Thread: John McCain

Originally Posted by Jet Gorgon

^So, were is she? Muzzled like they should do to Biden?

Actually I think that was the first week of school for the kids. Still think she could have made it NYC. But the kids are are valid reason for not being there.

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^ Not in my books.

putting aside the fact that he doesn't know how to send email, the mccain campaign (with a straight face) claims john mccain helped create the blackberry.

Holtz-Eakin: McCain helped create BlackBerry - Politico.com

Originally Posted by raycarey

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thanks for the link.....i guess.

Straight guy to gay guy: "i'm starting to fear you now, you might bend my pole with your mind powers"

It seems the people in charge are not keeping Mccain up to speed on current events.

Here is a recent backflip, and a rather embarassing one if you think a Presidential nominee should have his finger on the pulse:-

WITH the US economy in turmoil and the country's second-largest insurer faltering, John McCain was unequivocal: "We cannot have the taxpayers bail out AIG or anybody else." The following day he had changed his mind.

The rapid about-face on Wednesday followed another quick retreat by the Republican presidential nominee earlier this week when he insisted that "the fundamentals of our economy are strong" even as one brokerage house filed for bankruptcy, another nearly went under and the Dow Jones industrial average dropped 504 points.

Senator McCain's reversals underscored the difficulty he has had finding the right response to the deteriorating economy, the issue voters say is most important. They are also highlighting the contradiction between his oft-repeated campaign message - that the government should largely stay out of the economy - and his new promises to help voters whose jobs, houses and retirement accounts are disappearing.

McCain under fire as master of the backflip - US Election - smh.com.au

Interesting campaign being run by the GOP. After eight years in office, and having propelled the nation to the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression- nominate a successor who admits that he knows nothing about the economy.

There are so many reasons why McCain will lose this election. After this last debate (3rd and final) I ran across what Tom Daschle said about McCain’s performance,……he said:

"2/3 of the American people think [McCain is] an angry candidate, and for 90 minutes, he tried to convince the other third."

This is just one more reason why the American (most of us) public does not want to see someone like McCain (or Palin) in the White House.

Originally Posted by Jet Gorgon

WHERE is Michelle these days? She didn't go to the 9/11 ceremony in NYC

were you at it yourself Jet?
surely you would have been after losing close friends there?

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

The reason he doesn't send email is that he can't use a keyboard because of the relentless beatings he received from the Viet Cong in service to our country. . . . McCain's severe war injuries prevent him from combing his hair, typing on a keyboard, or tying his shoes.

During the last debate he seemed to be able to hold a pen and write quite easily, holding a pen requires more manual dexterity than hitting a keyboard.

Did you see him write with both hands? McCain could use voice recognition software. It would probably take six hours of talking into a microphone to get his basic pronounciation recognizable by the software. Then when speaking an email he'd have to go back and correct his grammer and spelling. It's all very time consuming.

Originally Posted by attaboy

Did you see him write with both hands?

how often do you see anyone write with both hands, i imagine he is getting some sort of disability allowance so has to pretend to have gimp hands.

Originally Posted by raycarey

the mccain campaign (with a straight face) claims john mccain helped create the blackberry.

He should have run with Al Gore, the inventer of the Internet.

I reckon it would have been an unbeatable ticket, especially being bi-partisan.

^ Some black folks in Harlem think he's running with Biden and Obama's with Palin. Yep, good thing democracy.

Originally Posted by flash

Originally Posted by Jet Gorgon

WHERE is Michelle these days? She didn't go to the 9/11 ceremony in NYC

were you at it yourself Jet?
surely you would have been after losing close friends there?

I prayed for them at home; it's not like their spirits are clinging to ground zero space, but I doubt you would understand. Besides, my husband isn't running for POTUS. Her absence showed a huge lack of respect, IMO.

Originally Posted by flash

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

The reason he doesn't send email is that he can't use a keyboard because of the relentless beatings he received from the Viet Cong in service to our country. . . . McCain's severe war injuries prevent him from combing his hair, typing on a keyboard, or tying his shoes.

During the last debate he seemed to be able to hold a pen and write quite easily, holding a pen requires more manual dexterity than hitting a keyboard.

Apparently, it is painful for him to do doing repetitive hand movements; kinda like an extreme case of carpal tunnel syndrome, except his relates to old injuries. Likely reason he doesn't do e-mail.
Funny, I've never seen a computer or laptop on the prez's desk in the Oval Office -- surely Clinton had one, or maybe Lewinsky did that business for him, too.

Originally Posted by Jet Gorgon

I prayed for them at home; it's not like their spirits are clinging to ground zero space, but I doubt you would understand.

you doubt wrong, I knew a lot of people who died there.

