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Every candidate makes pap statements about how "awesome" we are. It's just so self-evident that our ability to improve the lot of the individual American gets trapped in the smarmy "why should we? We're already so awesome...those folks should just shut up!" The kind of stuff FoxNews gets off on.
But sometimes the smarmy meets a new example of nausea inducing dementia that demands a response from the speaker of the original pablum. I give you John McCain in a refrain he likes to make:
"With all due respect to citizens of every other nation of the world ... I don't think, because of the very nature of our history, that they match up to our citizens' willingness to serve and sometimes to sacrifice."
Yeah, because the average Russian in the between June 1941 to May 1945 didn't sacrifice shite. And you, Cambodian survivor of the 'Killing Fields', bow down at your lack of comparative willingness to sacrifice, we had to use gas rationing coupons once! And then there are those folks in Burma and central China, you think you have it tough, after 9/11 I was morally compelled to go shopping. So, you over there in Ethopia, suck in that distended stomach, and remember Americans gave up Crystal Pepsi.
I vividly remember in the in the months before we invaded Iraq how I was told by the nation's finest minds that I was supposed to stop thinking and stop talking about not letting Bush fight a war on a credit card. I was supposed to be supportive of the United States occasionally bombing another far-weaker nation into rubble so we can show we're the most moral and upright nation on earth [USA! USA! USA!]. So I guess on that one, I didn't sacrifice enough.
Still, in the spirit of the sacrifices better Americans than me are "uniquely" able to make, unlike the rest of those selfish, shallow countries, we need to know McCain's opinion of George W. Bush, nobly sacrificing golf in order to show solidarity with America's grieving parents, spouses and children because of the war he and McCain love so much. I already know Dan Quayle's thoughts.
You have to admit, saying "I gave up golf" must have a real special meaning to the person keeping the flag that once covered the coffin of their child.
Your 'Maverick' like thoughts, Senator?
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Well, not to worry. I’m sure that sometime around Christmas Timmeh or Tweety will expose this hypocrisy for what it is!
And then won’t President McSame feel silly.
To show solidarity with the victims of Hurricane Katrina, McSame’s giving up birthday cake!
BTW, if you ever get tired of that picture of McBush hugging, you can mix it up with these pictures of McSame & Bush eating cake while New Orleans drowns…
Heh! Way back when, I think it was when the elder Bush was running for his second term, some reporter was interviewing the guy who ran Dan Quayle’s golf club and asked “So, it takes a lot of talent to play a good game of golf, eh?” The guy replied “Nah, it just takes lots of practice.”
Scathing
and well deserved, Attaturk.
Great post, Attaturk.
I would be very happy to sacrifice having Republicans in our government. Who’s with me?
Well, the good senator seems to think that he will be able to do what 8 years of Bush/Cheney have not…Osama Bin Laden, Dead or Alive… http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200.....ning_style
Rolling Thunder, terror bombing of Europe and Japan (the atom bombings being the punctuation mark at the end of that), Dresden, Falluja…such sacrifice (of other people) for the cause of capitalism and the American way.
That’s a sacrifice I’d be MORE than willing to make, starting with our 2 moron Senators.
Keith had a few words on the subject last night. *g*
Amy Goodman had a great interview with Gore Vidal yesterday who sliced and diced the “America is the greatest country!” concept into pieces resembling the size of those produced by a high security shredder. After it was over I was almost standing on a chair screaming, “Now tell us what you really think, Mr. Vidal!” Vastly different from the usual looking around for a large object to throw at the screen.
I wanna see burnt dead bodies
Absolutely no self-awareness:
Bush denounces Mideast extremists
they are trully ONE dimensional characters…sociopaths and Narcissists have that one thing in common…they can not imagine,nor do they care about ANYTHING ,but themselves ,and their agendas…mebbe their kids to some extent,but only as representations and extentions of themselves…they SHOULD NEVER ,EVER be placed in leadership positions of power
veins in my teeth!
(or have i remembered this one incorrectly too?)
