is because the republicans insist on using as thier own personal general fund because they just can’t stand for it to be working. keep your hands off of our social security. I don’t think the American people have ever spoken more clearly and that I think is the point Obama is making.
August 14th, 2008 at 11:55 pmJohn McShame is a clueless, classless buffoon. He will sellout and bend over to anyone to be president. I sure would like to see a new poll of those 65 and over who support him now.
August 14th, 2008 at 11:56 pmWhat? The brownshirts don’t like cake?
August 14th, 2008 at 11:58 pmOT. This is a must read. Darth Cheney is the most diabolically, sinister madman in the world.
August 14th, 2008 at 11:59 pmhttp://blogs.salon.com/0002255/2008/08/14.html
If Obama sleeps with a teddy bear and a night light, does that mean McCain sleeps with depends a tube of icy hot?
August 15th, 2008 at 12:10 amThis should make a great campaign ad…
August 15th, 2008 at 12:11 am
ot and this is not the place, but what IS Hilary doing?
August 15th, 2008 at 12:18 amAugust 21, 1858
Abraham Lincoln:
August 15, 2008
John McCain Campaign
Oh how far we’ve come in 150 years…
August 15th, 2008 at 12:33 amCan we post photos? I haven’t seen any…if not, sorry.
[IMG]http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee18/scoob_1969/mccainnewyorker.jpg[/IMG]
If it doesn’t work:
August 15th, 2008 at 12:43 amhttp://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee18/scoob_1969/mccainnewyorker.jpg
RHF still has a hard-on for the warm fuzzies. :D
August 15th, 2008 at 12:43 amRHF
Just asking… that’s all. I have seen comments elsewhere disagreeing with you.
No need for all the… what ever it was you spewed.
August 15th, 2008 at 1:09 amThrowing Social Security’s birthday cake in the trash – man, that’s some metaphor.
If there were a planet named Stupid orbiting a star named Stupid which was part of the constellation Stupid in the Stupid Galaxy, these McCain staffers would be shuttled off the planet for being too stupid to be allowed to breed and endanger the future. Of course, the propulsion would fail and they’d crash and drown in the two-foot-deep Sea of Stupid and they’d forever be part of Stupid culture as a warning to the children of what happens when you’re really frickin’ stupid.
The McCain campaign is indeed the goose that lays the pyrite eggs, the gift that keeps on giving.
August 15th, 2008 at 1:42 amWonder what the moral is.
(Don’t) Let them eat cake?
You can’t trash your cake and eat it too?
August 15th, 2008 at 1:44 amThere is something deeply ironic about RHF calling others “insane, paranoid, and hateful”.
As for the McCain staffers, I agree their action is a good metaphor.
To make it a perfect metaphor, they should have taken a big piece for themselves, then thrown away the rest so nobody else could enjoy it. Now that would have been the perfect metaphor for the “I’ve got mine, screw you” Republicans.
August 15th, 2008 at 2:36 amSo, destruction of private property, and assault. Give these creeps a few nights in jail, with the domestic violence drunks, and gang bangers. They’d fit right in.
August 15th, 2008 at 2:44 amSo McCain thinks so little of a program to help AMERICAN WORKING folks?
Funny, with over $6 MILLION a YEAR in INCOME, McCain takes his $28,000 SS payments with nary a care . . . don’t see THOSE CHECKS being tossed in the TRASH.
August 15th, 2008 at 3:07 amJust pathetic. This is another new low for the McCrazies.
August 15th, 2008 at 6:53 amNov.5th : McLoser’s Campaign will be in the trash…
August 15th, 2008 at 7:21 amWhat’s so interesting about Johnny’s people throwing the Social Security cake in the trash is….after Katrina drowned a couple thousand people in New Orleans in their attics, Johnny and his BFF George Bush ate cake together…
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/davidcorn/McCain-Bush%20photo.jpg
August 15th, 2008 at 7:30 amZooey Says:
When is McCain returning his Social Security money…?
