Moron... watch Matt Damon's original video... that is EXACTLY what I was spoofing. Damon was the one that sounded like an idiot... and I made of that. And you are big moron for not knowing any better.
I don't care what Damon said. Palin is a fuckin' moron. The things she said was so retarded, the thought that she COULD be president scared everyone into voting for Obama.
Look people, you are both wrong. Racism is wrong, making one of you wrong. And this video is not racist as it is a parody, making the other one of you wrong. On the other hand, one of you is right... Obama's policies are DESTROYING America before our eyes, yet so many are blinded by the glint of his celebrity. Sooner or late, all the glitters is not gold and when people finally realize this, they will all be standing around looking at each other wonder, "What they hell just happened?"
what a pathetic individual. I hope someone sees this video hopefully recognize you and blow your fucken head off. I hope, maybe then you might learn how to stereotypically talk like a black guy. thank god our country is not full of inbreeds like you.
yeah, someone with a heart full of hate stereotyping an entire group of people is fine with you... no surprise there. luckily, no one really cares about these type of guys anymore (America is changing, for the better, also many Americans are decent hard working folk who care less about the next person's background) I'm sure that's eating losers like you and the video starter alive. you're better start a rampage and go on a killing spree, it might help to get that hate out of your heart, heh.
"America is changing for the better" LOL, I've never seen such an uneducated response, given the fact that this administration has QUADRUPLED!! the national deficit to around 12 trillion dollars in LESS THAN 6 MONTHS. Not to mention that our country already is facing 75 trillion in unfunded liabilities. Maybe you should study economics and find out what happens to countries that inflate their currency like we have. I know it's facts, and thats hard for you to understand so do you best.
oh really? let's see, the previous administration turned a surplus into a huge deficit and you want to blame the new administration for trying to fix it? lol..nice talking points straight from the Fox table . hey, tell Sean Hannity I said hi, and also ask him what to say since you have no idea what you're talking about.
Let me help you with some math, since you obviously are having a hard time. 2 trillion of debt in bush administration vs 12 trillion in the Obama administration? I see so in order to fix our problem we should go into more debt? Is that the way you run you finances? So if 2 trillion was bad then 12 trillion is awesome? Do us all a favor, don't have any children. We have enough ignorant people in this country.
No you're right our country is full of dumbass NIGGERS on welfare like YOU!! At least inbreeds CAUCASIANS are actually useful. Oh and quit crying about slavery their hasn't been a slave in 200 years you dumb fuck.
really? oh wow. you called me a "nigger" is that supposed to upset me? should I go and kill myself? lol. tough guy on the internet, ay? I bet your happy right now. just so you know, since you don't seem to be a bright person, contrary to popular belief "whites" are the ones that make up the largest recipient of welfare. (look it up) but of course facts have no places here. do me a favor, next time you want to insult a "minority" try to be more vile. nigger? c'mon dude, that's just laughable
listen here jigaboo. their may be more whites on welfare but that's not including children. Majority of black women don't even know who their "babies daddy" is. Minority? you people need to grow the fuck up and quit finding things to whine about. " if you don't like obama you're a racist" " my great great grandfathers were slaves" get over it shit its the 21st centurty get off your ass get a job
for someone who is "superior" you sure know how to spell, dumb fuck. maybe it's the mixed up DNA from your mother and father being related resulted in such level of dumbness. get off your ass and get a job? what does that even mean? do you even know what you're typing, or as usual just typing out of your ass? I'm not going to waste my time over this nonsense with a dumb fuck like you, who by the way would smile and offer me a drink in real life. lol @ this. I bet you gave yourself a hifive too.
haha did misspell something? like you could tell... haha my parents are from europe so if you're trying to relate me to a "redneck" think again... know whats funny im 19 and my income is probably equal and if not higher than yours :) you're right don't waste your time over this argument you should be out looking for a job. happy job hunting looser
it's loser not "looser". damn, do I have to teach you how to write too? you really are dumber than I initially thought. now go do some more reading and come back with a better insult.
yeah looser its supposed to sound exaggerated, but you wouldn't know that. i love how you try and take what i say and turn it around on me typical dumbass... maybe i will do some reading in the mean time you should try to get off welfare, get a job, quit trading in food stamps for drugs, and stop buying purple soda its gonna rust out those grills you bought (with my money). your typing is a little slow maybe cause you scratching at your ashy ass all the time. do me a favor next get some lotion
The only thing "terrifying" and "crazy," is that people like you actually proudly take the time to prove to the world what a low intelligence quotient you have.
It was certainly an interesting campaign, to say the least. I just hope we can put all this divisiveness behind us and move forward as a country. I guess we'll find out in January. *e-handshake mrtim*
John McCain on a few occasions has shown that he can go against his party, but how hard is that when his party has been wrong on so many things as we now see," she continued. "But he has a brand. And Palin, I'm not sure she even knows the history of the word of or my family, but one thing is clear to all of my family, she truly is not a Maverick." (This from the Maverick family who definitely ARE NOT supporting McClown.
um obama has the most liberal voting record in the entire senate. McCain is almost dead shit in the middle. McCain disagrees with bush on: Iraq from day one (look up his voting history), Global warming, Tax plans, and just about every other dumb ass things the republicans had tried. but i doubt your even a tink bit open minded so you can discard my comment.
McCain has waffled on just about every issue- he supports this and then since he's been running for pres. he's completely flip flopped on MANY of the major issues to appease the right edge of the base- outside of that he had the very BAD judgment to choose Palin as his running mate-extremely bad judgment and that's not just my opinion as you may have noticed-Obama on the other hand has stayed pretty much on course with his original views and ideas--and beyond that McCain is way too fuckin old!
Palin. A mayor of a town of 9000 in Alaska, and then Governor of a state with only 650,000 or so people. went to 5 community colleges and finally finished at uni after a very long period of time.
Obama: Attended Harvard. Became the first black president of the Harvard law review. Was a lawyer on constitutional law for 12 years. Served on many chicago area community planning boards. Senator for 7 years. Passed and co-sponsered 131 bills in congress.
Obama said he visited "57 States", said his health plan would cover athsmatic children in hospitals who need a "breathalyzer". He announced Joe Biden as "the next president of the United States", and then called the state of Massachussetts "massa-TOO-sets".
I guess that makes him a genius.
Obama: Community organizer, member of a racist church for 20 years, and active senator for 193 days who voted "present" on nearly everthing.
Palin: CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER of a STATE for over 2 years.
Whether or not you like Obama, you can not deny that Palin is the biggest joke the Republican Party has ever put forth. McCain wasn't bad, although I didn't agree with his policies on many fronts, and didn't like his demeanor in general, but I don't think he would have made an awful president. But Palin is a crock and should lose her position as governor of Alaska just for revealing how unintelligent she truly is. Don't try to deny it. She's plain dumb.
Mr. McCain seems to be in the terminal throes of a self-love that causes him to regard himself as a great American hero. From time to time,he likes to shout at us,"I have fought in many,wars,"and,"I have won many of them,"but he has,so far,never told us which ones he has actually won, since every war that he has graced with his samurai presence seems to have been thoroughly lost by the United States. Consistency is all-important to the born loser as well as to the committed liar.
Well im glad to see you responded to my comment, furthermore its not an outright lie but dont feel bad many democrats were kkk as well. if you'd like the easy research to find this out you can take the easy road and watch the history of the kkk on the history channel... pretty accurate. however correction they were never worried about the black vote because in 1868 dummy we didn't even have civil rights let known the right to vote......OBAMA 08 GET USE TO CREAM PUFF...LOL
You are a joke! You keep saying "I need to know" this and that. Well, get off your duff and do some research. Every issue you named is well discussed. Stop pretending it's all a dangerous mystery. (Frankly it's easy to see what's really bothering you.) Presumably you think having Sarah Palin a heartbeat away is better than Obama. I love watching you guys squirm, with nothing to shore up your prejudices but silly talk like "I need to know... It so scary... So absurd." Get real. Get well.
But McCain,whether unfamiliar with the rule or simply distracted, left his hands on the felt. A small, middle aged woman who was a casino regular reached over and touched McCains arm, apparently trying to make him aware of his gambling faux pas. But McCain wasnt having it. Dont touch me! he screamed. The woman tried to explain, but McCain cut her off. Do you know who I am? Again the woman tried to explain, and again, the red-faced McCain interrupted. Do you know who youre talking to?
If you want to promote republican issues thats absolutely fine and I would applaud if you gave substantive perspectives but these extreme right views trying to fearmonger people into voting your way is an undemocratic act.
The world isn't going to end in 2012, the illuminati isn't going to take over the world, the US isn't going to be sold to china and Elvis isn't coming back.
It turns out that none of Palins early claims to political courage were founded in fact,and further, some of the untested rumors about her vindictiveness in local quarrels,her bizarre religious and political affiliations—were very well-founded,indeed. Moreover,given the nasty and lowly task of stirring up the whack-job fringe of the party's right wing and of recycling falsehoods about Obama's position on Afghanistan,she has drawn upon the only talent that she apparently possesses.
Palin is a female version of Bush....So if you enjoyed Bush as our President then you will enjoy Palin as VP. Good role model for kids....Wake up man...wake up...its for the presidency and vice presidency....you guys had your fun with Bush for 8 years can't you let someone intelligent lead the country for once. If you don't like Obama then look at Biden. How is it not obvious what should happen this election.
I didn't realize that after someone went to Harvard and then spent time trying to help develop a crime and poverty ridden neighborhood that they'd go from collegiate to 'hood in their mannerisms
The latest-Today, Obama picked up nine key newspaper endorsements in swing states, earning the nod from,among others,the St. Louis Post-Dispatch,the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette,The Blade of Toledo,the Dayton Daily News,Asheville Citizen-Times in North Carolina, and the Wisconsin State Journal (which backed Bush in 2004) in Madison.The St.Louis daily called McCain,"the incredible shrinking man" who had made a horrific pick for his running mate. You get the Picture yet?? Incredible shrinking man!!!
COME JANUARY,a new president will take charge of a nation diminished,an America that is far shakier economically,less secure militarily, and less respected internationally. The nation needs an executive who has the temperament and the nerves to shepherd Americans through what promises to be a grueling period and who has the vision to restore this country to its place of leadership in the world.Such a leader is at hand. With great enthusiasm, the Globe endorses Senator Barack Obama for president.
Palin pummeled opponents for giving oil companies and other businesses too much control of state government. Yet she appointed the founder of an engineering firm that received $6.8 million in state business as head of the transportation department.
She has accepted dozens of gifts worth tens of thousands of dollars since taking office, including two free trips last year that she failed to report on disclosure forms, despite criticizing state legislators for the gifts they take. Palin is flamin.
Obama holds a more than 20-point edge when it comes to understanding voters'needs and problems, with 64 percent saying Obama does and 43 percent saying McCain does.
The Republican nominee does hold a clear advantage on being seen as prepared to be president, as he has throughout the campaign. That measure does not appear to be boosting his support,however,perhaps because while 64 percent say McCain is prepared for the job, more than half say Obama is as well.cbs news obama now has 14pt. lead
A charitable characterization of AIP might be "quirky down-home Alaska politics." However, the security processes that govern access to our defense and national security institutions might not look so kindly on Todd Palin's past political associations. Indeed, if Todd Palin were applying for a job in the US government or as a contractor that required access to sensitive classified information -- a security clearance -- he would very likely be ineligible. The investigation is just now beginning.
Your the one not getting it, this will help;Digging into the details the news is even worse for the Ariz.Republican.
Asked who"expressed his views more clearly" 66 percent said Obama,25 percent said McCain.
"Who spent their time attacking his opponent:"80 percent said McCain,seven percent said Obama."Who seemed to be the stronger leader:"56 percent for Obama,39 percent for McCain.And who was "more likeable:"70 percent for Obama to McCain's 22 percent.McCain;dead body with a puppet inside.
