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McCain Concedes That Political Use Of Petraeus Picture Was A Goof
John McCain, asked on the trail today whether he should have used a picture of General Petraeus in uniform to raise money and attack Barack Obama, said:
"No. It won't happen again."
That's a victory for the Obama campaign, which today bashed McCain's use of the pic as politicizing the military.
But it raises a question: What, specifically, won't happen again? The McCain campaign won't use any images of Petraeus again for political or fundraising purposes for the rest of the campaign? They won't henceforth politicize the images of any members of the military?
Not a chance.
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Nailed him.
May 30, 2008 3:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
Not a chance again.
Take away the fear mongering, take away the phony appeals to patriotitism, take away race baiting and you have taken away the Republican party.
It will happen again, and McSame will get called on it again, McSame will then say it won't happen again, then it will happen again...
May 30, 2008 3:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
What I about to say may seem to have nothing to do with the topic at hand. You will have to trust me on this one.
I want to answer a question that I know has been on many of your minds. I know that it has been on mine. Who is the twelfth Cylon?
I believe that there may be political implications in the answer. I leave it to you to decide.
"The Twelfth Cylon Revealed"
http://msa4.wordpress.com/
May 30, 2008 9:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz............
May 30, 2008 3:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
Are you going to act like this right up until Obama is elected?
May 30, 2008 4:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
i believe this is the internet equivalent of pouting with folded arms in a corner while your friends are out having fun because you wanted to go to another bar.
May 30, 2008 4:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
Kinda reminds me of the disturbed kid in fourth grade who just decided to whip it out and piss on everyone near him.
May 30, 2008 4:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
This + the troop level mistake = great day for Obama.
May 30, 2008 3:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
And this is McCain's so-called STRONG SUIT?
May 30, 2008 3:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
GLOATgloatGLOATgloatGLOATgloatGLOATgloatGLOAT!!!!!!
May 30, 2008 3:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
Old soldiers never die.
Unless they bleed to death from self-afflicted foot wounds.
May 30, 2008 3:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
" ...self-INflicted..."
We. Want. Edit!
May 30, 2008 3:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
So?
May 30, 2008 3:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hello Mr. Cheney.
May 30, 2008 3:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
gotalife are you actually expressing some jaded observation that McSame's "No. It won't happen again." are words that means nothing, given his past claims to wanting a civil campaign, without inserting all the extraneous cultural stuff? Are you coming around to being a reg'lar avatar? To be applauded, indeed.
May 30, 2008 4:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
Back when John McCain ran for president in 1920, he sent out a fundraiser featuring a picture of himself in a flagpole sitting contest with General John J. Pershing, and nobody thought twice of it.
May 30, 2008 3:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxAwcwUjAd8
According to the above clip the reason it took McSame so long to release his medical records is that it took archeologists a long time to find them.
May 30, 2008 3:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
Paging Dave Letterman and Jay Leno....Gentlemen? I think we've got some material for you here at Election Central...
Thanks for the laughs, everyone.
May 30, 2008 3:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
About McSame being Old and Mad...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjaC1vYwgAs&feature=rec-fresh
May 30, 2008 4:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
And postage only cost one "bee" (what we used to call nickels back in those days).
May 30, 2008 3:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
And we called sauerkraut "liberty cabbage" and we called liberty cabbage "super slaw."
May 30, 2008 3:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
How come nobody is talking about the hypocricy of McCain marrying into beer money? Whatever happened to prohibiotion?
McSame knows alchohol is against the law. Why, when he was a young man getting caught with beer was a jailable offense!
May 30, 2008 4:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
My friend, if you want to tell those proud young men who just finished staring down the Kaiser that they can't enjoy a beer while watching the Flappers, be my guest.
May 30, 2008 4:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
My friend, when I (John Syndey McSame) was fighting in the civil war I knew it was for a good cause: making alcohol illegal!
Senior moment 1,744!
