When it looked like the bailout bill was going to get the votes, who was all too happy to claim the credit?
John McCain.
When the bill didn't get the votes, who deserves the blame?
Practically everyone except that wacky Maverick.
Democrats failed.
Pelosi failed.
Obama failed.
John? Not his fault. He didn't phone it in. (Except that reports say that's exactly what he did, preferring telephone calls to face-to-face meetings during his little jaunt back to Washington last week.)
For the McCain campaign, the buck stops... ...anywhere but with them. Like the failed Wall Street firms, they're only accepting credit for good news. Blame for bad news belongs to someone (anyone, & if possible, everyone) else. Profits to me, loss to everyone else.
And after it failed, who looked more presidential?
Obama spoke to the American people and appealed for calm, assuring them that there will be a solution.
McCain boarded a plane without speaking to reporters or issuing any statement.
That's some kinda leadership there, Johnny... Heck of a job...
X-post @ Wingnuts & Moonbats
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Showing posts with label McCain. Show all posts
Showing posts with label McCain. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Monday, September 29, 2008
I don't know anything
Nobody knows anything. I've heard the quote attributed to Samuel Goldwyn, but I don't know. I don't know anything.
I don't know how the economy can go straight to hell in a supersonic hand basket and yet the dollar can gain strength against stronger currencies.
I don't know how John McCain can bellow about Obama's lack of leadership when he can't rally his own party to fix his own party's disaster and I don't know how he can mock Obama for being aloof regarding the deliberations when McCain continued his campaign after his "putting it on hold" play to the grandstand, and he and Lieberman went out to dinner at an expensive restaurant while it was going on.
I don't know why it's a good thing to be a maverick who can't get along with his party or the other one when leadership is required and I don't know why it isn't a bad thing when a senator or congressman votes against the wishes of over 80% of his constituents.
I don't even know why McCain, who despite his hyperbloviations has reversed 26 years of experience in backing this bailout, can blame Obama for being more fiscally conservative and a big spender at the same time. I don't know why McCain bellows about lowering taxes when the Democrats' tax plan lowers them for more people and I don't know why his party doesn't simply fall down and die of shame after telling us we need an immediate, no questions asked bailout only days after insisting that the economy was sound and debt didn't matter and in fact we needed more of it. I don't know how leadership consists only of blaming others while weaseling out of responsibility for having been part of the collapse that I and many others predicted would come of borrow and spend economics. I don't know how leadership involves lying repeatedly, consistently and thoroughly and I don't know how one gets points for snickering and grimacing in a debate.
I don't know why this flyblown, disease ridden, dishonest old crank has more than a dozen supporters, but he does. I don't know anything and that's an understatement.
Cross posted from Human Voices
I don't know how the economy can go straight to hell in a supersonic hand basket and yet the dollar can gain strength against stronger currencies.
I don't know how John McCain can bellow about Obama's lack of leadership when he can't rally his own party to fix his own party's disaster and I don't know how he can mock Obama for being aloof regarding the deliberations when McCain continued his campaign after his "putting it on hold" play to the grandstand, and he and Lieberman went out to dinner at an expensive restaurant while it was going on.
I don't know why it's a good thing to be a maverick who can't get along with his party or the other one when leadership is required and I don't know why it isn't a bad thing when a senator or congressman votes against the wishes of over 80% of his constituents.
I don't even know why McCain, who despite his hyperbloviations has reversed 26 years of experience in backing this bailout, can blame Obama for being more fiscally conservative and a big spender at the same time. I don't know why McCain bellows about lowering taxes when the Democrats' tax plan lowers them for more people and I don't know why his party doesn't simply fall down and die of shame after telling us we need an immediate, no questions asked bailout only days after insisting that the economy was sound and debt didn't matter and in fact we needed more of it. I don't know how leadership consists only of blaming others while weaseling out of responsibility for having been part of the collapse that I and many others predicted would come of borrow and spend economics. I don't know how leadership involves lying repeatedly, consistently and thoroughly and I don't know how one gets points for snickering and grimacing in a debate.
I don't know why this flyblown, disease ridden, dishonest old crank has more than a dozen supporters, but he does. I don't know anything and that's an understatement.
