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Again, John McCain is a Coward

by BooMan
Fri Oct 10th, 2008 at 12:00:05 AM EST

Obama and Biden have now both effectively called John McCain a coward for talking smack about Obama behind his back but being afraid to say any of it to his face. And look what kind of low-rate punk answer Sen. McCain provided on this issue to ABC's Charlie Gibson:

Obama had noted that McCain didn't raise the issue "to my face" in their debate on Tuesday, but McCain told Gibson he did not raise the Ayers argument during the debate because "it didn't come up in the flow of conversation."

You go around telling anyone that will listen that you are going to 'take the gloves off' and hand Obama's head to him in the debate, but when the time comes you don't even ask him for his lunch money? Everywhere in the world that is known as talking big and punking out.

Obama called him on it yesterday and Biden called him on it today:

“All of the things they said about Barack Obama in the TV, on the TV, at their rallies, and now on YouTube … John McCain could not bring himself to look Barack Obama in the eye and say the same things to him,” Biden said this morning. “In my neighborhood, when you’ve got something to say to a guy, you look him in the eye and you say it to him.”

John McCain's supposed to be a soldier, for chrissakes, not a big-talking weakling. And his excuse?

MCCAIN: Again, two things I've never been accused of lacking. And one is passion, and the other is courage. I mean, I can accept a lot of the other criticisms. It didn't come up in the flow of the conversation. But it did come up, and I pointed out that he asked for $3 million for an overhead projector at a planetarium in his hometown of Chicago.

Never been accused of lacking courage? Everyone and his brother and cousin are accusing you of lacking courage. Your opponents are challenging your shrunken, frightened manhood as we speak. Your cowardice is now part of the national discussion and it's poised to be the greater part of your legacy...along with the your rep for running a nastier campaign than Lee Atwater ever had to apologize for.

An overhead projector? You think going after Obama over an overhead projector makes you a man? After all the bloodshed you promised? Your own brown-shirted supporters are begging and pleading with you to be a man, and you've got nothing. Are you afraid that Joe Biden is going to punch you in your lying mouth? Is that the problem? Lil' Joey'll invite you down to the Senate gym and make you put on the boxing gloves?

Seriously. All this manly posturing by John McCain is disgraceful. He can't back any of it up. He can't even look his opponent in the eye. Barack Obama never posed with all that macho stuff. The economy is going to hell, and John McCain wants to talk about William Ayers. Just not to Barack Obama's face.



Display:
In the idiom of sports, John McCain is Corey Williams...a punk.

Rich Seubert stood in the Giants' locker room near a big white sign with blue letters that said: "Talk is cheap. Play the game."

The permanent sign was appropriate for the fleeting moment. Seubert, the left guard, was discussing remarks from defensive end Corey Williams of the Cleveland Browns, who said running back Brandon Jacobs could be physically intimidated.

"I never picture Brandon as a physical running back anyway," Seubert said, kidding for effect, on Thursday after practice. "He kind of likes to pitty-patter."

Turning slightly more serious, Seubert added: "This is football. It's supposed to be fun."

The enjoyment level could increase Monday night when Jacobs and the Giants (4-0) visit the Browns (1-3). In remarks published in Ohio newspapers and on display for the Giants in their private quarters, Williams seemed unimpressed with Jacobs.

"If we can come out and hit him in the mouth from the jump, he tends to slow down and do some tiptoeing," Williams said. Jacobs, at 6 feet 4 inches and 264 pounds, leads the team in rushing with 380 yards on 65 carries.

More than most running backs, Jacobs tends to run through collisions, some of which he seems to enjoy initiating. Williams also said that "there ain't nothing physical" about the Giants' offensive linemen and that they rely on zone-blocking schemes.

Williams, who played for Green Bay last season, also suggested that the Giants' 23-20 overtime victory over the Packers in the N.F.C. title game was due in part to Ahmad Bradshaw, who replaced Jacobs after the Packers slowed Jacobs.

All this put something of a smile on the face of Jacobs, a four-year veteran who said he might have overreacted to such talk if he were a rookie. "That's not proper grammar," Jacobs said of the word "ain't" used by Williams. "You can tell the type of education that's floating around."

He also referred to Williams's comments as "stupid stuff." But as he continued the discussion, he took on a serious tone and said Williams's words were "not too intelligent" and "a bunch of yap that just really doesn't need to be going on."

As a member of the defending Super Bowl champions, Jacobs added: "I've got a ring now. I'm certified. I'm not going to really sit up here and have a mouth match with these guys."

by BooMan on Fri Oct 10th, 2008 at 12:26:02 AM EST
Total Bully Prick making the women do his dirty work, while he takes cheap shot and backs down when confronted on his BS. No more lap dog press to make excuses in talking about how "Uncomofortable" he really is for being a pussy ahole.

His wife saying Obama hates her son and Palin implying that he is a Muslim terrorist and McCain making below the belt blows.

McCain talks tough like big gambler but his cards are jack and thinks he should never be called out.

Obama and Biden want to see your deuce high hand big fake gambler.

ps. Team Palin lives in a Biazoro World.

Blue Tidal Wave

by Mac G on Fri Oct 10th, 2008 at 12:34:03 AM EST
Do you think you could have said that without the blatantly sexist expletive?
by Hurria (Muslawia@gmail.com) on Fri Oct 10th, 2008 at 01:22:13 AM EST
[ Parent ]
I apologize Hurria. All of this racism spew and bigotry hate has really fired me up my testosterone against McCain.


