Tomorrow night, Obama will meet Johnny Ringo at Oak Grove, at the mouth of Silver Spring Canyon...

[Amerigo Vespucci]

...and he will END this shit once and for all.

:patriot:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/14/mccain-at-wednesdays-deba_n_134506.html

Taegan Goddard reports that John McCain confirmed this morning he would try to bring up William Ayers at Wednesday's debate. McCain appeared to blame Obama for the move:

In an interview on a St. Louis radio station, McCain said Obama's comments that "I didn't have the guts" to talk about William Ayers in the last presidential debate have "probably ensured" that the former 1960s radical will come up in Wednesday's debate.

The Huffington Post's Seth Colter Walls wrote Monday that Ayers was "expected" to come up at the debate.

When asked if McCain plans to "go after" Obama on these topics this Wednesday, Bounds added: "So much of a debate is determined by the moderator and the questions that are posed to the candidates. I expect it could come up and I expect John McCain will ask Barack Obama to speak truthfully about his relationship with friend and unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayers. I think that voters deserve to know, deserve to vet these candidates to the fullest extent... Certainly, Bill Ayers raises questions. Certainly, Tony Rezko raises questions."

If it is McCain's intention to raise the issue of Ayers -- with or without moderator Bob Schieffer's prompting -- it would serve as something of an answered prayer to many of the Arizonan's town hall attendees, one of whom even begged McCain to bring on the character attacks in the last presidential debate of the season.

[daninthemoon]

1. I'm your huckleberry.

[Cha]

3. I wouldn't know what that meant(and still not really)

unless my son said it once to me on the phone and I asked him.

So, 'splain again, please:)

[Amerigo Vespucci]

14. You need to watch the Kurt Russell - Val Kilmer movie "Tombstone"...

...and I say that as someone who has watched it at least 100 times. Seriously. It is perhaps the best movie ever made on the subject of good versus evil and the virtue of loyalty and friendship.

Explaining "I'm your huckleberry" would ruin your experience of watching the film.

:patriot:

[Raschel]

18. It's also one of the best gatherings of fine men I have seen....

[Mme. Defarge]

22. Men in dusters ...

be still my heart.

[Raschel]

29. I think I'll rent it tonite. Some gorgeous men and a great movie, a nice break from the craziness.

[Cha]

20. Okay...I'll watch it.

B-)

[progdog]

40. You will love it.

Val Kilmer is amazing.

[Mme. Defarge]

21. If I taught a writing class,

I would have my students watch the versions of Tombstone and Wyatt Earp that came out the same year. Their assignment would be to describe what worked and what didn't work in each screenplay. Both movies drew from the same source material, but what a difference in the ways the story got told. Tombstone has narrative drive and each scene is a mini-masterpiece.

Actually, it was the first Val Kilmer performance I had ever scene, and it was so brilliant that I have never wanted to see him in another role.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

25. Here's the single most amazing piece of trivia on "Tombstone"...

...George P. Cosmatos, the director, was also responsible for the 1986 Sylvester Stallone / Brigitte Nielsen movie "Cobra." The "catch-phrase" from that film, in case anyone forgets it, was Stallone's "You're the DISEASE...and I'm the CURE."

The fact that Cosmatos went on to become the Captain of the Good Ship Tombstone never fails to FLOOR me. It is virtually a perfect movie. The CASTING DIRECTOR should have won an award, because every actor...from the principals down to the extras...was a PERFECT choice.

But the real power of this movie is that it blows away EVERY convention of what it means to "be a man."

Kurt Russell's Earp is no coward...anyone who believes that he is simply needs to watch him walk straight into the gunfire during his final confrontation with Curly Bill Brocius.

But he has the COURAGE to ask Doc Holliday about the showdown with Johnny Ringo..."I can't win, can I"...and Holliday has the courage to respond with "NO."

And GIVEN ALL OF THAT, Earp shows up ANYWAY. It doesn't matter that Holliday showed up first. It doesn't matter that Holliday put Ringo down. Wyatt Earp showed up with no guarantees that he could win, prepared to fight the fight.

These days McCain is fond of calling himself a "fighter."

But we already HAVE a fighter in this election.

