McCain Responds to Obama's Speech: "hysterical diatribe"

[RedEarth]

McCain Responds: Americans Have "Every Reason To Doubt" Whether Obama Can Keep Us Safe
By Greg Sargent - May 16, 2008, 1:42PM
Here's the response from McCain spokesperson Tucker Bounds to Obama's speech hitting McCain and Bush on foreign policy today:

"It was remarkable to see Barack Obama's hysterical diatribe in response to a speech in which his name wasn't even mentioned. These are serious issues that deserve a serious debate, not the same tired partisan rants we heard today from Senator Obama.
"Senator Obama has pledged to unconditionally meet with Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad -- who pledges to wipe Israel off the map, denies the Holocaust, sponsors terrorists, arms America's enemies in Iraq and pursues nuclear weapons. What would Senator Obama talk about with such a man?

"It would be a wonderful thing if we lived in a world where we don't have enemies. But that is not the world we live in, and until Senator Obama understands that, the American people have every reason to doubt whether he has the strength, judgment and determination to keep us safe."

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[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. Hysterical

McCain is so out of it---the one who appears to be hysterical is the old white guy, not the young black guy.

[caledesi]

8. I agree! NT

[hatrack]

2. "Hysterical" - yeah, gotta work in that "weak female" bit, right Sidney?

:puke:

[CoffeeCat]

4. If McCain wants to play dirty that way...

...then Obama needs to start calling him Grampy McCrazyWar.

McCain reminds me of those grumpy, old coots who used to sit in the balcony
on "The Muppet Show."

[knight_of_the_star]

21. That's not nice

That's an insult to those two old coots!

[CoffeeCat]

5. dup

[shain from kane]

3. "What would Senator Obama talk about with such a man? ... That is why I will declare war immediately

on Iran if I am elected. You see, folks, I've already made up my mind."

[BrklynLib at work]

6. What a pathetic, disturbed old man McCain is...

[NewJeffCT]

7. McCain has really lost it

The guy who doesn't know the Sunnis from the Shi'ites should just shut the fuck up about anything related to foreign policy...

[The_Casual_Observer]

9. McCain is certainly everything mentioned in the above posts.

However, did Obama do the right thing by taking that bait?

[earthlover]

27. The difference between Obama and others is he fights back....good for him!

[BlueStater]

10. Because the Bush/McCain strategy has worked so well in making the world safer...

Shut the fuck up already, you old idiot.

[hisownpetard]

11. McCain and his McCohorts need to enlarge their vocabulary. "Hysterical"? Have they ever seen or

heard Obama sound even 1% hysterical?

These doddering old arthritic bozos are the only thing that's hysterical, as in "HAAHAAAAAAA!"

[weezy2736]

12. You know it's never a good idea to talk to your enemies before you kill them.

It slows the whole process down. I mean, if we just start a war, we can go in, kill the bad guys, and leave, just like in Iraq. YAY!!!! A DEMCRACKCY!

[gratuitous]

13. Sounds like McCain has lost his bearings again

Nobody called him old and doddering, but he and his campaign read that into the above phrase. Now he's all exercised that "some people" saw themselves being referred to by lily-livered George Bush in his petulant little remarks to the Knesset?

I find that hysterical, Mr. McCain.

[AldebTX]

14. Someone Needs to Ask McCain

What would you do?

If not talk...just drop the bombs? If we aren't talking...how will we know when they say "uncle"?

If we aren't going to talk to anyone that doesn't like us....are we just going to talk to ourselves?

In my neighborhood if someone is walking down the street only talking to themselves...we call them crazy.

Its time to elect a new brain.

[fascisthunter]

15. McCain Projection

I remember these two buzz words being used everyday by the right when Bush was running for his first term.

[Hawaii Hiker]

16. What an asshole McCain is - He probably received beer & hookers when

he was in that "POW" camp...."F" him & his phony service....

[shain from kane]

22. I read that he was assigned a female assistant/nurse, that took care of his NEEDS.

[slor]

17. Cool...he is responding just...

as we hoped he would.

[chill_wind]

18. Listening to McCain is like watching wet paint dry. ANYTHING with any aninimation or affect

would probably strike him as "hysterical". GOD he is dull. More bland than refrigerated mashed potatoes.

[sinkingfeeling]

19. Maybe we wouldn't have so many 'enemies' if we used our mouths and brains instead of missles and

bombs.

[AzDar]

20. Old Man Yells At Cloud.

:patriot:

[Canuckistanian]

26. Gzactly. n/t

[wishlist]

23. Typical Orwellian Bushlike language of projection of his traits onto Obama nt/t

[Canuckistanian]

24. For old RW men, every new idea seems "hysterical"

That's why we elect YOUNG men occsionally.

[Ishoutandscream2]

25. Obama is going to beat the living hell out of McCain

and yes, Agent Mike, that is speaking figuratively.