AMERICAblog: McCain flounders, reads teleprompter on big economic speech
Rob Mule
· 1 year ago
Johnny should take a tip from Sarkozy...Even if the French First lady was nude in this image, all eyes would still be rivited to Camilla's hat... http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/?storyID=25448
HereinDC
· 1 year ago
I usually find it funny on those TV Bloopers and Practical Joke Shows when they show those tv reporters making mistakes on camera.... this is frightful..to think this man can't even wing-it on basic economic talk.
Too bad NancyJoe Liebereagan wasn't there to whisper in his ear.
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ruizfeingold
· 1 year ago
Can't stomach McCain, but don't think holding a propaganda video done while in captivity against someone is legitimate.
cowboyneok
· 1 year ago
Chris! My thoughts EXACTLY!!! I wrote this yesterday:
"Mr. McCain = Mr. McGoo
Anyone, but me, notice how McCain resembled Mr. McGoo in his "live" speech about the housing crisis Two things:
A. If McCain is going to address the economy he needs to prove he has a grasp on it by using his OWN WORDS. B. He needs to wear bifocles if he can't see the teleprompter. Sure they will make him look older, but he looks worse when he stumbles over words because he can't read them. The American people are ready for a President who can read the VERY IMPORTANT teleprompter! We don't need Mr. McGoo for President."
I think he needs new glasses, but they would make him look even older and we can't have that because, ya know, appearances mean EVERYTHING to his particular brand of voters.
I also applaud what you say about journalists. When I saw his speech live, the journalists were even explaining away the teleprompter and made no mention of WHY they couldn't ask the candidate relevant followup questions. Journalists need to start doing their jobs before its too late. Then again, it just might already be... too late. I'm so tired of journalists acting as enablers.
Rob Mule
· 1 year ago
the journalists were even explaining away the teleprompter
Those weren't "journalists" those were "corporate flacks" pretending to inform while obscuring and deflecting anything a real journalist would naturally be interested in noting. Johnny troubles in flackspeak are "blips"...But the flacks, if forced into a corner, might wave their hands and utilize an old favorite by calling Johnny's sordid S&L past "ancient history".
I don't care. Do it anyway. Or at least send Johnnie Mack a copy and tell him it's just a taste of what might happen if he or his people so much as fart in our general direction.
troqua
· 1 year ago
good god almighty, he's in front of another teleprompter on my MSNBC right now, droning about foreign policy.
GrantinHouston
· 1 year ago
The body of a neighbor of mine will be returned from Iraq this Friday for a funeral next week. The father of Sgt. Gregory Unruh, killed last week, says that when his son was last talked to him, he was disillusioned with the war calling political leaders in Washington, “a bunch of idiots who are getting people killed.”
The elder Unruh told the Houston Chronicle, “The only thing that bothers me is the politicians who send our children to things like this without knowing what it really does to the families.”
So much for BushCo and Bush clone John McCain who claim that MOST families of those killed support the Bush wars! Our war families are America and most Americans oppose the failed Bush-McCain policies.
theWalrus
· 1 year ago
The new Gallup poll says that 19% of Obama supporters would vote for McCain over Hillary and 28% of Hillary supporters would abandon Obama for McCain.
Just reading that makes me nauseous. If true, we might as well give up.
troqua
· 1 year ago
Walrus, says a lot about Hillary supporters as well as Hillary herself. "If I can't play I'm taking my ball and going home!" What's going to be interesting is to see Hillary endorse McCain when Obama becomes the nominee.
GrantinHouston
· 1 year ago
Walrus. I am not surprised that more Hillary supporters would go for McCain over Obama that us Obama supporters. After all, Hillary thinks he would make a better "Commander-in-Chief" and Bill thinks old John is more "patriotic". Hell, if Hillary is our party's nominee by hook or crook, the Clintons have made McCain look so good, I may even vote for him myself.
Mykel1
· 1 year ago
It's all a bunch of psycho-babble-double-code-speak to me. Once the dust settles from us imploding ourselves back to the stone ages maybe we will be able to see the value in a simple barter system of some sort.
