Like a lot of TV viewers last night, I was utterly baffled by the stately mansion-like structure that flashed on that big screen behind John McCain a couple of times last night (above) -- my first thought was that maybe it was one of John and Cindy's seven or eight or dozen or so houses. But as you might expect, folks were using the Google through the night and what they learned was rather odd.
Turns out the building is Walter Reed Middle School in North Hollywood, Calif. So -- what was that all about? Was McCain promising to transform education for Hollywood liberals, so they would learn the virtues of low taxes and free markets? Maybe, but the best speculation is that the GOP's AV Club members wanted a shot of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, and they goofed.
McCain himself wouldn't have made that mistake, since he's visited wounded troops at Walter Reed and elsewhere on many occasions, and God bless him for that. But it's a sad metaphor when the party that's running the convention this week and running the country for eight years -- during which conditions at Walter Reed deteriorated to an appalling level until exposed by the Washington Post -- can't even tell the difference between the hospital for our troops wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan and a middle school that's 3,000 miles away.
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Posted by b.atkinson 09:53 AM, 09/08/2008
"Damgoodbodies, if the young man was white, would you or ANY publication, paper or electronic have said '...young white man claiming to be the true father?'" "Good point, legatus. It's sad to watch a racist like damgood try to spin his bile as something other than what it is. Very sad..."
If you're that desperate for a comeback that you have to go to the "racist" well batty then be my guest. Any blog site, online news site, daily newspaper or national magazine if reporting this story WOULD say the young mans race. Saying that they would not is just you be disingenuous as usual. As far as calling me a racist all I can do is laugh at that. I have true friends of all races and nationalities. I've dated women of many races. I don't judge people on race,skin color, nationality or religion. I judge them on character. My simple criteria when judging people is are you a good person or are you an jerk. Which one are you batty?
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Has anyone seen the new McCain ads where he blames says Obama will be responsible for huge deficits and unbalanced budgets? LOL!!! Are you kidding me? Does this man not realize that the country had a SURPLUS when Bill Clinton left office? I don't remember "The Maverick" bucking the party line and fighting with "W" to get the budget balanced and to stop building on the largest deficit in history.
Legatus, the young man IS NOT white so your question is totally hypothetical. If he were there wouldn't be any real reason to differentiate except to say say that it was a different boy besides Levi. I never said that the story was true or not. None of us will know until we see the baby. The fact that he is black adds another dynamic to the story and you know it. You can act as if his race would have no factor in this story if you like but if you're honest you will admit that you know this not to be the case.
Lol! So, now the conspiracy deepens. The reason that the flags were neatly rolled up and stacked neatly into plastic bags rather than simply thrown into bags or into the dumpsters is that it was union workers who were dragging the work out so they could make more money. Nice work, 24601. Create some a completely implausible hypothetical to explain what apparently even you realize was a completely illogical assertion. Even better if you can slander good working class Americans as you continue on your campaign of hate, eh? Except, if the Dems were trying not to get caught, once again, the obvious choice would have been to instruct those good working class Americans to stash the flags in the dumpsters where they couldn't be seen unless someone was dumpster diving. Keep digging. I'm sure that you can come up with even more complicated conspiracies and manage to slander even more Americans. And in the process, you will continue to display further depths of Fraudytood.
Damgoodbodies, if the young man was white, would you or ANY publication, paper or electronic have said "...young white man claiming to be the true father?"
Posted by legatus 10:09 PM, 09/07/2008
"Damgoodbodies, if the young man was white, would you have said "...young white man claiming to be the true father?"" legatus, up until now the facts of the story as we know it are that her "fiance" is the father of her unborn child. Are you telling me that if this story comes to light ANY publication, paper or electronic would NOT mention that the young man was black?
Damgoodbodies, if the young man was white, would you have said "...young white man claiming to be the true father?"
Hey batty since you wanted to bring race into this lets just look a few things here. You tell me if the candidates races were reversed would this election be anywhere near as close as it is.
!. You have one candidate who graduated from Columbia University and Harvard Law and was President of The Harvard Law Review and the other finished FITH FROM LAST from the Naval Academy and goes on to loose FIVE planes.
2. You have once candidate who is still honoring his marriage vows to his wife and the other cheated on and left his first wife after she no longer measured up to his standards.
