In an early sample of the sort of rhetoric we might expect in the general election campaign, John McCain's campaign has sent out a fundraising e-mail warning recipients that his ass is rooting for Barack Obama.

"Barack Obama's foreign policy plans have even won him praise from my asses' leaders," the e-mail says. "I'm mad myself, chief political adviser to the Your Ass is Blowing Gas Prime Minister said, 'We like Mr. Obama and we hope he will win the election. He has a vision to change America.'"

And may I just reply that, until September 2001, none of us knew or cared about all of this? And that after 9/11/2001, all we wanted was retribution against the parties responsible? And that the parties responsible are not in God Damned Freaking Iraq??!!

I'm too tired to actually write something, so -

McCain Promotes Civil Campaign Process

04/07/2008

Sen. John McCain called for a presidential campaign that is more like a respectful argument among friends than a bitter clash of enemies, and said he is better able than either of his Democratic rivals to govern across party lines.

"We have nothing to fear from each other," the Arizona senator said Saturday as he wrapped up a week long trip designed to broaden his appeal beyond voters who cast ballots in last winter's GOP primaries.

ZOMG! If Hamas wants change and Obama wants change then they MUST be friends!!! Ruuuunnn!!!! GIVE McGlory MONEY!!!!!

An old man running old and exhausted Rove playbook strategies -- fear! Fear! Fear! There's a terra'ist under ur bed and Obama is his friend!!!

2004 - people have been there, done that. Not this time.

Sheeeets. I would rather watch molasses pour than listen to McWarmonger.

I'm sure that the 27% or so of Merkins who still think that GWB is just the bestest goshdarn preznit evah, are rushing to give $$

Fools.

The terrists are a-comin!! The terrists are comin!!

Mis Scahlett!!

Aunty-Em!!!

The terrists are comin!!!

I hope Stephie gives him Hell!

well, actually, you folks have no idea what catalog of horrors are out here. one day something big *will* happen, and you'll all wet your pants. and believe me, it will be less pleasant than coming in your pants everytime pretty boy is on youtube.

I dated a prof at City College once. Nice girl, but a real dumb bint when it came to understanding the real world. But even she understood what a disaster open admissions had been for CCNY. Once the "poor man's Harvard," exactly the kind of school for poor but bright kids like myself, in 1974 or so the city buckled to African-American demands to offer admission to anyone who showed up. Result? Within two years the teaching standards of the school were shit, as was the reputation. And nobody even benefited, because now all the kids getting once golden degrees had a piece of worthless paper. And no education either, just four years sitting in a classroom. Now CCNY is making its way back, admitting students on the basis of merit, and a CCNY degree is again a respected credential. Any lessons here?

McCain is just sharing the obvious. Heck, the Los Angeles Times and others helpfully point out his race and Muslim background as reasons why he should be supported to put a new face on American foreign policy. So what's wrong with Hamas supporting Barack Hussein Obama apparently for his Muslim name? They are just trying to be helpful and maybe they too recognize the potential new face on American foreign policy. Too bad of us that there is no substance behind this new face.

Matthew
http://www.TheProblemWithObama.com

I dated a prof at City College once. Nice girl, but a real dumb bint when it came to understanding the real world.

Number 1 - I don't believe a thing you say - right down to "a" "and" and "the."

Number 2 - Nobody cares.

Looks like Obama has captured that all-important terrorist demographic. I don't like to get my hopes up too much, but I can't help wishing to see a video of Osama holding up an "Obama '08" sign. It might be days before I could stop laughing enough to even eat.

As for a "respectful" campaign, Obama already blew that out of the water when he began telling blatant lies about McCain. Obama thinks his feces don't smell, but they most assuredly do.

Is this the kind of cordial, civil campaign MCCain was promising?

More proof that the sleazy old man is the typical cheating lying GOP bottomfeeder.

"As for a "respectful" campaign, Obama already blew that out of the water when he began telling blatant lies about McCain. "

Lies about McCain? You mean those "lies" based on direct quotes from idiot McCain who goes spouting repeatedly about how great it would be to be in Iraq for literally 10,000 years?

Sorry, MCCain dug his own grave. He can lie in it. WaPo and other rightwing McCain puppets can rescue him from his own fat mouth.

Josh said this about ABC defending McCain's spin:

Late Update: ABC actually swallowed this one from the McCain Camp hook, line and sinker. It's a tour de force of special pleading, and not even by the McCain campaign but by ABC. You've got to read it.

I'm not surprised at all. This is the same ABC that made the hitjob spliced up video on Wright (including parts where he was quoting someone else -- note that no one has called ABC on this blatant dishonesty) and the same ABC that did the one-sided pile on of Obama the other night, replete with Obama-hating "cititzen" plants asking loaded questions. And the same FoxNews-lite ABC which, I guarantee, will not be asking McCain tough questions today.

How much more proof do you need that ABC News has gone over to the dark side this election cycle? ABCNews is rightwing media.

This isn't much different than the Steve King comments against Obama:

http://www.thepersonalispolitical.com/2008/03/lets-take-gop-rep-steve-king-down-in.html

Obama simply quoted the words of one sentence, but didn't include the words of the following sentence which clarified exactly what McCain was talking about. McCain made the mistake of putting his thought into two sentences, which gives lying SOB's like Obama the opportunity to only quote and distort the meaning of the one sentence.

