The POW Card - Play Again John

Despite Assurances, McCain Wasn’t in a ‘Cone of Silence’

ORLANDO, Fla. — Senator John McCain was not in a “cone of silence” on Saturday night while his rival, Senator Barack Obama, was being interviewed at the Saddleback Church in California.

Members of the McCain campaign staff, who flew here Sunday from California, said Mr. McCain was in his motorcade on the way to the church as Mr. Obama was being interviewed by the Rev. Rick Warren, the author of the best-selling book “The Purpose Driven Life.”

The matter is of interest because Mr. McCain, who followed Mr. Obama’s hourlong appearance in the forum, was asked virtually the same questions as Mr. Obama. Mr. McCain’s performance was well received, raising speculation among some viewers, especially supporters of Mr. Obama, that he was not as isolated during the Obama interview as Mr. Warren implied.

Nicolle Wallace, a spokeswoman for Mr. McCain, said on Sunday night that Mr. McCain had not heard the broadcast of the event while in his motorcade and heard none of the questions.

“The insinuation from the Obama campaign that John McCain, a former prisoner of war, cheated is outrageous,” Ms. Wallace said. (my emphasis)

We are somehow supposed to believe that because McCain was a POW he is incapable of cheating? Let’s ask the first Mrs. McCain how that line of logic works for her.

John Are You Making Sh*t Up Again?

From Andrew Sullivan a tough question:

I've now heard it countless times. McCain has used what appears to be an intensely personal moment in a prison camp as a reason to vote for him in a campaign ad. As he tells it today, it was the pivotal moment in his struggle to survive in the Hanoi Hilton. And yet, in his first thorough account of his time in captivity, in 1973, the story is absent. The story is also hauntingly like that recounted by Solzhenitsen, as told in Luke Veronis, "The Sign of the Cross":

Leaving his shovel on the ground, he slowly walked to a crude bench and sat down. He knew that at any moment a guard would order him to stand up, and when he failed to respond, the guard would beat him to death, probably with his own shovel. He had seen it happen to other prisoners.

As he waited, head down, he felt a presence. Slowly he looked up and saw a skinny old prisoner squat down beside him. The man said nothing. Instead, he used a stick to trace in the dirt the sign of the Cross. The man then got back up and returned to his work.

As Solzhenitsyn stared at the Cross drawn in the dirt his entire perspective changed.
I have one simple question: when was the first time that McCain told this story?

As Andrew points out it is not in his initial telling of his tale in 1973.

Let The Flipping & Flopping Begin

Just how long do think it is going to take for the McCain camp to issue a “clarification?

 

"I don't think there's any doubt the major, major issue is water and can be as important as oil. So the compact that is in effect, obviously, needs to be renegotiated over time amongst the interested parties. I think that there's a movement amongst the governors to try, if not, quote, renegotiate, certainly adjust to the new realities of high growth, of greater demands on a scarcer resource'.

 

 

McCain - Where's The Flag Pin?

Watching the Warren “Civil Forum”, I noticed John has no label flag pin. So, wing nuts, what does that say about John’s patriotism?

What I heard from John McCain tonight:

I was a POW.....blah, blah , blah, pander, pander, pander, I was a POW, blah, blah, blah, I am Pro Life, and did I mention I was a POW......

Do you support Bush more today then four years ago? John does!

Great job by Carterwrightdale.

Yeeeeeeeeeeeee Haaawwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

Why am I not surprised that this is happening in Texas


HOUSTON (Reuters) - A Texas school district will let teachers bring guns to class this fall, the district's superintendent said on Friday, in what experts said appeared to be a first in the United States.
The board of the small rural Harrold Independent School District unanimously approved the plan and parents have not objected, said the district's superintendent, David Thweatt.
School experts backed Thweatt's claim that Harrold, a system of about 110 students 150 miles northwest of Fort Worth, may be the first to let teachers bring guns to the classroom.

Minnesota Nut Job!!

Remember the old story, told by Pastors time and time again during Sunday sermons:

There was once a flood. The people in the town evacuated, all but one man. He climbed to his roof and prayed for God to save him. A large truck plowed through the flooding streets and it drove up to the man on his roof, the people inside offering help. "No thank you, God will save me," answered the man. As the flood rose, a boat with some people came by the man's house and offered him a ride to safety. "No thank you," said the man, "God will save me." The flood rose to the rooftop and the man stood on the chimney surrounded by water. A helicopter hovered above him, the rescue team inside lowering a ladder to the man. He waved them off, shouting politely, "No thank you, God will save me."
........The man drowned. When he met God, he asked, "I told people you'd save me, why didn't you save me?" God answered, "I sent a truck, a boat and a helicopter....

Well apparently Bachmann didn't get it.



I am embarrassed for you Minnesota!

Limbaugh - World's Biggest Ass!

Limbaugh is truly an idiot! Good job Kieth

Four More Years Of "Deer In The Headlights"

Remind you of this at all?

John The Liar

FACTCHECK.ORG

More Tax Deceptions

McCain misrepresents Obama's tax proposals again. And again, and again

McCain released three new ads with multiple false and misleading claims about Obama's tax proposals.

