Obama and "The Audacity of Vanity", or - Who IS this guy?

[bz2010]

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Are you in PR, by any chance?

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<p>Hindy - only in my dreams - I’m beating the bushes for a position right now.</p>

[Hindoo]

<p>To those of you who don’t care for Obama: Swami that I am, I predict he’ll get a media butt-kicking (can I say that on CC?) soon enough, which will bring him down a peg, if, indeed, he needs bringing down. This sort of thing tends to swing both ways. His opponent will look like Saint McCain before you know it. This will switch back and forth, like a head-bobbing dash to the finish line in a horse race.</p>

[Hindoo]

<p>Well, at least trot yourself down to your local McCain headquarters (if you haven’t already). They’d love you! … I’ve done some fun things for the “enemy” camp, like a recent Bake for Barak sale.</p>

[Hindoo]

<p>Again, for those of you who have berated Obama for not visiting wounded troops, this is from an AP report this morning:</p>

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U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama dropped a plan to visit wounded U.S. troops in Germany on Friday after the Pentagon said such venues should not be used for political campaigns. The Pentagon, in a statement, cited longstanding Defense Department policy that prohibits military personnel or facilities from association with partisan political campaigns and elections.

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<p>So, there! :p</p>

[Newjack88]

<p>Great McCain quote:</p>

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In his book The Real McCain, author Cliff Schecter claims that John McCain made extremely ugly remarks about his wife Cindy McCain during a tirade witnessed by three reporters and two aides. “At one point, Cindy playfully twirled McCain’s hair and said, ‘You’re getting a little thin up there,’” Schechter writes. “McCain’s face reddened, and he responded, ‘At least I don’t plaster on the makeup like a trollop, you c_nt.’ McCain’s excuse was that it had been a long day. If elected president of the United States, McCain would have many long days.”

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I HATE the gooks.

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<p>For some more, see:</p>

<p>[Top</a> Ten McCain Freak Out Moments (Numbered 1-10) Liberalscum Buster](<a href=“http://liberalscumbuster.■■■■■■■■■■■■■/2008/04/24/top-ten-mccain-freak-out-moments/]Top”>Top Ten McCain Freak Out Moments (Numbered 1-10) | Liberalscum Buster)</p>

[ilsa_belter]

<p>jack, get with the program.
This has already been discussed here, and it was pretty much determined that there is no basis for the story other than three unidentified reporters who suddenly remembered JSM saying this something like fifteen years ago, just in time for a timely biography.
That’s also what was referenced here when people used the “Mc****” nickname.</p>

<p>The second quote I haven’t researched, although I wonder why someone would say such a thing after having been tortured. Can’t imagine.</p>

[bz2010]

<p>Hindoo - I totally agree w/ your post #402!<br>
(Of course McCain will be on top in the end!). </p>

<p>Yes, I knew about your “Baking for Barak” (remember, you suggested “Muffins for McCain” to me). Great ideas.</p>

<p>I did volunteer for Mac during the Primary, and we did some great things (my state is very important in the Primary). In fact, I take ALL the credit for his nomination - haha!</p>

[unregistered]

<p>If the torture made that an understandable sentiment (and I think it did, it many ways) then maybe the torture also made him unfit to be President? I can’t assume he actually said that…but it if true, it is pretty worrisome.</p>

[ilsa_belter]

<p>You know, the pc overlay on real life is worrisome.</p>

<p>My dad, who fought for our country in WWII, was known to refer to the Japanese enemy as “Japs,” and to the German enemy as “krauts.” </p>

<p>Scandalous, I know.</p>

[ag54]

<p>[McCain</a> gains on Obama in 4 key states, polls show | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle](<a href=“http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/politics/5906560.html]McCain”>http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/politics/5906560.html)</p>

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Republican John McCain is tightening the presidential race against Democratic rival Barack Obama in four key states, according to polls released Thursday.</p>

<p>The four polls — conducted by Quinnipiac University of Hamden, Conn., in partnership with The Wall Street Journal and washingtonpost.com — concluded that McCain is running slightly ahead of Obama in Colorado, is close in Minnesota and has narrowed the gap in Michigan and Wisconsin.

