AMERICAblog: McCain endorses "timetable" for Iraq - again - right after he said he never did
Dave of the Jungle
· 1 year ago
I may die laughing this year.
Rob Mule
· 1 year ago
I blame it on those grueling shut-in weekends back home with Cindy and Mommy...
lynchie
· 1 year ago
I think a round of electric shock therapy might be in order for McFuckup. They could give Cindy a buzzer switch and every time he goes to contradict himself she could shock him. Batteries won't work, they would run out in a day. Better hook him right up to the 220 volt line.
hawkseye
· 1 year ago
LOL!!!!
And put his bare feet in a pan of water.
Mikki --SE Pennsylvania
· 1 year ago
Perhaps on his next trip to Iraq they could just be certain he showers in one of the barracks with defective wiring/plumbing Then ship the body back COD with no press coverage or pictures.
cwzilla
· 1 year ago
Damm this man flip flops more than a fresh cought bass in the bottom of a boat
blackwolf
· 1 year ago
McCain is back pedaling because he knows that the world is listening to what Obama has to say. I'll bet the media give him another free pass.
nothingasitseems
· 1 year ago
I saw this on CNN late last night. At first I was shocked. The timing of this was just so completely obvious that it seemed that an intelligent politician would have avoided it like the plague. First, Obama's plan gets endorsed by Maliki and then was supported by Appointed-by-the-Supreme-Court-leader Bush. I figured there was NO way that the man who said that staying in Iraq for 100 years would be fine by him would make such a blatant reversal, especially since he's supposed to be known for sticking to his guns.
That shocked feeling lasted for about a second, and then I laughed and laughed.
Steve_in_CNJ
· 1 year ago
even conservatives are noticing that mccain is abdicating his potential role as CIC and handing it to the miltary. he wants army generals establishing US foreign policy. we desperately need a national program to stamp out constitutional illiteracy.
Dave of the Jungle
· 1 year ago
This guy shouldn't be allowed to put his finger on any important buttons.
politigal
· 1 year ago
This seems like a non-story to me. He's saying that once it's determined it's okay to start withdrawing from Iraq, it can probably be done in 16 months, but he doesn't think that time is now.
I don't agree with that and I think he was an idiot to say he'd never used the word "timetable" when he obviously did, but the substance of his point doesn't contradict his earlier stance. But he really does need someone on his team with some communication skills, because this one should have been really easy for him to respond to and he just keeps making it worse with his blustery protests and robotic responses.
I don't know why people aren't jumping on him more for yet again saying that Hussein was bent on acquiring WMD, which I've heard him say a couple of times over the last few days. How is this making its way back into the equation without a challenge?
I'd also love someone to put together a video of all his foreign policy-related gaffes (he has one almost every day now) that says, "And this is his STRONG suit?! What does that mean for the topic he thinks he needs help with?" And then end with his quote about not being very strong on the economy.
He also needs to be hammered more on the economy because he hasn't said a single thing that makes any sense whatsoever and he hasn't got a single policy proposal that will make a real difference to real people's lives.
Steve_in_CNJ
· 1 year ago
the problem with the neocon war strategy is that there is no strategy. suppose you have a compulsive gambler whose "strategy" is to stop betting as soon as s/he breaks even. that's not going to go well. now compare that to a strategy to stop betting when you have lost your shirt. isn't that more grown-up? despite mccain's wiggle words, there is a clear difference between him and obama on iraq.
nothingasitseems
· 1 year ago
Yeah, but the interesting thing about this comment was that this man obviously had NO intention of even looking for the time to start a 16 month timetable when our troops could leave this country (i.e. staying in Iraq for a 100 years was a fine proposition!), but now that the idea has been applauded by the head of the Iraq government (meaning: okay, U.S. it's time for you to leave now, thanks and good luck!) and by ABTSCL Bush, McCain is now giving the impression that he would support looking for the time when we could leave Iraq. The difference is that the man three months ago looked like someone who wanted to continue the U.S.'s imperialistic policies. Now that he knows that was a baaaaad stance to take, he's reversing himself to look more like a man who cares about leaving this country.
