It doesn’t matter. The Democrats and Obama are d00med, d00000000med!

Or so sez cable teevee.

I see I’m going to have to re-stock my liquor cabinet for the Republican Convention.

Especially for when Rudy 9iul1an1 speaks.

Seriously, my friends, this endless POW refrain would be a lot more impressive if McCain didn’t support the Bush Administration’s views on torture and the “quaintness” of the Geneva Convention.

I’m starting to get curious about the art direction at the RNC convention: a stage covered with bamboo tiger cages, buckets, bayonets, tin cups and dirt floors? Lighting alternating between blistering tropical sun and darkest tropical night? An ambient soundtrack of Vietnamese jungle sounds and the screams of prisoners?

As someone on the internet pointed out (TPM? can’t remember ...), this was McCain’s 13th time on the Leno show! Right up there with Jennifer Love Hewitt and Pamela Anderson.

Who’s the celebrity now?

Obama’s been on ONCE.

“I didn’t have books for sixty six months, I forgot some things.  I haven’t paid the electric bill in four months, either.  I don’t remember how to write checks!”

Obama was born a poor black child but he can’t mention that because he’d be “playing the race card.”

If his experiences has a prisoner of war have so affected him that he is unable to recall basic facts, like how many houses he owns, how is he qualified to lead a country? Not to be ableist or anything, but should someone mentally impaired be given the keys to your nuclear arsenal? What if he forgets what the big red ‘Launch nuclear missiles’ button does, and decides to press it for fun?

I can’t wait for the Purple Hearts band aids to go on sale at the RNC.

Probably a lot of people will be handing them out because they are very symbolic. McCain has made the war that he served in far more important than his recent records of the last 18 to 20 years. Donna Cain, an Oregon delegate, 2004

Many of you young ‘uns may not recall Admiral “Gridlock” Stockdale whose bizzaro ramblings about his days in a POW camp during the 1992 VP debate caused people (well media flunkeys) to question if Perot was quite sane. “Who would put a guy like that a heartbeat away from the presidency?”
Apparently, what was common sense for Vice Presidents in 1992 (no clear morons a la a Quayle, no semi-delusional ex-POWs a la Stockdale) was reversed in 2000 for Presidents and now is a virtue.

Poor Stockdale wasn’t even told by Perot he had to debate until something like two days before.

I also remember that SNL skit set in a NH diner during the 2000 primaries. Bush is mocking McCain, a PTSD rage-aholic who has to wear a napkin blindfold to eat. At the time I thought the portrayal was pretty cruel, even though it was really pointing out what a nasty bully Bush was. But these days I wouldn’t be surprised if the campaign insisted McCain wear the blindfold during photo ops to remind us all that he was a POW.

I’m starting to get curious about the art direction at the RNC convention: a stage covered with bamboo tiger cages, buckets, bayonets, tin cups and dirt floors? Lighting alternating between blistering tropical sun and darkest tropical night? An ambient soundtrack of Vietnamese jungle sounds and the screams of prisoners?

And yet (and ironically), only a stereotypical—ahem—“flaming Gay” interior decorator will be able to pull off that design and in a very Tim Gunn fashion “make it work,” in order to cater to the audience’s collective fetish for war and guns.

He did it again.

He said Obama’s speech in Berlin talked about the Cold War, “but during the Cold War I was a guest for 5 1/2 years with one of our adversaries”.

Of course in reality it had nothing to do with the Cold War, it was a Vietnamese civil war, but you know how Republicans are with their Grand Global Transcendent Bipolar Struggles.

If the mainstream media were morally, mentally, fiscally, ideologically or politically capable of being honest about this—and (I hesitate to point out to those here who already know it damned well) they ain’t—they could and should handle McCain thusly:

Option 1: “Mention POW cred as a rebuttal to a given point” running score.

Option 2: “Use POW cred” vs. “claims that McCain is reluctant to talk about his POW experience” in a side-by-side comparison running score.

Option 3: Hilaryize their coverage.  If McCain says X, then ask, “oh, is that accurate and, if so, what the hell does that have to do with the actual point at issue?”.

I will now go and have lunch.  Why?  Because if I wait to see any of these things before eating I will, without question, starve to death.

Isn’t it kind of a lie that McCain “didn’t have a house” while he was a POW in Vietnam?  I mean, his wife, who he was still married to at the time, must certainly have had a place to live. 

Or is that the arrangement when you are a POW?  The ‘Cong go to the US and confiscate your house, turn your family out on the street, and use it for their own purposes?

The ‘Cong go to the US and confiscate your house, turn your family out on the street, and use it for their own purposes?

According to Corsi, they kicked his first wife out and turned the house into a love-nest for John Kerry and Jane Fonda.

Not to be ableist or anything, but should someone mentally impaired be given the keys to your nuclear arsenal?

Perhaps I really am ableist, but I don’t think there’s anything wrong with acknowledging the limits that disabilities can put on someone.  Someone who’s blind can’t be a truck driver.  Someone who’s paralyzed and using a wheelchair can’t work in construction.  Someone suffering from psychological issues, especially if they’re untreated, can’t take a high stakes, extremely stressful job, such as the presidency of the most powerful country in the world.

http://www.nounverbpow.com/

Saw this last night.  Started inwardly cracking up, knowing that it’d be covered here. 

My mother (Republican) turns to me (feminist) and says, “well, they aren’t John’s houses, they’re Cindy’s houses.  All of your women should be happy that Cindy has done well enough to afford all those houses.”

Um.  Hello?  Aren’t these the same Republicans who were criticizing John Kerry for saying, “that’s not my SUV, that’s my wife’s SUV” the last time around?