3. You have one wife who is addicted to pain killers that she acquired illegally thru her charitable foundation and the other is a Princeton and Harvard Law grad.
4. You have one candidate who is criticized because he is a charismatic, eloquent speaker the other is lauded as a 'hero" although there are vets and FELLOW REPUBLICAN senators and congressmen who accused him of giving information to the enemy and to blocking vets from getting even the most basic POW/MIA info and getting it all classified FOREVER because his deeds might be found out.
5. You have one candidate who is ridiculed for working as a community organizer to help out of work citizens get the help they needed when he could have taking jobs in the private sector making much better money and the other was one of The Keating Five.
I'm sure there are logical explanations for all of this so I'll wait for you to enlighten me.
Posted by b.atkinson 06:29 PM, 09/07/2008
"A hearty well done to Attytood left winger damgood. In one post he not only attacks a 17 year old girl but adds a healthy dose of racism to his repugnant, toxic point of view. Hope. Change. Left win" COme on now batty. We go back and forth at each other but I have NEVER called you a racist. Please tell me what in my post could be viewed as a racist statement and where did I "attack" her. So the thought that this girl could have had a relationship with a black man is so disturbing to you that somehow see it as racist? By the way, you do know that I'm black right? LOL!!
OK, let's think about this logically... you are a union contractor in a union arena being hired to collect the leftovers from a union-pandering Democrat convention. Are your union workers, being paid by the hour, trying their hardest to not waste valuable time, because we all know unions laborers' top priority is to not waste one second of time when working. In my line of work I have gone to many large-scale conventions and trade shows and I can tell you, a union laborer will roll up flags and put them into bags and take their break not one second later then 10:00, 12:00, 2:00, and 4:00 and not care one whit about spending too much time doing anything regardless of what it is. Give it up already, the flags were being thrown out and they got caught. Just admit it and move on... .org
Well, at least 24601 tried to offer an explanation. Too bad that it is so inane. Let's think about this together, K? You have a 12 thousand flags to throw away. Are you going to carefully roll them up, stack them and put them carefully in plastic bags and leave the bags next to dumpsters, or are you going TO JUST PUT THE FLAGS DIRECTLY INTO THE DUMPSTERS without carefully rolling them up, stacking them, and putting them into plastic bags? If your answer is the former, whatever kind of work it is you do, for the sake of the economy, I hope that you charge by the hour (that is, unless you work for the public sector). Republican lackey logic. You just can't argue with it.
Talking Point Dingaling,
If you are putting anything into a trashbag you roll it up, fold it, compact it, etc., etc. because you want to get more than 10 of them into each bag. It's only common sense, eh? Every Monday and Thursday when I put out the trash and recycleables I fold the newspapers in order to get the most of them into the paper bags before putting them onto the curb. When you are throwing out 12,000 American Flags you roll them up because you want to be able to use less then 2,000 trash bags to do it. Make sense nitwit? While we're on the subject of ducking, why would anyone put all these American flags into trash bags and stack them in and around the trash dumpsters waiting for over a week to be collected with the trash unless they were intending the throw them out? Oh, I forgot, the most logical explanation is that it was a vast right-wing conspiracy to make Obama look bad. Right, uh-huh, makes sense...
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Keep ducking battyboy, keep ducking. Why would anyone neatly roll, stack, and carefully place flags into plastic bags if they were throwing them out? Can't come up with an answer, eh? Keep ducking, battyboy, keep ducking. The more you duck, the more your Fraudytood is exposed.
Now I don't know if this guy is for real or not but he's a young black man claiming to be the true father of the Palin girl's unborn baby. I guess we won't really know until she's born. If the baby has a "tan".....
Check it out. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VELIG92GDXw
Sleuth: I agree with you to a point. However, there is no reason to debate these non-issues with neo-cons who only want to deflect away from the real issues. That is the only prayer the have to win. Batboy, to quote one of your favorite neo-cons, you are like a "one man mud wrestling match." Sleuth, blow them off and let's whack them on the issues.
