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- miamidolfan13, on 09/16/2008, -18/+73Well I guess the McCain camp thinks people will believe anything. McCain can't use a computer or send email.
- franksmith, on 09/17/2008, -27/+5It was a ***** joke people....
Al invented the internet and a guy that admits to not using a computer invented the crackberry???
The joke was funny until it had to be explained to so many idiots - HotSaucePanCake, on 09/17/2008, -24/+3I guess you like responding to your own posts
- Zeroxysm, on 09/18/2008, -0/+2Lol, why are people digging you down?
- DavidBGie, on 09/18/2008, -0/+2WTF.
- Refrag, on 09/17/2008, -1/+6I have it from a source deep inside Apple that Barack Obama consulted on the iPhone.
- moduc, on 09/17/2008, -8/+3Obama created the iPhone. According to Digg.com, a largest news site on the net. Move over Al Gore. The libs think people will believe anything.
/sarcasm
- moduc, on 09/17/2008, -8/+3Obama created the iPhone. According to Digg.com, a largest news site on the net. Move over Al Gore. The libs think people will believe anything.
- naner, on 09/17/2008, -2/+8"McCain can't use a computer or send an innernet. "
Fixed. - bgolds99, on 09/18/2008, -3/+2I wouldn't be able to use the computer if I couldn't physically type...John McCain has a physical disability which doesn't allow him to type on a computer, he has his staff do it.
- DavidBGie, on 09/18/2008, -0/+1You guys need to stop joking about Al Gore inventing the Internet. Go look at the source code of the Internet! "tcp.c" and "ip.c" have comments made by Al Gore in the '70s. Just read the comments. He foresaw Napster, Hypertext, IPV6 and youtube!
- franksmith, on 09/17/2008, -27/+5It was a ***** joke people....
- whuddadumbsn, on 09/16/2008, -11/+94Gore -- the Internet..
McCain -- the Blackberry.
Palin -- lipstick.- IphtashuFitz, on 09/16/2008, -2/+72Palin didn't claim to invent lipstick. But she did invent the idea of foreign policy being nothing more than watching your neighbor over 54 miles of open water.
- bjornski, on 09/17/2008, -1/+25Neighbor?
She's looking at uninhabited rocks and claiming political knowledge.
There's nobody on those rocks. Russia cleared them out years ago. - leerayIG88, on 09/17/2008, -1/+2ROCK PEOPLE!
- bjornski, on 09/17/2008, -1/+25Neighbor?
- aadyss, on 09/17/2008, -36/+3Did McCain actually say he invented the blackberry? I think not. Did Al Gore actually say he invented the internet? I do believe he did. Did Obama invent Socialism? Nope...but it sounds as though he thinks he did. Did Obama invent hope? Again..no. Did Obama invent 'change'? No...practically every campaign in recent memory was predicated on change. No doubt most of the 43 men elected President ran on some sort of change.
If McCain had actually stated [himself] that he invented the blackberry you could make fun, but alas...not so.- smurfsahoy, on 09/17/2008, -10/+3It would appear that we can make fun just fine, actually, the way things are.
- seltaeb4, on 09/17/2008, -0/+20Gore never said he invented the Internet.
Nevertheless, it has become a staple of belief among simple-minded, gullible Republicans.
http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.asp - BradHAWK, on 09/17/2008, -1/+15Al Gore was an important figure in building the internet, but he never claimed to invent it.
- aadyss, on 09/17/2008, -3/+0Ah yes....and there we have it. Nor did McCain say he invented the Blackberry. The Blackberry story seems to be the kindred brother to the "simple minded gullible Republicans". Can you admit that it was the simple minded, gullible Democrats who have posted this story several times on Digg?
- ArmandoM, on 09/17/2008, -0/+1"Al Gore was an important figure in building the internet, but he never claimed to invent it."
No, he said he "created" it... More specificially he said something like "took the initiative in creating the Internet"..
A lie is a lie, whether you said you invented it or created it.
He still would have made a better president. - MrM4nager, on 09/18/2008, -0/+1Read The Republican Noise Machine. Talks all about how the whole "I invented the internet" quote came to be
- GSX606, on 09/17/2008, -4/+16Bush -- internets
- redxninja, on 09/17/2008, -7/+1No...Bush -- teh google
- Lanlost, on 09/21/2008, -0/+1More like,
Bush - teh...
