It's 2:53 and I finally feel sorry for John McCain, it's so sad.

[givemebackmycountry]

He's flailing about live on MSNBC, and he reminds me of a drunk Martin Sheen in that hotel room in Apocalypse Now.
All that's missing is the blood and the booze.

It's so sad, he's so small and irrelevant.
This guy was a war hero, like it or not.
Nothing has been proven that can sway me from thinking that.
He had more balls than Chimpy did, at least he flew in combat.
While Chimpy was snorting coke off of hookers belly's thanks to Poppy and Babs.
I don't give a shit how many planes he crashed, or what his lineage is.
He wore a uniform, and that's more than all the people who he let sway him ever did.
Rat Fuckers.
John McCain.
He's old.
I'm sorry but he is.
John McCain is tired, and he's weak, and he let himself be swayed by the likes of Karl Rove, Sarah Palin and Joe, the fucking plumber.
Our guy is young and vibrant and fit.

John, it's time to go now and do me a favor.
Take Joe Lieberman with you.

Wow, that speech was inspiring.
I feel bad for him.
He's done and he deserves it.

[951-Riverside]

1. Gosh I think I'm going to vote for him

:sarcasm: :rofl:

[Janice325]

2. I think he knows he's lost the election.

[GrizzlyMan]

3. Not ONE OUNCE of sympathy for me

He has run a disgusting, shameful and racist campaign. He deserves to lose. He deserves to go back the senate a broken man.

I will never forget what he's done.

[Blond4O]

10. What GrizzlyMan said. nt

[ROh70]

4. that was a really short speech. What, 5 minutes long?

[ROh70]

5. I'll wait until he's been crushed tomorrow before I think about feeling sorry

for him and his ugly, ugly, disgusting campaign.

[W_HAMILTON]

6. He compromised his dignity...

...all for what looks to be an eventual loss.

It's a sad way for him to go out. I respected him as an individual, years ago. But after watching his antics during this campaign, there's no way I could ever look at him the same way. What's worse (at least for him) is that most Republicans will discard him as soon as the election is called.

Well, at least there's always Joe and Lindsey

[book_worm]

7. he ran one of the very worse campaigns in US History, he has himself to blame.

[puerco-bellies]

8. You are a better person then I .

I hold McCain personally responsible for the tone of his campaign.

John McCain here is my salute to you and your campaign.

[Why Syzygy]

9. He is truly MacBush

he squandered all the goodwill and respect he garnered over a life time. Just as GW trashed the trust placed in him after 911, McCain betrayed many of his life long friendships. At least MacMaverick won't have a chance to do further damage. Be glad of that. He was potential disaster.

[TomInTib]

11. Take two aspirin, and call me when you wake up.

John Sydney McCain, III, was never anything but a loser.

[Marsala]

12. Don't feel sorry for him. He's rich and has had a good life.

He said it himself. I'm sure losing will be a relief to him. The stress of actually being President would probably kill him.

[Whisp]

13. not a chance. My list has millions to feel sorry for before that lieing fat rat bastard

[TheDonkey]

14. McCain is a liar, a coward, and disgusting person. I hope he loses his senate seat in a few years

too.

[budkin]

15. Fuck the asshole. He shit in his bed and now he has to sleep in it

[curious one]

16. Yap, a war hero that lost his honor by running a dishonest campaign.

No sympathy from me and no vote either.

[speedoo]

17. I'm looking at Lieberman and Graham standing in back of him..

with their stupid grins.

And I'm thinking about all the Rev. Wright ads I've seen today.

And I'm thinking about that decrepit Palin woman and all the lies she has been spouting, and her incompetence.

And I'm thinking about all the evil, all the death that Bush/Cheney/MCCain have visited upon us the last eight years.

I'll never, ever feel sorry for any of these rethug bastards.

[TheKentuckian]

18. Sympathy for McGollum and his avirice for power?

No, I have pity for a man so small to have a craving thirst for power so unquenchable that he would betray his responsibility to his country and sell his soul to get a taste of it before he leaves this world.

It's hard to sympathize with someone that throws his honor away for a fleeting nothing but I can pity them.

[denem]

19. One million Iraqis are not sorry..

They are dead.

[FrenchieCat]

20. Knock yourself out.......

I can't stand that unprincipled piece of shit.

The only brave thing he ever did was stay alive in captivity...and did whatever that took.
He stayed back when offered early release because that's what he was expected to do.

[WA98070]

21. Thanks for the heads-up, I was able to back-up tivo a few minutes to see it. Say Good Night John.

[givemebackmycountry]

22. I agree with everything that's been said.

He's despicable.
He's racist.
He's a freaking crook.
Keating 5 anyone?
He's weak, and he's stupid, and he truly believes that this time is "his turn".
He is BUSH, right down to the stumbling and bumbling, and Joe the freaking plumber.
And Sarah Palin his greatest by far, single dumbest move.

I agree with you all.
I'm just saying that he wasn't always this way.
But he is now.
And that just strikes me as sad.

But, in about 20 hours?

He is so going to pay for what he did.

(just thought I would add a disclaimer)

[illuminaughty]

29. Sorry you're getting so beat up on.

I am a self admitted worst competitor in the world. I always pity the loser even if I'm watching my home team win the World Series.

Does that make me weak or approving of the right wing tactics? Hell, no. I just always seem to over empathize. I will say I have no pity for Bush, Cheney, Rove, etc. But right now, McCain is just sad on that stage.

[Kind of Blue]

23. "He's done and he deserves it."

