Political Hippo Circle Jerk - America, farg YEAH!

[Rome]

bermuda > everything else in the universe.

[ice grillin you]

hitting the perfect storm on the way home FTL


i seriously thought i was gonna die

[rjs246]

I didn't know trains ran to Bermuda.

[Father Demon]

Boats, dumbass.

[Rome]

burn

[ice grillin you]

more mccain double talk...what a sellout POS this guy has become over the last seven eight years...definitely a shell of his former self

Hypocrisy on Hamas
McCain Was for Talking Before He Was Against It

By James P. Rubin
Friday, May 16, 2008; A19

If the recent exchanges between President Bush, Barack Obama and John McCain on Hamas and terrorism are a preview of the general election, we are in for an ugly six months. Despite his reputation in the media as a charming maverick, McCain has shown that he is also happy to use Nixon-style dirty campaign tactics. By charging recently that Hamas is rooting for an Obama victory, McCain tried to use guilt by association to suggest that Obama is weak on national security and won't stand up to terrorist organizations, or that, as Richard Nixon might have put it, Obama is soft on Israel.

President Bush picked up this theme yesterday. Without naming Obama during his speech last night to Israel's Knesset, Bush suggested that Democrats want to "negotiate with terrorists" while Republicans want to fight terrorists.

The Obama campaign was right to criticize the president for his remarks and for engaging in partisan politics while overseas. Many presidents have said things abroad that could be construed as violating this unwritten rule of American politics. But it is hard to remember any president abusing the prestige of his office in as crude a way as Bush did yesterday. Charging your opponents with appeasement and likening them to Neville Chamberlain in the Knesset is a brutal blow. It is bad enough that Republicans use the politics of personal destruction here at home, but to deploy that kind of political weapon at an occasion as solemn as an American president addressing the parliament of a friendly government marks a new low.

McCain, meanwhile, is guilty of hypocrisy. I am a supporter of Hillary Clinton and believe that she was right to say, about McCain's statement on Hamas, "I don't think that anybody should take that seriously." Unfortunately, the Republicans know that some people will. That's why they say such things.

But given his own position on Hamas, McCain is the last politician who should be attacking Obama. Two years ago, just after Hamas won the Palestinian parliamentary elections, I interviewed McCain for the British network Sky News's "World News Tonight" program. Here is the crucial part of our exchange:

I asked: "Do you think that American diplomats should be operating the way they have in the past, working with the Palestinian government if Hamas is now in charge?"

McCain answered: "They're the government; sooner or later we are going to have to deal with them, one way or another, and I understand why this administration and previous administrations had such antipathy towards Hamas because of their dedication to violence and the things that they not only espouse but practice, so . . . but it's a new reality in the Middle East. I think the lesson is people want security and a decent life and decent future, that they want democracy. Fatah was not giving them that."

For some Europeans in Davos, Switzerland, where the interview took place, that's a perfectly reasonable answer. But it is an unusual if not unique response for an American politician from either party. And it is most certainly not how the newly conservative presumptive Republican nominee would reply today.

Given that exchange, the new John McCain might say that Hamas should be rooting for the old John McCain to win the presidential election. The old John McCain, it appears, was ready to do business with a Hamas-led government, while both Clinton and Obama have said that Hamas must change its policies toward Israel and terrorism before it can have diplomatic relations with the United States.

Even if McCain had not favored doing business with Hamas two years ago, he had no business smearing Barack Obama. But given his stated position then, it is either the height of hypocrisy or a case of political amnesia for McCain to inject Hamas into the American election.

[ice grillin you]

this is fabulous


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-q4MDQ0cDI

[Rome]

Hahaha.  Stupid trailer trash cowards.  I don't understand why they didn't just come out and say, "I won't vote for a stillupfront" and be done with it.  Every last one of them wanted to, especially the fat slob at the end of the video.

I have to hand it to the old lady in the video, though.  At least she was honest.

[Cerevant]

Ok, I know all you conservatives get your panties in a bunch over tax & spend liberals - but is a don't tax but spend anyway conservative much better?

For the past 25 years, deficits have never been more severe than 5% of GDP, with surpluses as high as 2.4% of GDP in the year 2000. Under McCain, yearly deficits would increase sharply, beginning with $505 billion in FY2009 (3.4% of GDP) and skyrocket to $1.2 trillion (5.7% of GDP) by FY2017.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

That's pretty much what I've continues to say over and over again about the major parties.

They both suck ass.  Until Libertarians or at least fiscal Conservatives make a comeback, I'm going to continue to vote with my wallet like a true moneylover.

[MDS]

this is fabulous


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-q4MDQ0cDI

lol

too good

[Diomedes]

I want to punch that fat dumb bitch with the coffee

[MDS]

that state is only worth 5 electoral votes and they went for bush the last 2 times. so it doesnt even matter anyway.

in the least now we have found a handful of people more racist than hunt.

[PhillyGirl]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080516/ap_on_el_pr/huckabee_obama

[Magical_Retard]

this is hilarious. radio host kevin james tries to piggy back off of bush's idiotic speech over in Israel and gets owned by chris mathews:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1wSZBTAXRs


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