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AMERICAblog: Yet another bizarre non-answer from the McCain campaign about whether McCain forgot where Spain is

  • Busboy · 1 year ago
    Jeez, John, you're becoming nothing but a pit bull attack dog.
  • Polly_Tics · 1 year ago
    You don't find McCain's LACK of sense as an issue that is newsworthy?

    OMG, this is merely ONE more example of a man who is losing his grip on reality and is backed up by a group of power crazed liars intent on continuing the horror of a Bush regime.
  • John Aravosis · 1 year ago
    He's being funny :) I suspect he was also implying a lipstick joke there too :-) Busboy may pretend otherwise, but he loves me :-)
  • KarenMrsLloydRichards · 1 year ago
    And WE love Busboy, but only when he's hustling to clear the plates, fill up our water glasses, and take his little knife and scrape away the bread crumbs. On the other hand, when he's blogging, he's neglecting how to perfect filling our glasses without getting ice all over the damn table.
  • Busboy · 1 year ago
    Hey; I'm a "multitasker" ....
  • Busboy · 1 year ago
    Oh, yeah, I had the lipstick joke ready, but didn't want to get banned... And yes, I respect John A, for his candor and wit and forbearance. Politics? well,...... there's usually some middle ground....
  • Polly_Tics · 1 year ago
    Ahhemmm, I will leave you two boys to yourselves...

    8 - )
  • Busboy · 1 year ago
    I get McCain's ignorance; but not the "lack of sense". What do you mean?
  • KarenMrsLloydRichards · 1 year ago
    McCain campaign logic: It's possible that Zapatero COULD be one of "some of the world's worst dictators" even though the Spaniard peoples elected him. It's prudent for President McCain not to commit to meeting anyone with a name like Zapatero until it can be verified that he is, indeed, NOT one of "some of the world's worst dictators." Barack Obama would be endangering America if he were to meet Zapatero without such verification, since even democratically-elected NATO member heads of state would, and should, need to be "vetted."
  • vkobaya · 1 year ago
    one of "some of the world's worst dictators" even though the Spaniard peoples elected him

    Yep! Ostensibly, Bush was duly elected by the American people and has turned out to be one of the world's worst despots and brutal, bloodthirsty, murdering terrorists.

    Who vetted Bush before he was nominated to run for office?
  • dreadpiraterobert · 1 year ago
    If Spain is one of "America's adversaries" then why are they in NATO, and why is the US committed to going to war for them if they're invaded? Is that why McCain wants Georgia in NATO? Because they're also one of "America's adversaries?"

    Hell, We are all America's adversaries! ... I mean, Georgians...
  • Chris From Maine · 1 year ago
    senility. plain and simple.
  • Indigo · 1 year ago
    Yeah.
  • Indigo · 1 year ago
    Send in Professor Higgins! "The rain in Spain falls mainly in the plain."
  • Polly_Tics · 1 year ago
    McCain is unfit to remain a Senator much less become the President of the United States!

    This man has lost his mind and no one seems to notice. Let us only hope that this gaffe forces the MSM to take a critical look at the candidate and his mental faculties.
  • jimpharo · 1 year ago
    They never took a look at Reagan, who had Alzheimers. I wouldn't hold my breath for the MSM. We have a better chance with the voters...
  • Polly_Tics · 1 year ago
    Whereas I agree with you about the MSM, I don't believe Reagan HAD Alzheimer's when he was elected, but believe that it followed quickly thereafter.
  • jimpharo · 1 year ago
    I agree no Alzheimers when elected -- the first time.

    Remember that combat brigade he served in? Except it was in a movie?
  • KarenMrsLloydRichards · 1 year ago
    Marvel Comics: The McCain edition. ZAP! atero! POW! POW! ZAP! POW!
  • jimpharo · 1 year ago
    I know it's a little o/t, but isn't it just plain nuts for McCain to decide that the guy who needs to be held accountable is the head of the SEC?

    This is just like his nutsy idea about the Commerce Committee. The SEC regulates a lot of things, but banking is not one of them. If you a sacrificial lamb, how about the head of the bank overseers?

    I think the evidence is fast accumulating that McCain's mental acuity is inadequate for such high office. (As long as he can breathe, though, he'll fit right into the geriatric-ward-known-as-the-US-Senate.
  • tlsintx · 1 year ago
    the worst part of this -almost- is how the McCain campaign thinks it's better to lie and spin rather than just come out and say, he misunderstood the question.
  • Polly_Tics · 1 year ago
    I think he "misunderstood" the Presidency and is finding out that it might just be a tad more difficult than he originally surmised.
  • vkobaya · 1 year ago
    might just be a tad more difficult than he originally surmised.

    Give me a break! Bush is president. How difficult could it be? You know that those bills are really signed by Barney since Bush is illiterate and can't write his name. Historians will wonder 500 years from now why the bills are signed Barney and have a paw print on them.
  • Polly_Tics · 1 year ago
    The Presidency IS a complicated affair and just because an idiot occupies that post right now, does not mean that is how it should be executed.

    I don't know about you, but I want the smartest guy I can find to fill in.
  • Busboy · 1 year ago
    With Obama having most of the yokels on his staff, including Franklin Raines who made off with 92 million from Fannie and Freddie; how smart is it to hire the people who brought the mortgage giants down as political advisors?
  • Polly_Tics · 1 year ago
    First off let's just get this out in the open and admit that YOUR premise of Raines & Obama is being promoted by RIGHT wing blogs, OK?

