Obama-Biden: Which disabled war vets will they insult next?
What a week for the Gaffe Twins.
First, Joe Biden bone-headedly urges a disabled lawmaker veteran (correction: not a veteran) in a wheelchair to “Stand up” during a campaign rally.
Next, Barack Obama mocks John McCain for not using a computer to send e-mail — despite mainstream media articles dating back to 2000 that report he can’t type because of the war injuries inflicted by his Vietnamese torturers.
Who will their next victims be?
Keep these bunglers away from Walter Reed.
Reader Matthew Fritch e-mails:
Michelle,
I just thought I would share this letter to the editor I sent to the Seattle Times and the Olympian in regards to Obama’s latest ad:
As a Disabled Veteran and as an American I was utterly disgusted by the latest campaign ad by Sen. Obama. The ad in which I speak makes the following claim:
“He admits he still doesn’t know how to use a computer, can’t send an e-mail”
The ad shows one of two things; either Sen. Obama has absolutely no scruples about attacking Sen. McCain’s disability he suffers from due to the torture he received as a POW or he and his campaign lack the basic skills to do research prior to releasing this tasteless ad. I did a bit of checking and found the following quote in a Boston Globe article by Mary Leonard dated 3/4/2000 which states,
“McCain’s severe war injuries prevent him from combing his hair, typing on a keyboard, or tying his shoes.”
Perhaps instead of mocking Sen. McCain’s injuries, the Sen. Obama should be reaching out to the disabled community. I see this as just one more reason that Sen. Obama has been slipping in the polls in our great state as well as nationally.
Matthew Fritch
Yelm, WA (currently in Iraq)
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Desperation leads to recklessness.
This is what 0bama has to resort to since his eloquence is no substitute for substance.
I think of the flak Patton took for slapping a shell-shocked soldier. And then I look at these geniuses. Patton did what he did out of a strict code of honor and integrity. These guys are just brain-dead politicians.
Three words come to mind when I think of their campaign, clumsy, arrogant, obnoxious.
Obama and Biden are not ready for prime time.
You think they’d drop by there for anything other than a hands-off photo op? You have a higher opinion of them than I do.
I saw that ad and laugh through it to the end. They really think they are fooling people.
I think Bidet did it on purpose for his lame segue.
It’s Killin em and
I Love it!!!
McCain/Palin 08′
Tantor mentioned yesterday…
I wonder if Odopey can land a jet fighter on a Aircraft Carrier.
Avionic’s is far greater in importance than e-mail.
what a tool Obama is. Biden is no better.
It’s Killin em and
I Love it!!!
McCain/Palin 08′
They (democrats) did the exact same thing to Bob Dole, who has a severe arm injury from his WW II service as an infantry lieutenant in the Tenth Mountain Division. I think my memory serves that it was the idiot Al Franken who made the derisive remark about Dole’s injury!!!
And they wonder why we question their support of the military. Remember this one…I certainly will.
I think Obama’s got dumb and dumber running his campaign.
At best it shows what kind of cut-throat advisors Obama would surround himself with if he, heaven forbid, was elected POTUS.
These two buffoons (Obama & Biden) want to inject themselves into the highest tier in the chain of command.
They don’t empathize with military vets. They’ve never served. They’ve never been closer to the military than the movies.
And what about a point I read (here?) yesterday. That the POTUS is not allowed to use email due to security reasons?
If he can’t type — so what? He isn’t allowed to use electronic communications and has staff to do other typing for him.
A moot point? Why yes, I think so…
The Democrat party is, and has been, pretty clear on what they think of the military and those who serve for a number of years….
If you’re in the military or are a veteran then you’re a stupid fool that couldn’t do any better.
Why would they, or the Obama campaign, ever show a disabled veteran anymore respect?
I know where I’m not welcome and that is why this US Navy veteran and life member of the DAV is a recovering former Democrat, now Republican.
A little advice to our Democrat friends.
If Obama loses this election, you might want to think about who you are as a party. Do you guys really want to be nothing but attack dogs? Attacking McCain for his war wounds and Sarah Palin’s family, is this who you want to be as a party?
