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AllentownJake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-22-08 10:54 AM
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I think a McCain breakdown is possible this week
The Obama media coverage and the ensuing poll numbers are going to make his head explode. He's been getting angrier in interviews. I think he might just blow up at a reporter sometime in the next week.
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Overseas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-22-08 10:57 AM
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1. Yes Please !! /nt
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gateley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-22-08 10:59 AM
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2. I second the "yes, please".
I can hardly wait until he announces his VP pick (if the stories are accurate and he indeed does this week) - and the media STILL will be all about Obama.

Like a fool, he's planning on making the "special announcement" when Obama is appearing in Berlin.
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liberal N proud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-22-08 10:59 AM
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3. Can I help?
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ErinBerin84 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-22-08 10:59 AM
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4. I hope so!
"I'm a little tea pot, short and stout..."
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AndyA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-22-08 11:00 AM
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5. A McSame meltdown would be great.
The media no doubt would never show it. They'd be under orders not to. Just like the dead soldiers, if America doesn't see it, it doesn't exist.
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polichick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-22-08 11:00 AM
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6. He's showing his true UGLY colors!
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Hav Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-22-08 11:01 AM
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7. "You little jerk!"
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TrogL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-22-08 11:03 AM
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8. We do NOT want a McCain breakdown
Without McCain, the Repugs will drop an emergency candidate in place - Jeb Bush. Or they'll declare martial law and just stop the elections entirely.
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ingac70 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-22-08 11:11 AM
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11. Jeb Bush would be great!
The bigger the humiliation for Repukes this fall, the better.
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KaryninMiami Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-22-08 11:11 AM
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12. My sentiments exactly. A mini-breakdown however, would be welcome- but
not until the first debate when we know the media will have no choice but to air it since it will be live.

My idea is for someone to ask him that same question the Veteran asked him a while back which questions how, as a Viet Nam vet he could have voted repeatedly AGAINST taking care of the returning veterans?

Or perhaps someone might ask him- live and on camera- something related to geography- like- which countries border Iraq?

We do not want a complete meltdown however because they will absolutely- drop someone else in right away. I'll bet they have someone standing by right now. They could also put Romney in place as the candiate and throw Jeb in as the VP. Anything is possible- martial law included.
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Tab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-22-08 11:12 AM
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13. Sadly, that's true

It'd be better to do a "Howard Dean" on him and blow his blowup through the echo chamber.

All we need now is an echo chamber.

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anonymous171 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-22-08 11:51 AM
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16. Good. Jeb Bush would lose handily.
Bush fatigue.
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dipsydoodle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-22-08 11:10 AM
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9. Do knobheads like him explode
is simply just go limp :shrug:
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CountAllVotes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-22-08 11:11 AM
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10. he lost it the other day
he was at some event and a woman asked him some serious questions like (and I paraphrase), "You said bomb bomb bomb bomb Iran. I take it this was a joke?" She then said we did not win in Vietnam and that she said that we had invaded Iraq.

Hence, ol' gramps had a fit and started saying, "Obama said this ..." and "Obama says this ...". I really thought he was going to lose it on the teevee. Close, no doubt.

Just a matter of time. tick tick tick tick tick ...

:dem:

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Mz Pip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-22-08 11:18 AM
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14. Better now than
after he wins (which I don't think he will.)

Yeah, I want to see him blow up at someone big time for all the world to see. Of course the GOP will just spin it as McCain being "authentic" or "McCain being McCain". Or they will just blame the media for pissing him off.

McCain cannot think outside the box of there being a military solution for everything. Now that there seems to be a viable alternative to bombing the crap out of everyone we disagree with McCain is getting more and more testy.
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global1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-22-08 11:50 AM
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15. McCain Cannot Think Outside The Box Because He Stands On A Box......
Edited on Tue Jul-22-08 11:59 AM by global1
when he gives speeches. Last night on Countdown they had a clip of McCain giving a speech. I think it was story #3 on Countdown. McCain was behind the podium giving a speech and he was shown standing on a box to get him to reach the microphone. We need to get that pick and post it. It was really funny.


I found the clip from Countdown from last night.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/#25789488

The pic is at 5:42 into the clip. Shows McCain standing on the box. Now I don't know how to just show that picture. Maybe somebody more adept at using a computer can isolate that shot and post it.

Also - unfortunately - this clip starts off with a short commercial for a dental product. I got the link from the MSNBC site.
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Mz Pip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-22-08 12:03 PM
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17. Oh my, that is too funny
The debates should be priceless. McCain will have to get to the forum a couple of hours ahead of time and plant himself on his box behind his podium so no one really notices how much Obama towers over him.

Not that there is anything wrong with being short. Pretending you're tall is the problem.
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BrotherBuzz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-22-08 12:11 PM
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18. No, the bantam rooster is just going to dig faster and deeper
Never mind his shovel has a rope handle, either. Enjoy the antics.
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my3boyz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-22-08 01:01 PM
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19. Yes, please let him totally go off. The media would NEVER cover it as they did the
Dean scream BUT we would have footage to use in commericals against McCain.
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BklynChick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-22-08 01:06 PM
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20. I don't see how he's gonna hold it together over the next 4 months.. he's most definitely cracking
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SidneyCarton Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-22-08 01:10 PM
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21. Part of me pities him.
My pity is not strong enough to want him to win, not by a longshot. That said, if he does do a total meltdown, we are seeing the destruction of a person, a person with whom I strongly disagree and never want in a position of authority, but a person nonetheless. The ruin of any man (or woman) is a reminder to me of how far I can fall.
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