Now do you believe McCain’s candidacy is over?
Let’s recap. McCain kinda-but-doesn’t-really suspend his campaign to make himself the indispensable man in the bailout agreement. He gets to Washington as an object of ridicule and the deal falls apart — something that at least some people, admittedly Democrats, attribute to McCain’s transparent stunt. Then, despite Harry Reid saying he’s going to keep the Senate in session until there’s a deal, McCain abruptly announces he’s… going back to campaigning (not that he stopped!) and will attend the debates. His statement is here. But to get all bloggery:
Shorter John McCain: When the going got tough, my friends, I got the hell out of the kitchen. Wait, what’s a mixed metaphor? WELL AT LEAST I DON’T PLASTER ON THE MAKEUP LIKE A– This mic is on?
So, in summary: Humiliating failure. John McCain didn’t screw the pooch. He was the pooch.
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On the Senate floor this morning Senator Schumer told Senator McCain “get out of town”
Last night on Countdown or Hardball Howard Fineman said “instead of calming he (McCain) inflamed the situation.
George Will slammed McCain this week calling his decisions “rash”
“theatrics” “set himself up” “groping around in the dark” are just a few of the comments about McCains flip flopping.
Apologies to Trent Reznor and Johnny Cash:
I smacked my wife today
To see if I still could
She screamed and ran away
Just like I knew she would
The bottle brings relief
The old familiar bliss
Try to kill it all away
But then I have to piss
What have I become
My sweetest friend
Everyone I know goes away
In the end
And you could have it all
My empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA I LOVE YOU FOREVER
It’s not just Democrats. I heard Norman Ornstein (!) last night on the BBC World Service blast McCain for injecting presidential politics into sensitive negotiations, and moreover praise Obama for his “nearly pitch-perfect” behavior.
McCain is the pooch … oh my … gonna have to sit down after that one … question is, who’s doin’ the screwin’ … that was oddly poetic … could it be Bush, the right wing of the GOP, his ego? … all good candidates, all interesting visuals … other question is, will the MSM get it and get out of McCain’s lap … especially while he’s being the pooch … honestly, nothing good comes from being in that position during that activity.
Hey, Yogi, it aint over . Three weeks ago, Obama’s supporters, not to mention other Dems, were running around with hands pressed to their heads, decrying McCain’s poll lead.
Get your heart off your sleeve, place it firmly in your chest, and wait until the last Fla. vote has been re-counted.
This is self inflicted pain. Moronitis.
Former Secretary of the Treasury Paul O’Neils take on the bailout
http://abcnews.go.com/Business…..038;page=1
Look what Jon Stewart had to say last night on the bailout.
http://www.crooksandliars.com/…..ng-speech/
Just wait till a big ass terrrist attack goes down.
Shorter Obama: “Political Statesmanship.”
Shorter McSame: “Political Stuntsmanship.”
Good advice. Everybody has to remember IOKIYAR
But don’t you think bin Laden’s all ready got all what was on his wish list?
And that was before he, uh, ’suspended’ his campaign.
You sure that isn’t a shitpile? There are a lot them around these days.
I am imaging the book Sarah Palin will write about how McCain failed her, how she was abandoned by women, how the press mistreated her, and how the people of Alaska turned on her.
The fact that McCain/Palin has been knocked down two or three times and the ref has not canceled the fight is unfair. They need to be in intensive care, not to be propped up to be pummeled (by themselves) again and again.
I’m waiting for tonight’s debate.
Foreign Policy is supposed to be Grumpy’s strong suit — and I’m hoping Obama kicks Grumpy hard enough that he goes away sounding like Professor Frick on ‘The Simpsons’.
Barring that — McCain could just show us that fanmous temper. Wouldn’t it be cool to see Grumpy pop his cap, live, on the National tube?
You can bet there is going to be a McCain last ditch switch soon. Palin for Lieberman.(or Romney) Palin has got to drop out because of family issues.
As a pundit said last night “how can Palin hold the office of V.P. if she can not find the office?”
McCain is being hammered by people in his own party. Do you think he will drip out for health reasons? We know they are going to have to ditch Palin..they have to. Every time she speaks she crams both of her feet into her mouth.
Let’s get serious: ditch Palin for Cheney!
Per MSNBC
palin is cheney…errr…with lipstick
What a manly man, putting country before all else!
They are not going to talk about foreign policy because there is a fire burning. The biggest issue will be the economy. Lehrer knows that, Obama knows that, the people know that, I am not sure McCain knows that. He will pout and whine (along with his republican “nation of whiners”) and cry foul. McCain is a dead man walking ……….. politically speaking.
McCain will be wearing his “I was a POW” ballcap.
Palin is the potential victim here. Little does she know what they have in store for her. If elected, she’ll be strapped to a table in the bunker below the whitehouse while they perform a transplant: Cheney’s brain into the empty space in her head.
Bet he was tired, though, after all his hard work on the bailout and probably didn’t absorb a thing they were trying to cram in his head. Why do they keep saying foreign policy is his field – he doesn’t give me the impression he knows anything about it.?
As Naomi Klein said on Bill Maher: “Palin is Bush in drag.”
That does not mean we can’t enjoy a person who is hard to like, “shooting himself in the foot”.
She still wouldn’t be ready to take power. First, they’d have to remove all traces of a soul (if she ever had one).
But all he can say is “When I was in Hanoi, we didn’t get a bailout! We had to drink the sweat off our own balls! Until America understands that the fat cats and elitists who try to run this country have not drunk the sweat off their own balls, we will not be able solve this problem!”
No problem. They’ll just lock her in a room with short ride Joe for a long weekend, while he indocrinates her to his world view.
The fact that McCain/Palin has been knocked down two or three times and the ref has not canceled the fight is unfair. They need to be in intensive care, not to be propped up to be pummeled (by themselves) again and again.
Oh please. The Marquis of Queensbury rules are sooo yesterday.
This is Mixed Martial Arts Cage Match fighting, where you ain’t out until you are truly O.U.T. out.
You’re killin’ me. Stop.
OT – why do the Repubs keep allowing this fool R-Rep Eric Cantor (VA) to slither in front of cameras?
Tweety damn near took his head off last week – Shuster now doing a good job continuing this new tradition.
So many threads, but they are necessary to DOCUMENT THE INSANITY! This may have been noted. But Manchurian Camdidate McCain thinks telling ethnic jokes about the Irish is perfectly acceptable. He then disrespects Irish Americans and he is not even funny.
No, I don’t believe McCain’s candidacy is over, he is allowed to get away with this crap on a daily basis because of his age, senior senator status, and he is a war hero. That’s how he has gotten along so far.
so i cannot believe mccain is actually going to debate..the reason he was “suspending his campaign” was to avoid it imho
I therefore believe he was given a cheat sheet to bribe him into participating
look for well prepared snappy answers if this is true
Are you kidding? In a couple of years Sarah Failin will have her own talk show gig. “Flailin’ with Palin” or some catchy title like that. (:>
WELL AT LEAST I DON’T PLASTER ON THE MAKEUP LIKE A-
And, of course, he’s paying $5000 to have the makeup plastered on.
IOKIYAR as long as you’re an investment banker, lying religious fanatic, bigot or an authentic American MOron.