McCain flashback: ‘If the price of oil has to go up, then that’s a consequence we would have to suffer.’
By on Oct 2nd, 2008 at 4:13 pm
McCain flashback: ‘If the price of oil has to go up, then that’s a consequence we would have to suffer.’
Speaking about the need to confront Iran, John McCain said in 2006, “If the price of oil has to go up, then that’s a consequence we would have to suffer.” Matt Duss responds, “So, to sum up: War John McCain supports waging indefinitely = regional destabilization = increased oil prices = higher revenues for regimes John McCain wants to contain. It would be great if he understood these consequences.”
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Obama in Grand Rapids, MI today:
Nine straight months of job loss! Yet, just the other week, John McCain said the “fundamentals of the economy are strong.” Well, I don’t know what yardstick Senator McCain uses, but where I come from, there’s nothing more fundamental than a job. And when we’re losing jobs month after month after month, when good, hard-working Americans who’ve done everything right watch their dreams slip away, the fundamentals of our economy are not strong, and it’s time we had a President who understands that.
October 2nd, 2008 at 4:16 pmOT: But, but Iran is one of those countries who don’t like us very much! I laugh when I hear McCain and the rest of the republican assclowns say we must stop giving money to countries who don’t like us very much. So what!?! Are we going to continue to give money to countries that like us a little bit?
October 2nd, 2008 at 4:16 pmPlease, raise your hands if you are sick of McCain. God, he is the most famous human raincloud I have ever seen. Negative. Negative. Negative. No way he takes the oath on January 20. Americans really hate pessimists.
October 2nd, 2008 at 4:18 pm“So, to sum up: War John McCain supports waging indefinitely = regional destabilization = increased oil prices = higher revenues for regimes John McCain wants to contain. It would be great if he understood these consequences.”
There’s a whole host of things it would be great if John McCain understood.
October 2nd, 2008 at 4:19 pmIt would be great if he understood these consequences.
Like:
-War in Iraq
-War in Iran
-Surge in Afghanistan
-Wall St Welfare
-Personal choice
-Warrantless spying
-Changing positions in less than an hour
-Changing Depends twice an hour
But he won’t. The steep learning curve associated with McCain actually listening, let alone learning prohibits him from understanding concequences.
October 2nd, 2008 at 4:24 pmYes, and that supply and demand fiction Repugs pushed in the dark House chambers?
September Demand down 7% from last year
Price per gallon
Sept. 2007 $2.78
Sept. 2008 $3/63
Madmen, pushing disaster capitalism. Between the Wall Street crooks and the Big Oil gougers, I’m just a bit ticked off. Add our wholly owned elected officials in the CorporaWhorehouses on Pennsylvania Avenue and I’m livid.
That’s right, John McCain, order up another round of Corporafornication. The bailout bill for the Madmen on the Hudson left a bad taste.
October 2nd, 2008 at 4:29 pmMcIIIrd throws in the towel in Michigan.
As Obama addresses 16,000 at a rally there.
McToast.
October 2nd, 2008 at 4:37 pm…..TREASON
October 2nd, 2008 at 4:37 pmand obama voted for this raping of america….financial terrorism.
October 2nd, 2008 at 4:39 pmWe are driving McInsane out of Michigan!!!!
Yahoo News–McCain is Pulling out of Michigan
Yess!!!
October 2nd, 2008 at 4:43 pmI’d celebrate a lot more if I didn’t live so close to Indiana
October 2nd, 2008 at 4:44 pmQuestion: What are we gonna do with it ?
Someone please tell me they are making a commercial and playing the video with him saying that .
October 2nd, 2008 at 4:44 pmMcWars hasn’t got a clue about what has happened to cause this mess, what this mess, or what it will take to fix this mess he helped create through deregulation and corporate prostitution.
October 2nd, 2008 at 4:48 pmSounds like the industry’s pitch on how to sell it.
Bush didn’t have to go there, he had everyone looking the opposite direction.
October 2nd, 2008 at 4:59 pmhey,
do you people remember..
lets see..
record profits, in oil companies, wamu bonuses, and
hey,
they also fought in court for their “extras”, “perks”, bonuses, their so called golden parachutes as they exited those companys, which bankrupted the country, and also their over paid executives?
sounds like treason…
they should all be a chain gang…
send them to texas to dig out those victims of that last hurricane!..
chain gang..
October 2nd, 2008 at 5:29 pmWhen is it going to be recognized that the U.S. military isn’t particularly effective at anything but destroying countries and making enemies in the process? We have been bogged down for five years in two countries that didn’t have any air defense to speak of when we started carpet bombing them.
Just what we need—another Daddy Warbucks playing “commander in chief”. McCain’s military experience does not make him a military leader or a war strategist. So he graduated fifth from the bottom of his class at he Naval academy, flew 20 hours in Viet Nam, crashed jets, got shot down, and sat in prison for years. How the hell does that make a person an expert on military matters?
He could easily be more of a disaster for the military than Rumsfeld has been. Evidently, McBlame doesn’t understand that Rumsfeld has destroyed our military and we can’t afford to buy a new one.
And Iran isn’t Iraq or Afghanistan, by a long-shot. It’s getting into the REAL WAR category—not just bombing the shit out of a piss-poor-nation.
October 2nd, 2008 at 5:53 pmIs McCain out of his cotton-pickin’ mind…?
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October 2nd, 2008 at 6:24 pmhell yeah he would bomb iran hell he sang about it the only country in the middle east that held candel lite vigils for the 9/11 victims the country that tryed to put forth and olive branch after we went illegally into iraq to help quell sectarian viloence and actually put there troops under our command cheney said hell no it better to start crap with them plus adaminijhad or how ever u spell his name is irans version of george bush more wars huh mcnutcase more wars?? what an idiot
October 2nd, 2008 at 6:34 pmOil was $23 a barrel before we invaded Iraq.
October 2nd, 2008 at 7:12 pm