I am sick, sick, SICK of John McCain!!

[nolabear]

I am sick of being held hostage to his grudges.

I am sick of hearing him steamroll anyone who doesn't agree with him.

I am sick of his strident attitude masking his lousy judgment.

I am sick of his mean, petty sense of humor.

I am sick unto DEATH of his willingness to stop us from getting our needs met in the name of his desire to be remembered as something he's not...relevant, important, and a politician who does anything but obstruct.


I've seen just about all I can watch of his smug, entitled face. I HOPE that the Arizona press is right in their positing that he may be nearing retirement because I need to live long enough to see John McCain and his ilk relegated to the dustbin of history!!

Thanks for listening. My last nerve has been singing all day and I needed some relief.

[kairos12]

1. Unfortunately, in the AZ he is a moderate

[Pterodactyl]

48. Heck, he's a moderate compared to the whole US.

[bobclark86]

87. That's just sad...

I seem to remember when he wasn't a complete Teatard (finance reform, pork chopping, etc.). What happened? Did Palin slip something in his drink that caused irreparable brain damage, or was it just because he was in the same room with her?

[Cleita]

2. He's a malignant leprechaun.

But Arizonans keep voting him into office.

[drmeow]

38. I think that if Janet Napolitano

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had not gone to Homeland Security and had instead finished out her term and then run against McCain, she might have won. On the other hand, it was 2010 - I don't know that any non-freak could have beat McPain that year.

[Squinch]

3. Me too. Once upon a time, I used to insist that anyone speaking to me about

him did so with utter respect due to his time in the Hanoi Hilton. But sorry. All that good will has been spent, and he's now just a cranky pain in the ass who has not made a reasonable contribution to any discussion in ages.

[Ned Flanders]

24. Hanoi Hilton does not give street cred

From what I've read, the Hanoi Hilton was the best place to be, if you were shot down and otherwise captured by the VC, the place where special cases were put for preferential treatment. McCain got there because his daddy was an admiral, I believe. Furthermore, the author of Flight of the Intruder posits that we shouldn't celebrate pilots for being shot down, because many of those pilots got shot down because of their own incompetence. Plus, who says he was tortured? Can we really accept McCain's testimony in such matters, given the dishonesty he has since displayed over the intervening decades?

He's even flip-flopped on the "enhanced interrogation" issue, hypocrite!

[dsc]

39. wow just wow

I think McCain has more than worn out my last nerve but your post is outright disgusting. I would say shame on you but I doubt you know what shame is.

[Squinch]

44. OK, maybe he hasn't used up ALL of my good will. Your post is ridiculous. You should self delete it

[GP6971]

51. Yor're giving credibility to a fiction writer???????

Unbelievable

[Ned Flanders]

79. unbelievable?

Stephen Coonts may have written fiction, but he seems to be the real deal. From Wikipedia: "He entered the Navy the following year and flew an A-6 Intruder medium attack plane during the Vietnam War, where he served on two combat cruises aboard the USS Enterprise (CVN-65). He accumulated 1600 hours in the A-6 Intruder and earned a number of Navy commendations, including the Distinguished Flying Cross. (His navigator-bombardier was LTjg Stanley W. Bryant who later became a Rear Admiral and deputy commander-in-chief of the US naval forces in Europe.)

After the war Coonts served as a flight instructor for A-6 aircraft for two years, then did a tour as an assistant catapult and arresting gear officer aboard USS Nimitz (CVN-68)."

Pull your head out of the sand. Do the research on McCain. Telling me to self-delete is as bad as telling me "if you don't like this country, move out."

I do have some conjecture in my post, but have you ever heard of occam's razor?

[GP6971]

101. Then I stand corrected. n/t

[Ned Flanders]

100. still waiting for a source

I am not trolling. I understand not everyone checks in to DU as frequently as myself, but I really am interested in reading the details which establish as fact that McCain was tortured. Was he? Please, I'd appreciate it if you could give me a source. If you can take the time to critique my post, can't you take a moment to show me the error of my ways?

[nolabear]

55. No, I don't agree with any of that. It's conjecture and injurious to some very good people.

I dislike him for who he is now, not for anything that may or may not have happened to him in the past.