What a world!!
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HereinDC
· 1 year ago
Carni = Hillary
A carny is anyone who runs a "joint" (booth), "grab joint" (food stand), game, or ride at a carnival. [1] ( I'll add : political campaign))
Carnival lingo:
Gaff - To rig a game so as to make it unwinnable
theWalrus
· 1 year ago
GrantinHouston,
A vote for McCain (whatever your reasons or rationale) is a vote of approval for the last 8 years of Republican rule. There's no way I can do that. The Republican philosophy goes against everything I believe in and I would be betraying those beliefs if I voted for one. I'm not pointing to you personally, but, imo, saying if my candidate doesn't win the nomination I'll voter the other party (or not vote) is childish and immature (and self-destructive!).
GrantinHouston
· 1 year ago
Walrus. IF the Clintons DESTROY the Democratic Party, then why reward Hillary this fall? After all, the CLINTONS feel McCain is the BEST CHOICE for Commander-in-Chief and that he is the most patriotic when it comes to a choice between McCain and Sen. Obama.
Why not take the Clinton's recommendation? I saw what such divisions did to the Democratic Party in 1968 at the Democratic Convention in Chicago. It took 40 years to unite the party once again and it has been SEN. OBAMA who has been the uniter until the arrogant, selfish, Clintons started playing their Machiavellian games.
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
He's starting to remind me of Admiral Stockdale.
Hope he doesn't start trying to cash in on the pity vote, like Hillary.
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
Obama's year old letter to Bernake, warning of the then-unknown mortgage crisis:
Rev. Jeremiah Wright has had to cancel speaking engagements at churches in Tampa, Fort Worth, and Houston due to threats against the pastor's life and even the church buildings where he was to appear. The engagement in Houston was before the Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church where Rev. Wright has appeared over the past 20 years before one of Houston's larger black churches. His engagement here was scheduled long before the recent "snippets" brouhaha.
Research ways to zap a teleprompter in the middle of a speech.
Mykel1
· 1 year ago
I was digging through my favorites list to see what I could come up with to help Candidate McCain overcome his deficiencies on economics. I came up with the following.
We are taxed at every point of our lives, on everything we earn, on everythingwe save, on much that we inherit, on much that we buy at every stage of the manufacture and on the final purchase. The taxes are punishing, crippling, demoralizing. Also they are, to a great extent, unnecessary.
But our system, in which state and federal taxes are interlocked, is deeply entrenched and hard to correct. Moreover, it survives because it is based on bewilderment; it is maintained in a manner so bizarre and intricate that it is impossible for the ordinary citizen to know what he owes his government except with highly paid help. We support a large section of our government (the Internal Revenue Service) to prove that we are breaking our own laws. And we support a large profession (tax lawyers) to protect us from our own employees. College courses are given to explain the tax forms which would otherwise be quite unintelligible.
All this is galling and destructive, but it is still, in a measure, superficial. The great sinister fact, the one that we must live with, is that we are yielding up sovereignty. The nation is no longer comprised of the thirteen original states, nor of the thirty-seven younger sister states, but of the real powers: the cartels, the corporations. Owning the bulk of our productive resources, they are the issue of that concentration of ownership that George saw evolving, and warned against. http://www.henrygeorgeschool.org/whowashg.htm .
Mykel1
· 1 year ago
For good measure I would add this so Candidate McCain does not confuse Henry George econ. theory with communism or socialism dirty words in an enlightened country like ours.
Who Was Henry George? by Agnes George de Mille
I do not wish to be misunderstood as falling into the trap of the socialists and communists who condemn all privately owned business, all factories, all machinery and organizations for producing wealth. There is nothing wrong with private corporations owning the means of producing wealth. Georgists believe in private enterprise, and in its virtues and incentives to produce at maximum efficiency. It is the insidious linking together of special privilege, the unjust outright private ownership of natural or public resources, monopolies, franchises, that produce unfair domination and autocracy.
