Comments on: McCain Makes the Case that Energy State Governors Are Great on National Security

By: wigwam

wigwam — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 07:30:15 +0000

McCain: Energy. She knows more about energy than uh probably anyone else in the United States of America. She represe–is a governor of the state that 20% of America’s energy supply comes from there. And you all know that energy is a critical and vital national security issue.

Just watch. McCain’s entire discourse is a sequence of nonsequiturs.

Thursday night, he blamed Palin’s derision of community organizers on Obama’s refusal to join him at “town meetings.” He did so via one level of indirection:
– Palin’s meanness was the result of the low tone of the campaign.
– This campaign would have had a completely different tone if Obama hadn’t declined to participate in the town meetings.

But his whole discourses was that way on Thursday night: syntactically correct but semantically incoherent. It was almost like a satirical portrayal of political discourse.

By: jdmckay

jdmckay — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:08:10 +0000

TPM today said that the McSame campaign confirmed to them that there are new interviews for McBull…winkle in the next week:

Ya, looks like Hannity is up next. Then Greta Garbo.

I’m sure that’ll shed all kinds of light on things.

By: Leen

Leen — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:27:46 +0000

ot
hearing the same things. glad to hear about the NPR story. Do you know about this?
http://freepress.org/doit.php?.....rYear=2008

Let’s keep registering voters. In Ohio we have up until Oct 6

By: Leen

Leen — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:07:22 +0000

I’m feeling more confident about the way things will go in Ohio as I hit the the streets talking to and registering more voters. Folks are fired up. The young people that I am talking with on the campuses of Ohio University and Ohio State (in Columbus) are blowing right by the Sarah myth. They are expressing deep concerns about Sarah’s fundamentalist positions and lack of national security experience. Juan Cole has focused on this
http://www.juancole.com/
What’s the difference between Palin and Muslim fundamentalists? Lipstick
http://www.salon.com/opinion/f.....index.html

As my mother continues to point out. (a Hillary devotee totally on the Obama/Biden bus) She hopes Obama, Biden, Michelle, Hillary and Bill spend more time going into assisted living, nursing homes and Veterans Administration facilities. These folks are being ignored. They are a force to be harnessed.

By: brendanx

brendanx — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 14:05:15 +0000

Thank you, emptywheel. This makes an excellent talking point guaranteed to catch asshole Republicans off guard. I hope the setup comes for this in the debates, because I can already picture McCain’s rictus-of-death grin and wheezy chuckle.

By: WilliamOckham

WilliamOckham — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 13:54:49 +0000

Things are fine in my neighborhood at the moment, but this thing’s not going be pretty. Parts of Galveston are already underwater and the storm’s still 200+ miles away. The folks in coastal areas are going to be hit very hard with the storm surge. The wind field on this thing is huge. That means lots power outage.

Depending on the exact track of the storm, I expect to see hurricane force winds in my neighborhood, 50 miles inland. All the beautiful pine trees will become our biggest danger. We’re prepared as we can be. Now it’s mostly just waiting.

By: GregB

GregB — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 13:28:06 +0000

The John McCain of 2000 was every bit of a phony of the John McCain of 2008. He’s simply willing to whore himself to whatever opinions he thinks are popular or necessary in order to win.

He’s a phony and has been a phony for decades.

-G

By: BayStateLibrul

BayStateLibrul — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 13:23:25 +0000

I agree and that’s why Obama should being having “second thoughts” about appeatring on SNL.
I love SNL and the comedy, but the Repugs may turn the tables.
Maybe I’m panicking but I’m worried.

By: skdadl

skdadl — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 12:45:21 +0000

But the McCain Campaign was given the questions in advance.

Guess they didn’t know the answers either.

By: perris

perris — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 12:28:01 +0000

as I get out in the real world, I see we are in more and more trouble

I am in starbucks and I hear the two kids that work there talking about how much they love palin, (they are college girls) and how “everyone is talking about palin haveing no experience, obaman is running for president and he has no experience, palin is vice president and she will learn”

we are in tons of trouble, this isn’t a midwest or southern state and these aren’t uneducated kids, this is new york and these are college girls

we are in tons and tons of trouble…I would not have believed this just two months ago, now I see it is a fact