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Chafee: Palin a 'cocky wacko'

Posted by Foon Rhee, deputy national political editor September 11, 2008 02:16 PM

So much for a respite from personal attacks in the presidential race.

Former Senator Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island, who is backing Democrat Barack Obama, today stood by his remarks calling Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin a "cocky wacko."

Chafee, who turned from Republican to independent last year, told an audience Tuesday at the New America Foundation in Washington that Palin has revived a "lackluster McCain candidacy," calling her surprise selection "this firestorm, this tornado, into the whole presidential election."

Responding to an audience member's question, he said her speech at the Republican National Convention had also energized Obama supporters. "People were coming into my office, phone calls were flooding in, e-mails were coming in, 'I just sent money to Obama, I couldn't sleep last night' -- from the left. To see this cocky wacko up there," Chafee said, according to the Associated Press account.

Chafee told the AP today that he objected to much of Palin's convention speech, particularly her mocking assertion that Obama was too worried with al Qaeda terrorists getting read their legal rights.

That comment "got to the core of everything wrong with the last eight years," he said. "I consider that wacky, and certainly her tone was very, very cocky. So I thought they were appropriate words."

61 comments so far...
  1. How refreshing....a Republican with a conscience?

    Take a look....Lincoln Chafee is what the GOP used to be before it was taken over by religious nuts (W, Palin, etc) and neocons.

    The party of Lincoln (Abe and Chafee) has been hijacked. Can they stop them before its too late?

    Posted by db September 11, 08 02:32 PM
  1. "cocky wacko".

    That is probably why Lincoln Chafee is now a Former Senator. A cocky wacko indeed.

    Posted by Jane September 11, 08 02:57 PM
  1. Spoken like a true American patriot and eloquent use of words!

    Posted by Luther September 11, 08 03:09 PM
  1. Lincoln Chafee has always been and will always be a blowhard.

    Posted by jmarston September 11, 08 03:15 PM
  1. I have other derivations from the terms Cocky and Wacky, that further extend my discust with sara palin and here under-educated attitude. Maybe I'll save them for when I'm present at one of her pre-fabricated, non-specific talk and run speeches. Hey sara, are you even going to stick around and answer some questions? Oh, that's right, then you'll be asked to think,,,,,,,,and tell the truth. Two processes you're obviously not capable of.

    Posted by Rob September 11, 08 03:17 PM
  1. Lincoln Chafee found the most precise term for Palin. Scares me to think of her being elected! I only hope that this does mobilize Obama supporters. It is an insult to all women that McCain would choose this woman, given all of the qualified women out there--even in the Republican party.

    Posted by Kathy September 11, 08 03:23 PM
  1. she is so far out there this is the first time anyone has hit the nail on the head

    Posted by robyn salmon September 11, 08 03:23 PM
  1. I have other derivations of cocky and wacko that can be applied to sara palin. However I highly doubt she is capable of understanding them.

    Posted by Rob September 11, 08 03:24 PM
  1. Jane, you're right. She IS A COCKY WACKO INDEED. Prior to this poor decision I was voting McCain. Now, I know he has the wrong judgement to be our commander in chief. For the 1st time in 43 years I'm voting Democratic. Palin was irresponsible on John's part.

    Posted by Tom September 11, 08 03:29 PM
  1. How lovely that he can come out of the closet and be himself at last.

    So, when is the commitment ceremony?

    Posted by sinanju September 11, 08 03:43 PM
  1. I was on the fence about who to vote for. McCains VP pick was very important to me because of his health and age. I believe both Mc Cain and Obama love this country and are truly concerned for its future. Although, I think Mc Cain seemed to be "Bush-Like" (lord knows you can't buck the incumbent president when they are your party), I figured underneath it all he really wouldn't be, and would have been comfortable enough had he been elected. But I agree Palin is a cocky wacky, and know my vote definitely goes to Obama. I don't trust her!!

