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k2o4 United States. Jun 27 2008 13:54. Posts 4803 | | |
Sorry, politics again guys. I'm busy with boring stuff lately (work mostly) and therefore have nothing exciting to post about. Only playing microstakes poker right now cause I don't wanna do anything too serious with poker at the moment. It's going just fine so nothing to post about there. This means that when I get a hankering for a post it ends up being something political that I come across that entertains me. Here's the latest:
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| | WISCKOL: I'd like to ask you a couple questions suggested by voters here. They're not reporter-type questions.
McCAIN: Sure. It'd be a pleasure.
WISCKOL: When was the last time you pumped your own gas and how much did it cost? 

McCAIN: Oh, I don't remember. Now there's Secret Service protection. But I've done it for many, many years. I don't recall and frankly, I don't see how it matters. I've had hundreds and hundreds of town hall meetings, many as short a time ago as yesterday. I communicate with the people and they communicate with me very effectively. |
The writer goes on to make some points which made me laugh:
| | Okay. A few things here.
1) John McCain doesn't know what gas costs, because the Secret Service protects him from finding out, possibly because they're afraid the knowledge will kill him. Not a healthy man.
2) John McCain isn't an elitist or a big government bureaucrat. He's a maverick who has certainly pumped his own gas at some point in his life, perhaps during the single 18-month period when he wasn't in the navy or in congress, but was living off his wife.
3) It doesn't matter. How do we know it doesn't matter? Because John McCain says it doesn't matter.
4) John McCain may not know what gas costs or when he last pumped any, or performed any other act not connected to politics or outpatient care, but he's had hundreds of town hall meetings, many as short a time ago as yesterday. Which somehow answers questions about gas prices, but it's not clear exactly how.
5) John McCain communicates with people and they communicate with him very effectively.
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John McCain has spent the last three months -- since he floated his gas tax holiday -- pretending to care about the cost of driving. He should have had a slightly better answer than "I've had hundreds of town halls." |
Or he could look out the window while driving to one of those town halls and check out what the billboards at the gas stations say, or watched the news...
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ReSpOnSe United States. Jun 27 2008 14:42. Posts 405 | | |
pretty obv slander unless this was a taped/recorded interview |
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k2o4 United States. Jun 27 2008 14:50. Posts 4803 | | |
| | On June 27 2008 13:42 ReSpOnSe wrote:
pretty obv slander unless this was a taped/recorded interview |
based on what? McCains long history of having smart replies to questions?
It's not a huge surprise that he hasn't pumped his own gas in a while - I'm sure it's same for Obama. But not knowing the price of gas when you run around talking about a gas tax holiday and how you're the champion for the middle class guy getting screwed on the high gas prices... hell, if he just said "over 4 dollars on avg" that would be great. I don't expect an exact price. But that really seems like something he should know. |
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ggplz Sweden. Jun 27 2008 14:53. Posts 16784 | | | |
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| if poker is dangerous to them i would rank sports betting as a Kodiak grizzly bear who smells blood after you just threw a javelin into his cub - RaiNKhAN | |
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vegable United States. Jun 27 2008 16:03. Posts 2453 | | |
lol town meetings
what is this 1805? |
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SemPeR Canada. Jun 27 2008 16:29. Posts 2288 | | |
| | On June 27 2008 15:03 vegable wrote:
lol town meetings
what is this 1805? |
obv it's public internet forum time. omg who would be the admins? D: |
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k2o4 United States. Jun 28 2008 11:25. Posts 4803 | | |
| | On June 27 2008 15:29 SemPeR wrote:
obv it's public internet forum time. omg who would be the admins? D:
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rofl that's a hilarious thought, especially with McCain involved cause he doesn't know how to use a computer, hehe. |
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