McCain's Snivelling On Letterman The Last Straw?

I don't watch the shitte you watch  on TV so I can't really say anything about my senator's (registered in Az. as an indy !!) appearance on any given TV or innnernet "show". "Show"................that is what is is.

Are you still watching TV? 

My take.........Joe what's-his-name and what's-his-name-Mak-Kain...........

have lost, in reality. But how do we define "reality"  ?

Another question; does it really matter ?

Very entertaining, the show. Very good work, keeping it under the lamps. 

It matters not. 

It has long become transparent.

by Tony Forest (7 articles, 18 quicklinks, 166 diaries, 1429 comments [6 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Friday, Oct 17, 2008 at 3:02:56 PM

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This is drugs, this is your brain on drugs.

What the hell is this guy talking about?

by Steph Fauxco (6 articles, 0 quicklinks, 7 diaries, 72 comments [3 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Saturday, Oct 18, 2008 at 4:53:58 AM

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I wish I saw it.  Either way no matter who wins, we are going to have to tell who wins what we want.  Silver backing cash seems a better direction.

by Michael Dewey (6 articles, 1 quicklinks, 4 diaries, 297 comments [33 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Friday, Oct 17, 2008 at 3:24:45 PM

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by Gene Cappa (49 articles, 36 quicklinks, 130 diaries, 405 comments [69 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Friday, Oct 17, 2008 at 4:17:10 PM

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Rob:

Wednesday McCain insisted that the aging, washed-up terrorist Ayres is of no consequence. But today his campaign unleashed a major telephone message campaign charging that Obama’s alleged association with Ayres is proof that he is anti-American.  You are right.  McCain is a basically weak person who has been totally taken over by the dark forces in the Republican Party.  An alternative explanation is that he is the reincarnation of Senator Joseph McCarthy, without the usual age benefit of such.

by Laurence A. Toenjes (11 articles, 0 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 20 comments) on Friday, Oct 17, 2008 at 5:16:26 PM

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I saw the interview, and agree that Letterman asked more probing questions (and follow-ups) than any other 'real' journalist has asked of ANY candidate in the entire election cycle. Letterman also refused to allow McCain off the hook for non-answers, and pressed him to actually answer on a number of issues.

Of particular interest was Letterman's attempt to have McCain hold himself to the same standard he supposedly holds Obama to on the 'Palling around with terrorists' charge. While Obama was 8 years old when he met the 'terrorist' he is accused of 'palling around with', McCain was a U.S. Senator when he attended a fundraiser with G. Gordon Liddy, a convicted felon, Watergate 'Plumber's' alumnus and covert CIA terrorist operative. McCain's inability to even articulate an answer to Letterman's straightforward question was a chilling glimpse into just how much McCain is a product of his handlers, can't think on his feet without adequate coaching and 'tlaking points', and how, if elected, he may make even G.W. Bush seem like an effective leader!

If this is 'Maverick Politics', then I'd rather go with the status quo- rather than vote for a dangerously inadequate, inarticulate and woefully unprepared potential temper time bomb like McCain.

xtrabiggg

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by Thaddeus Kaczor Jr (8 articles, 0 quicklinks, 2 diaries, 48 comments [7 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Friday, Oct 17, 2008 at 5:41:11 PM

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(1) Obama wasn't eight when he met Ayers; Obama was eight when Ayers was in his heyday as a Weatherman (1968). They met in the mid 1990s, best I can tell.

(2) On Letterman's question about Liddy: He asked if fairness dictated that McCain should account for his relationship with G. Gordon Liddy, another domestic terrorist (using the term loosely). Before the senator could stop squirming and grinning to answer, they cut to a commercial break -- probably edited in for broadcast, to cover the senator's casting about.

When they came back from the break, McCain had fastened on a response: Liddy has paid his debt, he was a convicted criminal and served his term. I was coming and going by that point (I can't listen to McCain for more than a few minutes at a stretch), but it would have been great if Letterman had pressed on to say that Liddy has recently been advocating violent actions on his and others' radio programs. That would probably have put the senator down for the count, if he wasn't already. If Letterman did bring that up, it may be on the video link embedded in this article, available for others who didn't or couldn't watch Thursday night's Late Show.

It's all truly pathetic this year. I'm sorry Al Franken is busy running for the Senate himself (though I'm glad he may win), because otherwise he'd be making some of the smartest comments on this campaign season that we'd be likely to hear.

by editnetwork (0 articles, 2 quicklinks, 2 diaries, 73 comments) on Sunday, Oct 19, 2008 at 11:52:11 AM

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McCain was outstanding. Even Letterman couldn't rattle him.

Looks like the Dims have backed another Gore. Better luck next time.

by Smarterthanu (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 20 comments) on Friday, Oct 17, 2008 at 9:16:05 PM

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If you really are smarter than me, I'd rather be dumb. If being dumb is what it takes to be able to recognize the truth then so be it.

by ssmitty (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 27 comments [1 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Friday, Oct 17, 2008 at 10:29:41 PM

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I see, on this site, you can't reply without being censored.