- mithrasinvictus, on 09/17/2008, -3/+3Palin doesn't use lipstick, soccer moms do.
- Updesh, on 09/17/2008, -2/+6Hockey mums surely?
Me, I think a racist and homophobe is a racist and homophobe whether she likes hockey or not - mithrasinvictus, on 09/17/2008, -1/+1yes, sorry. I meant hockey moms.
- Updesh, on 09/17/2008, -2/+6Hockey mums surely?
- Foot56, on 09/17/2008, -2/+1Clinton- Birth Control
- christianboutin, on 09/17/2008, -2/+1I thought pitbulls used lipstick...
- TheUngod, on 09/17/2008, -1/+7Clinton wore plenty of lipstick when he was president. It just wasn't on his lips.
- aitoaster, on 09/17/2008, -1/+1Google Cerf, Gore email and that might shed a little light on the fact that Gore actually had more to do with the internet's ascendancy than people originally thought.
- MrSlumberjack, on 09/17/2008, -3/+2You're all victims of media distortion
http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.asp - freddiep, on 09/18/2008, -0/+1Liberals - The Truth
- MrM4nager, on 09/18/2008, -0/+2We have a little joke we like to tell in Alaska
- IphtashuFitz, on 09/16/2008, -2/+72Palin didn't claim to invent lipstick. But she did invent the idea of foreign policy being nothing more than watching your neighbor over 54 miles of open water.
- IphtashuFitz, on 09/16/2008, -9/+60Waitaminute... Didn't McCain recently admit that he doesn't know how to use e-mail or the internet or something like that? If so then why did he create the BlackBerry?
- freezeout, on 09/17/2008, -2/+9he thought it would be something similar to the Jack LaLanne's Power Juicer
- naner, on 09/17/2008, -1/+4To play that brick breaking game.
- jeffvvisoft, on 09/17/2008, -2/+1WTF?! This guys doesn't even know how to turn on a computer
- YsoSerious57, on 09/16/2008, -11/+35I guess he is just throwing ***** against the wall and seeing what sticks
- publiclurker, on 09/16/2008, -10/+104It's just something he thought up as a POW.
- chadwalters23, on 09/16/2008, -2/+31It's how he was able to escape. Iron Man style.
- BradHAWK, on 09/17/2008, -1/+31John McCain: "I am Blackberry Man".
- h4mx0r, on 09/17/2008, -2/+15DANANANANA NANANANA
- CarStan, on 09/17/2008, -2/+13...NANANA DANANA
i hate it when those arent complete
- chadwalters23, on 09/16/2008, -2/+31It's how he was able to escape. Iron Man style.
- IphtashuFitz, on 09/16/2008, -8/+138RIM (the company that makes the BlackBerry) is located in Canada. What the hell does an American politician have to do with technology designed & built in Canada by a Canadian company?
- Ustanik, on 09/17/2008, -21/+2RIM does very well in the US actually (IIRC it's where they do the best $ wise actually). Due to the way Blackberry networks/servers work on a closed circuit and no cameras (or something like that) RIM has contacts to supply the US government w/ their devices.
- Speed, on 09/17/2008, -1/+19It does well in the US, but was developed by Canadians in Canada.
- diablozx9, on 09/17/2008, -5/+4Ustanik:
Please refrain from future comment on topics you know nothing about.
- freezeout, on 09/17/2008, -2/+35one of McCain's mansions is near the Canadian border, and since he can see Canada from his back yard.. you know the rest..
- snareguy17, on 09/17/2008, -1/+1It's called foreign policy experience.
- Ustanik, on 09/17/2008, -21/+2RIM does very well in the US actually (IIRC it's where they do the best $ wise actually). Due to the way Blackberry networks/servers work on a closed circuit and no cameras (or something like that) RIM has contacts to supply the US government w/ their devices.
- jeromekristi, on 09/16/2008, -11/+22YAY! Another McCain lie to add to the list.
- panicbombs, on 09/16/2008, -7/+13The best part is this was a thought out talking point by a McCain economic adviser to prove that McCain knew the US economy.
- gnocchi1442, on 09/16/2008, -4/+101McCain thought they said "black baby" and he had a flashback to 2000.
