Katie Couric asked John McCain a great question the other day on CBS: You claim you know how to win wars? Which wars have you won?
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I asked the press to put this very question to John McCain about ten days ago, albeit in a little bit more colorful language. You can watch that here. There is no good answer for this because John McCain is taking credit for many things he had no part in or was only minimally involved with. He is way overplaying his so-called national security credentials.
Some might think I'm going a bit too far in pointing this out, but we should also remember John McCain crashed five different planes in his time in the service. He also finished 894th in his Annapolis class of 899. God bless him for serving anyway, but it's hard to take that record and brag about how you have won all these wars.
John McCain has a service record he can be proud of, that anyone could be proud of. His resistance at the POW camps was down right heroic. But when you put yourself out there as the man who knows military strategy and winning wars, we have to look at your record and see what's really in there.
And when you look, there is not some secret stash of wars that John McCain led troops into and won because of his national security know-how. There just isn't and when he pretends there is, it looks like forced braggadocio. If he sticks with his actual service record, he would have something everyone could agree was a big asset for him. He served with tremendous courage and honor. He doesn't also have to claim to be Dwight D. Eisenhower. Leave well enough alone.
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31. Unlike you I have to shake the cobwebs out of my head on occasion. I'm uncomfortable being cynical like I mentioned. I ask myself if I'm viewing an issue in an honest fashion, that gives me credibility unlike your asault gun, rapid fire responses. I'm not comfortable being at war with people of opposing viewpoints on this blog 24/7. I actually consider what they're saying.
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Awesome blogger love your humility and respectful yet confrontational responses.
Andy R. at 1:17PM on Jul 25th 2008
32. I know, I know, it's not a matter of being factual but a matter of politics.
M2D5 at 1:19PM on Jul 25th 2008
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you? factual?
If oreilly's a journalist, I guess richard simmons is a professional athlete.
What he may have been, I doubt since you make up shit all the time, but even if he won a damn pulitzer prize it wouldn't excuse what he is now.
And again, oreilly could and would not cut the maher format. He is a clerk in rupert murdoch's store and nothing else. Ted Baxter meets Frank Burns and can't get laid.
And look at intelligence. Maher's brain holds fifty times as much factual information and runs a good two orders of magnitude faster. If islamoreilly doesn't have complete control he gets his pants taken down and goes mental. Maher can get pissed off at a jerk, but he just gets more incisive when he does and his volume goes down.
And I know Maher does fine with the ladies and BO doesn't and I know exactly why and so do a lot of us including Maher.
But if you like the richard simmons approach, I guess BO is for you.
Clif Kuplen at 2:40PM on Jul 25th 2008
33. media is corporate not liberal. When will mcsame submit to ed schultz and Bill Maher?
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Ahh yes Bill Maher. What self respecting bush hating atheist wouldn't like Bill Maher. Of course to see him if he is still on after being fired by ABC, you have to subscribe to boring HBO then sit at home on a Friday night. His Comedy career thing didn't pan out so he pokes fun of Christians and Bush to give him far left attention. Seems like a few people have been doing thatat as an attempt to get attention again; Rosie,Stuart Smalley and Maher. I guess all you have to do is make fun of Christians Bush and 9/11 was an inside job and the far left gives you a job. Cool I think I'll try it.
Satire Friday at 2:48PM on Jul 25th 2008
34. And look at intelligence. Maher's brain holds fifty times as much factual information and runs a good two orders of magnitude faster. If islamoreilly doesn't have complete control he gets his pants taken down and goes mental. Maher can get pissed off at a jerk, but he just gets more incisive when he does and his volume goes down.
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Kind of like Maher did when the fan was shouting. 50 times more? Wow were did you get that info?
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And I know Maher does fine with the ladies and BO doesn't and I know exactly why and so do a lot of us including Maher.
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Ahh yes Maher and his hookers nice with a face I would have to pay for it too.
It has been funny watching you get you all pissy over O'Reilly I bet you hate it that he is on 5 nights a week twice each night stomping Olberturd in the ground ever single night.Then you defend Maher who is...well who is Maher??? no one hears of him until he talks about Catholics. I tell you what Cliffy you stick to Maher in his infinite satarical Bush loathing,and let the other 5 million nightly viewers(We know that are just stupid brainwashed idiots) stick to BO. By the way let me answer your forthcoming question I watch neither just did a good ol google.
