McCain admits he hasn't even read the bailout proposal.

[AlCzervik]

MIDDLEBURG HEIGHTS -- Senator John McCain says he has not decided whether or not to support the Wall Street bailout package now being reviewed by Congress.

The price tag is $700 billion, but could run higher.

In an exclusive interview he told Tom Beres,"I have not had a chance to see it in writing. I have to examine it."

it's only 3 pages and even i've read that fucking thing!

[maddezmom]

1. Jeebus

What a fool!!

[AlCzervik]

2. you can't make this shit up!

[maddezmom]

9. he must've left his reading glasses in DC

:D

[AlCzervik]

10. i swear i'm going to need a bag to breath into pretty soon. this is just surreal

i can't even believe this is happening.

[hulklogan]

3. Apparently he has suspended his literacy as well as his campaign. n/t

[crazylikafox]

4. I guess that's why he needs to suspend campaign. Takes him that long to read it.

[AlCzervik]

7. it's in 36 font for crissakes, in reality it will fit on one page!

i know, read it and i've never even been a pow!

[JuniperLea]

5. ROFLMFAO!!!!

So, he's wringing his hands in anticipation of reading it? What a dumbass.

[Avalux]

6. HA HA HA HA HA!! I guess since he can't use a computer -

can't get online and read three fucking pages of nothing like the rest of us!! :rofl:

[Starbucks Anarchist]

8. He can't read anything without the letters "P," "O" and W" in it.

[Aloha Spirit]

11. If this were a boxing match, the referee would be deciding whether to stop the fight right now.

[AlCzervik]

12. seriously, it's just absurd, the whole thing is just insane.

[vaberella]

13. Oh Lord. This man is too much. Send it to KO, HuffPo, and all MSM and bloggers. n/t

[EmperorHasNoClothes]

14. You young whippersnappers and your fancy "writing" and "literacy"

[AlCzervik]

16. you know what is really pathetic? My daughter has a history quiz today and she spent 2 hours

last studying it, it's not even a full on test, it's a quiz!

[abumbyanyothername]

15. My friends

we would have loved to have something like this to read in Hanoi.

[AlCzervik]

18. rofl.

:rofl:

[MadrasT]

17. Wait one damn minute.... it's THREE PAGES LONG.

:wtf:

[AlCzervik]

20. in huge font! it's really more like one page in the real world. And he should be alarmed

it's only 3 pages! It's like a god damn no doc loan.

[Lugnut]

19. Oh brother.

I don't think he's well. Seriously.

[PA Democrat]

21. He wasted more time on his pathetic stunt than it would have taken to READ

the bailout proposal. What a pathetic tool.

[AlCzervik]

22. and he admitted it! Why is he going back to DC when he doesn't even know what the bailout

entails? Is he going to read the shit they try and pork into the bill?

[renate]

23. has he never heard of The Fax?

"I have not had a chance to see it in writing"... Good God, what a loser. Three pages long, about a crisis so huge he wants to cancel a debate for it, and he hasn't "had a chance to see it in writing?"

PATHETIC.

[AlCzervik]

24. how can he even be against it when he hasn't even read it? Every frigging vote

he ever made should be looked into closely, what the hell else couldn't be bothered to read besides the Constitution and this bailout?

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

25. If only somebody would invent a contraption...

for sending information through the ether so that Sen. McCain could read the plan. Why, the Pony Express won't be leaving Jefferson City until sundown and it will take days for it to get here.

[AlCzervik]

26. it's too bad the internet tubes aren't pneumatic, maybe Paulson could have sent him a copy.

[BlooInBloo]

27. ALL 3 FUCKING PAGES??????

You fucking fail McIlliterate.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

28. That's fucking unbelievable - what is it, fifteen minutes worth of reading material?

If that? And McCain says he has to stop the world to go to Washington to debate this bill?

[CitizenPatriot]

29. dear john

we had a nice run, but it's over. I asked you over and over again to be present, but you just didn't care about anything but winning an election. Even I read the 3 page proposal. It took me five minutes tops.

I can see through your actions that you are not committed to this.

I'd like to say it's not you, it's me...but I just can't lie. Unlike you.

I've been cheating on you with another man.

He's awesome and I'm afraid I'm leaving you now.

I hope we can remain friends,


Your country

[Aloha Spirit]

30. Word count = 856.... including titles and subtitles. 856 words.

[The Backlash Cometh]

31. This is so buried on the Greatest Page, no one will see it pop up.

I was able to only because I marked all the threads read, so I could see where the new ones popped up.

[AlCzervik]

32. thanks for the kick, i hate to kick my own threads.

:hi:

[Eric J in MN]

33. Maybe he meant the bill the Senate will vote on...

...which isn't finished yet, rather than the 3 page Treasury proposal.

[AlCzervik]

34. i don't think so and i'm not giving him the benefit of the doubt.

[suffragette]

35. More proof that this move is an orchestrated ploy

to try to make him look like a leader who's different than Bush.

FAIL

We all remember your typical reaction to crisis as illustrated during Katrina, McCain:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/24/mccain-and-katrina-ravage_n_98470.html
John McCain toured still hurricane-damaged areas of New Orleans and declared that if the disaster had happened on his watch, he would have immediately landed his plane at the nearest Air Force base...

...McCain was unsparing in his criticism of the Bush administration. He said Congress must share some of the blame, too.

Drawing a sharp contrast to President Bush, McCain said he would have landed his plane "at the nearest Air Force Base and come over personally."


But on the day Hurricane Katrina actually ravaged New Orleans, Senator McCain wasn't far off from President Bush. In fact, the two were standing right next to each other. Check out the slideshow of the two celebrating McCain's birthday on the tarmac.