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Jon Stewart shows again why he is the only intelligent news commentator on the scene (well, along with Will on occasion). Check this one out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVPxi9sK6fQ
Hired. If these idiots actually came up with viable arguments, then it would be enabling them; but the reality is that the more they post comments, they more they expose their complete Frauditood. Witness battyboy's inane logic about the flags. Notice how he consistently avoids explaining why he believes people would behave completely illogically.
Nice try, battyboy. But try as you might, you can't deny that you thought that someone "throwing out flags" would take the time to roll them up and stack them neatly first before placing them in trash bags. Your disingenuity and/or stupidity is a matter of record. Time for you now to continue whining like a stuck pig about conspiracy theories and why the idiot you voted for as president twice is viewed by a vast majority of Americans as a failure.
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Because the Real(?) Walter Reed Medical Center Building has Moronic Columns, Coot McCain could be accused of using Ironic Columns?
Talking Point: Let's stop enabling these wingnut idiots and stick to the issues from now on. We are wasting our time trying to talk to these people. They are like pod people.
"And then along comes the sloth to try and sell the tale that this must be made up because nobody would be so stupid as to throw out a bunch of flags.....---}}} Wow! Battyboy, you really do have trouble with that whole reading thing, don't you? Ok, here it is again so's maybe you can understand this time. Look at the picture, battyboy. The flags were neatly rolled up an stacked and carefully placed into plastic bags. Normal people don't do that when they're throwing something out. When normal people are throwing something out, they take it and stuff it into a trash bag. Let me ask you something: when you're done with your with a newspaper or a paper towel or some tp, do you neatly roll it up an stack it and carefully place it into the trash? Wait, don't answer that. You're such a freakazoid, you may just do that.
Swifty: Again with the non-issues, and unworthy of a response since you know it is false.
SteveMG: Darn right I did; and for Gore in 2000. So, I am not to blame for this Bush fiasco.
Obama: Through Sheer Force of Charisma and Personality I Will Convince Russia, Hamas, North Korea and Iran to Lay Down Their Arms, But Oh, By the Way, I Can't Convince Fellow Democrat Hillary Clinton to Campaign For Me.
Also, gunner batboy is the poster child for a new demographic: the low information voter.
Let me guess, gunner. You voted for Kerry.
Let's assume for the sake of argument, that the flag story is true. What the heck does it have to do with the issues in this election? This is typical neo-con deflection and spin, trying to keep the average voter from thinking about the issues that count: i.e. the economy, Bush's disasterous administration, etc. To my fellow Obamans, from now on, let's ignore these neo-con wingnut "side issues" and concentrate on hitting them and McCain/Palin on where they are the weakest. THE REAL ISSUES. Let's not allow ourselves to get caught up in the personality game. Let the neo-cons wallow in it by themselves, because if they do, they will most certainly lose this election and they KNOW it.
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I'm more likely to believe whoever said they were going to be used later on. You can never have too many flags at a political rally. Hey batboy, when's your Messiah going to disown her radical preacher? And how about the AK republicans trying to stop the troopergate investigation. It was launched with bipartisan agreement, but now the R's want to change their mind. Why would that be? What happens when John McCain speaks, do the Republicans laugh at him, knowing he only thinks he's in charge? If you don't respect your own nominee, how do you expect the big bad guys out in the Middle East to respect him?
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Wow! Republican lackeys are stupider than I thought, and that's sayin' somptin. They believe that someone who's intending to throw flags away would actually take the time to carefully roll them up and stack them in neat piles before neatly placing them in plastic bags. Republican lackey logic, and oxymoron if ever one was uttered. Of course, I suppose that there are some Republican lackeys promoting this story that aren't so stupid as to believe such it, and are instead knowingly making false accusations. Illogical dolts or liars - take your pick.
The source of the story is a reporter from the Denver Post
http://blogs.denverpost.com/opinion/2008/09/06/republican-recycling/
Huff Po's reference to Fox News' Cameron is a canard to try to explain it away as ooooh, the evil Fox News made it all up.
The Invesco Field worker who found the flags says they were in trash bags, sitting near the trash on the docks for a week, and would have been thrown out with the rest of the trash if he hadn't found them.
Obviously extremely embarassed by the oversight the Democrat Party is now making up the most ridiculous excuses that McCain supported stole the flags and planted them there as a vast right wing plot against Obama.
Puhlease, instead of spewing the most ridiculous and moronic excuses why not just admit it was a mistake.
