DISQUS

dad · 1 year ago

he looked dad's grandpa old.

TheAmericanRealist · 1 year ago

I'm just hoping that for the next week or two both Obama and McCain will put the political differences aside and focus on the issues that will arise from Gustav.

But I am interested to see how not having a convention in the sense of what a convention should be will affect McCain in the polls.

dad · 1 year ago

an excuse for every bad poll

cowboyneok · 1 year ago

I thought he looked as if he crapped his pants.

I'm sure he will wander outside, shake his fist and shout at the clouds now!

HereinDC · 1 year ago

That reminds me of Marge Simsonasking GrandPa Simpson if he sat on something...

And his answer was, " I sure hope so. "

Meaning he thought he crapped his pants.

cowboyneok · 1 year ago

Angry John McCain craps his pants:

http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o307/don935_...

then wanders outside to shake his fist and yell at the angry clouds he thinks is ruining his chances at becoming the oldest President in history!

AdrianBrowne · 1 year ago

live video from the Republican Convention site in Minnesota

lynchie · 1 year ago

I thought he looked like he needed his diaper changed and was thinking more of some hot milk and oatmeal.

KarenMrsLloydRichards · 1 year ago

How DARE you, or anybody for that matter, call McCain comatose?! He's not Terry Schiavo! She could at least laugh and follow a helium balloon bouncing around her bed. Can the same be said of McCain?

flashcard · 1 year ago

I'm waiting for him to yell at the kids to stay off his lawn.

DCinDC · 1 year ago

I think he knows his VP pick was his most stupid mistake in life. I will say it again. There is something wrong with McCain. His judgment is terrible.

KarenMrsLloydRichards · 1 year ago

Yep, and the problem was it wasn't HIS pick; it was Rove's Boys'.

naschkatzehussein · 1 year ago

She was forced on him. He wanted Lieberman. There's an article in todays NYT so you don't have to take my word for it.

Ellie · 1 year ago

McCain looked really confused. And I hate his whistling dentures. He has enough money to get some decent dentures!

Slim Cognito · 1 year ago

Those dentures have been driving me nuts, too. Glad I wasn't just imagining it.

HereinDC · 1 year ago

No wonder McCain only does one campaign event a day.

this would of been his second time today he had to speak

of course he was tuckered out.

Wolfsinger · 1 year ago

Does anybody remember that episode of the original Star Trek in which a well meaning former star ship captain is discovered by the intrepid crew of the Enterprise trying to use the methods of Nazi Germany to bring civility to an alien planet?

The former captains was merely a drugged up puppet for the real power abusers behind the scene? Watching McBush try and communicate "his" plans for the ReThuglican convention was kinda like that.

I wonder just how far Karl's hand goes?

Jim Olson · 1 year ago

shudder.

Heather · 1 year ago

Not that I don't take your word for it, John, but is there video?

John Aravosis · 1 year ago

yes, that's why i wrote "Joe will be posting video soon" :-)

Heather · 1 year ago

Forgive me :-)

Rucka123 · 1 year ago

Again I ask If it wasn't a political invitation for a GOP photo op, then why were Barack and Joe not invited by Haley Barbour to see their plans for their "Katrina do-over"?

doug · 1 year ago

It was time for his nap.

Chris From Maine · 1 year ago

McCain is senile. His mind is no longer there, and that is a very dangerous thing.

jiminportlandoregon · 1 year ago

/Thank you, Chris, I agree completely. I find it very odd that he will not release his medical records. After all, the cancer is well known, so what is he hiding? This is why they have Palin. They can lead her around like an obedient puppy, who will do whatever they say. (They being Cheney and other sick neocons.)

Slim Cognito · 1 year ago

He's so senile, he can't even keep his eyes where they belong. Watch him stare at Palin's chest in her acceptance video.
http://www.jedreport.com/2008/08/john-mccains-w...

Ewwwwww!!!

MarkoSparko · 1 year ago

poor old thing needs his meds - that's all. we'll be fine with peepaw at the helm. stop hatin'! ;)

HereinDC · 1 year ago

You know how when you see old tv shows back in the 50's and they show the audience and those people just look SO OLD?

McCain looks like that kind of old.

HereinDC · 1 year ago

How the old women wear those same print dresses.....like Aunt Bee.

that's what I think of when I see John McCain.

Even more so now that we know he doesn't use the internet....( wanna bet he doesn't use a computer....but we haven't been told that yet)

HereinDC · 1 year ago

The Top of the GOP is a man who doesn't use the internet and a woman who never had a passport till 2007?

UGH!

PattyP · 1 year ago

Yep, I watched part of his announcement. I was in the kitchen and had to keep going into the teevee room to see if something had happened to the sound, but it was just McSame taking painfully long pauses between words. It was like his batteries were running out. No, that's not it - he was like a wind-up music box that's almost out of wind, you know like when it gets down to the last few notes and there are really long pauses between them and you think it's finally done, and then suddenly there's another note? I didn't think anyone could creep me out more than Bush or Cheney but I was wrong.

falloch · 1 year ago

John, the second paragraph of this post needs to be recorded by a solemn-sounding voice, backed up by photos of Katrina and ending with a 527 'Democrats for Obama' label. And shown non-stop ftomorrow before Hurricane Gus makes his impact, and everyone will then say the Dems are capitalizing on misery, etc., because the text was very very good.

