Bill Burton, smarmy tool for smarmy campaign
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This guy is a gold medal winner in the Smarmolympics!
My mother doesn’t know how to use a computer. Doesn’t mean I hate on her. Let’s get back to the issues that matter, back to the important stuff, not that John McCain only wears reebok and Obama wears only nike. Let’s get back to the facts like what Karl Rove said yesterday.
More proof they have donned the Cloak of Stupidity.
Bill Burton is one of the biggest asses I’ve ever seen work for a campaign. He’s a campaign toady through and through. His defense is just pathetic and petty.
Where are the issues, Mr. Burton? Huh? Care about those? Or just snookering the American people some more?
There is also a pretty good video out there of Fox’s Meghan Kelly tearing into Rick Davis from the McCain campaign for lies being perpetrated by them against Obama. I guess it hasn’t been a very good couple of days for campaign spokesmen.
What a POS. John McCain should run an ad with the footage of him returning from Vietnam. He doesn’t walk so much as shambles. Clearly a man that has been brutalized for a long time. And to have to take cheek off this little worm…
This is how the Obama people really care about wounded vets. They think its okay to make fun of their disabilities, to this dirt bag, making fun of disabled vets is always on the table. How low and despicable.
Wow. What a loser.
war wounds = arthritis………time to fire one up and listen to “The Great Gig In The Sky!!!!!!RIP-Richard.
How low will they gow?
GO,
Does this arrogant smirky bastard think McCain should learn to use a computer while not being able to type or click a mouse without pain?
John McCain arms and shoulders were injured so badly, he can’t throw anyone under a bus or pat himself on the back like the Dems candidate.
Hemmer is great. He has become one of my FNC favorites over the last year. What goons these guys are. Drudge has a link saying that Obama’s lead in NY has dropped to five points, down from 18. People are starting to wake up. I am having the time of my life watching Camp Obama tear apart at the seams. The GOP is alive and well!
I’d like to waterboard Bill Burton. What a jackass. These Obama people are deplorable.
Yeah lets get back to what some guy who isn’t running and is not in a campign said
Ok I will bite What did Darth Rove say?
Mr SWMBO came home from Viet Nam a disabled veteran. Sure wish someone would make fun of him to his face. The ensuing melee would make great footage on the news.
Just the thought of it has me rolling in the floor laughing. Someone would be in a world of hurt.
And that is exactly what needs to happen to the demon crap campaign.
Just wait until these people are in charge of the military. It scares me.
I know one thing, the McCain camp needs to get it straight on the Sex Ed Obama was proposing. It was bad, it was inappropriate and the McCain camp appears to want to dodge calling a pig a pig on the ad they ran against Obama. They were right to run the ad and need to back it up with some stronger words.
I saw this Hemmer clash with Burton live and it was great. Burton did not mind tossing the older voters under the bus either! I could not believe what I was seeing and hearing from Burton.
It was a colossal mistake and showed nothing but arrogance and stupidity. It certainly jives with the reports we are all hearing on the Obama campaign people not listening to other Dems or more specifically what was said in the UK Telegraph article that said they were the most arrogant bunch most Dems have ever seen when it comes to taking campaign advice.
The Barack Obama campaign is the biggest fraud ever perpetrated upon the American electorate. There is no way this guy should have ever made it out of Chicago much less DC. That Big Media and their syncophants are falling in line with this con game is nothing short of criminal. Their committment to maintaining Democrat/Liberal power overrides good judgement. So much for the vaunted Fourth Estate.
I love it!
Next time I’m asked to help an older person with computer/cell phone/etc., I’ll casually mention that the Obama campaign thinks they’re an out-of-touch technophobe whose opinions don’t matter.
I have a friend who volunteered for three tours in Vietnam. He does not own a bike because his ankles are crippled with arthritis from to many parachute drops. Just becuase he doesn’t own a bike doesn’t mean he doesn’t know how to ride one. He just can’t ride one becuase of the pain it would cause him. It’s simple enough for me to understand that if it causes you pain to type, you hire someone and dictate to them which I’m sure is what John MCain does. BTW, my Dad had never used a keyboard until he received a computer for a retirement gift (at age 64). My Dad was far from out of touch.
The closest I can think of to an alternative for a keyboard is voice recognition software. Having tried IBM’s Via Voice in that regard, I can attest that it requires considerable user training and even then produces mixed results.
