The McCain Support That Dare Not Speak Its Name

posted by John Nichols on 09/10/2008 @ 5:27pm

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Last week's Republican National Convention heard plenty of testimonies to John McCain's character.

Indeed, while the frenzy over Sarah Palin's selection as the party's vice presidential nominee may have dominated media coverage of the gathering of the Republican clan, almost every speech from the podium -- including Palin's own -- vouched for the honor and decency of the party's presidential candidate.

Most of the speeches were predictable recitations of the senator's military record, topped with equally predictable recollections of the days when he was something of a political maverick. Even McCain got into the act, delivering an acceptance that was a lot longer on biography than ideology -- let alone any kind of domestic agenda.

Because the Republican nominee and his supporters have throughout the current campaign relied on personal history rather than practical policies to advance his candidacy, the getting-to-know-McCain speeches added little if anything to the narrative of a convention where all the excitement seemed to be generated by Palin.

McCain needed better testimonials.

Unfortunately, the Republican Party's militantly right-wing base -- which McCain fears more than any nominee since Gerald Ford in 1976 -- left no space for them.

A good testimonial does not recount known history; it tells listeners something fresh about the man or woman in question, something unexpected and redefining. By that standard, the best statement on behalf of John McCain that I heard last week was not presented from the podium of the convention that nominated him.

It was not even heard in the hall.

The finest testimonial on behalf of the Republican nominee for president came in a speech delivered far from the convention center by former Arizona Congressman Jim Kolbe, a man who has known McCain for decades and had something meaningful to say about the senator.

Addressing a gathering at St. Paul's University Club, where gay and lesbian Republicans had convened their Log Cabin Club event, Kolbe offered a heartfelt, at times emotional, endorsement of McCain.

McCain, Kolbe recalled, was the first political figure to whom the former congressman revealed that he was a gay man.

The revelation came when Kolbe learned that he was about to be "outed" in a magazine.

The veteran Republican congressman, who had for decades struggled to keep his sexuality a secret, was scared and unsure.

He turned to the most prominent Republican he knew for reassurance.

And McCain gave it to his colleague and friend.

"I drew him aside after leaving a breakfast," Kolbe recalled in his speech to the 150 gay and lesbian Republican activists who came to hear him speak to the Log Cabin's Club's "Big Tent" luncheon at the University Club. "I said that some personal information was about to come out that I need you to know about. He put up his hands and said, 'Jim, it doesn't make any difference' -- obviously, he already knew."

The veteran Republican congressman continued: "He said, 'You're a great legislator today and you will be tomorrow. You're a friend today, and you will be tomorrow.' That really touched me and gave me encouragement to talk to other members of Congress."

Kolbe's words carried weight with his audience. The Log Cabin Republicans, who pointedly did not endorse George Bush for re-election in 2004, when the president was promoting anti-same-sex marriage initiatives, voted to back McCain.

The point here is not to suggest that John McCain is some kind of gay rights champion, although his outspoken opposition in 2004 to Republican efforts to draw up a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage merits note.

Kolbe is undoubtedly correct that, like Vice President Dick Cheney, McCain has no taste for discriminating against gays and lesbians. But also like Cheney -- who grudgingly went along with the GOP's gay-bashing campaign of 2004 despite the fact that his own daughter was an out lesbian in a committed relationship -- McCain does not have the strength of character to stand up to the bigots in his own party.

Indeed, even as he tries to appeal to libertarian-leaning Republicans this year, McCain has accepted a crude and backward Republican platform that is the most homophobic in the party's history -- a document that rants about "the incompatibility of homosexuality with military service," endorses "a constitutional amendment that fully protects marriage as a union of a man and a woman, so that judges cannot make other arrangements equivalent to it," and that, in a section hailing the party's commitment to individual rights, pointedly avoids denouncing discrimination against gays and lesbians.

The great tragedy of John McCain's current candidacy is that everyone who knows the man -- as I have for the better part of two decades -- knows that, while he is not in the camp of the haters who have come to dominate his party, the senator lacks the courage to challenge them.

McCain is so scared of offending the Republican Party's muscular social-conservative base that, in order to appease them, he has agreed to run on a hate-mongering platform, nominated an under-qualified running mate, and avoided highlighting some of the most reassuring and compelling chapters in his personal story.

There really are interesting and meaningful testimonials that can be made for John McCain. Jim Kolbe delivered one last week. Unfortunately, the convention that nominated the senator from Arizona refused to highlight the maverick stances that have always been the most attractive pieces of the puzzle that is John McCain.

