Letters to the Editor
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'Lighten up and get a life.'???
He should try saying THAT to family members who've lost a loved one in Iraq (whether they're Americans, Iraqis, or any other nationality).
One life to a customer, Senator, one to a customer. What these families wouldn't give for "a life" right now -- or even one more HOUR with their loved ones!
MY outrage isn't burned out right now -- and those of us who have already realized McCain has totally lost it must recognize that a significant number of Americans evidently have NOT reached the same conclusion. Anything that drops the scales from their eyes is welcome.
As I'd suggested in an earlier response to another item, the media ought to give at least the same kind of overkill to McCain's gaffe as they did to Howard Dean's Iowa scream. It's only fair!
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McCain's "Macaca" Moment
This proves a couple things:
1. McCain has a scary sense of humor
2. McCain doesn't understand how youtube is going to affect this election.
This is going to follow him for quite a while I hope. George Allen was first, now it's McCain's turn to spend the next 6 months running from this video.
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Let's face it
A former victim of imprisonment and torture who twice co-authors bills to limit habeas corpus? Not sane, never was, don't waste your time.
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"Please, I was talking to some of my old veterans friends,"
Well, I'm a veteran. You sure as hell weren't talking to me, you washed-up, half-crazy old fuckhead.
I'm not worried about McCoin getting the GOP nomination. He's as crazy as a shithouse rat.
He should record a whole CD of Bomb Iran songs.
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please...
I used to like John McCain, I really did. I often speak out of turn myself and admired what I thought was his forthrightness. I would have considered voting for him in 2000. (I NEVER considered voting for George W. Bush)
Anyway, I think he is now proving that he is not in his right mind. This has got to be one of the craziest things I have ever seen.
And to Mr. Wagner above. Please don't refer to people as "gooks." Thank you.
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Judging from his three fighter plane
crashes he wasn't very good at bomb-bomb-bomb, bomb-bomb Viet Nam either. Funny how that one also rhymes with Barbra Ann. To quote another but much funnier nut, McCain is a "wild and crazy guy". With the emphesis on crazy. Lighten up. What a moron.
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My motto
"If you can't be offensive, why bother?"
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Save the people's money, John.
Drop out of the race now rather than later.
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I think I have solved the McCain Riddle
Theory: He is finally exacting his revenge on the Bush junta for their heartless demolition of his 2000 run in South Carolina’s primary. McCain’s plan is inspired and devilishly clever.
Step 1: Set yourself up as the Republican establishment candidate, soaking up media attention and as much campaign dough as you can from the same fuckers who trashed your 2000 campaign. Will be extra fun wasting their money.
Step 2: Attach yourself in the clearest, most irreversible way to the war policy of the Bushistas. Be just as unapologetically war-mongering as Bush/Cheney. Make sure there is no room for doubt. When it comes to the single most important issue of the day, Bush = McCain, McCain = Bush, in the minds of all Americans (except the Religious Right, who, in what passes for “minds”, will never believe you are as good a warrior for Christ as son-of-God Bush. You will offer a special “eff you” message to all of those people when you concede the Republican nomination and endorse a candidate least palatable to them, and then donate all of your remaining campaign contributions, grudgingly given from them before your campaign’s implosion, to UNICEF, an organization infinitely more likely to do charitable work akin to “what Jesus would do” for children. Children in most cases older than the christianist’s would ever think of helping, seeming to prefer that their work for “children” focus on the “snowflakish” globs of cells resulting from IVF procedures, excepting those of Mary Cheney and Heather Poe’s, which are not up to the non-abomination standards of christianists.)
Step 3: Begin your campaign of personal immolation in a way that maximally exposes how utterly ridiculous, incompetent, dishonest, and criminally negligent Bush is personally, bringing his popularity down, down, down to its absolute basement-level minimum that cannot be lower than the percentage of limbic Republicans able to mouthbreath answers to survey questions through a telephone. Bonus: bringing Bush down, down, down in popularity by general association of his policies with all of your high-profile nonsense babbled to useful media idiots and sycophants will render the entire Bush/Rove/Cheney mob less credible even among Republicans. You may also expose some of the fools in media, who have exploitable crushes on you, as fools. In so doing, you may be able to render the whole sorry lot of complicit Bushistas and media dolts less a danger to your country, reclaiming some notion of true patriotism. To complete Step 3, enlist the aid of like-minded, Bush-revenge-seeking friends. Representative Mike Pence, although stupefyingly loyal to the Bush agenda, might be willing to help, as he is still pissy about Boehner getting all the Bush/Rove love and support for the minority speaker position. Also, Senator Lindsay Graham has many years of repressed (hmmm, interesting word) anger for all of the times he wanted to actually do what his constituents and his conscience would prefer, but was always mercilessly whipped into line by Bush and Rove. Payback time. They can help. Get them to say the most asinine, silly, unserious things about Iraq on a public stage certain to be watched around the world. Get them to help shine a light on the doublespeak for Bush’s Iraq, where “safe” means deadly, where “progress” means alarmingly accelerating clusterf**k. But do try to stay alive…need to be ready for Step 4.
Step 4: Complete self-immolation with a real show-stopper. Something catchy, like a Beachboys tune. Something short and sweet, guaranteed to spread through media outlets like wildfire to “reveal” that you are absolutely crazy. Everything you ever supported will be considered as crazy-talk once you take this final plunge. Of course this includes spoken positions on Iraq, but also general support spoken for Bush, your positions on abortion, your support for crazy judges, your reaching out to the Religious Right as though they were not insane people….all of these things from your (recent) past will be exposed as just the actions of a crazy man. It is sad to go out that way. But Bush will go down.
Step 5: Finish series of public appearances that are unavoidable…concession speeches, endorsement speeches, RNC 2008 convention address... Try to make the most of it. Sound less insane so that history is kinder to you than it would otherwise be in view of everything you had to do to bring Bush down. Ride off in sunset, proud of what you accomplished. Because no one messes with John McCain.