John McCain......

Oooo, breakin' out those deadly words and personal insults. My gosh, what will I do to survive this. Ya know, when people start in with the insults, it just shows they don't have the grey matter between their ears to offer anything intelligent. And come on, you can do better than that. Idiot? That's like a 3rd grade insult. If you're going to proclaim your lack of grey matter to the world, don't be so half-assed about it.

Originally Posted by Bongulator

Oooo, breakin' out those deadly words and personal insults. My gosh, what will I do to survive this. Ya know, when people start in with the insults, it just shows they don't have the grey matter between their ears to offer anything intelligent. And come on, you can do better than that. Idiot? That's like a 3rd grade insult. If you're going to proclaim your lack of grey matter to the world, don't be so half-assed about it.

Damn your stupid..........seriously.

Originally Posted by medicineman

Not seen in the MSM are the facts about John McCain and the deal he made with the Viet Cong to get special treatment.

A couple of swift-boat sites. Yawn.
In that spirit, here is a claim that Barry Obama got his cock smoked by a partyboy on a coke binge in 1999.
Obama: Man Claims Gay Sex, Drugs in '99 with Barack

Originally Posted by medicineman

In 1993, during one of his many trips back to Hanoi, McCain asked the Vietnamese not to make public the records they hold pertaining to returned U.S. POWs.
John McCain blocks investigation of missing POW's and MIA's to save his political career. | polidics.com

I looked up that item about 1993 and could only find references to it in talkbacks on blogs and such. It's all in the echo chamber. Is there an actual source for this assertion?

Please note it says he asked that all POW records be held, not just his.

There were some interesting items.

The Code holds U.S. prisoners of war responsible to protect--at whatever cost--the cause for which the United States stands by continuing to carry on some form of resistance with the enemy. The establishment of the Code of Conduct was the result of what was considered in 1955 an embarrassing high number of U.S. servicemen held prisoner during the Korean War who apparently did little to resist collaborating with the enemy.

According to a Congressional Research Service Report (CRS), one out of every three American prisoners of the North Koreans and Chinese collaborated. The degree of collaboration ranged from such serious offenses as actually siding with the enemy to the relatively insignificant offense of broadcasting Christmas greetings home and therefore putting the communists in favorable light.

It seems like the U.S. Military was serious about dealing with collaborators. Why was not he disciplined upon his return?

Originally Posted by medicineman

Former Senators, Governors and political records flat out nail John McCain as a scared little man on the run from a history of lies and deceit.
John McCain: The Manchurian Candidate

All the proof at this site is no longer available for viewing.

I'll tell you who is a better candidate to be a Manchurian candidate: Barak Hussein Obama.

The man who campaigns in Europe. The man who brings us the Global Poverty Act. The man who would be President of the World.

The man born a Muslim and his campaign simply lies about it. Forget the possibility that he was raised a good Muslim until leaving Indonesia, that's irrelevant.

His daddy was a Muslim, his half-brothers and half-sisters, born before and after him, were born Muslim and are Muslim. Islam is a patriarchal religion, yet he can't even admit he was BORN a Muslim.

If there is a sleeper agent in play during this election it is Barak Hussein Obama. Hands down.

I would just as soon have a muslim president as christian...the christians have done some pretty fucked up shit...
McCain harassed him into going and then it backfired on him...

Originally Posted by tipsgnob

I would just as soon have a muslim president as christian...the christians have done some pretty fucked up shit...

The rise of Western Civilization came about after the Christian Reformation. It took centuries to realize the full benefits of the reformation. It was a slow process, but Christianity did reform itself.

Islam has had no reformation. Little has changed since Islam's Golden Age.

There's one big problem with having a Muslim president. We are at WAR with Islam in a clash of civilizations begun in 1973 with the OPEC oil embargo.

Originally Posted by tipsgnob

McCain harassed him into going and then it backfired on him...

This is not McCain's fault.

Obama decided to combine an official visit with a campaign event. The choices he made were his.

In his speech last night to the Republican National Convention, President Bush talked about a lot of different things: Hurricane Gustav, oil drilling, a painting of a mountain in Texas, and his wife Laura.
But there was something missing from Bush's speech -- any mention whatsoever of the economy.
Of course, he had good reason to avoid this topic. Right now the economy is in shambles for the majority of Americans. Unemployment is way up, wages are down, millions of homes are in foreclosure -- and much of the blame falls on George W. Bush.
Now John McCain is proposing an economic plan that doubles-down on Bush's failed policies. Like the President, McCain probably doesn't want to talk a whole lot about this -- in fact he readily admits the economy is not his strong suit. Last December, McCain told the Boston Globe,

"The issue of economics is not something I've understood as well as I should."

Originally Posted by tipsgnob

Unemployment is way up,

The rate is 5.7%.

When Bill Clinton was president 5.5% was considered to be full employment.

Originally Posted by Johnnyorganic

The rate is 5.7%.

When Bill Clinton was president 5.5% was considered to be full employment.

it was calculated different...

Originally Posted by tipsgnob

it was calculated different...

Really? Would you take the time to spell out the differences? Thanks ...

Oh, by the way, the economy grew by 3.5 percent over the last quarter.
Did they calculate that differently too?

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that 95% of home owners are paying their mortages on time each month.

Vi

Originally Posted by tipsgnob

it was calculated different...

A familiar refrain.

That may be true, but this is different.

How do you figure unemployment rates? How do you know the calculus is different from the Clinton era?

When I was a kid in Sunday School, they told us the same thing.

Jesus really didn't drink wine. Things were different then. They didn't know how to ferment wine. It was just grape juice.