Showing posts with label McCain. Show all posts
Showing posts with label McCain. Show all posts

Sunday, October 11, 2009

The video: Old senile dude admits to Sarah Palin tension

McCain Admits Tensions Over Palin Among Former Staff (VIDEO) HuffingtonPost
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) demurred once again when asked to divine the kind of candidate for president his former running mate, Sarah Palin, could be in 2012.

"I have a degree of clairvoyance," the Arizona Republican said, "but in 2009 to predict what would happen in the 2012 election is -- I'm not capable of."



Tuesday, October 6, 2009

FOREVER: John McCain and Sarah Palin

Bad boy Chris Cillizza has Palin supporters questioning his sanity. Good for him.

John McCain and Lindsey Graham are the most prominent GOP critics of the far right. hmmm...

Give losers like McCain Hell!!!! McCain is trying to backpedal without first purging his participation in bringing a far right nut case into his candidacy. He went for the lowest common denominator and he failed.
Continuing to support the embracing and exultation of one of the craziest on far right while at the same time he is a prominent GOP critic of same makes him crazier than ever.
The best antidote is the truth
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Not that he is man enough, but he must give it up and come clean in order to make sense. McCain has been a bad boy since the beginning, he learned the art of cover up early in life. By the time he married into a local mafia family he was good to go with the fine art of political manipulation. Not everyone could have skated through the Keating Five thievery like the old rascal did. And who better to abuse the families of fellow POW soldiers? He is not worthy of his government positions/benefits and he needs to learn he is not fooling as many people now. Are the elections in Arizona rigged or are the voters nuts?

The GOP is starting their 2012 campaign positioning.
Neoconservative moderate v far right extremist? Even a "moderate" like Pawlenty will go rogue.

Read more about the party of old farts and dinosaurs:

The Palin Wars: Part LXII
Chris Cillizza October 5, 2009
All of the attention that Schmidt's comments have attracted is yet more evidence of the fact that Palin is a -- if not the -- prime mover in the Republican party. If she does ultimately run for president (and there are strong arguments to be made on each side), it's almost certain the race would boil down to Palin and a single candidate -- former Gov. Mitt Romney (Mass.), Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty* etc -- who would become the rallying point for the anti-Palin forces.
Until then, the forces who support her and those that oppose her will continue to reinforce their positions -- a process that could turn the 2012 presidential nominating fight into one of the most memorable in history.
( February 2008 the impossibility video: Cillizza and Palin go way back h/t midnightcajun )

Joe Scarborough Shows Yet Again Why He Could Be President Someday


*'Moderate' Tim Pawlenty Hires A 'Boatload' of GOP Dirty Tricksters to Run His PAC
Via Raw Story, Rachel Maddow points out that in a move to make himself the Republican presidential candidate in 2012, the so-called "sane, centrist, future of the Republican Party" Tim "Fear the Mullet" Pawlenty is putting together the usual assortment of Republican scum to run his political PAC:

For Pete sake, keep writing your politicians and the journalists
that are suppose to be covering them.

Clue them in on what you really want to know and why.

What is it that could affect 2012? Attorney Rex Butler speaks about a Levi Johnston book:
* “probably worth millions.”
* “doesn’t want to give it all away right now,”
* “Quite frankly, I think it could affect 2012,”
* Mr. Butler likes to suggest that Mr. Johnston’s story could have an impact on her potential candidacy.
He certainly wants to write a book, the lawyer, Rex Butler, said by telephone, adding,
“Believe me, it’s a hell of a story.”


You can see for yourself exactly how Sarah Palin was when she said she was tight ab at 32 weeks pregnant. If that photo makes sense to you, please explain. If not, show everyone the compounding evidence and keep asking questions.

Bree Palin has the best documented photo comparisons. That is a start, but not all there is.
Elan Frank Interviews Sarah Palin-April 2008 part 1
Elan Frank interviews Sarah Palin-April 2008 part 2

Monday, October 5, 2009

Give 'em Hell!!!!

I had a very interesting tête-à-tête last week that I thought I'd share. As you may have guessed, I'm on the email distro lists for all the major Sunday shows and cable news networks, and I get email notifications for who the scheduled guests will be as well as transcripts, p.r. pieces and the like. Last week, when ABC sent me an email that John McCain was going to be their guest again, I sent back a snarky reply asking if they ever had John Kerry on after he lost the election to George Bush as often as they've had McCain, and why, when there are so many actual issues about which the public needs to be informed, they gave so much air time to GOP obstructionism.

