AMERICAblog: CQ: Obama Makes McCain Very Uncomfortable
dad
· 1 year ago
ya think?
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
He should have smiled at Lieberman and said "You're a dead man."
interlude
· 1 year ago
he's a little boy, emotionally this has become obvious can we really afford to go from a dry drunk to a 4th grader? scary
grandma
· 1 year ago
OMG...what's McCain gonna do when he loses...
I just can't wait til McJerk has to address Obama as Mr. President.
Ben Dover
· 1 year ago
I think Cindi McTart will cut back on Johnny's allowance quite dramatically.
vkobaya
· 1 year ago
I just can't wait til McJerk has to address Obama as Mr. President.
You're kidding right? McJerk will never address Obama as Mr. President. It was pretty obvious what he thought of Obama. I expect he will call him a Goddamn uppity F***ing N----- if not other worse things.
grandma
· 1 year ago
yep ...the jerk couldn't have made it more obvious
hopelesspedant
· 1 year ago
My contrarian take is that he'll be gracious to the point of being obsequious (sp), like he was to Bush.
Might even invite the President-elect and family for a couple days in Sedona over the Xmas holidays.
sukabi1
· 1 year ago
there's NO WAY that will ever happen.
hopelesspedant
· 1 year ago
It's my hunch it might.
Again, he made his peace and then some with Bush.
He has visited Vietnam and been quite civil and friendly.
It's just my guess, no better or worse than yours. And I never said it is certain.
sukabi1
· 1 year ago
McCain is a very small, angry man and he keep shrinking.
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
Someday, he'll be a little ball of hate.
sukabi1
· 1 year ago
I personally think he's arrived at that stage, he's working on being a black hole of hate.
KarenMrsLloydRichards
· 1 year ago
McCain = Rumpelstiltskin
TheAngryFag
· 1 year ago
Well, it could just be a sign of geriatric dementia.
Butch1
· 1 year ago
This is a mentally broken man who thinks he can interact with the rest of the world he doesn't like.
KenyaJ
· 1 year ago
What a petty, small man.
I can't wait until he has to give his concession speech to Obama.
vkobaya
· 1 year ago
I can't imagine that he would ever concede to Obama.
CPL
· 1 year ago
Kenya, that speech will probably be littered with expletives and his bitterness, meanness and plain being a crochety ol' bastard will shine right through.
All that will be left to say is for him to drop the N-word and call Obama a "boy" for his humiliation to be complete.
grandma
· 1 year ago
No wonder his wife resorted to using drugs.
Ben Dover
· 1 year ago
As old and erratic as McCain is he probably didn't recognize Obama and was really just wanting to order a cocktail.
Milli
· 1 year ago
Even Bush does a better job of feigning civility.
vkobaya
· 1 year ago
You're kidding. Bush simply has other uncivilized means of letting his attitude be known, his nasty smirks and gestures and hateful bigoted behavior. Remember when he patted one of the Black Congressmen on the face? I thought that should have a been a prosecutable crime, 20 years to life ... in an overseas prison.
Milli
· 1 year ago
McCain once told Jon Stewart that he wanted to bring back an IED from Iraq to put under Stewarts desk in retaliation for the jokes he makes about him. Then he made a comment about wishing Stewart brought his dog to work that day because he wanted to kick it. Bush is mean, but McCain seems meaner. He comes across as someone who has frequent and violent tantrums. I'm more scared of him.
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
Everybody buys into that idea that Obama is "Bambi,"
But he's a lot more competitive than people realize.
He knows he's getting in McCain's head--or, at least, he knows it now.
grandma
· 1 year ago
He's getting in McCain's head alright.......McCain's actions couldn't have been more erratic and desperate the last couple weeks.
lcdrrek
· 1 year ago
I hope the Dem's squash him like a bug when he returns to his Senate seat in January, he and his F#$K Buddy Joe Lieberman and Lindsey Graham can hang out together in the "Cloak Room". I was also excited with the thought of him having to give that Concession Speech, it is going to be a party.
Steve_in_CNJ
· 1 year ago
mccain is going to lose worse than dole. he's becoming toxic.
Toxic is right....and if Palin does what she did in her convention speech....slam Obama with her sarcasm it is going to backfire bigtime.....she is a laughing stock and for her to think she can slam someone like Obama is now a joke.
Steve_in_CNJ
· 1 year ago
obama may have crossed the tipping point where slime starts to bounce off. and all this without getting into the gutter despite feverish exhortatons from many of his supporters.
vkobaya
· 1 year ago
When Obama has a truly safe margin, 15-20%, they had better frisk McCain before the debates as he will probably be packing to prevent Obama from beating him.
Dave of the Jungle
· 1 year ago
Maybe he'll have a receiver under his coat and an earpiece like George did in 2004.
shrrrr
· 1 year ago
PLEASE! Pay attention to what's happening in the House, just four 24 hours, and FOCUS!!!!
