So John McCain’s new “Truth Squad” has a swiftboater on board. Nice. I wonder why Bud Day doesn’t demand that John McCain sign an SF-180 and release his military records. I’m sure that was his opinion of John Kerry back when his non-swiftboat ass was smearing the presidential candidate all over with his ads.
Also, if the McCain camp is so concerned about someone questioning the military record of a veteran and supposed wartime hero, then why are they openly associating with someone who did this very thing to John Kerry?
Because to Republicans, hypocrisy knows no bounds. That’s why.
Auto-replace is no friend to wingnut christofascists i guess. This one is hilarious:
In addition to blocking traffic from websites they don’t like, it looks like the web-geniuses behind the American Family Association’s OneNewsNow site have a few other tricks up their sleeves, such as automatically replacing any use of the word “gay†with the word “homosexual†in any of the AP stories they run … leading to instances in which proper names are reformatted to meet their ridiculous standard, such as this article about sprinter Tyson Gay winning the 100 meters at the U.S. Olympic track and field trials in which he is renamed “Tyson Homosexualâ€:
John McCain is a supposed “straight talker”. He even has a “Straight Talk Express” (bus and plane). When it comes to his military record, he’s neither straight talker or straight shooter it seems. The questions that his campaign doesn’t want to answer, let alone be asked, could easily be dismissed.
All it would take is for the Senator to sign Standard Form 180. I will provide a link below to this form in blank format so the campaign can easily find it upon reading this post.
Everyone on the right should be familiar with this form. It’s the one they bombarded John Kerry with requests to sign so they could dig into his military record. It was important back in 2005, I figure it just as important now. Or am I missing a rule of engagement here?
Hell, we may as well put up a clock to count the days, hours, and minutes until he signs. Just like they did.
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I trust those on the right will follow me in my quest given their penchant to do so in 2004 and 2005.
Like both Barack Obama and Wesley Clark, we think you served your country honorably. But like John Kerry in 2004, we’d really rather you prove it. Thanks very much.
What a fucking laughingstock. How McCain garners any foreign policy cred is well beyond me:
KABUL, Afghanistan – Militants killed more U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan in June than in Iraq for the second straight month, a grim milestone capping a run of headline-grabbing insurgent attacks that analysts say underscore the Taliban’s growing strength.
Nice work fellas. Keep up the good work. Maybe send Browny over!
First he writes the following about the Republican President’s Dinner in a fundraising email sent out by the DCCC:
“You should have seen the joint: wall to wall fat-cats. The limos were lined up around the block. If you’d stood in the middle of the ballroom and yelled, ‘Hey dirtbag!’ a thousand necks would have snapped around.â€
Dirtbag. Great word. And a spot-on description. But it gets better…
After being attacked for calling Republicans dirtbags by Ken Spain, spokesman for the NRCC, Begala follows up with this gem:
“The Bush Republicans questioned the courage of a hero like Max Cleland. They besmirched the war heroism of John Kerry. They smeared Bill Clinton, savaged Hillary, attacked Sen. Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid and Howard Dean,†he said. “But when I call their fat-cat funders ‘dirtbags,’ they cry like babies. They are wimpy, whiny wussies.â€
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Former President Bill Clinton and Barack Obama talked by phone Monday morning, the Obama campaign and a Clinton spokesman said.
Clinton said he is prepared to campaign for Obama after the hard-fought primary campaign between Obama and Hillary Clinton, the Obama campaign said.
Obama “had a terrific conversation with President Clinton and is honored to have his support in this campaign,” said campaign spokesman Bill Burton.
Clinton “renewed his offer to do whatever he can to ensure Sen. Obama is our next president,” said Matt McKenna, communications director the Clinton Foundation.
Sources tell me this story was pushed to the Telegraph from the U.S. via conservatives so that the U.S. media would pick it up and run with it and create a narrative. So much for that.
Airing in eighteen states, “Dignity” highlights Senator Obama’s decision to bypass big money jobs and help lift neighborhoods stung by job loss. The ad illustrates Senator Obama’s record of working hard to move people from welfare to work, passing tax cuts for workers and providing healthcare for children.
