John McCain’s Court Jester

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  • Posted By: ApostasyUSA @ 08/18/2008 11:35:11 AM

    Any number of stories I've read describe in detail how cursory McCain's economic/energy policy is and that McCain will lie right to your face with no fear of retribution from the media.

    The Financial Times
    Obama holds bipartisan economy talks:
    "Mr McCain???s tax and spending proposals would add an estimated $3,400bn to the US deficit over the next decade compared with an estimated $700bn deficit reduction from Mr Obama???s plans, according to the Tax Policy Center, an independent think-tank. "
    http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e23cc97c-5cfa-11dd-8d38-000077b07658.html


    Will the Real Tax-and-Spender Please ???Fess Up?
    ???McCain is picking the areas where rates go up and ignoring the areas where Obama is trying to rebalance the tax code so that taxpayers would save,??? said John Irons, research and policy director at the Economic Policy Institute, which is generally viewed as sympathetic to working families. Mr. Irons said that ???the important thing is to look at overall impact on people??? and that on this score, ???the vast majority of the population, almost the entirety of the middle class, would see more from Obama than McCain.???
    Economists have also criticized the methodology behind Mr. McCain???s assertion that Americans from all kinds of backgrounds could end up paying thousands of dollars more in taxes if Mr. Obama got his way. Several criticized him as apparently basing his claim on an average figure in which, as Mr. Irons said, ???Bill Gates is mixed with you and me, and everything gets skewed.???
    http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/13/us/politics/13check.html

    McCain's Power Outage
    Contradictions and misstatements short-circuit McCain's energy policy pronouncements.
    http://www.newsweek.com/id/142500

    John McCain claimed that he is determined to ensure "equal pay for equal work." But women's groups were quick to point out that the presumptive Republican nominee has announced his opposition to the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act which seeks to do exactly that.
    http://blog.washingtonpost.com/fact-checker/2008/07/mccain_on_equal_pay.html


    Remember:
    The media is only as liberal as the giant corporations that own it.

  • Posted By: freecitizen @ 08/16/2008 7:05:19 PM

    HELP WANTED: Sinile old man willng to step into the shoes a mildly retarded figurehead president. Must be able to hold his nose and look the other way while the existing corporate power structure continues to loot the treasury and plunder the world's resources for private gain. Great working hours, must be affable and willing to pander but no real talent or intelligence required, in fact curious, analitical minds need not apply. Graduating at or near the bottom of your class at a military academy and the ability to recite platitudes and crummy sexist jokes especially helpful. No need to make sense as our dimm witted electorate is especially easy to manipulate with equal parts fear, religious superstituion and subliminal racism. In any case, don't worry about actually winning the vote, through the above mentioned devices, we can always make it close enough to steal

    • Posted By: krotten1 @ 08/18/2008 11:33:38 AM

      I think there is a senile old man running that fits this bill perfectly!!

      thanks, I needed that! :>}

    • Posted By: krotten1 @ 08/18/2008 11:32:15 AM

      That's great. I think we have a senile old man running that may fit this bill perfectly!

      Thanks! :>}

  • Posted By: freecitizen @ 08/17/2008 3:58:12 PM

    Absolutely correct MartinCarmel, it IS entirely possible that the American people will be frightened and stampeeded AGAIN into voting agains't their own best interests. I watched the bifricated interview by the that envangelist on on TV last night and I saw one thoughtful candidate and one despensor of pandering platitudes. Stupid knee jerk answers are always easier to understand when you have limited information, limited interest and limited time to dedicate to your civic responsibilities in controlling the colosal killing machine we have let loose upon the rest of the world.

    As for heroic, Mc Cain was a Vietnam era naval aviator just like me. he got shot down, I didn't. The greater picture however includes the fact that we both had a hand in killing by some estimates 3 million Vietnamese based on a faked Tonkin Gulf "Incident" and the big lie that the Vitenamese wanted something more than uniting their own country free of foreign rule.

    Heroism in the blind unquestioning service of evil is something less than honorable. Further puffed up, prideful, trigger happy, heroism is exactly NOT what we need in the face of the issues facing us today. I can't garantee what Obama will do in every given circumstance, but I DO KNOW from recent experience, that the people Mc Cain has chosen to surround himself with, WILL do EXACTLY the wrong things based on a world view that has no basis in reality. Can we really allow these perpetual screw ups to have at us for four more years?

  • Posted By: MartinCarmel @ 08/17/2008 1:55:31 PM

    Don't look now Dems, but Gallop poll shows McCain and Obama tied. 45%-45% Wow.

    Remember this history also: Kerry led Bush by 7 in July and lost. As well as Dukakis, who led Bush-1 by 10 points in July...and lost.

    McCain is the better man by a long shot and he is SO much more qualified than the used car salesman liberals are trying to scam American with. Listen to the idiots who try to portray Obama as some sort of American hero. Absolutely laughable when you compare him to McCain.