Look for this story later today…CNN just said that Bush, speaking in front of the Knesset, said that Democrats were appeasors of terrorists just like Neville Chamberlain was of the Nazi’s. I kid you not.
i love amy goodman. it continues to amaze me that she (and especially democracy now!) are not watched and/or referenced more. we complain all day long about the lack of decent national news - let’s promote the good stuff we do have.
Every anti-McCain ad from now on should end with one or the other cake photo, with an appropriately snarky caption.
Great post, Attaturk. Thanks.
he did….what more odious excrement can flow from his lips?
what was the response of the knesset?
p.s. did you hear schumer last night. made me sick, had to turn it off.
good mornin…thats a good idea…2 of the same breed…INBREDS!
what did he say?
No, I did not, selise - what did New York’s ‘other’ senator have to say?
See my # 30 on the previous thread.
here’s my bit - from tuesday:
i adore Gore Vidal…he has travelled vastly…his opinions have perspective of a man of the world
In-forking-conceivable! I wish…
the bit of schumer i did listen to was: terror, terrorist, terror. i turned it off when started explaining to the audience how arabs think.
this from the asshole who in 2004 made a statement in the SJC supporting bush’s choice to use torture in the so called WOT.
This is the CNN visual:
Bush compares Dem’ stance on war to appeasement of nazis
CNN reporting Obama campaign already made a written statement. Don’t have that yet.
omg
CNN talking about it now
Obama campaign…CNN visual Time to end “Politics of Fear”
seriously, democracy now! rocks. it is the very very best, by far, daily national news program i know of. and you can listen on the radio, on cable and satelite tv, online video and audio streaming and itunes podcast.
McCain has a point.
Can anyone name the leader of another country who has sacrificed his golf game during wartime?
How about a country where, during a war costing $400,000,000/day, 50 people earn a combined $29 billion? I’m guessing they could have earned $100 billion but felt restraint was important, so they made the sacrifice.
And let’s not forget those tax cuts for millionaires during wartime. Those millionaires are taking those cuts and reinvesting in their hedge funds and paying those country club dues and putting their young Republicans through college so they too may make sacrifices, like their golf game, and send other people’s kids to war in the future.
There’s been a lot of sacrifice!
I gave up golf because I sucked. Same reason Bush should give up Presidentin’.
Bingo! How to promote?
oh dayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyum…im so very sorry
{{{{{{SD}}}}}}}} …..oy,i cant imagine how you feel…..my very good friend in Knoxville,lost her 14 year old long hair Calico Monday…i just do not have words….you were such an amazing daddy…what a bond…its funny cause i quoted your words to Wobbs(to my friend)…what a supreme compliment for a natural PREDATOR to love us and bond with us….peace to you…and she is at peace to,and in a better dimension….
Ike was such a “traitor” he TOOK UP GOLF during World War II when he was Supreme Commander in Europe.
The horror, the horror
How the f* does Chuck Schumer know ‘how Arabs think’? This is a guy who doesn’t even know how people in Upstate New York think - because he never, ever comes up here. North of Yonkers may as well be Ontario, Canada as far as he is concerned. He does have an office up here but he does not have a clue about what the issues are for people who live in Upstate New York. If there is any bit of credit I can give to HRC, it is that she did her Upstate homework to get elected senator and has continued to spend a lot of time in our area talking to people, dealing with issues and problems, etc.
Uh, Robert the Bruce?
Golf is a great game to go numb your mind from powerful stress of running the ship of state…i love the game…that being said…CHIMPSTERS mind is ALREADY numb,so we know he doesnt commune with bature on the links,so his game is TOTALLY a waste of golf balls,and SHREDDED turf
off topic attaturk, I hope you’ll forgive
think progress has this up right now;
ok, enough of this “water boarding is not torture”, of COURSE it’s torture, it’s actually called “water torture” NOT “water boarding, it is drowing your victim and then reviving them, showing them the face of their own destruction and then reviving them again
but never the less, that is NOT the only torture these criminals have used and continue to use
Is McCain flying missions again?
Navy Bomb Misses By Mile, Starts Woods Fire
Remember also that war is romantic, so how much sacrifice can there really be?