    Posted by ll September 11, 08 04:11 PM
  1. The article described Mr. Chafee as a Republican, however, Mr. Chafee has reportedly been an independent since 2007. He lost a bid for re-election in 2006 as a Republican and changed his political affiliation afterwards. Even as a registered Republican, his voting record was more in line with Democrats. No matter which political party he is in now, the comments are so unprofessional, they undermine any hopes of being persuasive or relevant. He would serve his candidate of choice better if he raised the bar with his comments.

    Posted by Why can't we be friends? September 11, 08 04:15 PM
  1. Lincoln is right on the mark, and its funny that its coming from a republican. the dems should learn from their mistake 4 years ago and fight back. don't assume that the voters will see thru the lies and slander, because they won't. we have become a very ignorant society. i never realized how stupid people in this country are until i moved to florida 7 years ago. palin fits right in. right wing extremist, religious wacko. vote for mccain, means our country will become a fascist theocracy.

    Posted by clockerq September 11, 08 04:27 PM
  1. It has been like a firestorm trance, a media hypnotism. One day I heard that John McCain had named a woman called Sarah Palin to be his vice president and in two days she had become the most important person in America. There has got to be a point at which reality sets in.

    Posted by Evelyn H September 11, 08 04:29 PM
  1. Lincoln Chafee is a deranged mama's boy who has never worked a day in his life. He is not qualified to empty Sarah Palin's wastebasket. I am so sick of these liberal bonzo's.

    Posted by Dave September 11, 08 04:32 PM
  1. What a complete moron this guy is. We had to suffer with this idiot as our Senator for many years. He is very fortunate that his father was born before he was.
    Think about that statment for a minute you"ll get it.

    Posted by MIKE September 11, 08 04:33 PM
  1. Cocky - wacko?

    No, Palin appears to be a deceitful, bigoted, hypocrite with no ostensible experience, or principles.

    I would not be surprised though if she becomes the President in 2010.

    Posted by Simpleton September 11, 08 04:33 PM
  1. That's pretty ironic coming from a "cocky wacko."

    Posted by Mama September 11, 08 04:36 PM
  1. The truth hurts doesn't it, republicans? The Mormons would do a better job at leading the country than your brand of religious fanaticism.

    Posted by Foobar September 11, 08 04:43 PM
  1. Oh, goody. Now we can spend the NEXT two weeks dissecting the word "cocky".

    Posted by Claudia September 11, 08 04:45 PM
  1. Palin is a bit of a wacko. She considers herself one of a select group that gets a naked elevator ride to heaven, when Armageddon "inevitably" comes.

    Cocky? Remains to be seen. Her speeches are just acting so far.

    Disingenuous? Certainly.

    Posted by Republican VN Era Veteran September 11, 08 04:45 PM
  1. Sounds like we have a candidate for Governor. Good for Chafee.

    Posted by Lisa September 11, 08 04:48 PM
  1. ...and Chafee presumes that he's NOT a "cocky wacko"? Snort.

    I could think of some other titles for him, I 'spose.

    Posted by Barb September 11, 08 04:48 PM
  1. Actually, "Jane," he's a former sensator because '06 was the year they decided to throw out nearly all the Republicans, remember? But then you wacky fascist types never seem to remember history.

    Posted by Marine September 11, 08 04:58 PM
  1. The reason Republicans do not want Obama in the White House is because he does not fit their persona.

    Obama is Black

    Obama is for the poor and middle class

    Obama would rather try to work out our difference with other countries through talks instead of bombing them.

    Posted by nathan September 11, 08 05:04 PM
  1. Chafee you are 'out' and Palin is 'in'. Who is cocky wacko? methink Chafee say too much of nothing!

    Posted by roseann September 11, 08 05:12 PM
  1. An immature juvenile comment - this explains why Lincoln Chafee is an ex Senator

    Posted by Ben Edwards September 11, 08 05:13 PM
  1. Lincoln Chafee continues to be a joke. He is a Democrat in Republican clothing. Chafee's comments are insulting and insensitive at a time we need to care about our country...not the "game of politics."
    I vote for the best man, or woman, regardless of party. Shouldn't you?
    There should be no room in choosing the future leader of our country for such cheap comments.

