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"Make-Believe Maverick
A closer look at the life and career of John McCain reveals a disturbing record of recklessness and dishonesty"
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[Image by Robert Grossman for Rolling Stone.]
Make-Believe Maverick
A closer look at the life and career of John McCain reveals a disturbing record of recklessness and dishonesty
At Fort McNair, an army base located along the Potomac River in the nation's capital, a chance reunion takes place one day between two former POWs. It's the spring of 1974, and Navy commander John Sidney McCain III has returned home from the experience in Hanoi that, according to legend, transformed him from a callow and reckless youth into a serious man of patriotism and purpose. Walking along the grounds at Fort McNair, McCain runs into John Dramesi, an Air Force lieutenant colonel who was also imprisoned and tortured in Vietnam.
McCain is studying at the National War College, a prestigious graduate program he had to pull strings with the Secretary of the Navy to get into. Dramesi is enrolled, on his own merit, at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces in the building next door.
There's a distance between the two men that belies their shared experience in North Vietnam — call it an honor gap. Like many American POWs, McCain broke down under torture and offered a "confession" to his North Vietnamese captors. Dramesi, in contrast, attempted two daring escapes. For the second he was brutalized for a month with daily torture sessions that nearly killed him. His partner in the escape, Lt. Col. Ed Atterberry, didn't survive the mistreatment. But Dramesi never said a disloyal word, and for his heroism was awarded two Air Force Crosses, one of the service's highest distinctions. McCain would later hail him as "one of the toughest guys I've ever met."
On the grounds between the two brick colleges, the chitchat between the scion of four-star admirals and the son of a prizefighter turns to their academic travels; both colleges sponsor a trip abroad for young officers to network with military and political leaders in a distant corner of the globe.
"I'm going to the Middle East," Dramesi says. "Turkey, Kuwait, Lebanon, Iran."
"Why are you going to the Middle East?" McCain asks, dismissively.
"It's a place we're probably going to have some problems," Dramesi says.
"Why? Where are you going to, John?"
"Oh, I'm going to Rio."
"What the hell are you going to Rio for?"
McCain, a married father of three, shrugs.
"I got a better chance of getting laid."
Dramesi, who went on to serve as chief war planner for U.S. Air Forces in Europe and commander of a wing of the Strategic Air Command, was not surprised. "McCain says his life changed while he was in Vietnam, and he is now a different man," Dramesi says today. "But he's still the undisciplined, spoiled brat that he was when he went in."
McCAIN FIRST
This is the story of the real John McCain, the one who has been hiding in plain sight. It is the story of a man who has consistently put his own advancement above all else, a man willing to say and do anything to achieve his ultimate ambition: to become commander in chief, ascending to the one position that would finally enable him to outrank his four-star father and grandfather.
In its broad strokes, McCain's life story is oddly similar to that of the current occupant of the White House. John Sidney McCain III and George Walker Bush both represent the third generation of American dynasties. Both were born into positions of privilege against which they rebelled into mediocrity. Both developed an uncanny social intelligence that allowed them to skate by with a minimum of mental exertion. Both struggled with booze and loutish behavior. At each step, with the aid of their fathers' powerful friends, both failed upward. And both shed their skins as Episcopalian members of the Washington elite to build political careers as self-styled, ranch-inhabiting Westerners who pray to Jesus in their wives' evangelical churches.
In one vital respect, however, the comparison is deeply unfair to the current president: George W. Bush was a much better pilot.
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They Tried To Make Her Go To….
Oh hog balls Perez.
shut UP!
Welly welly welly…..this should be good…
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Obama/Biden 08
Maverick?? You know McCain and Palin need to look in a dictionary to see the real definition of the word. Both are not even close to being mavericks.
Read this the other day, It is actually a good read and very fascinating! Especially the details on the Keating 5 and Cyndi McCains drug addiction.
what about obamas drug addiction?
McCain broke down under torture and offered a "confession" to his North Vietnamese captors! LIKE I SAID BEFORE, HE AIN'T NO HERO!
Right…and Obama is a Saint Please! You're so biased and ignorant
fabricated lies! Dramesi is a Democrat!
