McCain On Spain, And This Could Be His Bane
Senator McCain, meet Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.
Asked by Radio Caracol Miami whether he would meet with the prime minister of Spain, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, John McCain responded with an answer about Mexico. Asked again if he’d meet with him, he offered a generic answer that indicated he wasn’t clear who the interviewer was talking about. Then, he referred to Latin America. When asked again about whether he’d meet with the president of Spain McCain gave a generic answer, this time about meeting with any leader who supports human rights and freedom.
In April McCain said it was time to put our discrepancies with Spain behind us. Spain incurred the wrath of George W. Bush by pulling out of Iraq and has never forgiven Zapatero. But McCain foreign policy adviser Randy Scheunemann said that what seemed like a snub was intentional.
“The questioner asked several times about Senator McCain’s willingness to meet Zapatero (and id’d him in the question so there is no doubt Senator McCain knew exactly to whom the question referred). Senator McCain refused to commit to a White House meeting with President Zapatero in this interview,” he said in an e-mail.
Since Spain is a member of NATO, it very likely that its leader stands with us on issues of Democracy and liberty. Here is the McCain interview, courtesy of Talking Points Memo. The part in question begins at 2:58.
Great investigative work, Alan. You follow up quickly on your leads. No doubt you will have something on H&C tonight about this. So, being fair and balanced, can you give a segment to this one.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/09172008/postopinion/opedcolumnists/obama_objects_129453.htm
Oh, I didn’t think so. Well, I tried.
September 18th, 2008 at 6:24 pm
IT AMAZES ME WHAT AN IGNORAMUS THAT WHITE HAIRED MAN IS!FYI MOST PEOPLE AREN’T IGNORANT ENOUGH TO VOTE FOR YOU!
September 18th, 2008 at 6:27 pm
Of course McCain dodges this one. If he admits the unilateral war waged by the Bush administration was a great injury to our international image then he would be isolating himself from the ‘might makes right’ movement in America, which is the group he stimulated by choosing Palin as VP. The PM of Spain would surely ask a question of him regarding his opinion of how the Iraq war was conducted and McCain might have to tell the truth. As we are learning here: the Republicans are left with nothing but lies to cover the disaster of this administration.
September 18th, 2008 at 6:32 pm
Oh great, now we’re quoting a columnist from the NY Post. I’ll see what I can find on the subject at the National Examiner–as soon as I have time to spare.
But of course I just love hearing McCain chatting about “supporting democracy” in South America. Can we possibly wait five minutes before we start meddling down there some more? Maybe we could prop up another dictator, or start another big spanking war to take out a dictator instead, only to replace him with someone even more toxic, as we’ve done in Iraq.
And let’s snub Spain while we’re at it. Maybe we could insult Britain, France and Germany too. And what about Turkey? They’ve got moslems, right?
And, good grief, Canada’s right next door! We could start a war there and save billions in shipping costs! And they’ve got oil! They’ve got more oil than anyone except for Saudi Arabia!
September 18th, 2008 at 7:03 pm
There have been a number of times recently when the poor old thing has had that haunted senior moment look about him (similar to the WTF-are-these-wordy-things-you-say look from the P person).
Neutral medical tests for the lot of them – that’s my answer. Is McCain in early dementia? Or not-so-early dementia? Is he really clear of the melanoma thing? Has the half-baked Alaskan been pregnant in the last year? Really?? Is Biden still suffering from bouts of Foot In Mouth? Does Barack suffer from creeping elitism as such down-home folks as Donald Trump and the Duchess de Rothschild claim?
September 18th, 2008 at 7:21 pm
You really should stop talking about Joe Biden like that. He wouldn’t appreciate being called the “white haired one” and “poor old thing”.
September 18th, 2008 at 9:02 pm
What an absolute embarrassment McCain is to not only himself, but to the world. So much for foreign policy being his strong point.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/oliverburkemanblog/2008/sep/18/uselections2008.johnmccain1?showCommentBox=true
September 18th, 2008 at 9:12 pm
If we can rehabilitate the French, why not the Spanish?
