McCain back to embracing Bush.
McCain back to embracing Bush.
In recent weeks, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) has been working extra hard to distance himself from President Bush. His campaign has even tried to argue that Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) actually represents a third term of Bush. Today at a rally in Pennsylvania, however, McCain — who once said that he would “be honored to be anywhere with him [Bush] under any circumstances” — couldn’t help but throw out more praise. The New York Times reports:
So it was a bit surprising when Mr. McCain offered praise of President Bush on Sunday, reprising a line he has hardly used, if he has used it at all, since the Republican primary battles ended. It came as Mr. McCain praised Tom Ridge, the former Pennsylvania governor and Homeland Security secretary, who had introduced him.
“I think that Tom Ridge — and President Bush — deserve some credit for the fact there’s not been another attack on the United States of America since 9/11,’’ he said.
Maybe McCain’s shout-out to the Bush administration was a thank-you to Vice President Cheney, who endorsed the Republican ticket yesterday.
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McCain just doesn’t want to get shot….
November 2nd, 2008 at 8:22 pmMcCain is a amoral nauseating flip flopper of the worst degree.
Good riddens assclown after Nov 4.
November 2nd, 2008 at 8:25 pm48 hours from right now McSame should be in some cave in Arizona licking his wounds and flogging himself for having picked Caribou Barbie as his running mate. Hopefully we caare capable of stomaching 48 hours of this idiocy. Hopefully.
November 2nd, 2008 at 8:25 pmThere have been two external terrorist attacks inside the US. One came 1 month into Clinton’s first term and the second came in the 8th month of GW Bush’s first term. 2009 could be a challenge but we know more about bin Laden now and have dimished his capacity with the capture of some of his top people. Yes, the Bush administration deserves some credit, but given the history, not that much.
November 2nd, 2008 at 8:30 pmMaybe he plans on stealing the election and then have dur chimpfurher issue a pardon before he takes office.
November 2nd, 2008 at 8:38 pmThey say that breaking up is hard to do….
November 2nd, 2008 at 8:39 pmToo bad about the thousands of terrorist attacks on American and allied soldiers overseas. Eh Flippy?
November 2nd, 2008 at 8:39 pmummmmmm, DallasNE
9/11 was an INSIDE JOB!
Information Network & Resources for the 9/11 Truth Movement
November 2nd, 2008 at 8:41 pm
–Osama bin Laden
That’s why there were no more attacks after 9/11: there was no more need.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBoOqysiLFo
November 2nd, 2008 at 8:57 pmThe real “conspiracy theory” is that a man on a dialysis machine living in a cave masterminded a plot to overcome the most sophisticated air-traffic control system and most advanced military defense system in the world via cell phones with a rag-tag team of men with boxcutters.
Believe what you want – but this is real wacko stuff.
November 2nd, 2008 at 9:00 pmwhat a pathetic loser McCain is. How on earth is he going to get anyone with two brain cells to rub together to believe that Obama is like Bush and would represent a third term? How the hell can he one minute say Obama is socialistic, and in the next breath say he is just like Bush, who McCain has glorified and praised and campaigned for in the past? McCain is either completely nuts or the worst lying politician on the face of the earth. Either one doesn’t deserve the presidency.
November 2nd, 2008 at 9:10 pmIn a complex and well-coordinated heist, combining speed and stealth with an uncanny knowledge of automobile security systems, four tots hotwired a Toyota Land Rover and cruised along fabled Deco Drive in South Beach Miami. The merry group spent the evening crashing top night spots and easily eluding waitresses, bartenders and bouncers. Credit card receipts, obviously signed by one of the tots, showed thousands in charges for table dances, champagne and limo service. A crayon drawing left by one of the tots lent conclusive proof of their guilt, according to local law enforcement officials.
A trio of nuns broke into a North Dakota missile site in a complex and well-coordinated heist, combining speed and stealth with an uncanny knowledge of USAF security systems. The nuns quickly removed the nuclear warhead in 20 minutes from the ICBM using a crescent wrench, car jack and plastic crucifix. A nun’s habit and Gideon Bible, inscribed with the name of one of the nuns, providently found at the crime scene, indicated conclusive proof of their guilt and the trio was quickly captured.