A TV spot claims Obama once voted for a tax increase "on people making just $42,000 a year." That's true for a single taxpayer, who would have seen a tax increase of $15 for the year – if the measure had been enacted. But the ad shows a woman with two children, and as a single mother, she would not have been affected unless she made more than $62,150. The increase that Obama once supported as part of a Democratic budget bill is not part of his current tax plan anyway...................

.......The ad continues McCain's pattern of misrepresenting Sen. Barack Obama's tax proposals as falling on middle-income families. It claims that Obama "promises more taxes on small businesses, seniors, your life savings, your family." But that's untrue for the vast majority of small businesses, seniors and individual taxpayers, who would see their taxes go down under Obama's actual plan. He proposes to increase taxes only for those with more than $250,000 in family income, or $200,000 in individual income.

Our Police State - Shoot First

Mayor Cheye Calvo describes raid in e-mail to friends

Dear Friends and Neighbors-

Yesterday evening, as my mother-in-law prepared dinner and I changed clothes hurrying to head to a community meeting, a heavily-armed county SWAT team burst through our living room door and shot and killed both of our dogs. There were loud voices. In the sights of two high-caliber weapons, I was ushered downstairs in only my boxer shorts before I was bound and forced to kneel on the floor. My mother-in-law was bound face down in the kitchen. The dead body of my bigger and older dog, Payton, laid in a pool of blood on the other side of the living room.

It was some time before someone spoke to me other than to yell orders. I was told there was a warrant but was never shown one. After many questions and much anger, I was told that they had intercepted a package addressed to our house that contained 32 pounds of marijuana. The large, white box, which I just had retrieved from the front porch, sat unopened on a living room table.

The county police then proceeded to turn our house upside-down. I was moved to the kitchen, where I could see my little dog, Chase, lying in his own pool of blood. My mother-in-law watched them shoot him while he was running away. After about 90 minutes, they finally removed my restraints, which tied my hands behind my back. About the same time, Animal Control came to remove our dogs. Emotions overtook me; I broke down and sobbed.

They asked questions. Through my anger, hurt, and confusion, I answered them. Trinity came home from work a little after 8:00 pm, and they questioned her outside. We both were and remain in shock. It does not make sense, but shared what we could. About three-and-a-half hours passed before they acknowledged that they had found nothing to connect us to the box, but could not be 100 certain whether or not we were involved. The package alone was enough to arrest us all, they said, but they would not so long as we continued to cooperate.

Then they left. The broken front door remained open and unsecured. Blood from my dogs was pooled and tracked throughout the house. Our belongings were pulled from drawers, closets, and trunks and tossed about, piled in the middle of rooms and on tables and beds.

A Berwyn Heights officer on the scene helped me get the door shut. Just after midnight, I began to clean up the blood. We put a few things back. Trinity and I tried to sleep. Instead, we both laid there through the night as disbelief, fear, and anger played off one another. We try to make sense of it. They invaded our home and killed our dogs! That, above all else, can't be undone.

A friend came this morning to secure the door. People have begun to call, and the outpouring of friendship and support brings tears to my eyes. The media calls have begun, as well.

I wanted to get this out so that you at least hear the story from me. This promises to be a lengthy process, which will involve telling and re-living this story time and again. Hopefully, the healing will begin soon.

Warm regards,

Cheye

****update***

I noticed this story on the front page of MSNBC and found it on CNN and on ABCNEWS and on CBSNEWS and the AP....but this is what I got searching Foxnews for "Cheye Calvo"

Your search - Cheye Calvo - did not match any documents.

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John Flipping and Flopping

This is John:



This is John on oil money:



John you sold out again. BTW you just might want to mention to the campaign team about this thing called the Internet...they may want to check it to see just what you may have said in the past before bashing your opponet for almost udentical remarks.

Thanks to the jedreport for pointing out McCain's pro-conservation comments. Now where is the MSM, and why is there no Obama ad using this clip?

Which Is It John - Reagan Conservative Or Maverick?

Thanks to Jon Perr for reminding us about this little gem



Oh, and BTW just how did Ronnie Raygun, first term Governor of California inspire John in a POW camp in Hanoi?

WTF - John Loses His Marbles

GOP: The Few, The Proud, The Ignorant

Wow - Lower Billing Then Kellie Pickler

What a Moron! - Way To Go John, Pimp Cindy!

Indeed, McCain felt so comfortable at the event that he even volunteered his wife for the rally’s traditional beauty pageant, an infamously debauched event that’s been known to feature topless women.

“I encouraged Cindy to compete,” McCain said to cheers. “I told her with a little luck she could be the only woman ever to serve as first lady and Miss Buffalo Chip.”

What an idiot!

You Go Girl!

Hey, I have always refused to even comment about the existence of Paris, as I have always found her annoying, but this is good!

The Fifth Amendment - Should It Be Invoked More?

Interesting take, especially from a Professor at neo-conservative Regent University.

Our Police State - More Police Attacks On Non Violent Protest

The crime, apparently moving too slowly to the sidewalk.

Providence RI, Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) march on Jackies Galaxy,
a local restaurant chain supplied by HWH/Dragonland in NYC, a supplier notorious for slave labor conditions and a lack of basic labor rights. A few blocks before
finishing the march North Providence police brutally tackled two of the marches
after they moved to the sidewalk too slowly, both were arrested and one suffered
a badly broken leg in the attack. More info here.