McCain is "outraged" over a million bucks for the Woodstock Museum..

[Virginia Dare]

and a million bucks for grizzly bear research. Yet he's got no problem with the trillions that we've thrown down the Iraq shithole, much of which is completely unaccounted for?..:eyes:

Hey McCain, I'm talkin' to you!

[Joanne98]

1. McCain is too old to be president!!

[tuckessee]

6. That's a ridiculous statement.

I guess ageism is OK on DU if directed at a Repuke.

[rurallib]

17. I disagree - he's way too stupid.

Although next to Junior he's a jeenyus

[AlCzervik]

2. for fucks sake is he still blathering on about that? He's overplaying it

and it's becoming old and busted just like him.

[Tyler Durden]

3. John McCain can go fuck himself.

He is a disgrace to the uniform he used to wear, and although I won't go so far as to call him a traitor, with his support of the Illegal War of Aggression he is at the very least as bad as an active Party functionary was in Nazi Germany.

[BobRossi]

4. If it hadn't been for the Woodstock generation....

John McCan't would still be sitting in the Hanoi Hilton.

[spanone]

5. i say 2 million for woodstock museum....

[bighart]

8. not my tax dollars!

[LSK]

13. well we can use your tax dollars for Iraq, don't worry

Oh and your bill will be much much higher. Hope you don't mind.

[AlCzervik]

14. i feel the same way about earmarks for Missouri--not my tax money.

[bighart]

23. I hate earmarks for stuff like this.

the fact is a lot of earmarks are used to "buy" the support of "the folks back home" and do not benefit anyone else, and I think the Woodstock museum is an example of that. The town I live in has just lost the largest employer, town of 4500 with over 1700 employed at the factory that closed just a few years back, and 2 other major manufacturing employers in town are laying people off at an alarming rate right now. I have a hard time saying yeah let's support money going to a Woodstock museum given the economic hardship facing those around me.
But I am not advocating federal tax dollars be injected for an economic revitalization of my area.

[Virginia Dare]

26. I think you're missing the point though..

why focus on a lousy 2 million bucks, dedicated to cultural preservation, which is just a teeny drop in the bucket, when there are billions being wastefully and fraudulently poured into programs that are supposedly "protecting" or "defending" us. It's faux outrage.

[AlCzervik]

27. thank you.

[bighart]

29. no I am not missing the point

I understand that the larger issue is the billions being spent in Iraq, I just don't think that "redirecting" those funds to pet projects for politicians is an appropriate thing to do either. Why don't we spend the million for, oh I don't know, veteran care.

[Virginia Dare]

30. The repubs cut veteran care...

it's "wasteful" according to them, something that I don't think Senator Clinton would agree with. So once again the POINT is that McCain is talking out of his ass, as are most repubs.

[bighart]

32. granted, but suggesting as the post I was responding to

that we double the million and give it to the Woodstock museum just because a mccain is outraged by it is bullshit too. Lets spend that money where it will actually do some good.

[Virginia Dare]

33. I don't want to put words in the OP's mouth..

but I believe the implication was that they would rather "waste" their money on this than the war, I doubt they advocate the taking of that money from children or veterans. I think we're all in agreement on that, the Democrats that is.

[bighart]

37. i was not responding to the op

i was responding to the suggestion that we send 2 million to the Woodstock museum.

[karynnj]

38. The bigger question is what would be perserved in a Woodstock Museum

The music and the movie are the best ways to understand Woodstock. The event was on a farm outside Woodstock. After the people were gone and it was cleaned up - what was there to see?

There are places that could pull the threads together. The type of exposition that the Museum of TV and Radio in NYC has done for other things springs to mind. Our kids were amused by the exhibit they did of when the Beatles first came to the US. The audio tapes from radio really reminded me of those days - as it was radio that communicated most of what was happening. Elsewhere in NYC, I recently saw an exhibit on Bob Dylan - from artifacts to video to print media of the time - they really captured what was there.

[Virginia Dare]

22. At least you would have a chance to see where your dollars went..

(actually not even a fraction of a cent) you'll never have that opportunity with Iraq, which is in the thousands for each citizen.

[lvx35]

7. For the cost of this shitty war, we could have literally 1 million woodstock museums!

Such is difference between a million and a trillion. Too bad republicans can't do math.

[treestar]

9. He ticked me off when he was on John Stewart last night

He kept interrupting and trying to dominate the conversation and avoid questions by talking over them.

[Cha]

24. Jon had that craphead on last night?

How did Jon handle that?

[treestar]

41. He was trying to ask questions of the craphead.

Or make comments on the craphead's statements, and got interrupted at every turn - he just kept being polite and the conversation got very disjointed because of the CH's continued talking before Jon finished his questions.

[redqueen]

10. Remember when he used to be respected around here?

Boy, he sure turned that around!

[HughBeaumont]

11. Keep sucking Maverick!!

[LSK]

12. how dare we spend money on America

And celebrate its history and wildlife!!!!

THE OUTRAGE!!!!

[Quantess]

15. A million bucks isn't what it used to be.

A million $ at Blackwater or Halliburton will get you a few bullets and a cup of coffee.

[shain from kane]

16. If everyone who attended or claimed to have attended Woodstock, or bought the album, or saw the

movie, would send $1.00 to me, then I would build a museum to rival all others. McCain doesn't realize how many people there are whose lives were profoundly affected by that event. He uses it for a laugh line. Historians will still be talking about it long after he's gone.

[PVnRT]

18. Quick! Someone figure out which riders he's attached.

I'm sure he's brought home some sweet, sweet pork for the state of Arizona.

[Virginia Dare]

21. Here's a list of some Arizona pork barrel projects..

I'm not sure if McCain was attached to any, but he certainly didn't express outrage over them. A couple of my favorites:

$2,400,000 Design, acquisition, and preperation of a facility dedicated to periodic firearms requalification and training in advanced firing techniques and explosives

500,000 Construction of a border fence in Nogales, AZ - U.S. Customs Service

http://www.cagw.org/site/PageServer?pagename=reports_pigbook2005_database

[shain from kane]

25. Here's a list of tourist traps in Arizona that I have previously posted. Not necessarily

pork barrel projects. However, it shows what people in Arizona think is important enough to recognize, and yet Woodstock doesn't seem to mean a thing to McCain.


http://www.roadsideamerica.com/map/az.html

[msongs]

19. wow, where did you get that big picture of dick cheney? nt

[zbdent]

20. He should be asked the following two questions:

"If you support torture now, what information did you give to the Vietnamese?"

and

"Are you suffering from Stockholm syndrome, having been a prisoner of the religious right all these years?"

[gollygee]

28. "Don't look at the war . . . don't look at the economy . . . don't look at global warming . . ."

"Here! Look! Something shiny to look at!"

DISTRACTION

[MzNov]

31. Only a million for the Woodstock museum??

Why so little??

[Virginia Dare]

34. Who gives a shit about hippies or bears?

:hippie:

[MzNov]

36. or hippie bears?

[StarryNite]

35. Just tell him that innocent

people will be killed there on a daily basis and he will be all for it.

[Toots]

39. You got something against Steve Colbert? Make him crap his britches you will...

He be scared of bears...

[Odin2005]

40. He must not like classic rock, apparently,

[Imagevision]

42. McCain could care less about the 8.7 Billion that disappeared in Iraq though! ->chump!!!