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John McCain’s Court Jester

By Holly Bailey | NEWSWEEK
Published Aug 9, 2008
Aug. 18-25, 2008 issue

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  • Posted By: TruthForward @ 08/27/2008 7:20:53 AM

    McCain could not get campaign finance reform until.... until Obama joined the Senate. That's right they had to get together on it. For a decade McCain could not get it done without Obama.

    And McCain can not get Congress on his side on any idea, not even his own party.

  • Posted By: richmoyer @ 08/22/2008 4:43:26 PM

    Drew Litton is turning 25 years of Amish newspaper cartooning into actual moving pictures. This new kind of entertainment is called, "ani... ma .. tion." Drew has put together 5 daily cartoons (or "ani-ma-tion") for the Democratic National Convention lampooning both candidates in a Jib Jab-ish fashion.
    http://blogs.rockymountainnews.com/drew/
    Drew's Blog:
    http://blogs.rockymountainnews.com/drew/

  • Posted By: repub4obama @ 08/20/2008 6:00:06 PM

    McBush doesn't need a court jester, he needs a mortician.

  • Posted By: botswift @ 08/20/2008 5:57:59 PM

    JOHN S MCCAIN III IS TOO OLD.
    http://jsmccain.blogspot.com/

  • Posted By: zenoreo @ 08/20/2008 10:26:23 AM

    McCain doesn't need a court jester, he needs a wet nurse !!

  • Posted By: chevypanel46 @ 08/19/2008 3:28:14 AM

    Now here's something that's NOT funny: "When McCain's day-to-day campaign manager Steve Schmidt recently brought on several former White House staffers to help run the show...". He's talking about BUSH's campaign manager and BUSH's White House staffers here.

    Funny? Hell, that's just plain scary. Yep, you got Dubya's staffers running McCain's show. Let's hear some of our conservative brethren expound on how wonderfully cool THAT is. It's time you guys stood up and OWNED your president, yep, the one YOU managed to get elected. Stop playing the role of the dead beat father here and acknowledge the (hmmm, what's a word for illegitimate child?) one YOU put in office. Then you can go on to acknowledge that McCain has surrounded himself with W's people and policies and is offering us four more years of the same.

    That's about as funny as a few thousand more young Americans coming home in body bags.

  • Posted By: carolinemsm @ 08/19/2008 8:13:48 PM

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  • Posted By: carolinemsm @ 08/19/2008 8:13:24 PM

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  • Posted By: repub4obama @ 08/19/2008 5:22:14 PM

    Oh yeah you old crusty right wing conservatives are just the life of the party, a laugh a minute. This is a nice attempt to try and overcome the boring same old crusty right wing conservative image. If you weren't all closet homosexuals and having gay bathroom sex, your lives would probably be so boring.

  • Posted By: todd.moore @ 08/19/2008 3:55:03 AM

    I am not sorry for making typos because I am an intelligent man capable of making an intelligent decision. My decision is that both Candidates are simply pandering for votes OR making flowery statements that really dont men skittles....WAKE UP america ..I say.......get a grip..and take your country back

    • Posted By: cferns1530 @ 08/19/2008 1:36:55 PM

      take your country back? america has been bought by the investments of people, some of whom dont even live in america. consumerism prevails and bullshit walks.

      just like george carlin said, "this is a big club and you aint in it"

      you are talking about these 2 candidates like youve just realised that political candidates pander for votes. remember its always the one who panders least who gets the votes.

  • Posted By: freecitizen @ 08/17/2008 4:19:51 PM

    Just another thought: Personal heroism is something you choose for yourself and YOUR body pays the price. A national leader can't afford to apply these personal rules to the conduct of a nation of 300 million people on the assumption they are all of one mind and willing to forefit their lives for some point of pride. Careful thought and a reality based analysis beyond some idiological, trigger happy, knee jerk reaction is required to lead a great nation to its place in a better world.


    In any case the guys behind the Mc Cain/Bush world view are to a man, pasty faced creeps in the Paul Wolfawitz tradition or cynical fat assed, draft dodging profiteers like Dick Cheney. They are what we veterans call chicken hawks. Not one of them has ever put their bodies in harms way.

    • Posted By: observer101 @ 08/18/2008 1:16:19 PM

      Awww. Poor you...Maybe you should have defected in Vietnam and started fighting the EVIL Americans...Then you can brag that WE Americans killed your fellow Communists and have a real platform for you Anti-Americanism..Draft Dodging?...Where was your buddy Clinton during the haydays of the Vietnam war?...Oh thats right he was NOT inhaling at parties in other countries while his fellow Americans were getting killed...McCain getting shot down 3 times indicates he was in some pretty bad situations....Not including the carrier incident while he was on deck. You were probably a pilot that was flying in no fly zones, hence the reason you are fine...

      • Posted By: freecitizen @ 08/18/2008 9:59:27 PM

        You don't have to be a communist to recognize that Vietnam was an unnecssary mistake that cost million of lives, you just have to read a little history. You don't have to be a communist to recognize that the real lesson of Vietnam was that resorting to military force doesn't always get you where you want to go, especially if your motives were built on idiological fantasies and unfound fears of threats that don't exist anywhere but in your own terrorfied fevered mind.