All of the Republicans in Congress that are eligible for SS should refuse it if they don’t believe in it. I think if you are of age to draw SS and make over $250,000 a year you should not be allowed to draw any of it…..
August 15th, 2008 at 7:41 amMcSame is pandering to the 23% who listen to Rush on radio and watch FAUX to get their daily hate. He has nothing ot offer but more of the same destruction of the US and our way of life. McSame is not what this country needs.
August 15th, 2008 at 7:45 amSocial Security is a daily reminder for Republicans that programs designed to help people are good and folks want them. This flies in the face of the Grover Nordquist-GOP crowd who want to destroy these programs and put government in the hands of Ted Stevens, Tom DeLay, and Newt Gingrich.
August 15th, 2008 at 8:11 amOh, to have an opportunity to throw McCain himself in the trash. He’s certainly beyond his “use by” date…
http://www.sunstateactivist.org/
August 15th, 2008 at 8:21 amThe same idiots who threw the cake into the trash will be the first ones in line with their hands out when it comes time for them to start collecting SS.
August 15th, 2008 at 8:38 amThese are typical right-wing hypocrites.
McCain sleeps with a magnum of Viagra
August 15th, 2008 at 8:39 amWhat makes Republicans so worker friendly?…they are so dedicated to ?helping? I think the term is SCREWING working families.
August 15th, 2008 at 8:49 amhttp://money.cnn.com/2008/08/14/news/inflation.wages.fortune/index.htm
Interesting thing about McNuttys SS is that for him it’s probably a days wages and for the elitist Obama it would probably be used in a more normal way say as payments on daily life expenses.
August 15th, 2008 at 9:00 amSuch bitterness. Why are Republicans so driven by hate. I wonder how those pictures will play down in Florida or over in Arizona. Even Joe Klein thinks that McCain needs to better control his campaign as he seems to think that McCain is better than his sick campaign. I just think that Klein really doesn’t know McCain very well; only the PR image of McCain. McCain’s own words show him to be a bitter and callous old man with delusions about power.
August 15th, 2008 at 9:13 amBut…but…I wanted some cake. :-(
August 15th, 2008 at 9:24 amWow a fitting metaphor.
August 15th, 2008 at 9:43 amfletc3her Says:
Wow a fitting metaphor.
August 15th, 2008 at 9:43 am
August 15th, 2008 at 9:48 am_____
Actually it’s more of a simile, unless it was a like or as cake.
Actually; what could be MORE SYMBOLIC than the McCain throwing that cake into the trash?
McCain has called SS a disgrace, and his campaign workers trash a birthday cake for SS.
I only pray there is a video of that incident and it should be run in Obama campaign ads mercilessly.
If that happens, kiss the senior vote a BIG GOODBYE.
He’s toast.
August 15th, 2008 at 10:40 amThere’s audio from the DNC’s Social Security anniversary ad here.
August 15th, 2008 at 11:05 am“The cake is a lie!” (Sorry… geeky humor)
Back to topic. Can the staffers be charged with anything for throwing away that cake which wasn’t theirs to begin with?
August 15th, 2008 at 11:10 amIt’s a fitting simile to what the Republicans and McCain’s camp plan for Social Security.
The AFL-CIO came out with a fantastic mailer related to the subject with the tag:
“John McCain wants to gamble with our social security. . .”
Flip the card and it says:
“He can affordit. We can’t.”
August 15th, 2008 at 11:20 amWhat a flip-flopper. McCain really liked cake when N.O. was underwater.
August 15th, 2008 at 12:57 pmRe #13
Yup! And on a rubber sheet and with his teeth in a glass.
August 15th, 2008 at 3:05 pmI hope this was caught on tape, because this is a DNC ad waiting to happen…F those Republicans who would then cry out that this was gutter politics and negative campaigning…
August 15th, 2008 at 7:49 pm