DISQUS

bacalove · 1 year ago

Does it bother me? Hell yeah, because the private McCain and the public McCain are two different people. The public McCain says he has no ties to lobbyists and yet may be the two do merge as in his quick gamble of picking Sarah Palin and gambling with the health, safety and welfare of the American people, especially in the light of McCain's age of 73 years. America in these volatile times does not need a personality who is so ready to gamble and who has a distaste for steady ponderance of a problem toward its solution. We do not need a Quick Draw McCain, I mean McGraw!

cowboyneok · 1 year ago

I have a friend who was a grandmother and mother who relapsed, as a compulsive gambler, and shot herself in the head. Yes, GAMBLING KILLS. In fact, this woman had started the local gamblers anonymous meeting and had years of clean time. Gambling is insidious. Anyone, who is a compulsive gambler, like McCain has much deeper problems than just playing craps or slot machines. Their higher power is gambling! McCain prays at the altar of casinos.

Those McCains! McCain helps along gambling interests while Cindy Lou made all her money serving up alcohol to the masses. Nice...

Sage24 · 1 year ago

He does seem to want to take risky chances, doesn't he? Take Palin for instance, what a disastrous pick. He did not even vet her, and decided to pick her, after a couple of conversations. He is risking the welfare of the American people, by picking a VP, who has had absolutely, no experience or knowledge, when it comes to national issues, and international issues, pertaining to the US.
Hearing her speak to Couric, it makes many people terrified, that this rookie, might one day be the President of this country.
McCain, time and time again, has shown poor judgment.
He cannot expect this country to take a gamble on his risky choices.

cowboyneok · 1 year ago

His erratic decision making throughout his life ALL MAKE SENSE NOW! He is a compulsive gambler.

Eyeball_Kid · 1 year ago

Two words:

The Mob.

michaelt · 1 year ago

maybe he should sit down for a game of cards with james garner and mel gibson on a riverboat.

Rob Mule · 1 year ago

Where will a :42 spot with no vocal air or is this web only?

grandma · 1 year ago

Great ad....the background music really adds to it.

The evangelical fundies I know have always been adamantly against gambling as well as against booze .....add that to McCain's adultry and I don't know how it will play with the evangelicals.....other than the usual "Christians will always be persecuted" line that many of them have used to excuse bad behavior of their own.

cowboyneok · 1 year ago

Hell, he was probably "gambling" by flying his plane at a certain level and air speed when he got shot down in Viet Nam. Remember, he crashed three jets before being shot down. What does that say about his judgment?

He gambled and lost with Keating Five. He gambled and lost on his marriages... He GAMBLES. He is a compulsive gambler and until John McCain gets in recovery, he will be GAMBLING with our futures and our treasury.

grandma · 1 year ago

It's past time for an 'intervention'....

grandma · 1 year ago

McWheeler Dealer

Ginger_FL · 1 year ago

Nice AD!
Suttle and Powerful.

Apphouse50 · 1 year ago

Cool! And they didn't even wait 'til October, either!

Bush_Bites · 1 year ago

Wow!

Now that's politics!

lilybart · 1 year ago

This does not matter. All they want is more judges like Scalia so they can overturn Roe and picking Palin signals that and they don't care if their candidate is an adulterer or a serial liar, as long as they overturn Roe.

Bush_Bites · 1 year ago

And it's just not evangelicals who are going to be surprised and worried about this.

I know a lot of middle-of-the-road people who will think twice about McCain when they hear about his gambling problems.

Goes to the whole meme of this crazy old man just being unable to control himself.

Steve_in_CNJ · 1 year ago

i heard the president of regent university raving about the Palin pick 2 weeks ago. we were told to expect an army of christian foot soldiers marching for mccain. lately i haven't heard much from the agents of intolerance, have you? they might have to weave gambling and drinking into their "sermons" next sunday.

Rob Mule · 1 year ago

The pulpit pitch all across the midwest yesterday was "Elect McStain because he won't kill babies and hates queers".
Tax status, anyone???

cowboyneok · 1 year ago

One thing that got the Talibangelicals all excited was Palin's pastor preached sermons about raising up children who would be "God warriors" and chase other children of differing faiths from their schools and their midst. Nice, huh?

Rob Mule · 1 year ago

Good luck on their poorly educated, backwoods kids EVER busting outa the lower classes...

Steve_in_CNJ · 1 year ago

they raised up monica goodling ("JD", Regent "University") to wage war on the US constitution. sarah would have some big shoes to fill.

cowboyneok · 1 year ago

I just saw Karen Hughes and Mark Penn "debate" each other on CNN. What a joke those two are. They have started a political consulting firm in Washington, DC. Of course, this just proves politics at their level is professional wrestling. Mark Penn is another reason why Democrats should be proud we didn't vote for Clinton as our nominee. Remember, he was her campaign manager.

