McCain's YouTube Problem Just Became a Nightmare

Run time: 03:15 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEtZlR3zp4c   Posted on YouTube: May 18, 2008 By YouTube Member: bravenewfilms Views on YouTube: 8865919   Posted on DU: May 18, 2008 By DU Member: gateley Views on DU: 19862

 

Whatver one thinks about Obama, we simply cannot turn the country over to a confused guy like this

Unelectable (A Tribute to John McCain)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5dkRtGSx84

to pick good people to be on his team. He will not be like Bush and McCain, he will not run this country to benefit his big oil buddies.

He will pick a VP, an extremely competent cabinet. Bush has a bunch of yes men and woman on staff. Anyone that did not agree with that protocol got fired. and labeled a traitor or unpatriotic. To everyone who is not for Obama, do you honestly in your heart of hearts believe Obama will, fire people who don't agree with him, run this country to benefit big corporations, hire ridiculously under qualify people for top level positions, ie FEMA, and Homeland security.

And by the was since coming out with the wildly popular color code threat detector, what has Tom Ridge done?????????

McSame is so scary please don't hand our country over to this nutbag without a bloody fight!

If you read my post to this point
thanks. If you agree pass it on!

That's what they told us about George.

to bring experience and depth to the White House, even though he picked himself as most qualified.

Obama doesn't have any history to support that. If you do, please provide it. He hasn't been in any position that I am aware of where he has put together a group of people to work for him other than for his campaign.

Bush on the other hand had history as a Governor and the people still elected him. They wrongly considered him competent despite the fact that Governors in Texas is essentially a do nothing office with very little power.

his campaign proves he can organize

he seems to lie so much that finding his lies is like shooting fish in a barrel.....

My feeling on this is he is not lying -- I think he just doesn't have any recollection minute to minute of what he said 10 seconds ago -- I really think this to be true.

This man is being used in some fashion because of his delusions. The repubs don't understand that we are on to them -- It's over!!!

The republicans were off on the wrong foot from the beginning of this campaign -- one looser after another. They didn't have one decent candidate. McCain was down to what -- 13% approval or less at his bottom figure? How could he end up on top?

I know -- it was by default. It died from the top down. The machine could have used any of them. They used * with not much trouble. (But then his grandfather was one of the guiding forces back in 1938). So John McCain won by default -- last man out, as it were.

McCain, like *, is not the brightest bulb on the tree (or is that the bush?). He was at the bottom of his classes -- had lost 2 planes before he graduated flight school and lost 3 more jets before his capture. Thank God for his capture, otherwise we could still be trying to catch up making new planes.

So is he lying or is he just a dead stump like his bff *?

I was wondering, myself, whether he was simply confused.

chosen a better way to frame this, but i also believe that on several of the occasions where he completely turned on something he had earlier said that it was simply for being the 'right' thing to say at the moment rather than what he really believes, which to me, is a lie.

Which, according to Harry Frankfurt in his awesome essay "On Bullshit," is worse than being a liar, because liars at least acknowledge that there is an objective truth (even though they then subvert it by lying). A bullshitter doesn't care whether what he's saying is true or not, only that it helps him advance in the eyes of his audience.

A bullshitter is fundamentally an intellectual coward--even a liar has the courage to defend his lies before a hostile (i.e. educated) audience, but a bullshitter will just go from, for instance, "tax cuts for everyone!" to "I voted repeatedly against tax cuts."

Calling McCain a liar, then, is giving him too much credit, since he really doesn't give a shit what the truth is, only whatever will get him through the present interview, speech, convention, and election. In fact, that makes him worse than Bush, since Bush is just a liar--you can usually guess what the truth really is by whatever the opposite of what he says is: tax cuts stimulate the economy? Gotta be the other way around. The terrorists are on the run? Al Qaeda must be getting stronger, etc. With McCain, sometimes what he's saying is the truth, but it's only by coincidence.

A couple of elections ago, McCain's flip flopping would have gone undetected, or it would have been picked up so late in the game it would have been irrelevant.

Today, blogs, YouTube and other media get the word out instantly on a candidate's lying. More people are on to the candidate when he/she is pandering by saying one thing to a group and the opposite to another group.