[GiveMeFreedom]

78. Welcome to DU, Ned

I believe he was tortured, because the other prisoners who were there verified it. Other than that, I agree with you that McCain is a lying piece of shit, who only cares about himself.

[bobclark86]

86. Because having bamboo shoots shoved under your fingernails is fun...

and "preferential treatment."

Shit on his policies. Shit on his blustering. That's all fair game.

Unless you were there, don't shit on his flying or his torture. Baseless accusations are the fallback of a weak-minded idiot (I.e.: Tea Party) who can't go after somebody based on what they say and do. Given McCain's track record, you show some real lack of imagination and brainpower if you can't find something with evidence to give him shit about.

[Ned Flanders]

94. your source for quote regarding bamboo shoots?

And based upon who's testimony do you believe he had bamboo shoved under his fingernails? Please enlighten me. I don't want to be ignorant, nor do I wish to mindlessly perpetuate myths of heroism which are not deserved.

I do think it is appropriate to question fake war heros, to expose them even. Is it fair game to question Bush Sr's "heroism," given he allegedly bailed out of a damaged bomber instead of trying to land it, thus condemning a crew member to death? So now we have McCain, threatening to invade Iran, threatening to send many more people to an early grave. Should we not question his own heroism?

[Hekate]

93. Sorry, but there is no need to lie about the man with revisionist history

John McCain was once upon a time an asset to the Senate, and deserved his medals or whatever it was he got for being a POW. He was maimed for life in the crash of his jet.

That was then.

He is now a cranky pain in the ass and a complete detriment to the governmental process.

This is now.

Distinguish between the two an you will gain more credibility here and elsewhere.

Some parts of his personal history are unsavory -- but he definitely was a POW, and calling a POW facility "the Hilton" is more an ironic statement than saying you got a mint on your fresh pillow each night.

[Walk away]

43. Didn't his fellow POWs call him the Canary because he sang like one? nt

[Squinch]

46. Again, OK, maybe he hasn't used up all of my goodwill. Anyone who would judge what

someone else would do in torturous prisoner of war conditions is idiotic and childish. I shudder to think what I would do or what you would do in that situation.

[Walk away]

59. I wouldn't put myself in that situation and if I did end up facing something like that....

I wouldn't come home and use it as an excuse to send others into the same situation. Heroes are people like John Kerry who face the horror and are brave enough to face the truth when it's over.


I am old enough to have friends who fought on the ground in that war and never glorify what they went through. To me John McCain was just a poor flyer who used his excellent connections to get into a plane and bomb a country full of peasants and he was proud of it. When he was shot down he failed to live up to the standards of his fellow POWS and made it home to call himself a hero for the rest of his life. Then proceeded to send as many young Americans into to every meat grinder of a war that he could help create.

I can't imagine anyone further from a hero. I'd pin a medal on any decent hard working American before I'd salute that old fart.

[SunSeeker]

92. Well said. Thank you. nt

[Walk away]

102. p.s. I think your opinion of me is meaningless as you apparently have....

a case of hero worship for one big coward.

[Smilo]

4. I agree 110%

Grampy needs to go the old folks home and stay there. He has nothing sane to add to any conversation anymore.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. I could NOT agree more, my dear nolabear.

You have put your finger right on it.

Thank you!

[ProSense]

6. He's the

President of Meet the Pressistan still furious about talk show scandal
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/02/08/1185562/-President-of-Meet-the-Pressistan-still-furious-about-talk-show-scandal

[The Wielding Truth]

65. Great article! He has no credibility. Why is he permitted to speak in public?

[retired rooster]

7. I'm just glad he was never elected President

[demgrrrll]

8. He is so mean spirited.

[chuckstevens]

9. We dodged a bullet in 2008

John McCain would have been one of the most ill-tempered men to ever be president of the USA. Thank God he was stupid enough to pick Sarah Palin or he could well have won.

[DonCoquixote]

40. we did not dodge a bullet

we dodged a firing squad!

[3catwoman3]

103. Maybe even...

...a nuke.

This election,too. I shudder any time I see film footage of either of McCain/Palin or Romney/Ryan.

