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Friday, April 27, 2012

2012 John McCain Mad as Hell That Barack Obama Caught Osama bin Laden

Posted by Paul Constant on Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 4:19 PM

The alternate headline for this post is "Angry Old Man Embarks on Vicious Letter-Writing Campaign."

Shame on Barack Obama for diminishing the memory of September 11th and the killing of Osama bin Laden by turning it into a cheap political attack ad. This is the same President who once criticized Hillary Clinton for invoking bin Laden 'to score political points.'...No one disputes that the President deserves credit for ordering the raid, but to politicize it in this way is the height of hypocrisy...it is no wonder why President Obama is shamelessly turning the one decision he got right into a pathetic political act of self-congratulation.

Holy shit. John McCain sure does have a temper on him. Looks like Republicans are going all in on these claims that a president should never politicize his foreign-policy achievements or prey on his opponent's perceived foreign policy weaknesses. Like, say, this guy, or this guy:

or this guy:

Presidents and presidential candidates have always done this. The real outrage with the Romney camp is that it's not a Republican boasting about his accomplishments.

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"the one decision he got right" = the one thing the Repugnicans can't just pretend he didn't do

Posted by Daily in LA on April 27, 2012 at 4:45 PM

IO(nly)OKIYAR

Posted by Max Solomon on April 27, 2012 at 4:48 PM

I like how they tell you it's a paid film at the end.

Why, yes, I had no idea it was a paid film.

Posted by passionate_jus on April 27, 2012 at 5:04 PM

Interesting and ironic:

While McCain was at the Hanoi Hilton, Romney was avoiding the draft as a Mormon Missionary in France, where he lived in a palace with servants.

And this was after he protested in favor of the draft in 1966 while at Stanford.

And McCain is mad at whom?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-…

With a great picture of preppy Romney holding a picture that reads, "Speak out, don't sit out".

Posted by passionate_jus on April 27, 2012 at 5:13 PM

Why doesn't Obama just send in another helicopter of stormtroopers to silence these people

Posted by Death from above is always a vote getter on April 27, 2012 at 5:46 PM

I would love for political ads to go back to the style of the Eisenhower one. More megaphone!

Posted by Knat on April 27, 2012 at 6:59 PM

Ha, ha. Old school campaign ad. And all I knew about was Daisey.

Posted by floater on April 27, 2012 at 7:30 PM

In that Game Change movie Ed Harris made him look like a reasonable man, not the kook-a-doo he really is. He's the dumb ass who foisted Sara fucking Palin on the country. Go away already.

Posted by Jersey on April 28, 2012 at 4:59 AM

And then there's this -- the 9-11 Tribute video at the Republican National Convention on day 4, shown less than an hour and a half before McCain spoke and excepted the party's nomination.

Screw these bastards!

Clip from MSNBC with Olbermann's reaction-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDx80bnFr…

Clip from CNN with images of the crowd (video quality poor)-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=085IADWSZ…

Posted by passionate_jus on April 28, 2012 at 8:20 AM

Unlike, say, a president giving a speech on an aircraft carrier in front of a big sign that says "mission accomplished" for a war that wouldn't end until a year after he was out of office? Something like that maybe?

Posted by monkey on April 28, 2012 at 9:18 AM

This is the problem - instead, like Ike, of the candidates being concerned for America, each is simply concerned for their political party.

The Republicans, until Obama, have been able to outpace the Democrats in campaign donations, or at the very least, keep pace with them. Obama is a campaign financing juggernaut, so McCain cried foul in '08 and called for public funding of that election. This would have been the perfect opportunity to get public financing in our election, which is something that would help to end corruption in our government, but Obama, despite the fact that McCain only lead in the polls for 15 days out of the entire 14 months that the polls were active in the last election (i.e. there was no way in hell he was going to lose that election anyway), refused to give up his advantage in campaign money for the good of the country, even though it would have cost him nothing to do so.

Now, the GOP is pissed that Obama happened to be the president in office when bin Laden was assassinated (since everyone is still applauding that move, despite how sloppy and lacking in forethought it was).

I'm just surprised Obama didn't make up a banner that said, "NOW - Mission Accomplished". I think that really would have been the cherry on top of that particular shit sundae.

(also, one military accomplishment can't compare with Ike's many military accomplishments. Ike had to run on his military accomplishments. He had little else to run on at the time, though he turned out to be one of the most unifying presidents of the modern age, and a great man, despite his poor choice of VP)

Posted by malcolmxy on April 28, 2012 at 10:01 AM

Shame on Bush for not responding in time (as in, prior to the attacks, when they knew FOR SURE that they would happen) and then turning 9/11 into an excuse to invite fascism to America.

Posted by suddenlyorcas on April 28, 2012 at 10:31 AM

John McCain? Wasn't that the supid effing jackhole who bombed his own aircraft carrier?

Wasn't that the warrior (? ?) who didn't even last 24 hours in combat before he was shot down and captured?

Yeah...I think it's the same stupid old fart......

Posted by sgt_doom on April 28, 2012 at 10:44 AM

@4 I've never seen that picture before (or heard about Romney's pro-Vietnam draft activities). What a true fuckwad that man is!

Posted by cheakamus on April 28, 2012 at 11:37 AM

@8: If only he was a kook. He's a spoiled, sleazebag child, who likely to make up for his lack of sexual prowess these days is horrified at the lack of his political and military might. Ever since daddy propped him up, he DESERVES to win everything. Does his privilege mean NOTHING since admiral daddy passed away? Does the privilege of his new wife's money earn him nothing as well?

Posted by won't someone marry him into winning everything? on April 29, 2012 at 1:16 PM