Ads on comparing Obama to Paris Hilton and Brittany Spears?

Shallower than Obama’s list of acccomplishments.

Shallower than Obama’s ability to speak extemporaneously.

Shallower than his excuses for killing the Born Alive Infant Protection Act.

Shallower than his dedication to his church.

Shallower than his legislative record.

Shallower than the available records from his tenure at the Chicago Annenberg Challenge.

Shallower than… eh, that’s enough for now.

J.

Obama’s campaign has become shallow. Ads on McCain’s houses?

That’s as deep as a puddle.

How heroic, Cindy McCain banging her fist on the desk of the minister of health and demanding that she leave with these children immediately to catch her flight to America and the minister signing the medical visas. How dare he try to stop the rich heiress Cindy McCain married to a US senator from leaving the country without any paperwork on these infant girls?

Evidently, drugged out of her mind, Cindy McCain thought she was Mother Theresa giving away the other child at the airport for adoption according to the staffer, Wes Gullett, and taking the other child as her own when both children left the country on medical visas ONLY?

Now I have more questions than answers. Did the staffer get the most seriously ill child with the heart condition because it was too much for the “drug addicted Cindy McCain? How nice that Mr. Gullett never saw a hospital bill for his adopted daughter or any red tape to the adoption. Did the McCain’s pay both adoption fees?

Thanks, you brainless prick!

Now, can you see how whining about “arrogance” while being “arrogant” yourself and “hyperpartisanship” while being “hyperpartisan” yourself makes you a dumb-dumb? Take your time, baby steps! No more frothing, remember!

Congrats at not swearing, aw. Definitely a step up. Now if you can mov beyond frothing generalizations, you’ll be a bit closer to acting like an adult. It’s still a long walk for you, but just keep saying “I think I can, I think I can…”

Quaker, that’s odd. I’ve heard quite a bit about McCain other than his military career. Things such as warning about Putin’s aggressiveness and the danger of a resurgent Russia for a few years, his pushing for the surge in Iraq back before it was even brought to the Senate… oddly enough, though, it’s his not knowing instantly how many homes (both residential and investment) he and his wife (well, more accurately, his wife) own that seems to be the main focus of late.

J.

Tell me more about Cindy McCain’s Adoption story. Was the adoption legal? Where can I find more about the staffer adopting the other child.

Was the adoption legal is a legitimate question. Did the McCains use their influence in the adoption?

It’s the McCain campaign that continues to hype these two stories, in spite of the fact that they are both completely irrelevant to any discussion of what we as a nation need to do today. It speaks to how shallow his campaign has become – it’s not about issues any more, it’s about twenty year-old stories that paint McCain as a hero and all around swell guy. The obvious conclusion is that McCain is going to lose on the issues, and these two stories are all he’s got.

You mean like diggin up parking tickets?

Love the hammy delivery, by the way. “Good gracious Lo-o-o-rd almighty, is there no depth? is there? to which they will not ESS EYE ENN KAY???? (sobs into hanky)” Your pecksniffery makes my bad language look good in comparison.

… said the hyperpartisan scumbag who devoted most of his waking life to keeping his website full of hyperpartisan scum.

But I repeat, because obviously you missed it the first time: Not a single story has EVER directly quoted John or Cindy McCain saying that she met Mother Theresa at the clinic in Bangladesh. Others have said that, and it’s easily understood: Cindy spoke of “Mother Theresa’s clinic” and “the director,” so it’s an easy-enough mistake to blend the two together.

What’s for them to clarify? They’ve been entirely consistent. Cindy McCain (who has done a tremendous amount of charitable works) went to a clinic in Bangladesh founded by Mother Theresa. There, she was presented with two orphans — at least one with serious birth defects. She brought them both back to the United States, where she and her husband adopted one and a trusted aide and his wife adopted the other.

That’s the sort of thing that should be lauded. Instead, it’s perverted into something sordid purely for the sake of political gain by hyperpartisan scumbags.

Of course, the real victim here is Bridget McCain. Every detail of this young woman’s early life is now fodder for assholes and rabid attack dogs. But as long as it hurts her adopted father, it’s all in a good cause and OK.

I’m reminded of when John Roberts was nominated for the Supreme Court. The New York Times actually tried to unseal the adoption records for his son, on the theory that “there just might be something shameful there.” Good god, is there no depth that they will not sink to?

J.

I am interested in knowing Cindy McCain as a woman who chooses not to acknowledge two sisters and chooses between two sick babies at the airport and make one her own and not the other.

The more John McCain and his campaign speak on issues, the less I believe. The prisoner of war story when the guard (or “gook” as John McCain would identify him) making a cross with his foot, stick or whatever on Christmas Day for John McCain is not easily believed. However, some unbelievable things have happened to me that others would find questionable if they didn’t know me.

I’m trying to get to know the McCains on a more personal level. False and misleading statements in his ads don’t help.