So I take it that you are a McCain supporter? A Republican?

What the hell are you doing here, except trying to raise hackles? Do you really think the people on a liberal blog comments board are going to somehow be with you on McCain's side?

dude.

Gee, I'm sure all the Hillarybots above, the ones so expert on foreign policy that they can point out just how clueless is Obama on foreign policy, know exactly how it is that Hamas came to power. Right?

...er....

Ok, a primer for all you sub-geniuses, then.

Hamas came to power because the pathetically bumbling and incompetent Bush administration, via Condoleeza Rice, set a timetable for holding elections that was consistent with the White House political calendar (you know, the one they use to figure out when to "roll out new products") rather than listening to the Palestinians, or the Israelis, or anyone else who warned them what would happen if they pushed for elections to be held when they were ultimately held. The end result was a Hamas victory. Rice, predictably, proclaimed the Hamas victory as something "no one could have forseen" - no one, that is, except the Fatah party which in many cases had several candidates on the ballot to Hamas' one...and the Israelis...and everyone else they chose to ignore. The White House then condemned the utterly predictable Hamas victory, after having engineered it in the first place by unreasonable demands on the scheduling of the election.

So, to punish the Palestinians for electing the wrong people, all the aid to the occupied territories from the US, UN, EU, and Russia was blockaded. Which meant Fatah couldn't pay the salaries of their people. Meanwhile, Hamas was getting aid from Iran. So Rice goes over and demands more elections - immediately. Fatah leader Abbas tells her "we have to wait until the end of Ramadan" (no one could have forseen, etc.), which twisted Condi's drawers into a royal knot...so basically, the Bush administration's dog in the fight had no funds, while its enemy did, and there was a lot of dirty fighting back and forth. And Congress wouldn't approve money for Fatah, because of the fear it would be used against the Israelis. So Rice gets on the phone and does a little Iran-Contra II with Jordan, Egypt, UAE, and the Saudis to get money and arms to Fatah. Not all the aid came through, but enough of it did to ramp up the Fatah-Hamas warfare. Finally the Saudis managed to get Fatah and Hamas to sit down together and establish a national unity government - which again, was something Condi "did not anticipate" and was furious about - with the result that the State Dept doubled down in its pressure on Palestinian allies, ordering a timetable for electing a new government, one that would agree with the US on Israel. State made a series of demands about how security personnel were to be trained, that Hamas footsoldiers were not to be integrated with the forces, etc. When all this background stuff emerged, Hamas interpreted it the only way they could - as a blueprint for a US-backed Fatah coup. This led, naturally, to another round of violence that "no one could have anticipated". Hamas captured most of Fatah's arms and ammo in Gaza - the ones supplied by Condi's Iran-Contra II program - and Fatah no longer has a presence in Gaza. The Bush administration, the architects of the entire disaster, quite predictably refuse to meet with Hamas to try to sort out the mess. Now people in Gaza live on less than $2 a day, and there's no end in sight to either the economic paralysis or the political one; Hamas feels free to attack Israel with impunity (and why not - we won't negotiate with them and have done everything possible to eject them from the offices they were elected to) and the whole thing is a big stinking pile of shit.

A stinking pile of shit that was engineered by John McCain's BFF George W. Bush's administration - with whom McCain agrees 100% down the line when it comes to foreign policy. Which leads to three points: 1) would it come as any surprise that Hamas would favor anyone over a Bush ally?; 2) it's a bit ironic for McCain to be using that as a reason why people should find him preferable, since his dumbassed party engineered the whole fucking disaster that put Hamas in power; and 3) you have to be a special kind of stupid, towering asshole to jump aboard this kind of rampant dishonesty that completely ignores the facts of what happened and why when it comes to Hamas holding power. And yes, I'm looking at you, Matthew Weaver.

Yes, there are moderate elements within Hamas. But thanks to the meddling of the Bush administration, they are not the ones who currently have the most power within the party. They might have been, if President Dumbass and Secretary "No one could have foreseen" had been willing to sit down with them immediately following the original election that they fucked up with their political timetable...but now? Now Hamas owes its superiority on the ground to the radical elements - the guys who did the fighting against the Fatah coup attempt.

Hey Hillarybots....

If Hillary somehow succeeds with her superdelegate coup, this GOP fundraiser email will simply substitute "Hillary Clinton" where "Barack Obama" currently appears. Stop pretending this McCain email means squat.

Seriously, the GOP will attack the Democrats on anything, because of anything, with anything, true or otherwise, because that's just what they do. Why do so many Dems worry about what the GOP will say? They hate you, they hate me, they hate anyone who isn't squarely in their camp. And yes, they hate Joe Lieberman too. They're glad he's their tool, but don't for a second think they'd replace him if they had a chance to, with a full-on Republican. Of course they would. Joe doesn't realize that, but that's no excuse for you not to.

No more hand-wringing piss-ants, please.

how many people in the world would prefer the most powerful country in the world be lead by "sorry to tell ya friends, there's gonna be other wars" over "don't negotiate out of fear, nor fear to negotiate"

i don't think obama is a dove, but compared to mccain ...