Lame, Arianna, lame.

So is the title to this thread. It doesn't really reflect the spirit and content of the story.

McCain Praises Mafia
U.S. Senator John McCain has said some pretty crazy things on the campaign trail this year.

He's said our troops should stay in Iraq for another hundred years = Al Gore said he invented the Internet

Lame, Arianna, lame.

Posted by goatman

That's what I was thinking. She's not doing the left any favors with this article.

Sounds like century of warfare McBush is ready for that rubber room.

I was for the mafia before I was against the mafia? he's starting to sound like Uncle Junior in the last season of the Sopranos.

He's said our troops should stay in Iraq for another hundred years.

He did? He said they SHOULD stay? Really? Wow, sometimes you liberal fucks make it way too easy for me to blow up threads...

But I can't give you a justification for the Mafia.

If that's praise I would hate to see what you guys consider insults...

First we had the "McCain's Pastor" thread, now this strangely inaccurate title...

Rogers what's with this trend of dishonesty...

"First we had the "McCain's Pastor" thread, now this strangely inaccurate title...

Rogers what's with this trend of dishonesty..."

Posted by Rob_The_A_Hole

It's not posted by rcade

McCain has to be elected. His inane rambling would be hilarious. We need the demented old man type, just for entertainment purposes. That's why Reagan was so popular.

Clinton isn't funny. Women rarely are. I bet O'Bama is. Negroes are natural clowns. Take Amos and Andy for instance.

It's not posted by rcade

Posted by Hagbard_


To get to the front page, he has to put it there... where he has adjusted titles before. Like the "McCain's Pastor" thread, it all passes his desk before hitting the front.

McCain did not praise the Mafia and Hagee is not his Pastor. These types of thread titles are the equivolent of saying Obama is a Muslim... Which on the back page there just happens to be such a thread... let's see if that guy makes the front page.

Rob-McBush's 100 year comment was pure stupidity, both the statement AND the lame-ass "explanation".
If Hillary said, I will balance the budget as long as nobody in government spends any money, would you think she was any more credible than 100 years, but only as long as they hug and kiss us McBush?

Give me a quote where McBush says how much money and how many KIAs he would be happy to spend until we can start the 100 year kumbaya festival.
Last month McBush said we had won the war and the Iraqis were taking over, then we had the highest death rate in 7 months. Seems McBush has ni clue about what's going on in Iraq, outside the fabulous shopping...

Rob the only thing you've blown up is your ego.

McCain just loves to serve up these bits, he loves the controversy. Take the sum total of his statements and he would qualify as insane.

It's not posted by rcade

No shit. RCade re-writes the headlines.

Sometimes I wonder if Arianna Huffington really did have a Liberal conversion. This article is just too ridiculous to have any other effect than to prove Republican arguments about the liberal media.

this article shouldn't even count as journalism.

Rob the only thing you've blown up is your ego.

Still got a response out of you though...

This article is pretty fucking lame.


When I saw Barry playing basketball in Indiana I about shit.
Is he going to do a watermelon eating contest or be the judge at a Fried Chicken cook-off next?

Mob members in New Jersey sponsor softball teams, pay to have sports fields upgraded, fund neighborhood parades, put planters on sidewalks... there was an article about it in the NYT Sunday insert several years back.... but that does not remove the fact that the money they use for these projects is gained through illicit means.

I think that was what McCain meant. Or maybe he is just a big Sopranos fan.

The first rule of economics is , "Big fish eat little fish".

In this sense the Federal Government operates just like the Mafia, but Congress less so than other agencies. It is in our foreign policies that we most closely emulate Mafia tactics, hurting politically weaker entities and human beings for money.

Rob-McBush's 100 year comment was pure stupidity, both the statement AND the lame-ass "explanation".


In regards to the way our political machine works you are absolutely right, it was a screw up that will be used against him. but if people could be honest about what he was saying, then very few people in this country would disagree with him.

I've never heard you clamor on about how we shouldn't have troops in Japan, Germany, England, Kuwait, wherever... Because they're not in any danger... And that's all McCain was saying. That if Iraq were a safe and stable region then why would he have a problem with keeping troops stationed there.

Can you honestly explain why you would have a problem with that under those circumstances?

I heard he's gonna re-create a scene from "Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo."

When I saw Barry playing basketball in Indiana I about shit.

Posted by 101Chairborne

Did you notice the USMC tee-shirt? That's gotta be a kick in the ass for all the jar-heads out there.

-Barry at the Inaugaration.


I never thought you would loan him your favorite pants, 101!

Barry at the Inaugaration.

