John McCain crows: OBL tape is "VERY HELPFUL to the President"

[Bluebear]

APPLETON, Wis. - Wrapping up a campaign shadowed by war and terrorism, President Bush and Democratic Sen. John Kerry unabashedly sought political advantage Saturday from Osama bin Laden's re-emergence.

"It's very helpful to the president," contended Bush ally Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., although the president didn't mention the menacing new message from bin Laden at his first campaign stops on a four-state, 14-hour swing.....

McCain, who has repeatedly campaigned on Bush's behalf, said the terrorists' videotape "focuses America's attention on the war on terrorism. I'm not sure if it was intentional or not, but I think it does have an effect," he said.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=1&u=/ap/20041030/ap_on_el_pr/campaign_rdp_18

[d_b]

1. Keep telling yourself that cockjaw

[Hog lover]

2. I'm finished with McCain - he's 100% whore.

[AlamoDemoc]

9. I am tired of hearing McCain...He's double faced fuck

[PDittie]

12. Spin. I hope everybody who wanted him on the ticket

with Kerry are a little bit peeved.

[terrya]

I wanted McCain as Defense Secretary in the Kerry Cabinet...

but fuck that now.

[Bluebear]

30. Good to hear.

I think his true colors are coming out in all their technicolor glory.

[NicRic]

86. The only place I wnat him is retired !

What makes anyone think that after McCain has went out and helped bush in this election ,that Kerry would give him a cabinet post ? If he was ever on the list (which I doubt) he was scratched offa long time ago ! Thankkfully :-)

[bubbismith]

18. I agree... he's tried to have it both ways for too long...

Same with Arnold, though Maria kept him in line yesterday, I don't think I'll ever be for him again, after that convention speech.

But McCain is a sell out. Must have made some backdoor deal with Junior not to oppose his running for prez next time around.

McCain, Arnold, Colin... man all sell outs.

[venus]

79. How could any true Democrat ever be for Arnold or McCain

is beyond me. Anyone who has ever seen McCain in action in the Senate would never say he is or ever was in our corner. And amending our Constitution to allow Arnold to become President? I'd never get over it. Think about it, we gave Jeb Bush a reprieve despite what happened in 2000, along with Katherine Harris. The two people in the world who instead should have been punished by their constituents. Now the two most populous states in the nation are run by Repugs - an anchor for Bush on each coast. geez. When will we ever learn. Same thing happened in Maryland. Many Dems voted for a Republican governor (I know because I talked with some who did) just because they didn't "like" their own Lt. Governor, a Kennedy no less, who happened to be a fellow DEMOCRAT. Democrats who voted for these Repugs are the real turncoats.

[City Lights]

47. I took great pleasure in voting against him. eom

[harpo]

67. I cannot agree more...this guy is BLACKLISTED in my book!!

:puke:

[VOX]

78. Whore, all right -- and he's been working both sides of the street...

for far too long now. I used to have some respect for the guy, but that's all gone.

He is what he is: W H O R E. :grr:

[terrya]

3. But how can it be "very helpful to the president" if the "President"...

didn't really care about looking for OBL? Bush wasn't "all that concerned" about looking for OBL, after all.

[afridemo]

35. And Obl saying

* is a wimp(listening to goat stories) and also indicated outsourcing at tora bora prevented his being captured or killed.

[Lefergus70]

83. Right! And furthermore...

I hope Kerry is reminding people that three years after Bush promised to bring back OBL "dead or alive", the evil outlaw is still taunting us, still threatening us. Shouldn't that make the public lose confidence in this Bush government? Shouldn't they be wondering why he diverted the "fight against terrorism" away from Bin Laden to Iraq? Yes, I hope Kerry is still, late as it is, trying to wake up the pod people to some basic common sense.

[cubsfan forever]

4. Poor McCain, forced to say things he

doesn't believe because of a sense of loyalty, even though WhistleAss is not loyal to him. He's a good man, but he is doing real harm to his reputation by saying this.

Professor 2

[Bluebear]

11. "Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly?"

"Because Janet Reno is her real father." - John McCain

Why do people say he is such a good man? Everything I hear from his mouth is horrid.