Please, stop the concentration on politics. How about being above politics and being a patriot??? For a day.
Please, please ask your congresspeople to be patriots.....and pass this.
WPE
· 1 year ago
Hard to blame McCain. I'd be pissed too if I was getting bitch-slapped by some whippersnapper.
kloche
· 1 year ago
That doesn't sound like the man who boasts about extending across the aisle and being a bipartisan leader. It sounds like a grumpy old man. McCain every day you go down in my estimation. I liked you so much back in 2000.
tommytoonz
· 1 year ago
McCain's been a total asshole towards Obama for a long time, read these notes they sent each other back in 2006, McCain comes off as an absolute jerk while Obama is completely respectful even after McCain's hissy fit.
I am glad you linked to this communication. I have thought for a long time that McCain has had it in for Obama and now to be running against him and losing in the polls must be making McCain totally off the scale with rage.
houstonray
· 1 year ago
Drip, drip, drip goes the temper...it's about to burst...
He may flip-flop, then flop-flip and flip-flop again all in one day but he remains consistently classless. Probably an authentic trait.
osage
· 1 year ago
McCain isn't going to garner 200 Electoral votes and he'll lose the popular vote by double digits. Dole, Coleman and Smith will lose their Senate seats. McCain's and Lieberman's political careers will for all intents and purposes be over. How is McCain's ego going to deal with losing by historic proportions?
bluestockton
· 1 year ago
My worst fear is that the Democrats will end up with 58 Senate seats. Sanders of Vermont will make 59, and to get a filibuster-proof majority they'll have to keep being nice to Lieberman.
osage
· 1 year ago
We may also add another one or two if we can get lucky in Kentucky and or Missssippi. If we do, I'd tell Lieberman that he can keep is committee chair only if he votes with Democrats 100% of the time. If he ever votes with the Republicans, he's gone!
KarenMrsLloydRichards
· 1 year ago
Total number of midshipmen at US Naval Academy, 1965: 4,100.
Total number of African-American midshipmen, 1965: 9.
AZ_Birdlady
· 1 year ago
I fully expect to see McCain stamp his feet and throw a fit before this election is over. He always wants to take his toys and go home...I wish he would just go.
Dave of the Jungle
· 1 year ago
Poor McCain is utterly outclassed and can't do a thing about it.
He's knows he's going to lose.
cowboyneok
· 1 year ago
Even more immature. McCain bans Maureen Dowd from press plane. Nicole Wallace gloats:
They are definitely working themselves up to Junior High.
houstonray
· 1 year ago
I'm sure he got that suggestion from Mrs. Palin, 'cause that's the way they did it at Wasilla High...
Mark217
· 1 year ago
McCain knows he is losing, possibly by a landslide. This is a terrible insult to McCain's macho-fighter-pilot ego. And he is being beat in a big way by a youngish, liberal, mixed-race man who never served in the military. I also get the vibe that McCain is not feeling well physically. We should have a betting pool to guess when McCain will really lose his temper in a public and profane way. I am guessing he will get a case of the ass around the time of the second debate.
High Crimes & Misdemeanors
· 1 year ago
You know something that has not been discussed, at least on any blog I read.
I have this impression that mcracist is a life long hater of black folks.
It came about during the first debates where he could not even look at Obama in the eye. That is old southern mannerism where the white man has so much contempt for the black man, he cant even look at him. And now we see it more and more from mcjerk, where he even has problems shaking his hand. I'm sure mcracist is having a fit shaking a black man's hand.
It's prevalent and growing. It is not out of the realm to have a REPUKE as a racist. mccracist is from that era. Is there any evidence that hes uttered racist remarks? Oh wait, just thought of the whole MLK birthday thing in Arizona...
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.............
bluestockton
· 1 year ago
I think you have that backward. It was blacks in the South who didn't dare look straight at whites, especially white women. Black men were lynched for the crime of "eyeball rape."
High Crimes & Misdemeanors
· 1 year ago
good point, though i think ramifications of that were that no one looked in each others eyes.....
Mikki --SE Pennsylvania
· 1 year ago
I was surprised to discover McCain's forebearers were slaveholders in Mississippi.
Suedmeyer
· 1 year ago
Call it what it is!
It is the same "thing" that has tarnished our history for years. And, it is why John McCain is unable to look the Democratic nominee in the eye in the well of the Senate ….
RACISM!
CPL
· 1 year ago
McCain's bigotry is showing.
He's pissed that he can't show it without having to cover it up for fear of being called a "bigot".
What is the problem with bigots actually being openly identified, if that's what they are?
He's also pissed that he actually has to campaign against a member of a race whose people weren't considered full human beings, but, according to the Constitution, 3/5 of a person. McCain forgets that the Emancipation Proclaimation made African-Americans full human beings with rights thereto.
