Flashback: In 2007, McCain belittled mayors and governors.
Flashback: In 2007, McCain belittled mayors and governors.
Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) campaign is touting Sarah Palin’s four years as mayor of the small town of Wasilla and her two years as governor as proof that she is qualified to be a heartbeat away from the presidency. Adviser Charlie Black has accused Sen. Barack Obama’s (D-IL) campaign of “insult[ing] small-town Americans” by criticizing Palin. However, in an October 2007 primary debate, McCain himself denigrated mayors and governors, saying they would need too much “on-the-job training”:
I have had a strong and a long relationship on national security, I’ve been involved in every national crisis that this nation has faced since Beirut, I understand the issues, I understand and appreciate the enormity of the challenge we face from radical Islamic extremism.
I am prepared. I am prepared. I need no on-the-job training. I wasn’t a mayor for a short period of time. I wasn’t a governor for a short period of time.
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They need to add a few more debates before elections….
McSame vs Palin….
September 12th, 2008 at 12:14 pmIt keeps getting worse and worse and that’s better.
September 12th, 2008 at 12:17 pmJohn McCain is THE national crisis.
September 12th, 2008 at 12:17 pmBingo. An instant commercial for some 527 group. No editorializing needed.
September 12th, 2008 at 12:17 pmThat’s delightful. I love how the Republicans actually denigrate the experience of all governors, mayors, community organizers and then they accuse the Democrats of doing the same thing by criticizing Sarah Palin. Sarah Palin is not a stand-in for all governors, all mayors, or heaven help us all women or mothers. She is an individual who should be able to take criticism of *her* record without insinuating that such criticism is directed at a group.
September 12th, 2008 at 12:18 pmAh, the vestiges of the McCain “experience” theme. He jettisoned that like a used prophylactic, when he found the public unsatisfied. Change, change, change…
There will be more wars!
September 12th, 2008 at 12:20 pmAh, the age of the internet…
Comments on public record. Easily accessible, yes: even to ‘dopers and moose poachers.’
Roll tape. Juxtaposed with denial. “I never said that.”
Oops. “Well, if I said that, I didn’t mean it that way.” As opposed, to say, any other reasonable interpretation as to what was said? And, looped again on ‘tape?’
Oops. “Well, my friends, that doesn’t matter. POW, POW, POW. Honor.”
Hmm…
September 12th, 2008 at 12:23 pmRadical extremism, thy name is the Republic Party.
September 12th, 2008 at 12:24 pmPretty funny, really. On one hand you’ve got Palin denigrating the lack of “executive experience” on the Democratic ticket, while her running mate is a Senator, just like them. On the other hand, you’ve got McCain belittling the experience of mayors and governors (both!).
Classic.
September 12th, 2008 at 12:25 pmAs I’ve pointed out before, fiction is inferior to reality. Why? Because fiction has to make sense. In the McWorse world the Lunatics have take over the Asylum!
September 12th, 2008 at 12:25 pmImpeach Pelosi, Cheney and Bush and Save the Constitution!
This is OT, but since yesterday was 9-11 and Bush gave his phony solemn speech I thought anyone that has doubts about the events of 7 years ago should check out these comments by people who might be qualified to know something about it.
September 12th, 2008 at 12:26 pmhttp://www.opednews.com/articles/STILL-UNANSWERED-9-11-QUES-by-Allen-L-Roland-080911-273.html
Of course McIIIrd was referring to president-elect Huckleberry and 9/11 JulieAnnie at the time.
Make a perfect side by side ad, wouldn’t it.
Play the left side. Play the right side, play them both at the same time, right over the top of each other.
Chyron below reads…
CHANGE?………….CHANGE??……………….CHANGE???
September 12th, 2008 at 12:29 pmWhy is the Obama campaign not using McShame own words to discredit McShame’s VP selection ??Low info voters vote too folks & most only responds to TV commercials.