Mrtim is currently in hiding so we must all try to help him through this difficult period of readjustment with info like this type in to utube ; Conservatives Blame McCain As Obama Landslide Approaches-- gradually we'll pry open his eyes which are crusted shut with putrescence.
Teaching kindergartners sex ed? This is another blatant attempt of the lie spewing far Right. The bill in question (Obama supported) was to teach young children the difference between "good touch" and "bad touch" when interacting with adults. In other words, to protect our children from abuse.
What the CRAP do I care what Matt Damon thinks about freakin' anything! What is scary about this country is that there are millions of ignorant people who unfortuntely have the right to vote, who are too lazy to undertsnad the real issues and where the candidates stand on them....so instead, they ask actors and celebreties and famous athletes what they think. Yeah, wow, that's a great idea!
Matt...shut the hell up, and just do another damn Bourne movie!
But what's really exciting is that now Racists have a cool place to congregate and share saliva- The Palin McCain rallies are great places to meet and greet other like minded racists! I recommend them to anyone seeking the inside track to ignorant destruction.
This is good news - when Obama supporters are forced to resort to lies and pulling out the race card, then that's a good sign! Thanks "ambroulard", you've made my day!
Tohimwhatever- YOur pretty dim- ALL of the info below is vetted and true- If it weren't some rather major news sources would be faced with slander and defamation litigation- thus far there are no pending legal actions and this stuff has been out there for A LONG TIME- so you better put your reading glasses on and do some research--- of don't bother learning to read which would be more typically republican- and continue to LIE and Deny your way through life. Seen any dinosaurs lately?
mrtim29's big sick little world, In Clearwater,reporters were greeted with shouts and taunts by the crowd of about 3,000.Palin then went on to blame Katie Couric's questions for her"less than successful interview with mainstream media."Palin supporters turned on reporters in the press area, waving thunder sticks and shouting abuse.Others hurled obscenities at a camera crew.One Palin supporter shouted a racial epithet at an African American sound man for a network and told him, "Sit down, boy."
Imagine what Sarah Palin is going to do with this incendiary quote as she tears into Barack Obama this week.Only one problem.The quote is from Joe Vogler,the raging anti-American who founded the Alaska Independence Party.Inconveniently for Palin, that's the very same secessionist party that her husband, Todd, belonged to for seven years and that she sent a shout-out to as Alaska governor earlier this year.("Keep up the good work," Palin told AIP members."And God bless you.")poor bullwinkle!!!
Throughout Sen. John McCains presidential campaign,the Republican nominee has wrapped himself in the mantle of U.S. Army Gen.David H.Petraeus,proclaiming himself the leading advocate of the former commanding general. Yet during a talk Wednesday about Iraq at the Heritage Foundation,a conservative Washington policy organization,Petraeus repeatedly made statements that bolstered the foreign-policy proposals of Sen.Barack Obama,McCains Democratic rival, or cut against McCains own lines.hahaHA
mrtim29 has dropped off the map- he used to respond to my antagonisms I suspect he's running from bank to bank grabbing all his money and turning it into gold bars which he's burying under his house or something--
"Junior" McCain, reached the same rank, commanding America's forces in the Pacific during Vietnam.
The youngest McCain was not cut from the same cloth. Even as a toddler, McCain recalls in Faith of My Fathers, his volcanic temper was on display. "At the smallest provocation," he would hold his breath until he passed out: "I would go off in a mad frenzy, and then, suddenly, crash to the floor unconscious." His parents cured him of this habit in a way only a CIA interrogator could appreciate:
Barack Obama has so far opted to run a positive campaign based on hope and thoughtful solutions. It's our fervent desire that he continue to do so, because it's about time we turned our national attention to positive possibilities. Over the past eight years we've had enough fear-mongering to last a lifetime.
if you are that fucking stupid to not be at least somewhat scared about the fact that there is a chance that a hillbilly from alaska could be running the usa, then you are mrtim29
Well, tralfasian, I'll admit it... You are the most level headed left winger on here. I almost think there is hope for you yet. What do they say? When you're younger, you vote with your heart. When you're older, you vote with your brain. I'm just going to assume you're a young person (apparently going to college). So, best of luck to you... don't let the left wing professors brainwash you too much!!!
It would only be in my dreams that ALL older people start leaning right... but, alas, that is not what I insinuated. Nor did I say anywhere that ALL professors were left wingers. Most are... but not all.
When I was in college, I took a Native American Literature class. Every single day the professor would divide the class into Republicans and Democrats... and we'd only talk current politics and never about the subject matter. That is the kind of lame indoctrination I was exposed to...
mrtim!Palin now says people in small towns are more patriotic(less anti american)than people in larger cities-So I figured you could answer this-if you live in a small town then move to a big city do you right away lose your patriotism or doe's it somehow just slowly wear off?AND then if you were to move back to a small town doe's your patriotism grow back again??-real fast or just slowly? and what if you come from a big city and move to a small town-are you instantly Pro America like Sarah?
So what little fame he has rests on the fact that he was taken a prisoner of war by the Vietnamese-hardly a recommendation for the leadership of the"free world"- and thus aware of the meagerness of his own curriculum vitae,for his vice presidential choice he then turned radically,in the age of the awakening to the power of women,to an Alaskan politician;a giggly Piltdown princess out of pre-history. Palin evades direct questions and gives the distinct impression of knowing even less than G.W.B.
Sarah Palin will never be president because the right wing of the Republican Party has perfected the art of believing their own bullshit, starting with the idea that is-Africa-a-country-or-a-continent?-Palin has a future. Palin and her fans don't know it yet, but having reduced itself to a grim angry joke, the Republican Party has also divorced itself from American politics and, along with that dirty used Band-Aid, is destined for the garbage can.Looking forward to 24 years of Democaratic rule!
Again, the left wingers showing their class and sensitivity. Please, stay a Democrat and don't ever come to my party. Please be insensitive to mentally challenged peoples... then go vote for Obama. You're just the kind of voter he likes!
I don't believe there is any evidence about this dinosaurs nonsense Damon is spewing. Regardless, I would like to disagree with you on your point.
When a person is elected to the top exec job in the USA, they are essentially in charge of 3 major aspects that effect our daily life: law, budgeting our tax dollars & protecting us. I'd rather have someone in office that believes in the Yeti... rather than someone who is DISLOYAL and REJECTS the USA!!!
And you have full confidence in Sarah Palins ability to deliver the goods-!!! Ha ha Ha ha Ha!-- Keep in mind she's knee if not waste deep along with her husband in support of Alaska becoming a sovereign nation!!! Yeah you got a real patriot on your hands there mr. p.l.p. Your a total joke and hypocrite obviously who talks the talk (no matter what) but obviously can't walk the walk- because if you could you would totally reject her for her anti-American views.
Palin is the only "executive" on either ticket and has already held 2 of the 3 "executive" offices there is in America (mayor, governor, president).... And she is wildly popular in Alaska with over an 80% approval rating. Obama hovers around 45% as a freshman senator that just votes on legislation and budgets that "executives" actually have to implement and oversee.
Besides, America is not a country founded on socialism or communism... why would you want a socialist like Obama anyway?!
You conveniently sidestep the whole question of corporate welfare (socialism) as usual- why would I bother to answer your silly question (actually I already have but you missed it) when you are unable to address the aforementioned one? Don't bother quoting me figures about how much tax corporate America actually pays either because as we both know (or should) there are huge loop holes that allow them to get away with what you might call Murder,(figuratively and literally).
You can read in some of prior posts that I disagree with the bailout. It is socialism and I oppose it.
So, what's the issue you have? You're all over the map... and I have limited space to address every single question you make in your last posting, previous posting and posting before that!
Yes, Governor of an almost all White racist state with a huge alcohol problem- also you've sidestepped the question of her wish to secede from the union- obviously she doesn't like the U.S. govt. at all and now she's been afforded the opportunity to muddle from within! In Palin we've actually found someone even less qualified to head the nation than G.W.B. something none of us excepting perhaps you would have applauded or thought possible!!
Your a fool- who wouldn't be scared of the possibility of Palin as vp or pres?? The fact that she's even being considered for the post is a good indicator of how screwed up our system is. There are virtually no requirements other than citizenship for approaching the highest office of state.- Do we want someone who was trained as an electrician doing a delicate surgery on our brain-?- hell no but for president of the U.S. heck anyone will do-!- including a bullwinkle to nowhere.
news flash!! Mrtims favorite Palin gos down in flames!! More than any single factor,McCain's bad judgment in choosing the inarticulate, insular and ethically challenged Palin disqualifies him for the presidency." The Kansas City Star, in turn, described Palin as "unqualified.""Within weeks, she became a liability, primarily as a highly visible indicator of McCain's impulsiveness and recklessness in picking someone who is patently unqualified to serve as president and commander-in-chief.
The Bush Doctrine,of course,no longer exists. Within a year,it had run aground on the shoals of reality on its very first whistle stop in Iraq.More than six years later,looking back on the foreign policy that emerged from Bush's self-declared Global War on Terror,it's clear that no President has ever failed on his own terms on such a scale or quite so comprehensively.And Mclown/Paleface will happily continue this method of failing upward/downward? however you want to look at it ad nauseumfinitum
Palin is the only executive who looks like a rotting bullwinkle carcass after tonights debate is what I think you meant to say.- ( by the way fyi -your not doing your homework-your 80% approval rating in Alaska has dropped by- oh my gosh- 15-19% since Palin has been running for vp!!) and I'd be willing to bet that after tonights little mash up you can cut another 5 or so from that figure-
mrtim-McCain scored the zinger of the night with,"I'm not President Bush. If you wanted to run against him, you should have run four years ago."But his performance in the third debate was,in fact,incredibly Bush like,mirroring Bush's signature stubbornness- especially on Iraq by doubling down on a failed strategy.McCain's reliance on angry, negative, personal attacks on Obama including the pathetic Ayers smear and ACORN "destroying the fabric of democracy"has defined him as a singular ass wad.
John McCain claims not to have known of his wife's drug addiction, even at a time when she was supporting her habit by stealing drugs from a charity organization. If that's true--if he actually didn't know about his wife's addiction--he demonstrates a lack of awareness that is panoramic. How do you fail to notice that your partner is zonked out for months at a time?
John McCain has managed to keep his mental health records concealed, so it's not possible to know whether he is telling the truth about having no mental or emotional scars from his time behind bars. As always, though, his body-talk tells the real story. The array of body language we've commented on in other posts is a sad tale of poorly concealed anger and deeply hidden fear.
McClowns lousy record on funding vet.s bites him-The,non-partisan Veterans & Military Families for Progress has endorsed Obama.The group cited Obamas unwavering support for Americas military community:His support for full funding of the Vet.Admin.and his determination to provide for the establishment of a national veterans and military family policy give veterans and families hope- hope that finally a President will support veterans in a way that honors those who have served and sacrificed.
Also pay close attention to the many references in the bible to creatures-they are not just referred to as "beasts" there are:Tigers giraffe bears lizards lambs birds ants dogs deer fish flies bees ox goats sheep butterflies wolves fox elephant cats rats- and many more as well-but NOWHERE and I do mean nowhere do you find mentioned anything resembling a description of a dinosaur-(which I think would be a hard one not to notice!) So brilliant creationists- what is your explanation please?
yes there is evidence because shes a dumb creationist. And it is very important because creationist completely reject fact for blind and dumb faith, i would never want anyone to have high power in the US like that. what there is no evidence for is "someone who is DISLOYAL and REJECTS the USA!!!
Our freedom and protection is at stake!!!"
but you seem delusional and unintelligent so i don't know why i am wasting time with you.
Geez... I'm an atheist, and if "creationism" is what a person believes as part of their mainstream faith or religion, then who am I to judge? I guess that makes me more respectful and tolerant than you!
