America-hating Britons hating America

Walter Reed Middle School

SITTING behind McCain, I didn't see the screen behind him, but apparently quite a few people were puzzling over the plush-looking building projected on the screen. Wonder no more: it was Walter Reed Middle School, presumably chosen by a confused RNC staffer who was looking for a picture of Walter Reed Medical Centre.

Just so long as they don't mistakenly try to take out Ireland's nuclear programme.

more liberal nitpicking - the kind of thing only an America-hating smarty-pants elitist would notice

The McCain Tech Policy In Action!

"...this latest gaff, running a picture of Walter Reed Middle School on the green screen behind McCain instead of Walter Reed Hospital because they screwed up a Google images search, has certainly cemented not merely McCain, but the McCain campaign, as being in the ranks of the terminally clueless on matters technical."

Or - maybe he just forgot?

News item: Republican presidential candidate John McCain has apparently decided on his candidate for vice president. CNN reported this morning that McCain had made up his mind and would call the winner and those on the short list who were not chosen sometime today. McCain told a Pennsylvania radio station earlier today he was still trying to making up his mind. "I haven't decided yet, so I can't tell you," McCain told KDKA in Pittsburgh. It's possible that both reports are correct, since the CNN report came several hours after McCain's comments.

News item: McCain unsure how many houses he owns

Not an elitist like Hussein over there though.

I have a whole new respect for Paris Hilton

"My friends, I forgot to put on my pants this morning..."

"I know how to win wars."
John McCain, January 2007

"I am very certain that this military engagement will not be very difficult."
John McCain, September 12, 2002.

"Look, we're going to send young men and women in harm's way and that's always a great danger, but I cannot believe that there is an Iraqi soldier who is going to be willing to die for Saddam Hussein, particularly since he will know that our objective is to remove Saddam Hussein from power."
John McCain, September 15, 2002.

"But the fact is, I think we could go in with much smaller numbers than we had to do in the past. But any military man worth his salt is going to have to prepare for any contingency, but I don't believe it's going to be nearly the size and scope that it was in 1991."
John McCain, September 15, 2002.

"He's a patriot who has the best interests of his country at heart."
John McCain, on Ahmed Chalabi, 2003.

LoC editor writes a message for McCranky on the bathroom wall

And the message is, go phokk yourself...

Obama set the tone early on the trip, stepping on a basketball court before a cheering crowd of U.S. troops and calmly nailing a 3-point shot.

'BAD WEEK' FOR REPUBLICANS

"As soon as he hit that 3-pointer, I knew it was going to be a bad week," Republican consultant Joe Gaylord said... (Suck on it... Ed.)

But McCain's aides fumed at the heavy media attention on Obama and struggled to compete. Weather scuttled McCain's plan to fly to an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico to highlight his drilling proposals, and one cable network cut away from his New Hampshire town hall to report the rescue of an injured bear cub in California. (Funny! Ed.)

Good Morning!

McCain Makes Significant Gains in Four Key Battleground States
Majority of Voters in Colorado, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin Favor Keeping Troops in Iraq, According to Quinnipiac-washingtonpost.com-Wall Street Journal Survey

Republican John McCain has quickly closed the gap between himself and Democratic rival Sen. Barack Obama in several key battleground states even as the Arizona senator struggles to break through the wall-to-wall coverage of Obama's trip to Europe and the Middle East this week.

John McCain: still without a world map and lovin' it

Foreign Policy Expert McCain: “Iraq-Pakistan Border” Extremely Dangerous


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funny, in a nobody-will-notice, won't-make-any-difference, who-gives-a-s#i+ sort of way

"Well, if that scenario evolves, then I think it’s obvious that we would have to leave because — if it was an elected government of Iraq — and we’ve been asked to leave other places in the world... I don’t see how we could stay when our whole emphasis and policy has been based on turning the Iraqi government over to the Iraqi people."
-- McCain, 2004

"[V]oters care about [the] military, not about Iraqi leaders."
-- McCain, 2008

nothing that a little more folksy humor can't fix, or, poll results scientific (but funny)

News item: Obama backers more excited than McCain's, poll finds

WASHINGTON (AP) — John McCain is facing an excitement deficit.

While overall interest in the presidential campaign has swelled since last fall, backers of Barack Obama are more fired up and express more loyalty to their candidate than McCain's do, a poll by The Associated Press and Yahoo News showed Friday. In addition, individual groups backing Obama — African-Americans, Democrats and liberals — are more enthusiastic than whites, Republicans and conservatives, who are more aligned with McCain, the GOP senator from Arizona.

because he'll get tough with Czechoslovakia

And they trust him to deal at long last with the Habsburg Empire...

While 56 percent said Obama knows enough about world affairs to be a good president, more, 72 percent, said so about McCain. Pitted head-to-head on the issue, McCain was judged as the one with better knowledge of the world by a better than 2 to 1 margin.

Watch him squirm!

Media laughs as McCain stumbles on serious women’s health question

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