If Howard Dean was a farm animal he would definitely be a pig.
Hopelessly hollow Howard Dean’s desperate distortion of Sen. John McCain’s statements continues. And why not? After all, a pig knows the mud he loves to roll in.
While appearing on FOX News Sunday earlier today, the failed one-time candidate for president and now head of the DNC, Dean was challenged by host Chris Wallace over Dean’s deliberate distortion of Sen. John McCain’s “USA in Iraq for one hundred years” comment, pointing out the blatant editing and omissions of McCain’s words by Dean and the DNC in recent statements and campaign commercials.
First Obama led the baseless bashing of McCain on the campaign trail but now he has apparently handed off the tactic and torch to head of his party. And Dean appears to be only too happy to hop right into the politically-made mud puddle.
As Wallace pointed out to Dean, Factcheck.org notes that what the DNC says is the exact opposite of what Sen. McCain originally said. Not surprising, Dean continued to wallow in the mud like a bloated but happy pig, attempting to justify the actions and twisting the truth beyond recognition. Does Dean really believe that voters can’t see through his thinly-veiled partisan political attack?
During the discussion Dean also displayed his party’s infantile and inherent attack strategy once again by accusing Republicans of “race baiting” by daring to discuss the Rev. Jeremiah Wright pastor disaster and perpetuated the Dim party’s ongoing and asinine assertion that FOX News is biased against the Democrats. (If so, why are the Democrats flocking to FOX in recent weeks like starving ants to a picnic?) Don’t look for Dean to appear on CNN anytime soon chastising that network for favoring the left.
Clearly, Dean’s appearance on the FOX News Channel is a sure sign of a growing concern over Obama’s near free-fall in the national polls since the Rev. Wright brush fire became a raging political inferno last weekend. Don’t be surprised to hear Dean and his demonic DNC minions attacking Sen. McCain and his record with reckless abandon in the coming days. The move to shift the focus from Obama to McCain is on and the gloves are coming off. Facts will not factor in and all civility will soon be out the window.
The bottom line is Obama now appears as weak as a presidential candidate more than anytime ever before during the race and Hillary Clinton is playing the situation like a Stradivarius violin. With Clinton gaining ground, Obama losing altitude like a doomed 767, The Daily Kos and Moveon.org angry at their preferred party, and the mentally dull Dean at the helm of the hopelessly adrift Democrat party, winning the White House has never seemed less likely than it does today.
But come the fall campaign, Sen. McCain must keep in mind the Neitzsche quotation, “that which does not kill you makes you stronger.” The Democrat party’s ultimate presidential candidate may emerge from this fascinating infighting as a formidable dragon that McCain will need a very large sword to slay.
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Dean was a solid student at Yale.
He was successful when he worked on Wall Street.
He was successful as a physician and as a governor.
He did not do well in his quest for the nomination once.He gave up on elective politics for himself and has sought a different way to make a difference.
McCain got through the USNA and flight school because he descended from two 4 star admirals . He was a lousy pilot and had an inflated war record and BSed his career in the Senate based on bluster and bravado. He is uninformed on economics and Mideast politics. He is superstitious, a compulsive gambler and has a hot temper.
Doc,
Your comments need a little Viagra there Doc. They just simply can’t stand up to public scrutiny.
You clearly harbor some sort of irrational hatred of Sen. McCain and drone on and on with your innaccuracies and innuendo like a one song CD. I suspect you may have inhaled a little to much of your own gas over the years as apparently that’s all you are capable of expelling at this juncture of your twilight years.
Dean is a despicable, divisive, ineffectual, incompetent imbecile who is “leading” the Democrat party right down the path to defeat come November, and I couldn’t be happier about it. And I won’t even dignify your banal and baseless attacks on Sen. McCain. His record speaks for itself and isn’t going to be tarnished by some tiresome and tedious retired left-winger with a keyboard and too much time on his hands.
In fact Doc, the more of your continually kooky liberal commentary I read the more I am reminded of the adage, “There’s no fool like an old fool.”
Isn’t there a shuffleboard game going on there at the home that you can join in and give up the McCain-bashing blogging for a while?
Dean is despicable and divisive in your eyes not mine.
Dean was successful on Wall Street, as a physician and as a governor of Vermont.I would not call that ineffectual or incompetent.
I thought that the public perception of McCain’s war record was accurate until I researched him on the web.
23 unexceptional combat missions, while honorable, does not qualify him as a war hero. His low academic standing at USNA does not mean that he is not very cerebral but the fact that he confused Sunnis, Shiites and Al Qaeda and has not taken the trouble to to get a handle on economics makes me think that he is as intellectually lazy as GW Bush.
McCain has gotten by with his family connections and bluster similar to the way GW Bush has gotten by with family connections and talent for failing gracefully.
My mother is in her mid nineties and still feisty and spry so maybe I will have many twilight years left too. My Viagra works just fine thank you.
BTW I have voted Republican as often as I have voted Democrat.
On behalf of swine lovers everywhere, Bob, I must say that your characterization of the current head of the DNC is a bit out of line.
Howard Dean simply is what he is: a real jackass who’s just smart enough to be his own worst enemy.
Doc,
On this matter you and I simply must agree to disagree. McCain may not be a voter’s dream but compared to his two opponents, he’s never looked more presidential nor more of a leader who is ready to lead. And in a time of war and terrorism I would much rather have a commander-in-chief with an “unexceptional” war record than one who doesn’t know the first thing about “duty, honor, country.”
We need a president who is willing to clutch our enemies by the throat and not one who imagines sniper-fire or looks down their nose at those who cling to guns and religion.
If Clinton or Obama occupy the Oval Office for the next four years we’ll all need an arsenal of guns and a healthy dose of religion.
My best to your dear Mother.
Regards,
Robert
Obama had enough understanding of the military to know that getting into the Iraq war would be a disaster. (google obama october 2002 iraq to read his speech) Please note the insight that Obama had into the matter. He repeated several times that he was not against all wars just dumb wars.
Neither Hillary nor McCain had that insight.
GW Bush had the image of someone who would “clutch our enemies by the throat” too and we see where that got us.The more I have researched McCain the more I see the resemblence to GW Bush and that is truly scarey.
McCain is bluster and bravado and BS. His understanding of economics and Iraqi politics does not even rise to the level of superficial and incomplete.