Okay, McCain! Let's Dance...

From TPM:

McCain Campaign: Associating Obama With Terrorists Is Fair Game

The McCain camp has just blasted out a statement saying that Obama's alleged "endorsement" by Hamas will "definitely be an issue in the election," an indication that McCain intends to honor his promise of a "civil" campaign more in the breach than in the observance.

McCain spokesman Brian Rogers called the supposed endorsement by Hamas, something that McCain hit Obama for earlier today, "a legitimate issue for the American people to think about," on the basis of Obama's call for negotiations with Iran.

Rogers added: "It is not only responsible to raise these critical issues in this election, but it would be the height of irresponsibility not to have this discussion with the American people."

Oh? You want fair game, "my friends"? You want responsibility to raise critical issues on a candidate's character, Maverick?

Okey-dokey. Didn't want to do this until October, but let's dance, courtesy of US government transcripts and documents.

We'll kinda let this one marinate over the weekend.

h/t Jer...

Comments

[Pastor Doodah]

Obama would rather think and talk than commit an obscene atrocity on an innocent civilian population. Obviously he is unfit for the office of president of the United States.

[Pastor Doodah]

Hot Damn!

Well the War Hero has some 'splanin' to do eh? And before he opens his mouth, it's not swift-boating when it's TRUE, John.

[Firenzi]

Holy. Shit.

[A-J]

Might as well associate Obama with Oklahoma, they're very similar in spelling. How 'bout McDuff for McCain? To Hell with all the right wingers in this fucked up country.

McCain Aviation Career:
McCain crashed 5 jets, plus was responsible for the Forrestal fire. Something made the plane behind McCain fired a rocket, which hit McCain's external center fuel tank, and caused a fire. McCain panicked, and dropped two bombs into the fire.
Fuel from the leaking tank caught fire creating a massive conflagration that burned for hours, killing 134, injuring 161 and costing the Navy $72 million.[3]

McCain crashed 5 jets, plus was responsible for the Forrestal fire. Surviving crewmen and those who investigated the Forrestal fire case reported that McCain deliberately 'wet-started' his A-4E Skyhawk to shake up the guy in the F-4 Phantom behind his A-4. 'Wet-starts', done either deliberately (the starter motor switch allowed kerosene to pool in the engine and give a wet start) or accidentally, shoot a large flame from the tail of the aircraft. In McCain's case, the 'wet-start' 'cooked off' and launched the M34 Zuni rocket from the rear F-4 that punctured the Skyhawk's fueltank, knocked the M-65 1000 lb bomb off it's 500 lb rated mount, and touched off the explosions and massive fire. The F-4 pilot was reportedly killed in the conflagration, along with 167 of his fellow Forrestal shipmates (including those who died later from wounds suffered). 'Wet starting' was a common practice among young 'hot-dog' pilots. McCain was quickly (they were still counting the Forrestal dead) transferred to the USS Oriskany (the only Forrestal crewman to be immediately transferred).
Description: XA4D-1 Skyhawk BuNo 137812 experiencing a wet start (note the pool of JP on the ground and the tongue of flame from the tailpipe).
"A fire aboard Enterprise on 14 January 1969, resulting from detonation of a MK-32 Zuni rocket warhead overheated by exhaust from an aircraft starting unit, took 27 lives, injured 314 and destroyed 15 aircraft. Repairs to the ship were completed at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, in early March."

[Mad as Hell]

Where was all of this in 2000 when the best Bush and Rove could do was accuse McCain of fathering a black baby? When the masters overlook something so enormous, you have to question it!

[CJ]

Mad...

With all the military families in S. Carolina? It would have been poison for a Republican to go there. This stuff along with the crashing of five planes does not bode well for someone who wants to send more of their kids to war.

As a military man, it turns out that McCain was a clown whose incompetence got him in a pile of trouble. And his advocacy of "enhanced interrogation" will get destroyed when America sees what HE said under those techniques. Wild.

[orb]

I'm with you Hoff! Lets start the dance NOW. Fuck these mutant knuckle dragging corpses...Lets start by putting Limbaughs fat ass, and Roves fat ass on the fire first, so the Republican funeral pyre can be seen from space......lets....get....it....on!
Scalia's fat ass, Cheneys fat ass, Karen Hughes fat ass, Condi's fat ass, George Tenants fat ass, Wolfowitzes's fat ass, Colin Powells fat ass,Reverend Phelps and Hagees fat ass,John Ashcroft's and Alberto Gonzales's fat asses, Tom Delay, Denny Hastert and Bob Barrs fat asses, Jerry Falwells fat ass, Ronald Reagan and Jesse Helms dead asses, Ari Flietcher, Tony Snow and Dana Perinos fat asses, every anti-democracy bastard in the CIA,FBI,TSA,DHS,DEA,NSA...I'll bring the marshmallows....