A Note on John McCain
September 24th, 2008 by Evil BeetI know there’s been a lot of posts on this website lately that seem to be poking fun of the McCain/Palin campaign. I know some people have a problem with it. And I know some people think I should come out and say where I stand on this election.
This is not a partisan website, nor is it on its way to becoming a partisan website.
I’ve been talking about John McCain and Sarah Palin frequently because they’re the ones who have been fun to talk about lately. They are the ones who have been making choices and taking actions and giving interviews that are, frankly, amusing and broadly newsworthy, in one way or another. It’s not that Barack Obama hasn’t been doing things this month, it’s just that he hasn’t been doing very interesting things. He hasn’t been newsworthy.
And I find that fascinating.
Six months ago, we all figured that Barack Obama would be the interesting candidate right now. That his campaign would be exciting. That we’d be hearing his words and his ideas and incessantly discussing his actions here, a month before the election. We thought, if nothing else, that Barack Obama would have the buzz. That there was no way an old white dude with zero skill as an orator could run a campaign anywhere near as enthralling — as attention-grabbing — as Barack Obama.
We figured wrong.
We, as a nation, have been talking entirely about the John McCain campaign for the past month, and all signs indicate that we’ll be talking entirely about the John McCain campaign in the next month.
Take a step back and think about it.
How the fuck did he pull that shit off?
It’s been brilliant. Phenomenal. And if what you’re looking for is a leader with the experience, the team and the finesse to think outside the box and execute risky choices that tilt the axis of history in unexpected ways … well, folks, that’s exactly what John McCain is doing right now.
I’m just saying.
For the sake of non-partisanship, here’s a video of Sarah Palin making an ass of herself for Katie Couric. And if John McCain dies while in office, this creature becomes the most powerful human being on the planet. I’m just saying.
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haha she has a point.
re; moxygirl
hey now! i’m just an innocent bystander masturbating to a stupendous bitch fight. leave me out of it, would you?
LMAO
See, there you go again with all your charm and suave ways
All of our votes count. That includes people who’s views are based solely on sound bites and talking points and vague notions of “what’s right”.
guys, we have to admit sarah palin did very poorly in this interview and has obviously been warned that they will kill her if she says one word that she’s not programmed to say. here’s the deal; women, in general, are honest. men, on the other hand, are raised to be deceitful and manipulative, primarily based on evolution and the need to figure out what needs to be said to have the opportunity to impregnate you and keep our genetic code alive. so, when she doesn’t know an answer, she’s punished for not making one up. with time, women can learn to be manipulative and deceitful and even murderous (google the name hillary clinton). so, she’s a bush leaguer in a major league world right now. so is obama. we’ve got two relative novices that we’ll soon have to choose between to run what’s left of our country. happy voting.
keightlynn & mallory
You have every right the voice your opinion, just like everyone else here. But posting something along the lines of “And those that do not like that will have to just get the fuck over it. bitches.” really doesn’t show any signs of being mature.
Just educate yourself on what you are talking about and form your opinions on actual facts and research. Politics isn’t like watching a movie trailer and deciding on that little snippet of information on whether or not you like it.
Let’s STOP focusing on PAlin and McCain and renew the buzz about Obama. This IS an attempt to steal the spotlight from Obama and it seems to be working as long as media outlets report obsessively on them. I ask everyone on the Obama side to take a moment and visualize Obama winning. If we continue to focus on Palin and McCAin we are only feeding the fire of their idiotic campaign.
ok and havin a name like “kittenpause” is so awesomely mature. ha!
Sorry to bore you, Mallory. I wish I had as deft wit as yours to keep you interested.
Keightlynn, I am also at poverty level. While I don’t have children, I am struggling to keep myself afloat especially considering that I work for a non profit and therefore do not make a great deal of money (although the benefits aren’t bad). So, I udnerstand your concerns. If you actually look at Obama’s plans for taxes, he will actually lower taxes for folks like us. The only folks he plans to raise taxes for (and this might change now due to whatever the economic resuce package is) are those top 2% wealthy folks. And he would only be taking them back to the taxes they paid under the Reagan. He would also tax big corporations who outsource jobs, and the big oil companies. He actually would also like to give us more stimulus packages. His goal is really to strengthen the middle class- and I agree %100. This information is all available on the internet and on Obama’s website.
