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Is Horsesh*t Presidential? A Question for John McCain.

Submitted by BuzzFlash on Thu, 10/02/2008 - 10:37am.
A BUZZFLASH GUEST CONTRIBUTION

By Sankara Saranam

I’ve played and replayed, over and over, what should be an infamous segment from last week’s presidential debate. You know, the one where Obama was describing John McCain as the go-it-alone guy who wouldn’t even meet with the leader of Spain, a member of NATO.

Under his breath, John mumbles "horsesh*t" twice.

It takes me back to my summer camp days, at the Lake of the Ozarks.

We were a bunch of rowdy teens. We could hardly sit still for a moment.

It happened again and again. School bus stops. Counselor stands up.

Our ears are pummeled with a lecture on how important it is for us to behave in public places. And half a dozen times during the speech, we mumble-cough "bullsh*t."

We couldn’t even behave while being told to behave! The counselor is perplexed. Why are the campers laughing so uproariously?

The mumble-cough was something that took practice. John McCain has it down. He hardly needs the cough.

My defense? I was 13.

Obama noticed. You can see a slight glare in his eyes as he looks toward McCain while concluding his criticism of the elderly senator, who apparently mistook the debate hall for a summer camp school bus.

The counselors that were smart to our antics called us clowns. "Stop clowning around!" they’d yell. So I guess the question is: Is McCain the clown people are seriously considering to fill the highest office in our country?

Because McCain’s mumble isn’t the only thing that’s malarkey about his bid for the presidency. The moose muck started piling with his vice-presidential pick and apexes into a mountain of tiger turds with the feigned pause to his campaign to save the fat cats who’ve been dropping on the American people ever since the bankers seized the government’s power to issue money.

And there’s another thing that’s ordure: the silence from the moralizing right wing. Shouldn’t its members be scathingly complaining, "If this is the way a senator running for president feels free to behave, then how are American fathers and mothers going to tell their kids to stop mumbling 'horsesh*t' when reprimanding their children?"

For the record, McCain does horsesh*t a great disservice. My Palomino drops some wonderfully aromatic and useful dung. McCain’s attitude toward Spain, Iraq, and the rest of the world just plain stinks.

A BUZZFLASH GUEST CONTRIBUTION

Sankara Saranam is the author of the multi-award winning title God Without Religion

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About equine feces

Submitted by hoscot on Fri, 10/03/2008 - 6:25am.
Frankly I found it difficult to discern exactly what McCain said, not at all like Harry Truman's clearly enunciated description of the GOP as "those S.O.B's".
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I'll take a swear word

Submitted by urthsong on Thu, 10/02/2008 - 5:00pm.
...any time over the lies McCain repeats ad nauseum. At least it's honest. I went to a Meet the Candidates event here in Delaware last night. Joe Biden is running for his senate seat again, just in case. I listened to his pretty, seemingly bright opponent as she swung into the spiel about offshore oil drilling and the immediate oil price relief we will have now that the drilling can begin. She started sounding like a McCain clone. What is the matter with these people? Being presidential is more about honesty. Who cares about swear words when every other ten year old is shouting f--k. Pat Williams
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Great

Submitted by kt on Thu, 10/02/2008 - 2:40pm.
Absolutly brilliant Sankara ! my sentiments exactly ! I am so very afraid of this man can't quite figute out if he's senile or infantile or both ! something has definitly scrambled his little grey cells ! I mean little ! cheers
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Malarkey, indeed!

Submitted by monish on Thu, 10/02/2008 - 1:48pm.
Dear Sankara Saranam: First- a delightful Indian/Sanskrit name. I am not sure if it is a pseudonym, but to an Indian it resonates very well. Your views about the pathetic charade called the McCain campaign are totally apt, and yet make one deeply despondent. The nightmare we have witnessed the last 8 years with the Bushco mafia, and the utter immorality of American public/civic life in waging preemptive wars and enriching the rich while throwing the poor and the weak to the dogs- it simply continues with the unprincipled Mr. McCain, who has sold himself out through and through to the corporate pirates. His own character and "integrity" are an absolute joke. The fact that he can embrace the very mass-killer (the WH squatter) who viciously attacked and maligned him in the 2000 campaign; his choice of Mooselini; his disgraceful role in the Keating 5 scandal, and also in the current Wall Street meltdown; his contempt for women, minorities, and the poor; his proclivity towards explosive temper tantrums and use of profanities- the list of his flaws and yes, vices, is sky high- matched only perhaps by the likes of the WH squatter. As with any other place- the U.S. obviously has many wonderful, moral, humane and intelligent people. Sadly, they are all being dragged down towards utter destruction and bad Karma by these neocons, looters, gangsters, and self-serving "moralists." The deep-rooted racism of these right-wing racists and gangsters stacks up the odds against McCain's rival, for whom otherwise this flawed American election would have been a slam-dunk. Monish Chatterjee
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sounded like

Submitted by squanderer on Thu, 10/02/2008 - 12:54pm.
sounded to me like he was probably mumbling "of course not" -- his S sound comes out more like SH
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