By the way, I think the point wasn't so much about Adam & Eve coming alive from the Earth's soil as much as it was about dinosaurs. And to that point, it remains only hearsay.
It's not a matter of judging- it's a matter of deciding whether or not you want someone who thinks they can hear the voice of god telling them what to do-and then actually doing it perhaps-,(like that woman who drowned all her children- she was guided by such a voice), possibly running the country. I'm not particularly anti anything but I definitely don't want someone who blathers on about Gods war (which she doe's) anywhere near the white house.-Gods War-don't you see how dangerous this is??
No i'm not respectful at all to someone who completely rejects scientific fact for fairy tales no one should respect stupidity. I don't have a problem with Christians i just have a major problem with creationist.
GIVE YOU LEFT WINGERS AN INCH, YOU TAKE A MILE. LET'S GET TWO OF YOUR MISLEADING FACTS STRAIGHT...
A. Palin does not reject scientific fact.
B. Palin doesn't believe God speaks to her.
The "God's War" comment you are referring to is Palin quoting Lincoln... I guess, since he said that, he shouldn't have been and wasn't a good president, right?
I saw Palin speak today... you better watch out because as she said, "The heels are on & the gloves are coming off!!!"
haha i wasn't talking about the qoute of her talking to god but that does prove my point my. she IS a creationist which BY DEFINITION means that she rejects science.
Soooo.... because you have faith and believe in something that is part of your religion, you reject ALL science?
You're an idiot.
I don't know what she does or does not believe until I hear her say it from her own mouth. What have you heard her say with her own mouth and not what Huffington has told you?
This is the story of the real John McCain, the one who has been hiding in plain sight. It is the story of a man who has consistently put his own advancement above all else, a man willing to say and do anything to achieve his ultimate ambition: to become commander in chief, ascending to the one position that would finally enable him to outrank his four-star father and grandfather.
In its broad strokes, McCain's life story is oddly similar to that of the current occupant of the White House.
John Sidney McCain III and George Walker Bush both represent the third generation of American dynasties. Both were born into positions of privilege against which they rebelled into mediocrity. Both developed an uncanny social intelligence that allowed them to skate by with a minimum of mental exertion. Both struggled with booze and loutish behavior. At each step, with the aid of their fathers' powerful friends, both failed upward. ( I love that, failed upward!!!)
And both shed their skins as Episcopalian members of the Washington elite to build political careers as self-styled, ranch-inhabiting Westerners who pray to Jesus in their wives' evangelical churches.
In one vital respect, however, the comparison is deeply unfair to the current president: George W. Bush was a much better pilot.
Advertisement
This, of course, is not the story McCain tells about himself. Few politicians have so actively, or successfully, crafted their own myth of greatness.
In Mc- Cain's version of his life, he is a prodigal son who, steeled by his brutal internment in Vietnam, learned to put "country first." Remade by the Keating Five scandal that nearly wrecked his career, the story goes, McCain re-emerged as a "reformer" and a "maverick," righteously eschewing anything that "might even tangentially be construed as a less than proper use of my office."
It's a myth McCain has cultivated throughout his decades in Washington.
But during the course of this year's campaign, the mask has slipped. "Let's face it," says Larry Wilkerson, a retired Army colonel who served as chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell. "John McCain made his reputation on the fact that he doesn't bend his principles for politics. That's just not true."
We have now watched McCain run twice for president.
as the Navy's chief liaison to the Senate, a job his son would later hold, and the McCain home on Southeast 1st Street was a high-powered pit stop in the Washington cocktail circuit. Growing up, McCain attended Episcopal High School, an all-white, all-boys boarding school across the Potomac in Virginia, where tuition today tops $40,000 a year. There, McCain behaved with all the petulance his privilege allowed, earning the nicknames "Punk" and "McNasty."
The first time he positioned himself as a principled centrist and decried the politics of Karl Rove and the influence of the religious right, imploring voters to judge candidates "by the example we set, by the way we conduct our campaigns, by the way we personally practice politics." After he lost in 2000, he jagged hard to the left — breaking with the president over taxes, drilling, judicial appointments, even flirting with joining the Democratic Party.
by dropping their blue-faced boy in a bathtub of ice-cold water.
Trailing his hard-charging, hard-drinking father from post to post, McCain didn't play well with others. Indeed, he concedes, his runty physique inspired a Napoleon complex: "My small stature motivated me to . . . fight the first kid who provoked me."
McCain spent his formative years among the Washington elite. His father — himself deep in the throes of a daddy complex — had secured a political post
Like most people in the US, here in the UK we too prefer a fair fight and right now the McCain/Palin rhetoric is so negative. In fact to many over here it smacks of desperation.
If McCain/Palin are like this when the chips are down in a domestic situation albeit an important one, god forbid what they would do in the face of a real crisis?
The latest-Today, Obama picked up nine key newspaper endorsements in swing states, earning the nod from,among others,the St. Louis Post-Dispatch,the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette,The Blade of Toledo,the Dayton Daily News,Asheville Citizen-Times in North Carolina, and the Wisconsin State Journal (which backed Bush in 2004) in Madison.The St.Louis daily called McCain,"the incredible shrinking man" who had made a horrific pick for his running mate. You get the Picture yet?? Incredible shrinking man!!!
i believe in creationism, but i don't reject science
i don't beleive the assumption that we came from monkey-like creatures and i don't believe in the big bang theory...i know a lot about the big bang theory and no one can't state why it even started so instead of jumping on the social bandwagon, i beleive that the Lord created the universe and earth and man and all that we know today. my faith lies in the Lord not what science can prove
Vogler was murdered in 1993 during an illegal sale of plastic explosives that went bad. The prior year, he had renounced his allegiance to the United States explaining that, "The fires of hell are frozen glaciers compared to my hatred for the American government." He cursed the stars and stripes, promising, "I won't be buried under their damned flag...when Alaska is an independent nation they can bring my bones home." Palin has never denounced Vogler or his detestable anti-Americanism.
In his current campaign, however, McCain has become the kind of politician he ran against in 2000. He has embraced those he once denounced as "agents of intolerance," promised more drilling and deeper tax cuts, even compromised his vaunted opposition to torture. Intent on winning the presidency at all costs, he has reassembled the very team that so viciously smeared him and his family eight years ago, selecting as his running mate a born-again moose hunter
whose only qualification for office is her ability to electrify Rove's base. And he has engaged in a "practice of politics" so deceptive that even Rove himself has denounced it, saying that the outright lies in McCain's campaign ads go "too far" and fail the "truth test."
The missing piece of this puzzle, says a former McCain confidant who has fallen out with the senator over his neoconservatism, is a third, never realized,
campaign that McCain intended to run against Bush in 2004. "McCain wanted a rematch, based on ethics, campaign finance and Enron — the corrupt relationship between Bush's team and the corporate sector," says the former friend, a prominent conservative thinker with whom McCain shared his plans over the course of several dinners in 2001. "But when 9/11 happened, McCain saw his chance to challenge Bush again was robbed. He saw 9/11 gave Bush and his failed presidency a second life.
"But when 9/11 happened, McCain saw his chance to challenge Bush again was robbed. He saw 9/11 gave Bush and his failed presidency a second life. He saw Bush and Cheney's ability to draw stark contrasts between black and white, villains and good guys. And that's why McCain changed." (The McCain campaign did not respond to numerous requests for comment from Rolling Stone.)
Indeed, many leading Republicans who once admired McCain see his recent contortions to appease the GOP base as the undoing
of a maverick. "John McCain's ambition overrode his basic character," says Rita Hauser, who served on the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board from 2001 to 2004. But the truth of the matter is that ambition is John McCain's basic character. Seen in the sweep of his seven-decade personal history, his pandering to the right is consistent with the only constant in his life: doing what's best for himself. To put the matter squarely: John McCain is his own special interest.
a pact with the devil," says Lincoln Chafee, the former GOP senator, who has been appalled at his one-time colleague's readiness to sacrifice principle for power. Chafee and McCain were the only Republicans to vote against the Bush tax cuts. They locked arms in opposition to drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. And they worked together in the "Gang of 14," which blocked some of Bush's worst judges from the federal bench.
sadly, sadly, sadly — McCain has flip-flopped," Chafee says. And forget all the "Country First" sloganeering, he adds. "McCain is putting himself first. He's putting himself first in blinking neon lights."
THE NAVY BRAT
John Sidney McCain III has spent most of his life trying to escape the shadow of greater men. His grandfather Adm. John Sidney "Slew" McCain earned his four stars commanding a U.S. carrier force in World War II. His deeply ambitious father, Adm.
Even his friends seemed to dislike him, with one recalling him as "a mean little fucker."
McCain was not only a lousy student, he had his father's taste for drink and a darkly misogynistic streak. The summer after his sophomore year, cruising with a friend near Arlington, McCain tried to pick up a pair of young women. When they laughed at him, he cursed them so vilely that he was hauled into court on a profanity charge.
McCain's admittance to Annapolis was preordained by his bloodline. But martial discipline did not seem to have much of an impact on his character. By his own account, McCain was a lazy, incurious student; he squeaked by only by prevailing upon his buddies to help him cram for exams. He continued to get sauced and treat girls badly. Before meeting a girlfriend's parents for the first time, McCain got so shitfaced that he literally crashed through the screen door
when he showed up in his white midshipman's uniform.
His grandfather's name and his father's forbearance brought McCain a charmed existence at Annapolis. On his first trip at sea — to Rio de Janeiro aboard the USS Hunt — the captain was a former student of his father. While McCain's classmates learned the ins and outs of the boiler room, McCain got to pilot the ship to South America and back. In Rio, he hobnobbed with admirals and the president of Brazil.
Back on campus, McCain's short fuse was legend. "We'd hear this thunderous screaming and yelling between him and his roommate — doors slamming — and one of them would go running down the hall," recalls Phil Butler, who lived across the hall from McCain at the academy. "It was a regular occurrence."
When McCain was not shown the pampering to which he was accustomed, he grew petulant — even abusive. He repeatedly blew up in the face of his commanding officer.
It was the kind of insubordination that would have gotten any other midshipman kicked out of Annapolis. But his classmates soon realized that McCain was untouchable. Midway though his final year, McCain faced expulsion, about to "bilge out" because of excessive demerits. After his mother intervened, however, the academy's commandant stepped in. Calling McCain "spoiled" to his face, he nonetheless issued a reprieve, scaling back the demerits.
McCain dodged expulsion a second time by convincing another midshipman to take the fall after McCain was caught with contraband.
Advertisement
"He was a huge screw-off," recalls Butler. "He was always on probation. The only reason he graduated was because of his father and his grandfather — they couldn't exactly get rid of him."
McCain's self-described "four-year course of insubordination" ended with him graduating fifth from the bottom
894th out of a class of 899. It was a record of mediocrity he would continue as a pilot.
BOTTOM GUN
In the cockpit, McCain was not a top gun, or even a middling gun. He took little interest in his flight manuals; he had other priorities.
"I enjoyed the off-duty life of a Navy flier more than I enjoyed the actual flying," McCain writes. "I drove a Corvette, dated a lot, spent all my free hours at bars and beach parties."
McCain chased a lot of tail. He hit the dog track. Developed a taste for poker and dice. He picked up models when he could, screwed a stripper when he couldn't.
In the air, the hard-partying McCain had a knack for stalling out his planes in midflight. He was still in training, in Texas, when he crashed his first plane into Corpus Christi Bay during a routine practice landing. The plane stalled, and McCain was knocked cold on impact.
When he came to, the plane was underwater, and he had to swim to the surface to be rescued. Some might take such a near-death experience as a wake-up call: McCain took some painkillers and a nap, and then went out carousing that night.
Off duty on his Mediterranean tours, McCain frequented the casinos of Monte Carlo, cultivating his taste for what he calls the "addictive" game of craps. McCain's thrill-seeking carried over into his day job.