[lib2DaBone]

10. John McCain...Lindsey Graham....Joe Lieberman.....

[Mr.Bill]

12. Featuring Mitch McConnel as Shemp. n/t

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

15. At least Liberman's retiring.

You'll have to find a third stooge. Mitch McConnell or that Cruz guy from Texas are good candidates.

[DhhD]

16. Stoog Cruuz. LOL.

[hauckeye]

11. What has happened to him?

I used to kinda like him because he was a maverick and wasn't lockstep with the Republican party. Now I can't stand him either!

[BlancheSplanchnik]

47. there's a very interesting article on him 2008. Rolling Stone.

His behavior all his life..he hasnt JUST become a nasty spoiled dickweed.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/make-believe-maverick-20081016?stop_mobi=yes

[PatSeg]

74. Yeah another underachiever trying to outdo

his more accomplished father. Throughout history, such men made the most incompetent, dangerous leaders.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

75. greed, anger, stupidity

They do seem to corner the market on those ---in Buddhist philosophy, they're known as the Three Poisons.

[PatSeg]

80. And an insatiable need to be

the center of attention ALL the time. Its uncomfortable watching him embarrass himself time and time again.

[airplaneman]

13. cant stand him either

*he would never pass up a chance to put the president down.
*he could care less about facts about anything.
*he would never compromise anything with anybody outside of his party.
*he is not very bright.
-airplane

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

14. This is the clown who brought Sarah Palin into the national scene.

Among other things.

[bluesbassman]

17. He's a bitter, mean old man. If his actions weren't so harmful to the nation I'd feel sorry for him.

I look forward to the day he retires and I'll no longer have to be concerned with what he says.

[left on green only]

27. I totally agree with your succinct analysis

And there are some who further observe that everything he says is tongue-in-cheek.



Perhaps then, it is a wonder why anyone, except his mother (and Para Salin), would ever take him seriously.

[gademocrat7]

18. I totally agree with you,nolabear.

I want McCain and his little side kick Lindsey Graham to get off my lawn!

[nolabear]

19. Yeah, I won't even grace Graham with a thread.

That's one creepy little dude.

[reACTIONary]

20. Take hart! He is NOT the President...

... I remember when Obama convened a round table discussion of health care alternatives and McCain started off by grousing that there was one extra democrat. Obama looked at him and said "That's because I'm the President, John" The look he gave him was as if to add "And you're NOT".

[CatWoman]

21. ...

[oldandhappy]

37. hi catwoman

Can you tell me how to keep this post? I would like to be able to use it myself now and then. Thanks. Many things to learn.

[CatWoman]

49. to save the picture

position your mouse on the picture and right click. choose "save as" and save it to one of your files (desktop, etc.) Let me know if you need any help -- it would be best if you du mail me.

[oldandhappy]

69. Thanks!!

I have a Bengal cat so your picture makes me smile. Appreciate your response.

[66 dmhlt]

58. Or if you want to save the entire Comment, then ...

Click on the "Permalink" option at the bottom of the Comment (where it says "Back to the top ... Abuse alert ... Link here ... PERMALINK) which will open just that Comment in a separate window.

You can then bookmark that Comment to save for later use.

And here's useful link listing "Terrorist Attacks on US Diplomatic Facilities" to document the poster's accuracy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorist_attacks_on_U.S._diplomatic_facilities

(And I didn't know Calcutta, India had an alternative spelling of Kolkata)

[oldandhappy]

68. Thanks!!

[BlancheSplanchnik]

50. +1 gajillionskadillionbillionzillion! n/t

[Initech]

22. Every day I thank god he and Møøse Crap are not the ones in charge.

[tomm2thumbs]

23. McGrumpy got his due at his precious moment at his GOP Presidential convention

Poor thing -- got his moment all spoiled and ruined (not unlike his life).

[indivisibleman]

25. I agree. He ads nothing to the discussion except drama

Imagine what it would be like to be married to this jerk. You would never be able to please him.

His time is short. He has passed only one piece of legislation in his entire time in office. He is nothing but a failure. From his personal life, his time on the Forrestall to his time in office to his failed bid for presidency.
Now all he can do is jump up and down and kick up dust as he slowly passes away. Can't wait for him to be gone. Why Graham sticks around with him is probably to pick up his supporters when McCane (sp intended) is gone.

