AMERICAblog: Got a question for John McCain? He's doing a tele-Town Hall meeting at 7:00 PM for Virginians tonight at 7 PM
KerrynowCampau
· 1 year ago
Hey John McCain, do you remember what you had for lunch today?
AdrianBrowne
· 1 year ago
What do the voices in your head say to you?
Polly_Tics
· 1 year ago
Dear Senator McCain: Why do your eyes bug out when you don't want to answer a question?
Is that smile from a happy marriage or just gas?
When you hire someone to work for you, why is it that everyone else working for you hates them?
Do all of your friends exhibit elements of disorientation or is it just because you like the company?
Do you believe that the country is suffering from a mental recession or a mental lapse?
jr
· 1 year ago
"why do you get more in disability than Carol does?"
Polly_Tics
· 1 year ago
Who is Carol?
Hangtown Danile
· 1 year ago
McCains first wife, he left her for a shinny new girl when he hit mid-life family crisis point. Somehow I think the same happened to jr as this is all the he/she (my bet is she) ever posts about.
KerrynowCampau
· 1 year ago
Are YOU going to need to be wired for the debates with Obama?
Who answers the phones at your houses at 3 in the morning?
Sage24
· 1 year ago
I guess these hearing will go nowhere too. We have had so many investigations and hearings about the criminals in the WH. Rove has been arrogant and defiant, and refuses to turn up, and these hearings seem to be staged events to make people happy. Who has been held accountable so far?
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fostert
· 1 year ago
Here's mine, and it won't be answered:
Why did you vote to legalize the treatment you received in Vietnam?
KerrynowCampau
· 1 year ago
Good one.....
fostert
· 1 year ago
The one thing nobody thinks about is that the north Vietnamese were more humane than anyone else in the region. As much as I dislike John McCain, I'm still glad he didn't get the Khmer Rouge treatment. Sadly, that's legal too now.
ndtovent
· 1 year ago
Someone should call in and ask McCain what he thinks about KKKarl Rove snubbing the congressional subpoena he was just served with.
bkmn
· 1 year ago
My Q:
Sen. McCain - you have repeatedly said the "surge" was working and Iraq is improving. Now Mr. Maliki wants a time table for withdrawl of US troups.
If the war in Iraq is going so well, why not turn things over to the Iraqis?
ShirleyGoodnessanMercy
· 1 year ago
If the surge is going so well, why are those 5 million Iraqis who fled for safety in Syria still not moving back home? And if it's working so well, why is there no electricity there? And why doesn't McCain buy his 9th home there to vacation in?
true... Russia (especially the new head of Russia) doesn't really like us right now...
... and they're still a bit pissed off that the US trained bin laden and his 'terrorists' that drove Russian out of Afghanistan.
unrepentant_expat
· 1 year ago
Considering (Remember the Maine) McCain's inability to recall most of what he's ever said, he should be asked to respond to one of his own outrageous statements but inaccurately attributed to one of his advisers and then asked if the person who would have said anything this outrageous should be expelled to Belarus.
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
I hear he has trouble keeping his lies straight:
Asked what first comes to his mind when he thinks of Pittsburgh, McCain chuckled, "the Steelers. I was a mediocre high school athlete but I loved and adored the sports but the Steelers really made a huge impression on me particularly in my early years."
And then McCain told a rather moving story about his time as a P.O.W. "When I was first interrogated and really had to give some information because of the pressures, physical pressures on me, I named the starting lineup, defensive line of the Pittsburgh Steelers as my squadron mates."
"Did you really?" asked the reporter.
"Yes," McCain said.
"In your POW camp?" asked the reporter.
"Yes," McCain said.
"Could you do it today?" asked the reporter.
"No, unfortunately," McCain said.