Republicans haven't figured that out apparently.

Or, are they just trying to take the easy way out of this through their attempts to restrict the internet? They've had the luxury of doing this in other situations, but haven't done it here yet, thank God.

and btw, welcome to DU! You have to figure they needed some dumb ass to act as the sacrificial lamb, and boy did they pick one. He actually makes some of the gibberish coming out GWBu$h sound erudite!

I'm fighting the shadow government behind him, the one that doesn't give a damn that McCain gets bloody (just think of them as the Hanoi shadow governemnt (no, I'm not saying that Vietnam has anything to do with this). Thing is, they hope we feel sorry for the poor old codger and don't hit him with our best shots but while I feel badly for him that his mind is going, I and others need to hit hard enough to keep that awful shadow government out of play. They've had their 8 years and look what we got.

I understand and agree -- these shadow people need to be brought down, if it is possible at this point. They are, at the least, 60 years a head of us.

I am VERY tightly connected to Obama's thinking and can only thank him for being here now. If anybody can get things turned a bought Barack is that person.

He's gotten by on his hero status all of these years and knows how to pose as a serious politician. But whatever he had before, he certainly seems to have lost it. He's just taking up space now. Too bad he's going to have to finish up with a big loss. He's just not presidential material.

Agreed. McEgghead has never been the brightest bulb in the pack. Bottom of his classes, only getting by from his family history. He lost 2 planes during flight school and 3 more until his capture.

Shooting fish in a barrel.

Either addle brained or a pathological liar or a panderer of the worst variety.

These campaigns ONLY work IF everyone participates. E-mail it out. Pass it on. Don't forget to rate it on youtube five stars and add it to your favorites, as that is the only way it will stay UP UP UP and in full view.

AWESOME VID!

and they should see it, to remove any doubt in their minds.

I live in a hippy enclave and I socialize with polyamorists and GLBTers so I think you can guess how many Republicans are in that group. Though recently a new person showed up at the poly meeting, well, a new couple in this case and politics came up and it's really mostly like preaching to the choir but he was obviously a Bush Republican so rather than blasting him out of the water, I have to give my group great kudos for just letting him tell us why and it had to do with his business and how Bush helps business owners but his business has taken a bath since the gas price hike so he's wavering. We gently (Did I mention how proud I was of my group? I facilitate but rarely have to intervene) talked about the causes of the increase and the ways in which this current administration wasn't helping and how McCain wasn't planning to help either. I directed him towards The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein.

It occurs to me that I should make some spiffy CDs of some of the most damning stuff and give him a pile along with that book. I'm quite sure he knows a few Republicans when I know only him.

It was nice that he wrote me later and said that while politics can be so contentious, our group, while disagreeing with his point of view, listened politely and didn't fall all over themselves to explain where he was wrong. He said it gave him the space to figure those things out for himself. There may be hope yet for this guy.

http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/McCain_s_YouTube_Prob...

- K&R!!!

Funny is how he talks about having to keep your word at the end... if he would at least decide for one.

He's got all of the signs including the increased anger which happens as people begin to realize what's happening to them.

But, and this is an important but, while Alzheimer's is a sad, sad disease, we cannot afford to have another person with alzheimers in the white house.

Edited to add: No pity votes!

Please put all this stuff in there.

Enough!!!!

Not this Time People - PLEASEEEEEEEE!

Landslide.

and use it! use it! use it! when the bs flies this fall.

Great find gateley.

We have decades of slander, slime, death, treachery, theft, corruption, abuse, and treason to make up for.

Don't hold back with this guy.

Run it up! My instincts tell me to go easy on a confused old man. But it's not just about McLame. It's about the entire diseased structure he represents. Crush conquer destroy decimate

We are dealing with murdering, blood-bathing psychotic sociopath thugs from hell. They can not be helped or rehabilitated. They must be pulverized without mercy.

alzheimer's medication with.

He's a sequel, isn't he? Makes me shudder.

Absolutely!!

Sadly yes.

But!! On the positive side what Obama has done during this campaign is to re-energize the people of US of A

Buy the internet, switch it off and pretend that it was never there.

