Comments on: ‘The Real McCain’ http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/29/the-real-mccain/ Firedoglake weblog Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:01:44 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Caoimhin http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/29/the-real-mccain/#comment-1468169 Caoimhin Thu, 29 May 2008 21:57:23 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/29/the-real-mccain/#comment-1468169 <p>Jane,<br /> May I (or any of your other readers who may want to do this also) use/re-print this McCain post <a href="http://greenmountiandaily.com" rel="nofollow">on our respective blogs</a> to give the full line-up of links more exposure and, in turn, link back to this post, which contains the same links?<br /> I’m hoping this may double the chances that people will click-through the links after searching as well help them click through to other sites with the same McCain links where they may click more of the McCain links.</p> <p>Let me know.<br /> Thank you.<br /><em>sláinte,</em><br /> cl<br /> caoimhin_laochdha - verizon - net</p> Jane,
May I (or any of your other readers who may want to do this also) use/re-print this McCain post on our respective blogs to give the full line-up of links more exposure and, in turn, link back to this post, which contains the same links?
I’m hoping this may double the chances that people will click-through the links after searching as well help them click through to other sites with the same McCain links where they may click more of the McCain links.

Let me know.
Thank you.
sláinte,
cl
caoimhin_laochdha – verizon – net

]]> By: Adie http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/29/the-real-mccain/#comment-1467972 Adie Thu, 29 May 2008 19:11:26 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/29/the-real-mccain/#comment-1467972 <p>Hi all.</p> <p>I don’t want to start an argument but, to me, the situation in a local diner - e.g., capacity to accommodate large numbers, might be very different from that in a hall rented for a “town hall meeting” situation. McCain has really acted awful to some audiences, so I’d be way more suspicious of his motives and methods than Hillary’s too, just on the face of it.</p> <p>Also, the Dem. candidates must be utterly exhausted by now, and tempted to control the situation a bit at some venues. What’s McCain done that’s so taxing, other than slopping barBQ for the cameras?</p> <p>But what do I know. I’d take any Democrat over any Repug. Guilty/biased as charged. Don’t even know why I jumped into the fray, except mostly to say Hi to all you pups, and thank you Tula for another dandy post.</p> <p>R-a-m-b-l-i-n-g on, the only appearances I can think of at which McCain’s acted like a competent candidate have been “canned, totally controlled events.” Whenever he’s ever questioned or challenged, he acts like… a cranky old coot who has real trouble thinking and speaking at the same time without making a mess of both tasks. I don’t WANT a cranky old coot anywhere near the bigwhitehouse. There’s one too many there already. ENOUGH!<br /> /r</p> <p>We’re goin’ out to hear some beeoootiful music tonite, in hopes of lifting sagging spirits. Carry on Pups, and thanks to ALL for all your hard work.<br /> You give me hope. Much appreciated. ;-></p> Hi all.

I don’t want to start an argument but, to me, the situation in a local diner – e.g., capacity to accommodate large numbers, might be very different from that in a hall rented for a “town hall meeting” situation. McCain has really acted awful to some audiences, so I’d be way more suspicious of his motives and methods than Hillary’s too, just on the face of it.

Also, the Dem. candidates must be utterly exhausted by now, and tempted to control the situation a bit at some venues. What’s McCain done that’s so taxing, other than slopping barBQ for the cameras?

But what do I know. I’d take any Democrat over any Repug. Guilty/biased as charged. Don’t even know why I jumped into the fray, except mostly to say Hi to all you pups, and thank you Tula for another dandy post.

R-a-m-b-l-i-n-g on, the only appearances I can think of at which McCain’s acted like a competent candidate have been “canned, totally controlled events.” Whenever he’s ever questioned or challenged, he acts like… a cranky old coot who has real trouble thinking and speaking at the same time without making a mess of both tasks. I don’t WANT a cranky old coot anywhere near the bigwhitehouse. There’s one too many there already. ENOUGH!
/r

We’re goin’ out to hear some beeoootiful music tonite, in hopes of lifting sagging spirits. Carry on Pups, and thanks to ALL for all your hard work.
You give me hope. Much appreciated. ;->

]]> By: OCPatriot http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/29/the-real-mccain/#comment-1467971 OCPatriot Thu, 29 May 2008 19:10:38 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/29/the-real-mccain/#comment-1467971 <p>You have to remember that McCain is as phony as a two dollar bill. First he casually states that we may be in Iraq for “a hundred years”; then he softens his tone and pretends he didn’t mean it. He doesn’t know who the parties are in Iraq and needs turncoat Lieberman to cue him on which party is which there. He says he wants federal funds, then exceeds the limit for spending his funds, and he would be guilty of a crime if it weren’t for the fact that the Federal Election group hasn’t got enough members to come down on him. He tells homeowners that he believes they shouldn’t get government help because that isn’t free enterprise, then he promises help but it’s so meager it won’t mean much. He calls himself a straight talker, but won’t release his wife’s tax returns (to show how wealthy she really is) and then does so, only partially - what’s he concealing? He takes a government disability pension, yet calls himself fit to run. If this isn’t the perfect picture of a hypocrite, what is? It also shows how the Media is so screwed up because they take him seriously when he’ll say anything, promise anything, to get elected.</p> You have to remember that McCain is as phony as a two dollar bill. First he casually states that we may be in Iraq for “a hundred years”; then he softens his tone and pretends he didn’t mean it. He doesn’t know who the parties are in Iraq and needs turncoat Lieberman to cue him on which party is which there. He says he wants federal funds, then exceeds the limit for spending his funds, and he would be guilty of a crime if it weren’t for the fact that the Federal Election group hasn’t got enough members to come down on him. He tells homeowners that he believes they shouldn’t get government help because that isn’t free enterprise, then he promises help but it’s so meager it won’t mean much. He calls himself a straight talker, but won’t release his wife’s tax returns (to show how wealthy she really is) and then does so, only partially – what’s he concealing? He takes a government disability pension, yet calls himself fit to run. If this isn’t the perfect picture of a hypocrite, what is? It also shows how the Media is so screwed up because they take him seriously when he’ll say anything, promise anything, to get elected.