It is a sad statement about McCain's candidacy and the Republican Party that, despite all the talking-point recitations about what a great man McCain is, the party could not stomach an honest portrayal of its own nominee.

It would be nice to fantasize that John McCain might somehow regain the courage of his convictions after his election as president. Certainly, that is what Kolbe and the Log Cabin Republicans want to believe. But the truth is that, if McCain and his lieutenants did not have the courage to feature a genuinely appealing testimonial from his friend Jim Kolbe at the convention that nominated him, it would be silly to think that the candidate would behave any more honorably on the campaign trail or in the White House.

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MCCAIN CALLING ANYONE SEXIST IS...well just watch. McCain's jokes are so funny I forgot to laugh.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPnfnB7fRek

Posted by CanWeQuestionPalin? at 09/10/2008 @ 5:18pm
I guess McCain really doesn't use "the google".

Simply google -John McCain jokes- and tell me who is sexist. Sexist?!?! He has a disgusting sense of "humor". He jokes about women, girls, and other countries.

Posted by CanWeQuestionPalin? at 09/10/2008 @ 5:21pm
>>>Kolbe is undoubtedly correct that, like Vice President Dick Cheney, McCain has no taste for discriminating against gays and lesbians.<<<

This is BS, John Nichols!

McCain is NO MAVERICK, and simply repeating it as though it were true is dishonest.

Aside from the McCain's support for the ban on gay marriage, McCain VOTED AGAINST a bill that would bar employment discrimination against homosexuals!

http://tinyurl.com/6mzm3q

This anti-gay discrimination bill LOST BY ONE VOTE, so if McCain really is the maverick you suggest, he would have stood up against discrimination so that this would be the law of the land.

QUIT THE MAVERICK FRAUD NOW!!!

Posted by Metteyya at 09/10/2008 @ 5:39pm
Hey libshitbrains,

Are you a real person or just a programmed puppet of pettiness? Sorry...that's what's called alliteration.

Here's a rhyme...

CRY! CRY! MISS AMERICAN PIE!!!

Posted by CanWeQuestionPalin? at 09/10/2008 @ 5:49pm
These are from ACTUAL McCAIN VOTES in the Senate where he opposes positions favored by the MAJORITY OF AMERICANS!

1. 70% of Public thinks invading Iraq was a MISTAKE, but McCain sides with Bush and votes to invade (H J Res 114).

2. 70% of Americans think oil companies are too greedy and that is why they are paying more at the pump, but McCain wants to adopt Big Oil plans to drill, drill, drill for MORE PROFITS (S Con Res 101).

3. 70% of Americans believe waterboarding is torture but McCain sides with his party and votes against ban on CIA use of waterboarding (HR 2082).

4. 75% of Americans FAVOR ratifying Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, but McCain sides with Bush and votes against it (Treaty Doc. 105).

5. 60% of Americans believe workers should have a right to organize into a union, but McCain sides with Bush and votes against it (HR 800).

6. 70% of Americans favor INCREASING financial aid for college but McCain bucked his party by voting against financial aid, losing vote 78-18 (HR 2669)

7. Most Americans are AGAINST fraud in Iraq contracts, but McCain sided with Bush and voted against more oversight (S 1042).

8. Most Americans believe gun makers should be liable for defective guns but McCain bucked his party and lost that vote 90-8 (S 1805).

9. Most Americans FAVOR energy assistance to low income people, and McCain bucked his party and lost that vote 94-3 (HR 3010)

10. Most Americans FAVOR children's healthcare, just like they do for seniors, but McCain sided with Bush and lost that vote 68-31 (HR 976).

WHEN MCAIN GOES AGAINST HIS PARTY, HE GOES AGAINST THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, AND WHEN HE SIDES WITH BUSH, HE ALSO GOES AGAINST THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.

THAT IS NO MAVERICK, THAT IS ANTI-AMERICAN!

Posted by Metteyya at 09/10/2008 @ 6:08pm
"ZEBRA"

Posted by libshitbrains at 09/10/2008 @ 6:16pm | ignore this person

But MCPAIN people don't use racism. Ohhh!!NOooo!!! How could we ever SAY such an outrageous thing?!?!

Are you human?

Posted by CanWeQuestionPalin? at 09/10/2008 @ 6:23pm
"the GOP Party is moving in the direction of McCain much more so than away!"----Posted by SoHAPPY at 09/10/2008 @ 5:53pm

So would that be AWAY from LVLIB and the social cons on things like gay rights, HAPP?