    Rick Mitchell

    Posted by Rick Mitchell September 11, 08 05:13 PM
  1. "Cocky Wacko?"

    This, coming from a former senator? I'm impressed with her choice of language. First of all, name-calling is useless, and it's even more useless when you don't base your name-calling on anything. I'll listen to what you have to say, if you have something to say behind it. For now, go away Lincoln Chaffee.

    Posted by JLove September 11, 08 05:19 PM
  1. EXTRA, EXTRA READ ALL ABOUT IT!

    Former Senator "Nobody" calls Palin a penut butter and jelly head!

    Chafee reminds me of some dweeb in the 5th grade trying to come up with a cut down, all he could muster is 'cocky wacko', .... please, this guys an idiot.

    Posted by Tim September 11, 08 06:01 PM
  1. here's a guy who has lived off the gov.all his life, who has trouble figuring out what he is,calling some a wacko. Invite me to the commitment hearing.

    Posted by grant mathey September 11, 08 06:03 PM
  1. Cocky yes. Wacko no. She's representative of a certain kind of political philosophy that aims to make the earth safe for rich white people, especially megachurch people, who like to be loaded with gold and diamonds and whose idea of human welfare, human rights, humanism is "Let 'em eat cake." Wacko is a nice thing to call this political philosophy which runs on selfishness, denial and the armageddon trance state. Human history is just a nightmare of this kind of philosophy, with a few bright spots of intelligence and brotherhood, A. Lincoln, J. Kennedy, Jesus, Buddha, this and that Dalai Lama. The frenzied certainty of the megachurch mentality justifies all the getting rich anyone could possibly want. Never mind that there's no proportionality between use, having and representative poplulations. The world isn't going to be a safe place for rich white people. But we can all pretend.

    Posted by Gaias Child September 11, 08 06:04 PM
  1. Sarah is a Seccessionist (did we or did we not fight a war over that in 1861?), pregnant at 44, --great judgement! Mother of daugher pregnant at 17, unwed---Where is the Outrage? Moose blasing hockey mama--RAh RAH RAH. If a Republican's daughter is knocked up-it's cool-cause for celebration even. If Obama's daughter was preggers, you tellin me Repugnicans would not blow a gasket?? Hypocritical freaks. My dog is more qualified to be President, and I ain't even got a dog! These idiots poppin babies is excellent argument for abortion on demand.

    Posted by MIchael Lujanac September 11, 08 06:10 PM
  1. "Marine" (comment 24) how do you know "Jane" is wacky and a fascist? Because she observed that the most liberal senator not named Obama got voted out in '06? Because she noted that calling the sitting governor of Alaska (not as progressive a state as say, Arkansas) a wacko is a bit out of bounds for a former U.S. Senator? Was Chafee fired by the people of RI because he was too much of a conservative Republican? Please. You're making youself sound foolish, notwithstanding your effort to frame yourself as a "marine" who backs Obama.

    Posted by Palin supporter September 11, 08 06:27 PM
  1. Chafee..a republican in name only....He is a WACKY KOOK!!!! Talk about the pot calling the kettle black..

    Posted by Last RI Republican September 11, 08 06:37 PM
  1. I would ask any parent if they would throw their 17 year old unwed, pregnant daughter onto the world stage. Where is her judgement???? Where are the conservative morals they have been preaching??? She is all about herself....and she is truly wacky, and most of all cocky!!!

    Posted by Karen September 11, 08 06:38 PM
  1. It's sad to see a former somewhat respected senator pimp out himself to get back into the headline. His comments were ugly, he is only relevant because the news media can put together a headline with a republican insulting another republican as if that gives the attack additional weight.

    Rhode Island and their poor choice of elected officials continue to mar the face of new england.

    Posted by JR Pants September 11, 08 06:43 PM
  1. I would ask any parent if they would throw their 17 year old unwed, pregnant daughter onto the world stage. Where is her judgement???? Where are the conservative morals they have been preaching??? She is all about herself....and she is truly wacky, and most of all cocky!!!