Cross posted from Human Voices
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
I feel pretty
Remember when they raised holy hell about Bill Clinton's $200 haircut? Then there was Edwards' $400 do and all the snide jokes about how that made any concern for working people moot. Then of course, came Mitt Romney with his $2000 hair.
This stuff matters. Nixon's loss to Kennedy was in part attributed to his 5 O'clock shadow and greenish complexion. Reagan wouldn't go on camera without makeup, whether it was the movie camera or the news camera. But any question as to extravagant concerns with looking good have to take into account John McCain's $5,500 face.
Hey, he's 72 and has facial scars and his fishbelly white skin is the result of avoiding the sun as assiduously as Count Dracula because of his history of Melanoma. He's got a lot to cover up and I'm not just talking about his past statements and his past associations.
Don't get me wrong - it's his face and his money - and with a hundred million dollar wife who gets the tax breaks that hundred million dollar folks do, it's chump change. If there's any significance in any of this, it's only to point out the hilarity of the "elitist Obama" charade. Crew cut Barak strikes me as more of the neighborhood barber shop kind of guy - and of course he has far less to hide.
This stuff matters. Nixon's loss to Kennedy was in part attributed to his 5 O'clock shadow and greenish complexion. Reagan wouldn't go on camera without makeup, whether it was the movie camera or the news camera. But any question as to extravagant concerns with looking good have to take into account John McCain's $5,500 face.
Hey, he's 72 and has facial scars and his fishbelly white skin is the result of avoiding the sun as assiduously as Count Dracula because of his history of Melanoma. He's got a lot to cover up and I'm not just talking about his past statements and his past associations.
Don't get me wrong - it's his face and his money - and with a hundred million dollar wife who gets the tax breaks that hundred million dollar folks do, it's chump change. If there's any significance in any of this, it's only to point out the hilarity of the "elitist Obama" charade. Crew cut Barak strikes me as more of the neighborhood barber shop kind of guy - and of course he has far less to hide.
Spear Chucker
According to Raw Story, Mark Salter, a top McCain aide, told the Wall Street Journal last Friday that the campaign was tired of "catching the spears." That's right, he called Obama a spear-chucker.
The "spears" of course were allegations of McCain's unsavory connections with unsavory people, enough of which are sufficiently beyond question that the McCain campaign needs to invoke the victim image again in order to distract from the lobbyist crew that run the McCain/Palin Cirque de Sleazy.
The plan is to go negative, and this from a campaign Karl Rove thought was too negative already! This from the Swift Boat Party, the party who dragged McCain's baby daughter through the racist mud: the party that regularly paints war heroes as malingerers and familiars of bin Laden.
I really can't wait to see them resurrect the Pastor Wright controversy against the background of Sarah Palin's witch hunting "spiritual" leader. So far they have been rather successful in convincing us that McCain was exonerated in the Keating affair (he was censured for bad judgment) and in tap dancing around the information that despite his phony anti-lobbyist rhetoric, his top aides were lobbyists for Burma, various African dictators, oil tyrants and child enslavers, but the Clean John image is too flimsy to hold up for long.
I have a feeling that the mud slinging will backfire with all but his most psychotic admirers, but for connoisseurs of hypocrisy it's going to be quite a show anyway.
Cross posted from Human Voices
The "spears" of course were allegations of McCain's unsavory connections with unsavory people, enough of which are sufficiently beyond question that the McCain campaign needs to invoke the victim image again in order to distract from the lobbyist crew that run the McCain/Palin Cirque de Sleazy.
The plan is to go negative, and this from a campaign Karl Rove thought was too negative already! This from the Swift Boat Party, the party who dragged McCain's baby daughter through the racist mud: the party that regularly paints war heroes as malingerers and familiars of bin Laden.
I really can't wait to see them resurrect the Pastor Wright controversy against the background of Sarah Palin's witch hunting "spiritual" leader. So far they have been rather successful in convincing us that McCain was exonerated in the Keating affair (he was censured for bad judgment) and in tap dancing around the information that despite his phony anti-lobbyist rhetoric, his top aides were lobbyists for Burma, various African dictators, oil tyrants and child enslavers, but the Clean John image is too flimsy to hold up for long.
I have a feeling that the mud slinging will backfire with all but his most psychotic admirers, but for connoisseurs of hypocrisy it's going to be quite a show anyway.
Cross posted from Human Voices
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