Obama unleashes teh politics of st00p1d
Now this is the sort of thing I’ve been waiting to see!
Obama Himself Unleashes Broad Populist Attack On McCain
By Greg Sargent – August 21, 2008, 12:58PM
John McCain’s number-of-houses gaffe may well be remembered as an important turning point in the campaign. It’s a moment Dems have been waiting for that is serving as a catalyst for a much more intense and unified populist attack on McCain coming from many corners, particularly Barack Obama himself.
On the trail today, Obama unleashed a fusillade of populist criticism of McCain, weaving together a number of different recent gaffes or quotes from McCain or his surrogates:
Among the various points hit on by Obama: McCain’s claim awhile back that we’ve made great economic progress; McCain’s (possibly tongue-in-cheek) claim that $5 million is the threshold for richness; Phil Gramm’s claim that we’ve become a “nation of whiners”; and of course the houses gaffe.
Separately, the Obama campaign is apparently planning to deploy surrogates in at least 16 states to press the “houses” attack.
The Reasonable Intellectual in me understands how silly it is to attack someone running for president for owning too many houses — Christ, both of these guys are from the Rich Guy club, as is every candidate who has a legit shot at winning the White House.
But the Spite-Filled Hater in me can’t get enough of this shit. For while the policy-based case against John McCain is fairly obvious to me — i.e., he wants to start a ton of wars for no reason — this doesn’t seem to resonate much with the public. But making fun of the guy for not knowing how many houses he owns? People eat this stuff up, and I’m glad the Obama camp is hitting him hard with it. You don’t fight st00p1d with nuance, peeps — if Obama has finally learned this lesson, then he’s simply going to ride roughshod over St. BBQ come November.
UPDATE: It gets better:
By Greg Sargent – August 21, 2008, 2:37PM
Here’s a fun little find that is likely to give Dems more ammo to blast away at John McCain’s number-of-houses gaffe.
It turns out that a few months ago, a McCain family corporation closed on a second multi-million-dollar beach condo in the same building in exclusive Coronado, California — at around the same time that John McCain offered his somewhat tone-deaf observation that struggling homeowners were “working at second jobs” and “skipping a vacation” in order to make mortgage payments on time.
Cindy McCain discussed the timing of the second condo purchase in a June interview with Vogue magazine (not online) that’s newly relevant in light of the explosive controversy over John McCain’s inability to recall how many homes the McCains own.
And in another fun fact that could pour fuel on this controversy, Cindy told her interviewer that the reason they needed a second beach condo in the Coronado building was that the first was too crowded because her kids were staying there and as a result she “couldn’t get in the place.”
Cindy continued: “So I bought another one.”
The ad writes itself: “John McCain wants you to sacrifice your vacation while he’s purchasing a second beach condo.”
God, what a thing of beauty, peeps.
Sad but true.
Christ, both of these guys are from the Rich Guy club, as is every candidate who has a legit shot at winning the White House.
That’s not true, Brad. Why, John McCain himself that the $4MM Obama earned last year puts him squarely in the middle class.
I think it’s pretty reasonable, actually: it’s very much true that John McCain is oblivious to the economic challenges facing the majority of Americans, and the fact that he’s been living large on someone else’s hereditary wealth since before Reagan was president is very likely a contributing factor in that ignorance.
That doesn’t lead us to different conclusions, of course. I’m happy as a clam to see Obama out there pointing this shit out to people, reasonable or not.
The fact is, that only liberal elitists are concerned with the number of houses a candidate owns.
Brad, I assure you that Obama’s arugula-filled bowel movements know more about running a campaign than you do. Sit back and enjoy the show.
I think it’s pretty reasonable, actually: it’s very much true that John McCain is oblivious to the economic challenges facing the majority of Americans, and the fact that he’s been living large on someone else’s hereditary wealth since before Reagan was president is very likely a contributing factor in that ignorance.
Well yeah, it’s good because it reinforces that the guy has adopted Bush’s economic policies wholesale. Agreed.
This seems easy enough to me: Obama unleashes the policy of teh st00pit, and simply rolls it into stuff like “while St. McBBQ can’t keep track of how many houses he owns, how can he be expected to keep track of all the wars he wants to start? Is it 7 or only 4? I want to end the war in Iraq and refocus our attention on Pakistan and Afghanistan. You know who agrees with me on that? The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. You know who agrees with John McCain? George Bush.”
Seriously, this stuff writes itself.
Brad, I assure you that Obama’s arugula-filled bowel movements know more about running a campaign than you do.
I’d like to think that, dude, really I would — but the Kerry campaign bloody traumatized me, especially with their awful performance in August where Kerry was reduced to begging Bush to tell the Swift Boat Vets to stop picking on him.
Just sayin’, being paranoid isn’t the worst thing in the world.
Something about the crowd unnerves me. They look interested, but completely silent. I like this populist broadside. I think a populist attack needs to be accompanied by one of those whooping/cheering crowds though. 4 dozen people in a field is not the place! I hope he socks it to him somewhere with a riled up buncha people and good accoustics. So long as he doesn’t yell over the noise and then have the crowd filtered out later, Dean style 😉
The Obama campaign shows itself ready to pounce. Yesterday McCain said he’d have to check with staff about how many houses he houses. Today, in addition to the mobilization described above, Obama has a new ad out on the houses. (I’m linking to my comment here to try to avoid Word Press’ negative reaction to comments that link to You Tube.)
how many houses he has
This is a bunch of hogwash and you know it. Who cares if McCain momentarily forgot how many houses he owns?
Maybe because he works hard to own those seven houses and was tired at the end of the day. Who gives a rats ass.
How about Obama’s long lost half-brother living in Nirobi Kenya living on $12 a day? Why doesn’t the multi-millionare all compassionate Obama take him in or at least provide him with money and a place to live so he doesn’t have to live in a shack?
Goes to show you that Obama is all talk about compassion. What kind of a sick jerk wouldn’t help his own brother?
John McCain took a sick orphan into his own home and raised him as his son. And yet the left portrays him as some sort of villian. How many orphans has Obama taken care of with his own money? He thinks us regular folks should be forced to take care of the poor through taxes, but McCain did this out of charity which is how Conservatives show compassion not through government mandate.
Just as I expected all along. Obama is just another big talking liberal politician. But talk is cheap.
Now that Obama has launched the attack, the surrogates need to be on the bobble-head shows tonight repeating it, and extending this populist message to multiple facets of the McSame spiel. This needs to be like a hurry-up offense in football.
This is a bunch of hogwash and you know it.
Sweet. That means it’s working.
Keep it up, Obama!
And the McCain’s reply?
“This is a guy who lived in one house for five and a half years — in prison,” [McCain] spokesman Brian Rogers told the Washington Post.
Wow! (or is that Pow?)
http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/08/mccain_camp_responds_on_houses.php
It isn’t mudslinging when the statements are true. This is Obama explaining reality to the thinking-impaired. And it’s about freaking time.
I know in politics, haste never makes waste, but in this case I think that Team McCainiacs responded way too soon. Let’s see…Obama eats arugula? Obama vacations in a U.S. state? Obama’s a pointy-headed professor-type? POW POW POW? Wow, that’s some weak sauce right there.
Of course, the McCain stenographers were even worse. Says the Doughy Pantload: Durr, who cares? Um, everyone wants to be rich, so why insult someone for being rich? Way to miss the point, dumbass. Says the Ole Perf: Rezko. Heh. Indoodily ding dong diddily! Yeah, that’ll really catch on NOW.
