MCCAIN CONCEDES GRACEFULLY

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MCCAIN SUPPORTERS REMAIN A HOWLING, DISRESPECTFUL MOB

COMPARED WITH OBAMA'S ORDERLY, RESPECTFUL, JOYOUS CROWD, IT WAS JUST SAD

YOUTUBE: MSNBC
"McCain Concession Speech"


McCain's Career In Politics Ends On A Bitter-Sweet Note

If John McCain on the campaign trail had only waxed this eloquent and been as noble as he was in his concession speech late last night, he might have won the Presidency. He hit all the right notes. It was a beautiful piece of rhetoric. The old John McCain, whom many of us used to admire, appeared briefly, and then was drowned out by the yahoos "energized" by the new John McCain and sicko Sarah Palin, who helped defeat him.

I couldn't understand the screams of the Republican rabble, but they were coarse and animalistic, violent and uncouth-sounding. As a background, and sometime foreground for McCain's final aria, it was genuinely painful. He brought it upon himself; it was ironic: In the end, the haters couldn't let McCain be McCain. They had to continue to superimpose their fascist vision on him, as he had been encouraging them to do all throughout his campaign. He bears full responsibility for their behavior.

Last night, McCain and Obama both called for healing and cooperation, putting country first in reality, not just in rhetoric. Based on the election results, most people are ready to do that. A new era may have dawned in many ways, including race relations. But the howling horde surrounding McCain at the end will not ever put country first. Sarah Palin and even worse elements in the extreme right wing of what is left of the Republican Party will head off for the backwoods, with their Bibles and their guns, and start evil-doing straightaway. We can only hope they don't graduate to actual armed conflict. But they are that crazy. Mark my words: You will be hearing from them, and you won't like it.

McCain tried to put that genie back in the bottle. But it wouldn't go. Now he only has himself to blame if a new strain of fanaticism has been developed and set in motion by his campaign. Rather than retire to his desert Mount Vernon, McCain should dedicate himself to reigning these nut-jobs in, before they do serious damage. He owes it to the nation, if he really wants to put "Country First."
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THE LAST DEBATE; LET'S GET PRESIDENTIAL, 2008!

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MCCAIN'S LAST STAND, BASED ON CUSTER'S

DESPERATE RACIST DEMAGOGUE WILL TRY ANYTHING TONIGHT

Here's A Preview, And Some Questions


1. SENATOR, MCCAIN, HOW BADLY DO YOU WANT THIS?
mccain: "oh please, please, please'


2. WHY SHOULD AMERICANS VOTE FOR YOU?

mccain: "i... i... i... just need it so BAD..."


3. WHAT WILL YOU DO FIRST, IF ELECTED?

mccain: "anything, my god i'll do ANYTHING, just tell me what you WANT???!!! WHAT THE F*CK DO YOU WANT YOU F*CKING C*NTS???!!!"


4. WHY SHOULD THE VOTERS TRUST YOU, GIVEN THE WAY YOU'VE RUN YOUR CAMPAIGN

mccain: "my friends, i was a p.o.w. i was was a p.o.w., my friends. a p.o.w. . . . my friends."


5. BUT YOUR CAMPAIGN IS IN A CONTINUAL STATE OF DISARRAY: NOBODY SEEMS TO BE IN CHARGE, FROM WEEK TO WEEK, NO ONE SEEMS TO KNOW WHAT TO DO NEXT.

mccain: "i know what to do. if you'll just give me another chance. i know what to do."


6. THE POINT IS, IF YOU CAN'T EVEN MANAGE A CAMPAIGN, HOW WILL YOU RUN A GOVERNMENT, A COUNTRY, A PLANET?

mccain: "this planet? are we talking about this planet? is that what this is about?"


7. SENATOR, YOU SEEM LOST, DISORIENTED AT TIMES. IN ALL HONESTY, ARE YOU YOURSELF SURE YOU'RE NOT TOO OLD FOR SUCH A CRITICAL, STRESSFUL JOB? CAN YOU ASSURE US THAT YOU CAN ACTUALLY HANDLE THE JOB?

mccain: "is that what you want? i can do that. sure. i'll say that. yes, yes, i can handle it. now can i have the job?"