Do you want to remain the party of the hard left cultural and academic elites, the Move-On/Kos crowd and Code Pink? The teachers unions and the environmental extremists? Or would you like to rejoin the rest of us back in America.
The Democrat Party of JFK — pro-American, strong national defense, lower taxes — is a party I’d be proud to vote for today. But JFK wouldn’t even recognize what his party has become.
Moving back to the center would not only improve your electoral prospects, but having two strongly pro-American political parties would be good for America, and the world.
And you might even be able to face yourselves in the mirror in the morning.
RESEARCH, we don’t do no stinkin’ RESEARCH, we don’t have to use no RESEARCH, we don’t have to show you no stinkin’ RESEARCH!!! A week or so ago I said B. HUSSEIN will probably only carry ILLINOIS, well, after SARAH and the following week, I take back ILLINOIS…This EMPTY SUIT will self IMPLODE long before election day…
And he doesn’t know how to use the computer. I wonder how Obama could stand up to 5 years of torture.
SHEEESH
As I heard Glenn Beck one day say, we used to be a people who agreed on principle, but disagreed on policy. Today, we don’t even agree on principle. I’m paraphrasing here, but that’s the point he made.
I don’t even recognise the left as American. They don’t even consider the U.S. interests anymore, just the interests of the “global community”.
He can’t stand up to Maureen Dowd making fun of his ears…
He can’t stand up to scrutiny.
No worries there. It will never be on their schedule. There would be no time for the gym, if they stopped by Walter Reed.
The only successful result of this ad is increasing compassion for John McCain.
For those of you with vivid imaginations think about what you’d have to go through to lose the ability to type after being tortured.
I can think of a few things that incorporate the use of hammers and slivers of bamboo.
He would be singing like a canary in 2 seconds.
Obama would become a traitor after five minutes.
He’s already being tortured. Watching the election slip away from him must be killing him.
He’d be singing “Sexual Healing” ala Barry White
O cancelled SNL because he himself became a laughing stock.
The Dems have no more resources to do any of the slightest bit of “work”, they’ve sent everyone opposition researcher to Alaska, to dig up crab earmarks and used luxury jets sold for less than a new luxury jet. They then feed this ‘information’ to gullible main stream ‘journalists’ like Charlie Gibson and Barbara Walters who regurgitate it on various broadcasts.
Unfortunately there are clearly no economists amongst the oppo researchers that can educate Walters on the fact that just like a new Car, luxury jets do not increase in value. But selling one uses a lot less tax dollars than maintaining it, filling it with fuel and using it.
Truer words were never spoken. Obozo the Tongue-tripper, through what can only be described as bloody-minded ignorance, has managed to surround himself with a cabal of feckless morons who don’t have two brain cells among them to rub together.
Even if Sen. McCain could type, the e-mail ad is utterly inept. Keep trying to tell me that the Tongue-tripper practices sound judgment…
Why would he even bother after SNL trashed him during the primaries?
You know, I was thinking the EXACT same thing. McCain can’t reach above shoulder-level, that would be a pretty good reason not to be too involved with computers.
In any case, this pretty much confirm it – Obama’s campaign manager is a complete dolt. And Obama, himself, ain’t too bright neither!
Keep them away from Walter Reed.
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Obama kept himself away from injured vets on his Berlin trip. Wow, Obama’s new “hard hitting” campaign sure has gotten off to a good start. I hope McCain runs an ad on this in Northern Virginia. I
Because Sarah Palin has taken so much of the media coverage that he’s left scrambling for anything he can get.
Amazing stupidity. What would the polls look like if the MSM favored the right, and not the left??? My guess would be
McCain/Palin 60%; Obummer/Biden about 35%; with about 5% undecided.
Obama? Torture?
“Don’t taze me, bro!!”
He can’t stand 5 seconds of someone referring to his big ears.
I hope Obama goes on SNL tonight so on Monday we can rip on him for being on SNL during a devestating hurricane. I think Obama could use another week plyaing defense and keeping off the issues.
Sorry. Oblahblah is on the left, where Ayers and Alinsky are. Being a traitor would come naturally without torture.
Can you imagine what it would be like to be in the Armed Forces with the Community Agitator as your CIC? What troop would want to follow orders from Benedict Arnold?
