Lawrence Eagleburger served as Secretary of State under George H.W. Bush and is a serious, well-regarded Republican statesman — so it should come as no surprise that he is secretly in the tank for Barack Obama. Eagleburger endorsed John McCain for president, as McCain fondly recalled in a meandering interview with Walter Cronkite this past weekend, and yet! This Eagle Burger obviously harbors very sexist feelings toward Sarah Palin, because he had not-very-supportive things to say about her on the socialist ham radio propaganda network, “National Public Radio.”
He said “of course” she is not ready to be president, but maybe after a few years, if she had to, she wouldn’t be the absolute worst president ever, but God forbid that ever happen. “Give her some time in the office and I think the answer would be, she will be … adequate. I can’t say that she would be a genius in the job.” A RINGING ENDORSEMENT INDEED.
Talk of the Nation: Choosing McCain For His Foreign Policy Experience [NPR] (Click the Listen Now button, goodies start around 14:45)
Eagleburger Blisters Palin: “Of Course” She’s Not Ready [Huffington Post]
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mmmm . . . eagleburgers (drool)
Save the Eagles! No more eagle burgers!
But that is a ringing endorsement. We don’t want a genius in the oval office. We a want a moron — someone just like us, so we can feel better than those fucking smart people with their fancy educations and complete sentences. As Larry must know, Sarah the Imbecile is even more endearing than Joe the Working Class Stereotype.
An Eagleburger and a large order of Freedom Fries?
Why do I not remember George Sr.’s Secretary of State? Is it because the economy was so bad that I couldn’t afford a television?
Haha the ultimate in damning with faint praise.
Someone didn’t get to Nailin’ Palin.
Not a turncoat but a patriot.
She’s currently texting him some pics of her tits. He’ll be on board soon enough.
Hot dog.
These fuckin’ GOP talking heads are all retards.
fun fact – Eagleburger selected all of Baker’s ties.
Dude, is that seriously his name. There’s something here about mooseburgers, but god, I just don’t have the energy.
I can haz Eegullberger pleez.
[re=157594]War Eagle[/re]:
He was Sec State for like all of 5 seconds.
What’s wrong with all you libtards? Isn’t “adequate” good enough? After the Bush League it would be an improvement.
If you think he had a ridiculous name, talk to his under secretary, Reginald Poopflinger.
Repubs don’t ‘do’ candor normally, so when they open those hearts…well…
[re=157617]ManchuCandidate[/re]: Well, I guess he can abandon hope of Palin ever reappointing him if she ends up making a wrong turn on her way back to Wasilla and ends up in the Oval Office.
Hahahaha, I kid of course. Palin has no choice but to reappoint him because he has the only name she can remember if she ends up being grilled by the gotcha media again.
Endorsements like this are a mystery to me. Ms. Palin is unqualified, she reflects terrible on his judgement, he’s erratic, a blowup artist and like 150 years old with cancer, but WTF, I endorse him anyway, ’cause we need a little excitement around here.
Speaking of eagle burgers, the rest o’ the birds’n'beasts are weighing in (per Daily KOS):
Nature:
“This journal does not have a vote, and does not claim any particular standing from which to instruct those who do. But if it did, it would cast its vote for Barack Obama.”
For Nature, the premiere science journal [the other premiere jornal is Science, as many commenters noted], to endorse a candidate is highly unusual. In fact, in an email response, no one at the journal can remember the last time it happened. Nature was founded in 1869.
[re=157628]Gingah[/re]: Nature is in the tank for Hopey.
Wasn’t Eagle Burger the crazy VEEP who got shock treatment and made Edmund Muskie cry in the snowstorm cuz Milhous Nixon was kicking Muskie’s wife to the pavement in Noo Ham Shire?
Whew … will I be glad when this flashback/Election is over.
[re=157592]Vewol Mevemont[/re]: Yeah, I’m with you on this. Even though it used to be (pre-Reagan) something people considered important, intelligence is soooo overrated when it comes to picking a President. I want a complete idiot in the White House, so I can feel like that old lie, about how “anyone can grow up to be President”, just might be true. If I hadn’t voted already, I would change my vote to McCranky-Palin on the chance that he might tip over in office and leave us with someone REALLY stupid in charge of the most powerful nuclear arsenal in the world.
Palin just got thrown under the tank.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/10/barack-obama-fi.html
Someone send this to Drudge and/or Fox.
State Department employees and Military show more financial support for Hopey than McGramps.