Flying over the south of Spain one day, he decided to deviate from his flight plan. Rocketing along mere feet above the ground, his plane sliced through a power line. His self-described "daredevil clowning" plunged much of the area into a blackout.
That should have been the end of McCain's flying career. "In the Navy, if you crashed one airplane, nine times out of 10 you would lose your wings," says Butler, who, like his former classmate, was shot down and taken prisoner
in North Vietnam. Spark "a small international incident" like McCain had? Any other pilot would have "found themselves as the deck officer on a destroyer someplace in a hurry," says Butler.
"But, God, he had family pull. He was directly related to the CEO — you know?"
McCain was undeterred by the crashes. Nearly a decade out of the academy, his career adrift, he decided he wanted to fly combat in Vietnam.
His motivation wasn't to contain communism or put his country first. It was the only way he could think of to earn the respect of the man he calls his "distant, inscrutable patriarch." He needed to secure a command post in the Navy — and to do that, his career needed the jump-start that only a creditable war record could provide.
As he would so many times in his career, McCain pulled strings to get ahead. After a game of tennis,
McCain prevailed upon the undersecretary of the Navy that he was ready for Vietnam, despite his abysmal flight record. Sure enough, McCain was soon transferred to McCain Field — an air base in Meridian, Mississippi, named after his grandfather — to train for a post on the carrier USS Forrestal.
With a close friend at the base, an alcoholic Marine captain, McCain formed the "Key Fess Yacht Club," which quickly became infamous for hosting toga parties in the officers'
quarters and bringing bands down from Memphis to attract loose women to the base. Showing his usual knack for promotion, McCain rose from "vice commodore" to "commodore" of the club.
In 1964, while still at the base, McCain began a serious romance with Carol Shepp, a vivacious former model who had just divorced one of his classmates from Annapolis. Commandeering a Navy plane, McCain spent most weekends flying from Meridian to Philadelphia for their dates. They married the following summer.
That December, McCain crashed again. Flying back from Philadelphia, where he had joined in the reverie of the Army-Navy football game, McCain stalled while coming in for a refueling stop in Norfolk, Virginia. This time he managed to bail out at 1,000 feet. As his parachute deployed, his plane thundered into the trees below.
By now, however, McCain's flying privileges were virtually irrevocable — and he knew it. On one of his runs at McCain Field,
when ground control put him in a holding pattern, the lieutenant commander once again pulled his family's rank. "Let me land," McCain demanded over his radio, "or I'll take my field and go home!"
TRIAL BY FIRE
Sometimes 3 a.m. moments occur at 10:52 in the morning.
It was July 29th, 1967, a hot, gusty morning in the Gulf of Tonkin atop the four-acre flight deck of the supercarrier USS Forrestal. Perched in the cockpit of his A-4 Skyhawk, Lt. Cmdr. John McCain ticked
Now 30 years old, McCain was trying to live up to his father's expectations, to finally be known as something other than the fuck-up grandson of one of the Navy's greatest admirals. That morning, preparing for his sixth bombing run over North Vietnam, the graying pilot's dreams of combat glory were beginning to seem within his reach.
McCain was stung by tiny bits of shrapnel in his legs and chest, but the wounds weren't serious; his father would later report to friends that Johnny "came through without a scratch."The damage to the Forrestal was far more grievous: The explosion set off a chain reaction of bombs, creating a devastating inferno that would kill 134 of the carrier's 5,000-man crew, injure 161 and threaten to sink the ship.
These are the moments that test men's mettle. Where leaders are born. Leaders like . . . Lt. Cmdr. Herb Hope, pilot of the A-4 three planes down from McCain's. Cornered by flames at the stern of the carrier, Hope hurled himself off the flight deck into a safety net and clambered into the hangar deck below, where the fire was spreading. According to an official Navy history of the fire, Hope then "gallantly took command of a firefighting team"
that would help contain the conflagration and ultimately save the ship.
McCain displayed little of Hope's valor. Although he would soon regale The New York Times with tales of the heroism of the brave enlisted men who "stayed to help the pilots fight the fire," McCain took no part in dousing the flames himself. After going belowdecks and briefly helping sailors who were frantically trying to unload bombs from an elevator to the flight deck, McCain retreated to the safety of the
"ready room," where off-duty pilots spent their noncombat hours talking trash and playing poker. There, McCain watched the conflagration unfold on the room's closed-circuit television — bearing distant witness to the valiant self-sacrifice of others who died trying to save the ship, pushing jets into the sea to keep their bombs from exploding on deck.
As the ship burned, McCain took a moment to mourn his misfortune; his combat career appeared to be going up in smoke
"This distressed me considerably," he recalls in Faith of My Fathers. "I feared my ambitions were among the casualties in the calamity that had claimed the Forrestal."
The fire blazed late into the night. The following morning, while oxygen-masked rescue workers toiled to recover bodies from the lower decks, McCain was making fast friends with R.W. "Johnny" Apple of The New York Times, who had arrived by helicopter to cover the deadliest Naval calamity
since the Second World War. The son of admiralty surviving a near-death experience certainly made for good copy, and McCain colorfully recounted how he had saved his skin. But when Apple and other reporters left the ship, the story took an even stranger turn: McCain left with them. As the heroic crew of the Forrestal mourned its fallen brothers and the broken ship limped toward the Philippines for repairs, McCain zipped off to Saigon for what he recalls as "some welcome R&R."
Sipping scotch and reflecting on the fire aboard the Forrestal, McCain sounded like the peaceniks he would pillory after his return from Hanoi. "Now that I've seen what the bombs and napalm did to the people on our ship," he told Apple, "I'm not so sure that I want to drop any more of that stuff on North Vietnam." Here, it seemed, was a frank-talking warrior, one willing to speak out against the military establishment in the name of truth.
But McCain's misgivings about the righteousness of the fight quickly took a back seat to his ambitions. Within days, eager to get his combat career back on track, he put in for a transfer to the carrier USS Oriskany. Two months after the Forrestal fire — following a holiday on the French Riviera — McCain reported for duty in the Gulf of Tonkin.
McCain performed adequately on the Oriskany. On October 25th, 1967, he bombed a pair of Soviet MiGs
parked on an airfield outside Hanoi. His record was now even. Enemy planes destroyed by McCain: two. American planes destroyed by McCain: two.
The next day, McCain embarked on his fateful 23rd mission, a bombing raid on a power plant in downtown Hanoi. McCain had cajoled his way onto the strike force — there were medals up for grabs. The plant had recently been rebuilt after a previous bombing run that had earned two of the lead pilots Navy Crosses, one of the force's top honors.
It was a dangerous mission — taking the planes into the teeth of North Vietnam's fiercest anti-aircraft defenses. As the planes entered Hanoi airspace, they were instantly enveloped in dark clouds of flak and surface-to-air missiles. Still cocky from the previous day's kills, McCain took the biggest gamble of his life. As he dived in on the target in his A-4, his surface-to-air missile warning system sounded: A SAM had a lock on him.
McCain, who knew more than most pilots about bailing out of a crippled aircraft, leapt forward out of the cockpit, swung himself down from the refueling probe protruding from the nose cone, rolled through the flames and ran to safety across the flight deck. Just then, one of his bombs "cooked off," blowing a crater in the deck and incinerating the sailors who had rushed past McCain with hoses and fire extinguishers.
In congress, Rep. John McCain quickly positioned himself as a GOP hard-liner. He voted against honoring Martin Luther King Jr. with a national holiday in 1983 — a stance he held through 1989. He backed Reagan on tax cuts for the wealthy, abortion and support for the Nicaraguan contras. He sought to slash federal spending on social programs, and he voted twice against campaign-finance reform. This is what we call Maverickism I guess??
Moron... watch Matt Damon's original video... that is EXACTLY what I was spoofing. Damon was the one that sounded like an idiot... and I made of that. And you are big moron for not knowing any better.
mrtim29 5 days ago
You sound like an idiot. "Ahh", "you know", "its like" "you know", "and it's like" "you know" "its its absurd" "crazy" "you know"
bob1981evans 5 days ago in playlist Uploaded videos
cool vid...I would question obama waaaayyy before I ever questioned palin
PornStar650Biker2012 1 year ago
Pretty good, but that other kid was a lot better. "It's like a really bad ... Matt Damon movie."
dandvc 1 year ago
I don't care what Damon said. Palin is a fuckin' moron. The things she said was so retarded, the thought that she COULD be president scared everyone into voting for Obama.
Gunnman941 2 years ago
Look people, you are both wrong. Racism is wrong, making one of you wrong. And this video is not racist as it is a parody, making the other one of you wrong. On the other hand, one of you is right... Obama's policies are DESTROYING America before our eyes, yet so many are blinded by the glint of his celebrity. Sooner or late, all the glitters is not gold and when people finally realize this, they will all be standing around looking at each other wonder, "What they hell just happened?"
mrtim29 2 years ago
Thank God you understand Obama. This video is near perfect haha matt IS an idiot
1070014 2 years ago
haha. that was funny. brilliant.
Lovechild1801 3 years ago
Matt Damon sucks meat whistles.
It's like a really bad XXX-rated Disney Movie!
singintomybutt 3 years ago
The actuarial tables state Matt Damon is a tool
philblunt420 3 years ago 5
what a pathetic individual. I hope someone sees this video hopefully recognize you and blow your fucken head off. I hope, maybe then you might learn how to stereotypically talk like a black guy. thank god our country is not full of inbreeds like you.
mike7743 3 years ago
Spoken like a true uneducated, hate filled, entitlement thug.
Do yourself a favor, go to school, work hard and do something with your life besides acting like a complete idiot.
keltontrey 2 years ago
yeah, someone with a heart full of hate stereotyping an entire group of people is fine with you... no surprise there. luckily, no one really cares about these type of guys anymore (America is changing, for the better, also many Americans are decent hard working folk who care less about the next person's background) I'm sure that's eating losers like you and the video starter alive. you're better start a rampage and go on a killing spree, it might help to get that hate out of your heart, heh.
mike7743 2 years ago
"America is changing for the better" LOL, I've never seen such an uneducated response, given the fact that this administration has QUADRUPLED!! the national deficit to around 12 trillion dollars in LESS THAN 6 MONTHS. Not to mention that our country already is facing 75 trillion in unfunded liabilities. Maybe you should study economics and find out what happens to countries that inflate their currency like we have. I know it's facts, and thats hard for you to understand so do you best.
keltontrey 2 years ago
oh really? let's see, the previous administration turned a surplus into a huge deficit and you want to blame the new administration for trying to fix it? lol..nice talking points straight from the Fox table . hey, tell Sean Hannity I said hi, and also ask him what to say since you have no idea what you're talking about.
mike7743 2 years ago
Let me help you with some math, since you obviously are having a hard time. 2 trillion of debt in bush administration vs 12 trillion in the Obama administration? I see so in order to fix our problem we should go into more debt? Is that the way you run you finances? So if 2 trillion was bad then 12 trillion is awesome? Do us all a favor, don't have any children. We have enough ignorant people in this country.
keltontrey 2 years ago
No you're right our country is full of dumbass NIGGERS on welfare like YOU!! At least inbreeds CAUCASIANS are actually useful. Oh and quit crying about slavery their hasn't been a slave in 200 years you dumb fuck.
