Strange Women Lying In Ponds Distributing Swords is No Basis for a System of Government
The Obama Campaign Employs 'Monty Python Defense'
By absentee Posted in 2008 | Obamafiles | Smearing And Sliming John McCain — Comments (37) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
If you listen to the noise machine on the left, you have developed a picture of John McCain's military service. From a comfortable position, feet up, in the passenger seat of a jet orbiting the earth, John McCain coldly and safely pushed buttons to dispense laser death on unsuspecting Vietnamese civilians. After some sort of emergency landing, John McCain stayed at a Hilton, from which he distributed communist propaganda videos for five or so years. When he returned home, he had an adminstrative authority over a group of planes. Later, he used a racial slur regarding the staff at that Hilton and highlighted the episode to pretend he was in the military.
It was only weeks ago that Max Cleland, in an interview with the New York Times, said "McCain is my friend and brother, and I love him dearly, but I think you learn something fighting on the ground, like me and John Kerry and Chuck Hagel did in Vietnam." They learned something, you see, which you do not learn coasting safely above or in bamboo cages below. The Democrats' service counts, McCain's doesn't. The article Cleland was quoted in, by the way, was about how "some" of McCain's "fellow veterans" thought his "different" Vietnam was responsible for his being so misguided on Iraq. You know, misguided like being right about the surge, supporting the war throughout, visiting the troops, that sort of thing. Obviously, he's out of touch.
How about Senator Jay Rockefeller a few weeks earlier? "McCain was a fighter pilot, who dropped laser-guided missiles from 35,000 feet. He was long gone when they hit," he said. "What happened when they [the missiles] get to the ground? He doesn’t know. You have to care about the lives of people. McCain never gets into those issues." McCain didn't care who he was indiscriminately destroying. He was just some white guy with electronics who likes killing people.
Rockefeller was really just doing exactly what you'd expect a Democrat politician to do: echoing the left media. Remember what Bill Maher said? "We have been the cowards, lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly."
So now we have General Wesley Clark saying that McCain riding in (and crashing) airplanes is nothing to be impressed by. His command was nothing to be impressed by. His decades dealing with National Security issues are nothing to be impressed by. McCain isn't ready to command. The fact that Barack Obama can communicate ideas, well that is what is important here. That Obama is clearly lacking the experiences Clark is accusing McCain of lacking seems to slip right by him.
The list of these attacks goes on. Ridiculously, not only do they beat this drum incessantly, but then they sic their media hounds on any response, accusing McCain of "politicizing" his service. The reason is simple, of course. The Obama campaign, his surrogates, and their media familiars want to destroy McCain the veteran, because McCain the veteran works. For the rabid left, which are Senator Obama's idealogical soulmates and political midwives, the campaign hopes to counter McCain the veteran with McCain the coward, and McCain the indifferently murderous. For that crowd it's not a tough sell.
To the rest of us, they want to sell McCain the out of touch chickenhawk. To sell that, they pulled John Kerry out of mothballs. I thought to myself, when Kerry came aboard, that putting him out front on anything was an absurd decision. With reasoning like "we'll make peace with foreign people and end jihad because he's black," my observation was reinforced. It has since become clear that Kerry was chosen to counter McCain. McPeak is no good for it, as he thinks we should stay in Iraq for a century. So they have John "pin my medals upon my trash" Kerry to say that Senator McCain doesn't care about the troops. Yes, John Kerry, suggesting a politician is throwing the troops under the bus. At times, I wonder if Obama isn't really just a comedian. Then I remember Bill Maher is a comedian and it's not so funny.
Incidentally, here's what Clark had to say about Obama's Winter Soldier when he was a candidate:
John Kerry has heard the thump of enemy mortars. He's seen the flash of the tracers. He's lived the values of service and sacrifice. In the Navy, as a prosecutor, as a senator, he proved his physical courage under fire. And he's proved his moral courage too.
John Kerry is a man who in time of war can lead us as a warrior [...]
He has the moral courage born in battle.
That last one is my favorite. Like the New York Times article, like the left wing blogs, like the rabid left in general, the Obama campaign wants you to treat John McCain as an outsider to the military. He isn't real. He doesn't count.
Clark and friends say "white pilots lounging in planes distributing lasers is no basis for a head of government." I'm calling this the Monty Python defense. Like the comedy troupe, the Obama campaign and its cast of comedic characters love to pull fast ones. The parrot isn't dead, he's sleeping. McCain's not a real vet, he's a Republican chickenhawk.
As the Obama campaign continues to throw anything and everything against the wall in their effort to sell the far left as moderate and post-partisan, I don't expect this will be the last 'Monty Python Defense.' After all, his campaign has long been conducted with a "wink wink nudge nudge."
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...a room full of Vikings singing "Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam..." ringing in your ears, doesn't it?
One thing for Senator Rockefeller
The Paveway wasn't in use in Vietnam until after Senator McCain was shot down. He can add one more to the list of things he knows nothing about.
