McCain RNC speech - Best Moment
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hahaha. Yeah.
"If you see problems with our country, work to fix it... just for god's sake don't do that by becoming a community organizer because we just spent the last few days trashing them."
"If you see problems with our country, work to fix it... just for god's sake don't do that by becoming a community organizer because we just spent the last few days trashing them."
Yeah I had to put together a quick clip when I saw it :laugh:
The first full stream online (Fox News) actually edited it out. LOL
Had to wait for an uncensored one to come out.
The first full stream online (Fox News) actually edited it out. LOL
Had to wait for an uncensored one to come out.
I only saw a short bit of his speech last night because he was so freaking monotone and uninspiring that he put me to sleep.
jonks
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Yeah, McCain's such a rebel he isn't constrained by the rules of spelling and grammar!
[not exact quotes, but close:]
Keith Olb: "The republicans are going to lose all the community organizer votes."
Chris Matt: "There are no republican community organizers! I don't think they even know what they do, except make trouble by getting people together to assert their rights!"
It's hard to say whether the delivery was the worst part of it, or the disjointed aspect of it, or whether the sheer brass ballsiness for McCain to call for change, demanding that we throw the bums out.
When they start hammering on facts like McCain singled out Palin three times for wasteful pork projects, McCain's call to make the names of big pork politicians known will ring pretty hollow. When he said that line, and they cut to a McCain/Palin placard, I said "There's one right there."
McCain: "Nothing brings greater happiness in life than to serve a cause greater than yourself."
Unless it's as a community organizer of course; those we know from Guiuliani and Palin are just lame, a dichotomy which I'm hoping Obama will note the GOP smirking at which is especially galling after he's been called an elitist so many times.
McCain: "Trust me to be the agent of change."
Unsaid, but still there, " I might have toed the party line for the last 8 years. I might have voted for every mistake that George Bush made. I might have sucked up to the party powerful and I might have picked a VP I didn't want. But I'm going to do things differently from here on in. Honest."
So, we have a man who for 8 years did things one way. He campaigned for this candidacy as a Republican. He accepted the endorsement of the outgoing president. He knuckled under to the party bosses and picked a right-wing religous nobody VP. And now - now that he's got the goodies his party could give him - he writes them off, calling them crooked and corrupt. Wow. Just, wow.
It was even worse to watch him deliver it and scarily smile after saying he "has the scars to prove it." Yes, it was even more painful to watch than to just hear. The conservative base will support him now because he has hooked his wagon to GWBush somehow in drag and on steroids at the same time. They love her extremism, they love her divisiveness, they love the fact that she can deliver a line. But they are not voting for him. They are voting for her and against Obama.
When they start hammering on facts like McCain singled out Palin three times for wasteful pork projects, McCain's call to make the names of big pork politicians known will ring pretty hollow. When he said that line, and they cut to a McCain/Palin placard, I said "There's one right there."
McCain: "Nothing brings greater happiness in life than to serve a cause greater than yourself."
Unless it's as a community organizer of course; those we know from Guiuliani and Palin are just lame, a dichotomy which I'm hoping Obama will note the GOP smirking at which is especially galling after he's been called an elitist so many times.
McCain: "Trust me to be the agent of change."
Unsaid, but still there, " I might have toed the party line for the last 8 years. I might have voted for every mistake that George Bush made. I might have sucked up to the party powerful and I might have picked a VP I didn't want. But I'm going to do things differently from here on in. Honest."
So, we have a man who for 8 years did things one way. He campaigned for this candidacy as a Republican. He accepted the endorsement of the outgoing president. He knuckled under to the party bosses and picked a right-wing religous nobody VP. And now - now that he's got the goodies his party could give him - he writes them off, calling them crooked and corrupt. Wow. Just, wow.
It was even worse to watch him deliver it and scarily smile after saying he "has the scars to prove it." Yes, it was even more painful to watch than to just hear. The conservative base will support him now because he has hooked his wagon to GWBush somehow in drag and on steroids at the same time. They love her extremism, they love her divisiveness, they love the fact that she can deliver a line. But they are not voting for him. They are voting for her and against Obama.
seriously, what DID Obama do as a community organizer?
straight from the GOP infopit, all I could come up with was:
http://online.wsj.com/article/...tml?mod=googlenews_wsj
We're talking about a man who built a reputation for "integrity" in part by admitting he took favours from Keating, after he'd already been caught. Who waffled on the confederate flag on the South Carolina Capitol building during the 2000 campaign, then tried to claim more "integrity" points for denouncing the flag well after the campaign was lost to him. Who called the religious right "agents of intolerance" in the 2000 campaign only to kiss Jerry Falwell's ring in 2006 and pick a fundamentalist nut veep in 2008. Who toyed with rumours about being John Kerry's running mate before going back to giving Bush man-hugs. Who promised to run a "respectful campaign" once upon the distant past.
John McCain panders, habitually and continuously. He will happily contradict at lunch what he said at breakfast if he thinks it will move him one step closer to the White House. That's what he is.
I was just wondering if he and GWB went to the same school? They both seem to have the same problem with English.....
jonks
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But seriously, that was some boring shit. Palin may have excited the base but the top of the ticket is seriously drowsy-inducing. The kindest thing that can be said is that certain moments seemed heartfelt.
How big a bounce is this likely to elicit? Gallup said the poll they release today should reflect the Palin effect, but the convention bounce won't be visible until the daily tracking poll released on Monday.
How big a bounce is this likely to elicit? Gallup said the poll they release today should reflect the Palin effect, but the convention bounce won't be visible until the daily tracking poll released on Monday.
Lemon law
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Yes my friends, GWB&co has made some giant mistakes that now need correcting, join me my friends, quit complaining, do something to bail me out, enlist in our military, join the ministry, feed a hungry child, becomes a teacher and teach an illiterate adult to tell the difference between a Shia and a Sunni. As for me, I would sooner suggest we just join the democratic party where the few good maverick ideas of John McCain are far more common rather than being a unique GOP exception.
And did I forget, noun verb, McCain was a POW still re fighting the Vietnam war with the same failed tactics.
And did I forget, noun verb, McCain was a POW still re fighting the Vietnam war with the same failed tactics.
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