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It looks like Cindy McCain sucks as bad as her husband when on the attack- it doesn’t come across as clever, or witty, or effective:

ABC News’ Ed O’Keefe Reports: Laura Bush may be ready to give Michelle Obama the benefit of the doubt when it comes to her patriotism but Cindy McCain may not.

“I don’t know why she said what she said,” Mrs. McCain explains in an interview with ABC News’ Kate Snow airing on “Good Morning America” Thursday. “Everyone has their own experience. I don’t know why she said what she said, all I know is that I have always been proud of my country.”

The Senator and Mrs. McCain are beginning to look as tin-eared as the Clinton campaign.

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  1. 1.

    Brachiator

    “Everyone has their own experience. I don’t know why she said what she said, all I know is that I have always been proud of my country.”

    Especially when she was hooked on drugs.

  2. 2.

    D. Mason

    I know you have a ban on the word c#nt here but I wonder if it’s ok to call Cindy McCain a c#nt since, you know, the maverick does. I wanna be like the mav.

  4. 4.

    Dennis - SGMM

    Look, if we don’t have a First Lady who can bake a cake with Oxycontin frosting then the terrorists win.

  7. 7.

    wingnuts to iraq

    nothing like the pride of invading a country based on lies. It makes me sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo warm

  9. 9.

    Micheline

    John Cole,

    I apologize that this is off-topic but I wanted to ask you if Obama should be worried about the evangelical vote because in the “Washington Post-ABC News poll released this week found McCain collecting about 68 percent of the white evangelical vote, compared to Barack Obama’s 22 percent. That number is very similar to level of support President Bush received in June 2004, when he led then Democratic nominee Sen. John Kerry 65 to 30 among white evangelicals.” Aren’t we dems getting too cocky? I mean after all Bush trounced us as a result of the evangelical vote.

  13. 13.

    Krista

    D. Mason Says:

    I know you have a ban on the word c#nt here but I wonder if it’s ok to call Cindy McCain a c#nt since, you know, the maverick does. I wanna be like the mav.

    Nope, it’s still not okay. For two reasons:

    1. Do you really want to aspire for the very low bar set by McCain?
    2. I don’t like the word. It makes me unhappy. And this entire blog and its denizens exist solely to make me happy, so get with the program, chum.

  14. 14.

    Pasota

    Everyone has their own experience. I don’t know why she said what she said, all I know is that I have always been proud of my country.

    Shorter Cindy McCain:

    ‘Let them eat cake.’

  15. 15.

    Corner Stone

    ” look as tin-eared as the Clinton campaign.”

    God. Get over yourself you fucking Republican voting imbecile. Let. It. Go.
    Maybe if GWB could run for a third term you’d happily pull the lever a THIRD TIME for him?
    What a joke.

  16. 16.

    Tom in Texas

    Mich;

    I think it depends on how many evangelicals show up rather than what percentage prefer whom. If 100,000 college kids showed up in ’04 and 100,000 fewer fundies, we’d be looking at a reelect Kerry campaign.

  17. 17.

    Kevin

    The Senator and Mrs. McCain are beginning to look as tin-eared as the Clinton campaign.

    I don’t think they’re being tin-eared, I’m sure this is much more deliberate.

  18. 18.

    D. Mason

    Do you really want to aspire for the very low bar set by McCain?

    Hmmm I always saw it less as an aspiration and more as a game of limbo. How low can you go?!?!?!?!

  19. 19.

    Kevin

    God. Get over yourself you fucking Republican voting imbecile. Let. It. Go.
    Maybe if GWB could run for a third term you’d happily pull the lever a THIRD TIME for him?
    What a joke.

    It’s terrible the way John forces you to read his website.

  21. 21.

    RSA

    “Everyone has their own experience, from a rich heiress to Jose Padilla. I don’t know why she said what she said, all I know is that I have always been proud of my country. Why, when I was reading the Taguba report about Abu Ghraib, I couldn’t have been prouder.

    Fixed to reflect recent news headlines about “bad apples”. I’m not always proud of my country.

  22. 22.

    Zuzu's Petals

    it doesn’t come across as clever, or witty, or effective

    Doesn’t have to. The point is the meme has been repeated, yet again.

    The response is background noise.

  23. 23.

    sistermoon

    Just what America needs – homewrecking, larcenous, Vicodin-addicted patriots…

    The more Substance Abuse Barbie opens her mouth, the dimmer she reveals herself to be.

  24. 24.

    sdstarr

    Ahhh. For a second I thought you meant “real NEW ENGLAND patriots steal recipes.” You can understand why I would think that.

  25. 25.

    Delia

    I’m with Krista. There’s plenty of substantive stuff on which to criticize Cindy.

    And it’s time to remind the country once again about how the very rich are different from you and I. Especially when it comes to drug sentencing.

  26. 26.

