McCain: ‘I Always Aspire To Be A Dictator’
McCain: ‘I Always Aspire To Be A Dictator’
Discussing the Wall Street bailout yesterday during an interview with the Des Moines Register editorial board, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) said the failure of Congress to act is “just not acceptable.” Then — presumably making an attempt at humor — McCain added that, if only he were a dictator, then the bill would be just right:
MCCAIN: I just want to make a comment about the obvious issue and that is the failure of Congress to act yesterday. Its just not acceptable. [...] This is just a not acceptable situation. I’m not saying this is the perfect answer. If I were dictator, which I always aspire to be, I would write it a little bit differently.
Watch it:
McCain also complained that “people can’t reach across the aisle, you know we give poison speeches” — a seeming reference to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) so-called “partisan” floor speech on Monday that House Republicans cited for the bailout bill’s failure. Many of his House GOP colleagues, however, have since walked away from blaming Pelosi’s speech.
But less than one minute later, McCain said, “[L]et’s not point the finger of blame for a while,” despite the fact that he himself blamed Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) for the bill’s failure.
But McCain isn’t the first U.S. government official to dream of dictatorship. President Bush has said on at least two occasions that a dictatorship “would be a heck of a lot easier.”
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Hmmm...wonder if McCain thinks of the U.S. Constitution as just "a g*d-d*mned piece of paper"?
October 1st, 2008 at 11:05 amWTF?!?!....this guy is off his rocker!
October 1st, 2008 at 11:06 amSay, I just posted about this in the Think Fast thread a few minutes ago.
October 1st, 2008 at 11:09 amMcDrain sure has a lot of pent up anger.
If he looses in November, maybe he can be a president of some failed state and live out his fantasy.
October 1st, 2008 at 11:10 amFour more years of BUSHCO is what he means.
October 1st, 2008 at 11:12 amYeah, didn't the idiot presently occupying the White House jokingly refer to a dictatorship?
That one fell flat on its face. As does this one. Senator McCain is simply pathetic.
October 1st, 2008 at 11:13 am...presumably making an attempt at humor [..]
I listed to it three times, and I do not believe he said this in any attempt of humor.
October 1st, 2008 at 11:13 amMCCAIN: "Let’s not point the finger of blame for a while"
Hypocrite McCain. Just yesterday he blamed Obama while almost in the same breath urge people not to play the blame game.
October 1st, 2008 at 11:13 amhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eohbbypEzNU
If there ever was a soundbite made for the Obama campaign, Johnny Boy just mailed it to them, postage-paid!
All we need is to ask those folks still alive when Adolf was around and maybe even put a little moustache on McDepends' posters.
October 1st, 2008 at 11:15 amDo not forget that George W. Bush also stated he'd prefer to be a dictator at least three times, according to BuzzFlash.com:
"You don't get everything you want. A dictatorship would be a lot easier." Describing what it's like to be governor of Texas.
(Governing Magazine 7/98)
-- From Paul Begala's "Is Our Children Learning?"
"I told all four that there are going to be some times where we don't agree with each other, but that's OK. If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator," Bush joked.
-- CNN.com, December 18, 2000
"A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it, " [Bush] said.
-- Business Week, July 30, 2001
See where that got us over the past eight years.
October 1st, 2008 at 11:15 amMany of his House GOP colleagues, however, have since walked away from blaming Pelosi’s speech.
McStain, always a day late and a brain cell short.
PEACE
October 1st, 2008 at 11:16 amAnd the hits just keep on coming!!!!!
October 1st, 2008 at 11:19 amIgnoranceIsNotBliss Says:
…presumably making an attempt at humor [..]
I listed to it three times, and I do not believe he said this in any attempt of humor.
I agree. When McStain thinks he's made a good joke, he always pauses and flashes that smarmy "look, mommy, I pooped in the big boy potty" grin.
We have to take him at his word. He aspires to be dictator. Well, perhaps there's a nursing home out there looking for a leader.
PEACE
October 1st, 2008 at 11:21 amDoes anyone still doubt that McSame aspires to a third Bush term?
October 1st, 2008 at 11:22 amOh, c'mon, galmud -- you know what he meant. He meant that "now that I've blamed my opponent, it's time to stop blaming each other."
Doesn't that sound reasonable?
October 1st, 2008 at 11:22 ammccain has acquired moose lips by association.....
keep talking john and sarah......moose lips sink ships.
October 1st, 2008 at 11:22 amGod - he makes Biden's gaffes seem so trivial!
October 1st, 2008 at 11:23 amThere it is again! This notion that it would be somehow helpful if we were to increase the FDIC insurance level. What good would this do ?? Anybody?