Strange story developing (again),……….McCain and an affair.
"I did not have a sexual relationship with Senator McCain"
10/16/2008 07:57:00 PM ET · Link


From AP:
A female telecommunications lobbyist who became part of an explosive story early this year about John McCain has broken months of silence to deny the main subtext of the account — that she was suspected of being romantically involved with the Republican presidential candidate. "I did not have a sexual relationship with Senator McCain," Vicky Iseman told the National Journal magazine.
Um, something smells here. (Not to mention, why give a quote that sounds eerily like Bill Clinton during the Monica affair?)

Vicky Iseman has been missing for six months. She hasn't been in the news. Everyone has forgotten about her. She now appears, out of the blue, in a National Journal story, and gives an on-the-record interview denying, in quotes, that she had a "sexual relationship" with John McCain. Huh? That isn't something you just do out of the blue. You don't go public and give an interview about a possible sex scandal, less than three weeks before the election, after everyone has already forgotten about the sex scandal. It just doesn't make sense.

One more thing. National Journal says the interview took place last month. That's a nuance without a difference. If you're Vicky Iseman, you don't disappear since February - for seven months - only to reappear six weeks before your good buddy John McCain's election in order to remind everyone that you did not have sex with him. That's just absurd.

There are a few possibilities of the rat I'm smelling:

1. Perhaps Vicky Iseman wants to hurt John McCain, so she's going public right before the election to remind people of the possible affair. But this doesn't make sense, as, if she wanted to hurt McCain, she'd allege that she had an affair, she wouldn't deny it.

2. Perhaps someone is about to break a story proving that McCain and Iseman had a sexual relationship, and the McCain campaign asked Iseman to publicly deny it before the story comes out. This one seems plausible to me.

3. Perhaps, just as McCain had his staff say a few weeks ago that he had an affair 50 years ago with a hot Brazilian, McCain sees it in his political interests to have guys think he maybe, just maybe, he DID have an affair with a hot, blonde woman nearly half his age. Maybe, but that seems a bit extreme.

4. Perhaps this is another weird Hail Mary (hail Vicky?) attempt by McCain to change the conversation away from the economy? Talking about a sex scandal is better than talking about his age? I don't know, sounds weird, but then again, he is desperate.

I have to go with option two. It sounds like someone has the story, and the McCain people are trying to pre-empt. Iseman knows Washington. You don't go public on something like this less than three weeks before the election, not without a good reason.

UPDATE: Here's the original story in National Journal. It's very pro-Iseman. They make it sounds like she simply wanted to clear her name. Still, I find it odd that she's doing it weeks before the election. That's not how you get a story to blow over.

Sadly I believe America is about to trade the right-wing insanity of the Bush years for the equal left-wing insanity of the Obama years. I had hoped you would elect McCain because at least the Republicans have the sense not to continue down that road any longer.

Originally Posted by Thormaturge

I had hoped you would elect McCain because at least the Republicans have the sense not to continue down that road any longer.

Can you tell us some specific examples?

Originally Posted by Thormaturge

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Actually MM yo ucould have point. i would have expected McCain to vote down the $700bn rescue of Wall Street in favour of something more radical, supporting smaller local banks and boosting communities, but he didn't. Give the money to the people and let them decide which banks they trust, then let the others die on the vine. Lehman Brothers was a disgrace and deserved to go into bankruptcy, as is the case with RBS and HBoS in the UK.

Any economic action will not be that different from the Dems and the Repub candidates and their parties that will tow the line, generally speaking.

Repubs are Demos; Demos are Repubs

Republicrats.

McCain is supposed to be the big risk-taker. The maverick. When I saw him sitting at a table with GWB and Obama I felt he had blundered. McCain had the chance to distance himself from the Wall-Street bailout and leave Obama looking as though he supported GWB.

The plan would have gone through anyyway, but McCain would have distanced himself from Bush, would have been seen as the champion of "The American Way" and probably would be heading for the White House.

Frankly I don't think either candidate is any better than Bush, and they have just proven it. If ever America needed a Teddy Roosevelt.....

Originally Posted by Milkman

Republicrats.

Emphasis on the last syllable.

Republic-rats

Originally Posted by Thormaturge

Frankly I don't think either candidate is any better than Bush, and they have just proven it. If ever America needed a Teddy Roosevelt.....

Harsh taskmaster!

Neither has even so much as spent a single day in the White House yet.

^and after all is said and done GWB hasn't done so badly given the lousy hand he was dealt.

I doubt he will get any airports named after him

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Suvanabhumi could be re-named without too many complaints. At least we can all pronounce "Bush".

With both candidates sitting around a table with GW Bush admiring his economic rescue plan I don't need any more evidence of the ability of the two candidates who are competing to replace him. I had real hopes for McCain but he seems to be anybody's fool.