Posted by 101Chairborne


That's gonna keep me laughing through this Monday... wow...

Let's not kid ourselves, no matter what our political stripe...
There are still going to be over 100,000 Americans, be they military or civilian contractor, in Iraq for the better part of the next decade, maybe longer, no matter who is in office. We haven't been building those bases and that embassy for nothing. Think about that.

Barry at the Inauguration.

MC Hammer will get work. I smell a comeback.

McInsane is a fucking nutjob.

A complete whacko.

How much of that is due to his inherent stupidity?
How much is due to his PTSD and rage issues?
How much is due to his creeping senility?

Hard to say really.

Prolly a combination of the above plus some advanced form of venereal disease he picked up back when he was a whoremongering shitheel who could still get it up.

Now he's just a war mongering, fear mongering, POS.

He's said our troops should stay in Iraq for another hundred years = Al Gore said he invented the Internet

A) Al Gore never claimed to have invented the internet that's an invention of rightwing fucktards like Freako.

B) McLame actually has sed at various times "100 years", "1,000 years" and 10,000 years" in Iraq are "fine" with him.

John McSame thinks he can come off as some kind of fiscally restained conservative by harping on the warmark issue but he still thinks the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy (which he once denounced) need to be made permanent and he thinks the Iraq War costs can be kept up ferever.

He's just another R-tarded borrow and spend Rethug just like the BushCo boys and that murderous piece of shit Reagan.

The only person more ignorant than John McBush is any asshole dumb enuff to vote fer the SOB.

Be Well.

/Morning folks! Yup is Spud once again tutoring the trolls in the ways of righteousness, having entered the Drudge Retort, as ya do,
stage left.

That's gonna keep me laughing through this Monday... wow...

Posted by Rob_The_A_Hole at 2008-05-05 10:38 AM | Reply |


I'm still laughing about a comment I typed Friday night (the one about you signing Larry's tits).

Let's not kid ourselves, no matter what our political stripe...
There are still going to be over 100,000 Americans, be they military or civilian contractor, in Iraq for the better part of the next decade, maybe longer, no matter who is in office

The only democratic presidential candidate who said he would remove every soldier was Dennis Kucinich. Hillary and Obama have both said troops will have to stay.

I've never heard you clamor on about how we shouldn't have troops in Japan, Germany, England, Kuwait, wherever...


I've been harping on this forever. Ron Paul seems to be the only one in the race who supports bringing ALL our troops home.

McCain drank the Reagan deregulation Koolaid long ago. If he can't see that public services and oversight are necessary by now he's got his head up his ass.

(the one about you signing Larry's tits).

Larry's own tits or the ones he has mounted in his basement?

I'm still laughing about a comment I typed Friday night (the one about you signing Larry's tits).

Posted by 101Chairborne


Larry pulling two severed tits from a bag was hysterical...

I've never heard you clamor on about how we shouldn't have troops in Japan, Germany, England, Kuwait, wherever... Because they're not in any danger.

The comparisons are all ludicrously inapt.

Iraq is more like a combination of Palestine and Vietnam than any of the above.

Kuwait is a special case.

Kuwait may have aquiesed to the idear of allowing American forces in their mini-state but at they also stopped pegging their currency to the US Dollar about a year ago which turned out to be a pretty shrewd move.

They have no love for the US in Kuwait just fear and hate in the street and a cynical acceptance in the ruling elite.

Much like the Saudi fucksticks.

Be Well.

"We haven't been building those bases and that embassy for nothing. Think about that."

I have. If the NeoCons get their way, that's the way it'll be. But Hadrian's Wall was built for a purpose, too, and the legionaries abandoned it long ago.

Lee,
Great minds think alike!



Hitchens: McCain's All the Rage

Monte is just torqued off he wasn't featured in a USA Today story Rob.

By the way, how uncomfortable were you when Larry asked you to sign his boobs and then he pulled out those two cut off hooker tits?

Posted by 101Chairborne at 2008-05-02 07:24 PM | Rep

Comparing Congress to the Mafia isn't praising the Mafia it's insulting them.

Be Well.

Candidates for Complete Withdrawal:
1. Kucinich
2. Paul
3. Nader

And the left wants and end to war in Iraq.
And the left wants and end to war in Iraq.
And the left wants and end to war in Iraq.
And the left wants and end to war in Iraq.
And the left wants and end to war in Iraq....

If I keep telling myself that, someday I hope to truly believe it, regardless what evidence to the contrary there may be.

Yup is Spud once again tutoring the trolls in the ways of righteousness, having entered the Drudge Retort, as ya do,
stage left.


