Ouch: McCain throws Lieberman under the bus
While waiting to do a segment with Neil Cavuto on Nancy’s Big Wind Boone-doggle, I watched John McCain’s press conference on the Russia/Georgia conflict. He was looking pretty strong and presidential, and made a high-minded statement in response to a reporter’s question about the Obama camp’s attacks on his aggressive stance. The reporter asked McCain what he thought of Obama foreign policy adviser #299 Susan Rice’s claim that McCain helped cause the war.
I’m paraphrasing here, but the gist was that McCain felt it was “no time” to indulge in partisanship and that the candidates needed to rises above that to put the interest of suffering Georgians first.
And then, it went downhill.
Fox News’s Carl Cameron smartly followed up by asking about Sen. Joe Lieberman’s razzing of Obama’s equivocation yesterday. Here’s what Lieberman said:
“The last few days, four or five days, we’ve seen one of the most unexpected crises in the world as the Russians moved into Georgia as aggressors,” said Lieberman.
“And if you read the statements from the beginning, Senator McCain and Senator Obama, one had kind of moral neutrality to it, that comes I think from inexperience. The other, Senator McCain, was strong and clear and principled and put America where America always wants to be.
Instead of backing up his Democrat friend and ally, McCain grimaced and repeated his initial statement that this was “no time” to engage in partisanship.
Another reporter, noting that Lieberman was standing right beside him, asked McCain to revisit the question. McCain again refused to back up Liebs.
Under the bus, Joe.
The Fox camera panned back and forth between McCain and Lieberman. Lieberman was stoic. But the skid marks are fresh.
What McCain should have said?
Here:
There is a fundamental difference between what my friend Sen. Lieberman pointed out yesterday and what my opponents’ operatives shamelessly claim. Sen. Lieberman provided accurate analysis. My opponents indulged in reckless demagoguery. And those who can’t tell the difference have no business being in a position of power on the world stage at this critical moment.
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And they say he’s too old to be POTUS.
Here I was afraid he was going to make Lieberman his VP pick.
Silly me. It’ll probably be Bill Richardson, Lieberman’s too much of a conservative, and he can put his hispanic pandering into high gear. /sarc
It doesn’t pay to stand too close to this guy. He will throw you under the bus for agreeing with him.
At least now there is a 50% chance of the next VP being a demoncrat.
I’m giving the old white-haired dude a pass on this one. Rather than leaving Senator Lieberman flopping in the breeze, McCain could have just been avoiding any MSM gotchas by not taking a stand on every last question. He doesn’t have to emanate profundity about everything all the time – ya know.
This thrown under the bus phraseology is very interesting. Shouldn’t different opinions be tolerated at least. One may disagree with another but it doesn’t necessarily follow that the relationship between the two be tarnished or squandered. I’m quite sure McCain highly respects Lieberman and the reverse is true obviously. So they differ in rhetoric why is this considered being “thrown under the bus”.
I don’t think it was an under the bus move. Not a pat on the back either, but a hard pat on the back toward the oncoming bus.
Good ol’ Maverick.
Reaching (around) to the other side of the aisle.
Expect more the same when he becomes POTUS.
McCain wants to be elected by the liberals. He’s a politician, who doesn’t play politics. LOL!!! Somebody tell him that there’s no such thing as bi-partisanship.
Well a few things.. I usually agree on almost everything with Michelle, but not completely on this one.
I think “throwing him under the bus” is a little strong for this particular occurence.
Now do I think the Liebster could have a good case for suing McCain for “Friend Alimony”? Yes!
There was definitely a lack of support there..
I’m no big fan of McCain, but I don’t think he did the pushing under the bus thing, as much as he just played it safe like a wussie..
~Dan Lee
Rumor Colin Powell will endorse Barak Hussein Obama at the DNC convention in Denver.
If true, troubling.
Powell is not a bad guy, IMHO, but he was never a conservative. I guess he puts race above ideology, because he always seemed to be a center or slightly right of center type, strong on national security, which is exactly what McCain is.
Looks like Colin Powell is endorsing Obama.
Not suprised.
I got a different feel from this one. It seemed to me that McCain was dismissing the question, not Lieberman. He seemed upset that he had been asked yet another partisan question (the third, I think) after stating he didn’t want to politicize the issue right now.
Ed Mahmoud abu al-Kahoul, “I guess he puts race above ideology”.
So your saying Powell is a racist? Or is it that black people only support Obama because he’s black?