I thought a Maverick was a car made by Mercury back in the 70's.
You could dig up some serious dirt on both major candidates but that's so boring & it's all been done before and frankly done better elsewhere.
If you simply must do politics, at least make it interesting by giving us the scoop on some of the OTHER parties running for the 'big office' .
If you fuckers don't leave John McCain alone, I'm going to get my brother Roy to cut your fucking face off.
tee hee hee
Thanks for posting this! I read part of the article, but I don't have to read the rest. It [the article] totally supports everything I sensed about this asshole. Thank you.
damn… i hope people read this.
WHOOAH!
Re: SheriMoonZombie – YOU ARE CRAZY!
McCain hazed my uncle out of the naval academy…he was a real ass
McCain was exonerated you fools. But where's the post from Fat Perez about the Obambi's relationship with terrorists?
Re: LettyB –
Bitch, do you like your tits, cause my brother Roy likes to cut them off and shove them down your fucking throat. Now shut
your fucking tits about John McCain. My dad, the clown also
known as Cutter will join him while you scream. LOL
Letty B what might you do under extreme circumstances like that?…its easy to talk shit but could you take that abuse? i bet not
ooooooh……….and here i thought the dems were wanting to get back to the issues
Re: LettyB –
You better fucking know it fukard. I have another brother named Tiny and his face is burnt off, but he'll still buttfuck you until
you scream like that fatfucking pig on here that thinks he's God.
Want to play?
Wow, finally the truth about John McCain is out there. This country deserves better, Bush doesn't deserve a third term and thats all John McCain and Sarah Palin would be. Sarah Palin even talks about extending the power of the Vice President like Dick Cheney! This is absolutely terrifying considering her extremist views, lack of exeperience/credentials and her basic lack of intelligence! If you care about changing this country for the better than we need to vote for a 'smart president', I know it's a new concept but why don't we give it a try this time! Obama/Biden 08'!!
Re: Melissa is always right – i miss your old avatar
here say, barrack hangs with known terrorists, talk about lefty
Re: LettyB – come on letty………..you'd crack if they locked up your JD for an hour………heehee
Re: SheriMoonZombie – don't u be talking sit about letty
sit?…shit
Obama came to our house once, he was looking for some gangster named Ayers that was suppose to be getting him some coke. Roy
gave them some and then they fucked our sheep all night long.
BOO!
Re: mamajud – YAH YOUR RIGHT!!!!
I would rather have Mccain than Barack who hangs with terrorist. Barack is scary!
GO ON YOUTUBE AND LOOK UP OBAMA AND BILL AYERS. EVEN HILARY CLINTON WAS CONCERNED ABOUT HIS ASSOCIATION WITH HIM AND MANY OTHER RADICAL FRIENDS. SCARY STUFF!
Re: SheriMoonZombie – HELL YEAH BRING IT FUCKTARD!
LOL. Come on, this was lame- he was young & naive. Even I don't care for McCain, but this is something that's forgiveable. Shoot, it even read like a one of those long jokes…lol.
Re: LettyB –
You know that I'm teasing you, coz we are cut from the same clothe.
THANK GOD SOMEONE IS FINALLY BRINGING THIS OUT INTO THE OPEN.
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For any DOUBTERS out there, you can see video clips of his ACTUAL CREWMATES, etc., describing his reckless behavior.
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I am still waiting for the truth to come out re the USS Forrester - where McCain, in order to "get even" with the pilot behind him - "reved" his engine to cause a back-fire — which caused the bombs on his plane to fall off and ignite — 134 sailors died.
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McCain's "backfire" - or "wet-start" as its called re aviation — is the sole cause of this fire — its the reason why the bombs fell off — McCain had been warned not to do this in advance - he did — many, many DIED.
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Watch the Diane Sawyer pre-debate interview - she notes how he crawled out of his plane — but NOTHING IN REGARD TO THE MOST IMPORTANT QUESTION — HOW DID IT HAPPEN IN THE FIRST PLACE???
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Because of John McCain - that's how. This man is no hero - think of the families of all those who DIED. He is no hero.