[Bark Bark Bark]

28. THANK You.

Long, bitter fight with a pair of Freeptards over that one. Their position was: (1) he apologized--quietly--to the Clintons for that, so it's all okay now--"...but don't say anything about the Bush kids!!"--and (2) he was a POW, so he can say/do whatever he wants (see also: racial slurs).

If Hillary had just run up to him and flattened his ass on her first day, I would've celebrated in the street.

I wonder if those Freeptards are so proud and forgiving of their little hero today...

[Bluebear]

37. Belated welcome to DU bark....and that is the GOP way

"Oh I was only kidding" is supposed to excuse everything away. That joke displayed his soul for me.

[shelley806]

74. "That joke displayed his soul for me." Well put...

I had no idea about that incident. But I'm disgusted enough with him. Supporting B* after the way McCain was treated by him makes me seriously doubt the credibility of his hero status. He has no moral courage. I hope that Kerry stays far away from him. But let him crow about this recent CBSnews.com poll!

With the election days away, the tape of OBL criticizing Bush:

Hurts President Bush:
80.00%
Helps President Bush:
20.00%

[ahem]

46. I can't believe how blind I once was...

to his true character! What a turd.

[Bluebear]

53. I LOVE your headline!!!!!

[gjb]

68. Personally I always thought Chelsea was as cute as a bug's ear.

[July]

88. That comment is always foremost in my mind when I think of McCain.

Fucking piece of shit.

[umtalal]

15. Professor, if he is a good man he would do the right thing and shutup.

Has Chuck Hagel endorsed Bush? I am not so sure ( but I could be wrong!@)

[The Magistrate]

21. Past A Certain Point, Sir

The proposition he is a good man becomes indefensible, and to my view that point is passing as we speak.

A good man would be unable to repress disgust that a politician depended on cowardice and hysteria for his political support among the people, and sought to spread precisely those despicable and de-humanizing emotions as widely among the people as he could contrive for his own advantage. A good and courageous andpatriotic man could not do other denounce such an act, and such a politician.

"Courage is the form all virtue must take at the sticking point."

"LET'S GO GET THOSE BUSH BASTARDS!"

[cubsfan forever]

31. I appreciate all of

your intelligent and cogent replies. You make your arguments in eloquent fashion. I still feel pity for the man he once was and shame for the man he has become.

Professor 2

[The Magistrate]

36. Fair Enough, Sir

It is to be regreted he does not himself feel that latter shame sufficiently to act upon it, and redeem the character he once had....

"LET'S GO GET THOSE BUSH BASTARDS!"

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

22. A good man wouldn't be loyal to somebody like WhistleAss.

Nobody is forcing McCain to say things he doesn't believe. If he had a scrap of decency left he'd distance himself from Bush instead of willingly letting himself be his bitch. Sorry, I no longer think McCain is a good man, though I did once. He's persuaded me that he's a craven whore and Regime apologist, no better than Frist and DeLay.

[saracat]

49. You aren't an Arizonan , are you? We know what a repulsive person

McCain is! Keating Five, dumping his first wife to marry money.
Allowing his second wife and child to be humiliated by Bush and then kissing his duff.Why would you think he has a reputation to harm? And his voting record is horrendous. Do a little research, Professor before you write an opinion!

[cubsfan forever]

57. One thing I do know about is research, friend. Bye!

Professor 2

[saracat]

62. I am sure you do. Which is why I don't understand your position

on McCain. We can agree to differ but I see no basis for your admiration of the man, and you didn't answer if you were an Arizonan. You don't have to answer but I was just making the point that those of us who are more familiar with the man and his record don't admire him!

[venus]

80. McCain is not a "good man". Watch him on c-span on the

Senate floor.

[Mr_Spock]

5. Ha! Wishful thinking - maybe this is good for Kerry!

I mean if he has to try to force this bizarre message down people's throats, maybe it isn't having the desired effect...

[aquart]

6. It has an effect, all right.

Why hasn't the cockroach been stepped on? Why has Bush re-armed the terrorists for FREE by not guarding Iraqi ammo and explosives?

