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McCain's Freudian Slip is Showing and Very Telling

huffingtonpost.com — At the same time that former West Wingers Brad Whitford and Richard Schiff were stepping forward to say that they too had heard John McCain say that he didn't vote for George Bush in 2000, McCain was grabbing a shovel and digging himself deeper with yet another denial.

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  • jjustice, on 05/10/2008, -10/+32Wow, three mixed metaphors. Does that headline even mean *anything*? It basically seems to mean, in itself, "McCain says something bad."
    • svetty, on 05/10/2008, -7/+2Alright?
    • jamesLankford, on 05/10/2008, -12/+5you're trying to be clever, but you're just stupid
      • thepretext, on 05/10/2008, -5/+1You're trying to troll, and failing.
    • wphj, on 05/10/2008, -1/+6He started saying "Of course not" before the question is asked.
      Who knows what's true, and I sure as hell wouldn't vote for either myself, but this video doesn't tell us anything.
      Maybe who he voted for is an issue, but this video is stupider than flag pins.
      • OrbitalFX, on 05/10/2008, -3/+2I agree. McCain does what he often does by asking a question and then answering it himself. I can't figure out what he's saying because Bill's voice covers it, but it ends with the world "false" to which McCain answers himself, "of course not."
    • aspec, on 05/10/2008, -3/+1You're right, maybe it should have been, "McCain's McFreudian Nipple Slip is Showing and Very Telling"?
    • Charlotte_Web, on 05/10/2008, -7/+11So, here we have another desparate attempt by the left to smear McCain.

      I love how the article highlights McCain saying "Of course not!"

      ...and then you watch the video, and see there was some crosstalk immediately preceding the comment, so who knows what McCain was responding to?

      Watch the video, folks. This is another ***** story from Huffington Post (surprise, surprise).

      Article buried as INNACURATE.
      • scotticus, on 05/10/2008, -1/+6I agree, and I'm a registered lefty.

        I'm no McCain fan, but this is conspiracy ***** at it's worst. Whether he voted for Bush or not, the dude CAMPAIGNED for him. That's the equivalent of not saying "bless you" when someone sneezes then donating a kidney to them. It doesn't matter whether he voted for him or not... he's either completely spineless and campaigned for someone he knew was going to be a ***** president, or just as bad, he actually thought Bush was fit to run this country.

        This just goes to show that mouth breathing idiots are found on both sides of the isle.
      • diggrific, on 05/10/2008, -0/+4"On her Huffington Post Web site on Monday, Ms. Huffington, the liberal blogger, said she had heard Mr. McCain say at a Los Angeles dinner party shortly after the 2000 election that he had not voted for the president he has now publicly embraced in his own quest for the White House. The McCain campaign swiftly quashed the account and said Ms. Huffington had a book to promote and would make anything up.

        “She’s a flake and a poser and an attention-seeking diva,” Mark Salter, one of Mr. McCain’s closest aides, told The Washington Post."
      • monoa, on 05/11/2008, -2/+1Oh, man, I am so looking forward to this tactic being used in the coming months - labelling anything you don't like as "left", and hoping that's a good enough argument. It's gonna be a turkey shoot in shed.
    • JettaMan, on 05/10/2008, -0/+6Huffington post has zero credibility with me after seeing this. When he said "Of course not" he was referring to what Arianna Huffington claimed, not what O'Reilly said. Huffington is spewing MISINFORMATION people. She is just outright incorrrect in her claim and is now covering her enormous ass.
  • pizzas, on 05/10/2008, -11/+43Umm that video is very awkward. Either he really thinks it's SOOO FUNNY OMG, or he is a very bad liar. maybe if we waterboard him we can get some truth out!? >:D
    • Happy_Phantom, on 05/10/2008, -20/+3
      McCain is about the only Republican who has spoken out against torture.
      • xtinamo, on 05/10/2008, -3/+27Yet he voted against banning torture...how exactly does that happen?
        • Happy_Phantom, on 05/10/2008, -26/+2Wrong. Lie. Prove it.
        • a6n28f, on 05/10/2008, -2/+30Um, okay Phantom. http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_li ...