September 18th, 2008 at 9:26 pm
Palin is done.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ndAyv4BjPbk/SNJvv4NAsYI/AAAAAAAAAa0/a-Ks1YSxzpg/s1600-h/Picture+12.png
September 18th, 2008 at 9:28 pm
Like that right wing lady said at the repub convention when she thought the mike was off “This is over.”
Tee hee.
September 18th, 2008 at 9:58 pm
“If we can rehabilitate the French, why not the Spanish?”
Before we start maligning the French, we should remember that France was the first nation to recognize the Declaration of Independence and to form an alliance with the US.
September 19th, 2008 at 2:01 am
That France was under the Monarcy.. since the Jacobins took over they’ve been our oldest enemy.
September 19th, 2008 at 3:06 am
Meanwhile in Netherlands… prelude to the coming European Civil War:
Netherlands: ‘Moroccans are colonizing the Netherlands’
noreply@blogger.com (Esther) 9/18/2008 7:40 AM
Update: Klein Verzet reports Dutch TV pulled the plug on Wilders speech. The speech itself as broadcast on TV can be seen here (in Dutch)
Moroccans are colonizing the Netherlands, Geert Wilders argued Wednesday during a session of parliament. According to Wilders the Moroccans did not come to integrate, “but in order to subjugate and dominate the Dutch.”
“We are losing our land to the Moroccan scum who go through life cursing, spitting and hitting innocent people,” according to Wilders. “They accept all too happily our benefits, houses and doctors, but not our standards and values.”
According to GroenLinks head Femke Halsema, Wilders again reached “a high point of radicalism” with his statements. She called his positions “unethical and untenable.’
According to Wilders there are ‘two Netherlands’. the Netherlands of the cabinet is one of “insane climate hysteria and the unstoppable Islamization.”
The other Netherlands, “my Netherlands,” he says, “is that of the people who pay the bills and are robbed and threatened by Islamic street terrorists.”
September 19th, 2008 at 5:26 am
[Gouda] Bus service avoids Gouda neighborhood
After a series of incidents Connexxion [the government-subsidized public bus company] announced it would not drive though Oosterwei [a neighborhood in Gouda] for a while.
The measure follows complaints from bus drivers. They report that on their route through the neighborhood they are being spit on, threatened and robbed by mainly Moroccan youth who systematically kick against the buses as well. “The cup is full after a long series of incidents,” confirms spokeswoman Anja Pieroen of Connexxion.
Since yesterday the drivers have been diverting around the most notorious areas in the problem neighborhood Oosterwei.
Knife
The very limit was reached with the robbing of a 37-year-old driver in Gouda, who was threatened [and cut] with a knife to make him hand over the change in his cash box to a robber. Connexxion says they want to send a signal to the police and the municipality to indicate that it no longer can go on like this.
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“We realize perfectly well that the avoidance of certain neighborhoods is not the solution to this persistent problem. There are people harmed here who have neither art nor part in what happened,” says the spokeswoman. The Mayor of Gouda, Wim Cornelis, yesterday announced that he would respect the decision of the drivers. Cornelis: “I think it is quite understandable that they no longer will allow themselves to be treated in such scandalous manner.”
The travelers’ association “Rover” says it fully supports the decision of Connexxion to avoid the Gouda problem area. However, the spokesman strongly urges the concerned parties to find a solution as soon as possible.
Video beneath the article, transcript:
Bus driver: “We are here to transport people, and if they make it impossible to carry out the job, the it’s useless.”
Six incidents in two months’ time occurred in and around the neighborhood Oosterwei, when bus drivers were harassed, and after the seventh incident last Wednesday Connexxion was fed up with it.
Anya Pieroen, Connexxion: “There was an attack in the bus in which the bus driver was stabbed in the neck with a knife.”
Thus Connexxion decided to divert the line 3 route around the neighborhood.
