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AMERICAblog: Howie Kurtz: McCain "trying to steal the 'change' mantra" from Obama

  • mellowjohn · 1 year ago
    "sur-praze, sur-praze, sur-praze!"
    --gomer pyle, usmc
  • sukabi1 · 1 year ago
    Ooooo, calling McCain a thief and a liar.... something tells me that Howie's done some actual checking on Palin and has had the bejeebus scared out of him... '
  • Sage24 · 1 year ago
    OF COURSE THEY ARE STEALING THAT LINE FROM OBAMA, BECAUSE THEY KNOW IT HAS RESONATED WITH THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. IT IS BLOODY PREPOSTEROUS, THAT THE MCCAIN/PALIN TEAM CAN TRY TO STEAL SOMETHING THAT IS UNIVERSALLY KNOWN AS OBAMA'S SLOGAN.
    BUT THEN WHAT CAN YOU EXPECT FROM THESE REPUBLICANS, THEY HAVE NO CAPABILITY OF ORIGINAL THOUGHT, AND ALL MCCAIN CAN DO IS REPEAT THE BUSH/CHENEY FAILED POLICIES, AND HOPE THAT THE IMBECILES IN THE COUNTRY BELIEVE THEY ARE MAVERICKS.
    MAVERICKS, MY FOOT!

    SORRY FOR THE CAPS, BUT I AM IRRITATED TODAY BY THE LIES SPREAD BY THE MCCAIN TEAM.
  • sukabi1 · 1 year ago
    try screaming into a pillow... the caps are too hard to read.
  • shrrrr · 1 year ago
    Sweety, not to be a nudge, but it's MAVERICKS? MY ASS!
  • moreleesafer · 1 year ago
    well, you are talking about "people" who regulary steal whatever they want....song, slogan, land from the Indians, the pensions of old ladies.......
  • tlsintx · 1 year ago
    Gloria Steinem called it "change-envy".

    perfect.
  • sittenpretty · 1 year ago
    somebody please remind me who had THIS idea?

    Bush to Cut 8000 US Troops in Iraq, Send More to Afghanistan
    Bloomberg - 35 minutes ago
    By Ken Fireman and Holly Rosenkrantz Sept. 8 (Bloomberg) -- President George W. Bush said he'll withdraw as many as 8000 troops from Iraq by February and simultaneously send additional forces to Afghanistan.
  • HowieKurtznot · 1 year ago
    "You can't just make stuff up!" Great line.

    Now, Obama needs to tie it to the Change theme.

    "You can't just make stuff up! That's what George Bush and Dick Cheney have been doing for the last eight years. That's how we got into Iraq--by making stuff up. It's time for a change!"
  • moreleesafer · 1 year ago
    yeah.....I noticed that. pretty messed up. the first time I remember them doing it was when he had that weird green background when he gave a speach to try and "counter" some big thing Obama was doing.
  • sittenpretty · 1 year ago
    The broadcast corporate media is OUR ENEMY...think 1984...or 1933 Nazi Germany...
    Government by corporation = FASCISM
    simple as that
  • FatRat · 1 year ago
    Someone needs to make a parody video of McCains change mantra.

    I've seen this mantra/meme used in the movie O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0190590/



    http://www.moviewavs.com/Movies/O_Brother_Where...

    Pappy O"Daniel: "We need a shot in the arm. You hear me boys? In the bleepdamn arm! Election held tomorrw, that son of bitch Stokes would win it in a walk!"
    Junior O'Daniel: "Well' he's the reform candidate, Daddy."

    Pappy O"Daniel: "Yeah."
    Junior O'Daniel: "A lot of people like that reform. Maybe we should get us some."

    Pappy O"Daniel: "I'll reform you, you soft-headed son of a bitch. How we gonna run reform when we're the damn incumbent? Is that the best idea you boys can come up with? Reform?! Weepin' jesus on the cross. Thta's it! You may as well start drafting my concession speach right now."
    Pappy's Staff: "Okay, Pappy."

