From the campaign irony department...By clumsily cracking down on a librarian who suggested that McCain is like Bush, the McCain Campaign revealed another one of its similarities with the manipulative Bush machine:

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1. er, "the king is dead - all hail the king", (or is that sieg hiel), seems to come to mind. But then again, I can't imagine why in the world the new petty dic'tator wannabe doesn't want to be associated with the old petty dic'tator has been. I'm sure it's probably not in the best interest to new con repub lemming trainers to let the reality of a hsuB presidential approval rating of 23% creep in when they're busy constructing a reality somewhat differing in its content from that of the contrary "reality-based" liberal bias... er, the outdated constitutionally guaranteed freedom of speech. Words after all can be taken a little too, uh well, too-- literarily.

   Posted by hsuBfools at 07/09/2008 @ 01:49am

2. Ok ok, to be somewhat fair-- one could say whereas the Obama campaign didn't want to be branded with burkas or a stereotype; McCave's fear little old 'well-versed' librarians...er, or intelligence!?!?!

   Well I did say 'somewhat'!

   Posted by hsuBfools at 07/09/2008 @ 02:02am

3. That's some big fear there. At least McCave didn't stir up the crowd with Bomb bomb bomb Irene...

   No her name isn't Irene, but then again when did that ever stop new con repubs...

   Posted by hsuBfools at 07/09/2008 @ 02:11am

4. New York Times -- 11 September, 2001 -- Dinitia Smith:

   ' ..''I don't regret setting bombs,'' Bill Ayers said. ''I feel we didn't do enough.''...He writes that he participated in the bombings ... of the Capitol building in 1971, the Pentagon in 1972.... ''Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon,''...So, would Mr. Ayers do it all again, he is asked? ''I don't want to discount the possibility,'' he said....'

   Old Farmers Almanac:

   Weather on 11 September, 2001: Mean temperature 21C, Visibility 16km

   Posted by HonestLiberal at 07/09/2008 @ 10:06am

5. .... ''Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon,''...So, would Mr. Ayers do it all again, he is asked? ''I don't want to discount the possibility,'' he said....'

   Posted by HonestLiberal at 07/09/2008 @ 10:06am

   How precious. We should give him a cookie. Or put some potassium cyanide on his toothbrush.

   Posted by Benchrest at 07/09/2008 @ 10:14am

6. Actually this incident reveals the similarities between the McCain and Obama campaigns. Both are sensitive to stereotypes foisted upon them by the manipulative media.

   Posted by abell12ct at 07/09/2008 @ 10:30am

7. Posted by abell12ct at 07/09/2008 @ 10:30am

   Come again?

   Obama has allowed dissenters on his FISA stance to organize on his campagin website. McCain's staff ejected an eldrely librarian with a cardboard sign.

   Posted by Hman23 at 07/09/2008 @ 11:32am

8. The most that the Obama campaign did was move two women wearing burkas a couple of seats down and away from camera range so as not to 'frame' Barack's speech-- preventing new con repubs from using footage to further stereotype Obama into a Muslim 'exotic' (repub code-black foreigner) enemy of the white fearful. They didn't escort them out of the building or even out of the room nor did they threaten them with arrest, court or jail time as did the McCave campaign. Majorly big dif.

   One always needs to remember that new con repubs are delusionally fearful reality revisionists. They actually truly believe that Afghanistan is really Iraq, that Sodumb Insane is OBL, that hsuB did everything he could for New Orleans and hsub didn't leave the 'GATE OPEN' for pre-9/11 prevention-- that their new con repub lemming trainers are honest and that hsub isn't the elite's corporate petty dic'tator.

   Yeah the new cons' know that their base of their base-- will believe anything. Especially if they hide hsuB from McCave long enough, repubs will forget all about it and just remember the new con revision to reality's liberal bent.

   Posted by hsuBfools at 07/09/2008 @ 12:18pm

9. Perhaps if hsuB is associated with McCave, it will remind new con repubs that:

   "There is a flip-flopper in this race, and it ain't Barack Obama. Since this is economics week for the McCain 3.0 campaign, let's look at his reversals here.