"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
-Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777
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Great work Absentee!! Your blog is to the point, but yet very thorough. :-)
...flinging their own dung against a wall.
Occasionally a piece of dung sticks.
Chimpanzees shriek and point at the dung.
Origin of the Species, indeed.
"PsychObama, qu'est-ce que c'est?"
.....all of these pseudo-conservatives are sticking up for McCain (who has been a traitor to the conservative cause for decades) in the name of defeating Obama. Ok I will vote for McCain in Nov but I will not be happy about it (how about some honesty?)
The America I live in respects its heroes.
"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
-Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777
darn right what is wrong with this guy?
Moe strikes again.
Pluto, the Ninth Planet - Forever!
Is being lectured as a "pseudo-conservative" with an argument which presupposes McCain must have been on our side in order for left wing attacks on him to be absurd, invalid, baseless, despicable, crude, and malign.
Wait, not ironic. The word I was looking for was "wrong".
If you are a conservative you were anti-McCain one year ago. McCain has been a thorn in the side of the movement for years. Where is your honesty?
Kid, do better oppo research next time.
The Fuzzy Puppy of the VRWC. I've been usurped!
...time for a new lobbying tactic: "Confuse a Cat."
capture, time as a prisoner, and philanthropy. The character (you know, what people do when no one is watching?) that is exhibited by McCain and second guessed and parsed by the likes of John Kerry who one would believe had changed his name to Vietnam Veteran and only spent 4 months in country. Kerry hasn't earned the qualification to fix McCain's coffee.
The Obama campaign's PRE-squealing on McCain's military service, experience in life as well as public service shows right where the Dem's scrotum is and exactly where a number 12D ought to be targeted.
exactly correct on that coffee remark, keep'em coming.
The only way the left can be believed is if you know nothing about anything important. Unfortunately, almost half of our countrymen fall into that category.
The coming election will tell us a lot about ourselves.
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"How about Senator Jay Rockefeller a few weeks earlier? "McCain was a fighter pilot, who dropped laser-guided missiles from 35,000 feet. He was long gone when they hit," he said. "What happened when they [the missiles] get to the ground? He doesn’t know. You have to care about the lives of people. McCain never gets into those issues.""
Tell that to the USAF pilots who hit the Paul Doumer bridge on May 10 1972. The F-4 fighters dropped their laser guided bombs from 14-20,000 feet. They faced 160 SA-2 missiles and 40 Migs. Two f-4s fell to the Migs, and at least one US pilot died.
Not quite the bloodless walk in the park that Rockefeller likes to imply it was.
The really bad part is that if you look on Youtube there is much worse things being said about McCain. People have no shame, how can they post that stuff about US heros?
The only thing that has been called in to question is McCain's service being a singular pass/fail test for executive fitness vs Obama in regards to national defense.
Everything else inferred is--quite frankly--whining, projection and playing the victim card.
No doubt I will be corrected for having this opinion.
Of course, you weren't correcting me right?
Go read Rockefeller's comment again. Or better yet, as was the intent, take the whole of the argument together as a singular image.
...once.
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You'd think that they'd learn not to use TOR. That's autoban behavior right there. Sort of like having heroin works on your possession.
Yes, I think that it's a great analogy, too.
The Fuzzy Puppy of the VRWC. I've been usurped!
You wouldn't know a TOR IP if it fell in your lap and called you it's unemployed, disability-collecting looser daddy.
Otherwise, I wouldn't be saying this, would I?
sounds like liberal activist netroots...yep that about covers them all.
Freedom of Religion NOT Freedom from Religion
It's the little details that tell me that I'm doing my job properly.
The Fuzzy Puppy of the VRWC. I've been usurped!
The Fuzzy Puppy of the VRWC. I've been usurped!
What has happened to responsible parenting these days? Do they not know how to sign off the computer so the little rugrats don't use the computer.
Now it's way past your bedtime, sonny. You really should get some sleep so you won't nod off tomorrow while you're watching The Wiggles. Be sure to get on some clean Pullups before you put on your PJs.
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it is not cowardly to use superior military tactics against the known enemy. Apparntly Rockefeller doesn't know anything about war also
While McCain was flying (1965). The weapon of choice was MK-81's, MK-82's either 'slick' or with 'snake eye fins' and MK-20's. They didn't even have an true anti-air missile until later (they used zuni's during McCain's time).
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"Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm." -- James Madison
"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
-Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777
How about Senator Jay Rockefeller a few weeks earlier? "McCain was a fighter pilot, who dropped laser-guided missiles from 35,000 feet. He was long gone when they hit," he said. "What happened when they [the missiles] get to the ground? He doesn’t know. You have to care about the lives of people. McCain never gets into those issues."
That was a MASH episode (Hawkeye played Rockefeller).
The trouble is that on MASH the left was always right. Not so much in real life.
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Great stuff par usual, absentee. The campaign to smear may or may not be organized, but they sure seem to all zig and zag at the same time.
Impeach the 5 usurpers