But he won’t stand too close to him.
I wonder how the Georgians feel now about electing an inexperienced, immature, undisciplined individual as president…just wonderin’
*sigh* I watched this too and thought some of it well said then the Lieberman thing IRRITATED me! WHY would DO that? I think what Michelle says above is EXACTLY what he SHOULD have said, instead it was that stuff about “no time”. I did think the questions were phrased in a No-Win way IF that is how he wanted to respond. He SHOULD have taken a STONG, TOUGH stand and backed up a man who is putting his livelihood, reputation, Future, etc on the line standing with HIM EVERY DAY! Shame on you John McCain!
Darn good thing his opponent is Obama or I would NOT be voting AT ALL!
I just received this breaking news update from CNN
– The Arkansas Democratic Party chairman has died from gunshot wounds, according to Hillary Clinton’s press office.
Thanks for the coffee all over the monitor, Michelle.
Sounds to me like maybe he didn’t know exactly what Lieberman had said, and felt it best to just stand by his initial assertion.
I doubt Lieberman took it any differently than that, and if he did, he probably clarified it with McCain shortly thereafter.
Even the best of us don’t always say what we later wish we’d said.
McCain is the expert on Georgia. And he is only putting the interests of suffering Georgians first.
I am not a racist, but I think race has something to do with Powell backing Obama. I can not see how anyone with a brain can not see what Obama is all about and it is not good for our country. As for McCain throwing Liberman under the bus….I don’t know just seems that McCain just trys to stay on track. I think it may be time for all conservatives start backing McCain or we will be headed to a socialist state.
formerwm said:
I am not a racist, but I think race has something to do with Powell backing Obama. I can not see how anyone with a brain can not see what Obama is all about and it is not good for our country”.
This certainly doesn’t suggest your a racist. It suggest that Colin Powell is a racist and hates white people and on top of that he has no brains.
Blacks who support BO are racist because they don’t want to be bothered with the facts, they see color only. If a white person did the very same thing, they woould be racist, so if the shoe fits!
Powell, best I can tell, is a ‘moderate’. Middle of the road. To the second question, if ~95% of Black people are planning to vote for Obama, 5 to 10% more than the normal number that go for a Democrat, than that 5 or 10% have clearly put racial identity ahead of normal ideology. Ludacris didn’t do rap songs for John Kerry.
But back to Powell. Moderate on some social issues, but strong on national defense, and seemed to be closer to the Republicans than the Democrats. John McCain is a Republican that is closer to the “middle” than most Republicans. I suspect they share very similar ideology.
Obama has less experience than any major party candidate for POTUS, ever. No record of leadership at any level, not even during his now four years in the Senate. Clearly weak on foreign policy. Speaks vague generalities, what few hard policy proposals he has suggests he is also the most radically liberal major party candidate ever. Has something in common with Osama bin Laden- they both have friends who tried to blow up the Pentagon.
No reasonable person of above average intellect who isn’t extremely liberal, the “I’m not proud of my country”, the “we can only say “merci beaucoup while the ever so sophisticated Europeans can speak 3 languages” type self loathing American, can support Obama. Powell is educated, and smart. He does not share Obama’s hard left politics.
Draw your own conclusion.
BTW, I’ve heard vacuous white people say they will vote for Obama because he is black. I guess because it is cool, or to prove they aren’t racist.
What Geraldine Ferraro said, while not diplomatic, was absolutely true. No white man with as thin a resume as Obama ever would have been a serious candidate for President.
Since we are sending troops to Georgia to give aid, does anyone else think Congress should come back from their vacations and book tours and work?
Personally I can not stand Lieberman, he’s a stupid fool but if anyone understands McSwish will have his senior moments Lieberman does. He’s been McSwish’s see and I person on more than one occasion (or maybe on one occasion when he said those are not the indians they are the cavalry).
McCain has a peculiar knack of biting the hands that feed him. This is not the first time nor will it be the last with him. Fortunately, he does not do these imbecilic things for selfish reasons but rather to reach out to the other side (liberals). I never understand this guy…
formerwm said: think it may be time for all conservatives start backing McCain or we will be headed to a socialist state.
Well Ed, I guess Powell must have been having wet dreams about blowing up the Pentagon all these years. Along with at least 49% of the rest of the American public.