osage
· 1 year ago
IT'S TIME FOR MCCAIN TO ADMIT BUSH LOST IRAQ SHORTLY AFTER HE INVADED IT
Bush's fu**ing stupid Iraq invasion/occupation enabled and facilitated Iran having significantly greater control and influence over the current and future political realities in Iraq and over the degree of violence there than Bush/America has. If Iran wanted more violence in Iraq in the forms of increased ethnic cleansing of Sunnis and or struggles for power between al Maliki and al Sadr, they could easily allow it to happen. Bush's influence over Iraq's government leaders has been based on military power. Iran's is based on the common interests of a Shite brotherhood. Iran knows that it's just a matter of time before the gift the Bush administration has handed them can be openly accepted......a religious and political alliance with Iraq in which Iran plays the tune and the Iraqi leadership dances. Leaving American troops in an Iraq controlled Iran serves only to provide them with a common target of infidels.
"it is difficult to see what real benefits have accrued to the United States from the Iraq war, though a handful of corporations have benefited marginally. In contrast, Iran is the big winner. The Shiites of Iraq increasingly realize they need Iranian backing to defeat the Sunni guerrillas and put the Iraqi economy right, a task the Americans have proved unable to accomplish. And Iran will still be Iraq's neighbor long after the fickle American political class has switched its focus to some other global hot spot."
Agreed, but McCain won't even admit he had oatmeal for breakfast.
It's just a Repug thing...
1970cs
· 1 year ago
The idea of McCain's campaign it seems is to make so many contradictorary statements on every issue that Obama can't fit into a 30 second commercial.
nothingasitseems
· 1 year ago
hahahaha! There is some truth to that with the state of American minds these days. Can't...Concentrate...On...Important...Issues! Must...Find...News...About...Britney!
lauren1959
· 1 year ago
Tomorrow he'll deny it again, and the media will ignore the fact he changes his positions every day..
Dave of the Jungle
· 1 year ago
He should just issue a weekly statement, in advance, that he denies saying anything he will say during the next week.
RonTunning
· 1 year ago
One has to wonder what he'd do as commander-in-chief if the commanders on the ground told him to "cut and run" or invade Saudi Arabia or maybe nuke Pakistan. Isn't the guy capable of making any judgments himself? Oh, never mind. WTF was I thinking.
Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas
· 1 year ago
2nd daily quote by Ms Thang Rodeo Queen Pillpoppin' Sugarmama Cindy McSame:
"Oh I change Johnny's Depends diapers way more often than he changes his opinions on Iraq. You know that word Iraq confuses me so at home with Johnny...I kept thinking...after the last tit lift...he was saying MY rack. He likes my rack. It gets so confusing here in Scottsdale...I-rack, my rack, Iraq. Scuse me...Consuella bring us another round of Coladas..."
As Joan Kennedy always said, after a family assassination funeral, "Well thank god that's over with...let's have a drink"
lynchie
· 1 year ago
My rack. so fucking funny.
Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas
· 1 year ago
Thanks Lynchie! I am thinking of starting a blog about Ms Thang. Let her rip daily quotes out based on the shit John boy is saying.
"Those aren't my kneecaps, those are my new tits"
Mikki --SE Pennsylvania
· 1 year ago
Land o Goshen Boy! You're gonna neeed a powerful amount of lipstick for that pig!
Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas
· 1 year ago
The very worst part of a McSame four years would be to have to look at Ms Thang on the news.
Dave of the Jungle
· 1 year ago
Can't he agree to a 16 month timetable to begin in 2012?
