Poor McCrazyTrain, still desperately clawing for a tiny bit of relevance.

Anyone got any pics of McCain playing yoyo and bouncing up and down to applaud Bush’s SOTUs?

god, i love that st johnnie the tortured is checking out of his long senate career as a gigantic asshole.

A little more Metamucil probably wouldn’t hurt either.

That said, O made me pretty grumpy last night too.

McCain is a mean, nasty, pissed off old man who’s time has come and gone. He and his “fighter jock” mentality are both out of place in 21st century American politics.

Grandpa Mac is up for re-election and is getting challenged in the rethuglicant primary by a real right-wing grifter, former house rep JD Heyworth – the teabagger cum theif with serious evidence to taking bribes from Abramov.

We poor Arizonians are getting fucked if either of these morons gets elected…

PS: I loved it when Obama hammered the SCOTUS for their criminal decision on unlimited campaign contributions from corps. both domestic and foreign. Now that took balls! Finally the SCOTUS rethuglicons got what they deserved – Open critizism in the SOTU address from the Executive Branch for making bad calls that hurt Americans! Did you see the way Alito squirmed – It was beautiful…

Ah but he was young then. Well, less old, anyway.

Alito could probably use some Metamucil and a nap too.

I think he was aided by puppet strings, actually.

I shudder when I think of would could have been , if McCrazy had somehow won!

I highly recommend watching today’s Democracy Now! with Naomi Klein and Noam Chomsky about Howard Zinn. It’ll boost yer spirits. Guaranteed. Make ya wanna fight, too.

That would have been a whole different kind of bad.

I just might check it out too, the news has been very depressing for us progressives lately ,we could use a boost

I’ll check it out. I did a drive by of DN! this morning but didn’t stick around.

McCain’s idea of an exciting time is crashing a plane (5 so far) or high-stakes gambling with his wife’s money.

and billybugs

The Zinn segment starts at minute 20 if ya wanna skip the SOTU segment.

AND THE KILLIN’ GOEZ ON AND ON AND…

Citizen Blue Texan and the Firepup Freedom Fighters:

Thank you for this post because you focus on the whole point of Obama’s speech last night and that is, it wasn’t aimed at Progressives or holdin’ out an olive branch or even a hemp leaf to the fascist Repuiblicans rather it was aimed at gently but firmly rubbin’ the lunatics’ noses in the reality that if they don’t play the game by the rules the Constitution gives us all, then they will end up howlin’ at the moon and throwin slippers at the TV. Those of us who still don’t completely trust Obama but believe in the rather radical idea that democracy can lead to revolutionary change, understand that gaining power for through election means nothin’ in a capitalist society unless you can hold that power long enough to force people to act in their own economic and social self-interest. Obama accomplished what he needed to accomplish by remindin’ everyone just what a bunch of fuckin’ unAmerican losers the fascist corporatist Republicans are. And Justice Scalito’s and Senator McCain’s responses made the point on national television better’n the speech itself.

KEEP THE FAITH AND PASS THE AMMUNITION…IT’S ALL ABOUT THE CORPORATE WARS!!

McCrazys time has gone past ,that John Wayne ,kick ass ask questions later mentality is history John should call it quits. Take mammas money and go have some fun spending it.

Well, hell, he is tired. Unlike most folks, he doesn’t get to sleep in on Sunday mornings.

Hey SD are you watching this on-line?

Obama just got questioned by a young woman about why we keep funding the Israelis to fight the Palestinians. Uproar. If it isn’t broadcast anywhere the WMNF archives will have it later today. Wow. Fuckin’ wow.

Town Hall meeting Tampa.

Couldn’t tell if the uproar was pro or con.

Yeah.

“… leaned over to Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and appeared to whisper, ‘Blame it on Bush.’ The two men then laughed.”

No, what McInsane really said when he leaned over to good ol’ Lindsey was*, “My bullshit meter just went up,” causing them to cackle like a couple of old hens.