May 30, 2008 4:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
My friends, let me, John Mavericky Snyde McSame, use my cheesy 1 cent rhetorical crutch again to tell you that when I was in the Battle of Allia River, we tried to hold Rome against the horde of Gauls, but were unsuccessful. My friends, this campaign feels like it. It is a repeat. I repeat, it's a repeat! Friends, Romans, flee! Flee! To the Temple of Hope we must flee. From there we hope to regroup to beat back these primal, savage, wannabe-Etuscans.
May 30, 2008 4:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well, my friends, that is an interesting response and surprising. Thank you. (I thought I'd throw in the b movie actor as well).
May 30, 2008 3:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
Grampy McSame forgot to take his meds today.
Maybe that "trollop" Cindy stole them from him...
May 30, 2008 3:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
dop id! he hab a cobe today.
May 30, 2008 4:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
...well she is a cunt after all (according to John's own words).
May 30, 2008 4:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah, but the pictures of McCain and Sherman are going to kill his chances in Georgia.
May 30, 2008 4:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
My friend, that is some quality snark. Thank you.
May 30, 2008 4:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
RE "What, specifically, won't happen again?"
Of course, he means he will stop using the military for political purposes. And when he does it again, he will have broken another promise and flipped flopped again.
McCain mortgage policy shaped by banking lobbyist.
May 30, 2008 4:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
Sorry to go off-topic, but just wanted to let our trolls and the rest of you know...on the topic of Obama "lying" about the military service of his great uncle, this is who our trolls are keeping company with.
Yes, that's right: a cigar-chomping conservative who eroticizes cartoon animals and attends "furrycons" where he can hook up with those who have similar socially crippling fetishes...and have sex with them while all parties are wearing their fur suits. And, it seems, even in this community of maladjusted pervs, he is widely reviled.
Congratulations, trolls! Meet your "intellectual" bedfellows - I pray that's the only type of bedfellow they are for you...though to be fair to the other furries, this guy seems to be a freak, even by their somewhat altered standards...
May 30, 2008 4:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
Based on your description, I am too afraid to click on that link.
May 30, 2008 4:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
I love SadlyNo! I can't click on it while at work, though, because it makes me laugh so hard.
May 30, 2008 4:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
O my god.
roflmao! Ever since Vanity Fair outed the furries, slowly but surely we're finding out more and more about them. As if we really wanted to.
LOL!
May 30, 2008 4:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
You use RW talking points from Drudge and other RW blogs. Pot to kettle. Hypocrite.
Perfect timing for this radical to go off. Right before the DNC circus:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_H11x6bMu4Y
Kooks.
May 30, 2008 4:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
So you are calling the Catholic church kooks?
May 30, 2008 5:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ok, so the image of Petraeus is out. What to do next? I'm guessing he's busily trying to figure out a way to work Abba into his TV commercials, being that Abba is his favorite band.
Dancing Queen? Fernando? Others?
May 30, 2008 4:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
Him and Joe probably put on the ABBA every night and dance, dance, dance!
May 30, 2008 4:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm sorry, but I'm afraid I'm missing the reference. Did he say that his favorite band was ABBA? Please say that he did.
May 30, 2008 4:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
OH yeah.
From John LOVES Abba!!!!
Ok. Technically, he didn't say Abba was his favorite band.
May 30, 2008 4:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oh, that's good stuff.
May 30, 2008 4:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
O no he diiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin't -
ABBA? Really?
O my god - somebody cue Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
May 30, 2008 4:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
Lamentably for McCain:
♪The winner takes it aaaaaall,
♪The loser standing smaaaaaall,
♪Beside no victoryyyyyy,
♪That's her destinyyyyyy
May 30, 2008 4:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
;)
May 30, 2008 4:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
McCain's just been spending too much time in the back of his bus with his giggly young female reporters. They've obviously been sharing their cd collections with him.
I wonder how Cindy feels ABBA?