8. SENATOR, MANY WOULD SAY THAT YOU'VE SHOWN VERY POOR JUDGEMENT IN THIS CAMPAIGN. GIVEN YOUR AGE AND HEALTH RECORD, WAS AN UNTESTED UNKNOWN THE VERY BEST CHOICE FOR VICE-PRESIDENT?

mccain: "who? sarah? gosh we love sarah. so pretty. my precious. yessss my preciousssss.'


9. THERE HAVE EVEN BEEN ALLEGATIONS OF A LACK OF CHARACTER BEING SHOWN BY YOU IN SOME OF YOUR ACTIONS IN THIS CAMPAIGN. HOW DO EXPLAIN THE VIOLENT, RACIST TURN YOUR CAMPAIGN HAS TAKEN?

mccain: "i am from missippi. i don't much like the coloreds. my family owned slaves. we were in the klan. i 'd like to kill that one. should i admit all this? no. i'll just say such allegations are unfair. such allegations are unfair. there i've said it. now i'll smirk. f*ck you. f*ck the media. heh-heh."


10. MR. MCCAIN, DID YOU REALIZE YOU WERE SPEAKING OUT LOUD JUST THEN?

mccain: "i'll try to speak more softly, then, tom, uh, sarah, i mean, dick. your name is dick, bob?"
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MCCAIN VS. SENILITY

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ALZHEIMERS GOES ON THE ATTACK AND WINS THE SECOND DEBATE

MCCAIN SPEWS TALKING POINTS RANDOMLY, DROOLS NOTICEABLY



Conservative Arizona Republican Senator, 104, May Not Make It To Election Day

In the second of three 2008 U.S. Presidential Campaign Debates, John Sydney McCain III appeared to break down and lose all touch with reality for brief moments, on several occasions. He actually forgot to mention his former P.O.W. status! He could not remember his three highest priorities without scribbling them down as the moderator reminded him of them. He then said that "some of the $700 billion would end up in the hands of terrorists," apropos of nothing.

Seven hundred billion happens to be the exact amount of Congress's recent Wall Street bail-out. Was McCain saying that there are terrorists on Wall Street? Was he implying that there is so little Congressional control or oversight of Treasury Secretary Paulson that he might deliberately or accidently use the money to fund terrorism? Or was this some imaginary number on some totally unrelated subject that suddenly popped into McSame's very old head as he rambled on incoherently? Who knows? There was no follow up.

It didn't start well: Asked about the bailout in the opening question, McBush went off on a jag about gasoline prices, porkbarrel spending, and his supposed leadership abilities. He never approached the question, leaving the audience, including the guy who asked the question, visibly perplexed. A real senior moment for McNuts.

Then there was the question on violating Pakistan's sovereignty by going across their border to attack Al Qaida and the Taliban on Pakistani soil. McCain seemed to confuse the Russians' war in Afghanistan with our own conflict there. He seemed to be saying that we are in Afghanistan to finish the job the Russians started. He also seemed unaware that the "Freedom Fighters" against the Soviets are in fact today's Taliban and Al Qaida. I know, who can sort all that out? Well, how 'bout the President of the United States of America? Or not...

Finally, McCain reminded me again of the end of "Citizen Cain." You know, where his last dying thoughts return him to his loveless childhood, and a sled made by a company called Rosebud? Of course, Rosebud was actually William Randolph Hearst's pet name for his lover's (opera star wannabee Marion Davies) genitalia. That little private joke pretty much ended boy-genius Orson Welles' career. Let's hope this debate, with its' closing Rosebud moment, ends Citizen McCain's career.

CNN: DEBATE TRANSCRIPT:
QUESTION #1 (A): Allen Shaffer:
Shaffer: With the economy on the downturn and retired and older citizens and workers losing their incomes, what's the fastest, most positive solution to bail these people out of the economic ruin?

