So, in which ear will they put the little device thru which they'll feed him his answers?
The great thing is, McCain will look like such a schlump tonight whether he appears at the debate or NOT. A big idiotic schlump.
artisticfreedom
· 1 year ago
I was just thinking the same! Can't we get some kind of a frequency scrambler down there quick? I'd love to see him have to ad lib this one.
naschkatzehussein
· 1 year ago
Frequency scrambler--ROTFLMAO.
EllaDisenchanted
· 1 year ago
You know, he's a good debater though. I'm not counting him out. He can sound very decisive and determined at times. He was very coherent at the Clinton Global Initiative yesterday. His meds may be titered correctly at this time.
PhoenixB
· 1 year ago
I hope Obama kicks McCain's butt.
HereinDC
· 1 year ago
he will
Mark in Florida
· 1 year ago
OH, he will my friend, he will.
luvboxer
· 1 year ago
MCCAIN - OBAMA....OBAMA IS THE CLEAR CHOICE FOR AMERICA...LET'S GO OBAMA SHOW AMERICA WHAT YOU ARE MADE OF....KICK SOME A...!!!
uess
· 1 year ago
big surprise. he lies about everything. including the i-won't-go-to-the-debate-unless-there's-a-deal horsepucky.
Mark in Florida
· 1 year ago
What a shock. McSHAM is a total fraud.
VICTIM, HERO, VICTIM HERO, VICTIM HERO.
I am ready for this nonsense to be over.
KarenMrsLloydRichards
· 1 year ago
It sickens me that this raddled old attention whore's attendance or non-attendance is a "breaking news" event. The good thing is he won't be well-rested, after chasing his own tail around DC for half the day.
bumpkis
· 1 year ago
They are joking on Stephanie Miller radio show that McCain will probably have a family emergency about 7pm tonight....he aint there yet.
sukabi1
· 1 year ago
emergency "McCain's having a cow" time out.
An_American_Karol
· 1 year ago
It seems the general consensus of MSM McCain screwed up yesterday by going to Washington to "play" the fixer upper. He leaves this morning with his tail between his legs. That's not a good position to be in prior to the debate tonight.
..That makes me feel good. Everyone I talk to, middle of the road people see this as McCain getting in the way. I love it.
This hail marry pass ended up out of bounds.
Mark in Florida
· 1 year ago
REMEMBER KIDS;
After the debate run to your computers and take polls to bolster Obama as having won the debate. We need to have the American people know O won the debate. ....and he will anyway, we have the truth on our side, and the press can't save McIncontinents ass.
HereinDC
· 1 year ago
and donate !!!!!!! $ $ $
AdrianBrowne
· 1 year ago
Juan Cole said it best:
'[McCain is beating] a hasty retreat before the Obama surge. The retreat was dressed up as a "suspension" of the campaign and a "postponement" of the debate (a debate that would have been McCain's Waterloo. Forced to debate a charismatic policy wonk on top of economic issues on the very week of the financial meltdown, the economically challenged McCain would have gone down flaming to decisive defeat.'
HereinDC
· 1 year ago
Wanna bet McCain's mom becomes ill this afternoon?
flyingninja
· 1 year ago
McCain is just concerned that his facial prosthesis will fall off and we'll all find out he is the Joker from Batman.
Lolis
· 1 year ago
Freaking awesome! McCain boxed himself in. Now people will focus on him. If he does poorly (as I expect) people will say, no wonder he didn't want to debate. It didn't have anything to do with the economic crisis.
Obama simply needs to do an average job to maintain his momentum. He just needs to keep acting how he has been: rational and presidential. What he says doesn't really matter, unless he gets in a zinger maybe something like, "So glad you decided to make it."
EllaDisenchanted
· 1 year ago
No, like any black man, he'll have to work twice as hard to be considered equal. Average won't be good enough b/c the MSM have set the bar so high for him and so low for McCain at this point.
Watch how they'll spin it. I'm sure the commentary is already written.
