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You must not have watched too closely.
Obama verbally pointed out in the debate that McCain supported and voted Bush's policies 90% of the time.
There's no sense in using all of your wind for a blustery whine, if you're gonna be so willfully and self frustratedly 100% blind.
Please
More Good Celery.
Spontaneously combust
Or turn off your computer.
How clearly you see, the 'ol grey McCain just ain't what he used to be...
Bumble bumble toil and fumble, what's your latest little triflin' mumble?
take you klytus for a fool? anybody could see that mccain was the mule...who are you tryin' to sell a dud bill 'o goods?
Give 'im Good Hellery.
Is a small time pimp
Obama's approach would clearly be
Not to hail over aside and chat with the pimp
But rather to reach some straight face to face dialouge
with the Ayatollah
and not the little buffer boy
And grocery clerk shrimp....
You have to peel aways layers of political veils
This is why Bush and McCainian foreign policies
Always begin ignorantly and awkwardly
And always crash and burn without fail.
What's this I read about cake leaving for a little visit to Cairo? If i were planning on visiting Egypt I wouldn't visit the ruins of Karnak in the town of Aswan, things of late have been unsettled there, like violent ripples upon the surface of a small pond.
In "the Life and Times
of Judge Roy Bean"
the most truthful tall tale about a famous Texan
That I've ever seen.
Billions and billions have been dropped into Iraq
Like dropping mega mega mega bucks down the drain
The revelation that billions of those dollars have gone missing
Doesn't speak well of either Bush or McCain
Whose wasteful Iraq policies in money and lives
Have gone beyond the bounds of insane
All throughout the debate
I didn't hear a single word
About when the Iraqi people
Will have their own country
Returned.
If the U.S. economy goes broke
How in the name of Allah
Will McCain keep Iraq fastened to its yoke?
But I would assume that that
"control" would put the U.S. in a deep hole.
Speaking of transparent
McCain seems to self appoint himself
As Iraq's military governor
And stern and stubborn parent
What in the name of good sense
Does McCain see as a seemingly ceaseless need
To have 200,000 troops spread out all over Iraq
Most without a clearly defined mandate
Of what they are there for
In terms of end all purpose
Action, and deed...
And most of all
What in the hell is the U.S. REALLY wanting to achieve?
Build a new nation from top to bottom?
Sort out sectarian rivalries
Bitter fruit
That's ferociously rotten?
Act as a constant cop on the beat
Daily patroling every Iraqi alley way, souk, and backstreet?
Stay for an eternity as an occupational force
With fingers crossed
That Iraqis keep democracy
As their freely chosen course?
After so many years
Iraq is on the mend
And it's people are stiiiiill wondering
When the U.S. occupation
Will finally end.
There are increasing anxieties
That the unsettled state of Israel
Might rashly launch a bomb attack on Iran
In a pre-election "October Surprise"
Which John McCain could only accept
As a blessing in disguise....
I'm not looking for a gladiatorial combat
Or a bloody joust
But looking hard for a political vision
That will return honor
To a fallen house...
Is old and decrepid
Or inovative and intrepid....
A Washington style version of Hollywood's John Wayne
Then I fear the American public
Will have really delivered a fatal bullet to its brain...
As a living incarnation of Elmer Fudd
And hence forth
I shall refer to his stammering debate style
As the Porky Piggish stylings
Of John McDud...
Grand standin' at the unsteady ready
Like Bush's right hand shrub.
With a thrash 'n burn deliviry
That'll give the repubs a worried chill!
That's all folks!
Most Egyptians I know hope that the United States will again begin to work to better results with its arab allies, through the good auspices of the U.N., instead of going off like a half crazed cowbody, alienating both foe and long standing friend.
Most Egyptians believe that the U.S. should have left Iraq after the depostion of Saddam, and believe a continuous occupation, is still as potentially volatile - as a bomb.
Egyptians often jokingly refer to Bush and McCain as "itneen homar," because they are as stubborn and uncomprehending, as a donkey in front of a car.
...more like nursing home residential...
"Bil arabi" barak means "blessing.'"
But the mark of McCain
Only means "deeply distressing."
Your lies and fabrications
Are most unbecoming
And don't make you seem
Any smarter or cuter.
Most people in the arab world are bemused at how the United States could have such total faith in Israel, which many liken to a not so always reliable, wanton mistress, and as for terrorism aimed at tourists in Egypt, the peolple hate it, because it deeply imapacts the country's tourist business.
I live near New Orleans, which shares an uncanny similarity in one way with Cairo, in that, when the crime rate significantly rises in New Orleans, local merchants and restraunt owners, are sure to be affected in tourist dollars tommorow.
Beleive it or not Hosni Mubarek does not control EVERY detail and aspect of Egyptian life, today my uncle Elias sat down to breakfast, with a delicious repast of tahmiyya, which was chosen by his wife.
In mocking fun, Egyptians call Hosni Mubarek "the laughing cow," because he produces bitter milk, but laughs anyhow...
"lobotomizer" to the nteenth degree....
I guess the Bush "laughing cow" isn't laughing too hard today, and that the American people have had their own choice of say....
Perhaps the GOP haven't a care for true roll up your sleeves legislating, because spin fetches a mischievous grin, and is as fun and productive, as masturbating...