DISQUS

zavlin · 1 year ago

And once again we're reminded the largest problem with hillarys continued campaign of failure is that it helps stories like these slide under the radar.

lynchie · 1 year ago

Nice to see Senator Obama strike hard and to the point. Where is Hillary, still trying to push her sexism killed my campaign meme. McCain has a 2 hour mental warm up every morning where his handlers get him to remember his name, his age, a short synopsis of what is going on in the world and then point him towards a door and hope for the best. It truly is like sitting with my Grand Dad and listening to him talk about the days of prohibition and bringing whiskey from Canada to Erie Pa. Only problem is my grand dad is suffering from Alzheimers and dementia and can't tell you what planet he is on. Not his fault, age will do that to you and McCain is no different.

Dave of the Jungle · 1 year ago

McCain exhibits a trend of increasingly serious cognitive dysfunction.

jr · 1 year ago

"McCain shouldn't have to know about Iraq. He makes killer bbq"-McCainstream media while ordering Cindy flowers from FTD

HereinDC · 1 year ago

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I wonder what the families of the dead service men and woman would think ....when knowing the correct number of dead soldiers is nitpicking?
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Dave of the Jungle · 1 year ago

George W Bush didn't know basics facts about Iraq, such as Kurds and Sunnis and Shia, either and he ignored expert advice.

The results speak for themselves.

CitizenTwenty · 1 year ago

Grandpa's running for PRESIDENT...
Grandpa's running...
Ummm...
I mean walking...
For PRESIDENT!!!

aquarius2 · 1 year ago

McCain is on MSNBC touting he is right and Obama is wrong because the "surge" is working just like he (McCain) said it would. He is basing his run for president on the fact that he was "right" about the surge. He wants to know why Senator Obama doesn't know enough to know the surge is working?

I have a question for both Sen McCain and Sen Obama, what do the Iraqis want? After all it is their country, do they want Americans there for years?

osage · 1 year ago

Just what America needs........another cluelessly isolated and ignorant president who uses his mean-spiritied gut to make decisions rather than facts, knowledge, intelligence and reality. McCain, for all his so-called "experience", is one dumb SOB in the most critical areas of international relations and domestic governance. He wants to be a wartime president, but he doesn't even know the difference between our allies and our enemies, and doesn't want to genuinely provide for the veterans who have sacrificed and risked everything for our country. He wants to continue Bush's tax breaks to the rich and privatize social security, health care and health insurance, but he doesn't know anything about economics. McCain is just like Bush. He wants to make all the decisions, but he doesn't want to take the time or make the effort to really learn and understand the impact of those decisions on the lives of working class and improverished people. Ignorance, stupidity and laziness don't exactly make John McCain one America's best and brightest.

AnalyticalLiberal · 1 year ago

Well said, Osage. Succinct yet profound. Why can't the traditional media get this? Because they have created this narrative of "who" McCain is, and it would take too much work and sacrifice (the BBQ is so tasty, and McCain is just so damn funny and will flatter the media with "answering" their questions for hours on end) to actually inform Americans who will be again subjected to the experiment of "what would happen if we had an idiot as President?". Who really cares if McCain will be Bush's 3rd term, when Bush has been so rewarding to the media elite along with the haves and the have-mores?

osage · 1 year ago

Did you happen to see any of the Republican debates? I only saw their first one, and I couldn't watch another. McCain doesn't come across as a quick on his feet campaigner. He reminds me of Bush in that when he's under the gun to make a quick comeback, he generally gets tongue tied or tries to be funny and says something really foolish. Frankly, I think the more people see McCain the campaigner the more they we see he's more like Bush than most people realize. I think he's a bad campainger and that Barack will make him look shallow and out of his depth. I don't think the media will have to "out" the ignorance of John McCain. I think John McCain will do that all by himself. Remember, he won't have uncle Joe and little jerk Graham to prompt him or correct his mistakes when he's confronting Obama one-on-one in a televised debate.

Bush_Bites · 1 year ago

John McCain is still living in the pre-Internet world -- definitely the pre-YouTube world.

Heck, he lives in a pre-television world.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNYHq0WuiUo

Soundboy_jeff_meanie · 1 year ago

"expecting McCain to know basic facts about Iraq is nitpicking "

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that's right... who'd expect the president to know anything about Iraq? the difference between Shi'a and Sunni... economics... domestic policy... foreign policy... ethics... etc.

I mean, would we have voted a chimp into the office TWICE if he needed to know ANY of this crap??

/snark

Bush_Bites · 1 year ago

McCain's first 100-day agenda:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oupS4XbN_4Y

Bush_Bites · 1 year ago

"Older and Madder than McCain"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjaC1vYwgAs

AnalyticalLiberal · 1 year ago

Hey Joe,

Can we change the frame from the "Iraq War" TO either the "Iraq Debacle" or the "Iraq Occupation"? Calling it a "War" implies that it can be "won," whatever that means, whereas an "occupation" - which it in fact is - connotes that it is something that can, should, and will come to an end. The "war" ended on "Mission Accomplished Day" more than 5 years ago, and it was lost long ago by the U.S. and the British civilian "leaders."

Using this correct frame will help to permanently pin Iraq and its long-lasting damage - to Iraq, to the middle east, to America, and to the world - on Bush and on his vast legion of enablers in the Congress, in the traditional media and punditry, the blogosphere, and most especially in the eyes of the vast majority ordinary Americans. That is a critical accomplishment, one that will keep the Rethugs in the minority for at least the next 30 years. It must be done! What say you?

Soundboy_jeff_meanie · 1 year ago

agreed... either "Iraq Civil War" or just "Iraq quagmire"

PeteWa · 1 year ago

The Immoral Iraq Invasion and Occupation has a certain ring to it.

Rab · 1 year ago

McCain simply put is an ignorant, senile son of a bitch.

kirkaracha · 1 year ago

When he announced the surge in January 2007, President Bush said "the Iraqi government plans to take responsibility for security in all of Iraq's provinces by November." That didn't happen. The purpose of the surge was buy time for political reconciliation. The surge is not working.

jgcarter56 · 1 year ago

I like to think of Republican'ts like puppies being potty trained. They only learn when their noses are immediately rubbed into the mess that they have made. For puppies, you have to rub their noses in their mess as soon as they have made it. For Republican'ts, you have to call them on their mistakes/lies as soon as they make them, not hours or days later; otherwise, they never learn.

jhgeorge1935 · 1 year ago

What if Obama went to Iraq (by himself through all the proper channels) and requested General Petraeus to try to set up a meeting with the General together with Sadr and Sistani? He will obviously have to talk to the marginalized al-Maliki; who like Bush, is a lame-duck.
This would allow Obama to set the agenda, or be rejected.