Research, people, research. Does this sound as bad to others as it does to me? Does it pretty much put an end to the Michelle comments controversy?
To attempt to compare that to McCain's quote is laughable. But keep trying to rehabilitate the angry blowhard's reputation.
I’m not a big fan of McCain, and I’m sure most of you haven’t noticed... LOL.
This is a poor choice of words, but I don’t read into it what others might.
With Michelle Obama, there was an implied slam at the U.S., as if it wasn’t worth respecting or loving until now.
With McCain it’s more like he never quite focused on his feelings for the nation until he couldn’t go home.
I had an inate love of our nation early on. I think it does reveal some of McCain’s character shortcomings to say what he did, the way he did, but I still don’t see his statement as a slam of the nation, which Michelle’s clearly was.
This is because Michelle made the statement TWICE. The first time she did NOT say "really", the second time the word was added to "clarify" her earlier speech.
You’re absolutely right. It puts an end to the Michelle controversy.
IF she was held as a POW and tortured by the enemy.
Any more questions?
Go back to Daily Kos. Plenty of us can’t stand McCain- but your kind of post is gin clear.
Take your propaganda somewhere else. You won’t get away with it here. Loser
TELL THAT GAY WUSS ABRAMS he cant hold the dirt off of Senator McCain’s shoe soles because he isnt worthyf such an Honor!
“Does it pretty much put an end to the Michelle comments controversy? “
No.....Michelle is STILL obama’s BITTER half..
My Mom and I talk about this a lot.
Why do young people vote for Obama?
Because the young have no concept of how special America is, and how blessed their lives are. America is a shining aberration in the history of the world. It’s not the natural way of man or cultures, to have so much and be so free,
They don’t understand how much people have given for it, and how easily it can be lost.
The differene is, John McCain went overseas and learned this. Obama went overseas and saw everything wrong with America.
It doesn’t sound bad to me, not at all. John McCain is saying that he didn’t understand how great America really was until he was imprisoned in Vietnam.
That’s a world of difference from Michelle Obama’s comment that she was never proud of American until her husband ran for president. Michelle Obama thinks that America should change to suit her particular meta narrative before she is proud, not the other way around, like John McCain.
The two statements are diametrically opposed.
and i am not a John McCain fan...
That doesn’t sound bad to me, it sounds like he admits he took America for granted until he didn’t have Her anymore.
I know alot of people like that. I know I was a stupid youngun’ too. I probably didn’t love America very much until I grew up enough to view the world around me and realized, Hey, it’s pretty darn good here!
It’s certainly not the same as saying that unless America has a black president, it’s crapola. That is what Michelle Obama essentially said.
I married my wife 12 years ago, 5 years later I was standing in a delivery room watching doctors perform CPR on my wife while nurses tended to my new born daughter. At that moment I realized that I would trade my life for hers. After a week on life support and year of recovery I learned how much I loved my wife. Did I love her before? Yes. Did I appreciate her as much and consider what my life would have been like had I lost her before that day? No. But on that day I learned the true meaning of love and what my wife means to me.
To use that experience against McCain is despicable regardless of how you feel about his political views. His view on how he feels about this country is relative to his experience in life. He may have thought he loved his country before then, he obviously loved her enough to serve her, but compared to how he loved her after he was deprived of her made those previous feelings meaningless in the new context of how he feels about her now.
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adjective
1 farcical, ludicrous, ridiculous
broadly or extravagantly humorous;
resembling farce; "the wild farcical exuberance of a clown"; "ludicrous green hair"
2 absurd, cockeyed, derisory, idiotic,
laughable, ludicrous, nonsensical, preposterous, ridiculous
completely devoid of wisdom or good sense;
"the absurd excuse that the dog ate his homework";
"that's a cockeyed idea"; "ask a nonsensical question and get a nonsensical answer";
"a contribution so small as to be laughable"
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Talkign Points Memo blog is run by a liberal. It’s garbage.
we haven’t left the word REALLY out of MO’s comments; she did. She said she wasn’t proud at 2 separate occassions. Once w/ really and once without.