John McCain “lacks interest” in cultural issues like same-sex adoption and his own position on affirmative action.
That’s nice-ese for “the pungent stench of John McCain’s own fail may one day force us to buy an air freshener”. Today, however, is not that day.
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Speak for yourself. I bought an air freshener. Citrus Sunburst. Smells like grapefruit. McCain fail has that weird grandpa smell of Aqua Velva mixed with baby powder, with an underlying base of decay and sadness.
A presidential candidate who isn’t interested in your culture is like a blind date who isn’t interested in your personality.
Nice tactic there, McCain. Claim to be disinterested in all of your unpopular political beliefs. Your stance against any and all abortion rights? About as important to you as your socks. Your belief that women are inferior? Kind of like buttered or unbuttered popcorn. Your belief that gays shouldn’t adopt? Can’t be bothered to even come up with an opinion, but those traditional families shouldn’t be undermined, right? Did he say that about four times in one answer yet?
And it’s Obama who’s supposedly only looking at the polls? Obviously, they both are.
John McCain “lacks interest” in cultural issues like same-sex adoption and his own position on affirmative action.
“Look I don’t write the damn bills, I just vote for ‘em. Or Against them. Or whatever. See? Don’t Care.”
It was funny to watch that interview and see him be afraid to go all bigot. It seems his campaign is thinking they can’t do the usual Republican gay-hating, but they’re keeping the bigoted policy approach. He couldn’t even say “gay” or “same-sex couples.”
And wouldn’t it be nice if a “reporter” actually threw some statistics at his “traditional other-sexed parents are preferable” bullshit?
Did he say that about four times in one answer yet?
Yep. Watching the interview with Stephanopoulos yesterday, I got the sane that he thought that if he could just say “two parents” and “family values” enough times, that would magically erase the idiocy.
If he can’t even handle George Stephanopoulos’ softball questions, imagine how much fun the debates are going to be.
Come on you guys!
McCain has waited long enough! It’s his turn! And just cause that whippersnapper Obama cheated Clinton out of her turn doesn’t mean he should be allowed to do the same to Crazy Grampa!
Of course he doesn’t care about the issues. His trollop of a wife is worth bajillions. He just needs to be President b/c he wants to, and old white guys always get what they want unless affirmative action pulls some reverse racism on them.
Dammit, it’s the old guy’s turn! Stop asking questions and confuzzling things. Don’t pick on Crazy Grampa. Just vote for McCain b/c you ought to. and then he can bring you a donut to help you out of your mental recession.
That should be “I got the sense”, btw.
Though I did wonder whether I was the only sane person in America watching that horrible excuse for an “interview”.
“McCain fail has that weird grandpa smell of Aqua Velva mixed with baby powder, with an underlying base of decay and sadness.”
...all too easy to visualize (nasalize?)
Come on America! All the old man is asking for is for his final dream to come true!
Obama can run several more times ‘cause he’s still young — McCain’s got this one last chance! Even then, it’s cutting things a little too close. He might not even make it through a whole term.
Don’t be so damn selfish…“The economy’s bad! I lost my job! My house is worth half what I bought it for! Gas is $4.25/gallon!”...wah, wah, wah! Is that all you people do? Why don’t you stop complaining for a minute and try seeing things from McCain’s perspective?
If he’d known you could be a worthless shit in an Air National Guard unit, avoid going to Vietnam and getting your ass captured, but still be able to get daddy’s friends to hand you the presidency, well, don’t you think he’d have done it too? But he didn’t know — hell none of us did.
That cultural shit isn’t really important, and no matter how you answer somebody’s going to be pissed at you. You can’t make the gays and the Negroes and the Mexicans happy without pissing off the fundies and the rednecks and the gun-lovers. Besides, it’s too damn hard for him to remember what he says from one day to the next. Give a guy a break!
One last favor…that’s all he’s asking for…
He’d say “Please?!?!?”, but Real Men can’t do that…
I’m lighting a nice Macintosh Apple Yankee Candle now to freshen the room…
You have to read the transcript to get a whiff of the full flaming pile of horseshit on the gay adoption issue:
STEPHANOPOULOS: What is your position on gay adoption? You told the “New York Times” you were against it, even in cases where the children couldn’t find another home. But then your staff backtracked a bit. What is your position?
MCCAIN: My position is, it’s not the reason why I’m running for president of the United States. And I think that two parent families are best for America.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Well, what do you mean by that, it’s not the reason you’re running for president of the United States?
MCCAIN: Because I think—well, I think that it’s—it is important for us to emphasize family values. But I think it’s very important that we understand that we have other challenges, too. I’m running for president of the United States, because I want to help with family values. And I think that family values are important, when we have two parent—families that are of parents that are the traditional family.
STEPHANOPOULOS: But there are several hundred thousand children in the country who don’t have a home. And if a gay couple wants to adopt them, what’s wrong with that?
MCCAIN: I am for the values that two parent families, the traditional family represents.
STEPHANOPOULOS: So, you’re against gay adoption.
MCCAIN: I am for the values and principles that two parent families represent. And I also do point out that many of these decisions are made by the states, as we all know. And I will do everything I can to encourage adoption, to encourage all of the things that keeps families together, including educational opportunities, including a better economy, job creation.
And I’m running for president, because I want to help families in America. And one of my positions is that I believe that family values and family traditions are preserved.
Help me out here—where are my Log Cabin Republican educational materials to show me why this man deserves even one LGBT vote?
Can two gay parents count as two parents? More clarification please, Mr. Senator. And be sure to use the word “traditional” about eight times in your answer.
McCain fail has that weird grandpa smell of Aqua Velva mixed with baby powder, with an underlying base of decay and sadness.
You missed the “stale minor urine dribble accidents on the sofa” undertone found in many nursing homes.
Ms Kate: Thank you! I used ‘decay and sadness’ because I couldn’t find the appropriate descriptor. I believe you’ve nailed it.
He also doesn’t know or care about economic issues. He’s said so.
And about foreign policy, he’s confused. Huh.
I’m starting to think that Mitt Romney, Fred Thompson, Rudy Giuliani, and Mike Huckabee really might not have provided much of a grueling proving grounds for a potential Leader of the Entire Free World to show his stuff.
It’s a wacky idea, but you know, maybe it’s not altogether incorrect.