MIXMASTAPWN 2 years ago
really? oh wow. you called me a "nigger" is that supposed to upset me? should I go and kill myself? lol. tough guy on the internet, ay? I bet your happy right now. just so you know, since you don't seem to be a bright person, contrary to popular belief "whites" are the ones that make up the largest recipient of welfare. (look it up) but of course facts have no places here. do me a favor, next time you want to insult a "minority" try to be more vile. nigger? c'mon dude, that's just laughable
mike7743 2 years ago
listen here jigaboo. their may be more whites on welfare but that's not including children. Majority of black women don't even know who their "babies daddy" is. Minority? you people need to grow the fuck up and quit finding things to whine about. " if you don't like obama you're a racist" " my great great grandfathers were slaves" get over it shit its the 21st centurty get off your ass get a job
MIXMASTAPWN 2 years ago
for someone who is "superior" you sure know how to spell, dumb fuck. maybe it's the mixed up DNA from your mother and father being related resulted in such level of dumbness. get off your ass and get a job? what does that even mean? do you even know what you're typing, or as usual just typing out of your ass? I'm not going to waste my time over this nonsense with a dumb fuck like you, who by the way would smile and offer me a drink in real life. lol @ this. I bet you gave yourself a hifive too.
mike7743 2 years ago
haha did misspell something? like you could tell... haha my parents are from europe so if you're trying to relate me to a "redneck" think again... know whats funny im 19 and my income is probably equal and if not higher than yours :) you're right don't waste your time over this argument you should be out looking for a job. happy job hunting looser
MIXMASTAPWN 2 years ago
it's loser not "looser". damn, do I have to teach you how to write too? you really are dumber than I initially thought. now go do some more reading and come back with a better insult.
mike7743 2 years ago
yeah looser its supposed to sound exaggerated, but you wouldn't know that. i love how you try and take what i say and turn it around on me typical dumbass... maybe i will do some reading in the mean time you should try to get off welfare, get a job, quit trading in food stamps for drugs, and stop buying purple soda its gonna rust out those grills you bought (with my money). your typing is a little slow maybe cause you scratching at your ashy ass all the time. do me a favor next get some lotion
MIXMASTAPWN 2 years ago
Excellent!
kfkrobok 3 years ago 3
The only thing "terrifying" and "crazy," is that people like you actually proudly take the time to prove to the world what a low intelligence quotient you have.
jasonbkohler 3 years ago
It was certainly an interesting campaign, to say the least. I just hope we can put all this divisiveness behind us and move forward as a country. I guess we'll find out in January. *e-handshake mrtim*
tralfasian 3 years ago
this video was stupid and stereotypical...sad.
sepenn2 3 years ago
good job
BrulesRules001 3 years ago
John McCain on a few occasions has shown that he can go against his party, but how hard is that when his party has been wrong on so many things as we now see," she continued. "But he has a brand. And Palin, I'm not sure she even knows the history of the word of or my family, but one thing is clear to all of my family, she truly is not a Maverick." (This from the Maverick family who definitely ARE NOT supporting McClown.
ambroulard 3 years ago
um obama has the most liberal voting record in the entire senate. McCain is almost dead shit in the middle. McCain disagrees with bush on: Iraq from day one (look up his voting history), Global warming, Tax plans, and just about every other dumb ass things the republicans had tried. but i doubt your even a tink bit open minded so you can discard my comment.
BrulesRules001 3 years ago 2
McCain has waffled on just about every issue- he supports this and then since he's been running for pres. he's completely flip flopped on MANY of the major issues to appease the right edge of the base- outside of that he had the very BAD judgment to choose Palin as his running mate-extremely bad judgment and that's not just my opinion as you may have noticed-Obama on the other hand has stayed pretty much on course with his original views and ideas--and beyond that McCain is way too fuckin old!
ambroulard 3 years ago
McCain: Experienced, but erratic.
Palin. A mayor of a town of 9000 in Alaska, and then Governor of a state with only 650,000 or so people. went to 5 community colleges and finally finished at uni after a very long period of time.
Obama: Attended Harvard. Became the first black president of the Harvard law review. Was a lawyer on constitutional law for 12 years. Served on many chicago area community planning boards. Senator for 7 years. Passed and co-sponsered 131 bills in congress.
chrn368 3 years ago
Obama said he visited "57 States", said his health plan would cover athsmatic children in hospitals who need a "breathalyzer". He announced Joe Biden as "the next president of the United States", and then called the state of Massachussetts "massa-TOO-sets".
I guess that makes him a genius.
Obama: Community organizer, member of a racist church for 20 years, and active senator for 193 days who voted "present" on nearly everthing.
Palin: CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER of a STATE for over 2 years.
kfkrobok 3 years ago 2
Whether or not you like Obama, you can not deny that Palin is the biggest joke the Republican Party has ever put forth. McCain wasn't bad, although I didn't agree with his policies on many fronts, and didn't like his demeanor in general, but I don't think he would have made an awful president. But Palin is a crock and should lose her position as governor of Alaska just for revealing how unintelligent she truly is. Don't try to deny it. She's plain dumb.
tralfasian 3 years ago
lol yes this video was great thank you for making me laugh you hit dammon right in his dumbfucking head
islamISdisgusting 3 years ago
Mr. McCain seems to be in the terminal throes of a self-love that causes him to regard himself as a great American hero. From time to time,he likes to shout at us,"I have fought in many,wars,"and,"I have won many of them,"but he has,so far,never told us which ones he has actually won, since every war that he has graced with his samurai presence seems to have been thoroughly lost by the United States. Consistency is all-important to the born loser as well as to the committed liar.
ambroulard 3 years ago
Well im glad to see you responded to my comment, furthermore its not an outright lie but dont feel bad many democrats were kkk as well. if you'd like the easy research to find this out you can take the easy road and watch the history of the kkk on the history channel... pretty accurate. however correction they were never worried about the black vote because in 1868 dummy we didn't even have civil rights let known the right to vote......OBAMA 08 GET USE TO CREAM PUFF...LOL
iceboxx74 3 years ago
You are a joke! You keep saying "I need to know" this and that. Well, get off your duff and do some research. Every issue you named is well discussed. Stop pretending it's all a dangerous mystery. (Frankly it's easy to see what's really bothering you.) Presumably you think having Sarah Palin a heartbeat away is better than Obama. I love watching you guys squirm, with nothing to shore up your prejudices but silly talk like "I need to know... It so scary... So absurd." Get real. Get well.
ApplyUrBrain 3 years ago
I still beleive the lesser of 2 evils to vote for next month is John McCain.
applesalamanderpie 3 years ago
Barack is a Terrorist!!!
applesalamanderpie 3 years ago
But McCain,whether unfamiliar with the rule or simply distracted, left his hands on the felt. A small, middle aged woman who was a casino regular reached over and touched McCains arm, apparently trying to make him aware of his gambling faux pas. But McCain wasnt having it. Dont touch me! he screamed. The woman tried to explain, but McCain cut her off. Do you know who I am? Again the woman tried to explain, and again, the red-faced McCain interrupted. Do you know who youre talking to?
ambroulard 3 years ago
"Barack is a Terrorist!!! "
Applesalamanderpie is a terrorist!!!
Just because you type it doesn't make it true.
If you want to promote republican issues thats absolutely fine and I would applaud if you gave substantive perspectives but these extreme right views trying to fearmonger people into voting your way is an undemocratic act.
The world isn't going to end in 2012, the illuminati isn't going to take over the world, the US isn't going to be sold to china and Elvis isn't coming back.
mtb2004uk 3 years ago
It turns out that none of Palins early claims to political courage were founded in fact,and further, some of the untested rumors about her vindictiveness in local quarrels,her bizarre religious and political affiliations—were very well-founded,indeed. Moreover,given the nasty and lowly task of stirring up the whack-job fringe of the party's right wing and of recycling falsehoods about Obama's position on Afghanistan,she has drawn upon the only talent that she apparently possesses.
ambroulard 3 years ago
Roman Empire fell, every empire falls. When Roman Empire fell, most people in empire does not even speak the official language(s).
americaninjustice 3 years ago
Great video!!!!!!!
avtomat12345 3 years ago
Palin is a female version of Bush....So if you enjoyed Bush as our President then you will enjoy Palin as VP. Good role model for kids....Wake up man...wake up...its for the presidency and vice presidency....you guys had your fun with Bush for 8 years can't you let someone intelligent lead the country for once. If you don't like Obama then look at Biden. How is it not obvious what should happen this election.
zachnims 3 years ago
This is the dumbest video I have ever scene I feel sorry for your ignorance and anyone else that supports it.
zachnims 3 years ago
I didn't realize that after someone went to Harvard and then spent time trying to help develop a crime and poverty ridden neighborhood that they'd go from collegiate to 'hood in their mannerisms
casenozero 3 years ago
nice video. but these ignorant obama supporters are stil not getting it :(
jesherka 3 years ago
The latest-Today, Obama picked up nine key newspaper endorsements in swing states, earning the nod from,among others,the St. Louis Post-Dispatch,the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette,The Blade of Toledo,the Dayton Daily News,Asheville Citizen-Times in North Carolina, and the Wisconsin State Journal (which backed Bush in 2004) in Madison.The St.Louis daily called McCain,"the incredible shrinking man" who had made a horrific pick for his running mate. You get the Picture yet?? Incredible shrinking man!!!
ambroulard 3 years ago
COME JANUARY,a new president will take charge of a nation diminished,an America that is far shakier economically,less secure militarily, and less respected internationally. The nation needs an executive who has the temperament and the nerves to shepherd Americans through what promises to be a grueling period and who has the vision to restore this country to its place of leadership in the world.Such a leader is at hand. With great enthusiasm, the Globe endorses Senator Barack Obama for president.
ambroulard 3 years ago
Palin pummeled opponents for giving oil companies and other businesses too much control of state government. Yet she appointed the founder of an engineering firm that received $6.8 million in state business as head of the transportation department.
She has accepted dozens of gifts worth tens of thousands of dollars since taking office, including two free trips last year that she failed to report on disclosure forms, despite criticizing state legislators for the gifts they take. Palin is flamin.
ambroulard 3 years ago
Obama holds a more than 20-point edge when it comes to understanding voters'needs and problems, with 64 percent saying Obama does and 43 percent saying McCain does.
The Republican nominee does hold a clear advantage on being seen as prepared to be president, as he has throughout the campaign. That measure does not appear to be boosting his support,however,perhaps because while 64 percent say McCain is prepared for the job, more than half say Obama is as well.cbs news obama now has 14pt. lead
ambroulard 3 years ago
A charitable characterization of AIP might be "quirky down-home Alaska politics." However, the security processes that govern access to our defense and national security institutions might not look so kindly on Todd Palin's past political associations. Indeed, if Todd Palin were applying for a job in the US government or as a contractor that required access to sensitive classified information -- a security clearance -- he would very likely be ineligible. The investigation is just now beginning.
ambroulard 3 years ago
Your the one not getting it, this will help;Digging into the details the news is even worse for the Ariz.Republican.
Asked who"expressed his views more clearly" 66 percent said Obama,25 percent said McCain.
"Who spent their time attacking his opponent:"80 percent said McCain,seven percent said Obama."Who seemed to be the stronger leader:"56 percent for Obama,39 percent for McCain.And who was "more likeable:"70 percent for Obama to McCain's 22 percent.McCain;dead body with a puppet inside.
ambroulard 3 years ago
Mrtim is currently in hiding so we must all try to help him through this difficult period of readjustment with info like this type in to utube ; Conservatives Blame McCain As Obama Landslide Approaches-- gradually we'll pry open his eyes which are crusted shut with putrescence.
ambroulard 3 years ago
Teaching kindergartners sex ed? This is another blatant attempt of the lie spewing far Right. The bill in question (Obama supported) was to teach young children the difference between "good touch" and "bad touch" when interacting with adults. In other words, to protect our children from abuse.
yillbrillem 3 years ago
cocksucking cunt, go fuck yourself
castlesxx 3 years ago
What the CRAP do I care what Matt Damon thinks about freakin' anything! What is scary about this country is that there are millions of ignorant people who unfortuntely have the right to vote, who are too lazy to undertsnad the real issues and where the candidates stand on them....so instead, they ask actors and celebreties and famous athletes what they think. Yeah, wow, that's a great idea!
Matt...shut the hell up, and just do another damn Bourne movie!