It’s kind of like the “John McCain crashed five planes” bullshit. Yes, McCain was involved in five aircraft incidents, but he did not lose them all through incompetence. Two in training accidents, a third damaged but landed safely after hitting power lines (clearly pilot error there), one blown up under him while the plane was strapped to the flight deck, and one shot down when he chose to ignore warning alarms that he was targeted by a missile and continued his bombing run — putting the mission ahead of his own safety.

So of the five, we have one that is clearly his fault (the power lines), one that was clearly not (the flight deck disaster that ended up claiming over 100 lives on the USS Forrestal), two that are disputable (engine flameouts can be pilot error or mechanical failure), and one that can often be called heroic (“I’m going to drop these bombs right where I’m ordered to, incoming fire be damned”). But that’s spun into “McCain was such an incompetent pilot, he crashed five planes.” True or not, it’s not supported by the evidence.

But as I said, keep drawing people’s attention to John McCain’s military service and Cindy McCain’s rescuing a Bangladeshi baby born with severe birth defects. That’s SUCH a winner right there, keeping those two elements front and center. It’s the equivalent of the “Barack HUSSEIN Obama” dumbassery — in the end, it makes the attackers look like the assholes they are and the attacked figure in question more sympathetic.

J.

I was not paraphrasing Matthew 6:3. However, after reading the the sixth chapter of Matthew, I don’t believe my comments about anonymous contributions in context paraphrase Matthew 6:3.

The current issue of this post is about Cindy McCain’s adoption story. Why can’t Republicans stick to the issues at hand whether its in the right hand or the left hand. Could it be that Republicans’ high ground is as shaky and shallow as Hell.

And as you say, it’s the act that matters most, not the despicable spin over such an act of profound charity that Oliver and the rest are heaping on Mrs. McCain.

As far as the “anonymous” thing… I’m perfectly willing to forgo whatever benefits might accrue for that in exchange for the chance to shame Senator Obama into keeping his promise to the school.

Oh, I forgot. He’s a Democrat, straight out of the Chicago political machine. “Shame” is a foreign concept to him.

Well, it’s still twenty bucks better spent than I would have otherwise spent it.

J.

Juhar it’s nice that you can paraphrase Matthew 6:3, but unfortunately, it is not a practice heeded by Democrats and the left, especially in the political realm. They measure “caring” in how many tax dollars they want to spend on various government programs for the poor. It doesn’t matter if somebody with money gives a lot of that money away to local churches and charities. If that person feels he’s paying too much in taxes, then he’s just being “greedy.” To the left, how much you care is measured only by what government programs you support and how high you want to increase taxes. “Oh, I support this new program and my opponent doesn’t! I care and he doesn’t! I’m such a caring person and he’s not! I want the rich to pay “their fair share” and my opponent doesn’t want them to! He and his supporters are greedy!”

It doesn’t matter if that policy is sound or not. It doesn’t matter if somebody is already paying nearly 40% of the total earnings in taxes. If you’re opposed to it, then you’re automatically attacked by the left as somebody that’s against the children, the elderly, the poor, etc. The left does exactly what you say they shouldn’t be doing. They do it for acknowledgment (Supporters running around saying, “Look how much so and so cares!”), to gain benefit (politically against their opponents), and recognition (“Look how much I care and my opponent doesn’t!”).

I don’t want to be a bit transparent but perfectly clear. I don’t believe in a high ground that can be obtained with twenty bucks or someone that would put that much effort into a meaningless stance. My believing is only as important as my one vote.

However, Cindy McCain’s adoption story is an indication of her character or a possible attempt to elevate herself to a high ground that is purchased with omissions and deceptions.

Regardless of motives adopting a child and caring for that child, which all indications show that Cindy McCain has done so, is admirable. Children come with love and bring love.

The issue is the political use of Cindy McCain’s adoption story and the political use of Mother Theresa’s name in a McCain made for media fairytale.

Some of us, not on your high ground, want to know more. What happened to the other child Cindy McCain brought with her? Why was he or she left behind? Will Cindy McCain adopt invisible siblings in the future?

But it’s simple:

1) I publicly said I would make a donation to the Senator Obama Kogelo Secondary School.

2) I have publicly given the date and amount of the donation I made.

3) I have given the web site where others can make their own donations.

I’d offer more evidence, but that should be enough for most reasonable people. I doubt anything would prove sufficient to you, so I’m not even gonna try.

Like I said, I like being able to say that I’ve done more to support the Senator Obama Kogelo Secondary School than Senator Obama has, and I didn’t even make a promise to do so like he did.

And that’s even more important than whether or not I did kick in a few bucks — Obama made the promise and hasn’t even tried to keep it. Your obsessing on whether or not I tossed a few bucks to them gives you a great excuse to NOT mention Obama’s lies to the school.

Not too bad. A bit transparent, but not too shabbby a ploy.

J.