Why anyone with more important things to do — and who has staff to deal with things like emails — would invest the inordinate time needed to get speech-recognition software to work just so he can send emails is a good question.
What we see in this interview is par for the Hopenchange course, though. Say or do something stupid, and when called on it double-down. The New Messiah cannot admit to any fallibility, any more than the Emperor can afford to look down when someone in the crowd exclaims, “Hey, look, his wanker’s swinging back and forth when he walks.”
What a non-answer.
He knew exactly what Hemmer was asking and talked all the way around it even after making the point he knew what the topic was.
Either way, Burton is caught. Either the Dems were claiming he couldn’t use a computer, inspite of the fact that they knew he is physically unable to without great pain and effort, or
If, as Burton claims, McCain was learning to use a computer, how does he know he didn’t become proficient at it and can, in actuality, use a computer which makes the ad a lie.
Either way, their whole premise is wrong.
Folks may have their gripes with Fox News, but for me, I think they’re one of the few TV sources which - using this clip as an example - DO NOT LET GO of a point when a BS artist interviewee refuses to answer the question.
The insistence of the interviewer in the midst of Burton’s arrogant obfuscation and intransigience on his diversion only highlighted the utter scum level to which the Obama campaign has sunk.
Good one for Fox.
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It may well be that this Obama-interfering-in-Iraq thing
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/09/15/did-obama-try-to-scotch-an-iraqi-us-agreement-on-military-forces/
(if provable) becomes the October Surprise but, in the meanwhile, my popcorn supply is well “entertained” by these near-endless stupidities by Zerobama & Co..
I have a multi-bazillionaire friend who was in his 70’s. He made all of his money without once turning on a derned computer. He asked me what kind of computer he should buy and if I would give him lessons. I laughed my head off and told him to keep his money and forget he ever heard of computers. He went to a government auction and bought 6 computer terminals (without a server). He had me look at them and then asked, “What should I do with them?” I hauled them out back and put them in the dumpster. He never bought a computer again and is happier for it.
McCain served this country with honor so give me a break if he chooses not to learn about these evil things. Besides, if he chooses to buy a computer and learn how to use it, liberals will be screaming that he is wasting his time and our money when he should be running the country.
I love it when they crap on their own shoes. Whether Senator McCain can operate a computer is of no consequence and for the Obama campaign to try to make an issue of it is foolish in the extreme. A lot of very fine voters do not have computers or know how to use them. They do know how to use ballots.
This may have been posted earlier but in case not and you’re in for a bit of the classics…
Hailing back to the the DNC convention and Obama’s Greek theme, iowahawk , wrote a good parody of Homer’s Illiad regarding the Dems own Obamacles . It’s a long read but humorous.
Karl Rove:
Also, does anyone here think the Obama Campaign is going after McCain and his war record. I though that was a Republican thing to question ones honor and valor. 2004 ring a bell. This is starting to become a huge distraction to the real issues facing all of us Americans. Many banks are failing, we’re still involved in 2 wars, our own hemisphere is hating on us, and we’re worried about if McCain can use a computer.
When you are done, waterboard those swarthy women on the View.
Okay…fair game then…
Obama does not know how to operate or shoot a gun…any gun. Nor, is he trying to learn how. (By the way, guns have been a part of the American culture since before the American Revolution.) Therefore, he is not only so out of touch with millions of American gunowners, he is out of touch with the military who uses guns to fight battles.
Therefore, Obama is NOT QUALIFIED TO BE COMMANDER IN CHIEF!!!
The end of this “interview” is the most interesting. Just like Obama, this weasel just couldn’t admit, straight up, that making fun of a handicapped Vet was just off limits and out of bounds. Typical.
I’ve been watching Burton for a while now, his smarminess only increases every time he’s on.
As Orson Swindle (another Hanoi Hiltong member) said on FOX this morning, I don’t want my President buried in his email, or getting his information from the Internet !!!
Just because Obama exchanges text messages and blackberry beeps with George Clooney and few Hollywood Starlets does not mean he has to bring everyone down to his low standards.
… or a bowling ball for that matter.
No, it’s a “Republican thing” to question people lying about their military record, as in 2004. Also, it’s a “Republican thing” to point out that the individual concerned has already repudiated his own military service while lying under oath before a Congressional committee and throwing somebody else’s medals back.
Nathan Thurm has nothing on this rumpswab.
