McCain considering making acceptance speech from Gulf if Gustav hits

[Joanne98]

by Christian Dem in NC
Sun Aug 31, 2008 at 04:58:41 AM PDT
If you didn't think that John McCain has sold out his integrity before, there's no doubt about it now.

McCain was scheduled to deliver his acceptance speech Thursday but now may do so from the devastation zone if the storm hits the U.S. coast with the ferocity feared by forecasters.

When I saw this blurb in a comment in another diary, I thought, "Not even Republicans could be this shameless." But apparently McCain is. If McCain the Maverick wasn't dead and buried before, he is now.

Christian Dem in NC's diary :: ::
Then again, we shouldn't be too surprised. This is the same party that saw fit to call Congress into special session to pass a law to put a woman's feeding tube back in. And this is the same candidate who conducted no vetting process worth mentioning for his vice-presidential candidate, despite the fact a simple Internet search would have revealed she's ensconced in a scandal.

It tells you something about how far McCain has gone off the rails that he can even consider this and yet say the following with a straight face:

At the start of his remarks at a rally in Washington, Pa., on Saturday night, McCain said: "I would like all of us, obviously, to keep in our thoughts and our prayers the people of the Gulf Coast, especially New Orleans, that are threatened by this terrible natural disaster, the hurricane. They need to know — and I know that they know — that they are in our hearts and prayers as this impending hurricane approaches.

"The great God, that he could spare — at a minimum — the loss that might result from this natural disaster. So my friends, as we enjoy this great rally, we will keep them in our thoughts and our hearts and our prayers."

Let's say it all together as a group--Disasters are not the time for politicking. Ever. If John McCain doesn't know that, he is unfit to be president--and that's real straight talk.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/8/31/7440/74288

[avaistheone1]

1. Will he be serving cake again?

[Kerrytravelers]

7. Perhaps * will bring his guitar.

[avaistheone1]

14. Maybe Poppy & Junior can come by and do a little fishing.

[graywarrior]

2. Bottom feeding whore.

We need to beat his ass in November. Seriously.

[liberalmuse]

8. Thanks for that.

'Cause I'm fucking speechless. :puke:

[graywarrior]

13. I wear that on my tongue day in and day out.

He's pond scum.

[Olney Blue]

3. Coming to a storm shelter near you....

[marylanddem]

4. I just hate his "my friends" salutations.

[FVZA_Colonel]

5. And in the mean time Obama is trying to rally his donors and supporters to send money and materiel.

But I doubt that will be reported in the media's orgiastic race to be the first to show just how much the Repugs care.

[DJ13]

6. I really hope he does that

Theres no way to spin that kind of stunt as anything but a classless effort to use a tragedy for his own gain.

[Thrill]

9. Great. Trying to gain politically at the expense of someone elses misfortunes

[muriel_volestrangler]

10. It'll make him look like a vulture

hovering over a disaster area. Bush can justify going - he represents the country - and if he hadn't made such a disaster out of Katrina, it could even have made him look good to be there instead if the Repub convention (as it is, Bush will look like he's saying "I'll get it right this time, I promise").

McCain may seem more like Thatcher did in the late 80s in Britain, racing the Queen to be the first at the bedside of victims (who may have been there due to the pursuit of profit above safety, as approved of by Thatch herself):

A strange omission from the attacks on Margaret Thatcher published over the past few weeks was her eagerness to appear at the bedsides of disaster victims. Lady Thatcher was something of an innovator in this field: long before Princess Diana announced that where there was suffering, that was where she wanted to be, and the Blairs began emoting in public places, she was touring hospital wards, bringing words of comfort, or being, in the approved style, 'visibly moved'.

As there were many disasters in the 1980s - IRA bombings, the Kings Cross Fire, Zeebrugge, the Clapham and Purley rail crashes, Hillsborough, Lockerbie, the sinking of the Marchioness - her ministrations became such a familiar sight that Private Eye proposed that readers carry a Thatch-Card, stating that in the event of an accident, they were, in no circumstances, to be visited by her.

She was not the most convincing of humanitarians. Instead of hugging, nestling or squatting, eye-to-eye, beside the sufferer of the moment, claiming to feel their pain, Mrs Thatcher preferred to pay tribute to the emergency services, then offer individual patients some bracing, can-do encouragement. After the Clapham crash, for example, she assured one survivor, 'I am sure if the doctors say it will be all right, it will be all right'. Still, Mrs Thatcher spoke from experience. She had survived the Brighton bombing. The jeering which followed her hospital tours may have had less to do with her stiffness, than the feeling that Mrs Thatcher was, as per usual, trespassing on royal territory. It was for the Queen, not this partisan harridan, to lead the country in a united expression of horror or sympathy.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/1999/may/06/features11.g2

[high density]

11. Oh good, they can wheel in a generator for him

Just like they did for Bush! It will be a very fitting display of Bush = McCain.

[Lorien]

12. Oh, I hope that he does

that would be just too despicable for words! :puke:

[Fleshdancer]

15. He'll regret it

Does he really want side by side comparisons of what he was doing when Katrina hit and his blatant pandering after Gustav?

[GrizzlyMan]

16. The problem is, the MSM will heap adulation all over him

They will love it. They will say it looks presidential. They will feed the RW talking points to the sheeple and the sheeple will rejoice.

[justiceischeap]

17. There's no ifs about it, Gustav is going to hit the Gulf coast (eom)

[billyoc]

18. Surrounded by military officers from NORTHCOM, no doubt.

In blatant violation of federal law.

[ObamaKerryDem]

19. Taking shameless self-promotion to an all new level of low..

Unfuckingbelievable.

[BlueStateGirl]

20. Why? It might make sense if were the senator from Louisiana. I think

it makes him look like he is cashing in on a disaster.

[Disturbed]

22. "The great God, that he could spare — at a minimum —

the loss that might result from this natural disaster." McClown

:wtf: does God have to do with this? Will God tamp down this storm?

[BeyondGeography]

21. Dumb, but he's obviously attracted to dumb