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The McCain campaign has farted out this new ad which, impossibly enough, is the least offensive spot we’ve seen from Walnuts in a while. And yet, so offensive, still! He tells us that Barack Obama’s only solutions for the financial collapse are “talk and taxes.” His very next sentence is, “I’ll reform Wall Street and fix Washington” — two crisp, granular economic policy proposals to contrast Obama’s cerebral, tax-and-spend hippie blather. Finally, Walnuts says, “I’ve taken on tougher guys than this before.” What ever could that mean? [YouTube]
C’mon, he opened the door - KEATING FIVE!
Let’s get that out there in an ad.
He has taken on tougher guys than this before…and lost!
Oh god, Gramps is going to start telling another war story.
Drink some warm milk and take a nap!
It’s kind of funny that Ross Perot is a model of specificity with his repeating “Well, we gon’ fix it!” compared with McPalin.
I prefer McCain’s other ad:
http://www.feanor.net/z0r/shock/whiteblack.swf
Sorry Jim, what were you saying? The strobe flash in that video gave me an epileptic seizure.
He’s taken it from tough guys before… I’m going to have to go to confession about 20 times to get that out of my head. I’m gonna need an exorcist. Oh, he said “taken on” not “taken it from.” It’s too late, though. The damage to my frontal lobe is already done.
“Doc, tell me straight, will I ever see again?”
“Shut up and drink this whiskey, Malone. It kills germs and pain, and I see you have a lot of both.”
“Thanks, Doc. You’re the best Doc a gunslinger could ever have.”
Sorry, I lapsed into delirium for a second there.
facehead: That’s mesmerizing.
EnBuenOra: Awww, I long for Ross Perot in this election! Where is that old coot? Let’s get him back!
Yes, McCain, you have taken on tougher guys, but you lost. Remember?
Obama - Vote with your wallet
McCain - Vote with your depends
I’m starting to see a connection, sadly it involves Metamucil.
Wait… didn’t John McCain spend 5 1/2 years getting his ass kicked by “tougher guys than this?” If that’s what he means by “I’ve taken on tougher guys than this” then be afraid… be very afraid.
facehead: I’m not sure if you are my new go-to source for you tube videos, or if I should never click on one of your links again.
I guess it depends on who else is present.
“Change is coming.” A more ominious pronouncement than he intended, no doubt. Pack up the kids and grab the dog. Change is coming and WALNUTS! is leading it!
EnBuenOra: Maybe some Perot Charts will help Ol’ Gramps make his point: http://perotcharts.com/
He’ll fix Washington like he fixed his first marriage.
Why won’t John McCain stop telling lies? James Garner was the original Maverick! Then was John McCain, then was Mel Gibson. Hollywood Elites, all!
facehead:
I think I just had a seizure… and I’m not even epileptic.
Does this mean America will be tortured for five years under McCain, after which we’ll finally be able to divorce Mexico and marry Brazil?
So he’s going to “fix” Washington? What, like the Triple Crown? I better call my bookie!
Seriously, when will they start handing out McCryptkeeper Brand Washington Fixin’ Superglue?
I think this means he’s going to strap on an A-6 Avenger and cluster bomb Wall Street, but I can’t see the video at work. He’s starting to remind me of Clint Eastwood in ‘Firefox.’
facehead: funniest thing i seen in a long time! however WALNUTZ ad had the reverse effect, now I wanna vote for the smooth back guy instead of the nerdy poindexter white guy!
oohh- can we gat someone into this:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/16/palin.solo/index.html
facehead: I’m starting to think you aren’t as efficient in the workplace as your employer might like.
So, I am to believe that you “took on tougher guys” and……..?
Now you can’t tie your own shoes or choke your chicken.
That’s not change I can believe in.
Wait, he said “Washington” in the ad, didn’t he? I’m so used to reflexively wincing when he’s about to try it, because it always comes out as “WARSHington.”
For fuck’s sake, I guess “being tortured” is the new “I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night”.
obfuscator: HA! Hanoi Holiday Inn Express!
obfuscator: “I’m not an expert, but I was subjected to ‘enhanced interrogation techinques’ in a North Vietman prison for 5 and a half years”
He sure as hell caved to those “tough” fundies that made him pick a jeebus -girl over his the nice, jewish boy…
Serolf Divad: I’m pretty sure he actually said “Changs is coming”, obviously a reference to the inevitable takeover of America by Benevolent Chinese Dragon Overlords.
obfuscator: win.
