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AMERICAblog: McCain thinks western Pennsylvania is racist

  • heathwood · 1 year ago
    My Dad used to call that "Old Timers" disease.
    Mr. McCain needs to take his nap now.
  • Baal · 1 year ago
    Sweet Jesus, he is demented.

    It's only his campaign that has a habit of saying that some geographical area or another has a monopoly on All that is Good. I am guessing he gets confused about who said what.
  • PeteWa · 1 year ago
    Wow, just wow. Cindy needs to change those McDepends.
  • LisaLV711 · 1 year ago
    And while she's at it, take a comb that head! HERS!
  • Baal · 1 year ago
    When did he get his arms surgically shortened? And why?
  • tduffy2 · 1 year ago
    Alex Bennett always refers to McCain as a little T-Rex.
  • moreleesafer · 1 year ago
    i hate to make fun of the disabled....but you know Karma is a b*tch, and she does not mind if I laugh at that T-Rex comparison.

    HA!
  • tbhull · 1 year ago
    McCain forgot to take a dump leaving 1976's broccoli to work confusion in his feeble brain and resulting in this before this incohrent intenrally inconsistent spew.
  • Baal · 1 year ago
    HIllarious. One wonders what future paleontologists will make of the fossils that have formed inside his colon.
  • tbhull · 1 year ago
    They will surmise a Senator at best.
  • paulbe · 1 year ago
    Why do so many Americans seem so pre-programmed with this "god loving" bullshit? god loving Americans seem to be the biggest problem these days.
  • Psyche · 1 year ago
    Could it be the default? When you don't know what else to say or get confused, it fills the dead space or confusion?

    I found this episode more alarming than some others. Since he can be relatively fluent at other times (although it's often over-rehearsed sound bites). It almost looked like a TIA.
  • gumbygirl · 1 year ago
    Transient Ischemic Attack, or stroke to the rest of us,
  • evie · 1 year ago
    "And I couldn't agree with him more!"

    It'd be hysterical if it wasn't scary.
  • kirkaracha · 1 year ago
    When even the bubba behind you looks puzzled, you know you're being confusing.
  • txstevo · 1 year ago
    Now it's just getting sad.

    I'm actually starting to feel sorry for the old guy.
  • An_American_Karol · 1 year ago
    What the hell was he trying to say?
  • moreleesafer · 1 year ago
    doesn't matter. Cindy just nods her head and claps no matter what he says.
    Maybe we should try that.
  • CobaltBlue · 1 year ago
    nasty lately agree pretty disagree I agree with more I couldn’t agree most americans in case Obama western you know I you I you more great country this part. You may have noticed.

    by the way....why is mccains wife always, always, always with him, standing there in back of him, just nodding and smiling and sometimes cringing....she's always there... always there.... just like some two bit stage prop - oh I may have just answerd my question. sorry.
  • aquarius2 · 1 year ago
    Ah, Bobble Head Cindy drives me frigging nuts when starts bobbing her head up and down.
  • dances_with_beagles · 1 year ago
    reminds me of the little sidekick to the mad scientist that appears in some South Park episodes. One episode someone asked it why it was there. It just shrugged its shoulders.
  • moreleesafer · 1 year ago
    She's Pinky and he's the Brain.

    Q: "What are we going to do tomorrow, Brain?"

    A: "Try to take over the wooooooooooorld!"
  • Nick_the_Dog · 1 year ago
    It's just plain sad! Johnny Maverick is done. Send him back to the ranch. I, personally, don't want to watch him anymore. There is nothing to do now but enjoy the autumn.
  • Pa_Kid · 1 year ago
    Actually Western Pa is not a bastion of tolerance having lived here all of my life I am often very disappointed in the people here. On a recent trip down Pa route 66 I saw about 40 McCain signs to maybe 3 Obama signs. In the town of Kane over the weekend someone when and stole most of the Obama sign that were there. I will be very surprise if McCain does not carry the western part of this state. In trying to talk to people I hear that Obama is a Muslim or a friend to terrorists or that he will raise there taxes When told that none of that is true it falls on deaf ears. In McKean Country the Democratic Party seem none existence I could not even get yard signs from them . Luckily for me my sister works for the teacher union in New York and got signs for me. In My district Pa 5th I can not even fine a poll on the Congressional race I would love to know how McCracken is doing.
  • cephas · 1 year ago
    Oh my , I do think he is losing it. Seriously. I wonder about his health more and more. This is really scary because he doesn't seem to even realize how incredibly messed up he got there.
  • aquarius2 · 1 year ago
    I read the link and Huff Puff gave him a partial pass by citing the rigors of the campaign and lack of sleep. Well, maybe BUT there are far too many of these "confusing" type statements. I could understand if he would just say "opps" or something that would make him appear at least human, but he just keeps going.
  • Steve_in_CNJ · 1 year ago
    there's a difference between flubbing a line and completely going catatonic, unable to find your way back.
  • Steve_in_CNJ · 1 year ago
    Romney must be thinking, why did he have to wait until frikkin october to stroke out?
  • bluestockton · 1 year ago
    Cindy makes a really lousy Pat Nixon.
  • moreleesafer · 1 year ago
    She aint no Betty Ford neither. wait....yeah she is. but with more money and less class than Betty had.
  • AdrianBrowne · 1 year ago
    The McCains will have to be even more relieved than the rest of the world when he loses.