          There it is in black and white as a matter of public record. And you can't even say that McCain doesn't believe those methods to be torture. "In October 2007, McCain said of waterboarding that, "They [other presidential candidates] should know what it is. It is not a complicated procedure. It is torture."

          http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_positions_o ...
          http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/26/us/politics/26gi ...

          This isn't exactly a small issue - you haven't really done any research on McCain, have you?
        • HenvY, on 05/10/2008, -8/+4I imagine that vote was in preperation for the important stages of the presidential run. Now he's the nominee, he's spoken out absolutely against it...as recently as his appearance on the daily show.
          • a6n28f, on 05/10/2008, -2/+12Nope, the vote was in mid-February 2008. He can talk about being against torture until he is blue in the face. I care about his actions. And he has acted in support of it. Do you really want yet another President who will say one thing while doing the exact opposite? Another President whose moral compass is for sale? McCain is a crooked, lying piece of ***** who has long since given up any claim on patriotism. As a combat vet myself, I think he is the lowest of the low.
          • xtinamo, on 05/10/2008, -3/+1McCain ***** creeped me out during that interview. Who knew that selling your soul would make you look like a retard. Dwight Schrute as VP? WTF!?! Not only was that joke embarrassingly lame, but he would be the LAST fictional person on earth who should have that amount of power.
      • ElAssoWipo, on 05/10/2008, -0/+16"Torture worked on me"

        - McCain.
        http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/11/29/ ...
      • jstohler, on 05/10/2008, -1/+14That's the old McCain. The new McCain wants the White House so bad he can taste it and, yes, change his entire belief system for it.
    • Jpotts12, on 05/10/2008, -1/+0He's probably laughing because he thinks (or wants people to think) that Huffington's comments are ridiculous. That's all it really is. I don't think it has much to do with being a bad liar.
  • svetty, on 05/10/2008, -8/+5"Songbird."
  • superfille, on 05/10/2008, -8/+8Unbelievable in more ways than one. His handlers are going to need to get him some acting lessons ASAP if they expect him to win.
  • wonderchemist, on 05/10/2008, -2/+19Given Bush's approval rating this might actually get him more votes.
    • rficwizard, on 05/10/2008, -1/+3I would be more likely to vote for him if he denounced Bush and most of his policies.
    • MOJIRA, on 05/17/2008, -0/+2McCain walks a fine balance between further annoying the Neocon base (the 20 or 30 something percent that still think Bush is doing a good job) which he desperately needs to win the general election and distancing himself from the absolute failure known as Bush.
  • bassjam5, on 05/10/2008, -6/+5What's any of this matter. The Cons will vote for him no matter how badly he screws up.
  • ElAssoWipo, on 05/10/2008, -3/+28Wtf is this?

    What is the news? Why did they show the video? I would've believed it if it weren't for the video. It's not a lapsus it's just answering a question a little late and then answering the other one.