Here's one reason he likely couldn't do it today -- the Steelers aren't the team whose defensive line McCain named for his Vietnamese tormentors. The Green Bay Packers are. At least according to every previous time McCain has told this story. And the McCain campaign just told ABC News that the senator made a mistake -- it was, indeed, the Packers.
off topic but, did you know that Bush pressured Merkel over the Obama speech in Berlin. The german newspapers and the news broadcast for the evening reported that this was the case. That is why she suddenly has a big up her ass over Obama speaking. And why the rest of Germany is po'd at her for being Bush's lapdog.
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
She's almost as dumb as Blair.
She kisses Bush's ass and he replies "Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter!"
unrepentant_expat
· 1 year ago
He was farting at the time?
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
Why do you consider Social Security a disgrace?
And does that mean everybody who currently gets Social Security is disgraceful?
ShirleyGoodnessanMercy
· 1 year ago
From towleroad.com:
Alabama Attorney General Troy King Preparing to Resign Over Gay Sex Scandal?
A spokesman for the Alabama Governor's office has denied that Alabama Attorney General Troy King is preparing to resign as rumors swirl of an explosive scandal involving King, his wife, and a male aide:
"The word is, according to multiple sources in Montgomery and elsewhere, that King was recently caught by his wife in a gay affair with a male aide and banished from his home. According to Tara Hutchison in the executive office of the governor they have heard of no plans in the works for King’s resignation. She said she had not heard that he had been kicked out of his home because of a gay affair. Governor Bob Riley’s press office had refused to return multiple phone calls from this independent press outlet even though some sources accuse Riley of perpetrating the leak. The attorney general’s press office also declined to return phone calls seeking comment."
King is apparently a big homophobe who called homosexuality "the downfall of society" in a 1992 editorial in the U. of Alabama's Crimson White.
Soundboy_jeff_meanie
· 1 year ago
hmm... in Alabama... I don't know if they'll let him resign... I mean, I'm picturing a lynchmob with torches outside the governor's mansion.
FunMe
· 1 year ago
My question for Senator McCain:
"Why are you such a liar on so many issues?"
Oh wait, he's a republiCON. Never mind, I remove my question.
mirth
· 1 year ago
My question is to AMERICAblog readers:
Anyone interested in starting a commune with "turn on, tune in, drop out" being our unifying philosophy?
unrepentant_expat
· 1 year ago
been there ,done that... miss it dearly
Polly_Tics
· 1 year ago
I was in MA at the time, you?
mirth
· 1 year ago
Ok, so you and me are in...and maybe Jeff above. Polly too, 'cause it's all about the free and we'll let her lock her door.
Imagine our discussions around the communal dining table.
Polly_Tics
· 1 year ago
LOL, heck now that would be interesting!
But you know, I actually had a food co-op in my basement and lived in a house with 7 people, so it was pretty darn close to a commune (just without the bad food).
And you can always borrow my shoes...
mirth
· 1 year ago
I'm a good cook and I love to bake. We'll spend a lot of our time making delicious food - carbs and fats, each to their need - while the country ambles on down the road to complete destruction. Pffffft on fascist government and their enablers. Let them bake their own damn cake.
I was born in the wrong year, Polly. I'm envious of your experiences.
PS: I dig shoes, too. 8 1/2?
Polly_Tics
· 1 year ago
Wow, fancy that; I'm a really good cook as well (even used to cater when biz got slow on occasion). So this could be a great pairing and one where we will keep our cakes to our own damn commune.
The 60's were a great time to be young, everything was so new and different back then; even though we had certain similarities to today's culture. We had Viet Nam, drugs, worries about being spied on by the government, conventional family structure issues, a new sexual awareness and we wanted to do it all differently. THAT was both the problem and the sweetest part of the era.
By the way, I wear 8 1/2 - 9, so we are on track darlin'! I hope you like heels...
mirth
· 1 year ago
Some of my heels are 9 and I have killer stilettos. We can play dressup! While we cook!
Until the country wakes up, let it crumble. In our paradise, we'll all be phat and mellow and fine.
Polly_Tics
· 1 year ago
Now THAT does sound like a paradise to me!
Hope you like jewelry to go with those shoes while we cook....
mirth
· 1 year ago
Oh hell yeah on the jewelery thing. We will sparkle as we slice 'n dice.
