Anyone see the McCain meltdown on Meet The Press?

[Karmadillo]

He was against tax cuts for the rich before he was for them (You see, he was against the tax cuts at first because they gave benefits to those least needing them, but now that they're a reality, he can't vote to rescind them because that would be a tax increase and he's never voted for a tax increase and and and...). He previously couldn't say Bush ran an honorable campaign in 2000, but he can say it now. He once found Falwell an agent of intolerance, but that was, like, eons ago, man. He ended by outrageously comparing Tim Russert's questions (good ones, for a change) to his interrogations by the North Vietnamese (Saying something like I haven't had so much fun since my last interrogation--I'm assuming that's the allusion he was making, but maybe I'm being unfair). Came across as a total, complete cut and paste politician.

[Trevelyan]

1. Those crazy-making bushes at work again.

It's the reign of the Mayberry Machiavellis."

[liveoaktx]

34. Couple of video clips of that here-

On journal

[acmejack]

2. Thanx for the heads up!

I will be sure to catch it when it airs.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

3. Well, whadda you know?

Timmah evinces the stem cell precursors to 'nads. Amazing.

Sounds like Lil' Johnny don't like being called out much. Sucks to be him.

[saltpoint]

4. Nice post, Karmadillo, and very nice synopsis of McCain these days.

"Cut-and-paste politician." I love it.

The free-wheelin,' straight-talkin' honored war vet has grown faint in McCain and he's now what you say he is.

[leftchick]

5. he said the A word

Armageddon. :scared:

[KC21304]

6. You're so right. He came across as a

"straight talking" bullshitter. What a pitiful site.

[madaboutharry]

11. Straight Talking Bullshitter.

Yep, that's McCain. Good name!

[0007]

7. McCain is getting into form. The freepers who once hated this

asshole will now see the big change and will love him to pieces. McCain is on the road to much success and the loonies in this country will love him to death.

[Catchawave]

8. Tim must read DU !

I swear, his questions have been the topics of several McCain threads !!! LOL, especially the "huggy Bush" scenes, flip-flopping and a born again Bushophile!

Yes, the interrogation remark was in reference to his POW days.


Also, the next half hour Tony Zinni nails a lot of Viet Nam comparisons to Iraq, "we can win the battles, but we can't win the war".

Meet the Press is must see for sure!

[capi888]

9. Yes Indeed, McCain just lost the nomination..

Supporting Farwell...too!! What a meltdown....
DON'T MISS GENERAL ZINNI....lays it on the line...WAR WAS BIG MISTAKE AND DIDN'T SEE ANY REASON FOR THE INVASION. GREAT, GREAT.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

10. Oh goodie! I wasn't going to watch but will now! Thank you! :)

[hippiechick]

12. How can he look himself in the mirror ?

:puke: It's on now and he's praising the almighty Boosh. :puke:

[1monster]

13. McCain has always toed the party line. He just talked like he didn't.

When a vote came up on an issue that Clinton did not support, but the Republicans did, and McCain thought that the legislation was bad for the country, he voted for it along with his Republican colleagues despite the fact that his was the deciding vote.

He called it a Hobson choice, whether to vote his conscience and give Clinton a victory, or to vote with the Republicans saddling us with what he thought was a bad law.

He chose to give us a bad law.

[UTUSN]

14. Cut & paste all A.M. - Obama, Geo.ALLEN - all have a glazed look n/t

[liveoaktx]

16. So I guess I'll skip This Week and watch Gen Zinni

[liveoaktx]

15. Ironic to hear McCain griping about Iran as a signatory to the NPT

Uh, INDIA is not.

[liveoaktx]

17. Heh. Flip Flop Flip Flop-Russert is calling them out

[LizW]

18. Russert is killing McCain

Although, in all honesty, he's pretty easy pickings. What a worm.

[liveoaktx]

19. Geez.... NOW that the tax cuts are there, it would be a tax increase

well, DUH. But that's the lamest excuse.

[liveoaktx]

20. McCain-Flip Flop on Christian Right and Falwell-heh, this is great!

[HeeBGBz]

21. Watching it now

What a flip-flopper. Suck up to those Repukes, McCain. See what good it does ya.

[kikiek]

22. He builds bridges like Bush is a uniter not a divider.

[sendero]

23. Going after the presidency..

.... seems like a man going after a woman. As soon as he wants her too much, it is OVER.

Gosh knows we've seen that dynamic at work in our own party.