Posted by dethspud


Where the fuck is leprosy when you need it?

But Hadrian's Wall was built for a purpose, too, and the legionaries abandoned it long ago.

Posted by Doc_Sarvis

Let's hope you're right on that score.

Stupid article. Terrible candidate.

Lee,
Great minds think alike!


Mother fuck.

That's funny!

Who even reads anything that creepy fuck writes?

Where the fuck is leprosy when you need it?

Ha!

Yeah, I wish ignorance was painful.

As painful as slogging through one of Spud's posts.

Be Swelled.

Rob, you might want to inform yourself.

Posted by member2586


I'm sorry, do i run the site Rasmussenreports.com and quickly typed up a bogus poll report?

Some polls show he's winning, some polls show he's losing... hence the stupidity of polls in general, but especially the stupidity of polls in May before the race is even set between two candidates...

leprosy

Married to a doctor and you want Ms Potato Head to have a disease that causes the nerve endings to die?

How about something that's really painful?

He's already twice baked but we could still slice and fry.

How about something that's really painful?

I don't want to be a dick...

Barry at the Inaugaration.

Posted by 101Chairborne


Perfect!


Yesterday, after I finished drilling Obama's wife, in her afterglow she told me 2 things:


1. That was the first, second and third orgasm she's had in over 10 years.

2. That when Barrack is not present, his insiders refer to him as 'Barry the Fairy'.


I am serious; I don't make this shit up.

How about something that's really painful?

Posted by OzarkAggie at 2008-05-05 11:01 AM | Reply

Like putting pricker bushes on all the neighborhood kids window sills?

Actually, one of his insiders is a Clinton mole, and SHE refers to Obama as 'Bury the Fairy'.

I don't want to be a dick...

Posted by Rob_The_A_Hole

FF!

I would think it be difficult to be both a dick and an Asshole.

Oil just hit 120 American pesos per barrel!

Go McBush go!

Like putting pricker bushes on all the neighborhood kids window sills?

Posted by 101Chairborne


Think that would stop him? You know the old Canadian saying, "No pain, no sodomizing a 9 year old."

Oil just hit 120 American pesos per barrel!

Go McBush go!

Posted by member2586


Just curious... how is Obama gonna get OPEC to drop it back to $50/Barrel?

Well Rob, stopping the Iraq war which makes us bleed 12B AP$ a month is a good start. The value of the dollar is related to confidence in America and I guess that a McCain administration would not inspire such confidence since we would probably be infolved in more wars.

Just curious... how is Obama gonna get OPEC to drop it back to $50/Barrel?

Posted by Rob_The_A_Hole

I bet he has some relatives in the Middle East who can pull some strings.

FF for Wis!

Did an 8th-grader write this piece? What an ill-reasoned, poorly-worded, meritless waste of column space....

Well Rob, stopping the Iraq war which makes us bleed 12B AP$ a month is a good start.

Okay, I'm not seeing how this will make OPEC drop their prices... Also, Obama has said troops will be in Iraq throughout his first term...

What an ill-reasoned, poorly-worded, meritless waste of column space....

Posted by jonryker


Hence the Front Page of Drudge...

I bet he has some relatives in the Middle East who can pull some strings.

Posted by wisgod


Well, I guess Obama being a Muslim is good thing then, but you Neocons hold it against him, lol!

how is Obama gonna get OPEC to drop it back to $50/Barrel?

Dance off.

Hence the Front Page of Drudge...

Posted by Rob_The_A_Hole


It bring back good memories of that whole "block vs kill" controversy about a senate bill dealing with the troops.

McCain did not praise the Mafia ...

McCain said, "I'm sure that I can give you a list of projects the Mafia funds, and they would probably be good projects."

I think it's fair to describe that as "strange praise for Mafia." I would not expect a presidential candidate to tout the good works of the Mafia, no matter what point he or she was trying to make in doing so. It's an odd brainfart worthy of a discussion here.

Hence the Front Page of Drudge...

Posted by Rob_The_A_Hole

Again, RCADE had nothing to do with this piece of crap article.

I think the Mafia does a lot of good projects, like for example cement factories.

It's an odd brainfart worthy of a discussion here.

Posted by rcade

Jeez. I post a 2 minutes late.

The comment may be worth a discussion, but that was a TERRIBLE article, and I'm not a McCain supporter.

Maybe he was trying to pander to the Italian-Amrican community?

Again, RCADE had nothing to do with this piece of crap article.

Posted by Hagbard_Celine at 2008-05-05 11:46 AM


Except of course placing it on the front page with the headline.

You've now been told "again".

What a wiseguy this McCain is huh?

