To John McCain: You are the SCUMMIEST ASSHOLE IN THE WORLD!!!

[Nimrod2005]

You are a fuckin' low life dumbass, a slimy piece of shit for sure...

[Atman]

1. Well, THIS is an informative post!

:eyes:

[Nimrod2005]

5. Thanks............NT

[peace13]

2. Can we please have a link?

Just kidding no explanation necessary! Peace

[tuvor]

3. That's "fuckin'".

Misspelled profanity is a pet peeve of mine.

[Atman]

4. I think it's German

Fuken Grooven. Used to be a Volkswagen slogan.

[Nimrod2005]

21. Corrected, hope you are happy.

[savemefromdumbya]

6. I totally agree

[Squeech]

7. Depends

There's an awful lot of competition.

I'll give him this, however: McCain certainly is the biggest quisling in the modern political arena. Through his complicity in BFEE torture plans and primsed appearance at Falwell's Bible college, he has definitely mortgaged whatever integrity he might once have possessed for a shot at real power.

[BrklynLiberal]

8. It is difficult to imagine what the BFEE could be holding over him or out

to him that could engender a public display of such disgusting, outrageous, self-loathing, self-destructive, stomach-turning behaviour.

How can he face his wife and child each day?

Perhaps he is actually suffering from some sort of brain deterioration?

[Squeech]

9. He wants the big prize

Apparently he has reasoned that, while "Straight Talk" works as a slogan, the post-Bush Republican party has no particular interest in verifiable facts, just "truthiness." But they do demand that their various interests be served. His task, and that of everybody else who wants the nomination in 2008, is to look good on camera and balance off the demands of the various interest groups-- the corporate wing, the Jesus troopers, and the PNAC power projection weirdos-- without alienating any of them and without insulting anyone who hasn't gotten the memo about loyalty to Bush being obsolete.

There are problems with this, starting with the idea that there may not be an actual United States to be President of by 2008-- the tipping point of unsustainable corruption may have already passed, and by 2008 the country may reconfigure itself as "Republic of Gilead."

[BrklynLiberal]

10. There is this sickening corner of my stomach that is afraid you may be

right. :cry:

There are problems with this, starting with the idea that there may not be an actual United States to be President of by 2008-- the tipping point of unsustainable corruption may have already passed, and by 2008 the country may reconfigure itself as "Republic of Gilead."

And of course, there is that horrific feeling that the BFEE would not leave the White House even if they actually allow elections in 2008.

[Squeech]

13. Yeah, that too.

Even though I don't think that the Repukes would nominate somebody so criminally incompetent next time around, or continue to embrace every obviously unworkable policy detail, the main qualification for their 2008 presidential nominee would be a credible promise not to investigate any of the crimes of the present bunch. (That's what I really meant about the balancing act. Gilead is a worst-case assumption-- starting with, if you remember the book, economic collapse including bank failures.)

But the real question is whether the corporatists and the Jeezocrats can continue to work together by 2008-- whether their interests won't terminally diverge by then. (Depending of course who really calls the shots in the Christian right: the pecksniffs who want to police everybody's behavior would not be happy with an economic collapse that would leave middle-class whites as destitute as the sons of Ham and the other designated underclasses, whereas the dominionists would probably welcome it as a sign of the end times.)

My big problem is trying to figure out what the actual power elite really wants, and it seems to be some sort of corporate feudalism, where "wage slavery" would be an exact description of the terms of employment, and anyone unwilling to work under those conditions is "free" to starve. This would seem to me to be unacceptable to a true Christian, who might remember the Sermon on the Mount-- but part of the secret of the modern Jeezocrats has been a successful suppression of practically everything Jesus actually said.

[Virginia Dare]

20. If I hear another Democrat say, yeah but he's got integrity...

I'm going to go postal. The man has NO INTEGRITY people. Rove trashed not only him, but trashed his family as well, with a bunch lies that made the swiftboat fiasco look like amateur hour.

Yet here he is with his lips firmly implanted on Shrubby's ass.

He's one of the biggest hacks in Washington, bar none.

[LSK]

11. i saw he was on Meet the Presswhore yesterday

What did he say? I didnt watch.

[myrna minx]

14. "Straight Talkin'" McCain did a 180 on everything he

ever stood for. Any principle that he ever had has long since vanished. His tap dancing on MTP yesterday was truly jaw dropping. He wants it all ways. In 2000 he was concerned about the fundies taking over the party, now he is to give a speech at Liberty Collage. Falwell is a stand up guy in his book. His thoughts about the tax cuts have done a 180. We was opposed to the tax cuts at first, but now that they have gone into effect, he won't vote to "raise taxes." His appearance was really illuminating. Really, McCain stands for nothing other than his own ambition. His rationalizations for his total reverse course were totally delusional. He even threw in a reference to Armageddon, just in case the fundies didn't find him to be totally "on board." It was totally sickening.

ON edit--

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2203453

[LSK]

16. thanks for the cliff notes n/t

[Norquist Nemesis]

18. Had the exact same impression here

I watched the re-run late last night. When it was finished I thought, "He's toast".

[myrna minx]

19. I noticed that even Russert was surprised by his delusional answers. n/t

[meisje]

12. well crafted

[APPLE314]

15. NOT AC - NOT DC - BUT SHORT CIRCUIT

HE TALKS RIGHT OUT OF HIS ASS AND BACK INTO HIS MOUTH. MY CAPS!!!!!!!!

[Jack Rabbit]

17. Oh, come now!!

He still has a long ways to sink before he reaches the depths currently occupied by Dick Cheney and Karl Rove.

[Disturbed]

23. John McCain, Hypocrite

John McCain, Hypocrite
by Doug Ireland

John McCain, the media's darling, has found a clever way around his own campaign finance reform law to take big corporate bucks in furtherance of his political ambitions while carrying water for the corporate mammoth providing the dough. But the national press is ignoring the story.


The Associated Press first ran the story of John McCain's odorous but lucrative Senatorial service to the communications giant Cablevision on the afternoon of March 7. But, while some local papers in McCain's home state (like the East Valley Tribune) have run the story, nothing has as yet made it into the print editions of the New York Times, the L.A. Times, the Washington Post, or any of the half-dozen other big city dailies I checked (although, if one searches the hundreds of AP stories available on the Post's website on its Politics page by clicking on "Latest Wire Reports," one can find it there--but how many readers would bother to do that?) One notable exception: the Kansas City Star.


Here's what the AP's investigation found:


McCain repeatedly intervened on behalf of a policy Cablevision favored -- one which "congressional and private studies conclude could make cable more expensive" -- while his chief political adviser, Rick Davis (who's masterminding McCain's probable '08 presidential rerun) solicited $200,000 in contributions from Cablevision to an institute that promotes McCain and pays Davis a $110,000 annual salary.


The Reform Institute was set up to promote McCain and his issues--especially campaign finance reform, embodied in the famous McCain-Feingold law. This Institute is "a tax-exempt group that touts McCain's views and has showcased him at events since his unsuccessful 2000 presidential campaign," and it "often uses the senator's name in press releases and fund-raising letters and includes him at press conferences," the AP says. And, of course, it provides a cushy sinecure with no heavy lifting for McCain's main man, Davis, as he prepares the pontificating Senator's next presidential run. Cablevision's contributions account for a whopping 15% of the Institute's budget.


http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0309-35.htm

[LittleClarkie]

22. The assholes called. They don't want him either

You'll have to pick a different group.