McLie painted himself into this corner by running solely on elitism-elitism-elitism-elitism. It took a lot of balls/guts/lack of sense to think that he’d never get called out for the hypocrisy in this, but here we are. I really hope this is a turning point. I’ll make no predictions, though.
Erik?
What about McCain’s first wife?
Like I said. Weak. Fucking. Sauce.
By the way, dummy, McCain doesn’t work hard to own those seven houses, aside from making sure Cindy doesn’t divorce him. That’s the point.
Maybe because he works hard to own those seven houses and was tired at the end of the day.
Cheating on your wife and marrying an heiress is hard work, people!
Ugh, that was kind of embarrassing. The crowd didn’t respond much at all – what was the point of this, again?
what was the point of this, again?
To put the other guy on the defensive. And — hahahahahahaha — it’s working.
Also, this better be replayed non-stop during the convention. They gave us those insipid Purple Heart band-aids…we better be responding with Monopoly boards.
“For while the policy-based case against John McCain is fairly obvious to me — i.e., he wants to start a ton of wars for no reason — this doesn’t seem to resonate much with the public.”
I don’t know about that. Nobody’s really been making that case in any direct or sustained manner. I think it could well resonate if you had Obama and surrogates going on TV every day saying “McCain has never seen a war he didn’t like” or “If McCain had his way, we’d be at war in Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, North Korea and Russia right now”. If TV and radio shows were playing clips of McCain’s greatest warmongering hits as often as they played Wright’s stuff, then I think you’d see McCain’s negatives rocket. I might be wrong, though, and I don’t have a problem with this populist approach either – McCain invited it by going after Obama as an elitist while being staggeringly wealthy and proposing massive tax cuts for the rich.
It seems to me that the most successful single narrative that can and should be painted of McCain is as a guy who, partly because he’s insulated by his wealth and partly because of his monomania about invading other countries, doesn’t care and doesn’t know shit about ordinary people’s ordinary lives. There are countless examples of his ignorance and/or lack of concern for domestic issues that are hugely important to most Americans, whether it’s calling social security a disgrace, not knowing his own position on contraception or the Colorado River compact or a bunch of other issues, flip-flopping on abortion to pacify his base, and so-on. It would be very easy to paint this picture without having to distort anything, but Obama and his people have yet to do so in any coherent way. It looks like they may be starting to.
Speaking of surrogates, Jay Carney at Swampland has a summary, including:
John McCain’s wife’s many houses (his second wife, not his first wife who was seriously injured and disfigured in a car crash and that he dumped for his second wife, who also committed adultery with him (the second wife committed adultery with him, I mean, but that was before she was his second wife, and while he was still married to the first, who he dumped), his second wife’s many houses are really just compensation for the fact that John McCain lived in a one-room house for 5 years while he was a POW in North Vietnam.
Come on now. There’s a reason McCain doesn’t know how many houses he has a joint tenancy with Cindy in. As he has told us many times:
Ich bin ein POWer!
Hmm, maybe Brad. We’ll see. Why do you think it is working?
Um, it doesn’t matter that McCain dumped his first wife, because let’s face it…she put on a few pounds when he got back. I would have done the same thing. Even though I’ve never served, I’m still a terror warrior because, as Hugh Hewitt tells us, we’re all soldiers in this fight.
“This is a bunch of hogwash and you know it. Who cares if McCain momentarily forgot how many houses he owns?”
I don’t know, dumb ass. Who cares what kind of salad Obama eats, or that he drinks orange juice, or that he doesn’t want to eat crap from a tourist trap in Philly. Get used to it.
“Maybe because he works hard to own those seven houses and was tired at the end of the day. Who gives a rats ass.”
Yes, because cheeting on your injured and bed-ridden wife, and marrying a pill-thieving beer heiress counts as “hard work” to elitist GOPers.
“How about Obama’s long lost half-brother living in Nirobi Kenya living on $12 a day? Why doesn’t the multi-millionare all compassionate Obama take him in or at least provide him with money and a place to live so he doesn’t have to live in a shack?”
Prove any of that, or piss up a rope, princess.
“Goes to show you that Obama is all talk about compassion. What kind of a sick jerk wouldn’t help his own brother?”
Certainly not the kind of man who would cheat on his bed-ridden wife, and gold dig his way into great wealth.
“John McCain took a sick orphan into his own home and raised him as his son. And yet the left portrays him as some sort of villian. How many orphans has Obama taken care of with his own money? He thinks us regular folks should be forced to take care of the poor through taxes, but McCain did this out of charity which is how Conservatives show compassion not through government mandate.”
But McCain is a POW!!!!!!!!!
“Just as I expected all along. Obama is just another big talking liberal politician. But talk is cheap.”
That’s all you got? ‘Cause the Obama folks have a laundry list of actual McSame bullshit to trot out.
I’d like to think that, dude, really I would — but the Kerry campaign bloody traumatized me, especially with their awful performance in August where Kerry was reduced to begging Bush to tell the Swift Boat Vets to stop picking on him.
The Obama campaign isn’t the Kerry campaign, McCain 2008 isn’t Bush 2004, $4 at the pump isn’t $2.50 at the pump, the complete and total impotence of our military (like we could’ve done fuckall in Georgia) isn’t the “Hey, we might pull this shit out” of Iraq in 2004, and so on and so forth and Jesus H. Christ, man, this isn’t that friggin’ complicated. At least wait until you actually get beat before you start your lamentations.
I’m tellin’ ya, the rope-a-dope. Of the massive amount of crap they’ve thrown at Obama, all that’s really stuck for the (arguably) non-actively racist segement of the voting public is his “elitism” and his “unreadiness to be the boss, whatever the hell that means” – plus, the nonstop hot lurvin’ the corporate media gives St. John The Humble POW – and even that’s slipping away the more McCain opens his mouth.
Sheesh.
Also, Obama eats arugula, which costs at LEAST a dollar more than iceberg lettuce. Thus, the two are the same. I win! DOYYYYYY1
John McCain took a sick orphan into his own home and raised him as his son.
Really? Bradley became Bridget?
You don’t fight st00p1d with nuance, peeps
Word.
What about McCain’s first wife?
Just one of the guys. Women don’t count. Ergo, not a problem.
Brad, I assure you that Obama’s arugula-filled bowel movements know more about running a campaign than you do. Sit back and enjoy the show.
Wow, that much confidence in a Democrat-run campaign. I wish I was as fearless, but I’m with Brad on this.
I’m tellin’ ya, the rope-a-dope.
And let’s remember what Ali said to Foreman in the the Rumble in the Jungle: “Is that all you got, George?”
Damn straight, Cindy’s inheritance had nothing whatsoever to do with it.
What a fucking moron.
I’m glad to see Obama respond to the bad polling of the past week with a new tact, but here and now it still comes down to the VEEP pick. If it’s Biden or Kaine, we’re fucked, it’s Gore and Kerry and pray for Ohio all over again, if it’s Hillary, well, at least that ticket will win.
I still think the real negative attacks from the Dems have to wait, both so they’re fresh in the minds of the voters, and so the Repubs spend the last few weeks scrambling to respond to something they’ve never had to face. Turning the tables on a bully always makes the crowd cheer, but you need the right timing for proper dramatic effect. It happens near the end of the movie, not in the middle.
really just compensation for the fact that John McCain lived in a one-room house for 5 years while he was a POW in North Vietnam.
You’re aware, of course, that they’ve already trotted out that response.
http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/08/mccain_camp_responds_on_houses.php
Hmm, maybe Brad. We’ll see. Why do you think it is working?