Satire Friday at 2:59PM on Jul 25th 2008
35. >>>that is wrong. It was not a softball question at all, it was a rather inept attempt at a gotcha and katy got busted.>>>
Only you would think Katie got busted Clif. She stuck with the topic & persisted in a direct answer. They actually teach that in journalism school & finally someone did their job in the MSM not allowing Obama an easy out. Again, you miss the mark not understanding that indeed it was an "easy" question that any unbiased informed individual off the street proud of the effort & success would have gladly answered in one easy sentence. Obama had no choice but to "indirectly" admit in order to not seem out of touch. I understand the political ritual of "dodgeball" but eventually that exposes lack of integrity & an attitude of denial. He cuts his own throat by doing so.
>>>A surge is only different from an escalation if it swells and recedes.>>>
You make this sound like sex Clifford. The Pentagon & everyone else calls it the "Surge" but we'll rename it for you "the Iraqi Orgasmic Interlude". Does this mean we get to leave after we climax? Is that Obama's plan? Enough with the semantics.
You frame your candidate anyway you like, you & him alike will come off as more believable if you admit to the successes we're having in the world. You can't love the troops & not give them their deserved recognition. This mission was theirs, Obama is hellbent on politicizing it.
I think you're in love with a false prophet....
Bobby at 3:10PM on Jul 25th 2008
36. I guess all you have to do is make fun of Christians Bush and 9/11 was an inside job and the far left gives you a job. Cool I think I'll try it.
Satire Friday at 2:48PM on Jul 25th 2008
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If you have any gift for comedy, it hasn't shown up yet. Maybe if people saw or smelled you?
Clif Kuplen at 3:02PM on Jul 25th 2008
37. I guess all you have to do is make fun of Christians Bush and 9/11 was an inside job and the far left gives you a job. Cool I think I'll try it.
Satire Friday
No one, not even Maher makes light of fundy vaginas. And no, Maher takes exception with those who claim 9/11, (the Holy of Holies for godbots) to have been an inside job. Hey, while I'm thinking about it, when was the last time a neoclown got anything right i.e. the economy, global warming, we'll be greeted as liberators etc? Grow weary of being smug and yet always wrong?
Tim at 3:10PM on Jul 25th 2008
38. I bet you hate it that he is on 5 nights a week twice each night stomping Olberturd in the ground ever single night.
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hell no, I LOVE it!! we get a reprise of loofah boy on KO every night!
Ted Baxter and Frank Burns are just memories without BO. If you guys have better buffoons than the set you've got now, by all means drag em out!
Have you ever noticed how much Hannity and Colmes look like Ren and Stimpy? The only difference is that on foxfart, Stimpity's the pitcher.
No, by all means keep 'em comin! Make Randy Cunningham and Larry Craig political consultants if you want - We love michele malkin - she could ruin a rug quicker than my spaniel.
I think the world has a sort of Carlos Mencia outlook towards the foxfart.
They ought to use the theme music, though - Deet te deeeeeee....
No, we love the fox babymama fistjab hussein channel and my favorite is Bill Islamoreilly - he's more straight lines than a corduroy skyscraper cozy!
Clif Kuplen at 3:17PM on Jul 25th 2008
39. Only you would think Katie got busted Clif. She stuck with the topic & persisted in a direct answer.
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only me? Where did you think I found out about this? It was on all the major nets. Do you even make sense to yourself?
I'm just the messenger. Look at the posts on young turks now. You, md25, sparcello, okane, the 13 percenters per the last WSJ poll yesterday.
You're a majority here and that's about it. I'm pretty sure none of you have enough curiosity to challenge your own beliefs, so you'd be just right as republicans. If you like the way that's worked out the past eight years, you'll get more of the same.
Here's one thing none of you can address:
What are the differences between McCain and Bush?
go on, give it a shot if you dare.
You want to believe what you want to believe and I'm already witness to how you go about it.
Clif Kuplen at 3:27PM on Jul 25th 2008
40. What he may have been, I doubt since you make up shit all the time, but even if he won a damn pulitzer prize it wouldn't excuse what he is now.