*Lip reading is a fun and useful skill. (;>

Citizen SouthernDragon:

How do I access “Democracy Now” on the internet tubes?

http://www.democracynow.org/

I can watch on Link TV but I think it’s on at 11AM and I’ve missed it.
Thanks for the link !

Thanx Brother Dragonman…got it on right now…peace in our time Bro!!

Here’s one of him snoozing during a Bush SOTU.

“… leaned over to Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and appeared to whisper, ‘Blame it on Bush.’ The two men then laughed.”

Blame it on Bush was a double shot in their Obama drinking game. Couldn’t help but laugh.

Alito was just showing that, no matter what position they hold, Republics put their Party above all else. i wonder if George H.W. Bush will say he was ‘deeply offended’ by Alito like he said he was by Joe Wilson?

The “Blame it on Bush” attack has to have come from Rove.

“A little more Metamucil probably wouldn’t hurt either.”

I was thinking more along the lines of Thorazine…

What did everybody think of Obama ‘s speech last night .
Is it all talk ?
Did he finally grow a set ?
Will anything actually change?

Personally I’m still on the fence , not sure what to think. Maybe the mass. election woke his ass up and we’ll see something we can call a victory .

When I see cash start flowing, I’ll buy in. Until that time, it’s just talk…

I am seeing that too! Wow. She worked to get Obama elected. The young woman has cred. And balls.

I love me an Obama speech. They are a pleasure to watch…which is infuriating.

But I didn’t realize that I voted for Republican policies you can believe in. He still doesn’t get that Massechusetts voted against the rightward tack.

John McCain is from the school of the old & the tired. His body is worn out & his face shows the wear & tear of age and stress. He long ago turned into an angry old man, compounded by the fact that Obama snatched away his last hope of fulfilling his life’s dream – to be President of the US. I feel sure that anger & disappointment are eatig away at him like a rat on aged cheese,and I doubt he’ll ever get over it. That anger externalizes itself in monumental fashion when it comes to Obama, and his tired demeaning comments are the only way he can get back at the President, foolish & petty as it is. John has become pathetic and should get it in check before he ends his career with the image of a pathetic loser.

What the hell are these asses going to say when FOREIGN influences start changing our politics?? Oh, sure as long as it is corporate they will love it but it cannot take long before they will realize they have NO control over these dynamics which will be mediated by money.

Or will it devolve into wars between national vs. national, national vs. foreign, foreign vs. national, and foreign vs. foreign interests??? A total nightmare. And not just for us.

Fools.

He’s already a pathetic loser and sounds more like a child throwing a tantrum every time he opens his mouth. If he had any sense left, he would go out with dignity, but he doesn’t, so he won’t.

That’s a hard message to get out ,a lot of progressives sat out the election and their views aren’t being accounted for. So far the polls of people who actually voted particularly brown voters do show a rightward tack.
If you consider the votes not cast you get an entirely different picture

The maverick turned into an old bull fart soon after he began his run for the presidency and has been passing partisan gas ever since. Arizona should put him out to pasture.

Jeeze, I didn’t know much of anything about Zinn. What a hero.

Nah McCain has been forgeting his daily dose of Geritol!!
He sure gets cranky when he forgets his Geritol…

This place is great for learning new stuff ,especially stuff you won’t hear about from MSM

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out what happened in MA (f’ing MA for heaven’s sake), unless one really doesn’t want to understand. Obama falls into that category, IMO.

What’s going on nahant ?

It’s snowing here looks nice out there on the trees !

If a Dem can’t win here in Mass you gotta know you got some serious problems and you better get your act together real soon !

Geritol and Metamucil and naps are funny because McCain is old.

You’re in Massechusetts? How did you vote? No judgement, just curious…

BlueTexan we need private sector jobs, not government union jobs. You lefities just can’t keep your hands out of hard working Americans pockets.