I understand that it is scary to have an outsider come in to Washington, but I really do have gfaith in the extraordinary mind of Barack Obama and the great team he will surround himself with. McCain has really offered no solutions and no answers. The only time he ever offered a solution was to say that we should have a committee look at this. His top economic advisor said the economic crisis was in our heads, and that we were a nation of whiners. McCain has more experience in Washington, but he has more experience just being flat out wrong. And he surrounds himself with some bad people. Us losing our homes and jobs does not make us whiners. F you, Phil Gramm.
Anyway, I really can’t argue with your conservative ideals. You and I are just really on the opposite sides of the fence here. I believe in women’s rights (and that includes being staunchly pro-choice), gay marriage (or civil union whichever just gets folks equality under the law- I don’t mess with churches), and pro social programs set up to help those who society has left behind. We just have to agree to disagree on that stuff. Like I said, I don’t mess with churches and I wont mess with your personal values (I do mess with these things when personal or religious values are mixed with government- such as anti-choice or anti-equality laws).
re; dinosaurs
good job. i should be more sensitive, compassionate, and polite like you instead of a fucking jerk when i write. i’ll try to work on it.
Holy shit a somewhat compliment from censorthis. I’ve made a new life-changing decision. Aim my life (and thus posts in this comments) to make censorthis happy. Life quest!!
And as for my name being ironic, isn’t that the trend you’re trying to set censor?
Also: 700 billion dollars?
Why does that number sound awfully awfully familiar?
Seriously Mallory, that’s all you’ve got, making fun of a screen name??
@ Moxygirl,
That psychic shit’s amazing…. do me next! Do you need an old sock or a used Q-tip or something?
@ KekeLynn,
If you keep walking into the monkey cage you’re gonna get shit thrown on you. Words of wisdom for your new baby.
@ Mallory,
How U Doin?
@ Dinosaur
Stop cut’n & past’n from the New Testament. When I finished reading your shit I had to look at a calendar.
Censorthis- don’t change too much! You are the comic relief around here!
yup honey… if all ur boring old ass has to do is talk about me being immature. then why not live up to ur standards.mmkay? wouldn’t want to disappoint u
@ Dinosaurs
I understand what you are trying to say, but I still do not believe raising taxes solve problems, and I also think taxes should be the same across the board, whether you are wealthy or poor.
But in the end, it all comes down to morals to me, and as you said, we completely disagree here.
ACTUALLY she’ll become most powerful human being IN THE USA because the USA does not = the whole planet. I’m just saying.
Incredible piece on Sarah Palin, written by Tim Sampson for The Memphis Flyer:
http://www.memphisflyer.com/memphis/Content?oid=oid%3A49429&cb=517026fef0adf0f4289c33ad22450cd7#comments
o TSS how I have longed to hear from you this morning! Why did I marry for money instead of love? If I could go back in time it’d be you my dearest…got fucked on the whole money part anyhow
TSS
I KNOW! My abilities are freaky, aren’t they?? Haven’t you already been profiled by the FBI? I’d hate to be redundant…
Ok, now that we’re talking politics here, can someone tell me one thing that Obama has accomplished in his short time as a Senator; other than setting a record for NOT VOTING. ( voted “present”, not “yes”, “no” or “abstain” more than anyone else, ever). He is well spoken though, I’m just saying.
O Mal, I don’t even know how to respond to that. It doesn’t make any sense. Oh well, guess you got me there.
Anyone who thinks you need to come out and say where you stand on this election has not been reading your posts.
Yeah, there’s a real “buzz” about the McCain campaign. The buzz is: he’s desperate, he’s impulsive, his judgement is questionable, and he totally does not want Palin to have to stand up against Joe Biden in a debate. The new buzz this AM: McCain does not look well.
Oh my God! She is dumber than Bush. Heaven help us if they win.
