tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post1408709008341159980..comments2024-03-28T21:32:41.763-05:00Comments on driftglass: Someone Forgot To Turn Off John McCain's Microphone Againdriftglasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09379167083253389153noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-89393647984146791012014-06-04T10:24:26.914-05:002014-06-04T10:24:26.914-05:00Horace Boothroyd III,
Yes, I should have been mor...Horace Boothroyd III,<br /><br />Yes, I should have been more succinct in my writing and added to this sentence: “Yes, Nixon actually did do some real governance on occasion ‘when forced to or it suited his criminal activities’, but he was a fucking monster”.<br /><br />Anyway, that magnificent bastard, Hunter Thompson, eviscerated Nixon in proper fashion. It’s too bad some of Nixon's malignant progeny (Rumsfeld, Cheney, and Wolfowitz to name a few), couldn’t have been buried with him, so that when it came to pissing on Nixon’s grave one could use one’s urine more economically.<br /><br />Regards,<br /><br />Anonymous @ 1:05<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-50752887202887092152014-06-04T02:55:05.315-05:002014-06-04T02:55:05.315-05:00@Anonymous 1:05
You have done the world a favor b...@Anonymous 1:05<br /><br />You have done the world a favor by reminding everyone just how awful Nixon really was.<br /><br />One of the more pathetic bits of historical revision to emerge from the hysterical ninnie wing of the Left is this idea that Nixon was to the left of Obama: just look at the cool legislation he signed!<br /><br />Well, yeah. Overwhelmingly Democratic Congresses sent him liberal bills with the threat that they would Fuck Him Up if he stepped out of line. Giving Nixon credit for the Clean Air Act is as dumb as giving Romney credit for the health care reforms forced upon him by supermajorities in the Massachusetts legislature.<br /><br />When Obama had a Democratic Congress he orchestrated the most significant advance in health care in fifty years. With the dog shit Congress we have now, Obama could be the second coming of Karl Marx himself and we still would not get to the leftie utopia.<br /><br />So, yeah, people would be wise to remember what a crook Nixon was.<br />Horace Boothroyd IIInoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-76718140245301516172014-06-04T00:52:58.027-05:002014-06-04T00:52:58.027-05:00Is "shat" a mid-western thing? "Sh...Is "shat" a mid-western thing? "Shit" is used where I come from in NY. I never saw "shat' until I started reading blogs. I used to think its use was by quasi literate people who like to create words.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-42269358894809340862014-06-04T00:21:37.845-05:002014-06-04T00:21:37.845-05:00Outrage on the right when Obama executes an Americ...Outrage on the right when Obama executes an American citizen by drone, because he has not received due process to establish his guilt.<br /><br />Outrage on the right when Obama brings home a captured soldier, even though he has not received due process to establish his guilt.idbnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-90910210474441064642014-06-03T13:05:10.988-05:002014-06-03T13:05:10.988-05:00
Anonymous @11:01 and cipher,
I refer you to this...<br />Anonymous @11:01 and cipher,<br /><br />I refer you to this Hunter Thompson piece about Nixon. It needs repeating when one wants to wax nostalgic about past conservatives. Yes, Nixon actually did do some real governance on occasion, but he was a fucking monster.<br /><br />Take it away Mr. Thompson:<br /><br />http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1994/07/he-was-a-crook/308699/<br /><br />Best regards.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-34997274154030311012014-06-03T07:49:05.517-05:002014-06-03T07:49:05.517-05:00I guess Nixon learned more about marshal honor bet...<i>I guess Nixon learned more about marshal honor between brothers than McCain did during even though they both served in the Navy.</i><br /><br />I can't believe I'm actually typing this sentence, but Nixon had more integrity in his little finger than the entire cadre of Republicans in Washington today.<br /><br />Life is beyond absurd.Jeff Eygeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11967707883565162538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-22918578414419382762014-06-02T23:01:56.827-05:002014-06-02T23:01:56.827-05:00I don't even understand what the scandal is ab...I don't even understand what the scandal is about Bergdahl. I was in the military, we bring you back. Dead or alive, even if many of us die trying, you will come home. It's the basic promise everyone who puts on a uniform makes to everyone else. Furthermore it's the mark of a civilized military, aka one of the good guys. Those who do not bring their own back home tend to be tyrants, leaders of child armies, using conscripts, and other markers of the bad guys.