Re: SheriMoonZombie – YOU'VED WATCHED HOUSE OF 1000 CORPSES AND DEVIL'S REJECTS WAY TOO MANY TIMES!
Re: SheriMoonZombie – I GET IT! LOL!
Re: mamajud –
You said you wanted to meet Roy? I'll send him over. I hope you don't mind him smelling of blood and dirtydick?
Re: Beth Isreal –
The New York Times article cited by Palin (regarding Obama being a so called Terrorist) concluded that "the two men do not appear to have been close. Nor has Mr. Obama ever expressed sympathy for the radical views and actions of Mr. Ayers." Other publications, including the Washington Post, Time magazine, the Chicago Sun-Times, The New Yorker and The New Republic, have said that their reporting doesn't support the idea that Obama and Ayers had a close relationship.
The reason people don't keep talking about Obama being a terrorist is because it's so complete bull S that nobody with an ounce of intelligence would repeat such idiocy…oh except Palin.
My my…very interesting read indeed. All you undecided voters, if McLames poor choice for VP wasn't enough to realize how wrong it would be to put this man as commander & chief, maybe this article will. Read it all!!!
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Obama/Biden 08 baby!!!!
Re: SheriMoonZombie – yum
REFRESH!
Mccain isn't a hero, he broke. POW's like James Stockdale are true heros, just listen to what THIS guy did instead of breaking and doing propoganda like Mccain did.
"""He was held as a prisoner of war in the Hoa Lo prison for the next seven years. Locked in leg irons in a bath stall, he was routinely tortured and beaten. When told by his captors that he was to be paraded in public, Stockdale slit his scalp with a razor to purposely disfigure himself so that his captors could not use him as propaganda. When they covered his head with a hat, Stockdale beat himself with a stool until his face was swollen beyond recognition. He told them in no uncertain terms that they would never use him. """
maybe he broke down and offered a confession, but it says right in the article 'like many others'. are they shit too, or just mccain because he's running for president? who cares anyway, most people would do anything to make torture stop, trained or not. good for those who don't, but get over it, not everyone can do that. this article is poorly written anyway, and i bet most of it's false anyway.
MCCAIN WAS EXONERATED AND FOUND NOT QUILTY OF WRONG DOING. MCCAIN HAS BEEN VERY OPEN ABOUT THIS. NOW OBAMA AND HIS ASSOCIATION WITH BILL AYERS IS DIFFERENT. OBAMA IS TRYING TO SWEEP IT UNDER THE TABLE BY SAYING HE JUST LIVES ON HIS STREET. BULL, THEY HAVE FOUND THAT HE HAS WORKED WITH AYERS MULTIPLE TIMES AND AYERS EVEN HAD A PARTY FOR OBAMA BACK IN '95. HE IS MORE THEN JUST FRIENDS. PLUS OBAMA HAS MANY RADICAL FRIENDS SUCH AS REZKO AND REV. WRIGHT AND MANY MORE. NOW THAT IS SOMETHING TO BE CONCERNED ABOUT. EVERYONE LOOK IT UP ON YOUTUBE AND BE AWARE BEFORE YOU VOTE!!!
McCain offered more than one confession, and several of them, were deemed, false confessions, later after his release. The military knows, every soldier has their breaking point, and that their training, reduces the risk, of breaking loyalty, more than that of the average civilian. He still had the oppurtunity, to leave the rest of POW's, because his father was a high ranking Admiral, and made negotiations with the Viacong. He endured the torture, and did a better job, than anyone on this page, including myself would have done. I will be voting for Obama, but that doesn't mean, I don't consider him or the many other veterans and POW's , American heroes.
Re: misopretty – Hangs with terrorists? you're fucking stupid
Afraudulent Rolling Stone hit piece. It's a bunch of bullshit, just like everything else that comes from the Obama campaign.
Everyone with common sense and intelligence knows that talks of "maverick" and "reform" are nothing but words. Only people who don't believe in "questioning" what they're told "believe" anything McCain says. and that dumb broad Palin say.
Re: TX Perez Fan – No, you can't dig up serious dirt on Obama.