Sage24
· 1 year ago
Watched the opening segment of The View, and as usual the blonde, dumb, conservative, was repeating GOP talking points, when she started bringing up Rezko, and other negative names against Obama, when surprisingly, the other dumb one, Sherry, asked what about the Keating Five!!! That was a good one. This is how it should be. Whenever they bring out Rezko and others, the Dems have to bring out the Keating Five, and the names of the lobbyists in the McCain's team.
aquarius2
· 1 year ago
If you were asked what key words you have heard about McCain today what would you say?
TWO words stick in my mind ERRATIC and INCOHERENT
HereinDC
· 1 year ago
Erratic and floundering
An_American_Karol
· 1 year ago
Desperate
EllaDisenchanted
· 1 year ago
Erratic and confused
truebluecoondog
· 1 year ago
Yes, McCain upon learning of a National crisis: "OOh, things are getting ready to be shuffled about. Nice time to do some laundry. Let's see, how can I benefit from the poor suckers who are about to lose?"
AdrianBrowne
· 1 year ago
The reason why McCain doesn't want to debate is because he's afraid of the flashbacks he's gonna have when HE GOES DOWN IN FLAMES.
slappymagoo
· 1 year ago
Here's my prediction, McCain will show up, and he will be (well, he will act) pissed about it. Why, there's a crisis going on, and we're here TALKING about it instead of DOING something about it in Washington D.C.! Obama will call him on his jackassery - that 90% of Americans wanted the debates to go on, that McCain doesn't sit on any finance committees, but it won't matter to the rabid GOPers & Fox news. They will try to weave that into a new narrative: "McCain was willing to act, but Obama insisted they Taaaaalk about it."
In fact, going further I wouldn't be surprised if either or both of these two things happens:
1: McCain has a senior moment, seems lost and befuddled for a moment, but "salvages" it by saying he just can't stand being at the debate when there's real work to be done, of course he's distracted, what heartless soul wouldn't be distracted by real American hurting out there (never mind how long real Americans were hurting BEFORE McCain pretended to suspend his campaign)
2: If enough thunderdolts are in the audience ready to whoop it up and egg McCain on, don't be susprised if he makes a grand exit BEFORE the debate is over, as if he just...can't...stand it any longer. He MUST go back to Washington and do his job (never mind he hadn't been at his job in months, now, by golly, now is the time!) Bily Jack with an AARP Card Goes To Washington. I can only hope, if that time comes, Obama never stops rolling his eyes. If, for a moment, he looks confused or flabbergasted that McCain pulled such a cheap megalomaniacal stunt, THAT'S the picture that will make the front page, and it'll be treated as if Obama just didn't know what to do with himself around a REAL bona fide maverickity McMaverick like McCain, taking charge of a sitchyashon, kicking butt & not even sticking around to take names, who's got time for THAT, leave it to the bean counters, McMaverickety's a man on a mission!
here's hoping I'm wrong, but I so don't think I will be.
sukabi1
· 1 year ago
Slappy, both your scenarios require that McCain have at least a modicum of control over his own situation... And after the last couple of weeks, I've got to say that it doesn't appear to be the case.
McCain's been extremely incoherent, confused and incompetent at running his own campaign --- even with most of the media covering, spinning and blocking for him he's still floundering...
so tonight will likely end up being a condensed version of the last week... lots of incoherent DRAMA from McCain... he'll more than likely act like a drunk pyromaniac, lighting fires everywhere and boxing himself in with his own flames...
slappymagoo
· 1 year ago
McCain's able to stay on message IF the message is ridiculously simple. "I don't wanna be here!" is a ridiculously simple message. So it's quite easy for the Roveians who are really running the campaign to drill that in the dude's head: "Open with 'I don't wanna be here, I wanna solve problems!' If you get lost, foggy, befuddled, if you stop paying attention FOR ANY REASON, DO NOT let them you think you had a senior moment! You save yourself by saying "Well, I'm distracted because I don't wanna be here! I wanna solve problems!' And if enough people have your back, we'll give you a high-pitched whine in your earpiece. THAT'S your cue to go 'I can't stand this anymore! We've got work to do! I don't wanna be here!' And you walk out, don't look back, don't break stride, don't flip anyone off, you just stride the f*** out the door, and we'll regroup at the IHOP on I-75. Yes, they have a private room. Yes, they still have the Dr. Seuss Who-Cakes you like so much."