Mr. swmbo. Thank you for your service and your sacrifice. I truly mean that.
And I’d pay to see you slap Burton around. lol
Speaking of this evasive tool named Burton. He should be on TV every day. Can you imagine how appalled moderates are with this guy? Get him on again Fox!
Yeah, I read about that Lock. I hope that gets a lot of play. That’s EXACTLY what he or any Senator is not supposed to be doing while overseas in wartime. In fact, I believe Obama himself said he was not going over there to conduct of shape US foreign policy. OOPS! He lied..
On September 15th, 2008 at 2:21 pm, Silkyinfamous said:
I don’t know about Republican things, but as for this conservative, I freely question the honor and valor and yes, patriotism of collectivists of all stripes: Obama, Biden, Billary, etc.
They all hold that the “public good” (as they define it) necessitates the destruction of freedom and private property rights.
This means that they are Statist thieves.
How’s that for getting back to issues?
Just watched. Burton suggests we should not believe McCain can’t type because he said he’s learning how to use a computer. That’s a clear answer to me.
Burton also gives the big picture that’s the real issue: McCain is out of touch. He thinks the economy is strong because US workers work hard. McCain doesn’t understand how the internet works, or is way too stupid to be President, if he thinks it takes more than one lesson to learn how to send an email.
By the way, there are people who work in my building who cannot type but manage to use a computer through speech recognition software.
If McCain actually could not type, the McCain campaign would have said so already. That they haven’t indicates that he can. I bet there are pictures on the internet of McCain typing, or at least holding a pencil.
I had commented on this in an earlier thread as soon as it aired. I love Bill Hemmer. He wouldn’t let this punk tap dance around the question or change the subject, despite Burton’s best efforts.
Burton is a rude, impolitic jackass. Obozo is a moron for keeping him on the payroll.
God Bless America!!
Obozo’s theoretical good judgement — The Gift That Keeps on Giving!!
lgm -
I was going to comment on your asinine post, but was reminded of something Rush said Friday:
“Never get into an argument with a fool, as people will soon be unable to tell the difference”.
Your mission, LGM, if you choose to accept, is to find pictures on the internet (untouched)of John McCain typing at a keyboard.
Why would the Dems disparage a man with disabilities? Why not just say what they want to say - “He’s out of touch”. Your words - not mine. The insults weren’t needed.
LGM
Actually, McCain has trouble typing because he broke both of his arms while serving his country, and he has some kind of arthritis. That’s why he doesn’t do e-mail.
It’s not hard to learn using the internet; I’d say it’s harder to learn how to be articulate without a teleprompter.
McCain isn’t stupid, and neither is Obama, but both have qualities that I don’t care for.
And yes, LGM, the USA does work hard for the most part. Of course, big government programs don’t help that cause, but we’re still going strong. I couldn’t even see half the museums I wanted to when I went to Europe because they had a strike for a 35-hour work week. Some Americans I know work nearly 2x that.
Burton’s a toad. I’ve seen this knucklehead too many times and it’s always the same crap of distortions.
He needs a history lesson, specifically regarding FDR. You know the 32nd President of the United States. Elected four times, led this country through the Great Depression, kept us strong and together during WW2 and all the while he was in a wheelchair. Crippled with paralysis he still managed all of this and more. So my question to jerk Burton; Why do you think McCain’s keyboard/Internet limitation makes him unfit to be POTUS? I’d like to see Bill Hemmer or anyone ask that question to Burton. Of course the only answer we will hear is the chirping of crickets.
Keep embarrassing yourself…there must be some personal need you feel.
Pity it has no relation to the question.
There is more to couputers than sending emails.
Duh.
Good for them. This relates to McCain how?
I am sure he can type, if he is willing to put up with the pain.
I feel I am a fairly intellegent person, I have searched my little gray cells, and can not for the life of me figure out if John can type or not has one flicken thing to do with his ability to be POTUS. Get people to check what makes bho qualified as POTUS what HE can do.
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“…goes to show ya, you can’t cure lgm.”
“…a clear answer…” to a question no one asked.
I guess that’s what happens when moral equivalency and English grammar collide: here’s a question, there’s an answer…not that one has anything to do with the other….
You fool.
The fact that lgm uses a computer is proof you can still be an idiot/stupid and use a computer.
Just when you think lgm can’t possibly sound any dumber, WHAMMO!!!!