Democrats must quit gambling with our nation's future in order to make political statements. Obama has done nothing to prove himself worthy of the presidency. It's been all talk. I'm afraid that if Obama does get elected it will only serve to establish the dangerously shallow-minded notion that the US presidency is to be used to make social/political statements and that it's best to elect under-qualified, inexperienced politicians because they represent "change."

Republicans made the same egregious error by electing Bush. He, too, was under-qualified, but they believed he could promote their social/political agenda, even at the expense of our nation's best interests. He proved a miserable failure at both, and yet we still haven't learned from America's historic mistake. We somehow think that it's ok to do the same thing as long as it's a Democrat. Had we used our heads and nominated the best qualified, most experienced Democrat, Joe Biden, there would be no reason for anyone to consider voting for McCain except the most hopeless neo-conservatives. We would guarantee success in the general election and have someone who has the experience necessary to bring about real change.

I can't sanction an Obama presidency with my vote, and it's not due to my clinging to my fear of people different from myself. It's due to my fear of those who make such arrogant and insulting comments about Americans, many whom I care deeply about.

I didn't see anyone on here asking you to vote for Sen. Obama, you5r vote is yours to do with as you please.

It's hard to see, but it looks like him.

there are a bunch of blues avatars here. I made avatars with male and female, Native American, African American, Latin American, French-Canadian American poets, writers, chiefs, musicians... there are Appalachian fiddle players and jazz muscians...

the blues players, in alpha order (as they are on the avatars)
Big Bill Bronzy
Blind Blake
Blind Lemon Jefferson
(Boozoo Chavis)
(Elizabeth Cotton)
John Lee Hooker
Leadbelly
Memphis Minnie
Robert Johnson
Son House
Sonny Terry

because, yes, DU is the rockin-est forum on the intertubes.

Ginchinchili gave his all to Biden -- all of us Bidenites did. Please don't be mean.

on those who voted against him.

complicated web of blame you must place on each and everyone one of us here at DU for the current level of republican power.

I guess maybe you should have supported Gore more effectively in 2000. Or perhaps it's your fault that Nader didn't rise up and save us all back then? Whoever you support, it's your fault they didn't win.

And for the record, I truly believe Biden would have kicked some serious ass if given the respect of the MSM to survive the early primaries.

I bet the unnamed place is already quoting this "gem"

Your subject title doesn't seem to flo into your comments, but maybe it's me. Anyway ---

You commented --
"He, too, was under-qualified, but they believed he could promote their social/political agenda, even at the expense of our nation's best interests. He proved a miserable failure at both, and yet we still haven't learned from America's historic mistake".

The past few days there have been a number of threads (posts here and there) dating back to pre WWII and the influence from wealthy Americans -- Geo Bushes grandfather being one of them.

George Bush has preformed EXACTLY as these "King Makers" have required!

The under current of the Republican party has been to undermine the basic structure of the United States. To bring it down -- and Bush along with Chaney have held to their calling doing a monumental destruction of the under pinnings of this country these past 7+ years.

I was born into a southern baptist Republican family in the 30's but as of 2003 became a Democratic.

I agree, Joe Biden would be an awesome president but, the simple
fact is that is not going to happen. Maybe as VP would work -- works for me anyway!

John McCain is only the next step in the destruction of America.

And the couple McCain won are by small margins, one by one point and another by three, while Obama is up by is much as 11 points in polls he won.

http://pollingreport.com/wh08gen.htm

The falsehood that McCain is ahead in most polls is widely circulated by the right wing and corporate media. Like much they say, it isn't true.

the next five months and those polls will look like the drivel they are. We as Democrats need to get the word out and expose this man for what he really is.

and forums you can....McCain's Problems Must See... Pass on... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TbN2fkPoQE

There are women who are voting for Hillary solely because she is a woman. That should bother you just as much, if you were intellectually honest. But, you probably don't have any problem with the shallow voters who are voting for your preferred candidate.

Oh, and by the way, Hillary has done absolutely nothing to prove HERSELF worthy of the presidency. Her record of accomplishments is pretty thin.

It's awesome, really.

