DISQUS

ViaAlpina · 1 year ago

As Jon Stewart would say - "In this election - the words we say.... we don't really mean them." I hope this comes up in the debate!

2008 · 1 year ago

Sort of like when Palin took back all her assurances to come clean on the corruption investigation for her wrongdoing as Governor of Alaska???!!!!!

No way can someone under the cloud of a state ethics investigation become VP!

blackwolf · 1 year ago

Here's how it might play out. McCain will dump Palin and she'll be left to face all her troubles in Alaska.

Griffon · 1 year ago

McCain would follow bin Laden to the Gates of Hell, and....wouldn't violate Hell's sovereignty. We don't do stuff like that.
Oh, wait...

Ben Dover · 1 year ago

Sarah the Great White Helicopter Huntress seems to be out of step with her deranged and erratic running mate.
I wonder though, if McCain doesn't speak for the Palin/McCain campaign, does Sarah speak for the Palin/McCain campaign? Or does the campaign just speak for itself? Do any of the three ever speak to the other two?
McCain better watch himself, if he pisses off Caribou Barbie she just may remove him from the ticket.

grandma · 1 year ago

Palin is out of her league and McCain is out to lunch.

I can't wait til he has to address Obama as Mr.President !

KarenMrsLloydRichards · 1 year ago

The leash on Caribou Barbie, only one inch long, just got even shorter.

gumbygirl · 1 year ago

She really does not know shit from shinola. But neither does he.

gwpriester · 1 year ago

Kind of like she was for the Bridge to Nowhere before she was against it. She was in favor of going into Pakistan uninvited and kicking some ass before she was against it.

Hard to pin these two down. They are all over the place.

Jed's video of McCain contradicting himself right and left should be made into a national commercial. The one thing that authoritarian conservatives really hate is someone who vacillates. I was told by one of these people that yeah, Bush makes mistakes, but he sticks with them. He does not retreat from his decision (WTF?).

grandma · 1 year ago

Is Palin Qualified? Obama’s Not Saying

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/28/i...

Jim_W · 1 year ago

Didn't Palin make a similar comment about going into Pakistan during the Charlie Gibson interview? I'm not sure where she's "stated repeatedly" anything to the contrary.

McCain's position on this really makes his "Gates of Hell" answer irrelevant.

iWoman · 1 year ago

I'm pretty sure she did.

grandma · 1 year ago

I noticed again this morning that McCain will start speaking in this really low soft voice when trying to make a point, usually with a sneer.............totally creepy !!

lynchie · 1 year ago

Ground control to major John. No sign of intelligence in your campaign.

SarainKC · 1 year ago

I haven't read through the coments so someone may have already commented on this, but who is McCain straining to see in the audience? He is really struggling. Did his mic slip and he lost his earpiece or was there someone in the audience he lost visual contact with?

munjoyfan · 1 year ago

What if McCain won't commit to taking out Osama because he knows he is already dead, something kissinger or GW or Rove might have told him? What if Osama died of natural causes or by some means other than execution by the US military, and the fiction of Osama has been kept alive to keep the Iraq war going in order to gain other ends, ie control of the Kirkuk oil fields? Or to maintain the fiction that Al Quaeda is behind civil strife in Iraq that is self sustaining from now into the forseeable future, so we have a role there? Something weird here--you would expect cowboy McCain to go after Osama like a bombing target.

Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas · 1 year ago

I've suspected something like this for some years. Osama somehow is dead and they've kept the myth going to scare the sheeple into voting GOP since 2000. It's all just too pat.

sukabi1 · 1 year ago

if that was the case then McCain wouldn't have anything to lose by keeping up the pretense and saying he's going to take out Bin Laden...

but it does put an interesting slant on his "following Bin Laden to the gates of hell" comment....

aquarius2 · 1 year ago

You come from nowhere, hide out for a couple of weeks and then when you make an appearance mikes are "shoved" in your face? And then your running mate takes back your answer while dissing the press??

If you can't take the heat then get out of the kitchen

sherifffruitfly · 1 year ago

Obama pwned him on that. "... sing songs about bombing Iran" - BWAHAHAHA!!!

Gary SF · 1 year ago

Reminds me of Emily Litella (Gilda Radner) doing Weekend Update on SNL: When she would proceed with her segment - an opinion piece - and screw it up because she didn't understand (ie - thinking the the Supreme Court ruled on the 'deaf' penalty not the 'death' penalty) and was called on it she would say: Never mind.

