All About McCain - Page 90

innerSpaceman · 09-24-2008, 04:36 PM

Perhaps it's not McCain's fault that mentioning 9/11 has taken on such a bullsh!ters context, but it has ... and he has to live with that. Mention it, especially as a politician, and you will be rightly suspected as a fearmonger and excusenik.

alphabassettgrrl · 09-24-2008, 04:45 PM

I get upset when they play the 9/11 thing so heavily. The cartoons about it being used as an excuse or explanation or distraction are pretty well on, in my opinion. Yeah, we get it, 9/11 was bad, lots of things happened, shut up already.

It feels a bit like they have no real reasons for whatever they're doing, so let's remember when we were all afraid.

JWBear · 09-24-2008, 04:49 PM

I think using 9/11 like they do is insulting and degrading to those who lost their lives on on that day.

innerSpaceman · 09-24-2008, 05:10 PM

Pfft, not to mention really badly insulting to the roughly 4,000 Americans who lost their lives in Iraq using 9/11 as an excuse, the roughly same amount of innocent Afghans who lost their lives using 9/11 as an excuse, and the roughly 700,000 innocent Iraqis who lost their lives using 9/11 as an excuse.

Hell is not big enough to contain the likes of Bush, Cheney and their cohorts and minions.

CoasterMatt · 09-24-2008, 05:20 PM

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Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

Hell is not big enough to contain the likes of Bush, Cheney and their cohorts and minions.

That's why they've taken up residence in Washington, D.C.

Morrigoon · 09-24-2008, 06:01 PM

Devil doesn't like competition.

Cadaverous Pallor · 09-24-2008, 06:41 PM

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Originally Posted by JWBear

I think using 9/11 like they do is insulting and degrading to those who lost their lives on on that day.

TOTAL AGREEMENT HERE.

Leo, come on, you gotta be kidding me. This isn't 9/11, and the comparison is gross and offensive on many levels. You want to talk about knee-jerk reactions?

Sigh. Please, God and assorted deities and non-deities, tell me that the majority of this country is seeing the ugliness that I'm seeing.

Strangler Lewis · 09-24-2008, 06:55 PM

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[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.

Motorboat Cruiser · 09-24-2008, 07:07 PM

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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.

scaeagles · 09-24-2008, 07:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Strangler Lewis

I think you mean magnitude.

Yep. That's it.

09-24-2008, 04:36 PM	#891
innerSpaceman Kink of Swank Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Inner Space Posts: 13,075	Perhaps it's not McCain's fault that mentioning 9/11 has taken on such a bullsh!ters context, but it has ... and he has to live with that. Mention it, especially as a politician, and you will be rightly suspected as a fearmonger and excusenik.
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alphabassettgrrl Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 4,978	I get upset when they play the 9/11 thing so heavily. The cartoons about it being used as an excuse or explanation or distraction are pretty well on, in my opinion. Yeah, we get it, 9/11 was bad, lots of things happened, shut up already. It feels a bit like they have no real reasons for whatever they're doing, so let's remember when we were all afraid. __________________ Why cycling? Anything [sport] that had to do with a ball, I wasn't very good at. -Lance Armstrong
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JWBear Worn Romantic Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Long Beach California Posts: 8,435	I think using 9/11 like they do is insulting and degrading to those who lost their lives on on that day. __________________ Unrestrained frivolity will lead to the downfall of modern society.
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09-24-2008, 05:10 PM	#894
innerSpaceman Kink of Swank Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Inner Space Posts: 13,075	Pfft, not to mention really badly insulting to the roughly 4,000 Americans who lost their lives in Iraq using 9/11 as an excuse, the roughly same amount of innocent Afghans who lost their lives using 9/11 as an excuse, and the roughly 700,000 innocent Iraqis who lost their lives using 9/11 as an excuse. Hell is not big enough to contain the likes of Bush, Cheney and their cohorts and minions.
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