• Menu
  • Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Before Header

  • About Us
  • Lexicon
  • Contact Us
  • Our Store
  • ↑
  • ↓
  • ←
  • →

Balloon Juice

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Giving up is unforgivable.

When they say they are pro-life, they do not mean yours.

GOP baffled that ‘we don’t care if you die’ is not a winning slogan.

If you don’t believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love isn’t freedom, it is privilege.

Human rights are not a matter of opinion!

It’s a good piece. click on over. but then come back!!

Come on, man.

The rest of the comments were smacking Boebert like she was a piñata.

The gop is a fucking disgrace.

Republican speaker of the house Mike Johnson is the bland and smiling face of evil.

“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.”

There are times when telling just part of the truth is effectively a lie.

Let the trolls come, and then ignore them. that’s the worst thing you can do to a troll.

Republicans in disarray!

“A king is only a king if we bow down.” – Rev. William Barber

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

Stamping your little feets and demanding that they see how important you are? Not working anymore.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

Dear Washington Post, you are the darkness now.

The willow is too close to the house.

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

Republican also-rans: four mules fighting over a turnip.

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

Mobile Menu

  • Seattle Meet-up Post
  • 2025 Activism
  • Targeted Political Fundraising
  • Donate with Venmo, Zelle & PayPal
  • Site Feedback
  • War in Ukraine
  • Submit Photos to On the Road
  • Politics
  • On The Road
  • Open Threads
  • Topics
  • COVID-19
  • Authors
  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Lexicon
  • Our Store
  • Politics
  • Open Threads
  • 2025 Activism
  • Garden Chats
  • On The Road
  • Targeted Fundraising!
You are here: Home / Can I Title a Post “??????”

Can I Title a Post “??????”

by Michael D.|  October 8, 20085:03 pm| 38 Comments

This post is in: Did You Know John McCain Was A POW?

FacebookTweetEmail

“Across this country, this is the agenda I have set before my fellow prisoners and the same standards of clarity and candor must now be applied to my opponent.”

FacebookTweetEmail
Previous Post: « Diagram the Feedback Loop
Next Post: WTF- $38 Billion More? »

Reader Interactions

38Comments

  1. 1.

    Stevenovitch

    October 8, 2008 at 5:05 pm

    Well, he was a prisoner at one point.

  2. 2.

    Foxhunter

    October 8, 2008 at 5:06 pm

    Has the new and promising dementia drug gone to market yet?

  3. 3.

    Stevenovitch

    October 8, 2008 at 5:07 pm

    Also, he didn’t have youtube while he was a prisoner. Also.

  4. 4.

    rob!

    October 8, 2008 at 5:07 pm

    he’s projecting to how he’d treat all of us if he wins the election.

  5. 5.

    ThymeZone

    October 8, 2008 at 5:09 pm

    Many jokes will be made, but I have been watching this guy for you for 25 years so you don’t have to … and I think he is actually losing it. His mental acuity is going downhill fast, and as much as I hate to see this happen to any person, I think it is time to make an issue of it. I really don’t think this man can serve out a 4-year term in the job he seeks.

    And of course, if he gets that job (which is highly Selassie, I mean, unlikely … heh …) we know what happens next.

    Mrs. Mooseburger gets the job.

  6. 6.

    upgrayedd

    October 8, 2008 at 5:14 pm

    I can’t wait for his post-campaign ghost-written book: "Also, My Friends: A Message To My Fellow Prisoners, Also That One"

  7. 7.

    gopher2b

    October 8, 2008 at 5:16 pm

    Palin looked very confused.

  8. 8.

    Justin

    October 8, 2008 at 5:18 pm

    The strain of campaigning against a younger, more charismatic opponent, after you’ve turned the press against you, would buckle most men, let alone a 72 year old trying to deal with the cognitive dissonance of imagining oneself to be a good, honourable man running the sleaziest campaign ever.