Because this type of negative, low brow shit tends to work. McCain sure looks flustered. That’s good enough for me.
Hmm, maybe Brad. We’ll see. Why do you think it is working?
Because you and Erik are crying about it.
James K. Polk, Esq. said,
You know, even when I was Governor-General of the Philippines I owned only one house at a time, and usually it was a relatively small one at that. Elihu Root, then Secretary of War, once said that when I sat around the house, I really say around the house. But that was an exaggeration, of course — we did a lot of strange things in those days, but cramming an entire house into one’s ass was not one of them. But I digress. Forefend, friends, for I am unwell (actually I’ve been dead for nearly eighty years) and unused to wordpress.
My point is that back when Theodore Roosevelt and I played poker with him, John McCain always struck us as a man of the people, although admittedly in those days those people were exclusively wealthy white people.
Sincerely,
Justice President William Howard Taft (dec’d)
PS if someone could pour a milkshake or two on the curb for me, that would be great.
Regarding the crowd — they’re making plenty of noise. But they just don’t have microphones in their faces.
I was expecting Obama to take this turn, but I thought he’d hold back and unleash after the convention. I’m just as glad to see it now, though. This will help build up some fire in the activists going into the convention. I hope Obama gives us an old fashioned “come on home ta Jebus hell-fire and brimstone rally the troops” speech in Denver.
OT but speaking of Denver, I hope MileHi Hawkeye is doing alright. Give us a wave if you’re lookin’ in, dude!
“John McCain took a sick orphan into his own home and raised him as his son.”
Into which home?
You’ll be hearing alot more about Obama’s half-brother as the campagin progresses I assure you.
And liberals, come on really. Do you really want to get into a mudslinging contest about candidates wives?
Nobody’s got more baggage than Michelle Obama. First time in her life she’s been proud of her Country?! I know I know, you leftys don’t care about patriotism as I recall from a previous thread. But do you really think thats gonna go over well with the Conservative blue-collar Democrats in the Midwest?
if it’s Hillary, well, at least that ticket will win.
Fail.
Erik, you’re sweating.
John McCain was in prison for five and a half years? Damn, that’s news to me. Was that for the Keating thing? I thought he got off scott-free for that one.
Anyway, that happened a long time ago, so I don’t see what relevance it has to his presidential aspirations.
“This is a bunch of hogwash and you know it. Who cares if McCain momentarily forgot how many houses he owns?”
Do you really think that McCain can’t remember the number 7?
“Maybe because he works hard to own those seven houses and was tired at the end of the day. Who gives a rats ass.”
Me. I would think he’s a real feeb or possibly a liar if he couldn’t. Could it be that you’re sort of a feeb too?
Maybe Obama’s long-lost half brother is shacking up with the disinherited half-sister Cindy McCain denies/forgot she has. (Could she have been “accidentally” locked up in a closet in one of the homes the McCains deny/forgot they own?)
The Conservative blue-collar Democrats in the Midwest whose votes are absolutely essential for Obama to win.
Fail how?
You’d really rather have the even more corrupt Biden on the ticket, or the DLC bullshit of Bayh?
Sebelius or Gore as a random longshot would be better, sure, but let’s be realistic.
You’ll be hearing alot more about Obama’s half-brother as the campagin progresses I assure you.
You’re running out of time, bub, and your reputation for prediction accuracy precedes you.
But making fun of the guy for not knowing how many houses he owns? People eat this stuff up
Agreed.
Bush The Elder didn’t lose to Clinton in 2002 because of his bungling of the post-Gulf war situation in Iraq.
He lost it because he didn’t know the price of a gallon of milk.
“Alex, I’ll take ‘Presidential Slogans’ for $100, please.”
And the answer is “A Noun, A Verb, And 911” … (rings in) … Who is “9hou11iani?” … Correct! Choose another…
“‘Presidential Slogans’ for $200, please.”.”
And the answer is “A Noun, A Verb, And P.O.W” … (rings in) … Who is “McMansions?” … Correct! Choose another…
Hey Erik, I think it’s obvious that we’re both dumbasses. Time to head on back to Freeperland with our tails between our legs.
Dude, seriously. Michelle Obama? That’s the best we can do? Wow, we suck.
Roger Clinton doomed the campaign in ’92.
Yeah, you’re right. I mean, what I am I even saying? Obama’s half-brother? I actually think people will give a crap? Wow, I’m a dope.
The “conservative blue-collar Democrats” will flock to McCain because Barack Obama didn’t feed and clothe a half-brother from a father he barely knew on the opposite side of the planet, as if he were some sort of feeble-minded dependent. Right. I see.
Neil Bush was a distaster from which Bush/Cheney ’00 never recovered.
Here you go liberals, read it and weep:
It just gets better and better, doesn’t it? Enjoy John McCain’s inauguration party, liberals — just remember to bring your own chardonay and aroogala, because he won’t be providing any rich people food.
“You’ll be hearing alot more about Obama’s half-brother as the campagin progresses I assure you.”
I’m sure we will. Just like we’ll be hearing more about McSame cheating on his first wife. And the Keating 5. And the lobbyists running his show. And that he has repeatedly voted against veterans benefits. And that he wants to start a bunch of wars. And that he doesn’t know anything about the economy. And that he wants to privatize social security. And that he wants to restart the draft.
Get used to it. There’s lots of tape on McSame that hasn’t even been played yet.
“And liberals, come on really. Do you really want to get into a mudslinging contest about candidates wives?”
Uh, yeah.
“Nobody’s got more baggage than Michelle Obama.”
Except Cindy the pill thief.
“First time in her life she’s been proud of her Country?! I know I know, you leftys don’t care about patriotism as I recall from a previous thread. But do you really think thats gonna go over well with the Conservative blue-collar Democrats in the Midwest?”
Remember when none of that stuck the first million times it was tried? Good luck with that. The only people who care about this, are knuckle-dragging bigots like you and Hannity.
How about Obama’s long lost half-brother living in Nirobi Kenya living on $12 a day?
For Kenya, that’s particularly rich, Erick. And oh by the way, why do YOU care about brownskinned people living across the world? When did you give a rat’s ass about the Iraqi civilians we’ve killed by the hundreds of thousands to spread “peace”?
Yeah, scream for me, bitch.
Come on, servicing your heiress wife isn’t that hard even if you are 74 and zonked out of your mind on Ambien half the time. Anyway, if he’s so fucking tired he can’t remember basic facts about his personal life HE SHOULDN’T BE RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT.
You’ll also be hearing more about Obama’s barber, his mailman’s 2nd cousin, and the guy that waved hi to him in 1994.
Just you poopyheads wait! We will WIN with McPOW!
Y’know, in the UK, that weird lettuce stuff is called “rocket” instead of “arugula”.
If that were true in the US this entire campaign might be different.
You’re right, of course. The irreproachable Cindy McCain is merely a drug addict and a felon, while that awful Michelle Obama is unforgivably black.
You related to Nice Guy Debbie?
You know, I do have some respect for McCain based on the adoption thing. That was really a decent and good thing to do. Not that it’d persuade me to vote for him so he can get us into a dozen more wars, but I respect it.
Just now I learned from Mark Hemingway that McCain’s houses fuck up is bad news for Obama.
Just one of the guys. Women don’t count. Ergo, not a problem.
The GOP has a strict bros before hoes policy.