That about sums it up for me. I think he's a spoiled, lazy old brat, and there's just too much to rehash about him from his childhood till now. I can't wait for him to lose so that we can start digging our way out of the mess that he would have surely continued, if he didn't die first and Plain took over - I don't even one to think about that. Maybe I'll feel bad for him once he loses but I doubt it. I just want he and his kind out of here so bad it hurts.

[renate]

24. you're nice. And you're right, he's braver than Bush

I think it's a terrible shame that his 5+ years as a POW has become a punchline. He suffered terribly... and probably still does.

So I feel sorry for him in that regard.

Other than that, I agree with your last line: "He's done and he deserves it." Because he is far from blameless in what he has done in this election.

[Hellataz]

25. I feel bad for him too

However, I don't feel one once of sympathy for the GOP machine that turned this great war hero and occasional bi partisan man into a right wing tool, I don't feel shit for Palin or any of those F'in republican pundants on the news and I sure as hell don't feel bad for anyone at Fox news or all those racists douche bags who kept calling Obama "Hussien" or making other racist and false accusation.

But I do feel bad for McCain, I think he got really desperate, he knew it would be hard going into this following Bush, he knew he didn't have the full support of his own party and to get it he sold his soul to the GOP and the Rove campaign machine to shore up the base. This was his last shot at the presidency, and I bet he wanted it more then any of us could imagine and obviously was willing to lie, cheat and steal to get it.

There are 2 types of bad people in this world.

• Ones who do bad things because they feel they have no choice, but in the end feel bad about their actions and the people they've hurt.

• And the others who do bad things with no consideration for who they hurt and are solely driven by selfish reasons. They have a choice, but they always choose to take the low road.

McCain is the first, Palin is the second.

I feel sick at the thought that Palin will be back in 4 years, not that I don't think Obama will kick her ass in yet another campaign, but just because I don't want to hear her voice or her snarky rude comments anymore. I hate women who think that in order to be a strong women you have to be a bitch.

[chalky]

26. It's 2:31 here, and I feel sorry for him, too.

Now it's 2:31:15. I'm over it.

[Awsi Dooger]

27. I never feel sorry for nominees who ran in uphill cycles

They should know they are up against it. Likewise, I never felt sorry for McGovern or Mondale or Dole or Kerry. The situational dynamics of those cycles were lopsided in favor of their opponent.

[expatriate]

28. I know too many people who lost everything in the savings

and loan scandal, in which John McCain was involved. He got off scot free. They lost everything. One took his own life.

I don't pity McCain. He's not good enough to be President of the local PTA, much less of the USA. The hell with him. Born a loser, lived life as a loser, will go out as a loser. He hurt many, many people along his way, and never showed one iota of remorse. He has the principles of a hyena in heat.

I hope he retires and goes off to one of his umpty houses and never shows his ghastly white, lumpy visage on the TV again. Good damn riddance to damned bad rubbish.

[lib2DaBone]

30. McLame has run a despicable Racist hate campaign

I just saw a McLame Ad. "Obama wants to re-distribute the wealth". Man in ad is working class schmuck. Once again.. the message is: (the Repukes care about working schlubs.) Just like "Bush.. a guy you want to have a beer with".

The working class guy then says, "I don't want Obama to take what I got and give it to someone with less qualifications."

Code word: Obama is going to take your job and give it to a black.

McLame is pandering to a racist hate-filled audience and he will be lucky if it doesn't blow up in his fat pasty face. Shame on the Republicans for creating hatred and violence such as this.

[Naturyl]

31. I feel bad for the man he once was.

The man he now is fully deserves to lose.

[Fluffdaddy]

32. We have not won shit yet..........Lets not feel sorry for anyone

Keep the boot on his neck

[BlueMTexpat]

33. I don't feel sorry for John McCain. At all.

I won't criticize his actions as a POW, but they hardly make him a war "hero." He was definitely a casualty of that horrible war, however, as were so many others.

John Kerry is a true war hero. When McCain was among the first to criticize the infamous Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, that action was heroic. But his subsequent sheer hypocrisy in hooking up with some of the same people who had defamed Kerry and in using them to run his own campaign has cancelled that out. In spades.

McCain hasn't even been a good Senator, having a lamentable voting record. He betrayed his office and his constituents during the Keating 5 scandal, which was an eerie predecessor of the current economic crisis. So far as I know, Phil Gramm (of the infamous "Enron loophole" and a deregulation zealot) is still associated with his campaign, acts as his economics advisor (that sends chills up my spine), and would probably be his No. 1 pick for Secretary of the Treasury. McCain thought nothing of putting our troops and Iraqi civilians in danger so he could have his Iraqi market walkabout and photo op. And, as a veteran himself, with his own health and pension benefits secure, he has done little to nothing to assist veterans, especially veterans of our current wars.

The final straw for most moderate Republicans, and even several notable conservatives, was his pick ("forced selection" is probably more accurate, which doesn't make me feel any better about it) of Sarah Palin, who is an insult to the intelligence of thinking voters everywhere, and who would literally, yea, joyfully, push the infamous button, if only to advance the moment of Rapture.

McCain is all about himself and always has been. I don't believe that he has ever been different; it's just that now we've seen him "up close and personal" and the gloss has worn thin enough so that it can no longer hide what has been there all along.

[regnaD kciN]

34. I'll feel sorry for him...

...five seconds after he finishes his concession speech.

But we haven't won anything yet.

[complain jane]

35. I don't know. After watching how easily he sold his soul & compromised his principles

in this campaign, I have a hard time imagining he had much of a backbone as a POW.

I'm not insulting POWs, it's just an observation of how easily he folded.