    I wonder how intrade would price the odds of him stroking out before November 5th. I keep expecting him to drop an N-bomb on camera now.

  9. 9.

    John Cole

    October 8, 2008 at 5:20 pm

    @gopher2b: That just means she was awake.

  10. 10.

    Tsulagi

    October 8, 2008 at 5:20 pm

    Sounds like senior moments McCain having a Back to the Future moment in his personal time bubble. I await to hear him refer to Obama as Charlie.

  11. 11.

    SamFromUtah

    October 8, 2008 at 5:21 pm

    So we’re all prisoners now? I’ll drink to that!

  12. 12.

    Comrade Dreggas

    October 8, 2008 at 5:21 pm

    So when can we expect a tirade against the "gooks" and references to opponents as "Charlie"?

  13. 13.

    raff

    October 8, 2008 at 5:25 pm

    Palin’s reaction struck me as odd. She clearly hears McCain’s slip-up, but does nothing. She could have tapped McCain’s shoulder gently, whispered in his ear & McCain could have made an endearing joke about it. But she let him go.

    At least Joe Leiberman had the sense to correct McCain when neccessary.

  14. 14.

    w vincentz

    October 8, 2008 at 5:29 pm

    Cindy smiled demurely when McStud let slip their "secret" bedroom bondage game.
    Afterwards, Johnnie was heard to whisper, "Did ya bring the handcuffs, Trollop?"

  15. 15.

    Krista

    October 8, 2008 at 5:31 pm

    At least Joe Leiberman had the sense to correct McCain when neccessary.

    True, but Lieberman probably wasn’t worried about McCain losing his temper and blurting out "Let me handle this, you c**t!"

    Then again…

  16. 16.

    Dawn Hannity

    October 8, 2008 at 5:37 pm

    Hey, wait a second here. Give the man a break.
    McCain is, after all, speaking with complete clarity and candor.
    Republican campaign events are exclusively populated by party purist where the disloyal "ones" and other elites are locked out, thus yes they are prisons for his loyalist.
    What’s to question?

  17. 17.

    Cruel Jest

    October 8, 2008 at 5:39 pm

    The Prisoner

    I can’t be the first one to think of this. Can I?

    Edit: Actually, This one is better.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29JewlGsYxs&feature=related

  18. 18.

    DonnaInMichigan

    October 8, 2008 at 5:39 pm

    Maybe he’s hoping that him and Sarah can play prisoner of war…….wink wink.

  19. 19.

    tripletee (formerly tBone)

    October 8, 2008 at 5:40 pm

    @Krista:

    Worried about it? I’m guessing Liebs would pay for it. And then say "Thank you sir, may I have another?"

    Re: the prisoner slip, I don’t really see why everyone is so worked up about it. People misspeak, and McCain’s under an enormous amount of pressure. Why go after him on something like this when there’s a metric fuckton of legitimate reasons to go after him? As That One might say, don’t make a big election about small things.

  20. 20.

    raff

    October 8, 2008 at 5:41 pm

    True, but Lieberman probably wasn’t worried about McCain losing his temper and blurting out "Let me handle this, you c**t!"

    Heh! It had occured to me that Palin probably kept her peace (& place) because correcting McCain might be considered unseemly. One might even say… uppity.

    Lieberman can correct McCain because they’re equals (of a sort). Palin is not an equal. She’s a prop, a gimmick, an affectation… & affectations don’t correct great men.

  21. 21.

    Cruel Jest

    October 8, 2008 at 5:43 pm

    On second thought, this one is better.

  22. 22.

    CIRCVS MAXIMVS MMVIII

    October 8, 2008 at 5:56 pm

    Lieberman can correct McCain because they’re equals (of a sort). Palin is not an equal. She’s a prop, a gimmick, an affectation… & affectations don’t correct great men.

