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The Republican CNN/YouTube debate looked more like an episode of Jerry Springer than a presidential debate. Senator John McCain was asked a question about taxes and decided to go way off topic and attack Rep. Ron Paul for his stance on Iraq and wanting to bring the troops home.
McCain accused Paul of what he called the same sort of appeasement that allowed Hitler to take power and WWII to happen, and told him he’d just returned from Iraq and said he had a message for Ron from “the troops” — and the audience let him have it. Paul put it right back in his face by reminding him that he has received more donations from active duty military personnel than any other Republican candidate. Oh, did anyone notice Chuck Norris in the audience? This stuff just writes itself…
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SAFD.
Time to circle the firing squad, i mean wagons….
Thanks for watching the debates so i don’t have to
I hope someone calls McCain on this. I’d like to know what ‘troops’ and what message? Should be easy for an intrepid reporter to find out where McCain went on his latest trip and ask the ‘troops’ if they gave him any messages for Ron Paul, other than, “GET ME THE FUCK OUT OF HERE!”
Of course on the lighter side how funny is it that McCain has to attack Ron Paul for votes? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
Republifucks-every single one of them.
Democraps- a close second to the Corporate apologists above.
Turn off your stupid TV and take a damn walk.
Talking heads every single one of them.
We’re doomed.
Put head in sand now.
No wonder Bush was able to beat this asshole; same thing.
It looked like McCain was about to cry and take his debate and go home.
McCain is well along the path to senility. Where he pulls his conclusions from I can only imagine.
Ron Paul owned McCain
ANd yet McCain then recovered and totally owned Romney on torture
Filthy Harry @ 4:
I think Ron Paul just did. Publicly and humiliatingly.
But if you mean the CFR media - forget it. McCain’s one of theirs. Pure establishment scum. He has two modes - vaccuous or lying.
Go Ron Paul! McCain is so out of touch with reality who seems to think he can say whatever he wants to just because he served in the military. McCain always points out he respects other people who served, but seems to conveniently forget Paul served too! McCain went down in flames for his wrongsided attack.
McCain’s campaign is dead and he knows it. He’s just a cannon fodder now trying to do whatever he can to derail Ron Paul’s. It backfired quite badly, though.
The tax code doesn’t need to be fixed.. its the congressmen that keep giving themselves unearned raises every year and politicians that give away jobs to unqualified campaign supporters that needs to be fixed.
I don’t agree with Ron Paul on some issues, but he is amazing during these debates. McCain has no clue what he is talking about. Isolationism isn’t what caused WW2, but instead it was reparations that bankrupt Germany and Europe humilating the Germans. I am sure if the United States, France, and England went over to Germany in 1932 it killed every German WW2 would have been advoided, but their was no reason to.
Even though I loved how McCain went from a question about income tax to a cheap shot at Ron Paul.
Campbell Brown, whoever the hell she is, just said she thought McCain used his attack very effectively as a foil as to how he would attack other Democratic candidates on the war. She should pull her head out of her ass.
WOW. More than anything this showed two important points;
1- McCain has resorted to being a cheap Bushwacker
2- Totally off-question with his answer showed McCain had it planned to let the people know of his Turkey-feast with the troops and was looking for a spot to say it.
He really doesn’t have a platform. His answer was so poor, he tried to deflect it by bringing the dinner with the troops shit up.
HIGH SCHOOL!
Great job Ron Paul
I would like to say, from the left side of the aisle, honor and respect to McCain for hammering romney on torture!
My acceptance of the repukes would be far greater if they truly respected and loved their country to denounce the hideaous outrages against the good name of this country! And by the way, romney loving the bible? Which one? The hallucinations of Joseph Smith or that of the ChristoJudeoFascists?
When in doubt, always try to stir the fears and emotions of the populace by raising the topic of patriotism. What superpatriots like McCain always neglect to mention is that when people are placed in a combat zone, like I was in Vietnam, the first thought in their minds is when will the politicians back home will be able to remove them from that slaughterhouse as quickly and rapidly as possible. As it becomes more evident to those soldiers that they are fighting for a less than noble cause in Iraq, more and more of them will be thinking along those same lines, wondering why they are not at home with their families, instead of being in Iraq for their second third or fourth tour of duty.
man, republicans are dicks. I know this, but damn, this concentrated dose of conservative is pretty ugly.