If Powell is supporting BO, it is disturbing that blacks can’t see beyond the color of their racial politics. Powell, of all people should see how bad BO would be for our country. I guess Colin is just your typical black voter in the US
SRA.Ed,
You do realize that Obama’s policy proposals (readily available on his website) are abundantly more detailed and specific than McCain’s.
Michelle, your answer would have made a speech writer like Tony Snow proud.
McCain is just being grumpy old McCain. No polish, no tact, little class.
Well, currently, only the top half income earners in this country pay any income tax. That is a fact.
It is in the interest for many of the bottom half to vote for further redistribution of the wealth. At least if one believes the pie can’t grow, only be divided in different ways. IE, a Democrat.
BTW, I said “reasonable” people. The Democrats control of the public education system has started having the desired result of dumbing down the public. I suspect lots of potential Obama voters main source of TV news is John Stewart’s show.
Yup, your reading comprehension skills seem to leave something to be desired.
Could be McCain and Lieberman are simply playing Good Cop/Bad Cop.
I wouldn’t read too much into this.
“If Powell is supporting BO, it is disturbing that blacks can’t see beyond the color of their racial politics”.
The problem ROOSTER is the is in your statement. Unless you are privy to the inner thought process of Colin Powell you really couldn’t profess to know what has brought him to his decision.
Further at most 5-10% of black people are supporting Obama because of his race. Obama is getting the same percentage of the Black vote that democrats get, black, white, or whatever.
But ROOSTER, I like that you are so knowledgeable about blacks and their thinking. Can you tell what plans Secretary Rice is thinking about for the Georgia conflict.
Yes Ed you seem quite reasonable. Lets do lunch sometime.
I actually did read Obama’s website where he stated his goal to surrender in Iraq in short time, irregardless of the facts on the ground.
We do know Obama fought an Illinois law as a state senator that would have made it illegal for an abortionist to kill a baby born alive during the procedure.
We do know Obama favors raising taxes, on things like income and capital gains, even though history has shown raising taxes is usually revenue neutral or negative, but that is what socialists do, punish the successful.
We do know Obama’s ideal SCOTUS candidate would be just like Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who won’t let the US Constitution stop her from making laws beneficial to poor people, minorities and gays.
We do know Obama sat in a church for twenty years with a race baiting preacher. I love it when Hugh Hewitt plays some of Obama’s audio book recordings of ‘Audacity of Hope’ and ‘Dreams of My Fathers’. In his own voice, “the white man’s greed runs a world in need” is so stirring.
We do know Obama claimed the Senate banking committee was “his committee”, in a speech in Sderot, in Israel, claiming he would stand up for Israel against Iran. Sadly, Obama was lying, or extremely stupid, as he is not on the Banking Committee.
What else am I missing?
Obama is expected to get 5 to 10% more of the Black vote than normal, and from what I’ve read, there will be record turnout among Blacks. That extra 5 or 10%, plus all the people that show up to vote when they normally don’t, nothing to do with race, I suppose.
I disagree that simply pointing out policy differences and drawing attention to one’s inexperience is “partisanship”. McCain is such a loser!
I don’t like Obama, but I’m ready to throw McCain under the bus.
What goes around comes around.
McCain is a crapweasel.
We may continue a slow decline toward socialism under McCain.
We’ll be on the fast track to socialism, with a side of permanent decline as any kind of world power, under the Marxist Obama.
This is the first semi-honorable thing McCain has done in months.
Ed, that extra 5-10% likely make up those who don’t normally turn out vote.
What’s interesting about conservatives is that when blacks were voting 90% for white democrats running for president they were just stupid. Now that they are voting for a black candidate for president they are racist.
Which is it are black people stupid or racist? Oh wait Ed I know what reasonable answer you’ll come up with, their both.
hahaha lgm.. I hadn’t seen you comment for a while until now, but maybe I just missed your easy to overlook sentiments. If you have in fact however been staying away, I just wanted to let you know that that I think that’s the most honorable thing YOU’VE done in months..
Keep it up!
~Dan Lee
Fewer words and to the point.
Golly, Yup, got me pegged. Hard core racist. Card carrying klansman.
Oh, wait, the only klansman in the Senate is Robert Byrd. And he is a Democrat.
BTW, to answer one of your questions, as a general observation, not having been around all that many black folks on a regular basis since I was in the Navy, black people do seem to be more aware of white/black issues than white people. Just a feeling I get from casual contact and TV.