[Cha]

26. Has everyone told Corporate Media Whore Central their

feelings on John McCain and why? Social Mediaed him to pieces?

Thanks for the righteous rant, nolabear

[pscot]

28. You're sick of him?

How do you think his wife and daughter feel?

[oldandhappy]

33. Seems he is never in Arizona!

[kairos12]

77. Passed the wife once while she was out walking her dogs...

she looked more relieved to be out of the house than the dogs.

[hibbing]

29. You and me both!

Hey,
I too am sick of him. How many times can his bitter and delusional self be on the Sunday shows...oh, that's right, every Sunday.

Peace

[oldandhappy]

31. speaking of those shows,

we need to let the shows know we are tired of John. Hello out there cable. We are finished with you until you are finished with McCain.

[Granny M]

60. Every damn week.

I just walk out of the room when I hear that whiny bitter voice. Sick to death of him.

[oldandhappy]

30. Amen, nolabear

Have been posting all weekend trying to get folk to write to his office to tell him what you think. He probably will not change. Too old. But he might temper himself slightly if more folk write to express displeasure than the number of folk he hears from in the T-Pub 'base'.

He really is off his rocker.

[davidpdx]

32. I agree, and I think most people here think his behavior has become more radical

as of lately. He'll be 80 in 2016. I know many senators serve into their 80s, but maybe he'll decide to get out before he loses a senate race (losing for president is bad enough, but getting kicked out of the job you've had for a long time would be really embarrassing). He will have been in Congress for 36 years and in the Senate for 34 years. Someone definitely needs to give him the hint his time is up.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

34. Ever see Annie Hall? When Woody Allen's character as a kid says about one of

his annoying relatives, "What an asshole!" He says it with such great expression. I always think of that when I see John McCain. Of course, he's worse than annoying, and worse than an asshole, but still...

[Stinky The Clown]

35. He is our window into Bizarro World.

I completely agree with you.

Sick

To

Death

[MFM008]

36. i never watch him

even when Ed or Rachel play him. This country under him would be very sad.

[The Wizard]

41. Tell the producers

of Meet The Press we've had enough and will start writing to sponsors to tell them they're being boycotted until McGrumpy is off the air.

[RKP5637]

42. John McCain is a tired old fossil with a hateful egotistical persona that one day will

hopefully STFU. He's boring, offtrack and a lose cannon full of negative energy. He brings no value to the table.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

45. He SERIOUSLY needs to be put out to pasture in the next election IMHO

if he doesn't retire on his own that is.

[MADem]

52. I think Cindy McCain is sick of him, too...! nt

[marybourg]

53. I hardly know he's alive, and I live in AZ.

Try turning off the tv for a month or so. You'll be amazed how fulfilling your life will be without John McCain an other media whores.

[nolabear]

56. Hah! I say that to myself all the time. Maybe someday I'll take our good advice.

[CaptCaribbean]

54. Needed to retire a decade ago.

It's difficult to figure how one becomes the elder statesman when you're wrong on issues 90% of the time. He's got a streak of animus that I've often figured to Be attributed to post traumatic stress disorder. His attack on Chuck Hagel borders on the absurd, Kinda like the " You Lie " guy. When you're busy venting your personal spleen, you're not serving America well, Nor the state of Arizona.

[NMDemDist2]

73. welcome to DU CaptCaribbean!

[BigBearJohn]

57. the glad game comes to mind:

I'm just grateful he's not president!

[libodem]

61. I hear you

Me, too. I have one nerve left and he's on it! Like a toothache.

[Coolest Ranger]

62. and his girlfriend Lindsey Ghraham

[nolabear]

63. Nice to get up Monday morning and see the sickness has spread. I need a bumper sticker!

"Honk if you're sick of John McCain!"

[HenryWallace]

64. Keep Grandpa Simpson the Voice of the Republican Party!!!!

I know he is difficult to listen to!

However, an irrationally angry, 76 year old is the perfect symbol of the current Republican Party. This is hardly the image they want or need to portray.

[Cracklin Charlie]

66. Double K&R! n/t

[AndyA]

67. Whenever McCain is in the news, I remember the words of someone who served with him

in Vietnam: "Some of us were smart enough to not get caught."

