McCain for President of Barker's Beauties

[Angie Gallant]

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That's a lovely display hold that he's demonstrating there. He's holding that football like he's never seen one before.

[bigdruid]

It's because they didn't play football in his Vietnam POW camp. Which, of course, McCain hates to bring up. Incessantly.

[JeffL]

It's because they didn't play football in his Vietnam POW camp. Which, of course, McCain hates to bring up. Incessantly.

Were you this tough on Kerry when he brought up "when I was in Vietnam..." every speech?

[Lunch of Kong]

obama's football is lighter than mccains football. it's a conspiracy.

[Jason McCullough]

I guess elitists should be voting for McCain.

[bigdruid]

Were you this tough on Kerry when he brought up "when I was in Vietnam..." every speech?
Shocking but true: I tend to be more forgiving of the rhetorical devices of politicians whose policies I agree with.

[jeffd]

Were you this tough on Kerry when he brought up "when I was in Vietnam..." every speech?

Kerry didn't make a big show of how much he doesn't like talking about his days in Vietnam. McCain does.

[noun]

Plus, Kerry managed to not get taken prisoner. Somehow, that seems more competent to me.

[Andrew Mayer]

Were you this tough on Kerry when he brought up "when I was in Vietnam..." every speech?

I don't remember... Did Kerry use his service as a way to shut down criticism and try and excuse every minor gaffe he made?

[BennyProfane]

I don't remember... Did Kerry use his service as a way to shut down criticism and try and excuse every minor gaffe he made?

He never had the chance, he was too busy being criticized for having served there...

[JeffL]

I don't remember... Did Kerry use his service as a way to shut down criticism and try and excuse every minor gaffe he made?

He did use it at times to divert a question, with a statement such as "I recall having to make such decisions when I was in combat in Vietnam", etc.

Which I frankly didn't have a problem with, as one of the main reasons the Democrats chose him was they assumed his Vietnam service would make him look like a tough, military experienced candidate. It was a part and parcel of the package.

[NoWayJose]

I agree with Qt3 on this. McCain should stop bringing up his POW camp experience when responding to serious critiques like how he holds a football.

[bigdruid]

...and to serious critiques like "Ha! You're wealthy and own 7 houses!":


"This is a guy who lived in one house for five and a half years -- in prison," spokesman Brian Rogers told the Washington Post.


...or when he was critiqued for offering up his wife to star in a topless biker beauty pageant:


The Wall St. Journal reports that McCain spokesman Brian Rogers fired back by saying that Americans "know that John McCain's faith and character were tested and forged in ways few can fathom."


*or*, when he was accused of cheating during the Saddleback Church "debates":


“The insinuation from the Obama campaign that John McCain, a former prisoner of war, cheated is outrageous,” Ms. Wallace said.


I mean, geez.

[NoWayJose]

Look at them just blatantly ignoring the football issue. And this man thinks he can add the White House to his list of mansions.

[Matthew Gallant]

What about the "my friends" issue? He always addresses everyone as "my friends", when they clearly cannot all be. Is he some kind of neo-Rogerian, and the reason behind the seven houses thing is that it's a foray towards turning the people he addresses into "my neighbors"? Does the Straight Talk Express occasionally make stops at the Land of Make Believe? Will he add a Secretary of Meow Meow Meow to the cabinet? Can he be trusted?

[Ed Solomon]

...and to serious critiques like "Ha! You're wealthy and own 7 houses!":



...or when he was critiqued for offering up his wife to star in a topless biker beauty pageant:



*or*, when he was accused of cheating during the Saddleback Church "debates":



I mean, geez.

How could you leave out McCain's spirited defense of his love for Dancing Queen by Abba?
“If there is anything I am lacking in, I’ve got to tell you, it is taste in music and art and other great things in life,” McCain joked. “I’ve got to say that a lot of my taste in music stopped about the time I impacted a surface-to-air missile with my own airplane and never caught up again.”

The dude obviously caught something from Rudy "911" Giuliani.

[Qmanol]

But he got shot down... before Dancing Queen was released.

[Funkula]

Why are you impugning his service?

[Equis]

But he got shot down... before Dancing Queen was released.

It was part of the torture he endured.

[NoWayJose]

I just read his little interview in EW, next to Obama's, and he's not quite as culturally clueless as Qt3 might have you believe! Amazing, but true. For example, he's a fan of The Wire and Dexter.

