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McCain says an American revolution is going on [McInsane finally gets it...sorta]
KOLD-TV CBS 13 Tucson, Ariz. ^ | 2009-09-04 | Bud Foster

Posted on 09/04/2009 9:04:17 PM PDT by rabscuttle385

"I have not seen anything like this in the years I have been a member of Congress. It's a peaceful revolution but I think it is a revolution we're seeing," Arizona's senior Senator John McCain says after a series of health care town halls.

McCain was in Oro Valley to deliver the final address to the annual conference of Arizona's League of Cities and Towns.

When asked what was the one thing that surprised him most about the town halls he replied, "the anger."

McCain believes that anger is being displayed not by professional protestors but by people who are expressing their frustration for the first time.

That's why he believes it's the making of a revolution against business as usual in Washington, D.C.

"The concern about the debt, the deficits, the spending and a health care proposal that appears to them, and I believe correctly so, as a big government intrusion into the health care system," he says.

(Excerpt) Read more at kold.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: 111th; angrymob; bho2009; bho44; dainbramage; mcbama; mccain; mccaintruthfile; mcinsane; mckook; mcqueeg; rebellion; rino; teaparty
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To: Grams A

Good job. Backstabber McCain needs to be voted out. He is a disgrace along with his daughter. They hate conservatives.


21 posted on 09/04/2009 9:16:23 PM PDT by Frantzie (Lou Dobbs & Glenn Beck- American Heroes! Bill O'Reilly = Liar)
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To: rabscuttle385

“It’s a peaceful revolution...”

For now....


22 posted on 09/04/2009 9:17:34 PM PDT by Gator113 (YES WE CAN.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cMxJBenigY&feature=related)
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To: elizabethgrace
McCain always tries to position himself. But he always comes out confused and RHINOed.
23 posted on 09/04/2009 9:19:20 PM PDT by unkus
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To: rabscuttle385

We know he can’t lead, He sure doesn’t want to follow, so John, get the hell out of the way!


24 posted on 09/04/2009 9:20:10 PM PDT by charmedone
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To: rabscuttle385

Isn’t he being challenged from the right? That might explain his new insight.


25 posted on 09/04/2009 9:20:41 PM PDT by ansel12
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To: kingattax

mccain was having a weak moment..he’s still grieving for teddy
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And when McCain’s time comes, Teddy’s side won’t give a damn. They will only remember him as one they used and abused.


26 posted on 09/04/2009 9:21:35 PM PDT by unkus
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To: rabscuttle385

I was at the McCain rally when he insisted 0bama was a good man. After I screamed my voice out with NOOOO! I realized we have a BIG battle ahead. Disgusting sellout RINO. After what he went through in captivity, does he have Alzheimer’s or is it just Washingtonian disease?

I know, I know.


27 posted on 09/04/2009 9:22:02 PM PDT by mplsconservative (Flag me!)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

It’s like this Johnny. There are too many Americans still living in this country who don’t want their grandchildren living in a third world banana republic run by Marxist dictators.

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Right on!!!!!!!!


28 posted on 09/04/2009 9:22:30 PM PDT by unkus
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To: rabscuttle385
"I have not seen anything like this in the years I have been a member of Congress. It's a peaceful revolution but I think it is a revolution we're seeing," Arizona's senior Senator John McCain says after a series of health care town halls.

Gee! McLame! Ya Think? Huh?
Of course, you'll change your tune in a day or two.....
You always do.....

29 posted on 09/04/2009 9:22:45 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: rabscuttle385

Welcome to the party, pal - maybe. Except you’re one of the things Americans are angry about.


30 posted on 09/04/2009 9:23:19 PM PDT by roadcat
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To: unkus

youre exactly right


31 posted on 09/04/2009 9:24:32 PM PDT by kingattax (99 % of liberals give the rest a bad name)
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To: rabscuttle385
Now....now....now...now. He's a good man. He's intentions are good. Wa...wa....wa...wait a minute. We just disagree on the issues. Now....now....now. Let's not get off track here.

HEY MCLAME, STFU!! AND STEP DOWN YOU POS!!!!
32 posted on 09/04/2009 9:31:09 PM PDT by Electric Graffiti (Yonder stands your orphan with his gun)
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To: rabscuttle385

No matter what, thank you Sen. McCain for the great service you performed for your country on August 29, 2008.


