No, seriously. I was going north on the 405, it was somewhere in Costa Mesa. I couldn’t get a photo of it because I was driving. (Nothing comes up when you google-image McCain-bumper-sticker-freeway, but if you squint hard, the car above could say something like “THAT’s not change we can believe in – vote McCain!”)
Since we were both driving on the freeway I didn’t have a chance to ask the driver if he was supporting McCain because of his immigration reform bill or his subsequent repudiation of it, or his campaign finance bill or his subsequent repudiation of that, or his defiance of the Christian right’s “agents of intolerance” or his more recent embrace of them, or his desire to keep our troops in Iraq indefinitely or his more recent openness to the Maliki-Obama plan, or if he simply just thinks Barack might be a secret Muslim terrorist.
Still, it warmed my heart to know that, in this majority plurality-Republican county, the former POW, former maverick and current big-government “conservative” politician will be getting at least one vote! That’s my boy!
And us Democrats will make sure that he is one of the only ones!
We’ll watch for yours — in crayon.
i saw a great one.. mr wright(aka the rev mr god damd america and mr wrong OBAMA .. NOBAMAO8
Way to go McCain, I guess the republicans will carry the day again.
Vern, I happen to have a McCain bumper sticker. There’s quite a few of them down here in SD, and I’d be willing to bet you they outnumber the Obama stickers. :-p
Way to go Vern – if you can’t show the bumpersticker, just make one up.
Meanwhile, as you lot were raising the above concerns, this transpired:
EARTH, July 25, 2008 — The entire world drafted an open letter to Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.) today, asking him to drop out of the U.S. presidential race and concede the presidency to Senator Barack Obama (D-Illinois).
“Ordinarily we do not interfere in America’s internal affairs,” said a spokesman for the rest of the planet, “even when it has become clear, as in recent years, that American voters are about to elect ignorant, incoherent buffoons who will add immeasurably to our immiseration. But this time is different. We didn’t think it was worth our while to step up for your Carter or Mondale or Dukakis or Gore or Kerry — besides, we’d only be bombed or invaded for our trouble. But this time, I mean, come on — you’ve got to be kidding me, right? Please tell me you’re kidding.”
Pointing to polls that show Obama leading McCain 94 percent to 6 percent everywhere on the inhabited globe except the United States, where most polls give Obama a narrow one- to three-point lead, the entire world suggested that Americans might not be sufficiently informed about the U.S. election. “Look, this isn’t funny,” said a world representative, who spoke on condition of anonymity. “You’ve got one candidate who has a reasonably sane and comprehensive foreign policy combined with detailed knowledge of American domestic affairs, and another candidate who isn’t always sure which country he’s talking about and whose domestic policy consists of telling people to stop whining. Why are you even throwing this open to a vote? Are you people out of your minds?”
The world seemed to be especially impressed by Senator Obama’s recent travels, during which the presumptive Democratic nominee demonstrated a thorough grasp of world affairs while draining a three-pointer “from downtown,” as one Kuwaiti commentator noted.
The newly-formed Sunni-Shi’ite Reconciliation Committee, meeting in Damascus, issued a press release timed to coincide with the world’s open letter. “We are deeply disturbed,” the committee wrote, “that the United States might elect a president who does not know the difference between Sunni and Shi’ite Muslims and who has to have a special friend whisper in his ear every time he makes a mistake. We wonder whether Americans would elect a president who did not understand the difference between your Catholics and your Protestants. And so it is that we stand united, as we have not stood in centuries, in our conviction that such a man is not fit to serve as President of the United States.”
On a related note, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki asked the entire world why the U.S. media have failed to acknowledge his government’s endorsement of Obama’s plan for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq. “I do not understand what is wrong with their Washington Post,” Maliki said in a prepared statement. “I recall that it used to be a pretty good newspaper. But now I fear that its editorial pages have been taken over by what the Qu’ran calls ‘a bunch of wankers.'”
Unfortunately, representatives of the McCain campaign reported that the candidate did not receive the world’s missive, most likely because it was sent to the Senator via e-mail. “I assure you that the Senator is completely up to speed on new technologies and is aware of e-mail,” said one staffer. “But he was shaking the laptop in order to get the mail to come out, and he wound up throwing it against a wall. We want to point out, however, that the Senator does not have a problem with his temper, that he is aware of the existence of the Goggle, and that the Internets suffered no permanent damage as a result of this event.”
http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/07/25/world_writes_open_letter_to_mc/#more
Vern,
I see you are supporting the UN over our Constitution. Socialism over Capitalism, world view over American view. That’s your choice for President and I can only assume at this point, this blog entry you quoted, illustrates why.
All this “world open letter” was written by a guy who teaches American Lit and cultural studies at Penn State and seems to have been an Obama supporter for some time. See: http://www.michaelberube.com/ for more about the source of the “world letter” who has also been labeled by David Horowitz as one of the 101 most dangerous professors in the country. (I can see why!) And to boot, you didn’t even give him credit for the letter as author, shame on you. Even if you did link it. You omitted the cross links in it, one of which, the 94% to 6%, which even the author says, “Ok so I exaggerate.” (No S#@t sherlock!)
Well, Vern now that we know where YOU stand and what you believe, we can at least better understand your bias in writing.
Thanks for the insight!
afterthought; So how is this post “Post Partisanship”? Jeeze Vern, you do know what that means don’t you?
Carl good points.
Unfortunately for Vern, the world doesn’t elect the President of the United States. Americans do. Which is why, come November, real Americans will vote McCain into the White House.
comedy. I enjoyed a chuckle.
POW LCDR John Sidney McCain 26. Oct. 1967 A-4E 149959 (VA-163) struck by AAA
Anyone know if McCain will come to Santa Ana next month for the A-4 skyhawk dedication at the Civic Center?
Cook, POW LCDR John Sidney McCain is running for President of the USA! And hence is open for any kind of criticism, preferably humorous because that’s the most fun.
Carl, I gave the link to that, I sure don’t want to take credit for any writing of Horowitz’ great nemesis Michael Berube. Glad I provoked you into checking him out though. He is hilarious… and right on. I don’t think I have to make any excuses for what he wrote here…
And Ryan, thanks for the heads up. McCain will win. I will invest in duct tape.
No problem Vern!
And thanks for taking the initiative and investing in our economy! 🙂
carl right on your post . we know and always have that vern is FAR LEFT . his stories are always from the S.F. SIDE OF POLITICS . and i am glad you pointed that out . as others have done on here .. post 9 ryan you are correct in verns world he wishes the world or U N would choose our pres . that way they get their far left soicalist agenda put in .. that way they get their boy hussain nobama in office .
Hey Carl, Ryan. You like your “great one” ally? I think he’s just precious. Making Satire Unnecessary.
OMG! That letter isnt real? Vern isnt American? Socialism is alive? The UN wants to run America?
I have got to re-register as a Republican. Y’all have the best crap to read again. I havent been Republican since Agnew. His “natering nabobs of negativism” was just too good to miss out on, hmmm I wonder if he’s back?