DISQUS

AMERICAblog: Thursday Morning Open Thread

  • Bush_Bites · 1 year ago
    McCain's Week in Pictures:

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/23/photos...

    (McCain's new motto should be: "Obama doesn't know cheese!")
  • KarenMrsLloydRichards · 1 year ago
    Breakfast TV this morning: Will all the adulation in Germany turn off American voters? Isn't it unfair that the war hee-ro isn't having a good week? McCain at least is learning how to put cheese in a mom's shopping cart and how much the price of milk is, so he's keepin' it real with real Americans, while Obama gallivants around Old Europe.
  • red_dwarf · 1 year ago
    McShank is sooooo pathetic. Anyone who would vote for this mass of dead flesh is def facto insane. What a loser. Can't believe Arizona ever voted for this dip. After seeing this pathetic excuse for a public servant on the pResidential stage I'll never see Arizona in the same light. Sort of like Mass voting for Collins, or Romney. What the hell is going on? (Ignorance, I hear you say).
  • Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas · 1 year ago
    If you've ever lived in AZ, you will quickly understand how they could vote for McSame. Yes...their current Gov is a closet Lesbian...and yes they did produce some good folks. Ever seen Congressman Rick Renzi (he was my rep in Flagstaff)....OMFG...former Catholic turned Mormon or something....ex football star at UNAz....something like 12 kids....poor Mrs. Renzi could not walk. And a total scumbag criminal who rarely appeared in Northern AZ except to schmooze the Navajo, who were shitfaced all the time, and kept re-electing the asshole. As beautiful as AZ is, it's crawling with Mormons who own everything and it's a pretty bad place, in terms of their politicos. in AZ all you have to do is scream ILLEGAL ALIENS! and you get votes.
  • lynchie · 1 year ago
    Someone needs to sit McCriminal and his whole team down and have an intervention. McStain is holding pressers in cheese displays and riding with the old President Bush, as if that separates him from GW. Yeah, John run on the first Bush program, staggering debt because of the S&L Reganomics.
    Anyway, John, let's recap this past week, Obama mobbed in Middle East, leaders of countries want to meet him, John, you whining about lack of coverage, Obama meeting troops and being mobbed, your visit buying rugs with Battalion strength protection, Obama paying respects to holocaust, you comparing him to Hitler. The end game is in sight. Take Formica Face, hop in your plane, get your money out of UBS where you don't pay taxes and go to one of your 9 homes. You have more of a chance to win a farting contest after a baked bean dinner than winning this election.
  • Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas · 1 year ago
    "...You have more of a chance to win a farting contest after a baked bean dinner..."

    ROFLMAOPMPSIMB
  • vkobaya · 1 year ago
    Whine! Whine! Whine!

    Becoming the McCain election slogan. Nearly as pathetic as the Democrats who have gone with:

    Puk! Puk! Puk!
    PPPP-uuuuukkkkkk!
    Puk! Puk!
  • Bush_Bites · 1 year ago
    Why McCain cancelled today's Oil Rig Photo Op:

    http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/7/23/152437/...

    (Don't expect the Corporate Media to mention it.)
  • tlsintx · 1 year ago
    that's what he gets for taking rush limpballs' advice...

    http://www.first-draft.com/2008/07/not-so-fast....

    i haven't seen WORD ONE about this effing oil spill...
    bomb, bomb, bomb...drill, drill, drill... no.
  • scooter in brooklyn · 1 year ago
    it's like watching a car wreck - it's awful, but really hard to look away.
  • Chris From Maine · 1 year ago
    McCain has the backing of the media, the right wing smear machine, and large sections of racists. He can be as lame as he wants, he will still get at least 45%.

    McCain is probably senile, as evidenced by his continous mistakes and geographical errors. He is in very poor health, but no one will discuss any of this. It's rather sad.
  • Bush_Bites · 1 year ago
    Hell, I'm just hoping he stays alive long enough to get the nomination.

    If so, he's going to look and sound even worse by October.
  • Chris From Maine · 1 year ago
    his VP pick is very important, there is no way he makes it to 2013.
  • tlsintx · 1 year ago
    McCain web ad pictures Obama and Castro in same frame...

