Jack & Jill Politics

Cant stand the man...couldnt beleive he ran for office.
What a disgrace to politics and humanity! I lost respect for a few of my republican acqauiatances I thought I could respect. (white of course) This whole election has made a wonderful overhaul in my outlook on life spiritually and has catapulted me more into activism on personal, family and community level. Changes I will have apart of. You will see.
Michelle Jackson, Jacksonville Florida USA

The fact that the State of Arizona was among the last to celebrate Dr. King's birthday as an official holiday (if they do) is testimony enough that McCain turned into McCaint and became McUnwilling to push for a King holiday in his home state, when 38 other states were already on board before the Federal Government.

Keep it Real, Jack. Keep it real.

Now McCain can just drink a six-pack of STHU and make amends by bum-rushing Caribou Barbie and Joe the Fake Plummer off the stage and out of those million dollar book deals they're getting to write more lies. McCain should do THAT MUCH as penance for redemption of sins.

This post is a powerful testament to the forsight of JJP bloggers. I first came to this blogging site 2 months ago. Such Prophecy! I'm so elated!!!!

Thank you i was looking for something like this

"I would love to see McCain’s reaction to a group of young black men heckling him with “WHAT ABOUT THE BLACK COMMUNITY, MCCAIN?” I’m pretty sure he’d have a breakdown. In fact, I might just try it and see what happens."

-I don't think you'll want to get tased, bro. :-(

I can't wait until the debates this fall--I think McCain is going to get really angry and just look unpresidential. His numbers are going to tank, and I'm looking forward to that. He just can't contain his hate for Barack Obama. From what journalists and aides have said, McCain doesn't even respect Obama on a personal level. That's pretty disgusting. McCain has been no friend to civil liberties and civil rights in this country. I am glad he got heckled earlier this year when he tried to go to Memphis and "apologize" for not supporting the King holiday. McCain was probably one of the folks who was calling King a "communist" back when, and now wants to act as though black people need to hear his phony words. He has been a foe of civil rights, and even this week, talked about how he opposed "quotas". Code word for--"You know I'm going to make sure minorities are kept in their place if they demand fair representation".

McCain is not fooling anyone, especially me.

I can't read the other comments before I say John McCain lies about everything. Speaking of the race card, he's relying on his race to get him through.

boo, that video's been taken down! :/

Naw. Still there

If anyone from the Obama campaign is reading this, PLEASE! For the love of God, PLEASE call McCain out on this! DON'T LET THIS SLIDE!

Jill: THANK YOU - again, for this Thread!!! For the past few weeks, I have been on "MCANCIENT WATCH" - trying to look for DATA to substantiate his C-O-N-F-U-S-E-D state of mind, so that I could get my "DISS THE DUDE" attitude on.

Well, with this, I am in DISS HEAVEN!!!

Whew!!! ECSTATIC Deep Breaths!!! :>) :>) :>) :>)

Come on now, John

The sentator will be participating in the Buffalo Chip Sturgis Rally this year, along with Kid Rock and Kelli Pickler.

Although this event is to honor vets, it is also known to have public stripteasing and bikers

But it is hard not to notice the evocative, non-political sideshows that will literally surround McCain's speech. As the presumptive nominee takes the stage, the "Ringin' Wet & Wild" women's wrestling event will be taking place on the main amphitheater. Two hours before then , the "Miss Buffalo Chip Beauty Pageant - Bikinis on the Beach" will be staged on at a different venue.

Now that is how you campaign! Go John!

(sarcasm)

But his campaign announced this today

Tx. Girl-

If I'm not mistaken, the Sturgis rally used to double as a professional wrestling pay per view event called "Hog Wild." Hilarious.

During the waning days of the Dem. primaries, Obama, HRC, and JMC all courted the 'rasslin vote with taped messages to the fans. Hulk Hogan has endorsed Obama, so Barack may have an early lead on that front...

.....................................................I'm speechless on this..........wow

Don't forget his "I hate gooks" comment either.

I never "heard" them till just now.

So a presidential candidate can use a racial epithet and still be a viable presidential candidate?

So when he blows a gasquet and calls Barack a racial epithet in the first debate, I suppose he will waltz right into the White House.

I should add that McCain supported an MLK holiday after his initial opposition, but only after the NCAA told him they wouldn't put any more tournament games in Arizona if he didn't. I dug the John McCain of 2000 when he stood up to the Bob Jones U. bigots, but the senator from Arizona sure has fallen. Hard.

He stood up to Bob Jones University, but in SC in 2000 he supported the states right view on the confederate flag. So he is OK with interracial dating but believes the confederate flag is worthy of a place of honor.