<br /><br />Even if you fucked up, we bring you back. We may kick your ass out of the military with a dishonorable discharge, we may courts marshal you, but you will come back.<br /><br />John Fucking McCain should know this. Nixon negotiated and traded to bring him back, despite all that happened. I guess Nixon learned more about marshal honor between brothers than McCain did during even though they both served in the Navy.<br /><br />Between the veterans fiascos and this the Republicans are picking a real fight. A lot of people are pissed. The left may just get to see what it's like having people waving guns around and screaming about patriotism on their side. It's not like veterans haven't done this before. Also veterans are much harder for the police to push around. We've all been tear gassed (mandatory in basic), and many of us have been peppery sprayed before. That crap doesn't really work on veterans as a group. It tends to just make everyone madder and even more belligerent, from a group of people known to enjoy a good brawl.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-15445776546694217492014-06-02T18:49:40.497-05:002014-06-02T18:49:40.497-05:00Driftglass,
McCain really isn’t much different tha...Driftglass,<br />McCain really isn’t much different than George “the lesser of all things”. Another spoiled rich kid whose family name helped patch up all his fuckups during his military career. Both his father and grandfather were both Admirals in the Navy. So, the so called maverick got away with being out partying after curfew at the naval academy on more than a few occasions. He crashed two jets and ran another one into power lines. My understanding is that if you crash one jet without a real good explanation, let alone two and fly another into power lines, you don’t get to fly anymore, but the son of a couple of Admirals gets to keep on flying. He shouldn’t have ever been flying a jet during the Vietnam war (another jet he managed to crash in his career as a Naval Aviator).<br /> <br />I’m just saying that John and George are two different faces of the same spoiled rich kid of privilege with no real consequences for their actions. Both careers built out of smoke and mirrors as far as I’m concerned. The country would have been better served if they had both been relegated to golfing and tennis for their lives. Then they could have fucked up all the golf courses and tennis courts their little hearts desired and maybe no one would have gotten hurt. And no one would have ever heard of something call Sarah Palin.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-36654716573167011212014-06-02T17:30:52.462-05:002014-06-02T17:30:52.462-05:00There's no place for the media in your story. ...There's no place for the media in your story. In the 2000 primary the media was in full McCain worship mode and was against Bush. They only switched on Bush when the alternative was Gore.<br />steevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12620735494191381865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-47076164195125419022014-06-02T16:43:01.919-05:002014-06-02T16:43:01.919-05:00been enough to disqualify anyone from ever listeni...<i>been enough to disqualify anyone from ever listening to John McCain on the subject of any-fucking-thing ever again. <br /></i><br />Which will, of course, be excellent news for John McCain.zombie rotten mcdonaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10601960953323752278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-58128157178580781542014-06-02T13:04:35.063-05:002014-06-02T13:04:35.063-05:00Oh, Driftglass.
"A man who once upon a time...Oh, Driftglass. <br />"<i>A man who once upon a time genuinely cared about things such as military readiness, veterans issues and respect for service to country</i><br /><br />Really, sir. Just look up John McCain's record. Google McCain POW/MIA and see how McCain "genuinely cared" about his fellow POW/MIA, or if, in fact, he used every ounce of his power to shut down the attempt to repatriate the persons, the bodies, the remains of the (mostly) men left behind in Viet Nam. I will never, never forgive his behavior here (which I watched in real time) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FavCYv0E5OU. His record against the POW/MIAs is bitter and long remembered, by many of us. You call that "respect for service to country"?<br /><br />Also, really, Driftglass. Do some research on McCain's *actual* support for veterans, i.e, his voting record. If you can find more than five total votes to support the VA or veteran's issues, I'll be surprised. Because, he almost always votes against the veterans. He talks a good line, but when push comes to shove, he votes against vets with regularity.<br /><br />Military readiness? I'm not familiar with his voting record in that respect. It wouldn't surprise me if he voted again and again to expand the military and the military machine in his pursuit of his chest-thumping agenda of BombBombBombIran. <br /><br />So *maybe* one out of three.Tomnoreply@blogger.com