Oh, that’s right. The One would dispense with the military and talk with our enemies. “Uh, uh, uh, er, er, uh, put those guns, down. Someone could get hurt.”
Why would the enemy torture one of their own?
My feeling is that Obama and the current political generation are selfish, self-centered egotists.
They are the epitome of the “Me” generation where it is all about them and to hell with anyone else. They have little, if any, sense of decency.
They cannot brook any opposition because they cannot conceive that there could possibly be another way to view things or approach solving problems. Thus, their contempt for conservatives daring to put forth different points of view or solutions to vexing problems.
What are those issues that he hasn’t talked about during his whole campaign? Appeasing the Koshacks?
I wonder id Obambi could stand up against the Spanish Inquisition?
Oh yeah, MichelleO organizing protest marches on military bases, Ayers teaching flag etiquette, Wright as head of the Chaplain corps, Rezko in charge of base housing…
The Obama team could not have missed that. No way. BO promised to “take the gloves off” and it looks like he is now playing to the wishes of his far left base.
Remember when KOS and some other rag were mocking McCain’s teeth? Even after it was pointed out that McCain has all of his teeth broken off at the gumline in one of his torture sessions, they did not back off. Obama is just picking up where they left off.
The Obama/Biden gaffe team will insult any Vet. who clings to his guns, or his religion… just give them time.
Great Post!
…and Alinsky’s book would replace the Common Task manual.
Quite. It’s clear that Obama hates war vets – so much so he is willing to stop unnecessary wars to create new ones. What a selfish man. As for Biden, that man spews pure evil be asking a crippled man to stand – does he think he is Jesus?
He wanted to see him cry, lick his tears and spit on the American flag.
These people are sick.
I am voting for the more qualified soccer mum and old man!
Is that stupid ad actually still running? How insensitive can the lefties be, mocking a man who sustained severe war injuries? Gads…I don’t understand how anyone can vote for someone as mean, snobby, and elitist as Obama. The gaffes just keep rolling on.
David Plouffe, Obama’s campaign manager: “John McCain jettisoned his message and his strategy. It is now about change. We’re going to lean into that very, very hard.”
So what’s the Dem’s big attack? Attacking a war veteran because he doesn’t (can’t) email?
Lame. Arrogant. Cruel. Desperate.
That would be Governor Soccer Mom to you troll.
It’s Killin em and
I Love it!!!
McCain/Palin 08′
Image: Snausage and his ilk grasping at the end of the rope.
Are either of these doofus’s on Sunday TV? Will this ad be brought up?
I expect Osama Obama to whine about how he’s so misunderstood today. After all, he doesn’t look like the dudes on our paper money, has a funny sounding name, etc.
He has no worries. His acolytes in the MSM won’t go after him on this or anything else. I’m sure the few outlets that have mentioned the egregious mangling of the truth by his campaign have already received forgiveness for doubting him.
Video evidence of Team Obama’s level of desperation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4mKWceq0vY
Your name is pretty dumb dude and it makes me think of this commercial.
I think this ad proves that Obama and his people cannot use a computer or the internet. 2 minutes of research would have found the reason McCain doesn’t use a keyboard.
They are falling apart at the seams.
McCain/Palin ‘08
I watched people spit on Vietnam soldiers when they came home. I guess they’re still doing it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DITO, DITO, DITO AND DITO
Judging from that headline (in the link) and from some of the subtleties of the MSM admitting Obozo is in trouble, has anyone noticed a slight shift — as if the media is actually starting to feed on this news? Isn’t this the definition of cannibalism?
Okay, I wrote 3 paragraphs and erased them twice. I guess what really urks me on this one is that it had to be malicious. There is no way the Obama Campaign can feign ignorance of Senator McCain’s injuries as they are so well documented (well they are ignorant, but you get my point).
No Apolgies Accepted on this one. This was beligerent, this was on purpose, this was classless.
Senator McCain will probably not respond to this, as it is not his style. I hope this issue comes up during Governor Palin’s interview with Mr. Hannity.
As a large part of the electorate may not be aware of Senator McCain’s disability limitations, it is up to people like us to respond and respond everywhere. Do not let the O camp get away with this one. Let people know.