So perhaps you don't even like the McCain of 2000.

You are right about the flag flap, but afterward, he went back to SC to apologize to his supporters for taking that position.

I'm not sure where he is on the matter now, but I would guess he's against it flying.

This is classic of McCain when speaking in public! McCain is running for President and he is a man that can't string enough words together to create ONE audible sentence(BUSH) that makes sense when he is faced with any real questions.

Remember the question on viagra being eligible for insurance coverage and not birth control?!

The MSM personalities love to cover for him because if they didn't the coverage of him would be considered comical at best. To show him as the feeble minded (not all due to his age) person that he is wouldn't give the fake journalists anything of substance to discuss in an "intelligent" way.

It is a joke as far as what is actually classified as reputable journalism on television today!

McCain Used POW Past Heavily In First Election

I guess someone at the AP is seeking a modicum of balance.

Despite the final quote, this piece isn't all that flattering and actually opens up McCain to attacks if someone chooses to launch them.

McCain's "race card" outrage is completely phony. It always was. What he faulted Obama for was a regular part of Obama's stump presentation. Until I seen the SEAL ad Val posted, I was inclined to say Obama erred by saying McCain specifically made those claims but even if Obama did fudge, I knew the deal: McCain is trying to distract attention away from, at least for now, his support of Ward Connerly's anti-affirmative action campaign.

More than anything, McCain doesn't want to have a debate about his record and I was bustin' up laughing at the video up top when McCain had to take a 10 minute breath trying to come up with a bs answer about his civil rights record.

The mf was in Memphis early this year apologizing for mistake for voting against the MLK holiday and then tried to a fake and really short-lived "forgotten Americans" tour where he tried to pretend like he gave a damn about anything during Katrina.

I forgot about the forgotten America tour. Thanks for reminding me of that useless pander.

That's what McCain is banking on: widespread voter memory loss

To go along with his own?

McCain does not need to be President Of The United States.

That's my refrain.

You're preaching to the choir...

I'm singing in the choir.

That level of lying blows my mind. And it's not even necessary.

Besides, didn't Public Enemy do a song about what happened in Arizona, and get into all kinds of mess for 'going there'? Wasn't a Super Bowl withheld from Arizona? It's not necessary. Just like lying about Katrina while ignoring photo after photo showing him and Bush cutting cake for his (McCain's) birthday wasn't necessary.

Though to be honest, I wouldn't have known about The Cake if I didn't have the Internet at the time. Maybe that's what they're going for... that, and they think most of us really do suffer from MTV/Bruckheimer/Bay-inflicted ADD/ADHD.

McCain does not need to be President Of The United States. That also goes for the lying Clintons (for those still out there massaging hopes), because of the level of lies they've shown themselves willing to engage in, as well.

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/08/01/mccain-sugg...

Wow....guess what....the military needs to come in and control us heathens.

By the way, thank you for the hyperlink.

I don't know what to make of this. Is that really how he meant it? Were there better examples he could have or should have used? Since it worked in New York... is he wrong?

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"McCain suggests military-style invasion modeled on the surge to control inner city crime.»

Today, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) spoke to the National Urban League, a group “devoted to empowering African Americans to enter the economic and social mainstream.” When an audience member asked him how he planned to reduce urban crime, McCain praised Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s efforts in New York Cirty before invoking the military’s tactics in Iraq as the model for crime-fighting:

MCCAIN: And some of those tactics — you mention the war in Iraq — are like that we use in the military. You go into neighborhoods, you clamp down, you provide a secure environment for the people that live there, and you make sure that the known criminals are kept under control. And you provide them with a stable environment and then they cooperate with law enforcement, " (and then video follows)

Let's see what the "Blacker Than Thou" crew has to say about this.

Ohhhh snap, Teh Surge™ is back!!!!!!

Old McCain bought the farm, eeeyi eeeyii oooohhhhh. And on that farm he had a surge, eeeeyii eeeeyii ooooohhh.

With a surge surge here, and a surge surge there. Here a surge, there a surge, EVERYWHERE a surge surge.....

Seriously, though has McCain lost his fucking mind?

Watch it.

You're surging...:-)

McCain is a freakin' idiot. Just how dumb can you get?

My bad... Giulani has swag when it comes to the Black community... (roll eyes)

(Who the hell advises these political candidates again?)

You have GOT to be kidding me.

That's sickening.

Literally.

That was a sin of omission...for no one in the press to ask McCain to define what the "race card" means to him. They should have also asked him for examples of the "race card" having been played on him in the past, and in what way was it a detriment.