[highplainsdem]

7. He's so good at destroying his own credibility.

[umtalal]

8. Why anyone on the DU thinks McCain has an iota of decency is beyond me.

HE IS A LOSER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[BootinUp]

10. I still get surprised by some of the crap

coming out his mouth. Someone slap me.

[Bluebear]

14. Done!

[BootinUp]

24. Damn that was quick!

:)


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[Bluebear]

26. No salt on my tail lol

[bringbackfdr]

13. McSlime is a tool n/t

[IronLionZion]

16. McCain will secretly vote for Kerry

Everytime you see him with Bush, you know he's thinking "I hate myself, just shoot me now"

[alcuno]

17. If Kerry puts a Republican in his cabinet, it won't be McCain.

He's a publicity hound and has been actively campaigning for *. Better to pick one of the others like Lugar.

[umtalal]

19. He better not.

[liberalmuse]

20. Okay, that's IT.

I mentioned that McCain as Secretary of Defense would be a good idea a couple days ago (re; the UK article about Kerry's possible cabinet). I hope I was flamed good for that. I take it back! Let the 'pubs have him!

[Goldmund]

23. "I'm not sure if it was intentional or not"

In other words, he doesn't mind accepting gifts from Osama bin Laden.

[Bluebear]

25. This is one gift ANY true American would RETURN!!!

Unintentional or not!

[juliagoolia]

27. OH BULL CRAP!

What a trick he is trying to play.

said the terrorists' videotape "focuses America's attention on the war on terrorism. I'm not sure if it was intentional or not, but I think it does have an effect," he said.
Here is what he should have said and would have been more honest but can't because he is *'s whore..

It focuses America's attention on the FACT that BUSH quit looking for OBL to go after Sadman.. and now he has shown back up in our living rooms all happy and healthy"

Thats what he meant to say.

[American Tragedy]

29. Shame - he's hardly a worthy heir to Goldwater's seat

Goldwater was a right-wing wacko, but if you've read enough about him and recall particularly his remarks later in his life, at the very least you know that he was rarely a whore.

[helpisontheway]

32. McCain can go

to hell!!!! I hope Kerry does not give this self-serving asshole the time of the day once he is elected!

[0007]

33. A photo is worth a thousand words


A Dirty Dog!

[Buck Rabbit]

51. Damn!!! Look at the back of McCain's Shirt !!!

They've grafted a metal rod up there to allow him to stand without a spine!

[Bluebear]

65. LOL

I wonder if he will be on the talk shows tomorrow talking about this crap?

[flpoljunkie]

34. What did you expect him to say? He's just another honorless politico.

People are not talking about the rather strange Osama bin Laden video tape. I thought Osama lost a good bit of his mystery--sounded like just another lame politician himself!

[Straight Shooter]

38. I think McCain would be a jackass even if he'd never gone to Vietnam

Life uses its tools to bring out all our characters, for better or worse. John Kerry is a better man for being in Nam. John McCain is worse. I suspect if Kerry had been a POW, he would have emerged mentally and psychologically intact. He's just that kind of guy.

[saccheradi]

39. All Kerry Needs to say is...

"I just have one question for the president regarding Mr. Bin Laden:

"Why's he still around"???

*stare into the camara*

[Diana52]

40. McCain, needs to

check himself into a "home"! I'm so sick of him talking outta' both sides of his mealy mouth!

Why isn't the media clamoring for Bush to address the Nation about the ramifications of this tape?? They (the media) are as cowardly as he is. You can bet that William J. Clinton, would have wasted no time addressing the Nation and doing a press conference had he been dealt these cards. I certainly welcome having John Kerry taking the reins in the near future. A real man, and statesman leading the nation. What a pleasure that is going to be!

[0rganism]

41. He's right, but he's off by about 10 weeks

The OBL tape is VERY helpful to incoming President Kerry.

[Warren DeMontague]

42. Why is OBL taunting us helpful? And why is the GOP accepting "help" from

Terruh-ists?

[Bluebear]

48. Would that a true journalist would have asked that of McCain

nt

[madaboutharry]

43. Everyone, all together now:

John McCain is a little shit. He doesn't have an independent bone in his body. He is nothing more than an ass kissing phony. His "I'm a maverick" routine is over for good. At least Chuck Hagel has had the decency to stay home.

