McCain: "Anybody who says Bush is lying is lying"

[kurth]

Bush's Troubles Weigh Heavily as Republicans Meet to Showcase Candidates
By ADAM NAGOURNEY

MEMPHIS, March 11 — Republicans gathered here this weekend acutely concerned with the elections ahead and distressed by the White House's performance since President Bush's re-election. They listened as a parade of prospective presidential candidates wrestled with how much to associate their campaigns with an increasingly unpopular sitting president.

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Senator John McCain of Arizona offered a full-fledged embrace of a president he has quarreled with over the years — Mr. Bush defeated him for the presidential nomination in a memorably acrid campaign in 2000 — as he urged Republicans to rally around Mr. Bush in a difficult time, and focus on the midterm elections ahead. "We must keep our presidential ambitions a distant second to standing with the president of the United States," he said...

Mr. McCain went so far as to condemn the collapse of the port deal, saying that Congress had served Mr. Bush poorly by not permitting a 45-day review of security concerns to proceed, though he did not mention that the deal was sunk by fellow Republicans. "The president deserved better," Mr. McCain said.

Mr. McCain praised the president for his failed effort to rewrite the nation's Social Security system, said he supported the decision to go into Iraq and blistered critics who suggested the White House had fabricated or exaggerated evidence of unconventional weapons in Iraq in order to justify the invasion. "Anybody who says the president of the United States is lying about weapons of mass destruction is lying," Mr. McCain said...

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/12/politics/12repubs.html

[Rainscents]

1. McCain has lost his mind!

[MADem]

20. It would seem to me that he has made a deal with the devil!!!

All of that sweaty hugging and cake-eating, and now this!

Whaddaya wanna bet that McCain actually believes that Bush will put his political machine behind McCain in his quest for the nom?

He should think back to his Adventures In Carolina vis a vis BushCo, and then remember the words of the Dullard Monkey: Fool me once, unnnnnnh, shame on you. Fool me twice....unnnh, hmmmm, uhhhhh....won't git fooled agin!!!

[TallahasseeGrannie]

39. More likely...

McCain wants VP when Cheney resigns.

[MADem]

40. Oh, certainly--but then that makes HIM the "anointed one"

MonkeyBoy would HAVE to put his machine behind him...if he picked him to replace Duck!!!! Cheney!

[beltanefauve]

57. Seems like McCain's star is rising

Johnny's enemies, like Ralph Reed, Grover Norquist, the Christofacists, et al, seem to be getting caught up in Abramoffgate or some other scandal. This supposed "moderate" and champion of campaign finance "reform" could very well be the heir-apparent when Cheney steps down for "health" reasons.

[KAT119]

63. OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DESIRE for Veepship to Prickship finally shows

his true psychopathic self. Yes!! Save this thread-though he has just finally sucided once & for ALL TIME. THANK YOU,
JOHNNY! KARMA works in mysterious ways for BULLYS/BSers/Betrayers. There is a huge fat file on him re his irresponsibility, recklessness, misogyny etc.etc.etc.

[BrklynLiberal]

2. Adam Nagourney! Oh yes! That pillar of objective reporting during

the '04 Presidential campaign! :puke:

What a pair! Nagourney reporting on McCain :rofl:

Do two liars = the truth?

[salin]

7. Isn't this "Big Time"?

The guy bush called an asshole and cheney responded "big time".??

[leftchick]

12. Adam Clymer

"There's Adam Clymer -- major league asshole -- from the New York Times," Bush said.

"Yeah, big time," returned Cheney.

http://archive.salon.com/politics/feature/2000/09/04/cuss_word/

[BrklynLiberal]

13. That was Adam Clymer. Nagourney was too much of an asskisser.

[salin]

15. thanks for clearing that up.

:D

[Gabi Hayes]

3. adam! check his 'blog'

http://www.adamnagourney.com/

don't forget the comments

http://www.adamnagourney.com/index.php?p=54#comments

[JohnnyRingo]

26. My, that's revealing....isn't it?

He even has a fan pic of Ken Mehlman.

[Gabi Hayes]

32. satire, but right on the money, especially the earlier stuff, from

the election

[JohnnyRingo]

37. Thanx...I looked for a disclaimer, but didn't see it n/t

[johnaries]

34. So, he's writing a blog on how useless blogs are? Huh?

:shrug:

[TAPat]

4. AARRGGHH!!

How he can stand soooo stuuuupidly behind W is totally beyond me!!
:banghead: then :puke:

on edit: Duh! They've promised him the nomination...