He hits ya with another one!
It’s Killin em and
I Love it!!!
McCain/Palin 08′
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Since Obama is a mixed race male in America, and since most Americans are not mixed race males, Obama is out of touch with the great majority of America. He can’t understand what it’s like to not be a mixed race male.
Makes about as much sense as mocking McCain about e-mail.
How dumb is this going to get? Sadly, I bet it gets more ugly than dumb before it’s over.
If McCain’s inability to type disqualifies him to be POTUS, what does that say about Obama’s inability to be forthcoming, or his tendencies for prevarication, obfuscation, and exaggeration?
Plus, like many liberal, guns scare him!
Right. lgm keeps putting ‘real issue:’ in his posts as if he is the authority around here, yet fails to see the irony or hypocrisy in his defending this ad.
In my opinion, these ads will hurt the democrats. Septuagenarians will not care about McCain’s internet usage. This has nothing at all to do with McCain’s intelligence and I believe that lgm knows that. Bill Clinton had 8 years in office with the ‘inventor of the internet’ as his VP, yet he only sent 2 emails.
That tells me that the ability to send emails is not really a qualification for the role of PoTUS, even by liberal standards.
Instead, this is really just an identity attack because McCain is old. ::yawn:: Go ahead Dems, keep stirring up the senior citizens. It’s not like they vote in droves… /sarc.
He can learn about the computer without having to type emails!
Also, I have serious disabilities in my hands, which doesn’t make it so I can’t type, it makes it so when I do, I suffer for it. That’s what he said. He can type, he just suffers for it later. Why bother?
For me it is a way of staying connected, and when I hurt too much, I stop and stay away for a time. He can’t afford to take time away due to pain.
And quite honestly, I have a serious problem with thinking that a sitting POTUS would be hanging on the internet… or wasting his time typing emails. That’s what secretaries are for.
Obama’s the post-racial, post-partisan candidate of hope and change, so there must be some mistake, don’t ya think? Oh, yeah, there’s a mistake, all right…Is that tag line, “I’m Barack Obama, and I approved of this message” on that ad? Sleezy bugger.
Somehow, for some reason, I think attacking John McCain on injuries incurred at the hands of his NV captors probably isn’t something Obama should keep pushing. But that’s just me.
Hope and Change… All we’ll hear for 4 long years is “RACISM! UNFAIR! WAAAAAHHH!”
Can someone this thin skinned be qualified for POTUS?
When all is said and done, who cares whether McCain can type or send an email? I would expect as POTUS, he’ll have people who will do that.
Referring back to planetgeo’s earlier statement, this should be obvious - Obama might (I say might) have tactical competence but McCain has strategic competence:
I doubt many CEOs sit behind a keyboard typing away at email all day long - or if he/she is, it’s because he/she has got such a well honed operation, they can afford the luxury of burying themselves in the minutia for the pure joy of it.
It’s the fake “ha ha ha” I’m-a-turd laugh that kills me. All sorts of adjectives that would make my mama wash my mouth out spring to mind while watching this dirtbag.
All this Carp his royalodopeyness keeps putting out there is just a distraction from his epic failure of a speech at Invesco Field, pi$$ poor choice for a running mate and pathetic showing at the saddleback forum.
The Obama camp is grasping at straws and looking as childish as a third grader in the process.
The Demwits, libtards and trolls know they have failed and continuing to back this loser is all they have, they blew it a long time ago in this election and now have no other options.
Bidet himself has admitted Odopey made a bad call picking him.
It’s Killin em and
I Love it!!!
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Imjustsaying #5
I thought Megyn Kelly’s little rant this morning was just a tad over the top too. Came off like her thong was in a knot. Even my husband, that’s so totally enthralled with her, said, “Whew! Looks like she had a bad weekend.” Bill Hemmer gets better all the time and sneaks up on some he’s interviewed.
On McCain’s injuries - who would want to reinjure their arthritic broken fingers if you had someone like Cindy McCain to work the keyboard for you? BTW - have I mentioned that Cindy McCain stole my body? I want it back in my next lifetime.
Apparently The Obama completely agrees with Burton’s totally unappreciative and hateful opinions of Senator McCain’s TORTURE-induced injuries and resultant permanent disabilities to his arms and hands. If BHO thought otherwise, he would pull this despicable ad down!
