Archive for the ‘McCain’ Category
Friday, October 10th, 2008
Chris Buckley, in a fascinating essay “apologizes” to his departed father, and essentially states that John McCain in particular, and the GOP in general, have become ugly kooks, of the sort his father had meant to purge from the conservative movement. Chris — an author of books and articles in his own right, including the back page of National Review — cites a number of reasons for his abandoning McCain, for whom he once wrote speeches:
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Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
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Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
Gabriel Nathan Schwartz, a (single) Denver attorney and delegate to the Republican National Convention, while there was drugged and robbed of lots ‘n lots of expensive stuff by a lovely lady he invited to his hotel room. Such is the context for this story, about which I could give a damn. What makes me sick is that when asked what McCain would do for our nation, this poor, pitiable crime victim declared:
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Monday, September 15th, 2008
Tags: palin
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Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
My adult son, Philip (29), called me yesterday with a strange lead-in question. “Mom, you know how you sometimes have to lie to your kids to calm them down?” I demurred, and said: “Philip, I never lied to you, for any reason — except on the Santa Claus thing.” He said “No, no Mom, you know how with Bradley [my 10-year-old eldest grandchild, who suffers severely from arachnophobia, even as he'd let bees and wasps swarm his room as pets], sometimes you just have to tell him there are not any spiders in the house or he won’t go to sleep?” Well sure, I understood that (even tho I still think lying is a poor way to manage the issue).
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Thursday, September 4th, 2008
I’m watching the anti-climatic closing of the RNC tonight with a mix of horror, revulsion and disbelief. It’s incomprehensible to me that anyone could take the Republican party seriously anymore, yet the pollsters tell me 40% of my fellow Americans support the pathetic man standing at the podium right now, who is pledging to continue the failed policies of the last eight years, for the next four. Only this time they’ll work because — in case you haven’t heard my friends — he was a POW forty years ago. And hey, he has a really hot VP. She’s a gun totin’, moose huntin’, pork bustin’ mother of five and that changes everything.
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Thursday, September 4th, 2008
Yesterday morning I posted my predictions about Sarah Palin’s speech. I nailed it but it’s not much of an accomplishment. You didn’t need a crystal ball to predict a scenario that has played over and over like a scratched vinyl record with a skip*.
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Friday, August 29th, 2008
While there is evidence that the strength of the Hillary die-hard PUMA (”Party Unity My @ss”) brigades is largely a creation of the media, this site, Hillary Clinton Forum, exhibits one Hillary-fanatic commenter after another extolling the choice of (uh what’s her name, oh yeah) Sarah Palin as McCain’s running mate. Palin has spent two years as governor of Alaska — her only extensive political experience — and she is pro-life. But she doesn’t have that nasty Johnson between her legs, so some “feminist” women are going to vote McCain, who as prez would make SCOTUS appointments. Which in turn means, some feminists are crazy. (Via)
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Update: “There’s quite a lot to say about Sarah Palin.” And dday at Digby’s Hullabaloo goes on to say it well. (And I, btw, am not one to think that being pro-life/anti-choice is sufficient grounds to reject a federal candidate. Roe v. Wade is not my Holy Grail and those who find it so are misguided. But that is another post.) But if you are one who holds Roe as the ne plus ultra of Con Law –and support Hillary in part for that reason — why would you vote a McCain-Palin ticket?!
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Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
The phrase “Ugly American” had its beginning in the book by Eugene Burdick and William Lederer, in which the character of a Burmese journalist is given the line: (more…)
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Friday, August 22nd, 2008
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
–Abba Eban
And so it goes, that Obama can make righteous political hay out of this (actually, only occasional) truth vis-a-vis Iraq.
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Sunday, August 10th, 2008
Johann Hari at Huffpo is spot on:
Before this campaign is out, Obama needs to be asked: do you really think you should be in jail? McCain needs to be asked: do you really think your wife should be in jail? Both need to be asked: do you really think 46 percent of Americans should be criminalized? And if not, what are you going to do to begin ending this mad, unwinnable ‘war on drugs’?
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Thursday, July 17th, 2008
John McCain is down to just 110 days until Election Day; Barack Obama is on the cusp of being able to count down to his likely victory with just double digits. Before you know it, America will take a break from politics (or will they?) to turn their attentions to the Olympics. Thank you China. After a brief pause in August, the Democratic and Republican conventions will push the presidential election back into the spotlight. From Labor Day to Election Day, we Americans will witness a sprint to the finish as our two major Presidential candidates are joined in their nationwide campaign by two new Vice Presidential sidekicks. Holy Mackerel Batman!
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Friday, July 11th, 2008
As a Cheesehead from youth — born and mostly raised in the land of Vince Lombardi — I can tells ya, this will not stand with Wisconsin voters! In Pittsburgh recently, McCain announced that when he was interrogated by the North Vietnamese as to the names of his squadron members, he recited the defensive line of the Steelers.
Thing is, “Straight Talk” McCain has previously written in his 1999 memoir that he named the offensive line of the Green Bay Packers. McCain reaffirmed that version to CNN in 2005. John Amato has the story.
Foul! And Wisconsin’s 10 electoral votes penalty.
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Sunday, July 6th, 2008
Neoconservative poltroon Fred Barnes announces on Fox a very promising strategy for John McCain to become President of the United States– exploit hatred and fear of gays. McSame, solemnly declares the Very Serious Barnes, must pander to the social-conservative right by going after:
BARNES: In particular, gays in the military for one. We know Barack Obama is for allowing gays in the military, and Bill Clinton tried to do, but backed off. This is not a popular issue. Gay marriage is another one. These are both issues that I think McCain’s going to have to use. You can’t ignore the right. If he does, he’ll lose.
Sure, Barnes may be wrong as to the efficacy of such a foul strategy, as the analysis at the above link shows. But of course we must — in this “time of war” — demonize, ostracize and discharge decorated gay vets who have risked their lives to save other soldiers and civilians. True patriots only hate the troops if they have teh gay.
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
It’s that time of the campaign season where everyone settles down and speculations long and hard about VP speculation. Hopefully it will last long enough to get us to the Olympics, followed by the Democratic Convention, the Republican Convention, and the September-October sprint to the Election. How else will we be able to survive this mess? For now, I want to tie in some speculation at The Crossed Pond about Sarah Palin as VP with the idea (nearly a reality) that McCain could make a one-term pledge.
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