- sphoony, on 09/17/2008, -0/+1Thanks for the laugh! Best one I've read today.
- macdoodle, on 09/16/2008, -27/+4right wing propaganda -they exceed the KGB.
tee shirts anyone�
this is my idea of funnny-
VP 2008
Biden
vs.
Unabiden'
Hey PALIN,
Foreign Affairs
does NOT mean
Leave husband & kids at home.
Governor of oil and ice -
your 15 minutes are up!
WE WANT PARIS BACK!
more serious
...thought GOP calls
Religious Extremists with Weaponry
Terrorists!?!- mockupscaledown, on 09/17/2008, -1/+3I fear you may be in the third simultaneous rotation of the Time Cube.
- thespiff, on 09/17/2008, -0/+2The dude abides.
- richmomz, on 09/16/2008, -6/+19That's quite impressive considering that the man has admitted that he does not know how to use a computer.
- elitesystem, on 09/16/2008, -18/+2yea ryttt ma ass
- DuggDowner, on 09/16/2008, -4/+53If this is true, why isn't McCain responding to my emails?
- DouglasScott, on 09/16/2008, -4/+54"If John McCain hadn't said that 'the fundamentals of our economy are strong' on the day of one of our nation's worst financial crises, the claim that he invented the BlackBerry would have been the most preposterous thing said all week," said Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton.
-cnn:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/16/mccain.blac ... - Bviper, on 09/17/2008, -9/+42Did anyone here actually READ the article? First off it was a policy adviser of McCain who said this, second off the article goes on the mention how Al Gore never personally said he created the internet, and was mocked for it anyway. Yet the article just stated that it was in fact not McCain who said he helped create the blackberry, but one of his advisers! Yet goes on to mock McCain???
Then it goes on saying the Al Gore quote was parsed in a different meaning, but gives us this "economic advisers" quote completely out of context...
I in no way saying I support McCain and yes I realize his advisers are part of the package, but geez its amazing how quick people believe something by reading a title.- DouglasScott, on 09/17/2008, -1/+17Yup. From the CNN article:
Pressed to provide an example of what McCain had accomplished on that committee, Holtz-Eakin said the senator did not have jurisdiction over financial markets, then he held up his Blackberry, telling reporters: "He did this."
"Telecommunications of the United States, the premiere innovation in the past 15 years, comes right through the Commerce Committee. So you're looking at the miracle that John McCain helped create," Holtz-Eakin said. "And that's what he did. He both regulated and deregulated the industry."
Holtz-Eakin is his name. He went too far. - mattlohkamp, on 09/17/2008, -6/+4Seriously. People are such shameless hyperbolists.
- buddhistMonkey, on 09/17/2008, -1/+11Actually, John McCain said the same thing himself yesterday on his Sciencedebate 2008 questionnaire:
"I am the former chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation. The Committee plays a major role in the development of technology policy, specifically any legislation affecting communications services, the Internet, cable television and other technologies. Under my guiding hand, Congress developed a wireless spectrum policy that spurred the rapid rise of mobile phones and Wi-Fi technology that enables Americans to surf the web while sitting at a coffee shop, airport lounge, or public park."
http://www.sciencedebate2008.com/www/index.php?id= ...- moduc, on 09/17/2008, -3/+1That "same thing" wasn't written in this article. If it's true, it's a good thing for McCain and can't be twisted. While the "same thing" he adviser said can be twisted and trash talked on. Not so same thing anymore eh?
- magus_melchior, on 09/17/2008, -1/+1I would hope that after 8 years of a ridiculous President, we would choose someone we wouldn't laugh AT when we first hear of him in depth...
After 2 years, mocking the President gets old, fast. Ask the Daily Show.
- DouglasScott, on 09/17/2008, -1/+17Yup. From the CNN article:
- buckpower, on 09/17/2008, -14/+2McStain intvented teh internets LOLZ!
- soot, on 09/17/2008, -6/+8That's quite a feat, lack of computing skills considered.
- kinseyincanada, on 09/17/2008, -8/+3oh well now i know for sure im not going to vote for him.
- BrokenCircle, on 09/17/2008, -2/+4You are not voting for Obama either, you're in Canada you ***** douche.
