All About McCain

[Stan4dSteph]

I just saw the Family Guy episode where Lois did that in her debate. Sad, but true. It's got to be up on YouTube somewhere.

[Gemini Cricket]

Originally Posted by Motorboat Cruiser

When all else fails, play the 9/11 card.
...
So damn predictable.

Sounds familiar.
(This should probably be in that other thread, but it applies.)

SFW

Spoiler:

[innerSpaceman]

Hahahaha, I'm gonna start using it for everything!



Starting tomorrow when I'm late for work.

[scaeagles]

Melodramatic - certainly. I still think it will be effective from a campaign standpoint. Obama says the American people need to hear from their leaders. McCain should say the American people need their leaders to stop worrying about a campaign when there's a crisis, and point out the leaders working together in Washington is a lot more important than delaying the debate a week.

Suppose I don't understand why it is problematic comparing this to our last major crisis. He didn't say "Republicans showed why they rock and dems suck after 9/11", he said this is a crisis we need to come together on, just like we came together after 9/11. Why is that a problem? Not meaning it rhetorically. I don't get it. If anything, he's outlining the magnaminity of the issue at hand.

[Strangler Lewis]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

[H]e said this is a crisis we need to come together on, just like we came together after 9/11. Why is that a problem? Not meaning it rhetorically. I don't get it. If anything, he's outlining the magnaminity of the issue at hand.

I think you mean magnitude.

If McCain truly wanted to take the high road, he would call on the Congress and the state legislatures to repeal the 22nd Amendment and call for the convening of a new convention to nominate George W. Bush as the Republican party candidate to minimize the risk that the country would have to endure a potentially debilitating transition.

That would be magnanimity.

[scaeagles]

Originally Posted by Strangler Lewis

I think you mean magnitude.

Yep. That's it.

[innerSpaceman]

Oh please, scaeagles, stop drinking that uncool kool-aid. Why didn't McCain say like we came together after Pearl Harbor? Gee, I wonder why he didn't say like we came together for such a similar crisis during the Savings & Loan financial collapse that I had my red-hand in ...oops, I mean like after 9/11.


And in case Obama disagrees, let me say quite clearly, 9/11, 9/11, 9/11.


IT'S PUTRIFYINGLY PATHETIC.

[scaeagles]

Well, maybe because it was the most recent tragedy and everyone was alive when it happened unlike Pearl Harbor?

The mere mention of 9/11 is a bad thing? Why does it anger dems so badly? There was NO mention of anything except a COMPLIMENT that everyone came together after that and he was encouraging the same thing.

I might suggest you get over your angst at 9/11 ever being mentioned because it clearly gets you going no matter the context.

Knee jerk often?

[Motorboat Cruiser]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

The mere mention of 9/11 is a bad thing? Why does it anger dems so badly? There was NO mention of anything except a COMPLIMENT that everyone came together after that and he was encouraging the same thing.

Perhaps if they hadn't used footage of 9/11 to open up the RNC, they might not be viewed quite as cynically. Republicans have always tried to use 9/11 to their political advantage. And whether or not that is how it was intended today (I am of the belief that it was,) it is going to be viewed with skepticism.

[Ghoulish Delight]

I would like to announce that I'm temporarily suspending my work day to address the crucial matter of the dump I have to take. I urge my fellow coworkers to follow suit lest, unless they feel that their personal pursuits take precedent over this far more important issue.