ToHimBeAllGlory 3 years ago
But what's really exciting is that now Racists have a cool place to congregate and share saliva- The Palin McCain rallies are great places to meet and greet other like minded racists! I recommend them to anyone seeking the inside track to ignorant destruction.
ambroulard 3 years ago
are you serious? you are that ignorant and moronic to call Mccain Palin supporters racist? you are an idiot.
jesherka 3 years ago
This is good news - when Obama supporters are forced to resort to lies and pulling out the race card, then that's a good sign! Thanks "ambroulard", you've made my day!
ToHimBeAllGlory 3 years ago
Tohimwhatever- YOur pretty dim- ALL of the info below is vetted and true- If it weren't some rather major news sources would be faced with slander and defamation litigation- thus far there are no pending legal actions and this stuff has been out there for A LONG TIME- so you better put your reading glasses on and do some research--- of don't bother learning to read which would be more typically republican- and continue to LIE and Deny your way through life. Seen any dinosaurs lately?
ambroulard 3 years ago
Good parody!....Hollywood tools!
kayakerkim 3 years ago 2
Terrible... I hope you're embarrassed.
Twinklestar137 3 years ago
It's obama time!
nuage7777 3 years ago
mrtim29's big sick little world, In Clearwater,reporters were greeted with shouts and taunts by the crowd of about 3,000.Palin then went on to blame Katie Couric's questions for her"less than successful interview with mainstream media."Palin supporters turned on reporters in the press area, waving thunder sticks and shouting abuse.Others hurled obscenities at a camera crew.One Palin supporter shouted a racial epithet at an African American sound man for a network and told him, "Sit down, boy."
ambroulard 3 years ago
McCain linked to group in Iran-Contra affair. Ha ha Ha ha Ha ha Ha ha Ha ha Ha ha Ha.
ambroulard 3 years ago
Imagine what Sarah Palin is going to do with this incendiary quote as she tears into Barack Obama this week.Only one problem.The quote is from Joe Vogler,the raging anti-American who founded the Alaska Independence Party.Inconveniently for Palin, that's the very same secessionist party that her husband, Todd, belonged to for seven years and that she sent a shout-out to as Alaska governor earlier this year.("Keep up the good work," Palin told AIP members."And God bless you.")poor bullwinkle!!!
ambroulard 3 years ago
McCain/Palin...A horrible mistake that has to be avoided! Obama to the rescue!
nuage7777 3 years ago
Throughout Sen. John McCains presidential campaign,the Republican nominee has wrapped himself in the mantle of U.S. Army Gen.David H.Petraeus,proclaiming himself the leading advocate of the former commanding general. Yet during a talk Wednesday about Iraq at the Heritage Foundation,a conservative Washington policy organization,Petraeus repeatedly made statements that bolstered the foreign-policy proposals of Sen.Barack Obama,McCains Democratic rival, or cut against McCains own lines.hahaHA
ambroulard 3 years ago
No suprise there! The republicans are fucked! Excuse my language but really...it is what it is!
nuage7777 3 years ago
mrtim29 has dropped off the map- he used to respond to my antagonisms I suspect he's running from bank to bank grabbing all his money and turning it into gold bars which he's burying under his house or something--
ambroulard 3 years ago
For sure!
nuage7777 3 years ago
"Junior" McCain, reached the same rank, commanding America's forces in the Pacific during Vietnam.
The youngest McCain was not cut from the same cloth. Even as a toddler, McCain recalls in Faith of My Fathers, his volcanic temper was on display. "At the smallest provocation," he would hold his breath until he passed out: "I would go off in a mad frenzy, and then, suddenly, crash to the floor unconscious." His parents cured him of this habit in a way only a CIA interrogator could appreciate:
ambroulard 3 years ago
Those are his own words so what are you griping about???!!
ambroulard 3 years ago
Barack Obama has so far opted to run a positive campaign based on hope and thoughtful solutions. It's our fervent desire that he continue to do so, because it's about time we turned our national attention to positive possibilities. Over the past eight years we've had enough fear-mongering to last a lifetime.
ambroulard 3 years ago
yawn....
kamahuha 3 years ago
nice video dumbass
if you are that fucking stupid to not be at least somewhat scared about the fact that there is a chance that a hillbilly from alaska could be running the usa, then you are mrtim29
dummy
johhny3rubs 3 years ago
lol
sassa12489 3 years ago 3
great video! funny but true! Palin scores again tonight...
pmd202020 3 years ago
do you really think you're creative by switching one name in with another to burn somebody? OOOOOOH, BURN, OBAMA!
gildeleonn 3 years ago
Well, tralfasian, I'll admit it... You are the most level headed left winger on here. I almost think there is hope for you yet. What do they say? When you're younger, you vote with your heart. When you're older, you vote with your brain. I'm just going to assume you're a young person (apparently going to college). So, best of luck to you... don't let the left wing professors brainwash you too much!!!
I'll be expecting to hear from you November!!!
mrtim29 3 years ago
Oh, are you talking about the very intelligent left wing professors? The ones who aren't young?
theWeston 3 years ago
It would only be in my dreams that ALL older people start leaning right... but, alas, that is not what I insinuated. Nor did I say anywhere that ALL professors were left wingers. Most are... but not all.
When I was in college, I took a Native American Literature class. Every single day the professor would divide the class into Republicans and Democrats... and we'd only talk current politics and never about the subject matter. That is the kind of lame indoctrination I was exposed to...
mrtim29 3 years ago
mrtim!Palin now says people in small towns are more patriotic(less anti american)than people in larger cities-So I figured you could answer this-if you live in a small town then move to a big city do you right away lose your patriotism or doe's it somehow just slowly wear off?AND then if you were to move back to a small town doe's your patriotism grow back again??-real fast or just slowly? and what if you come from a big city and move to a small town-are you instantly Pro America like Sarah?
ambroulard 3 years ago
So what little fame he has rests on the fact that he was taken a prisoner of war by the Vietnamese-hardly a recommendation for the leadership of the"free world"- and thus aware of the meagerness of his own curriculum vitae,for his vice presidential choice he then turned radically,in the age of the awakening to the power of women,to an Alaskan politician;a giggly Piltdown princess out of pre-history. Palin evades direct questions and gives the distinct impression of knowing even less than G.W.B.
ambroulard 3 years ago
congrats.
mrtim29 3 years ago
Sarah Palin will never be president because the right wing of the Republican Party has perfected the art of believing their own bullshit, starting with the idea that is-Africa-a-country-or-a-continent?-Palin has a future. Palin and her fans don't know it yet, but having reduced itself to a grim angry joke, the Republican Party has also divorced itself from American politics and, along with that dirty used Band-Aid, is destined for the garbage can.Looking forward to 24 years of Democaratic rule!
ambroulard 3 years ago
u a retard
rkilete007 3 years ago
"u a retard"
Again, the left wingers showing their class and sensitivity. Please, stay a Democrat and don't ever come to my party. Please be insensitive to mentally challenged peoples... then go vote for Obama. You're just the kind of voter he likes!
You people make me sick!
mrtim29 3 years ago
wearing or not wearing a flag pin is a hell of a lot different from believing the earth is 5000 years old.
pm1101991 3 years ago
I don't believe there is any evidence about this dinosaurs nonsense Damon is spewing. Regardless, I would like to disagree with you on your point.
When a person is elected to the top exec job in the USA, they are essentially in charge of 3 major aspects that effect our daily life: law, budgeting our tax dollars & protecting us. I'd rather have someone in office that believes in the Yeti... rather than someone who is DISLOYAL and REJECTS the USA!!!
Our freedom and protection is at stake!!!
mrtim29 3 years ago
And you have full confidence in Sarah Palins ability to deliver the goods-!!! Ha ha Ha ha Ha!-- Keep in mind she's knee if not waste deep along with her husband in support of Alaska becoming a sovereign nation!!! Yeah you got a real patriot on your hands there mr. p.l.p. Your a total joke and hypocrite obviously who talks the talk (no matter what) but obviously can't walk the walk- because if you could you would totally reject her for her anti-American views.
ambroulard 3 years ago
Palin is the only "executive" on either ticket and has already held 2 of the 3 "executive" offices there is in America (mayor, governor, president).... And she is wildly popular in Alaska with over an 80% approval rating. Obama hovers around 45% as a freshman senator that just votes on legislation and budgets that "executives" actually have to implement and oversee.
Besides, America is not a country founded on socialism or communism... why would you want a socialist like Obama anyway?!
mrtim29 3 years ago
You conveniently sidestep the whole question of corporate welfare (socialism) as usual- why would I bother to answer your silly question (actually I already have but you missed it) when you are unable to address the aforementioned one? Don't bother quoting me figures about how much tax corporate America actually pays either because as we both know (or should) there are huge loop holes that allow them to get away with what you might call Murder,(figuratively and literally).
ambroulard 3 years ago
You can read in some of prior posts that I disagree with the bailout. It is socialism and I oppose it.
So, what's the issue you have? You're all over the map... and I have limited space to address every single question you make in your last posting, previous posting and posting before that!
Take your Ritalin and get back to me.
mrtim29 3 years ago
Regarding the bailout at least we have common ground there are a number of suggested alternatives that would seem to make more sense.
ambroulard 3 years ago
Yes, Governor of an almost all White racist state with a huge alcohol problem- also you've sidestepped the question of her wish to secede from the union- obviously she doesn't like the U.S. govt. at all and now she's been afforded the opportunity to muddle from within! In Palin we've actually found someone even less qualified to head the nation than G.W.B. something none of us excepting perhaps you would have applauded or thought possible!!
ambroulard 3 years ago
You seem really scared of Palin. I like that, it means she has chance!
mrtim29 3 years ago
Your a fool- who wouldn't be scared of the possibility of Palin as vp or pres?? The fact that she's even being considered for the post is a good indicator of how screwed up our system is. There are virtually no requirements other than citizenship for approaching the highest office of state.- Do we want someone who was trained as an electrician doing a delicate surgery on our brain-?- hell no but for president of the U.S. heck anyone will do-!- including a bullwinkle to nowhere.
ambroulard 3 years ago
Apparently, Matt Damon thinks there has to be a question about believing in dinosaurs in order to be President. WTF is that?
mrtim29 3 years ago
news flash!! Mrtims favorite Palin gos down in flames!! More than any single factor,McCain's bad judgment in choosing the inarticulate, insular and ethically challenged Palin disqualifies him for the presidency." The Kansas City Star, in turn, described Palin as "unqualified.""Within weeks, she became a liability, primarily as a highly visible indicator of McCain's impulsiveness and recklessness in picking someone who is patently unqualified to serve as president and commander-in-chief.
ambroulard 3 years ago
The Bush Doctrine,of course,no longer exists. Within a year,it had run aground on the shoals of reality on its very first whistle stop in Iraq.More than six years later,looking back on the foreign policy that emerged from Bush's self-declared Global War on Terror,it's clear that no President has ever failed on his own terms on such a scale or quite so comprehensively.And Mclown/Paleface will happily continue this method of failing upward/downward? however you want to look at it ad nauseumfinitum
ambroulard 3 years ago
I'm glad someone has a brain here...
pmd202020 3 years ago
Palin is the only executive who looks like a rotting bullwinkle carcass after tonights debate is what I think you meant to say.- ( by the way fyi -your not doing your homework-your 80% approval rating in Alaska has dropped by- oh my gosh- 15-19% since Palin has been running for vp!!) and I'd be willing to bet that after tonights little mash up you can cut another 5 or so from that figure-
ambroulard 3 years ago
It appears to me that all the major networks and polls indicate Palin held her own...
Biden on the other hand... well, it was all LIES AND SIGHS!!!
mrtim29 3 years ago
mrtim-McCain scored the zinger of the night with,"I'm not President Bush. If you wanted to run against him, you should have run four years ago."But his performance in the third debate was,in fact,incredibly Bush like,mirroring Bush's signature stubbornness- especially on Iraq by doubling down on a failed strategy.McCain's reliance on angry, negative, personal attacks on Obama including the pathetic Ayers smear and ACORN "destroying the fabric of democracy"has defined him as a singular ass wad.
ambroulard 3 years ago
breaking old news!