    Buried as nothing.
    • jerrycurley, on 05/10/2008, -0/+2Buried as Huffington Post nothing, you should say.
  • HenvY, on 05/10/2008, -6/+41And Obama said he campaigned in 57 states, and that 10,000 people died in a Kansas tornado. Everybody makes mistakes.
    • tidu, on 05/10/2008, -2/+2But if McCain says "Bush is dumb as a stump" in 1999 and votes for him in 2000, something isn't right.
    • cliffzdude, on 05/11/2008, -0/+2HenvY has a point, how we punish McCain and not assume he misspoke, after Obama claims he's visited 57 states, not including Hawaii and Alaska.
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpGH02DtIws
      Did Obama really visit 57 States? Of course not, he just misspoke, as did Mccain. Mind you I don't like Mccain, but get a fracking grip here.
    • gsensel, on 05/11/2008, -1/+1Don't forget the sniper fire that Hillary had to land under in Bosnia.
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BfNqhV5hg4
  • insomniacal, on 05/10/2008, -4/+19Diggas, I'm confused. Am I supposed to hate McCain for lying, or love him for not voting for Bush?
    • xedd, on 05/10/2008, -4/+2You are supposed to be entertained and delighted that a two-faced hypocritical professional politician is caught lying through his teeth, has been then caught again denying the initial lie, and now must endure at least several days of squirming on the hot seat.
      It's much better even than watching baseball.
  • cersad, on 05/10/2008, -3/+14Hate to point this out, but the works of Freud have been discredited to the point where his style of psychoanalysis is largely disputed. I don't like McCain much, but this mistake of his is far more likely a result of the senility that is probably developing inside his already ancient mind. Neither would I call it very significant at all.
    • OffPiste, on 05/10/2008, -0/+9You hate your mother don't you.
    • crashbang, on 05/10/2008, -3/+7Discredited by whom?
      Freud's work is the basis for modern psychoanalysis.
      Just because alot of what Newton said doesn't stand up now, does that make him irrelevant?
      • mrmontrose, on 05/10/2008, -0/+6Everything Newton said is still relevant and accurate. Freud is highly debated and much less perfect.
        • laserblazer, on 05/10/2008, -0/+2Jung beat him bloody. Freud was just a hack who liked to ***** his patients.
    • sinurgy, on 05/10/2008, -0/+3It's ok, as long as you include some sort of "don't get me wrong, I'm no McCain fan" disclaimer, your voice can be heard on digg.
  • madfrogurt, on 05/10/2008, -5/+20I don't know who is more stupid: Huffington for writing this article in the first place or the 120+ people who dugg it. Stop splitting hairs on pointless ***** like this.
    • FadieZ, on 05/10/2008, -0/+9Holy ***** *****, I have never wanted to digg someone up more than today.

      This ***** is so utterly pointless, it boggles my mind that people continue to digg blindly just because it's anti-McCain. For the record, this wasn't a Freudian slip. Most probably just McCain saying "what a ridiculous thing to say" in his mind over and over, until it came out.

      And no, I'm not pro-McCain, just anti-retardation. But feel free to think I am while you're digging me down.

      "Baaaa"

  • jeanine22, on 05/10/2008, -8/+4napalm John McCain must be stopped! Obama supporters lets together with Ron Paul supporters stop the military industrial complex! Obama/Paul 08
    • feliks2, on 05/10/2008, -1/+3I thought you people would've stopped your Ron Paul ***** by now.
      • rficwizard, on 05/10/2008, -1/+2I thought you people would have stopped your [Clinton, Obama, McCain, Paul, Kucinich, Gravel, Thompson, Romney, Huckabee, Edwards] ***** by now.

        Supporting the candidate that best represents you is not "*****". The fact that most other people don't support him or her doesn't change that.
    • Corrosionx, on 05/10/2008, -0/+2Obama is 100% military-industrial complex, and a member of the CFR. But I guess the media don't bother telling you that.