    On the BBC they said that the people of India are rooting for McCain because the Republicans have sent so many jobs there.
  • Soundboy_jeff_meanie · 1 year ago
    cindy's lack of ANY response says volumes.
  • Webster · 1 year ago
    Jeebus. He couldn't even handle a 3:00 in the afternoon call--much less a 3:00am call.
  • henrythefifth · 1 year ago
    Is he having a mini stroke there?
  • canuck55 · 1 year ago
    God. He sounds like Reagan in the LAST year of his Presidency - just think what McCain will be like in 8 years, or even 8 months from now.
    Can you say President Caribou Barbie?
  • devlzadvocate · 1 year ago
    I think he meant western Czechoslovakia.
  • tlsintx · 1 year ago
    huh? wha? blblblblblblblblblblblblbllblblb....

    wow. he had the haters all revved up, then he just dropped em!
    get thee to a sanitorium, my friend! stat!
  • An_American_Karol · 1 year ago
    Let the rigging begin:

    "A good, responsible, reliable friend of mine just called with a
    horror story about voting this morning here in Austin, TX.

    He voted at Fiesta Mart on 38th and IH-35.

    He voted a straight Democratic ticket.

    When he was reading the 'voted for' listing at the end of his
    ballot, all of those listed were Democratic candidates EXCEPT FOR
    PRESIDENT. The list showed that he had voted for John McCain!!!

    And he voted the straight Democratic ticket.

    He reported it to the election official and that person was as
    shocked by it as my friend. They corrected the vote BEFORE he hit
    the CAST BALLOT button.

    My friend said the experience made him sick to his stomach. He said
    he was the youngest person in the voting area and all he could
    think is that the older people around him may not proofread their
    ballot before pressing the CAST VOTE button. They may believe that
    they voted for Obama but the voting machine may have registered a
    vote for McCain.

    He called the Travis County voting office and they said they would
    look into this. When he called me I gave him the telephone number
    for the Democratic Party and he then called them to report what had
    happened and they said they would look into it, also.

    I am shocked and disgusted by what he experienced this morning and
    I am telling you because of it.

    Please PROOFREAD your ballot choices BEFORE hitting the CAST BALLOT
    button. This is vitally important. (For EVERYONE who votes,
    whichever way you vote.)

    Suzanne
    So I went down to the Democratic headquarters this afternoon and they
    confirmed what Veryan's e-mail said, that even though a voter had chosen the
    Democratic ticket, the presidential candidate on his pre-casted ballot was
    listed as John McCain rather than Barack Obama."
    http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-120711
  • An_American_Karol · 1 year ago
    Sorry, I didn't know this would be so long. However, it is very important information.
  • sukabi1 · 1 year ago
    Yeah, Travis County is having "problems", so are lots of other places....
  • devlzadvocate · 1 year ago
    October non-surprise.

    BTW, you can vote at places called "Fiesta Mart"? Just curious. We can only vote at schools and civic or municipal facilities.
  • Hurrycane · 1 year ago
    Yeah, that set off a little alarm bell with me, too...
  • Ksue · 1 year ago
    Yes -- early voting setups have been placed in Fiesta Marts down here for several years. Personally, I think it's a good idea. I'm pretty sure it makes it easier for the lower income/Hispanic/people of color/other minorities to get the deed done. Mom can vote when she goes to get groceries during the week. Dad can vote on his lunch break, etc. Plus, the early voting places are open all day Saturday, 7a to 7p, and Sunday from 1 to 6 p.

