August 15, 2008

Lefty Blogger: McCain a "Drama Queen on the Issues"
— Ace

Speaking of Georgia, McCain said:

My friends, we have reached a crisis, the first probably serious crisis internationally since the end of the Cold War. This is an act of aggression.

"The first probably serious crisis internationally since the end of the Cold War" is of course wrong. He's attempting to underscore the seriousness of Russia's aggressions and unveiled imperial ambitions, but he does so by denigrating the various other crises we've faced since then.

So, he's wrong, and the remark is dumb.

But here's how one lefty blogger responds:

Not the invasion of Kuwait? Or the first Gulf War? Or the Afghan war? Or the second Iraq war? Or Darfur? Or Bosnia? Or 9/11? It's this kind of emotional hyperbole that should worry people about McCain in the White House. He's a drama queen on these issues. With a finger on the trigger.

Which lefty blogger is accusing McCain of "emotional hyperbole" and being a "drama queen"?

If you guess the answer, I'm impressed.

This lefty blogger routinely displays his gross lack of self-awareness, often accusing others of faults that he has in high spades redoubled.

But this -- this -- shows past-mastery in obliviousness that I just didn't know was possible.

The man frequently called "Mr. Excitable" and who trades in unhinged conspiracy theories that would make Lyndon LaRouche blush really, really needs to take a good hard look at himself, try to get past the sweaty, desperate narcissism, and contemplate the possibility of his own flaws.

Posted by: Ace at 01:16 PM | Comments (38)
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1

I guessed. 

But then I read it earlier today so that made it much easier.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 15, 2008 01:25 PM (VBon8)

2 One really shouldn't complain about the mote in someone else's eye while ignoring the retard stick in his own.  Or something like that.

Posted by: Sean M. at August 15, 2008 01:27 PM (e6v7s)

3 "lefty blogger?" But...But... he says he's a conservative. The only true conservative. It's not his fault if true conservatism causes him to talk like a leftist and bad-mouth Republicans and support Obama. That's just what true conservatives do.

Posted by: Splunge at August 15, 2008 01:31 PM (WeKQS)

4 "My friends, we have reached a crisis, the first probably serious crisis internationally since the end of the Cold War. This is an act of aggression."

My bet is that he meant something like "first serious crisis with Russia". Sure there were things like Russia helping Saddam and Iran but that would be problematic rather than crisis.

Eh.

Posted by: abw at August 15, 2008 01:37 PM (FJ/ua)

5 Yes, I think that's what he meant, but he edited himself.

And I think he means, "Hey, this is like Russia starting Cold War II," but he's trying to talk that down, so again, he wound up talking nonsense.

It's very eh. It's just amazing to see La Sullivan calling anyone else a "drama queen."


Posted by: ace at August 15, 2008 01:38 PM (1WR4H)

6 Having Sullivan accuse you of being a drama queen is like Bozo the clown accusing you of having big feet and bad hair.

Posted by: Jack Bauer's Evil Brother at August 15, 2008 01:49 PM (k8yg6)

7 I have wanted to ask this question forever. Who gave  Mr. Sullivan the  final say on what is torture?.I think I have as much a claim to the title as he does.I also think sticking something up a person rear end sounds like torture to me

Posted by: mymy at August 15, 2008 01:50 PM (OouT6)

8 All this talk about McCain choosing Lieberman as his running mate and/or pledging to serve one term only, is scaring  the hell out of me. 

Hold me, Ace. Tell me everything will be okay.

Posted by: grc at August 15, 2008 01:51 PM (h4JIA)

9 the lefties/paultards are taking another McCain quote, out of context of course and implying Moral Relativism.  That Russia invading Georgia is no different than US into Iraq, that we have no 'moral highground' to criticize Russia from.  absolute idiots.

Jack Cafferty is one media idiot that has played this up.

Posted by: jp at August 15, 2008 01:54 PM (jlauK)

10 Both side have nukes, I think his statement is supportable. It is poorly phrased, "most serious" might of been better. Any crisis, that leads to people dying is serious, and we have had a number of those.

Posted by: joe at August 15, 2008 02:01 PM (jvG2F)

11 From the album "War 'n Zevon": Well, he told us George Bush was the very best Excitable Andy said Until Mr. Bush failed his Litmus Test then Excitable Andy fled. "Well, we roughed 'em and we cuffed 'em down in Abu Gharib!", Excitable Andy shouts "How dare you...throw a party without inviting me?!!" Excitable Andy pouts. Conspiracy Theories at the Doily Dish Excitable Andy posts He's on the grassy knoll with Debbie Frisch Excitable Andy's toast "America's a rogue!" and "Rumsfeld is Goebbels!" Excitable Andy wails "Out of Iraq!" and "Rights for Gerbils!" Excitable Andy flails. Well, he's just our Excitable Andy...

Posted by: Noel at August 15, 2008 02:09 PM (4gHqM)

12 jp, were pretty familiar with the way lefty turd-burglers like Cafferty use false analogies to show how ignorant they are. Thanks tough.

Posted by: runninrebel at August 15, 2008 02:13 PM (qAMnO)

13

You overlooked the two recent posts where Obama-boy:

1.  Endorsed the theory that Karl Rove got Georgia to provoke the Russians in order to create a foreign policy crisis that would help McCain

2.  Said that the Cold War was not really about democratic freedom vs. totalitarianism, but about American hegemony.

What a delusional twerp.

Posted by: Evil Old Rich White Guy at August 15, 2008 02:16 PM (H8vOt)

14

I was told today by an Obama supporter that McCain sounds like a "warmonger" on the subject of Georgia.