   Economic Policy

   31. McCain was against Bush's tax cuts for the very wealthy before he was for them.

   32. John McCain initially argued that economics is not an area of expertise for him, saying, "I'm going to be honest: I know a lot less about economics than I do about military and foreign policy issues; I still need to be educated," and "The issue of economics is not something I've understood as well as I should." He now falsely denies ever having made these remarks and insists that he has a "very strong" understanding of economics.

   33. McCain vowed, if elected, to balance the federal budget by the end of his first term. Soon after, he decided he would no longer even try to reach that goal. And soon after that, McCain abandoned his second position and went back to his first.

   34. McCain said in 2005 that he opposed the tax cuts because they were "too tilted to the wealthy." By 2007, he denied ever having said this, and falsely argued that he opposed the cuts because of increased government spending.

   35. McCain thought the estate tax was perfectly fair. Now he believes the opposite.

   36. McCain pledged in February 2008 that he would not, under any circumstances, raise taxes. Specifically, McCain was asked if he is a "‘read my lips' candidate, no new taxes, no matter what?" referring to George H.W. Bush's 1988 pledge. "No new taxes," McCain responded. Two weeks later, McCain said, "I'm not making a ‘read my lips' statement, in that I will not raise taxes."

   37. McCain has changed his entire economic worldview on multiple occasions.

   38. McCain believes Americans are both better and worse off economically than they were before Bush took office.

   "Steve Benen (The Carpetbagger Report) started a list of John McCain's flip-flops.

   Sixty-One to date."

   "Sen. John McCain has been quoted saying this election is all about who you can trust, intimating that Sen. Obama has flip-flopped his way out of the public trust.

   Never mind that this is not true."

   http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/7/9/52348/44596

   Apparently reality has a liberal bent-- kinda like GOD!

   Posted by hsuBfools at 07/09/2008 @ 12:59pm

10. they weren't wearing burkas.

    Posted by frosty zoom at 07/09/2008 @ 1:21pm

11. Oops, they were headscarves. But still can't tell a al-amira from a shayla, a khimar or akhimar... My bad.

    Posted by hsuBfools at 07/09/2008 @ 1:32pm

12. Apparently McCain doesn't agree with SJ, LVL, Happ or Libz on the extraordinary job bush is going.

    Posted by Cccomfo1 at 07/09/2008 @ 1:36pm

13. And BTW you know Faux Woos would've Photoshopped them into burkas anyway...

    Posted by hsuBfools at 07/09/2008 @ 1:39pm

14. It does make perfect sense that FrGr did a flipflop for McCave:

    http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/16124.html

    Posted by hsuBfools at 07/09/2008 @ 1:55pm

15. Where is FrGr and why didn't he ever really trust Billary?

    Posted by hsuBfools at 07/09/2008 @ 1:57pm

16. And BTW you know Faux Woos would've Photoshopped them into burkas anyway...

    Posted by hsuBfools at 07/09/2008 @ 1:39pm

    in exploding barbed-wire burkas.

    Posted by frosty zoom at 07/09/2008 @ 2:03pm

17. in exploding barbed-wire burkas. Posted by frosty zoom at 07/09/2008 @ 2:03pm

    With pictures of Osama giving the thumbs up on the front.

    Posted by Cccomfo1 at 07/09/2008 @ 2:19pm

18. Ok it's all come together now-- FrGr was always into and trusted McCave, not Billary. And since McCave was against hsuB before he was for hsuB before he is both for and against hsuB; thusly revised his reality, FrGr was for dems before he was against dems and was against new con repubs before he was for new con repubs. And may even get to the highest of the esoteric art of Zen nothingness and be the McCavest when FrGr achieves the dispassionate state of being both for and against both dems and new con repubs... a perfected non-reality real pretzel logic. Provo FrGr, provo.

    Posted by hsuBfools at 07/09/2008 @ 2:20pm

19. Please post links to your evidence that "both sides do it". Posted by Maskbeta

    Please pay attention to the news. Obama had muslims with head scarves removed from behind him during a speech.

    Posted by abell12ct at 07/10/2008 @ 10:05am

20. And the lady was invited back in to McCain's speech if she got rid of the sign

    Posted by abell12ct at 07/10/2008 @ 10:07am