John McCain claims not to have known of his wife's drug addiction, even at a time when she was supporting her habit by stealing drugs from a charity organization. If that's true--if he actually didn't know about his wife's addiction--he demonstrates a lack of awareness that is panoramic. How do you fail to notice that your partner is zonked out for months at a time?
ambroulard 3 years ago
John McCain has managed to keep his mental health records concealed, so it's not possible to know whether he is telling the truth about having no mental or emotional scars from his time behind bars. As always, though, his body-talk tells the real story. The array of body language we've commented on in other posts is a sad tale of poorly concealed anger and deeply hidden fear.
ambroulard 3 years ago
McClowns lousy record on funding vet.s bites him-The,non-partisan Veterans & Military Families for Progress has endorsed Obama.The group cited Obamas unwavering support for Americas military community:His support for full funding of the Vet.Admin.and his determination to provide for the establishment of a national veterans and military family policy give veterans and families hope- hope that finally a President will support veterans in a way that honors those who have served and sacrificed.
ambroulard 3 years ago
Also pay close attention to the many references in the bible to creatures-they are not just referred to as "beasts" there are:Tigers giraffe bears lizards lambs birds ants dogs deer fish flies bees ox goats sheep butterflies wolves fox elephant cats rats- and many more as well-but NOWHERE and I do mean nowhere do you find mentioned anything resembling a description of a dinosaur-(which I think would be a hard one not to notice!) So brilliant creationists- what is your explanation please?
ambroulard 3 years ago
yes there is evidence because shes a dumb creationist. And it is very important because creationist completely reject fact for blind and dumb faith, i would never want anyone to have high power in the US like that. what there is no evidence for is "someone who is DISLOYAL and REJECTS the USA!!!
Our freedom and protection is at stake!!!"
but you seem delusional and unintelligent so i don't know why i am wasting time with you.
pm1101991 3 years ago
Sooooo... you're anti-faith? Anti-God? Anti-religion?
Geez... I'm an atheist, and if "creationism" is what a person believes as part of their mainstream faith or religion, then who am I to judge? I guess that makes me more respectful and tolerant than you!
By the way, I think the point wasn't so much about Adam & Eve coming alive from the Earth's soil as much as it was about dinosaurs. And to that point, it remains only hearsay.
mrtim29 3 years ago
It's not a matter of judging- it's a matter of deciding whether or not you want someone who thinks they can hear the voice of god telling them what to do-and then actually doing it perhaps-,(like that woman who drowned all her children- she was guided by such a voice), possibly running the country. I'm not particularly anti anything but I definitely don't want someone who blathers on about Gods war (which she doe's) anywhere near the white house.-Gods War-don't you see how dangerous this is??
ambroulard 3 years ago
No i'm not respectful at all to someone who completely rejects scientific fact for fairy tales no one should respect stupidity. I don't have a problem with Christians i just have a major problem with creationist.
pm1101991 3 years ago
GIVE YOU LEFT WINGERS AN INCH, YOU TAKE A MILE. LET'S GET TWO OF YOUR MISLEADING FACTS STRAIGHT...
A. Palin does not reject scientific fact.
B. Palin doesn't believe God speaks to her.
The "God's War" comment you are referring to is Palin quoting Lincoln... I guess, since he said that, he shouldn't have been and wasn't a good president, right?
I saw Palin speak today... you better watch out because as she said, "The heels are on & the gloves are coming off!!!"
mrtim29 3 years ago
haha i wasn't talking about the qoute of her talking to god but that does prove my point my. she IS a creationist which BY DEFINITION means that she rejects science.
pm1101991 3 years ago
Soooo.... because you have faith and believe in something that is part of your religion, you reject ALL science?
You're an idiot.
I don't know what she does or does not believe until I hear her say it from her own mouth. What have you heard her say with her own mouth and not what Huffington has told you?
Get a life... and stop being so intolerant!
mrtim29 3 years ago
This is the story of the real John McCain, the one who has been hiding in plain sight. It is the story of a man who has consistently put his own advancement above all else, a man willing to say and do anything to achieve his ultimate ambition: to become commander in chief, ascending to the one position that would finally enable him to outrank his four-star father and grandfather.
In its broad strokes, McCain's life story is oddly similar to that of the current occupant of the White House.
ambroulard 3 years ago
John Sidney McCain III and George Walker Bush both represent the third generation of American dynasties. Both were born into positions of privilege against which they rebelled into mediocrity. Both developed an uncanny social intelligence that allowed them to skate by with a minimum of mental exertion. Both struggled with booze and loutish behavior. At each step, with the aid of their fathers' powerful friends, both failed upward. ( I love that, failed upward!!!)
ambroulard 3 years ago
And both shed their skins as Episcopalian members of the Washington elite to build political careers as self-styled, ranch-inhabiting Westerners who pray to Jesus in their wives' evangelical churches.
In one vital respect, however, the comparison is deeply unfair to the current president: George W. Bush was a much better pilot.
Advertisement
This, of course, is not the story McCain tells about himself. Few politicians have so actively, or successfully, crafted their own myth of greatness.
ambroulard 3 years ago
In Mc- Cain's version of his life, he is a prodigal son who, steeled by his brutal internment in Vietnam, learned to put "country first." Remade by the Keating Five scandal that nearly wrecked his career, the story goes, McCain re-emerged as a "reformer" and a "maverick," righteously eschewing anything that "might even tangentially be construed as a less than proper use of my office."
It's a myth McCain has cultivated throughout his decades in Washington.
ambroulard 3 years ago
But during the course of this year's campaign, the mask has slipped. "Let's face it," says Larry Wilkerson, a retired Army colonel who served as chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell. "John McCain made his reputation on the fact that he doesn't bend his principles for politics. That's just not true."
We have now watched McCain run twice for president.
ambroulard 3 years ago
as the Navy's chief liaison to the Senate, a job his son would later hold, and the McCain home on Southeast 1st Street was a high-powered pit stop in the Washington cocktail circuit. Growing up, McCain attended Episcopal High School, an all-white, all-boys boarding school across the Potomac in Virginia, where tuition today tops $40,000 a year. There, McCain behaved with all the petulance his privilege allowed, earning the nicknames "Punk" and "McNasty."
ambroulard 3 years ago
The first time he positioned himself as a principled centrist and decried the politics of Karl Rove and the influence of the religious right, imploring voters to judge candidates "by the example we set, by the way we conduct our campaigns, by the way we personally practice politics." After he lost in 2000, he jagged hard to the left — breaking with the president over taxes, drilling, judicial appointments, even flirting with joining the Democratic Party.
ambroulard 3 years ago
by dropping their blue-faced boy in a bathtub of ice-cold water.
Trailing his hard-charging, hard-drinking father from post to post, McCain didn't play well with others. Indeed, he concedes, his runty physique inspired a Napoleon complex: "My small stature motivated me to . . . fight the first kid who provoked me."
McCain spent his formative years among the Washington elite. His father — himself deep in the throes of a daddy complex — had secured a political post
ambroulard 3 years ago
Like most people in the US, here in the UK we too prefer a fair fight and right now the McCain/Palin rhetoric is so negative. In fact to many over here it smacks of desperation.
If McCain/Palin are like this when the chips are down in a domestic situation albeit an important one, god forbid what they would do in the face of a real crisis?
ambroulard 3 years ago
The latest-Today, Obama picked up nine key newspaper endorsements in swing states, earning the nod from,among others,the St. Louis Post-Dispatch,the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette,The Blade of Toledo,the Dayton Daily News,Asheville Citizen-Times in North Carolina, and the Wisconsin State Journal (which backed Bush in 2004) in Madison.The St.Louis daily called McCain,"the incredible shrinking man" who had made a horrific pick for his running mate. You get the Picture yet?? Incredible shrinking man!!!
ambroulard 3 years ago
thats not true
i believe in creationism, but i don't reject science
i don't beleive the assumption that we came from monkey-like creatures and i don't believe in the big bang theory...i know a lot about the big bang theory and no one can't state why it even started so instead of jumping on the social bandwagon, i beleive that the Lord created the universe and earth and man and all that we know today. my faith lies in the Lord not what science can prove
I walk by faith not sight.
fdparis18 3 years ago
you proved my point. evolution is scientific fact, get over it.
pm1101991 3 years ago
assumption is not fact, big bang THEORY and theory of evolution. evolution is just assumed to be true, but that doesn't mean its true
u believe whatever u want, i don't need to argue with you
fdparis18 3 years ago
Vogler was murdered in 1993 during an illegal sale of plastic explosives that went bad. The prior year, he had renounced his allegiance to the United States explaining that, "The fires of hell are frozen glaciers compared to my hatred for the American government." He cursed the stars and stripes, promising, "I won't be buried under their damned flag...when Alaska is an independent nation they can bring my bones home." Palin has never denounced Vogler or his detestable anti-Americanism.
ambroulard 3 years ago
In his current campaign, however, McCain has become the kind of politician he ran against in 2000. He has embraced those he once denounced as "agents of intolerance," promised more drilling and deeper tax cuts, even compromised his vaunted opposition to torture. Intent on winning the presidency at all costs, he has reassembled the very team that so viciously smeared him and his family eight years ago, selecting as his running mate a born-again moose hunter
ambroulard 3 years ago
whose only qualification for office is her ability to electrify Rove's base. And he has engaged in a "practice of politics" so deceptive that even Rove himself has denounced it, saying that the outright lies in McCain's campaign ads go "too far" and fail the "truth test."
The missing piece of this puzzle, says a former McCain confidant who has fallen out with the senator over his neoconservatism, is a third, never realized,
ambroulard 3 years ago
campaign that McCain intended to run against Bush in 2004. "McCain wanted a rematch, based on ethics, campaign finance and Enron — the corrupt relationship between Bush's team and the corporate sector," says the former friend, a prominent conservative thinker with whom McCain shared his plans over the course of several dinners in 2001. "But when 9/11 happened, McCain saw his chance to challenge Bush again was robbed. He saw 9/11 gave Bush and his failed presidency a second life.
ambroulard 3 years ago
"But when 9/11 happened, McCain saw his chance to challenge Bush again was robbed. He saw 9/11 gave Bush and his failed presidency a second life. He saw Bush and Cheney's ability to draw stark contrasts between black and white, villains and good guys. And that's why McCain changed." (The McCain campaign did not respond to numerous requests for comment from Rolling Stone.)
Indeed, many leading Republicans who once admired McCain see his recent contortions to appease the GOP base as the undoing
ambroulard 3 years ago
of a maverick. "John McCain's ambition overrode his basic character," says Rita Hauser, who served on the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board from 2001 to 2004. But the truth of the matter is that ambition is John McCain's basic character. Seen in the sweep of his seven-decade personal history, his pandering to the right is consistent with the only constant in his life: doing what's best for himself. To put the matter squarely: John McCain is his own special interest.
"John has made
ambroulard 3 years ago
a pact with the devil," says Lincoln Chafee, the former GOP senator, who has been appalled at his one-time colleague's readiness to sacrifice principle for power. Chafee and McCain were the only Republicans to vote against the Bush tax cuts. They locked arms in opposition to drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. And they worked together in the "Gang of 14," which blocked some of Bush's worst judges from the federal bench.
"On all three —
ambroulard 3 years ago
sadly, sadly, sadly — McCain has flip-flopped," Chafee says. And forget all the "Country First" sloganeering, he adds. "McCain is putting himself first. He's putting himself first in blinking neon lights."
THE NAVY BRAT
John Sidney McCain III has spent most of his life trying to escape the shadow of greater men. His grandfather Adm. John Sidney "Slew" McCain earned his four stars commanding a U.S. carrier force in World War II. His deeply ambitious father, Adm.
ambroulard 3 years ago
Even his friends seemed to dislike him, with one recalling him as "a mean little fucker."