So, you see, that makes him worse than Surfing Obama on the subject.

I'm still trying to get my eyes to un-roll.

Posted by: MamaAJ at August 15, 2008 02:24 PM (X6Zdh)

15 i clicked not knowing the obvious

Posted by: me at August 15, 2008 02:51 PM (w+qGb)

16

McCain is a drama queen. He will take a small conflict and transform it into World War III. Just don't say "who knew?"

Consider yourself warned!

Posted by: Alan at August 15, 2008 02:57 PM (6nEhR)

17

He will take a small conflict and transform it into World War III. Just don't say "who knew?"

If he somehow "transforms it into World War III" we'll all be dead and nobody will be around to ask questions.

On the other hand, you won't be around to be smug about it either, so there is a bright side.

Posted by: Steve the Pirate at August 15, 2008 03:24 PM (ad6Xd)

18 Consider yourself warned!

Heh.

Posted by: toby hussein 928 at August 15, 2008 03:24 PM (evdj2)

19 Is there really anyone who cares what Excitable Andy has to say about anything any more? Well, anyone who hasn't swapped body fluids with him, that is.

Posted by: Raoul Ortega at August 15, 2008 03:47 PM (9p0nw)

20

First off he is not wrong.  This is the first crisis that America has faced since the Berlin Wall that could give the US a serious defeat.   The first gulf war, The Iraq war,  9/11 the Afgan war while all big events at face value when placed in the scope of world affairs and the continued exsistence of the USA they were small beans.  

Russia with its nuclear weapons has the possibility of destroying this country.  Not since 1989 has America faced this type of serious crisis.  We have not been tested at this level since 1989.   No one thought for a minute that Iraq would defeat us in 1990 nor in 2003.   9/11 while big did not threaten our very existence.   The Afgan war?  Please America was fighting against calvery while we used Airplanes.  Dufur?  Bosina?   Little piss ant crisis compared to the Georgian crisis.  

We now face a country with nuclear weapons, thousands of tanks, aircraft, 300 million people, the next to best weapons in the world and the will to use all of them.   To compare this event to the others, misses the magnitude of this event and inflates those other events into something they were not. 

The Iraq war has cost us 4,000 soldiers in 5 years.  a war with Russia could cost us 4,000 soldiers in day.  It could cost us millions of civilians in an hour. 

 

McCain is dead on and is not using Hyperbole.  Those that don't understand that need to check their facts.

Posted by: unseen at August 15, 2008 03:54 PM (aVGmX)

21 Wait 'til the followup article: "John Bolton is a whiny little bitch"

Posted by: David Ross at August 15, 2008 04:02 PM (J/i/9)

22 And Bolton's moustache? Soooo "Village People".

Posted by: David Ross at August 15, 2008 04:03 PM (J/i/9)

23 St. Andrew of the Hand-Wringers once again demonstrates his dedication to his calling: being comic relief for those in life who have more than 3 functioning brain cells.

Posted by: Blackiswhite, Imperial Agent Provocateur at August 15, 2008 05:37 PM (DrUzc)

24

I think what McCain meant is that this is the first crisis since the Cold War that has the potential to spill over, and affect Europe, the United States, China, etc, affecting the whole international community equally - which isn't true of any of those things that Sullivan mentioned.

Although that is true of the nuclear arms race between India and Pakistan back in the day, that never got as hot as this.

So I don't know, although I wouldn't have said the statement as unqualified as McCain put it, he might have a point as far as this being one of the larger emergencies to face the world.

As for Sullivan, yeah, he fell out of the Retard tree and hit every branch on the way down. Isn't he the guy that Hitchen's called a lesbian?

Posted by: BoB at August 15, 2008 05:46 PM (DgoS8)

25

Let's not cast aspersions on Lyndon LaRouche.  He be da man!!! And mentioning Sullivan (Suliman???) and LaRouche in the same sentence is an insult to LaRouche.

How about bringing back the LaRouche for President panoply?  (Oops, forgot, he's a convicted felon.  Oopf, again, run him as a democrap.  Fixed.)

sarc off

Posted by: codekeyguy at August 15, 2008 06:36 PM (+WuRB)

26 "sucker of cock" kind of gave it away. Shit, at least make semi-difficult.

Posted by: mississippicraig at August 15, 2008 06:48 PM (/BPla)

27 "McCain is a drama queen. He will take a small conflict and transform it into World War III. Just don't say "who knew?"

Consider yourself warned!

Posted by: Alan at August 15, 2008 02:57 PM (6nEhR)"

Go ahead, Alan. Warn me.
And then tell me why Obama will be so much better with all his talk of tough diplomacy. And then tell me, convincingly, why Vladimir Putin is holding his sides as the pain from his numerous guffaws about Obama doing anything but whining as Russia absorbs its former states.
And then bring me a juice box.

Posted by: Nom de Blog at August 15, 2008 07:07 PM (e321h)

28 Well, that wasn't as clear as I'd hoped, but the challenge remains.
Why does Vladimir Putin do anything but laugh at Obama's words?

Posted by: Nom de Blog at August 15, 2008 07:08 PM (e321h)

29 Why oh why give this douche a link, Ace?

Posted by: Kensington at August 15, 2008 11:22 PM (xFNQx)

30 Peter Wehner at Commentary Magazine has a great piece on the Excitable One online right now. He just presents the EO's words over the past six years and it's devastating. Especially his hysterical, self-righteous defenses of -- gasp -- Bush.

Also his repeated hysterical calls for war here! War now!

I highly recommend it. It's better than a two hundred dollar massage for lifting the spirits.

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