May 30, 2008 5:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
Gotta admit I snagged some ABBA back when Napster was up and running... it's on my iTunes at home (though not on my iPhone... I only have tracks I have rated 4 star and above on my iPhone)
May 30, 2008 5:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
Speaking of ABBA.
It looks like Gramps is headed for Waterloo!
May 30, 2008 5:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
McCain and Lindsey Graham acting out scenes from Mamma Mia = $$$$$$$.
May 30, 2008 4:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
You do realize he forgot this 30 seconds after he said it?
May 30, 2008 4:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
LOL
comment of the thread!
May 30, 2008 4:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm really trying not to get overconfident about the general.
May 30, 2008 4:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
I know what you are saying.
I never thought an idiot from Texas could beat the Vice President of Bill Clinton.
I never thought a decorated veteran would be the WORST candidate against a chickenhawk President.
But, this time, it feels different. Obama is smarter than Kerry, and more charismatic than Gore. And McCain can't even appeal to the Right, much less the Left.
So, yeah, maybe I'm overconfident. But I'm confident because it feels different this time. This feels more like 1992 than 2004.
May 30, 2008 4:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
It is different in at least 50 significant ways:
1. Abramoff is in jail.
2. Delay is gone
3. If you don't know what that means - I'll spell it out: the Republicans' Magic Money Machine is broken.
4. Bush has approvals of 28% - check his rating in '04.
5. The entire atmosphere is different. America hates this fucking war.
want me to keep going?
Fox News has practically endorsed Obama at this point - for heaven's sake.
May 30, 2008 4:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yes, the setting is ideal, but the candidate is phenomenal. This is Michael Jordan or Joe Montana (pardon the [dated] sports analogies) holding the ball. Just sit back and don't even worry.
BTW, Tena, OT: Thanx again. :)
May 30, 2008 4:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
I know - I feel it too!
Primary night in Texas was the most amazing damn thing I've seen in politics yet.
It's true - let's get this rules and bylaws bullshit out of the way and get going for real!
May 30, 2008 4:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
You're in Dallas, right?
Austin was freakin' insane too!
May 30, 2008 4:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
Dallas - yah. I've never seen anything like it in my life or felt anything like it.
It was just astounding and the more I found out about what was going on in the rest of the county after I caucused, the more astounding the whole thing got.
I so resent the Clintons and their supporters for trying to delegitimize the caucuses. I found the whole thing extremely rewarding and I really have gotten fed up with complaints about how Texas handles its business. There were no surprises - it's not the system's fault she didn't win the caucus vote.
May 30, 2008 5:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
Isn't Bush's approval rating now 23%?
May 30, 2008 4:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ooo, is it? Last I heard it was 28% but if it's gone down - excellent!
May 30, 2008 4:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
yep. 23%.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/usPoliticsNews/idUKN2034169220080521
May 30, 2008 5:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
1992 gave us the best President ever:
William Jefferson Clinton
Albert Arnold Gore, Jr.
Party: DEMOCRATIC
Home State: Clinton - AR ; Gore - TN
Electoral Votes: 370
Popular Votes: 44,909,326 (43.0%)
The people in PR treated him like a rock star but the kool aid drinkers treat him like crap.
Losers.
May 30, 2008 4:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
I liked Bill fine - but Best President Ever? Not even close.
May 30, 2008 4:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
"Popular Votes: 44,909,326 (43.0%)"
That little factoid tells you alot. Mr. bill would have lost in 92 but for big ears. Mr. bill didn't even get close to 50% of the popular vote. Ah, but he was a genius. Give me a break.
May 30, 2008 4:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
Off topic: but I have just posted an open thread under Reader's Post on who you would pick for Obama's Vice President (not Hillary). Come start off the discussion... Who would you like to see on the ticket with Obama?
http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/05/open-thread-obamas-vicepreside.php
Now back to why John McCain is a lame-duck already and why Obama will win and bring our troops home.
May 30, 2008 4:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
Clinton for President.
There ya go.
May 30, 2008 4:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
You're a douchebag, there YOU go.