Posted by Maskdelta at 09/10/2008 @ 7:49pm
Posted by CanWeQuestionPalin? at 09/10/2008 @ 6:23pm

Yeah, I tire so quickly of LibZ's infantile racist tirades from the trailer park .... he/she/it must have sold enuff beer cans to get the interwebs turned back on, so it stopped in to gibber and wail. I put it into the dustbin along with 6-8 earlier incarnations. I suppose they sit in their respective corners and count each others toes.

I suppose the "Log Cabin Repubs" will have to change their moniker to the "Log Closet Repubs" .... that is, unless they want to do the sane thing and become Democrats! (and join folks who will actually respect their lifestyle rather than daming them to hey-yell, or tryin to "pray their gay away")

Posted by leftofcenter at 09/10/2008 @ 8:10pm
The thing that puzzles me about Nichols is how he keeps referring to Palin as unqualified - when her qualifications are superior to Obamas! Must be the kool-aid talking again.

Posted by pontificus at 09/10/2008 @ 8:49pm
Posted by pontificus at 09/10/2008 @ 8:49pm

"executive experience", right, PONTI?

Like being mayor of a town, with a budget in the black, and leaving them with millions in debt....

or being governor and supporting the "Bridge to Nowhere" even past the point where CONGRESS wanted to end the project...and STILL taking the money assigned to it?

Posted by Maskdelta at 09/10/2008 @ 8:58pm
Posted by Maskdelta at 09/10/2008 @ 8:58pm

Regardless of your partisan interpretation of Palin's performance, the point stands that she is at least as qualified as Obama on the basis of experience - and she's only the VP candidate. Compared to McCain, Obama is an amateur. And Nichols has the chutzpah to call Palin unqualified? You folks have been snorting kool-aid too long.

Posted by pontificus at 09/10/2008 @ 9:14pm
Posted by pontificus at 09/10/2008 @ 9:14pm

What "interpretation", PONTI?

DID she leave Wasilla in debt millions of dollars, where it had been in the black before she became mayor?

DID she support the "Bridge to Nowhere" right upto AND BEYOND when even Congress decided to end the project...

and DID she STILL ....KEEP THE MONEY which had been EARMARKED for the "BtN"?

No "interpretation" is necessary...just a simple yes or no?

Posted by Maskdelta at 09/10/2008 @ 9:40pm
Posted by Maskdelta at 09/10/2008 @ 9:40pm

Of course, MASK, we're overlooking all of Obama's experience as a 'community organizer'. What is that again? Who hires you as 'community organizer'? Do you need to interview for this? How does one apply for this job? What kinds of responsiblities does this entail? Do you need anyone to actually vote for you or does one just wake up one day and exclaim 'Whoopee, I'm a community organizer!'

Posted by pontificus at 09/10/2008 @ 9:46pm
Posted by pontificus at 09/10/2008 @ 9:46pm

Yes or no answers to my questions, PONTI.

Mr Nichols said Palin was "unqualified"....you countered she had plenty of experience....

I'd like you to acknowledge what some of that experience WAS....

care to do that....or punking out, because the answers aren't pretty?

Posted by Maskdelta at 09/10/2008 @ 9:52pm
Yep, that's a heck of a resume Mr. Obama's got there. Several years as 'community organizer'. Took tons of money from an organization run by a known, and self-proclaimed domestic terrorist. Attended a church avidly where the pastor, his closest spiritual advisor for 20 years, regularly encouraged the congregation to sing 'God Damn America', all the while indoctrinating them into the idea that the government had concocted elaborate and utterly imaginary schemes to murder them. Then, Mr. Obama goes to Washington for two years as a US Senator, where he does little or nothing other than vote 'present' on occasion. Yep, that's a hell of a lot of qualfiications your guy's got there, MASK! But with the America-hating and all, I can see why you folks like him so much!

Posted by pontificus at 09/10/2008 @ 9:52pm
Posted by Maskdelta at 09/10/2008 @ 9:52pm

"care to do that....or punking out, because the answers aren't pretty?"

I got several years as Mayor of a small town, and two years experience as Governor of the State of Alaska for Ms. Palin. Whaddya got for Mr. Obama? Other than 'community organizing', I mean, I think we all know what that is. Think I did some of it myself in between jobs, for that matter.

Posted by pontificus at 09/10/2008 @ 9:54pm
Posted by pontificus at 09/10/2008 @ 9:54pm |

What....are....the....answers...to....my.....questions, PONTI?