How ironic that Barack was accused of being a “celebrity” when the McCain campaign has become completely “celebrity.” What a hypocrite!
re; dinosaurs
holy shit, i just read this part of your post: (And when Hillary is in the Supreme Court, we’re even better!)
based on this sentence alone, i’ve decided you are (multiple choice. more than one answer can apply):
1. an alien that was sent to earth to wreak havoc
2. one of those people that have to be rescued by firemen by tearing down the wall of the house because you weigh 1,500 pounds (no, i’m not saying you’re oprah)
3. the serial murderer, hillary clinton herself
4. sherry lewis’s puppet, lambchop, typing with her dead masters ghost hand
5. a ball busting lesbian
6. the chick that designs those godawful yellow pantsuits
7. a transgender that covets one of those godawful yellow pantsuits
8. beets emasculated puppy after secretly learning beets keyboard while she’s out tanning or lunching with male models or whatever the fuck she does in her fantasy world
9. that iranian chick with the big nose hillary ties to the bedpost
10. a vampire that has lived 250 years and specifically feeds on democrats and fools alike
11. the rat feces i just found in my cabinet
12. just a plain old poo poo head
13. my sisters butch high school gym coach that married my sister
14. sad, just plain sad
People may be talking about her still, but it’s definitely not the same type of talk and excitement that surrounded her when she was first introduced as his running mate. You can kinda see that by their numbers dropping significantly over the course of just a week. I think women just finally realized that’s she’s not Hillary Clinton and how much of a fucking moron she is… which is exactly what I figured would happen. The McCain camp wants everybody to believe that any negative talk about Palin is sexist but the true sexist act here is them believing that women are too stupid to think for themselves. They believed they’d see a person with a vagina and tits that’s a mom and automatically vote for her despite what she stands for and that’s starting to backfire on them as time goes by.
WOW…you find stupid, non educated things interesting?! I guess you would. I mean this is, after all, a website that caters to that sort of thing. So no you would find a person who talks about the issues only…interesting! Things like “I’ll get back to you on that” when asked about her partner on the ticket. And talk about pigs and hockey moms constitute as news to you. You should feel OUTRAGED by this, not amused! But then again anyone who would come here for politcal news is about as unintelligent as Palins answer. We’re here to see who dating who, and who in a bikini today, or who brought a new house.
Stay in your lane Beet. Leave the politics to those who know what there talking about. I wouldnt go to CNN.com to get Celeb news. That would be a slap in the face to you and other celeb bloggers!
…and thats real talk!
Censorthis:
I think I am somewhere between lambchops with the ghost hand and the alien sent to wreak havoc.
Here, here, Tim!!
And P.S. It took me a long time to come around to Hillary again after she made me want to puke every day in the primaries. I still have my problems, but I do value some of what she’s done and what she stands for. Some.
re; tim
beeeet! you said no downs syndrome babies on this site!
this sight has deteriorated ever since the general election began. truely pathetic
@ Tim
Tim I don’t know if you’re new here an all, but don’t let these sarcastic bitches get to you.
I’m probably the nicest and most serious person in here (excuse me for one sec)….. ok, sorry, and let me tell you that Beet is a highly intelligent, educated and well read woman (excuse me again)….sorry.. capable of discussing multiple topics ranging from political diatribe to Clay’s Gay Baybay.
So ……. in conclusion……what the fuck was I … oh yeah…. be kind to others and don’t eat carbs after seven n shit.
Good day sir!
McCain/Palin. When you’ve tried suicide and failed, here’s the alternative. Trust.
McCain/Palin. When suicide isn’t enough.
TSS, you’re almost as funny as Beet. Love to hear it when you and censorthis weigh in!
Interesting, how “A Note on Mcrum” ends in yet another Sarah Palin— “oh my god this woman got picked?!.” In the very very near future I expect one of the headlines like “Your Daily Paris” or “A Note on Leo” to end in: Sarah Palin. At least, I will know now that it doesn’t mean that the Evil Beet is thinking of pulling a samLo on her readers and moving to Alaska to raise little beets– thanks to a surrogate father– Clay Aiken, with evil Sarah Palin. I know where you stand now without knowing where you stand….. You are a regular Maverick, Beet. Oh, and I agree with your insight on this Phenomenon. Yet, I personally always thought Obama’s “charisma” just hid a cardboard conservative private personality. Let’s call this the Michael Phelps syndrome. Fantastic when he’s in his element and awkward out it. Obama’s great in front of a stadium (reading off a teleprompter–ok just pulling legs here) and awkward off his soap box. I often wonder if it was the pick of Biden or the pick of Palin that aged him and made him so—-boring. I was sort of also disappointed that for someone who staked his claim to the race on “the less time you spend in Washington the better” and f-ck “conventional Washington wisdom,” he would have found a more reform oriented experienced energized face–not that Washington dinosaur–Biden.