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McCain's military records have been covered up due to his father, the Admiral (and also whopping alcoholic).
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Yeah, the military has never covered anything up before — Baloney.
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McCain is the reason for the fire on the Forrester — if you had highly sensitive bombs hanging off the side of your plane, perhaps that's not the best time to make your plane "backfire."
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The jolt made the bombs fall off and the raging fire started. 134 died. Period.
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McCain a hero? NO, he's a whining loser who's shocking irresponsibility caused many death. Ask the families of the men who died.
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Better yet, go on YouTube and view the videos of the men who survived - they talk about what really happened that day.
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Oh, and one more little tidbit - while the injured were waiting for another boat for medical care, McCain - due to father pulling strings, was whisked off the boat via helicopter. For his "safety."
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My heart breaks for those who lost loved ones.
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Re: TX Perez Fan – hey, if you have dirt on Obama that can be proved — let's hear it.
WOWSERS!
Re: SheriMoonZombie – You sound like you are mentally disturbed.
Re: SheriMoonZombie – No, I don't want to play - you need to be arrested for the threats you are making. Arrested now.
HERE WE GO!
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LITTLE DICK WIMP WAD CAN'T BONE CINDY SO HE WANTS TO FUCK AMERICA!
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DICK DON'T RISE, IT DON'T RISE! NOT EVEN THE SHE BITCH CAN GET THAT THING UP!
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BLUE RULES!
STUPID? READ THE FACTS. HE SAID HE DIDN'T KNOW HIM OTHER THEN HE LIVED ON HIS BLOCK. WELL, HE DID A SPEECH WITH HIM AND SIX OTHER MEN IN CHICAGO, HE WORKED ON THE WOODSFUND WITH HIM, AYERS GAVE OBAMA A PARTY BACK IN '95 TO START HIS POLITICAL CARREER AND THIS PARTY TOOK PLACE AT AYERS HOUSE. NOW TELL ME WHO IS STUPID AND WHO ISN'T BEING HONEST.
Give me a break. Grasping at straws, are we?
Nothing like hanging around with a known terrorist like Bill Ayers such as Hussein Obama does, right dough boy.
EVEN HILARY CLINTON WAS CONCERNED ABOUT OBAMA'S ASSOCIATIONS WITH AYERS DURING THE PRIMARYS.
McCain has NOT BEEN TRUTHFUL re his causing the fire on the USS Forrester.
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He needs to answer to the families of those he killed. He should have been jailed for life. Lucky for him, Daddy was an admiral.
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Do note, McCain quit the Navy the day his father was buried. That's really honoring Daddy, don't you think?
WE DON'T NEED ANOTHER LOSER TRYING TO IMPRESS DADDY!
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REMEMBER THE USS FORRESTAL! DADDY TOOK CARE OF THAT ONE!
Re: SheriMoonZombie – ok we get it, youre creepy…blah blah blah..get a fucking life douche bag
FINALLY! Someone writing an HONEST article on this blowhard fraud! McCain IS NO HERO! He's a fraud. A Phoney! He's corrupt. A selfish asshole who used his mommy and daddy's money and military connections to get into a school that otherwise would have kicked his sorry STUPID moronic ass out! The moron graduated at the botton of his class. He continues to use his stupid drug-addicted wife's money to get what he wants. The man was involved in a scandal (google THE KEATING FIVE) that cost thousands of people their retirement. His blowhard running mate is nothing but an empty plastic tampon! McCain should have stayed in that prison camp! He was more useful there!
Here's what to look for on YouTube re MccCain: "McCain and the Forrestal fire"
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Here's what else you can look at: "John McCain's past that he doesnt want you to know 1/2" - and the same - 2/2.
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Go ahead - take a look.
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Unfortunately, Daddy can't cover up for little Johnny anymore.
