Posted on 07/18/2008 4:33:59 AM PDT by Past Your Eyes
I was just watching the news for a few minutes. First spoke algore about how we need to have all non-carbon electricity in 10 years. Then spoke Pelosi saying predictable things.
But the next thing I saw is what causes my gorge to rise and I had to grab the remote before I became physically ill. It was McCain saying these words: "I have long admired the Vice President's work in the area of....."
Is he trying to make people who already have misgivings aplenty about him either stay home or vote for somebody else? Does he really believe what he is saying or is he just pandering like he does on other subjects? Does he have any idea just how frustrated people are and how precarious a position he has put people like me into? I'm sorry, but I am just becoming more discouraged by the day about the prospects for this country, even if the election turns out as I would like it to. For the first time since my first presidential election vote in 1968, I may well not vote for the Republican candidate.
What’s your problem with what McCain said about admiring the Veep? You have issues, man.
Same here. Won’t hit the ON button. Many years since I watched those idiots and their propaganda.
My wife watches in the mornings in the bedroom while I’m doing my FR thing in the Den. I can hear her yelling bad things at the newsreaders, but she still watches them.
McCain was talking lovingly about Vice President Al Gore not Dick Cheney.
Not such a big surprise as McCain is giant Rhino.
Ack! That should have been made clear in the opening post. I thought he was talking about Cheney.
“Maybe leaving the TV off would help. “
I haven’t had the TV on in months.
IMO, listening to radio and reading news allows you to get right to the information without the usual distractions.
I’d like to apologize now to all the starving children in Appalachia and my soon-to-be outside looking in Republican friends for staying home on 04-NOV. I’ll be too busy stocking up on MRE’s, and propane for the generator. (:^o)
Maybe if he had followed those words with “but he is dead wrong on this issue”. Is that what he said next? No? I didn’t think so.
You’re darn right I’ve got “issues”.
Personally, I almost barfed yesterday at Gore's ideas. The guy has no clue of the impact of what he's suggesting will have on our economic system. What possible good does it do for us to increase our costs across the board when Eastern Europe and China totally disregard the pollution they throw into the air everyday. Gore's concept will be about as effective as a No Peeing Zone in a public swimming pool.
McCain needs to get off the Tree Hugger express and realize that the GOP is supposed to support business, not work against it. If McCain doesn't shape up on such issues, he's cutting himself off at the knees.
What’s a “teevee”?
Sorry. I was directly quoting McCain. Guess I should have given you a parenthetical (algore) to make sure I was understood.
i hope you don't see me walking around in my "Bush/Cheney '04" t-shirt.
Obama is terrifying, warm and smiling Marxism and rice patties. But I can NOT vote for McCain, he is too much like Hillary, still liberal, unless McCain ran as a democrat and Obama or Hillary as a republican.
but you know politics is a bunch of double-talk and mccain has no love for that thing (i hope).
McCain has an excuse, he’s just plain not too bright. What bothers me is the fact that his advisors and campaign manager don’t tell him to shut up with the gorebull warming nonsense.
I fully understand your anger.
His algore comments are mindboggling.
Here’s what I think is going on.
He drank from the “climate change” koolaid awhile back. So that part isn’t new. It was bad enough, but it hadn’t publicly translated into praise of the dreaded algore beast - until now.
He either truly means it, or he’s praising him in search for those “middle of the road” voters he’s always seeking. I tend to think the latter is more the truth, but I can’t get inside his brain. (What brain?)
McCain reminds me of an older person who finally gets into the new tehnology after all these years, but after throwing away the ancient Sears TV, buys one that’s being closed out because it won’t broadcast in digital.
Thinking hey, I’m up with the times now...
When he’s simply stuck anew, now in the more recent past instead of the long past...
What is at stake in 2008 is bigger by far than this issue, as big as the issue is.
Either McCain or Obama will be President, and Mcs veep will be hugely important in the future years.
Thinking on all those things, only YOU can decide what everything turns on for YOU and your beloved AMERICA, FReeper friend.
I understand how you feel. When’s the last time you heard Pelosi, Reid or Gore say how much they admired the President’s work? If I recall correctly, Pelosi just called Bush a total failure.
It makes me sick to my stomach how we’re so quick to pander to the libs yet they never return the favor. It makes us look weak and foolish.
Why do we do it?
That's it. That must be it. What else could it be?
McCain is an idiot. His beloved drive by media used to tickle behind his ear as they would with any dog who obeys most of their commands, but now McCain is dismayed because the drive by media is in the tank for Obama and it must hurt him.
McCain has shown by McCain/Feingold that he doesn't understand freedom of speech and he has shown by McCain/Lieberman (next will be McCain/Trotsky?) that he doesn't understand science.
If I had meant Cheney rather than gore, that would have been a non-sequitor since I never mentioned Cheney but had mentioned algore. Great minds don’t always run in the same channels.
I am livid. If I get the chance to cross McCain in public in a Q-A town hall meeting, I will cut him to pieces with facts.
I have been a solid Republican for 30 years. If McCain heads my party I will have to leave it. I am still hoping this brain dead moron drops out for any number of reasons.
You did fine.
Sentence one sets Al Gore up as the subject under discussion in your post quite well and it is clear that he is the VP McCain refers to.
"First spoke algore about how we need to have all non-carbon electricity in 10 years."
"...the next thing I saw is what causes my gorge to rise..."
"It was McCain saying these words: "I have long admired the Vice President's work in the area of....."
Got rid of my teevee a short time ago. Still going through withdrawal, but feel much the better for its absence...
“he’s just plain not too bright”
I’ve come to that conclusion myself. The man is only slightly smarter than some of my cows.