Then either you lied when you made the comment “Speaks vague generalities, what few hard policy proposals he has suggests”, or as you told yup “your reading comprehension skills seem to leave something to be desired”.
Lawyer, orator, 8 year state legislator, 2 years in Congress. Hmmm who else does that describe?
And I’m sure there aren’t any white people out there that are going to vote against him based only on his color.
MM,
Don’t agree with your take on this, perhaps a bit rash to toss McCain under the bus on your part.
time will tell.
Oh please Ed don’t claim that anyone called you a racist. From my casual observations conservatives take pride in being called racist. Another observation is that those who call people racist seem to somehow care that the person their pegging is an actual racist. Unlike these people however I could give a flying F*** who you are.
Ed, I couldn’t care less is you wore a klan gown to bed. I hope is has a split in the front for those nightime visits to the john.
Orator? He gives great speeches of a teleprompter, when he speaks without notes he is prone to immense gaffes.
A true orator, someone like, say, Abe Lincoln, spoke without notes. He wasn’t afraid to debate. “Lincoln-Douglas debates’ ring a bell.?
I’d think you’d be glad that McCain distanced himself from Lieberman in one way or another. Or do you want a pro-choice, pro-stem cell research, former Gore running mate being Vice President?
This election is turning into Survivor: White House
Each week, someone else is voted under the bus. Wonder what McCain and Obama would do for some peanut butter……
Conservatives take pride in being called racist? Maybe when it comes from idiots like you.
It is liberals who are so hung up on identity politics. It is liberals whose concept of diversity focuses on skin color, religion and sexual orientation.
Bill Clinton made it a point to appoint a woman attorney general. Didn’t matter if she was most qualified. Had two with issues of nannies they didn’t pay taxes on. Finally found a woman who would obviously never have child care issues.
Geroge W Bush, who isn’t quite as conservative as we conservatives would like, but that is beside the point, actually, put more ‘people of color’ to use a term liberals like, into real positions of power, in his administration than Clinton ever did.
Weird, how that works out.
“No time” to engage in partisan politics?
It’s a presidential campaign, for Cthulhu’s sake! It’s the PERFECT time to engage in partisan politics!
Leave it to McCain to favor partisanship over principle, opponents over friends. He is the Maverick after all…
Ed, this idiot never called you a racist. You wrapped yourself in the accusation because it cuts of all discussion and automatically wins you support from your bretheren who come to the defense of those being called racist. (Sometimes rightly I might add)
Oh i think it was you who first suggested that Colin Powell only supported Obama because he’s black. How did you know Colin Powell was Black Ed since you don’t focus on skin color? Was he standing next to you in the john? Did you see the color of his penile cord Ed? Shame Shame Ed, taking in the color of someones penile cord like that. How long were you stuck on that boat?
“Blacks held 7 percent of administration jobs under Bush, less than half of the 16 percent they held under Clinton, the snapshot shows. Women won 36 percent of Bush’s appointments, noticeably fewer than the 44 percent of Clinton’s.” – Newsday
Wow Ed…I’m still waiting for a factual statement from you.
Interesting that you list his job titles and not his accomplishments…
Wow, gay jokes about the Navy. You’re on the cutting edge of humor now, hoss.
As for the “penile cord” stuff…whiskey tango foxtrot?
Typical liberal, everything is quotas.
National Security Advisor and Secretary of State seem to trump Ag Secretary, in my book.
If I notice that Colin Powell has some African ancestry, that means I’m race concious.
I don’t even know what the hell the blather about penile cords is about.
I’ll take the generous view and attribute that to just a poor sense of humor.
PBoilermaker said “Wow, gay jokes about the Navy. You’re on the cutting edge of humor now, hoss”.
No offense to the Navy. Just questions for Ed.
Right, and that’s why Obama got 90%+ of the black vote over Hillary. It had nothing to do with him being black, it was because he is a Democrat.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha….
Whats the difference between race conciousness and skin color Ed? If skin color shouldn’t matter why pull out the Condi/Powell Bush Administration card?
Not really if:
(1) You realized I was responding to a question regarding experience
(2) You realized I was citing Lincoln’s experience (Obama 4 year Senator)
xblade said:”Right, and that’s why Obama got 90%+ of the black vote over Hillary. It had nothing to do with him being black, it was because he is a Democrat.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha…”.
The affection the black community had for clinton was for Bill and not Hillary. Without Bill and Obama in the picture Hillary would have had high numbers amongst blacks because she’s a democrat. With Bill in the picture she would have had higher numbers amongst blacks. With Obama added in the picture get murkier.