McCain was not only a lousy student, he had his father's taste for drink and a darkly misogynistic streak. The summer after his sophomore year, cruising with a friend near Arlington, McCain tried to pick up a pair of young women. When they laughed at him, he cursed them so vilely that he was hauled into court on a profanity charge.
ambroulard 3 years ago
McCain's admittance to Annapolis was preordained by his bloodline. But martial discipline did not seem to have much of an impact on his character. By his own account, McCain was a lazy, incurious student; he squeaked by only by prevailing upon his buddies to help him cram for exams. He continued to get sauced and treat girls badly. Before meeting a girlfriend's parents for the first time, McCain got so shitfaced that he literally crashed through the screen door
ambroulard 3 years ago
when he showed up in his white midshipman's uniform.
His grandfather's name and his father's forbearance brought McCain a charmed existence at Annapolis. On his first trip at sea — to Rio de Janeiro aboard the USS Hunt — the captain was a former student of his father. While McCain's classmates learned the ins and outs of the boiler room, McCain got to pilot the ship to South America and back. In Rio, he hobnobbed with admirals and the president of Brazil.
ambroulard 3 years ago
Back on campus, McCain's short fuse was legend. "We'd hear this thunderous screaming and yelling between him and his roommate — doors slamming — and one of them would go running down the hall," recalls Phil Butler, who lived across the hall from McCain at the academy. "It was a regular occurrence."
When McCain was not shown the pampering to which he was accustomed, he grew petulant — even abusive. He repeatedly blew up in the face of his commanding officer.
ambroulard 3 years ago
It was the kind of insubordination that would have gotten any other midshipman kicked out of Annapolis. But his classmates soon realized that McCain was untouchable. Midway though his final year, McCain faced expulsion, about to "bilge out" because of excessive demerits. After his mother intervened, however, the academy's commandant stepped in. Calling McCain "spoiled" to his face, he nonetheless issued a reprieve, scaling back the demerits.
ambroulard 3 years ago
McCain dodged expulsion a second time by convincing another midshipman to take the fall after McCain was caught with contraband.
Advertisement
"He was a huge screw-off," recalls Butler. "He was always on probation. The only reason he graduated was because of his father and his grandfather — they couldn't exactly get rid of him."
McCain's self-described "four-year course of insubordination" ended with him graduating fifth from the bottom
ambroulard 3 years ago
894th out of a class of 899. It was a record of mediocrity he would continue as a pilot.
BOTTOM GUN
In the cockpit, McCain was not a top gun, or even a middling gun. He took little interest in his flight manuals; he had other priorities.
"I enjoyed the off-duty life of a Navy flier more than I enjoyed the actual flying," McCain writes. "I drove a Corvette, dated a lot, spent all my free hours at bars and beach parties."
ambroulard 3 years ago
McCain chased a lot of tail. He hit the dog track. Developed a taste for poker and dice. He picked up models when he could, screwed a stripper when he couldn't.
In the air, the hard-partying McCain had a knack for stalling out his planes in midflight. He was still in training, in Texas, when he crashed his first plane into Corpus Christi Bay during a routine practice landing. The plane stalled, and McCain was knocked cold on impact.
ambroulard 3 years ago
When he came to, the plane was underwater, and he had to swim to the surface to be rescued. Some might take such a near-death experience as a wake-up call: McCain took some painkillers and a nap, and then went out carousing that night.
Off duty on his Mediterranean tours, McCain frequented the casinos of Monte Carlo, cultivating his taste for what he calls the "addictive" game of craps. McCain's thrill-seeking carried over into his day job.
ambroulard 3 years ago
Flying over the south of Spain one day, he decided to deviate from his flight plan. Rocketing along mere feet above the ground, his plane sliced through a power line. His self-described "daredevil clowning" plunged much of the area into a blackout.
That should have been the end of McCain's flying career. "In the Navy, if you crashed one airplane, nine times out of 10 you would lose your wings," says Butler, who, like his former classmate, was shot down and taken prisoner
ambroulard 3 years ago
in North Vietnam. Spark "a small international incident" like McCain had? Any other pilot would have "found themselves as the deck officer on a destroyer someplace in a hurry," says Butler.
"But, God, he had family pull. He was directly related to the CEO — you know?"
McCain was undeterred by the crashes. Nearly a decade out of the academy, his career adrift, he decided he wanted to fly combat in Vietnam.
ambroulard 3 years ago
His motivation wasn't to contain communism or put his country first. It was the only way he could think of to earn the respect of the man he calls his "distant, inscrutable patriarch." He needed to secure a command post in the Navy — and to do that, his career needed the jump-start that only a creditable war record could provide.
As he would so many times in his career, McCain pulled strings to get ahead. After a game of tennis,
ambroulard 3 years ago
McCain prevailed upon the undersecretary of the Navy that he was ready for Vietnam, despite his abysmal flight record. Sure enough, McCain was soon transferred to McCain Field — an air base in Meridian, Mississippi, named after his grandfather — to train for a post on the carrier USS Forrestal.
With a close friend at the base, an alcoholic Marine captain, McCain formed the "Key Fess Yacht Club," which quickly became infamous for hosting toga parties in the officers'
ambroulard 3 years ago
quarters and bringing bands down from Memphis to attract loose women to the base. Showing his usual knack for promotion, McCain rose from "vice commodore" to "commodore" of the club.
In 1964, while still at the base, McCain began a serious romance with Carol Shepp, a vivacious former model who had just divorced one of his classmates from Annapolis. Commandeering a Navy plane, McCain spent most weekends flying from Meridian to Philadelphia for their dates. They married the following summer.
ambroulard 3 years ago
That December, McCain crashed again. Flying back from Philadelphia, where he had joined in the reverie of the Army-Navy football game, McCain stalled while coming in for a refueling stop in Norfolk, Virginia. This time he managed to bail out at 1,000 feet. As his parachute deployed, his plane thundered into the trees below.
By now, however, McCain's flying privileges were virtually irrevocable — and he knew it. On one of his runs at McCain Field,
ambroulard 3 years ago
when ground control put him in a holding pattern, the lieutenant commander once again pulled his family's rank. "Let me land," McCain demanded over his radio, "or I'll take my field and go home!"
TRIAL BY FIRE
Sometimes 3 a.m. moments occur at 10:52 in the morning.
It was July 29th, 1967, a hot, gusty morning in the Gulf of Tonkin atop the four-acre flight deck of the supercarrier USS Forrestal. Perched in the cockpit of his A-4 Skyhawk, Lt. Cmdr. John McCain ticked
ambroulard 3 years ago
nervously through his preflight checklist.
Now 30 years old, McCain was trying to live up to his father's expectations, to finally be known as something other than the fuck-up grandson of one of the Navy's greatest admirals. That morning, preparing for his sixth bombing run over North Vietnam, the graying pilot's dreams of combat glory were beginning to seem within his reach.
ambroulard 3 years ago
McCain was stung by tiny bits of shrapnel in his legs and chest, but the wounds weren't serious; his father would later report to friends that Johnny "came through without a scratch."The damage to the Forrestal was far more grievous: The explosion set off a chain reaction of bombs, creating a devastating inferno that would kill 134 of the carrier's 5,000-man crew, injure 161 and threaten to sink the ship.
ambroulard 3 years ago
These are the moments that test men's mettle. Where leaders are born. Leaders like . . . Lt. Cmdr. Herb Hope, pilot of the A-4 three planes down from McCain's. Cornered by flames at the stern of the carrier, Hope hurled himself off the flight deck into a safety net and clambered into the hangar deck below, where the fire was spreading. According to an official Navy history of the fire, Hope then "gallantly took command of a firefighting team"
ambroulard 3 years ago
that would help contain the conflagration and ultimately save the ship.
McCain displayed little of Hope's valor. Although he would soon regale The New York Times with tales of the heroism of the brave enlisted men who "stayed to help the pilots fight the fire," McCain took no part in dousing the flames himself. After going belowdecks and briefly helping sailors who were frantically trying to unload bombs from an elevator to the flight deck, McCain retreated to the safety of the
ambroulard 3 years ago
"ready room," where off-duty pilots spent their noncombat hours talking trash and playing poker. There, McCain watched the conflagration unfold on the room's closed-circuit television — bearing distant witness to the valiant self-sacrifice of others who died trying to save the ship, pushing jets into the sea to keep their bombs from exploding on deck.
As the ship burned, McCain took a moment to mourn his misfortune; his combat career appeared to be going up in smoke
ambroulard 3 years ago
"This distressed me considerably," he recalls in Faith of My Fathers. "I feared my ambitions were among the casualties in the calamity that had claimed the Forrestal."
The fire blazed late into the night. The following morning, while oxygen-masked rescue workers toiled to recover bodies from the lower decks, McCain was making fast friends with R.W. "Johnny" Apple of The New York Times, who had arrived by helicopter to cover the deadliest Naval calamity
ambroulard 3 years ago
since the Second World War. The son of admiralty surviving a near-death experience certainly made for good copy, and McCain colorfully recounted how he had saved his skin. But when Apple and other reporters left the ship, the story took an even stranger turn: McCain left with them. As the heroic crew of the Forrestal mourned its fallen brothers and the broken ship limped toward the Philippines for repairs, McCain zipped off to Saigon for what he recalls as "some welcome R&R."
ambroulard 3 years ago
Sipping scotch and reflecting on the fire aboard the Forrestal, McCain sounded like the peaceniks he would pillory after his return from Hanoi. "Now that I've seen what the bombs and napalm did to the people on our ship," he told Apple, "I'm not so sure that I want to drop any more of that stuff on North Vietnam." Here, it seemed, was a frank-talking warrior, one willing to speak out against the military establishment in the name of truth.
ambroulard 3 years ago
But McCain's misgivings about the righteousness of the fight quickly took a back seat to his ambitions. Within days, eager to get his combat career back on track, he put in for a transfer to the carrier USS Oriskany. Two months after the Forrestal fire — following a holiday on the French Riviera — McCain reported for duty in the Gulf of Tonkin.
McCain performed adequately on the Oriskany. On October 25th, 1967, he bombed a pair of Soviet MiGs
ambroulard 3 years ago
parked on an airfield outside Hanoi. His record was now even. Enemy planes destroyed by McCain: two. American planes destroyed by McCain: two.
The next day, McCain embarked on his fateful 23rd mission, a bombing raid on a power plant in downtown Hanoi. McCain had cajoled his way onto the strike force — there were medals up for grabs. The plant had recently been rebuilt after a previous bombing run that had earned two of the lead pilots Navy Crosses, one of the force's top honors.
ambroulard 3 years ago
It was a dangerous mission — taking the planes into the teeth of North Vietnam's fiercest anti-aircraft defenses. As the planes entered Hanoi airspace, they were instantly enveloped in dark clouds of flak and surface-to-air missiles. Still cocky from the previous day's kills, McCain took the biggest gamble of his life. As he dived in on the target in his A-4, his surface-to-air missile warning system sounded: A SAM had a lock on him.
ambroulard 3 years ago
McCain, who knew more than most pilots about bailing out of a crippled aircraft, leapt forward out of the cockpit, swung himself down from the refueling probe protruding from the nose cone, rolled through the flames and ran to safety across the flight deck. Just then, one of his bombs "cooked off," blowing a crater in the deck and incinerating the sailors who had rushed past McCain with hoses and fire extinguishers.
ambroulard 3 years ago
In congress, Rep. John McCain quickly positioned himself as a GOP hard-liner. He voted against honoring Martin Luther King Jr. with a national holiday in 1983 — a stance he held through 1989. He backed Reagan on tax cuts for the wealthy, abortion and support for the Nicaraguan contras. He sought to slash federal spending on social programs, and he voted twice against campaign-finance reform. This is what we call Maverickism I guess??
ambroulard 3 years ago