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Sarah Palin makes me sick and I feel sorry for John McCain
Sarah Palin is an insult to Pit Bulls. Her blatant attacks on Barack Obama notwithstanding, her pretense at being "one of the boys" is laughable. The fact that she would insult working class Americans by calling them Joe Six Pack is insulting and demeaning. She has no idea how to relate to people if she thinks that makes her one of us.
Connecting Obama to Ayers was a huge mistake. I come from the sixties and unless you lived in those times you cannot begin to understand what they were like. People felt strongly about everything and sometimes made mistakes acting on that passion. It was the worst of times as we fought a war and sent men to die in a country where we were not wanted. Sound familiar???
John McCain went to that war and suffered greatly. What he is doing in his campaign diminishes him and what should be his earned high stature within the framework of this great country. I pity him for allowing his ambition to outweigh what he stood for.
I was one of the disenchanted Hillary supporters. Had McCain showed any integrity or good judgement in his selection of a running mate I might have been persuaded to vote for him. Instead, he pandered to the far right and thought women would be dumb enough to fall for a whining half wit like Sarah Palin. He lost my vote as soon as she opened her mouth.
How sad that American politics has come down to bringing a rival down instead of going for the fair fight McCain promised.
Mr. Obama, I am putting my trust in you.
Comments (18)
Read the Rolling Stone article. J McC never really stood for anything.
October 5, 2008 11:26 AM | Reply | Permalink
I agree with kamatsu entirely, that Rolling Stone article says it all. Hopefully some of the MSM read it too. I could not feel sorry for McCain after that.
October 6, 2008 12:18 AM | Reply | Permalink
What!?
McCain and Palin both make me sick. I can't feel sorry for any of them.
October 5, 2008 11:46 AM | Reply | Permalink
No shit.
And I have a hard time with anyone who would even consider voting for McLame after supporting Hillary Clinton.
She'd kick your ass into next week if she thought you were going to turn your back on the candidate she's supporting.
So I am grateful McLame disabused you of that silly notion.
October 5, 2008 1:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
"McCain and Palin both make me sick. I can't feel sorry for any of them."
Me, too. They're the "useful idiot" theory with a vengeance.
October 5, 2008 11:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
The guy brought this on himself.
October 5, 2008 1:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
John McCain is no one to feel sorry for.
He is a spectacularly self-serving punk. He is not a hero. He is and was a fuck up from the word go. In addition, he picked Sarah Palin to be his VP. Sarah Palin! A willfully uninformed, narrow minded, small time politician. Clearly, he has no concern for the United States of America. He is in for himself only.
Sad, pathetic human being he is.
October 5, 2008 1:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
I guess Palin is demonstrating her bipartisan reaching-across-the-aisle nature she was touting in the debate.
October 5, 2008 1:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'll never feel sorry for McCain except his having been a POW. As for the rest of his life? Ask his first wife, Nancy Reagan, his fellow Navy pilots, Sen. Cochran, etc about felling sorry for him. His defeat will be the ultimate "you reap what you sow" moment.
October 5, 2008 6:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
Please. US involvement in Vietnam was ILLEGAL. Nothing LEGAL flows from that. McLame was in Vietnam bombing CIVILIAN infrastructure, which is a WAR CRIME.
He didn't do it for patriotism, or any other potentially "noble" reason. He did it strictly to advance his own ambitions.
Period.
Colin Powell? He was the first to investigate -- and cover-up -- the My Lai massacre.
When will you cease swallowing Republican lies about how heroic they are. MOST politicians who ACTUALLY served in the military are DEMOCRATS. Republicans substitute lapel flag-pins for service.
October 5, 2008 11:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
What gets me about your response is your accusation that I'm "swallowing Republican lies" by acknowledging somone's POW status. You have your opinion but mine has *nothing* to do with Republican talking points. Any member of the military who had to deal with that deserves more than your casual dismissal.If I find out beyond a shadow of a doubt that he was traitorous while in Hanoi, I will be the first to change my opinion...
Judging by your last two sentences, you are swallowing some stuff on your own.
October 6, 2008 12:58 AM | Reply | Permalink
Actually...I also feel a little sorry for him. I don't think HE picked Sarah. I think she was picked for him. The sad part is that he agreed. He is at the end of his life, and that is sad. He is making this last run for something he was arguably gypped out of in 2000. But, he made a deal with the Devil. He did it knowingly. He is putting this country is a very horrible place..maybe under the leadership of a real and true airhead. And that, really PISSES ME OFF!!!!!
October 5, 2008 8:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
I do not feel sorry for John McCain in any way. He was strong enough to survive his time as a POW, He is strong to consider himself a maverick. He is strong enough to disrespect Senator Obama while millions watched during the debate by never looking at him man to man.
So, why was he not strong enough to run his own campaign and say no to Sarah Palin, say no to mud slinging, etc.
Isn’t that the kind of strength we want in a President?
October 6, 2008 6:44 AM | Reply | Permalink
Senator McCain has never been a person of ideas and innovation. As said earlier, he is reaping what he sows! Speaking of reaping what you sow... When will the media, pundits, etc. start to hold Palin to her own "standard?" When will they actively point out her and her husband's involvement with the AIP in Alaska - a truly anti-American, traitorous organization?
October 5, 2008 9:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
AIP is past tense. "Troopergate" is NOW, and involves violations of CRIMINAL statutes.
October 5, 2008 11:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
I didn't get the memo on JMc and Nancy. What's that about?
October 5, 2008 9:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
Nancy was pissed at McCain when he divorced Carol...
October 6, 2008 12:31 AM | Reply | Permalink
McCain didn't have to pick Sarah Palin. He chose her of his own free will. Sure, he may have been pressured, but he didn't have to agree. It was his own blind ambition and fear of losing that made him choose her.
I can't understand at all why people feel sorry for people who are such assholes. I feel no sympathy whatsoever for McCain or Palin. They have made miserable choices, and should suffer the consequences for them. It's about time that the so-called party of 'personal responsibility' take some for their own lousy behavior.
October 5, 2008 10:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
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