      Vote for hope! That's all you'll get.
    • jerrycurley, on 05/10/2008, -0/+0That's a joke, right? Obama/Paul would be the BEST news for McCain supporters.
  • SheilaNoya, on 05/10/2008, -3/+11This is a lose/lose situation for McCain. If he claims he didn't vote for Bush in 2000 and 2004, he will lose support from some of the 27% of idiots who still approve of Bush (he needs these people on his side and some of them currently don't trust him anyway). If he claims he did vote for Bush both times, he will be looked down upon by the 71% who dislike Bush now. McCain's current choice is to suck up to Bush's loyal base and claim that he always supported Bush. However, this will make it easier for the Democrats to tie him to Bush and claim he approved of Bush's failed policies. Either way, McCain is screwed on this one.
    • BigW, on 05/10/2008, -0/+2You know he could have voted against Bush in 2000, but for him in 2004. Really what the hell does this whole thing even matter.
      • swrostmore, on 05/10/2008, -0/+2Considering he approached Kerry for the VP spot in 2004, it seems unlikely that he voted against Bush.
    • jerrycurley, on 05/10/2008, -1/+1It is a NOTHING situation. Do you honestly think that ANYONE gives a ***** about this or anything that Huffington Post reports?
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  • ectally, on 05/10/2008, -2/+3I'm not huge on Mccain, but buried as inaccurate. okokokok got it right.
  • FishHammer, on 05/10/2008, -3/+10wow it didn't take long for digg to go from Obama cocksucking to McCain bashing did it?
    • sKiLLa182, on 05/10/2008, -4/+2Wow, didn't take long for you to start complaining about election stories during a close primary and an important election during an election year. If you don't like it, filter out the ***** stories. Otherwise, welcome to digg, where the overwhelming majority are Obama/democratic supporters.
  • LukasSmith, on 05/10/2008, -2/+4Who the ***** cares?
  • badnewshotel, on 05/10/2008, -1/+2Let's just celebrate mother's day and forget about how messed up the country is.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YewgCvCPHZo
    • burgermeiste, on 05/10/2008, -1/+1McCain doesn't have a mother. And stop spamming.
  • ZZT32, on 05/10/2008, -0/+2Sounds like he was being sarcastic.
  • xceptionaly, on 05/10/2008, -2/+11What the hell are all you idiots on about? I'm not a supporter of McCain, but all he did was make a minor slipup while talking. Huffington Post is the political equivalent of supermarket tabloids.
  • Pillage, on 05/10/2008, -2/+8Woh, is this attack day at the Fluffington post?
    • dan222555, on 05/10/2008, -1/+4Everyday is attack, lie, and spew propaganda day at the Huffington Post.
  • lazyfisherman, on 05/10/2008, -2/+3This is ridiculous. Bush and Rove swift-boated McCain in 2000, years before "swift-boating" was even a word. They destroyed him and derailed his candidacy so of course McCain didn't like Bush and wouldn't have voted for him. He should have just said.. "I didn't vote for my rival back then but now I can support him because he's my friend." All this lying and BS pandering to bushvoters and party leaders just makes McCain look bad.
  • manningbowl135, on 05/10/2008, -1/+12Is this huffington an idiot? Really attacking him is one thing. Attacking him on a simple word mistake and trying to make it seem like it's his unconscious telling the truth is just weirdly pathetic and stupid.
    • sKiLLa182, on 05/10/2008, -0/+2You know, as much as I know McCain is an idiot and didn't actually vote for Bush for the reasons in the comment above yours, I agree with you. She's like a rabid dog about this not voting for Bush thing. He was obviously expecting O'Reilly to ask him if it was true when he said "Of course not". it wasn't a Freudian slip.
  • JK1150, on 05/10/2008, -0/+5wouldn't this make many of you, including arianna huffington, support mccain more? not to mention the idea that that was a freudian slip is ridiculous.
    • swrostmore, on 05/10/2008, -5/+2It would make liberals support him more if he hadnt flip-flopped on this and many other things in order to trick conservatives into voting for him.
  • Mattwdj, on 05/10/2008, -3/+2i dunno whats worse for mcain, admitting he didnt vote for one of the worst presidents ever or saying he did vote for him (connecting him with a 3rd bush term).
  • OrbitalFX, on 05/10/2008, -1/+8I don't support John McCain, but the Freudian slip you're all referring to doesn't exist. If you listen closely, and I can't make it out yet, but McCain asks a question underneath Oreilly's voice, to which McCain answers to himself "of course not."

