Thursday, September 4, 2008

Maverick! open thread

We understand that John McCain is a maverick. And a POW. Just passing that along.

145 comments:

  1. This night is so rocking, PBS is having a seminar on first ladies.

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  2. We're 45 seconds into this video, and it sucks. It's like they want to be Ken Burns but have no idea how to be anywhere near compelling.

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  3. He more to do? He had three more planes to wreck!

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  4. Reading directly from the book. Filmmaking at its finest.

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  5. i am starting to wonder if i should consider McCain's military service when making my decision at the ballot box.

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  6. I didn't see the Democratic show on the tele. Did they use the teleprompter in the same way?

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  7. he COULD have returned from Hanoi a broken and bitter man?

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  8. I heard John McCain and Chuck Norris got into a fight, and John McCain bit Chuck Norris' head off, ate it. And all Chuck Norris could say was "Thank you for saving America."

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  9. Minx,
    the teleprompter is universal.

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  10. "true success" in Iraq.

    this thing is getting Dada-ist. no wobs, i don't think it'll upgrade to the situationist level. though they did once opine that the Watts rioters were the true descendants of dada.

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  11. Little known fact: McCain wrote Delta Force, and Chuck Norris's character is based on the Maverick's maverickness.

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  12. Do you think McCain looked like the guys in Rescue Dawn?

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  13. i am still a little confused about john's military record, however.

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  14. Is that Fred Thompson freestyling?

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  15. This voice-over sounds like a weird "Dukes of Hazzard" lead-in...

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  16. that's minx's alter ego.

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  17. That crowd doesn't strike me as going wi... zzzzz

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  18. fucking "dank box." jesus fucking christ.

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  19. The "dank box" is where I keep my weed.

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  20. It's like a light of a new day...

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  21. 50 minutes of McCain. I'll apologize now for nodding off.

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  22. Just wait - halfway through he's going to throw all the liberals off his lawn.

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  23. wow, so he decided to ACCEPT the nomination.

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  24. Uh... is the background green... again?

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  25. Every time they show Cindy, all I can think is "a McCain win would be a real boon for Amy Poehler."

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  26. the love between this man and his rich wife is indeed palpable.

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  27. I hope he gets mean with the green screen on.

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  28. How do you get from land mines to the first lady?

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  29. as for john mccain's daddy?

    HIS life, HIS love, and HIS lady was the Sea.

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  30. McCain's mom is younger than he is?!?

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  31. Where do they keep the necromancers that keep all these old Republicans going? Bad voodoo, man...

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  32. poor guy thinks he's going to win this election.

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  33. Cheebus... who let the riffraff in?

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  34. We'll reach our hand out to any patriot, but the rest of you leftists are screwed.

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  35. Because there's no problem so bad a chant of USA can't solve it.

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  36. yes they have been sooo restrained the past few days....

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  37. I'm loving how bringing up problems leads to chants of USA! USA!

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  38. The crowd is more interested in heckling a protester than listening to their nominee.

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  39. Tell us about the Bridge to Nowhere, Maverick!

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  40. Free advice to the GOP - you've really got to work on his creepy smile when he delivers an applause line.

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  41. I was watching footage of a McCain event earlier today, and it looked a bit like a middle-aged casting call for "Hooters."

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  42. John McCain's a maverick? Who knew?

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  43. Called a maverick, you say?

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  44. I don't work for a party...I don't work for myself. But I am available for rent.

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  45. by their deeds shall ye know them

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  46. That's right. As President, McCain promises specifics!

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  47. Seeing the crowd at this event makes me realize how little I really understand the people who live around me here in good ol' Georgia.

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  48. he made crooked deals in the savings and loan crisis.....whoops off msg

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  49. Not so keen on the fighting until we get to union bosses.

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  50. All right, let's start rolling out the sad sack stories.

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  51. Not their own house, just their real estate investments.

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  52. Seems like McCain could have loaned at least one of those families a house.

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  53. Nothing goes over like bashing your own party.

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  54. This msg is going over real well...

    crickets chirping

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  55. Yeah, standing up to the values.

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  56. i thought that you lost "our" trust when you enacted an entire sequence of economic policies that redistributed income upward!

    but apparently what i'm _really_ upset about is earmarks.