I'll try again. It is smarter than I not smarter than me.  As a taxpayer, I apologize, in your school district, obviously school taxes were misspent. At least in the English department.

by Smarterthanu (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 20 comments) on Saturday, Oct 18, 2008 at 2:06:38 PM

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fantastic.  people with perfect grammar can still fall for complete liars. 

r u serious about mccain?  that was the weakest i've seen him in the past two years.  y did he even appear on letterman, he could have written that off.  i think rob's right, he shouldn't have appeared. 

in the last debate, all he could do was attack.  it made obama seem like the only one with a platform.  the maverick's platform apparently consists of "don't elect the other guy cuz he sux."  the basis of that being mostly lies, rumors, and guilt by association.

and to follow that up, mccain appears on letterman and this is his interview?  he looks too weak to stand up to letterman, how's he going to stand up to the leaders of other countries?  our enemies?  no, bad move mccain.

by kenshin (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 35 comments) on Saturday, Oct 18, 2008 at 11:32:44 PM

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For all the time McCain has been in Congress, he has tried for "change" as in changing his mind.  Clean election money.  Being for and against Roe v Wade (in some explanation or another).  Against torture before he succumbed to quibbling.  A Man for All Reasons.

The way I remember Joe McCarthy was as someone with tunnel vision.  He got the notion  he could convince voters and officials, alike, that he knew how badly the government was infected with commies.  If you are going to scare a nation you have to keep on one track.  His was the Red Scare, even insinuating against Ike.  In those days, folks were more vulnerable because they believed what they read in MSM.  

Now we could talk about more recent times and War on Terror, but we don't take that as seriously as we used to.  And this financial meltdown is something different, because we knew things weren't going well before the Secy of Treasury told us.  

Joe McCarthy had credentials from a war, which got him started.  But, sad as things are now, I don't think people are nearly as gullible as they were in the 1940s.  

by Margaret Bassett (51 articles, 3819 quicklinks, 66 diaries, 2539 comments [200 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Friday, Oct 17, 2008 at 10:17:48 PM

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 I am from AZ, my family settled here from Canada in 1800, Mccain is NOT from AZ, Iowa. It matters to me, because we've watched him and his republican parasitic leeches MOVE here and they've destroyed MY home, I am MOVING my kids outta here , They arn't gonna make insta-felons out of my kids ! I am NOT allowed to say whom Mccain is associated with in South america on  here, Butt trust me Mccain is the REAL terrorist !

by Kimberly C. Townsend (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 26 comments [6 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Saturday, Oct 18, 2008 at 7:18:30 AM

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 One CAN call a fellow Azonan a DRUG addict, cause they don't understand or are like MOST /americans ( in denial)??? But I cannot mention facts/realities  about the death squad group Mccain is connected with in south america since the 80s????????( which definetly contributes in a BIG way to him being america's next president !) I am in america right???? OR am I in russia?/east berlin??? Red china perhaps?????? Never fails to shock me... Ayers is a proffesor and a ROLE model to OUR enslaved society ! People NEED to go back to school ( another big problem in our society: fake education)

by Kimberly C. Townsend (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 26 comments [6 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Saturday, Oct 18, 2008 at 7:27:30 AM

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 I am NOT religious, But I have MY god ( a american FREEDOM) and I believe that Mccain SOLD his soul to some-one as a POW, cause MY uncle did NOT come home !!! Here he is a geezer with his shirt collars up to his ears and his depends out on pass from the geezer house and LOOK at the eyes !! , evil! You CAN tell he is racist and Obama was raised by a woman !!! I respect Obama's intellect and u can see the feeling is "mutual" mccain !!!!

by Kimberly C. Townsend (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 26 comments [6 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Saturday, Oct 18, 2008 at 7:34:48 AM

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 It is TIME for these Bomb/torture era geezers to retire !! The NEW generations have "evolved" past ur progress to destruction, Nuclear, ignorance is bliss/denial generations ! Doing the same thing over & over expecting different results IS insanity ! MOVE over... In with the NEW, No -more thieving/robbing of the american tax payers and kudos tothe person that wrote about Jo plummer whom thinks paying his way is "un-american"! OUT with the monetary system, back to barter ! oops!! some of ya might have to work??????? aah...poor parasites, living off prison systems/tax payers!!

by Kimberly C. Townsend (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 26 comments [6 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Saturday, Oct 18, 2008 at 7:48:08 AM

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 U CAN TRY and PLAY that card ! Typical, narrow/closedminded, republican leech glutton statement ! I guess u think it is american to send half OUR youth to die in a corporate war and put the other half in prisons for the drugs u ALLOW to flow into OUR country ( a true act of terrorism) or weak from being addicted/or dead??? Oh those POOR countries that COUNT on ENTIRE families being destroyed, so they can eat???? and BUY weapons from for example the south american death squad ( ultra-right wing council where mccain is STILL a board/house member) whom sold weapons to Iran?? WAKE-UP !!!!! Education REAL... NOT incarceration REAL !

by Kimberly C. Townsend (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 26 comments [6 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Saturday, Oct 18, 2008 at 7:57:28 AM