Thanks to Alito we now have a Corporate “Person” running for Congress..
Corporation files to run for Congress: important marketing strategy questions remain unansweredPerson” Running for Congress:

I wonder took so long………..

../s

And bodily fluids. Why can’t lefties leave our precious bodily fluids alone?

Hey Billy we are enjoying A day of much needed Sun… We had 10 days of rain and more to come tomorrow…sigh

Before ya know it I will be getting a Case of SAD!!

Voted for Coakley ,saw voting for Brown as akin to cutting off your nose to spite your face.
If I want Obama to get anything at all passed ,taking away that 60th vote isn’t gonna help.
Coakley was a weak candidate and treated the job as if it were hers for the taking ,that sense of entitlement just pissed the voters off.
The brown win was a blue collar victory ,winning by the biggest margins in working class suburbs

No Shit !

I see you guys have been getting some wicked rainstorms ,I hope you’re all OK

Have you noticed that I only drink pure grain alcohol and rainwater?

It’s never too late in the thread to play Troll Bingo!

Bring. It. On.

He’s just jealous because President Obama is implementing all the policies McCain campaigned on, even including a spending freeze in the middle of Bush’s Great Recession.

Bingo This!

It’s not the lefties who filched your wallet. It is the big multi-national corporations who have shipped our jobs overseas and destroyed the labor unions ability to get decent wages for working Americans. They tricked you conservatives in believing taxes were too high and you voted for the republicans who cut the rich people taxes. Now the money that was used to pay wages and provide capital investment in a company, is resting in a Swiss account. Thanks to you “suckers”, we have a crumbled infrastructure and a decimated middle class.

No more Free Trade. Tax the Rich.

They tricked you conservatives in believing taxes were too high and you voted for the republicans who cut the rich people taxes. Now the money that was used to pay wages and provide capital investment in a company, is resting in a Swiss account. Thanks to you “suckers”, we have a crumbled infrastructure and a decimated middle class.

Seconded.

Who listens to him anymore? Many, if you trust the number of times Meet the Press puts him on, and the number of times he is quoted, like he was important. “Oh!” you say, “He was the GOP candidate last time!” Funny, I don’t recall Kerry getting that kind of attention by the MSM. Or Gore. Or Dukasis. Just mocking.

McCain has shown EXACTLY what is wrong with Washington. He’s been a senator for almost 25 years. Time for fresh blood. Term limits. Two terms and you’re out. Maybe then these elite assholes wouldn’t have as much time to secure their corporate support. Why would you care what was passed in 1999 if you knew you’d still be suckling the taxdollars in 2009? THAT is the problem

We are just fine… no worries about flooding or anything.. just lots and lots of rain.. We got over 5 inches of rain last week and we are on low ground, the mountains down in Santa Cruz area got over 10 inches of rain in the same period.

They tricked you conservatives in believing taxes were too high and you voted for the republicans who cut the rich people taxes. Now the money that was used to pay wages and provide capital investment in a company, is resting in a Swiss account. Thanks to you “suckers”, we have a crumbled infrastructure and a decimated middle class.

Seconded.

Turded

Actually, we have term limits. They’re called elections.

Unless you want to let the lobbyists and the legislative staffers have even more power, which has been the most common response for those locales that have instituted term limits. Just when the elected official figures out where the buttons are for getting things done, they term limit out of office. And the lobbyists then get another neophyte they can lead around.

It generally seems that the fans of term limits really don’t like them per se, they just don’t like politicians that are elected elsewhere whom they disagree with. So “term limits” becomes the cry to get rid of someone else’s official in a way other than the ballot box.

Actually, it has nothing to do with liking them or not. It is the same people, running every damn election cycle. Supported by either the Dem Party or the Rethugs. YOU have no choice. Take this candidate, or else. What choice is that? Do you think giving a politician decades in office, makes that politician more effective, or more corrupt? I go with the corrupt as is being proven by many right now. Almost all these congress critters think they are entitle to their positions because quite frankly, the way the system is working, they are.