Anya Pieroen, Connexxion: “The route will take some three minutes extra, so that is not too bad, but we most of all decided to do this because our bus drivers feel unsafe, and we cannot guarantee their safety, but we have a responsibility to do that as their employer.”
The city government considers the outcome to be terrible. Partly because for many years they worked hard to upgrade the livability of the neighborhood.
Haaro Jansen, Vice Mayor of Gouda: “At citizens’ meetings it appears that citizens notice that it obviously has become more safe in East Gouda — according to the numbers, a 30% reduction of the number of incidents. And yes, it’s a pity that such an incident might move it the other way. So we are looking into it together with Connexxion, about how best to deal with this, and we regret there is now already a link made with that neighborhood. And we will talk with Connexxion about how we can run a bus though Gouda East again in a safe way.”
Those who use the bus service are shocked by the situation that has developed:
“This is terrible, isn’t it? I find it terrible, I can imagine one thinking ‘ignore it’. Something has to be done about it; I think they should take action.”
But still, the people in Oosterwei don’t have a bus service now.
“That’s the other side of it, I agree. Yes, they are the ones to face this now.”
“Yes, this is a pity for older people; it’s not nice for them.”
“In principle, for the people, I find this sad.”
But still, bus drivers are afraid.
“Yes, apparently they are afraid, but better measures have to be taken.”
Who then should do that?
“Eeeh, Connexxion I think”
Anya Pieroen, Connexxion: “We for our part can do something about security on the bus, but outside of the bus it is the responsibility of the police and the city council. Measures like more surveillance, more guards. It’s a bit difficult now to see what the solution will be, but something can be done about this, we think.”
In the neighborhood of Oosterwei nobody wanted to comment about this in front of the camera.
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What is unmentioned inthe story is that the neighborhood in question is Muslim… The Muslims are creating no-go-areas for Non-Muslims.
September 19th, 2008 at 5:34 am
This is from Sweden… this is the place that Alan and Barak want to take us:
Swedish Awards Show Fixated on Sex
While TV2 presenter Dorthe Skappel’s wardrobe has become increasingly more daring and spectacular over the years in order to attract more viewers to watch the annual Norwegian TV awards “Gullrute” (the golden window), the Swedes have realized that sex is what the viewers want.
Their version of the American Emmy awards, ‘Kristallen’, which was aired last Monday, was so fixated on sex that it has been making the headlines in Swedish tabloids newspapers for several days in a row now. TV viewers have, however, labeled the show a disgrace.
The TV awards, which were seen by more than 800,000 viewers, according to Swedish TV station TV5, included an acceptance speech that primarily focused on the female reproductive organ,
It may take awhile before the next opportunity arises
“I wish to thank my c**t, because without it, there simply wouldn’t be a TV drama,” Tova Magnusson Norling said. She is the producer who received the award for the best TV drama of the year, ‘The gynaecologist from Askim’.
The TV drama is about Henning, a doctor who through his profession as a gynaecologist in a wealthy suburb in Gothenburg discovers many of the intimate secrets of the inhabitants in the area. The TV drama was shown on the Norwegian TV channel, NRK, in April.
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“I just thought that I had to include my c**t in my acceptance speech. It may be a while before I get the opportunity to accept another award,” Norling told Swedish newspaper Expressen after the show.
Fondled the statuette
Prior to Norling’s acceptance speech, the comedy duo ‘Mia and Klara’, received an award for their comedy show on SVT (Swedish Broadcasting Corporation). Duo member Mia Skäringer, took advantage of the opportunity and decided to fondle the statuette, a slender monolith statuette.
“I really feel like getting a firm grip on this delicious thing,” she said, fondling the statuette with a grin on her face.
Add to the equation the fact that stand-up comedian, Andre Wickström, appeared in several skits during the course of the show that primarily focused on sex, and that comedian Hanna Wilenius interviewed people in the audience using a microphone shaped like a dildo, the overall impression that most people were left with was that this was a TV show totally fixated on sex.