Mikki --SE Pennsylvania
· 1 year ago
Its really no laughing matter. Insane Mccain is SERIOUSLY INCOMPETENT! When are the MSM going to stop calling this increasing stream of mistakes "gaffes." Other than perhaps the first 10 to 60 minutes of his day when he might approach normal, John McCain doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground, to put it crudely, but accurately. Having been such a liar and a crook for so long, his disintegrating memory and mental state is causing him to day after day shove one and sometimes both feet into his mouth. Listen up John, you are being exposed as a greedy fake and a charlatan. The public is beginning to see through the polish; your so-called military service is being questioned as it well should be; your service, your actions, and your patriotism need to be thoroughly investigated and vetted by independent sources -- no more cronies who owe you favors or family members anxious to try and keep the name clean. You are a disgrace to the uniform you once wore; you are an insult to the thousands of veterans who served honorably and now only expect to get some help from the country they risked life and limb to defend.
Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas
· 1 year ago
There is only one serious problem...none of this will matter in November because too many racists in America will not vote for Obama. Profoundly sad.
osage
· 1 year ago
McCain keeps claiming he wants our troops to come home in "victory" rather than defeat. What's absolutely insane is that McCain believes that "victory" is even possible in Iraq when Bush's invasion of Iraq literally enabled and facilitated Iran's "victory" over American influence in Iraq! Maliki and al Sadr are taking their order from Iran's Shite muslims.
" The Iranians hold a powerful hand in the Iraqi poker game. They have geopolitical advantages, are flush with petroleum profits because of the high price of oil, and have much to offer their new Shiite Iraqi partners. Their long alliance with Iraqi president Jalal Talabani gives them Kurdish support as well. Bush's invasion removed the most powerful and dangerous regional enemy of Iran, Saddam Hussein, from power. In its aftermath, the religious Shiites came to power at the ballot box in Iraq, bestowing on Tehran firm allies in Baghdad for the first time since the 1950s. And in a historic irony, Iran's most dangerous enemy of all, the United States, invaded Iran's neighbor with an eye to eventually toppling the Tehran regime -- but succeeded only in defeating itself."
I so cannot wait for the debates later on... after McCain blathers, all Obama has to do is stand up, turn and a la "My cousin Vinny" state that "Everything he just said is bullshit. , then sit down.
vwcat
· 1 year ago
McCain keeps going around in a circle. yes I did. no i did not.
dad
· 1 year ago
mccain v. mccain
jr
· 1 year ago
there's not enough Aricept in the world to unReaganify McCombover's brain
osage
· 1 year ago
What McCain votes or doesn't vote for in the Senate is clearly indicative of his priorities and his true character. It's certainly more revealing than what he says to the media. Because he so frequently contradicts himself and or makes blatantly false statements that are easily shown to be false, I'm not sure if he's a liar or has no short-term memory. Would a person in his right mind with no memory loss deny using the term "timeline" the day after he used it repeatedly during a televised/taped interview that millions of Americans saw? Would a person in his right mind with no memory loss knowingly set himself up to be shown to be a purposefully deceptive liar? Would a politician in his right mind with no memory loss voluntarily provide the blogosphere video/audio evidence that could be played on YouTube over and over again and undeniably demonstrate that he is not a man of his word and unworthy of the trust of the American people? Why would a person in his right mind with no memory loss choose to be his own worst enemy? Why would he volunteer to shoot himself in the head? Why would he lie about something he didn't need to lie about that could be so easily proven a lie if he were in his right mind and could remember what he said 24 hours ago? If McCain doesn't have a serious memory problem, why is he choosing to repeatedly contradict himself and provide proof that he is lying to the American people?
shell
· 1 year ago
At times like this, I think: "He can't POSSIBLY want to win. It is a trick."
Is it? Is he really making all these mistakes/misspeaks ... or is he setting something up? Could this campaign really be this bad? I smell a huge rat. But, maybe I think that from years of Karl Rove.
LisaLV711
· 1 year ago
I know. McCain should be named, "McShame". Sombody tape him! And what's wrong with the media? Stop making excuses for this dude, I mean really. Come on. They need to NAIL HIM! Just like the NAIL Senator Obama.