NOW WOULD YOU HANG WITH TIMOTHY MCVEIGH(OKLAHOMA BOMBER) IF HE WERE ALIVE EVEN THOUGH HE DID IT YEARS AGO. BY THE WAY POLICE AND OTHERS WERE KILLED BY AYERS AND HE GOT OF BY A TECHNICALITY. OBAMA STATES THAT IT'S OK TO BEFRIEND HIM NOW SINCE IT HAPPENED 40 YEARS AGO BUT AYERS THE DAY OF 911 SAID HE WISH THEY HAD DONE MORE.
Re: LULU~* – It's "FORRESTAL", Dumbass!!!! Wasn't gonna tell you but you keep posting the same shit. Which has been discredited by factcheck.org. But you don't believe in FACTS, do you?
Re: SheriMoonZombie – you are a disgrace to all things rob zomie and i bet sherimoon would kick you in your twat for looking like a methed out version of baby… and her brother is otis you dumb fuck go get a life and maybe try a thing called eating
Re: Intellect_Rules – Hahahahaa!! i couldnt have said it better. agreeddddd
Bull shit!!! That other guy is jealous that John McCain is getting all the attention for what he did as a POW, and no one has heard of him….so now they have and will with this story. And it's all made up. It would be a pretty sad day we we were all held accountable all the time for all the thing we say to people we know…your an idiot for posting this story. Let's not forget all the SHIT that OBAMA says and the people he is friends with…have we forgotten already Perez. I can drag it all up for you if you need me to. Be fair! Both sides are pigs!
Re: mbeb –
You said that everything in this story is made up. Um….you should read it dipshit, half of it uses quotes from McCains own book that he had has staffer write for him. So how can you say many of these accusations are untrue when they are backed up by McCains own auto-biography? Idiot.
Tom Cruise and Oprah know the real definition of a maverick:
This is absolute fact!! The stories have come from McCain's own personal (APPROVED) biography, fellow POW's, who spent a lot more time in Hanoi than John did, his ex-wife (who yes, would be jaded, but her story is true), and also from fellow Navy personnel whom he spent a considerable time with. You can look it up and by all means, PLEASE read this post, because it scares the crap out of me to think this hot-headed, spoiled brat could become our President when he doesn't even have respect for women. He is called mysogynistic several times. If you don't know that word - look it up! Anyone that is voting in this election and thinks that McCain is this prominent "war hero" is sadly mistaken!! PLEASE read the facts on this man - he does NOT deserve to be President!!
Re: TX Perez Fan – AMEN!
Barack Obama is lucky
he has no lies or skeletons
in his past or the press and
Saturday Night Live would
be all over it…
Re: Cheeky! –
"Maverick?? You know McCain and Palin need to look in a dictionary to see the real definition of the word. Both are not even close to being mavericks."
I agree with that completely!! I'm surprised the Maverick family - the ORIGINAL Mavericks are complaining more. They've already made a public statement asking McCain/Palin to stop using that words, but it seems to come out of their mouths even more as the Election draws closer. POSERS!!
Obama/Biden '08!!!!!!!!!!
Can you say SCUMBAG????
Khalid al-Mansour helped get Obama into Harvard. He is a Saudi man that hates Jews and Isreal. I want to hear more about this. Plus Obama uses stump lines identical to Malcom X. I'm not saying Obama is a terrorist but he sure has a long line of terrorists and radicals that have helped him get where he is today and if you think he doesn't feel he owes them then you are wrong.
Re: Frogger –
"Right…and Obama is a Saint Please! You're so biased and ignorant"
Read the facts - you're the ignorant one and anyone else who believes that this man is a "hero". He used nepotism to work his way through the Navy, because he couldn't do it on his own merit. He even crashed his plane because of the stupid mistake of flying too low, when he was told not to. His own ego made him a POW. Good thing for him, he was only tortured the first two years of captivity - another fact he won't tell you. But his torture was caused by his own mistake - if he were anyone else besides a prominent Admiral's son, he never would have had his 2nd or 3rd chance to wreck a plane - once and you're done, unless you can pull strings like McCain did. He's a liar and a hot head!! Please study the facts before you vote!!
McCain is such a fraud. It's about time his shennanigans be exposed. Let everyone think back to the days of the Keating Five. He's a bully and a snake.
I ALWAYS KNEW HE WAS A SCUMBAG!!!
