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AMERICAblog: Tim Kaine on McCain's House Gaffe: "He Couldn't Count High Enough"

  • Mark in Florida · 1 year ago
    2.1 seconds.
  • keljowilcox · 1 year ago
    Ask 25 - 50 people in the street how many houses they have. Put together quick clips of people saying "one, of course!" or something like that. At the end put mcCain stumbling on the question. The ad writes itself.
  • lynchie · 1 year ago
    There is a plan to do away with the U.N. supported by McCain and his Neocon buddies. Charles Krauthammer calls it the League of Democraces. It will be made up of countries that the U.S. deems to be friendly and democratic but in reality will support any efforts for the U.S. to exert its military might around the world.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/johann-hari/john-...


    Does John McCain have a "hidden agenda" to "kill the UN"? That's what the man who devised McCain's big set-piece foreign policy proposal says -- and he's delighted it is sailing silently through the presidential election campaign towards success.

    This story begins with a Republican presidential candidate who, despite the hype, doesn't seem to know much about foreign affairs. McCain recently talked at length about problems on the "Iraq/Pakistan border". The countries are a thousand miles apart. Asked how to deal with Darfur, he mused about his desire to "bring pressure on the government of Somalia" Uh -- it's Sudan, Senator McCain. He keeps expressing his desire to build up US relations with Czechoslovakia, a country that hasn't existed for fifteen years.

    But McCain does know one thing: he doesn't like the United Nations. He championed George Bush's appointment of John Bolton as the US Ambassador to the UN -- precisely because Bolton scorns the UN as "irrelevant" and "a twilight zone". He even announced "there is no such thing as the United Nations." It was like appointing Marilyn Manson as Ambassador to the Vatican. This is part of a long seam of thinking on the American right: they opposed the UN's creation by Franklin Roosevelt as an unacceptable fetter on American power, and have never been properly reconciled to it. Republican congresses have refused to authorise US dues to the UN -- so there is now a backlog of $2.8bn outstanding.

    More fodder for Obama. It would be perfect for MoveOn to jump on this as 72% of americans support the U.N. and want it more involved in our foreign policy.
  • Bush_Bites · 1 year ago
    Such a stupid idea.

    Who's to define what's a democracy anyway?

    By most measures, they'd have to let Iran in, except they wouldn't.

    By most measures, they'd have to exclude their buddies in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, China and several other countries, except they wouldn't.

    Just the latest in dumb neocon ideas.

    (BTW: I'm sure McCain supports this. He's Neocon through and through.)
  • Bush_Bites · 1 year ago
    Good one.

    I'd like Kaine much better as a veep if he didn't have the wandering eyebrow.
  • houstonray · 1 year ago
    LOL! I just had a coworker ask me what I was laughing at. I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed that...
  • bejammin075 · 1 year ago
    When he gave the Democratic response to the President's SOTU a couple years ago, the eyebrow dominated the whole performance. I couldn't look at anything else. I was trapped, transfixed by the eyebrow. Didn't hear a word he said.
  • tlsintx · 1 year ago
    that's good. this needs to start coming from every top level Obama supporter and surrogate out there. i can't wait to hear their inDIGnant retort!!!! i give em half a day and we'll hear how the Former Prisoner of War shouldn't be expected to remember how many houses he owns

    let's inundate John McCain, Former Prisoner of War, with the truth and see how he does.
  • HereinDC · 1 year ago
    YES, EVERY Dem who is inverviewd today should say it.

    Every Dem interviewd TODAY should say it.
  • palmtree1 · 1 year ago
    How about combining with Josh at TPM and other progressive blogs to support the contest Josh suggests:

    Help John McCain remember how many houses he owns!

    It's a public service, sort of like helping older people cross the street whether they are wearing $500 shoes or not.
  • lynn47 · 1 year ago
    This one's too easy!!!
    9 minutes 11 seconds.
  • gwpriester · 1 year ago
    McCain has some very obvious and serious memory problems. This is legitimate issue and the democrats should be all over McCain.
  • ron071 · 1 year ago
    I've come to the clear conclusion that McCain is even worse than Bush. This goes beyond incompetence and into senility. Judgement ,not by words but by actions. It is with sadness that McCain has been made into a throw-away candidate by the Republicans. Are people aware of this reality?

    WANT MORE OF THE SAME???? VOTE McCAIN !!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • tlsintx · 1 year ago
    McElite thinks the economy is in great shape.
    Anyone who doesn't own at least two homes is just a "whiner".

    sheesh. these people who can't afford gas, much less $500.00 shoes... whine, whine, whine.
  • Rainlion · 1 year ago
    They'll respond by 3pm today
  • bejammin075 · 1 year ago
    Either McCain's brain is so shot he can't remember a number between 4 and 12 (and this question has come up before, so there's no good excuse), or he's such an absurdly rich elitist that he just can't bother to count all of these houses.

    This needs to be an add running 24-7.
  • jr · 1 year ago
    "Tim Kaine isn't butch like John McCain and myself"-Joe Lieberman at the Green Iguana with Charlie Crist
  • EmGD · 1 year ago
    10 is a large number. Don't even ask him how many states there are.

    To be fair, Cindy owns them, not John. He just owns some shoe trees, an AARP discount card, and a VHS casette of "America's Wildest Air Show Disasters". Why couldn't anyone ask him about them?

    http://thesebastards.blogspot.com/
  • vwcat · 1 year ago
    excellent. McCain can't count high enough.
  • brb915 · 1 year ago
    he'll have a lot more trouble numbering how many times he cheated on his first wife