Yeah, this should resonate with those conservative blue-collar Democrats in the Midwest:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/article3295472.ece
What gives me some encouragement is that McCain is so incredibly politically inept. He practically dressed himself in the Monopoly man costume with his answers to the “how many houses” and “define rich” questions. Any hack Republican with two brain cells to rub together, Dubya included, could have done better. As the campaign progresses and McCain gets tired and stressed more screw-ups will happen. If they try to proceed as they did with Bush, putting their candidate in a hermetically sealed bubble of stage management, the contrast with Obama will be very stark. Obama is a far superior politician to Kerry.
God, remember all the baggage Bill Clinton’s she-bitch of a wife brought to the ’92 campaign? It killed him, man. Absolutely killed him.
Oh yeah, this should resonate with the blue-collar conservative Democrats too:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93708729
Timetable? No timetable. Timetable!
J—
What I want to know is why Mark Hemingway’s link is to the Russian YouTube. Wonder what he’s been looking at…
“By the way, dummy, McCain doesn’t work hard to own those seven houses, aside from making sure Cindy doesn’t divorce him. That’s the point.”
Yes, that is the point. You wouldn’t believe how hard that is. And now the doctor told me that I have all the signs of Early Alztenheimers. Too much bad news in one day!
How many houses did you say I own, Cindy?
Oops, sorry. I meant to say YOU OWN. Don’t worry, it won’t happen again. Please don’t divorce me like a typical trollop c*** would.
Did I ever tell you that I was a P.O.W.?
This is a bunch of hogwash and you know it.
Yes, we do know it. It’s dumb, it’s lowbrow, it appeals to people’s baser instincts (jealousy, spite, envy), and most of all, it’s the kind of “gotcha” moment that many of us have grown extremely weary of.
Thanks for teaching us!
Something about the crowd unnerves me. They look interested, but completely silent.
It was the sound mix. Kinda like the “Dean scream” mix–all microphone, no crowd.
I’m telling you, the best dominatrices are Russian.
Hee hee, Glen Reynolds’ teeing off on Obama right now is just precious. Um, durr, Rezko! Um, durr, the Corner sez….um, Obama’s also rich er, durr, doyyy….heh indeed!
Thanks commie atheist. Another woman left by the wayside by the fabulously wealthy McCain power couple.
the Russian You Tube
Ha, I didn’t notice that. Maybe he was lookin’ for Liukin.
Who is this Erik clown? He’s no relation of mine, I’m hoping. Idiot can’t even write an intelligible sentence.
Guys.
You know Erik is a fucking fake, right?
OMFG. I thought this story was teh JiSM3 killa for sure, but that UPDATE is un-fucking-believable.
Whatever, “Ken”. I bet you’re just a Soros-funded liberal operative under a fals name, discrediting us Heartlanders with your lies.
There is nothing spiteful at ALL about this, Brad.
McCain and his talking head surrogates in the media have been shrieking about what an out of touch elitist Obama is.
And yet Johnny Boy can’t even give an accurate assessment on the number of goddam houses he owns.
At the very least, this is rank hypocrisy. But I like to think of it as poetic justice.
Well, to me, this isn’t a “Spite-based” message at all.
It’s not about ‘elitism’, in fact, it’s countering that message with a better, more reality-based one.
It’s not really about how many homes McCain owns, although talking about that really does make it an awful lot harder for them to hit Obama over his salad. The message here is either McCain doesn’t actually KNOW how many homes he owns, which, yeah, means he’s rich but also means he’s hopelessly demented, or he’s so dishonest he’s willing to pretend he doesn’t know how many homes he owns.
Actually, of course, it’s more of the latter, as he knew that any answer to that question that didn’t make him look bad would be quickly perceived as straight up lying. So he tried to bob and weave. Pathetically.
Now his campaign is hosed – there’s no good path to walk this one back. So they’re falling back on Noun Verb POW. Thanks Rudy.
But this is not the kind of spite based character attacks they use in Rovian politics, although it IS fair to say that this has less than nothing to do with McCain’s ability to be president.
It’s just the kind of crack in the facade that we’ve been expecting from that campaign…
mikey
Shorter Mark Hemingway: The McCains came by their inherited wealth honestly, while the Obamas needed help from Chicago mobsters.
Which, by the way, is fucking wrong:
http://www.suntimes.com/news/watchdogs/757340,CST-NWS-watchdog24.article
Erik Pontoppidan typed:
August 21, 2008 at 21:36
“How about Obama’s long lost half-brother living in Nirobi Kenya living on $12 a day?”
Um, he knows how to spell “Nairobi?”
Yelling “Rezko” is a non-starter for the usual slate of stenographers. It’s too damn complicated and, frankly, pretty boring to the Heartland(TM). Remember how nothing in Whitewater ever mattered to anyone? Yeah. Same thing here.
You’d think these people would realize this and attempt to just ignore the issue entirely. But hey, good luck with Rezko. And Ayers and whatever else.
John McCain was in prison for five and a half years?
Yeah, he took the rap for his second wife’s drug theft.
He’s a standup guy.
How about mudslinging between a candidate and the other candidate’s wife?
“MCCAIN: I think it makes you a better person. Obviously, it makes you love America. I really didn’t love America until I was deprived of her company, but probably the most important thing about it, Sean, is that I was privileged to have the opportunity to serve in the company of heroes.”
Interview with Sean Hannity, FOX news:
http://foxattacks.com/blog/42686-video-proves-fox-erased-mccain-saying-he-really-didn-t-love-america
You want to muckrake, I’ll tell you that Cindy McCain is one of those rare people whose recipes tell you more about her honesty than her cooking (also her love for America?):
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-weiner/mccain-family-recipes-lif_b_96666.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-weiner/re-heat-offender-cindy-ba_b_107428.html
It makes perfect sense then, that this family-oriented domestic goddess told the media she didn’t want to report her tax records to protect her children (who are in the their 20s…):
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/14/cindy-mccain-sells-sudan-investments/
Oh yeah, and the American Voluntary Medical Team (AVMT), which Cindy founded, was good for not only finding children in need of adoption, but also finding doctors to write her illegal perscriptions for painkillers. You can just read the most researched wikipedia article I’ve ever seen for the extra gory details:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cindy_Hensley_McCain#cite_note-Alexander-36
Erik, that’s from 10 minutes with Google. Do your own damn due-diligence next time. And especially, don’t try to feed me this “one quote one time from politically connected individual” line of arguing, because it’s bullshit, everyone can play that game, and it ignores the real issues. Your type of reasoning is destroying this country.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFQFB5YpDZE
Jon Stewart says it better.
Can’t you see from reading this blog that Obama’s personal attacks are a reaction to GOP methods?
Shorter John McCain: “You kids get off my 7-12 lawns!”
This isn’t going to harm McCain one bit; neither will the Keating Five, liberals, although I certainly encourage you to push both of those as hard as you can. In the same way, Rezko isn’t going to harm Obama one bit.
Why not?
Because people assume that all politicians have shady friends and shadier money. If you don’t believe me, try bringing up McCain’s gaffe with friends that aren’t hardcore liberals (if you have any) and see what reaction you get.
Now Reverend Wright, Bill Ayers, and Michelle – these evoke emotional responses. You know it yourselves, liberals, with the numerous threads on this site posted about trying to derive a spiteful response from people.
There is a reason Obama is trailing in the polls, and it isn’t Rezko. So it will be with this too.
I just got the latest polls!
Fox News asked people how many houses they owned. The pollster told people to include their doghouses, relative’s (down to 3rd cousins) houses, their House Representative, and how many episodes of ‘House’ they’ve watched.