He gave a lecture in Tampa a few years ago and I got to meet him. Sharp. He truly was a human rights hero. I like the story of his starting his address to the Spellman College audience with, “I’m to the left of Mao Tse-tung.”

Joe Hill
John L Lewis
Miles Horton
Saul Alinsky
Dr M L King
Howard Zinn

Don’t mourn. Organize!

If you don’t like your choices for office, run yourself or convince a friend to run. Fight them in the primary. Or fight against them in the general election.

But if your fellow voters continue to vote for someone that you think is corrupt, then don’t try to take away their choice.

But as I say, the folks who cry loudest for term limits often seem to against a specific individual from another state, CD, whatever because they don’t agree with that person’s politics.

IOW, if you dislike McCain and want him out of office, move to Arizona and work from within to get him gone.

And if you think they’re ALL corrupt, get evidence that will get them out of office through the legal system.

In an uncorrupt perfect political world, you would be correct. In this world? I know it’s negative, but it’s pointless. Progressives and liberals have been fighting clawing and doing everything they can to change things since 2000. What’s it done? Bush was re-selected. Congress went to the Dems on the promise to stop war funding in 2006. Congress and the Whitehouse went to the Dems in 2008. What’s changed? What party have progressives tried to work from within? Who has the money to fight a Halliburton? AIG? Normal, intelligent, uncorrupt citizens cannot beat this system. It has to be changed first. It all boils down to who has the most cash. Progressives and liberals don’t because we aren’t crooks.

You may have noticed the various moves FDL has supported to try to change things?

It’s a marathon, not a sprint. The Rs and corporatists have a 30 plus year head start on things. The rollback is not going to happen in one or two Congresses or Presidential terms.

McSame HAS NO LAWN..it’s only virtual … IF any lawn exists for this old fool, it’s in Wasilla with his favorite hillbilly.

McSame’s relevancy passed a looooong time ago and the final nail in his coffin was allowing the Queen of Babble-On to be foisted on him as his running mate. All those nasty “kiss & tell” books and such that his campaign workers have used as bully pulpits to diss Bible Spice – while amusing – mainly serve to make JohnnyMac look like 10 kinds of fool, IMO.

He’s an angry old white geezer who’s totally pissed off that this uppity —– is in the WO, instead of him. As much as ObamaRahma is a sell out to the corporations, McInsane is 10 times worse. Back in the day, McSame had *some* principles and *some* feeling for the US population. That be long gone, now.

I agree: he should shuffle off to Phoenix & live off Cindy’s buckarooni’s – isn’t that why he ditched his first wife when she was down & out? So that he could leach off of richie-rich beer heiress Cindy????

And finally to the troll:

“They tricked you conservatives in believing taxes were too high and you voted for the republicans who cut the rich people taxes. Now the money that was used to pay wages and provide capital investment in a company, is resting in a Swiss account. Thanks to you “suckers”, we have a crumbled infrastructure and a decimated middle class.”

Seconded
Turded
Also, too, also

Can’t have the [Edited by Moderator] now, can we?

[Mod Note: Please don't go down that road. It is not humorous]

McLame is an obstructionist. The citizens must keep speaking out against obstructionism. There ought to be a law.

McCain has been doing things like this His whole career, but people overlooked that saying He was a War Hero and a great Public Servant.

The guy has been milking us for most of His life. He never did anything Heroic. Being a a War prisoner and squeeling like a pig does not a Hero make. He crashed three of our airplanes which we paid for.

If that isn’t enough the guy has been on the wrong side of History most of His life. He’s a putz and has always acted like a putz. He showed in His Presidential Campaign that He couldn’t make good decisions, say the right things, and do what He said He was doing.

So He goes back to the Senate pissed because He lost, and has done nothing but try to undercut Obama nad the Democrats. Yet the media treats Him as a darling and lets the old geaser flap His lips, even though He has shown no intelligence behind that flapping.

Just another geaser in the our old folks home called the Senate.