[Hamlette]

24. it was a great interview, Tim did not let him get away with his crap

I think you're right about the parting shot.

My guess is Tim will be taken to the woodshed.

(Slightly off topic, if Bush really did win because all the religious nut cases got out the vote, the GOP is in trouble if it doesn't find another religious nut case. I think we are watching McCain turn into one? While I think Dems gave him too much credit, I have admired him over the years for having the guts to say no to the GOP machine. No more?)

[wordpix2]

32. Tim did not do good job pressing McCain on his Iraq War "stay to succeed"

plan, if McCain has one.

[Hamlette]

39. I have to admit I missed that part but

he made McCain look like a complete fool. He wouldn't let up with the quotes from McCain about taxes and Falwell. by the end, McCain looked like a complete opportunitist. More of the freaking same.

[dennis4868]

25. McCain the Ass!

Said that the whole world said that Sadaam had WMD....nothing can be the further from the truth! Many countries told us that Sadaam had nothing and the U.N. said the same damn thing before the war. McCain is a fu$^&c*king liar and Timmy Boy lets the lie go by!

[kurth]

26. A pathetic coward with ZERO convictions of his own

"War hero", my ass.

[TrueAmerican]

27. You are all missing the point of this

This is just a cheap political trick by McCain with his buddy Timmie. He has his buddy Timmie ask him all these tough questions so now he can say, "I ALREADY ADDRESSED THAT" "THAT'S OLD NEWS" "LET'S MOVE ON, THAT'S BEEN COVERED" etc.

I thought DU folks knew all the tricks in the book, but it looks like a lot of you have a lot to learn how the game is played. If people on DU can't see through this charade, how is the American people going to see through it.

Once again the repukes are playing us like a fiddle.

[KC21304]

28. I don't agree. We now have him on record

saying all kinds of foolishness trying to square his words and actions now with his words and actions then. There is no way this can be good for him.

[wordpix2]

35. my email to Tim Russert re: McCain & Zinni interviews:

Dear Mr. Russert:

Thank you for one of the most important interviews on the War in Iraq ever. Gen. Zinni is a patriot who informed the Senate Intel Comm. and others of the actual pre-war intelligence and steered them in the right direction. He was ignored in 2002 through early 2003 and now our nation is reaping the bitter harvest of an incompetent, dishonest, and corrupt administration that should be impeached---all of them. This was one of the best interviews you’ve ever done.

As for your interview with McCain, you soft-balled him re: his statements on Iraq. When he said we now have to “succeed in Iraq” because we’re there, despite his earlier advice to Bush to increase troop levels, you did not press him on his plans to stay. You did not ask him if he would increase the troop levels now that we’re there, or start a draft if he were to become president. What is McCain’s plan for Iraq? We’re just going to stay there indefinitely with the troops we presently have, whose numbers keep decreasing by being killed off and maimed by the Iraqi “insurgents?” Would McCain continue the soldiers’ two, three and four tours of duty? Would McCain keep sending in reserve troops, leaving us with none here at home for any future disaster such as Katrina? We don’t know the answers because you didn’t bother to ask the questions.

You didn’t ask McCain ANYTHING re: the broken army that Sen. Murtha has been telling us about. You did the American people a disservice in not pressing any of these topics.

Sincerely,
Wordpix

[oasis]

29. Straight Talk Express train wreck. (eom)

[Neil Lisst]

30. "John McCain" - "John SIDNEY McCain!"

Maybe the Bushies were right about McCain as a modern day Manchurian Candidate.

[wordpix2]

31. keep watching: Gen. Zinni interview on after McCain & he savages BushCo

[Beelzebud]

33. McCain is no "maverick". He's one of the most conservative members...

[Generator]

36. The dude makes my skin crawl

YES, worse than Bush. He's the epitome of the Faustian bargain. He knows evil and he says okay. He makes tough on anti-torture and then he let's Bush pull his bullshit signing statements. Yes, he said that was wrong for five minutes and then, shrug. McCain is proabably the one Republican that could have seriously hurt Bush. And instead he props him up and disses former friends like Kerry all because HE wants to be the next emperor. Disgusting.

[Poiuyt]

37. "I haven't had so much fun since my last interrogation"

Reminding everyone that he was a POW

Russert should ask him why he gave out military secrets when he was a POW

[Roland99]

38. I just uncovered McCain's new political cheer >>>

Gimme a 'W'!

Gimme an 'H'!

Gimme an 'O'!

Gimme an 'R'!

Gimme an 'E'!


What's that spell?


McCain!!