McCain is fired up...

[VTBob]

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/02/07/mccain.obama/index.html

I don't know all the details of the situation, but I would tend to believe its better for a senate subcomittee which is DESIGNED to deal with a particular issue, to deal with said issue, rather than a "task force" that'd just act as another burecratic stepping stone in the way of getting things done...

...maybe a task force is needed due to the issues we've had with ethics as of late, but I still don't exactly see where McCain is coming from...

[Ibleedburgundy]

eh, there seems to be no real substance to this controversey. Seems to me like McCain is just making a purely political move. Attacking a well-respected Democrat will get the Republican base back behind McCain and help his chances in 2008.

Judging by Barrack Obama's response, he isn't taking this personally.

[fent]

obama's not up until 2010, this will do nothing to fire up his base 5 years from now.

[CNYSkinFan]

I think Obama's response was measured and well thought out and actually exposed McCain a little. Look they are all Senators and they all play political games even the sainted McCain and Jr. Saint Obama. Of course the Dems want this as an issue in 2006. But McCain is not offering an alternative to the bill proposed by Dems, just more and more study. If Mccain actually cared about finance reform, as I believe he does, he should sign on to the Dem proposal. That would be truly bipartisan.

[CNYSkinFan]

obama's not up until 2010, this will do nothing to fire up his base 5 years from now.
I doubt Obama is trying to fire up his base. But his base extends well beyongd ILL. DNC will be shipping him around to every big city in America with a close Senate race this fall. I am sure He will be coming to Baltimore, Miami, Philadelphia, Minneapolis, Nashville, St. Louis, Cincinatti, Newark, and for the heck of it NYC.

[RedskinsDave]

I guess Mccain is of no use unless he's pissing on the GOP. It's nice to see the Golden Boy of the dems kissing up to Reid.

[CNYSkinFan]

I guess Mccain is of no use unless he's pissing on the GOP. It's nice to see the Golden Boy of the dems kissing up to Reid.

Your right McCain has never kissed the head of the GOP....oh wait

http://blog.reidreport.com/uploaded_images/mccain_bush-hug-767929.jpg

Well maybe they aren't kissing but it is close.

[fent]

Your right McCain has never kissed the head of the GOP....oh wait

http://blog.reidreport.com/uploaded_images/mccain_bush-hug-767929.jpg

Well maybe they aren't kissing but it is close.

that picture is going to haunt my dreams for quite some time.

[Axegrinder]

Wait until McCain visits Cheney's bunker.:D

[CNYSkinFan]

that picture is going to haunt my dreams for quite some time.
No more then it haunts McCain I am sure.

[Spence]

Think we got a good look at Senator McCain's famous temper, eh? I'm always impressed by what people will say and do to become President of the United States.

I don't think McCain is in a position to throw any stones on this issue, since he designed his committee hearings into the Abramoff scandal so that no important Republican office-holder would be brought to book. He's done nothing, the Justice Dept. has done it all.

It's this simple: Obama and McCain both want to do something. McCain wants it done in a way that gives him political cover and minimizes electoral damage to the GOP. Obama has no interest in minimizing damage to the GOP, his interest is in getting lobbying reform enacted and keeping the Dem caucus united. So that's what he's doing. Senator McCain believes people have to line up behind him or else. Senator Obama doesn't take orders from Senator McCain, a fact which appears to have come as a great shock to the gentleman from Arizona.

That's the politics. As for the aesthetics of the thing, I think any reasonable person can see that Obama disagreed with class. McCain disagreed like an ass.

[BurgundyNGold]

I don't know about you guys, but it's been a long time since I've seen a good throw down, drag 'em out cage match. Maybe we could get these guys into the Thunderdome?

Two men enter, one man leaves?

Eh?

[fent]

I don't know about you guys, but it's been a long time since I've seen a good throw down, drag 'em out cage match. Maybe we could get these guys into the Thunderdome?

Two men enter, one man leaves?

Eh?

i think the old POW would like his chances here.

[Spence]

i think the old POW would like his chances here.You gotta be kidding. With all due respect to Senator McCain, he's nearly a cripple from the waist up. [Better than the alternative, I guess some would say.] The injuries he suffered in country don't allow him to put on a sweater by himself, let alone knock around a vigorous young man 20 years his junior.