    Remember, this is the same nation that re-elected an unpopular George W. Bush in 2004....during....an unpopular war. - Translation? McCain will win in November.

  • Posted By: MartinCarmel @ 08/17/2008 1:48:41 PM

    Don???t look now Dems, but Gallop poll shows McCain and Obama tied. 45%-45% Wow.

    Remember this history also: Kerry led Bush by 7 in July and lost. As well as Dukakis, who led Bush-1 by 10 points in July...and lost.

    McCain is the better man by a long shot and he is SO much more qualified than the used car salesman liberals are trying to scam American with. Listen to the idiots who try to portray Obama as some sort of American hero. Absolutely laughable when you compare him to McCain.

    Remember, this is the same nation that re-elected an unpopular George W. Bush in 2004....during....an unpopular war. - Translation? McCain will win in November.

  • Posted By: freecitizen @ 08/16/2008 7:35:42 PM

    It gets worse:

    Randall Scheunemann Chief Foreign Affairs advisor to John Mc Cain AND recently exposed registered foreign agent under the employ of the government of Georgia is also the President of the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, which was created by the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), of which he is a board member. He is also closely associated with the entirely discredited Iraqi exile Ahmad Chalabi and the notorious curveball "intellegence source" used to justify the Iraq war. He was also an advisor to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Iraq.

    To be charitable, these ARE the very guys who got it ALL wrong in Iraq, Afgahnistan, Paskistan AND Lebanon. That is to say, that IF you were to give them the benefit of the doubt, they were just plain stupid and ignorant. The overwhelming evidence is however, that they intentionally fabricated intellegence to sell a phony war that has costs us $12 billion a month, thousands of Amercan lives, not to mention by some estimates, nearly a million innocent casualties in Iraq.
    These guys have proven to be a disaster of the first magnitude that cost us our standing as a leader in the free world. It's hard to believe but they do still have nerve, for they are still working on the final leg of their plan specified in their plan for world conquest known as PNAC and "Securing the Realm" a white paper these guys produced for Bebe Netanyahu back in the 1990s on how to manipulate America into taking down the governments of Syria, Iraq and Iran.

    Who are they?

    Generally they can be characterized as an axis of evil between extreme, right wing elements of the Israel's body politique, big oil and Cheney's cynical band of thieves and war profiteers, whose interests have converged to take action as soon as they got what they were all praying for: the "Pearl Harbor like event" PNAC claimed back in the 1990s was all they needed to put their plan for world domination into action.

    Meanwhile Osama Ben Loden, the man who served up what thy had been waiting for, is STILL running free 7 years later. Why? Because the boys now running the Bush/ Mc Cain show need him out there in the ether to mobilize the fear of the American people. Had we caught him in the mountains of Afgahnistan the Amercan people would have considered that justice had been done and seen no need to go on killing and killing on such a profitable scale.

    Longevity and experience are only of benefit if there is some indication you have learned from your mistakes. From what I can see Mc Cain, who I have admired and supported in the past, is now beyond the age of reason and careful analysis. The manipulators have proven that all they need is a mildly retarded, historically ignorant president to dismantle our constituion and loot the treasury and the wealth of future generations, so here we are having to choose between sinility and niavity... pick your poison.



  • Posted By: observer101 @ 08/16/2008 12:37:09 PM

    : HELP WANTED: Needed urgently! No EXPERIENCE REQUIRED. On the job training...Someone to run the WhiteHouse. Must be able to pose good for the camera, smile and convince large populations of youths and mindless ppl to side with him on no real clear issues..Professional appearance, young and clean cut only.... Must be able to snow the American public into thinking there is no REAL threats to America and that cut and running is the only way to run wars..Taxing America out the nose is optional..Multitasking a must...Must be able to approve large pay raises to congress and senate, while also taxing America on everything from paychecks to social security. Ability to shake hands with foriegn leaders and achieving nothing is also a must! Anti-American stance is preferred but willing to look past that if willing to pretend to care about Americans..Rate of pay is dependent upon shady back door deals in Chicago, and who you can bilk behind close doors...Company motorcade, helicoptor, airliner and lodgings paid for! If this sounds like you please apply at a Dem headquater near you! EOE

  • Posted By: BrownFoxNine @ 08/16/2008 11:52:24 AM

    LOL, surely there is no one out there really taking McSame seriously. I mean really.

    RT
    /www.anondo.alturl.com

  • Posted By: TruthForward @ 08/13/2008 3:17:41 PM

    I think its funny that McCain believe it's okay to make fun of Moses in his ad that makes fun of Obama. Isn't the religious discrimination?

    • Posted By: observer101 @ 08/16/2008 11:35:53 AM

      Truthforward: No more religiously discriminating than Obamas teachings/beliefs apparently are....He ditches his pastor, he ditches some family members, and anyone the media "suggests" for him to ditch. Its a matter of time before he ditches his supporters.