What kind of idiotic bullshit is that? I'm sorry, I can't be nice about this. Your candidate lost, grow the fuck up and do what is right.

This experience you claim to be so important has gotten us in to the mess we are in now. Clinton's experiance lead to this war. Biden's did too. To his credit he actually read the 92 page intelligence report on Iraq prior to voting for it, but in the end he still voted for this idiotic war.

We had one viable candidate that was against this war from the start, and that was Obama. We found out with Kerry that no matter how much you claim to be against something it won't matter if you cast that original vote for it. I really don't understand what the fuck your problem is but you all need to stop this bullshit. I never thought I would see this kind of idiotic irrationality around this place, I was proven wrong when the primaries came around.

Telling stuff... Very good material for some negative campaign ads; hopefully we will not miss our opportunity. Better, since they would be about issues and not personal or irrelevant matters.

Empty heads talk empty language....pity

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and turned into a commercial!

and hopefully the national news outlets!

One person on the site this references, (www.therealmccain.com ) sent it to 50 people!

I think it's well on the way to going viral -- it was only posted today and already almost 500 YouTube viewings.

great compilation. I will send this to those that I know who are on the fence.

K & R

there is only more denial, but with authoritarian arrogance --- !!!

This was just too painful to watch... seriously, I turned it off halfway through


That said, this does need to get out there- everywhere. I can't imagine voting for this man. The thought of him being President is terrifying.

how accurate is it?
For example when they showed him saying the general over in Iraw rides in an unarmored humvee and then saying he rides in an upper armored humvee and I am wondering about the time for those, in other words which one came first?
I just wanna be sure its accurate because if it is I might post a link to it on another political forum I visit and I really dont wanna get caught with my pants down as it were and be shown that its not accurate.

presented on the video -- since he was asked about the "unarmored" statement and presented with the contradictory response from the General's staff. Then he tried to explain away the the "unarmored" statement.

description would be the Curve Ball Express. Because Bush doesn't speak in complete sentences, deliberately or not, he has a built in excuse for never telling the truth. McCain can't make that claim without being tagged senile.

A screwball breaks from left to right from the prospective of the pitcher.

was the name of the intelligence source McCain and his ilk used to justify the Iraq invasion and occupation

But the White House did

Brilliantly, put together! Thank You!

I just sent it to about 75! Nothing like being prepared for what's coming.

Run time: 03:15 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEtZlR3zp4c   Posted on YouTube: May 18, 2008 By YouTube Member: bravenewfilms Views on YouTube: 8865919   Posted on DU: May 18, 2008 By DU Member: gateley Views on DU: 19862

 
EDIT -- I don't know why the video is showing up in this post again -- I can't see the link so can't delete it. Sorry.

He answers depend on the slant of the question at the moment.
He comes across as a pathetic old man who doesn't remember.
He doesn't even recognize his own words in his own voice.

I'm looking for the interview on his plane that followed his 2013 speech.
Its more of the same stuff.

8 years of a below average, war-mongering, dishonest, immoral and unethical right wing asshole. The last thing we need is 4 more years. I agree that Obama will eat him for lunch, but what scares me is that the typical voter, who doesn't pay attention to what's going on until the last 2 weeks of the campaign may not find out about the real John McInsane until he is already in office. By then it will be too late. So, while I agree that Obama should be able to wipe the floor with him, I am going to be biting my fingernails until the election is over. Oh, and BTW, Obama DOES need to wipe the floor with him, because if the results are close, well you all know how that can turn out....

Robert Greenwald's Brave New Films

http://bravenewfilms.org

excellent site

Well Done.

http://www.youtube.com/browse?s=tr&c=25&l=&b=0

I wish that was made into a TV ad. I wrote an E-mail to MoveOn.org asking them to use the 60 Minutes footage of McCain lying about his walk through Baghdad. McCain is getting away with pretending he's a "straight talker" and the media is backing him up. The only way to destroy that image is with word of mouth or advertisements. I'll send the link along.

when we all know that Obama has this in the bag?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McfBxZ85v30

mccain shopping in Baghdad for his 6 dollar persian rugs

Look at him debate, he looks lost. He is not good at debates and while Obama may uhm a lot, he never sounds lost or confused. McCain will be trashed and come off as too out of touch for the presidency.