[RedskinsDave]

I think Mccain could take him with a few kicks and Obama seems like the type of guy who hasn't seen a real street fight anyways.

[fent]

You gotta be kidding. With all due respect to Senator McCain, he's nearly a cripple from the waist up. [Better than the alternative, I guess some would say.] The injuries he suffered in country don't allow him to put on a sweater by himself, let alone knock around a vigorous young man 20 years his junior.

but he's a wily war vet. going against a guy roughly the size of the Wizard of Oz scarecrow, he'd find a way to pull it off.

[BurgundyNGold]

You gotta be kidding. With all due respect to Senator McCain, he's nearly a cripple from the waist up. [Better than the alternative, I guess some would say.] The injuries he suffered in country don't allow him to put on a sweater by himself, let alone knock around a vigorous young man 20 years his junior.
Yeah but Obama is a cripple from the neck up.

[Ooooooooh!]

Sorry, I couldn't resist. :D

[BurgundyNGold]

but he's a wily war vet. going against a guy roughly the size of the Wizard of Oz scarecrow, he'd find a way to pull it off.
Yeah, but that scarecrow could really move. The trick would be to introduce fire into the ring while Feingold was distracting the referee.

[fent]

Yeah, but that scarecrow could really move. The trick would be to introduce fire into the ring while Feingold was distracting the referee.

based on the fireman bobblehead in his image, i'm pretty sure he could make that happen

http://www.hillnews.com/photos/051104/BobbleHeads.gif

[Spence]

Yeah but Obama is a cripple from the neck up.

[Ooooooooh!]

Sorry, I couldn't resist. :DI'll try to resist pointing out that Obama was the first African-American editor of the Harvard Law Review. Oops!

[Spence]

Hey, if it makes you Repubs feel better about yourselves and your party to imagine that John McCain could beat up Barack Obama or any other able-bodied male, knock yourselves out. I've been around McCain, however, and seen how he moves [or can't move] his arms. Anyone recall that scene from "Monty Python and the Holy Grail," where the de-limbed Black Knight threatens to murder King Arthur by biting his legs off?

[fent]

Hey, if it makes you Repubs feel better about yourselves and your party to imagine that John McCain could beat up Barack Obama or any other able-bodied male, knock yourselves out. I've been around McCain, however, and seen how he moves [or can't move] his arms. Anyone recall that scene from "Monty Python and the Holy Grail," where the de-limbed Black Knight threatens to murder King Arthur by biting his legs off?

it's all in good fun man...i don't think anyone would actually enjoy watching the matchup of the old disabled man vs. stickboy. actually, upon second thought, maybe there is a segment of our nation that would love it...

http://images.art.com/images/products/regular/11756000/11756058.jpg

[BurgundyNGold]

I'll try to resist pointing out that Obama was the first African-American editor of the Harvard Law Review. Oops!
C'mon, you know that the joke had nothing to do with reality. It had more to do with the fluid opportunity to tie "crippled from the waist up" to "cripple from the neck up". It didn't matter if it was Obama or whoever McCain is fighting with these days, the opportunity was too sweet to pass up. That was damn near comic poetry right dare!

[BurgundyNGold]

Hey, if it makes you Repubs feel better about yourselves and your party to imagine that John McCain could beat up Barack Obama or any other able-bodied male, knock yourselves out. I've been around McCain, however, and seen how he moves [or can't move] his arms. Anyone recall that scene from "Monty Python and the Holy Grail," where the de-limbed Black Knight threatens to murder King Arthur by biting his legs off?
As he's bleeind profusely from his arm sockets, lol. Great stuff.

[BurgundyNGold]

it's all in good fun man...i don't think anyone would actually enjoy watching the matchup of the old disabled man vs. stickboy. actually, upon second thought, maybe there is a segment of our nation that would love it...

http://images.art.com/images/products/regular/11756000/11756058.jpg

:lol1:

Cripple fight!!!

[VTBob]

aparently they're playing nice now, according to CNN Obama and McCain both walked into the most recent meeting together, and Obama gave McCain a hug on the shoulder...

...guess McCain realized he'd made an ass of himself, or Obama is just sucking up to save bipartisan face, who knows...