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Posted by: ybdogsct 1 year, 9 months agoJohn Hagee, whose endorsement McCain accepted, said "New Orleans had a level of sin that was offensive to God." Hagee's God doesn't "Damn America" like Jeremiah Wright's; Hagee's God just destroys the parts of America he doesn't like. You're not wearing a flag pin, McCain. How are you going to answer that question?
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ybdogsct
April 27, 2008, 8:04 p.m.Jon Stewart addresses inconsistencies in the media's treatment of McCain:
1) John Hagee, whose endorsement McCain accepted, believed God sent Hurricane Katrina to destroy New Orleans for an excessive level of sin. Hagee's God doesn't "Damn America" like Jeremiah Wright's; Hagee's God just destroys the parts of America he doesn't like.
2) An examination of McCain's interviews shows that, like Obama, McCain doesn't wear a flag pin on his lapel either.
3) McCain visited a predominantly black neighborhood in New Orleans to reach out to minority voters who are traditionally ignored, only to draw an audience that was almost entirely white.
LOL
Some like to boast how well McCain is running in head-to-head polls against Clinton and Obama. What they fail to realize, however, is that--the Democrats are currently divided, McCain has gotten a free pass--this is as good as it gets for McCain. Once the Democrats have their candidate settled, McCain will face a much tougher campaign.
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not2needy
April 27, 2008, 8:26 p.m.You can always depend on Jon Stewart to get the real deal.
McCain is toast!
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Isoparm
April 27, 2008, 8:30 p.m.This whole political dynamic has all become quite sickening.
These unrelenting attacks and hypocrisy continue, because it works. It isn't only the Republicans who have an aspect of their constituencies who are swayed by these stupid attacks. These distractions just provide an excuse for bigotries that may lay just under the surface, to manifests themselves.
I hope your right, and the Dem. party CAN come together, but the longer this goes on, the greater a split within the Dem. party, resulting in a Dem. candidate so damaged, as to allow McCain a good chance to win.
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ybdogsct
April 27, 2008, 8:40 p.m.Some more Jon Stewart vs. John McCain can be seen here:
http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?v...
McCain Flip Flops on Jerry Falwell and GW Bush
McCain once called Jerry Falwell an "Agent of Intolerance." But then, he flip flopped by agreeing to give the Commencement Address at Falwell's Liberty University.
http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?v...
http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?v...
McCain Flip Flops on Cheney and the Issue of Torture
http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?v...
http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?v...
Republicans Use Push-Polling in South Carolina to Slander John McCain
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bubba2
April 28, 2008, 12:58 a.m.I am repeating myself, but I just can't help it ...
McCain is a flip-flopper and a hypocrite.
He will say and do ANYTHING to be President. He has made his deal with the Republicans - and apparently with the devil - to sell himself to those who can 'assist' him in reaching his goal of "President McCain".
Actually, I just can't see how being President of the United States can be so desirable that people will compromise themselves, throw out their integrity, and lie to get there.
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Radiofreeeuropa
April 28, 2008, 2:47 a.m.At one time the man displayed some integrity, and his party chastised him for it. The Bush campaign of 2000 used every filthy trick in the book against him. I think Cheneybush finally broke the man somehow. They say every man has his price, for some, that price is cheap. But he has made some kind of Faustian deal that is for certain. He has reversed himself on every issue, there are no issues he isn't on both sides of. Maybe Cheney has one of his family tied up in his basement.
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Radiofreeeuropa
April 28, 2008, 4 a.m.How did he become the nominee? Well you had Rudy who all the real neocons backed and advised, but his own family apparently didn't even vote for him, I'm not even sure he voted for himself. No traction for Rudy. You had the alleged "savior" of the party Fred Thompson, Fred fell asleep and no one cared or noticed. You had your Mitt Romney who appeared to me to be wearing a mask of some kind that was something I'd seen in a Devo video. He got some traction but not enough. You had your Sam Brownback who ran as an anti-evolutionist who no one noticed outside of Kansas. Then you had your Duncan Hunter who got some votes from republicans for being strongly against womens rights but his stance against illegal immigration, and opposition to free trade agreements like North American Free Trade Agreement and the World Trade Organization made the republicans reject him early on.
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nikkibabe
April 28, 2008, 7:56 a.m.Yesterday McCain said that Obama is insensitive to poor people. It is scary that this is coming from a hypocrite who flies his wife's private jet, wants to make permanent massive tax cuts to people like Warren Buffet, Bill Gates and the super rich.
Mr. McCain, while you and Mr. Keating were bilking thousands of small depositors of their life savings, Barack Obama was helping poor people on the streets of Chicago.
Now stop your lies. Have you ever gone shopping for groceries or pulled in to a gas station to fill up your corporate jet!!!!!!!!!!!
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tchef
April 28, 2008, 9:01 a.m.I've said it before, but isn't it sad when a news parody show on a comedy channel gets the story more accurately than the so called "real news" stations?
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Poulenc
April 28, 2008, 10:38 a.m.Alas, in a bake-off of provocateurs--Hagee vs. Wright--many will instantly see the latter as more deeply dangerous than the former, if they see the former as dangerous at all.
That's because of their racism and authoritarianism, which instantly bridles at any (perceived) attack on America, however "local," as if the denunciations of one man equalled sedition.
Putting aside the fringe who AGREE with Hagee, he's still "home team," in a great tradition of American demagogues whose appeal to mass bias can get him a free or freer pass.
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Poulenc
April 28, 2008, 10:57 a.m.Chef, in parody--and satire--there is always truth. That's what comedy does: our laughter is recognition of a norm that's been "transgressed."
You know, we walk upright, certain of our equilibrium, in every sense, and then slip on a banana peel...
But I DO take your point about the irony, let's call it, of finding truer truth in a show made to entertain than in one bent of "informing."
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bluenote1522
April 28, 2008, 12:42 p.m.Jon Stewart might be fine for some but I prefer to get my news from Jerry Lewis or sometimes the Stooges.
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