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By: Sadly, No! » She’s her mate (and she will stand by her)

Sadly, No! » She’s her mate (and she will stand by her) — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:47:46 +0000

[...] we pointed out yesterday, those who watched the debate think Biden won, which presumably makes his performance the bestest in a generation. …Palin is a spectacular [...]

By: Dan Someone

Dan Someone — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:11:37 +0000

I’m just wondering who did more damage to U.S. government property, William Ayers or John McCain?

By: chocolatepie

chocolatepie — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:57:47 +0000

I think we all know where this is going.

Palin/Huckabee 2012!!1!

We’re going to get a third party in this country, but not the one we ever expected. If Palin goes on The Colbert Report, we’re all fucked.

By: ajay

ajay — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 13:42:11 +0000

Completely irrelevant: the first President Bush wasn’t a fighter pilot, he flew a torpedo aircraft. (Even more dangerous.)

If we’re so keen on pilots, is it time to bring back George McGovern? He burned even more civilians to death than John McCain!

By: MajorKong

MajorKong — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 12:16:17 +0000

The A-1 Skyraider he was flying off the Enterprise was a propeller plane and looks like something out of World War II. They were long since retired even when I went to pilot training.

The A-4 Skyhawk he was flying in Vietnam was a small jet that was mostly used for ground attack.

Unless you’re talking to someone involved in military aviation you wouldn’t be out of line to call him a “fighter pilot”.

By: FlipYrWhig

FlipYrWhig — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 04:59:36 +0000

Thanks for the follow-up, MajorKong, although I can’t say I’ve gotten the distinction down… But McCain wasn’t in _Top Gun_-style dogfights, right? That’s what I picture when I hear “fighter pilot.” That and the greased-up volleyball matches.

By: Anonyturd

Anonyturd — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 03:53:04 +0000

I used to know someone who would, about once every year, go around for about a month telling people that he had recently had a “cancer scare.” To him, a cancer scare meant that he had woken up one morning with an ingrown hair or a stomach ache and then immediately jumped to the conclusion that he might have cancer. He’d go to the hospital, where of course the doctor would tell him that nothing was wrong with him, and then he’d proceed to tell anyone who’d listen that he’d just gone through a cancer scare.

By: MajorKong

MajorKong — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 02:15:16 +0000

Was McCain actually in a “fighter wing”? I thought he was a bomber pilot.

In Navy terminology he was in an Attack Squadron (air to ground) which had a “VA” prefix while a Fighter Squadron (air to air) had a “VF” prefix.

An attack plane (A-4 Skyhawk) looks a lot like a fighter plane (F-14 Tomcat) but they do different jobs. It may even carry air to air weapons for self defense but its primary job isn’t to fight other airplanes.

It’s even more confusing in the Air Force because an A-10 pilot will still be referred to as a “Fighter Pilot”.

The term “Bomber” is normally applied to big airplanes like my old B-52.

By: MajorKong

MajorKong — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 02:01:59 +0000

I flew B-52s in Strategic Air Command. I used to sit alert with live nukes (big ones) and real targets on a regular basis.

I can’t say that I ever considered that a big qualification for Chief Executive.

By: jim

jim — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 01:30:16 +0000

Hmm, that sounds awful handy … let’s see: I was ALMOST born rich, therefore I AM rich.
Nope. Doesn’t seem to work.
Damn.

Needs more magical wish-granting monkey’s-paw.

By: RobW

RobW — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:35:38 +0000

The Cuban Missile Crisis, where two superpowers were poised to unleash nuclear annihilation on the world, a fate narrowly avoided by cool headed thinking on both sides.

Cool headed thinking. John McCain. These two concepts don’t fit well together.

If McCain had been president then, how do you think it would have worked out?

I strongly recommend the GOP remind voters of the necessity for coolness and rationality in crisis management.

By: OriGuy

OriGuy — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:16:16 +0000

John McCain passed the Kobayashi Maru test, but he was fifth from the bottom.

By: Mo's Bike Shop

Mo's Bike Shop — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 23:41:56 +0000

Real Presidents wait until September to fail their national security tests.

(I forget when we fubared wrt our guys McCaining into China)

By: MaineMan

MaineMan — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 22:46:58 +0000

There’s a real Goober?

Yes. But he spells it “g-o-a-t-b-l-o-w-e-r.”

By: Righteous Bubba

Righteous Bubba — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 22:33:37 +0000

Remind me: In which fighter wing did Obama serve?

The Crashington McSonoftheAdmiral wing. Wait, that was the other guy.

By: mikey

mikey — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 22:32:05 +0000

What the fuck does flying airplanes have to do with being president?

Both President Bushes were fighter pilots.

So apparently flying airplanes selects for shitty presidents…

mikey

By: Righteous Bubba

Righteous Bubba — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 22:31:53 +0000

She’s all that you say and worse, but I find her very frigging hilarious as an agent of karmic justice for the right wing.

She is Bob Dornan in Tina Fey’s clothing.

By: Gen. Wesley Clark

Gen. Wesley Clark — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 22:14:28 +0000

What the fuck does flying airplanes have to do with being president?

That’s pretty much what I said. Bob Schieffer didn’t seem to take kindly toward it, though.

By: Goober

Goober — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 22:09:10 +0000

There’s a real Goober?

By: Hoosier X

Hoosier X — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 21:59:05 +0000

I call fake Goober.

I’m pretty sure it’s somebody trying to make Goober look dumb … er.

That’s not you, Goober, is it?

(Are conservatives just acting this dumb to confuse us and to activate our misunderestimation glands?)