When are the smear merchants gonna learn that we are going to be doing more than just blogging righteous indignation this time around? We’re going to hold them accountable this time and fight back. How? By posting their emails, phone numbers, addresses and asking them to back up their lies and their smears in public. In the light of day. Not in anonymity online or in news reports.
The nice thing about Findlay, Ohio, is that it is the most Republican place in Ohio, which means it’s irrelevant. But, there are smearers there. And that makes it relevant to me.
The Washington Post visited Findlay, and found this out.
College Street in Findlay is sounding like a wingnut haven. Our latest two subjects are Don LeMaster and Leroy Pollard. Both misinformed Obama bashers from our own Findlay, Ohio. Tim gives us the full run down. I might just have to call them both tomorrow and correct them on their misinformed rantings to WaPo.
So again, it’s
Don LeMaster
(419) 422-8216
633 COLLEGE ST
Findlay, OH 45840
and
Leroy Pollard
(419) 425-9947
641 COLLEGE ST
Findlay, OH 45840
Listen. If you don’t want to be called out or have your email or other information put on the Internet, my suggestion to you would be to deal in facts and become better educated about the issues that matter in this election. It’s really that simple.
DENVER (AP) — A nearly 700-page study released Sunday by the Army found that “in the euphoria of early 2003,” U.S.-based commanders prematurely believed their goals in Iraq had been reached and did not send enough troops to handle the occupation.
President George W. Bush’s statement on May 1, 2003, that major combat operations were over reinforced that view, the study said.
“I certainly honor his service as a prisoner of war. He was a hero to me and to hundreds of thousands and millions of others in the armed forces, as a prisoner of war. And he has traveled all over the world. But he hasn’t held executive responsibility,” said Clark, a former NATO commander who campaigned for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004.
“He hasn’t been there and ordered the bombs to fall. He hasn’t seen what it’s like when diplomats come in and say, I don’t know whether we’re going to be able to get this point through or not,” Clark said.
Schieffer noted that Obama did not have any of those experiences, nor had he “ridden in a fighter plane and gotten shot down.”
“Well, I don’t think riding in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to be president,” Clark said.
So. About the same level of executive leadership when it comes to the armed forces, then? Is that about right? I think General Clark might want to look into the number of planes he’s crashed too. It’s not just one!
I wouldn’t apologize or backtrack on this at all. Maybe people will dig deeper and realize there are very good reasons McCain never made admiral.
I grew up in the Cleveland area- so I kind of took lightning bugs (aka fireflies) for granted.
The glowing-ass of these insects was just another part of summertime fun like the ice cream man and the trucks that went around spraying poison in the air to kill mosquitoes.
But then I spent a lot of time living out west and overseas where, in case you didn’t already know, they don’t have nocturnal, glowy-assed insects.
There are a lot of things I missed about living in Ohio- but I never would have included lightning bugs in that list until tonight.
John McCain’s Military Record: Where’s the Straight Talk?
by Eric on June 30, 2008 · Comments
John McCain is a supposed “straight talker”. He even has a “Straight Talk Express” (bus and plane). When it comes to his military record, he’s neither straight talker or straight shooter it seems. The questions that his campaign doesn’t want to answer, let alone be asked, could easily be dismissed.
All it would take is for the Senator to sign Standard Form 180. I will provide a link below to this form in blank format so the campaign can easily find it upon reading this post.
Standard Form 180 (372 KB pdf)
Everyone on the right should be familiar with this form. It’s the one they bombarded John Kerry with requests to sign so they could dig into his military record. It was important back in 2005, I figure it just as important now. Or am I missing a rule of engagement here?
Hell, we may as well put up a clock to count the days, hours, and minutes until he signs. Just like they did.
-
I trust those on the right will follow me in my quest given their penchant to do so in 2004 and 2005.
Like both Barack Obama and Wesley Clark, we think you served your country honorably. But like John Kerry in 2004, we’d really rather you prove it. Thanks very much.
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