McCain's Response:

' Now, I have a plan to fix this problem and it has got to do with energy independence. We've got to stop sending $700 billion a year to countries that don't want us very -- like us very much. We have to keep Americans' taxes low. All Americans' taxes low. Let's not raise taxes on anybody today. '

CNN: DEBATE TRANSCRIPT:
MODERATOR FOLLOW-UP QUESTION #1 (A): Tom Brokaw: Discussion:
Senator, we have one minute for a discussion here. Obviously the powers of the treasury secretary have been greatly expanded. The most powerful officer in the cabinet now. Hank Paulson says he won't stay on. Who do you have in mind to appoint to that very important post?
McCain's Response:

' Not you, Tom. '

CNN: DEBATE TRANSCRIPT:
MODERATOR FOLLOW-UP QUESTION #3 (F): Tom Brokaw: Discussion:
There are new economic realities out there that everyone in this hall and across this country understands that there are going to have to be some choices made. Health policies, energy policies, and entitlement reform, what are going to be your priorities in what order? Which of those will be your highest priority your first year in office and which will follow in sequence?
McCain's Response:

' The three priorities were health... '

BROKAW: The three -- health care, energy, and entitlement reform: Social Security and Medicare. In what order would you put them in terms of priorities?

McCain's Response:

' We can work on nuclear power plants. Build a whole bunch of them, create millions of new jobs. We have to have all of the above, alternative fuels, wind, tide, solar, natural gas, clean coal technology. All of these things we can do as Americans and we can take on this mission and we can overcome it. My friends, some of this $700 billion ends up in the hands of terrorist organizations. As far as health care is concerned, obviously, everyone is struggling to make sure that they can afford their premiums and that they can have affordable and available health care. That's the next issue. '

CNN: DEBATE TRANSCRIPT:
QUESTION 9 (F): KATIE HAMM
"Should the United States respect Pakistani sovereignty and not pursue al Qaeda terrorists who maintain bases there, or should we ignore their borders and pursue our enemies like we did in Cambodia during the Vietnam War?"
McCain's Response:

' Now, let me just go back with you very briefly. We drove the Russians out with -- the Afghan freedom fighters drove the Russians out of Afghanistan, and then we made a most serious mistake. We washed our hands of Afghanistan. The Taliban came back in, Al Qaeda, we then had the situation that required us to conduct the Afghan war. '

CNN: DEBATE TRANSCRIPT:
INTERNET (CLOSING) QUESTION: Peggy from New Hampshire
"What don't you know and how will you learn it?"
McCain's Response:

' There are challenges around the world that are new and different and there will be different -- we will be talking about countries sometime in the future that we hardly know where they are on the map, some Americans. So what I don't know is what the unexpected will be. But I have spent my whole life serving this country. I grew up in a family where my father was gone most of the time because he was at sea and doing our country's business. My mother basically raised our family . . . R-o-s-e-b-u-d . . . '

[More about Citizen McCain.]
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TOP TEN PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE QUESTIONS

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MCCAIN VS OBAMA, CAMPAIGN 2008

WHAT WILL MCBUSH DO TO THE ECONOMY TONIGHT?


To Say Nothing Of The Damage He's Already Done To Race Relations

TO JOHN MCCAIN:

1. Have you ever killed a child?

2. How do you know?

3. When you were a bomber-pilot in Vietnam, were your bombs built to avoid children?

4. Was it a primary part of all your missions to always avoid bombing children?

5. Given the fact that the US Navy & Air Force dropped more bombs on Vietnam than they dropped on Germany & Japan in WWII, and that we still lost the Vietnam War, was that strategic bombing, or just terror-bombing; and doesn't that make you a terrorist, yourself?

6. If Al Qaida crashed a plane in the US after bombing civilians here, would the captured pilot deserve special treatment, or immediate execution?

7. Why did you make propaganda for the Communist North Vietnamese?

8. Do you think it shows good character and judgment to leave a faithful wife after she waited for you for the whole five years you were in prison?

9. Who got luckier in the criminal courts: Cindy McCain after she got caught stealing drugs from children, or you, John McCain, after you got caught peddling influence during the last major banking crisis?

10. Do you think either one of you belongs in the White House? Then why did you call your wife a "c*nt" in front of reporters?

[Cross-posted on Coffeehouse Studio.]
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BUMPER STICKERS 2008

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WEAR YOUR HEART ON YOUR ASS

WELL, YOUR CAR'S ASS

It's How We Express Our Deepest Thoughts & Feelings, In Traffic

Although, some of us just use the finger.















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DO NOT ASK FOR WHOM THE POLL TOLLS

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IT TOLLS FOR THEE

MAINSTREAM MEDIA PRETEND POLLS MEAN SOMETHING

Yawn. Another Slow News Day. Let's Make Something Up.