[geek tragedy]

44. Republicans will say anything to get elected, no matter how shameful.

Pass it on.

[funky_bug]

45. Let's see... threatening our safety is a helpful thing for Bush?

Right, I get it. Osama, still alive and looking quite healthy I might add, releases a mocking video threatening the American people with violence, and McWhore says it's helpful to Bush?

This is the second GOP reference to the OBL gift... seems to me they are trying awfully hard to define this tape for us. What does that tell you?

[Robbie67]

50. LOLOL!! Great pic!!

hahahahahahah :)

[Plaid Adder]

52. Well, I think that's a) sick and b) wrong.

There was a thread from the NY Daily News on the front page quoting an unnamed senior GOP official saying "anything that makes people afraid for their personal safety helps Bush."

See, I just don't get how you can say a think like that and not die of shame. So your candidate is going to win only if we can keep the country terrified out of its gourd? Doesn't it...like...BOTHER YOU that you're working for someone who's happy when all the people he's supposed to be serving are miserable?

Anyway, I don't think it's true. The OBL tape made me worry more about my personal safety...but that jsut makes me all the more determined to get that BOZO out of the White House. If you think the threat is WORSE when Bush is in office than when he's not, then a reminder of the threat is only going to increase your support for his opponent.

OK, so the tape reminds America of the war on terror. It also reminds America that Saddam Hussine is NOT the guy who masterminded the 9/11 attacks. THat helps W. how?

Can we have Tuesday now instead? I cannot stand to be held hostage by these bastards for one more fucking day. The President's in better shape when America's in worse shape? You admit this? WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?

:mad: :argh: :grr:

The Plaid Adder

[progressivebydesign]

54. Shut up McCain, you GOP bitch!

I'm so tired of the sainthood of McCain. If he supposedly hates Bush, as his son has reportedly said, then he's a total WHORE for kissing Bush's ass and helping him win. It's disgusting.

ANYONE who uses that tape for POLITICAL gain is a scumbag.

[Kahuna]

55. McCain is a vile creep.

:puke:

[Sparkly]

56. Well, isn't that special.

What's Chimp's motivation for actually capturing or killing OBL if he's HELPED him ever since 9/11???

[sendero]

58. I can't decide if...

.... he's nutty as a fruitcake or fruity as a nutcake.

Oh wait, he's both! :)

[frylock]

59. who cares what mccain says? he fathered an illegitimate black child..

his wife is a drug addict, and besides, he went batshit from his stay at the Hanoi Hilton. At least that's what some people are saying.

[chimp chump]

73. not quite

"he fathered an illegitimate black child.."

No. He and his wife adopted a child, I think a girl from India who was rather dark skinned. When McStain ran against Bush in S.C. his daughter appeared with him, So Rove had pushpolls done asking the pollees whether it would matter to them if McInsane had fathered an illegitimate child.

And Rove also circulated the rumors that his POW experiences had left him insane, another nasty hit. Of course, seeing him actually campaign for the man who did these things to him publicly does make you wonder if he actually is insane.

That's the source of all this. For all that gets blamed on Rove, he actually did this. And that is probably why McCain lost the nomination to Bush in 2000. After the S.C. defeat, he never could come back because the primaries were so heavily front-loaded on Super-Tuesday and the state GOPs were already locked up for Bush.

[tavalon]

82. Um

That was the humor here. The poster was reminding us of the very things that the Bush/Rove machine whispered back in 2000 to get rid of McCain in the primaries.

[frylock]

90. thanks for getting my back..

:hi:

[frylock]

89. sorry for that, i should've closed with a sarcasm tag..

for the n00bs. </sarcasm>

[chimp chump]

92. Sorry

I was being a humorless drone. It should have been more obvious to me.

Still, McCain must be a head case of some kind to actually go campaign for Bush after what Rove did to him in 2000 (lying on a blatant racist pretext about McCain's own daughter). How low do you have to sink to take that and then go campaign for such a person later?

[frylock]

93. no prob..

did you catch the job Smigel did on McCain last night on TV's Funhouse? Great stuff! :hi:

[Confident]

60. I never understood why Kerry seems to think highly of McCain ...

or why he supposedly asked McCain to be VP (prob to piss off Bush?)

