Merriam-Webster gives the following definitions for the word "whore":
1: a woman who engages in sexual acts for money : prostitute; also : a promiscuous or immoral woman
2: a male who engages in sexual acts for money
3: a venal or unscrupulous person
Ladies and Gentlemen, John McCain is a big fucking whore.
John McCain is an embarrassment of contradictions. He claims to be a man of the people, but has spent his life surrounding himself with only the finest pedigrees of elite, rich WASPS. He pretends to be a proponent of political reform when in fact he chronically dips into the lobbyist cookie jar. He sold his soul for the fringe, right vote. Once a strict, non-interventionist conservative, McCain is now leading the campaign for Expansionist policies.
All of these realities blatantly contradict the McCain presented to the public, a "straight-talker," who is above the filthy game of politics.
John McCain is, in short, a whore.
Matt Welch carefully explains in McCain: The Myth Of A Maverick how the McCain of yesterday transformed into a lobbyist-humping, lying whore. In 1983, the young congressman votes against a measure to extend the deployment of U.S. Marines in Lebanon. He gave the following speech:
The fundamental question is: What is the United States' interest in Lebanon?" It is said we are there to keep the peace. I ask, what peace? It is said we are there to aid the government. I ask, what government? It is said we are there to stabilize the region. I ask, who can the U.S. presence stabilize the region? ...
What can we expect if we withdraw from Lebanon? The same as will happen if we stay. I acknowledge that the level of fighting will increase if we leave. I regretfully acknowledge that many innocent civilians will be hurt. But I firmly believe this will happen in any event.
Where was that John McCain when we need him? Sadly, he's buried beneath campaign contributions and writhing lobbyists.
McCain, that is the 2008 Whore McCain, is more concerned with winning the presidency than promoting any kind of consistent message. He was very, very anti-war until he wasn't, meaning until it became clear war was popular (around the time of the first Gulf War.) Then, old straight-talking, whorey McCain changed his entire life story. Didn't you know? McCain has ALWAYS been for the surge! He's ALWAYS been a military man! Except, when he wasn't, but that doesn't matter anymore...
John McCain is a rich elitist, who never stepped out of his warmongering ancestors' shadows. He was a Naval Academy punk, who transitioned nicely into the role of pissed-off, old curmudgeon. He's a rich, mean man, who holds a grudge. He was so mean, in fact, that his friends nicknamed him McNasty.
There are hundreds of contradictions to dissect, but let's examine the most popular: McCain is a Populist.
No. John-Whorebag-McCain spent more than three decades living in the Beltway, a far cry from his claims of existing outside Washington. For all intents and purposes, John McCain IS Washington. He and his wife bought their way into Arizona politics with their small beer fortune. Hardly a politician ushered into Congress by a populist wave of support, McCain spent $313,000 on his primary campaign alone.
Though that kind of cash has always existed in politics, McCain attracts a certain type of contributor, namely the mindbogglingly rich, unscrupulous kind. For example, Charles Keating (of the Keating Five Scandal) spent $100,000 on his favorite whore, McCain, during the 1982 primary.
John McCain has been a whore since he was a junior congressman, but old tricks die hard. In 2000, McCain lobbied federal regulators on behalf of a major campaign contributors that had given McCain access to their private jets. In total, Paxson Communications donated $20,000 to the Straight Talk Express. That kind of cash will buy a lot of love from any whore, even a whore of John McCain's caliber.
If and when the press gets over their love affair with McCain, they'll realize they've been in bed with one of the biggest Beltway sluts. On the McCain bus, there's no time for message consistency, especially during a campaign season packed with the act of getting down on both knees and suck, suck, sucking until the cash flows.
It has been well-documented, but under-reported, that McCain is a hypocrite and a liar. Whether discussing the Bush tax breaks, or his relationship with fringe crazies Hagee and Falwell, he has consistently flip-flopped, and lied -- BADLY-- throughout interviews, especially in the presence of unblinking oracle, Tim Russert.
In the upcoming campaign for the presidency, it will be important to examine McCain objectively. The press must observe McCain not as the super-duper guy you'd love to get a beer with, not as the tortured war hero, but as the lyingest lying whore to come out of the Beltway in a long time.
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Hey just read off the list of Clinton Inc donors to the family foundation and you will get to know who the real whores are!!! Hill Bill have been whoring for the Buckles and Guptas and the Dubai rulers for years.
Is this the new political discourse Obama so proudly talks about - using hate speech to smear your opponent? If this is where the Democratic Party is going, you're going to find a majority getting off the train.
We need to stop the hate speech. It's very tasteless.
allie, unfortunately there will always be those who only see (or read) what they want to. they will focus on a few of the words you chose and declare you hateful or intolerant. but you and i (and many other people) know better. it is not hateful or intolerant to speak the truth. and if they wish to remain in the dark about what the people they worship are truly like, than they deserve the world that will give them. but for those of us who wish to see a new beginning and a new willingness to discuss and interpret things around us, you are a breath of fresh air.
lof!
kimberly
Ahhhh, rational political discussion. That's what I come to HP for!
