DISQUS

jr · 1 year ago

McCain's at prime hip breaking age but we're not supposed to bring it up while his supporters are using racial dog whistles

lilybart · 1 year ago

The question should be; is THIS man too old at 72. There may be people who are healthier who would do just fine.

Obama is practically in training for this job, running every day, shunning coffee for Orange juice, and he if keeps his health up, he might very well be qualified at 72. And I bet Hillary at 72 will be just as sharp. Women in fact might be more likely to be healthy enough at older ages.

Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas · 1 year ago

He is already exhibiting early Altzeimer's signs. Enough said.

pundit27 · 1 year ago

By my calculations fewer than 15 of the 500 CEOs of the Fortune 500 companies are over 70. Isn't the collective wisdom of the directors of America's biggest companies good enough for choosing someone to run the US Govt, which is a good deal larger than any of those companies? 'Nuff said!

nicho · 1 year ago

It's probably just that by 70, most CEOs have stolen about as much money as they will need.

Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas · 1 year ago

No it is not. This white boys' club has done nothing but rape and pillage
the nation.

blackwolf · 1 year ago

You're a funny man BQID. Your comments are always right on target.

Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas · 1 year ago

Thanks blackwolf! I know I go over the top too often on here. I guess I have
been passionate about politics most of my life. This year, for the first
time since 1980, I am feeling a small little sliver of hope with Barack. He
gives me the same feelings I had about Bobby Kennedy. Which also scares the
shit outta me

blackwolf · 1 year ago

I know what you mean about that feeling of hope with Obama. It's that feeling that
this country is headed down a baaaaad road. Those of us who've been around
the corner can feel it. We know it.

Carry no soldier. It's a joy reading your posts.

MrsTarquinBiscuitbarrel · 1 year ago

Lilybart is absolutely right. THIS guy is too old for the job. I wonder who ties McSame's shoes in the morning!

Rob Mule · 1 year ago

Special McCain birthday candles can power a defibrillator...

PS-Has Pope Bunnyface made St. Tim the new patron of corrupt journalists yet?

Nigel Elliott · 1 year ago

Monday Laugh....

John McCain: as THE JUICER!!!! :-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lVH9vzffgw&feat...

tbhull · 1 year ago

OT -

Can we please quit hearing the saoppy stories about Tim Russert? Though a nice fellow, this porcine slave to GE and wthe war got bloated off the riches of a war that he never questioned while serving his corporate master. As a result, his heart exploded and he is dead. Now it is time to move on.

This obscene ritual at NBC is not much different than that Saturday Night Live skit a few years back when a bunch of hard drinking middle aged white male sales types stagger over the coffing of the recently deceased oversized sales legend telling outlandish stories about days past while guzzling oversized drinks, much in the same way the corporate owned slaves and sycophnats (i.e. Chris Matthews, Matt Lauer, Brian Williams, Joe Scarborough, Andrea Mitchell, etc...) still somewhat drunk on the lies of war and their swollen fat paychecks foondly recall the antics of fat dead Tim.

Rob Mule · 1 year ago

The knives, the blood and the pancake make-up...I smell reality show (if NBC can handle the truth/profits).

graymatter · 1 year ago

Funny (NOT!) that there's a McCain ad on this page slamming McCain. After reflection, though, I'm all for McCain's ad being here where no one who would even consider him sees it....

bkmn · 1 year ago

I find myself growing very weary of the NBC (Nothing But Condolences) network...

nicho · 1 year ago

Look on your TV. There should be a button that says "Off." Use it. Your life will be much better for it.

SteamingPile · 1 year ago

Yes, I know where the off switch is, and I do use it. It would be nice, though, if the so-called "news" networks would broadcast the news instead of more remembrances of Tim Russert. It's been five fucking days now. I don't think Ronald Reagan got five days of constant grieving from the news nets, and he was supposedly, you know, actually famous for something...

nicho · 1 year ago

What they're doing is called "paying it forward." They are hoping that if they do enough of this, someone will do the same for them when they reap the rewards of junk food and no exercise.

Rob Mule · 1 year ago

Guilt and the projection of self and group delusions...the fallen nazi comparisons are actually apt here.
D. Gregory in an unthinking reflection Friday actually made some unreported news by saying Tim actually dictated the daily WH briefing questions...so this and the group behavior clues lead me to agree with Indigo's comment below.

bluestockton · 1 year ago

Wait until Walter Cronkite dies!

Rob Mule · 1 year ago

I actually caught a few moments of what must have been an example of what GE felt was Tim's "craft" at its best around quarter to 7 or 8 last evening on MSTIM...A replay of a Press the Meat from late September 2001 with Laura Bush, Miss Rudy Fooliani and Theodore Edgar Cardinal McCarrick in a tear-stained propaganda triumph to warm the nazi gerbils of Dr. Goebbels upper right chest area.
Amazing GE felt it could still pass this off as schmaltz rather than schvitz...

Indigo · 1 year ago

That observation is so right-on that it deserves more comment. I have an intuition that Russert's sudden death scared the NBC news staff beyond repair. (As the Germans say, "Ich habe eine Ahnung dabei.") It's not that he was such a wonderful journalist but that in an age of carefully nurtured incompetence, there's nobody around with enough smarts to step in and keep the system running. That's scary for a number of reasons. They stand to loose credibility, they stand to loose competence, they stand to loose advertisers, and possibly most painfully of all, their link to Irish Catholic enforcer politics (I don't know the Irish word for "mafia" . . . maghpheiagh?) disappeared just like that. Poof!