Batboy: Obviously, you read only what you wanted to. The article says that that Fox News reporter, Curt Cameron" was "told" by some unnamed source about this alleged story; no mention of of the identity of the source. Cameron is the same hack who did a hatchet job on John Kerry in 2004, and was forced to apologize. That is why this hack works for Fox News. Spin it any way you batboy, if this is what you have to rely on, the GOP is in BIG trouble.
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Actually, the rebuttal of the flag story is found at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/06/thrown-away-flags-story-f_n_124499.html
Hey 24601 and batboy: As usual, the neo-cons are spinning lies. This story was fabricated by none other than Carl Cameron by "fair and balanced" Fox News. Imagine that!! See: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/
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Repubs flash a photo of a nice building, Dems throw the American flag into the garbage. That kind of sums it all up right there...
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/09/nobody_is_saying_they_are_unpa.html
All of a sudden Steve finds that he is in harmony with Rove's judgment. You gotta love it.
Karl Rove is a genius. He understand the difference between being a Democratic mayor and a Republican mayor. Take a look at the mayors of even the most populous of cities. The Democratics produce mayors that burn down city blocks, visit crack whores and get sentenced to jail. Sure these cities wouldn't elect a Republican mayor even if their life depended on it. Having driven through Richmond recently, I can understand why they built a bypass around it. What a cesspool
You goota love the way Karl Rove mocked being mayor of Richmond, VA because it was only the 105th largest city in the USA.
Hey damgood - All you have done is cited a small bunch of Vietnam Vets against McCain with a youtube vid. Get back to me when you come across a photo as devastating as the one on the SBVFT home page: swiftvets.com/index.php
"She appeared to dismiss all those people living in cities". "She appeared". Where in the speech did she do that? Provide a quote. As opposed to Barack who called Wasilla...."Wasilly". So small towns are "silly". Who's deriding who here?/////"You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and"......."And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren't like them". No "appearance" of anything there that's for sure.
Hey swifty, here's what REAL Penn Staters think of Obama www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXeTIjNN8Zs www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1-v_07I7Ik
John McCain, war hero? Check out this video and notice that there are REPUBLICANS making statements before the usual lackeys blame the LIBRULS. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFM1xqqTX_g
mike l - Since you are essentially stating that candidates for Prez/VP never bring their families to see them deliver their acceptance speeches, please provide evidence of such. I've been watching these conventions since about 1980, and I cannot recall when a candidate has not done so. But please - you, Kos, and the rest of the left please keep on talking about her family. You know - beacuse it's been working out so well you thus far. lol.
swifty, where did palin say anything about about doing something for our country. Sounded liek she just kept saying, "Obama's bad, vote for us." She mentioned no policies, did not address the economy. She appeared to dismiss all those people living in cities or have college degrees. She equates Wasilla with Philly, Chicago, NYC, LA. Sorry, mayors of those cities can't hold bake sales to balance the budget. And Ed Rendell and 48 other governors can't rely on the oil companies and the feds to supply 2/3's of their states' revenue. Pretty easy to be the gov of one of the smallest states when you don't have to worry about cutting services or raising taxes. And how did palin, who is supposed to be such an anti-establishment, anti-lobbyist candidate get so many millions in earmarks for her sinky little town and kept the money for the "bridge to nowhere" that she pushed for, then dropped when DC pulled the plug. Why didn't she give the money back? "Ask not what the money is for, but ask how we can keep the taxpayers' money." BTW, that means your money and mine.
Hey, batboy, no one is bashing palin's daughter. They are bashing her for being a hypocrit. She asks for privacy, but throws her kid out there. Then, she has the gall to bring the kid's boyfriend to the convention from Alaska to throw him in front of the media. Did she think they wouldn't take pictures, make comments? She talks about her baby and how she'll be an advocate for the disabled. Did she start any of those programs in Alaska? And why have there been about zero pictures of her with the baby, but lots of her daughter holding her brother. Seems to me that most mothers who care about their children, special needs or not, like to hold them, be almost afraid to let others nurture them at five months. The woman fits in perfectly with mccain-they are both frauds. Issues anyone?
