Abstain from McCain

A man who gets this confused about the purpose and effectiveness of condoms should not even be considered to be a possible candidate for President of the United States.

A transcript of the encounter follows. (Weaver is John Weaver, his senior adviser, and Brian is Mr. Jones, his press secretary):

Reporter: “Should U.S. taxpayer money go to places like Africa to fund contraception to prevent AIDS?”

Mr. McCain: “Well I think it’s a combination. The guy I really respect on this is Dr. Coburn. He believes – and I was just reading the thing he wrote– that you should do what you can to encourage abstinence where there is going to be sexual activity. Where that doesn’t succeed, than he thinks that we should employ contraceptives as well. But I agree with him that the first priority is on abstinence. I look to people like Dr. Coburn. I’m not very wise on it.”

(Mr. McCain turns to take a question on Iraq, but a moment later looks back to the reporter who asked him about AIDS.)

Mr. McCain: “I haven’t thought about it. Before I give you an answer, let me think about. Let me think about it a little bit because I never got a question about it before. I don’t know if I would use taxpayers’ money for it.”

Q: “What about grants for sex education in the United States? Should they include instructions about using contraceptives? Or should it be Bush’s policy, which is just abstinence?”

Mr. McCain: (Long pause) “Ahhh. I think I support the president’s policy.”

Q: “So no contraception, no counseling on contraception. Just abstinence. Do you think contraceptives help stop the spread of HIV?”

Mr. McCain: (Long pause) “You’ve stumped me.”

Q: “I mean, I think you’d probably agree it probably does help stop it?”

Mr. McCain: (Laughs) “Are we on the Straight Talk express? I’m not informed enough on it. Let me find out. You know, I’m sure I’ve taken a position on it on the past. I have to find out what my position was. Brian, would you find out what my position is on contraception – I’m sure I’m opposed to government spending on it, I’m sure I support the president’s policies on it.”

Q: “But you would agree that condoms do stop the spread of sexually transmitted diseases. Would you say: ‘No, we’re not going to distribute them,’ knowing that?”

Mr. McCain: (Twelve-second pause) “Get me Coburn’s thing, ask Weaver to get me Coburn’s paper that he just gave me in the last couple of days. I’ve never gotten into these issues before.”

--The New York Times

Instead of abstaining from sex, I propose people abstain from John McCain. I even have a slogan: "Abstain from McCain."


I'll leave the buttons and bumper stickers up to you.

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McCain Gone Apeshit

John McCain has gone apeshit.

Definition:
Apeshit: To loose all self-control and generally go fucking crazy.

"There are neighborhoods in Baghdad where you and I could walk through those neighborhoods, today," he said, when asked to highlight something positive about what American forces have been able to accomplish in Iraq.
--Audio: John McCain says it is safe to go for a walk in parts of Baghdad

You and Bush are on your own on those walks.


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McCain Is Not Funny

I previously said that McCain had gone apeshit.

This video makes it abundantly clear that reason has indeed evacuated John McCain's brain. I don't even have to try anymore. This is too easy.

Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran

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The Ron Paul Effect

Ron Paul won the Republican debate and no one heard about it.

ABC News was forced to eat crow when they did not include Ron Paul on their post-debate online poll. After many angry emails and phone calls, ABC included Paul, who went on to win the ABC poll easily. Paul also won 2 MSNBC polls, and a CSPAN poll by a considerable margin.

ABC Poll:
Ron Paul

14,741

It doesn't matter who won. I wouldn't put America in another Republican's hands.

1,465

None of them. I'm interested in the possibility of new candidates like Fred Thompson.

237
Mitt Romney

214

Rudy Guiliani

204

John McCain

122

ABC News story on Paul, "The Ron Paul Effect."

It seems that when I watch network news, I get fed only a few candidates. On the Republican side, I hear only McCain, Romney, and Guliani and on the Democratic side, it is all about Obama and Clinton. It seems like the choices have been made for us.

Two guys you probably haven't heard of are Ron Paul(R) and Dennis Kucinich(D). See, I'm fair and balanced. (Can I type that, or does Rupert Murdoch own the phrase?)

Both men, Ron Paul(R) and Dennis Kucinich(D), stood up for the United States Constitution in their respective debates.

There is something seriously wrong with a story like the ABC story itself, not necessarily the posted article. Although, it seems that ABC is trying to weasel it's way out of it's own poll results, and MSNBC's, and CSPANS, and bury a candidate.

What's more likely, based on Web traffic over the past week, is that Paul supporters have mastered the art of "viral marketing," using Internet savvy and blog postings to create at least the perception of momentum for his long-shot presidential bid.

Since online polls aren't scientific -- people choose to take them, and many people vote multiple times -- doing well in them doesn't necessarily mean a campaign is on the move.
--ABC News

YahooNews! doesn't even have Paul on their "Full Presidential Coverage." Yet, Yahoo posted this cryptic story, "Ron Paul wins MSNBC debate poll." I think it's strange. It's not really an article. It seems to me like CYA. In the sense that it gives them plausible deniability because it came from Ron Paul's Presidential Campaign Committee. How can you believe that?

