Comments on: A Trollop and a C$#T

By: alank

alank — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 03:19:04 +0000

I expect “get ye back to a nunnery” would’ve been perceived by his constituency as too highfalutin.

By: Tortoise

Tortoise — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:24:22 +0000

But you know there’s an even bigger story right behind this one.
… it turns out that by pure chance, those two little words were also overheard by a young Ann Coulter. Who went on to base her entire career on them.

By: JohnLopresti

JohnLopresti — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 23:36:35 +0000

The folks at helpdesk in the RNC deparment of offsite servers likely is developing new ways to circumvent those pesky spam filters that the internet providers have as firewalls.

Subject: This is an important message from the RNC candidate. Spam.

Well, maybe they will train McCain to campaign without the conflicted language. He might take a lession from the novelists in gender-stratified Victorian England; for example demure Marian Evans’ acquaintance Anthony Trollope, who wrote of the US colony and Eerie.

I think ew was right, concerning the reflection on the implications of the publicness of the event which recorded private aspersions uttered in the presence of the stenographer gaggle.

We might do better than Scottie no-comment McClellan or Dana who thinks Bay of Pigs had to do with Rusky missles Perino, or Josh heck-no-I-do-not-answer-congressional-subpoenas Bolten, or even better than the cerebral riposte of Stephanopoulus, however, were McCain to accede to the unitary executive to which he aspires. I would imagine a McCain press secretary to be facile with four-letter words; and civics teachers everywhere beginning to shudder at assignments on current events. Write this assignment in inner city degraded neighborhood language; the second week’s syllabus calls for reading mariners’ tales. Well, the presidential library for McCain could be a Presidential Series comic books, like the works by the illustrator, R.Cr. interviewed by TGross on WHYY’sFreshAir in 2005, link.

By: maryo2

maryo2 — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 23:16:59 +0000

On The View, Hasselbeck and Shepherd both said that a man cheating on his wife makes them think “Will he lie to me if he is President?” Half the audience cheered.

If the Republican base says they vote based on this kind of stuff, then this stuff is worth examining.

And as I type this I notice that McCain will be on The View on April 10.

By: AbeServer

AbeServer — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 22:47:55 +0000

Oh please. I don’t think we want to get into what the various candidates have called their spouses in moments of anger. Any bets on what Hillary has called Bill while others were in earshot?

Decisions on matters like who is going to be president — should not rest on unsubstantiated reports of ill-tempered comments from 16 years ago.

McCain’s biggest concern from this story…is that the word “trollop” is archaic and may remind people that he is too.

By: bmaz

bmaz — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 22:37:25 +0000

Was not a press secretary, just his Congressional office/Senatorial office secretary or staffer. That is my understanding anyway (This phrase is on semi-permanent loan to me from “Disclaimers R’ Us”).

By: emptywheel

emptywheel — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 22:31:57 +0000

You’re a quick learner though!

Welcome, auntalias.

By: wavpeac

wavpeac — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 21:53:40 +0000

All military folks get trained in basic training. Basic training uses power and control as a basis for it’s training. A river runs through it. In my humble opinion. Not every one trained internalizes power and control, but many do and certainly those who were raised in such environments would be more susceptible. As you increase ranks in the military power and control is no longer relied upon. Money, power and status (golden handcuffs) replace the power and control.

Addiction, abuse, exploited children, exploited war, opium production, afghanistan, oil, greed, power.

Power and control is about needs for ME. It is not about altruism. People who have been broken in childhood, or war, who have lost the essential essence of self, must fill it with something. Power and control is how you keep filling your empty spaces. It is used to keep drinking, drugging, having sex, making money.

It’s the hammer. Some people kowtow to the hammer. Some people don’t. Bill Clinton does. Hillary does. Martin Luther King did not. Jesus Christ did not. Mahatma Ghandi did not. John Kerry did not.

Some people are influenced by pounding fists, some are influenced by the values. The military is designed, to get those in basic to respond to the pounding fist first. And values second.

Let me make it clear, Wesley Clark belongs in the won’t respond to the hammer group. Not all Military folks stay there, many evolve because the job requires it. The military doesn’t mind that. But all are indoctrinated by the fist first. And we as a nation have a decision to make about who we are. I believe that the paradigm is shifting.

By: auntialias

auntialias — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 21:49:44 +0000

ooo! this time, it’s different. Thanks, bmaz (thought that’s what I was doing before, but oh well.)

I guess I’m not “Ready on Comment One”

By: biggerbox

biggerbox — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 21:30:24 +0000

I think the burning question is, does McCain’s use of epithets from the Elizabethan era help those who say he is too old for the Presdiency?