"Nittally" Lions. lol. Hadn't seen that. Good catch atkinson. Here it is again for all you conservatives (www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQLTekcur-E). Please forward that link to everyone you know. Especially those who reside in Pennsy/////Exit question for you lefties who pooh-poohed the Barracuda's speech: "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country". Kennedy's words?
Hey Batboy: If you were so sure the story was BS, why did you bother to go check it out? Getting a little nervous?
Why would Bunch care so much about the veterans of his country? He cares more about journalists being canned. Shame on you Will
Yeah batty because we know that Rove and his ilk aren't know for being vindictive, malicious and underhanded. batty, you need to go get yourself some Dramamine. You're spinning like a top man.
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Posted by b.atkinson 10:43 PM, 09/05/2008
"What? It was 'reported' so it must be true. Right?" Oh of course not batty. I mean she was vetted so thoroughly, right?
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Hey hiredgun. That's quite a story about Palin. Gonna be hard for that not get national press.
Batboy is applying for a job with the McCain campaign as a spinster. (yes - pun intended).
batty, is there ANYTHING you won't try to spin man?
The reason the Democratics will not win the presidential election is because this is the type of issue that gets their attention.
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“So Sambo beat the b*tch!” Gov. Palin is being reported as having made this statement after Obama locked up the nomination. This is the REAL Sarah Palin. See: http://www.laprogressive.com/2008/09/05/alaskans-speak-in-a-frightened-whisper-palin-is-“racist-sexist-vindictive-and-mean”/
FYI: The Anchorage Daily News is reporting Palin is stone-walling Troopergate. See: http://www.adn.com/opinion/story/516641.html. Yet Palin says "hold me accountable." What GOP double talk. The good thing is if these allegations are substantiated Alaska WILL hold her accountable.
I just realized why you neo-cons are spinning so hard. It must be because the McCain/Palin ticket is such a disaster that it is making your heads spin. Keep up your mindless drivel; I actually enjoy reading how desperate you guys are becoming. BTW, I don't see ANY of you spouting this garbage on Mudflats, where much of the Palin story is breaking first.
Posted by AHiredGun 05:39 PM, 09/05/2008
"I'm a PSU alum too with a JD, and I care nothing about whether Obama can pronounce the name of a ficticious lion."...........Truth be known you probably don't care what stupid things he says or does. You epitomize "Democrat toady".
"What does the Nittany Lion have to do with this election? Classic neo-con deflection from the issues" Thst's right! Why don't you guys get back to the pivotal election issue of "someone displays pic of wrong Walter Reed in background". No really, this is important...it could swing the entire election...the balance of power in the free world!!
What does the Nittany Lion have to do with this election? Classic neo-con deflection from the issues. BTW batboy and brimley, I'm a PSU alum too with a JD, and I care nothing about whether Obama can pronounce the name of a ficticious lion. Heck, I'm willing to bet that neither of you have advanced degrees. Morons.
Posted by Wilford Brimley 03:59 PM, 09/05/2008
"at least we know why damgood is such a moron now - penn state alum - that says it all" At least elaborate on what you mean by that idiot. If you said that about moron like Rick Santorum who you probably voted for I could see your point
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"I tried to watch Obama on O'Reilly last night but I couldn't keep my eyes of that "wart" he has next to his nose. What's up with that." I thought it was one of those skin-colored head piece microphones!
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Legatus, I'll give you that one. You can't put that one on McCain. Now some idiot who's job it was to put that together SHOULD have done the fact checking but you can't expect the candidate to do that.
By the way, I see that the usual suspects have conveniently neglected to mention McCain's new platform....CHANGE. Where have we heard that before? I also heard "Yes We Can!" "Yes We Can!" coming from the crowd. But when Obama says change he's ridiculed. When Obama supporter chant "Yes We Can", they are drinking the kool-aide. Gotta love it!
By the way, I see that the usual suspects have conveniently neglected to mention McCain's new platform....CHANGE. Where have we heard that before? I also heard "Yes We Can!" "Yes We Can!" coming from the crowd. But when Obama says change he's ridiculed. When Obama supporter chant "Yes We Can", they are drinking the kool-aide. Gotta love it!
Stoopid is as stooopid does. This party can't find the right countries to attack, and can't even find the buildings to show for the ACCEPTANCE SPEECH BY IT'S CANDIDATE? What a bunch of idiots. But hey, the internets and tubes are new to these white old men. Give them time to learn how to use the google.....
