The Case Against John McCain

McTag wrote:

Gore Vidal said, "John McCain is incredibly stupid, even for an American."

True, but when he finished speaking he was still Gore Vidal, the now superannuated, self-loathing invert he always has been. Vidal could never forgive the world for producing one such as himself, and as a result esteems only other hate-filled critics.

McTag wrote:

Gore Vidal said, "John McCain is incredibly stupid, even for an American."

True, but when he finished speaking he was still Gore Vidal, the now superannuated, self-loathing invert he always has been. Vidal could never forgive the world for producing one such as himself, and as a result esteems only other hate-filled critics.

snood wrote:

MM, this just makes you look disingenuous. You know dang well McCain's age and history would make his health more suspect. Well, to a reasonably objective person, it would.

That wasnt my point.
I was simply pointing out that nobody seems to care that Obama hasnt released his.

Also, as a black man, Obama is predisposed to certain diseases, ones that strike the black community with more prevalene then the white community.

How do we know he doesnt have any of those diseases?

I am speaking about diseases like
Sickle Cell Anemia
http://www.blackhealthcare.com/BHC/SickleCell/Description.asp
AIDS
http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/topics/surveillance/resources/reports/2006supp_vol12no1/table8.htm

and others.
As a citizen, I have the right to know if he has ever had or has now those diseases.

georgeob1 wrote:

McTag wrote:

Gore Vidal said, "John McCain is incredibly stupid, even for an American."

True, but when he finished speaking he was still Gore Vidal, the now superannuated, self-loathing invert he always has been. Vidal could never forgive the world for producing one such as himself, and as a result esteems only other hate-filled critics.

What's pertinent to the election can obviously stop after, "True". And just why would anyone want an "incredibly stupid" president.

MM, this just makes you look disingenuous. You know dang well McCain's age and history would make his health more suspect. Well, to a reasonably objective person, it would.

George-

At what point in the day do you become self-loving?

(Just here for a minute, "something like 80" is a very rough estimate and not something I'm standing by, no time to research the number though.)

The NBC NEWS Delegate Counts:
PLEDGED: Obama 1,647 to 1,502
SUPERDELEGATES: Obama 315.5 to 282.5
EDWARDS PL. DELEGATES: Obama 12 to 0
TOTAL: Obama 1,974.5 to 1,784.5

* Obama is 51.5 delegates away from the required 2,026, according the NBC NEWS counts.

Home sweet home?

Even Texas Republicans such as Dallas Rep. Pete Sessions are distancing themselves from President Bush.

The president, Mr. Sessions told a group of eighth-graders visiting the Capitol last week from Akiba Academy in Dallas, "is doing everything he thinks is correct," and yet "the American people are fed up.... we've lost the House and Senate, and everybody hates George Bush."

The problem, Mr. Sessions said, is that the president hasn't reached out enough, on a host of issues.

"When I was the quarterback of the team," Mr. Sessions said, "if I came and told everybody, 'I don't care whether you like it or not, I'm going to do what I want to do,' my guys wouldn't block for me."

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/politics/local/stories/DN-texwatch_25nat.ART.State.Edition1.46ce432.html

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Big Trouble?

Below I noted MSNBC's story tonight about how fmr. Sen. Phil Gramm (McCain's economics advisor) was advising him on his subprime mortgage bailout policy while Gramm was also a registered lobbyist for the Swiss bank UBS.

Now, it's clear from the report that UBS had some exposure on the subprime front. But I wasn't aware of the true extent of it. TPM Reader KB sends in articles Businessweek and Forbes that show just how big a player UBS was. Forbes says that UBS is among the banks worst hit by the global credit crisis, particularly in their direct exposure to the US subprime market. According to Forbes, UBS has some $37 billion in write-downs on assets tied to bad US mortgages. In other words, the bank's very life appears to be on the line in how the US government chooses to handle the matter.

As MSNBC reported, UBS deregistered Gramm as a lobbyist for the company on April 18th, though he continues to serve as a vice chairman of the bank. But that was fully a month after McCain's speech outlining his own approach to the crisis.

Many of the lobbying connections the press has dug up on McCain have been embarassing. But I'm not sure any have really had teeth until this one. After all, how much does the average voter care that Charlie Black represented a lot of foreign dictators? A stench, yes? But finding out that McCain had a major subprime lender bank lobbyist whispering in his ear when McCain told the public that it was basically tough luck if they lost their houses?

--Josh Marshall

Tonight, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) will hold a private fundraiser in Phoenix with President Bush, an event McCain has desperately tried to hide from the public. CNN's Ed Henry reports that the White House has scheduled another event during the trip to Arizona, resulting in American taxpayers paying for Bush to raise money for McCain:

BLITZER: Ed, who pays when the President goes to a fundraiser like this for John McCain? The McCain campaign or the American taxpayer?

HENRY: They both pay, Wolf. The bottom line is the President is trying to mix in a little official business today. He's going to speak at cable company…short remarks. That justifies for the White House charging the taxpayers for some of this trip, and the McCain camp picks up the rest, Wolf.

Pdiddie nailed it on the head. I really wanted McCain to win the republican primary in the last election.

on Sept 10, 2003 I wrote

McGentrix wrote:

Pdiddie nailed it on the head. I really wanted McCain to win the republican primary in the last election.

Wouldn't it be in the best interest of the sub-prime lenders to have the borrowers bailed out? It seems that having a home forclosed upon costs the lending institutions money and thus the issue that banks like UBS face. It would seem that Gramm wasn't doing a very good job of lobbying McCain.

Perhaps instead, being a conservative and all, McCain believes that people should learn to live within their means.

This is nothing more then leftist hype. Much like the rest of the "case" against McCain posted in this thread which so far almost entirely consists of "He's not Obama."