Sarah 'Emily Litella' Palin: The Caribou Barbie. Oh and here in Spain, they are ripping her to pieces.

sukabi1 · 1 year ago

Ummm, not to belabor it, but isn't McCain coming out and saying "Sarah didn't really mean it" being a bit sexist...

He should have just gotten it over with and said "Stoopid woman can't keep her mouth shut, don't pay any attention to her."

Amrblg · 1 year ago

Perhaps McCain would like to retract his "Pakistan is a failed state" comment as well?

Sage24 · 1 year ago

Palin really bombed in the Couric intervews. It was simply appalling. She is totally unsuitable, and unqualified, for prime time. Despite all the glowing admiration for her, from the rethuglican talking heads, deep down they must be knowing it.
I am sick of hearing them say she has the highest popularity as the governor.
You cannot judge how brilliant a governor is, when they have held that office, only for 20 months. The more you get to know her, the more disappointed you will be.
She just hasn't been involved in national issues, and does not have a grasp, nor knowledge, how things work in the government. Her entire experience has been centered in Alaska, and you just cannot compare the two.
Fareed Zakaria was right, McCain just did not put the country first, when choosing this rookie, for his running mate. It is terrifying to think, this rookie from Alaska, could become President, and lead this country. This nation will then be on that declining road to nowhere. Putin raising his head, indeed!

blackwolf · 1 year ago

A McCain presidency won't happen. It's in the bag at this point. There are too many people that are now feeling she was a mistake, and most of those are Republicans. Obama got a big boost from women voters. They're starting to feel she would be an embarassment to the cause. The tide has turned for us:)

Indigo · 1 year ago

Does that mean that women should be seen but not heard? The conservatives should like that.

WatchmanD · 1 year ago

John McCain is daddy day care
Raising Sarah Palin; protecting her from you.

Obama/Biden o8

Michael Crawford · 1 year ago

If McCain doesn't trust Palin to speak to the media, why the hell does he expect us to trust her to be one 72 year old haertbeat away from the presidency?

ParisParfait · 1 year ago

Remember a few weeks ago when McCain said he knew where bin Laden was and he knew how to find him? The man is delusional, especially if he thinks presidential candidates or vice-presidential candidates don't have to answer questions from the public. Whoever wins, works for us, after all.

sherifffruitfly · 1 year ago

When he wants your opinion, he'll GIVE it to her!!!

HAHAHAHAHA

Dave of the Jungle · 1 year ago

When you make shit up as a profession, you can take shit back.

See?

cowboyneok · 1 year ago

Its mean of the press, and others, to think someone who would be the leader of the free world should be able to think on their feet! If she has any foreign policy or question of substance, she should ALWAYS just be able to... "get back to ya!"

blackwolf · 1 year ago

He's taken what little confidence from her that she has. He's clipped her wings, and you can bet she'll stumble and fumble from this point on. As we know, this is not the candidate he wanted. Don't be surprised if he dumps her and reveals to the world that his party was playing politics! I wouldn't put anything past him.

KISSman · 1 year ago

It's almost like they treat her like she's too stupid to know what she's talking about. They should have said, "Didn't you see her interview with Katie Couric? We all know she's not smart enough to know about stuff like this." At least I would have accepted that explanation from the campaign because it's the truth.

Nuffsaid · 1 year ago

John McCain is seventy-two years old. His attitudes were set back in the days when women were treated about the same as brite children. Needless to say things have changed a little since then. I understand John, he is a product of his culture. The people, both Democrat and Republican, men and women, that I can't understand are the people that are praticing reverse sexism.

I listen to all the pundants saying that biden needs to debate Palin differently because she is a woman. That is sexism.

I listen to the newsmedia saying she should not be expected to be as smart as other polititions. That is sexism.

I am a firm believer that women have as much talent and brains as any man and a lot more than many of them. But if anyone wants to be my president or vise-president or dog catcher then I expect them to stand on there soap box and defend their quilifications to do the job.

John McCain has done a disservice to the American voter and women everywhere. I truely believe America is ready to get beyond sexism and to vote for the best person, male or female.. But by putting up a VP choice that is not qualified McCain has hurt the cause of women and equality for many years in the future.