Read the entire piece here: About That Media Notion of "Balance"...
By Nicole Belle Sunday Oct 04, 2009



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Funnily enough, the producer didn't really have much response to that, simply thanking me for the input. Honestly, I wasn't really happy with the dismissive little pat on the head from the Villager who thought that little blogger me couldn't understand why McCain was a reasonable booking. So I thought I'd give him a suggestion as to real balance:
Here is a segment I would LOVE to see you do with Sen. McCain: why don't you invite my colleague, David Neiwert, author of The The Eliminationists, on to discuss how the violent rhetoric that used to be relegated to the fringes of the Republican Party which has been mainstreamed since Obama's election and let Sen McCain respond to that? After all, he is the one who brought Sarah Palin to the national stage (and as I recall, actually said on your program that Palin was his "soul mate" after having only had one phone conversation and a short meeting with her before asking her on the ticket) and there is no other politician who has tapped so proficiently into that zeitgeist. I think it would be beneficial for Americans to hear someone of Sen. McCain's gravitas and stature disavow the kind of violent and racist rhetoric we've all seen. I'm more than happy to provide you with contact information for Mr. Neiwert if you are so inclined.

But if you're not interested in putting Sen. McCain on the spot, perhaps next time you do a show on the problems we're facing in Afghanistan, the "balance" you seek would be better achieved by putting on a politician who favors withdrawal, like Rep. Alan Grayson, instead of two hawks who will both say that the most important thing is "winning" in Afghanistan without actually explaining what "winning" means or how we can achieve it militarily. Where's the balance in that for your viewers?
Are you surprised that he had no response to that?

"Don't even call it corporate media, much less mainstream media any more. Call it corporation television, tv of the corporation, by the corporation, and for the corporation." comment

Celebrating Slaughter: War and Collective Amnesia
Oct 5, 2009 By Chris Hedges

Déjà vu:

Levi Johnston, Lori Tipton And Their “Business” at Mat-Su Hospital –
And What Rex Butler Doesn’t Want To Go On the Record With…

Sunday, 20 September 2009
"Ice Crystals": Tori Tipton and the Mat-Su Valley

The losers who gave us Sarah Palin

The GOP operatives who championed her should be held accountable for endangering the country
By Joe Conason July 10, 2009

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

NEWSWEEK'S One key question: Who has been ghostwriting the Facebook messages and op-eds signed in Palin’s name?

"According to Politico’s Ben Smith, former McCain foreign policy adviser Randy Scheunemann accompanied Palin to Hong Kong and helped write the speech." (Steve Biegun, Dan Blumenthal, Kim Daniels)

Who Is Advising Sarah Palin?
Tuesday, September 29, 2009 5:43 PM

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In the nasty aftermath of the McCain-Palin ticket, Palin broke with many of the advisers she had worked with in the final days of the campaign. She went back to Alaska, surrounded by her longtime political team, including chief spokeswoman and top adviser Meg Stapleton and Kristan Cole, who helped Palin launch a legal defense fund to cover costs related to several ethics investigations in Alaska. In January, Palin launched a new political action committee, SarahPAC—a move widely interpreted as an effort to help forward her political ambitions. Between January and June, the PAC raised more than $730,000—with almost $270,000 of that going to staff and consulting fees. Palin hired Pam Pryor, a GOP operative who once worked for former representative J.C. Watts, as an adviser. In February, she also tapped Becki Donatelli, a longtime GOP consultant close to McCain, to run SarahPAC, but the two severed the relationship in April. Donatelli declined to comment and, like Pryor, directed all questions to Stapleton, who did not respond to repeated requests for comment.
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Right after the August 7 to 8 attack on South Ossetia the President of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili was shocked he didn't get any back up from the US. He soon changed his tune, but it was clear he thought he had a reason to believe if he attacked the de facto Russian territory of South Ossetia and the Russian soldiers that he would not be alone. Who was feeding him that bull and why didn't they keep their word?

This was major because it has to do with missile shields, NATO, Israel and possible nuclear bombs going off.

We know John McCain gave us the delusional blithering Sarah Palin and he must be held accountable for his desperate attempt to win an election. What else would he do to win? Cindy McCain would not have needed to go to The Republic of Georgia with aid and soothing for Saakashvili if he hadn't been led to believe he should attack at that time, coincidentally, US elections were is process. The European Union report is better than nothing but it is only telling part of the story. (Why Is Cindy McCain Going To Georgia?)

McCain had a falling out with his adviser Randy Scheunemann, what all was that about? Whatever it was, it doesn't bother Sarah Palin because she is in bed with Scheunemann now.

The current report settles who started the So. Ossetia attack.
Report: Georgia Triggered War With Russia
SEPTEMBER 30, 2009
"For Moscow, the report's finding on who shot first is a significant victory, one that's likely to undermine efforts by Georgia President Mikheil Saakashvili to rally Western support behind him."

"The report notes that the United States, Ukraine and Israel supplied large scale economic and military aid to Georgia that allowed the country to double its military in the space of a few years."

BRUSSELS--A nine-month European Union investigation into the 2008 war in the Caucasus has concluded that Georgia triggered the conflict, but that Russia prepared the ground for war to break out and broke international law by invading Georgia as a whole.