His name is Barack Obama, and he is going to be the next President of the United States.



:patriot:

[DearAbby]

35. I have both movies...

And I like them both...Val Kilmer played the best Doc Holiday. I did like Cosner's Earp... And I liked the more indepth account of Earp's life in the Film.

The Version Tombstone is my favorite of the two, with the other coming a close second.

[Mme. Defarge]

4. Tell 'em the law's comin'...

Tell 'em I'm comin' and HELL'S COMIN' WITH ME!

[hogwyld]

30. My favorite line of the movie

I've seen that movie probably a 100 times.

[Whisp]

34. I usually can't stand westerns, but sounds like I may take a peek at Tombstone.

thankee

[VeraAgnes]

6. I loved Tombstone, the movie

I have some pics but can't post them from work.....dang!

[lisa58]

9. ya beat me to it - love that line

[KathieG]

11. ...

[rockymountaindem]

2. "The strain was more than he could bear"

Sounds like McCain alright.

[Mme. Defarge]

7. One of the greatest screenplays of all time - n/t

[Beregond2]

8. Absolutely. I don't even like westerns, but I watch that one at least

once a year.

"Why you're no daisy at all..."

[Mme. Defarge]

12. "I have not yet begun

to defile myself."

[BootinUp]

15. It's true, you are a good woman. Then again, you may be the antichrist.

one of my favs, lol.

[Mme. Defarge]

17. OMG!

Sarah Palin!

[BootinUp]

19. Are you suggesting

Obama should somehow use that line? lol.

[Democrats_win]

5. Good plan? Maybe because McCain won't have to talk about his failures.

McCain and Phil Graham were the ones who brought us this financial disaster through their deregulation ideology. OR we could go back to McCain costing us $1billion in the S&L rip-off.

Do we really want McCain to be president? or even senator?

[blueknight]

10. LOL,

i have a friend named johnny ringo that lives in indiana! he is so anti goverment! lol

[Amerigo Vespucci]

16. There is also a Johnny Ringo on DU...

...so I will give him a "shout out" right now, as he generally catches all of the Tombstone references I post on DU (especially the ones involving Johnny Ringo).

:toast:

[Mme. Defarge]

23. Do we need a Tombstone Forum?

[Amerigo Vespucci]

26. Yes, but we need a "This Is Spinal Tap" Forum first...

:rofl:

[JohnnyRingo]

41. You wretched slugs

Don't any of ya have the guts to play fer blood?

[dionysus]

13. that mccain was no daisy... no daisy a'talll

[ecstatic]

24. I wonder which McShame will show up?

:shrug:

[spanone]

27. then obama can explain his ayers 'connection' and ask mclame to explain charles keating connection

why ayers was never convicted and keating is a convicted felon

[Amerigo Vespucci]

28. McCain was also not eight years old when Keating committed his crime

That's the critical part of all of this. Ayers is a matter of public record. The part of his history that McCain is ATTEMPTING to ride to the bank happened when Obama was EIGHT YEARS OLD.

McCain KNEW what he was doing, he KNEW it was wrong, and he did it of his own free will as an ADULT.

:patriot:

[hogwyld]

31. I picture McLame more as

Ike Clanton in the movie. Brave with others around, but deep down, a real coward...

[Amerigo Vespucci]

36. All it takes is a little "spur slice on the cheek"...

...and we find out what Ike is made of.

You may be right...good call.

:toast:

[hogwyld]

42. Obama to Mc

"Run you cur dog"

[DefenseLawyer]

32. I swear, debating McCain is like playin cards with your brother's kids.

There is indeed a Tombstone quote for every occasion

[DearAbby]

33. Shit I will have to get my copy of TOMBSTONE out

I LOVE THAT MOVIE...no matter what part I get into it, I have to watch it till the end...awesome movie.

[Cosmic Charlie]

37. why, Johnny Ringo, you look like someone just walked over your grave

you ain't no Daisy, no Daisy at all

[chitty]

38. Go ahead. Skin it.

Skin that smoke wagon and see what happens.

[NYYFan]

39. I'm afraid the strain will be more than McCain can bear

:evilgrin:

Tombstone- what a great, and highly quotable movie !