DISQUS

AMERICAblog: America prepares to celebrate its birthday, so John McCain leaves the country

  • tlsintx · 1 year ago
    maybe Cindy's stash was low?
  • tduffy2 · 1 year ago
    So, McCain knows the price of cocaine, but not the price of a gallon of gas!
  • lauren1959 · 1 year ago
    Even users have inflation issues....
  • Fireblazes(cheetohsandcatfood) · 1 year ago
    I’m happy to say that there has been some success. The cost of cocaine on the street is up.” Sadly the price of heroin is way down because of that Afghanistan/Iraq thing.
  • kl8n · 1 year ago
    Hey, Cindy McCain can't afford to have the price of blow go up. She's already spending three-quarters of a million dollars a month on her credit card bills alone.
  • ron071 · 1 year ago
    The more we learn the more we realize about that marriage made at the bank. Imagine, $ 750,000 in credit card charges in ONE MONTH! Why, then, don't they just charge a bit more and pay the 4-year overdue taxes on home # 8 in LaJolla? The Republican nominee is one for the ages!
  • Coming Undone · 1 year ago
    So we are back to fighting the "War on Drugs"? John please tell Cindy to just say NO!
  • Indigo · 1 year ago
    He knows we celebrate Independence Day on the 4th of July, right?
  • Ben Dover · 1 year ago
    Oh yeah. And I think he's going to bring Christmas presents too.

    :)
  • tlsintx · 1 year ago
    yes, and the magic bunny hides all those eggs in one night, my friend!
  • noni · 1 year ago
    AmericaBlog quoted by Andrea Mitchell

    http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/07/02/draft-...
  • Bush_Bites · 1 year ago
    Ha!

    Mrs. Greenspan is really mad at John.

    (Funny how she keeps going off into these long, disjointed parenthetical phrases so she can slip her defenses of McCain into her questions.)
  • KarenMrsLloydRichards · 1 year ago
    Aravosis needs to get the fuck outta Dodge, cuz Mrs. Greenspan is ornier than a copperhead gittin' run over by a wagon wheel! And she's packin' heat (thanks to her buddies on the Supreme Court)!!
  • Rab · 1 year ago
    McCrappy is running a campaign that may be considered the worst in presidential history, which will match the outgoing Worst President Ever.
  • Bush_Bites · 1 year ago
    drugs is a big, big problem in America...

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    "Drugs is a big, big problem" in your family, Gramps.
  • Coming Undone · 1 year ago
    Maybe that's why Bush gave McCain the tip about the hostages being released in Colombia because the cost of cocaine is up on the street.
  • Ray_Ray · 1 year ago
    Illicit drugs BAD. Prescription drugs -- not so much.
  • mauro7inf · 1 year ago
    Ugh.

    OK, look, I don't support McCain and never will. But you know, it's important to do things other than the number one priority from time to time. If we do nothing but talk about how bad the economy is, we'll never get around to talking about how bad our schools are, about our drug problem (which isn't made up, unlike much of the terrorist threat that attempts to scare us into voting Republican), and so on. Don't WE have more important things to ask him about besides that? Like, couldn't he be questioned on the economy instead of on why he thinks countries besides America matter? I think we should give McCain credit for doing some global outreach. I'd say Obama should do that, too, except that he already has the world's respect. Yes, in American elections, only people who are citizens and of the right age get to have a say, but it would be downright Bushian to speak only to the people who might vote for you and then be president only to those who did.

    So I'm glad John McCain is talking about something other than the economy. I only wish he could talk more about Iraq so that he could show off his knowledge of the Muslim world, or about technology policy so that he could impress us with his awareness of the internet (which, it must be said, he has).
  • ron071 · 1 year ago
    Mauro how do you define " global outreach"? Is that what McBush was doing in Columbia or perhaps a photo-op for the rescue event is a more apt description?
  • RepubAnon · 1 year ago
    That's right, we're not just fighting a War on Terror - we're fighting a War on Drugs, too! Doesn't that mean suspension of habeas corpus for suspected drug dealers, Hellfire missile and B-2 bombing raids on suspected crack houses, Blackwater mercenaries driving around with guns blazing, and all the rest of the things our "serious" leaders do in Iraq?
  • comsympinko · 1 year ago
    “May I just say, I’m here for one day, I’m in Mexico the next day, then I’m back home -- also drugs is a big, big problem in America, the continued flow of drugs from Colombia through Mexico into the United States is still one of our major challenges to all America.”