    Posted by Karen September 11, 08 06:46 PM
  1. To me the choice of Sarah Palin is an insult to all women out there. John McCain seems to think that women are superficial enough to vote for him just because of the additional X chromosome, instead of because they are in agreement on core policies and issues.

    While Sarah Palin does indeed have her share of accomplishments, there is no way she is qualified to be second in charge. And given McCain's old age and health problems, there is a very realistic chance he may not make it through the next few years. Any actuarial table will confirm this last sentiment. I believe that there are far more qualified women out there who could be better Vice Presidents (and Presidents!).

    Posted by When Elephants Fly September 11, 08 06:54 PM
  1. Chafee..a republican in name only....He is a WACKY KOOK!!!! Talk about the pot calling the kettle black..

    Posted by AJ September 11, 08 06:56 PM
  1. Since all this Palin hubbub started, I have found myself comparing Obama and McCain very closely.. Obama is looking more and more like the sane and focused candidate, McCain and his campaign staff are beginning to look like a bunch of raving loonies.

    Obama is my choice, no more doubts. I am white, but black is lookin' pretty damn beautiful.

    Posted by Amie September 11, 08 06:59 PM
  1. To me, the scary thing is she's not wacko. She is (or is voluntarily mouthing the words of) a very cunning fringe right-wing counter attack on our liberties. The right wing (and I do NOT count smart mainstream Republicans in this group) see her as bullet-proof: any attack and they can scream "sexism" (a joke from them). They're desperate, and they scare the hell out of me.

    Posted by Cyrus September 11, 08 07:02 PM
  1. A well spoken Bush in a skirt would be more formally said ?[Same as a cocky whaco though]

    Posted by Jack September 11, 08 07:10 PM
  1. A woman who came from humble beginings, went to a (yikes) state college. Oh no! And she actually had children- before 40! The Horror of the thought. She never worked for a non profit, never had an abortion(she must be primitive). She ran a business, and a city and a state.(she didnt milk a trust fund or a husband?) . I just can't understand how we are losing another election.

    Posted by Phineas September 11, 08 07:21 PM
  1. She may be cocky, but that is what is igniting the GOP. At least we know who will protect the country and who will give it away, don't we. Even Biden feels that Obama picked the wrong person. Watch the news. Time will tell who the people want and I hope it isn't Obama

    Posted by Paul September 11, 08 07:56 PM
  1. To Last RI Republican #35

    You got the saying wrong. It's not 'The pot calling the kettle black'
    It's actually "The pot calling Obama to smoke it"

    Just what we need, another pothead in the WH. He better stay away from my stash.

    Posted by Bobo4bush September 11, 08 08:21 PM
  1. Where are the family values that people have embraced this woman for? Her son was doing drugs, snorting cocaine, on oxycondine, booze, you name it he did it. He vandalized a school bus, etc. The judge gave him an ultimatum, go to Iraq or go to jail. So much for him volunteering to serve his country. And Bristol was also heavily on drugs and booze, sleeping around with various guys and where is the outrage from the religious leaders? If these family represent family values, I would like to know which Bible they are reading and what does God really think.

    Posted by Rusty September 11, 08 09:08 PM
  1. What a contras! In McCain & Palin, we have a rural, visceral, blue collar, beer & Harley, National Rifle Association, Pro Life, simple answer types who love their country. Unfortunately, McCain's background suggests that war is not a last resort, but part of the foreign policy. In Obama & Biden, we have urban, cerebral, white collar, white wine and brie, Pro choice complex answer types that may be nearer to the mark, but their dispassionate, no drama responses to things do not get people fired up. Their campaign has cooled off to stone cold.

    Posted by Habakkuk B September 11, 08 09:13 PM
  1. Lincoln Chafee is a dope, a spoiled child. He's interested in pleasing the New York Times. As a moderate who never financially supports Democrats I proudly gave to Sheldon Whitehouse in 2006. I usually give so-called RINOs a lot of slack. When Chafee opened his mouth to gratuitiously criticize Bush, I said enough. I'll go with the real Democrat.