- macbookpromat, on 09/17/2008, -1/+1Don't worry, if he votes for Harper, I'll find him and lay some Darwinistic smackdown on his ass.
- BrokenCircle, on 09/17/2008, -2/+4You are not voting for Obama either, you're in Canada you ***** douche.
- ObamaWins08, on 09/17/2008, -25/+12Wow, what a fetid, digg-grabbing submission this is.
"Context" people, you ever hear of it.
The adviser was simply stating that McCain's tenure on the committee and the work he did led to the telecommunication structure that allows the devices to work.
Get over yoruselves, obamabots.- Deanblackoak, on 09/17/2008, -1/+3And he fought the very policies that made the PDA possible and on top of that the policy helped a Canadian company create the PDA. There's your damn context.
- enantiodromia, on 09/18/2008, -0/+1lol, ok "ObamaWins08"
- ObamaWins08, on 09/17/2008, -33/+8Wow, what a fetid, digg-grabbing submission this is.
"Context" people, you ever hear of it.
The adviser was simply stating that McCain's tenure on the committee and the work he did led to the telecommunication structure that allows the devices to work.
Get over yourselves, obamabots. - Phocion55, on 09/17/2008, -22/+8Why are the same people who nearly ***** themselves over Obama's "lipstick on a pig" comment being taken out of context, making such a huge deal out of something like this?
Had an Obama adviser jokingly made this statement, this comment thread would be plastered with "OMG NOT FAIR! TAKEN OUT OF CONTEXT BURY BURY!!!"
Bring forth the Obamabot Bury Brigade - hiding any direct observation of the overwhelming hypocrisy on Digg.- Murdats, on 09/17/2008, -2/+5do you know its the same people or are you just assuming it is? because you know what they say about asses?
- andrewrocks, on 09/18/2008, -0/+1Maybe they aren't hiding hypocrisy. Maybe they just feel that your apparent candidate is full of ***** and are tired of sitting back and getting pounded in the ass by republicans.
- panicbombs, on 09/17/2008, -5/+42The adviser was simply stating that McCain's tenure on the committee and the work he did led to the telecommunication structure that allows the devices to work.
Where is the proof of this at all? McCain actually voted against the 1996 Telecommunications ACT. How can you seriously argue that McCain promoted technology policy and should get credit for a blackberry when he can not even turn on a computer. This was their ANSWER to McCain's experience in economic policy.
I love how we are all "Obamabots" because we do not support a 72 year old washed up old elitist old rich man with anger issues, who has no clue about anything and just lies nonstop. The GOP does not even like him either and his coworkers know he is a prick.
McCain only has Noun, Verb, POW.- moduc, on 09/17/2008, -2/+4Do you know the reason he voted against it? How many pork barrels are in there? Any act that has a name telecommunications in it would be voted for for it to be good? Was there an alternative that is better but wasn't considered?
- magus_melchior, on 09/17/2008, -1/+1@panicbombs: The only people crying "Obamabots" are the people who haven't turned off "2008 US Elections" in their preferences, and those still stung over his FISA votes this year.
There are a few more votes that might cause a stir, but mostly in conservative circles... - geekee, on 09/18/2008, -2/+3Nice job ***** Obamabot. Why don't you get facts instead of spin.
http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/is_mccain_un ...
And a Forbes magazine story from May 2000 elaborated further, saying:
Forbes, May 2000: His nightly ritual is to read his email together with his wife, Cindy. The injuries he incurred as a Vietnam POW make it painful for McCain to type. Instead, he dictates responses that his wife types on a laptop. "She's a whiz on the keyboard, and I'm so laborious," McCain admits.- andrewrocks, on 09/18/2008, -0/+2I'd like a president who can type himself. I'd also like a president that isn't at death's door and a total moron. While surviving a POW camp is nothing less than heroic, it shouldn't viewed as sufficient evidence that he knows how to run a country.
- batmanz, on 09/17/2008, -20/+10Please Digg, I know you hate McCain, but still.
When he heard the comment, he apparently laughed about it. Another campaign worker said it was an internal joke, not to be taken seriously.- enki25, on 09/17/2008, -4/+8Yeah, that's why they made statements to the press about it, because it was a joke. Ha Ha.