Also, I'm curious why a gaming board isn't jumping all over Obama for stating his favorite video game is "Pong." It's okay for a candidate to tell a blatant lie like this and still curry your favor, while McCain has been nothing but forthright about his pop culture likes and dislikes and gets your disdain?

Shame on you, Qt3. Shame.

[Andrew Mayer]

Also, I'm curious why a gaming board isn't jumping all over Obama for stating his favorite video game is "Pong." It's okay for a candidate to tell a blatant lie like this and still curry your favor, while McCain has been nothing but forthright about his pop culture likes and dislikes and gets your disdain?

What do you have against Pong, man?

Don't you like PONG? Huh?

I asked you a QUESTION!

[Qmanol]

As everyone knows, all games are Pong, so Obama is simply giving the only possible honest answer.

[Sol Invictus]

If he'd said Mario they'd have called him someone who doesn't support American made games. Say Doom and he's a murderer. Say SimCity or Civilization and he's suddenly too smart for the lowest common denominator.

There is no correct answer to that question.

[Talisker]

There is no correct answer to that question.
Wrong: Peggle.

[TomChick]

I just read his little interview in EW, next to Obama's, and he's not quite as culturally clueless as Qt3 might have you believe! Amazing, but true. For example, he's a fan of The Wire and Dexter.

Nice try, but you just can't do it, my friend. Two words: Viva Zapata.

-Tom

[NoWayJose]

Nice try, but you just can't do it, my friend. Two words: Viva Zapata.

-Tom
I was waiting for you to bring that up for the 30th time so I could spring this one on you: in that same EW interview he actually elaborates more on that, including a very nice description of his favorite scene and why it's his favorite of the three Kazan/Brando pics. He knows what he's talking about.

[TomChick]

I was waiting for you to bring that up for the 30th time so I could spring this one on you: in that same EW interview he actually elaborates more on that, including a very nice description of his favorite scene and why it's his favorite of the three Kazan/Brando pics. He knows what he's talking about.

You think you're springing that on me? I've vetted McCain's comments thoroughly (http://www.quartertothree.com/game-talk/showpost.php?p=1435340&postcount=4). You may think you've dinged me, but you just can't do it, my friend!

-Tom

P.S. McCain's favorite Vietnam war movie is We Were Soldiers. Ha ha!

[NoWayJose]

At least he's honest. PONG?!

[TomChick]

It's illuminating that McCain's favorite bit from Viva Zapata is a scene where a dude's wife reads him the Bible on their wedding night. Hawt! Nothing sets the mood like a little Deuteronomy.

Also, what part of "Dude, Barack Obama went to see The Dark Knight!" do you not understand? I expect next we'll hear that he's got three level 70s in World of Warcraft. On a PvP server. Being able to hold a football better than John McCain is just gravy.

-Tom

[NoWayJose]

Be that as it may, on my scorecard McCain is winning the culture war right now, amazing as it sounds. Let's look at two examples:

Pro-Obama
Madonna's got something to say, people!
Amid a four-act show, a video interlude carried images of destruction, global warming, Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler, Zimbabwe's authoritarian President Robert Mugabe - and the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. Another sequence, shown later, pictured slain Beatle John Lennon, climate activist Al Gore, Mahatma Gandhi and finally Barack Obama.
That ought to convince some people.

Pro-McCain
Jerome Corsi's new hit-piece book on Barack is entitled "The Obama Nation." I didn't get the title at first, either, but now that I do I'm ALMOST hoping there's a sex and/or drugs scandal during the Obama presidency so the press can use it again.

[Gordon Cameron]

Dancing Queen is a brilliant song.

[E-phonk]

I was a [/pow] (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WeOXGAXqoU)

[Jazar]

If I was in a POW camp, you damn well better believe that I'd be bitching about it until the day I die. :p

"Hey McCain, the correct use is 'It's', not 'Its'".
"Sorry my, I was too busy using my 'Grammar For Dummies' book as TOILET PAPER and FOOD, preferably not in that order."

[Aszurom]

This imagery merely serves to illustrate that Obama is genetically predisposed to superior sports aptitude.

[Funkula]

Maybe McCain is just getting ready to pull it away when Charlie Brown tries to kick it.