    Jeebus, he's even starting to talk like Bush.
  • Bush_Bites · 1 year ago
    John McCain: Uniquely qualified to be a prisoner of war.
  • Nigel Elliott · 1 year ago
    John McCain was born in Panama. Panama was part of Colombia. McCain went home, sort of speak. ;-)
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_Pana...
  • Nigel Elliott · 1 year ago
    McCain campaign's new Karl Rove look
    http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog...
  • tlsintx · 1 year ago
    and, wow! that whole karl rove thing worked out so well...the permanent republican majority and all? so it's a permanent republican majority in federal prison, but whatever.

    they got nothing.
  • cowboyneok · 1 year ago
    John McCain is an elitist. Otherwise, he would care about the average American. He is SO out of touch, he doesn't understand the pain George W. Bush and Republicans have caused the average American and wants to just continue down the same path. Its that simple.
  • cowboyneok · 1 year ago
    John McCain is an elitist. Otherwise, he would care about the average American. He is SO out of touch, he doesn't understand the pain George W. Bush and Republicans have caused the average American and wants to just continue down the same path. Its that simple.
  • Bush_Bites · 1 year ago
    He's not much different than Bush really.

    Got into schools he didn't deserve to get into because his dad was an Admiral.

    Went through a drinking, whoring period afterwards.

    Only difference is that Bush had rich Poppa set him up in business, while McCain had the rich upgrade wife do it.
  • ron071 · 1 year ago
    Bush-Bites needs to add the Bush/McSame military experiences which are both replete with how favoritism allowed seriously inadequate men to move ahead thru family connecttions. This similar path of Bush/McSame would make an excellent subject for a book titled " Similar Paths To Public Disasters"
  • jcgraham77 · 1 year ago
    And how many average Americans have a problem with cocaine?
  • Ben Dover · 1 year ago
    Cougar McTart could have saved the McSame campaign tons of cash on that drug research trip to Columbia.
    All Grampa McSame would have had to do was review Cougar's arrest record, from the comfort of one of their seven or eight rest homes.
    Wouldn't have had to fly out of the country for that.
  • mirth · 1 year ago
    OT

    The RTNDA gave the Edward R. Murrow award for Best Newscast to CBS Evening News with Katic Couric.

    I don't watch TV so I can't say, but has her once low-rated newzcast improved that much?
  • KarenMrsLloydRichards · 1 year ago
    Make that: John McCocain! And his partnership for a drug-free, erm, partnership with Cindy McCodeine!
  • RenoAnne · 1 year ago
    That's such an unfair question. Where else is C-word McCain supposed to get her drugs?
  • Mikki --SE Pennsylvania · 1 year ago
    What a joke! Insane McCain leaving his own country, where he is admittedly without any honor, to junket to Mexico and Columbia, no doubt to get a good price on blow for the little woman. After all Cindi is providing the plane, so the least ole John can do is bring the stuff back. I mean they would never serach him for contraband now would they. Cindi keep reminding him that things go better with coke, at least they will for him as long as she gets the coke.
    The south of the border junkets make a nice pause while Insane's campaign tries on yet another set of "advisors" to see if they can jump-start his campaign. I think we can pretty well be sure the attempt to appear different than George Shit-for-Brains Bush has gone by the boards. All the new folks have been recruited from the last Bush campaign and seem to be Rove minions to boot: Steve Schmidt worked for Bush and Rove as well as the gay old Ken Mehlman;NIcolle Wallace was campaign director for Bush's campaign and then in the White House; Greg Jenkins definitely a Rove minion was director of the presidential advance team and is additionally tarnished, hav=ing been a Fox News producer.so one can be pretty sure he will be handling Propaganda and probably liasing with Fox, well-known republicon PR firm. One more camp follower is a Jill Hazelbaker -Campaign Spokesman (sic) who is already firmly speaking out assuring anyone who will listen that people aren't intyerested in Insanes campaign organization plan. Well Jilly you are already wrong on that one. People are very interested as they see retread Bush campaign drones being settled on old Insane while his longterm friends such as Mike Murphyh and John Weaver are pushed out into the cold. Yeah! so doubt about it Insane McCaIn would be McBush3 if he were to be elected. Just think about it folks then get out your checkbooks and write another check for Barack Obama and yes, that includes you bitches that have your knickers in a twist about Hillary. It also includes you chowder-headed racists who don't want to vote for Obama because he is black. Get real would you really vote for a broken-down old man who is a liar, a crook, and a moral leper?
  • vwcat · 1 year ago
    Asked if McCain shouldn't be more concerned with the polls I would say that is probably why he went down south. To get away from the polls and the fact that Obama is beating his ass in some red states.
  • nsr · 1 year ago
    "I’m happy to say that there has been some success. The cost of cocaine on the street is up.”