I have two possible campaign slogans for John McCain:
1. Because I said so.
2. John McCain, because black people are scary.
Cape Clod:
A-12 Avenger II (cancelled) or A-6 Intruder (retired). Yeah, I’m one of those.
The still at 0:22 is wierd. It looks like he’s fishing in his nostril with his middle finger (whereas in fact he has a Slimline Princess phone in his ear).
Is he going to kick Phil Gramm’s ass?? he led the de-reg push that brought on this mess. Phil will just tell Johnny-Mac that he is just whining.
irisheyes: They’d better webcast that sucker. Although, knowing the average Palin voter, the questions are probably going to be something along the line of, “How do you get your hair to be soooo shiny”?
Cogito Ergo Bibo: “Do you think bombing Iran will be enough to bring on the Rapture, or will we have to take out Russia as well? Also, do you have any tasty recipes for leftover moose?”
Hunter Gathers: By that rationale, we must be creating lots of future Mavericks in Gitmo and assorted various CIA black sites around the globe! Spreading democracies like a muhfucker.
Servo: Yeah, but you’re owning it. A-6 Intruder. Hard to remember what he flew because they didn’t stay in one piece for very long.
“I’ve taken on tougher guys than this. That’s why I’m hiding behind the skirt of this broad from Alaska.”
McCain is just parodying himself now. And you know he had to practice the head tilt and smirk about a kajillion times before he started to resemble a human being.
What McCain’s new plan anyway? Ignore all the people in his campaign who advise him to take the exact regulatory steps that led tot his meltdown? “America, I pledge not to listen to any of the people I pay to advise me. Only by ignoring the people who contributed to deregulating us into this mess will I be able to get us out. I call it Project Opposite Day.”
http://thesebastards.blogspot.com/
Christ, it’s like his campaign staff watches Rocky IV every night before they go to bed. I hate this guy, but the scary thing is he’ll win and I’ll have to marry a fat Republican in order to keep my “Patriot” card. I’d laugh, but I’m too busy watching Uncle Sam DUI into a Special Education school bus.
“I did things, I am do tough, I talk cell phone, I make kind of Blackberry, I have one million Blackberry houses, hi Cindy, hi Sarah!, gotta show the love 2 my ladies.
I’m John McCain and I approve this message.”
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It’s funny watching this ad after watching the Obama ad in the previous post. Even when WALNUTS is trying to do a “positive” ad, he just can’t resist the scare music and ominous grainy images. I keep waiting for Barry to jump out from behind WALNUTS in a hockey mask.
Cape Clod:
A-4 Skyhawk. A tiny, agile bomber that is a marvel of simplicity (they’re still used for non-combat roles) that, with McCain seeming to be the one exception, can be flown by damn near anyone.
do you think that cell phone he’s talking on at the end of the spot is one of the kind with three buttons - one for 911, one for home, and one for the pharmacy?
For crying out loud! Obama’s newest ad SPECIFICALLY lays out his plans. McCain dismisses Obama’s “talk” and only offers “reform” without saying what he’d actually do — besides stroke the gentle egos of the Best Workers in the World. Good grief.
Servo: Walnuts flew A-4s? What a pussy. I have lost all respect for McCain now. I was under the impression that he was crashing the more macho F-4 Phantoms.
Nader’s got my vote now. Badass drove a Corvair, if I recall correctly.
Lascauxcaveman:
The GOP keeps calling him a fighter pilot. Absolutely false.
irisheyes: PIGLETS SLAMMED TO FLOOR!?!?1?!
I’ve taken on tougher guys than this before *fail*
lilblackcorvette: What in the Sam Hill have you been drinking?
I’m getting sick of all these threats to change Washington. Sure, Spokane’s got a serious pothole problem, and Seattle’s too crowded, but overall it’s pretty nice out here.
i love how they use the image of him talking on a cell phone just to prove he knows how to use one, too funny.
Viva la Cynthia: The CIA got him, GHW Bush was out to get him and his cunning and wily way has waited and waited until H Ross sunk into obscurity and launched one of GW Bush’s rendition teams on him. H Ross is currently overseas in an unacknowledged location. I’ll bet on it.
“I’ve taken on tougher guys than this, and after four days they had me doing whatever they said and recording all manner of anti-American propaganda videos, no matter how much I didn’t want to.”
He sure can take on corruption, and looks a heck of a lot like his odl uncle Charles Foster McKane. Now, the other shoe that might drop? A liaison. Where is our Jim Geddes?
He, he took on tougher guys than this. Then they tortured him for years, and then we lost the war. So, uh, the future’s looking bright?
GREED IS GOOD!