    Pappy O"Daniel: "I,m just making a point you stupid son of a bitch. Give me back that hat! Hurry up!"
    Pappy's Staff: "Pappy's just makin' a point."

    Pappy O"Daniel: "Shut up!"
  • sittenpretty · 1 year ago
    i find myself agreeing with Howie Kurtz...what is wrong with that picture?
  • Chris From Maine · 1 year ago
    A Senator with 20+ years in the Senate will bring "change"?

    BULLSHIT.

    Too bad the media has chosen its candidate, and will push the lies of the McCain campaign as truth.
  • Gridlock · 1 year ago
    Gee, it took them 2 weeks to figure this out?

    *boggled*

    Why am I not on the payroll? This is old news!
  • Rob Mule · 1 year ago
    McCain's change is from frying pan to fire...
    I'm taking a quick break from my new "Honey West" DVD (mid 60s b&w half hours with sexy female detective-type) starring Anne Francis and John Erickson...thought it would be camp but its really good...lush sets, nice direction) and thought I'd catch a few seconds of a chastened Tweety. Buffoon Chuck Todd said disagreeing with Tweety's point that "community organizer" became GOP-imbued with "negative urban overtones", a racial element. Todd thought no...There have been no racial overtones to the Rethug campaign. "They'd be running the same campaign against Dukakis" carped this too over-exposed ultra-maroon. Anywho...thought I'd briefly rejoin to spout.

    PS-JA did several hard sells of your page as I comforted nervous psy-op victimized Dems today...hope these Ablog virgins surf by...
  • donotmakemecomedownthere · 1 year ago
    I did notice how Rocky and Bullwinkle have been trying to hi-jack the 'Change' mantra.
    But the Obama campaign is now only using the word 'Change' in an ironic sense, ie, "McCain = Change. Pfft!!! 'Schright."
    So it seems Obama has already turned the tables on the abductors and left them hoisted by their own petard!

    POW-MOOSE-A!
  • Sage24 · 1 year ago
    The change McCain talks about is just that Bush and Cheney will not be there any longer, and Palin and McCain will continue the policies, and take over from them.
    That is the change. People still cannot get it.
  • dad · 1 year ago
    all he wants is to be the same.

    he has no new ideas.
  • rja4429 · 1 year ago
    McHeroeverydayliar and his running mate McJesusfreakbitchliar are getting away with it again. Lies are their livelihood, and the populace/MSM are hoodwinked every time. Because they want to be? When will someone -- read Obama and Biden -- raise enough hell to get the country to hear their truthful mantra? And to get the MSM to report it? Unless Barack and Joe get with it and raise loud and constant hell, we are about to enter into the No. 3 Bush years.
  • hawkseye · 1 year ago
    Huff Po calls Palin a Troljan Moose.

    I'm glad to see some commercials because we don't see any in California. Obama knows he will win this state, and McCain knows he won't. These are good ones.
    O.T.:

    I haven't been commenting much lately because my computer is ill and I'm using my spouse's laptop which is a very slow dog.

    Miss all of you.
  • shrrrr · 1 year ago
    And besides, the picture of an old white guy with landed wealth stealing from...., well, you know, a guy who recently paid off his student loans, appeals to America. Alas, their vitrues never end. Proud yet?
  • AdrianBrowne · 1 year ago
    Isn't there a huge disconnect in the minds of Republicans when McCain starts talking about being the candidate of change? They've spent a year mocking the very word then in one day they pivot and suddenly they're *for* change.
  • Rob Mule · 1 year ago
  • FunMe · 1 year ago
    OBAMA on Countdown talking about the LIES of the McCain/Paulin ad.

    Keith O asking Obama if he will get angrier.

    Obama says "Everyone must start to feel a SENSE OF URGENCY."

    FIGHT!