[Speed8098]

84. "or why he supposedly asked McCain to be VP"

He didn't.

He wouldn't.

It was all bullshit made up by the right wing.

SOME people on here got all lathered up over it.

I didn't.

I knew it was bullshit.

Kerry said it was bullshit.

uugghh........looks like dogshit x(
uugghh........smells like dogshit x(
uugghh........tastes like dogshit x(
uugghh........must be dogshit x(
Thank you Cheech & Chong :smoke:

[Stinky The Clown]

61. Feh ........

I used to have serious respect for this guy, but no more. Any "man" who has his reputation impugned and his family besmirched by a bully and than goes back and kisses that bully's ass deserves any scorn he gets.

I could care less about this asswipe.

[Bluebear]

64. Welcome to DU meanwhile, Husb!

[GreenPoet64]

63. Of course . . .OBL and Bush* have a codependent relationship n/t

[Technowitch]

66. God, he is such a GOP whore...

He keeps proving again and again why he is also manifestly unfit to be President.

[NDFan]

69. Possible backlash

Sometimes tells me the Republican glee over Osama's "Little Gift" to Bush is going to backfire big time.

[Bluebear]

75. It sure as hell should, hope you're right!

[truthisfreedom]

70. mccain is saying that bin laden is helping bush. doesn't that implicate

the bush administration in some way?

[allalone]

71. well this is a first

bushies are always flapping their traps about "giving aid and comfort to our enemies", but now here they are happily accepting aid and comfort FROM our enemy.
mccain is a wormy turd.

[NightOwwl]

72. John McCain crows: "Thank God Osama Bin Laden is still alive!"

Well, that is what he was saying, isn't it?

[TXDemGal]

76. Wonder how McCain liked this week's SNL cartoon

by Robert Smigel? It was quite brilliant.

[Daocrat]

77. McCain used to be someone I had some respect for

But I'm losing that respect. The guy is really doing himself a disservice by selling out in order to help these asshats, especially after the reprehensible, vile attacks Bush used against him four years ago in the primaries. I mean, for shit's sake, Bush even used push-polls to suggest that McCain had an illegitimate black daughter in order to scare off Southern racists -- not mentioning that the child is adopted and is from Bangladesh rather than Africa. In this and other smear-tactics, Bush took a big fat dump all over McCain, and now McCain is rolling over for Bush. McCain should be standing up for himself and saying "the hell if I'll help that jerk," but instead, he has decided to play the prototypical spineless politician. It's a shame, because I know that John McCain is hardly a weak man. I know he could do better than this, but for whatever reason, he has chosen not to.

It's too bad -- four years ago when I wasn't a strong Democrat, I might have even considered voting for the guy (although there was no way I'd EVER have voted for Bush).

Maybe I've just become too biased, but I don't think so. I think that instead, McCain has sold out his best attributes and played himself, becoming just another useless partisan in the process.

[depakid]

81. What a sad character John McCain is

he lost every shred of honor he once had- that just kills me. He sold out his family, his honesty and his dignity. And for what?

For a snivelling, smirking little neer do well....

I hope his kids forgive him.

[NicRic]

85. Still dont get it ?

How they think a tape showing that OBL is not only still alive ,he is recruting for his cause, is suppose to be a positive thing for bush ? What kind of back ass thinking is this ? Do they believe we are so scared of this guy ,that we are going to say blindly we just better leave things alone , and continue with the faker in office that failed to catch him when he had the chance. If this actually does help bush ,then its official that the American voter has been brain washed and dumbed down. I say kick the loser out that could'nt catch OBL, and give a guy that knows how to chase and catch someone the office !

[Domitan]

87. Question

Is McCain being a shameless media whore here...

or

is McCain speaking with a forked tongue, seeming to praise Bush but planting a poison seed against Bush into the voters' minds?

[Bluebear]

94. I'm through analyzing him & have determined he is a putz.

[Must_B_Free]

91. Helpful in losing the election for him

That's probably what he meant.

McCain is smiling as he twists the dagger in W's heart

[Bluebear]

95. Lest we forget.