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AMERICAblog: 9 Key Rings: A brilliant idea for the Dem Convention

  • Mollie · 1 year ago
    Great idea ! Two can play the same game. Get out there and buy those key rings. By the time we are done, he will probably have more houses not disclosed yet.
  • flowerofhighrank · 1 year ago
    This a great IDEA! I was vowing to not give any more money until O went on the attack- but he has! If someone would start a fund to make the keys, I'd kick in a c-note to get things started.
    Better: GIANT KEY COSTUMES
  • Bush_Bites · 1 year ago
    If DNC doesn't do it, MoveOn or somebody like that should start moving on this.

    I'd give to any legit group who needed funds for this.

    C'mon, Dem Organizations! Get back in the game!
  • flashcard · 1 year ago
    Imagine the sound of thousands of key rings jingling at the convention. They could also use key rings that have a little light, now if everyone would light up their key rings all at the same time. This is nice payback for the Republicans dishonoring the Purple Heart at their convention.
  • Bush_Bites · 1 year ago
    "How I Turned Five Years in Prison into a Fortune in Real Estate"

    http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/8/21/17580/8...
  • maggiePA08 · 1 year ago
    I also like the way Barack tied in McSames assertion that $5 million a year is his threshhold for "rich":

    http://www.delawareliberal.net/2008/08/19/wealt...
  • phillybits · 1 year ago
    Someone on Kos pointed to a C&L post about John McCain's many superstitions and speculated that one of McCain's pet peeves actually is jangling keychains.

    Can anyone verify this as it would be icing on the cake.
  • davidkc · 1 year ago
    Great idea, but I offer one suggested change: All 9 tags should somehow be attached together by a bigger ringer. This guarantees that the key rings are always dangling against each other, and emphasizes the 9-house concept. A single key ring separated from the others just doesn't have the same effect to me.
  • Bush_Bites · 1 year ago
    Also makes the ringing louder.
  • davidkc · 1 year ago
    bingo.
  • Bush_Bites · 1 year ago
    OT:

    Are we saving McCain's Gambling Problem for after the conventions?

    http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_stump/archiv...

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stephen-c-rose/mc...
  • JTC111 · 1 year ago
    We also need those neat little throwaway lines that get so much play on television...
    John McCain has more houses than most people have tvs.
    or
    John McCain has more houses than most men have shoes.
    or
    John McCain has more houses than most people have phones.
  • HereinDC · 1 year ago
    Good one:

    David Letterman could do a TOP TEN LIST:

    LOL
  • Bush_Bites · 1 year ago
    McCain's having a Housing Surge.
  • Bobby · 1 year ago
    Key rings? Freaking KEY RINGS? John, are you serious?! I hope you and Joe ask one of our esteemed leaders at the convention how the Democratic party could've sold us out time and time again. They own this war in Iraq just as much as the Republicans do. They have continued to fund it despite our opposition. They sold us out by providing immunity to the telecoms. They sold us out by voting in Mukasey as Attorney General.
    What about the constitution? What about our civil liberties? What about holding the war criminal Bush responsible for lying us into a war? They haven't done shit!

    ASK them!
  • HereinDC · 1 year ago
    Every party has a pooper, that's why we invited you, super duper...party pooper.
    I remember the daisy ad.
    I REMEMBER the purple finger
    I REMEMBER the band aid.
    I remember the Bush Sr. not knowing what a scanner was.

    EVERYONE will remember the key chains!!!!
  • JMOHR · 1 year ago
    Tend to agree that the Democrats have failed to live up to their duty. However, they are far better than the alternative. Also, they seem to be suffering from the battered spouse syndrome. I think retaking the presidency with an idealistic and pragmatic candidate and increasing significantly the leads in Congress will put the Democratic party on the road to recovery. It will take time to undo the damage done to the government by Bush and the Republicans.

    But you seem to prefer the one party state of Republicans. I guess you would have liked the Soviet Union as well.
  • lynchie · 1 year ago
    here is an other great video on McCain's homes. Should be run as ad everywhere, especially in Minnesota during the GOP convention.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhuMgUkiVOY
  • HereinDC · 1 year ago
    When I post on different sites.....
    In the subject line...I type:
    1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9?