To make sure that respondents included all those, and not just their “Primary Residence” (as the evil IRS defines it), Fox News put a gun to the head of each polled person.
And the average number of houses was 23! See??? McP.O.W. truly is a member of the Heartland! All the polls say so!!!
See, Erik, I tried…but failed again. I’m such a moron. I should stop.
with apologies to Marquis de Chocula,
MYTH: John McCain owns seven homes.
FACT: The McCains only live in four of the properties, the other three are simply investment properties and thus can not be considered amongst the McCains’ homes.
22:37: Best fake Truth ever.
You know Erik is a fucking fake, right?
Oh, I don’t know. From the sound of him, I’d say he’s a celibate fake despite his best and frequent efforts.
I’ve got more vague and false assertions coming up, liberals.
Just you wait.
The next email from Capt Rove is supposed to some in 5 minutes. Just you evil LIE-bruls WAIT! This next set of Talking Points will REALLY shut you down!
Oh wait, those cut-n-pastes I keep posting here are ALL MY OWN. MY OWN! MY OWN! MY OWN!
The state dem parties are having a lot of fun with the McCain house thing, and I think they are doing a decent job with it. A couple of states are having contests to find “regular voters” who don’t know how many houses they own.
The reason this “sticks” is because it’s a striking example of Edwards’ “two Americas” idea. Look at this this way: Have you ever in your entire life met someone who was completely unaware of how many pieces of property they owned?
I have met many, many people who own more than one piece of property, including people who buy investment real estate or own multiple business franchises. Still, I have never once met someone to whom buying and selling property (not to mention maintainance, taxes, etc.) was a such trivial, unimportant detail that they had absolutely no idea how many pieces they had at any given time.
He could have easily run with “Hey, Cindy handles all that stuff–I’m too busy being a senator”, but he wasn’t willing to risk “not wearing the pants in his family”. Too bad, so sad.
It’s on the same level as Bush 1 being amazed by the scanner in a grocery store: it really drove home the point that these people live in a different universe than the rest of us. That’s the way the campaign is playing it, too: “No wonder McCain thinks the economy is great–he lives in a world where people don’t know how many houses they own.” (And the sky is probably orange on their planet, too.)
“22:37: Best fake Truth ever.”
Thank you, that was me.
Try the arugula. I’ll be here till Saturday.
I am a humble middle class Senator. I really am.
None of the dozens of bathrooms in all my – oops, Cindy’s – houses has gold-plated fixtures.
That bad man Saddam had gold-plated fixtures in his bathrooms.
See, and that is why we need to stay in Iraq for 100 years.
To make sure that bathrooms, like my humble ones, never get gold-plated.
I actually don’t think this is petty politics. Attempting to smear Obama as unpatriotic is pure FUD and fiction; this attack is using McCain’s actual words to show precisely where McCain *actually* stands. He’s so wealthy he doesn’t even keep track of how many houses he owns, AND he’s going to call hard-working Americans whiners for worrying about the economy?
That shows poor judgement, a lack of understanding of what life is like for those making less than $5 million/year – and reveals where Mccain’s heart is actually at. Perhaps lost in one of his 7 houses.
And the White House will not become one of those houses.
John McCain: Who Needs Arugula When You’ve Got an Onion on Your Belt?
Cindy McCain sez: “The only way to get around Arizona is by small private plane.”
Watch it:
http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid1659866489
Heartland!!!
Wow I took a few minutes too long to write my post. You people sure type quick.
I bet you’re just a Soros-funded liberal operative under a fals name
He probably lives in Niagara Fals too.
There is a reason Obama is trailing in the poll
Fixed your post.
One poll, Troofie. This makes you a liar, not a Troof! And the margin of error in that poll is sufficiently large enough to reflect Obama continues to hold a two point lead over McCain.
In a time when your traitorous rat bastard Jane Fonda hugging Vietcong cocksucking l’il fly boy should be at his best.
But nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! You guys are crowing because he’s not as far behind as he should be!
BWAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!
I need to amplify John’s comments above.
I am a very humble jet. Just as in his land-based bathrooms, none of the bathrooms in my lavatories are gold-plated.
This will be a winning Talking Point to give to Americans, as I am sure that none of the private jets that Heartlanders own have gold-plated bathrooms either.
Obama’s half-brother, you say?
Lawzy, is that a failure? Somebody call the Fail Bear! You conflate two issues (not knowing how many houses he owns and Keating) and say they both don’t matter for the same reason. Some “truth.” The point is, it shows that McSame is desperately out of touch with regular Americans. His comment has blown up in his face precisely because McSame has spent the past three dozen news cycles painting his opponent as elitist and out of touch. This isn’t going away, “truth.”
McSame has closed a gap (in some polls) in the middle of summer, a week before the democratic convention, and we’re supposed to be worried? After Obama gets his post convention bounce, the race will never be this close again. If you doubt me, I invite you to hold your breath until November.
WordPress hates me, but it looks like Fake Erik beat me to the Onion joke (or real Erik is too stupid to know better).
That erik guy was an obvious straw-troll.
The Truth is Jonah.
McCain is a shitty old man whose tether to reality more than passingly resembles Abe Simpson’s.
Separately, the Obama campaign is apparently planning to deploy surrogates in at least 16 states to press the “houses” attack.
“I love it. (pause) God help me, I do love it so.”
In spite of me voting against the MLK birthday holiday, I am devoted to diversity and to the concerns of African Americans.
My friends, to illustrate this, I proudly own and use a BLACK Centurion credit card!
The only downside is that Cindy never stops reminding me how HER money pays off the hundreds of thousands in charges we rack up every month.
Would somebody please call off that trollop c*** for me? I’m a tired old P.O.W.
By the way, did I ever tell you that I was a P.O.W?
You’ve got a point – that’s much worse than getting caught stealing prescription narcotics from a children’s charity to feed your drug habit.
(And the funny thing is the wingnuts always misquote Michelle – she said, “For the first time in my life I am really proud of my country. [emphasis mine]
Analyzing this sentence, the qualifying word “really” implies that she was indeed proud of her country before, but NOW she’s really proud of it.
Yeah, I know – analysis of statements accurately quoted is for DFH commie liberals. Wingnuts think from the hip!
I was a POW before mosta you people were BORN!
Now get offa my lawns! ALL of’em!
Hey Truth, we’ve really got the LIE-bruls on the run now!
Yep, Erik, we sure do!
Did you get your mug yet?
Shalom, brothers.
No, but just 3 more posts for the monogrammed totebag!
Is that the “Cindy” totebag with the graphic of a bunch of pills on it?
No, it is the “Crash” totebag with the graphic of kills that John had on the US Navy air arm. He had 5 confirmed kills!
He shot down 5 Viet Cong aircraft???
The fact of the matter is, you liberals don’t stand a chance on Election Day against a War Hero!
No, he managed to destroy 5 USA airplanes!
See, he is a closet-pacifist.
HEARTLAND!
Hey guys, don’t forget me, wang dang doodle. We three be schoolin’ libs like Skooly D, yo! And why not a word to your mother from time to time?
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The Reasonable Intellectual in me.. But the Spite-Filled Hater…
I’m so with ya.
It looks like Erik and TT are having a nice little conversation amongst themselves about what to have for desert…
http://www.box.net/shared/7pudfct9ji
mikey
t4toby ventures
Dead on right on the first statement. I suppose I’m flattered by the second; I’m a very average guy with no connection to politics or writing about it (really). I like calling out liberals on their hypocrisy and watching their anti-American hatred spin out impotently.