I can't say enough bad things about Karen Hughes. We wouldn't have had this past eight years of Dubya's disastrous administration had it not been for her grabbing his mic every two seconds in 2000 and speaking for Bu$h when he couldn't string two thoughts together. Sasquatch Hughes promised she was leaving Washington. Hasn't she done enough damage to the American people?

Hughes penned a book where she recounted someone coming up and quietly thanking her for her role in helping elect George W. Bush as our President. Back then, Bush was still popular with his base.

Bush_Bites · 1 year ago

I thought it was funny in 2005, when Bush put her in charge of rebuilding the image of the United States in the Middle East.

Really worked well, huh?

Rob Mule · 1 year ago

I don't recall Bigfoot Hughes ever exiting that Mideast PR role...
I have a very low gag threshold with CNN, particularly daytime and morning.
Karen may have been part of the worst executive team in history but, damn, can that girl shred National Guard documents...

RevDrBillyBob · 1 year ago

Gee . . . the DNC is doing a non-wimpy ad ? Really ? Is James Carville and his widdo buddies out of town, then ?

grandma · 1 year ago

Ad for Rachel Maddow's show just now:

"Is John McCain's 'unpredictability' his greatest asset or his greatest liability"

Add 'unpredictability' to 'erratic'........not good for McGramps

Rob Mule · 1 year ago

Madjohnny's "Erratica":

Once you put your hand in the flame
You can never be the same
There's a certain satisfaction
In a little bit of pain
I can see you understand
I can tell that you're the same
If you're afraid, well rise above
I only hurt the ones I love

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8G9jA-FGGd8

Plus, Young Johnny with a special appearance by that Law & Order geezer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJ4h--h19-k

And, 'An Officer and a Bad Pilot'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nxn59o0ty7A

Indigo · 1 year ago

What an amazing sound track! Scary like a Hallowe'en Fright NIght at Universal Studios!

KarenMrsLloydRichards · 1 year ago

At the craps table, you are the center of attention when you roll the dice. McCain is, therefore, an attention whore who loves risk and drama, and has no skill to win, only "luck."

At the poker table, you are not the center of attention; you win by NOT calling attention to yourself. Obama is a stealth fighter, who relies on knowledge of the other players' behavior and his own skill to win.

falloch · 1 year ago

Good images, good background scarey soundtrack but also needs voiceover - too much good, specific, information that people will miss if they are not fully sighted, or have literacy problems. People turn away from the screen during ads, but would still hear the info if there were a voiceover.

KarenMrsLloydRichards · 1 year ago

Obama v. McCain. In poker, you think strategically over the course of a night: know when to hold and when to fold. In craps, you can bet (and lose) your whole life savings, and the family auto to get you back to Ohio, in 3 or 4 "hot" minutes.

buckguy · 1 year ago

Gambling may help soften his support in the GOP base, but won't change many votes there. It would be more effective among the many moderate-to-liberal voters who thing that gambling is a morally and/or functionally problematic way for governments to raise revvenue.

ccrnjr · 1 year ago

I was shocked and I already had a low opinion of McCain. Just when I think he can't stoop any lower, he surprises me. It's great they are kicking him while he is down on the canvas for the Palin/Couric debacle plus his erractic behavior before, during and after the debates. Slow and steady, wins the race.

clytemnestra · 1 year ago

ABOUT FRACKING TIME!

EmGD · 1 year ago

McCain could hold satanic rituals pledging fidelity to NARAL and the evangelical base wouldn't desert him. Not after Palin rode into town on her Jesus Horse. You'd be better off waiting for the sun to bun out. It's certainly a better use of time than waiting for fundamentalists to abandon the Republican party.

http://thesebastards.blogspot.com/

katjam · 1 year ago

I wish this ad had been presented with less of the ominous overtones. Over neutral music with bland pictures have a quiet woman's voice say:

McCain is a gambler.
McCain gambles at casinos.
McCain gambles in politics.

America can not afford to have McCain gamble with our futire.

ron071 · 1 year ago

A GAMBLER IN THE WHITE HOUSE

It's just what this country needs after the 8 year Bush disaster. Yes, McSame would be much more than the same.

SouthernYankee · 1 year ago

The hallajuah crowd will vote for McCain anyway. They along with Dobson sold their souls to the devil for the white house. They will do anything to get their issues to mainstreet wheter mainstreet agrees or not. I don't know what these people see with their rose colored glasses. Already McCain's wife is a owner in a beer company and now McCain is a gambler. Ms Palin's daughter is unwed mother to be and all this makes it ok because they are all christians. I really wonder what jesus would say about all this. I think he is more a forgiven than the republican party.