John McCain Acceptance Speech Drinking Game

[i!!ustrious]

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constraint bruva! it's your friend!

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overall the whole thing went ok and predicable, minus all the protesting quacks raging up and being nubtards. mccain knows how to hit the humanity keynotes while speaking too, (or all speech writers are just that pro.) if only the candidates technical policies didn't fuck em' all over so hard, while they try to appease all.

not gun lie, i'm a bit drunk from the parameters of this game tho as well!

[MJDub]

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Hey i get it, his speech makers and handlers are beating a dead horse with the whole POW thing, but there's not a one of us that could have endured what he went through in captivity. I myself would be in a corner drooling in a cup if I got .01% of the beating McCain did in Vietnam. You can see that it has destroyed him physcially & that it makes him uncomfortable to talk about it, but he earned the right to stand where he is today and speak his peace.

Ron Paul is a whole different issue, he's not standing behind that podium because he's made too many enemies in the republican party. McCain may not be the best candidate, and more often my libertarian side says to sit this election out...

i just take issue with the patriotism jokes, references to "cliche", and such...

I would refer to what the former Supreme Allied Commander of Europe, General Wesley Clark said about McCain. He got SHOT DOWN and taken prisoner. He had terrible things done to him and served courageously, but that doesn't make him commander-in-chief material.

[toasty]

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i just take issue with the patriotism jokes, references to "cliche", and such...

bunch of nondescript older white dudes in suits and Stepford wives going through the motions by mumbling in unison = the very definition of cliche. That was the most obvious, expected, homogeneous crowd I've ever seen in my life.

You could tell their hearts weren't in it, though.

[k3n3]

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I would refer to what the former Supreme Allied Commander of Europe, General Wesley Clark said about McCain. He got SHOT DOWN and taken prisoner. He had terrible things done to him and served courageously, but that doesn't make him commander-in-chief material.

I'm not a McCain supporter, and would have a tough time voting for him... But I would say that his time in Congress, is what earned him his party's nomination...

Using General Clark's (undoubtedly flawless & unquestionable) logic, what exactly are Obama's qualifications to be commander-in-chief ???

[88Mariner]

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Hey i get it, his speech makers and handlers are beating a dead horse with the whole POW thing, but there's not a one of us that could have endured what he went through in captivity. I myself would be in a corner drooling in a cup if I got .01% of the beating McCain did in Vietnam. You can see that it has destroyed him physcially & that it makes him uncomfortable to talk about it, but he earned the right to stand where he is today and speak his peace.

Ron Paul is a whole different issue, he's not standing behind that podium because he's made too many enemies in the republican party. McCain may not be the best candidate, and more often my libertarian side says to sit this election out...

i just take issue with the patriotism jokes, references to "cliche", and such...

Cliche? You know who makes them cliche? John McCain does. Sarah Palin does. Ultimately the best argument for voting John McCain that any republican has asserted (notwithstanding that he isn't obama) is that he has COURAGE, and HONOR, and FORTITUDE and VISION. And Palin has STRENGTH and INTELLIGENCE and BABIES and FAITH and ...you know what? Fuck that. Shitting buzzwords out one's mouth does not make a good platform.

Yet this is what we get when voters are educated solely on what they watch on television at 8pm monday through friday.

[neoee]

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bunch of nondescript older white dudes in suits and Stepford wives going through the motions by mumbling in unison = the very definition of cliche. That was the most obvious, expected, homogeneous crowd I've ever seen in my life.

You could tell their hearts weren't in it, though.

That might help explain all the yawns Cspan's coverage showed.

[k3n3]

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bunch of nondescript older white dudes in suits and Stepford wives going through the motions by mumbling in unison = the very definition of cliche. That was the most obvious, expected, homogeneous crowd I've ever seen in my life.

You could tell their hearts weren't in it, though.

And yet the left still wonders why they can't (and arguably won't) win the presidency... You just spelled it out... The left looks down with contempt on a large portion of the American electorate and middle America in general ("clinging to their God and their guns"), and yet they think these people don't notice...

[k3n3]

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Shitting buzzwords out one's mouth does not make a good platform.

Dude, I hate to break it to you, but that's politics... For better or worse, that's all it is... One big fuckin' commercial, nothing more...

[MJDub]

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I'm not a McCain supporter, and would have a tough time voting for him... But I would say that his time in Congress, is what earned him his party's nomination...

Using General Clark's (undoubtedly flawless & unquestionable) logic, what exactly are Obama's qualifications to be commander-in-chief ???

McCain runs on his national security and military-related "strengths" and really nothing else. Obama is running on a more economy-centered message. With Clark's argument applied to both of them then, McCain has nothing and Obama has economics. A similar argument was used against Clinton in 1992, and yet the "it's the economy, stupid" message eventually prevailed.

So yeah when you have senior military officers striking down the only basis of his campaign, it's noteworthy. Presidents also have other responsibilities besides commander-in-chief, but it seems McCain is running for just that one aspect of the job.

[88Mariner]

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McCain is the pick not by an affirmative campaign, but rather, responsive to those whose campaign did not last as long as his. In short, nominated by atrition.

[toasty]

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And yet the left still wonders why they can't (and arguably won't) win the presidency... You just spelled it out... The left looks down with contempt on a large portion of the American electorate and middle America in general ("clinging to their God and their guns"), and yet they think these people don't notice...

I love the irony of a dude form South Florida telling me, in Missouri, that I look down on middle America.

What I look down upon is ignorance. What I look down upon is those who carry themselves with an unearned air of self-importance.

When I watched the Democratic convention, I saw real people, an actual cross-section of America. I know some of the delegates who went from Missouri, and they are regular people with regular jobs. The GOP convention, by contrast, looked like a bunch of party insiders (if you take out the veterans, who were not the subject of my initial post) who sit at their desk with their suit jacket on and engage in competitive consumption. It is the very definition of cliche.

[k3n3]

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Obama is running on a more economy-centered message. With Clark's argument applied to both of them then, McCain has nothing and Obama has economics.

So I could say I'm running on a "pretzels and beer" centered-message, and therefore I am an expert ??? I must have misuderstood, what exactly are Obama's "economic" credentials, therefore making him an authority on economics???

Was it possibly his experience with Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers? When they worked together to help disburse more than $100 million to allies in the Chicago School system.

That must have been what you're referring to... no ???

[toasty]

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Was it possibly his experience with Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers?

Hey, isn't that guy a professor of teaching things or something at the University of Chicago? Whoops, that makes him a part of the dangerous "academia" class, so nevermind, my bad.

[88Mariner]

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correct me if i'm wrong, but is not the University of Chicago the most prestigious conservative-oriented school in the country?

[i!!ustrious]

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i think it is bed time!