    • Posted By: misterharban @ 08/16/2008 10:14:35 AM

      If you say so. Get a life.

  • Posted By: Driver of wagons @ 08/15/2008 5:26:14 PM



    Despite His Claim that He Fought to Expose Abramoff, McCain Relies on Abramoff-Linked Advisors and Fundraisers



    WASHINGTON, Aug. 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- This week John McCain has stayed busy trying to escape his ties to criminal lobbyist Jack Abramoff and his shady lobbyist colleagues, including Randy Scheunemann and Ralph Reed. The McCain campaign has been trying to gloss over the details of Scheunemann's swings between lobbying and advising McCain, often on issues of interest to recent clients, and attempting to excuse McCain's enlistment of Abramoff crony Reed to raise money. But the McCain campaign can't spin away Scheunemann's shady ties, or his influence on McCain, and they're not having any more success trying to escape the fallout over McCain's refusal to cancel his Monday fundraiser with Reed.



    (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080519/DNCLOGO )



    Scheunemann served as McCain's campaign foreign policy advisor in 2000 and is back in 2008, despite lobbying in the interim. Until May, Scheunemann was lobbying for Georgia - earning more than $800,000 in the process - yet now in August, he's advising McCain on the conflict between Georgia and Russia. Scheunemann's other notable lobbying stints include putting his McCain ties to use in 2006 advising Greenberg Traurig, Jack Abramoff's former firm, as McCain served as chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, charged with investigating Abramoff.



    McCain has also enlisted Abramoff crony Ralph Reed to raise money for his campaign. Abramoff directed at least $4.2 million to Reed as he defrauded his clients, yet as chair, McCain never called Reed to testify before the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs during the Abramoff investigation. Now Reed's helping McCain fundraise, sending emails with the subject line "special invitation from Ralph Reed" to recruit donors to join him at McCain's Monday fundraiser in Atlanta - and McCain is ignoring calls from nonpartisan watchdog groups to cancel the fundraiser.



    Scheunemann and Reed are only two of the cast of McCain advisors and fundraisers who prove how deeply McCain embedded McCain is in the Republican culture of corruption - and just how clear it is that McCain means more of the same old politics.

    • Posted By: observer101 @ 08/16/2008 11:26:47 AM

      Cool...Now tell us about the Obama side of this...Who are his advisors and honest bank rollers..

  • Posted By: notroubleatall1963 @ 08/13/2008 10:56:32 PM

    Well, how nice for John Wayne McCain to have a good friend who cheers him up and makes him laugh. That must be a real morale saver when things are going so poorly.

    Good luck to the McSame camp - they should look for another side business and hire this "jester" guy to help market it - coz they aren't going to have much to do in their retirement after losing the White House!

    ;-) OBAMA '08

  • Posted By: mageduley @ 08/12/2008 4:43:16 PM

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdJUCU1UH2w
    He can play funny all he wants. Here is the reality. Vote Wisely for all of our sakes.

  • Posted By: pearsoncrz @ 08/12/2008 3:43:54 PM

    It's so nice to have a bit of humor in this year's campaign -- one of the reasons I think McCain is a better candidate than Obama. He doesn't take himself too seriously, and is humble in a way that Obama could never hope to approach.

  • Posted By: Cloudosmoke @ 08/12/2008 11:02:00 AM

    Is this the best McCain has to offer the American public? A man dressed in a bikini outfit...

    Just like my wine, a good year.

  • Posted By: vakosh @ 08/11/2008 9:58:09 PM

    Certainly better to have a friend who can make you laugh, than the options the dems have chosen ... better to keep your pants on and find healthier, more wholesome outlets.

  • Posted By: PacificGatePost @ 08/09/2008 11:28:01 PM

    A MORE SERIOUS REVERSAL OF FORTUNE AWAITS A FEW OIL TOTALITARIANS

    http://pacificgatepost.blogspot.com/2008/08/down-side-for-some-petroleum-suppliers.html

    The world has shrunk in the past twenty years, and new doors will open for democracy.


  • Posted By: pastor123 @ 08/09/2008 5:52:44 PM

    It figures, Edwards is just like all politicians. All of them have secrets. I just saw that McCain possibley might have a old DUI You can see Video at http://www.mccanes.com? Wonder what skeletons Obama has? If Obama picks boone Pickens as his running Mate. I might Just Vote for him. I read Obama was going to adopt some of the Pickens Wind Plan. You can read it at http://www.boonepicken.com I still dont know who I will vote for, I probably would of voted for either Huckabee or Hillary. It would be nice if the GOP would nominate a different candidate. Ive voted Republican my whole life. But probably not this time. Alot of republicans are very unhappy about McCain being the Nominee http://www.hotpres.com

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