    Nellcote

    At one of JM’s infamous “townhalls” I wish someone would ask him about drug sentencing laws especially when applied to drugs stolen from a charity.

  27. 27.

    TenguPhule

    It looks like Cindy McCain sucks as bad as her husband when on the attack

    They both confuse suck with blow.

  28. 28.

    Brachiator

    Martin Says:

    Especially when she was hooked on stealing drugs from a charity.

    Fixed.

    And what was she doing with these drugs? Making jello molds? How come no one asks if she were selling drugs, as opposed to doing the “boo hoo, pitiful you” victim dance with her?

    Why are there no Fox News chyrons describing Cindy McCain as “John’s Crack Ho?”

    Although I sympathize with much of what Mrs McCain went through in her life, I tire of the contrast in which some in the media forgive her everything while strenuously looking for some dirt which would mark Michelle Obama as someone just short of a racist or terrorist.

    And how come no one asks Cindy McCain about her involvement in the Keating Five scandal? Interesting that both McCain and his wife might both be complicit. Per Wikipedia (Prescription drug addiction, theft, and recovery):

    In 1989, Cindy McCain became addicted to opioid painkillers such as Percocet and Vicodin, which she initially took to alleviate pain following two spinal surgeries for ruptured discs and to ease emotional stress during the Keating Five scandal, which involved her as a bookkeeper who had difficulty finding receipts. The addiction progressed to where she resorted to stealing drugs from her own AVMT.

    An un-indicted co-conspirator who loves her country.

    It never ceases to amaze me to see how the rich and powerful can always buy respectability. And as long as they look good in public and attach themselves to a worthy cause, the rubes always fall for it.

  29. 29.

    Elvis Elvisberg

    By the way, I hadn’t realized just how dishonorably the whole drug-stealing and (eventually) ensuing PR campaign were handled. The whistleblower from the charity found himself the target of an investigation.

  30. 30.

    rikyrah

    She is a Pill Poppin’ Piece-On-The-Side.

    If the McCain campaign wants to ‘ go there’, about Michelle Obama.

    Then, it should be returned, IN FULL back to them.

  31. 31.

    Dennis - SGMM

    As any fan of Rush Limbaugh can tell you, there’s a big difference between a wealthy white person committing illegal acts to obtain prescription drugs and some damned druggie scoring an eight-ball on a street corner. The former deserves sympathy and understanding while the latter deserves to be locked up for as long as possible.

  32. 32.

    Nancy Irving

    “…became addicted to opioid painkillers such as Percocet and Vicodin…”

    Hey, I have a big bottle of Vicodin left over from my last surgery. I’d be more than happy to FedEx it to Cindy, on the understanding she takes it all at once! :)

    Aw, that was cruel. I take it back. (Not the Vicodin!) :)

  34. 34.

    jake

    The former deserves sympathy and understanding while the latter deserves to be locked up for as long as possible.

    So the former doesn’t have to share with the latter.

  35. 35.

    Cyrus

    Micheline Says:
    Aren’t we dems getting too cocky? I mean after all Bush trounced us as a result of the evangelical vote.

    I disagree, I think that explanation was just a spin job. A high-stakes, widespread, but successful spin job.

    That explanation is based on this survey, or one a lot like it. Summary: people polled after the 2004 election were asked what the most important issue was. More people gave the answer “moral values” than any other. Those people voted for Bush over Kerry, 80-18 percent. Therefore, Karl Rove and lots of Republican partisans argued that Christians voted for Bush because Democrats are godless, and Democrats should be more conservative, or something.

    There’s at least one big problem with that argument: “moral values” was the most common answer only by a slim plurality. The second most common answer was “terrorism,” at 19 percent of the population. Those people supported Bush even more strongly, 86-14. It’s just as likely that they swung the election to Bush as the “moral values” people.

    But if “terrorism” gets credit for the win, then it amounts to admitting to fear-mongering. Give credit to “moral values,” on the other hand, and you’re safe because no pundit questions what that means and the base gets to pat themselves on the back and you might be able to pull the Democrats to the right and… So.

    Also, a three-point spread in the popular vote is not “trounced” by any reasonable definition.

  36. 36.

    aldorossi

    Does even the most ardent McCain supporter believe that the heiress to the Budweiser fortune bakes cookies?

    That’s almost as silly as believing that a Prep School Yale Harvard Legacy Fourth Generation New England Blue Blood Son of a President Grandson of an Ivy League Chancellor really enjoys clearing brush on a “ranch” bought for him as a campaign prop in 1999.

    Oh, wait…nevermind.

    (Notice how often you see him in a tee shirt posed behind the wheel of his good ole pick up now that he’s not running for anything?)

  37. 37.

    Cris

    And McCain’s campaign can’t even spell Obama’s name right!

    “Barach Obama.” Looks a little like “Baruch Obama.” Not only is he a secret Muslim, he’s also a secret Jew!

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