I’m also enjoying some of the more recent brain damaged posters engaging with fake “me” posters – damn, that’s funny.
In any case, I’m here to explain to you liberals why Obama is trailing in the polls. If and when the Obama campaign ever lets Michelle talk again, you’ll understand in full.
And you LIE-bruls are still ignoring the results from the newest FOX poll that I talked about a few posts ago.
Stop ignoring the polls, you LIE-bruls!
Polls are VERY important. They matter a HOLE bunch.
And every mention of one brings me closer to that coveted totebag.
Shorter “truth:” I’m an admitted troll with the emotional depth of a 16 year old boy.”
Okay, dude. whatever you say. You and Jonah seem to share a incurious single mindedness and a Gary Ruppert-like ability to espouse lies and half-truths with a self satisfied smirk.
But you probably like being likened to the Head Cheeter in Charge, so You’re Welcome.
I have a lot of emotional depth. What Mickey Kaus has taught me about Goat Love has really broadened my emotional horizons.
Yeah, but the only thing “broadened” on me is my poop chute. Go back to your hand, you barnyard buggering poltroon.
BLEEEARRRGHH!!!
“I suppose I’m flattered by the second; I’m a very average guy with no connection to politics or writing about it (really).”
Uh, you’re proud of being likened to the son of a whore?
Who depends on wingnut welfare (AKA, mass book purchases by rich old right-wingers) to get by?
How you republicans never support yourselves (the Blue States support the Red States in the taxation sense), but continuously make up lies about how Liberals don’t, never stops amazing me.
Could you please rename yourself “Teh Stoopit”, to more accurately reflect reality?
Don’t overestimate yourself, cubby.
Nobody’s got more baggage than Michelle Obama.
Whoever wrote that clearly never met my friend Claire, the Queen of Kitsch. She’s the only person I’ve met who would fill a suitcase with plastic tiaras and tulip-lights when she was about to fly half-way around the world.
I’M BALLS-DEEP IN GOAT!!
“Don’t overestimate yourself, cubby.”
He is a card-carrying member of the heartland.
You know, that mythical place where middle class people make $3 million a year and no one knows how many homes they have.
Claire, the Queen of Kitsch sounds like a fun date!
Does she have a Facebook?
¡No puedo hablar bien porque los huevos de McCain estan en mi boca todo el tiempo!
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“¡No puedo hablar bien porque los huevos de McCain estan en mi boca todo el tiempo!”
Without the benefit of any translating tools besides my poor Spanish, you seem to be saying something to the effect that McCain’s eggs (aka testicles) are in your mouth all of the time. And I thought Heartlanders were opposed to learning Spanish.
Is cunnilingus hard work? Because all he had to do to “own” those houses was keep his sugar mama happy.
Faktum er, McCain vil vinde.
Shorter “truth:” I’m
an admitted troll with the emotional depth oflooking for hot sex with a 16 year old boy. No fatties, please”I’m a very average guy with no connection to politics or writing about it (really).
No shit?
I thought you were some kind of special-secret genius who beams in right from Tom Wolfe’s prostate.
The fact is, I like to doodle with my noodle while looking at pictures of Michelle Obama. The fact is, I like to doodle with my noodle while looking at pictures of Michelle Obama. The fact is, I like to doodle with my noodle while looking at pictures of Michelle Obama. The fact is, I like to doodle with my noodle while looking at pictures of Michelle Obama. The fact is, I like to doodle with my noodle while looking at pictures of Michelle Obama. The fact is, I like to doodle with my noodle while looking at pictures of Michelle Obama. The fact is, I like to doodle with my noodle while looking at pictures of Michelle Obama.The fact is, I like to doodle with my noodle while looking at pictures of Michelle Obama. The fact is, I like to doodle with my noodle while looking at pictures of Michelle Obama. The fact is, I like to doodle with my noodle while looking at pictures of Michelle Obama. The fact is, I like to doodle with my noodle while looking at pictures of Michelle Obama. The fact is, I like to doodle with my noodle while looking at pictures of Michelle Obama. The fact is, I like to doodle with my noodle while looking at pictures of Michelle Obama. The fact is, I like to doodle with my noodle while looking at pictures of Michelle Obama. The fact is, I like to doodle with my noodle while looking at pictures of Michelle Obama. The fact is, I like to doodle with my noodle while looking at pictures of Michelle Obama. The fact is, I like to doodle with my noodle while looking at pictures of Michelle Obama. The fact is, I like to doodle with my noodle while looking at pictures of Michelle Obama. The fact is, I like to doodle with my noodle while looking at pictures of Michelle Obama. The fact is, I like to doodle with my noodle while looking at pictures of Michelle Obama.
At being compared to Jonah Goldberg?!?!?!?
Exactly how fat, stupid, mendacious and divorced from reality are you? How much fatter, stupider, etc. can one human being possibly be?
This can mean only one thing: you are actually Kathryn Jean Lopez!
“In any case, I’m here to explain to you liberals why Obama is trailing in the polls. If and when the Obama campaign ever lets Michelle talk again, you’ll understand in full.”
In any case, I’m here to explain why McP.O.W. is trailing in the polls. The McCain campaign will never let McCain McCain alone with reporters again after “HouseNumberGate”.
Fixed.
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Did I mention polls?
Obama’s poor Kenyan brother is soooo poor…
How poor is he?
When travels to Washington every year to do consulting work, he has to fly coach.
Whenever I fly over where Cindy’s neglected and disavowed half-sister lives, I make sure to wag a wing, even if Cindy prefers that I not.
Oh, wonderful.
I’m just a humble observer. I know I’m not as smart as Jonah Goldberg, but the fact remains that the closest I’ve ever been to a woman is masturbating to pictures of Michelle Obama and then posting about how she’s going to ruin Obama’s campaign because she never answers my fan mail.
I don’t think this is “teh politics of st00pid” – it’s good old political judo at its finest. Two options: Wet-Start’s too fuzzy in the head to remember how many homes he lives in, or he tried to bullshit his way out of a very inconvenient question. There is NO good way out for Yells-At-Clouds on this. I’d have to agree with mikey on this one. Bullshit, & poorly executed bullshit to boot. Just the kind of early Xmas present an old-school Chicago pol like Obama was waiting for … & he didn’t even have to wait for the debates to get it.
Wet-Start just served himself a Jumbo Shit Sundae. So he’s either got a case of dementia, or he’s a straight-up con-man. Who the hell wants either one in the White House?
McCain looks like he’ll be fighting to stay on political life-support in another month or two. Obama looks like he’s just getting warmed up.
NOW the real game is afoot.
“In terms of who’s an elitist, I think people have made a judgment that John McCain is not an arugula-eating, pointy headed professor-type based on his life story.”
Initial response by McCain campaign spokesman Brian Rogers. He actually mentioned “arugula” and “pointy-headed professor”. Because everyone knows heartlanders are more concerned about a guy eating some funny-named lettuce than forgetting how many mansions he owns.
This answer was full of win. For Obama.
The Viet Cong were a guerilla force, numbnuts. They didn’t have aircraft.
Sie Liberalen werden nie verstehen. McCain ist ein Held, Krieg führen kann dieses Land und tun, was man braucht, um die Arbeit getan, und zwar rechts, und B. Hussein Obama ist ein Salat essen elitär, hat keine Lebenserfahrung.
Man, the details of the Crash McCain real estate empire are mind-boggling.
Check it out at LG&M.
“Arugula-eating pointy-headed professor type”???? That’s beyond pathetic. McCain’s crew are phoning it in at this point.