*didn’t find
Seriously stop saying “I”m just saying.” We get that your saying it because you’re typing it. It’s annoying as hell.
> How the fuck did he pull that shit off?
Very simple. Conservative corporate run media.
COURIC: Why isn’t it better, Governor Palin, to spend $700 billion helping middle-class families who are struggling with health care, housing, gas and groceries? Allow them to spend more, and put more money into the economy, instead of helping these big financial institutions that played a role in creating this mess?
PALIN: That’s why I say I, like every American I’m speaking with, we’re ill about this position that we have been put in. Where it is the taxpayers looking to bail out. But ultimately, what the bailout does is help those who are concerned about the health care reform that is needed to help shore up our economy. Um, helping, oh, it’s got to be about job creation, too. Shoring up our economy, and putting it back on the right track. So health care reform and reducing taxes and reining in spending has got to accompany tax reductions, and tax relief for Americans, and trade — we have got to see trade as opportunity, not as, uh, competitive, um, scary thing, but one in five jobs created in the trade sector today. We’ve got to look at that as more opportunity. All of those things under the umbrella of job creation.
Can somebody unpack this answer for me? I’m used to full sentences.
keightlynn-
“Lets deal with the issues here at home first before we go on helping some kid on the other side of the world with money we pull of our asses, or tax the crap of out the people for.”
because you have no idea that our taxes pretty much all go to the war in iraq but…..ya know lets remember that is not a issue at alllllllll at home. why dont you think america has money? do you know how much money it takes to have a war? you obv have no idea what your talking about and im not saying i do but its common sence..
Am at annoyed at hearing her voice!
re; iiirene
well, sence you made such a good point and sence you did that cool thing with the word ‘all’ and sence you did that other cool but lazy thing with obvious and shortened it to ‘obv’ we’ve met in a top secret regular beet poster club meeting and have decided to give you a break and only amputate your right hand using this old rusty jagged spoon that was left in my garbage disposal. it’s ok. you’ll eventually learn to type with your left hand when not cleaning up the brain matter that is obv spilling from your ears.
re; jelena
shit beet, get in here!! the retards have gotten past the guard dogs and security and have obv taken over your command center keyboards and are posting again. stat!
Despite the howling ignorance of blind liberals, the U.S. is and has always been a Christian nation. McCain will win.
What is the core principal of Liberalism anyway? Asides from ‘rob your neighbor’?
Where did you find our secret handbook, AlmostChosen?
We also think women shouldn’t have a choice about their reproductive and sexual health (we will only teach abstinence in schools because we think pregnant 16 year olds are adorable! Then we don’t have to worry about them going to college and taking up valuable scholarship money), women shouldn’t be paid equal to men (actually ALL minorities have to make less than you, AlmostChosen), women should pay for rape kits when they are victimized (included in the price, however, are tickets to John McCain’s comedy act where he makes all those hilarious rape jokes!), we should always be fighting in preemptive wars spending obscene amounts of money and wasting precious lives (look out Putin, you’re next! I love threatening nations with access to nuclear weapons- makes me feel alive! It’s almost as good as shooting wolves in the back from a low flying plane!), children shouldn’t all have access to healthcare (ESPECIALLY if they are Mexican!), science should just be thrown out completely, we just freaking HATE polar bears, we think global warming is a trick being played on us from those Satanist “scientists”, we think if you live anywhere on a coast you’re just asking for a natural disaster and we wont provide any more help than letting an ex-horse trainer “take the reins” (HAHAHAHA, aren’t funny? Excellent job, Brownie), when gay people kiss each other our marriages are liable to fall apart (it’s especially hard for the marriages of gays who turned straight after being saved by Sarah Palin’s pastor- I think it works like magic after he kills some lady’s pet in Africa), and all of our laws should be based on the Bible (including being arrested if you mix your fabrics. I think that should be punishable by death).
That’s just a taste of some of our howling ignorance.
Oh, wait…
Amen dinosaurs (pun intended)!! :) I too strongly agree with the separation of church and state
The Establishment Clause
The First Amendment “Establishment Clause,” stating that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion,” is generally read to prohibit the Federal government from establishing a national church (”religion”) or excessively involving itself in religion, particularly to the benefit of one religion over another. Following the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution and through the doctrine of incorporation, this restriction is held to be applicable to state governments as well.