You saw bigotry Friday nite. You'll probably see it again tomorrow, when Sarah Palin debates Joe Biden and has to take instruction and direction from another African-American, Gwen Ifill - whom the McCain camp has already threatened to slime if she doesn't treat Sarah like a delicate flower.
**rolls eyes and spits**
bluestockton
· 1 year ago
It was the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments that granted full personhood to African-Americans. The Emancipation Proclamation didn't free a single slave because the Confederate states did not recognize the authority of Abraham Lincoln; they had, after all, seceded. The Proclamation also specifically excluded slave states like Kentucky which had not seceded.
Lincoln knew the Proclamation was not going to free any slaves. It was really aimed at Great Britain, then the most powerful nation on earth. The Confederacy was hoping that, just as France had aided the 13 colonies in the Revolutionary War, Britain would give military aid to the Confederacy in exchange for cotton.
Lincoln had previously said the purpose of the Civil War was to preserve the Union; the Emancipation Proclamation made it about abolition, thereby keeping Britain out of the war. Britain had already abolished slavery, and Queen Victoria and her government had no taste for a war to preserve slavery somewhere else.
High Crimes & Misdemeanors
· 1 year ago
If I could offer a correction to your part of history. What alot of people don't know is that the British secretly financed the South to battle the war. It was a proxy war against the northern establishment. The British while they may have "abolished" war were financiers in the whole sordid mess. So in effect, we were fighting the British during the civil war. Mind you, the British have been using proxy wars to do their bidding for a long long time! From their perspective, slavery was a minor point, they wanted their damn colonies back!!! This is an empire that does not let go easily.
All Comments
this has become obvious
can we really afford to go from a dry drunk to a 4th grader?
scary
I just can't wait til McJerk has to address Obama as Mr. President.
You're kidding right? McJerk will never address Obama as Mr. President. It was pretty obvious what he thought of Obama. I expect he will call him a Goddamn uppity F***ing N----- if not other worse things.
Might even invite the President-elect and family for a couple days in Sedona over the Xmas holidays.
Again, he made his peace and then some with Bush.
He has visited Vietnam and been quite civil and friendly.
It's just my guess, no better or worse than yours. And I never said it is certain.
I can't wait until he has to give his concession speech to Obama.
All that will be left to say is for him to drop the N-word and call Obama a "boy" for his humiliation to be complete.
But he's a lot more competitive than people realize.
He knows he's getting in McCain's head--or, at least, he knows it now.
in case you didn't see the CBS poll:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26981780/
Please, stop the concentration on politics. How about being above politics and being a patriot??? For a day.
Please, please ask your congresspeople to be patriots.....and pass this.
http://obama.senate.gov/letter/060206-sen_obama...
He may flip-flop, then flop-flip and flip-flop again all in one day but he remains consistently classless. Probably an authentic trait.
Total number of African-American midshipmen, 1965: 9.
He's knows he's going to lose.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/01/mauree...
They are definitely working themselves up to Junior High.
I have this impression that mcracist is a life long hater of black folks.
It came about during the first debates where he could not even look at Obama in the eye. That is old southern mannerism where the white man has so much contempt for the black man, he cant even look at him. And now we see it more and more from mcjerk, where he even has problems shaking his hand. I'm sure mcracist is having a fit shaking a black man's hand.
It's prevalent and growing. It is not out of the realm to have a REPUKE as a racist. mccracist is from that era. Is there any evidence that hes uttered racist remarks? Oh wait, just thought of the whole MLK birthday thing in Arizona...
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.............
It is the same "thing" that has tarnished our history for years. And, it is why John McCain is unable to look the Democratic nominee in the eye in the well of the Senate ….
RACISM!
He's pissed that he can't show it without having to cover it up for fear of being called a "bigot".
What is the problem with bigots actually being openly identified, if that's what they are?
He's also pissed that he actually has to campaign against a member of a race whose people weren't considered full human beings, but, according to the Constitution, 3/5 of a person. McCain forgets that the Emancipation Proclaimation made African-Americans full human beings with rights thereto.
You saw bigotry Friday nite. You'll probably see it again tomorrow, when Sarah Palin debates Joe Biden and has to take instruction and direction from another African-American, Gwen Ifill - whom the McCain camp has already threatened to slime if she doesn't treat Sarah like a delicate flower.
**rolls eyes and spits**
Lincoln knew the Proclamation was not going to free any slaves. It was really aimed at Great Britain, then the most powerful nation on earth. The Confederacy was hoping that, just as France had aided the 13 colonies in the Revolutionary War, Britain would give military aid to the Confederacy in exchange for cotton.
Lincoln had previously said the purpose of the Civil War was to preserve the Union; the Emancipation Proclamation made it about abolition, thereby keeping Britain out of the war. Britain had already abolished slavery, and Queen Victoria and her government had no taste for a war to preserve slavery somewhere else.