- Deanblackoak, on 09/17/2008, -1/+2Well, I guess he made the wrong damn joke at the wrong damn time.
- riggs32, on 09/17/2008, -4/+8damn i didnt know you could do that. you know what guys, i invented dvr's. no more commericials. your welcome
- bjornski, on 09/17/2008, -3/+5What committee did you sit on that made that happen so you could be given credit for it?
- VicHislop, on 09/17/2008, -3/+22McCain's answer to the recent Science Debate 2008 questionnaire was much more ridiculous:
"Under my guiding hand, Congress developed a wireless spectrum policy that spurred the rapid rise of mobile phones and Wi-Fi technology that enables Americans to surf the web while sitting at a coffee shop, airport lounge, or public park."
Right, McCain.- enki25, on 09/17/2008, -5/+2Duh, it's all about context. Clearly McCain says that all the wonders of the world were merely invented "under his guiding hand". He doesn't say his hand invented them, just that his hand was slightly above the spot where all the inventing was taking place. Oh and also, it's a joke.
/Republican - deadbaby, on 09/18/2008, -0/+1But wait... I thought McCain was for smaller government? Public wifi is nice and all but I don't see why the federal government should have their hands in it. If a local government wants to do it with their local tax dollars then fine but the federal government shoveling out money for public wifi is about as wasteful as you can get.
- enki25, on 09/17/2008, -5/+2Duh, it's all about context. Clearly McCain says that all the wonders of the world were merely invented "under his guiding hand". He doesn't say his hand invented them, just that his hand was slightly above the spot where all the inventing was taking place. Oh and also, it's a joke.
- tehxen3, on 09/17/2008, -8/+6McCain is an exceptionally incompetent candidate, Romney would have been a way better choice.
- bjornski, on 09/17/2008, -4/+4If you're going to vote for a charismatic UFO cultie, you may as well go all the way and vote for Tom Cruise.
- secrity, on 09/17/2008, -2/+1They are both assholes
- moduc, on 09/17/2008, -3/+2Romney would tie dogs on top of everyone's car, and electronically connect to them to force them to bark binary digits, and having a much better communication protocol/medium than the wireless crap.
/sarcasm
- HeartlandUSA, on 09/17/2008, -2/+18What a joke, more taking out of context, then spinning by the Grand Old Party into lies.
Gore NEVER claimed to invent the internet, he just supported legislation from the late 70s on to make it available to the public. And against the Republicans as well.
Not to mention the 50+ documented lies on individual issues so far by the McCain camp, not including the unofficial lies by Republican supporters. (Obama is a racist, a Muslim, a non-citizen, a murderer, a bisexual, a drug addict, etc)
It must be great to distract the public with baseless lies & non-issues while the GOP's policies are the worst in America's history, which McCain & Palin still support while claiming to promise change.
- geekee, on 09/18/2008, -1/+1You're right, Gore never claimed to invent the internet, he just claimed to create the internet.
- RRJackson, on 09/17/2008, -8/+5Whatever you happen to think of him, you need to prepare yourselves for his victory in November.
http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/search/label/today% ...- bjornski, on 09/17/2008, -3/+5All of that is pretty much irrelevant when Premier will be counting the votes.
- RRJackson, on 09/17/2008, -7/+1At least we have this polling data to refute claims of election fraud. ;-)
- Deanblackoak, on 09/17/2008, -2/+1Seen the latest polls? I wouldn't count my chickens yet.
- EtherGnat, on 09/17/2008, -2/+3And RealClearPolitics shows Obama winning the electoral college currently: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/maps/obama ...
Last time I checked, there are still seven weeks left until the election. There's seven states with 90 electoral votes which are currently decided by less than 2.5%. There's another three states with 32 electoral college votes decided by less than 5%.
McCain had a 2.9% average lead in the polls nine days ago. That lead is down to 0.6%. There are still 4 debates and a lot of campaigning to go. Anybody using polls to predict certain victory in November is an idiot.
- rocky1138, on 09/17/2008, -5/+22Wait a sec... Isn't Blackberry manufactured and developed by RIM in Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA?
- leerayIG88, on 09/18/2008, -2/+1meh
- rogerse, on 09/17/2008, -16/+2
- bjornski, on 09/17/2008, -1/+11You really need to read up on his role in the initiatives.
