straight talk

July 12th, 2008 | Posted by Smithers at 2:12 pm in Politics |

I can’t believe that anyone falls for this guy’s garbage.

Just watch him squirm trying to come up the right bullshit answer. "Do I offend women or do I offend the fundamentalists?"

I wonder if Carly still has a job?

  1. 7 Responses to “straight talk”

  2. By Champs at 2:28 pm on Jul 12, 2008 | ReplyReply directly to this specific comment

    I’ve been asking that since the start of the millennium. With any luck, she’ll keep running the Straight Talk Express as badly as she did HP.

  3. By jroosh at 3:04 pm on Jul 12, 2008 | ReplyReply directly to this specific comment

    You do realize that he is a candidate for the President of the United States of America, right? It’s part of the excutive branch of our government.

    That question is assenine. He should have stood his ground and stuck with his gut reaction which was to blow off the question until he could review the reasons for his vote.

    The vote may have been a nay or yay for a myriad of other reasons not related to the question the reporter had for him.

    That would be like asking Steve Jobs about an executive decision he made a year ago to buy flux capacitors for the iPhone Douche Phone hard drive from the Koreans versus the Chinese.

    These questions cut both ways for Senators, and Obama will not be immune from this sort of voting detail either, although admittedly, he is better on his feet than McCain is at making up Bullshit as he goes along.

  4. By Smithers at 3:17 pm on Jul 12, 2008 | ReplyReply directly to this specific comment

    That question is assenine. He should have stood his ground and stuck with his gut reaction which was to blow off the question until he could review the reasons for his vote.

    The question was not assanine. He was asked a simple question. He could have disregarded his previous vote and simply explained his position on the question. Why Viagra and not birth control? Take a position and defend it without having to consult his pollsters to see which way the wind was blowing.

    Stand his ground with his gut reaction? His gut reaction was to duck the question. So much for “straight talk”. His answer, or lack there of, clearly shows what McCain stands for.

    Live by the bullshit, die by the bullshit.

  5. By jroosh at 3:54 pm on Jul 13, 2008 | ReplyReply directly to this specific comment

    He was asked a simple question.

    Just because a question is simple doesn’t mean he is required to have a position on it.

    Should Marine One run on Premium or Regular?

    Should the Rose Garden be watered daily?

    As for the question, Viagara is a sexual performance aid. Birth control pills are a form of contraception. I don’t even get the connection between the two, let alone for the President.

    He is potentially the man that would lead the most powerful country on earth and you want him to have a position on this?

    Where do we draw the line? Should he be expected to have a position in advance on every possible issue the press can pose, and remember the finer details of every single vote over the last umteen years, regardless of the relevance to the executive branch?

    As I said, instead of stammering, he should have said, I haven’t studied that issue nor do I recall off the top of my head the reason for my vote. Can I take that question off line?

    Next question.

  6. By Smithers at 7:18 pm on Jul 13, 2008 | ReplyReply directly to this specific comment

    He is potentially the man that would lead the most powerful country on earth and you want him to have a position on this?

    This issue was originally brought up by Carly Fiorina, a member of his own campaign. If a member of his campaign brings up a topic then, yes, I think he should have a position on that topic.

  7. By Bike Bubba at 10:39 am on Jul 14, 2008 | ReplyReply directly to this specific comment

    Easy answer to that, and bummer that he didn’t get it; that’s a private business, and customers ought to be free to take their business to a company that meets their needs.

    And watermelon pickles, man.

  8. By Adam B at 10:47 pm on Jul 14, 2008 | ReplyReply directly to this specific comment

    I agree with everyone.

    Smithers is saying that McCain should have been able to argue from some basic principles, and Bike Bubba backs him up by identifying those principles as letting individual firms decide what is covered.

    But the question can be interpreted as one about an individual vote. In that case, fundamental principles are out the window, especially in the Senate. There’s no way any Senator can be expected to recall which way they voted and why–and it’s often due to vote trading or some deep political process with longer timelines than one individual vote. Has Obama justify his vote for pardoning wiretappers?

    I say we stop trying to judge Senators by individual votes on this or that, and instead on their overall record.

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