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(Newsweek) Dumbass McCain's choice for GOP convention chair has A) lobbied for Exxon, B) lobbied for Myanmar's junta, C) led a pro-Bush 527 organization, or D) all of the above   (newsweek.com) divider line 97
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thatvoiceguy 2008-05-10 04:00:36 PM  
Just another day aboard the Straight (by that we mean "crooked as a dog's hind leg") Talk (by that we mean "lies lies lies") Express (moves at the speed of cold poop).

 
Obdicut [TotalFark] 2008-05-10 04:11:24 PM  
Yeah-- I don't really care if he lobbied for Exxon, but McCain is strongly against 527s, or so he says-- so why would he want this guy in charge of the convention?

Lobbying for a dictatorship, too; that kind of sends the wrong impression about the Republican ethos, don't it?

 
burndtdan 2008-05-10 04:19:07 PM  
Obdicut: Lobbying for a dictatorship, too; that kind of sends the wrong impression about the Republican ethos, don't it?

only if you still believe the republican ethos of 30 years ago.

 
Aarontology [TotalFark] 2008-05-10 04:30:20 PM  
burndtdan: Obdicut: Lobbying for a dictatorship, too; that kind of sends the wrong impression about the Republican ethos, don't it?

only if you still believe the republican ethos of 30 years ago.

You'd have to go even farther back. Remember, in the 70's we were still shiatting our pants about Communism, so any "anti-Communist" regime was our pal.

 
vincentpriceisdead 2008-05-10 04:31:24 PM  
He's a maverick!

 
mcwebe0 [TotalFark] 2008-05-10 04:36:13 PM  
In no way is he McShrub. In no way at all.

 
Skleenar 2008-05-10 04:40:26 PM  
. But some allies worry that Goodyear's selection could fuel perceptions that McCain-who has portrayed himself as a crusader against special interests-is surrounded by lobbyists.


The also worry that the recent cloud-free weather may fuel perceptions that the sky is blue, and that ready access to drinking fountains may fuel perceptions that water is wet.

 
DarnoKonrad 2008-05-10 04:40:39 PM  
Republicans don't just hate America, they hate all of humanity.

Reminds me of Tom Delay taking vacations to Slave Labor camps (new window).

 
Skleenar 2008-05-10 04:44:42 PM  

Oh, my.

The comments for that article are exemplary.


Posted By: cschotta1 @ 05/10/2008 4:03:36 PM

Comment: Typical article from the liberal kooks in the media. Can't wait to see your investigative reporting on democRATS and terrorist sympathizers, in particular, Mr. Osama, and his relationship with terrorist Bill Ayers.
There is NOTHING the liberal media can do to prevent Mr. McCain from becoming our next president, even though, he is not the best choice from the GOP-but as always, liberals don't get elected president of the US, especially a race-hate like Osama Obama. Imagine no liberals, what a wonderful world it would be!!

 
mcwebe0 [TotalFark] 2008-05-10 04:46:37 PM  
Skleenar: Oh, my.

The comments for that article are exemplary.


Posted By: cschotta1 @ 05/10/2008 4:03:36 PM

Comment: Typical article from the liberal kooks in the media. Can't wait to see your investigative reporting on democRATS and terrorist sympathizers, in particular, Mr. Osama, and his relationship with terrorist Bill Ayers.
There is NOTHING the liberal media can do to prevent Mr. McCain from becoming our next president, even though, he is not the best choice from the GOP-but as always, liberals don't get elected president of the US, especially a race-hate like Osama Obama. Imagine no liberals, what a wonderful world it would be!!

Is that from mccainis44.org?

 
Unright 2008-05-10 04:46:40 PM  
Skleenar: Oh, my.

The comments for that article are exemplary.

Posted By: cschotta1 @ 05/10/2008 4:03:36 PM

No insane ranting hate like conservative insane ranting hate.

 
Skleenar 2008-05-10 04:48:15 PM  

My goodness. It's like a Fark thread where only the trolls show up:


Posted By: McCainwillwin @ 05/10/2008 16:06:12

Comment: I find more and more democrats calling themselves Republicans... I guess they're too embarrassed to admit they're libs. In any event, get used to calling Mr. McCain, "Mr. President".


/really concerned about this guy's bearings.

img372.imageshack.us

"They're fine!"

 
krunvisaurus 2008-05-10 04:49:26 PM  
The countdown begins for the invasion of trolls trying to rationalize this insanity.