    Posted by Lefty September 11, 08 10:26 PM
  1. Chaffee hit the nail on the head. This woman is dangerously dumb. The idea that she might possibly become PRESIDENT if something happened to McCain sends chills up my spine. This ignoramus who thinks the dinosaurs perished 4,000 years ago would be in charge of the black box ... God help us if THAT ever happens.

    Posted by Dorothy Madigan September 11, 08 11:44 PM
  1. Whatever Sarah Palin's religious beliefs, or political ideology, she does not deserve to be disrespected by a former male member of Congress. Chafee is still bitter because he lost his seat to a Democrat although he voted with them most of the time. It is clear he can't stand women candidates, because he aligned himself with Barack when Hillary was campaigning in RI. Sarah should ignore Chafee because he is a loser.

    Posted by Charly September 12, 08 12:30 AM
  1. Lets see, 17 year old daughter pregnant, and still proud of her??? What is Sarah thinking...... well lets see, its probably called supporting your family.

    Ingorant, uneducated, inexperienced........ well, thats just whats needed to shake up this crazy polarized government.

    And Chaffee, he should be banished to RI for the remainder of his years, well and sit in time out for 45 minutes which is what my son would get for such remarks.

    PALIN for president!!!!

    Posted by SID September 12, 08 04:11 AM
  1. So Chafee thinks all governors past and present are Pontious Pilate and Community Organisers are Jesus Christ? So senators gotta be Satan.

    Posted by skmj September 12, 08 04:32 AM
  1. For the past two weeks, the Republicans have been desperately tutoring Sarah Palin in foreign policy and political issues in general - I picture them with flash cards for each country, quizzing her: "OK, Sarah, let's go over Iran one more time". It is ludicrous to even consider putting her in a position to potentially become President of the United States. It seems as though the Republican party is willing to put our country at incredible risk just to win the election at any cost. They have all become wackos, and she is certainly quite dangerously cocky.

    Posted by Dov September 12, 08 07:15 AM
  1. Let's see . . .

    Cocky: –adjective; overly confident; pertly self-assertive; conceited. Check.
    Wacko:–adjective; crazy. -- noun; an eccentric, strange, or odd person. Check.

    Seems like Lincoln nailed it.

    Posted by mak September 12, 08 10:58 AM
  1. "Cocky Wacko" In other words to be more clinical, she is an "omnipotent narcissist" That is without a doubt her personality disorder in my opinion

    Posted by Joan B September 12, 08 11:30 AM
  1. SID: "Ingorant, uneducated, inexperienced" ( how ironic you misspelled ignorant. LOL)

    You just proved Obama's point: A VOTE FOR MCCAIN AND THE HOCKEY MOM IS JUST 4 MORE YEARS OF THE SAME! cuz that description sounds like we are talking about BUSH.

    Here...I'll make it easy for you.

    Bush/Cheney= McCainPalin


    ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!

    Posted by OBAMA 08 September 12, 08 12:35 PM
  1. I disagree with the comment. I found Sarah Palin to be a breath of fresh air during her speech. I don't think she is dangerous at all. She appears to be a different type of politician who isn't afraid to get in there with both guns blazing. I'm so tired of the same old politicians in this country who have done nothing but line their pockets and point fingers. It appears that Sarah was only responding to the negative comments made about her and her family in the media.

    There's nothing wrong with being ambitious. If she were a man, no one would think twice about her family problems. We need to remember that problems are made to be solved. She seems to be handling things quite well in her own family and has a good political record in Alaska. I just wish she was running for President. She's got my vote!!!

    Posted by Karen September 12, 08 01:33 PM
  1. Palin doesn't seem she has the coolness and thoughtfulness that Obama and Biden have. If she "shoots from the hip" regarding Russia/Georgia, she is bound to get people killed needlessly. I believe Obama/Biden have the knowledge and humility to keep their heads straight on dangerous and delicate decisions. McCain with his constant fidgeting and awkward hovering makes me think of him as a mad scientist. Maybe Palin should use her intense energy and her urge to "kick some butt" by enlisting in the military. They could probably use her and at the same time be able to keep her in check. She seems too raw of a person to be placed so high up.