The means of producing wealth differ at the root: some is thieved from the people and some is honestly earned. George differentiated; Marx did not. The consequences of our failure to discern lie at the heart of our trouble. http://www.henrygeorgeschool.org/whowashg.htm
BorninUSA
· 1 year ago
Mykel1 6 min ago We are no longer the land of the free. We pay and pay. Some may say we should be so lucky to live in a country where we are free to say and do what we want. Those rights have been eroded under the Bush administration. We are continually being spied on by our government. We are taxed more and more so that our government can spend more and more. We cannot say what we want without being accused by our government of not being patriotic.
What happened? When did this happen? It all began in 2000. The Bush/Cheny administration likes to tell us this all began after 9/11. No. This was their agenda when they took over the White House and everything that goes with it. This was their "Grand Plan." To slowly take away our freedoms, slowly so that we might not notice so much. They were so right!!
BorninUSA
· 1 year ago
Sorry, that should have been Mykel1 16 minutes ago. (not 6 min.)
jr
· 1 year ago
McCain's a kept man finacially from Cindy and intellectually from Jack Kemp
DCinDC
· 1 year ago
In scathing remarks during a press event Tuesday in California, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) blamed "rampant speculation" and homeowners who acted "irresponsibly" for the current mortgage default crisis, saying he saw no need to help distressed homeowners or the banks that loaned them the money.
It is all of you stupid American's fault. Just ask the GOP and John McCain but then let's bail out the banks!
mike31c
· 1 year ago
Give the old man a break. :-)
Every single president in recent times have used the teleprompter when making a big "presidental" speech. What you should mention to him and his handlers is the fact that the delusional repulsican is not yet president and there are more people against a third Monkey King Bush term then there are for him.
Just don't mention that to his loyal lemmings otherwise they might get upset and start crying... I mean, just watch the pathetic excuse of a "news" service like Faux News and you can see, every single time someone says something bad (Like the TRUTH) about old mccain, they throw a hissy-fit :O
RevDrBillyBob
· 1 year ago
All of us bona fide (pardon the foreign phrase) Christians are willing to forgive Ol' John M. for "seeing" Cindy while he was still married to Wife No. 1 . . . God just gave the OK.
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http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/?storyID=25448
this is frightful..to think this man can't even wing-it on basic economic talk.
Too bad NancyJoe Liebereagan wasn't there to whisper in his ear.
.
"Mr. McCain = Mr. McGoo
Anyone, but me, notice how McCain resembled Mr. McGoo in his "live" speech about the housing crisis Two things:
A. If McCain is going to address the economy he needs to prove he has a grasp on it by using his OWN WORDS.
B. He needs to wear bifocles if he can't see the teleprompter. Sure they will make him look older, but he looks worse when he stumbles over words because he can't read them. The American people are ready for a President who can read the VERY IMPORTANT teleprompter! We don't need Mr. McGoo for President."
on your post about oil:
http://www.americablog.com/2008/03/oil-investor...
I think he needs new glasses, but they would make him look even older and we can't have that because, ya know, appearances mean EVERYTHING to his particular brand of voters.
I also applaud what you say about journalists. When I saw his speech live, the journalists were even explaining away the teleprompter and made no mention of WHY they couldn't ask the candidate relevant followup questions. Journalists need to start doing their jobs before its too late. Then again, it just might already be... too late. I'm so tired of journalists acting as enablers.
Those weren't "journalists" those were "corporate flacks" pretending to inform while obscuring and deflecting anything a real journalist would naturally be interested in noting.
Johnny troubles in flackspeak are "blips"...But the flacks, if forced into a corner, might wave their hands and utilize an old favorite by calling Johnny's sordid S&L past "ancient history".
The elder Unruh told the Houston Chronicle, “The only thing that bothers me is the politicians who send our children to things like this without knowing what it really does to the families.”
So much for BushCo and Bush clone John McCain who claim that MOST families of those killed support the Bush wars! Our war families are America and most Americans oppose the failed Bush-McCain policies.
Just reading that makes me nauseous. If true, we might as well give up.
What a world!!
.