Expressen readers reacted with disgust
“Everything doesn’t necessarily have to be about sex. There are lot of other topics to make fun of. But the comedians are obviously of a different opinion,” one reader wrote on the newspaper’s internet discussion forum.
Understands the anger
The spokesperson for TV5, Dan Panas, told Dagbladet.no that he understands the reaction from the viewers.
“We were only responsible for some of the TV skits, and some of these focused on sex. The impression of a sex-obsessed TV awards show, were only achieved after several of the acceptance speeches started to push it in that direction,” Panas said.
“We have no control over what people choose to include in their acceptance speeches. Next year the awards will be produced by SVT, and I don’t know how they will deal with this, but personally I’m of the opinion that it is wrong to censor speeches.”
“The reason why we have these speeches is to show some of the emotions that the recipients experience when they enter the stage. Sometimes it’s quite spectacular and touching, other times it’s just flat and stale, Panas said.
September 19th, 2008 at 5:45 am
ms. rothchild will now be on the front of a milk carton. she stated called those who ” cling to their guns and religion” as rednecks.
September 19th, 2008 at 5:48 am
Have to deal out obvious, basic truths like that one very carefully in election season, Susan. Michelle Obama’s observation about the US being a fundamentally mean country went down well too. Dangerous truth again. Look at the hateful tone the wingnuts approach every topic with, 24/7. Gosh, every now and then one of us from the nice side accidentally blurts out how incredibly stupid they are – that must hurt.
No, we live in a world now where Kazillionaire Egotist Trump and the Grand Dowager Duchess de Rothschild can, with a straight face moreover, accuse a brilliant black guy who has made his own way up in the world (without leaving a trail of crushed little people behind him!) of being ‘elitist’.
You’re a spoilt, sad country America. If you were somehow to elect the angry old fool, the rest of the world would say you deserved what follows. Unfortunately, the rest of us don’t.
September 19th, 2008 at 8:13 am
nuh no no no.. We’re not the angry ones. The Left is. This website is a great example.. as I and a few other people have wondered to Alan.. where are the positive stories? Just what exactly does Alan believe in other than destroying Sarah Palin?
Day after day. .attack after attack.. you guys set the tone.. we just reply in kind.
September 19th, 2008 at 8:31 am
Oh my God.. Kiss Great Britian goodbye
http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/022703.php
Britain will come to regret this, but whether or not it will before it’s too late is an open question. More on this story. “Revealed: UK’s first official sharia courts,” by Abul Taher in The Sunday Times, September 14 (thanks to all who sent this in):
ISLAMIC law has been officially adopted in Britain, with sharia courts given powers to rule on Muslim civil cases.
The government has quietly sanctioned the powers for sharia judges to rule on cases ranging from divorce and financial disputes to those involving domestic violence.
Rulings issued by a network of five sharia courts are enforceable with the full power of the judicial system, through the county courts or High Court.
Previously, the rulings of sharia courts in Britain could not be enforced, and depended on voluntary compliance among Muslims.
Who will be responsible for enforcement now?
It has now emerged that sharia courts with these powers have been set up in London, Birmingham, Bradford and Manchester with the network’s headquarters in Nuneaton, Warwickshire. Two more courts are being planned for Glasgow and Edinburgh.
Sheikh Faiz-ul-Aqtab Siddiqi, whose Muslim Arbitration Tribunal runs the courts, said he had taken advantage of a clause in the Arbitration Act 1996.
Under the act, the sharia courts are classified as arbitration tribunals. The rulings of arbitration tribunals are binding in law, provided that both parties in the dispute agree to give it the power to rule on their case.
Siddiqi said: “We realised that under the Arbitration Act we can make rulings which can be enforced by county and high courts. The act allows disputes to be resolved using alternatives like tribunals. This method is called alternative dispute resolution, which for Muslims is what the sharia courts are.” [...]