Doesn't really take THAT much control, that much memorization or that much skill. "I don't wanna be here, I wanna solve problems." For a low-info voter who's looking for any reason to not vote for the black Secret Muslim, it'll do.
sukabi1
· 1 year ago
but your scenario is dependent on McCain being "manageable"... which I don't think he is at this point... it would take a campaign and staff that were running well and making coherent decisions... I can't see any of that going on currently... chances are they are all looking for the next exit off the "Crash and Burn Express" and drawing straws on who will stay on board to help Grandpa off... I don't seriously think anyone of them wants to be the one holding the "short straw"...
slappymagoo
· 1 year ago
Well, the other thing to bear in mind, and I can't stress this enough...
It's a prediction.
I'm either right or wrong. And if I'm wrong, somehow I think I'll make it to another day. To quote everyone's favorite supergroup Asia, only time will tell.
They are everyone's favorite supergroup. I've asked.
erykah
· 1 year ago
McCain is full of shit. He thought Obama was going to cave in to him, but O stood his ground and called his bluff. Chuck schumer begged Bush to kick McCain out of town this morning because he is not helping the bailout issue one bit. McCain is a damned fool. He should suspend his campaign permanently.
Sage24
· 1 year ago
I am so glad that Obama stood his ground, and comes out looking very Presidential, and very steady. MCInsane looks a bit unsteady, and definitely the drama king. Imagine the ticket, Drama King, and his rookie Beauty Queen. Yes, definitely, what the Rethuglicans go for.
Conservative columnist: Palin should bow out, after interviews.
Which is the bigger goofball? McCain or Palin? Holy Shit, this can't be happening! What if those two completely unfit, incompetent and irresponsible team win the election?
mmedefarge
· 1 year ago
I am thinking that Palin is soon to be history, replaced by Romney. Don't quite know how they will engineer it---her family needs her more than she had realized perhaps? I am trying to think of how they can get her to bow out in a quasi-plausible way without admitting what a blithering idiot she is...
RIPWAMU
· 1 year ago
He won't do it. Just like him deciding to go to the debate because he is confident about talks today (while leaders say they are far apart) or how he suspended his campaigning. Besides, their base thinks she is great. What he will do is push her to the side if they win and blame her if they dont. All is does is arrogantly backpeddle.
Another funny thing, in all his bipartisan - across the aisle- blither he has not met with the democratic side during his showboating. He has only been speaking with the Repuks. They are saying the House Republicans wanted him there because they were in opposition and needed his game changing. Laughable, all he did was make a bigger mess and all they did was lie.
BarrieT
· 1 year ago
Maybe she'll get whacked in the coming false flag operation.
RIPWAMU
· 1 year ago
Just heard on CNN that John and Cindy are at airport and will be taking separate charters to Mississippi. Why the need to waste money on two charters let alone the cost of jet fuel? Yet another way to show how out of touch with reality this man is. Or at least my reality.
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
Cindy's shirtless "cabana boy stewards" make McCain nervous.
sukabi1
· 1 year ago
regardless of what I might think of both of the McCains', if I were Cindy I wouldn't want to be in the same closed tin can with McCain right now... The wife is always the first target of an angry, insecure man with "anger control issues". Plus, what are the odds that there will be press (witnesses) on the plane? Pretty slim chance of that happening since the "Straight Talk Express" has become the "Don't Ask, Cause We Won't Tell Express"...
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
What a loon !!!!
Miket298
· 1 year ago
Love this quote from CNN
"But by midday, McCain's campaign said the Republican presidential nominee believed enough progress had been made for him to travel to Mississippi to participate in the debate"
What exactly did he do but come in and mess things up again?
Rob Mule
· 1 year ago
Eliot came close...the world's ending with a bang and a whimper:
There are no eyes here In this valley of dying stars In this hollow valley This broken jaw of our lost kingdoms In this last of meeting places We grope together And avoid speech Gathered on this beach of the tumid river Sightless, unless The eyes reappear As the perpetual star Multifoliate rose Of death's twilight kingdom The hope only Of empty men.
