AMERICAblog: FOX employee covering McCain: "It's unbelievable" how little campaigning McCain does
SouthernYankee
· 1 year ago
Make sure you don't give your name out or you will be off the bus.
KarenMrsLloydRichards
· 1 year ago
No longer talking to the press on the bus? What, no donuts? No sprinkles even? That's why some of them are turning on him. They're not courageous truth-tellers, they're just carb-deprived!
KarenMrsLloydRichards
· 1 year ago
Word of the day: septuagenarian. Pass it on!
DCinDC
· 1 year ago
McCain is hiding out while his "Bush Men" do their dirty work with the MSM helping out. It is August and it is time to peel Obama apart. Hide McCain SO THAT HE CAN NOT BE QUESTIONED ABOUT THE NEGATIVE ACTIONS.
Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas
· 1 year ago
Nail hit squarely on head....Karl Rove is running things....his fuck buddies in the MSM are getting free dick from Jeffy...time to take out that uppity Negro...it's a lynching party. Keep Gramps McSame, the aging puppet, in the background so no one can ask him any real questions. This is how the job gets done.
AND IT FUCKING WORKS! BECAUSE THIS NATION IS FULL OF IDIOTS.
Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas
· 1 year ago
"...It's a longer article in Rolling Stone, and isn't online..."
Anything that appears nowadays ONLY in print on paper is fairly irrelevant. Especially from a journal that was once so "au courant". Within the next several years, the print media will be gone. The GI generation is dying off. Boomers like myself are reading in smaller percentages. Print newspapers are basically dinosaurs.
The only real source of news and truth is here on my laptop.
Vince in Cedar Rapids
· 1 year ago
Could it be because he is too OLD and is therefore TIRED every day? I have to wonder who would feel comfortable voting for this man, and I have to WORRY about whom his vice president would be if elected!
Dave of the Jungle
· 1 year ago
It's all illusion making for the cameras, enhanced by media hypnosis.
Rove and Murdoch know how to do this quite well.
HereinDC
· 1 year ago
AND...
McCain HASN'T voted since April 9th.
WTF is he doing?
You can check the record on line.....HE has not voted since April 9th
OlderAndWiser
· 1 year ago
Well, doesn't he already take the weekend off? I'll bet he doesn't even put in a 25 hr week...
lark83
· 1 year ago
The old man just hasn't got it any more, and I'm not sure he ever did. I can't wait to see the debates with Obama.
Busboy
· 1 year ago
I'm still thinking it's going to be Hillary vs Romney
KarenMrsLloydRichards
· 1 year ago
O Busboy! You're SUCH a caution! Where would AmericaBlog be without the likes of you? You prevent us from becoming a totally insular echo-chamber.
KarenMrsLloydRichards
· 1 year ago
O, now clear this table. Vite! Vite!
Busboy
· 1 year ago
You're pretty hot yourself..........Seem to get all your points across w/o being rude...
OlderAndWiser
· 1 year ago
OK, I know it's Bob Shrum, but he just said this on Hardball: "He's a grouch without a vision." : )
Uh oh, I don't see Rachel...
scooter in brooklyn
· 1 year ago
vanity fair has a similar piece about discontent of the base:
Ok, this is not about the Bush men doing McCain's dirty work. This is about a senile old man who is not fit for the job. The signs are all there and it should be discussed in the election. Of course, the press will not raise and will jump on the band wagon against Obama should he raise the issue. (imagine if it were a Democrat - front line news like lapel pins.) No, we have to take the gloves off and meet the issue head on. If the press whines, then we need to call foul on their obviously biased reporting and lack of ethics.
tlsintx
· 1 year ago
Cindy should mix him a nice Geritol smoothie.
Busboy
· 1 year ago
Why talk when your opponent is self destructing? Obama's overseas trip was like Russian roulette with one empty chamber. Obama has had such great voter appreciation and interaction, but then goes off the wall to Europe? Huge miscalculation on the part of whoever his handlers are. However, McCain thinks he's the smartest guy in the room right now; and, for him? that is a recipe for a gigantic clusterfuck. You just don't know when it's coming; but, it's on the way...
tlsintx
· 1 year ago
i disagree about your Europe assessment.
as was said at HuffPo, i think, France and England and Germany are allies. It's smart for O to introduce himself to those countries.