    And she knows it… yet it gnaws at her, so much so that she lays awake simmering over it in the dark and then gets up in the morning and goes on national television and talks about the "Palin/McCain" ticket. Ha!

    But, still, she knows it, and that’s enough!

  23. 23.

    gocart mozart

    October 8, 2008 at 6:05 pm

    After 8 years of Cheney/Bush, I think it was just ol timey McCain straight talkin mavrickness.

  24. 24.

    DJ Coolie Hot

    October 8, 2008 at 6:12 pm

    "I am not a number–I am a free man!"

  25. 25.

    ploeg

    October 8, 2008 at 6:16 pm

    LET MY PEOPLE GO

    Day 2819 of the American Hostage Crisis

  26. 26.

    Comrade Nikolita

    October 8, 2008 at 6:17 pm

    @ThymeZone:

    That’s more or less what I was thinking of last night. His attitude towards Obama and the whole election campaign in general strikes me as someone who is losing control (of both himself and his campaign), losing his capabilities, and is striking out blindly in a desperate effort to get what he wants.

    Even if his "my fellow prisoners" line was a mis-step, I think it’s fair to ask if Obama would’ve made the same mistake. And I think the answer would be no – because he’s younger, he’s in better mental shape, he has better control over himself, and he usually knows how to phrase his words.

    Also: http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/bardot-slams-palin-as-a-disgrace-to-women/2008/10/08/1223145388360.html

  27. 27.

    Polish the Guillotines

    October 8, 2008 at 6:26 pm

    Palin’s reaction struck me as odd. She clearly hears McCain’s slip-up, but does nothing. She could have tapped McCain’s shoulder gently, whispered in his ear & McCain could have made an endearing joke about it. But she let him go.

    Cuz she buys into the wingtard hype that she should be at the top of the ticket. She’d put a shiv in the old guy (metaphorically or otherwise) in a New York minute to become Jesus’ Specially Anointed Spokesmodel-In-Chief Of the Apocalypse(tm).

  28. 28.

    That One - Cain

    October 8, 2008 at 6:37 pm

    Today, we are all POWs. I think that’s what McCain was trying to say. :)

    cain

  29. 29.

    jake 4 that 1

    October 8, 2008 at 6:52 pm

    What Polish the Guillotines said. Every time McPOW has what might be a Senior Moment Palin mentally does a little moose-step of glee.

    If they get elected, though, the reporters will start avoiding her also and the constant torrent of fun facts about the odd thing the President did or said.

    And that fucker will deserve every sharp object she inserts in his back.

  30. 30.

    Polish the Guillotines

    October 8, 2008 at 6:54 pm

    moose-step

    Win.

  31. 31.

    raff

    October 8, 2008 at 7:07 pm

    I see, via the WashMonthly, that the right is in a bit of a tizzy over Obama’s (correct) pronounciation of ‘Pakistan", or as K-Lo puts it: "Pock-i-stahn".

    John McCain’s pronounciation of "Americans" that comes out sounding like "prisoners", however, causes the hystericans no concern whatsoever.

  32. 32.

    Delia

    October 8, 2008 at 9:07 pm

    Cuz she buys into the wingtard hype that she should be at the top of the ticket. She’d put a shiv in the old guy (metaphorically or otherwise) in a New York minute to become Jesus’ Specially Anointed Spokesmodel-In-Chief Of the Apocalypse™.

    Yeah, La Palin is waiting for her moment. Get McPOW elected; then if his melanoma doesn’t fortuitously kick in, have him declared mentally incompetent sometime within the first year. She’s ignorant as a pile of rocks but she’s not exactly stupid. You can see the calculations whirring in her brain as she looks away and then looks back again. All I can say is Cindy better hope they lose. Or hire some good bodyguards.

  33. 33.

    #33497H

    October 9, 2008 at 1:27 am

    You people make me sick.

    John McCain is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I’ve ever known in my life.

