John McCain has lost what little he had of his mind.
H/T Digby.
Category: John Sidney McCain III
Who Knew that Sarah Palin was the Smart Republican in 2008?
Facepalm!
Because, in support of spending billions on border security, John McCain just compared the border fence to the Berlin Wall:
“I think that, first of all, the legislation concerning beefed up border security removes any validity to the argument that border security is not sufficient,” McCain said during an appearance on CNN. “I mean, this is not only sufficient, it is well over sufficient. We’ll be the most militarized border since the fall of the Berlin Wall so that’s why I think this amendment was very important.”
Seriously, you are comparing border security measures to the Berlin f%$#ing Wall, and you are supporting this measure, you are too stupid, or too senile, to cut your own meat.
Epic Fail
John Sidney McCain III goes to Syria. He takes a picture with the noble freedom fighters. One small problem: it turns out that two of the guys are terrorist who kidnapped religious pilgrims :
Everything was going relatively smoothly following John McCain’s surprise visit to hang out with Syrian rebels this week until Lebanon’s Daily Star reported that one of the “brave fighters” pictured on the senator’s Twitter is “a known affiliate of the rebel group responsible for the kidnapping of 11 Lebanese Shiite pilgrims one year ago.” If so, McCain’s office said, that would be “regrettable.”
“According to families of the remaining captives and one of the released men, Anwar Ibrahim, one of the men standing alongside McCain in photographs released by the senator’s office, is Mohammad Nour, the chief spokesman and photographer for the Northern Storm kidnappers,” according to the Daily Star. “Ibrahim and other members of the kidnapped family said they recognized Nour, and another man affiliated with the group, also identified as ‘Abu Ibrahim,’ immediately after seeing the photos.”
So, John McCain thinks that he knows who the good guys are.
Here’s a thought, if you cannot tell who is the good guys are, it’s best not to choose sides.
Whiney Beotch of the Day: John McCain
Just in case you don’t know, the entire Republican Jihad over Susan Rice and Benghazi is about two things: They desparetely want a real Obama scandal, and they realize that if they kill her nomination to replace Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State, then the likely alternative is John Kerry, which would open up the other Massachusetts Senate seat, to a run by Scott Brown.
Leading the charge are Lindsay “Mincing Fool” Graham, and John “McCrankypants” McCain, and now we find out that McCain skipped a classified briefing on Benghazi in order posture in front of the press:
I have to tell you something that just happened on Capitol Hill, and that is our senate producer Ted Barrett just ran into John McCain and asked about something that we’re hearing from Democrats, which is John McCain is calling for more information to Congress, but he had a press conference yesterday instead of going to a closed briefing where administration officials were giving more information. Well, Ted Barrett asked John McCain about that, and it was apparently an intense very angry exchange and McCain simply would not comment on it at all.
(Emphasis original)
John McCain seems to have spent most of his entire political career in a fit of pique directed at people who he thinks unfairly kept him from becoming president.
Wanker.
Do Not Frack With Them………Ever!!
Jon Stewart and Rachel Maddow take on John Sidney McCain III’s flip flopping, Rachel generally, and Jon just on DADT.
Damn, this is brutal.
100% true, but brutal.
John McCain, You Need to Go On The Daily Show
Because when you don’t, Jon Stewart tees off on you something fierce:
Well, that will leave the proverbial mark.
Jon Stewart Goes After Jon McCain
Ouch!
John McCain, in a tough primary fight with a man whose political corruption John McCain covered up is now denying that he was ever a maverick.
Considering the fact that it was every 3rd or 4th word out of his mouth in the campaign, this merits some comment, of a particularly scathing nature.
Well, luckily, Jon Stewart writes a lot better than I do, so I will just leave you with his comedic flaying of the “straight talking maverick” from Arizona:
But even with all that, you never felt like the guy was selling his soul. You just felt like he was maybe shaving little slivers of his soul …off …for money. But you still always felt like he maintained a controlling interest in his soul. Fifty-one percent of his soul. The majority shares of his soul. Until now.
And then he goes say that McCain is making “soul default swaps on the back end,” in a masterful juxtaposition of corruption and our opaque financial system.
Really, I cannot do justice to what he does in just 5 minutes and 4 seconds.
He shows the hypocrisy and political cowardice of the the man that the Beltway pundits, and the Sunday talk show hosts, love beyond measure.
Of course the aforementioned Beltway pundits Sunday talk show hosts will never acknowledge that their guy is basically a selfish and petulant politician, but I think that the rest of America is starting to realize this.
FCC Votes to Approve Network Neutrality
The vote was unanimous, despite the fact that the phone and cable companies, <Sarcasm> who are so beloved by Americans,</Sarcasm> were lobbying against it:
US communications regulators voted unanimously to support an open Internet rule that would prevent telecom network operators from barring or blocking content based on the revenue it generated.
The proposed rule now goes to the public for comment until Jan.14, after which the Federal Communications Commissions will review the feedback and possibly seek more comment.
A final rule is not expected until the spring of next year.
Needless to say, one of the best barometers in the business, John Sidney McCain III, is trying to stop them.
It Now Appears that the McCain Campaign Was Even More Fracked Up Than We Knew
It appears that the McCain and Palin were waging war on one another.
Considering some of the stories that I’ve heard, the war is ongoing.
Time to buy more popcorn.
For the record: Strippers don’t really like you either.
It’s he last line of the Nitpicker’s commentary on the Maeve Reston disgraceful article, which sounded like musings on the end of a marriage about the relationship between the press and John Sidney McCain III.