TS, come on. You know "race card" is a self-evident concept. Anytime someone Black calls someone White out on their race-based tactic, subliminal or in your face, that's the Black person using the race-card the same way the United Negro College Fund is racist.

I don't know why you act like you don't understand that. [/end sarcasm]

Word.

I already said McCain is not an option for me, and he's never been an option for me.

Everytime Obama confronts him, he plays the race card, while howling that "race has no place in the campaign."

If he really means that, he'd quit doing the shyt he's done, like compare Obama's celebrity to Britney Spears and Paris Hilton (cue the oversexed Black man who likes white women - that got Harold Ford's Senate candidacy tanked).

I might be critical of Obama's political platform, but I will always call BS when I see the race card being played and it seems McCain's carrying a loaded deck to play at will.

Oh snap! Kathy Hilton has something to say!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kathy-hilton/mcca...

Kathy actually said THIS?

"It is a complete waste of the country's time and attention at the very moment when millions of people are losing their homes and their jobs."

I'm shocked. I expected her first and last reasons, but not that one to come from her mouth!

I guess nobody told McCain that Kathy gets extremely protective of her little guttersnipes, I guess; see also: The Trial, and The Rich laughing at the Hiltons. Or that the Hiltons get weird about their image; the only negative images allowed are those they are allowed to profit from. Did the Hiltons ever give permission to the McCain campaign to use Paris' image in a national TV ad (the denial afterwards doesn't matter)? Still, that's a great written reason to slap on McCain. That's worthy of Candy Spelling.

So what's in the works for the 'kiss and make up'?

Holy Crap!..

The Hilton's donated the max $4600 to McCain as per Jon Stewart's show. Notice how she said it was a waste of contributor's money....It makes sense for her to be pissed that her contribution would be used to inadvertently insult her own daughter. McCain is a old man in his 70's, is it appropriate for him to use a young woman, practically a girl in his campaign smear ad?? Hell no!

Barack should have said that on the stump to call attention to McOld's age..."Is it appropriate for a 70 year old man to use two young girls in an ad to smear me?"

You do hope for him to do the most courageous things, don't you?

Huh?

Courageous in the sense of pointing out the low-downness of a man of that age(could be her grandfather)..a war hero, a Presidential candidate to exploit troubled young women in a political campaign ad.

..particularly since his own wife had trouble with addiction when she was a grown assed adult. Except, he should say it courageously.

"courageously".......you mean kinda Claire McCaskill style??

If Barack was into character assassination, he would have a field day.

But if Barack did it, he would be evil and pandering to gutter politics....that's what it'd be for him.

Personally though.....McCain is such an easy target, I can see how it would come off like making fun of the kids in Special Ed...my mom would beat the living daylights outta us for something like that.

I shouldn't be laughing as hard as I am.

Yeah, if I see a short yellow bus I have all kinds of Nam flashbacks.........hmmm....maybe I do have something in common with McCain.

Oh my! .....alright then Kathy

Republican insiders see race baiting in McCain's ads.

The strategy behind all this isn’t hard to discern: Drive up Obama’s negatives and render him unacceptable to pivotal voting blocs. Thus the depiction of him as too young, too feckless, and too pampered to be president. (In almost every shot in the McCain ads, Obama is smiling flashily, whereas McCain is pictured as weathered, sober, staring hard into the distance—a clever bit of jujitsu, using Obama’s pretty mug against him.) Thus the portrayal of him as precious, self-infatuated, and effete: “Only celebrities like Barack Obama go to the gym three times a day, demand ‘MET-RX chocolate roasted-peanut protein bars and bottles of a hard-to-find organic brew—Black Forest Berry Honest Tea’ and worry about the price of arugula,” wrote campaign manager Rick Davis in an e-mail announcing “Celeb.” And thus the emphasis on Obama’s rock-star persona, designed to engender envy and contempt among the swath of Middle America for which hipness is no virtue but a sign of pretension.

The racial undertones of this assault are subtle but undeniable, as Obama himself suggested when he asserted last week that his opponents are trying to make voters “scared” of him because he “doesn’t look like the other presidents on the currency.” They’re most glaring in “Troops,” which features footage of Obama sinking a three-pointer in Kuwait, despite the fact that the shot took place at a military base, which undermines the ad’s argument. But the spot’s deeper aim is to foster an unconscious simile: Obama as a blinged-up, camera-hungry, NBA shooting guard, Allen Iverson with a Harvard Law degree. Am I reaching? Consider this: Would the ad have featured footage of Obama on a golf course draining a hole-in-one? “No, it wouldn’t,” laughs a GOP media savant. “The racial angle is the first thing I thought of when I saw that ad. It fits into the celebrity stuff, too.” (For McCain, that impolitic, pro-Obama Ludacris track was manna from hip-hop heaven.)