    Fiesta Marts do not function as polling places on the official Election Day.
  • Fiona_Alwyn · 1 year ago
    I never hit the straight democratic button. I always go down and vote for each candidate indivually. And I always go over the list before I hit the cast button.
  • sukabi1 · 1 year ago
    hey, I was just playing the clip... and from the other room my son starts laughing his ass off... "he said what?"
  • burro · 1 year ago
    This is nuts. He's like an old tractor held together with bailing wire. Cindy must be freaking out. Her husband is getting older and more addled right before her eyes. It will be amazing if he makes it 'til 11/4 without cratering.
  • devlzadvocate · 1 year ago
    Sindy isn't freaking. Six Vicodin HP, an Oxy and Jim Beam str8 up and you become a bobble-head doll.
  • burro · 1 year ago
    She's actually looking a little...very bobbleheady. And I think she's losing weight. They're both really stressed out.
  • burro · 1 year ago
  • devlzadvocate · 1 year ago
    clip was just on Rachel Maddow's show
  • butchcjg · 1 year ago
    Not to mention that McCain is ALSO saying that Western PA (and places voting for him) are more "patriotic" than the rest of us.
  • PeteWa · 1 year ago
    Well, everyone already knew that there are "parts of the country that are more American than others"...
    I guess we all NOW know that place in the country that shines like a beacon of patriotic light is Western PA, racist, not racist, ummmm...
    ALL AMERICAN!
    Right, Ms. International Lipstick and Piggy McBush?
  • davidkc · 1 year ago
    My favorite part was watching Cindy McCain. As McLame blathers on she keeps that same Stepford Wives smile plastered on her face, but you can see the bubble above hear head saying "Oh shit, he's lost it again." How long before she's feeding him lines ala Nancy Reagan?
  • houstonray · 1 year ago
    Hmmm, this erratic speaking style reminds me of another person...let's see, what was it? Oh yeah...

    "There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again."
  • Rob Mule · 1 year ago
    If the corporate media fails to gather spicy Palin dish from the Minneapolis Neiman-Marcus salesclerks then we have proof these old media buffoons can't even successfully cover the post dereg fluff beat...
    http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1008/14805...
  • therepguy · 1 year ago
    Why else would McCain go their, if it was racist! You think maybe the region should prove McCain wrong by voting for Obama in mass... it might just break the image of racism once and for all in those parts. Remember we're all God's children and we all have red blood!
  • devlzadvocate · 1 year ago
    It could just be the "McCain Effect". Near the end of the race you fall behind and you just fuckin' lose it.
  • JetSetter · 1 year ago
    Dude, give him the Plavix now before he strokes out!
  • Eyeball_Kid · 1 year ago
    Johnny was clearly not thinking when he uttered this worst of political errors: something so indictable caught on camera and spread around the internet like a shock wave. This mistake is devastating, more so than Palin's audition on SNL last weekend. It shows that Johnny is not thinking about what he's saying. At that moment, he wasn't oriented to time and place. He was so conditioned to go for the applause line that he forgot to make sense out of his words.

    Somewhere, one of his campaign staff was watching Johnny check out, muttering to him/herself, "He's truly washed up. He can't keep a rubber chicken line straight. Why am I still working for this fence post?"
  • SwingVoter · 1 year ago
    The Top 50 Swing Voters: #26 - Racists

    McCain was just trying to secure the support of these critical Swing Voters in a hotly contested Swing State. Other crucial Swing Voters include:

    #50 - Hockey Moms
    #47 - People with STDs
    #35 - Pot Heads - The Forgotten Demo
    #31 - Problem Drinkers - Joe Six Pack

    http://swingvoters.wordpress.com
  • houstonray · 1 year ago
    You know, if you watch his face, his eye is doing that solo twitchy thing again while he's saying it...
  • truebluecoondog · 1 year ago
    That's EXACTLY what I was thinking. Seems to coincide with his more confused moments, doesn't it? And Cindy looks just SO happy to be there, too.
  • LisaLV711 · 1 year ago
    Somebody needs to tell Cindy that all-nighters don't work for her.
  • KISSman · 1 year ago
    In fact, he's banking on it.

    The ONLY way he can flip PA is by fanning the racial flames. There is no other path to victory in PA for McCain.

    Concerning this footage... does this really look like the sharpest tool in the drawer?? Good lord...
  • Catsandbeer.com · 1 year ago
    funny shit
  • 8nando · 1 year ago
    You had Cindy flanking him on one side and an ahem... person of the Asian persuasion on the other: McShame's two major nightmares (his wife and memories of his POW years) next to him and you expect this dude in particular to deliver?

    The people running his campaign really hate him....

    This is SO tragicomic: Cindy in particular is nodding approvingly in the beginning - then he goes into his old-person-losing-it mode and she is in roll-eyes mode like: "oh Jeez - the old geezer has lost it again - why am I putting up with this thing anyway?"
    Just give the old-timer a rest, you heartless bastards! He doesn't need this... And I cannot see their "marriage" making it past 1-1-2009...
  • MGBYG · 1 year ago
    Had to stop the video. F'ing Ouch.