        Never voted for Bill Clinton, or Al Gore myself, and I never saw Dick Cheney, George Bush, Richard Perle, Paul Wolfawitz, or any of the other creeps who started Bush's Vietnam II the sequel, anywhere near the original production. It was glorious effort of course, just ask the 30 guys in my unit who didn't come home.

        • Posted By: Galasso @ 08/19/2008 12:12:06 PM

          Question: If you feel this strongly about the military deployments since and including Vietnam, why did you even go in the military. Having spent several years in the military myself, I can honestly say that your opinion is an anomaly within the ranks of the combat arms.

          Vietnam Veteran: 1968-69, 1973-74
          Desert Storm: 1991
          Somalia: 1993
          Iraq War: 204-2005

  • Posted By: joyce123740@charter.net @ 08/19/2008 10:21:51 AM

    We have bred a Nation of undisciplined, whining, "gimme brats" whose capabilities consists of joy sticks and texting instead of innovation...they hate wisdom and knowledge because they are not a part of it...TOO LAZY TO PICK UP A DECENT BOOK, READ IT AND LEARN. They are clearly uneducated as to what is happening in this Nation, add to the dilemma with fads and trends instead of offering sensible solutions. ASK THE ONE AND ONLY LIVING GOD WHAT HE WANTS DONE, HE HAS A BOOK FULL OF IT FOR YOU!!!

  • Posted By: ebony @ 08/10/2008 2:36:33 PM

    And the point of the article was???????????? McCain is a joke himself! We need a leader not a joker!!!!!

    • Posted By: Punky36 @ 08/18/2008 7:24:35 PM

      Posted By: Punky
      Who laughed when McShame said his biggest failure was when he divorced his first wife...Why didn't he finish his sentence describing how he chased Cindy all around the world for six whole months, all while he was still married to Carol.
      I was hoping that the good Paster would ask him about his multiple infidelities.. McShame = A Rich Stupid Playboy who ALWAYS had his way with women. Who held his pants up during those TRYSTS ??? That is how he spent his time in the Naval Academy, srewing around.That's why he graduated at the bottom of his class. It was his wealthy ELITEST parents who bought his way out of every mess he managed to get into. Check with many of his so called 'friends' who served with him, you just might find out the truth about his imprisonment. Not at all the story he tells.
      On another subject, is it possible that all of the posts telling one lie after the other about Obama are coming from some of the superdelegates who are desperately trying to keep their cushy arrangements with the many lobbyists and special interest groups. They are making fortunes, why would they want to give that up??? Truth --not a single one of them. It was so obviouse that these are the same Senators and Governors who held out until the last second to give Obama their votes because they had no other choice. Think about it.
      I cannot believe that so many comments (most probably written by the same few) are being made by intelligent people, they know better, but that is the side their bread is buttered on.

      • Posted By: todd.moore @ 08/19/2008 3:59:54 AM

        Ok..we need a leader..............open yopur eyes then

      • Posted By: Punky36 @ 08/19/2008 1:05:41 AM

        So sorry for my typos.Obvious and Pastor.

  • Posted By: todd.moore @ 08/19/2008 3:58:25 AM

    How do you deal with an election where everyone thats electable is an idiot? has millions....and really does NOT represent true AMERICA..this is getting simply stupid

  • Posted By: todd.moore @ 08/19/2008 3:52:11 AM

    what exactly are you getting at?

  • Posted By: McCain in '08 @ 08/18/2008 11:45:36 PM

    Hey, so John McCain has a sense of humor and isn't afraid to laugh right out loud. Sometimes it's known as a coping device, and if you were under the same pressure as he is, you'd be looking for something equally effective.

  • Posted By: breakoutofthebox @ 08/18/2008 8:06:42 PM

    so. Let's see, One of McCain's worries is the women's vote. Let's whisper about Viagra being covered when the pill isn't (he didn't have his facts right, but the thought of it was funny to him.) Let's seel your wife out to a bunch of bikers (maybe she didn't do the nudey contest, but mentally she did in the minds of 50,000 bikers) AND call her a buffalo chip (or in other words a piece of crap.) Then we'll find it HILAROUS that a guy walks down the aisle of the plane with a shirt of a big-busted woman who is thong-reared, and laugh out loud while that hits the newstands. Yep, the women of this country will ALL fall in line. Let's see, he's straight out of the 1940's menatlly, so hey ladies, get ready for a president (much like Bush Jr. here) who's willing to set women's rights back a half century or more. YAY! I'm June Cleaver.

    • Posted By: Dam Tired Of This @ 08/18/2008 10:06:12 PM

      Grow up! I'm a woman and think It's very funny!

      And, I'd much rather have a president who has a nice normal male sense of humor than a paranoid, politically correct, chauvanist who pays women less than men, Obama

  • Posted By: vakosh @ 08/18/2008 5:34:55 PM

    Newsweek: This is in such poor taste .... I know your candidate is losing right now because of the vaca and all, but come on .... this is Jerry Springer.

  • Posted By: tomanjeri @ 08/18/2008 2:19:07 PM

    I don't care who makes McCain laugh, I'm interested in what makes McCain think jokes about killing innocent people and rape are funny enough to tell in public. The guy has a real sick sense of humor, not one that bodes well for a job that requires a level or seriousness and sensibility to people, issues and the cultural norms and expectations of other countries.

  • Posted By: stonehenge @ 08/18/2008 1:48:22 PM

    It comes naturally to laugh AT McCain

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