Busboy
· 1 year ago
tls disagrees with me???
tlsintx
· 1 year ago
only when you're wrong.
Busboy
· 1 year ago
Wow!, you mean like 100% of the time, according to you?
blackwolf
· 1 year ago
I disagree: The trip made him look presidential. He's a quick study and is at home on the world stage. The world (everyone that counts) is lovin' it. Of course, he could have stayed home and visited the same German restaurant as McCain---put on his green Batman cape...you know, the green backdrop from McCain's last speech....and got some serious news coverage!
Obama's walkin' point! Let the old man pull up the rear every day.
HereinDC
· 1 year ago
Wanna bet McCain will not be the GOP Candidate. Just that feeling that somethings up.
Busboy
· 1 year ago
definitely; something's up...
blackwolf
· 1 year ago
That just might be the case. They know he's weak, and will stop at nothing to win.
Rob Mule
· 1 year ago
McStain's panicked nooz cycle slaves have entrapped themselves into a breathless course of one absurd charge after another and one absurd retraction after another interspersed with naps and soft foods...
Jenius
· 1 year ago
Well, if those Fox "reporters" don't think he's got the stamina for this race, they are certainly free to start giving Bob Barr some coverage to fill in.
Come to think of it, those "liberal media" outlets can start including him in their daily polling any time they're ready. (Would you be mine, would you be mine....won't you be...my Nader?)
Ben Dover
· 1 year ago
Grampa McSame is simply another worthless POS neo-con republican. The worthless bastard hasn't even voted in the Senate since APRIL! Yet he still finds time to pick up a Senate paycheck and receive government funded medical care. And now he's reduced himself to telling nothing but lies aboard the, "Let Me Lie To You Express." And McSame's playing the race card is nothing short of showing how vile a miserable shriveled up empty suit Grampa really is. I cannot wait to see Sen. Obama reduce Grampa McSame to a steaming pile of rubble in the debates.
Busboy
· 1 year ago
I don't think McCain is going to agree to debate Obama.
Ben Dover
· 1 year ago
And you are most likely right. That's the thing about cowards such as Grampa McSame, they are all talk and no action. Grampa KNOWS that Sen. Obama will destroy him in any debate. Grampa can't even remember where Cougar hides her pill box much less the facts of any given policy.
Busboy
· 1 year ago
He's not a coward; he's just stupid and uninformed. Obama would make mincemeat out of him.
Ben Dover
· 1 year ago
You're right on three parts of that.
OlderAndWiser
· 1 year ago
Something's up with Bush, too...and I don't trust any of it. He announced "combat" troops" would only be serving 12 mos now instead of 15 in Iraq. Is he planning to send them to Afghanistan instead? It sounds as though he's making these kinds of announcements to possibly "soften" the rest of his few months left? While HHS gets its change in policy to allow health care workers to project their religious beliefs into our medical decisions? It's not what's being said that scares me...and I'll bet the shredders are working 24/7.
Ben Dover
· 1 year ago
I think BushCo is about to declare victory and end the occupation. He and Grampa will trumpet the "success" of the surge and try to show that Grampa had a huge hand in bringing 1000 years of peace to the ME and should be elected. We can also expect oil prices to make nothing short of a miracle downturn that will put the Bubba's back onto the dealership lot searching for the biggest, gas guzzling toy they can find. Then, it all falls to shit in January and will somehow be blamed on Clinton.
OlderAndWiser
· 1 year ago
Ah, yes, the "surge"...surging to victory (over what, oil?) Don't forget, the oil deal hasn't been approved by the Iraqi Parliament yet...and you know Bush won't leave until it is...
KansasModerate
· 1 year ago
The real general election doesn't start for another month and McCain already looks much, much older and tired than just a couple of months ago. He comes across as a petty, cranky old man.
I don't think McCain is up to a two-month sprint against a fast-paced, well-funded Obama campaign. Come October he's liable to make a fool of himself by saying something totally off the wall and not remembering he said it. Or Obama will be able to provoke him into losing his temper live on TV.