Pretty much sums it up for me. McCain isn't worth listening to, and the fact that he chose nit wit Sarah Palin for his running mate proves he isn't smart enough to be given any responsibility, much less serve in Congress.

[world wide wally]

70. He can say or do anything he wants. Just get him off of television! When did he sign for his own

reality show called Meet the Press anyway. Isn't there any other person they could have on that show other than McCain or his boyfriend, Lindsay?

[fierce_liberal]

71. Linsay Graham insenses me more than McStain does

He offers less experience and comes across as a sheltered angry white bigot. These people are the reason that almost all of my long-time conservative family has leaned further and further left...they continue to be shocked at what comes out of their mouths.

[Paper Roses]

72. X10 n/t

[calimary]

76. Maybe we should start a campaign to convince the "Meet the Press" not to book him anymore.

I just did that on their Facebook page.

I swear, they have mccain on EVERY FRICKIN' SUNDAY!!! There isn't ONE other person out there they can find to book instead of him? Not ONE? With seven billion people on this planet, and at least 300 million people in this country, all they've got week-after-week is him?

He's done. He's bitter. He's a liar. He's a pissant. He's stale. He's over. SO over!

http://www.facebook.com/MeetThePress

[Bluzmann57]

85. I posted in there.

Not sure if it was yours I responded to or not, but I asked why is he on every f***ing week? Or words to that effect. Thanks for the link. I think I'll go in there and gripe some more.

[bravenak]

81. i feel better about myself

I have felt guilty for never liking him. All of my uncles fought in vietnam,and they came backall jacked up. Missing limbs, suicides, and all types of pain. But they never used it as a free pass to be jackasses. I would never suggest that he wasnt tortured,ever! But does that mean he can be a jerk to the rest of the country forever? Do we still owe him something like reparations? I hope that we can take up a collection as a nation and pay him to shut up! I have five dollars i am willing to contribute to the make Mccain go away fund. Maybe he can spend some time in Arizona?

[paparush]

82. "My fellow prisoners.."

Ok. Cheap shot, I know. Blame it on the stress of the campaign.

Still, the man should have had his Senate seat revoked solely on the basis of choosing Palin as a running mate. This act alone proves he is unfit to hold any public office.

[indepat]

83. nolabear, we need to exercise great care on this board not to go too easy on especially repugnant

'pukes of McCain's ilk.

[penndragon69]

84. What do you expect from a COLABERATOR ?

[emsimon33]

88. John McCain was a traditor in Viet Nam and a crook in Arizona

I was a teacher in the 1970s in Virginia Beach, VA, in a high school that served Oceana Naval Air Base, then the largest air base in the world and the base that suffered the highest number of Viet Nam prisoners of war.

The students of returning Viet Nam POWs at the high school talked about their fathers' disgust for McCain, that McCain had sold them out to their captors. It was openly discussed that McCain should be court marshaled, but his father's position in the military saved him. He was a coward then as now.

Then there is his abandoning his sick wife to marry into a rich Arizona family.

Let us not forget was his huge role in the Keating savings and loan scandal (the Keating Five) while I was pursuing my PhD in Arizona in the 1980s. A major reason that McCain did not go to jail for his part--and his part was the largest of the five--was that the other four were Democratic senators in a Democratic-controlled Congress.

I know first hand that John McCain has no moral compass. Like George W Bush and Mitt Romney, he feels he is entitled.

John McCain is a myth. He has proved time and again that he is not a man!

[jaysunb]

97. Amen..and amen again !

I can hardly believe some of the posters upthread defending this scumbag because of his supposed hero status. Well...that aint the way I heard it, back when it was fresh. He's a media made creature that deserves nothing other than a kick in his sorry ass.

[Little Star]

89. Amen!

[judesedit]

90. You're not alone. Just ask some who've served with him in the military and Congress.

[LoisB]

91. Absolutely, positively, totally AGREE with you.

[WillyT]

95. Talk About Your "SoreLoserman"...

& Rec !!!

[malaise]

96. He's a nasty man

[nolabear]

98. Saw what you did there with your own thread.

And I approve. One is not enough to contain the nasty.

[malaise]

99. The more the merrier