Hilarious, except for the stakes…

  • Posted by smijer
  • May 15, 2008

If he wasn’t going to be the next President, this McCain gaffe would be absolutely the most hysterical campaign mistake I can remember. This coming from a candidate for President of the United States, or in the new parlance, Commander in Chief. The sole executor and protector of national security. This is a level of ignorance I expect in teenage kids with purple hair, not from a sitting senator or a Presidential Candidate.

It’s funny to see the GOP beating their collective chest about national security when their top guy is clueless even about the basics.

I remember when they called it a “gaffe” that Howard Dean told the truth about the capture of Saddam Hussein - that it wouldn’t make anybody safer. These same folks will be curiously silent about a real gaffe.

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Written by:
Rev. Ricky
Posted on:
May 15, 2008 at 6:16 pm

surely you don’t mean to predict in your first sentence that McCain actually will be the president of the united states. He’s only the Republican candidate for the office. I sincerely believe he will not be the President.

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smijer
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May 15, 2008 at 9:09 pm

Rev. Ricky, I you may well be right. The polls and the “moment” are behind you. I think history supports my pessimism. If George W. Bush could beat Al Gore in 2000 and could beat John Kerry in 2004 despite his first four years’ performance, I don’t think a skinny kid with a funny name and Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers, and Tony Rezko for BFFs* can beat John McCain, who has far less baggage than Bush did in 2004. And, to me, it’s just as well. I have the tiniest glimmer of hope that B.O. would be “different”, but chances are he wouldn’t be, even if he could win the White House.

*Please understand I don’t buy into the guilt-by-association thing. I voted for Obama in the primary & I will vote for him in the general. I’m just trying to convey the sense of the landscape as perceived by the media and a helluva lot of voters.

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Written by:
Buck
Posted on:
May 16, 2008 at 7:57 am

This is exactly what I am talking about when I say that you cannot believe a damn word that comes from their mouths.

After eight years of sowing the wind we are just now getting into the season of reaping the whirlwind.

It would almost be satisfaction to see McCain win and let the Republicans finish the job they started.

Just to see exactly how low we can limbo.