Next week, it's going to be all Hanoi Hilton all the time

[MrScorpio]

The wingers are going to think that ALL Vietnam vets were POWs. At least, the good ones.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

1. I'm looking forward to a big Cirque du Soleil kind of show. With a giant sparkly gold bamboo cage

as the centerpiece, and the VietCong dancer/gymnasts flying around on wires.

McCain will appear, as if by magic, in the cage, to give his keynote speech.

Shit if they'd entertain me like this, I'd actually consider voting for the guy. But I know he'll disappoint. :shrug:

[GrizzlyMan]

5. OMFG

THat is wickedly hilarious. Im gonna steal that to use on my GOP friends.

[GrizzlyMan]

6. Let me say again

I've got tears running down my face from laughing so hard. I just imagine McCain with a Rambo style bandana tied around his head with an assault rifle in his hands.

[Beregond2]

9. Will he sing, the way he did the first time he was in a cage?

[jakem]

18. ouch!

[jakem]

17. like this?

[WinkyDink]

22. No keys, though. For the love of God, no KEYS!

[SeattleGirl]

2. It's going to be a noun, a verb, 9/11 and a POW.

And probably boring as hell!

[nc4bo]

19. I hope there are protesters hold up signs with that on them. nt

[WinkyDink]

24. The VietCong trained Al-Qaeda!

[NotThisTime]

26. 90% of their convention will consist of bashing Obama, then the noun, verb, 9/11 & POW....

Sounds like a good time huh?

[Kittycat]

3. Sadly it will be about the destruction of Gustav

A horrid reminder of the failures of the Bush Adminstration - and a new nightmare in the making.

[TahitiNut]

12. Indeed... the timing couldn't be more ironic.

Another shameful episode in the making.

[mwb970]

14. Gustav could be inconvenient for the Drill Now Brigade.

They wouldn't want oil rigs destroyed and oil spilled into the Gulf right in the middle of a "Drill here, drill now" chant.

[NotThisTime]

27. Wonder if the President will know that it hit? Will anyone tell him? Will McCain know?

Nah... probably not... I will say how ironic the timing is.... Safe thoughts for those in harms way.

[Ganja Ninja]

23. Yea it's perfectly ironic timing.

As the GOP parties in MN the gulf coast will be cringing under the assault from Gustav. No matter what's said or done at the convention it's likely to be overshadowed by the storm and it's aftermath and McCain's likely to come out of the convention with a negative bounce.

[backscatter712]

4. McCain will give us sentences with a noun, a verb, and POW.

He's taking after Giuliani, it seems...

edit: dammit, SeattleGirl beat me!

[iconicgnom]

7. You sure it won't be Bagram US air base, or Guantanamo Bay, or Abu Ghraib?

I guess the story is that he withstood torture and became a toy of the N. Vietnamese propoganda machine. We give him credit for that, he was caught, imprisoned as a POW in a situation where on the opposite side there were stories of N. Vietnamese prisoners being lifted off over the ocean in helicopters and simply dropped. Not a good situation to be in! His story is extraordinary by anyone's book.

I wonder why he doesn't speak more about how he's disgusted about stories of officially sanctioned torture and murder in US prisons, of persons who've been deprived of all human rights? I mean, what kind of half-assed "democracy" would allow for such as that?

[Cleita]

8. Thank god Showtime is having a Weeds marathon while

that BS-fest is going on.

[FrenchieCat]

10. Twin City Reunion.......

[TexasObserver]

11. "Hanoi Jane blah blah Weather Underground blah blah Patriotism blah blah"

It's gonna get deep. Anyone who is going to fall for that shine is too stupid to know better.

[mwb970]

15. I love fighting the Vietnam War again.

In fact, the whole mccain campaign is one giant 60s nostalgia trip. Without the music.

[WinkyDink]

25. Or the drugs.

[mwb970]

28. Well, Cindy has some drugs, doesn't she? /nt

[TexasObserver]

30. I still want to know why McCain thinks he knows how to win wars!

He hasn't won one in his 72 years, so why does he say he knows how to win one?

[barack the house]

20. What I liked last night was Hillary highlited underground was a positive thing in the railroad

underground movement. The media renamed the weathermen the weather underground. And my heart lifted when she highlighted this important word in history. A word of resistance to slavery.

[Norrin Radd]

13. Also, a giant cross sand sculpture, and a find the crosses game in the backdrop.

[barack the house]

16. Rachel nailed it they are milking that one dry by November America will get it.

[WinkyDink]

21. Yep: The POW vs. The Guy Who Consorts with Radicals. Why, we'd have WON if it weren't..yadayadayada.

[against all enemies]

29. Next week? More like every week.