He’s gotten ahead by connections, duplicity, and his “friends” in the media.
when someone says "the giant's quarterback" i think of eli manning even though i grew up with phil simms. BOTH of whom are superbowl MVP's, though!
I agree. Usually the tv readers are reading only the heatlines, nothing else.
Should McCain drop out....who will step into the void? nobama will walk into the whitehouse.
You must have some very dumb cows. At least I would bet that they are honest and stable minded. Some of my best friends have been bovine. I might cast a write in vote for Else as our first female President.
Pelosi is trying to make things worse inthe country at this
time trying to get Obama elected.She is total scum!
Someone forwarded this email to me. Apologizes if you have seen it:
An email from Ireland to their brethren in the States...a point to ponder despite your political affiliation:
We, in Ireland, can’t figure out why people are even bothering to hold an election in the United States.
On one side, you had a pants-wearing lawyer, married to a lawyer who can’t keep his pants on, who just lost a long and heated primary against another lawyer who goes to the wrong church and who is married to yet another lawyer who doesn’t even like the country her husband wants to run.
On the other side, you have a nice old war hero whose name starts with ‘Mc’, and who’s married to a good looking younger woman who owns a beer distributorship.
What in the Lord’s name are you lads thinking over there in the colonies??
I have felt exactly as you feel. I guess we’re supposed to just sit here and take it and overlook all the humilitation as layer upon layer of indignity is heaped on us.
I believe I will go into the clothespin bidness because the demand for them is going to be huge come November. I want to be able to vote with both hands so a clothespin may be the best answer.
Semper Fi from a fortyoneeleven Jarhead and a 13bravo artilleryman.
Turner Classic Movie Channel. It’s what I watch about 90% of the time. I can’t stand to watch ANY of the news channels anymore.
McCain is not going to change - you just can’t teach an old dog new tricks. Anyone that thinks he’s going to see the light between now & election time is just fooling themselves. If the Republicans want to win, they had better get rid of McCain however they can. My gosh, this is the year that almost anyone could have beat their candidate Obama - but we have McCain! If this is the best the party can do, they surely deserve to lose. Anyone this stupid is not fit to be President. Don’t give me any junk about “he’s better than Obama”. Not so sure about that, he will drive the party & the conservatives into the ground. Better get rid of him while it’s still a possibility.
I’m just trying to get into a “bunker down” mode myself. The next four years are going to be horrible no matter what.
McCain is just an honorable but foolish old man. He is not “trying” to do anything other than what he thinks will help him get elected. Obama is far worse. Obama is actually “trying” to do something which is drastically change the order and priorities of our nation.
Have some compassion on McCain (and your country). Vote for him. McCain will probably lose anyway. When Obama leaves our nation weakened and handicapped for generations to come, you will not look back and wonder whether you could have done more to prevent it.
I completely agree that global warming is a bunch of highly dubious conjectures, and to act on it in the ways being pushed will be highly injurious to our economy. McCain and Obama disagree with you and me. Theoretically, either of them could be eliminated, but the odds are one of them will be President. Given that, I place my hope on a scenario where McCain becomes president and wakes up from his folly when he begins to see the costs to our country. I think that is more likely to happen than that Obama wakes up and changes course. Therefore, I will vote for McCain even though I disagree with him on global warming (and several other things).
He’s avoiding giving the media an arrow with which to shoot him in the back by making him look like a mean and nasty old man.
He’s being politically adept, you should know that.
Hillary
Obama
Kerry
Kennedy
Algore
Lieberman
Hagel
Schwarzenegger
Romney
Graham
Dick Cheney - not so much...
Quit projecting. He's showing his true colors as a liberal. McCain has been openly acting this way for decades. Political adeptness has nothing to do with it. McCain is liberal to the core.
I happened onto the Fox live link at McCain’s town hall meeting at GM. I’m no big fan, but I have to say I’m impressed at his taking on all comers with regard to any questions (economy, drilling, Iraq, etc.). He’ll take a question from the audience, answer it and turn back to the person asking and ask if they have a follow-up! So even if I disagree with some of his positions, I have to hand it to him for engaging in a back and forth dialog with voters, some not so friendly. He’d wipe Obama’s butt if they were together so its no wonder Obama doesn’t want any part of it.
http://foxnews-stream1.wm.llnwd.net/foxnews_stream1
Note that, per press reports, McCain was NOT talking about our current VP, but former VP Al Gore and his climate change scam.
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You mean, you are like the bride who marries an abusive wife-beating alcoholic, who has beaten her unconscious at least once a week during the engagement, but still marries him in hopes he will change and become a kind and loving husband later?
There is mental help available for your psychosis.
Ping
I agree.
Obama's candidacy gives republicans a chance to win the election in a year when all the other cards are stacked against them.
But the republican party never misses a chance to miss a chance so they will nominate one of the few people in the western world that Obama can defeat handily.
Ideally, party leaders would convince Mr. McEgo to step down for the better good - to have a medical crisis or something similar to save face.
But there is little chance of that from a party that can no longer even agree that it is a good thing to enforce our laws.
I see very little difference between an Obama or McCain presidency.
The biggest difference is that if McCain proposed some leftist scheme like Shamnesty or Cap and Trade republicans would follow him like sheep because he is republican whereas a few of them might still have the backbone and honor to fight the democrat, Obama, making the same proposals.
“Is he trying to make people who already have misgivings aplenty about him either stay home or vote for somebody else?”
If he actually WAS trying to throw the election, I fail to see HOW he would be doing it any differently.
I’m sure he will think of other, more creative ways to do it, given enough time.
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