What can I say, John McCain just loves surges.
If you’ve got a problem, John McCain has a surge. In Iraq, of course, McCain loves the surge so much, he’s willing to credit the surge for events that occurred before it even began. In Afghanistan, McCain opposed sending additional troops, that is until a few weeks ago, when McCain announced he supports a … wait for it … surge in Afghanistan.
Over the last several days, McCain has become so enamored with this child-like formulation — surge = problem solved — that he’s now willing to extend it to policies that have nothing to do with the military or foreign policy. On Saturday, addressing the Urban League, McCain talked about his approach to inner-city crime. He recommended a surge.
It’s become so reflexive, the McCain campaign, two weeks ago, was talking about the debate over energy policy, and said, in relation to Obama’s position, “This is the domestic policy equivalent of the surge.”
But this is especially odd given today’s remarks about the economy. What’s the difference between McCain’s economic policy yesterday and his new-found support for an “economic surge”? Nothing, except now, McCain’s policy is surge-rific.
I’m curious — if McCain was challenged to give a speech without the word “celebrity” or “surge,” could he do it? I really doubt it.
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A surge is what you do when you screw up the first time and need to fix it.
man, i just don’t get how repubs can support this guy. doesn’t make sense to me at all.
That can only mean that he wants to go after your assets before your assets are usable in the homeland.
So the party that hates giving decent poor black people money to survive is going to give the gangs money to stop causing trouble in those same neighborhoods?
‘Cause that’s what they are doing in Iraq.
I had a real healthy “surge” this A.M.
McCains probably have a big Budweiser Contract with the Pentagon. Isn’t that the Official Military Brew?
warren buffet: my secretary pays more income tax
(percentage wise) than i do.
why…….they declare under capital gains 15% and don’t
forget UBS is getting probed for setting up a tax shelter
that could be sheltering a possible 100bil…..if people
paid maybe we wouldn’t have to increase taxes.
right now some communities are getting killed because they are NOT collecting property taxes from empty foreclosed homes.
John McCain will put people to sleep with his speeches. At his point it really doesn’t matter what he says not one is paying attention to him anymore.
Ah, surge-tastic.
Maybe the surge could paint my garage. I’d really appreciate it.
Weaseldog @ 1:
WOW! That is one of the realest things I have heard in my life!
Yellow Elephant Safari @ 10:
What you need is a painter and paint surge.
Resist the urge to say surge.
The one thing that my warped mind thinks of when I hear McCain say “surge” is the Bronson Pinochet character from “Beverly Hills Cop” named Serge(?) standing up and saying in that lispy gay voice “Johnny ,Serge in Iraq, Serge in Afghanistan, Serge in the inner city, there just some much of me to go around.”.
I’m curious — if McCain was challenged to give a speech without the word “celebrity” or “surge,” could he do it? I really doubt it.
nope they have it down to a one word bad..”celebrity”
a one word good.”surge”
elementary linguistics “for dummies”
i want to take a second to thank the spineless, pathetic and compromised news whores in the msm for their help in creating the false notion of the surge’s success.
thank you, the GOP and mccain couldn’t be happier to have y’all as their official apologists, spinners and misinformation disseminators.
And come October, McCain is going to need a healthy celebrity surge.
“if McCain was challenged to give a speech without the word “celebrity” or “surge,” could he do it? I really doubt it.”
add to that list “a little straight talk” and “my friends”.
but curiously enough, we don’t seem to hear him say “and now a little straight talk” all that much anymore. probably because he knows he is lying through his forced smile teeth.
Ah, the problems that can be solved with walls and bribes(After most of your enemies were killed or expelled). It would be Utopia.
Can he have a speech without the nauseating words, “my friends”?
I guess he’s trying to remind his audiences that “the surge worked” in Iraq so a surge by any other name would still smell as sweet.
I laughed out loud today when I saw the clip on tv of him saying we need an economic surge. It sounded so funny and so hollow. He said this after he spent several minutes talking about how dastardly Sen. Obama’s economic plan would be.
Sometime when he’s speaking, if there are people behind him, look at their faces. So many of them have blank stares on their faces and often when the applause line comes it takes someone to start clapping before the others realize that they should too.
I’m not sure if it’s pitiful or funny.
When you have brain-dead creative people building your campaign, the silly, the absurd, the pathetic is worth throwing it up against the wall and see if anything sticks. As a forty-plus year advertising agency veteran, it makes you want to puke.
Big crown there.
“Hey Rick, can you see if you can rustle up about 10, not too slovenly looking folks off the street? I need a crowd backdrop for this little ditty.”
i can’t stop watching the enthusiastic crowd in back of him. hanging on his every word and projecting the positive vibe the senator is generating.
can anyone tell me again why he thinks speaking before crowds that measure in the tens of thousands is a bad thing conpared to crowds that measure 6 3/4 people?
what a fun image.