A carny is anyone who runs a "joint" (booth), "grab joint" (food stand), game, or ride at a carnival. [1]
( I'll add : political campaign))
Carnival lingo:
Gaff - To rig a game so as to make it unwinnable
A vote for McCain (whatever your reasons or rationale) is a vote of approval for the last 8 years of Republican rule. There's no way I can do that. The Republican philosophy goes against everything I believe in and I would be betraying those beliefs if I voted for one. I'm not pointing to you personally, but, imo, saying if my candidate doesn't win the nomination I'll voter the other party (or not vote) is childish and immature (and self-destructive!).
Why not take the Clinton's recommendation? I saw what such divisions did to the Democratic Party in 1968 at the Democratic Convention in Chicago. It took 40 years to unite the party once again and it has been SEN. OBAMA who has been the uniter until the arrogant, selfish, Clintons started playing their Machiavellian games.
Hope he doesn't start trying to cash in on the pity vote, like Hillary.
http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/...
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/life/religi...
Research ways to zap a teleprompter in the middle of a speech.
We are taxed at every point of our lives, on everything we earn, on everythingwe save, on much that we inherit, on much that we buy at every stage of the manufacture and on the final purchase. The taxes are punishing, crippling, demoralizing. Also they are, to a great extent, unnecessary.
But our system, in which state and federal taxes are interlocked, is deeply entrenched and hard to correct. Moreover, it survives because it is based on bewilderment; it is maintained in a manner so bizarre and intricate that it is impossible for the ordinary citizen to know what he owes his government except with highly paid help. We support a large section of our government (the Internal Revenue Service) to prove that we are breaking our own laws. And we support a large profession (tax lawyers) to protect us from our own employees. College courses are given to explain the tax forms which would otherwise be quite unintelligible.
All this is galling and destructive, but it is still, in a measure, superficial. The great sinister fact, the one that we must live with, is that we are yielding up sovereignty. The nation is no longer comprised of the thirteen original states, nor of the thirty-seven younger sister states, but of the real powers: the cartels, the corporations. Owning the bulk of our productive resources, they are the issue of that concentration of ownership that George saw evolving, and warned against.
http://www.henrygeorgeschool.org/whowashg.htm
.
Who Was Henry George?
by Agnes George de Mille
I do not wish to be misunderstood as falling into the trap of the socialists and communists who condemn all privately owned business, all factories, all machinery and organizations for producing wealth. There is nothing wrong with private corporations owning the means of producing wealth. Georgists believe in private enterprise, and in its virtues and incentives to produce at maximum efficiency. It is the insidious linking together of special privilege, the unjust outright private ownership of natural or public resources, monopolies, franchises, that produce unfair domination and autocracy.
The means of producing wealth differ at the root: some is thieved from the people and some is honestly earned. George differentiated; Marx did not. The consequences of our failure to discern lie at the heart of our trouble.
http://www.henrygeorgeschool.org/whowashg.htm
We are no longer the land of the free. We pay and pay. Some may say we should be so lucky to live in a country where we are free to say and do what we want. Those rights have been eroded under the Bush administration. We are continually being spied on by our government. We are taxed more and more so that our government can spend more and more. We cannot say what we want without being accused by our government of not being patriotic.
What happened? When did this happen? It all began in 2000. The Bush/Cheny administration likes to tell us this all began after 9/11. No. This was their agenda when they took over the White House and everything that goes with it. This was their "Grand Plan." To slowly take away our freedoms, slowly so that we might not notice so much. They were so right!!
Rawstory.com
It is all of you stupid American's fault. Just ask the GOP and John McCain but then let's bail out the banks!
Every single president in recent times have used the teleprompter when making a big "presidental" speech. What you should mention to him and his handlers is the fact that the delusional repulsican is not yet president and there are more people against a third Monkey King Bush term then there are for him.
Just don't mention that to his loyal lemmings otherwise they might get upset and start crying... I mean, just watch the pathetic excuse of a "news" service like Faux News and you can see, every single time someone says something bad (Like the TRUTH) about old mccain, they throw a hissy-fit :O