Maybe by the end of the first debate we will have McCrazy chanting "Yes We Can"

of a certain percentage of the country's voters.

I mean, look at how idiotic GWB looked against John Kerry during the debates in '04. Honestly, it was like setting up a chimp to debate Einstein. And look what came of it....

No doubt the same people who voted for Bush in '04 because he "looked like someone who'd be fun to have a few beers with" would probably vote for McCain because he reminds them of their crazy but beloved old Uncle Stumpy who lives in the chicken coop instead of his own house and talks to himself while crawling around the town common looking for leprechauns.

It's truly frightening how many people are willing to elect someone who reminds them of their mentally retarded relatives or the dog they had when they were 12 years old...

My God, I watched those debates and was totally amazed at how clueless Bush came across, especially in the first debate. I watched the ensuing debates, expecting Bush to improve due to coaching and being better prepared for the questions posed to him. He still sounded like someone who had no handle on the issues.

cheers.

but I'm afraid that when a lot of people actually cast their vote for President, I think there are still too many people who will convince themselves that they're not yet ready for a Black president (assuming Obama is the nominee) and will vote for McCain by default. I think the same mindset is present if Hillary should be the nominee.

From what I've seen in this campaign season and in other events in my life, there's still a lot of bigotry out there.

about the economy upon which he wants to govern..lol K/R

http://www.myspace.com/deadelephantclothing

Great site -- and you've got some wonderful friends!!

Let's not elect the F student.

makes his war record hard to touch BUT he did lose/crash FIVE U.S. Navy aircrafts....
wow.

http://www.vietnamveteransagainstjohnmccain.com/cin_mcc...

Apparently the DNC needs to get Brave New Films to run their media branch during the campaign for the GE because if the country as a whole ever saw this he'd be sooooooooooooooo DONE.

Well done, Greenwald!

and we know how he worked out...

(I'm having deja vus reading this thread) -

revisit this January 08 classic by Robert Greenwald of bravenewfilms and give it some bang for its buck.

John McCain vs John McCain http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioy90nF2anI

I really have no other words.

I continue to shake my head. This guy is running for President? He is in over his head, and he himself realizes this. I don't see how he is going to survive the campaign season without a mental and/or physical breakdown.

You are so right. Look how the poor old fool is falling apart in the early going. Gaffe after gaffe, foolish remark after foolish remark. Endless flip-flops.

Just as you said, he is in way over his head. bush is over his head as president but he campaigned "well". mcSame can't even run a campaign right. He can't keep his story straight for a week at a time. And this is the easy part!

"He can't even run his own life, I'll be damned if he'll run mine..."

I'm an Republican moran and I approved this message.

I remember the 2004 Kerry campaign and the constant hammering he took over his "flip flopping." What Kerry did was nothing compared to McCain's, and we're just beginning the presidential campaign season.

Instead, the MSM news gerbils proliferate this "straight talk express" and "maverick" myth.

Un fuckin' believable.

so they made it their mission to prevent his message from getting out and by making sure that they pur their own lies in place.

They succeeded.

The straight talk express has blew a tire. He's been hanging around Bush to much. Bush has taught him how to lie with a smile. I hope the American people doesn't fall for Bush proxy...aka John Mccain.

He's too senile to know the difference.

First he was for everything he is for. Now he is against everything he was for (except god, babies, puppies and abortions).

and he rightly believes that the paid reporters are in his pocket. But this youtube thing is just too confusing for oldtimers. He doesn't get that there are thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands out there willing to research the veracity of his claims. He can't just throw some crap out there and assume that it won't be looked at. It won't be by the paid "reporters" but there are true reporters out here who will hang his ass out to dry.

I really do appreciate the work of Mr. Greenwald and would like to see it.

Unfortunately, I am deaf, and Youtube RARELY have their stuff captioned.

(if there is such a word). I'll put out the call and if I don't get a response, I'll work on it tomorrow and get it to you. It will be worth the wait (and my probable typos!).

This thing's going viral. I emailed the link to 20 people.

Holy moly, batman!

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