John McClueless - Republican Candidate for President
I just saw this Keith Olbermann video, featuring Sen. John McCain's most recent (and quite disturbing) gaffe. McCain seems to have lost a bit of his sharpness since battling George Bush for the nomination in 2000. And he wasn't the best presidential candidate back then either (that, in my humble opinion, was Al Gore). McCain's strength is supposed to be the "war on terror"? Ha! What about a war on ERROR?
Posted by Jesus Crisis at 3/27/2008 4:24 PM 
Categories: News and Politics, Video Blogs, Election 2008
Categories: News and Politics, Video Blogs, Election 2008
I have to wonder: when evil fvcks like McCain lie, how do they hold in their maniacal laughter?
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Indeed... and it seems to me that McCain's itchin' for a war with Iran as much as evil Dick Cheney and his wannabe Mini-Me George W. Bush are. Remember how amused Johnny Mac was to rewrite the Beach Boys' song "Barbara Ann" with the lyrics "Bomb, bomb, bomb - bomb, bomb Iran"?
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dumb is as dumb does.
i never liked his beliefs, but at one point i thought mccain had principles - but then he voted for george bush's torture program. how an ex-pow can vote to torture prisoners is beyond my comprehension. right now i think he has the moral of a hillary clinton.
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I wonder if he's suffering the onset of Reaganesque Alzheimer's dementia.
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.....uhhhh, ooops!!!! i'm SURE this comment was a quick spew of words, but goin' to the Alzheimer's thing is low....for anybody. ....i get it, but there are other ways to get there.
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I apologize. It was partly a joke - and not a particularly funny one in retrospect. But it was actually an honest question as well. I really do wonder. I've watched probably a hundred recent McCain videos - and I watched a lot more the first time he ran for president. There is a big difference between the McCain then and the McCain now. And I have really, honestly wondered about whether he's losing his memory and mental acuity. His speeches speak for themselves. The 2000 McCain would never have gotten so mixed up on such an important issue. Iran is Shiite; al Qaeda is Sunni. They kill each other as much as they kill anyone else. It's like saying Protestant terrorists are returning to the Vatican for training in how to blow up Catholics.
The A word has come to my mind several times before while watching his speeches - but this is the first time I've uttered it publicly. Perhaps I shouldn't have. Yet right or wrong, fair or not, this is an honest concern I have. If President Bush accused Iran of training Al Qaeda it might well start World War III - and it wouldn't be the first time he's started a war over a lie. I will live in fear if McCain is elected president - and justifiably so, I believe.
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....i think the reason this is soooo terribly ugly to me is that i too, think he may be slipping......its very painful to watch. ....of course, i've had hands on experience w/ Alzheimer's and i was feeling a wee bit grumpy from watching all of the terror in Tibet....one of my BIGGEST fears is four more years of the same. ....sorry if i was overly sensitive, but i'll probably always be....especially when it comes to something like Alzheimer's.
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Perfectly understandable, my friend....
By the way... congratulations! Yours is comment number 1800 on my CrisisBlog!
And thanks....
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I saw the whole report on CBS Morning News a few days ago. I kept wondering if he F-CKED UP when he was giving his little speech. Thanks for re-showing this! It's kind of funny how politicians keep everything straight--I guess that is why the other guy was there, to make corrections! HA-HA what a laugh we all got!
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lol... Bush falsely attached Iraq to Al Qaeda as an excuse to go to war in Iraq. Now McCain seems to be aching to tie Iran to AlQaeda in a similar fashion. And national security is supposed to be McCain's strong suit. Imagine how ill-informed he must be in his weak suits.
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I love revisionist history. I'm not sure how the Republican's have turned Ronald Regan into a saint in many people's eyes.
I marched on Washington for gay rights and AIDS treatment at huge rally in the 80's. It was the first time the AIDS quilt was laid out in entirety. Rock Hudson had just died and still Regan had never even mentioned the disease in public. His stone walling and greedy drug companies helped to kill 20 of my friends. I've never forgotten what a cold monster he could be.
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Good observation - and it's easy for many to forget. But those of us who've had people dear to us die as a result will never forget.
Reagan gets a lot of credit for the collapse of the Soviet Union. But I wonder how much he was the lucky beneficiary of being in the right place at the right time. Hadn't the Soviet Union been on the verge of collapse for some time? Wouldn't it have happened inevitably anyway, regardless of whether Reagan was president? Sure, Ronnie had diplomatic skill. And he famously called the USSR an "evil empire." But Bush also used the word "evil" to refer to Iraq, Syria, Iran, and North Korea. Ronnie was also the "genius" who was convinced that supply-side economics would cure all our financial woes. And need we recall the Iran-Contra business?....
That said, when I was 18 (in 1984) I actually voted for Reagan. As Bob Dylan sang, "I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now."
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Well.. I'm always so appreciative when people take the time to get their "facts" straight!!! Obviously... McCain is not right for the job....
But then I already knew that!!
Thanks for the chuckle John.
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I loved that picture of the dog givin' the McCain sign some love... I saw some polls the other day showing how some democrats would consider voting for McCain if their Democratic candidate of choice didn't get the nomination. I have heard that some think he is a centrist as opposed to the far right that Bush occupies... but I hope these people are paying attention to what McCain has done since he has decided to run for president and pander to the far right. He's changed so many of his positions to appease these crazy ass people, like the Bush tax cuts he use to oppose, claiming that they were a giveaway to the richest in our country, now he supports them and wants to make them permanent. The torture issue he's done a 180 on. This shows he has no moral compass and no character to stand up for his true beliefs. It seems obvious he knows nothing about our economic issues, the history of how we got to the point we are in today and how to fix the problem...and he is as war hungry as our current leader... It should be apparent to us all! But those polls scare me!
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Very good points - and you are absolutely right on all counts!
And yet many Americans will vote for him because he's not Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama. Frightening....
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Remember the slogan "It's the economy stupid" and it still is. That is the #1 concern today of the electorate. McCain may not know whether Al Queda is in Iran or not but he isn't too sharp on the sinking economy in the U.S. and what to do about this. Economists no longer talk of millions, but rather billions and trillions of $$ in debt over Iraq. Where's the jobs? What are we doing about the housing crisis, Jesus? Answers must come soon or we are in a recession if not a depression. The war has not only cost thousands of lives in Iraq but has cost us billions each day we are there while Americans die each day from lack of health insurance. These are the issues and the reality.
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McCain has admitted his weakness as far as the ecomony - he also admitted he doesn't think the government should do anything about the mortgage crisis. And he had the nerve to attack Obama's apparent misstatement about AlQaeda in Iraq during the Democratic debate in Cleveland. Sometimes all I can do is sigh.
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There's also another great video circulating where McCain refers to Putin as the President of Germany!! haha! His time machine has scrambled his little Repub brain.
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Wow! Sure seems that way....
I never saw the video you mentioned - will have to look it up!
Thanks, Julie!
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