    Posted by Michelle September 12, 08 05:13 PM
  1. This is especially for Michael Graham at the Boston Herald, all those female PUMAS out there, their grotesquely disturbed supporters, and their collective surrogates in the media who’ve no idea of, or else cynically debauch what the so-called fourth estate is really all about. Who prostitute the news when they’re not actually making it up that is, and wouldn’t have the slightest clue of what analytical journalism is all about – because you’re essentially nothing more than mediocre hacks in a business that sees money and transient headlines-grabbing as the be all and end all of your pathetically sad and corrupt lives that are themselves spurred on by nothing more than the next lowest common denominator sound bite - and as a proxy thrive on smears, innuendos and falsehoods: lies, and downright ones at that, in other words. And that’s why I dare you to print this riposte to your consistent and paranoid abuse of the media and the intelligence of those like myself who read you only to familiarize ourselves with the latest shenanigans that you’re getting up to, so as to be able to counter them.
    What Michael Graham says in his transparently disingenuous attack on Barrack Obama’s pig with lipstick observation – no such phoney outrage when John McCain used it about Hillary Clinton - is the kind of remark that one would expect from someone who has a deep Oedipus complex. Did you actually sleep with your mother Michael? No wonder you are so depraved. Crying phoney sexism is always the last resort of the adult - male as well as female - who as a child has been subjected to physical and sexual abuse at the hands of a parent or guardian usually but not exclusively of the opposite sex and is still stuck in that distant time warp. And you are a classic example of this syndrome Michael Graham; while intelligent people like me from around the world, and most notably from the United Kingdom and mainland Europe, who’ve vigorously campaigned for and actually done something about feminine equality over many decades in which we have been involved in this crusade when it wasn't fashionable in the United States, know what real sexism is. That's why in Europe - from Britain to Germany to Finland - and even in countries like India, Sri Lanka and Israel we've had women leaders in our respective countries, while the United States still lags in the sewers of male chauvinism.
    All of these largely working class and clearly uneducated white men who now excitedly cheer Sarah Palin to the rafters and declare they will vote for her and John McCain in November regardless of their idiotic policies, or more to the point their obvious lack of any substantive ones as they simultaneously level their phoney sexist slurs against Barrack Obama, have you noticed how they always couch their enthusiasm for her with words like man "she’s hot!" Tell me Mr Graham, do you really think that such openly voiced phrases actually relate to Sarah Palin’s intellectual abilities or has anything to do with the skills she requires to run a country armed to the teeth with nuclear weapons and other WMDs in what is a very dangerous world, principally in that state of affairs because of the imperialist antics of the Republican Party and the stupid machismo of those Americans who support it? I think not.
    Furthermore, the United States of America has always been a white, male-dominated and white, male-run society. These white males were and are exclusively the sons, husbands, lovers and male relatives of white women, who have fucked with them, slept in their beds, cheated with them as Cindy did with John McCain, lied for them, thoroughly forgiven them for their indiscretions as Hillary Clinton and the terminally ill Elisabeth Edwards have done, raised their kids and cared for these men. And if after all that intimacy they were, or are still incapable of influencing these same white men, failed for such a long time to persuade these men to let them have the vote and, to use the current buzz phrase, see their chance to break through the supposed glass ceiling either blocked or severely restricted by these same men, tell me, clever clogs Graham, whose fault is that? Surely not Blacks, who were and still are at the bottom of the social and economic pile in racist USA; and certainly not that of Barrack Obama who against the odds has, unlike you, excelled at what he's put his mind to and has done his very best to rise above the gutter instincts of the likes of you Michael Graham in the noble endeavour to create a better and more equitable America for everyone regardless of race, gender, social status, sexual orientation or religion.
    Let’s be forthright here, these are the very same men and women who themselves become the abusers in adult life and comprise the huge reservoir of most of America’s secret paedophiles. The same empty-headed morons who not only relish but also instinctively dish out whatever gratuitous abuse and violence they’re capable of because that’s all they know; who intuitively like to kick ass, and the weaker, more racially or culturally different that their chosen victims are perceived to be the better they feel – that’s why they gravitate in their mindless hordes to a like-minded and self-styled pit bull massif without any noticeable redeeming qualities like Sarah Palin; for that, alas, considering the parochial and unstimulating world they come from and blissfully inhabit, is all they’re familiar with and can readily empathize with.