- bjornski, on 09/17/2008, -0/+11Claim: Vice-President Al Gore claimed that he "invented" the Internet.
Status: False.
Origins: Despite the derisive references that continue even today, Al Gore did not claim he "invented" the Internet, nor did he say anything that could reasonably be interpreted that way. The "Al Gore said he 'invented' the Internet" put-downs were misleading, out-of-context distortions of something he said during an interview with Wolf Blitzer on CNN's "Late Edition" program on 9 March 1999. When asked to describe what distinguished him from his challenger for the Democratic presidential nomination, Senator Bill Bradley of New Jersey, Gore replied (in part):
During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.
Clearly, although Gore's phrasing might have been a bit clumsy (and perhaps self-serving), he was not claiming that he "invented" the Internet (in the sense of having designed or implemented it), but that he was responsible, in an economic and legislative sense, for fostering the development the technology that we now know as the Internet. To claim that Gore was seriously trying to take credit for the "invention" of the Internet is, frankly, just silly political posturing that arose out of a close presidential campaign. Gore never used the word "invent," and the words "create" and "invent" have distinctly different meanings — the former is used in the sense of "to bring about" or "to bring into existence" while the latter is generally used to signify the first instance of someone's thinking up or implementing an idea. (To those who say the words "create" and "invent" mean exactly the same thing, we have to ask why, then, the media overwhelmingly and consistently cited Gore as having claimed he "invented" the Internet, even though he never used that word, and transcripts of what he actually said were readily available.)
If President Eisenhower had said in the mid-1960s that he, while president, "created" the Interstate Highway System, we would not have seen dozens and dozens of
editorials lampooning him for claiming he "invented" the concept of highways or implying that he personally went out and dug ditches across the country to help build the roadway. Everyone would have understood that Ike meant he was a driving force behind the legislation that created the highway system, and this was the very same concept Al Gore was expressing about himself with his Internet statement.
http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.asp
- bjornski, on 09/17/2008, -0/+11Claim: Vice-President Al Gore claimed that he "invented" the Internet.
- paintgrl, on 09/17/2008, -0/+1Yeah so many retards win the Nobel Peace Prize.
- bjornski, on 09/17/2008, -1/+11You really need to read up on his role in the initiatives.
- HotSaucePanCake, on 09/17/2008, -6/+6This is lame
- sallos, on 09/17/2008, -13/+6buried as inaccurate. mccain did not invent or say he did.
- Deanblackoak, on 09/17/2008, -0/+2Yeah, they did. Sorry.
- WhiskeyThieves, on 09/17/2008, -5/+7WTF the geezer can't even use a computer.
- welliwonder, on 09/17/2008, -6/+6Is there nothing these guys won't lie about?
- TheSuperSpy, on 09/17/2008, -4/+18Umm... Blackberry is Canadian.
- HeartlandUSA, on 09/17/2008, -4/+13Republicans, why do digg this comment down? (see below) Its the truth, its factually backed up. (in tons of ways)
Don't Republicans want the facts to be available to the public? Isn't that the cornerstone of Democracy?
And why are Republicans against net neutrality legislation? Eliminating the current system would eliminate all alternative news on the internet. Again giving the few handful of major corporations control of the news, this time on the internet too.
I suggest all Republicans reading this to look into net neutrality legislation & ask yourself why you would want to eliminate all news on the internet, with the exception of the main stream media that we already have on TV & in newspapers, which are owned & run by a handful of people (literally just 6-8 companies). Does that sound like freedom? Information by a few boardrooms? Who might have political leanings to bias the information unethically? (which they already do in many ways) Is that the American way? Propaganda?
Republicans, I ask you to do your research on these issues & think hard, please.
Here is my original comment: (over the top? or accurate? I can easily prove that its accurate by the way.)
What a joke, more taking out of context, then spinning by the Grand Old Party into lies.
Gore NEVER claimed to invent the internet, he just supported legislation from the late 70s on to make it available to the public. And against the Republicans as well.
