Arizona Senator John McCain (official)

[Gatorubet]

Originally Posted by DaytonBuck

AJ was the poorest president in history but he probably doesn't jive with GatorUBets Cadillac. The bottom one percent of percent ended up in a bad state. America hasn't been attacked in a long time but the apostate Urban and the bottom one percent of percent got a body. Urban who's disrespect was about the slime.

I agree one percent raccoon hammer.

[buckeyegrad]

Originally Posted by Gatorubet

Jindal is a great pick. Many Amerians are sick of the Christain Right telling everyone who to live, so having a koolaid drinker is good for the moderates.

And remember, if you're not careful, we Christians will kidnap your children in the middle of the night to feast on their blood.

[Buckeyeskickbuttocks]

Originally Posted by buckeyegrad

And remember, if you're not careful, we Christians will kidnap your children in the middle of the night to feast on their blood.

Not unless you can get past me and my armory.

[buckeyegrad]

Originally Posted by Buckeyeskickbuttocks

Not unless you can get past me and my armory.

I was just over reading the "guns" thread....I hope your children are covered by your insurance.

[Buckeyeskickbuttocks]

Originally Posted by buckeyegrad

I was just over reading the "guns" thread....I hope your children are covered by your insurance.

See, the thing of it is I'm engaged in reverse psychology type behavior. By suggesting I don't have any protection in my house, I'm encouraging break-in... and then... BOOM...

Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom... ratta-tat-tat... boom, boom,
Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom... ratta-tat-tat... boom, boom,
Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom... ratta-tat-tat... boom, boom

Etc.

[MuckFich06]

The Lime Green Monster: McCain's Speech Widely Panned - Politics on The Huffington Post

The choice of a lime green backdrop was, to put it kindly, not wise. Beyond representing a jarring visual for even the most colorblind political viewer, the set up was clearly a distraction from the speech itself. Take a look at some of the reviews:
Ambinder: "I wish I had a screen grab... but the green background is very weird and very jarring. On this stage, theatrics matter."
Matt Yglesias notes: "...it's interesting that he's shifted his aesthetic from his old black and white 'fascist' aesthetic to a new green and white Islamofascist aesthetic."
Andrew Sullivan: "From the re-branded green background to the silly attempt to capitalize on Democratic divisions to the Clintonian cooptation of an Obama meme - "a leader we can believe in" - McCain's opening gambit in the general election was, in my judgment, underwhelming."
Atrios: "It'll make you look like the cottage cheese in a lime jello salad. Always a good look for an older gentlemen... The aesthetics of McCain's speech, just mercifully completed before a slightly energized crowd of literally dozens, was awesome in how dreadful it was. No matter what Harold Ford thinks, who was somehow thoroughly moved by lime-jello McCain.
...
This is not to distract from McCain's address; that too was poorly reviewed. The most biting of the criticisms came from CNN's Jeffrey Toobin, who intoned, moments after its conclusion: "That was awful! That was pathetic!"
Josh Marshall, over at TPM, noted: "Here's how bad it is. All the Fox commentators are giving competing explanation for why McCain's speech sucked."
But if you think this was strictly a liberal prerogative, here is a sampling of the Republican response to McCain's general election launch.
Here's Mark Levin over at National Review's The Corner: "Not to offend those who might be offended, but this speech is a mash and tough to digest. You have to get through the self-congratulatory praise of independence and commander-in-chief pose from the Senate, then you have to try to follow the inconsistency of some of his big-government ideas vs. his anti-big-government rhetoric, and his inconsistency even on his supposed strength -- the surge in Iraq vs. closing GITMO and conferring additional rights on the detainees."
Summing up GOP sentiment was prominent Republican media consultant, Alex Castellanos, speaking on CNN: "Last I checked this was not a speech-making contest, thank God."

[Gatorubet]

Originally Posted by buckeyegrad

And remember, if you're not careful, we Christians will kidnap your children in the middle of the night to feast on their blood.

Screw that! My biggest fear is to be tied up for days and forced to listen to a Sandi Patty marathon.

(This just in. Lil' Ubet was dropped off by dad at Vacation Bible School today for undercover work)

[MuckFich06]

Cottage cheese and lime green jello:

YouTube - TPMtv: McCain Leaves Fox Speechless

Maybe Faux News is fair and balanced after all.

[sandgk]

McCain continues to try and reinvent himself in Obam's image. (HuffPost)



Imitation is sometimes thought the most sincere form of flattery, unless that is, the result simply makes you look like a copy-cat with no fresh ideas.

[Jake]

Originally Posted by sandgk

McCain continues to try and reinvent himself in Obam's image. (HuffPost)



Imitation is sometimes thought the most sincere form of flattery, unless that is, the result simply makes you look like a copy-cat with no fresh ideas.

Presidential candidates ran out of "fresh ideas" long ago.

A man who will "change" the way this country is run...

4President.us/tv

[Jake]

[sandgk]

Oh boy, does the McCain brain trust not care about lofting soft balls to Obama and the DNC?

The new McCain ad running in ten states including Ohio has this lines:
"Only a fool or a fraud talks tough or romantically about war"

Which is the height of ironic self-parody when one considers:
http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/9541.html
"We will win this conflict, we will win it easily" (2003)
I believe the success will be fairly easy" (2002)
{Guess the failure was the hard part}
“We’re not going to have a bloodletting of trading American bodies for Iraqi bodies.”
(2002)

Did McCain just call his old self a fraud and foolish? I'm guessing he'll be told he did.

[MuckFich06]

I can't believe I'm quoting Rush, but this is too funny:

Shenanigans: McCain's Eddie Haskell problem? - Politico.com

"But if you think the way to get to voters is to harp on failure and doom and gloom and distance yourself from the president by trashing him and claiming you're not him, you're going to come off as a childish, immature Eddie Haskell, and people don't elect Eddie Haskells."

Rush's remarks following the cottage cheese in lime green Jell-O speech.

[jlb1705]

Originally Posted by sandgk

McCain continues to try and reinvent himself in Obam's image. (HuffPost)



Imitation is sometimes thought the most sincere form of flattery, unless that is, the result simply makes you look like a copy-cat with no fresh ideas.

Looks to me like he's ripping off the Land's End catalog as much as he's ripping off Obama.

[MuckFich06]

An argument that is only 28 years too late:

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- In an interview with Carl Cameron today, Sen. McCain introduced some new pushback to Sen. Obama's assertion that the GOPer represents a Bush third term. The presumptive Republican nominee instead argues that the Illinois Democrat is promoting policies that would mean a second term for President Carter.

"You know one of his favorite phrases is that I would be a Bush third term. Well I think maybe his proposals could be a Carter second term," McCain told Fox.

Video here: McCain: Obama=Carter second term ? Cameron’s Corner ? FOXNews.com
Still needs to work on that delivery.