It was headlined, “McCain was frank, garrulous and accessible — and then he wasn’t,” and I’m not sure who should be fired for it, Ms. Reston, or her editor.
Here is a snippet:
But I had come to respect McCain’s frankness and his willingness to admit he didn’t always have an answer. Watching the question morph into an embarrassing “gotcha moment” for cable television, my stomach churned and my cheeks grew hot.
It reads like a an effort by a 13 year old girl to write in the vein of the really bad romance novels that she reads.
Nitpicker wrote a great essay on this, but the last line should have been the headline, so I’m doing it here. This bit at the end says it all:
It’s high time for reporters to realize candidates aren’t supposed to be their friends and, I would argue, being buddies with the people you cover would seem to me at least unprofessional, if not explicitly unethical. Obama seems to know this and I’d be willing to bet McCain knows it, too. I’m certain he’s not sitting around moaning about his lost friends in the press corps. I would even guess that it’s likely John McCain only tolerated having them so close and kissing their asses because it garnered him “swooning” coverage for a decade.
For the record: Strippers don’t really like you either.
(emphasis mine)
Everyone on the internet seems to be a better writer than I am.
They also seem much less bald.
We Are Living in Bizarro World
and John Sidney McCain III is the Bizarro candidate.
Case in point, according to a filing with the Federal Election Commission, the highest paid person in the McCain campaign in the first week of October was her makeup artist:
That annualizes to $592,800.00 a year.
Ms. Strozzi, who was nominated for an Emmy award for her makeup work on the television show “So You Think You Can Dance?”, was paid $22,800 for the first two weeks of October alone, according to the records. The campaign categorized Ms. Strozzi’s payment as “Personnel Svc/Equipment.”
That annualizes to $592,800.00 a year.
In addition, Angela Lew, who is Ms. Palin’s traveling hair stylist, got $10,000
for “Communications Consulting” in the first half of October. Ms. Lew’s address
listed in F.E.C. records traces to an Angela M. Lew in Thousands Oaks, Calif.,
which matches with a license issued by the California Board of Barbering and
Cosmetology. The board said Ms. Lew works at a salon called Hair Grove in
Westlake Village, Calif.
$260,000.00/year.
I’m in the wrong bloody line of work.
Intrade Presidential Campaign Markets Manipulated
It appears that someone manipulated the market to drive up John McCain’s numbers.
There’s a surprise. You have a company making book, and the press reporting on the bets being made as a prediction, and someone takes it upon themselves to manipulate the market to get better press coverage.
What took them so long?
McCain Staffer Lobbied for Saddam Hussein
I’m so not shocked.
John McCain is the most lobbyist tied presidential candidate ever.
Quote of the Day: Gail Collins
Remember how we used to joke about John McCain looking like an old guy yelling at kids to get off his lawn? It’s only in retrospect that we can see that the keep-off-the-grass period was the McCain campaign’s golden era. Now, he’s beginning to act like one of those movie characters who steals the wrong ring and turns into a troll.
During that last debate, while he was wandering around the stage, you almost expected to hear him start muttering: “We wants it. We needs it. Must have the precious.”
She owes me a screen cleaner.
Rolling Stone on McCain
John Sidney McCain III must be walking funny (funnier?) after Rolling Stone got through with him, because they just cut him a new asshole, and from reading the article, it’s clear that if they were using the Jarvis Bung Dropper* (see picture), then they must have used the jumbo extra large model.
This article looks in detail at every aspect of John McCain’s life, and finds that the truth is much less than heroic.
They absolutely eviscerate his claims of service and heroism, and they don’t even have to go into the rumor that he caused the Forrestal fire.
*Full disclosure, I actually worked for Jarvis Products Corporation in the early 1990s, and actually worked on issues with the blade for the larger models of the bung dropper, which goes from chickens all the way up to bulls.†
†Yes, I have worked everywhere. Maybe I can’t hold down a job, but more likely this has been my role as “technical hit man”, where you are parachuted in to take care of a specific need.
Totally Not Surprised
This is So Undeniably Cynical and Dishonest
It appears that the McCain campaign wants Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston to have an October wedding, because they think that it would have a positive impact on their campaign:
In an election campaign notable for its surprises, Sarah Palin, the Republican vice- presidential candidate, may be about to spring a new one — the wedding of her pregnant teenage daughter to her ice-hockey-playing fiancé before the November 4 election.
Inside John McCain’s campaign the expectation is growing that there will be a popularity boosting pre-election wedding in Alaska between Bristol Palin, 17, and Levi Johnston, 18, her schoolmate and father of her baby. “It would be fantastic,” said a McCain insider. “You would have every TV camera there. The entire country would be watching. It would shut down the race for a week.”
As Lily Tomlin says, “No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up.”
Unfortunately for John Sidney McCain III and His Evil Minions™, it appears that the love birds are looking at a Summer wedding.
VoteForTheMILF.com
It appears that John McCain purchased VoteForTheMILF.com a few hours after they announced Sarah Palin’s pick as VP.
Ummmmm…Ewwwwww?
Jimmy Carter John Sidney McCain III Abandons Rose Garden Strategy Campaign Suspension
Heard on the radio. He will be at the debates, and this is so much like Jimmy Carter’s adopting, and then abandoning, his Rose Garden strategy against Teddy Kennedy in 1980, it’s not funny.
Free Sarah Palin
Campbell Brown lets the McCain Campaign have it with their sexist treatment of Sarah Palin:
Heh