Barack is not our enemy.

John McCain is dangerous.

John McCain is UNFIT to be POTUS.

Thank you for your link.

Hey Jack or Jill - would you please post this June ad from McCain with Obama on the $$ bill as one of your highlighted posts? Your site clearly has become one of the many blogs targeted by the McCain folks and you are getting mad views these days. Hoping you would consider posting the clip as it will show folks that fear of Obama on the $$ bill is not something "dreamed up" by the dems. McCain has been pushing it.

McCain Mocked Idea of Obama on U.S. Currency...in JUNE
link to McCain ad http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDTJDv4hevU

Andrew Sullivan, Chris Bodenner, and Eli Sanders all note that the McCain campaign's strategy on race is to (a) play the race card and then (b) accuse Obama of having played the race card.

The issue here, of course, is that John McCain claimed great umbrage at Barack Obama's lighthearted comment that Bush and McCain would emphasize that "he doesn't look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills."

But if John McCain thinks that comment was playing the race card, then why did he play it first? One month ago -- in late June -- a McCain ad superimposed Obama's visage on a one hundred dollar bill as part of an effort to mock his supposed 'presumptuousness.'

(Side note: As you can see, the video's still image is of Obama on currency. Note that the image doesn't occur until about three-quarters of the way through the video. The way YouTube works, the default image occurs at the midpoint. In other words, McCain's campaign affirmatively choose this image.)

So let's just be clear: John McCain is injecting race into this the campaign, and he's doing so to serve his own political ambitions. As Chuck Todd says: "Anytime race is THE topic du jour in the campaign, it's a bad day for Obama. Period." And Josh Marshall adds, it's McCain's "only chance."

John McCain understands this is the only way he can win, and that's why he's playing this card, from allegations of reverse racism to transparent attempts to make Barack Obama seem "foreign."

Now, this video could've been a great rebuttal to McCain's accusation that Obama was using the race card.

Obama's campaign needs a special internet team to comb the 'net for gems like this.

We need to do everything in our power to shift the focus to John McCain.

This election needs to be a referendum on him.

He's dangerous.

And he's losing what little mind he has left right before our eyes.

John McCain is UNFIT to be POTUS.

Sing along. Sing aloud. Sing everywhere.

When will the debates start?

September 30th
October 5th - VP debate
October 8th
October 13th

Commission on Presidential Debates

Thank you for the info.

PLEASE...PLEASE confront McSame. When he gave that so called presser they never brought up his lies . Oh I forgot, the press is McSame's base. Sorry!

What is sad is that simply acknowledging one's race is now considered playing the race card. This is how whites continue racism. We can't acknowledge racism without being able to mention race. We can't discuss inequality or social disparities without naming who is not getting fair treatment or equal protection.

As often as possible let's continue to raise awareness of this TOOL of oppression.

The race card was used to describe a context where "when all else fails blame racism." This is so different than acknowledging the truth that there have NO who looks like or has the American experience of Barrack Obama. Let's not allow people to take the term out of context, but rather correct people regularly.

Amen.

Thank you Jack. Now this is what I am talking about.

He could not even remember the question and there were no distractions besides his own mind.

Really, Is this man capable of leading the country? Does he have the intellect and the discipline to understand nuance, complexity, and issues?

Putting aside his lack of veracity, there is nothing outstanding about this candidate with the exception of his laserbeam focus on how he is entitled to this office because he waited in line with the other white guys and now it's his turn.

Send his befuddled behind back to Sedona.

NO!! He's a foggy fart, doesn't understand the economy, and doesn't posses one ounce of diplomacy. His demeanor has no appeal whatsoever. His campaign is so weak he can't even find anything good to say about himself, he has to resort to attacks in order to have something to say.

Really, Is this man capable of leading the country? Does he have the intellect and the discipline to understand nuance, complexity, and issues?

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No and NO.

You left off one.......NO.

Craig/Miranda: Umm, if you're collecting THEM in the basket this morning [I just returned from church :>) ], I'm going to throw in $25 worth of NO's!!

Amen! Now we'll have a selection from the choir. :>) :>)

Soon and very soon...............

ABSOLUTELY!!!! . . . . we are going ta crown him [Barack] king!!! [completing your first line with this RE-Mix!!!] :>) :)>