Except of course placing it on the front page with the headline.

You've now been told "again".

Posted by 101Chairborne

That I hadn't seen. I only went by the recent comments section.

I promoted the article to the front page and changed the headline a little, adding the word "Strange."

I...changed the headline a little

Pander Bear

McCain said, "I'm sure that I can give you a list of projects the Mafia funds, and they would probably be good projects."

I think it's fair to describe that as "strange praise for Mafia."

I think its fair to describe that as fair. John Gotti was very well liked by many of the residents of his community. He would throw big block parties every year, he gave money to charities... all of these are good acts, but like McCain says right after the above quote.

But I can't give you a justification for the Mafia

"A) Al Gore never claimed to have invented the internet that's an invention of rightwing fucktards like Freako.

B) McLame actually has sed at various times "100 years", "1,000 years" and 10,000 years" in Iraq are "fine" with him."

Posted by dethspud

Well for "A", What Gore said was, "I took the initative in creating the internet". So he didn't say he invented it he said he created it. This statement is just rediculus since it was created long before he was in office.

For "B" McCain meant that he didn't mind if we maintain a presence in the middle east for a long time. He was not advocating a 100 years war.

We have had a presence in Europe, Korea and Japan for over 50 years and it has helped our foreign policy more than hurt.

Stop trying to cut down someone who is a greater American than you could ever be.

You are allowed to "be well" because of patriots like John McCain.

"greater American than you could ever be."

maybe so
too bad he will make an awful president

being an american hero
doesn't mean you make a good president


it also doesn't help that he forgets what he says all the time.

"You are allowed to "be well" because of patriots like John McCain."

Oh, bullshit. What the hell has John McCain ever done to allow me to "be well"? Him spending years in a North Vietnamese shit-hole has had zero impact on my life, and you can take that one to the bank.

BTW Hill leads McCain by 4, Obama trails by 4
www.rasmussenreports.com
Posted by Rob_The_A_Hole at 2008-05-05 10:52 AM

Some polls show he's winning, some polls show he's losing... hence the stupidity of polls in general
Posted by Rob_The_A_Hole at 2008-05-05 10:58

Hence the stupidity of your posts, BTW

"Oh, bullshit. What the hell has John McCain ever done to allow me to "be well"? Him spending years in a North Vietnamese shit-hole has had zero impact on my life, and you can take that one to the bank."

Posted by Doc_Sarvis

Deaar Sir or Madam:

You are an idiot if you need to have this explained to you.

McCain getting blasted out of the sky, taken prisoner, and spending time in NVA custody has allowed me to "be well"?

You, sir or madam, are clearly suffering from jingoitis.

Prescription: Get your noodle out of "neutral" mode.

No charge, and you're welcome.

Lee,
Great minds think alike!

Maybe so-but so do mindless automatons like you two...

"McCain getting blasted out of the sky, taken prisoner, and spending time in NVA custody has allowed me to "be well"?

You, sir or madam, are clearly suffering from jingoitis."

Posted by Doc_Sarvis

Please then list for us the things you have done in your life to preserve our freedom.

No, typing on the internet does not count.

loser!

"Please then list for us the things you have done in your life to preserve our freedom."

I'm not making any such claim but, please, feel free to list your considerable accomlishments in that area.

If your list includes participating in anti-war campaigns, attempting to get word from POW/MIA to their families, contributing to worthy causes, circulating petitions, and voting that's fine. So, fire away, Rambo.

(And, please, try and veer away from mindless jingoism--it only makes you sound stupid.)

"participating in anti-war campaigns, attempting to get word from POW/MIA to their families, contributing to worthy causes, circulating petitions, and voting"


Posted by Doc_Sarvis

And you compare that to what John McCain did?

You're even a biget loser than I thought!

"participating in anti-war campaigns, attempting to get word from POW/MIA to their families, contributing to worthy causes, circulating petitions, and voting"


Posted by Doc_Sarvis

And you compare that to what John McCain did?

You're even a biget loser than I thought!

circulating petitions

Few have ever seen such bravery...

"And you compare that to what John McCain did?"

No, moron. I'm saying that there is nothing John McCain has ever done that has allowed me to "be well."

You tell me what it is and I'll give it some additional thought. But if it's going to be him being imprisoned in North Vietnam that argument is, as I believe I've made pretty clear, something I view as unmittigated bullshit.

I'm also saying that there are things many Americans do day in and day out that help preserve our freedom. If you think waging war in Vietnam had anything to do with "preserving freedom" you need to get a reality check. Quick.

Read Karl Rove's encomium for McCain.

