DISQUS

KarenMrsLloydRichards · 1 year ago

What's with exploiting a 6-year old girl for Unca Creepy's town hall? Wassup wid dat? Does she pay taxes on her lemonade stand?

Bush_Bites · 1 year ago

Some Grover Norquist-loving nut probably forced his/her kid to do that.

I thought it was pretty sleazy too.

Rob Mule · 1 year ago

Comfortable, now, years after my 7-step acceptance that I'll never again see moderated old school journalism emanating from the glowing rectangle in the living room, I'm beginning to enjoy he merzesque (hopelessly romantic absurdity) qualities of decadent Fowlerized (Reagan's FCC Chair, Fowler) modern toobnooz.
I know, I know...Shoot me. But, take for example the girthsome egos of Joe, Mikka, Willie and Pete Hamill bemoaning the lack of great writing this morning...Hee, hee...Call me a masochist or an avowed schadenfreudian, but I'm actually enjoying corporate media following the Decider in a long, slow tapdance to nonfactual, metaphoric but ultimately ongoing, eventual and actual bitter damnation...Cool.

Bush_Bites · 1 year ago

OK, here's my thing:

I know McCain's flip-flopping and I know he deserves to be called on it, especially because he's ripping on Obama for planning to raise taxes on the top 2 percent.

But, when I heard about this, I thought "I remember that John McCain--the responsible balanced budget guy from 2000, not the Supply Side Crazy running in 2008."

Not that I'd ever consider voting for him, but I just feel weird about knocking him for planning to do the responsible thing, even if it's in an underhanded way.

In any event, I guess I don't have to worry about it too much. The "Grover Norquist-Larry Kudlow-Voodoo Economic-Supply Side Loonies" who run the Repub Party will give him enough grief over this without me piling on.

(I still defend Poppy Bush for raising taxes to fix St. Reagan's disgraceful deficits too.)

HelenaMontana · 1 year ago

What do you suppose are chances that Wolf Blitzer will continue to report on McCain flip-flops?

flashcard · 1 year ago

He's just being John McCain.....a real maverick I'm telling ya!

Cpeterka · 1 year ago

Aide to Sen Jim Webb died, apparent suicide.
http://www.roanoke.com/news/breaking/wb/171148

OlderAndWiser · 1 year ago

Words from the lips of a Cato Institute rep on CSPAN...Obama wants to "micromanage" the budget; McBush wants more broad tax cuts for corporations.

OK. McBush really is sharpening his lying skills. He'd really like zero taxation for the people who've already ruined this country. As for SS, he has his (along with plenty of other income), so damn the rest of us. Plus, his well-preserved wife gets to pay even less tax (what do you want to bet her profits from the sale of Anheuser Busch gets deposited in the Caymans?). More greed for them, less reward for hardworking Americans like us. We can all starve, for all these pirates care.

foolme1ns · 1 year ago

Sensitive story????? What's sensitive about it? John McCain can't keep his story straight from one moment to the next and NO ONE seems to be in charge of keeping his campaign consistent. I don't think they even talk to each other.

jr · 1 year ago

"I don't want to vote for a black man so I'll defend McCain"-Kinky Friedman

cwzilla · 1 year ago

You mean the gelding..... Oh I mean maverick cant make up his mind and may not even be speaking for his own campaign???

in the imortal words of gomer pyle SUPRISE SUPRISE SUPRISE

osage · 1 year ago

McCain’s grandfather and father were Admirals. He got into Annapolis because he was an Admiral’s kid. He was a child of privilege. How did he honor the gift and family tradition of attending Annapolis? He graduated 894th in a class of 899 cadets. I doubt that most people recognize the significance of an Admiral’s kid finishing in the bottom 1/2 percentile of his class. McCain was either too stupid to deserve being accepted at Annapolis or he was disgracefully unappreciative of the privilege of attending Annapolis. Can you imagine the “pride” his father felt when he was either too dumb to earn even marginally acceptable grades or he felt too entitled and protected to even feel the need to try and earn acceptable grades? In either case, McCain clearly didn’t deserve to be at Annapolis, and he certainly didn’t work as hard as he could have to honor his grandfather and father. McCain had to be either unimaginably stupid or insufferably lazy for 895 cadets to outperform him in a class of 899. McCain didn’t just perform poorly; he was undeniably one of the absolute worst students in his class! And now he wants to be president. Only a Republican could be as book stupid and or as irresponsibly arrogant as John McCain is and win his party’s nomination for the presidency. Now let’s compare his academic achievements and or his work ethic to a poor black kid who was raised by his white grandparents without any privileges, and who worked his behind off to graduate Magnum Cum Laude from Harvard Law School and finally paid off his student loans when he was 40-something. OK, so there is no real comparison.

ron071 · 1 year ago

ADVICE: Do an ad listing the McCain lies and stress that the Obama campaign won't stoop to that level. Brand the McBush campaign for what it is without engaging on that level. Lies and smears cannot be ignored as history has taught.

hawkseye · 1 year ago

And later in the day, denying that raising taxes is a possibility, one of McCain's staffers said that McCain does not speak for the campaign.

This is hilarious.