Or is just "being the mayor" and "being the Governor" all that counts...

not what she ACTUALLY DID?

LOL

Posted by Maskdelta at 09/10/2008 @ 10:05pm
Now Obama's trying to get away with his bad words. Not so fast.

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Obama rejects 'lipstick' charge

Obama's 'lipstick' reference The US Democratic presidential candidate has denied claims of sexism after likening his rival's promise of change to putting "lipstick on a pig".

The controversy began on Tuesday after Mr Obama said his rival was advocating change while pursuing the politics of the current Bush administration.

'Made-up' controversy

Mr Obama made the remark during a rally in Virginia where he accused the McCain campaign of trying suddenly to adopt the promise of change - a platform he himself has been running on for months.

Posted by HelenDAO at 09/10/2008 @ 10:06pm
You're just wondering if that community organizer language is all Obama's capable of? Of course, he used this smear and bad words sucessfully against Hillary. But you doubt that's stateman language.

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Roger Stone: 'Obama Hurt Himself Very Badly' Wednesday, September 10, 2008 8:37 PM

By: Ashley Martella

Veteran political consultant Roger Stone believes that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama shot himself in the foot with his remarks that Republican rival John McCain's campaign angrily charged he served up a low blow against McCain's running mate Sarah Palin.

"He ought to know by now that when a presidential candidate says anything at all, it's around the globe in seconds, thanks to the Internet," he tells Newsmax TV.

Posted by HelenDAO at 09/10/2008 @ 10:22pm
Posted by Maskdelta at 09/10/2008 @ 10:05pm

"not what she ACTUALLY DID?

LOL"

What has Obama 'actually done', MASK?

Posted by pontificus at 09/10/2008 @ 10:57pm
Posted by madlib at 09/10/2008 @ 10:12pm

But you see, ML, to me, YOU ARE the entertainment. I don't normally get to meet deluded, stupid people like you. It's entertaining to see you, and folks like you, try to deal with an alternative viewpoint. People like you, and Darla, who don't even KNOW anybody who voted for George Bush. You're so indoctrinated, out of touch with reality, it's actually fun to observe your insanity. That's what does it for me.

Posted by pontificus at 09/10/2008 @ 10:59pm
Well, in this case Obama is worse than the wolf that eats human. Let's call Obama's change a lipstick on a pig.

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McCain: The Wolves Are Out Against Palin By Kate Phillips Forget how worn that "lipstick on a pig" talk is getting at this point. Let's, uh, put a little gloss on that for a second, even though the liberal blogosphere and others have been awash in media-bashing today for anyone even writing about Senator Barack Obama's comments that the McCain campaign is putting "lipstick on a pig." He contended that it was all about the McCain-Palin ticket representing no change.

Posted by HelenDAO at 09/10/2008 @ 11:36pm
It's in the order of things that men vote man, women vote woman, whites vote white, blacks vote blaks, latinos vote latino. Now no woman would trust Dems because the low way Obama used against Hillary.

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Sarah Palin's presence - coupled with Clinton's absence - may be altering one of the great verities of American politics: that women voters overwhelmingly favor Democrats.

A Washington Post-ABC News poll released this week showed white women swinging hard against the Democratic ticket. Obama left Denver with an 8-point lead among white women; by the time John McCain pulled out of St. Paul, Minn., with Palin at his side, he had taken a 12-point lead.

Posted by HelenDAO at 09/10/2008 @ 11:51pm
"Of course, MASK, we're overlooking all of Obama's experience as a 'community organizer'. What is that again? Who hires you as 'community organizer'? Do you need to interview for this? How does one apply for this job? What kinds of responsiblities does this entail?"

do you have any idea how insanely difficult was the task obama took on in the chicago ghettos? do you? have you even been to the south side of chicago, ponti?

"People like you, and Darla, who don't even KNOW anybody who voted for George Bush. You're so indoctrinated, out of touch with reality, it's actually fun to observe your insanity."

my *entire* biological family supported george bush in '00 and '04, thank you.

and we're out of touch with reality. as opposed to president shit for brains, who eviscerated the constitution, shredded habeas corpus, invaded an innocent country, ruined the economy, and became the enfant terrible of the entire planet. yeah, WE are out of touch with reality.

Posted by darladoon at 09/10/2008 @ 11:55pm
Godd news is the French like Obama. Bad news is the French always want bad things for America.