Now I may just be the ancient, rusting remains of an A-4 KiddieCar Fighter Bomber, scattered bits of aluminum and plastic in the rice fields north of Truch Bach lake in North Vietnam, but I need to warn you folks anyway.
If that guy is TWICE the president he was a pilot, he’ll STILL spin the country into the ground in a very few months.
Listen. I had to spend weeks with that ham handed, uncoordinated, idiot-boy jerkface trying to keep my nose above the horizon. And it’s not like I’m some kind of fancy-pants F4 Phantom II, fer crissakes. If you can’t jockey a nimble little A-4 around, you got no business getting off the ground. An F-102 buddy of mine once told me that even HIS pilot, an inveterate drunk fratboy named Bush was a better pilot than my McCain.
So anyway, the point is, if you can find a way to keep this dick away from your controls, I strongly recommend you do it…
You know Brad, I think you see “spiteful” and I see “explain it to a ten year old” the same way…
If he starts to sound condescending he is toast.
Heh.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/08/21/ohio_voting_machines_contained.html
John McCain will never be an OG. What he should be saying now:
And if rap isn’t his style, he could at least go with this:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080821/ap_on_el_pr/mccain_office_threat
Twenty bucks this was a republican… This is true rat-fucking right here… How convenient, just before the cable news evening cycle kicks into high gear…
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I’ll go ya fifty that was a GOPper. And I can’t afford to lose.
Mustn’t forget.
Did you know McCain was a POW?
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They should consider handing out cards at the convention that read:
“POW Card: get out of any argument free!”‘
they’d go well with McCainopoly.
It is just a coincidence that that white powder was sent to McCain’s office the exact same day that the 7 mansions story erupted.
JUST A COINCIDENCE, I’M TELLING YOU!!!
Test.
I’ve heard that Mickey Kaus might be deported to Mexico.
I’m a fucking sack of shit!
So this now qualifies as Teh First terrorist attack on American Soil since 9/11?
Meaning, George is a complete failure.
I’m sure the Russians were behind it.
After all, where did a plucky band of Young Americans defeat the Red Invasion in Red Dawn? The Coasts? Not on your life, bub. They were pounding vodka before the boots even landed.
Colorado, bitches. And Putin wants revenge.
I hear he’s going to torture C. Thomas Howell on live TV tomorrow.
Wolverines!
“Los Huevos de McCain” would be an awesome Spaghetti Western title.
By the way, did I ever tell you that I was a P.O.W?
JMcC’s favorite pick-up line, or so I hear.
J. Neo Marvin @23:24: Thank you sir! I was wondering what the H-E-double hockey stix these individuals were goin’ on about. A sourceable citation is always appreciated.
OT- Guess what! Our favorite racist pseudo-progressive troll, Iris, is baaaaaack, baby!
Meanwhile, over at the Corner, Byron Yorkie has settled the McLame cross in the sand story.
Swift Boat Liar Orson Swindle said he remembers McLame telling the story in 1971.
So that’s settled. No one could doubt the word of a Swift Boat Liar for the Truth™.
@23:04.
WordPress luvs me.
And who would dare question the word of a man called “Swindle”?
Not Yorkie.
sagra: Well, I suppose that all depends upon whom you ask. I have nothing else to say at this juncture.
Oh so fun.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhuMgUkiVOY
promise not a Creed video.
honest…
May I just add at this point in time that I truly love it when the S,N! regulars take the trolls to task. I sit here and laugh harder than I have since “Spy” magazine went under.
For example, “the Truth” appreciating his being mistaken for Teh Doughy Pantload. Totally pwned his own dumb ass! What’s not to love?!
On the other hand, it’s gonna be a long long long 10 1/2 weeks.
On the other hand, it’s gonna be a long long long 10 1/2 weeks.
Is it worth renting that DVD?
J–: Reminds me of Annie Lennox
Now hear this, pay attention to me
’cause I’m a rich white [man] and it’s plain to see
i got every kind of thing that the money can buy
Let me tell you all about it, let me amplify
I got diamonds, you heard about those?
I got so many that I can’t close my safe
at night
in the dark
Lying awake in a sick dream
On the other hand, it’s gonna be a long long long 10 1/2 weeks.
Young, rough, sexy Micky Rourke, pre-dain brammage and advanced wingnutitude, beautiful Kim Basinger, naked . . . um . . . oh, right ~ that was 9 1/2 weeks.
(blushes)
As to the period between now and the election, I intend to take up drinking full time, once my school money comes in. I recommend you do the same, MzNicky.
ittdgy: You’re of course thinking of something entirely different. Still, the answer is No.
drat you, Mr. Thunder.
I’m way ahead of ya, Candy-O.
Still, the answer is No.
Just watch it with the sound off.
I remember Spy magazine!
*sniff*
That was before shrub, too.
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Just watch it with the sound off.
Speaking for all of them men in the audience…
Mickey Rourke? Really?
Hmm, all I know is that this thread has me feeling confused, dirty and in need of a cocktail.
Very nicely done!
mikey
I miss Coachie Urban Meyer. I think that whenever Coachie is off-screen, Itchy and Scratchy should have to say, “Where’s Coachie?”
Neil Bush was a disaster from which Bush/Cheney ‘00 never recovered.
Which reminds me: Neil Bush’s Silverado
pyramid scamSavings & Loan sparked his first appearances in the national media, back in the Keating Five days. Surely someone with good Google-fu and a broadband connection can find some pics of Neil and Old John McSame grinnin’-n-grippin’ companionably?Suggested YouTube: Neil&Old John, BFFs, dissolving into Dubya&Old John, mid-frottage, plus clips from one of those sitcom “Stiff Yet Sneaky Butler Who’s Made His Own Fortune on the Guilelessness & Cupidity of His Wealthy Employers” trophes (I’m thinking of Robert Guilliame from Fresh Prince of BelAir but those with better boobtube cred are welcome to advise better examples).
“John McCain. He’s done very well out of sucking up to rich snots like the Bush kids. Between his beer-fortune trophy wife and the robber banking barons who paid for his legislative career, he’s made a very profitable career taking OUR money and giving it to THEM. Now he wants to finish the job by giving Dick Cheney a third term in the Oval Office. If you aren’t on the Bush Family Christmas-card list, Vote Obama!”
I am tired of seeing all these posts under fake names. Grow a pair, people!
The McCains increased their budget for household employees from $184,000 in 2006 to $273,000 in 2007, according to John McCain’s tax returns.
The McCains pay the equivalent of seven average families’ annual incomes for housekeepers. But he ain’t no arugula-eating elitist! He’s a former POW!!!
The fact is, SHUT UP, paranoid liberals. You lost, stop whining. You will lose again. And Dems invented dead people and illegal aliens voting, and voter fraud is far worse than any supposed “voter suppression”. If black people can’t understand how to push buttons on a computer, they shouldn’t be voting anyway.
In 9 1/2 Weeks Mickey Rourke looks like a slightly more dangerous and seedy Moonlighting-era Bruce Willis. A bit more hair, too. I remember the movie as a collection of sexy individual scenes and a lot of vaguely uninteresting filler, but then the fact that I saw it like 15 years ago and remember anything from it means it made an impression at least.
I liked him a lot in Barfly, too.
I’m going to be voting a lot in a few weeks, Gary.
And I know all about computers.