    That said, I am always suspicious of corporate best friends when coupled with political candidates and want the truth to be rooted out. However, Raines did settle a civil lawsuit with the feds by agreeing to pay $24.7 million, ending more than three years of legal wrangling over accounting shenanigans at Fannie Mae. Raines admitted no wrongdoing; he now sits on the board of Steve Case's Revolution Health company.

    Raines (who headed the Office of Management and Budget in the Clinton administration) left Fannie Mae in 2004 after the Securities and Exchange Commission determined that it had used improper accounting. The federally chartered mortgage-funding company later corrected its books, wiping out $6.3 billion of previously reported profit.

    If Franklin Raines was part of the mess, he must resign from Obama's campaign immediately, but I am still not sure that is the case. Let us investigate further before condemning anyone. From some of what I have researched, it seems that Raines merely received some calls from the Obama campaign which is not the same as being an official adviser. Some of the comments are interesting and give a less demonized profile of Raines.

    http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0708/Adv...

    http://www.slate.com/id/2107894

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/ar...

    http://deathby1000papercuts.com/2008/09/obama-f...
  • Busboy · 1 year ago
    If he (Raines) was part of the mess? 6.3 billion? What are you smokin?
  • Polly_Tics · 1 year ago
    Sadly nothing, but it does not appear to be true at this point in time. OR do you have some secret news that we are not privy to?
  • Busboy · 1 year ago
    Raines got his money. We, the people paid for his malfeasance. We will continue to pay. Yes, I have facts that you will learn shortly (if you pay attention)...
  • Polly_Tics · 1 year ago
    IF you have these "so called FACTS" to which you allude, than discuss them now for goodness sakes.

    The IDEA that you would even suggest to withold information and release it IN YOUR OWN TIME sickens me.

    IF you can't even hold a decent debate on a blog, than how on earth could or would anyone ever believe anything you have to say?

    After all of this insipid bologna, I will refrain from stating just how low I think you have become.
  • An_American_Karol · 1 year ago
    I saw this on http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/09/...

    It says it all:
    "Obama:
    Occidental College - Two years.
    Columbia University - B.A. political science with a specialization in international relations.
    Harvard - Juris Doctor (J.D.) Magna Cum Laude

    & Biden:
    University of Delaware - B.A. in history and B.A. in political science.
    Syracuse University College of Law - Juris Doctor (J.D.)

    vs.

    McCain:
    United States Naval Academy - Class rank 894 of 899

    & Palin:
    Hawaii Pacific University - 1 semester
    North Idaho College - 2 semesters - general study
    University of Idaho - 2 semesters - journalism
    Matanuska-Susitna College - 1 semester
    University of Idaho - 3 semesters - B.A. in journalism
  • Polly_Tics · 1 year ago
    It seems that The Post had an online chat today and surmised as much of what we have already agreed.

    "McCain seemed sort of foggy in the interview, much of which was about U.S. relations with Latin American baddies Hugo Chavez and Evo Morales. Then interviewer asked about Zapatero and McCain seemed to be winging it, appearing to think that Zapatero was the leader of someplace in Latin America and reciting the same rote answer as for the others about not meeting with leaders who don't support freedom and the U.S."

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/di...
  • eclecticbrotha · 1 year ago
    About the McCain campaign's "meeting some of the world's worst dictators" comment.

    From what they say compared to what they do, it seems the only time the McCain campaign endorses meeting with the world's worst dictators is when those dictators are paying the lobbyists that run his campaign.
  • An_American_Karol · 1 year ago
    McCain is as much a submediocre Senator and presidential candidate as he was 50 years ago as a student. He isn't senile; he's just below average.
    We should have America’s top 20% running for president, not the bottom 20%.
  • SusieQ · 1 year ago
    I'm not so sure Mac "didn't know where Spain is." When listening to the tape, I found the interviewer difficult to understand. I suspect McShame did as well, which is fine. But all you have to do is just say "pardon?" and get the question straight before stubbornly having verbal diarrhea THREE TIMES. And then the inability to admit the mistake (just say "I didn't hear the question") is really pathological. And dangerous when it has consequences effecting international relations.

    Somebody, make him some milk toast and call the home to make a reservation. He's disintegrating before our eyes.
  • benin4obama · 1 year ago
    As everyone has already mentioned, Mccain has simply lost a grip on reality. He is so out of touch on a wide range of issues (economy, social security, foreign policy & diplomatic relations, taxes, and chief among his personal challenges is that fact that he is so desparate to be seen as a maverick that he is perfectly willing to sacrifice sanity and ethics to be seen as different-doesn't that sound juvenile? ) that have a direct impact on America's way of life-it is absolutely scary!

    At one point I figured that it was his advisers, but now I am willing to accept that he can't help it and that his age is his worse enemy sense it always betrays him whenever he is in front of the media.
  • SusieQ · 1 year ago
    John, are you banning me even when I don't attack you personally?
  • Busboy · 1 year ago
    Are you SusieQ the blogger or susieQ the commenter?
  • Busboy · 1 year ago
    There's lots of SusieQ'S. This isn't the one I was thinking of; but, she'll do for now...

    http://www.suzieq.com/
  • Busboy · 1 year ago
    If you're getting banned, it means you're worse than me. What's the deal?
  • jmcon007 · 1 year ago
    Someone needs to roll grandpa out to the garage. Palin's got friends comin' over.
  • Polly_Tics · 1 year ago
    "The fundamentals of our economy are strong".

    WHAT? I'm sorry Johnnie, but something is awry in that head of yours...