I love it when you are confronted with a fact,
Evade, obfuscate, anything but deal with what is put forth. It's all there. Just go looking on the web. Not for any fox network stations but one of the three(3) local stations in Boston.
Ch4 - WBZ ( Always been this designation)
Ch5 - WCVB ( I beleieve it originally was WHDH)
Ch7 - WNAC
As far as:
"I doubt since you make up shit all the time"
I ,unlike you, do not have to remember everything I said in the past since when you do not lie it is NOT necessary to have to remember everything you said.
I enjoy watching you get tripped up when attempting to get around times that you have been guilty of "mis-speak". You are quite glib but then again glibness only can cover/makeup for so much.
M2D5 at 3:51PM on Jul 25th 2008
41. Finally we will have a President whose intelligence we can all respect. He is a candidate for all the people, recently declaring with certainty that he had visited 57 states with one left to go. Just the other day Obama exhibited more of his Harvard erudition when a reporter asked him why he was visiting all these countries, and he responded confidently stating that world leaders should get to know the man who will be in power for the next 8 to 10 years. He was recently asked by a reporter if he would have changed his position a year ago that the Iraq surge strategy would fail, knowing now that it has succeeded. He responded steadfastly, no his position would not change. He recently wowed the Israeli audience by extolling his efforts to cutoff Iranian funding, by identifying the achievements of HIS Senate Banking committee (Some might argue that he is not a member of this committee and has not authored any legislation in this matter). This country is ready for a President that will stick to his beliefs no matter what the obstacles.
rer at 3:49PM on Jul 25th 2008
42. hell no, I LOVE it!! we get a reprise of loofah boy on KO every night!
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I know isn't that sad to piggyback your insignificant career off of someone else.
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Ted Baxter and Frank Burns are just memories without BO. If you guys have better buffoons than the set you've got now, by all means drag em out!
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You guys is that the voices in your head again? Told you before I am not a "you".
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think the world has a sort of Carlos Mencia outlook towards the foxfart.
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Nope just your itsy bitsy teenie weenie little Air and Huff world.Ratings don't lie as much as you hate Fox and want everyone else to they don't, been proven over and over again holds no credibility anymoo.
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No, we love the fox babymama fistjab hussein channel and my favorite is Bill Islamoreilly - he's more straight lines than a corduroy skyscraper cozy!
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Again who is we? Your only speaking for yourself unless your speaking to lil clif.
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Anyway it's been fun grumps I will be back next week doing a few drive bys I am sure you will be here too Mr.24/7. Forgive me for not discussing the political "issues" with you, I prefer to treat this blog for what it is; humorous satire that should never be taken serious. For when you begin to discuss the political aspects it always ends with the same mundain point. I am right you are wrong, which you have said what, 35 times today already.
Satire Friday at 4:08PM on Jul 25th 2008
43. I love it when you are confronted with a fact,
Evade, obfuscate, anything but deal with what is put forth.
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said tom helically...
emmy, go read my last post. So what? I said there and say here again, REGARDLESS of what he may have done what, thirty years ago, he is the same kind of journalist as Richard Simmons is a professional athlete.
And hear me again. He's obtuse and stupid and Bill Maher is brilliant and extremely funny even on the fly.
That's the point, emmy - bill is obtuse and stupid and as we went into on another thread in support of at least one child abuser - I can bring it all over from Logan's post if you forgot already.
So, BO - Stupid and ineffectual and nothing of a journalist today and Bill Maher - a topical humorist whose ACT includes more journalism than you'll ever get from BO's ACT.
you and deadboy are getting indistinguishable from sparcello and gassett as exploding koosbanians. It's getting to be a tired act and you ought to try some new material...You know any Doors?
Clif Kuplen at 4:11PM on Jul 25th 2008
44. You're a majority here and that's about it. I'm pretty sure none of
you have enough curiosity to challenge your own beliefs, so you'd be
just right as republicans. If you like the way that's worked out the
past eight years, you'll get more of the same.
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So why can't you shut up and leave it at that? Same shit from two weeks ago read what you wrote and let it be done.
Doug R. at 4:12PM on Jul 25th 2008
45. It's getting to be a tired act and you ought to try some new material...You know any Doors?
Clif
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Here is an idea why don't you get some new material or go elsewhere.
Doug R. at 4:15PM on Jul 25th 2008