Coming Undone · 1 year ago

Republican woman are insane, on the one hand they say that Palin getting on a plane at 44yrs old 8 mos pregnant with a high risk pregnancy is her choice and her private business, but in the next breath they will talk about over turning
Roe v. Wade and birth control.

jiminportlandoregon · 1 year ago

John, I think you are spot on with this. I have been saying to friends for weeks that McCain really seems out of it. I noticed on Friday morning prior to introducing Palin, Cindy had to physically help him to the podium. He CONSTANTLY seems confused and lost. He looks like Reagan did in his final days in office (and don''t anyone say they never noticed Reagan was out of it at the end of his second term). I truly cannot help but wonder if the neocons behind the scenes (read: Cheney) know that he cannot make it though a first term and that Palin can be led around by the nose to do their bidding.

falloch · 1 year ago

'cannot make it through a first term'?? Try, won't make it to the election! A candidate switcheroo might be the Rethugs' October Surprise!!

jiminportlandoregon · 1 year ago

If he doesn't make it to the election, she is NOT automatically president. He has to be sworn in on January 20th and then lose it for her to ascend. Prior to election, the party can pick anyone they choose for the presidency. It gets sticky, however, between the election and the swearing in on January 20th. I really am not sure what happens if he were to die between Nov 4th and Jan 20th. I do know that it does not automatically go to her, however.

falloch · 1 year ago

Yikes, then there could be a December surprise?!?!

truth_machine · 1 year ago

Let's leave it to the Republicans to speak authoritatively on matters about which they are completely ignorant and too lazy to investigate. "I am really not sure what happens" ... well, gee, where do you think it might say? Maybe, perhaps, in the U.S. Constitution?? From the 20th amendment: "If, at the time fixed for the beginning of the term of the President, the President elect shall have died, the Vice President elect shall become President."

Sheesh, people, you're American citizens, try acting like it.

jiminportlandoregon · 1 year ago

Your nasty condescending tone, while unnecessary, tells me you need to feel superior. I appreciate the correct information you provided but would ask you how it feels to know absolutely everything about absolutely everything? It's rhetorical - don't bother answering if you have to be an asshole.

truth_machine · 1 year ago

Blah blah ad hominem blah. I don't know everything, and UNLIKE YOU, I DON'T PRETEND TO. As I noted, the fault is all yours for PRETENDING to know something you didn't and being too lazy to look it up. And now you again act like a Republican with your immense HYPOCRISY. Here's a hint: if you find yourself calling someone an asshole, you probably are one.

iWoman · 1 year ago

He didn't even seem with it and excited when he announced Palin as the vp nomination, to me.

Dave of the Jungle · 1 year ago

Zombies can be President.

Reason0Politics1 · 1 year ago

I recall reading a blog from some soldiers that had first hand knowledge of mcsame in Iraq.. i think it was a link off mcsame.com ? or ... anyway, the gist was that a couple of soldiers ran into him ina room off the press room where mcsame was to engage the pr machine, and he was alone 9 no handlers present for a few moments 0 and the soldiers state specifically that mcsame was mumbling to himself, looking very demented actually. Even suggested he may have "soiled' his pants.

I believe that mcsame is indeed demented... clinically ( Alzheimer's, something ) and the shadow power people, the Tammany hall crowd, are propping mcsame up as a huge joke. Seriously. I know its a conspiratorial view, but all governments are formed by conspiracy at first. Anyway, I think that they are proving their power by demonstrating that the sheeple that blindly follow Limbaugh etc will actually by into and elect a Alzheimer's patient!

Bush_Bites · 1 year ago

Guess they figure if they can get a mental defective like Bush in the White House, any clown will do.

jiminportlandoregon · 1 year ago

I think you are right on the mark. And who better to succeed him than some compliant little neocon who doesn't know her ass from her elbow? They will have her doing things she never dreamed of doing....none of them very nice. They will destroy this country if they have their way.

Slim Cognito · 1 year ago

The more I think of it, this will be Rove's great accomplish yet. He thought he could never top his "put a moron in the White House using name recognition" but now he's going to put an Alzheimers patient in the White House using POW POW POW!!

DavidinChelseaMA · 1 year ago

I was surprised he didn't shake his finger at the camera, and say "You hurricanes get out of my yard!!!"

Bush_Bites · 1 year ago

Oooh, oooh!

I know why!

I'll bet you anything he just got his first internal poll numbers on the Palin pick and found out it ain't going to fly with independent voters.

Now he's realizing he has 60 more days of a no-win charade.

Upland_Oddball · 1 year ago

Mc Cain may be feeling deep regret and worry, deep enough to show in his body language.. He prides himself in being a maverick, but the line between maverick and flake can be very thin, and he may well know that he has crossed it BiG TIME! It would be very much an show of maverick-ness to pull down his pants and moon the American people. No ordinary politician would do such a thing. Almost no one would. But who would take him seriously afterwards. Picking Sarah Palin as V.P. is about as clownish an act. She is going to bleed away any credibility once her full story comes out. McCain's impulsiveness and lack of sound judgment led him to forego a customary vetting of Palin, and now he may pay a very big price for being so foolish.

Upland_Oddball · 1 year ago

It also did not help that McCain has been vicitimized by the endemic disease that runs through Gingrich-Bush-Rove era Republicanism. And that is the syndrome of truly believing that any one or group of Republicans in any room arre always the smartest people in the room. The Rovian advisors he took on greased the skids that lead to the impending trainwreck we now see. What a circle jerk of ineptitude!

tjlabs · 1 year ago

Here's the video with editorial comment added. http://www.tagg-lines.com/2008/08/more-flesh-to...

tlsintx · 1 year ago

love it! McWalnuts is on the case!