 
Skleenar 2008-05-10 04:51:10 PM  

Posted By: pinkpanther87413 @ 05/10/2008 3:54:46 PM

Comment: THE ONLY OSAMA IS BUSH SR AND JR, THE FAMILY FRIEND! THE FAMILY FUNDS,ARMS AND TRAINING AND LACK OF CAPTURE,MMM GOP RELATED-YES MCCAIN WAS IN OFFICE DURING THE AFGAN/RUSSIAN CONFLICT WE WERE OPERATING IN, AGAINST YET ANOTHER TREATY!


Well, at least the lib trolls are also represented.

 
robsul82 [TotalFark] 2008-05-10 04:51:19 PM  
Wow, I can't wait for Obama to set fire to this shiat.

/DROP OUT HILL-ROD

 
burndtdan 2008-05-10 04:52:41 PM  
Aarontology: burndtdan: Obdicut: Lobbying for a dictatorship, too; that kind of sends the wrong impression about the Republican ethos, don't it?

only if you still believe the republican ethos of 30 years ago.

You'd have to go even farther back. Remember, in the 70's we were still shiatting our pants about Communism, so any "anti-Communist" regime was our pal.

true.

 
DarnoKonrad 2008-05-10 04:56:36 PM  
krunvisaurus: The countdown begins for the invasion of trolls trying to rationalize this insanity.

Don't you believe in the free market lib traitor? The dems don't know what they're going to do if they don't have the Clinton's hiding their bodies. Mayanmar should be greatful they have a WAR HERO working to bring freedom to their backward people!!! DOn't you libs want more trading partners? or do you just want UNIONS to control all of Mayanmar's Oil?!? That's who the real islamo-fascists are along with Osama bin Obama spouting off elielist drivel to the CANADIANS when you're back is turned stupid dem! HAHAHAHAH!!!

/what? like that?

 
Alphax 2008-05-10 04:59:18 PM  
Skleenar: . But some allies worry that Goodyear's selection could fuel perceptions that McCain-who has portrayed himself as a crusader against special interests-is surrounded by lobbyists.


The also worry that the recent cloud-free weather may fuel perceptions that the sky is blue, and that ready access to drinking fountains may fuel perceptions that water is wet.

That's so full of WIN, it's overflowing.

 
mcwebe0 [TotalFark] 2008-05-10 05:03:41 PM  
DarnoKonrad: krunvisaurus: The countdown begins for the invasion of trolls trying to rationalize this insanity.

Don't you believe in the free market lib traitor? The dems don't know what they're going to do if they don't have the Clinton's hiding their bodies. Mayanmar should be greatful they have a WAR HERO working to bring freedom to their backward people!!! DOn't you libs want more trading partners? or do you just want UNIONS to control all of Mayanmar's Oil?!? That's who the real islamo-fascists are along with Osama bin Obama spouting off elielist drivel to the CANADIANS when you're back is turned stupid dem! HAHAHAHAH!!!

/what? like that?

6 8/10 (I chuckled on my second read through).

 
krunvisaurus 2008-05-10 05:03:44 PM  
DarnoKonrad: krunvisaurus: The countdown begins for the invasion of trolls trying to rationalize this insanity.

Don't you believe in the free market lib traitor? The dems don't know what they're going to do if they don't have the Clinton's hiding their bodies. Mayanmar should be greatful they have a WAR HERO working to bring freedom to their backward people!!! DOn't you libs want more trading partners? or do you just want UNIONS to control all of Mayanmar's Oil?!? That's who the real islamo-fascists are along with Osama bin Obama spouting off elielist drivel to the CANADIANS when you're back is turned stupid dem! HAHAHAHAH!!!

/what? like that?

You forgot the part about the black guy being racist, but yeah, that about covers it.

 
coachwdb 2008-05-10 05:05:27 PM  
www.hallandoates.de

 
Gwendolyn [TotalFark] 2008-05-10 05:06:55 PM  
If this guy can get Georege Bush elected in 2004, I'd hire his ass too.

 
krunvisaurus 2008-05-10 05:14:52 PM  
Gwendolyn: If this guy can get Georege Bush elected in 2004, I'd hire his ass too.

fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again

 
DarnoKonrad 2008-05-10 05:22:16 PM  
Gwendolyn: If this guy can get Georege Bush elected in 2004, I'd hire his ass too.

