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Can I Title a Post “??????”

by Michael D.

“Across this country, this is the agenda I have set before my fellow prisoners and the same standards of clarity and candor must now be applied to my opponent.”

Did You Know John McCain Was A POW? | 5:03 pm |

38 Responses to “Can I Title a Post “??????””

1
October 8th, 2008 at 5:05 pm
Stevenovitch

Well, he was a prisoner at one point.
2
October 8th, 2008 at 5:06 pm
Foxhunter

Has the new and promising dementia drug gone to market yet?
3
October 8th, 2008 at 5:07 pm
Stevenovitch

Also, he didn’t have youtube while he was a prisoner. Also.
4
October 8th, 2008 at 5:07 pm
rob!

he’s projecting to how he’d treat all of us if he wins the election.
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October 8th, 2008 at 5:09 pm
ThymeZone

Many jokes will be made, but I have been watching this guy for you for 25 years so you don’t have to … and I think he is actually losing it. His mental acuity is going downhill fast, and as much as I hate to see this happen to any person, I think it is time to make an issue of it. I really don’t think this man can serve out a 4-year term in the job he seeks.

And of course, if he gets that job (which is highly Selassie, I mean, unlikely … heh …) we know what happens next.

Mrs. Mooseburger gets the job.
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October 8th, 2008 at 5:14 pm
upgrayedd

I can’t wait for his post-campaign ghost-written book: "Also, My Friends: A Message To My Fellow Prisoners, Also That One"
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October 8th, 2008 at 5:16 pm
gopher2b

Palin looked very confused.
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October 8th, 2008 at 5:18 pm
Justin

The strain of campaigning against a younger, more charismatic opponent, after you’ve turned the press against you, would buckle most men, let alone a 72 year old trying to deal with the cognitive dissonance of imagining oneself to be a good, honourable man running the sleaziest campaign ever.

I wonder how intrade would price the odds of him stroking out before November 5th. I keep expecting him to drop an N-bomb on camera now.
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October 8th, 2008 at 5:20 pm
John Cole

@gopher2b: That just means she was awake.
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October 8th, 2008 at 5:20 pm
Tsulagi

Sounds like senior moments McCain having a Back to the Future moment in his personal time bubble. I await to hear him refer to Obama as Charlie.
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October 8th, 2008 at 5:21 pm
SamFromUtah

So we’re all prisoners now? I’ll drink to that!
12
October 8th, 2008 at 5:21 pm
Comrade Dreggas

So when can we expect a tirade against the "gooks" and references to opponents as "Charlie"?
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October 8th, 2008 at 5:25 pm
raff

Palin’s reaction struck me as odd. She clearly hears McCain’s slip-up, but does nothing. She could have tapped McCain’s shoulder gently, whispered in his ear & McCain could have made an endearing joke about it. But she let him go.

At least Joe Leiberman had the sense to correct McCain when neccessary.
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October 8th, 2008 at 5:29 pm
w vincentz

Cindy smiled demurely when McStud let slip their "secret" bedroom bondage game.
Afterwards, Johnnie was heard to whisper, "Did ya bring the handcuffs, Trollop?"
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October 8th, 2008 at 5:31 pm
Krista

At least Joe Leiberman had the sense to correct McCain when neccessary.

True, but Lieberman probably wasn’t worried about McCain losing his temper and blurting out "Let me handle this, you c**t!"

Then again…
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October 8th, 2008 at 5:37 pm
Dawn Hannity

Hey, wait a second here. Give the man a break.
McCain is, after all, speaking with complete clarity and candor.
Republican campaign events are exclusively populated by party purist where the disloyal "ones" and other elites are locked out, thus yes they are prisons for his loyalist.
What’s to question?
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October 8th, 2008 at 5:39 pm
Cruel Jest

The Prisoner

I can’t be the first one to think of this. Can I?

Edit: Actually, This one is better.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....re=related
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October 8th, 2008 at 5:39 pm
DonnaInMichigan

Maybe he’s hoping that him and Sarah can play prisoner of war…....wink wink.
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October 8th, 2008 at 5:40 pm
tripletee (formerly tBone)

@Krista:

Worried about it? I’m guessing Liebs would pay for it. And then say "Thank you sir, may I have another?"

Re: the prisoner slip, I don’t really see why everyone is so worked up about it. People misspeak, and McCain’s under an enormous amount of pressure. Why go after him on something like this when there’s a metric fuckton of legitimate reasons to go after him? As That One might say, don’t make a big election about small things.
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October 8th, 2008 at 5:41 pm
raff

True, but Lieberman probably wasn’t worried about McCain losing his temper and blurting out "Let me handle this, you c**t!"

Heh! It had occured to me that Palin probably kept her peace (& place) because correcting McCain might be considered unseemly. One might even say… uppity.

Lieberman can correct McCain because they’re equals (of a sort). Palin is not an equal. She’s a prop, a gimmick, an affectation… & affectations don’t correct great men.
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October 8th, 2008 at 5:43 pm
Cruel Jest

On second thought, this one is better.
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October 8th, 2008 at 5:56 pm
CIRCVS MAXIMVS MMVIII

Lieberman can correct McCain because they’re equals (of a sort). Palin is not an equal. She’s a prop, a gimmick, an affectation… & affectations don’t correct great men.