Mark217
· 1 year ago
WB Yeats, says it better: Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. Surely some revelation is at hand; Surely the Second Coming is at hand. The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out When a vast image out of Spritus Mundi Troubles my sight: somewhere in the sands of the desert A shape with lion body and the head of a man, A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds. The darkness drops again; but now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
Mark in Florida
· 1 year ago
Lettermen continues his tirade against McCain....I love it. don't piss off Letterman, he will not let this one go:
"Here's how it works: You don't come to see me? You don't come to see me? Well, we might not see you on Inauguration Day," Letterman said.
Noting that McCain wanted to postpone Friday's first debate with Obama, Letterman said running mate Sarah Palin wanted to put off her debate with Democrat Joe Biden until after Election Day. Letterman said Palin's meeting with world leaders at the United Nations was like "take-your-daughter-to-work day."
Letterman's Top 10 list was "surprising facts about Sarah Palin," read by citizens of Wasilla, Alaska, where she was once mayor.
No. 10: Palin "sometimes calls John McCain grandpa."
mmedefarge
· 1 year ago
do you have a link to the whole list? I need a good laugh today.
Mark in Florida
· 1 year ago
sorry, I do not.....I am sure it's on 'the google'. :-)
I would like to see it too.
Letterman holds a grudge.....this will play out for days.
Looking forward to it. My hope is that the stress of the last week and McCain's accelerating physical deterioration give the viewing public an Oh My God moment, on the scale of Tricky Dick in 1960.
Mark217
· 1 year ago
There are commercials running in SW Florida showing McCain's face bandaged after the melanoma surgery with commentary by two cancer specialists about McCain's possible prognosis. The commercials urge McCain to release all of his records. The implication is that McCain's cancer could or has metastasized into his brain. McCain's impulsivity, impaired memory, erratic behavior, and anger management issues may have an organic basis. Or the cancer in his brain could exacerbate existing negative personality traits. God help us if he wins, dies from cancer in office (and is disabled while he is sick for a year like Woodrow Wilson) and then sticks us with a high-functioning moron like Sarah Palin as president (another sock puppet for christianist neocons to manipulate).
BarrieT
· 1 year ago
With Russia becoming increasingly bellicose, we need a president that can instil fear. Elect a lump of cancer! Everyone is afraid of cancer. Vote McCancer and keep the Russkies out of an independent Alaska.
CAMike
· 1 year ago
Who's going to make sure that McCain isn't wearing an earpiece feeding him answers during the debate? Just like the Chuckle Monkey did during the debates with Kerry?
BarrieT
· 1 year ago
If he tries that it will be even more obvious than the last time. Having yet another voice in his head will a) confuse him and b) annoy him until his heroic temper erupts.
jmcon007
· 1 year ago
McCain showed up in DC and slashed the tires on the bail-out vehicle that had almost been finalized. Now, McCain flies out to Mississippi, leaving behind a frustrated group of legislators to patch the tires and re-air the tires. And, keeping to their grand plan, the McCain campaign will now try and take credit for any deal that is finally struck. Disgusting.....and about as un-patriotic as anything I can think of.
EmGD
· 1 year ago
You haven't even begun to see desperate and erratic. Wait till he wants to bet Social Security on a horse.
All Comments
The great thing is, McCain will look like such a schlump tonight whether he appears at the debate or NOT. A big idiotic schlump.
VICTIM, HERO, VICTIM HERO, VICTIM HERO.
I am ready for this nonsense to be over.
He leaves this morning with his tail between his legs. That's not a good position to be in prior to the debate tonight.
Go, Rove; you've really messed McCain's campaign up.
This hail marry pass ended up out of bounds.
After the debate run to your computers and take polls to bolster Obama as having won the debate. We need to have the American people know O won the debate. ....and he will anyway, we have the truth on our side, and the press can't save McIncontinents ass.
'[McCain is beating] a hasty retreat before the Obama surge. The retreat was dressed up as a "suspension" of the campaign and a "postponement" of the debate (a debate that would have been McCain's Waterloo. Forced to debate a charismatic policy wonk on top of economic issues on the very week of the financial meltdown, the economically challenged McCain would have gone down flaming to decisive defeat.'