In fact, Muslim tribunal courts started passing sharia judgments in August 2007. They have dealt with more than 100 cases that range from Muslim divorce and inheritance to nuisance neighbours.
It has also emerged that tribunal courts have settled six cases of domestic violence between married couples, working in tandem with the police investigations.
Did they wink at domestic violence because of Qur’an 4:34? Does anyone know? Does anyone care?
Siddiqi said he expected the courts to handle a greater number of “smaller” criminal cases in coming years as more Muslim clients approach them. “All we are doing is regulating community affairs in these cases,” said Siddiqi, chairman of the governing council of the tribunal.
Jewish Beth Din courts operate under the same provision in the Arbitration Act and resolve civil cases, ranging from divorce to business disputes. They have existed in Britain for more than 100 years, and previously operated under a precursor to the act.
Politicians and church leaders expressed concerns that this could mark the beginnings of a “parallel legal system” based on sharia for some British Muslims.
Dominic Grieve, the shadow home secretary, said: “If it is true that these tribunals are passing binding decisions in the areas of family and criminal law, I would like to know which courts are enforcing them because I would consider such action unlawful. British law is absolute and must remain so.”
Douglas Murray, the director of the Centre for Social Cohesion, said: “I think it’s appalling. I don’t think arbitration that is done by sharia should ever be endorsed or enforced by the British state.”
There are concerns that women who agree to go to tribunal courts are getting worse deals because Islamic law favours men.
Siddiqi said that in a recent inheritance dispute handled by the court in Nuneaton, the estate of a Midlands man was divided between three daughters and two sons.
The judges on the panel gave the sons twice as much as the daughters, in accordance with sharia. Had the family gone to a normal British court, the daughters would have got equal amounts.
In the six cases of domestic violence, Siddiqi said the judges ordered the husbands to take anger management classes and mentoring from community elders. There was no further punishment.
In each case, the women subsequently withdrew the complaints they had lodged with the police and the police stopped their investigations.
Siddiqi said that in the domestic violence cases, the advantage was that marriages were saved and couples given a second chance.
Inayat Bunglawala, assistant secretary-general of the Muslim Council of Britain, said: “The MCB supports these tribunals. If the Jewish courts are allowed to flourish, so must the sharia ones.”
Except Jewish courts do not rule on the basis of a law that Jews are laboring to impose upon the whole of British society. Sharia courts are. Will Bunglawala address this distinction? Of course not.
September 19th, 2008 at 8:45 am
Vince,
Re: Britain & their fancy new Sharia courts
Lest you think me completely insane. This is a bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad thing.
Last time I was passing through Heathrow, I read about the possibility of this happening, and it sounded like it would not be put into place. There was (of course) a great deal of opposition to it.
How this actually got through, I will be very interested to see. If you come across any additional links to any stories about this, I would be greatly interested.
September 19th, 2008 at 8:59 am
This week will be the final turning point. There is just so much history that the tragic old fool cannot escape from… how’s this for the shaky sand he’s standing on with this financial tsunami:
Flunking Economics
By Eugene Robinson
Friday, September 19, 2008; A19
John McCain was telling the truth when he said that economics wasn’t his strong suit. In response to what many economists have called the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, the Republican nominee has sounded — and let’s be honest here — totally, embarrassingly and dangerously clueless.
His now-famous remark Monday about how “the fundamentals of our economy are strong” would almost by itself be enough to justify my assessment. But he committed what was probably an even worse gaffe on Tuesday when, as the behemoth insurance company AIG teetered on the brink, McCain took a stand. “I do not believe that the American taxpayer should be on the hook for AIG,” he said. “We cannot have the taxpayers bail out AIG or anybody else.”
Within hours, the federal government had bailed out AIG to the tune of $85 billion. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and others who know how Wall Street works understood that if AIG were to collapse, much of the financial system might follow.