    Who would have thought it let alone be able to convincingly make it up - Sarah Palin now hilariously acclaimed as a celebrity and rock star by the same people and media who before she unexpectedly and despairingly on the part of John McCain and Karl Rove erupted on the political scene, both saw and utilized these very terms as derogatory epithets when applied to Barrack Obama? And they tell us we’re in the 21st century. Yet we have a bunch of redneck racists and reactionaries, dumb bimbos and the like, who convince themselves that we’re still living at a time when their sort ruled the roost at home generally and the world in particular. Dream on!
    Am I the only one to see through the nauseating pretence of the yellow-bellied cowards, who for all their Nazi-style clamour and sheep-like obeisance to the puerile but nonetheless concerted, jackbooted onslaught and fascist agenda orchestrated these past seven and a half years by America’s neo-cons led by the likes of Karl Rove and Dick Cheney and that John McCain and Sarah Palin are unashamedly signed up to, and that have blighted the hopes and aspirations of many of the world’s inhabitants, as well as caused many millions of them to be callously massacred and displaced – that these evil clowns who don’t have the guts to spew out their one real reason for berating Barrack Obama, which rests squarely on their innate, guilt-ridden, paranoid and insidious racism (the huge but unspoken about elephant standing in the corner of the living room) now want to attack Russia: a country bristling with thousands of thermonuclear weapons - not new clear ones, the words that had to be placed on Sarah Palin’s teleprompter at her convention acceptance speech because she had no knowledge of what thermonuclear meant and couldn’t pronounce the correct spelling of that word. Talk about Americans having a death wish!
    By the way, the original Nazis ended up being comprehensively defeated by the victorious Russians when an overwhelming fascist leaning and German-sympathetic America that chose to let us British, our Commonwealth countries and naturally Russia (France had already caved in to the Nazis) fight the Third Reich and its many willing European satellites on our own, on the disingenuous claim of its own neutrality, just as both grandfathers of your incumbent president, George W. Bush, acted as the Nazis’ international banker and supplier of the lethal Zyklone B gas that the Nazis used in their death camps to eradicate Europe’s Ashkenazi Jews (those who no postwar US president can now run for office without sucking up to; how strong is the power of guilt!); that continent’s gypsies (who don’t get any mention nowadays of what also happened to them even though they’re still widely discriminated against); and those other unfortunate victims who the Germans classified as undesirables. And lets not forget to remind ourselves that the US only came into the war after the Japanese, allies of the Germans, had attacked Pearl Harbour. So you’re in superb fascist company America with a Republican presidential and vice-presidential candidates who’re also morally bankrupt.
    In John McCain’s case a well-known serial adulterer, groper and wife deserter; and from all accounts Sarah Palin’s private life is no better than his. In short, they’re both lying hypocrites. But many white American women who’re leaping on the Sarah Palin bandwagon can readily relate to this, since all the empirical data there is show unequivocally that 46% of them either cheat on or have consistently cuckolded their husbands or live-in partners, and some 39% of the children they produce aren’t the biological offspring of the named fathers. So what you have, in reality, is a lot of macho American men firing blanks or being purposely duped and don’t even know it. Little wonder then that Sarah Palin and John McCain for contradictory reasons are role models to these two specific constituents of cretins. Angered are you? Then I dare those of you who disagree to go have your alleged “kids” DNA tested. After all, you’ve nothing to fear but the truth!