I read somewhere that some political analysts believe Obama has refused to admit the troop surge in Iraq is responsible for the decreased violence in order to make McCain mad and provoke him into going negative after promising for months that he would run a clean, issues oriented campaign.
McCain is pissed off and has gone negative. Let's hope it backfires. Already there are Republicans -- like Chuck Hagel and like McCain's former campaign manager -- who've publicly called on McCain to clean up his act.
dad
· 1 year ago
mcnap
blackwolf
· 1 year ago
I'm lovin' this! This was going to happen sooner or later. The man is boring, and the press is slowing waking up to the fact. And it's damn time too. The attack dogs are loose, and Rove is leading the pack. There's hope, if the damn press would wake the hell up.
moondancer
· 1 year ago
I wonder if the world will downshift to low and run on a four day week for the krusty geriatric?
jr
· 1 year ago
Weekend at Bernie's 3
Upland_Oddball
· 1 year ago
We know that Karl Rove has a deep, abiding fascination with Mark Hannah, the famed campaign manager who put William McKinley in the White House in 1896. Maybe the connection goes as far as Rove's advising Grampy McCain to wage a 2008 version of McKinley's "Front Porch" campaign. Actually, in 1896, only the candidate stayed close to his Ohio front porch. A huge, well oiled and immensely funded GOP machine spread out all over and using newspapers and business associations, they beat the Democrats and William Jennings Bryan in getting to millions of industrial workers and small businessmen, and winning them over, or threatening them with the dire consequences of a Bryan victory.
Like Hannah and McKinley, Rove and his minions in te McCain camp aim to win by using a deep network of allies and dupes in the media and elsewhere to do a historic hatchet job on Obama, while Grampy takes his naps and sticks to donuts and talking points.
Smarmy
· 1 year ago
He is too tired. This is what happens when you get old. There's nothing he can do with zest. He's too frickin old for the job.
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AND IT FUCKING WORKS! BECAUSE THIS NATION IS FULL OF IDIOTS.
Anything that appears nowadays ONLY in print on paper is fairly irrelevant. Especially from a journal that was once so "au courant". Within the next several years, the print media will be gone. The GI generation is dying off. Boomers like myself are reading in smaller percentages. Print newspapers are basically dinosaurs.
The only real source of news and truth is here on my laptop.
Rove and Murdoch know how to do this quite well.
McCain HASN'T voted since April 9th.
WTF is he doing?
You can check the record on line.....HE has not voted since April 9th
Uh oh, I don't see Rachel...
http://www.vanityfair.com/online/politics/2008/...
as was said at HuffPo, i think, France and England and Germany are allies. It's smart for O to introduce himself to those countries.
Obama's walkin' point! Let the old man pull up the rear every day.
Just that feeling that somethings up.
Come to think of it, those "liberal media" outlets can start including him in their daily polling any time they're ready. (Would you be mine, would you be mine....won't you be...my Nader?)
I cannot wait to see Sen. Obama reduce Grampa McSame to a steaming pile of rubble in the debates.
Grampa KNOWS that Sen. Obama will destroy him in any debate. Grampa can't even remember where Cougar hides her pill box much less the facts of any given policy.
Then, it all falls to shit in January and will somehow be blamed on Clinton.
I don't think McCain is up to a two-month sprint against a fast-paced, well-funded Obama campaign. Come October he's liable to make a fool of himself by saying something totally off the wall and not remembering he said it. Or Obama will be able to provoke him into losing his temper live on TV.
I read somewhere that some political analysts believe Obama has refused to admit the troop surge in Iraq is responsible for the decreased violence in order to make McCain mad and provoke him into going negative after promising for months that he would run a clean, issues oriented campaign.
McCain is pissed off and has gone negative. Let's hope it backfires. Already there are Republicans -- like Chuck Hagel and like McCain's former campaign manager -- who've publicly called on McCain to clean up his act.
Like Hannah and McKinley, Rove and his minions in te McCain camp aim to win by using a deep network of allies and dupes in the media and elsewhere to do a historic hatchet job on Obama, while Grampy takes his naps and sticks to donuts and talking points.