In fact, I propose that match.com set up a whole category for those looking for the romance of war.
saw the PBS special last night on the ADIRONDACKS…wow,so purty
You have a good point there but he is a Reublican and logic doesn’t work with him.
CNN - bush taking a “not so veiled shot” at Obama. Give that one the “Understatement of the Year” award.
yes its testosterone surging ,makes em think its a great thing to go bomb shit…like when Chimpie felt his first TWINKLE about froggies
I noted this last night. The Freepers have been covering the Bushies and the Golf that they love. The best Golfer in this infamous Crime Family was Prescott Bush who helped the Nazis set up Concentration Camps.
But as of 2005, Yoonitary Golf Guy still had a golf “handicap”.
That’s why I call them warpervs.
McCain is flip-flopping.
From the LA Times
Moron on CNN: “Jewish american voters may be a little suspicious of obama”
its very befitting
Really. CNN also talked about McCain saying that Obama was the choice of Hamas and that the Bush statement is an effort to help McCain.
LOL
There are a lot of places in Upstate NY that are just as beautiful(different..but beautiful)as the Adirondacks..just not as famous.
The Air National Guard in New Jersey does that too, they even strafed a school once.
Yes, we need a military, and yes they need to train.
Not flip-flopping. New math. 100 = 5
and that is why its called chicken noodle news…i think the KKK will also be “suspicious” of Mr. Obama
He’s using a file compression program.
MSNBC’s visual shows: Bush takes swipe at Obama’s call for diplomatic engagement with Iran.
Bush equates talking to terrorists with appeasing Nazi’s
elephant years.
Thank you. I’ve got a houseful so I’ve still got a lot of daddy-ing to do.
I firmly believe what I told Wobbs. It is one of the great joys of living on this precious Mother Earth, and there are many if we take the time and make the effort to observe all that surrounds, embraces, us.
hahahahahahahahaaha
my moms a 12 ,she could beat poor Chimpies ass….hahahahahahahaa
We’re gonna hear this “breaking news” sh!t on the idjit’s comments for the next month…if not longer. There are days when I feel like just sticking my head in the toilet and making it all go away. :-(((((
pmorian @ 53 -
Yeh, heard that part too but here’s what your comment will morph into by this afternoon:
CNN also talked about McCain saying that Obama was the choice of Hamas
and that the Bush statement is an effort to help McCain.Math was never my subject. From the story -
Two thoughts:
(1) Why does the PGA hate America?
(2) I suppose the “Tigris Woods Golf and Country Club” attached to the new US Embassy in Baghdad will not open on days when a war is going on.
May 15, 2008
Bush suggests Obama wants ‘appeasement’ of terrorists
Posted: 08:48 AM ET
From CNN White House Correspondent Ed Henry
JERUSALEM (CNN) – In a particularly sharp blast from halfway around the world, President Bush suggested Thursday that Sen. Barack Obama and other Democrats are in favor of “appeasement” of terrorists in the same way U.S. leaders appeased Nazis in the run-up to World War II.
“Some seem to believe we should negotiate with terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along,” said Bush, in what White House aides privately acknowledged was a reference to calls by Obama and other Democrats for the U.S. president to sit down for talks with leaders like Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/
Even Pat Buchanan on MSNBC said making this kind of statement in a foreign country is unprecedented.
that my friend is what lifes all about..and yes there is always another beastie that needs us…………..to need them and so goes the circle of life,rescued a tortise in the middle of a bridge yestiddy …oh the honking horns of all the peeps on their cell phones lol
I like that. I like that a lot.
What Bush did today deserves fierce condemnation from everyone. Wherever this story is discussed we all need to post comments.
funny, ’cause I always think of GWB as appeasing the Saudis all the time, but that’s just me.
I don’t know much about math… Is that in base 20?
ooh. on democracy now! this morning…. palestinian hip-hop. the song is called “who’s the terrorist?”
did ja see what VON Rumsfield said about needing another attack,and that we had TOO much peace?…another little man with a war hard on,like Petreus
Amusing coming from a guy who, six months after 9/11, said Osama bin Laden was of little concern to him, and promptly allowed him to escape to Pakistan.