A pair of elderly pensioners swiped two Abrams M1A1 tanks yesterday and crashed them into the Virginia state capitol after driving them 150 miles undetected. In a complex and well-coordinated heist, combining speed and stealth with an uncanny knowledge of US Army security systems, the senior citizens swiped the tanks from a National Guard armory. After crashing the tanks into the office building, the pair fled on foot, eluding hundreds of lawmen. But a dog-eared copy of National Geographic magazine, found at the crime scene addressed to one of the octogenarians, lead to the speedy arrest and confinement of the pair.
Six autistic kids, ranging in age from 12 to 19, broke into Fort Knox yesterday and looted billions in gold from the vaults in a daring daylight raid. The complex, well-coordinated heist, combining speed and stealth with an uncanny knowledge of the vault’s security system, allowed the kids easy entry. Video cameras, however, caught the six laughing and joking while entering the open vaults. Unfortunately for the plotters, an inscribed trophy from the 2001 Special Olympics, along with a group photograph of the six, was found at the crime site, foiling the perfect crime.
In a complex and well-coordinated heist, combining speed and stealth with an uncanny knowledge of nuclear submarine security systems, two teenage lovers who called themselves Romeo and Juliet, stole a Trident submarine yesterday and enjoyed a brief joyride before sinking the sub in a suicide pact in 10,000 feet of water. Although no bodies were recovered, a water-soaked library card found floating on the Pacific Ocean , belonging to Roy Meoli, age 17, confirmed to law enforcement officials that the troubled teenage boy was the sole mastermind of the daring heist.
A quintet of teenage girls swiped the space shuttle from its Florida launch pad and buzzed Disneyworld in Orlando yesterday afternoon. In a complex and well-coordinated heist, combining speed and stealth with an uncanny knowledge of the shuttle security system, the girls commandeered the aging spacecraft. Swooping low, they performed several complex aerobatics, then sped skyward. Flying above Seaworld, they paused to write the cell phone number of one of their boyfriends in bold, three hundred-foot letters in the sky. Local police traced the cell phone number and quickly apprehended the juveniles later at a slumber party, before charging them with the crime.
Several Saudi high school seniors commandeered the aircraft carrier USS Eisenhower yesterday in a complex and well-coordinated heist, combining speed and stealth with an uncanny knowledge of Navy security systems. The teens sailed the ship across the Pacific undetected and then down to Acapulco for a weekend of binge drinking, while picking up girls along the way. Navy officials had no prior knowledge of the plan to hijack the missing aircraft carrier, nor even knew it was missing. But officials found a charred credit card belonging to one of the thieves on the flight deck of the carrier proving, beyond a shadow of a doubt, the hijackers guilt.
A quartet of quadriplegics borrowed the SS Queen Mary yesterday and sailed the ship to San Diego in an elaborate navigational feat. The foursome commandeered the former luxury liner, usually berthed at Long Beach California , after attending a weeklong course in sailing. An instructor at Bob Bligh’s Sailing School said the handicapped hijackers failed the rudiments of sailing and navigation and nearly wrecked a rowboat. However, law enforcement officials quickly said that failure didn’t necessarily mean that four handicapped men, confined to wheelchairs, couldn’t have piloted a 1000 foot luxury liner usually requiring dozens of officers and hundreds of trained crewmen. As if to confirm this likely explanation, an FBI spokesman said investigators found promotional videotapes from Carnival Cruise Lines, a copy of the movie Titanic, and a Blockbuster membership card belonging to one of the men in the wheelhouse of the Queen Mary, confirming the obvious guilt of the four.
Nineteen flight school dropouts, in a complex and well-coordinated heist combining speed and stealth with an uncanny knowledge of our nation’s security systems, commandeered four jumbo jets and flew hundreds of miles before returning to crash the planes into pre-selected targets. A flight school instructor said the men performed badly in the simplest of flight maneuvers in small Cessna airplanes. But local law enforcement officials quickly claimed the 19 hijackers could easily have performed complex maneuvers in much larger and more complex Boeing jumbo jets. Video cameras captured the ringleaders laughing and joking and a charred passport, found at the scene of the crash indicated, beyond any reasonable doubt, the guilt of the men.
November 2nd, 2008 at 9:11 pmMcBane’s conclusion is entirely based on his conflation of correlation and causation.
November 2nd, 2008 at 9:32 pm.
Someone needs to inform Johnny McFain, that 9/11 happened ON Bush’s watch!!!
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November 2nd, 2008 at 9:39 pmLies, Half Truths and Contradictions: Chronicle ”Hidden” Audio on Obama
It’s not true.