October 1st, 2008 at 11:23 amOMG
October 1st, 2008 at 11:25 amThey are not only behaving toward it, but now they boast about it -- they (republicans in charge) prefer fascism, as long as they are the dictator. The scions of the Bush family were sympathizers of fascists; the Friedman economic theory that they embrace is sympathetic toward fascism.
They are advertising themselves - declaring what they have in store for America - and yet, people continue to support him and his clueless running mate.
Whenever Bush or the republicans are at fault the first words out of their mouths - "Now is not the time to point the finger of blame, blah, blah, blah..." If the dems blow it the blame finger is out there immediately.
October 1st, 2008 at 11:30 amWhere? The thread is about mcchitler and his twitching mustache.
October 1st, 2008 at 11:30 amand, here we go with THIS one... which will dominate?
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October 1st, 2008 at 11:31 amFOXNews - 2 hours ago
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Maybe McCain wasnt kidding. PNAC associate and McCains Deputy communications director Michael Goldfarb said this about the framers of the Constitution earlier this year:
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/06/02/goldfarb/index.html
October 1st, 2008 at 11:31 amNever forget Sinclair Lewis' prophetic words, "When facism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross". If McWorse and Pain don't match that description, I don't know who does.
October 1st, 2008 at 11:32 amImpeach Pelosi, Cheney and Bush and Save the Constitution!
At this point, I'm kinda torn between wishing the election was being held today so we could get rid of Grampy McMoron and Bible Spice, versus wishing the campaign could go on about two more months so they could keep inserting feet into both of their mouths and driving more nails into the coffin of the repuke party forever.
Sheesh -- the writers at SNL, Leno, Letterman, The Daily Show, the Colbert Report, etc., really don't have much to do these days, do they? Grampy and Miss Piggy keep writing this stuff themselves...
October 1st, 2008 at 11:34 amDoesn't he know that he is being recorded?
And that we have the technology to play back that recording to listen to it again and again?
I know his campaign would say that he was only joking, but I didn't see him smiling.
October 1st, 2008 at 11:35 amthe first thing people will
think of when they read that
quote is bush.
*
good for us.
bad for them.
*
they don't call
him mcsame for nothin'!
:)
October 1st, 2008 at 11:36 amThis is the sh_t.
October 1st, 2008 at 11:37 amGaffes:
Biden: "Franklin Roosevelt went on television..."
Obama: "57 states..."
Palin: "Um, all of them, any of them that have been in front of me..."
McCain: "If I were dictator, which I always aspire to be..."
OK, let's vote. Which of these are amusing and which ones are alarming?
October 1st, 2008 at 11:39 amOh nosssssss
October 1st, 2008 at 11:41 amanother
ooooooooooo
eeep
cringe moment
go to Americablog for the lost dude...
The Dogfather Says
October 1st, 2008 at 11:34 am
Sheesh — the writers at SNL, Leno, Letterman, The Daily Show, the Colbert Report, etc., really don’t have much to do these days, do they? Grampy and Miss Piggy keep writing this stuff themselves…
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Hey, the writers are probably enjoying this break from their normally hard work. But what happens when they get bored with merely cutting and pasting?
October 1st, 2008 at 11:42 amRun with this Obama, RUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
October 1st, 2008 at 11:42 amDictator McFlippyflop.
October 1st, 2008 at 11:43 amBWAAAAAAAAAAAHAAAAHAAAA!!!
#25:
Thank you so much for the Sinclair quote.
October 1st, 2008 at 11:45 amWhy doesnt Obama use this in a commercial?
October 1st, 2008 at 11:49 amWhat a stupid thing to say.
October 1st, 2008 at 11:50 amAh, the temperment of Adolf and the generosity of Simon Legree. Who can't vote for that?
October 1st, 2008 at 11:53 ammisshusseinmolly Says:
Gaffes:
Biden: “Franklin Roosevelt went on television…”
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actually, he did.
#
October 1st, 2008 at 12:01 pmMcHitler speaks.
October 1st, 2008 at 12:02 pmI think this McCain video is even more telling:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CdKuLRmg8k&feature=related
October 1st, 2008 at 12:09 pmThe Imperial Presidency part III? Hell no, we won't go!
October 1st, 2008 at 12:12 pmNO NO NO NO!!!! He can't have made this joke! That's the same joke Bush made before he became president (or early on). Bush too joked about how much easier his job would be if he were a dictator. These bastards sneer openly at American democracy.
October 1st, 2008 at 12:12 pmHis vain attempt at humor should be seen as more than just the demented rantings of a failed human being.
October 1st, 2008 at 12:12 pmMcCain: ‘I Always Aspire To Be A Dictator’...