Hey! I'll bring my long black feather boa, too. You can wear it on MWF and I'll wear it TTS and Jeff/expat/Daniel/Busboy can haggle over who gets to wear it on Sunday.
Polly_Tics
· 1 year ago
Now that would be one hell of a Sunday!
Polly_Tics
· 1 year ago
LOL Mirth, but you are far too young to remember any such groups! I was never much of a commune gal myself, I liked to lock my room when I wanted to be alone and was never much of a fan of brown rice (plus I always had a bit of a fetish for nice shoes which was not looked upon in a friendly manner).
~But I do understand the need~
; < )
Soundboy_jeff_meanie
· 1 year ago
[inhales deeply].... what?
*cough* *cough*
Hangtown Danile
· 1 year ago
Only if you have some REAL GOOD Acid.
mirth
· 1 year ago
Oh Hunny, you won't need it. LIFE will be a trip.
Hangtown Danile
· 1 year ago
My life now is a trip. Mostly a bad one. And sadly the things that used to make my life bad I now have a good handle on. Now forces of nature out of my control are making my life bad. Sometimes in life if you build a better mouse trap somebody comes along and builds a better mouse.
Everybody knows that the dice are loaded, everybody rolls with there fingers crossed. Everybody knows that the war is over, everybody knows that the good guys lost. Everybody knows that the fight is fixed: The poor stay poor and the rich get rich. That's how it goes. Everybody knows.
graymatter
· 1 year ago
I love that song! Have you heard the Rufus Wainwright cover? The Cohen is much darker, of course, but the Wainwright version has a catchy tango-y kinda thing going on.
Hangtown Danile
· 1 year ago
My knowledge comes from the L.Cohen, I will Google it however, thanks.
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Thanks, but no thanks. There is no more escapes for me, I have kids now. Maybe if you have a way-back machine and can take me back ten years...
"For a price I will do almost anything, except pull the trigger, for that I need a really good cause." Operation Mindcrime
Busboy
· 1 year ago
Hangtown, you are in a severe depression. You need to take your family and split to a place where there's promise.
Hangtown Danile
· 1 year ago
Thanks for the advice. We are taking a trip soon, but we are staying in Sacramento. There is no place to run from the Forces of Nature, and no way to stop them, you can only adapt. Adaptation is a hard thing to learn.
Busboy
· 1 year ago
Somehow, I envision a compound, where only the chosen will survive.
mirth
· 1 year ago
LIFE is risk.
So, you wanna join us?
Busboy
· 1 year ago
That is so tempting. But, beauty and smarts only rarely are gifted to the same person; and I have no intention of being enslaved by you....
mirth
· 1 year ago
LOL
You're a good cook, too! Polly and I will let you "cook" with us! What size shoe do you wear?
Busboy
· 1 year ago
It's true; I can cook, but I don't know if I could cook with Polly. She requires ideological purity for co-existence.
I know I'm falling into the bamboo cage trap; but, why do you want the shoe size?
mirth
· 1 year ago
Just lay off the PP wants to kill babies and you and Polly will be fine. Cooking together makes everyone feels nice.
About your shoe size...
Depending on what your's is, you'll either be able to wear our heels or it could determine the "menu."
Busboy
· 1 year ago
Well, like I told my kids; "Don't shoot it unless you're willing to eat it" Makes you think twice about pulling the trigger.
If Polly drinks when she cooks? It might work out...
mirth
· 1 year ago
Oh yeah, drinks in the kitchen makes for happy chefs and lavish meals.
You do something nice with Bombay Sapphire, I think I've read.
I'll make the bread. I like to kneed.
Busboy
· 1 year ago
I think you should write romance novels, because; you get me hard just talking to ou on the internet. You're missing your calling....
I really enjoy you, Mirth. Take care. Talk to you soon.
......C
mirth
· 1 year ago
See? We'll all get along juuuuuuuuuuust fine.