Not to mention the 50+ documented lies on individual issues so far by the McCain camp, not including the unofficial lies by Republican supporters. (Obama is a racist, a Muslim, a non-citizen, a murderer, a bisexual, a drug addict, etc)
It must be great to distract the public with baseless lies & non-issues while the GOP's policies are the worst in America's history, which McCain & Palin still support while claiming to promise change. I- NateTheApe21, on 09/17/2008, -1/+2to long didn't read, digging down because it look like a rant
- magus_melchior, on 09/17/2008, -1/+2"Don't Republicans want the facts to be available to the public? Isn't that the cornerstone of Democracy?"
Not if you're in power and you want control.
Democrats are just as prone to power-grabs as Republicans are; the only problem right now, though, is that the Republicans are still in power. "But they have a Congressional majority!" they whine. Yeah, which means jack if the Republicans have enough votes to KEEP FILIBUSTERING AND KILL A VETO OVERRIDE.
Guess what the Republicans have been doing to Democrat-sponsored bills? That's right, filibuster and veto. Surprise, surprise.
Oh, and suppose you're a prominent Republican and speak out about your party's childish antics? You get smacked down hard by childish antics. Ever read Bob Dole's letter to Scott McClellan? How they treated Lincoln Chafee? Susan Eisenhower didn't get much correspondence other than phone calls, but how many do you think were threats and abuse? It's like the mafia-- you speak against the family, the family hurts you. The only difference is that the Republicans don't kill traitors-- yet.
- jerrycurley, on 09/17/2008, -19/+1
- xilduq, on 09/18/2008, -0/+1Not said verbatim, but it was what was meant. I'm dizzy, how 'bout you?
- HeartlandUSA, on 09/17/2008, -1/+10“Information is the currency of democracy.”
Thomas Jefferson
“When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, an hundred.”
Thomas Jefferson
“Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.”
Thomas Jefferson
“Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.”
Thomas Jefferson
- SuperVepr308, on 09/17/2008, -1/+4TJ was The Man.
- secrity, on 09/17/2008, -1/+6"The clergy, by getting themselves established by law and ingrafted into the machine of government, have been a very formidable engine against the civil and religious rights of man." --Thomas Jefferson to Jeremiah Moor, 1800.
- tbredofsin, on 09/17/2008, -4/+10McCain already debunked this. He laughed at the aide who made the remark and said that he was not responsible for inventing anything.
- scrushmaster, on 09/17/2008, -7/+2
- david76, on 09/17/2008, -1/+2Ron Paul is a lot of talk, not a lot of do.
- HeartlandUSA, on 09/17/2008, -5/+8Congress is still controlled by Republicans.
You see even if the Dems in Congress pass a bill, Bush can veto it, then it goes back to Congress & they can only overturn the veto if the Republicans vote for it. And the Senate is a 49-49 split, so the Democrats do not even have a simple majority.
The DOJ is also run by Republicans, so they do not enforce the law, such as subpoenas for Congress to do their job of oversight.
And also the Republicans in Congress do everything possible to block, smear, & release propaganda disinformation to stop anything the Democrats try to do.
Don't blame the problems that we have that were created by the Republicans on the Dems, because the Dems are powerless. But, if they get enough seats in Nov &/or the Executive Branch too, then things can happen to roll back some of this extreme right wing legislation. If they have the power & don't do that, then you can blame them to your heart's content.
And as of 8-4-08 the Republicans have filibustered 92 times since the Democrats were elected, which is a historical record of obstructionism.
And let's not forget the Republicans' policies have been the worst disaster in history as well. And over 50 republicans have been implicated in serious scandals that have cost them their jobs!
- ButlerMonkey, on 09/17/2008, -3/+7Are there two McCains?* Because I thought there was a politician running for president by that name but all these stories sound like a character on a wacky new sitcom where they make fun of old people and hockey moms?
* For all the people who are going to reply informing me that there is only one McCain - I'm aware - it's just a joke. - paradigmxx, on 09/17/2008, -3/+1What's next, a over hyped documentary by McCain?
- kishosingh, on 09/17/2008, -6/+1"You're looking at the miracle that John McCain helped create," the truth behind the fact shows really it is miracle.
- maehem, on 09/17/2008, -6/+4OK. I'm going to add "Helped create the market for the iPhone." to my resume since I bought one. ;-)
- huebs, on 09/17/2008, -6/+1If McCain invented the BlackBerry then Obama invented the iPhone.