Hey I heard there was a really good part when a gay general asks about gays in the military and they basically diss him..can you put that up if you have it?
SteveinSC @ 20:
Like the book says, you can either love God - or you can love money.
I’ll happily lend a brain cell to anyone who can’t figure out which side Romney’s batting for.
I just know that those men walked off that stage of put on white sheets and hoods and went to a KKK rally.
I have never seen so much white and so much hate gathered together.
Evil…..
Evil….
The Izz
Yet Bill Clinton didn’t rewrite history on his stand of the Iraq War? :))
Who needs the writer’s guild when you can get this for free? /snark This whole debate has been one of the funniest things on television in months(besides Curb Your Enthusiasm)…..these ridiculous non-candidates (Paul seems to be the only semi-rational one… minus all of his policy stances except the Iraq occupation ) and the moronic crowd is the scary part….. I cannot believe these people still exist in OUR COUNTRY (liberals). We have a lot of work to do to right this country.These authoritarians love to be lead….so I hope their ready to be lead by a super-majority Democratic congress and several Democratic presidents. ;) Kucinich ‘08!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
where’d they get the audience from, the Wrestling Federation? What a bunch of morons. Seriously.
This debate was a Fiasco !!!
wow, mccain made it through several sentences there without saying “straight talk”. have seen him do that in months.
and didn’t the repube blast the dems when they held their utube debate. i seem to remember many on the right belittling the format and the participants. but then again irony and hypocrisy are two things repube do not see or realize.
#16: I don’t agree with Ron Paul on some issues, but he is amazing during these debates. McCain has no clue what he is talking about. Isolationism isn’t what caused WW2, but instead it was reparations that bankrupt Germany and Europe humilating the Germans. I am sure if the United States, France, and England went over to Germany in 1932 it killed every German WW2 would have been advoided, but their was no reason to.
What kind of happy horseshit is that? Can you please explain how you come up with this theory?
James Izzard @ 25:
Do you have a problem with white people?
Ron Paul deserved to give McCain even more than he was allowed. I think Paul should have laughed that one off to McCain’s face while looking him dead in the eye giving him what for, and then turned around to the booing morons in the audience, pointed and said “you’re wrong too!” That was such a pathetic non-sequitur cheap shot from McCain…and the smile on his face…it was the same shit-eatin’ grin Bush gets on his face when he’s challenged publicly and thinks he gotten some huge dig in on somebody. If anyone is still not convinced McCain would be at least as bad as Bush, let this stand as exhibit A that he wouldn’t change a thing if elected president. I can’t even believe I respected him, once upon a time. He sells out his own heroism. Who can vote for someone like that?
I’m not voting for Ron Paul even if he manages to get the nomination, but the way he gets treated really pisses me off. Like that time Stephanopoulos told him he couldn’t win in the interview. I wanted to smack that rug off of Stephanopoulos’s head. Paul and I surely disagree on plenty, but I feel like I could at least have a civil conversation with the guy, and not just because he wants to end the Iraq war.
Go Ron Paul. Down with McCain.
McCain tried to cheap shot Ron Paul and got owned.
This whole debate was an outrage and a farce. CNN should just come out and say they want one of the CEO’s CFR buddies, Romney, Thompson, or Guiliani as president.
I think anyone who says they want to “win” in Iraq should have to define victory…what does it look like? what do we get? We can’t win or lose in Iraq, we can only die there.
Zippy @ 31:
History class? Hitler united Germany under a time of depression and inflation, which was maginified by the money they had pay to countries suffering from the depression. Germany took sole blame for WW2 and many of them were angry at the rest of Europe. Hitler exploited all of these things and used extreme nationalism to gain power.
OMG I did not watch the debate, but that clip alone makes me absolutely nauseous. Where is my country? This is just sickening.
the only thing that scares me is that Ron Paul makes the anti-war argument much better than any D, and McCain still manages to hold his ground. what the hell are the the D’s gonna do when they won’t even take a stand half as firm as Ron Paul?
as far as I am concerned, every one of those people on the stage tonight was just salivating at the chance to beat Hillary like a pinata. Its so obvious that they are all planning their campaigns around how to get jabs in on Hillary. There have been at least 3 GOP debeates, and the person who took the hardest beating in every debates was Hillary. What a shock it would be for them if they didnt end up getting to go up against her???