While Burton was smirking his way around the question of whether the Obama campaign realized they wee attacking McCain for his inability to use a keyboard because of the injuries he received from being tortured, The One was on ABC spinning away on a similar issue.
Obama was asked if his attack would impact the preceptions of Older voters, and Obama roped a doped his way around it by insisting that McCain was out of touch. But buried in that appearance is this little gem of a quote:
WOW!
While ABC did not have snufflelupagus around to clear up that quote on the air, they added:
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Vote2008/story?id=5803765&page=1
The MSM now has to correct the perceived errors of the greatest communicator of our time? The most eloquent and captivating speaker since JFK? I suppose that the cosmic connection shared between Obama and his followers allows his actual thoughts to be transmitted through some form of the Obama mind meld.
Obama said what he said.
Why do the liberal attack dogs always have to defend their ads? If they were truthful, and unbiased, there would be no need to. Yet, they are the first to declare that so and so is running a “dishonest” campaign.
I want them to keep doing this. In the long run, it will be good for America. This election is like drawing a line in the sand…on one side, patriots pushing solidarity for the causes of liberty, and on the other, darkness, demagoguery, dementia, and the destruction of the principles of decency.
The sides are becoming more and more defined…thank God!
i referred to this on another topic. the next line was cut off, where Bill says do you realize that the majority of people over 65 do not use a computer? do you realize they vote? then he asked about the tie in minnesota and his next line was maybe it is so close ’cause of the ads..
i laughed..
this guy was only interested in getting out the talking points and not answering direct questions. it becomes so obvious to viewers that this is at the top of the ticket for dems, and they are being turned off. ’cause as obamitler stated is qualifications for being president is his ability to ‘run’ his campaign. therefore, he is ultimately responsible for ‘everything’ it spews.
McCain logged once after considerable effort and saw this:
and logged back off again.
He may not agree, but if it hasn’t already become apparent, Democrat’s feel it is a sign of weakness to either apologize or admit they were wrong about anything. In the mind of most Democrat’s I know, or have known, they cannot admit to intellectual failings, because they feel they know it all, and there IS no alternative to their way of thinking.
Remember, “compromise” means two entirely different things in politics. For Republicans, it means meeting the opposition half way. For Democrats, it means making the other side give up their positions.
Once again, we are the pounded into submission from the unassailable logic and reason of the left. Who knew that Bob Dole’s ability to hold a pencil in his hand was prima facie evidence that Dole’s own war injuries were just talk?
I thought you said you were a math teacher. Teachers refer to their “building” as a school/college/campus etc… Anyone who uses speech recognition software is probably very unproductive. The software has to be trained and requires much editing to have any useful document. I think you are full of it. What job do these “people” you refer to, do?
Didn’t know you owned a building where people work. Doesn’t that make you one of the rich corporate landlords that you hate?
Unless, of course, you do not own the building in which case your statement “my building” is a bit of Obama speak don’t you think?
lgm, did you make a gaff? Will you apologize?
So why is Burton not pounded on until Obama throws him under the bus? Barack is essentially gutless so why not inflict embarrassment on his campaign until he buckles. If Obama resists turn up the outrage until he melts.
He will. He’s a wuss.
So, tell me again how using a computer has anything to do with being in touch with the American People?
He doesn’t subscribe to Porn mags.. but he understands liberals.
He doesn’t associate with terrorists, but he has clear insight on Obama.
So, I think whether he chooses not to, or just can’t use a computer, it’s irrelevant.
Real Issue: Obama doesn’t know squat about National Defense. He back doors our nation by trying to score deal with Iraqi’s to make the Administration look bad, with zero regard for our nation.
The next thing you know, lgm will claim to be working with Stephen Hawking…
Welcome to Chicago politics!!! See, BO and cronies never checked to see how many real Americans can deal with computers and e-mail, while they pandered to his adoring young pup crowd. BO should have added limited computer skills to his clings to guns and religion statement.
Where is a discussion of the real issues? To BO there are no issues facing the American public except getting getting him elected.
BO has never won an election against a strong Republican candidate. This election was supposed to be effortless for BO, except noone anticipated the Palin effect. Expect more slime spewing as the Chicago machine sinks even lower to discredit McCain/Palin.
LGM,
If the assumption is correct that you live in Manhattan, I have a more fundamental question for you.
If you live literally “down the street” from a location where you saw over 2,800 people butchered; torn to pieces, burned alive, plunge to their deaths, etc. how in the world can you side with the political faction that Barack Obama represents?
