“A lot of people would be quietly feeling the angst somewhere else. But that’s not the McCain I know. The McCain I know is a fighter, and he’s the one who came back here today.” – former Kansas Sen. Bob Dole, speaking about Sen. John McCain’s quiet return to the U.S. Senate Tuesday
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McCain barely knows what day it is. Cindy doesn’t want him at home so going back to work is his only option.
A few early morning drinks, a poker game in the lounge…that’s life for McCain.
And, unlike everyone else in the world who misses work, McCain and Obama (and Clinton) all get their full salaries, free health care, obscene pension and all other benefits–even tho they all missed MONTHS of doing the job to which they were elected and expected to do.
Does anyone else see something horribly wrong with this picture?
“A few early morning drinks, a poker game in the lounge…that’s life for McCain.”
living in your little fantasy land again, mx? Where did you dream up that little lie? Or, any chance you have some evidence of that ridiculous claim?
Oh..that is right….facts are not important to you, are they?
row row row your boat
gently down the stream
merrily merrily merrily
life is but a dream
Gee Raptor, do you think everything is real?
Good luck hanging on to that profundity.
oops, should have been one more “merrily”
Life is a gas! (n2o that is)
you made the accusation. Back it up or admit you lied..again.
chill raptor…you can’t back up your “all or nothing” statements either.
You were being serious, I was being facetious.
what ‘all or nothing’ statements are you referring to?
unlike everyone else in the world who misses work….
they all missed MONTHS of doing the job to which they were elected and expected to do
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Many people (myself included) get paid even if they “miss work”.
Running for office is part of the job we elect people to do. I expect my Reps and Senators to run for office and win so they can represent me even more effectively.
he’s the one who came back here today.
Uhm, isn’t that is job?
I think Bob Dole was trying to get his dig into Obama for not being ‘the one that came back today’.
But isn’t that what the loser does – goes back to his job?
Obama has resigned his Senator’s seat – so Bob Dole has nothing to say – or should have nothing to say about because he is too busy being a lobbyist for the Arabs. Or maybe Dole is too busy consoling his lovely little Mrs Dole due to her recent loss.
The McCain I know is a fighter, and he’s the one who came back here today.” – former Kansas Sen. Bob Dole
It seems to me Dole was talking about the Real McCain coming back vs the dirty lying scumbag that was on the campaign trail.
Or maybe Dole is too busy consoling his lovely little Mrs Dole due to her recent loss.
If ol’ Bob had put a lid on his wifey’s comments, SHE might still have a job.
What about Liddy?
http://www.cnn.com/POLITICS/analysis/toons/2008/11/06/lang/index.html
I hope that McCain is liberated from the GOP and can now return to his role as a free-thinking maverick.
Strange thing: politics aside, remember before Bob Dole ran in ‘96, he was actually funny? Same thing with McCain.
I saw him giving a speech after his loss. He said he “slept like a baby”:”I’d sleep 2 hours, wake up and cry, sleep another 2 hours, wake up and cry.” It was hilarious.
Something abou the pressures of running for president takes that out of some people.
I hope that McCain is liberated from the GOP and can now return to his role as a free-thinking maverick.
While he was never that free-thinking, I’m counting on him forging some of the compromises that may, even with the high number of Dems, will come about. It’s really the only way he can rehab himself with everyone but the wacko fringe of his party.
But rumor has it Obama’s going to steal his presumably toughest 2010 opponent from us (i.e.Gov. Napolitano, for Homeland Security), so, age and health notwithstanding, he might be around for a while.
The “Slept like a baby” joke is old and lame.
I was hoping for a better punch line, like “Every two hours I s#it my diaper” or something.
The November 17th issue of “The New Yorker” has a great piece about how McCain sold his soul and regretted even as he was nominating the Moose-Dresser, calling Obama dangerous… it came to a head when he grabbed the microphone from that crazy lady who called Obama a Muslim and dressed her down for being so stupid.
Leading up to his 2000 campaign, McCain wanted to pull the Republic Party from the brink of wing-nut insanity. By 2007 he was convinced by Rovian conventional wisdom he couldn’t change a thing if he couldn’t get elected and sold his soul to all the bigotries, hatreds, and anger of the Republic Party. Just like the Vietnamese 40 years earlier, the GOP tortured him to parrot their propaganda it hopes it would better his personal circumstances.
He sold his soul.
And I think this might reach below superficial explanations as to how Americans vote for a President.
I suspect we don’t vote issues and we don’t vote “who we’d like to have a beer with” and we don’t vote party or even the perceived hot-button wedge issues du jour, we vote for what is genuine. (Or, for all you cynics, what someone can fake as genuine.)
McCain flip-flopped on his “principle” from early in the Republic Party primary season. Obama seemed to have a moral compass that did not spin around the dial.
Think how “I voted against it before I voted for it” (albeit, taken out of all context and the message it revealed) was manipulated to spin Kerry’s moral compass, indeed his moral superiority.
Whether it works out that way, Americans tend to vote for someone they think will do their level best to run the country and not lie about it for political gain.
And that’s why there are spin-doctors; to stop the spinning of the moral compass.
That’s was McCain’s principal problem… his “principles.”
After years of being a “maverick” by opposing the minutia of Republic Party wedge issues, he sold out and embraced them. He said the words, though, and didn’t know the music. I mean, c’mon, Mittens Romney’s Come-to-
Jesus-Joseph Smith moment was more credible on the reproductive rights issue.The United States Senate is the most exclusive Rehabilitation Center in the world. It can help a former racist such as Robert Byrd transform into the conscious of the Constitution. The Senate provided an environment for a Strom Thurmond to a role wherein he was no longer insanely wrong but merely wrong. The Senate provided fertile ground to make Chappaquiddick a speed bump instead of a roadblock. The Senate is a place where a seven-time convicted felon can be honored for his service before he got caught… so long as he leaves.
I suspect the Republic Party faithful — and especially the wing-nuts — aren’t gonna be pleased with a John McCain in the Senate who has nothing more to lose.
I predict more often than not, Senator McCain will be the 61st vote.
so, mx, you get paid for not showing up for work for what, 21 months? Must be nice..what kind of job do you have, US Senator?