McCain Oopsapalooza Tour 4

Separated at Birth?

L: Dr. Evil (Austin Powers), R: Senator John McCain

Something about Senator McCain's slightly nasal, snuffly diction and the way he laughs at his own jokes when he talks reminds me of Dr. Eeeeeeeeevil. Do you think he ever puts his pinky to his mouth like this guy?

Surely I'm not the only one who's noticed? Or would that be "ironic"?

More Oopsapaloozas here.

That Once-Solid War Hero Meme is Looking Like Swiss Cheese, Or: A Noun, A Verb and the Letters POW

Fellow veterans of the military can't seem to get excited about McCain's POW experience when it's used as a "qualification" for presidency: back in July 2008, General Wes Clark questioned the salience of being shot down in a fighter jet when it comes to commander-in-chief, or military executive, qualities.

Dr. Philip Butler, who was at the U.S. Naval Academy with McCain and was also held (for 8 years to McCain's 5 years) as a POW in Vietmam, says "John Sidney McCain, III is a good man, but not someone I will vote for in the upcoming election to be our President of the United States" based on Butler's assessment of McCain's character, health, judgment, and voting record. Butler goes on to say:

"I can verify that John has an infamous reputation for being a hot head. He has a quick and explosive temper that many have experienced first hand. Folks, quite honestly that is not the finger I want next to that red button."

H/T LawyerMama.

We already know that deployed troops overseas support Obama with donations to his campaign at a ratio of 6:1 over McCain. Oops.

Sister MOMocrat Lawyer Mama shows us proof that "Republicans Don't 'Own' Military Voters" by featuring Blue Star Families for Obama and documenting a clear preference for Obama in a comparison of the voting records of McCain versus Obama on issues most affecting veterans and their families. Big. Time. Oops.

Filmmaker/provocateur Michael Moore asks more pointedly: what is it about being shot down while carpet bombing Vietnamese *civilians* that qualifies McCain for presidency?

That once-Swift Boat is taking on water. OOPS.

Finally, pundit Howard Fineman says McCain's war credentials have become "a crutch."

(About 7:00 in. Or you could watch the Olberdawg's highly entertaining counting of McCain's seven houses worth $13million.)

Ads, Despicable Ads
A negative ad by the McCain campaign slamming Obama's connection to a Chicago professor who was once a radical leftist in the 1960s ran afoul of the McCain-Feingold Bi-Partisan Campaign Reform Act of 2003 and was so sketchy, even Faux Fox News rejected it. Neat trick, running afoul of your own legislation. But still an oops.

Another piece of defensive spaghetti thrown on the walls to deflect attention from McCain's "Housing Problem"--an ad with the same name that revives smears suggesting there was an illegal connection (non-existent) between Chicago housing developer Tony Rezko and Obama. But it seems to me when the McCains own 4 homes and 8 other residences ("seven" is a minimum estimate), then it's John McCain who definitely has the housing problem.

Worse yet, when McCain welcomes economic advisor Phil "Thanks for the Subprime Meltdown" Gramm back into his campaign, that's the biggest housing problem of all. For the rest of us that is--not the McCains, who don't seem to carry any mortgages.

P.S. All you working stiffs out there toiling to hang onto your ONE house (if you're lucky) in this period of declining home appreciation: "The McCains increased their budget for household employees from $184,000 (pdf) in 2006 to $273,000 (pdf) in 2007, according to John McCain's tax returns."

Good news: someone's hiring in this economic downturn. How patriotic of the McCains to make jobs for Americans! Bad news: not even the McCains can make the unemployment rate go down. That won't fix the economy. Oops.

A Veritable Gushing Geyser of Appalling McCain Miscellany
Behind every "self-made" man is...a woman with a really large checkbook? How Cindy Hensley McCain "made" John McCain. (Fiberglass Clydesdale in the Hensley front yard? Really?!? AWESOME.)

But, oops. Not so he-manly.

H/T John Campanelli, DailyKos.

This past week, McCain called lobbyists "birds of prey."

“As long as you have earmarking and pork-barrel spending and bridges to nowhere and money for DNA of bears in Montana and museums and all that, then you’re going to have lobbyists.

“So it’s kind of entertaining to me to attack the lobbyists rather than the source of the problem, which is the earmark. They’d all be out of business – most of ’em would be out of business if we stopped pork-barrel and earmark spending.”

But if we got rid of lobbyists (and the earmarks they thrive on), who would staff McCain's campaign? Between Obama and McCain, McCain is the candidate who accepts lobbyists' money to fund his campaign and who had up until earlier this summer several campaign staffers who were also concurrently lobbyists.

Isn't it strange how birds of prey circle around fresh meat? One wonders WHY McCain has surrounded himself with lobbyists if they didn't smell an earmark.

Maybe they know McCain's talk of eliminating them, like eliminating lobbyists, is just talk.

Cynematic will be blogging from Denver, CO and the DNC starting on Sunday, August 24, 2008, both here on MOMocrats and at P i l l o w b o o k.

Comments

[Kristin]

so absolutely perfect.

[Debbie]

you're like a blogging superhero, Cyn.

i'm so getting you a cape.

[Daisy]

Love your oopsapaloozas! Please keep posting them. I need the laughs!