Gingah:
the Nature podcast is awesome. All the readers sound like Harry Potter characters.
I think the tank has gone galactic.
I don’t listen to that elitist radio station, ’cause they keep trying to guilt me into sending them money. So, I guess I’ll never know how Larry hopes we’ll get through those first couple of training years under President Palin. Maybe he’s a Kinky Friedman disciple, “If W did it, how hard could it be?”
[re=157636]magic titty[/re]: Yeah, but everyone knows that the state department is full of socialist elitists.
As far as the military, well . . . Obama’s a muslin!
Poppy The First showed his intelligence creds in his first debate with Raygun when he said Reagan’s plan to cut taxes on rich people a billion percent and increase nuke and bullet spending a trillion percent would not mean everyone gets a tax cut. I think Poppy the First called it Haitian Economics or Chicken Blood Voodooism or something.
And the first George Bush was the spymaster general. Rumsfeld got him his coffee fer chrissakes.
Is Larry doing YouTube now? http://vodpod.com/watch/1109669-the-vet-who-did-not-vet
[re=157636]magic titty[/re]: So the tank is in the tank? Tanks, for the info.
[re=157651]2goats[/re]: Dr. Seuss is in the tank.
We’re gonna need a bigger tank.
I guess he finally couldn’t take it anymore, the thought of this woman ascending to power, a look of horror and fear crossing his face as he thought “Fucking hell, this lady is crazy!” before jumping out a window. The McCain camp should have been more prepared, they should have shipped him off to a rest facility in Sedona for “exhaustion” before he was able to express his real thoughts.
http://thesebastards.blogspot.com/
BwaHaha, praised with faint damns. “Won’t suck”.
Who needs Eagleburger, when you have the Terminator campaigning for you in Ohio – very soon he’s gonna call Eagleburger a girly man and the whole thing will be forgotten.
I thought that muppet was Joe Biden. Damn this election season! So confusing!
Side note: thanks for the cool JPEG, Ms. Smith. I’m stealing it…
[re=157610]nurple[/re]: I got it, even if nobody else did.
[re=157633]Aquannissiwamissoo[/re]: No, that was Ernest Shackleton. He also invented Antarctica.
A guy carrying a frontal rucksack like Eagleburger should have reflected by now on the issue of suddenly falling over dead like big rock. He’s gone typical GOP partisan hackysackwad to ignore the obvious: what if McCain checks out on, say, January 23, 2009? Palin’s handlers call her ridiculously slow in absorbing even enough policy blurbs to make it past Hannity. And you just know she would appoint as VP one of her high school badminton partners, so no help there.
I.e., the Eagleburger has landed–in his own shit.
[re=157784]edgydrifter[/re]:
You are correct.
Shackleton was the first Republican southern hemisphere cannibal idiot.
He did something really dangerous and stupid, and got a whole mess of poorly paid, uninformed underlings killed while doing so.
Then he got his own little library built to tell everyone how #$%^ stupid he was.
And he ate a bunch of frozen dog ligaments.
What’s not to love?
[re=157636]magic titty[/re]: They don’t count – they all live in fake Virginia.
[re=157605]magic titty[/re]: Maybe not. All those kids and breast feeding, bra comes off and he also gets a shot of her knees.
i like miiine with lettuce and tomato!
[re=157633]Aquannissiwamissoo[/re]: Haha, that was Thomas Eagleton, a senator from Missouri, and McGovern kicked him off the ticket after finding out he’d been treated for depression, which as we all know means he was fucking insane.
Well actually he wasn’t, and after leaving the senate went on to write a lucid and entertaining op-ed column in the St Louie bird-cage liner for many years.
I’m hoping Nature’s endorsement won’t be cancelled out by the latest Palin endorsement: Journal for Voo-Doo Witchery, Megalomaniac Cuntery, and Beauty Queen Basics.
[re=157611]Violenza[/re]: OMG, you must be very young. I remember Eagleburger. I’m old.
[re=157636]magic titty[/re]: Not surprising, since Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld ignored all recommendations made by the State Department for the past 8 years.
Don’t blame Eagleburger. Those Car Talk guys have everyone at NPR hopped up on Carbon Monoxide poisoning.
I love how every time someone says this, it’s a story, like we all don’t know it’s true: http://tinyurl.com/5wenlu
Thanks god, a muppet. I feel calmer already.
[re=157623]rambone[/re]: actually, that means she’ll probably end up appointing aCKmedinejad
john mccain voting fraud
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGF-HEd6XnA “
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