- edebolt, on 09/17/2008, -9/+4McCain never claimed he created the BB. Gore did take credit for the internet however. McCain's advisor should back off on the cool aid or double expresso's.
- condorhauck, on 09/17/2008, -1/+3What Gore said was taken out of context. Yes the words "I took the initiative in creating the Internet" were in his statement, but when put in context with the entire statement it was more than clear that he was talking about pushing legislative measures that made it possible to create the Internet. Here is a snopes.com article about it.
http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.asp
That said, you are correct as well McCain didn't personally make the statement, but one of his advisers did and it is a very questionable statement. - sullivanst, on 09/17/2008, -1/+2At least Gore's legislative record does actually allow him to claim some credit for the development of the internet.
McCain voted AGAINST the bill that Holtz-Eakin was trying to give him credit for. - LinuxLars, on 09/17/2008, -1/+2Sorry edebolt, get your facts straight. http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.asp
- andrewrocks, on 09/18/2008, -0/+1Espresso, not expresso numb nuts.
- condorhauck, on 09/17/2008, -1/+3What Gore said was taken out of context. Yes the words "I took the initiative in creating the Internet" were in his statement, but when put in context with the entire statement it was more than clear that he was talking about pushing legislative measures that made it possible to create the Internet. Here is a snopes.com article about it.
- HeartlandUSA, on 09/17/2008, -7/+5FYI: republicans, this is not spam, but a response...
Congress is still controlled by Republicans.
You see even if the Dems in Congress pass a bill, Bush can veto it, then it goes back to Congress & they can only overturn the veto if the Republicans vote for it. And the Senate is a 49-49 split, so the Democrats do not even have a simple majority.
The DOJ is also run by Republicans, so they do not enforce the law, such as subpoenas for Congress to do their job of oversight.
And also the Republicans in Congress do everything possible to block, smear, & release propaganda disinformation to stop anything the Democrats try to do.
Don't blame the problems that we have that were created by the Republicans on the Dems, because the Dems are powerless. But, if they get enough seats in Nov &/or the Executive Branch too, then things can happen to roll back some of this extreme right wing legislation. If they have the power & don't do that, then you can blame them to your heart's content.
And as of 8-4-08 the Republicans have filibustered 92 times since the Democrats were elected, which is a historical record of obstructionism.
And let's not forget the Republicans' policies have been the worst disaster in history as well. And over 50 republicans have been implicated in serious scandals that have cost them their jobs! - whiteguysamurai, on 09/17/2008, -5/+5That wacky old fart, what will he come up with next?
I bet he was talking about electricity, before Franklin stole it from McCain, that one fateful summer. - HeartlandUSA, on 09/17/2008, -9/+7Republicans HATE these facts, but I'll say it again....
Congress is still controlled by Republicans.
You see even if the Dems in Congress pass a bill, Bush can veto it, then it goes back to Congress & they can only overturn the veto if the Republicans vote for it. And the Senate is a 49-49 split, so the Democrats do not even have a simple majority.
The DOJ is also run by Republicans, so they do not enforce the law, such as subpoenas for Congress to do their job of oversight.
And also the Republicans in Congress do everything possible to block, smear, & release propaganda disinformation to stop anything the Democrats try to do.
Don't blame the problems that we have that were created by the Republicans on the Dems, because the Dems are powerless. But, if they get enough seats in Nov &/or the Executive Branch too, then things can happen to roll back some of this extreme right wing legislation. If they have the power & don't do that, then you can blame them to your heart's content.
And as of 8-4-08 the Republicans have filibustered 92 times since the Democrats were elected, which is a historical record of obstructionism.Republicans
And let's not forget the Republicans' policies have been the worst disaster in history as well. And over 50 republicans have been implicated in serious scandals that have cost them their jobs!
- WildTurkey101, on 09/18/2008, -1/+0Jesus christ are you are a ***** idiot? Rhetorical Question! -- Were you that fat kid that had to go get another Pop-Tart when School House rock came on? Do yourself a favor and go watch 'I'm a Bill'
You ***** schmuck.
- WildTurkey101, on 09/18/2008, -1/+0Jesus christ are you are a ***** idiot? Rhetorical Question! -- Were you that fat kid that had to go get another Pop-Tart when School House rock came on? Do yourself a favor and go watch 'I'm a Bill'
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