McCain quickly changed his tune, saying the government was “forced” to rescue AIG because of “failed regulation, reckless management and a casino culture on Wall Street.” That sounds okay, but wait a minute. If he had any idea what he was talking about — if he had any inkling of how big AIG is, or how central the company has become — then why on earth would he have taken a stand against a bailout in the first place? Doesn’t he have economic advisers who could fill him in?
Oh, I forgot. McCain’s top economic guru, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, was busy explaining to reporters that McCain, as chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, “helped create” the BlackBerry. The McCain campaign quickly dismissed Holtz-Eakin’s remark as a “boneheaded joke,” but it was delivered with an awfully convincing deadpan. The blogosphere lit up with comparisons to Al Gore’s alleged claim to have invented the Internet.
Adding insult to injury, one of McCain’s most vocal campaign surrogates — former Hewlett-Packard chief executive Carly Fiorina — volunteered that McCain wasn’t qualified to run a major corporation. She gave the same assessment of Sarah Palin, Barack Obama and Joe Biden, but the McCain campaign’s high command was so piqued that it canceled Fiorina’s planned television appearances.
In an attempt to get back on message, McCain released new television ads Wednesday on the subject of the economy. “I’ll meet this financial crisis head-on,” he says in one. “I won’t tolerate a system that puts you and your family at risk. Your savings, your jobs — I’ll keep them safe.”
In fairness, Obama hasn’t come up with a magic bullet to solve the financial crisis, either. There are differences, though. For one, Obama’s proposals for action — a stimulus plan, protection for homeowners in peril of foreclosure, increased regulation — are more specific than McCain’s. For another, Obama blames the crisis on “an economic philosophy that sees any regulation at all as unwise and unnecessary.” McCain now calls for better regulation, too — after enthusiastically playing a major role in the frenzy of deregulation that helped create this awful mess.
In other words, McCain is running against his own record.
To cite one example, McCain backed landmark legislation in 1999 that removed the walls between banks, investment firms and insurance companies. That bill allowed a company like AIG to expand beyond its traditional insurance business — which is still profitable — into exotic new products that ultimately brought the company down.
McCain, who told the Wall Street Journal in March that “I’m always for less regulation,” now asks voters to believe he will be a champion of tough, unblinking oversight. He’s shocked and outraged that Wall Street’s preening Masters of the Universe threw a drunken toga party and smashed all the furniture — but he helped buy the beer and told the cops to look the other way.
Here’s something that really ought to grab everyone’s attention: McCain supports George W. Bush’s idea of channeling at least some Social Security funds into “personal accounts” that individuals would invest on Wall Street. Some of that money would have been entrusted to firms such as Bear Stearns (failed), Lehman Brothers (failed) and Merrill Lynch (sold at a fire sale). Imagine what this crisis would be like if Americans’ Social Security benefits were evaporating along with their housing values and their 401(k) accounts.
This is the man who’s going to reform the economy?
September 19th, 2008 at 9:02 am
Ohh – the Brains Trust is telling America how they (and some goddy magic stuff, presumably) are going to fix the economy – right now on Fear and Bollocks TV.
They have made a cute backdrop of tepees made out of ‘Old Glories’. There’s a good start…
September 19th, 2008 at 9:09 am
“No, we live in a world now where Kazillionaire Egotist Trump and the Grand Dowager Duchess de Rothschild can, with a straight face moreover, accuse a brilliant black guy who has made his own way up in the world (without leaving a trail of crushed little people behind him!) of being ‘elitist’.”
And then you woke up. You might want to look up how this brilliant (stretch) black man made his own way up in the world because it is all documented. He used the corrupt backing of William Ayers (terrorist), Saul Alinesky (Commie), Rezko (convicted crook), and a whole slew of thugs and rich elite backers to discredit anyone running against him out of the race. He hasn’t ‘won’ an election yet. Him and this same bunch of thugs are trying to do the same thing to John McCain and Sarah Palin, but it won’t work because he does not intimidate them. You need to do some reading on your candidate and stop belching up liberal talking points.