    Come on Diggers, don't Fall victim to wanting something so badly you'll pass it on without catching the whole picture.
    • dan222555, on 05/10/2008, -0/+2"Come on Diggers, don't Fall victim to wanting something so badly you'll pass it on without catching the whole picture."
      Worthless advice to this lot. They've already stumbled well over that cliff.
  • Sturmur, on 05/10/2008, -2/+3Freud is dead.
  • danmarek, on 05/10/2008, -2/+1I think it's safe to say that McCain is trying to distance himself from Bush. If there was any support that McCain gave him in the 2000 and 2004 elections, it was most likely because of party loyalty. The McCain/Bush 2000 South Carolina Primary battle is known in the political community as one of the dirtiest battles ever in politics.

    Now as far as whether McCain voted for Bush or not, I'm pretty sure that can be found out. I worked at a political consulting firm for a short stint and learned that voter information is kept on file in a voter vault. I don't remember if a person can actually see which way somebody voted, but we constantly were in these meetings where we were breaking down demographics of people most likely to vote one way or the other because of their "4/4 status," which meant that these particular people had voted in the last four elections a certain way. There was an incredible amount of information in the voter vault, including their magazine subscriptions, where they signed up to become a voter and whether they own guns or not.
  • blondito, on 05/10/2008, -1/+2Maybe it is just me, but I would respect someone a lot more who didn't vote for the man whose campaign team purposefully spread rumors about the legitimacy and race of his daughter.

    If it is true that he didn't vote for Bush he should come out and say so and tell everyone his reason why, if his reasons are good (and it is not hard to find reasons not to vote for Bush) people will listen and think more highly of him for it. Political partisans and wonks are the only human beings who could think voting according to what you think is best rather than political party lines is a character flaw.
  • Emrtr4, on 05/10/2008, -3/+5I am ashamed to be of the same heritage as Ariana Huffington; not only is she making a big deal out of nothing and resorting to the "politics of usual" which she and all the other Obamaphiles repudiate, but she is also doing McCain's job of distancing him from Bush-she is helping McCain with independents by saying he didn't vote for Bush.

    As a McCain supporter, all I can say is thank God Ariana Huffington is a moron.
  • Yoda900, on 05/10/2008, -1/+6Pure wishful thinking and speculation. Buried as inaccurate.
  • dan222555, on 05/10/2008, -3/+12Why don't Digg.com and Huffingtonpost.com just get it over with and merge together to form the number one website for nonstop liberal circle jerk on web?
    • DiggasWAttitude, on 05/10/2008, -3/+2You think Digg is liberal? Try posting something about gun control. If anything I've found Digg to be constitutionalist or libertarian. All the pro-Obama stuff is more a blacklash to the Bush admin stomping on the constitution.
      • dan222555, on 05/10/2008, -0/+1"You think Digg is liberal?"
        Maybe I'll answer that when I get up off the floor and stop laughing.
        • DiggasWAttitude, on 05/11/2008, -2/+3Laugh all you want but at least present an argument against what I said:

          Gun Control: if everyone carried a gun there would be no crime (like on college campuses)

          Global Warming: suspicious that the scare was created for political purposes but uncensored data doesn't lie

          Gay Rights: let people do what they want in the privacy of their own homes - probably more for civil unions than gay marriage. Most would probably say the state should have no place in marriage at all, should be through your church (or whatever).

          Affirmative Action: usually thought of as unnecessary - diggers are usually younger having grown up without seeing first-hand effects of legalized segregation.

          Big Centralized Government: prefer small state government - drug laws not controlled on a federal level.