"Legatus, I would even give McCain a pass on that one. I've heard LOTS of people FROM Pennsylvania pronounce it incorrectly." Exactly! It's ludicrous isn't it? The same is true of this entire Walter Reed flap (if it even rises to the level of "flap"). Glad that you are one of the few Democrats on this comment section that gets it.
What makes me laugh batty is that you can watch Mr. McGoo be absolutely BRUTAL last night WITH a teleprompter and talk about Obama babbling? LOL!!
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Let's see. McCain doesn't know how many houses he has and Obama pronounces Nittany Lions incorrectly. Which is worse. You be the judge.
Talk is cheap. Who cares what anyone says. They need to prove they can do something. McCain has. Obama, not so much.
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Legatus, I would even give McCain a pass on that one. I've heard LOTS of people FROM Pennsylvania pronounce it incorrectly.
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You don't need to know what a Nittany Lion is in order to know that it is the Penn State mascot, and how to pronounce it properly.
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"I can just see him with his Madden 08, Playstation. "In Your Face!!!""...I actually thought it sounded more like something at Wrestlemania, but good point.
Posted by b.atkinson 02:49 PM, 09/05/2008
"Obama talked in Pennsylvania today about the Penn State "Nittally" Lions. That should go over good. LOL"
batty, I'm a former NITTANY LION and a proud Penn State alum. We'll give Barack a pass on that one. Who outside of Pennsylvania knows what a Nittany Lion is? Hell most people in PA don't know. WE ARE... PENN STATE!!!
I also enjoyed the part of McCain's speech where he talked about how people should contribute to America by teaching an illiterate person how to read...then the camera cut to a guy holding up a sign that said "THE MAVRICK". Sheer serendipity.
Posted by RG 02:31 PM, 09/05/2008
"What an angry boy you are brklyn. You talk smack abotu a national election like its a football rivalry, kinda sad."
RG, that's a PERFECT description of him. I can just see him with his Madden 08, Playstation. "In Your Face!!!"
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"he and his inept staffers can't find a picture of Walter Reid?" You can't even spell it correctly...how inept are you! Bwahahahaha!
Posted by The Genius 01:12 PM, 09/05/2008
"Liberals/ Will Bunch/ Philly Democrats- DESPISE the Military- why do you care about Walter Reed?" Genius/Idiot please show me a quote where anyone on here has said a negative thing about the troops or the military. You do realize that the military is made up of both republicans AND democrats right. Can you go ONE day without saying something stupid?
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And BRW, McCain keeps mentioning Czechslovakia in his speeches, and said Putin was the president of Germany. These things are minor gaffes that everyone makes, but of course some desperate hyperpartisans want to make huge issues out of them because they can't talk about the real issues.
McCain continually wants credit for his military service, yet he and his inept staffers can't find a picture of Walter Reid? Should'nt he have noticed the building looks slightly different from the one in DC?
Pathetic. And yes,if Obama's campaign made the same mistake he would be accused of not being an American. I love how the GOP speaks out of both sides of their mouths when convenient.
Notice how the neo-cons have completely spun away from the issue that Will Bunch raised here? Typical GOP strategy. NEVER debate the issue if you think it will hurt you. However, the smoke and mirrors routine will not work for the GOP this time. That is why the neo-cons are getting more shrill and desperate every day.
What an angry boy you are brklyn. You talk smack abotu a national election like its a football rivalry, kinda sad.
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LOL, this is really funny. Makes me kind of sad that McCain's speech didn't include, as some of his fans here at Attytood have on his behalf, a reference to Obama's community work being inspired by Alinsky and Marx. I would have enjoyed a giant photo of Groucho/Harpo/Chico.
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I am still very confused on why the number of McCain's homes are an issue in this election. If the man has real estate holdings, does that make him a bad man? Didn't the Clintons use a vacation home as residence for Hillary to run for office in New York? I believe our former mayor and now governor had a few homes but was never grilled about it. For all of the things you can go after, financial portfolio just seems silly. People in high office make a few hundred thousand a year in salary and even more in public speaking (see Clinton, Bill). Just as stupid is that you need to reach that far to slam a man because he is speaking at a building that also serves as a name for a famed hospital run into the ground for many years and not just 8 republican years. Hey Will, just try one time to look at things down the middle without judgement and it is ok if you agree with something said by someone that does not have the (D) next to their name.