    Which is good for the cartels. I knew the repubs prize profits above everything else, but this is ridiculous.
  • MAJMark · 1 year ago
    News flash "Obama will visit Middle East, Western Europe this summer"
    Please, you criticize McCain two day trip?
  • ron071 · 1 year ago
    Is MAJMark serious with his " comparison?" We know the reason for one trip but have been deceived about the other. Wake up MAJ Mark or are you part of a willing deception?
  • SouthernYankee · 1 year ago
    Hey MAJM, McFlipper has already done that and has been there and Canada to. So you will see how well Obama will be received. I bet lots will be lining the streets to greet Obama. Just like when JFK was in Europe back in 1963. I know I was a teenager living in Italy.
  • jr · 1 year ago
    look how unions are treated in Columbia and McCombover wants us to have free trade with them
    http://www.amicustheunion.org/default.aspx?page...
  • kiki · 1 year ago
    McBush left the country to butter up his campaign. Great new adds. UGH!
  • DCinDC · 1 year ago
    McCain went to Columbia to get money for his campaign. Can you say backroom deal and untraceable money?
  • SouthernYankee · 1 year ago
    You know McCain travelled overseas because he new that Bush had a secret deal to free hostages.. Bush wanted him there to get the credit. It wasn't a coincident that he was there. By the way he found out about it on the way back on his plane. It is the same thing that Regan did when he freed the hostages in Iran. I think he made a backroom deal to hold the hostages until after the election.
  • ron071 · 1 year ago
    SouthernYankee has it right. The Republican play book is alive and well. The only question is how many Americans are still unaware that we have a huge fraudulent group running the country.
  • Slim Cognito · 1 year ago
    Hell, with the price of gas, I can't afford coke and pot!!
  • ron071 · 1 year ago
    There now is NO surprise regarding McSame's Columbia trip. This is typical Bush/Cheney/Rove/McSame methodology. Use some " favorable" international news event and plant your would-be successor right there at the right time to make the " official" appreciative commendation. Hopefully, even the least among us will recognize these Republican frauds for what they are. Surely we've been given enough experience with them for 7+ years.
  • njprogressive · 1 year ago
    From people I have talked to with SUV's, it costs a lot more than 80 bucks to fill their tank. But, not to sound too cynical, I am kinda glad they have to pay that much. They shouldn't be driving those gas guzzlers. Maybe if they bought a hybrid car they wouldn't feel the pinch as much. I try to hide my laughter when I cruise by the gas stations and see them lined up like elephants at a watering hole. While I don't want anyone to struggle with their bills, I do want them to think about how their purchases impact the rest of us.
  • FunMe · 1 year ago
    "also drugs is a big, big problem in America"

    wait a second!

    Is he doing some international shopping for Cindy McDruggie?