Nope, nothing there that has to do with allowing me to "be well."

Next time, try harder to do better.

PS: It would help if you could avoid the juse of jingoistic phrasing, but my guess is you're not up to it.

For "juse" feel free to substitute either "use" or "juice."

I wonder if those pooping on McCain's service makes them feel like they're getting back at all the people who pooped on Kerry's service.

"I wonder if those pooping on McCain's service makes them feel like they're getting back at all the people who pooped on Kerry's service."
--LIVE_OR_DIE

Poorly constructed sentence, but you get the idea.

I don't see a McCain-Kerry connection. What I do see is an error in logic when the claim is made that McCain spending time as a prisoner of war somehow allows us to "be well" and is in some way linked to qualifying him for the office of president.

What I do see is an error in logic when the claim is made that McCain spending time as a prisoner of war somehow allows us to "be well"

Posted by Doc_Sarvis

Not logic so much as it is sentiment. People serving in the military are generally thought of as protecting our way of life, simply by being the line of defense, regardless of whether you think they're abused as a force during any given conflict.

I understand that view, but don't think it's necessarily true. For example, while not viewing them in anything like a negative way I don't see the men and women who are in Iraq as protecting our way of life. When I opposed the Vietnam War it did not cause me to hold the troops in contempt. I just don't happen agree that anything John McCain has done has allowed me to "be well." Frankly, I find it too simplisitic.

Now, if someone wants to believe that, fine. But when the noise machine cranks up with the message that somehow I should be grateful to McCain, well, that's over the top.

McCain is loved by the media because the media is right-wing biased as evident by the stories against the candidates.

Why don't we hear about a potential first lady (McCains second wife) being a drug addict that was convicted of stealing drugs from a clinic for the poor? Because the right controls much of the MSM.

How to beat McCain...

The republicans may face Obama this fall, barring more ambitious desperatation of the Clintons. The republicans, namely Sean Hannity, blew their chance to beat Obama by playing their hand to quickly. People are already burnt out from the Rev Wright drama and will simply tune out any ads coming forth on the subject. CNN stated this morning that letters from viewers are forcing them to avoid the subject.

On the other hand, the dems, I hope so anyway, are saving the bullets for the real fight. Why go after McCain now and give him ample time to defend himself. That's not how you fight these battles.

McCain has been basically ignored this far and still is barely in the fight. Republicans look at this with optimism but they should be worried. Can you imagine if Obama was untouched by the media and McCain was the one being beaten with a media bat? What would the numbers look like then.

If Obama wins the nomination and Clinton supporters turn off their racist mask and support him as they should, I could see Obama taking a 20 point lead on McCain from that point. The same thing will happen if Hillary wins the nomination.

So, the strategy to beat McCain is this: 1)Gather all the ammo 2)Contniue to let him be the untouched candidate 3)Throughout, continue to suttlely link him to Bush, periodically pointing out his screw ups. 4) Let surrogates demostrate a similarity in Rev. Wright and Pastor Hagee (This is definately an issue becuase, although it was just an endorsement, McCain did not reject it until there was fire present. This will also lesson the Rev Wright blow) 5) In September, flood the airwaves with McCain quotes, mistatements, flip flips, how he hurt some communities by fighting earmarks on needed projects, how he disses his wife, and the fact that he has no problem staying in Iraq for 100 years. The dems have misrepresented his statements on this, but the fact is, whether the war is over or not, 100 years is too long for our troops to be anywhere. What other country does this?

MCCain can not overcome a late summer blitz like this. The key is timing. And if done right, we will all see this temper of his that is so often talked about.

"Hagee (This is definately an issue becuase, although it was just an endorsement, McCain did not reject it until there was fire present."

He's rejected Hagee's endorsement?

He is the media's candidate. Blame the media.

"He's said our troops should stay in Iraq for another hundred years = Al Gore said he invented the Internet

Posted by Fredo_C at 2008-05-05 09:11 AM"

Fredo, that is the most cogent post you have ever made here. Kudos.

McCain is loved by the media because the media is right-wing biased as evident by the stories against the candidates.
Posted by COMMONSENSE

So say's the douchebag who was crying 3 weeks ago after your boy got bitch slapped by a fomer Clinton spokesman. You are a fucking tool.

"First, he blamed the collapse of the Minnesota I-35 bridge last year on congressional earmarks. He went on to explain that comment by suggesting that the U.S. Congress was similar to the Mafia. He's wrong on both counts."

No, it seems both McCain and the author are each wrong on one count.

Since McShame has been a Senator for OH SO LONG, wouldn't he be a "capo" by now?