Was it just another of his frequent "senior moments", or has John McCain come to the realization he's the Captain of the Titanic with his presidential bid?

During a recent campaign stop, John McCain said... "Could I mention the presence of my friend Congressman Steve Pearce who I believe will be joining me in the United States Senate."

So McCain thinks he is going to be in the Senate next year?

So do we. So do we.

In case you haven't seen the video, here's a link to a very short video from July 9th. John McCain is being asked by a reporter about his recent vote on a bill. That should be a simple question to field. Apparently not.

The first time I saw this video I had the immediate thought that it seemed almost exactly like the video of George W. Bush after being informed America was under attack on 9/11. The blank stare, the rolling of his eyes, the gazing off into space, rubbing his face, mouth open but unable to form any words, the pained "my hemorrhoids hurt" look... we've seen it before.

More and more it seems like John McCain is completing the morphing process of becoming George W. Bush.

Here's the link... http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/...645312-pZBYz4x

So you are saying that Pearce will join the other 113 Senators next year?

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God Bless America

Thread #4 about the same stupid Viagra question. At least feign some attempt at looking through the forum before posting more redundancy.

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"So you are saying that Pearce will join the other 113 Senators next year?"

I guess you slept through civics class. There aren't 113 senators.

Do me a favor. Add 1 to 113. Divide that number by 2. Ask yourself how many senators we have for each state. Then try to think about where I got that number from.

/facepalm

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“It is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us freedom of the press. It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech. It is the soldier, not the campus organizer, who has given us the freedom to demonstrate. It is the soldier, who salutes the flag, who serves beneath the flag, and whose coffin is draped by the flag, who allows the protester to burn the flag.” - Father Dennis Edward O’Brien, USMC

God Bless America

Counting Israel, Afghanistan and Iraq, I'm still only coming up with 53 states. What are you counting as the other four?

Obama's comment.....

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“It is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us freedom of the press. It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech. It is the soldier, not the campus organizer, who has given us the freedom to demonstrate. It is the soldier, who salutes the flag, who serves beneath the flag, and whose coffin is draped by the flag, who allows the protester to burn the flag.” - Father Dennis Edward O’Brien, USMC

God Bless America

You were trying to make a funny. Here's some more humor you'll enjoy...

John McCain -- 61 Flip-Flops and Counting
By Steve Benen, The Carpetbagger Report


1. He thought Bush's warrantless wiretap program circumvented the law; now he believes the opposite.

2. He insisted that everyone, even "terrible killers," "the worst kind of scum of humanity," and detainees at Guantanamo Bay, "deserve to have some adjudication of their cases," even if that means "releasing some of them." McCain now believes the opposite.

3. He opposed indefinite detention of terrorist suspects. When the Supreme Court reached the same conclusion, he called it "one of the worst decisions in the history of this country."

4. In February, he reversed course on prohibiting waterboarding.

5. He favored closing the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay before he was against it.

6. When Barack Obama talked about going after terrorists in Pakistani mountains with Predators, he criticized him for it. He's since come to the opposite conclusion.

7. He was for kicking Russia out of the G8 before he was against it.

8. He supported moving "toward normalization of relations" with Cuba. Now he believes the opposite.

9. He believed the United States should engage in diplomacy with Hamas. Now he believes the opposite.

10. He believed the United States should engage in diplomacy with Syria. Now he believes the opposite.

11. He is both for and against a "rogue state rollback" as a focus of his foreign policy vision.

12. He used to champion the Law of the Sea convention, even volunteering to testify on the treaty's behalf before a Senate committee. Now he opposes it.

13. He was against divestment from South Africa before he was for it.

14. He recently claimed that he was the "greatest critic" of Rumsfeld's failed Iraq policy. In December 2003, he praised the same strategy as "a mission accomplished." In March 2004, he said, "I'm confident we're on the right course." In December 2005, he said, "Overall, I think a year from now, we will have made a fair amount of progress if we stay the course."

15. He has changed his mind about a long-term U.S. military presence in Iraq on multiple occasions, concluding, on multiple occasions, that a Korea-like presence is both a good idea and a bad idea.

16. He said before the war in Iraq, "We will win this conflict. We will win it easily." Four years later, he said he knew all along that the war in Iraq war was "probably going to be long and hard and tough."

17. He has repeatedly said it's a dangerous mistake to tell the "enemy" when U.S. troops would be out of Iraq. In May, McCain announced that most American troops would be home from Iraq by 2013.

18. He was against expanding the GI Bill before he was for it.

19. He defended "privatizing" Social Security. Now he says he's against privatization (though he actually still supports it.)

20. He wanted to change the GOP platform to protect abortion rights in cases of rape and incest. Now he doesn't.

21. He supported storing spent nuclear fuel at Yucca Mountain in Nevada. Now he believes the opposite.

22. He argued that the NRA should not have a role in the GOP's policy making. Now he believes the opposite.

23. In 1998, he championed raising cigarette taxes to fund programs to cut underage smoking, insisting that it would prevent illnesses and provide resources for public health programs. Now, he opposes a $0.61-per-pack tax increase, won't commit to supporting a regulation bill he's co-sponsoring, and has hired Philip Morris' former lobbyist as his senior campaign adviser.

24. He is both for and against earmarks for Arizona.

25. He first mortgage plan was premised on the notion that homeowners facing foreclosure shouldn't be "rewarded" for acting "irresponsibly." His second mortgage plan took largely the opposite position.