(((Southern Dragon and Yang)))
Knesset Comments:
he’s a Plagiarizing Bastid
it is remarkable what little interest he has in getting Osama, wonder why that is?
it is PURE EVIL,from a total moronic clown,who like Keith sez…doesnt even have the good sense to STFU
but that’s the royal family - not the dirty people
Poppies biddness comes first,pretzledentin doesnt last forever
Didn’t Gates get the We-hate-Iran memo?
From WaPo
F*** ‘em.
oh MITTENS…..you sad sad loser
never…i just sachet by,and S M I L E
Found this at AlterNet.
Pat Buchanan keeps repeating that this is astonishing for a president to attack a presidential candidate while on foreign soil.
And let’s not forget that it’s Republicans who “got” 9/11.
They sure did.
“Got”:
1) Happened on their watch;
2) Saw it for the political opportunity it was for them;
3) Knew immediately that, despite ZERO connection, it was their in to that war in Iraq they’d wanted for years;
4) Realized the fear it evoked could be used relentlessly to control Americans and Congress;
etc., etc. etc.
Really depraved.
Same thing.
this man may have a conscience…whatcha think?……..nah
I haven’t heard that one, but there is this.
Pat Buchanan says that Iran is an axis of evil country but so is North Korea and that Bush has been negotiating with North Korea for a long time.
This is an admin. that outed a CIA agent - an act of treason - and got away with it.
Why would Bush think he can’t do or say any damn thing he wants wherever he wants?
Who’s gonna stop him?
Belay that.
The sachet and smile makes their heads explode.
McCain needs to be forced to condemn Bush for this statement.
hahahahahahahahaha
always remember 2 legs bad…4 legs very good…”G”
I was talking to my wife on the phone just now (she is at work) and I could find enough adjectives to describe the outrageous words from the dipshit in chief. I guess there is no better place for outrageous belligerence than in a country that persues a policy of repression and apartheid but for fucks sake this guy is nuts and should be dealt with accordingly. I am truly pissed.
i wasn’t a schumer fan before… but i find it amazing how much i now can’t stand him after hearing that clip of him supporting bush’s decision to use torture.
That’s truly amazing. Maybe it was actually Gates who reminded him of Chamberlain. Rationalism confuses him when it contradicts the facts he learned from John Wayne movies.
“thank you jesus!”
You could argue that discussion with THIS ADMINISTRATION is the same as appeasing the nazi’s.
Let’s get these people on trial and in a cage damnit!
My favourite song of hers. Christine was here and played a small venue about 8 blocks from my place. Solo acoustic. It was w-o-n-d-e-r-f-u-l.
i hope he gets a very painfull case of SCABIES
perfect ! rocking chair - excellent optics :D
How many lies can you find in this statement?
His comments are also interesting considering the recent revelation of his ex-Sect’. of Defense expressing a belief that another terrorist attack would help Republicans politically, which we’ve heard before too from another Repub.
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YES!!!!!
Good forkin’ luck with that one, darlin’! mcbush won’t say it………….but all his mouthpieces will.
Won’t happen.
McCain has begun down the same road to go after Obama.
i feel sorry for israelis. they are governed by the same kind of militaristic bigoted warmongers that we are. and the iraqis and palestinians pay the heaviest price.
If willingness to serve and sometimes to sacrifice defines what it is to be an American, then the Bush family is not American.
What was it that Colin Powell supposedly said to Bush — You break it, you own it. Well, the GOP owns this, lock stock and barrel.
follow the money…just sayin
The only way that fairy tale works is if there’s a Dem president and a Dem Congress. Even then . . . I dunno. We’re being bogeyed by the Bush Republicans. Bingo, bango, bongo Iran?
perfectly stated
Oh - I cannot tell you how badly I wanted Keith to use the F word instead of the H word at the end of his special comment last night.
Thanks for that JW. I need a bit of a laugh after the last few minutes of shithead in chief