Was this supposed to be the flip side of Obama’s trip abroad?

Seriously?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yuHylcp4lY

Certainly the idea that someone who can’t organize the simplest event can’t be expected to organize a country. To try and convince me of the contrary would be a task. I’d like to know someone can organized a huge movement and give it voice rather than someone like McCain who can only manage to belittle and look pitiful to others.

Sad really.

Mission accomplished!

Great. By this logic, any concert promoter could be President of the United States.

Where do you people come up with this nonsense?

Especially since she was a hired shill. What they need to do is rehearse rehears rehearse. Come on people!

If I walked into the kitchen and saw this team working on dinner, I’d go to another restaurant, that’s for sure.

Incompetent in one area, likely to be incompetent in many.

So? If John McCain hadn’t handled it so incompetently, no one would be saying these things about him.

McCain gave his full account of his involvement to the Navy investigation at the time. It’s all on the record. It’s all there, and has been for literally decades.

McCain lost five planes under his command. That’s not in dispute. But to say that he “Crashes 4 aircraft by accident before being shot down in fifth aircraft” is just plain factually wrong. And for anyone — regardless of their feelings about McCain — to let those misstatements (I won’t call them lies, because I do think that PD is just ignorant and/or stupid) is to perpetuate lies, and to allow lying to become an accepted tactic.

It’s the kind of stupid response that demonstrates the laziness of the critic. It’s kind of like, in another thread here, someone said that they didn’t think that Donald Rumsfeld had enough experience to be named Secretary of Defense by Bush — ignoring the fact that Rumsfeld had ALREADY held that job, under President Ford. (Feel free to fault the man on any of a zillion other grounds, but he was the one of the most “experienced” candidates around.)

But back to that applesauce… how DARE that stockboy be so clumsy!

J.

It’s not PD’s fault, Mr. Tea. It’s just that McCain has handled it all so ineptly.

It appears that there was a very plausible, very reasonable storyline that explained the matter in a satisfactory manner. But the McCain camp didn’t manage that very well. Here it is, years after the accident, and it’s taken a serious McCain sycophant supporter to find out these particulars and piece them together.

What kind of idiots were we to see the mention of applesauce in the title, the use of the word “awkward,” and foolishly connect the two? Especially considering the care and effort you took into spelling out just what you meant?

By the way, your expression of concern for Senator McCain’s health after the announcement of the removal of the growth on his face was quite touching, and I share your wishing him nothing but good health in the future. It’s nice to see that you can, on occasion, set aside partisanship and every now and then remember that we’re all Americans, we’re all human, and politics sometimes don’t enter into the equation.

J.

Oh, sorry then. I was (again) mislead by your choice of what to emphasize in your headline.

One of those four planes was blown up from under him while he was strapped into the pilot’s seat, and the plane itself was tied down on deck. A rocket from another plane on the flight deck was misfired and started one of the biggest peacetime accidents in American carrier history — the USS Forrestal fire.

Look it up some time. Hell of a story. I have a book on it — “Sailors To The End.” McCain was damned lucky; a lot of other men died that day, and by all rights he should have been killed, too.

McCain’s role in that particular incident is very much parallel to saying he “totaled a car” when he was sitting in it, parked, engine off, and got hit by another car.

That’s what happens when you mindlessly mouth talking points you’ve picked up elsewhere.

J.

Yep, man of the people.

Vote McCain! Save the applesauce!

J.