G'night, Friend
Polly_Tics
· 1 year ago
Busboy,
THAT is truly TOO much information!
Shessshhh, button up,eh?
Polly_Tics
· 1 year ago
Danile! Heck, I thought you were LDS? (by the way, I didn't mean the drug LSD, but Later Day Saints)
Hangtown Danile
· 1 year ago
Baptized in 2001 after 32 years of debauchery, drugs and rock and roll.I try to hold true to the words of wisdom (No Coffee, Tea, Smoking or unnecessary drugs). I still wish I could escape sometimes. The thing with escape is you always end up back in the same place with the same problems. :>)
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
Why are you getting disability when you're not disabled and you're rich?
Soundboy_jeff_meanie
· 1 year ago
Senator mccain, do you support the FMA cosponsored by david vitters and larry craig?
a follow up after that's answered (answered yes, I'd pretty much bet... he's talking to Virginia anyway, I'm sure 'protecting marriage' will come up in the answer).... do you believe frequenting hookers and soliciting sex in restrooms creates the view of an ethical conflict for two men proposing the FMA?
unrepentant_expat
· 1 year ago
Senator ,Remember the Maine, McCain, Do you feel the pain of those who own so many houses that they forget to pay taxes for some of them?
Soundboy_jeff_meanie
· 1 year ago
response:
I do not like LaJolla's dues, I don't like that they tried to sue, I do not like a tax on me, I do not like it, no sirree!
(answering while channeling Dr. Suess in response to poetic phrasing of question)
MNUSA
· 1 year ago
My question: Senator McCain is anti-choice. So what pro-family policies will you institute to help families? Universal health insurance? Affordable, quality day care? Livable wages so parents make enough at one job to support their families? More generous maternity/paternity leave policies? What?
All Comments
Why do your eyes bug out when you don't want to answer a question?
Is that smile from a happy marriage or just gas?
When you hire someone to work for you, why is it that everyone else working for you hates them?
Do all of your friends exhibit elements of disorientation or is it just because you like the company?
Do you believe that the country is suffering from a mental recession or a mental lapse?
Somehow I think the same happened to jr as this is all the he/she (my bet is she) ever posts about.
Who answers the phones at your houses at 3 in the morning?
http://www.politico.com/blogs/thecrypt/0708/Pel...
Why did you vote to legalize the treatment you received in Vietnam?
Sen. McCain - you have repeatedly said the "surge" was working and Iraq is improving. Now Mr. Maliki wants a time table for withdrawl of US troups.
If the war in Iraq is going so well, why not turn things over to the Iraqis?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/ar...
... and they're still a bit pissed off that the US trained bin laden and his 'terrorists' that drove Russian out of Afghanistan.
Asked what first comes to his mind when he thinks of Pittsburgh, McCain chuckled, "the Steelers. I was a mediocre high school athlete but I loved and adored the sports but the Steelers really made a huge impression on me particularly in my early years."
And then McCain told a rather moving story about his time as a P.O.W. "When I was first interrogated and really had to give some information because of the pressures, physical pressures on me, I named the starting lineup, defensive line of the Pittsburgh Steelers as my squadron mates."
"Did you really?" asked the reporter.
"Yes," McCain said.
"In your POW camp?" asked the reporter.
"Yes," McCain said.
"Could you do it today?" asked the reporter.
"No, unfortunately," McCain said.
Here's one reason he likely couldn't do it today -- the Steelers aren't the team whose defensive line McCain named for his Vietnamese tormentors. The Green Bay Packers are. At least according to every previous time McCain has told this story. And the McCain campaign just told ABC News that the senator made a mistake -- it was, indeed, the Packers.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/07...
That is why she suddenly has a big up her ass over Obama speaking.
And why the rest of Germany is po'd at her for being Bush's lapdog.
She kisses Bush's ass and he replies "Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter!"
And does that mean everybody who currently gets Social Security is disgraceful?
Alabama Attorney General Troy King Preparing to Resign Over Gay Sex Scandal?