And she knows it… yet it gnaws at her, so much so that she lays awake simmering over it in the dark and then gets up in the morning and goes on national television and talks about the "Palin/McCain" ticket. Ha!

But, still, she knows it, and that’s enough!
23
October 8th, 2008 at 6:05 pm
gocart mozart

After 8 years of Cheney/Bush, I think it was just ol timey McCain straight talkin mavrickness.
24
October 8th, 2008 at 6:12 pm
DJ Coolie Hot

"I am not a number—I am a free man!"
25
October 8th, 2008 at 6:16 pm
ploeg

LET MY PEOPLE GO

Day 2819 of the American Hostage Crisis
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October 8th, 2008 at 6:17 pm
Comrade Nikolita

@ThymeZone:

That’s more or less what I was thinking of last night. His attitude towards Obama and the whole election campaign in general strikes me as someone who is losing control (of both himself and his campaign), losing his capabilities, and is striking out blindly in a desperate effort to get what he wants.

Even if his "my fellow prisoners" line was a mis-step, I think it’s fair to ask if Obama would’ve made the same mistake. And I think the answer would be no – because he’s younger, he’s in better mental shape, he has better control over himself, and he usually knows how to phrase his words.

Also: http://www.smh.com.au/news/wor.....88360.html
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October 8th, 2008 at 6:26 pm
Polish the Guillotines

Palin’s reaction struck me as odd. She clearly hears McCain’s slip-up, but does nothing. She could have tapped McCain’s shoulder gently, whispered in his ear & McCain could have made an endearing joke about it. But she let him go.

Cuz she buys into the wingtard hype that she should be at the top of the ticket. She’d put a shiv in the old guy (metaphorically or otherwise) in a New York minute to become Jesus’ Specially Anointed Spokesmodel-In-Chief Of the Apocalypse™.
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October 8th, 2008 at 6:37 pm
That One - Cain

Today, we are all POWs. I think that’s what McCain was trying to say. :)

cain
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October 8th, 2008 at 6:52 pm
jake 4 that 1

What Polish the Guillotines said. Every time McPOW has what might be a Senior Moment Palin mentally does a little moose-step of glee.

If they get elected, though, the reporters will start avoiding her also and the constant torrent of fun facts about the odd thing the President did or said.

And that fucker will deserve every sharp object she inserts in his back.
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October 8th, 2008 at 6:54 pm
Polish the Guillotines

moose-step

Win.
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October 8th, 2008 at 7:07 pm
raff

I see, via the WashMonthly, that the right is in a bit of a tizzy over Obama’s (correct) pronounciation of ‘Pakistan", or as K-Lo puts it: "Pock-i-stahn".

John McCain’s pronounciation of "Americans" that comes out sounding like "prisoners", however, causes the hystericans no concern whatsoever.
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October 8th, 2008 at 9:07 pm
Delia

Cuz she buys into the wingtard hype that she should be at the top of the ticket. She’d put a shiv in the old guy (metaphorically or otherwise) in a New York minute to become Jesus’ Specially Anointed Spokesmodel-In-Chief Of the Apocalypse™.

Yeah, La Palin is waiting for her moment. Get McPOW elected; then if his melanoma doesn’t fortuitously kick in, have him declared mentally incompetent sometime within the first year. She’s ignorant as a pile of rocks but she’s not exactly stupid. You can see the calculations whirring in her brain as she looks away and then looks back again. All I can say is Cindy better hope they lose. Or hire some good bodyguards.
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October 9th, 2008 at 1:27 am
#33497H

You people make me sick.

John McCain is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I’ve ever known in my life.
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October 9th, 2008 at 2:55 am
bedlam UK

I was reading on one of the tin-foil hat blogs a theory that McCain didn’t pick Palin like its suggested.
She was picked to be his replacement.
When its too late to do anything else he’ll step down into a reverse ticket due to ‘health’ reasons, and Palin will lead the party.

I have no idea about the rules over there but assume that this wouldn’t be possible. But hell, that was a scary idea.

Either way though, McCain doesn’t have control of his faculties and hasn’t for a while. That is abundantly clear.
So Palin will be leading one way or the other.
McCains just the mouth piece. the POW face of the party.
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October 9th, 2008 at 3:57 am
Ash Can

Tripletee: "Why go after him on something like this when there’s a metric fuckton of legitimate reasons to go after him?"

That was my initial reaction as well. I can forgive a misspeak; everyone does it. I have to wonder where this one came from, though.
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October 9th, 2008 at 7:03 am
aarrgghh

ash can: that was my initial reaction as well. i can forgive a misspeak; everyone does it. i have to wonder where this one came from, though.

correctamundo, richie — everyone trips over their tongue now and then, but in this case we’ve got a complete and frankly bizarre word substitution that makes you really wonder what universe mccain thought he was in, and, more importantly, how often he visits.
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October 9th, 2008 at 9:42 am
Ron E.

We are all prisoners of his pathetic bullshit campaign and his pathetic unqualified to even be mayor of Wasilla running mate.
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October 9th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
Rick Taylor

I can’t be the first one to think of this. Can I?

Nope. I put a link to it in the previous thread.

We’re all pawns, m’dear.