The Democratic National Committee knows how to use it's political dough. With about $4.4 million in the bank – compared to the rival Republicans' $40 million – the DNC has focussed its campaign energies on short, savvy video shots at John McCain. The party previously took on McCain's wild claim that we Americans are better off than we were four years ago. They also created a commercial criticizing the infamous "100 more years in Iraq" remarks. That very comment makes its way into the DNC's latest advertorial endeavor: an attack on McCain's flippant Iraq-related comment on yesterday's Today Show:
…Mr. McCain was asked whether, if the troop escalation he had long advocated in Iraq was working, he had “a better estimate of when American forces can come home.â€
“No, but that’s not too important,†Mr. McCain replied. He then went on to say, as he has many times, that the most important goal is reducing casualties in Iraq, and that American troops were still in South Korea, Japan and Germany without any fear of harm.
“We will be able to withdraw,†he said. “But the key to it is that we don’t want any more Americans in harm’s way.â€
The Democrats have obviously seized on this gaffe, with Obama staffer Susan Davis saying McCain's remarks suggest a “real confusion and lack of understanding of the situation in Iraq." Davis also said that McCain has show a “reflective of a pattern of lack of understanding and lack of strategic depth." Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid echoed that statement, saying "[The comment is] a crystal clear indicator that he just doesn’t get the grave national security consequences of staying the course."
Senator Joe Biden also had some tough words: "Sen. McCain's comment is evidence that he is totally out of touch with the needs of our troops and the national security needs of our nation. I think many of our brave soldiers and their families would disagree that it's 'not too important' when they come home."
McCain's supporters, including "Independent Democrat" Joe Lieberman, came to his defense, and specifically took issue with the Democrats' language. From Lieberman, "I'm disappointed by these reflexive attacks… The part that I find really most outrageous is the suggestion that he's out of touch with the needs of our troops and insensitive to their families." ABC News also featured a report questioning wondering if the Democrats are collectively ganging up on McCain's age, which has been a sore spot during this campaign. Democrats and the Obama campaign deny these claims, of course.
While surely ageism – real or imagined – should have no place in this campaign, we have to say that McCain does seem a bit loopy, with maybe a bit of Ronald Reagan…
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It's pretty clear that John McCain is being groomed by the government/corporate media to be the next president of the United States.
Obviously, this is bad news.
The man is half-deranged and can't even get his lies straight. He's worse than what most of us hoped would be the worst president of the last 100 years.
Why do the controllers want this guy?
Because he will be easy to manage.
He'll be their guy.
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John McCain is reiterating the same stale crap that would be the only thing that even a diseased chicken would have to cluck if he was a republican regardless of it being in the wake of the worst endangerment to our government in history.
That he would even start to brag that the U.S. is the biggest militaristic state in history since Hitler, Rome or the Ottomans (put together) is just part and parcel of the insanity that Bush etc have been pushing.
That we are in good shape will take a lot of convincing except to the Dum Fuks in Billionaire paradise. Anyone notice that now Forbes cut out the multimillionaires from their "richest" 400 you have to be a multi billionaire.
The old cunt is just too dwiddled to know that he sounds like an idiot. Think it's hard for the repiggies to get 40mill for him?
Lets hope Americans aren't nearly as dense as he is; if they are manybe it's best that all the
blodshedc we've sponsored blows back where it came from and saves the rest of the world.
If I wanted pro-Obama issues I would watch or visit MSNBC.
Keep to issues about gays.
Queerty sucks on politics.
Tim, if you think McCain in the White House won't be an issue for gay people you got another thing coming. :D
Vertical thinking is what has gotten this country including gay people into the barrel of shit in which we find ourselves, now. McCain is a candidate who is more than a pro-war candidate. He is also opposed to gay equality, supports the borrow and spend policies that cause so much deep harm, opposes a woman's reproductive rights, and utterly lacks any ideas for long term energy policy.
During the next presidential term, the chances are high that at least one Supreme Court justice will be replaced. Unless we are lucky enough to lose Antonin Scalia, the reactionary minority of four will become a majority of five under McCain. I guarantee that if that happens, some state, probably in the South, will try to impose some sort of sodomy law. A reactionary majority would be only too happy to overturn the precedent which struck down such laws.
If McCain is elected, DADT will not be repealed and might even be strengthened. Anti-choice forces will seek to reverse the precedent of Roe v. Wade. The country will continue careening towards actual bankruptcy (called default when done by nations). Oil will quite likely pass $250 per barrel, which is about the only policy McCain has.
So unless those of you who don't want to hear anything except specifically gay comments live in a vacuum or on a deserted island, it very much matters that we think about the web of connections that make up a society. If you can deceive yourselves that one can be a Republican and a free gay person with the same rights enjoyed by our heterosexual fellow citizens, then go for it.
I imagine one could probably find a few Jews who voted for the National Socialist Party in the early 1930s in Germany because they thought they could separate being German from being Jews. I doubt one could find any Jews who voted for the Nazis still living after the war. The Republicans are not our friends, and they have not demonstrated an ability to govern responsibility.