But the Drudge Report, the Republican National Committee and apparently even GOP VP candidate Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin fell for completely fabricated news from a shady website called Newsbusters today suggesting the San Francisco Chronicle has ”hidden” audio with Sen. Barack Obama regarding his statements on coal.
”Barack Obama explained his plan to the San Francisco Chronicle this year,” she told a rally in Ohio Sunday. ”He said that sure, if the industry wants to build coal-fired power plants, then they can go ahead and try, he says, but they can do it only in a way that will bankrupt the coal industry.”
She added, ”And you’ve got to listen to the tape.”
”Why is the audiotape just now surfacing?” Palin asked the crowd, according to a report from CBS News. Someone in the crowd shouted, ”Liberal media!’
Let’s be very clear: the Chronicle did not, and has never, hidden any interview, audio or video, of Obama from its readers.
November 2nd, 2008 at 9:55 pm[...]
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/b/a/2008/11/02/nov05election-lies_half_truth_2.DTL
He’s entirely right. Bush is responsible for there not being another attack by AQ. Why should they attack us again when Bush is doing their job for them? Bush has given AQ pretty much all they were trying to accomplish. He has single handedly destroyed this country and left us all in dire straights. AQ couldn’t have done better if they had tried.
November 2nd, 2008 at 9:57 pmJust curious but didn’t the Anthrax attack happen post 9/11? Does Johnny Mac just not care about the facts?
November 2nd, 2008 at 10:00 pmLies, Half Truths and Contradictions: Chronicle ”Hidden” Audio …
November 2nd, 2008 at 10:01 pmSan Francisco Chronicle – 51 minutes ago
But the Drudge Report, the Republican National Committee and apparently even GOP VP candidate Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin fell for completely fabricated news from a shady website called Newsbusters today suggesting the San Francisco Chronicle has …
Obama Called Out for Comments about Bankrupting Coal Industry WSAZ-TV
Palin Goes After Obama on Coal Comments FOXNews
WND.com – Washington Times – ABC News – Kansas City Star
all 35 news articles »
http://news.google.com/?ncl=1265904939&hl=en&topic=h
Obama could easily be heard saying the same thing. That’s why he’s no better than Mac…
http://www.sunstateactivist.org/ssablog/
November 2nd, 2008 at 10:19 pm00mpp00 Says:
Why don’t you just admit it. Al Quaida has no need to attack us further.
Osama bin laden said he would lure us into a war that would bankrupt us just as he did with Russia.
You can find bin laden now by going to the cave where the champaign is being delivered.
I don’t think you will be hearing Obama praising bush or Tom ridge for anything.
November 2nd, 2008 at 10:25 pmWell, he does thank Ridge first, and then Bush as an afterthought. http://straighttalkonmccain.blogspot.com/
November 2nd, 2008 at 11:18 pmThat umbilical cord that McCain keeps trying to cut is really a bungee cord and cannot be severed.
November 2nd, 2008 at 11:25 pmI wonder what the Republican supporters think of this new found friendship after hearing McCain say how bad Bush has been. I guess it’s better to make friends now that he has lost the contest. Sarah is making her way for a run for President in 2012 and knows she’s finished in Alaska. Will Sarah move to Florida and run for the Senate? Joe the Plummer should be watching out for the IRS who has a great deal of interest in Joe’s new found income. The November suprise just might be that Obama/Biden take 50 States.
November 2nd, 2008 at 11:29 pmCaption Contest:
BUSH: And for those inter’sted to know, come January Twenty, my brain’s goin’ right here.
November 2nd, 2008 at 11:39 pmThey’re like asking for an Al Qaeda attack, aren’t they? Added McCain, “like, what could possibly go wrong?”
November 2nd, 2008 at 11:45 pmThey say that breaking up is hard to do
Now I know, I know that it’s true
Don’t say that this is the end
Instead of breaking up I wish that we were making up again
I beg of you, don’t say goodbye
November 2nd, 2008 at 11:49 pmCan’t we give our love another try
Come on baby, let’s start a new
‘Cause breaking up is hard to do
Put the credit where it belongs, the people behind the scenes and I dont mean plumbers.
November 3rd, 2008 at 12:23 amTom Ridge, head of Homeland Security Theater?
We can’t allow disposable lighters on airplanes! They are too much of a danger to passenger safety!
Ach! What the hell are we going to do with these millions upon millions of confiscated lighters? There’s like barrels of them being filled every day! And no cheap way to get rid of them!
Never mind! It’s okay to bring your disposable lighters on the airplanes again. They have ceased to be a terrorist threat. Carry on!