Samson- @ 15:
IMO, the entire ’surge’ is more or less a false notion, created by Washington.
Why is it that this ’surge’ is practically nonexistent in foreign reporting on Iraq? Iraq is still in the news in Europe, but the ’surge’ isn’t. They’re still hearing about new acts of violence and terror in Iraq on a daily basis. Ask a your average European about it, and he or she will probably be entirely unaware of the existence of this ’successful’ campaign.
I’ve got a strong feeling the average Iraqi’s view of the surge is closer to that of the rest of the world than the USA’s. Am I wrong?
Somebody asked Bimbo Cindy, the painted trollop, about it the other day at Sturgiss, while she was getting nekkid for the Ms Cow-Chip contest…
She said Bombin’ Johnnie doesn’t cum, he even surges in bed…
a refresher on the mcSurge col.mcFarland/gen.patreus
listen quick bites on what they really said the RNC is depending on their secrecy of the policies regarding this war to sway the uninformed public….same old trick
this is a good short video mcSurge refresher.
http://www.veracifier.com/episode/TPM_20080723
I’d like to surge McSame!
right on! @ 27:
right into the middle of next week…
And what an amazing array of doofus, vapid, doltish-looking losers on the dias behind him?
The cumulative IQ of the whole bunch didn’t top 130, with Bombin’ Johnnie’s figgered in…
What we need is a Democratic surge, a bush-cheney-rove purge and a g.o.p.dirge.
helenahandbasket @ 30:
that’s surge……purge and dirge….i can believe in!
What a complete idiot!
What he needs is a afternoon nap.
“noun, verb, surge” is at it again
somebody wrote this before….
spongejohn surgepants
Most times the people behind him, when he’s speaking, remind me of the expressions you see on people’s faces in hostage tapes. They look as though they are being held against their will.
I wonder if they really want to come out and see him or if they are encouraged?
I read somewhere today that McCain isn’t as cozy with his traveling press as he once was. He doesn’t have fireside chats with them any more on the plane. Maybe they forgot to get sprinkles on his donuts or something.
pissed off patricia @ 36:
that glazed look when asked about viagra looked similar to bush when he was reading my pet goat
he wants to distance himself from looking/being seen with bush
he’s confused, again…
still thinks he’s in south dakota–surgiss..
Thomas Stone @ 22:
My first thought was it looks like a police line-up.
The fix is undoubtedly in. Hey - is that a serge suit?
you folks gotta realize, mcsame’s not trying to reach anyone with a triple-digit (over 99) iq…these ads are for the lumpiest of the lumpen-proles…and they’re probably working …
Does Cindy go everywhere with him? I don’t remember ever seeing a presidential candidate who had his wife appear with him everywhere he went. I can’t understand the reasoning behind this.
Buffalo Chip McCain reminds me of Theodore Brewster in “Arsenic And Old Lace” who thought he was Teddy Roosevelt and kept running up the stairs with his bugle yelling “CHARGE!”.
pissed off patricia @ 42:
he can neither wipe his ass nor button his fly…those damn comminists, they tortured him…so Cindy, the Cnnt, has to accompany him everywhere…no Secret Service guy would do it…They don’t get paid enough for that…
Raising taxes in a bad economy is the worst thing you can do? How about cutting taxes for the wealthy during a war you dunderhead? Does that make a lotta sense? Bampot.
The white hair dude spent less time at his job, like you know the Senate, missing tons of important votes and he still takes credit for everything right. What a maroon!
If McCain want s to feel a surge, I know just the place on his person where he can stow his tire gauge.
woody, tokin librul @ 29:
When the right wing accuses the left of arrogance and elitism, they can point to your comments for support.
Maybe if we reach out to what you call the ‘losers’, we’d have a chance to run this country. They are probably going through hard times. They don’t need McCain but maybe they need some patient persuasion to be convinced of this.
woody, tokin librul @ 41:
Those people are probably going to vote for him anyway so why not try reaching out to the next higher rung.
A guy called into Washington Journal this morning and he was ripping Obama. Then the man said, I know what McLain will do. I know all about McLain, he’s a good man.
Yeah, he knew everything about his candidate, except his name.
Hey POP - If Cindy doesn’t tag along there’s a risk that his wee lobbyist “pal” would come back. Or he might hit the red light district and get caught. I’ll bet that the ever-present Cindy wasn’t Good-Time Johnny;s idea.
helenahandbasket @ 30:
Indeed!
bobsf @ 48:
Well, okay, but be sure to show’em the visual image, too, so they see I wasn’t exaggerating…
pissed off patricia @ 49:
John McCLain is the name of the Bruce Willis character in all those Die Hard movies…Which rung is that on, sil vous plait?
its great how obama is the vague guy… as if mccain ever gave any details about his plans. dem in 08, or ill be depressed
I hear surge works pretty good on dirty laundry…. Not so much on other things, like nation building and what not…..(yea, that’s that’s right, some weak snark…) JD