A spokesman for the Alabama Governor's office has denied that Alabama Attorney General Troy King is preparing to resign as rumors swirl of an explosive scandal involving King, his wife, and a male aide:
"The word is, according to multiple sources in Montgomery and elsewhere, that King was recently caught by his wife in a gay affair with a male aide and banished from his home. According to Tara Hutchison in the executive office of the governor they have heard of no plans in the works for King’s resignation. She said she had not heard that he had been kicked out of his home because of a gay affair. Governor Bob Riley’s press office had refused to return multiple phone calls from this independent press outlet even though some sources accuse Riley of perpetrating the leak. The attorney general’s press office also declined to return phone calls seeking comment."
King is apparently a big homophobe who called homosexuality "the downfall of society" in a 1992 editorial in the U. of Alabama's Crimson White.
"Why are you such a liar on so many issues?"
Oh wait, he's a republiCON. Never mind, I remove my question.
Anyone interested in starting a commune with "turn on, tune in, drop out" being our unifying philosophy?
Imagine our discussions around the communal dining table.
But you know, I actually had a food co-op in my basement and lived in a house with 7 people, so it was pretty darn close to a commune (just without the bad food).
And you can always borrow my shoes...
I was born in the wrong year, Polly. I'm envious of your experiences.
PS: I dig shoes, too. 8 1/2?
The 60's were a great time to be young, everything was so new and different back then; even though we had certain similarities to today's culture. We had Viet Nam, drugs, worries about being spied on by the government, conventional family structure issues, a new sexual awareness and we wanted to do it all differently. THAT was both the problem and the sweetest part of the era.
By the way, I wear 8 1/2 - 9, so we are on track darlin'! I hope you like heels...
Until the country wakes up, let it crumble. In our paradise, we'll all be phat and mellow and fine.
Hope you like jewelry to go with those shoes while we cook....
We will sparkle as we slice 'n dice.
Hey! I'll bring my long black feather boa, too. You can wear it on MWF and I'll wear it TTS and Jeff/expat/Daniel/Busboy can haggle over who gets to wear it on Sunday.
~But I do understand the need~
; < )
*cough* *cough*
LIFE will be a trip.
Sometimes in life if you build a better mouse trap somebody comes along and builds a better mouse.
Everybody knows that the dice are loaded, everybody rolls with there fingers crossed.
Everybody knows that the war is over, everybody knows that the good guys lost.
Everybody knows that the fight is fixed:
The poor stay poor and the rich get rich. That's how it goes.
Everybody knows.
Free upload. But as a personal favor, why not visit http://www.teamtudor.org and see the candidate I'm working for? Doug Tudor's running against Adam Putnam in FL-12 and we need the help of all progressives. Please donate if you can....
http://www.teamtudor.org/contribute.asp
"For a price I will do almost anything, except pull the trigger, for that I need a really good cause." Operation Mindcrime
Adaptation is a hard thing to learn.
So, you wanna join us?
You're a good cook, too! Polly and I will let you "cook" with us!
What size shoe do you wear?
I know I'm falling into the bamboo cage trap; but, why do you want the shoe size?
About your shoe size...
Depending on what your's is, you'll either be able to wear our heels or it could determine the "menu."
If Polly drinks when she cooks? It might work out...
You do something nice with Bombay Sapphire, I think I've read.
I'll make the bread. I like to kneed.
I really enjoy you, Mirth. Take care. Talk to you soon.
......C
G'night, Friend
THAT is truly TOO much information!
Shessshhh, button up,eh?
a follow up after that's answered (answered yes, I'd pretty much bet... he's talking to Virginia anyway, I'm sure 'protecting marriage' will come up in the answer).... do you believe frequenting hookers and soliciting sex in restrooms creates the view of an ethical conflict for two men proposing the FMA?
I do not like LaJolla's dues,
I don't like that they tried to sue,
I do not like a tax on me,
I do not like it, no sirree!
(answering while channeling Dr. Suess in response to poetic phrasing of question)