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  57. Does anyone else hear a high-pitched whistling noise?

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  58. That damn (shotgun passed) 14th amendment making the latina daughter of immigrants a citizen

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  59. Looks like Thomas, Scalia and Alito are out under the Mav.

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  60. i hate it when i'm trying to get a cavity exam and a bureaucrat gets in between me and my doctor.

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  61. only thing worse than a bureaucRAT is a DemocRAT

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  62. Thank goodness there are no bureaucrats between me and my doctor now.

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  63. dave says hi. He's out community organizing. I can only assume he's doing it responsibly.

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  64. community organizing?
    sounds vapid, but also threatening.

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  65. fucking WAGE insurance.
    jesus christ.

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  66. "Education is the civil rights issue of this century"

    Let's privatize!

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  67. while dave is out community organizing, I was mayor of a small town in Alaska

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  68. Please talk about homeschooling...

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  69. Let's get rid of bureaucrats and privatize so you can go through an automated system for an education.

    Press 1 for a degree now.

    Yay, privatization.

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  70. The USW member stands up to applaud the union bashing line. Thank you, Todd Palin.

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  71. Hey, let's root out the bad teachers by putting the youngest students through really dry testing.

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  72. Did the teleprompter say "smile here"?

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  73. let's spend $700 Billion drilling right here in the United States of America.

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  74. Did he just imply that we have a $700 Billion foreign aid budget?

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  75. Point for correctly pronouncing "nuclear" - well played, sir.

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  76. We're experimenting with hot air power right now...

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  77. OMG - he still has 15 fucking minutes le... zzzzz

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  78. Aren't all of those old people in the audience's kids _already_ in the work force?

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  79. He's talking about their great grandkids.

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  80. Please start singing solidarity forever...

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  81. I'm flying through Mpls. on Saturday. I hope these assholes don't linger after tomorrow.

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  82. wait, Iran is apparently interchangeable with 'al qaeda' AND russia.

    oh wait, it's 2008 in l'USA. sorry.

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  83. Dangerous threats in this dangerous world... who the hell is his speechwriter?

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  84. Chad say hey to Sen. Craig if you see him in the loo....

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  85. John McCain knows good...and evil.

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  86. John McCain knows good...and evil.

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  87. he hates to mention it but....

    POW!

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  88. a stable and enduring peace...one hundred years or so from now.

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  89. I'll keep our kids from fighting wars by... keeping them fighting wars? Am I missing something?

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  90. When all is war, nothing will be not-war. Thus, peace cannot by not-war, but must be war. Thus peace is war. By transposition, then, war is peace.

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  91. McCain has scars from bipartisan cooperation?

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  92. I'm changing channels in five minutes.

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  93. what event is he referring to?

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  94. McCain's own Gulf of Tonkin resolution.

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  95. POW
    POW POW
    POW POW POW
    POW POW
    POW

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  96. oh, so there's an anecdote about his military career he'd like to share right about now?

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  97. I wish I could vote for one of them...

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  98. Sounds like you were a shitty pilot, flyboy.

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  99. That would take so fucking long to tap out in morse code.

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  100. are any of those decorative corpses from Abu Ghraib still around? we could use them in McCain's Cabinet.

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  101. So it took becoming a POW to love America. Damn, we're all America-haters, I guess.

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  102. Reminding people about how long you draw breath... not so smart.

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  103. You know who else was a POW? Jesus.

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  104. If you find faults with our country, become a community organizer!

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  105. Sounds like being a community organizer.

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  106. Is he stealing Kucinich's lines now?

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  107. did anyone else see the "MAVRICK" sign?

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  108. Unionboy, that's how mavericks spell maverick.

    Elitist.

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  109. Fun fact: the school district in Wasilla has a page in Russian. So I'd say Palin has done a pretty crappy job of holding back the Red Menace.

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  110. McCain looks very confused about all the rock 'n roll music.

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  111. Sarah Barracuda. Palin. Apparently her high school nickname.

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  112. Republicans Gone Wild!!

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  113. Anderson Cooper is saying that there were more specifics in McCain's speech than Obama's. For real?

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  114. I'd like to know which specific brans John McCain plans to eat during his administration.

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  115. The balloon drop appears to be a little bit excessive.

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  116. Game on, folks. I'll catch you later.

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