September 12th, 2008 at 12:33 pmJust fart, John, honestly, it will have just as much meaning as any thing you have to say.
¶ AIO
September 12th, 2008 at 12:34 pmOf course, the real problem here is that McNumbNuts isn’t discriminating enough to recognize that not all small-town mayors are created equal.
Some generate $2,000 per capita in earmark pork for their little towns but still saddle their constituents with $22 million more in debt when they leave office.
Other small-town mayors are competent.
September 12th, 2008 at 12:34 pmEvery morning Old Man McCain has to go to the local gaffe station and fill up his gaffe tank. It’s no fun for him to run out of gaffes while crossing the Bridge to Nowhere…
September 12th, 2008 at 12:34 pmI need no on-the-job training. I wasn’t a mayor for a short period of time. I wasn’t a governor for a short period of time.
Guess he forgot about video recorders….again.
Hypocrites at their worst.
September 12th, 2008 at 12:38 pmDutchHenry Says:
Why is the Obama campaign not using McShame own words to discredit McShame’s VP selection ??Low info voters vote too folks & most only responds to TV commercials.
That’s my question. They need to do the same with Palin. Play the words they spoke and then play when they say something entirely different. This is especially necessary with McCain since there are still way too many people who think he is (or ever was) a maverick.
McBush became a “maverick” right after the Keating 5 scandal as a way to rehabilitate his image. But, he more talked as a maverick but voted as a lock-step Republican. That’s also something that needs to be advertised. Hit vote rarely matched his words.
September 12th, 2008 at 12:38 pmIf any of these numerous contradictions mattered, wouldn’t Obama have a double digit lead in the current polling? There is a disconnect between these facts and the close race. Since McCain ran against a mayor and a govenor or two, I’m sure there’s more than this time he belittled those offices. What difference has it made?
September 12th, 2008 at 12:39 pmObama was elected president of the Harvard Law Review, so he’s already been elected to a presidental position. This seems like the perfect counter to the ‘executive experience’ thing coming from Palto. Where is that little tid-bit in the news?
September 12th, 2008 at 12:45 pmwell, clearly the dementia is to blame for such hypocrisy.
September 12th, 2008 at 12:49 pmIf Sarah Palin competed in the presidential primaries, that is what McCain would have to say about her.
I really hope that the Obama campaign views this site regularly. I have to say, however, that it’s far more telling – maybe even to some of the dumbest votes) to watch McCain’s campaign self-destruct.
September 12th, 2008 at 12:50 pm.
In Mittens defense, you can’t see Russia from Massachusetts…
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September 12th, 2008 at 12:50 pmcorrection — dumbest voters
September 12th, 2008 at 12:50 pmSomeone needs to tell Charlie Black about dentists,as his teeth are the same color as his last name!
September 12th, 2008 at 1:39 pmWell, what do you expect from someone in their senior years? I know that short term memory problems grow as we age but it seems his long term memory is suffering as well. Another Reagan candidate to be a puppet for the GOP, ’cause you know Old Ronnie didn’t have all his faculties in the last years of his presidency and wasn’t making complete judgments on his own. And Palin’s very real inexperience will make her a puppet as well. Pitiful and pathetic that this is the best that the GOP can muster.
September 12th, 2008 at 1:40 pmOh, but that was oh so 2007ish!
September 12th, 2008 at 1:40 pmMCCAIN: I need no on-the-job training.
Yes you do John. As did/do all presidents. McCain is a complete fool thinking he doesnt need new insights that he somehow already knows everything there is to know. Especially when hes not nearly as knowledgeable as he thinks he is. Couple that silly assumption with his short fuse and his penchant for confrontational military “solutions” and you have a recipe for one disastrous foreign policy decision after another
September 12th, 2008 at 5:23 pmHe needs no on the job training.
And yet, his proposed Veep in an interview asks what a Veep does.
When you interview someone, you usually let them know what the job skills are !
September 12th, 2008 at 10:59 pm