Letters to the Editor
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No, You Can't
Now, that's funny! Love it. "Gonna Be Wars" -- oh, man! McCain's so screwed on that. And this...
An Associated Press-Ipsos poll shows Democrat Barack Obama would narrowly defeat John McCain if the presidential election were being held now. If Hillary Rodham Clinton were the Democratic nominee, she and the Republican front-runner would be about even.
The AP-Ipsos poll, released Monday, is an initial look at voter sentiment since the Super Tuesday contests last week. In the poll, Illinois senator Obama leads McCain 48 percent to 42 percent. New York senator Clinton gets 46 percent to 45 percent for McCain.
The poll shows Obama leads Clinton in the race for the Democratic nomination, 46 percent to 41 percent.
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Cute. Are you sure all those independents like cute?
Yeah, that's right. Sieg Heil the war hero. I can see the Republican ads already.
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Like Hope, Only Different
I can see the Republican ads already.
Could you maybe let us in on the planning for those? You know, opposition research and all....
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Offensive, probably...
Offensive, probably. Funny? Hells yes.
As for the comment above about being a war hero, your record as an officer in the military doesn't give you a pass on everything else. There are plenty of distinguished veterans who hold, support, or advocate either terrible ideas or crackpot theories (for instance, Bo Gritz, Vietnam Special Forces officer, who is a certified loon and conspiracy theorist), and they should be challenged on them regardless of their record.
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Another video that made me cry.
This time because I'm laughing so hard.
Yeah, Mary, it's preaching to the choir. But do you seriously think they'll make commercials trying to make a scandal out of the white supremacist straw guy? I think they'll be way too busy mining for the last specks of ore on Marc Rich and/or Rezko. And none of it will change the fact that people's children and spouses and parents are DYING FOR NO REASON and McCain apparently thinks our sons and daughters and their sons and daughters should continue volunteering to be snuffed out for 100 to 10,000 more years - no problem!
The military is built on honor; that is the only way the authoritarian system can work. If you betray your troops by having them killed for no reason, no amount of calling THEM heroes will make YOU look like one.
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McCain Video
I loved this. Very funny but pretty appalling too. I was one person who heard McCain speak about "100 years" in Iraq so calmly, totally unconcerned. I thought then, "you're going to hemmorrhage votes with that statement right there." All any democratic candidate has to do is tally the price tag for our occupation in Iraq for say 5, 10, 30 years etc.. Then say, "what's the price of our children's future?" It also doesn't help when the generals are asking for "pause" in the planned drawdown of troops now.
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Love it
Great parody. This is much better video than the original 'Yes We Can" video.
I'm an strong Obama supporter but I cannot stand the "Yes We Can Video". Maybe I'm just too old, but I wish the Obama campaing would take if off of his site. I's pretty dumb.
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Tax Revenues - (100-Year War + Military Spending + Permanent Tax Cuts) = ?
McCain Should be asked to solve that equation in the first debate of the general election. Even if you eliminated all social programs, I don't think you can make the numbers foot.
Supply-side economic expansion? I don't think so, given the past 8 years.
If voters start working on the math, they'll quickly come to the conclusion that the Repubs are living in a fantasy world which is costing everyone blood, money and freedom.
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Yes We Can Parody
You can't deny that McCain said it!
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Not fair
That wasn't fair to do to me. I'm at work. It's tough to pretend to be hard at work when I'm laughing out loud.
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The Great White Hopeless
Despair is the new hope! I remember Bush's dad talking about his 1,000 points of light -- I can imagine McCain busy trying to spit-shine "10,000 years of war..." as part of his platform. War is the new peace!
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John McCain
Now, if somebody would only adapt Tay Zonday's "Chocolate Rain" to "John McCain."
"If you want 100 years of war: John McCain/Nation on its knees from shore to shore: John McCain..."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwTZ2xpQwpA
But no, that's too horrible to imagine, even as a parody.
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That.
Is. Awesome.
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A parody?
I had no idea... here I was thinking it was a legit GOTV effort directed at young Repubs on the part of the McCain camp.
Brian
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Misunderstanding
In response to the "Sieg Heil the war hero" comment -- I don't think the kid in the video was doing a "sieg heil" -- it was more like a black power salute being done by a white dude -- which like the rest of the video is just plain funny.
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re: misunderstanding
Pay attention. It is certainly not a seig heil. It is also not a black power salute by a white guy. He is wearing a bandana and he says cien anos. He's hispanic. Think United Farm Workers.
Andy
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Slackie
Not to take a side, but what is a poll with all results well within the margin of error supposed to demonstrate?
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Cientos Años
He said, "cientos años"... one hundred years... playing off of CSI: Miami's Adam Rodriguez's "si se puede" appearance in the parodied will.i.am video...
Jeez.
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McCain's "100 years" comment...
Though I think it's a solid opening to blast McCain for a little while, in the long run it might backfire on Dems to keep using it. I'm pretty sure McCain was referring to keeping some military bases there, not continuing the war itself. The comparison was to Germany, where we also still have bases that were put down after WWII.
The issue of the military bases in Iraq could be a loser for Clinton/Obama if they overreach. There are currently at least 14 big, heavily built-up bases in Iraq. Some of these bases were built for long-term tactical purposes: With full barracks and especially air strips. The U.S. pumped billions of dollars into them, and they replaced the bases that we dismantled in Saudi Arabia as part of a brokered deal with that government (it diminished citizen unhappiness about having U.S. soldiers so close to Mecca, and so relieved pressure on the royalty).
Chances are, unless we figure out some way to move several bases to the heavily air-polluted Kuwait or some other strategically located country, we're going to be keeping several military bases in Iraq.