    I served with the British Royal Air Force and had I crashed one plane, let alone five, in the manner that John McCain did I would have been summarily court-martialled and jailed for a very long time. What we detect in John McCain’s case is logic turned completely on its head. And for those who have selected memories, Vietnam like Iraq was an illegally waged war on the part of the United States, whose administration then as now lied to its own citizens about the reasons for starting it; and, crucially, a war you unmistakably lost. Made a POW, as John McCain was, for far longer than America participated in World War Two isn’t a triumph but, more exactly, is seen by all prescient-minded persons as an unmitigated failure to effectively carry out a set mission. Tortured when captured by the Vietnamese after John McCain and others like him from the relative safety of powerful, high flying war planes were dropping napalm and other deadly weapons on innocent and defenceless Vietnamese men, women, children and the elderly isn’t a position from which to claim the moral high ground. After, all what would Americans have done in a similar situation if foreign forces had illegally invaded their country and were doing the same thing to them?
    And if in the warped minds of John McCain and others who share his obsession with a false analysis of the Vietnamese War the Hanoi Hilton was an academy for honing his so-called leadership skills, is the same ludicrous argument also going to be advocated by these selfsame Americans with respect to the illegally renditioned and incarcerated inmates that the United States of America in open contravention of the Geneva Conventions, international law and the explicit condemnation of civilized countries worldwide holds in Guantanamo Bay, Bagram, Abu Grahib, and the other secret gulags and prisons that it operates around the world?
    John McCain isn’t very clever in general or, more specifically, intellectually. And had he not been the son and grandson of US admirals he would most certainly have been hastily kicked out of the military academy where he was sent to and allowed to “graduate” even though by his own lurid accounts he’d failed miserably academically and in all other respects. The man also has a vile temper and poor judgement: characteristics that are patently unsuited for some one aspiring to the presidency of a country that is a nuclear superpower. Here’s what the columnist Michael Tomasky of the British Guardian newspaper had to say about him in the Saturday 13 September edition of that paper:
    “McCain’s campaign is all the more shameful considering that he’s doing many of the exact things that were done to him by George Bush’s campaign in 2000 – and employing some of the selfsame people who did it to him to do it to Obama…But as the old saying goes, a lie can get halfway around the world before truth even gets its boots on, and so here we are.”
    And this from the Guardian’s editorial of the same date:
    “The overriding consideration should therefore have been to select as a running mate a man or woman with the ability and authority to take up the reins should they fall from Mr McCain’s hands. Mr McCain has done the exact opposite. Mrs Palin steered herself through her first interview this week with the nervous intensity of a well-prepared candidate for catechism who was nevertheless not quite sure of her ground on the sacraments. She is not experienced, and if she has ability it has been demonstrated only at a very low level. It speaks volumes that she is being kept from the press while being tutored at breakneck speed.”
    We’ve had enough wars in the past seven and a half years of the Bush/Cheney administration. Do we need more of them and this time instigated by the reckless actions and Rambo-style politics of a John McCain/Sarah Palin administration that could easily catapult mankind into a thermo-nuclear holocaust or Armageddon? Or are Americans, and not just their politicians, now openly showing the rest of us what at heart they really are – the world’s Fourth Reich. In which case, “Sieg Heil Amerika!
    British but unable to vote in the US elections even though the decision of you Americans will have an impact on the lives of the rest of us who live in this world I'm a Barrack Obama supporter, like many of my fellow citizens in Europe and around the world, because we all feel he is currently your country's best hope to avoid a military Armageddon foisted on the rest of mankind. But part of me perversely wants John McCain and Sarah Palin to win. For I know that before long America will be at war again, but this time specifically on its own and with no coalition of the willing to help save it out from its self-imposed folly. And hopefully all the mutter f--kers of you in that parochial country across the pond will in your droves be sent off to fight and lose your lives in the manner of the expendable trash that you are. But somehow I don't think that those of you, for all your jingoism and fake patriotism with regard to the United States, will be among those who'll be the first in line to volunteer and put your lives in harm's way. No, history manifestly shows that craven cowards like you and Michael Graham perpetually leave that for others to do. As we say in Britain, you’ll be quite willing to defend the US to the last drop of someone else’s blood.
    Professor Dr. Stanley Collymore London, United Kingdom.

    Posted by Prof. Dr. S. Collymore September 15, 08 05:22 AM
  1. So, former Senator Casper Milquetoast doesn't like Sarah Palin. Not surprising. She's more of a man than he is.

    Posted by David September 15, 08 09:29 PM
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