MAKE PROUD YO MOMMA
VOTE OBAMA!!!
Re: LettyB –
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HEY SWEETIE!!!
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and Re: sweetpiece –
IF YOU SAY "SHE-BITCH" OR "RAISIN BALLS" ONE
MORE TIME I'M GONNA PISS MY CHANEL HOUNDSTOOTH SKIRT!
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HI SMIRKS!
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oh jeez mario you fat fag, stay the hell away from politics. keep to celebritard stories because that's your pathetic wanna-be life. douche bag
HE COULD HAVE GIVEN THE BASTARDS THE NUKE-U-LER CODES AND HE'D STILL BE A BETTER AMERICAN THAN THE IDIOT WE GOT NOW!!!
Re: Beth Isreal –
"McCain was exonerated you fools. But where's the post from Fat Perez about the Obambi's relationship with terrorists?"
OMG! You people NEED to read your facts. McCain was NOT exonerated, as you say, there are merely no facts to check, because he is blocking ALL POW/MIA records from everyone - including the families of the POW/MIAs, because he doesn't want HIS truth to come forward. And as far as Obama being tied to terrorists, it's simply not true! Obama was EIGHT YEARS OLD when Ayers planned to bomb the Pentagon and other government buildings - it was FORTY YEARS AGO! They have only run into each other in passing and Ayers is NOT a political advisor for Obama. Geesh! You opponents of Obama will believe anything you read or see, won't you?!?! It's like a frickin banana phone where the facts seem to get lost in the Repub fodder!
Please, you all didn't know that he didn't surrender because of the embarrassment that it would cause his father. That was even on The View for god sake.
Re: dutchletter – Wow, you sound just like Elizabeth
on 'The View'. Do most of you Republicans buy everything you hear from your camp hook, line and sinker? I'm guessing you do. Pathetic.
Re: Leona$ Gho$t – Heya LG! Don't ruin your skirt, Darling!!!! Sacrilege!!! lol
Re: Leona$ Gho$t – 84..Sorry LG, don't want you make a mess on account of my having a little fun! I'll try to behave myself today, but no promises!
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BLUE RULES!
Wow - an article from Rolling Stone that bashes Republicans.
They are BOTH liars, charlitans, scam artists, soothsayers - in other words POLITICIANS who will do or say anything to get elected - that's how the game is and always will be played. It's who can lie the best that wins.
Where is the article about Ayers, Acorn and Wright?
Re: Getty Girl –
probably under the one about Palins marital affair and witch hunting psychotic evangelical preacher
wtf perez. quit being a liberal prick and stick to celebrity gossip. it's people like you who brainwash those who are too lazy to do their own political research. if you're going to post shit about McCain, post shit about Obama too. I mean…he is a celebrity and all.
Re: sweetpiece –
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CHEESE-Y BALLS! DON'T YOU DARE CLEAN UP YOUR ACT, YOU DARLING TREASURE YOU!
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Re: Smirks –
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KISSES! POPCORN TOMORROW NITE FOR THE NEXT DEBATE SWEETIE! IT'S GONNA BE BORING AS HELL THOUGH IF YOU ASK ME! HOPEFULLY THINGS WILL GET JUICY AND OBAMA WILL ASK MCCAIN ABOUT THAT DIVINE ROLLING STONE ARTICLE AND THEN JOHNNY WILL ASK OBAMA ABOUT HIS SHADY CONNECTIONS AND THE CRIMINAL THAT BOUGHT HIM HIS HOUSE!
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WOULDN'T YOU JUST LOVE TO SEE THEM THROW DOWN???
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CIAO–for NOW!!!
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Re: LilMissFabulous – shut up bitch obama is a fucking retard like you and the rest of the democrats
maybe none of you know what bill ayers is up to these days but…he's a distinguished professor at university of illinois. daaaaamn, sounds scary!
Re: Jodman – and your like really good friends with obama so you know everything he says is true. you are just as guilty of believing everything you hear so quit running your cock sucker. that goes for you too perez you fat nasty queer
McCain, another Bush, only worse. Obama/ Biden '08!