Blue Tidal Wave
by Mac G on Fri Oct 10th, 2008 at 01:26:04 AM EST
[ Parent ]
Apology accepted. And please try to remember not to insult women by using them as an insult.
by Hurria (Muslawia@gmail.com) on Fri Oct 10th, 2008 at 01:58:59 AM EST
[ Parent ]
he has lost his mind.  To his credit, he should be auditioning for David Lynch's next film noir, make-up and all.
by Compound F on Fri Oct 10th, 2008 at 12:39:19 AM EST
And to top it off, it wasn't even an overhead projector; Adler Planetrium pretty swiftly debunked McCain's nonsense.
by Geov Parrish on Fri Oct 10th, 2008 at 12:40:16 AM EST
Thanks for making this correction.  As a fan of Adler Planetarium and a proud Chicagoan, I was going to point out McCain's misrepresentation.  
by Mum on Fri Oct 10th, 2008 at 01:10:21 AM EST
[ Parent ]
Sheesh!

McCain might have been pissy since he had some rancorous dealings over the Mount Graham International Observatory,

http://unbossed.com/index.php?itemid=2337

but that is no reason to badmouth a rival scientific structure such as a planetarium!  Perhaps he is indeed living in the Middle Ages when a camera was a room, not a portable piece of gear, and thus confuses anything more technical than a rock or stick?

However, given his academic "achievements" (5th from bottom of the class) perhaps we can understand why he would cripple other people's search for education and enlightenment.

Meanwhile, I have a couple of opaque projectors.  I wish that I had a planetarium!!!

by hauksdottir on Sat Oct 11th, 2008 at 02:23:10 AM EST
[ Parent ]
Go BooMan, go.  Nail that arrogant windbag McCain who only talks smack to Obama when Obama is not around.  I wonder if Johnny Mac will discover some reason not to show up at the next debate.  You know like his efforts are required to rescue the economy that his buddy Bush has so effectively screwed up.

The election is becoming more and more the theater of the absurd.  What with the bimbo queen rallying the brown shirts and McCain rambling on about his toughness, I wonder what's next.  Perhaps, another bailout for those partying guys of wall street.  Whew!

Suppose you scrub your ethical skin until it shines, but inside there is no music, then what? Kabir

by Dongi 2 on Fri Oct 10th, 2008 at 12:43:26 AM EST
Obama and Biden need the courage to tell the American people of McCain's record of trying to silence regulators during the big financial scandal involving Keating. And how Keating flew McCain on vacations. That 13 minute video was totally ineffectual. You need 1 minute TV  attack ads pointing this out - not PBS style college lectures. Biden needs to do his job as attack dog and bring it up  every day to illustrate McCain's dishonorable past and his unfitness for command.

Why don't Obama and Biden bring this out during their speeches? It's a matter of public record. It's not some far fetched smear like the Ayers business. It's factual proof of McCain's questionable character and unfitness for leadership. It is absolute incompetence to be not using this material. It is not a smear - it is total truth. Why do Obama and Biden always insist on what a great guy McCain is while he smears their character at every turn? If Obama/Biden lose the election, it will be their own fault for not being aggressive enough.

by greenlover on Fri Oct 10th, 2008 at 12:54:13 AM EST
by Mac G on Fri Oct 10th, 2008 at 12:56:05 AM EST
How very Bushian of the campaign to issue their own report finding nothing wrong with SP's actions...more of the same old sh*t.

"Little people are very stuff-intensive."
by CabinGirl on Fri Oct 10th, 2008 at 07:20:40 AM EST
[ Parent ]
McCain is a Punk.Ass.Bitch

hiding behind WOMEN.

He couldn't even look Obama in the eye.

I loved Joe Biden today - he nailed it.

by rikyrah on Fri Oct 10th, 2008 at 01:12:18 AM EST
by BooMan on Fri Oct 10th, 2008 at 01:25:57 AM EST
Those people make my skin crawl, and to think they are my neighbors. What the hell is wrong with people?

"Some men see things as they are and say why - I dream things that never were and say why not." George Bernard Shaw.
by benjamink on Fri Oct 10th, 2008 at 08:02:16 AM EST
[ Parent ]
The Rude One had the same basic take on the debate, only more, um, rude...

The Underground Railroad
by Oscar In Louisville on Fri Oct 10th, 2008 at 02:43:49 AM EST
John McCain was comfortable dropping bombs on children and then started whining because their parents were mean to him when they captured him.
by Ed J on Fri Oct 10th, 2008 at 05:57:08 AM EST
I haven't seen an overhead projector in years. It made me laugh--it's like the guy who told Clinton to say "Change you can xerox"

He probably doesn't know the difference between an overhead projector and a planetarium--and the fundies who support him would just as soon have astronomy go down the toilet with biology.

Michaela

by michaelmt (MrMichael_t@yahoo.com) on Fri Oct 10th, 2008 at 06:44:49 AM EST
Who's shucking and jiving now, my friends?  Old one...
by lutton on Fri Oct 10th, 2008 at 07:43:04 AM EST
Michelle Obama's chief of staff Stephanie Cutter seemed to dare McCain to bring up Ayers at the final presidential debate next week by noting that he did not do so at this week's town hall-style debate.

"Two points on [Tuesday's] debate: one, that the Ayers allegation didn't come up from real people asking the real questions that they care about," Cutter said on MSNBC. "And two, John McCain didn't have the courage to bring it up to Barack Obama to his face. You know, that means that John McCain knows that this is a ridiculous issue."

link

by BooMan on Fri Oct 10th, 2008 at 10:55:52 AM EST


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