  34. 34.

    bedlam UK

    October 9, 2008 at 2:55 am

    I was reading on one of the tin-foil hat blogs a theory that McCain didn’t pick Palin like its suggested.
    She was picked to be his replacement.
    When its too late to do anything else he’ll step down into a reverse ticket due to ‘health’ reasons, and Palin will lead the party.

    I have no idea about the rules over there but assume that this wouldn’t be possible. But hell, that was a scary idea.

    Either way though, McCain doesn’t have control of his faculties and hasn’t for a while. That is abundantly clear.
    So Palin will be leading one way or the other.
    McCains just the mouth piece. the POW face of the party.

  35. 35.

    Ash Can

    October 9, 2008 at 3:57 am

    Tripletee: "Why go after him on something like this when there’s a metric fuckton of legitimate reasons to go after him?"

    That was my initial reaction as well. I can forgive a misspeak; everyone does it. I have to wonder where this one came from, though.

  36. 36.

    aarrgghh

    October 9, 2008 at 7:03 am

    ash can: that was my initial reaction as well. i can forgive a misspeak; everyone does it. i have to wonder where this one came from, though.

    correctamundo, richie — everyone trips over their tongue now and then, but in this case we’ve got a complete and frankly bizarre word substitution that makes you really wonder what universe mccain thought he was in, and, more importantly, how often he visits.

  37. 37.

    Ron E.

    October 9, 2008 at 9:42 am

    We are all prisoners of his pathetic bullshit campaign and his pathetic unqualified to even be mayor of Wasilla running mate.

  38. 38.

    Rick Taylor

    October 9, 2008 at 12:46 pm

    I can’t be the first one to think of this. Can I?

    Nope. I put a link to it in the previous thread.

    We’re all pawns, m’dear.

Comments are closed.

Primary Sidebar

On The Road - way2blue - SINALEI, SAMOA—RESPITE EDITION—FEBRUARY 2025.  (second of five) 7
Image by way2blue (7/13/25)

World Central Kitchen

Donate

Recent Comments

  • rivers on Sunday Night Open Thread (Jul 13, 2025 @ 8:07pm)
  • Steve LaBonne on Sunday Night Open Thread (Jul 13, 2025 @ 8:07pm)
  • kalakal on Medium Cool – Navel Gazing! (Jul 13, 2025 @ 8:06pm)
  • lowtechcyclist on Sunday Night Open Thread (Jul 13, 2025 @ 8:06pm)
  • Baud on Medium Cool – Navel Gazing! (Jul 13, 2025 @ 8:04pm)

Balloon Juice Posts

View by Topic
View by Author
View by Month & Year
View by Past Author

Featuring

Medium Cool
Artists in Our Midst
Authors in Our Midst
No Kings Protests June 14 2025

🎈Keep Balloon Juice Ad Free

Become a Balloon Juice Patreon
Donate with Venmo, Zelle or PayPal

Calling All Jackals

Site Feedback
Nominate a Rotating Tag
Submit Photos to On the Road
Balloon Juice Anniversary (All Links)
Balloon Juice Anniversary (All Posts)
Fix Nyms with Apostrophes

Social Media

Balloon Juice
WaterGirl
TaMara
John Cole
DougJ (aka NYT Pitchbot)
Betty Cracker
Tom Levenson
David Anderson
Major Major Major Major
DougJ NYT Pitchbot
mistermix

Keeping Track

Legal Challenges (Lawfare)
Republicans Fleeing Town Halls (TPM)
21 Letters (to Borrow or Steal)
Search Donations from a Brand

Feeling Defeated?  If We Give Up, It's Game Over

Site Footer

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

  • Facebook
  • RSS
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
  • Comment Policy
  • Our Authors
  • Blogroll
  • Our Artists
  • Privacy Policy

Copyright © 2025 Dev Balloon Juice · All Rights Reserved · Powered by BizBudding Inc

Share this ArticleLike this article? Email it to a friend!

Email sent!