I'm going to be really upset if somebody calls a Dem candidate a whore without providing a full explanation for why she deserves the title.
"In the upcoming campaign for the presidency, it will be important to examine McCain objectively."
... which means you're definitely going to need to look on someone else's blog.
I can only laugh at the knuckle-dragging intolerance of liberals. Somebody calls someone a grade school epitaph and you applaud like trained seals.
What is truly amusing is how liberals can't turn off their intolerant hate speech. It used to be that only conservatives were the subject of these ignorant and hateful attacks. However, this immature "debate" style has become the only manner in which liberals can express themselves. As a result, liberals respond to any and every person who doesn't share their narrow views with the same tourettes -like stream of profanity and ad-hominem attacks, including other liberals. Randi Rhodes is a fine example of this, as anyone who opposes here candidate is by definition, evil and subject to hate speech. This will serve conservatives well in November.
Say what you want about conservatives. As this post and Randi Rhodes demonstrate, liberals are intolerant people who like to call other people names. I am sure the MLK and Bobby Kennedy would be proud that their movement has been taking over by foul mouths who are seething with hatred and intolerance.
Whatever...like "your" marches, petitions, boycotts and glorified bake sales have ever worked on the "bullies". It's that "above it all" rhetoric that has had the "liberals" on the floor looking for their teeth for the past 20 years. The mosh pit isn't for everybody and is not the solution to every problem.
However there comes a time when people need their collective faces slapped. For those of you that don't have the ass to bow up and press down the bully and the punk. Stay on the edge and keep your mouths shut and your "judgment" to yourselves. Because at the end of the day you NEED people like this to do the dirty work you don't have the stomach to.
Well, I guess you must really think Obama is sucker. He refers constantly to the need to change the tone of discourse. Clearly, you disagree.
Do you think calling McCain a whore is going to change anything? If anything, it is this type of rhetoric that turns people off to liberal ideas. Its terrible PR.
i love how people who don't know anything refer to liberals and their "Intolerance" and "Hate Speech." typical uninformed conservative knee-jerk.
in real life, the one that most liberals live in, people say "bad words" in order to emphasize a point, like bush being a fucking moron, or bill o'reilly being a fucking moron, or sean hannity being a fucking sorry excuse for a journalist. i believe that profanity only exists if we label it and that the f-word is just a word, like "bunny" or "fundamentalist." words are not something that grown-ups should be afraid of, and if your argument against an opinionated article refers to the fact that you don't like the naughty words, then you have a weak argument, because the truth about the world is not subject to your preference of language.
Actually, I have many intelligent and thougtful liberal friends. Although they can't stand Bush or his policies, they do so in much more adult and much more funny than name calling or cursing..
The liberals on this board, however, are among the most intolerant and hateful people in the country.
I find it astounding that HuffPost liberals will rush to defend any hate speech, as long as it is directed at the right target.
Oh, and if you find any money while you are down there, just keep it for services rendered.
Funkdome,
It is impossible to talk to these types of people. Whenever they start losing a discussion and have nowhere else to go, they have to say, "You're a fucking whore". According to these people, Obama supporters are generally more educated. I guess you can see what they bought for their education. They learned how to call people "whores".
Obama will not win this election. Normal people are disgusted by this type of behavior.
AK:
What an amazingly hysterical post...I laughed so hard I almost SH*T in my pants...
Keep it up...I love your work...smart, snarky and "takes no prisoners"...keep it up!!!
Paz,
JT
What was smart about that? That was the most sophmoric piece I have read in a long time.
Liberals have completely gone off the deep end if they defend this type of writing. Writing "Fucking whore" doesn't belong anywhere in civilized discourse. You Obama supporters are scarier than any Republicans. If this is what the future of the Democratic party looks like, I don't want to have anything to do with it.
McCain is pandering to the part of the elecorate who flunked algera and generally screwed up in school. He wears his 895th place our of 900 at the Naval Academy as some sort of honor.. He was a spoiled Navy brat then and still is, only now it's Cindy with the pull and money instead of his father and grandfather. Have some shame John; your captivity was yours and the Vietnamese' in the first place, You flew into the ground fire. Give the A and B students a break; we struggle and suffer too.
Well said.
McCain is a "maverick" the same way a whore is "an escort."
OMG, so great. That five-and-a-half-year stint in Hell, having his body broken every few months and refusing to leave until others could leave, was SO political. What a whore, right? You're the greatest.
Thanks for giving us a glimpse into the entire substance of McWarmonger's campaign.
Wrong about the mortgage crisis, the dissolution of Bear Stearns, the war in Iraq, Iran and the greater Middle East, education, taxes, the GI Bill, Dr. King and the legacy of slavery & Jim Crow, the Confederate flag, John Hagee & Rod Parsley, Vietnam etc.
"McCain - wrong about everything, but hey, he was a POW."
I LOVE IT! Someone that throws punches and is willing to spank our ass with reality.
My favorite term for him is "jellyfish" but whore is good...real good. I look forward to more of your posts and moshing in the pit with you. FUCKING AWESOME!
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