    Or how about when you sign-up on to another site, take the name: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9?
  • bdhp · 1 year ago
    Huffington Post is saying it is going to be Romney as the VP. How many houses does he have? Who are the elitists? Another POW. Person Of Wealth.
    Old Huckebee is going to have a hissy.
  • Karma · 1 year ago
    ...and at the convention one of the "key" speakers should come out and announce that they found a set of key rings if anyone needs to claim them, and give them a good jiggle for the news media while the crowd goes wild!
  • maggiePA08 · 1 year ago
    Brill!!!
  • HereinDC · 1 year ago
    Excellent...

    You know who would of been the person who would of LOVED to do that.

    Ann Richards.

    She would of been great!
  • MrsTarquinBiscuitbarrel · 1 year ago
    I don't know if there's a world to come, but if there is, can you imagine what Ann Richards and Molly Ivins would be THINKING?! Let's do the key thing in loving memory of Molly and Ann!
  • MediaWeasel · 1 year ago
    Inspired idea. Ha!

    McCain - out of touch, much?
  • Heather · 1 year ago
    Now that is funny! And just think how helpful it will be for all of us to remember how many homes we have and which key goes to which one. :-)
  • cpDallas · 1 year ago
    sure beats tire pressure gauges!!! i agree with combining all of the 7,8,9 - 12 keys together on one ring. perfect noisemaker!
  • LeeBurl · 1 year ago
    My wife suggested using toy keys like those that a baby would play with. It might not jngle like keys, but thousands of colorful clacking plastic keys would sure make a noise.
  • LeeBurl · 1 year ago
    And if the repugs whine about it, tell 'em we just having a little fun, like they said with Britney/paris ads.
  • Paddy · 1 year ago
    No, nooooo, we CAN'T, it's one of his PTSD triggers-

    McCain has himself described having an adverse reaction to the sound of jangling keys, which reminds him of his Vietnam jailers. McCain also told doctors that during solitary confinement he had strayed pretty "far out" and had referred to himself as "mentally deteriorating."

    http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/05/22/mc...

    And I'm not trying to rain on Joey's parade- we were the first to post the video. I just remembered this.
  • LeeBurl · 1 year ago
    Then it's fair to question to what degree he may suffer from it. My father had it. His second wife left because ofthis night terrors. Do we really want someone like that in the White House?
  • Paddy · 1 year ago
    I agree completely, but jangling keys at the convention is just over the top. Maybe we could use this to bring out his PTSD problem to talk about? If we stop in defference to his issues, maybe some of the TradMed will mention why and that gives us an opening.
  • BRouse · 1 year ago
    VERY GOOD POINT! He could snap at 3am and push the red button. KABOOM!
  • BRouse · 1 year ago
    All I could think about when I kept hearing McBush talk about how they tortured him in Nam was, . . . . . let's look again at the videos of water boarding. . . . How on earth could McBush vote against his own bill knowing what it's like to be tortured . . . and how successful it is!

    Also, when he said his biggest regret is is "failed first marriage," he didn't say, "running around on my faithful, injured and disfigured wife for years and breaking up our marriage."
  • jr · 1 year ago
    Charlie Crist brings his "male friend from out of town" to McCain's extra houses to deal with the "pressures of being governor"
  • 4dogs · 1 year ago
    That is absolutely Brilliant and easy to do. Maybe as people jingle their key rings they can count down McCains houses. A nice little gift to add to the key ring would be little shoe charms. Yes shoe charms that represent McCains $520 shoes. People can't afford to keep their homes, buy their medications, but McCain has shoes worth over $500. What a way to turn this "out of touch" notion right on it's head- McCains head that is. BTW they are playing Obama talking about McCains houses all morning on CNN.
  • truebluecoondog · 1 year ago
    BETTER IDEA: Remember the giant flip flops they taunted Kerry with? How about giant sized KEYS with house # s on them? The crowd can wave them around like they did with the flip flops!
  • Paddy · 1 year ago
    THERE YA GO!! Big old foam keys with numbers!! Like the finger foam things that those football fans use!!
  • HereinDC · 1 year ago
    I'd like to see more people put an Obama bumper sticker driver's side front bumper,
    It really catches your eye.
  • seattlebob · 1 year ago
    Great idea. One suggestion: how about McHome #1, etc.?
  • EmGD · 1 year ago
    Also: purple heart band aids. Wait, wrong party.

    Why limit it to 9? How about everyone going to Barrypalooza at Invesco gets one, all the way up to McCain House 75,000.

    Fake Cindy McCain prescription bottles, with different charities she stole from on them? Saving and Loan mousepads (buy one get Keating 5)? Too far? I'll stop.

    http://thesebastards.blogspot.com/