“You’re a spoilt, sad country America. If you were somehow to elect the angry old fool, the rest of the world would say you deserved what follows. Unfortunately, the rest of us don’t.”
We are very uninformed America (thanks to the media arm of the Obama campaign). And a very sad country if this empty suite and his ‘patriotic’ tax loving side-kick Biden (that makes $300,000.00 plus per year and give a couple of hundred to charity) get into office.
I love the way you trash talking liberals get your panties all in a bind when someone ‘disrespects’ Obama (disrespecting him usually means anything from disagreeing with him on) and yet you call McCain and Palin everything and anything except their name. Most liberals are a bunch of sanctamonious hypocrites. There are exceptions (you’re not one) and there are some on this board (only one comes to mind) that are solid in their beliefs and can actually argue their beliefs without all the name calling and disrespectful adjectives.
September 19th, 2008 at 12:01 pm
Watch Barry at his press conference today.. What a freakin joke
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZ9vYCEjXeM
September 19th, 2008 at 2:02 pm
Something is odd here.
Why is this jerky and NOT seamless, as if it were spliced. Also, someone is inserting anti Obama ads in the middle of this You TUBE video, that and the breaks make it look suspicious.
September 19th, 2008 at 2:44 pm
“No, we live in a world now where Kazillionaire Egotist Trump and the Grand Dowager Duchess de Rothschild can, with a straight face moreover, accuse a brilliant black guy who has made his own way up in the world (without leaving a trail of crushed little people behind him!) of being ‘elitist’.”
That reminds me of this news story that I saw
Portrayal Of Obama As Snob Hailed As Step Forward For Blacks
September 19th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
OK. To be fair, I can barely understand the interviewer.
“Sen. McCain, lestawkehbowtspehn…
wouldjuebewilleentomeetwizjoséluisrodríguezapatero?”
I think I’d have tap-danced on this one, myself.
Poor schmo! The interviewer didn’t have a great grasp on English, either. It was a tough interview for both.
September 19th, 2008 at 3:21 pm
Well, I say we decide by putting both candidates on “Are you smarter that a 5th grader. Thinking Spain is in Latin America, or even putting them in the same catagory shows why someone was at the bottom of his class in the Naval Acadamy. And we will give this man the security codes to the Nuclear Bomb. What if he confuses the country of Georgia, with the State of Georgia? Scary? Well at least we have Palin. She has a host of world experience…. Canada and…….oh yeah, refueled somewhere in Europe….and um……Did I mention Canada…oh yes…Russia is right next door, so that counts…..and um…..oh yeah she got a passport too!! Had it for a year…..I feel so safe now!
September 19th, 2008 at 5:07 pm
Lobo: “I love the way you trash talking liberals get your panties all in a bind …Most liberals are a bunch of sanctamonious hypocrites. There are exceptions (you’re not one) and there are some on this board (only one comes to mind) that are solid in their beliefs and can actually argue their beliefs without all the name calling and disrespectful adjectives.”
I guess by that first sentence you wouldn’t be able to include yourself as one of the “exceptions.”
September 19th, 2008 at 5:41 pm
Sadly, I agree with the post above that if the US votes McCain into office we deserve him. The only problem is that not all of us are delusional. I wonder if McCain wins if there is any other country that will grant me political asylum? I am so tired of a country that is run by a bunch of conservative religious fanatics who are afraid of anyone who is not just like them. Oh and to the person complaining about people picking on McCain and Palin. If they didn’t make such rediculous claims you wouldn’t always have to be on the defensive!(yeah, I almost feel sorry for you). Her exact words about Russia and McCains statement that she had some expertise on Russia “They’re our next-door neighbors and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska — from an island in Alaska,” Egads, even if I was a supporter I would have to say “that sounded bad”. But, no, you guys come out trying to spin that into a half way intelligent observation. Good luck I think you have your work cut out for you as we are finding out every single day they open their mouth.
September 19th, 2008 at 7:11 pm