Rob Mule · 1 year ago

"there's nobody around with enough smarts to step in and keep the system running"

DVR's full steam ahead!!!.

warsaw · 1 year ago

The test for these grief junkies will be today on Chris Matthews' show. Let's see if he can let it go. I have a feeling he won't be able to get back to any other story. Grief (and it's attendant endorphin rush) is so hard to go cold turkey on that the withdrawal persists for days. It no longer has much to do with feelings, it just has its own imperative. To get back to reality is totally like crashing. Everything else is deadly with its mundaneness. Chris, with his ADHD will be particularly susceptible to the allures of extended grief. He wants it to go on forever.

Rob Mule · 1 year ago

For the real hardcore grief/schmaltz junkies (the Luke on set pics are Riefenstahlian):
http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlDC/televisio...

artsbiz9 · 1 year ago

The photo was "Profiles in Courage" Kennedy-esq... a blantant attempt at manipulation of their viewers' heartstrings... moving from sad/moving to creepy/obsessive at NBC... and planning to broadcast the memorial on MSNBC on Wednesday... stop the madness! He was the messenger, not the message; the reporter, not the story. This over-the-top canonization of one of their own has become cringe-worthy.

dad · 1 year ago

because he wants to give babies hot bottled water?

Nigel Elliott · 1 year ago

Jim Carrey as The Reverend Hagee
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oFcBHAklc8&feat...

nicho · 1 year ago

Would you let your 72-year-old grandfather handle all your business affairs?

Nigel Elliott · 1 year ago

This photo on Huffpost's main page is just devastating. It's like another Katrina, and don't forget...Bush wants another Iraq before November.
http://images.huffingtonpost.com/gen/26132/thum...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/745...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/

Nigel Elliott · 1 year ago

Bush is a two-term "Jimmy Carter"? America has a collective coke-induced flashback...

Economy faces that '70s feeling again; Fed has a big challenge
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/41159...

Indigo · 1 year ago

McCain is old for his age. He probably doesn't like mohawk hair styles or baggy jeans or rap music or even eBay.

grandma · 1 year ago

or know how to use 'the google'

Rob Mule · 1 year ago

For a while back in the late 80s they thought Cindy had the googles...

Dave of the Jungle · 1 year ago

McCain is consistently devoid of command over basic factual information. We can expect this to worsen with advancing age.

warsaw · 1 year ago

Talk to anyone over 60 and ask them how the feel on the morning of a day when they have a full schedule. They'll tell you why McC looks and sounds the way he does. It's not a matter of being "too old." It's just that having that many years behind you requires an adaptation that consists of more than a conservation of energy and stamina. The thought processes become more acute. Once simple things become complex and vice versa. Age brings it's gifts and they deserve to be tended to in a new way. For McC to think that he just has to keep up with the younger guy is a mistake. Somewhere in his head he feels that he is entitled to the five years he lost in that other war and he's going to get them back. It's an old fool's errand that he's on and he's not doing people of his generation any favors by denying the real advantages of age.

JamesR · 1 year ago

It's not that he's "too old" per-se, it's that it's HIM who is any age at all. He appears to have always been hapless and flip-floppy, as it were, all his life. Bottom of his class, son of privilege, his one claim to fame, POW, means he's been greatly traumatized to boot. What a bargain. I just hope he makes it to the convention - he is doing his best to beat himself for us right now (If I were a Repuke operative I would dart him or something before September and try to arrange another nominee.) As long as he remains healthy enough for Obama to trounce in November he's good enough at 72 for me.

If all it takes is Party membership, some water carrying for them and being tortured, I would suggest they grow a younger one. Like Lindsey Graham - at least he's been trained as a lawyer - we could send him to GITMO and waterboard him and force feed him and sleep deprive him for a few years and le voilà - a new American Hero. Call it Republican Leadership Training Camp or something. Meanwhile Obama can dig the country out of the ditch

jeffg166 · 1 year ago

I fully expect McCain to drop dead Columbus day week.

This is going to be a physically grueling race. His body can't take it.

thystro · 1 year ago

Just one more point that makes the prospect of this worth considering:

When
McCain Drops Out

Amicus · 1 year ago

For what little it is worth, I think this is spot on.

McCain's key "age problem" is at least as pronounced with his own age group.

bluestockton · 1 year ago

McSame is befuddled enough at high noon, never mind 3:00 a.m.

KarenMrsLloydRichards · 1 year ago

72 year-old John McCain, Wal-Mart Greeter: "Howdy, folks! Welcome to Costco!"

hardeknox · 1 year ago

Okay, I'm 66 and hang around with guys both younger and older, up to 95. Most are slowing down by choice, because they have focused on what their priorities are. Some need a nap after lunch, some not. There are some still running businesses. They pretty much agree that 72 is too old for a 7 day a week job for them, but remember that Bush the younger does little work any day of the week.

Hangtown Danile · 1 year ago

So...
McCain's age of 72 matters.
And the fact that Oboma's age of 36 dose not?
I always thought that older means wiser...

JamesR · 1 year ago

Obama is 46, and will be 47 by the time he'll be nominated. My age. I think it's kinda young, but c'est la vie. McCain, for what it's worth looks to have been just as foolish at 47 as he is now. Not good. Anyone who seriously believes the platitude Older = Wiser is a complete and total fool. Older should mean wiser, but look around. Plenty of proofs to the contrary that it's Universal are highly visible. Sure I think a vigorous and truly wise older qualified candidate would be great, and preferable to someone younger, frankly, but McCain is clearly not that person.