John Kerry isn't working for McCain?!

 
elffster 2008-05-10 05:30:46 PM  
Ugh, he* is losing his mind, right? its as if the GOP and I guess the Clintonistas are trying to see how low the bar can be set for an elected president. Yes, elected, not selected.


*He means just about everyone, I have yet to see Obama have a meltdown so far, so thats a +. Ok, him and RP, yah I said RP. Live with it. Maybe they have but I just have not read about it, since TV news is an impossibly huge joke, wrapped in an enigma, then smothered in bacon, mmmm bacon...creamy, sexy bacon. The most noble of all the meats.

 
Gosling [TotalFark] 2008-05-10 06:08:34 PM  
Considering the headlines this week, could you possibly make a worse choice?

Burma, for God's sake.

 
Skleenar 2008-05-10 06:30:41 PM  
Gosling:

Burma, for God's sake.

Like a grinning, hissing snake

Staying hidden to the last

In a senile old man's past

Burma Shave

 
Necrosis 2008-05-10 07:35:51 PM  
Well, thanks to this article, the guy has already resigned!

Doh!

/fail

 
moothemagiccow 2008-05-10 07:40:41 PM  
McCain's choice for GOP convention chair has A) lobbied for Exxon, B) lobbied for Myanmar's junta, C) led a pro-Bush 527 organization, or D) all of the above

Whatever. Now have you heard about Jenna Bush's wedding?

 
Lee Jackson Beauregard 2008-05-10 08:11:09 PM  
Remember, boys and girls:

* Candidate has ties to a Scary Black Preacher®: SCANDAL.
* Candidate has ties to shady lobbyists: NOT A SCANDAL.

 
Richard Pye 2008-05-10 08:26:49 PM  
Lee Jackson Beauregard: Remember, boys and girls:

* Candidate has ties to a Scary Black Preacher®: SCANDAL.
* Candidate has ties to shady lobbyists: NOT A SCANDAL.

If you can come up with a snazzy soundbite then it'll be a scandal.

"God Damn, America! I'm rich!"

 
kliq 2008-05-10 08:30:03 PM  
What level of scumbag do you need to be to represent a government that shoots, beats, and starves Buddhist monks to death?

 
SemperLieSuckah 2008-05-10 08:34:22 PM  
He's the farking convention manager, not the damn VP. Get over yourselves.

 
cmunic8r99 [TotalFark] 2008-05-10 09:00:59 PM  
kliq: What level of scumbag do you need to be to represent a government that shoots, beats, and starves Buddhist monks to death?

www.onbar.org

 
USP .45 2008-05-10 09:13:46 PM  
This just proves once again that McCain is a neocon demon spawn and that Obama is the messiah of secular humanism and can do no wrong.

 
Shaggy_C 2008-05-10 09:17:25 PM  
I was waiting for USP .45 to show up and start claiming this is a McCain smear. Instead we get a b-b-but Obama. How disappointing!

 
USP .45 2008-05-10 09:24:58 PM  
Shaggy_C: I was waiting for USP .45 to show up and start claiming this is a McCain smear. Instead we get a b-b-but Obama. How disappointing!

How could I possibly do that when the obvious intent of this thread is a b-b-but McCain in response to the established associations of Obama?

Wright, Ayers, Rezko, and this is the thread that is supposed to raise the hand? biatch please. I'm calling, let's see what you've got.

 
DarnoKonrad 2008-05-10 09:27:50 PM  
USP .45: This just proves once again that McCain is a neocon demon spawn and that Obama is the messiah of secular humanism and can do no wrong.

Well after your tepid endorsement of Obama earlier today. .ah fark it. Dude, if Obama's campaign was discovered to be involved with a lobbyist complicit with a scum sucking murderers foreign military Junata the headlines would all be about how that attractive and successful African-American is trying to destroy us from the inside out.

Fact in point, McCain doesn't have to wear a god damn flag pin because he's an old white cock sucker -- but if you're a attractive and successful African-American from Chicago, it's your ass. And that's the hard truth.

So keep you're eariler "I'll hold my nose and vote for the bastard", but don't give Fark this shiat how's he's getting off easy.

 
Shaggy_C 2008-05-10 09:31:38 PM  
USP .45: How could I possibly do that when the obvious intent of this thread is a b-b-but McCain in response to the established associations of Obama?

You don't think a politician's ties with scoundrel lobbyists is a concern with it's own legitimate standing? If there was no B Hussein in the race, this would not be an article that we would see?