__________
Perhaps John misspoke, again...
Perhaps John meant to say, "I always aspire to be a dick..."
October 1st, 2008 at 12:20 pmLand of the free and home of the brave... yeah right! From now on every republican candidate for president will say : "I've always wanted to be a dictator!" Idiot wannabes and fascist zionist pigs.
They should change the anthem to "Land of greed and home of the scared"
October 1st, 2008 at 12:22 pmYears ago, Bush said he had no problem with dictatorship as long as he got to be the dictator. We THOUGHT he was joking.
October 1st, 2008 at 12:37 pmMcCain-Palin are LIARS, HYPOCRITES and FRAUDS.
McCain-Palin are LIARS, HYPOCRITES and FRAUDS.
McCain-Palin are LIARS, HYPOCRITES and FRAUDS.
McCain-Palin are LIARS, HYPOCRITES and FRAUDS.
October 1st, 2008 at 1:03 pmI've always known that Republicans prefer dictatorship over democracy. They ignore the US Constitution time after time when they get elected President. Even their hero Ronald Reagan violated the Constitution numerous times, so this doesn't come as a surprise. Democratic President are afraid to violate the Constitution because they know they will be impeached. God help us if McStalin get's elected, forget the rest of the rights we once had. He'll just finish the job that dumbazz started.
October 1st, 2008 at 1:08 pm.
And with that, we have McBush ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNo0_klKzis
Oops, try again, McBush...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A09Ha5M82us
Awe, gosh darn it any way...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVynnbx1Xsc
.
October 1st, 2008 at 1:52 pmYou've heard your future and it will happen if the idiot gets in office. Yes the US will have come full circle and have a Dictator in the White House. Don't say he didn't say it. Just think this great country was founded by men/woman who left England because of King George only to have allowed a Dictator to take over, with a bubble head Chrissy Snow at his side.
October 1st, 2008 at 1:59 pmDidn't he already blame Obama and the Democrats?
October 1st, 2008 at 2:04 pmYo, morons. McCain is using "dictator" here is the sense of "one who dictates text", which is why he refers to how he would write the bill immediately afterward. Seriously, did no one realize this before this point?
October 1st, 2008 at 3:12 pmWow. All this tolerance. All this love.
All for want of a sense of humor.
October 1st, 2008 at 4:17 pm@ #36 Kay, who said:
Why doesnt [sic] Obama use this in a commercial?
Perhaps because Mr. Obama is smart enough to know that it was humor. Unlike anyone on this site.
October 1st, 2008 at 4:21 pmScaliger - You, sir are full of it. Did McCain give ANY indication, a nod...a wink...that he thought he was being funny? No. Even to think of JOKING about something so abhorrent goes directly to the mindset of the Republican Right that has totally screwed the pooch on everything it touches. Bush said something about being a dictator, and look where it got us - a guy who won't even follow the LAWS of the land he governs. And we want MORE of this?!? Go watch Hugh Hewitt for funny. Or try Fox Friends. They're just a laugh riot!!!
October 1st, 2008 at 4:57 pmDead pan humor. Google it.
After you've done that, go find yourself a prescription for Zoloft; you're WAAAAAAY too wound up.
October 1st, 2008 at 5:21 pmyou people are morons!!! he was trying to make a joke and it was obvious. Bush did the same thing. Jeez people lighten up and dont take everything said as letter of the law. I am sure you dont even talk that way and neither do I. I use sarcasm in my conversations all the time. MORONS
October 1st, 2008 at 5:31 pmOh my gosh! He says he has always wanted to be a dictator, it must be true. Once he gets in he will be just like George Bush and rule by decree! Oh, wait a minute... W wasn't a dictator?
McCain was joking? He was poking at the the looney left?
They won't fall for it, ....right?
October 1st, 2008 at 5:35 pmWhat a complete and utter nutcase. This guy belongs in a cuckoo's nest
October 1st, 2008 at 8:01 pmAll Republicans are dictators...at least in their own puny minds.
-AF
October 1st, 2008 at 10:22 pmAndrew Sullivan Is A Fraud
Goldman Sachs Bribed Senate To Pass Bailout Billhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ek7zc0lJxbM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRLPG_HplrA
http://www.freedomtofacism.com
Watch these and beware..
October 3rd, 2008 at 9:33 amLEARN SOME VOCABULARY!!! (and go back to your 5th grade govt class)
"dictator" as in "dictator of a bill"...as in the person or people who write the actual bill that congress votes upon...he always aspires to be a dictator of bills by actually composing the specific language used within them...
even the media didn't try to use this clip because its useless in an attack againt mc cain
October 12th, 2008 at 6:20 pm