Conclusions to the roughly 1,000 page report, released on Wednesday by Swiss diplomat Heidi Tagliavini, also found that Russia-backed South Ossetian militias committed atrocities and "ethnic cleansing" of Georgian villages during and since the war. It faulted Russian forces in control of the territory that either "would not or could not" control the South Ossetians.

The report found no evidence to back Russian claims that Georgia committed genocide on the night of Aug.7-8.

The conflict, which briefly brought the United States and Russia into Cold War-style confrontation, left some 850 people dead, 35,000 permanently displaced and Europe's security infrastructure severely weakened. Russian forces remain in occupation of the two territories, while Moscow has recognized them as independent states.
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John "Bomb, bomb, bomb Iran" McCain and Scheunemann finger prints were all over the Republic of Georgia and Mikheil Saakashvili, the rogue crook who thought he had the back up to take on Russia in South Ossetia. That's not all, they sent Cindy McCain, looking like White House material, on a sudden humanitarian stint.

"Cindy McCain, the wife of Sen. John McCain, flew Monday evening to the Republic of Georgia, where a military confrontation with Russia over disputed territory has become an issue on the presidential campaign trail."
August 26, 2008

"She's on the phone with the World Food Program, he's on the phone with Saakashvili," McCain adviser Nicolle Wallace told Time. "It's like this great picture of what they'll be like in the White House."

Palin linked to death threats against Obama
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Palin's "Going Rogue" e-book delayed

New book out November 3, 2009: A bigger fake than Palin?
Eisenstadt "goes rogue-er"

Saturday, September 26, 2009

Sarah Palin, Randy and the man who eats tie: What has Palin learned in a year?

This explains Scheunemann's affinity for Palin, he likes crazy mean people...(Randy Scheunemann was McCain's campaign foreign policy adviser) Talking Points

This is the man that wants weapons from the United States

Mikheil Saakashvili eats his tie
McCain as McCain/Palin: ‘We Are All Georgians’ "John McCain is gulping down the neocon Kool-Aid on Georgia"
Georgia's Pain "The next day I left Georgia, worried about a people under an administration that was squeezing out civil society and opposition. Since then I have maintained contact with civil society inside Georgia. Every once in awhile I’ll receive an email detailing the fear, the intimidation, and the beatings by Georgian police."

What has McCain or Palin done for the people of Georgia since it is no longer a political tool for them? We can't even be sure that Palin knows that the Georgia of Mikheil Saakashvili is not in the United States.
Why Saakashvili eats his tie?

What has Palin learned in a year?
"Blah, blah, populism, blah, blah, I saw a moose, blah, blah, Reagan, blah, blah, terrorists…
on and on"
The best Hong Kong spa: Grand Hyatt
PALINGATES : China and Sarah Palin
"Please carefully read the lady in China five thousand years of history. Otherwise, please shut up.
Arrogance + ignorance = terminally ill".

“佩林香港演讲 称美国应该帮助中国找寻未来”
9/25/09 Guestpost by EyeOnYou: China Reacts to Palin
Does Sarah Palin realize how bizarre her statements were in Hong Kong?
GRYPHEN: 9/26/09 Shannyn Moore's Countdown appearance yesterday

MSNBC Shannyn Moore and Lawrence O'Donnell

"Palling around with neocons and chickenhawks" Palin's last calls as governor to Richard Bruce "Dick" Cheney and Rudolph William Louis "Rudy" Giuliani
Countdown With Lawrence O’Donnell & Shannyn Moore

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Meghan McCain to Levi: "Take Care of Your Baby"

Which baby or did she mean "Take care of your babies?"
Tripp, Levi's son with Bristol Palin, will be
9 months old later this month.

Said Meghan, "If I had a child, I would be at
home taking care of it."

Meghan McCain to Levi: "Take Care of Your Baby"

Levi's account suggests that her (Sarah) favorite activity is getting others to do her bidding. And she likes free stuff -- free room service, free clothes, free hotel rooms. Once the campaign ended, Levi says, her motto was,
"I want to just take this money and quit being governor."
And so she has. Sarah's Choice

MIA Sarah has been rumored to be wearing shades in Wasilla, it could be the crow's feet.
Whatever it is, Sarah has a new career, or so they say, and the same old bull.

No one is revealing why the frenetic crazy sudden quitty schreech. No one is telling the whole truth when it comes to the birth of the last two babies born to a Palin. The whole media black out of a Hong Kong secret forum is a bore...because what even is Sarah Palin, at this point? That crazy lady with the weird pregnancy secret is about it.
Meghan McCain ( MySpace )is on the bash Levi team, don't look for candor in her book. ( Cindy's aunt, Jeri Johnson, concerned that Cindy is giving the kids drugs. By 7 Meghan was telling people to fuck off ) She will be making a small fortune as a writer, I say she is one happy Daddy's girl and his reputation trumps the truth.
Hold him accountable!