 
USP .45 2008-05-10 09:42:53 PM  
Shaggy_C: You don't think a politician's ties with scoundrel lobbyists is a concern with it's own legitimate standing? If there was no B Hussein in the race, this would not be an article that we would see?

We'd see the article, I'm just not so sure about the thread - the headline being a very transparent lunge in the race for associating the candidates with scumbags.

 
USP .45 2008-05-10 09:46:22 PM  
Two Cats One Bowl: I meant Wernher von Braun . . .

Link

Gather round while I sing you of Wernher von Braun
A man whose allegiance is ruled by expedience
Call him a Nazi, he won't even frown
"Ha, Nazi schmazi," says Wernher von Braun

Don't say that he's hypocritical
Say rather that he's apolitical
"Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down
That's not my department," says Wernher von Braun

Some have harsh words for this man of renown
But some think our attitude should be one of gratitude
Like the widows and cripples in old London town
Who owe their large pensions to Wernher von Braun

You too may be a big hero
Once you've learned to count backwards to zero
"In German oder English I know how to count down
Und I'm learning Chinese," says Wernher von Braun

 
Skleenar 2008-05-10 09:47:48 PM  
Two Cats One Bowl: I meant Wernher von Braun . . .

I thought something was wrong.

Especially since John Braun's body had been mouldering for qvite a vile before ze start of WWII.

 
SemperLieSuckah 2008-05-10 09:48:38 PM  
Lobbied for Exxon: who gives a shiat? If you have specific problems with Exxon, address those. This "Oil companies are bad" axiom is farking stupid. Make specific arguments.

Lobbied for Burma: This is moderately concerning, but I would have to see the lobbying efforts. But I highly doubt that they say anything about McCain.

Led a pro-Bush non-profit: ...and?

 
SemperLieSuckah 2008-05-10 09:49:18 PM  
USP .45: Two Cats One Bowl: I meant Wernher von Braun . . .

Link

Gather round while I sing you of Wernher von Braun
A man whose allegiance is ruled by expedience
Call him a Nazi, he won't even frown
"Ha, Nazi schmazi," says Wernher von Braun

Don't say that he's hypocritical
Say rather that he's apolitical
"Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down
That's not my department," says Wernher von Braun

Some have harsh words for this man of renown
But some think our attitude should be one of gratitude
Like the widows and cripples in old London town
Who owe their large pensions to Wernher von Braun

You too may be a big hero
Once you've learned to count backwards to zero
"In German oder English I know how to count down
Und I'm learning Chinese," says Wernher von Braun

I was going to link that.

 
Skleenar 2008-05-10 09:50:05 PM  
SemperLieSuckah: . But I highly doubt that they say anything about McCain.

How about the fact McCain apparently couldn't find anyone who wasn't a lobbyist to take this position?

 
Shaggy_C 2008-05-10 09:51:06 PM  
USP .45: We'd see the article, I'm just not so sure about the thread - the headline being a very transparent lunge in the race for associating the candidates with scumbags.

Ah, so Fark is to blame here, not McCain.

You'll be happy to know that the guy has now resigned, so I wouldn't worry too much about seeing the truth come out against McCain in the 'liberal media'.

 
Skleenar 2008-05-10 09:52:09 PM  
SemperLieSuckah: I was going to link that.

My first Fark Greenlight.

/not the same song, but Lehrer nonetheless

 
SemperLieSuckah 2008-05-10 09:55:24 PM  
Skleenar: SemperLieSuckah: . But I highly doubt that they say anything about McCain.

How about the fact McCain apparently couldn't find anyone who wasn't a lobbyist to take this position?

Or how about McCain is in charge of a lot of shiat, and he is limited to names available for position fillers. He made this guy head of the convention. That's a chore for the party, that's not a b*tchin' job to a CEO. The unstated major premise is that this guy's very brief business dealings with the Burmese government prior to recent drama is indicative of the behavior of the rest of the people surrounding McCain. Well drag them out... find more.

This isn't news, this is bullshiat. Just like Wright. Just like that lobbyist chick. Just like Vince Foster.

 
SemperLieSuckah 2008-05-10 09:57:12 PM  
I'm slowly tanking on Baileys and ice so you'll all forgive me as my eloquence and punctuation fade over the next thirty minutes.

 
The Why Not Guy [TotalFark] 2008-05-10 09:57:13 PM  
SemperLieSuckah: Led a pro-Bush non-profit: ...and?

That's not typically the sign of a man with good judgement.

 
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