Jumpin’ Jehoshaphat, this man redefines the term “being confused.” He just nicely obliterated the right wing’s chances to smear Michelle Obama with that whole “she’s proud for the first time” stupidity. Wasn’t that nice of him?
The Politico: (h/t Jed Report)
So a man finally got a question into McCain and he had a very different sort of question.
The questioner noted that he had been educated at Princeton and Harvard and made more than $300,000 a year.
“How can I be proud of my country?” he asked.
Get it — he was mocking Michelle Obama and her statement earlier this year that her husband had for the first time in her life made her proud of her country.
Well, McCain either missed the joke or decided to ignore it and answer the question literally. I think it was the former because the individual asking the question had a thick accent that sounded to be either Indian or Pakistani, perhaps suggesting to McCain a recent immigrant grappling with America’s image abroad.
“I’ll admit to you that it’s tough, it’s tough in some respects,” McCain said, seeming to lend credence to Michelle Obama’s observation.
McCain said America needed to be “more humble, more inclusive.”
He observed that one of the ways to be proud of the country was to look at our history — and the sacrifices U.S. troops have made abroad.
McCain let his questioner follow up and the individual repeated, but didn’t clarify, his line.
In closing, McCain said he was proud of America in part “because of you and what you’ve been able to achieve and accomplish.”
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sweet Jebus…if we lose to this man in the fall, I am moving to Canada.
Wow! This guy never ceases to amaze me. Seems like every time he opens his mouth, he steps on his d*#k. I’ll bet his handlers are p***ed.
So he didn’t give a snide or politicized answer, and we’re badmouthing him for being “confused”? Seems petty.
For the senile shell-of-a-man, McGrampa, it’s tough, it’s tough in some respects to just remember his own name.
The only way Obama can possibly lose to McCain is a successful swiftboating campaign. They are focusing on the fact that the Obama’s are actually somewhat engaged in the black American experience, instead of rejecting it outright like a Clarence Thomas or Colin Powell. McCain could piss his pants on stage and it won’t matter if they can raise enough anxiety about Obama’s scary blackness.
METHINKS this is a bit of a reach! Although one has to continue to question a candidate who is so CLUELESS about much of what is out there on all levels…and, yet, our MSM continues to push the idea of the race being “tight”…now I thought two BUSH administrations answered this question for me …BUT, are “Merkins” really that STUPID!!!??????
it amazes me that this is the best the right can put forth. Seems every day he has some sort of flub. And like post number 1, if McCain does win, Canada is looking pretty sweet. Maybe we can get a package deal on travel.
Wow. Proud cuz when it comes to killing, second to none. Yup. That’ll make ya wave the flag. McCain=retarded.
Will bil o’reilly be threatening to get up a lynching party?
These days it is downright impossible.
Grandpa McCain of 2008 is a duplicate of another Grandpa B.Dole of 1996.
That’s the best what Republicans are able to offer,and between them is GWB.
You’re welcome to come to Canada, but will you be able to get your brains around public healthcare??
Even when they stock the room with ringers and lob Gannon style softballs at him he still gets confused. Why didn’t his handlers just script an answer for him?
Assassin @ 3:
I would agree…if this were the only case where this idiot didn’t know what was going on or who was involved in what…This guy doesn’t just mix up the non-crucial things like he said in the above post, but he also gets Sunni and Shia mixed up, he don’t know who Iran might be training and he doesn’t know the difference between our occupation of Iraq and the Marshal Plan that kept us in Germany and Japan for so many years. This guy doesn’t know his ass from a hole in the ground. And he military service record doesn’t make up for the fact that he doesn’t know his facts.
Hussein Bookworm @ 12:
P…ub…lic…heath…care? I’m not familiar with that term…you mean the government want to ensure that the citizens of their country are healthy and have access to a doctor when they need it? Sounds like a communist plot to me! If you don’t have to pay thousands of dollars a year and then wait hours to see a doctor, is it really medicine?
