For 400 glorious years, John McCain has gotten daily handjobs from the national press corps because he lets them sit in the back of the bus with him while he dispenses salty bons mots and makes inappropriate jokes. But now all the favorable press coverage goes to Barack Obama, because he gets more people to come to his rallies. John McCain knows how Hillary Clinton feels now, which is why he’s stealing such winning moves from her playbook as “Change you can replicate with some sort of technology” and hiring a campaign team that fights pitched internecine battles on the front page of the New York Times.
The other day I suggested a sort of thought experiment to someone close to McCain for years: If Hillary wrote down on paper all the things she thought about Obama and handed the paper to McCain and asked him to check the ones he agreed with, what percentage would be marked? “Oh, 90 percent, at least,” this person said.
The opinions of both of them, not surprisingly, would be skeptical, harsh, dismissive: that Obama is a lightweight, that he’s a line-cutter, that he’s arrogant, elitist, all talk no action. And that perspective is evident in the campaign that McCain and the Republicans more broadly are running against Obama. In tone and substance, once again, the similarities to the broadsides that Clinton and her people launched against him are striking. More than one GOP e-mail in recent weeks has taunted him with the phrase “Just words.”
McCain in ’08 by a landslide, with Vice President Clinton and Secretary of State Joe Lieberman. Your Wonkette will be on the first refugee spaceship headed to Mars.
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McCain’s just pissed because he can’t use the book of jokes and quips about Hillary and Hot Flashes that his bestest bud Karl Rove prepared for him.
McCain, making ageism fun again.
“Your Wonkette will be on the first refugee spaceship headed to Mars.”
http://cla.calpoly.edu/~lcall/fall_of_saigon.jpg
Good times!
Meanwhile, I’m told, John McCain’s office just retired their trusty mimeograph machine and have adopted a fancy new “Xerography Photo-Copier Machine”
Maybe McCain should start dressing in pant suits and practicing his point and clap routine.
Wow…if that picture doesn’t say it all…
That gnome stole my Lucky Charms.
I love the part about how Clinton and McCain think he’s a line-cutter.
It’s almost as if a certain jive-talking Catholic priest said something about crackers and their sense of entitlement, and then was roundly criticized for it. Thank goodness he wasn’t 100% correct!
And we all know how well that served Hillary.
Somewhat related; Hillary has morphed into Cindy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhBuOTY3YZM
Apparently, Bilbo Baggins is voting for WALNUTS!
McCain gave up his right to criticize supposed lightweight, all talk line-cutters in 2000 when he bent over and grabbed his ankles and let W ram him for the “good of the GOP” rather than fight back against the Rove Smear Machine. Apparently you can only do that to McCain if you are a fellow Republican. Which, sounds about right, come to think of it.
[re=35262]bearbait[/re]: If he ever learns to stretch his mouth as wide as her in those manufactured grin sessions, I will puke out my innards…and I actually like the woman!
Poor Walnuts! In my mind, a small violin is playing, lamenting the loss of his blemish-removing press fawnage…le sigh
He should empathize, since he dumped his wife for a newer, hotter model. Just think of Barry as the “trophy candidate.”
John McCain today issued this statement: “I fought in Viet Nam, was taken prisoner and paid a terrible price to protect America’s freedom. When I returned, I worked hard to rehabilitate myself from the physical toll of all the torture I endured, and went on to become a respected member of the US Senate. Throughout my entire life, I have devoted myself to America’s economic, military and moral security.
And now some fuckin’ black man is stealing my show!
My friends, I ask you: Is this right?”
[re=35257]bitchincamaro[/re]: http://www.takegreatpictures.com/content/images/citizens_flee_9_11_david_fr.jpg
Sorry.
“Change you can (painfully) engrave.”
I look forward to Joe Lieberman being elevated to the high post of Senate Schlemiel.
[re=35283]Canuckledragger[/re]: Bah, WALNUTS! is having his revenge on the American people by torturing them with the most awful speeches ever.
“I am white and this is mine!”
WALNUTS! pissed off at something? Nah… that’s impossible. The man has the nicest demeanor I’ve ever seen. His temper is so relaxed he sometimes looks like he’s high.
It looks like McCain has taken over the New Yorker:
http://bp0.blogger.com/_1xQeOPE9ePU/SHp2Ki8qjiI/AAAAAAAABmU/HWinwTenCeU/s1600-h/newyorker.jpg
[re=35311]Gopherit v2.0[/re]: The only way they could improve this is by having BHO’s enormous erect penis hooking up in the air from under his robes.
And it’s shaped like a scimitar, with Allahu Akbar written on it.
And it’s on fire, or something.
Yeah. Awesome.
[re=35311]Gopherit v2.0[/re]: For whatever reason I didn’t get my New Yorker in the mail this week, but I saw this on the news this morning. It would have gone unnoticed since bitters don’t read the elitist New Yorker, but now people that didn’t know the magazine existed are using it to justify their crazy xenophobia. I hope this doesn’t mean the end of jokes/irony/sarcasm/fun just because bitters and wingnuts don’t understand it.
At the same time, I don’t care for the cartoon. If they’re going to devote a cover to an image that captures an unfounded fear held by a handful of crazies, then I want to see a cover of WALNUTS! blowing up Iran while calling his wife a c— drinking the blood of newborns and downing a bottle of viagra.
Vinegar Joe wouldn’t worry. Once he gets booted from the Bittercrats’ Caucus, Mitch McConnell will welcome him with open tentacles.
[re=35332]NoWireHangers[/re]: Or the scene as a dream bubble over a sleeping Walnuts! As it stands, the commentary is without context. While I believe it was meant in sarcasm, let’s get equal attention for both sides foibles, as you suggested.
Can we at least hope that InBev buying A-B (and, if possible, making it even crappier) will some how put a dent in Cindy’s bank balance? I mean, shouldn’t she be refusing to distribute their un-American products now?
I wonder if Lieberman is ever going to share his precious ring of power with McCain?
[re=35263]AfghanVet[/re]: If McCain wins, then we should adopt an ovary tax.
Barry gets better press? You mean like that new New Yorker cover? Yea, that’s great.
WALNUTS recently declared a 100 year-War on Pressisism.
[re=35332]NoWireHangers[/re]: wait! but those WALNUTS! things are real, right? my wonkette tells me it’s so…
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