How can Yahoo ignore a candidate in their "Full Presidential Coverage" whom they clearly acknowledge as the winner of the GOP debate? Why else run the story? It doesn't make sense.

There is something seriously wrong with the Presidential election process when the mass corporate media is making the decisions about whom we do or don't hear about. Wake up.

Since the debate on May 3, Ron Paul:

* Handily won two post-debate polls posted by event sponsor MSNBC
* Placed a close third (18%) in a post-debate poll on the conservative Drudge Report
* Won an ABCNews.com online debate poll with 84%
* Won a C-SPAN online GOP candidate poll with 69%
* Became the third most-mentioned person in the blogosphere, beating out Paris Hilton, according to the reputable Technorati.com
* Produced a YouTube.com video that was ranked the 8th most popular overall video, and the most-viewed political video
* Was featured, by popular demand, on the front of Digg.com
* Generated so many bulletin posts on MySpace.com that the site owner News Corp. blocked all additional posts about Dr. Paul
* Became a "most searched" term on Google and Yahoo!
* Saw a quadrupling of daily visitors to RonPaul2008.com
--Ron Paul 2008

But, don't just take my word on anything. Look it up, read it for yourself on the "internets" and form your own opinion.

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McCain Winks...Arggg...

McCain's trying Pailn's wink with scary results...argggg.

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Double Guantanamo?

WTF!? This question from the Faux News GOP debate sounds like a plot line for "24." The question has some sense of urgency like a TV show plot line. I do not watch the TV show, but I've read about it and seen some clips.

I cannot believe that John McCain even answered the question. I thought he would be offended by this Faux News prick asking him, in a sense, "Would you torture somebody?".

Rudy Giuliani is really eager to support "enhanced interrogation techniques." Whatever horrible thing that means, but predictably, Mr. Giuliani expands on that to say that investigators would be instructed, "to use any method they could think of." He repeats it too, and the crowd applauds. Be afraid. Be very afraid of Mr. Giuliani.

Finally, Mitt Romney slam dunks this fucked debate question by saying the following apeshit fucking crap:

"I am glad [detainees] are at Guantanamo. I don’t want them on our soil. I want them on Guantanamo, where they don’t get the access to lawyers they get when they’re on our soil. I don’t want them in our prisons, I want them there. Some people have said we ought to close Guantanamo. My view is we ought to double Guantanamo."

He got thunderous applause. WTF!?

Watch it:
Double Guantanamo

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The Ron Paul Effect on Fox News

Faux News "You Decide 2008" viewers have spoken up about Tuesday night's GOP Presidential debate, and unfortunately for Faux News, the result was not what they wanted to hear.

Texas Rep. Ron Paul, who ignited controversy at the debate with remarks that U.S. policy had invited the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, came in second with 25 percent. Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who strongly admonished Paul for his comments, came in third place with 19 percent. Arizona Sen. John McCain, who is the frontrunner in South Carolina polls, came in sixth with 5 percent.

GOP Debate Text-Vote Results

— 29% Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney

— 25% Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas

— 19% Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani
--Faux News

So, in typical fashion, they just went ahead and made up the news. Somehow, Faux News declared Rudy Giuliani to be the top GOP Presidential candidate. Polls and the people be damned! See the Faux "You Decide" Poll page.

Faux's Presidential coverage should be titled, "Faux Decides 2008" because Faux is not listening to it's viewers. Personally, I watch Faux as little as possible because, despite what the medical establishment tells us, I believe stupid is contagious.

When Ron Paul injected reason into the GOP Debate by saying essentially that U.S. foreign policy had led to 9/11, Faux News came out swinging with it's "crazy right" and "not so left" attack hacks Hannity and Colmes.

Hannity, "How dare you...911...blah, blah, blah."

And not to be out done, Colmes, "How dare you...anti-abortion...yada, yada, yada." Fair and balanced? Hardly.

Attack Hacks Hannity and Colmes


For the benefit of the Faux News crowd, Ron Paul was referring to "blowback."

Michael Scheuer, the former head analyst at the CIA’s bin Laden unit, has weighed in on the controversy surrounding the Republican Presidential debate held Tuesday May 15, when Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) stated that American foreign policy was a “contributing factor” in the 9/11 attacks.
--AntiWar.com

Again, Ron Paul won the MSNBC Poll, and the ABC News Poll. And Paul was doing very well in the Faux News Poll before they pulled the plug. So, how does Faux News and the GOP respond?

"Smithers, release the hounds."
--C. Montgomery Burns

Fox News SPINS Ron Paul's Early Success in Polls 2nd Debate

Faux News Hit Piece

Michigan Republican party chairman Saul Anuzis says he will circulate a petition among Republican National Committee members to ban Paul from more debates.

Pat Buchanan, a true Reagan Republican, has also weighed in on the state of the GOP, and the Gooliani-Paul debate "controversy."

Ron Paul is no TV debater. But up on that stage in Columbia, he was speaking intolerable truths. Understandably, Republicans do not want him back, telling the country how the party blundered into this misbegotten war.

By all means, throw out of the debate the only man who was right from the beginning on Iraq.
--WorldNetDaily.com

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