Having done polling myself, I can tell you, they're pretty much bullshit. A bunch of minimum-wage marginally employable misfits is forced by circumstances to sit in a room together, calling up complete strangers at inconvenient times and harassing them with stilted questions on subjects the "respondents" don't know or care about at all. If the telemarketers, er, surveyors, don't produce "results," they get fired.

"Results," of course, are pre-determined. Questions are written and arranged to elicit certain specific answers. The tel, er, surveyors know this and try to conduct the "surveys" accordingly. For the most part, no one monitors them, there are no recordings made or listened to in detail, only a record of how long each survey took to complete, and how many were completed by each surveyor. The surveyors all know how many surveys they need to complete, and how long each survey should last. If a respondent needs to be led by the nose, or to have his answers provided for him, the surveyor basically does the survey himself, just to get credit for it and to keep his or her job. Sometimes surveyors will finish a survey themselves even after the respondent has hung up on them. Sometimes they call friends or family to help them out. Usually, nobody checks. Nobody cares. The company has to provide something for their fees. And they already know what is wanted. All they have to do is provide it.

Even the most scrupulous polling company is going to have trouble getting real results these days. First, there's that pesky "DO NOT CALL" list. Then again, most people rarely answer their phones, if they even have land-lines any more. Many people screen their calls with answering machines or caller-ID. Others simply hang up on telemarketers and pollsters at inconvenient times, or any time. Pollsters can't call people at work or in school, and they can't call cell-phones. They can't call too early in the morning, before people leave for school and work. They can't call people too late, when people finally get home again. Some pollsters don't work on the weekends, many never work Sundays. Then there's the whole time-zone thing, if you're polling nation-wide. It's tough.

The "representative sample" now consists of the tiny minority of yutzes and putzes who are sitting around home waiting for some stranger to call them up and ask them a lot of personal questions. These are people with absolutely nothing to do, who will comply at length with the unreasonable requests of a total stranger for no reason at all. Unlike most people who are busy, or paranoid, or possessed of a minimum of self-respect, the "representative sample" will drop everything and do anything to please a voice on the phone. They're representative, all right: Of mental incapacity. That's whose opinions make headlines today, folks: Children, morons, the senile and the terminally lonely.

In the Summer, the situation gets worse. People stay outdoors, take vacations, go to the movies, come home late, anything rather than sit home watching reruns on TV. For the mainstream media, or the polling companies themselves, to pretend that a poll in August is the same as a poll in March or October is just a blatant lie. The results are always questionable at best, but really meaningless in the dog-days of Summer. Never heard that? You never will. There's money to be made in the opinion business. And their poor surveyors never take vacations. They can't afford to.

To make matters worse, we now have polls that are openly and deliberately biased being touted as the real scoop on where America is headed. Push-polling puts words in people's mouths, and surveys of "likely voters" pick only specific people to respond. "Balance" is achieved by eliminating males or females, Democrats or Republicans, etc, until the numbers can be forced to jive. Yet all of these polls are treated equally, regardless of method or methodology. Why? The political Parties and the tame corporate media know that there is a certain percentage of sheep out there who will base their opinions, and their votes, on the opinions of others, as "shaped" and pushed by the Parties and the media. The Big Lie requires some big statistics, so they manufacture some, and put it all out like so many tainted tomatoes. And the sheep eat it up. At least, that's what the Republicans are counting on this year.

Don't fall for it, folks. Reality is how you live your own life, not something the media puts out. When it comes time to vote, think about your own circumstances, and who helped create them. Think about your own interests, and who can best serve them. After all, when's the last time the mainstream media put bread on your table? And which Party has had control of the White House for eight long hard years now? Thanks to them, are you better off? If so, vote Republican. If not, vote Democrat. No matter what anybody says, vote your own interests. Don't get poled this year.
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MCCAIN SPACES OUT

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SENILE FLYBOY THINKS HE'S RUNNING FOR THE MOON

JOHN MCSAME IN NASA-IVE DENIAL


Republicans Have Destroyed The American Vision Of The Future

Now McBush thinks he can pre-empt Obama by evoking some sort of a classic American 60's vibe, a Kennedy flash-back. Unfortunately for him, the 60's was a Democrat decade, a time of change and rebellion, liberation and upheaval that threw the Republicans for a loop. They're still whining about it, and the "counter-culture." The decade ended with Tricky Dick "I'm Not A Crook" Nixon's blatantly false promise to end the war in Vietnam. You know, the one where McCain dropped bombs on babies from miles above? Yeah. Not such a good memory, McSame. And then Watergate. The Seventies. Disco. Stagflation (It's B-A-A-A-A-A-A-C-K ! ! ! ). No thanks, douche-bag.