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And put his bare feet in a pan of water.
Then ship the body back COD with no press coverage or pictures.
That shocked feeling lasted for about a second, and then I laughed and laughed.
I don't agree with that and I think he was an idiot to say he'd never used the word "timetable" when he obviously did, but the substance of his point doesn't contradict his earlier stance. But he really does need someone on his team with some communication skills, because this one should have been really easy for him to respond to and he just keeps making it worse with his blustery protests and robotic responses.
I don't know why people aren't jumping on him more for yet again saying that Hussein was bent on acquiring WMD, which I've heard him say a couple of times over the last few days. How is this making its way back into the equation without a challenge?
I'd also love someone to put together a video of all his foreign policy-related gaffes (he has one almost every day now) that says, "And this is his STRONG suit?! What does that mean for the topic he thinks he needs help with?" And then end with his quote about not being very strong on the economy.
He also needs to be hammered more on the economy because he hasn't said a single thing that makes any sense whatsoever and he hasn't got a single policy proposal that will make a real difference to real people's lives.
Bush's fu**ing stupid Iraq invasion/occupation enabled and facilitated Iran having significantly greater control and influence over the current and future political realities in Iraq and over the degree of violence there than Bush/America has. If Iran wanted more violence in Iraq in the forms of increased ethnic cleansing of Sunnis and or struggles for power between al Maliki and al Sadr, they could easily allow it to happen. Bush's influence over Iraq's government leaders has been based on military power. Iran's is based on the common interests of a Shite brotherhood. Iran knows that it's just a matter of time before the gift the Bush administration has handed them can be openly accepted......a religious and political alliance with Iraq in which Iran plays the tune and the Iraqi leadership dances. Leaving American troops in an Iraq controlled Iran serves only to provide them with a common target of infidels.
"it is difficult to see what real benefits have accrued to the United States from the Iraq war, though a handful of corporations have benefited marginally. In contrast, Iran is the big winner. The Shiites of Iraq increasingly realize they need Iranian backing to defeat the Sunni guerrillas and put the Iraqi economy right, a task the Americans have proved unable to accomplish. And Iran will still be Iraq's neighbor long after the fickle American political class has switched its focus to some other global hot spot."
http://journals.aol.com/bloomingtoncp/news/entr...
It's just a Repug thing...
"Oh I change Johnny's Depends diapers way more often than he changes his opinions on Iraq. You know that word Iraq confuses me so at home with Johnny...I kept thinking...after the last tit lift...he was saying MY rack. He likes my rack. It gets so confusing here in Scottsdale...I-rack, my rack, Iraq. Scuse me...Consuella bring us another round of Coladas..."
As Joan Kennedy always said, after a family assassination funeral, "Well thank god that's over with...let's have a drink"
daily quotes out based on the shit John boy is saying.
"Those aren't my kneecaps, those are my new tits"
You're gonna neeed a powerful amount of lipstick for that pig!
Thang on the news.
" The Iranians hold a powerful hand in the Iraqi poker game. They have geopolitical advantages, are flush with petroleum profits because of the high price of oil, and have much to offer their new Shiite Iraqi partners. Their long alliance with Iraqi president Jalal Talabani gives them Kurdish support as well. Bush's invasion removed the most powerful and dangerous regional enemy of Iran, Saddam Hussein, from power. In its aftermath, the religious Shiites came to power at the ballot box in Iraq, bestowing on Tehran firm allies in Baghdad for the first time since the 1950s. And in a historic irony, Iran's most dangerous enemy of all, the United States, invaded Iran's neighbor with an eye to eventually toppling the Tehran regime -- but succeeded only in defeating itself."
http://journals.aol.com/bloomingtoncp/news/entr...
Is it? Is he really making all these mistakes/misspeaks ... or is he setting something up? Could this campaign really be this bad? I smell a huge rat. But, maybe I think that from years of Karl Rove.