    WTF. that is some respectful campaign there McLiar-
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/24/mccain...
  • johnnieb3 · 1 year ago
    Do you really think that 10,000 or so blackwater employees will accept the end of the "War." If Obama tries to get out of Iraq, what do you think that all those heavily armed mercs, will just accept being laid off?
  • Bush_Bites · 1 year ago
  • eezee · 1 year ago
    Berlin, New Hampshire and Paris, Maine - just across the border from each other in Susan Collins territory...
  • Bush_Bites · 1 year ago
    CNN uses racist to help make case against Obama:

    http://www.mydd.com/story/2008/7/24/04130/3514
  • tlsintx · 1 year ago
    my goodness, the Rude Pundit is in fine form this morning...
    he notes that Michael Gerson has a post about the McCains at the wingnut townhall site titled....wait for it...

    "Cindy McCain and the Smell of Death"...
    http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/
  • CDS2 · 1 year ago
    Yeah, that Cindy is just awful !

    While Obama's wife has been hating America, complaining about the war and undermining our troops serving in Afghanistan , McCain's wife has been worrying about her sons who actually are fighting or planning to fight in the war on terror. One, in fact, was until a few months ago deployed in Iraq during some of the worst violence.


    You don't hear the McCain's talk about it, but their 19-year-old Marine, Jimmy, is preparing for his second tour of duty. Their 21-year-old son, Jack, is poised to graduate from Annapolis and also could join the Marines as a second lieutenant. The couple made the decision not t o draw attention to their sons out of respect for other families with sons and daughters in harm's way
  • tlsintx · 1 year ago
    yeah, yeah, cds2, there's lotsa things you don't hear the McCains talking about...

    tax records
    medical records
    Vickie what's her name
    corporate jet usage

    ps. aren't those Carol McCain's sons?
  • CDS2 · 1 year ago
    Yeah, they don't talk too much about this either:

    http://www.snopes.com/politics/mccain/cindy.asp
  • tlsintx · 1 year ago
    i was just trying to point out how the Rude Pundit did a funny little play on words, equating The Smell of Death to Cindy's husband...i guess you had to be there.

    anyway, carry on.
  • lauren1959 · 1 year ago
    The McCain campaign seems to be spinning wildly out of control, picking up speed as they go. It's getting so bad I'm almost afraid the RNC will step in and replace him with someone more competent.
  • tlsintx · 1 year ago
    you could be right, lauren1959, but who would that be?

    newt gingrich doesn't even want any boring white guys for veep...that really narrows the old GOPer field...

    http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/07...
  • jr · 1 year ago
    "we go to McCain's bbq's during the day and soft through Obama's trash cans looking for scandal at night"-CBS News
  • tjlabs · 1 year ago
    Who'll stop the pain? Read more. http://www.tagg-lines.com/2008/07/john-mccains-...
  • scottinsf · 1 year ago
    Why the fuck is this housing bailout being allowed?!? This is ridiculous. Just goes to show that if you play by the rules and live within your means it doesn't mean jack shit. Pathetic, absolutely pathetic.
  • Rob Mule · 1 year ago
    Joe, Thanks for reminding me...That McStain Berlin bit from yesterday is a perfect example of how the corp/political establishment feeds cutiepie themed spin to a dull-witted and neutered broadcast media that adores meaningless and cute turns of phrase.
    In show biz terms, a gifted set up (McCain's running ads in Berlin to check Obama) and punchline (Berlin, Pennsylvania, that is) allows our humor and wit deprived anchors to flash their Pepsodent smiles and bask in the illusion of a spotty tongue held somewhere in a fat cheek. I must have witnessed 7 or 8 noooz clowns using the spin right out of the giftbox.
    Silly and so analog KoolKids1.0!!!
  • CDS2 · 1 year ago
    WOW...all Bush does is remove the ban on drilling and oil is down to $124 per barrel.....Wonder what would happen to the price if Congress lifted the ban?
  • tlsintx · 1 year ago
    *bullshit alert*

    weeeeeeeooooooo! weeeeeeeeeeeooooooooooo!