33 posted on 09/04/2009 9:36:02 PM PDT by Lou Budvis (Palin/Bachmann '12)
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To: rabscuttle385

Well, Johnny, that’s the difference in righteous anger and those little tantrum fits you’re famous for...especially against ‘conservatives’. Maybe this old fool is finally feeling outnumbered.

Capitol Hill staffers rate their bosses.
McCain got no glory from those who work with him.
“Every election year we survey top aides on both sides of the aisle—administrative assistants, press secretaries, legislative directors, and chiefs of committee staffs—to get their up-close and personal, and anonymous, views. While there may be lots of partisan backbiting among congress members, their staffers seem far more capable of putting politics aside and making honest judgments. It wasn’t unusual for aides in both parties to name one of their own as “spineless” or give the “workhorse” nod to someone across the aisle. “

Worst Follower 2. John McCain (R-Ariz.) Show Horse 2. John McCain (R-Ariz.) Hottest Temper 2. John McCain (R-Ariz.) known to snap at staff when the cameras are off
http://www.washingtonian.com/articles/mediapolitics/1666.html

THE McCAIN WAY - ATTACK REPUBLICANS

Defending His Amnesty Bill, “Presidential hopeful John McCain - who has been dogged for years by questions about his volcanic temper - erupted in an angry, profanity-laced tirade at a fellow Republican senator, sources told The Post yesterday. In a heated dispute over immigration-law overhaul, McCain screamed, ‘F— you!’ at Texas Sen. John Cornyn, who had been raising concerns about the legislation. ‘This is chickens—stuff,’ McCain snapped at Cornyn, according to several people in the room off the Senate floor Thursday. ‘You’ve always been against this bill, and you’re just trying to derail it.’” (Charles Hurt, “Raising McCain,” New York Post, 5/19/07)

In 2000, Sen. McCain Ran An Attack Ad Comparing Then-Gov. George W. Bush To Bill Clinton. SEN. MCCAIN: “I guess it was bound to happen. Governor Bush’s campaign is getting desperate, with a negative ad about me. The fact is, I’ll use the surplus money to fix Social Security, cut your taxes and pay down the debt. Governor Bush uses all of the surplus for tax cuts, with not one new penny for Social Security or the debt. His ad twists the truth like Clinton. We’re all pretty tired of that. As president, I’ll be conservative and always tell you the truth. No matter what.” (McCain 2000, Campaign Ad, 2/9/00; www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHoXkCprdL4)

Sen. McCain Repeatedly Called Sen. Pete Domenici (R-NM) nams. “Why can’t McCain win the votes of his own colleagues? To explain, a Republican senator tells this story: at a GOP meeting last fall, McCain erupted out of the blue at the respected Budget Committee chairman, Pete Domenici, saying, ‘Only an a–hole would put together a budget like this.’ Offended, Domenici stood up and gave a dignified, restrained speech about how in all his years in the Senate, through many heated debates, no one had ever called him that. Another senator might have taken the moment to check his temper. But McCain went on: ‘I wouldn’t call you an a–hole unless you really were an a–hole.’ The Republican senator witnessing the scene had considered supporting McCain for president, but changed his mind. ‘I decided,’ the senator told Newsweek, ‘I didn’t want this guy anywhere near a trigger.’” (Evan Thomas, et al., “Senator Hothead,” Newsweek, 2/21/00)

Sen. McCain Had A Heated Exchange With Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) And Called Him A “F*cking Jerk.” “Senators are not used to having their intelligence or integrity challenged by another senator. ‘Are you calling me stupid?’ Sen. Chuck Grassley once inquired during a debate with McCain over the fate of the Vietnam MIAs, according to a source who was present. ‘No,’ replied McCain, ‘I’m calling you a f—ing jerk!” (Evan Thomas, et al., “Senator Hothead,” Newsweek, 2/21/00)

In 1995, Sen. McCain Had A “Scuffle” With 92-Year-Old Sen. Strom Thurmond (R-SC) On The Senate Floor. “In January 1995, McCain was midway through an opening statement at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing when chairman Strom Thurmond asked, ‘Is the senator about through?’ McCain glared at Thurmond, thanked him for his ‘courtesy’ (translation: buzz off), and continued on. McCain later confronted Thurmond on the Senate floor. A scuffle ensued, and the two didn’t part friends.” (Harry Jaffe, “Senator Hothead,” The Washingtonian, 2/97)

