Obama and Biden have now both effectively called John McCain a coward for talking smack about Obama behind his back but being afraid to say any of it to his face. And look what kind of low-rate punk answer Sen. McCain provided on this issue to ABC’s Charlie Gibson:
Obama had noted that McCain didn’t raise the issue “to my face” in their debate on Tuesday, but McCain told Gibson he did not raise the Ayers argument during the debate because “it didn’t come up in the flow of conversation.”
You go around telling anyone that will listen that you are going to ‘take the gloves off’ and hand Obama’s head to him in the debate, but when the time comes you don’t even ask him for his lunch money? Everywhere in the world that is known as talking big and punking out.
Obama called him on it yesterday and Biden called him on it today:
“All of the things they said about Barack Obama in the TV, on the TV, at their rallies, and now on YouTube … John McCain could not bring himself to look Barack Obama in the eye and say the same things to him,” Biden said this morning. “In my neighborhood, when you’ve got something to say to a guy, you look him in the eye and you say it to him.”
John McCain’s supposed to be a soldier, for chrissakes, not a big-talking weakling. And his excuse?
MCCAIN: Again, two things I’ve never been accused of lacking. And one is passion, and the other is courage. I mean, I can accept a lot of the other criticisms. It didn’t come up in the flow of the conversation. But it did come up, and I pointed out that he asked for $3 million for an overhead projector at a planetarium in his hometown of Chicago.
Never been accused of lacking courage? Everyone and his brother and cousin are accusing you of lacking courage. Your opponents are challenging your shrunken, frightened manhood as we speak. Your cowardice is now part of the national discussion and it’s poised to be the greater part of your legacy…along with the your rep for running a nastier campaign than Lee Atwater ever had to apologize for.
An overhead projector? You think going after Obama over an overhead projector makes you a man? After all the bloodshed you promised? Your own brown-shirted supporters are begging and pleading with you to be a man, and you’ve got nothing. Are you afraid that Joe Biden is going to punch you in your lying mouth? Is that the problem? Lil’ Joey’ll invite you down to the Senate gym and make you put on the boxing gloves?
Seriously. All this manly posturing by John McCain is disgraceful. He can’t back any of it up. He can’t even look his opponent in the eye. Barack Obama never posed with all that macho stuff. The economy is going to hell, and John McCain wants to talk about William Ayers. Just not to Barack Obama’s face.
In the idiom of sports, John McCain is Corey Williams…a punk.
Total Bully Prick making the women do his dirty work, while he takes cheap shot and backs down when confronted on his BS. No more lap dog press to make excuses in talking about how “Uncomofortable” he really is for being a pussy ahole.
His wife saying Obama hates her son and Palin implying that he is a Muslim terrorist and McCain making below the belt blows.
McCain talks tough like big gambler but his cards are jack and thinks he should never be called out.
Obama and Biden want to see your deuce high hand big fake gambler.
ps. Team Palin lives in a Biazoro World.
Do you think you could have said that without the blatantly sexist expletive?
I apologize Hurria. All of this racism spew and bigotry hate has really fired me up my testosterone against McCain.
Apology accepted. And please try to remember not to insult women by using them as an insult.
he has lost his mind. To his credit, he should be auditioning for David Lynch’s next film noir, make-up and all.
And to top it off, it wasn’t even an overhead projector; Adler Planetrium pretty swiftly debunked McCain’s nonsense.
Thanks for making this correction. As a fan of Adler Planetarium and a proud Chicagoan, I was going to point out McCain’s misrepresentation.
Sheesh!
McCain might have been pissy since he had some rancorous dealings over the Mount Graham International Observatory,
http://unbossed.com/index.php?itemid=2337
but that is no reason to badmouth a rival scientific structure such as a planetarium! Perhaps he is indeed living in the Middle Ages when a camera was a room, not a portable piece of gear, and thus confuses anything more technical than a rock or stick?
However, given his academic “achievements” (5th from bottom of the class) perhaps we can understand why he would cripple other people’s search for education and enlightenment.
Meanwhile, I have a couple of opaque projectors. I wish that I had a planetarium!!!
Go BooMan, go. Nail that arrogant windbag McCain who only talks smack to Obama when Obama is not around. I wonder if Johnny Mac will discover some reason not to show up at the next debate. You know like his efforts are required to rescue the economy that his buddy Bush has so effectively screwed up.
The election is becoming more and more the theater of the absurd. What with the bimbo queen rallying the brown shirts and McCain rambling on about his toughness, I wonder what’s next. Perhaps, another bailout for those partying guys of wall street. Whew!
Obama and Biden need the courage to tell the American people of McCain’s record of trying to silence regulators during the big financial scandal involving Keating. And how Keating flew McCain on vacations. That 13 minute video was totally ineffectual. You need 1 minute TV attack ads pointing this out – not PBS style college lectures. Biden needs to do his job as attack dog and bring it up every day to illustrate McCain’s dishonorable past and his unfitness for command.
Why don’t Obama and Biden bring this out during their speeches? It’s a matter of public record. It’s not some far fetched smear like the Ayers business. It’s factual proof of McCain’s questionable character and unfitness for leadership. It is absolute incompetence to be not using this material. It is not a smear – it is total truth. Why do Obama and Biden always insist on what a great guy McCain is while he smears their character at every turn? If Obama/Biden lose the election, it will be their own fault for not being aggressive enough.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081010/ap_on_el_pr/palin_troopergate_15
How very Bushian of the campaign to issue their own report finding nothing wrong with SP’s actions…more of the same old sh*t.
McCain is a Punk.Ass.Bitch
hiding behind WOMEN.
He couldn’t even look Obama in the eye.
I loved Joe Biden today – he nailed it.
Those people make my skin crawl, and to think they are my neighbors. What the hell is wrong with people?
The Rude One had the same basic take on the debate, only more, um, rude…
John McCain was comfortable dropping bombs on children and then started whining because their parents were mean to him when they captured him.
I haven’t seen an overhead projector in years. It made me laugh–it’s like the guy who told Clinton to say “Change you can xerox”
He probably doesn’t know the difference between an overhead projector and a planetarium–and the fundies who support him would just as soon have astronomy go down the toilet with biology.
Who’s shucking and jiving now, my friends? Old one…
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