Being aware that some people have different colors of skin is different from making skin color the most important characteristic about a person. Most people who aren’t complete idiots, and masters of sophistry, would know that.
BTW, I think xblade made an awfully good point. Both major candidates in the Democratic primaries were Democrats. Very little, ideologically, to separate them. Hillary had a shade more time in the Senate, and a somewhat more distinguished legal career. She seems to have distanced herself somewhat from the 1960s radicals she used to associate with. Obama missed out on the 1960s, just a young boy living in Indonesia, but made friends with the most radical of the radicals, people who celebrated the Manson murders and bombed police stations and the Pentagon.
But both were Democrats, and white voters were far more evenly divided than black voters.
Interesting, isn’t it?
I heard McCain was racist because he used a lot of white females in his campaign ads.
I heard liberals were keeping tallies based on skin color.
What was this thread about again?
64 See 49.
We knew who you were talking about. But Lincoln actually did things, and Lincoln could speak without a teleprompter (good thing, I suppose) without looking like an idiot.
Wanna take a guess at how much of the white women over 60 vote Hillary got in the primary?
Take a gander at the % of Mormon vote picked up by Romney in the primaries.
How much of the over 60 white vote do you think McCain will pull in?
Identity based voting is alive and well. It is what it is, and anyone suggesting racism or bigotry doesn’t understand the terms.
Leiberman has been thrown under the bus plenty of times in his political career. It’s safe to say he won’t be the veep. Situations like this and McCain’s awkward moment with the “viagra funding” question reveal an inability to think on his feet. The debates should be interesting.
I agree with this. Michelle, check your premises, lest you sound more and more like Maureen Dowdy.
McCain-bashing of this sort will play right into Obama’s hands. Do you really want that?
Maybe Ann Coulter is right…just holding our noses to vote for McCain isn’t enough. Maybe we also need a good drink before we press that lever.
Over at DailyKos the comments are against Colin Powell’s endorsement and/or appearance at the DNC convention.
Not many of the Kos Kids like Colin Powell although I was surprised that some (small %) think Powell as VP would be great.
I, personally, think Obama will pick Powell as his running mate. I’ve thought this since March.
How much of the over 60 white women vote do you think Hillary got in the primary?
Take a look at the % of Mormon vote pulled in by Romney during the primaries.
Guess how well McCain is polling with whites over 60.
Identity based voting is alive and well. It is what it is. Anyone suggesting bigotry or racism don’t understand what the terms mean.
In summary, the choice is between the not so good, and the truly awful.
One can skip voting, or vote for Barr of some other third party candidate, but we’ll either have a just sort of ok president, who’ll do stupid things like global warming carbon cap and trade, or we’ll have an outright Marxist, who looks down on his fellow Americans as ignorant hicks. Who hangs out with unrepentant members of the Weather Underground.
I know some people find McCain so flawed they just can’t pull the lever for him. A mistake, in my opinion, because Obama is so bad, but this is America, and everyone makes their own choices.
I just hope the people that can’t vote for McCain at least vote for the more conservative candidate in the other races. Obama may not be able to completely destroy this country if he doesn’t have a filibuster proof Senate majority. Maybe.
Again I ask, while Georgia is being torn to shreds by Russia, where is Obama the Experienced? Still golfing in Hawaii and uttering absolute gibberish on the issue!
Apparently it’s never “3AM” in Hawaii.
Somehow the thread here has been lost. McCain seems to be the only one that instantly understood Putin’s actions as disingenuous and Imperial at the base.
There can be no wishy-washy BS in dealing with Putin. A Communist, KGB professional liar can no more be a partner in negotiations than a rattlesnake.
Its kida funny Ed you show all the signs of being one of those liberals you so hate. Someone questions you on your positions and you claim their calling you a racist (Yeah it works the other way around too).
Someone questions you on your positions in a fairly polite manner and all you can come up with is name calling.
Yes Ed, I’m impressed with your sophistry and reason.
This situation reveals how McCain stuggles thinking on his feet. Take a youtube look at how he handled the question about “funding for viagra”.
Obama isn’t exactly William Jefferson Clinton, circa 1992, behind the mic himself. The debates should be interesting.
Oh and Ed, It looks like Powell isn’t actually going to endorse Obama so maybe he isnt a black racist who hates whites after all.