Sen. McCain Attacked Christian Leaders And Republicans In A Blistering Speech During The 2000 Campaign. MCCAIN: “Unfortunately, Governor Bush is a Pat Robertson Republican who will lose to Al Gore. … The political tactics of division and slander are not our values… They are corrupting influences on religion and politics, and those who practice them in the name of religion or in the name of the Republican Party or in the name of America shame our faith, our party and our country. Neither party should be defined by pandering to the outer reaches of American politics and the agents of intolerance, whether they be Louis Farrakhan or Al Sharpton on the left, or Pat Robertson or Jerry Falwell on the right.” (Sen. John McCain, Remarks, Virginia Beach, VA, 2/28/00)

Celebrating His First Senate Election In 1986, Sen. McCain Screamed At And Harassed A Young Volunteer. “It was election night 1986, John McCain had just been elected to the U.S. Senate for the first time. Even so, he was not in a good mood. McCain was yelling at the top of his lungs and poking the chest of a young volunteer who had set up a lectern that was too tall for the 5-foot-9 politician to be seen to advantage, according to a witness to the outburst. ‘Here this poor guy is thinking he has done a good job, and he gets a new butt ripped because McCain didn’t look good on television,’ Jon Hinz told a reporter Thursday. At the time, Hinz was executive director of the Arizona Republican Party. … ‘There were an awful lot of people in the room,’ Hinz recalled. ‘You’d have to stick cotton in your ears not to hear it. He (McCain) was screaming at him, and he was red in the face.’” (Kris Mayes and Charles Kelly, “Stories Surface On Senator’s Demeanor,” The Arizona Republic, 11/5/99)

Sen. McCain “Publicly Abused” Senator Richard Shelby (R-AL). “[McCain] noted his propensity for passion but insisted that he doesn’t ‘insult anybody or fly off the handle or anything like that.’ This is, quite simply, hogwash. McCain often insults people and flies off the handle…. There have been the many times McCain has called reporters ‘liars’ and ‘idiots’ when they have had the audacity to ask him unpleasant, but pertinent, questions. ” (Editorial, “There’s Something About McCain,” The Austin American-Statesman, 1/24/07) http://www.bostonherald.com/blogs/news/presidential_briefing/?p=161


34 posted on 09/04/2009 9:48:34 PM PDT by AuntB (If the TALIBAN grew drugs on our lands instead of armed Mexican Cartels would anyone notice?)
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To: rabscuttle385
Apparently he was sleeping when the American people loudly shouted NO AMNESTY!

Sheesh, McLame is dumber than a bag of lettuce.

35 posted on 09/04/2009 9:55:11 PM PDT by TigersEye (0bama: "I can see Mecca from the WH portico." --- Google - Cloward-Piven Strategy)
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To: AuntB
In 1995, Sen. McCain Had A “Scuffle” With 92-Year-Old Sen. Strom Thurmond (R-SC) On The Senate Floor.

59 year old McCain had a scuffle with 92 year old Strom Thurmond!?! Too bad Strom didn't lay McCain's sorry arse out cold.

36 posted on 09/04/2009 10:04:23 PM PDT by TigersEye (0bama: "I can see Mecca from the WH portico." --- Google - Cloward-Piven Strategy)
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To: rabscuttle385

Dear Senator McCain....

Thank you for serving our country.

Now stop please... You’ve done enough.

Get out gracefully while you can.

Retire...

Hang it up!

thanks


37 posted on 09/04/2009 10:09:45 PM PDT by Safrguns
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To: rabscuttle385
When asked what was the one thing that surprised him most about the town halls he replied, "the anger."

Yes. It really surprised him that they would be angry against Obama. After all, Obama is a decent person and a fine president.

38 posted on 09/04/2009 10:12:32 PM PDT by ColdWater
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To: Safrguns

lmao


39 posted on 09/04/2009 10:19:27 PM PDT by RaiderRose (Obama has cured my husband's political apathy.)
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To: AuntB

He did one good thing, he bought SaraCuda to the store!!!


40 posted on 09/04/2009 11:28:57 PM PDT by danamco
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