John McCain on Meet the Press. He still thinks it was not a botched joke.

[sandrakae]

This guy is so smug he makes me sick. I beleive Tim Russert did a good job making him look like the flip flopping idiot he is.

I still can't beleive John Kerry calls him friend.


http://video.msn.com/v/us/msnbc.htm?f=00&t=s53&g=e10461f7-89e1-415c-aa58-80d1b6f8066e&p=hotvideo_m_edpicks

[globalvillage]

1. Do you know where it is in the video?

I can't watch him for more than a couple seconds without becoming ill.
Thanks.

Edit, thanks, I found it. 18:45

[sandrakae]

2. McCain is the first. I think its about 1/2 way in of his interview.

I didn't finish listening to him. I really can't stand him.

[MBS]

3. McCain had a chance to redeem both himself and Sen. Kerry

but he chose to take the low road. Very very slimy. Straighttalk express? Not a chance.
I also found his voice curiously weak and bland. Was that just guilt and shame talking? or is there something going on with his health? (not that that would NOT excuse his behavior in any way, but he did come off strange to me, quite apart from his infuriating and shameful words)

[globalvillage]

4. I think the lying is taking a toll.

I don't think he does anything without the admin's OK. And seeing as how he once had a conscience, or at least made a good showing, I think it's wearing on him. It shows.
I wonder if he's free for poker? I could use a few extra bucks.

[Island Blue]

5. I think McCain is a botched joke.

McCain is quickly moving to the top of my "People I Least Enjoy Seeing On TV" list (now that Senators Barfbag and Man-On-Dog will be exiting Stage Right).

[wisteria]

6. Well, when you begin a lie you have to continue to defend that lie.

He is not an honorable man. We all know he doesn't believe the lie he is supporting. Maybe that lie will trip him up. I would like to see someone challenge him to defend his poor record of support for veterans compared with Kerry's.

[ginnyinWI]

7. if you take away the POW story, what's left of McCain?

I think he's traded on that thing for far, far too long. And he is not a straight-shooter or maverick anymore now, if he ever really was. No integrity left, after the Bushies were done with him. He couldn't stand up to them. Sad really. But it is what it is.

[whometense]

8. What Mark Barrett writes

at The Premise: http://thepremise.com/archives/11/12/2006/665

John McCain of course is getting ready to run for President again, having served his political jail time for daring to oppose George Bush in 2000, and having learned his lesson about talking straight to the American people. On Meet The Press he stayed on message while leaving himself plenty of outs, except when it came to the question of his condemnation of John Kerry’s botched joke. Rather than soften his sharp, partisan and completely fraudulent attack at the time, he stuck to his guns and insisted that John Kerry’s remarks were insulting to the troops. He showed no regard for their service together on the POW/MIA issue, and no acknowledgement that Senator Kerry had been sandbagged by the full force of the Bush administration, including former FOX News television personality and current White House Press Secretary Tony Snow.

Which is when a thought that’s been with me for a while popped back into my head. I really do think it captures how I feel about the man and the emasculating transformation he’s gone through between 2000 and now.

John McCain parked the Straight Talk
Express in the Brown Nose Garage.

If that works for you, feel free to pass it on.

– Mark Barrett

Myself, I'm sticking with Jon Stewart's assessment: "Has Senator McCain's Straight Talk Express been rerouted through Bullshit Town?"

[zann725]

9. Totally agreed. I personally think he's a brain-washed "P.O.W." of the Repug party.

...and I don't mean it sarcastically. I literally believe he just switched "abusers." Like battered women who repeatedly (unconsciously) seek out "abusive" types (even when consciously trying to avoid them), or Children of Alcoholics, who end up attracting other COA's...McCain seeks his approval, feels he keeps himself "alive" (politically) by conforming with fear-based controllers. In a sense, his allignment with the Repugs is a type of "reliving" his years of P.O.W. internment. That Repugs have abused him in the past, and he still aligns with them, is classic "Stockholm syndrome". Someone as traumatized as McCain for all those years, still doesn't realize he no longer wears "chains." McCain's newly-created "jail" is now with the Repugs. Poor fella...