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The surge has worked beyond's anyones imagination in lessening violence; but what about what the Iraqi government was supposed to achieve? With this surge, weren't they supposed to have achieved accords within their own divisive house? Has that happened? What is going to happen when we start pulling troops out? Or, should we just keep them for 100 years, like McCain suggests?
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To "the genius" -- who in the Democratic/Liberal etc. do you attribute the thought that they "despise" the military? How do you come by that idea? Wasnt it a Democrat that involved us in WWII? Viet Nam? Isnt it Bill Clinton who was accused of stretching our military thin? Do not Democrats have loved ones fighting, and getting injured, and dying, in our military? Do you think they despise the military? No, what is despised is being lied to, having our young men and women put in harms way over that lie, and having to deal with the inflation caused by that lie. As a self titled "genius" please do more to live up to that name -- like critical thinking. Thanks from all of us..
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since when do people like Bunch care about the military?
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And for the really important stuff....did anyone notice how strange Obama looked on the O'Reilly interview. What was up with his hair anyway? Maybe we found out what Biden brings to the ticket after all.
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We're realy stretching here. By the way, did you hear that Obama now says the surge succeeded? He flaied to give any credit to anyone that was correct about it, though.
Captain Awesome: The backdrop was horrible. It shrouded McCain in bright green for a good chunk of his speech. More reporting is necessary here, though, to make the claim that this was a mistake by the people who set up the convention. McCain's bit about school choice was very important. Republicans usually try to tiptoe around the teacher's union so as not to upset them. McCain went right at them on behalf of parents and students. I think a school is an appropriate backdrop for that sentiment. (I just wish the school looked more like a school and left either a flag or a blue background behind McCain. I should also note that I agree this does not matter at all. Who votes on background?)
Can you imagine if this had happened during an Obama speech? The right-wing howler monkeys would be at it nonstop: "Obama is so uninterested in the troops he doesn't even know what Walter Reed Hospital looks like!" Malkin would be in full-on ragegasm. Hannity would devote a misty 3-hour Faux News special on the dedicated people at Walter Reed an interject every 5 minutes "and Obama doesn't care about this person!"
But whoops, this was a Repubican screwing up, so it's a "complete non-issue." IOKIYAR.
I read over at dailykos, that at a McCain fundraising event, the forks were once placed on the right side of the dinner plate, instead of the left side. Shocking!
I agree with Cap'n Awesome. Someone messed up while doing a picture search. A complete non-issue. Why should I care?
McCain should have shown a Greek temple, but I heard that idea was already used. If this is the best you got, my money is on McCain.
People, don't blame McSHAME for the wrong "Walter Reed". The guy who usually makes sure the backgrounds are right is in Alaska, trying to find out how many skeletons are really in Palen's closet, since the regular vetter seems to have been asleep after too many Budweisers!
Bon, education was part of his speech, but you really look at that picture and immediately think it is a school? And it is just coincidence that the school shares the same name as a VA medical center that was the center of a huge scandal? I have no idea if the AV staff is supplied by the building, supplied by the GOP or what, but it looks like someone f-ed up here.
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Wolfgang: You want to know why, when the price of oil is crippling our economy, more oil might be a good thing? I will leave it to you to investigate this very difficult question. My hint is: supply and demand. (I, myself, am still waiting for someone to defend Obama's shameless and harmful support for federal ethanol and farm subsidies. Any ideas there?) ----- You might want to wait until this is something more than speculation to get yourself in a huff, Will. Education and school choice were a big part of McCain's speech. I see no reason to think that a picture of a school is a mistake in that context.
Wow....this obviously isn't McCain's fault, but wow...
So the RNC, McCain staff, and other GOPers do not know the difference between Walter Reed Army Medical Center, where there are wounded soldiers - and a school. I'm shocked - no, actually not shocked. Wow - that's really sad.
The hits keep on coming. Let's see the trolls justify this! And can anyone tell me why drilling for oil is a good idea? Please? Just one Repub needs to explain to me how this is a good idea!
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