Assassin @ 3:
The man wants to be leader of the mightiest military on the globe. Do you really want a confused, unstable, obviously unintellectual as Prez again?
Assassin @ 3:
Agreed. McCain gave what I think is an honest answer while at the same time giving the left the gift a defense for Mrs. Obama. What’s to be indignant about?
ConcernedCanuck @ 16:
There are very good reasons not to elect McCain. Your examples above are a lot of them and then there are his policy stances.
But his answer to this question wasn’t a reason not to elect him. It’s not even something to hold against him. He said it’s hard sometimes to be proud of America.
I’m not proud of America at the moment (but more so than I’ve been since Bush got elected). I want to be proud of America which is one very good reason to elect a leader we are proud of. McCain is just too weak to be president. He won’t stand by any of his convictions - even the ones I don’t agree with. He caved to Bush in 2000 and then sucked up to him after that.
Anybody with even an ounce of self-respect would behave very differently toward Bush than McCain has. If he doesn’t respect himself do you think he respects us?
So him saying it’s tough to be proud of America sometimes is dead on.
He doesn’t attack MO and they scream..if he had they would scream. It’s not about right or wrong, it’s not about facts vs fiction with these Obamatons. It’s defend the Messiah no matter what, even if he’s not being attacked. I can’t wait to see what they do when he is indicted and arrested for being a criminal.
Those you see following the Obamessiah are not Democrats, though the species may try to look similar. They are in fact nothing but JACKASSES!
P.U.M.A.
McDole is headed for the trash heap of history.
I’ve always had this sneaky suspicion that Mac is doing his thing in revenge for 2000 and getting back at Bushco and Rove.
Hussein Bookworm @ 12:
Yes, indeed. It’s one of the main reasons for coming!
on the other hand, it could just be a senior moment and McCain’s amateur campaign team.
Dahgrostab’ph-r-i @ 15:
LOL! Classic! God Bless Canada. Our intelligent neighbors to the North.
Hussein Bookworm @ 12:
Its very complicated, taxes pay for the health service, administration and hospitals, meds, operations, etc,
and its free at point of sale, everybody is covered.
And guess which advanced industrial nation is the only one without a NHS system ?
hint begins with an A.
CafeenMan @ 17:
Exactly. McCain had to sell himself to the neocons and religious right and corporate interests– and every once in a while he actually shows up.
Next story.
Dahgrostab’ph-r-i @ 15:
Medicine and hospitals for the wealthy, folk remedies and aspirin and other pretend OTC meds for the poor.
Wow…some actual “straight talk” from McCain. BTW, I think that the reason some are looking at Obama “like the messiah” is that they have suffered through BushII, Slick Willie, Bush I, Ronnie “trickle down” Reagan, the hapless Carter, Ford, Nixon the Nazi….I suggest that they are not jackasses, but hungry for a real leader.
POdVet @ 19:
The sad truth is that many voters, likely most voters, care more about whether or not the guy they’ll vote for is “more like me” as opposed to the voters’ concern about the candidates’s stance on the issues. The large number of voters identifying with John McCain is really a frightening thought. He is obviously dumber than dirt.
Fil Husseun Oaks-proud member of the Pitchforks and Torches Society
Huh ! When you really look at history, there isn’t much to be proud. And, as a matter of facts, it’s the same for every country in the world.
History, anyway, rightly or wrongly, is mainly made of individuals having done something “historic”. And, objectively, being proud of your country just because you happen to have the same citizenship of some, or a bunch, of historic people doesn’t seem particularly clever, nor more clever than being proud of your country because, well, it is your country. After all, what it is, if not being proud of the accomplishments of others, and taking some of their glory to glorify oneself ?