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 I have a question for you???1. If they put nuclear power plants all over ( more) will our enemies even need nuclear weapons to destroy us??2. Do u think it is right or american for times like these, that our so-called reps should still be getting $200,000.00 and $350,000 a year in salaries whan wages everywhere don't even come CLOSE to the "corporate increases/cost of living"?3.You believe it is american and correct for the american people's govts/reps to IGNORE the back bone of america? ( the tax payers)?4. Do you believe that the workers in other countries where corporations "outsourced" are living high on the hog?5. Do you  think it is right for certain groups to USE drug flow and prison system to PAY their bills?6. Do you believe that the war in Iraq ( u know for THEIR/OUR freedom) is MORE important than keeping drugs OUT of OUR country? 

by Kimberly C. Townsend (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 26 comments [6 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Saturday, Oct 18, 2008 at 8:13:57 AM

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 I am curious if Mccain's parents (ww2 era) KNOW what he's done in South america? I am shocked on how un-informed/mis-informed americans are !!! It sickens me, especially with as much TV that is watched. People can't even see that this whole digital broadcast in2009 is ANOTHER huge "corporate move" that our NEW incorporated/banker govt is ALLOWING:AGAIN ! And AGAIN... The american people r doing NOTHING! some elder republican woman said " how can they allow terrorists to come here and run for president"??????? WOW????? Is ignorance bliss? Not if a military dictatorship by these WAR mongers is implemented? Then you'll wake-up, it will be too late !

by Kimberly C. Townsend (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 26 comments [6 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Saturday, Oct 18, 2008 at 8:29:25 AM

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Try to use complete sentences. These short fragments aren't making sense.

by Smarterthanu (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 20 comments) on Saturday, Oct 18, 2008 at 8:50:57 AM

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What about Ken the CEO, Why should he have his taxes raised? just because he made several million dollars in the 5 months he ran the company why should he have to redistribute his hard earned wealth? Just think how well the economy would work if Ken the CEO had enough loopholes to avoid paying taxes altogether, Then he could create millions of good paying jobs. Lets all give Ken the CEO a good round of applause because if it weren't for Ken the CEO we would all be homeless.

 Americans need to make sure Ken the CEO keeps making those millions in order to provide all those good paying American jobs even if it means switching over to socialism for big business. All business experts agree that the key to making Americas economy work is privatize the profits and socialize the expenses. Government needs to just get out of the way of business and let the free markets perform their miracles I say let the government borrow all it can and just turn it over to these super efficient multinationals and maybe even privatize out all government functions to private companies regardless of were they are located. After all we are now living in the age of the global economy.

by Gary Denson (2 articles, 0 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 283 comments) on Saturday, Oct 18, 2008 at 11:12:02 AM

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To all of us that remember when these huge tax breaks for the wealthy were enacted Bush stated the Corporations would have more money to invest in their infrastructure, therefore creating more jobs. People fell for all of the lies, and with the millions that corporate America made in tax breaks, did in fact reinvest in their own companies, usually in other countries while America shed its core industry and high paying jobs to a host country who essentially was the lowest bidder. Corporations have turned against their own citizens in favor of higher returns which are adding to the United States finding itself close to another Great Depression.

Until this nation reinvests in America itself, give tax breaks to those who buy American, and similar programs that will reward people for supporting their own country. We need to rebuild, with the technological advances we’re capable of and then put America back in business as the innovator and most successful industrial nation on earth.

by William Cormier (165 articles, 14 quicklinks, 25 diaries, 523 comments [69 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Saturday, Oct 18, 2008 at 12:39:39 PM

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Need more be said? Probably because we have the "smarterthanu" crowd posting. When someone has to "announce their intellect" than obviously, any behavioral science professional will say, they aren't "smarter" in reality but just trying to convince themself and others that they are.

So, back to mac and Liddy, the Letterman question that Mac evaded like I evade rattlesnakes.

"McCain and the news media have devoted an extraordinary amount of attention to Barack Obama's ties to Bill Ayers, yet until last night, McCain hadn't been asked a single question* about his ties to Liddy, a convicted felon who has instructed his listeners on how best to shoot law-enforcement agents. Liddy has held a fundraiser for McCain at his home and describes the Arizona senator as an "old friend"; McCain has said he is "proud" of Liddy.

Imagine for a moment that Barack Obama had said he was "proud" of an "old friend" who urged people to shoot law-enforcement agents in the head. Do you think maybe he would have been asked a question or three about it? Do you think maybe there would have been more than the occasional passing mention in the news of the relationship? Of course there would have been.

Yet McCain hasn't been questioned about Liddy. The media have largely ignored the relationship, even while working themselves into a frenzy about Obama and Ayers. McCain's relationship with Liddy is obviously newsworthy in its own right, but coupled with his attacks on Obama over Ayers, it's a textbook case of hypocrisy -- exactly the sort of thing that political reporters supposedly drool over. But not when it's John McCain. When it's John McCain, the nation's leading news organizations band together in what is, in effect, a blackout of information that could be damaging to their longtime favorite."~~Jamison Foser

by shirley reese (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 686 comments [149 recommended, 1 rejected]) on Saturday, Oct 18, 2008 at 12:58:39 PM

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