Anyway, the Repukes destroyed NASA's purity of purpose and perfection of execution, turning it into a military boondoggle and creating the Challenger disaster. To them, Space was just another piece of real estate to be overdeveloped and squeezed for money and power. Nothing uplifting or spiritual about it. To Repukelickin's, spirituality means condemning other people and hogging the heavens all to yourself. Pigs in space. The future is just the past redux. Blcch.

Democratic Senator Col. John Glenn USMC, Admiral Alan B. Shepard Jr. USN, martyr Lt.Col. Virgil "Gus" Grissom USAF and first man on the moon Capt. Neil Armstrong USN would have spit on McCain, back in the day: An Annapolis slacker who skated on his admiral-daddy's credits, a piss-poor pilot who lost multiple planes, a stiff-arm-saluting prick who napalmed civilians and paid the price in POW camp (where he made propaganda for the enemy,) which he's now trying to leverage into an Oval-Office billet; John Dubya McCain would only rate a full military loogie. Now he's trying to co-opt the spirit of real American heroism. Hyoook-PTUOOOIE!!! You ain't got the right stuff, Li'l Dubya.


DBTECHNO.COM
"McCain Fires Back At Obama To Win Over NASA Supporters"

' Over the weekend, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama made his voice heard in regards to his support of NASA. Not to be outdone, Republican presidential candidate John McCain has fired back, with his own plans for NASA. Barack Obama revealed last weekend in Florida that he was in full support of NASA, and wanted the U.S. to lead the way in terms of space exploration. '

WASHINGTON POST
"Obama Suggests $2 Billion In New Funding for NASA"

' While Obama's ambitious plan embraces President Bush's 2004 "vision" to send astronauts to the moon by 2020 and later to Mars -- a plan McCain co-sponsored in the Senate -- the Democratic presidential candidate said the administration's "poor planning and inadequate funding" have undermined the effort and jeopardized U.S. leadership in space. In particular, he criticized administration policies that will lead to a five-year period after 2010 when "the United States will have to depend on foreign rockets and spacecraft to send Americans to orbit" -- even to the largely U.S.-funded $100 billion international space station. Although McCain has said continued U.S. space superiority is essential, he has also said that as president he would freeze all discretionary spending -- and NASA, with a budget of about $17.5 billion, is generally considered in that category. McCain has spoken in mostly general terms about NASA. In an earlier interview, McCain campaign spokesman Taylor Griffin said the candidate firmly supports building a new generation of U.S. spacecraft and would fund the program as needed. He also said McCain would conduct "an overall review early in the administration of where NASA's money is spent to determine an appropriate plan of action." '

MEDIA NEWS-WIRE
"McCain's Low Road on NASA"

' Once again, John McCain and his campaign have decided to take the low road rather than defend his own record on NASA issues, which Florida Today called "downright schizophrenic." Not only has McCain voted to take funding from NASA to fund other priorities, but his "fantasy" plan to pay for making the Bush's tax cuts permanent by freezing discretionary funding and vetoing every bill with earmarks would cost the Mars mission millions. '

ALTERNET
"Swing and Miss: McCain's Pinata Politics"

' John McCain's campaign has been operating under a similar framework for quite a while now. Under McCain's version of Pinata Politics, the senator and his team swing wildly in every direction, hoping to hit Barack Obama. There's no real consistency to the attacks -- and there's even less honesty and integrity backing them up -- but McCain appears to be blindfolded, allowing Karl Rove's operation to spin him in circles. '

DISCOVER
"Politicians in Space! Obama, McCain Clash on NASA Funding"

' As we’ve mentioned before, Florida has a huge stake in NASA’s well-being, and the state stands to lose thousands of jobs when the space shuttle program shuts down. Given that NASA is now making headlines in the presidential debate, it looked like Florida Sen. Bill Nelson’s tactic—harping on the fact that cutting NASA programs means relying on the Russians for access to space—worked just fine. '

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