People will uderstand that I don’t see why Michelle Obama should be proud of the US because she has been to Princeton and makes 300,000 a year. She has all the reasons to be proud of herself : it’s a personal success (she can be thankful to the US to have allowed it). Now, being “really proud” of her country now, because her husband has come where he is, is perfectly justifiable, since it wouldn’t have happened some years ago, and he came where he is now with the help of millions of people.
buck_fush @ 1:
Is there anywhere in Canada where shoveling snow is not necessary?
ferrofluid (Obama 08) @ 27:
Anybody who hasnt been there or really looked hard at what is offered, go check out Wallyworlds (and other pharmacies) area for symptom covering meds.
Its radical the difference between say the UKs average pharmacy and what is sold in the US to sick customers,
here in the US people are suffering (from lack of real health care) and buying half assed pretend painkillers and other balms to avoid treatment or because they are not covered by their insurance.
Its a lucrative market for the OTC (over the counter) ‘med’ suppliers.
This is such an incredibly ignorant argument to begin with. I liken it to family members, whether they be children, parents, spouse, etc. Most of the time you’re proud of them, but sometimes they do things you’re not so proud of. And even when they do things you’re not proud of, you still love them. It’s the same with my country, I’m generally proud of America because we have done a lot of great things. We were founded on great principles. Lately, however, I haven’t been so proud, and even before that we’ve done some things that were less than decent. The last 7+ years have been a disaster. I’m particularly embarrassed by the Shrub. After all, name one thing he hasn’t made worse or screwed up from the get go.
POdVet @ 19:
I think you’ve missed the point of this post.
There are many on the right who would like to attack Michelle Obama because of her “finally proud of america” bit. But now McCain is helping her out by what he’s saying. So, for the those on the right, it’s like “Damn! Can’t he even stay on message? We’re trying to help!” So that makes it kinda funny for those of us watching, because he’s shooting their efforts in the foot. Hardly a matter of defense.
Spicegal @ 33:
Oil corporation profits? Munitions corporate profits?
It is tough being proud of a country that has become modern day vikings. Hopefully the attacks on Michelle Obama will now stop.
He can get by with this statement because he’s a conservative white male, she can’t because black Democrat.
He can get by with this statement because he’s a conservative white male, she can’t because she’s a black Democrat.
Craig @ 36:
Leopards cant change their spots, nor can Republicans change their white supremacist bigoted ways.
And it doesnt help when black actors sell out (for money) for the racists in Hollywood,
that latest Eddie Murphy / Cedric film looks like just another rolling eyes (going by the trailer), black people are funny film.
Ok maybe 95% of the movie might be serious acting, but if 5% panders to the old hollywood notion of the scared black with big white rolling eyes then its not good.
Ruthless People @ 38:
…we’ll never hear about this. Mainstream Traditional Corporate Media double standard.
Spicegal, #33: agreed. There’s also something Orwellian about the right shrieking “unpatriotic!” every time someone is caught not wearing a flag pin or expresses something less than absolute adulation for our country and it’s policies.
Now that this Bush clone has said it, let’s hear the ring wing get up in arms against such a comment. But they won’t… they’re too busy being outraged over scarves in commercials & other idiotic things.
Del Capslock @ 41:
Its out and out fascist conformity, their blind worshiping of uniforms and flags, and the way they shriek and call every ‘war is bad’ dissenter out as a traitor.
It just proves they are a herd mentality type people, safe and cosy in their stupidity and willing to be led like lambs to the slaughter.
of course the manipulators and the org crime families tend to always have good reasons why them and their children dont,
have to go off and actually fight and die for their money grubbing cause, they send other peoples children off to die, generally poor peoples children.
Obama will be in good shape this fall with all of McDole’s senior moments he can’t help but provide for Democrats.
Dancer @ 6:
The Republicans are counting on it.
it proves it. Mccain is a traitorous terrorist working for the Vietnamese to undermine Truth, Justice and the American Way.
Ralph Kramden @ 46:
Bush43 twice is a good example, even if the elections were stolen, he got close to 50% of the stupid vote.