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Barack Obama, the French American idol AFP 09/09/2008 If anyone needed proof of France's love for Barack Obama, le Figaro offered it today with an opinion poll. This finds that 80 percent of the French want the Democrat candidate to win the US presidency while only eight percent favour John McCain.

The poll was carried out by TNS Sofres on September 2 and 3, before McCain benefited from the Sarah Palin bounce but it gives an idea of the overwhelming wish in France to see a President Obama take office. Eighty-six percent have a good opinion of him compared with only 35 percent for McCain.

Posted by HelenDAO at 09/11/2008 @ 12:05am
HelenDAO, it's not that the french want obama to win; it's that they do *not* want mccain to win. clearly, mccain represents a third bush term, and not just the french hate bush. the entire world despises bush. the so-called 'angry left' is basically 90% of the planet. i am not kidding. if the RNC was held in paris, that city would have burned to the ground. and cnn would have made a forture covering it.

sure, obama is intellectual, but any intellectual understands that you can never put your faith in another person, especially not a politician. but he is a far superior choice that mccain; there is simply no question about it.

mccain supporters are (really) a phenomena as confouding as subatomic particles. how does one support a fascist? what are the means and methods by which fascists convince huge populations to support them? fox news is too obvious. there are far subtler methods: just today, a "story" circulated throughout the blogs about obama's comment about 'pigs with lipstick' (a hackneyed platitude used even by mccain in 1006). the mccain campaign is deliberately attempting to avoid discussion of the issues by focussing on the tawdry.

mccain is sick. and we have evidence to prove it.

Posted by darladoon at 09/11/2008 @ 12:17am
sorry, 2006. but mccain might as well have said it in 1006, he's that old.

Posted by darladoon at 09/11/2008 @ 12:18am
Hey darladoon, in your ever so caring liberal ways, you are discriminating and hurting my feelings with your anti-agism. I think the EEOC might be called in to investigate your anti hiring an old guy. Plus it might even be considered a hate crime to not like old white guys.

Posted by apoorspic at 09/11/2008 @ 12:50am
Honestly no one likes to admit they have a gay cousin.

Posted by apoorspic at 09/11/2008 @ 12:51am
yeah, so anti-ageist of me to point out a fact: mccain is old (he would be 76 by the end of his first term). he has shell shock. cancer. memory loss. a hot temper. probably a bunch of other things we don't know about.

Posted by darladoon at 09/11/2008 @ 01:30am
i have never understood why people in minority groups think that their "friends" will support others in their group simply because they supported them. this simply does not mirror life. everyone knows a gay person that they like even if they hate gay people generally.

so mccain supported kolbe. big deal! that doesn't mean that mccain will give a flying crap for any other gay person whom he does not know.

grow up, log cabin republicans, and admit that you are on the wrong side! stop voting against your own interests, for godsakes, and mine too, for that matter! john mccain will eat you for lunch and sooner than you think!

Posted by ltattoo at 09/11/2008 @ 04:24am
Posted by pontificus at 09/10/2008 @ 10:57pm

PONTI, why is it so impossible for you to answer those simple questions?

YOU made quite a ta-doo of Palin being more experienced than Obama...

don't you KNOW EXACTLY what that experience is??!??!!??

Posted by Maskdelta at 09/11/2008 @ 09:00am
Posted by Maskdelta at 09/11/2008 @ 09:00am

"YOU made quite a ta-doo of Palin being more experienced than Obama..."

Excuse me, but I didn't bring that up. Nichols did. I was just adddressing the absurdity of the charge he made in his column that Palin was unqualified, when in fact, she's more qualified than Obama, and she's not even on top of the ticket, like he is. So don't blame me, it's you folks who brought it up.

"don't you KNOW EXACTLY what that experience is??!??!!??"

Again, I think we should be talking RELATIVE experience here. If you want to talk about earmarks, as US Senator Obama is much more of a pork stuffer than Palin ever was. You talk about Palin's alleged fiscal irresponsiblity, but fail to point out that Obama never had any fiscal duties with which to be irresponsible; in DC, he's just another snout at the trough. And considering the huge spending increases he has proposed, the outlook for him looks much worse than Palin ever has been.

Posted by pontificus at 09/11/2008 @ 09:17am
Posted by pontificus at 09/11/2008 @ 09:17am

PONTI, I DO want to talk about earmarks....the Bridge to Nowhere and WHEN EXACTLY Sarah Palin started to oppose it.

AND I want to talk about if Palin, despite her "fight against earmarks", KEPT the MONEY assigned to the "B-t-N" even after the project itself was cancelled.