The Maverick doesn’t seem to have it in him, I’m afraid. Maybe Lieberman should have pushed him aside and given such a statement himself? *sigh*
Yeah, we Conservatives have a sort of “Sophie’s Choice” to make.
McCain is a crapweasel and Obama is…let’s just say he’s the biggest crapweasel I have ever seen get to this point in the American electoral process.
Neither is a person I want to cast a vote for. The third party candidates are absolute jokes as well.
Mistress…
There is a difference if white people voted, say, 60-40 for Clinton (that is a ballpark number, obviously) nationwide in the primaries, and blacks voted over 90% for Obama.
While I am certain there was a small number of whites in the primaries who are racist enough to reject a candidate strictly on race, I suspect it is balanced out by whites who think it is “cool” or “historic” to vote for a black man.
Now, my views on Condoleeza Rice have changed since she became SecState, but about five years ago, I could have easily seen myself voting for her. I have voted for blacks before, against a white opponent, the chairman of the Texas Railroad Commission comes to mind. He, of course, is a Republican. But I am not alone, I suspect a lot more white people would vote for a black person who more closely matches their ideology against a white candidate who doesn’t, than vice versa.
And Xblade was right, the primaries did seem to confirm that.
Did anyone else see this?
Looks like Nancy is quashing free speech again! Maybe it’s a diversion tactic to get our attention off of her Boone-doggle.
Does it hurt to be so stupid?
Ed Mahmoud abu al-Kahoul said:
Its kida funny Ed you show all the signs of being one of those liberals you so hate. Someone questions you on your positions and you claim their calling you a racist (Yeah it works the other way around too).
Does it hurt to be so stupid?
Which is it are black people stupid or racist? Oh wait Ed I know what reasonable answer you’ll come up with, their both”.
Ed it was a question. Either answer doesn’t make you a racist.
Good Grief. Her ego’s so big she thinks she’s pulling puppet strings in the other House of Congress! I guess she got lonely on her book tour.
Straighten me out here…
How is McCain’s refusal to back Liebermann’s statement, “throwing him under the bus” ?
How could he possibly say in one breath, “this is no time to get into partisan politics” and then turn on a dime, and get into partisan politics?
I think, someone needs to take a deep breath.
I hope the Kristol report of Powell endorsing Obama are wrong.
All the evidence points to Powell being ideologically close, of the ‘moderate wing’ of the Republican Party, like John McCain.
If he does come out for the Marxist, then either I was very wrong about Powell’s beliefs, or Powell puts race above ideology.
I don’t know what else you’d call putting race above ideology.
I hope it is a moot point, and Powell either endorses neither or endorses McCain.
McCain = Idiot.
If Pelosi could convince Senate Democrats to strip Libermann of his committee chairs, and he started caucusing with the Republicans, it would be a 50/50 Senate with Cheney breaking ties. It’d only be for 5 months, but I don’t really think the Dems want to do that.
I think it was staged to make McCain look like the Maverick, he claims to be. Lieberman said, something that McCain could disagree with, thus McCain can punctuate his first point about partisanship again. WHICH STILL MAKES OBAMA LOOK SMALL. Manipulation it is in the dictionary,look under politician
Good to see they are playing good cop – and whatever cop, Abe Vigoda played on Barney Miller
How does the Lieberman quote…
…qualify as “partisan politics?” Did I miss Lieberman saying “Obama’s a Democrat and doesn’t know his butt from a hole in the ground and his leftwing positions are contrary to American safety and security” or something similar?
Exactly, Vicki, and if he keeps up this silly “lets all just be friends bipartisanship” he ensures himself of being a bigger loser in November.
Apparently he just doesn’t have a clue on how to handle gifts handed to him on silver platters.
Not for the squeamish. Pics of Nancy Pelosi’s constituents, some nude, in public, in the middle of the day, doing unpleasant things, can be found by clicking the appropriate link on this website.
I’m not kidding, this isn’t for the squeamish. But it goes a long way to explaining Stretch Pelosi, when you see who votes for her.
That was my read also
He also doesn’t understand what the word “sovereignty” means.
You aren’t getting like KevoTron was yesterday, are you Frank?
McAmnesty is a horrible choice for president. I don’t like him at all. That said, I am going to vote for the old geezer because he will not be QUITE as destrictive as Obama… but America will probably never recover after either one of those fools.
LOL Barry F. I missed that yesterday.