McCain Second In Line of GOP Pres Candidates Who Aspires To Be A Dictator

October 1st, 2008, 5:00 PM EDT

Speaking to the Des Moines Register, John McCain may have been joking when he commented on Congress’ failure to act on a bail-out plan by saying. “I’m not saying this is the perfect answer. If I were dictator, which I always aspire to be, I would write it a little bit differently.”


h/t Think Progress



At least when George W. Bush made a similar comment in December of 2000, he was laughing about it.



By the time W said it during a Business Week interview in July, 2001 he was still smiling, slightly.


Responses to this post...

  1. Obama doesn’t have enough experience to be a GOOD dictator. He needs the rest of the democratic [party] to help him.
    MAKE NO mistake if we keep going left we’ll be a dictatorship SOON !
    And the republicans will join in also !
    Have a good day comrades !

  2. Well if you’re going to endorse torture and all the other police state tactics the Bush regime refers to as mere “tools in the toolbox” you might as well aspire to be emperor too.

    Obviously Palin shares the same Stalinist vision.

    Posted by Rocky the Liberal Rottweiler
    October 1st, 2008 at 5:32 pm
  3. Lets see if Nancyzilla whipped her [party] into shape for the next bailout vote !
    Can’t be havin them 92 MAVRICKS thinkin on their own.

  4. What “torture” are you referring to?

  5. ya, torture in the democratic [party] means havin your [ear]marks cut OFF !
    See Joe Liberman !

  6. VIVA LA REVOLUTION ! VOTE THE B@@@@@@S OUT !

  7. *ahem* Senator McCain is not the candidate with chanting children videos in circulation.

  8. See: http://www.blip.tv/file/1312572

  9. Remember what I said. It is true and part of a misinformation plan is to make the truth look paranoid. Just look around and see the media and DNC parroting the party line. The Christian Religion is evil. Homosexual is normal. Patriotism evil. Rebellion and changing the Constitution normal. Disarm the citizens normal. NRA and hunters evil. The Military and heroes evil. Anti military and ridicule heroes normal. Success and hard work evil. The government owes me normal. Shocking this is right out of the handbook of communist and Islamic terrorism guides to revolution and over throwing a country.. Schools teach the government is evil and socialism utopia normal. Divide the races through agitators and media. Destroy marriage and the families. The state is the parent. Call evil good and smear and destroy good. Look at the Hollywood crowd. McCarthy was right and history has proven it. They flock around dictators and tyrants Chavez, Castro, Iranian, and Syrians. Wake up and vote for McCain if you want freedom. After 40 years of Intelligence service I can just say look and watch. Look at Obama’s friend’s Islamic terror operatives. Rev. Wright preacher of Racist William Ayers radical terrorist. Farakhan. Research the hidden years at Columbia University. Also the overseas trips. Victor Marchenco, Ivan Scholos, Gory Machlinsos. Fhaad Hussan these are a few of the KGB friends who financed and open doors here through contacts. I am not long for this earth. A Terminal Sickness has attached to me. I want to warn my beloved country.

  10. Alan, do you really think voting will help? I was thinking more along the lines of massive doses of Jack Daniel’s.

    As for wanting to be a dictator, we already have a dictator. Look around you. The Pres and his men can invade any country he wants, jail anyone he wants, seize any amount of money he wants, print more money if that isn’t enough, take your kids and send them off to war, and kill you if you resist. We HAVE a dictatorship already. Its head is just (nominally) elected every 4 years.

  11. The Cab Driver,

    I didn’t realize we were rounding kids up and forcing them to join the military?? Nor that we have death squads going door to door in this country killing people who don’t enlist?

    The last time I checked the men and women serving in our armed forces are there 100% voluntarily. To suggest otherwise demeans everything they have done to give you the freedom to sit at your computer and voice your views, however right or wrong they may be.

  12. It looks like the stage is being played out for one candidate already. What’s up with the little children chanting Obama’s name and singing his praises? One would think he’s a saviour of some sort. NOT! Heaven forbid he comes into the Presidential office and become the dictator that people are setting him up to be. Heaven forbid he comes into the office, PERIOD.

    Posted by Fair and Balanced
    October 2nd, 2008 at 10:49 am