November 3rd, 2008 at 12:42 amSure thing: and Secretary Ridge and President Bush—among others—are clearly responsible for preventing a Martian invasion, a year-long plague of locusts and a meltdown of our financial markets.
Oh, wait…
November 3rd, 2008 at 12:55 amMichael Lafferty, come to think of it, we haven’t had a single Martian invasion under Bush! We haven’t lost a major city since New Orleans! All praise President Bush!
November 3rd, 2008 at 1:08 am“I think that Tom Ridge — and President Bush — deserve some credit for the fact that there was a terrorist attack on the United States of America on 9/11,” he said.
There, fixed it.
November 3rd, 2008 at 1:49 amOkay…we’ve been warned, here it comes, expect Dick Cheney and the folks he really works for to “test” Obama with some nasty little terrorism. Just watch…they’re going to have to pull the trump card. Sick bastards. This isn’t a damn game!
November 3rd, 2008 at 1:56 amMan….. there you go again as raygunz sez.
November 3rd, 2008 at 1:57 am“for the fact there’s not been another attack on the…..”
The attacks have been constant/consistent/on-going/non-stop and from within the u.s.
They just play the media tuned to look over there.
Jeeeeeeeeeeeez
Who can let this noise into their systems without convulsing?
The (lack of) mental potential at h.s. and his guru geeedupya get full ok from nosediver.Let’s hope they don’t release the soundtrack.
David Michael Green, Nov. 1:
“…the deeper lie of the entire regressive movement – that it is not simply a misguided ideology whose policy prescriptions were disastrous, but rather that it is actually a deeply pernicious kleptocratic treason conspiracy hiding behind a rag-tag improvisation of ideological hodge-podge ….designed for the sole purpose of pretending to link whatever present conditions might exist to whatever predetermined policy outcome was long ago decided upon.
November 3rd, 2008 at 2:54 amIt really boils my blood when politicians and especially the media forget about the anthrax attacks post 9/11. That was a terrorist attack, no way around it. I was in the U.S. from Oct 11-16, 2001, and I remember the panic and terror very well, day after day after day. I’ve heard others suggest it wasn’t really the same as 9/11, and of course it wasn’t, but the anthrax attacks cost over $1B in total damages, not to mention responding to fake copy cats. The country was terrorized by the anthrax attacks, they happened after 9/11, and they were the second major terrorist attack during Bush’s tenure. That’s a simple fact.
November 3rd, 2008 at 3:55 amIf the Bush II Administration has thwarted a single major terrorist attack on the U.S. since 9/11, they need to prove it. Let’s see the documented record of attacks thwarted and plans foiled. The Repubs should be eager to share the story of their triumphs. Meanwhile, world terrorism has tripled under their watch.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBoOqysiLFo
November 3rd, 2008 at 6:35 amone more day
one more day
one more day
And these a$$holes will be outta here!!
November 3rd, 2008 at 7:35 amMy #38 post just keeps me smiling and it’s all I can think of. That and please, please, pretty please.
November 3rd, 2008 at 7:36 amMe too Lone. I’m so excited I could pop.
EEEWWWW look who mcchimpy would hire for his administration.
The same old crooks including Hewlett-Packard chairman Carly Fiorina.
Ain’t no way the old coot can win. Look at the very large crowds Sen. Obama has at his rallies . Amazing.
No cheating this time rupugs!
November 3rd, 2008 at 7:47 amI guess it’s okay if he’s embracing Bush again, but if they start kissing, I refuse to watch.
November 3rd, 2008 at 8:27 amMaybe they’re just totally gay for the USA?
November 3rd, 2008 at 8:38 amThe argument that “Bush deserves credit for there not being another attack since 9/11″ is like crediting the arsonist for your house not being robbed a second time.
November 3rd, 2008 at 8:56 amBUT they DO deserve blame for 9/11 since they had ample warning that something was coming and also, the method of delivery.
November 3rd, 2008 at 9:19 amOBL does not need to attack us with bombs if he doesn’t want to — he has already caused our economy to teeter on the brink of collapse — a nation in such condition cannot remain a superpower for long.
November 3rd, 2008 at 9:22 amI think that whichever candidate wins this election, global poverty needs to be one of the top issues on the agenda that he has. According to The Borgen Project:
November 3rd, 2008 at 12:20 pm$30 billion: Annual shortfall to end world hunger.
$540 billion: Annual U.S. Defense Budget.