          Socialized Programs: usually very skeptical - again afraid of government interference in people's lives

          Abortion: fairly even between pro-life/pro-choice. People should be accountable for their decisions

          Get up off the floor and argue those points. I've been reading posts here for a long time and these are the conclusions I've come to, defend yours.
          • dan222555, on 05/11/2008, -0/+1Arguing that Digg.com isn't liberal is like arguing the world is flat. I'm not going to waste my time. You're wrong about the viewpoint of the majority of Diggers on every one of those points. If you don't realize that Digg.com is an outlet for the far left then I can't help you.
          • Karmavs, on 05/11/2008, -0/+2Digg is generally libertarian, but they are, much moreso than that, liberal. Look at the diggs on your posts in this thread. You're wrong about the opinions of most diggers. (That's not to say you're wrong. I happen to mostly agree with the political opinions you've state. But that wasn't what the thread was about, was it?)
          • dan222555, on 05/11/2008, -0/+1Digg is only faux-libertarian. The Diggers pick and choose which issues to apply libertarian principles to. If they were authentic libertarians they wouldn't show such wholehearted support for Barack Obama.
    • SoulDrift404, on 05/11/2008, -0/+1Isn't Little Green ***** missing an idiot?
  • jboettcher, on 05/10/2008, -1/+2I'm confused... so did he or didn't he?
    • jazzboyrules, on 05/10/2008, -2/+2He did. Not only that, he did it twice and campaigned for him.
  • d03boy, on 05/10/2008, -0/+2Straight talk express.
  • ravenswing2, on 05/10/2008, -2/+2I am not concerned about whether he voted for Bush. What does concern me is that he may have voted for him TWICE.
  • t0rp, on 05/10/2008, -3/+2McCain is a Bush Clone.
  • lumpking69, on 05/10/2008, -0/+2I think he was just fixed on this statement "somebody blogged that you collaborated with the North Vietnamese" and just responded with "of course not"
  • papipablo, on 05/10/2008, -1/+2I would think not voting for Bush would be a selling point. Just goes to show how far McCain has fallen since 2000 when I actually would have voted for him.
  • SwedishNinja, on 05/10/2008, -0/+3McCain can't win with you people. If he agrees with Bush, then OMG HE'S A LOCKESTEP RETHUGLICAN OFDSMG, if he disagrees, it's OH LOL HESA FLIPFLOPPER AND WON'T WIN LOL RON PAUL 08. I'm probably going to leave this summer so I don't drown in the semen that will be expelled at the Obama circle jerk

    *****.
  • jnrosemas, on 05/10/2008, -1/+8Anyone else as sick and ***** tired of posts from the Huffington Post? I'm not for John McCain but come on....
  • Shao00, on 05/10/2008, -1/+1How could he have voted for him? W bent him over a barrel and dominated him with a smear campaign during the republican primary.
  • stonewaljacksn, on 05/10/2008, -2/+3This makes me want to vote for McCain. Also 6th huffpo on my frontpage today, the 6th I buried without clicking.
  • jplily, on 05/10/2008, -1/+0I'm confused... so did he or didn't he?
  • Nick535i, on 05/11/2008, -1/+1Buried for being more propaganda trash from the HuffingtonPost. They rank right up with Fox News for credibility and spin.
  • Cyberdactyl, on 05/11/2008, -2/+3Arianna is so full of ***** it's beyond the pale. If anyone watched the video, you know damn well it was a rapid fire conversation and know McCain was trying to say, "...Of course not...it is not true what she's saying."
    I mean why on God's earth would someone campaign for Bush. . . influencing possibly tens of thousands of voters, yet not vote for the man he's campaigning for? To think otherwise you would be in serious denial of reality. . . or otherwise be Arianna.
  • urbieta, on 05/11/2008, -1/+1Im sick of your B.S. politics, stop hiring hindu news blog spammers!!
  • SoulDrift404, on 05/11/2008, -0/+1Waaaaah, why are you posting this, it's LIBERAL?!
  • pitlord, on 05/11/2008, -0/+1When did Arriana Huffington get a PhD. in Psychiatry?
    >.>
  • Argentian, on 05/11/2008, -0/+1Those who believe in strong borders and limited government spending, might not've voted for Bush in 2000 if they'd known what he was really going to do. Maybe McCain is just smarter than the rest.
  • mrhaines, on 05/11/2008, -1/+2This guy looks crazy. The U.S. is royally ***** if they elect this guy.
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