I support Rep. Paul because he support’s the U.S. Constitution period. I’m not a Democrat, I’m not a Republican. What happened to the rest of you? This empire is crumbling and headed for collapse. Ron Paul is a Revolutionary and so am I. It isn’t a very bad word.
#36: History class? Hitler united Germany under a time of depression and inflation, which was maginified by the money they had pay to countries suffering from the depression. Germany took sole blame for WW2 and many of them were angry at the rest of Europe. Hitler exploited all of these things and used extreme nationalism to gain power.
I agree that Hitler used nationalism to further his cause, but I think the main contribution to the war was the effects of the depression, the spread of communism, and the most important part-the French and British governments trying to appease Hitler in order to avoid military confrontation. (Sound familiar? The French apparently did not learn their lesson-see the riots in France. The French are trying to appease the Muslim Gangsters, or excuse me, the angry youths that are unhappy with their situation in life)
McCain is stealing riffs from Rep. Jean Schidt…..LMAO
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Sorry, but the Audience made the Candidates look like a bunch of geniuses.
What a bunch of retards.
It was actually a pretty good debate. A lot of people here are suffering from the same cognitive dissonance that the republicans are
Paul “owned” McCain? Seems appropriate since Paul wants to turn the calendar back to 1792, when one man really could own another.
White power!I mean, State’s Rights!Forget, hell! Paul ‘08!
Chris H. Great post.
Does anybody think AH was unpopular in Germany for what he was doing? F NO!
Along with Giuliani and Romney, McCain has eagerly shown he isn’t qualified to be a candidate, let alone president.
Isolationism? you mean like not talking to the enemy and calling them axis of evil when they were denouncing the terrorist of 9/11?
After WW1 we levy heavy taxes on Germany and made them pay for the war, kind of like how we expect Iraq oil to pay for the war. Except we are not at war with the Iraqi, but using their land as the grand wrestling match of the century with the roaming terrorist. It was nice of the Iraqi people to front the main event for the terrorist.
After WWII we open trade and encourage the country to get back on their feet with US money and employed their citizen of that country to rebuild Japan and Germany. Kind of like what we are not doing in Iraq. They the Republican really hate that the Liberal solution for the second war work really well. I notice that most of the text book on US history like to gloss over that part of our times. But most text book for the public school system comes from Texas, so it’s no surprise. I don’t even recall that the student even get to study JFK, and Nixon era. It must be nice to fudge the fact in public of what they don’t want you to know in school.
I have never seen so many bipolar people gathered in one place before. Thank God the candidates were there to provide comedic relief. (Course the audience didn’t laugh because they’re bipolar, duh.)
It seems to me that the tax question, income versus national sales tax is another way to allow recipients of dividends and interest to avoid supporting the country. The current battle within the income tax system is earned income versus unearned income.
The “Hitler” angle as justifying the war seems to be a lot of nonsense. Saddam was harmless to us and quite contained. Conversely, there is one nation in a unilateral military buildup, a buildup that seems unparalleled since Hitler’s buildup when he broke the treaty of Versailles, a buildup which accounts for over 50% of the world’s military expenditures. That is, of course the U.S. buildup, an excess that Eisenhower warned about when he discussed the military-industrial complex.
Our tax problems would be solved if we weren’t blowing so much money on the military to be the world’s policeman. Given that the biggest threat to this country in the last 50 years was accomplished through the use of 20 box cutters, it seems we need a smarter approach to defense than blindly throwing money at it.
Where’s Chris Dodd’s talk clock??
RP got 4 minutes… MAYBE… absolutely pathetic. Tancredo, same. Regardless of who one is ‘rooting’ for, the bias shown in these debates is anything but democratic! Its an absolute absurdity and bastardization!
CNN has lost any sort of respect I had for it, which was small to begin with. And its funny to hear McCain go on about Hitler’s regime because my friends, we’re not so far from it now. Propaganda machine roaring louder now then I’ve ever heard it. Replace jew with iraqi.
Or irani.
Zippy: What is the opposite of appeasement? War. So appeasement cannot be the cause of war only the postponement of it. Why was Hitler and Germany hellbent on war? Too much machismo, too much pride, too much militarism, but don’t blame appeasement. That’s blaming the victim.
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