[asjr]

19. McCain has no self respect. After his treatment

during 2000 campaign by BushCo he turned and started sucking up. You bet they want him for the Republican nominee. They promised big bucks. It all comes down to power and money.

[Vincardog]

5. Mr. McCain can mary aWoL and both of them can go down the same drain.

Doesn't he see that the NeoConvicts and prince george are circling the drain?

[woo me with science]

6. and anybody who says anybody who says bush is lying is lying...

is lying!

[IntravenousDemilo]

23. Great minds think alike.

Or so they say. I posted below before reading your post here. I guess the next step up is "anybody who says anybody who says anybody who says Bush is lying is lying is lying."

This is starting to sound like Gertrude Stein...

[Nutmegger]

8. Just like the torture ban right

Bush Inc has null and voided it by saying that they can interpret it anyway they seem fit.

But they wouldn't lie to us. No sirrrreeeeee! :crazy:

[Skip Intro]

9. Please tie yourelf to bush, john, please. n/t

[boobooday]

10. My guess . . .

Somewhere, somebody has a big fat file on John McCain.

He acts like a man controlled by political fear.

[NastyRiffraff]

11. McCain: I wanna be VP SOOOOOO bad!

Please, George, once you get rid of Big Time? Pleeeeeeeeeeeze????

[bklyncowgirl]

66. Hey , you beat me too it. nt

[skylarmae]

14. Sorry, but go to hell John McCain! Just shut up! You want to serve

America, then quit lying and enabling this crazy man * and his criminal helpers to continue to do harm to our Nation. Oh, and....fuck you! You forgive and now support someone who slandered your wife and family with lies and has divided our people divisively; all for the sake of political ambition? Then don't ask for respect or support yourself.

Get out of the way, so our Country can move progressively forward, Mr. McCain....Please!

[barb162]

16. McCain needs to shut the hell up

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

17. Anyone who says John shouldn't be in a straitjacket is inattentive.

As is anyone that thinks that his smirking pal shouldn't be in an orange suit.

[IsItJustMe]

18. If McCain is the Repuke nominee, I hope voteres will remember how he stood

by his heroe

[IntravenousDemilo]

21. No, Mr McCain...

Anybody who says that "anybody who says the president of the United States is lying about weapons of mass destruction is lying", is lying.

[Ediacara]

22. wow, McCain just shot himself in the mouth!

This is worse than Bob Brown (MT GOP gov candidate in 2004) saying, "I don't think Judy Martz was that bad a governor."

[JohnnyRingo]

24. I liked McCain in '99, but those were simpler times

Rolling Stone Magazine did a big bio at the time on his campaign, his years in Hanoi, and the road that led to the 2000 election.

They focused on his "straight talk express" and I remember his quote something like: "I won't always tell you good news, I won't tell people what they want to hear, but I'll always tell you the truth".

After reading that I was hopeful he would beat Buxh in the primarys and become the Repub candidate against Gore. I figured America would do well either way.

We all know how that went, but since then his true colors have shown through.

It's obvious his fabricated integrity right went out the window by 2001, and now he's just another lying republican.

[JunkYardDogg]

59. McCain: " I can't Quit You" Master

'nuff said

[Kurovski]

25. Oh, geez. Mr. McCain is really starting to creep me out.

Con McFeign is starting to parse at full speed, while The Straight Talk Express has a peck of horseshit gumming-up the engine.

[leveymg]

27. Such a good little soldier.

Not really showing much of his vaunted "independent" streak when he's surrounded by GOP faithful at a party conference.

Toad.

[Beelzebud]

28. Anybody who says McCain is an honorable man is lying!

[johnaries]

29. ARCHIVE THIS! If McCain runs in 2008 this could be useful. n/t

[RaleighNCDUer]

30. He thinks he will be the annointed heir to the throne.

Never mind that he is just batshit crazy. He wants to hold onto *'s base - the haves and have mores whose money buys elections.

[Mandate My Ass]

31. Well, there are numerous examples of Bush's lying, so.........

McCain is pre-emptively smearing those who have the goods on Bush. Creep!

[movonne]

33. Well the bush gang said he was not mentally unstable when he was

running for president in 2000...I guess we should have believed them.

[Montauk6]

36. Good point, Movonne; is John McKeating5 willing to vouch for Bush's

honesty dating back to the 2000 primaries?

