McCain Wasn't in a Cone of SilenceFollow

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/18/us/politics/18mccain.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&ref=us&adxnnlx=1219068661-Oj0V3FR+hvbzWunDxNJC6w

Those who heard the "debate" blinked when McCain said, "Going back to the justices" -- before he was asked any questions about the US Supreme Court justices.

Whispered rumors started to come out that he had been coached ahead of time. It has now been confirmed that McCain was not actually in the building, but was in his motorcade arriving. On a cell phone. With his staff. Who all have Blackberries, and were likely wired into the debate live.

So pretty much, the entire debate with secret questions was a total sham.

Because being a prisoner of war confers absolute virtue. A prisoner of war mystically becomes innately noble and honest, strong, generous and wise.

We should require our Presidents and indeed all high-ranking politicians to undergo torture in a prison camp in order to instill these virtues.

You know how when a child lies about something stupid, and the lie is worse than the original act? This is kinda like that.

I liked the part in the article where it sounded like people were suspicious because McCain acquitted himself well, at least superficially.

"Presidential" is not a word I associate with McCain.

Funny as that would be, they have to be somewhat cagey about overtly making fun of McCain and especially his sacred PoW status.

They should absolutely go after his character, his age and particularly his temper.

I dunno. That seems fraught with backfire risk.

Middle Americans are not like you and I, Smash.

These are simple people: ranchers, farmers - the salt of the earth. You know, morons.

Middle Americans are not like you and I, Smash.

I know they aren't. They're easily manipulated suckers. Whoever manipulates them most effectively wins. Deciding not to manipulate them hasn't been shown to be very effective in the last 20 years. There's no shortage of compete nutjobs who were imprisoned with McCain who ******* despise him. There's no reason one of them couldn't find a bag of money and a book publishing deal.

I grew up on an Army base, in a town with a VA hospital. My father, a disabled american vet himself, moved down there for that very reason. One of the big things that Fort Gordon Youth Group had to do on a monthly basis was go to the Blue Goose at the VA and play bingo with the vets.

It was a good experience. These men were all WWII heros, but many of them were reduced to playing bingo for bananas because they'd lost a leg or two and had been in a wheelchair ever since. Many of them had fascinating stories, and we could listen to them for hours.

But as fascinating as these anecdotes were, as heroic as these men were, that's all they had. They'd been in a nursing home ever since. McCain wasn't disabled to the point where he had to stop living his life; he was able to get a pretty second wife, start a new career, and go forward. He needs to stop with the POW/hero broken record and tell us what he's done as a POLITICIAN, not as a veteran.

Oh right, he hasn't done anything as a politician. That's why he's at risk for even losing his home state of Arizona; they're not happy with him at all.

And they say Obama has no substance!

Edited, Aug 18th 2008 12:25pm by catwho

I thought it was our God-given right as Americans to be entitled to two weeks vacation a year unlike the socialists in France and their six weeks a year.



Edited, Aug 18th 2008 12:35pm by catwho

Yet, if he had done what McCain did and sent a convoy there, he would be accused of overstepping the authority of the president in office and acting all presumptious and uppity again.