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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-25-07 04:36 PM
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is mccain implying that if you were at woodstock or a kindred soul, that yu r less patriotic than he
if that's so, fuck you mccain:puke: you got your WAR MEMORIALS everywhere.

New McCain Ad Riffs on Summer of Love
~snip~ The Arizona senator's ad, which begins running tomorrow in New Hampshire, moves quickly to its real point: making fun of New York Sen. Hillary Clinton for seeking $1 million for a Woodstock Concert museum in an appropriations bill on Capitol Hill.

"Now my friends, I wasn't there," McCain says in the ad, which is produced using video from the last Republican debate. As the ad cuts to scenes of hippies at Woodstock, McCain says: "I'm sure it was a cultural and pharmaceutical event. I was, I was tied up at the time."

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2007/10/24/new_mccain_ad_riffs_on_summer.html
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Lerkfish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-25-07 04:44 PM
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1. "I was captured by the enemy and tortured"
therefore I know how to call other americans unpatriotic.

:shrug:
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-25-07 04:45 PM
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2. i'd like to feel sorry for him but i can't. you'd hope thru war & torture you'd embrace peace...naw
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Sequoia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-25-07 04:48 PM
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3. "Sorry John, you tiger now."
Edited on Thu Oct-25-07 04:51 PM by Sequoia
What!!!? He's playing the Doors?! They weren't even at Woodstock and Jim will rise out of his grave in Paris to come haunt him for playing that song. Geez, Ray and Robbie, stop him from playing that song!!
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-25-07 04:50 PM
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4. lol bwahahahahahaa
:rofl:
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LisaM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-25-07 04:51 PM
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6. Ha ha ha ha ha ha
Too funny.
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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-25-07 05:21 PM
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12. He ran like a coward into the arms of the enemy and surrendered rather than fighting.
That's what the Swiftboaters would say, anywyay.
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Bucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-25-07 04:50 PM
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5. He was pandering to the anti-counterculture biases of his audience.
I don't think the issue of relative patriotism is implied there. He's saying he's more moral (bombing North Vietnam, I suppose, being more ethical than recreational drug use and listening to Sha-Na-Na) but I don't read any suggestion of weak patriotism in those words. I thought, if anything, it was a cute way to remind voters that he's the only non-chickenhawk on stage. Unless you count Red October as military service.
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Bitwit1234 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-25-07 04:51 PM
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7. And could he tell us where bush, cheney and rove ,
limbaugh and the rest were during Viet Nam. I mean after all they are the republicans who are sending our military to Iraq now.....
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gateley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-25-07 04:51 PM
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8. Why is everyone always so intent on ascribing messages and meanings to
the candidates' statements? I think he said it as a joke - nothing more. I've said many clever (I thought at the time) things only to be met with uncomfortable silence. This hasn't happened to you? Besides, I think what McCain said is funny.

I HATE his current politics but I think I hate even more the NEED to make accusatory judgments when none are warranted.
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-25-07 04:52 PM
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9. because they ascribe messages in every word they speak, they are politicians
it is warranted
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gateley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-25-07 05:03 PM
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11. Not always. Take my candidate, for example... :-) nt
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liberal N proud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-25-07 05:01 PM
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10. Every one is less patriotic than thee
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Blue_In_AK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-25-07 05:35 PM
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13. Yes, I do believe that's what he was saying...
...especially with the gratuitous "pharmaceutical" comment.
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incapsulated Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-25-07 05:37 PM
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14. Why yes. Yes he is. n/t
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