26. He went from saying gay marriage should be allowed, to saying gay marriage shouldn't be allowed.

27. He opposed a holiday to honor Martin Luther King Jr. before he supported it.

28. He was anti-ethanol. Now he's pro-ethanol.

29. He was both for and against state promotion of the Confederate flag.

30. In 2005, he endorsed intelligent design creationism, a year later he said the opposite, and a few months after that, he was both for and against creationism at the same time.

31. He was against Bush's tax cuts for the very wealthy before he was for them.

32. He initially argued that economics is not an area of expertise for him, saying, "I'm going to be honest: I know a lot less about economics than I do about military and foreign policy issues; I still need to be educated," and "The issue of economics is not something I've understood as well as I should." He now falsely denies ever having made these remarks and insists that he has a "very strong" understanding of economics.

33. He vowed, if elected, to balance the federal budget by the end of his first term. Soon after, he decided he would no longer even try to reach that goal. And soon after that, he abandoned his second position and went back to his first.

34. He said in 2005 that he opposed the tax cuts because they were "too tilted to the wealthy." By 2007, he denied ever having said this, and falsely argued that he opposed the cuts because of increased government spending.

35. He thought the estate tax was perfectly fair. Now he believes the opposite.

36. He pledged in February 2008 that he would not, under any circumstances, raise taxes. Specifically, he was asked if he is a "'read my lips' candidate, no new taxes, no matter what?" referring to George H.W. Bush's 1988 pledge. "No new taxes," McCain responded. Two weeks later, he said, "I'm not making a 'read my lips' statement, in that I will not raise taxes."

37. He has changed his entire economic worldview on multiple occasions.

38. He believes Americans are both better and worse off economically than they were before Bush took office.

39. he supported the moratorium on coastal drilling; now he's against it.

40. He recently announced his strong opposition to a windfall tax on oil company profits. Three weeks earlier, he was perfectly comfortable with the idea.

41. He endorsed a cap & trade policy with a mandatory emissions cap. In mid-June, he announced he wants the caps to be voluntary.

42. He explained his belief that a temporary suspension of the federal gas tax would provide an immediate economic stimulus. Shortly thereafter, he argued the exact opposite.

43. He supported the Lieberman/Warner legislation to combat global warming. Now he doesn't.

44. He was a co-sponsor of the DREAM Act, which would grant legal status to illegal immigrants' kids who graduate from high school. Now he's against it.

45. On immigration policy in general, he announced in February 2008 that he would vote against his own bill.

46. In April, hepromised voters that he would secure the borders "before proceeding to other reform measures." Two months later, he abandoned his public pledge, pretended that he'd never made the promise in the first place, and vowed that a comprehensive immigration reform policy has always been, and would always be, his "top priority."

47. He said he would "not impose a litmus test on any nominee." He used to promise the opposite.

48. He believes the telecoms should be forced to explain their role in the administration's warrantless surveillance program as a condition for retroactive immunity. He used to believe the opposite.

49. He went from saying he would not support repeal of Roe v. Wade to saying the exact opposite.

50. He supported his own lobbying-reform legislation from 1997. Now he doesn't.


51. In 2006, he sponsored legislation to require grassroots lobbying coalitions to reveal their financial donors. In 2007, after receiving "feedback" on the proposal, he told far-right activist groups that he opposes his own measure.

52. He supported a campaign-finance bill, which bore his name, on strengthening the public-financing system. In June 2007, he abandoned his own legislation.

53. He wanted political support from radical televangelist John Hagee. Now he doesn't.

54. He wanted political support from radical televangelist Rod Parsley. Now he doesn't.

55. He says he considered and did not consider joining John Kerry's Democratic ticket in 2004.

56. He is both for and against attacking Barack Obama over his former pastor at his former church.

57. He criticized TV preacher Jerry Falwell as "an agent of intolerance" in 2002, but then decided to cozy up to the man who said Americans "deserved" the 9/11 attacks.

58. In 2000, he accused Texas businessmen Sam and Charles Wyly of being corrupt, spending "dirty money" to help finance Bush's presidential campaign. McCain not only filed a complaint against the Wylys for allegedly violating campaign finance law, he also lashed out at them publicly. In April, he reached out to the Wylys for support.

59. He was against presidential candidates campaigning at Bob Jones University before he was for it.

60. He decided in 2000 that he didn't want anything to do with former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, believing he "would taint the image of the 'Straight Talk Express.'" Kissinger is now the honorary co-chair for his presidential campaign in New York.

61. He believed powerful right-wing activist/lobbyist Grover Norquist was "corrupt, a shill for dictators, and (with just a dose of sarcasm) Jack Abramoff's gay lover." McCain now considers Norquist a key political ally.

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Correction, I did make a funny. The fact it went completely over some people's heads made it even funnier.

As for the rest, two thoughts.

1. I'm not reading all that.

2. John McCain is a terrible candidate. However, compared to the competition, it's not such a big deal.

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“It is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us freedom of the press. It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech. It is the soldier, not the campus organizer, who has given us the freedom to demonstrate. It is the soldier, who salutes the flag, who serves beneath the flag, and whose coffin is draped by the flag, who allows the protester to burn the flag.” - Father Dennis Edward O’Brien, USMC

God Bless America

There are four candidates.