]]> By: Ann in AZ http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/29/the-real-mccain/#comment-1467970 Ann in AZ Thu, 29 May 2008 19:08:37 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/29/the-real-mccain/#comment-1467970 <p>Christy has a <a href="http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/29/your-bottom-line-connecting-the-budget-dots-of-gop-economic-failures/#more-24880" rel="nofollow">spanking new post</a> up entitled “GOP Economics: Go Cheney Yourselves”!</p> Christy has a spanking new post up entitled “GOP Economics: Go Cheney Yourselves”!

]]> By: earlofhuntingdon http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/29/the-real-mccain/#comment-1467967 earlofhuntingdon Thu, 29 May 2008 19:06:19 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/29/the-real-mccain/#comment-1467967 <p>A not-to-be-missed article on St. John the Divine is today’s front-page NYT’s article by David Kirkpatrick. Not for how he says it - he’s unabashedly pro-McCain - but for what he reveals in spite of his aims. In trying to spin St. John positively, Kirkpatrick reveals that the Navy brass probably didn’t think all that much of him (despite claims that St. John was in line for his admiral’s star, but turned it down to run for Congress). </p> <p>McCain, as a Navy liaison to the senate, went behind the back of his President and Navy Secretary to lobby Congress to build a carrier. Congress overrode a presidential veto and decided to build it, no doubt out of self-interest or self-dealing, not solely because of McCain’s lobbying. McCain was a lobbyists’ lobbyist before he became a CongressCritter. That won’t change should he win the White House. His reliance on lobbyists, already enormous, would only deepen.</p> A not-to-be-missed article on St. John the Divine is today’s front-page NYT’s article by David Kirkpatrick. Not for how he says it – he’s unabashedly pro-McCain – but for what he reveals in spite of his aims. In trying to spin St. John positively, Kirkpatrick reveals that the Navy brass probably didn’t think all that much of him (despite claims that St. John was in line for his admiral’s star, but turned it down to run for Congress).

McCain, as a Navy liaison to the senate, went behind the back of his President and Navy Secretary to lobby Congress to build a carrier. Congress overrode a presidential veto and decided to build it, no doubt out of self-interest or self-dealing, not solely because of McCain’s lobbying. McCain was a lobbyists’ lobbyist before he became a CongressCritter. That won’t change should he win the White House. His reliance on lobbyists, already enormous, would only deepen.

]]> By: freewayblogger http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/29/the-real-mccain/#comment-1467966 freewayblogger Thu, 29 May 2008 19:03:25 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/29/the-real-mccain/#comment-1467966 <p>This is some of what greeted him in Phoenix:</p> <p><a href="http://freewayblogger.blogspot.com/2008/05/by-time-bush-gets-to-phoenix.html" rel="nofollow">http://freewayblogger.blogspot.....oenix.html</a></p> <p>“Doesn’t know Shiite from Shinola” is my favorite.</p> This is some of what greeted him in Phoenix:

http://freewayblogger.blogspot…..oenix.html

“Doesn’t know Shiite from Shinola” is my favorite.

]]> By: boogiecheck http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/29/the-real-mccain/#comment-1467965 boogiecheck Thu, 29 May 2008 18:46:10 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/29/the-real-mccain/#comment-1467965 <blockquote><p> the McCain campaign took a page from George W. Bush’s presidential campaigns by refusing to allow state residents to take part in his town hall meeting in Denver unless they were McSupporters. </p></blockquote> <p>That’s not limited to McCain. Hillary Clinton did it when she campaigned in Fort Wayne, Indiana. She handpicked her audience for a stop at a local diner, according to the local newspaper.</p>

the McCain campaign took a page from George W. Bush’s presidential campaigns by refusing to allow state residents to take part in his town hall meeting in Denver unless they were McSupporters.

That’s not limited to McCain. Hillary Clinton did it when she campaigned in Fort Wayne, Indiana. She handpicked her audience for a stop at a local diner, according to the local newspaper.

]]> By: SunnyNobility http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/29/the-real-mccain/#comment-1467964 SunnyNobility Thu, 29 May 2008 18:35:47 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/29/the-real-mccain/#comment-1467964 <p>Good on the union members! Nothing subtle about where McGramp’s loyalties lie.</p> Good on the union members! Nothing subtle about where McGramp’s loyalties lie.

]]> By: AlbertFall http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/29/the-real-mccain/#comment-1467963 AlbertFall Thu, 29 May 2008 18:33:47 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/29/the-real-mccain/#comment-1467963 <p>McCain is a ”macaca moment” waiting to happen….</p> <p>Man the cell phone cameras! God bless YouTube!</p> McCain is a ”macaca moment” waiting to happen….

Man the cell phone cameras! God bless YouTube!

]]> By: Tula Connell http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/29/the-real-mccain/#comment-1467962 Tula Connell Thu, 29 May 2008 18:30:41 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/29/the-real-mccain/#comment-1467962 <p>You’re right–it’s a great post. We’re blogging it now on our site, with plenty of kudos to Cliff and Firedoglake. </p> <p>This guy’s a poster child for why union members need to see the Real McCain….</p> You’re right–it’s a great post. We’re blogging it now on our site, with plenty of kudos to Cliff and Firedoglake.

This guy’s a poster child for why union members need to see the Real McCain….

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