[sakabatou]

35. WTF?

[Malikshah]

38. McCain is and has been a traitor. He dishonors the country

for his own ambition.

Shame on him. He is filth

[Warren DeMontague]

41. Edit: Self delete

Post #6 Beat me to it. :thumbsup:

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

42. Anybody who says anybody who says Bush is lying is lying is lying

[TahitiNut]

43. GMTA

[aden_nak]

44. With each passing day, he makes himself more and more unelectable in 2008.

I mean, hell, John, even O'Reilly and Scarborough know when to abandon a sinking ship. And Bush never spread rumors about their mentally unbalanced psyche or illegitimate children.

[Lusted4]

45. That sounds just like what a Vice Presidential replacement candidate

might say. Because we all know Cheney will step down after the 06 elections.

[stevietheman]

46. In 2000, McCain had credibility. Today, he's a pile of doggie-doo. n/t

n/t

[WePurrsevere]

47. Is there a "re-education" camp somewhere that they send "wayward"

RepubliCONs to... or maybe they send them to visit to a nice neo-CON hospital with padded cells for a lobotomy? :shrug:

McCain and a few others are truly insane in the way that they are blindly following BushCo like lemmings off of a cliff. :crazy:

[Marr]

48. There goes the "moderate" John McCain again...

sucking up to the fascism faction of his party. I get so sick of hearing McCain described as a moderate, when he's done nothing to earn the title- save offer a few cheap soundbites when it didn't matter.

[JunkYardDogg]

49. McCain's been Bush-Slapped into Pathetic Submission

McCain is delusional if he thinks the BushReich will let him run for President
The NeoCon/Religious Extremist BushReich has invested way too much into controlling Amerika
now and into the future to let an Ass Wipe like McCain to run for President in '08
They just use him to put up a facade of moderation and he actually thinks that he is relevant within the GOP
The BushReich controls Amerikan Elections with their rigged Election Machines and they will only permit, authorize, promote,
and elect another Religious Extremist as the next President of the U.S.

[kevinbgoode]

50. Ohhhh...keep talking, McCain. . !!

You've already made yourself look like a doofus by kissing the butt of the televangelistas. . .and every remark that makes you look like Bush's bi*ch just reminds the country how quickly you said "uncle" when Rove manufactured that smear campaign against you. That's the last kind of man anyone wants in the presidency.

[tinfoilinfor2005]

51. Stockholm syndrome.

Classic symptoms. I wondered if a person is once a POW, this can become a part of your psyche.

[IChing]

55. George Bush's missing AWOL time in the National Guard - Tedd Rall view

[tinfoilinfor2005]

58. Oh my gosh, it's a little scary to think that Ted Rall and I think so much

alike. :scared:

[stepnw1f]

52. His Political Fate Has Been Sealed

Thanks asshole!

[Skidmore]

53. So that means when McCain agrees with *, then he is telling the

truth. Well, that's pretty handy.

[eppur_se_muova]

54. McCain: "I'm sinking! Someone throw me an anvil!" nt

[beltanefauve]

56. Uh, John,

"Mr. McCain praised the president for his failed effort to rewrite the Social Security system, said he supported the decision to go into Iraq and blistered critics who suggested the White House had fabricated evidence of unconventional weapons in Iraq in order to justify the invasion.

"Anybody who says the president of the United States is lying about weapons of mass destruction is lying," Mr. McCain said.

So where ARE those WMD's anyway?

[Disturbed]

60. McCain hypocrisy: The Bushification of John McCain

McCain hypocrisy:

The Bushification of John McCain

By Ari Melber, AlterNet. Posted November 15, 2005.

The bad blood between the two men has been infamous since 2000, when Bush's campaign lied about McCain's family and war service, and McCain told Bush to "get out of the gutter."

But during Bush's reelection in 2004, McCain strained to embrace his former rival -- literally. In their first joint appearance, they hugged dramatically before 6,000 soldiers at a Fort Lewis rally. Those events made for great campaign visuals. Yet while most Americans saw McCain's big heart, Republican leaders saw hungry ambition.

Rich Lowry, editor of the conservative magazine National Review, recently described that campaign bear hug as nothing but proof of "the senator's presidential ambitions." Lowry argues it's just part of McCain's scheme to get "the Right to stop loathing him." In targeted moves since the election, McCain has continued his Bushification by changing positions on conservative priorities like creationism, gay marriage and tax cuts.