May 30, 2008 4:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
My problem with that is that I don't really care who Obama picks - I trust his judgment.
May 30, 2008 4:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
Me too. I just enjoy reading about other politicians in the country and what qualifies them.
It's fun political speculation and builds community. Much more so than,say, parsing polls and the divisive hypotheticals we all have been talking about the last 3 or 4 months.
Okay. Anyways, I'm gonna leave it at that. I don't want to get too off thread here.
Pointing out McCain's disasterous policies and political follies is much more important.
May 30, 2008 4:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
I agree - I'm not knocking it at all. Just sayin' - :)
May 30, 2008 4:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
I gotcha, Tena! :)
May 30, 2008 5:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
how the hell did this reply to Josephcast end up down in an argument with the troll?
*sigh*
May 30, 2008 4:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
Exactly! As proud as I am of my political erudition, Obama humbles me. Ultimately, we are choosing him not because of Kool aide, or some elusive saintlihood, or hope or anything like that. We are behind him because we sense he is a political wizard and that he'll run circles around his ruthless Republican (and DLC) opponents. Let him pick whoever he will. He's got this so figured out, I'm not even going to presume.
May 30, 2008 4:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
Please ignore the ghost in the machine from 1992 called gotnolife. He hasn't gotten the memo that it is 2008.
May 30, 2008 4:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well, after daddy bush screwed up the economy, President Clinton engineered the greatest economy in my lifetime. I retired early thanks to him.
Remember when they were giving away cars to come to work?
Now, they give away your jobs.
It can happen again but you drank the kool aid.
May 30, 2008 4:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah, cause hillary is going to bring back the Tech Bubble!
May 30, 2008 5:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
Green energy is the new bubble.
Look at Silicon valley.
May 30, 2008 5:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
I agree. And McCain's not going to show up to vote on the global warnming bill next week.
Flippity-floppity.
May 30, 2008 5:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'd also add that as this green bubble grows we have to be sure that it doesn't burst or that in the very least it's contained. That was the problem with the tech bubble and the housing bubble.
May 30, 2008 6:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hillary is owned by Big Oil, no way she will make any lasting changes in American energy policy.
Obama will, Hillary will just say she will and then give up when it doesn't come easy, just like with Health Care.
May 30, 2008 5:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
Sorry but your rhetoric is a little off-base. Neither Obama nor Clinton are "owned" by "big oil".
May 30, 2008 5:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm just trying to piss him off, he is the douche bag who runs around calling Obama "Oilbama."
May 30, 2008 5:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
My friends...my buddy here sen Kyle says the troops aren't below pre-surge levels but he hasn't been to Bagdad as much as I have and I know because we keep a scorecard here at GOP central..Hey Joe...how troops we got there now fighting the Koreans? hell..does anybody know?
May 30, 2008 4:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
My friends, the only reason the troops aren't at pre surge levels is because an extra 30,000 soldiers have to remain in Iraq in case I decide to come visit and take one of my famous strolls through a baghdad market.
If I'd quit doing that, they could come home.
May 30, 2008 4:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
I guess when Senator McCain has a foot injury he needs to see his dentist first. Anthony Quinn did a good job as a Libyan freedom fighter in the Lion of the Desert and McCain wants to have 100 years starring inthe Lie On in the Desert. Or will his next roar be a round of being for George by yelling at McClellan?
May 30, 2008 4:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
There's a fresh post above this one.
Nancy Pelosi has warned Clinton and supporters: No Scorched Earth.
Not happening.
May 30, 2008 5:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
My friends...
"No Country for Old Men" is my favorite movie this year!
Thank You!
May 30, 2008 6:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
McCain is shaping up to be quite a disaster for the republicans. In a week, he managed 3 gaffs over military and defense related issues.
Voted no on the GI bill.
Misspoke on Iraq troop level.
Admitted to have politicized the military.
This goes a long way to neutralize the national security advantage McCain has over Obama.
May 30, 2008 6:32 PM | Reply | Permalink