"Triggybear" series at Sarah's with Johnston family
"Triggybear" (newborn) series April or May 2008
"Triggybear pictures"

The incredible shrinking Trig?

click images to enlarge
sep 1, 2008
hey beautiful hows it going? love the pic of sara and the new member of the family. hows your mom and dad and levi doing? melissa parsons-wilfong

Friday, July 10, 2009

Hold them accountable!

"Rarely is anyone in Washington, from politicians to operatives to journalists, held accountable for the damage they inflict on the body politic. Those who banged the drum for disastrous war flit from one editorial page to the next; those who insisted on ruinous deregulation return as economic advisors to the president. The men who told us that Sarah Palin should be next in line of succession to the presidency may quarrel among themselves now, but they will all be back with yet more stupid advice -- and we can only blame ourselves if we listen."
Joe Conason July 10, 2009
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  • The poison of celebrity While the ersatz mourning for Michael Jackson was merely annoying, the fame of lightweight Sarah Palin is dangerous
'Sarah from Alaska' McCain-Palin

Thursday, June 25, 2009

Sarah Palin icon, balancing black berries and...

"Baby Burke" photos from Mudflats
There is a big uproar over a 'Baby Burke' image at Mansour's public relations operation site.

Icon is in the eyes of the beholder. To hear Rebecca A. Mansour tell it, you'd think that parading a young baby time and again in front of stage lights for crowds of seething germs is how to get her ideal of an iconic shot. For others Sarah Palin's iconic mothering style is using a prop.




Heather captured "Balancing BlackBerry and baby" another iconic image of Sarah Palin, as anyone can see, that should read black berries. August 29, 2008 for Meghan McCain's Bloggette. Meghan did a great job documenting the 2008 Presidential campaign. Meghan has gone on to write for the Daily Beast and she got herself a worthwhile book deal. Meghan: "Starting out the day with Dad's choice of Governor Sarah Palin as his nominee for Vice President is a moment on stage I will never forget."

This is the week for governors to bail, first Sanford of South Carolina jets to Argentina. Palin of Alaska hasn't fully recovered from all the questions she stirred during her New York Texas games. Her staff doesn't care to keep track of where she is or let anyone know who is in charge, they just say to visit Alaska troops overseas, another pre-campaign photo op is more like it. To be back Monday? They are never that clear, so there are more missing and unaccountable days (4-5 days?) on the tax payers dime.

Friday, May 29, 2009

Iceberg?

You may never see it coming.
Floating icebergs have 90% of their mass below the surface of the water.

Almost without effort Sarah Palin sunk ex-Navy Captain John McCain's boat.
Remember: The Titanic used some of the most advanced technology available at the time and was, after the sinking, popularly believed to have been described as “unsinkable”.
"What we've got here is a failure to communicate."

The good news is that one day the SS Palin memorabilia could be worth a fortune for all those Wasillian collectors that have a choice piece of Alaska's history.

MEMORIAM

Titanic life preserver sells for $68,500

Since when do people sit around waiting for icebergs? Go ahead and jump ship. Whether you think it is a "cliffhanger" or not, it's going to happen when it happens. It may not be instant karma. It is corruption, it may be a long slog. If you are in total denial, that's another story. Who says the "iceberg" has much to do with Levi Johnston? Speculation is what that is, I don't think Levi is going to change course because of speculation. He needs to do what is best for his wee ones. Who knows what he thinks is best ( beyond GQ ) ? Mercede remains smiley but gagged. Sherry Johnston, well.... she is dealing with A.A. Specialty Health Center procedures and old seafaring problems of her own.

Refresh yourself and be up to date with the New Scrutiny of Other Alaska Corruption Cases. Captain McCain's history is full of questionable ethics. His own father-in-law links to Murder Inc. That is no small brush with graft and corruption.

For fun, think back to some of Sarah's classic quotes:
Did she really say that? (from people magazine's interview with palin and mccain)
SARAH PALIN: "Morning person. Yup. We don’t sleep much. (SLEEP! Who needs sleep?) Too much to do. What I’ve had to do, though, is in the middle of the night, put down the BlackBerries and pick up the breast pump. Do a couple of things different and still get it all done…"

There are zillions of past times revolving around Sarah alone. Sometimes I feel almost ready to join the pups and chew on shoe leather, but what good would that do?

Meanwhile, you could play Which Sarahgate Is It? Isn't there a boardgame by now? There are too many gates to list.
Could the e-mails be the final nail in the coffin?

Maybe she will out do Ted Steven's Housegate? Or Bristol will want to escape and blow-pop Babygates? Right now no one is saying for sure what all is impending.

Plant a vegetable garden if you're feeling ansy and want to take a break from the corruption.