McCain Laughs Now. We Laugh in November

by on April 23, 2008 8

1,237,000: Clinton
1,029,000: Obama
    575,000: McCain

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  1. Jim Haygood says:
    April 23, 2008 at 11:58 am

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    Twenty-seven percent of Republican voters declined to endorse McCain, despite the fact that he's already won. The nearly 16% who turned out for Ron Paul are sending a message of dissatisfaction, as were the Huckabee voters.

    And evidently — if we're to believe Dick Morris (who increasingly resembles a huge, puffed-up frog) — the MAJORITY of Pennsylvania Democrats were registering their dissatisfaction with the inevitable victory of Barack Obama.

    Looks like social fracturing underway. These dissenting voters might be better served by a multi-party system, instead of our rigidly entrenched two-party system (which is nowhere mandated in the Constitution).

    And then there are the recalcitrant rejectionists such as myself, who just holler "Efamol, the system is broke."

    http://www.gymgrossisten.com/bilder/artiklar/A1356.jpg

  2. Craig says:
    April 23, 2008 at 12:00 pm

    Well, bear in mind that Clinton and Obama are still fighting a lively battle for the nomination, while McCain has his party's nomination sewed up. Many Pennsylvania Republicans probably didn't bother to vote last night.

  3. Peter H says:
    April 23, 2008 at 12:51 pm

    It's not necessarily a bad thing to have a drawn-out campaign for Obama. Exposing Obama's vulnerabilities is actually useful, since it gives him to anticipate & respond to these attacks once the general election campaign begins. And I'd rather Obama deal with stuff like William Ayres in April rather than in September.

  4. Charles Keating says:
    April 23, 2008 at 5:45 pm

    And, if we're lucky, McCain swift-boated by his Daddy's USS Liberty and Hillary by her astounding securities market expertise, Rose Law Firm digging, found Oval office luggage, dead bodies, and vote for eternal war, next up on the block Iran. .

  5. Todd says:
    April 23, 2008 at 9:59 pm

    Maybe secession is a better answer than an extra party. Consensus has always been nearly impossible to reach in a peaceful manner in the U.S., but who really believes that the best for the most, with safeguards for the rest, can be accomplished in a nation that is quickly splintering culturally, socially, economically, demographically, politically and in any other way that one can think of- as the U.S. is?

    Would we have wars like Iraq if the nation were to split along more natural lines? Would there be enough money to fund Israel (or the cover to do so!) in smaller, more accountable nations? Would people be happier without having a national or alien culture shoved on them from above? How about laws that more reflect the local condtions and customs? How about no bogus red v. blue state divide?

    The state of the nation is a sad joke if gauged by the lousy candidates on offer, our heinous wars, and the toleration of open treason or nearly anything else as long as it is viewed as being destructive towards the traditional majority. The nation will not last forever, and it's going in the wrong direction, anyway. Why not consider dissolution?

  6. Michael Blaine says:
    April 23, 2008 at 11:42 pm

    “John McCain gets tax-free disability pension

    The disclosure of the Navy benefit for injuries incurred as a Vietnam POW may raise fitness questions.

    By Ralph Vartabedian

    Los Angeles Times Staff Writer

    April 22, 2008

    Sen. John McCain has long said he is in robust health and is strong enough to hike the Grand Canyon, but he also is receiving what his staff Monday termed a “disability pension” from the Navy.

    When McCain released his tax return for 2007 on Friday, he separately disclosed that he received a pension of $58,358 that was not listed as income on his return.

    On Monday, McCain’s staff identified the retirement benefit as a “disability pension” and said that McCain “was retired as disabled because of his limited body movements due to injuries as a POW.”

    McCain campaign strategist Mark Salter said Monday night that McCain was technically disabled. “Tortured for his country — that is how he acquired his disability,” Salter said.

    Certain types of military and veterans pensions are either partially or completely tax-exempt, depending on the seriousness of the disability. In McCain’s case, the exemption is 100% . . .”

  7. Rowan Berkeley says:
    April 24, 2008 at 9:04 am

    Read Cockburn and St Clair at Counterpunch. They have been arguing for a month or more than Hillary intends to ensure that McCain wins, so that she can defeat him in 2012. I imagine that this is exactly what will happen. Not only that, but all the navel-gazing of the Dems' pseudo-intellectuals will provide further material for GOPsters, to make fun of their "brioche-eating elitism" or whatever.

  8. Charles Keating says:
    April 24, 2008 at 12:35 pm

    Well, at least McCain had to dig deep while a prisoner. He gave much more than his name, rank, and serial number. Hence, he's perfect to lead our nation in Israel's short-term interests. He's an expert on short term interests.

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