Obama simply needs to do an average job to maintain his momentum. He just needs to keep acting how he has been: rational and presidential. What he says doesn't really matter, unless he gets in a zinger maybe something like, "So glad you decided to make it."
Watch how they'll spin it. I'm sure the commentary is already written.
This is how it should be. Whenever they bring out Rezko and others, the Dems have to bring out the Keating Five, and the names of the lobbyists in the McCain's team.
TWO words stick in my mind ERRATIC and INCOHERENT
In fact, going further I wouldn't be surprised if either or both of these two things happens:
1: McCain has a senior moment, seems lost and befuddled for a moment, but "salvages" it by saying he just can't stand being at the debate when there's real work to be done, of course he's distracted, what heartless soul wouldn't be distracted by real American hurting out there (never mind how long real Americans were hurting BEFORE McCain pretended to suspend his campaign)
2: If enough thunderdolts are in the audience ready to whoop it up and egg McCain on, don't be susprised if he makes a grand exit BEFORE the debate is over, as if he just...can't...stand it any longer. He MUST go back to Washington and do his job (never mind he hadn't been at his job in months, now, by golly, now is the time!) Bily Jack with an AARP Card Goes To Washington. I can only hope, if that time comes, Obama never stops rolling his eyes. If, for a moment, he looks confused or flabbergasted that McCain pulled such a cheap megalomaniacal stunt, THAT'S the picture that will make the front page, and it'll be treated as if Obama just didn't know what to do with himself around a REAL bona fide maverickity McMaverick like McCain, taking charge of a sitchyashon, kicking butt & not even sticking around to take names, who's got time for THAT, leave it to the bean counters, McMaverickety's a man on a mission!
here's hoping I'm wrong, but I so don't think I will be.
McCain's been extremely incoherent, confused and incompetent at running his own campaign --- even with most of the media covering, spinning and blocking for him he's still floundering...
so tonight will likely end up being a condensed version of the last week... lots of incoherent DRAMA from McCain... he'll more than likely act like a drunk pyromaniac, lighting fires everywhere and boxing himself in with his own flames...
Doesn't really take THAT much control, that much memorization or that much skill. "I don't wanna be here, I wanna solve problems." For a low-info voter who's looking for any reason to not vote for the black Secret Muslim, it'll do.
It's a prediction.
I'm either right or wrong. And if I'm wrong, somehow I think I'll make it to another day. To quote everyone's favorite supergroup Asia, only time will tell.
They are everyone's favorite supergroup. I've asked.
Yes, definitely, what the Rethuglicans go for.
Conservative columnist: Palin should bow out, after interviews.
They are finally coming to their senses.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/26/kathle...
Another funny thing, in all his bipartisan - across the aisle- blither he has not met with the democratic side during his showboating. He has only been speaking with the Repuks. They are saying the House Republicans wanted him there because they were in opposition and needed his game changing. Laughable, all he did was make a bigger mess and all they did was lie.
"But by midday, McCain's campaign said the Republican presidential nominee believed enough progress had been made for him to travel to Mississippi to participate in the debate"
What exactly did he do but come in and mess things up again?
There are no eyes here
In this valley of dying stars
In this hollow valley
This broken jaw of our lost kingdoms
In this last of meeting places
We grope together
And avoid speech
Gathered on this beach of the tumid river
Sightless, unless
The eyes reappear
As the perpetual star
Multifoliate rose
Of death's twilight kingdom
The hope only
Of empty men.
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity. Surely some
revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in the sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
"Here's how it works: You don't come to see me? You don't come to see me? Well, we might not see you on Inauguration Day," Letterman said.
Noting that McCain wanted to postpone Friday's first debate with Obama, Letterman said running mate Sarah Palin wanted to put off her debate with Democrat Joe Biden until after Election Day. Letterman said Palin's meeting with world leaders at the United Nations was like "take-your-daughter-to-work day."
Letterman's Top 10 list was "surprising facts about Sarah Palin," read by citizens of Wasilla, Alaska, where she was once mayor.
No. 10: Palin "sometimes calls John McCain grandpa."
I would like to see it too.
Letterman holds a grudge.....this will play out for days.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5PSCJMRJjU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHBwJ8E0ix0
http://thesebastards.blogspot.com/