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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
McCain's a liar!
I picture a series of TV ads: "McCain vs McCain". One for each policy reversal, and one for each time he's done something like Glenn points out here. Simply show a picture of him with voice-over and text of what he said a few years ago (or a few months!), flip the picture and do a voice-over and text of what he says now.
Tag-line: "McCain: What does he really think?"
It was JOhn McCain. See the difference? One man has a small o in his name and the other man has a capital O in his name. Totally different people. Funny how they never appear together though...
This is getting so painful, I'm almost feeling a little sorry for Crackers McCain. At the end of the day, I don't honestly think McCain is a petulant, bratty, borderline-sociopath like W has demonstrated to be - he's just a company man who got passed over for the promotion last time and now it's his chance. Heck, he certainly isn't any less-qualified than Bush ever was, so why shouldn't he expect to grab the trophy this time?
At any rate, it will be fun watching the GOP eat itself this cycle. And we all know what's on that menu...
... for the "Obama Then and Now" post. Nah, never gonna happen.
Obama sits for 20 years in a "hate whitey" church and says he can no more disown his racist pastor than he can disown his grandmother. Then, oops, when the political heat turns up, he disowns him. (Watch out, Grandma!) Rev. Wright is absolutely correct in saying Obama has no core beliefs and says only what he needs to to get through the moment.
Need also to examine Michelle Obama's "hate whitey" senior thesis at Princeton. Nah, never gonna happen, at least not here.
Greenwald is so in the tank for Obama we can expect absolutely nothing critical of him here, nor any criticism of the MSM for kissing Obama's ass for for six months. That's one slamming of the MSM you'll never see from "journalist" Glenn Greenwald.
Why won't Glenn Greenwald stop with this obsessive maverick-bashing? Maverick-Americans like McCain are often treated like idiotic pretenders to real statesmanship and leadership when in fact they're just misunderstood.
Is it so hard to try to accept McCain as he is, instead of always cutting him down? He's a maverick — a loner who treads dark paths in the bitter cold of unforgiving solitude. He's a cowboy, and he rides those trails alone.
So what if in his rambling travels he sometimes seems to depart from all reason? So what if, to our uncomprehending eyes, he seems to defy the very concept of coherent identity? That is something that only people in his minority group understand, and we need to respect that.
Don't all those p.c. liberals say you should never argue with someone's stated identity? Well, McCain's identity is as a Maverick. He states it over and over, and when he gets tired he has his friends state it over and over for him. So I think that's pretty clear!
Let's accept him for who he is, and if today he wants to flay Bush's skin from his body and put it on as a costume, but tomorrow he just wants to flay Bush, and the next day he wants to marry Bush's wife and adopt his children, who are we to judge?
Or is it only okay to discriminate against Maverick-Americans, just not women and minorities? For shame, for shame.
Seems the green backdrop was green enough to use it as a "green screen" and Colbert put up video on which people could apply their own backgrounds for that speech. In a move that's even better, CNN's Jeannie Moos reports on it and even joins in the fun mocking McCain.
Link: http://tinyurl.com/5cr4u6
@bearpaw1: perhaps you would like something like this?
http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/468-the-real-mccain
Where are all the conservatives who cried so loudly that Kerry was a "flip-flopper"? McCain has earned that monicker, and then some, with the stances he has taken in order to appease the far-right of his constituency.
Oh...wait. I forgot. They are a bunch of hypocrites.
My mistake.
The right-wing mindset:
John McCain: "On the transcendent issues, on the most important issues of our day, I've been totally in agreement and support of President Bush."
Knows Better: "Need also to examine Michelle Obama's "hate whitey" senior thesis at Princeton. Nah, never gonna happen, at least not here."
John McCain says he agrees "totally" with George Bush on the transcendent issues of the day, on the "most important issues of our day." And then Knows Better comes and complains: But what about Michelle Obama's college paper??
Does anyone at all wonder why this political movement lays in ruins?
There's not one word in your little rant explaining how Greenwald's thesis today on McCain is wrong. Not that anyone's counting....
*Obama sits for 20 years in a "hate whitey" church*
As Stephen Colbert (a Roman Catholic) demonstrated with more wit and humor than I could ever muster, Hannity and O'Reilly, who go on and on about Obama staying in Wright's church for twenty years, are still attending the Church of the Cross-Dressing Boy Rapists.
Maybe McCain will go after Obama now that he has decided to go ahead and promise a bunch of zealots that he will be a good Zioclown?
Oh wait... I forgot that the candidates can only attack each other on issues that they disagree on, not issues in which they are 100% in agreement with each other, and that they are both sycophantic boot-licking appeasers when it comes to those powerful lobbies that both candidates supposedly oppose and will "fight" on behalf of We The People... they promise.
My bad.
But Hannity and O'Reilly aren't running for president. And besides, the actions of a few does not invalidate all of Roman Catholicism. (And I'm not Catholic, by the way.)
My point is that Greenwald paints himself as this fearsome pursuer of truth, but there are some truths we'll never see from him. He is, in short, a political hack, no different from Rush, Hannity, et al.
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