I want to talk about spending....and what was the budget situation of Wasilla, Alaska BEFORE and AFTER Sarah Palin was mayor of that town.

YOU...do NOT want to discuss those issues, you want to keep changing the subject to Obama, because you CANNOT defend or spin the answers to those questions.

Posted by Maskdelta at 09/11/2008 @ 10:01am
BTW, we all know the OTHER reason, you don't want to defend Palin on those questions...

you've been given no talking points from your sources!

Posted by Maskdelta at 09/11/2008 @ 10:02am
OK, I'll ask the PonitFlogic..

Ponti, tell me about Palins position on Russia/Georgia.

Talk to us a little bit about Palins Israel position.

Could you compare/contrast Palins healthcare policy statements with Bidens?

Maybe you could explain why Family Values is off the table after 16 years of it being the cornucopia of the Republican Platform?

Could you explain how Jesus' community organization does not give him the experience to be a leading figure of religion for 2000 years?

Or, maybe you could finally give me that list of democratic witch hunters you talked about for a year? Or would you rather attack somebody for being delusional?

Posted by crabwalk at 09/11/2008 @ 10:22am
Or maybe Ponti could tell us what McCain really meant when he used the phrase "lipstick on a pig" when referring to Hillarys healthcare plan, as that seems to be the level the serious republicans want to play at?

Or, if that is over your head, just answer Masks simple questions. Why the dodging, equivocating and transference? Is your candidate so strong that the only defense you have is to attack Obamas service to country and community? I mean really, I remember the repubs talking about family, community, being involved etc for a long time. Now, just like "experience" and Family Values", all of a sudden the Old Talking Points are obsolete?

And what do you think of Bristol and Levi? Should teen sex be one of the centerpieces of your parties newfound direction?

Bill Clinton

Sandy Berger

slaves!!

are not answers today, though. Sorry.

Posted by crabwalk at 09/11/2008 @ 10:29am
Posted by crabwalk at 09/11/2008 @ 10:29am

"Is your candidate so strong that the only defense you have is to attack Obamas service to country and community?"

Shit, what service? Singing 'God Damn America'? I don't call that service. 'Community organizing'? What the hell is that? Two years as US Senator? What's he done there? Vote 'Present'? Co-sponsor unanimous bills?

MASK wants to engage in his anti-Palin spin regarding her admittedly brief career as Mayor of a small town and two years as governnor of Alaska, but what he DOESNT want to talk about is how Palin, as a whole, is more qualified by experience to be President that Obama is.

And regarding Sandy Berger, CRABBIE, you still refuse to discuss what was in the National Archives that was so important for him to cover up that it was worth a felony conviction.

Posted by pontificus at 09/11/2008 @ 11:43am
Oh, by the way. Today, the panic and depression in Kool-Aid Land continues. In-trade odds are now favoring McCain to win, last week it was 3-2 in favor of Obama. Damn, I knew I should have taken those odds! Now it's too late!

Posted by pontificus at 09/11/2008 @ 11:44am
The good news is, after Obama loses here, he will be welcome to leave for France, where his 80 percent approval rate should serve him well, and his experience singing 'God Damn America' will stand him in good stead.

Posted by pontificus at 09/11/2008 @ 12:25pm
Or, if that is over your head, just answer Masks simple questions. Why the dodging, equivocating and transference? Is your candidate so strong that the only defense you have is to attack Obamas service to country and community?

Posted by crabwalk at 09/11/2008 @ 10:29am

Oh dear Crabs think you may have missed the context. You may not have noticed but the lovely Sarah is dominating the media, including this noble publication and the polls and carrying the once barely afloat McCain along with her.

Defend her? From whom? Come off it. This is one amazing election changing pit bull who ultimately defies definition and rational explanation and should do for the next seven or eight weeks.

I think what some posters are trying to tell you is that , up against the pit bull with lipstick Obama is sinking, sinking, sinking from sight.

Maybe you and Mask have a different slant on Obama's disappearing trick? That is the real issue for which some kind posters are already prepared to offer answers.

BTW if you and Mask are so keen to know the lovely Sarah's policy positions here's where you could start getting informed:

"Welcome to the online office of Governor Sarah Palin. We continue to provide new photos, audio, news and information to the public every week. Please check back regularly for updates and new features. Always contact us if you have any questions or concerns."

http://gov.state.ak.us/

Posted by lrjones4 at 09/12/2008 @ 12:52pm