Have a great day all
He really did that?
Wow.
I thought it was supposed to be the Messiah, not the Vice Messiah, that told the crippled to “rise up and walk.”
I wonder if Odopey keeps in touch with his brother in the hut via e-mail?
oh wait…. he doesn’t care about him.
Neeeeeeeeeeeever mind.
It’s Killin em and
I Love it!!!
McCain/Palin 08′
Image: obama turning a blind eye on his own family who fears for his life daily. talk about a crapweasel.
Jim, This is outstanding. I hope Michelle gives it a “main posting” if she can (what with copyright laws and all). It’s just too good to go undiscovered by the masses. I nearly fell off my chair. Thanks muchly.
ajmontana said:
Nah, they use a two cans and a string.
And this is what the Democratic Party offers us? Where is the much vaunted towering intellect of the Senator from IL? Where is his judgement to lead? How is it that the least criticism reduces him to a sputtering rage, forcing him to expose himself with sexist gestures and remarks, and contemptuous comments?
How will this man represent this great nation?
Seeing Obama’s team under pressure is very telling.
My husband, who teaches military tactics and operational planning, is always admonishing our teens to think through the “second and third order effects” of any of their major choices.
Obama likes to posit that he is a deep, intellectual thinker.
I think it clear to all that Obama and his team have stopped thinking, and instead, are lashing out.
This is someone we want responding to that infamous 3 am call? I think not.
Not just his name. The moron is one of the stupidest trolls on this board.
He is also a moral pygmy (or should I say, Gollum?). No sense of decency, no sense of fairness, no sense of honor.
That’s what has happened to the British people. Sausage is an example of the subhuman type into which those people have morphed. It’s shocking to see the level to which they have stooped after WWII.
Sad to see the devolution from Winston Churchill to sausage. The Brits are finished.
Memo to BO: It doesn’t take email to count how many states we have in the US.
Color me cynical, but I believe it was because he got advanced notice how many people would be without power. (Read nyk and misstressjuctice dem talking points on Odumbos official web-page, the one McCain is unable to access due to his disability, only healthy lefties need apply). Gist of their talking points: “Why would b hussein odumbo go on SNL when one of the far left cities has over 4 million without power, virtually unable to see the fawning over the fake one”? (Actual dialogue not witnessed between mistressjustice, nyk and their lefty allies)
They’re now leading the democrat party. It’s who they are, they can’t help themselves.
This moron is a bloody island monkey?
Does Obama have one seasoned campaign staffer?
Are all of his people that young and dumb that they cannot foresee the consequences of mocking someone with war disabilities? Didn’t ANYONE on his staff think that McCain’s inability to use a computer might be due to his injuries?
I didn’t know that John McCain couldn’t use a keyboard because of permanent injuries, but as soon as I saw that ad, the first thing that popped into my mind was, “Is he unable to use one because of injuries?”.
Couldn’t ONE person on his staff think that far ahead? It stuns me, the level of incompetence and myopia coming from his campaign. If this is any indication of an Obama administration then we all know what a disaster it would be to have him in the White House.
Yup. That’s why I call him Gollum. As Gollum was a devolved hobbit, so is sausage a devolved Brit.
As a people, the British are finished.
In actual fact, Winston Churchill was a lone voice crying in the wilderness through out the 1930’s. Most Brits laughed at the warmonger.
They couldn’t wait for the war to end to throw him out, once victory was in sight. The pugnaciousness of the Brits has been overestimated at times. We love the Brits (myself included), but they’ve had this tendency for some time.
I wonder if Obama will replace his grandma’s solar panal that was stolen by fellow villagers. Cuz u know Obama is SOOO for wind and solar.
This is off topic but Ramos and Compean were turned down on their appeal by the 5th circuit court yesterday. A pardon is the only chance left to get these two brave officers out of prison.
http://www.nbpc.net/
There is an obvious joke here about hot air, but I won’t go for it.
Wow, Hot Air has another brilliant example of the Dems taking off the gloves:
The latest Sarah Palin smear from the left: Teen Molester
Just when we think the left can’t sink any lower, they find a way.