As the costs of Hurricane Katrina mounted, McCain went on national television and told Chris Mathews the Bush tax cuts must be maintained. But McCain voted against those tax cuts.

In fact, he was one of only two Republicans to oppose Bush's signature 2001 tax cut. Given the surging costs of Katrina, Iraq and Medicare, there is no policy rationale for reversing his position now. The only rationale is political pandering. And that's exactly how some influential conservatives see it. Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, recently said that although McCain has "flip-flopped on a number of issues," he is still "anti-taxpayer" because "he's voted against every tax cut."

Yet the mainstream media is so attached to McCain's maverick image, most journalists didn't cover the tax reversal.


http://www.alternet.org/story/28266 /

[symbolman]

61. So I guess that little dark girl in your house is actuall YOUR LOVE CHILD

and was not adopted from Mother Theresa, eh?

You let those bastards do THAT to you, to put flyers calling your wife a drug addict on cars in CHURCH parking lots before the primary, and NOW you hug Bush with those arms broken by the same people who BROKE YOUR MIND, according to the Rove Whisper campaign, and you FEED him his Marie Antoinette CAKE while all those poor bastards got Parboiled in their attics..

I want to find that footage of McCAin saying that AMERICA IS A FOUL BEAST and showing his Yellow streak, and make them publicly availible 24/7..

He actually layed there in his bed on camera and called America a Devil Nation, etc..

I think they DID break your mind, and if you have no problem lying then I have no problem showing the films where you are ACTIVELY a TRAITOR to your own country.

[oasis]

64. After his capture, McCain called America "a devil nation". He's no hero.

And now he's sucking up to AWOLboy.:thumbsdown:

[symbolman]

62. So I guess that little dark girl in your house is actuall YOUR LOVE CHILD

and was not adopted from Mother Theresa, eh?

You let those bastards do THAT to you, to put flyers calling your wife a drug addict on cars in CHURCH parking lots before the primary, and NOW you hug Bush with those arms broken by the same people who BROKE YOUR MIND, according to the Rove Whisper campaign, and you FEED him his Marie Antoinette CAKE while all those poor bastards got Parboiled in their attics..

I want to find that footage of McCAin saying that AMERICA IS A FOUL BEAST and showing his Yellow streak, and make them publicly availible 24/7..

He actually layed there in his bed on camera and called America a Devil Nation, etc..

I think they DID break your mind, and if you have no problem lying then I have no problem showing the films where you are ACTIVELY a TRAITOR to your own country.

[MODemocrat]

65. How sad, John McCain now lying for Bush

He knows this is not true; and he is surely calling a lot of people liars. He may need these same people to vote for him in the event he runs for president. I don't care for him very much anymore. He has quit being his own man. :spank:

[saltpoint]

67. No matter how much he panders to the Far Far Far Right in his public

words for the president, McCain has lost all credibility for me. I'm not saying he's not electable; he is. Unfortunately. But his once-fresh image as a straight-shooting truth-teller is long gone.

If you have to bend that far over for the Far Far Right, my guess is you're not going to enjoy the ensuing experience much.

Shame on John McCain.

[mmonk]

68. Liars club.

Party before the constitution and the country. Human scum is all he or any of them are.

[LibertyorDeath]

69. Wonder what disgusting dirt they have on McCain

They've obviously got something.

[Solly Mack]

70. lololololol

McCain is such a good little flunkie

[Blue_Tires]

71. "Any asshole that talks to that asshole is a fuckin' asshole!"

--Ed Harris in Glengarry Glen Ross

[NuttyFluffers]

72. well, there goes the last mote of sympathy i've had for him...

any respect was lost ages ago. but deep down, in the depths of my liberal bleeding heart, i retained mere flecks of sympathy for the man. who knows what blackmail was in the works, what do i know of the pressure being exerted on him? and now those last flecks are gone. i wash my hands of him. whatever he says from now on holds no interest to me for i shall automatically assume it to be a lie.

goodbye mccain, you served america pitifully in its darkest hours.

[mitchum]

73. Somebody took too many blows to the head

[Cleita]

74. Anybody who says McCain isn't lying is lying.

His word is no longer credible because of the lies he has told in defending Bush.

[standup]

75. Shameless groveling and ass-kissing wins him 5th place in straw poll

This man has no integrity whatsoever.

[Ilsa]

76. McCain is in full suck-up mode. nt

[spanone]

77. The torture in Vietnam has finally destroyed his brain entirely.

What is it about politics, that makes a man sell his soul and those of anyone standing near?