We got rid of all the voting machines in Iowa. Our Democratic Sec’y of State managed to get it done. The Rethugs squawked and shrieked about what a waste of money it was, to just buy all those nice machines and then throw ’em out. Dude wouldn’t back down. (My precinct never did have the machines, thankfully.) Anyway, the whole state is back to paper ballots. The thugs ain’t gonna fuck up the vote that way – although i’m sure they’ll try to figure out some other way to fuck the vote. Anyhow, Obama’s gonna cream McCain here. He is gonna beat the old man like a gong.
Heartland.
I liked him a lot in Barfly, too.
Yes. I’m going to see if the library has a copy of Barfly. I’m sure they do.
9 1/2 Weeks was basically a series of mtv-type sequences. I was really drunk when I saw it, and that was years ago, but from what I remember it was purdy hawt but with really bad music. It was one of those videos that was always available in any video rental place and which disappeared with VHS never to be replaced in DVD.
I seem to recall Nine 1/2 weeks as being a movie about how close we can get to seeing Kim Basinger naked without actually doing so. Of similar vintage and general “style” – The Big Easy. Dennis Quaid, Ellen Barkin, and ten gallons of HAWT in a five gallon jar.
I hate to switch to this after discussing hot 80’s movies, but I’m still obsessed with Michael Scherer…
TIME’s Swampland has six bloggers and since this story broke, five of them have made posts. Of those five, four of them have mentioned McCain’s housing problem and the other one is Michael Scherer. Incidentally, Swampland has one blogger who is specifically following the McCain campaign around – Michael Scherer.
And now (although it’s from yesterday) your moment of zen:
Incidentally Cincinnatus’ comment was a very well reasoned:
Hey Troofie?
Looks like Dumbya agrees with me: John McCain was never tortured, ergo he’s a traitor and a Viet Cong ally!
And you support him, you goddamn anti-American freak! Go back to Islamabad where you came from!
Must mention Angel Heart. And the movie I first saw Rourke in, his two scenes in the wonderful Body Heat. There, now I’m done with 80s movies for the evening.
And I absolutely reject the notion that McCain is “my candidate” or that my coverage demonstrates favoritism towards him.
Classic.
No. God, no.
The Big Easy, I remember. Definitely re-watchable.
I believe I have rented 9 1/2 weeks, but I didn’t make it through the slow parts. I mighta been too drunk, Candy.
I mighta been too drunk, Candy.
I totally understand. 😉
Angel Heart? Is that the one with Lisa Bonet and the chicken? Because if so – Ewwww.
Body Heat? Yes. Definitely yes. William Hurt I can understand – and Kathleen Turner? Most definitely yes.
Erik, you’re sweating.
I don’t think the wet stain on his crotch is *sweat*.
Regarding the Obama campaign’s reluctance to get really down and dirty:
I found myself thinking of the Ken Burns Baseball miniseries (which, though I don’t like baseball, was very entertaining), and one part that stood out to me particularly was Jackie Robinson’s having to deal with the racial animosity that would inevitably come down upon him.
Wikipedia (for what it’s worth) has a good quote:
“Rickey wanted a man who could restrain himself from responding to the ugliness of the racial hatred that was certain to come. He reminded Robinson that he would face tremendous racial animus, and insisted that he not take the bait and react angrily. Robinson was aghast: ‘Do you want a player afraid to fight back?’ Rickey replied that he needed a Negro player ‘with the guts not to fight back.'”
Is it possible that Obama’s looking to Robinson as an example of how to deal with the pressure here?
Angel Heart? Is that the one with Lisa Bonet and the chicken? Because if so – Ewwww.
Yeah, and De Niro as Lou Cypher or something like that. Rourke was Harold Angel.
Don’t you think Lisa Bonet is a beauty? I gotta admit I didn’t care for the chicken bit, although De Niro’s long fingernails were almost as nasty.
RE: Posted by Michael Scherer | August 20, 2008 9:42 PM
Wow. Has anyone frisked down Scherer for acts of plagiarism or sockpuppetry? He strikes me as the type.
Yeah, and De Niro as Lou Cypher or something like that.
I for one suggest — Nay, insist! — that images of Lou Cypher should appear as the illustrations* every time S,N! mentions Pastor Jeremiah Wright.
* not to mention scenes from the weird processions outside his church.
I will pay
good moneyNew Zealand currency to see this done.Y’know, in the UK, that weird lettuce stuff is called “rocket” instead of “arugula”.
So thats what the hell you guys were talking about, I had no idea. Learn something every day……
Argh I googled “Lou Cypher” and he’s also some creepy porn dude and now I have to delete my browser cache.
Maybe because he works hard to own those seven houses and was tired at the end of the day.
Erik, you think maybe John McCain’s been workin’ in a coal mine? Poor wee lamb.
Erik: “This is a bunch of hogwash and you know it. Who cares if McCain momentarily forgot how many houses he owns?”
It wasn’t a momentary thing. Even his campaign didn’t know how many houses McCain has.
Erik: “Maybe because he works hard to own those seven houses and was tired at the end of the day. Who gives a rats ass.”
People who don’t know where their next mortgage payment is coming from, that’s who. Clearly Thurston McCain the Third is so wealthy that he doesn’t have to trifle with such fripperies as mortgage payments. The rest of us, not so much.
Erik: “How about Obama’s long lost half-brother living in Nirobi Kenya living on $12 a day? Why doesn’t the multi-millionare all compassionate Obama take him in or at least provide him with money and a place to live so he doesn’t have to live in a shack? Goes to show you that Obama is all talk about compassion. What kind of a sick jerk wouldn’t help his own brother?”
I won’t help my own brother. But that’s because he’s a high-school dropout with a substance abuse problem.
Erik: “John McCain took a sick orphan into his own home and raised him as his son. And yet the left portrays him as some sort of villian.”
Adopting an orphan doesn’t give you a pass on other misdeeds any more than being a POW does. If adopting an orphan gives you the right to become President, I personally know a lot of people who are more suited to being President than McCain is.
Erik: “How many orphans has Obama taken care of with his own money? He thinks us regular folks should be forced to take care of the poor through taxes, but McCain did this out of charity which is how Conservatives show compassion not through government mandate.”
McCain used someone else’s money to do it (Cindy’s). What a fuggin LIBERAL.
Erik: “Just as I expected all along. Obama is just another big talking liberal politician. But talk is cheap.”
Physician, heal thyself.
Nobody’s got more baggage than Michelle Obama.
And nobody’s even started to rummage around in Cindy’s baggage. In case you weren’t aware of it, Erik, she was a pill popping thief who was caught stealing drugs from a children’s charity for Christ’s sake.
That all went away real nice, though, because she’s rich and John’s a senator with powerful friends in the DA’s office. A non-elitist might have had to stack about ten years for what she did.
McCain’s exact answer to the “how many houses” question isn’t critical, but he should decide whether it’s “I don’t know,” “But, I was a POW!” or some other number.
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I need a cigarette…
Troof, you are still my favorite – but stop trying to horn in on my gig.
PENIS
THROBBING TUMESCENCE OF BROBDINGNAGIAN PROPORTIONS
Wow MdC. That’s impressive – but I seem to recall that during Gulliver’s fourth voyage, there was a long description of the state of Brobdingnagian skin – and well the idea of oversized pores on a throbbing tumescence is – well – the less said the better.
actor212 said: “And oh by the way, why do YOU care about brownskinned people living across the world? When did you give a rat’s ass about the Iraqi civilians we’ve killed by the hundreds of thousands to spread “peace”?” Erkel is just carrying out his part of the “toilet paper strategy,” in which right-wingers affect to give a shit about women, minorities, etc., over there so they won’t have to give a shit about them over here.
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