I see a blog at the LA Times has reported the story, here’s the lede:
“Oops, Obama ad mocks McCain’s inability to send e-mail. Trouble is, he can’t due to tortured fingers”
Top Of The Ticket – LA Times
The ad is obviously stupid but it’s also incorrect. McCain knows how to use a computer and use email.
Here’s a passage from an ancient play by Aristophanes; they also knew what smooth-talking politicians were all about:
SAUSAGE-SELLER (Obama)
I have many another trick in my sack, memories of my childhood’s
days. I used to linger around the cooks and say to them, “Look,
friends, don’t you see a swallow? It’s the herald of springtime.”
And while they stood, their noses in the air, I made off with a
piece of meat.
CHORUS
Oh! most clever man! How well thought out! You did as the eaters
of artichokes, you gathered them before the return of the swallows.”
SAUSAGE-SELLER (Obama)
They could make nothing of it; or, if they suspected a trick, I
hid the meat between my arse cheeks and denied the thing by all the gods-so that an orator, seeing me at the game, cried, “This child will get on; he has the mettle that makes a statesman.”
That’s where he keeps sausage?
Rhodes is such a hateful, ignorant harpie. What twaddle. Her comments would have ruined my lunch if I hadn’t considered the source.
Heh some dude wrote it in 434 BC, not me.
ROFLMAO!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
When I came back from Iraq on leave, a gentleman standing in the security line told me that I was fighting “Bush’s War” and “fighting for oil”. He continued that mantra while I tried to explain what I’d seen that we were doing there.
The vast majority of people don’t seem to be like that. But, it always irks me when I hear them say that they support the troops, but don’t support the mission in Iraq. How can you do the one without supporting what we do?
I’ve heard much the same from Mr. Obama and Mr. Biden. The same question applies. Hey, maybe we went in under the wrong information. But, we’re in there and we’ve done some really good things. Not that you’d know it from the way the press has reported it. But, we’ve tried to give the people of Iraq a chance at a better life and a chance to look at a different way of doing things. Some things will make small permanent changes, like the way that they view women and other larger things like the Western concept of fairness and impartiality or of representative government may or may not at least as we recognize them. But, we’ve made changes there one Iraqi at a time.
Mr. Obama would have taken that from us and still may. He’ll be doing everyone here and there an injustice if he does. Moreover, he’ll kick any concept in the world about US integrity in the teeth.
That, more than his insensitive ad or his failure to visit troops at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, will show thousands of US veterans of this war that their sacrifice was in vain. That our government places no value on what they fought for and has no desire to do anything except make them cripples to be placed on a public dole.
The “elite thinkers” in Obama-bubble-land have proved yet again their thorough lack of personal judgment and common sense…and they want to be my latex salesmen.
Always great to hear from you guys. Thank you for all you and your buddies are doing.
Obama ridiculing a tortured wounded vet
Biden looking at a wheelchair bound vet and saying “Stand up”
Charlie Gibson, with disdain and hubris, misquoting Sarah Palin and demanding an explanation.
And liberals wonder why we think they’re stupid.
Would’t that be taking away “The One’s” role?
Ssnark, thank you on behalf of all of us for your service to all of us.
Further proof liberals don’t practice what they preach. If liberals are all about compassion and empathy for victims, I find it hypocritical they don’t extend this to all victims, only victims that further their political aims to acquire and retain power without having to actually do any work to EARN it.
That is the dirty little secret liberals are hiding. They know they’ve done nothing to earn power. They have to create victims to give the apparency of “caring”.
I don’t support McCain, but jeez! Give a little respect for the man’s service to the country liberals claim to love, and a bit of compassion for the excrutiating torture McCain had to endure alone for 5.5 years. If liberals had any honor, I expect them to lash out at the North Vietnamese violators of human rights, right liberals claim to embrace.
Yet another hypocritical stance. I find it hard to understand how otherwise intellegient human beings will set aside important issues only for political gain, even if it means someone’s life.
Seems to me such words would fit a liberal’s definition of hate crime.
I’d like to take this opportunity to thank each and everyone of you brave men and women that make the sacrifices you do in order to keep the greatest country in the history of the world FREE, since we all know Freedom is not Free.
THANK YOU!
Fingernails on a chalkboard would probably be too much for BO.