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<p>Ruhhroww, could it be that the love affair is waning? ;)</p>

[mini]

<p>“The second quote I haven’t researched, although I wonder why someone would say such a thing after having been tortured. Can’t imagine.”</p>

<p>Maybe he wasn’t. He can’t seem to get his story straight about it. Packers v. Steelers. More likely, he simply can’t remember.</p>

[unregistered]

<p>ilsa belter, I am far from PC, but I would hope that our next president does a slightly better job at not alienating/****ing off the rest of the world. I am sure your dad was a lovely man, but I doubt he was ever qualified to be POTUS.</p>

[bz2010]

<p>NewJack - those so-called "freak outs’ are really old news & McCain is even now friends w/ some of the recipients of his comments. (I wouldn’t call them “freak-outs” anyway).</p>

<p>But I do appreciate you posting b/c it again brings to light the fact that McCain has long been a crusader against gov’t waste, fraud & abuse.</p>

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7. Sen. McCain Accused Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) Of The “Most Egregious Incident” Of Corruption He Had Seen In The Senate. “It escalated when McCain reiterated the charges Oct. 10 in a cross-examination, calling McConnell’s actions the ‘most egregious incident’ demonstrating the appearance of corruption he has ever seen in his Senate career.” (Amy Keller, “Attacks Escalate In Depositions,” Roll Call, 10/21/02)

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[ilsa_belter]

<p>Senator Barack Obama, on the other hand, insulted an entire race with his “typical white person” comment.</p>

<p>I don’t think JSM would make such a statement if he becomes Commander in Chief, unless he’s really lost it, as mini keeps telling us.</p>

[bz2010]

<p>ag54 - best news I’ve had all dday! thanks!</p>

<p>I’m just hoping & praying that the majority of Americans (& Electoral College!) wakes up from the hypnosis some have fallen into w/ whatshisname.</p>

<p>I just have to believe it will happen - McCain is so clearly the better candidate (and better person, imho) that it would just be the most egregeous miscarriage of election results this country has probably ever known.</p>

<p>McCain is a good man who has devoted his entire life to this country (even suffering alone in a horrible foreign prison) and stood alone many times for the good of America (even at the peril of his own political future). Setting aside the fact that he has adopted several children (one w/ handicaps) and has given his own sons to the defense of our country, I know he isn’t a “saint”, but he’s the closest thing we have in government! I’m just so thankful he even wants the job of POTUS!</p>

[Newjack88]

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Senator Barack Obama, on the other hand, insulted an entire race with his “typical white person” comment.

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<p>Old news. And it really depends on whether or not the white person wants to feign being insulted.</p>

[bz2010]

<p>NewJack - you suggest that BO’s comment of a few weeks ago about “typical white person” is old news, yet you post an article about McCain which uses examples which are more than ten years old. </p>

<p>:confused:</p>

[unregistered]

<p>Yeah, I’m a white person (pretty damn typical, if you trust “Stuff White People Like” ;)) and I wasn’t insulted by that comment. Poor wording choice, but I think if more white people were honest with themselves about their racial prejudices (and I definitely have some) they would realize that his comments weren’t so far off.</p>

<p>Anyways, this is old news. Better not to drag it out again.</p>

[simba]

<p>“I think it was particularly courteous of Al-Maliki to have his people reiterate their support of Obama’s timetable for troop withdrawal immediately after meeting with him, don’t you?”</p>

<p>well I will be flamed for this, but here it is anyway.</p>

<p>Most people in Arab world in including Maliki (rightly or wrongly) believe that Obama is a Muslim. They are intrigued by the thought of Muslim as a president of US (I can’t figure out why most in India are rooting for him too). So just like all the blacks in this country are behind him, Maliki was just doing a favor.</p>

[simba]

<p>wow…McCain surely has some super natural powers. First he goads Obama to have this foreign trip. Then builds up this invisible Berlin wall charged with energons so that Obama team can not penetrate. He was manipulating the controls from that German rest. in Ohio.</p>

<p>I saw an Alien today.</p>