To me the denial that NY liberals have and the the evil they marginalize is surreal.
Yup - and call me crazy, IAS, but I got this bizarre notion that the President Of The United States dictates his correspondence to a….what do they call em….oh, yeah - secretaries or assistants or sumthin’ like that. Could it be that just after someone is sworn in as POTUS they don’t set him down at a corner desk in the secretrial pool? Ya think??
Heard at Obama’s headquarters today:
Flyoverman said (#73):
Easy. Bush ignored the memo “Bin Laden determined to strike … ” Then he got us into a war with a country that did not attack us but did make lots more people want to kill us. Stupid swaggering on the deck of the Abraham Lincoln ten miles off the coast of San Diego is not the same as keeping us safe.
LGM #77,
Last time I checked that was a statement of intent. That is about as specific as “Hope and Change.” I am glad you think the President of the US is clairvoyant enough to understand the details of the 9/11 attack plan based on that factoid. No wonder you feel the need for a near diety to be your President.
On September 12, 2001, my wife asked me what was going to happen after 9/11. My answer at that time was, “We will go into Afghanistan to take out Bin Laden, if possible, and the Taliban. We will also invade Iraq.” That was a no brainer.
I thought Clinton was ineffective in dealing with terrorists. However, I never blamed him for Americans dying. I blamed the enemy. But to you people like us are your enemy. That is confirmed by your response. Not one harsh word about the people who killed your neighbors. Astounding.
Apparently, so did Clinton. He had the clear opportunity to take out OBL and blew the chance. Result: 2800+ people dead.
Bosnia anyone? Do you need the list of quotes from Democrats on Iraq?
Swaggering = walking in Texas and other parts of the U.S. I suppose in your neighborhood, liberal mincing and prancing are the norm.
As for “making lots of people want to kill us,” perhaps you should look up some of the Arab commentary about the decline of morality from Hollywood movies and television, the realm of the Hollyweird liberal “elite.”
I remember lots of effigies of Clinton being burned in unnamed parts of the world too.
The irony here is that if Obama wins, come 2012 we’ll be able to mock him as being a technological idiot since he’ll have been sheltered for the past 4 years.
But McCain does know about computers, and e-mail, and the world wide web, as clearly delineated in two articles published in 2000. From Forbes:
And from Slate:
Anyone who’s read either of those articles would know that John McCain is not the Luddite that Burton and the Obama camp would have the voting public believe he is.
BTW I e-mailed Bill Hemmer to thank him for not letting Burton off the hook on this.
Since “swaggering on the deck of the Abraham Lincoln” has actually worked quite well in stopping Islamists from another attack on American soil for over 7 years, I say “keep on swaggering, Mr. President and thank you!”
I think a big problem for the Obummer campaign is that they have a lot of young, uninformed asshats working for them. Many of them don’t know people in the military or even how the military operates. For all their “opposition research” this “computer ad” really shows that they either a) didn’t do their homework on McCain’s Vietnam War injuries or b) did not anticipate how stupid the ad would look when it was refuted.
If anything, Obummer shows a lack of respect for the military. He and his lackeys have no understanding of the Vietnam War (as do many Americans), what POW’s like McCain went through, and the price (injuries/life) they paid for the treatment they suffered under the North Vietnamese (Viet Cong). Obummer’s campaign is a signal of the deep divide between the American civilian and military populations.
As a military spouse, I’ve seen that Obummer doesn’t care if convenient lies get in the way of truth. When Obummer takes advice from the likes of Merrill McPeak and some Naval officers but no one who’s ever been on the ground, then it’s a token show of understanding of what the military represents and means to its veterans.
It’s deeply disturbing to me that people like Burton can bloviate about something the campaign is arrogant enough to assert and avoid when it suits them.
Does anyone else think it’s hilarious that The One’s representative, who has the most infuriating snarky expression I have ever seen in that interview, is talking about how out of touch with the American people McCain is? I can just see the meeting where they were discussing what to put into the ad:
“I mean, come on! McCain’s soooo out of touch that he must not even know how much arugula costs at Whole Foods! And he doesn’t know how to send an e-mail? What a loser! Scarlet Johanson just sent me an email saying that that has GOT to be the final nail in the coffin of his campaign! Make me an ad about how out of touch he is with that!”