Independence Day

  One of the best holidays of the year in the United States!

   A lot of food will be cooked on the grill and tons of beer and booze will be drank both today and tomorrow in celebration of this day. Remember to be careful while you are out boating, fishing or whatever it is that you'll be doing today.

  Have a great day enjoy your independence!

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John McCain's Whining About General Clark's Criticism

  You knew that the McCain supporters and the rest of the Repugnicans would go all out to blow General Clark's comments way out of proportion, and they've been doing just that all week long.

  Here's a comment on the McCain ass-kissing and just how much more does he think he deserves?

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Why is McCain a delicate flower who needs constant a*skissing?

by chumley Tue Jul 01, 2008 a

I'll be blunt, here.

Just how much ass-kissing does John McCain think he is owed?

Barack Obama has constantly, consistently and repeatedly said he honors John McCain military service, and what he endured as a prisoner of war. 

A quick Google search confirms that Obama has stated just that on numerous occasions.  Very unequivocally.

And now that the Republicans are in their phoney pearl-clutching gear again, lying about what General Wesley Clark said and Obama's part it in (none), we once again see John McCain and his surrogates whining about how John McCain has been disrespected.

God in heaven, is there any man in America who has been given MORE respect and deference for his military service than John McCain?

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Why is McCain such a delicate flower that any time he's in an election, he starts whining about being disrespected?     Is he not capable of having an honest, vigorous policy debate without going into full martyr gear and accusing everyone of being mean to him?

Sack up, Mr. McCain.   This is a Presidential election, and you've striven to be the nominee of your party for years.   You've just spent eight years working side-by-side with the worst administration in our country's history, acting as their toady at every turn.  Believe it or not, most people lost respect for you for THAT.   I'm one of them.

You endured a horrible imprisonment for our country years ago, and we thank and honor you for it.  But let's have some actual straight talk here:  you've been thanked and honored for this exact thing for decades.  Lionized, feted, canonized even.  Maybe the problem is that you feel entitled to nothing BUT that at this point, but... if so, you shouldn't be running for President.  It's not appropriate for a democracy to give anyone that office as a gift, without the proper debate.

What you want, Mr. McCain, is to be spared scrutiny.  You want the office to be given to you by acclaim, and for ANY criticism of your record to be called an act of disrespect for your military service.  It's a cowardly way to approach this election -- morally bankrupt and un-American.

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...Now look at that paragraph directly above.   I have NO doubt that if you and your campaign were ever to read it, Mr. McCain you'd go into the very predictable, sustained high-pitched whine about about how this clown on a librul blog was denigrating your military service.

It's pure bullshit, Mr. McCain.  And it's a tired, shopworn line of bullshit at that.   I think you actually know very well that neither Obama or Clark were denigrating your service or your sacrifice.  For God's sake, both of them went out their way to kiss your behind (yet again! on that score.

...But a little asskissing is never enough for John McCain.  The alleged "straight talker" needs nothing but flattery and prolonged smooching of his own backside, 24/7, or he starts crying and stamping his feet.

John McCain, you don't have the moral standing to be President.  Your military record is excellent -- though not, as Clark said, a sole qualification to be President.  If it were, than  ALL Republicans would have voted for John Kerry in 2004... instead of mocking his Purple Hearts and accusing him of lying about events that were very well-documented.

The reason you're not qualified to be President, John McCain, is that you're a profoundly dishonest man who lies routinely just for political convenience.  And when you don't seem to be getting away with that, you lash out and hope to kill the debate by whining about you're not getting your ass kissed ENOUGH.

We don't need such a dishonest, thin-skinned President who thinks that country should be serving him, rather than the reverse.  We already had that with your political boss George W. Bush.  This country has already rejected him, and you will pay the political price for aiding and abetting him over the last few years.

If you want to debate that, well, let's go.  Please, we're happy to engage that.  Let's have at it.  That's what elections are for.

But if you just want to mewl and whine about how people aren't kissing your ass nearly enough for your liking, then withdraw your candidacy, for the good of the country.  If so you're perpetrating a disgraceful act of cowardice, and you're not morally or psychologically able to run this country.

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(...Oh, and by the way?  By your idiotic standards, Mr. McCain, you and your TV goons are dishonoring all American military when you come after Wesley Clark.  He is, after all, a wounded veteran who gave decades of his life in military service. 

But we all know what Republicans actually think people who serve in our military: U.S. soldiers are enemies if they don't suck up to the Republican party.)

  I cannot wait to see this pathetic old man get trounced come November. I use to have respect for Senator McCain, but then he turned into a Bush.

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