• February 16, 2012

I am angry and enfeebled!Last night, John McCain showed Barack Obama how it’s done when it comes to speechifying: You park yourself in an underground bunker, pack the house with 80-year-old Bitters, and blink awkwardly in front of a vomitous green screen while declaring “that’s not change you can believe in.” Emboldened by that rousing success, John McCain will today challenge Barack Obama to a series of debates that will show the world just how angry and enfeebled the Republican candidate is. [Jonathan Martin]

{ 62 comments }

Odder June 4, 2008 at 10:59 am

This is excellent news for Hillary!

AfghanVet June 4, 2008 at 11:00 am

And the old man will be summarily bitch-slapped on national television by a man who can both speak eloquently and actually conjure up SOLUTIONS as opposed to RETHORIC that fits on a bumpersticker.

AngryBlakGuy June 4, 2008 at 11:00 am

…after watching that WALNUTS! speech last night, I can only imagine how many people are return HDTV’s this morning!

Advocatus_Diaboli June 4, 2008 at 11:00 am

I’ll make the popcorn – this is going to be fun.

mookworthjwilson June 4, 2008 at 11:00 am

Whatever you do Barry, if Walnuts tries to get you to debate at dawn in a field in Weehawken NJ, DON’T GO!!!!

Diadhuit June 4, 2008 at 11:01 am

this is how it will go
McCain: “…And that, my friends, is why no one believes we should sit down and talk with Iran.”
Obama: “Actually, a recent bi-partisan poll showed that over 60% of Americans strongly believed diplomatic action is the best policy”
McCain: (Morphs into giant green abomination) “ARGGGGH!!!! McCAIN ANGRY!!!!!! McCAIN SMASH!!!!”

NoWireHangers June 4, 2008 at 11:01 am

I hope that Our Wonkette will cover these historic debates with on-the-scene reporting, heckling chants of WAAAAAAAAAAAAALNUTS! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALNUTS! and penis-copters.

graceless* June 4, 2008 at 11:02 am

He’s fighting for HRC’s honor.

AngryBlakGuy June 4, 2008 at 11:03 am

…wasn’t John McCain one of the witnesses for the Aaron Burr & Alexander Hamilton duel?

Serolf Divad June 4, 2008 at 11:03 am

I think I’ve seen this movie before… it was called Clinton vs. Dole and came out in 1996.

icelight June 4, 2008 at 11:03 am

Future challenges by McCain include “who can make more women’s heart flutter” and the hundred meter dash.

Domestic Goddess June 4, 2008 at 11:04 am

Let the reverse lynching begin!

AngryBlakGuy June 4, 2008 at 11:05 am

…I think Barry should take a page out of Bugs Bunny’s book and count 5 paces turn and fire instead of 10!

Domestic Goddess June 4, 2008 at 11:06 am

I wonder if McCain will call Obama a cunt too because we all know how effete Obama is.

AngryBlakGuy June 4, 2008 at 11:07 am

[re=6411]NoWireHangers[/re]: …it would be way funnier if it was a flying vagina. It would give him a chance to say “someone get this c*nt out of my face!”

NotUrEvryDayWEzl June 4, 2008 at 11:07 am

[re=6411]NoWireHangers[/re]: Yes, we need a whole fleet of Wonkette News Cockcopters to cover all the angles, this way when BHO gets get shot, we’ll have more than one movie to scrutinize for the next 45 years.

floraway June 4, 2008 at 11:07 am

[re=6415]Serolf Divad[/re]: But this time Clinton is actually a black guy. Oh, and Bob Dole’s saying “Bob Dole” tick will be replaced by McCain’s “my friends…”.

shortsshortsshorts June 4, 2008 at 11:07 am

[re=6416]icelight[/re]: I always thought of McCain as more a dizzy-egg roll or potato sack racer.

norbziness June 4, 2008 at 11:08 am

Let’s be fair; I think his cheek-sac is performing the same task as Richard Grant’s shoulder-boil in How To Get Ahead in Advertising; that sac’s got some bad ideas, man!

Paultardville June 4, 2008 at 11:10 am

What about a series of catfights between Michelle Obama and Cougar McCain on the undercard?

MoodProcessor June 4, 2008 at 11:11 am

[re=6411]NoWireHangers[/re]: With the whopper-chopper floating just inches above Wally’s head – ’cause,you know, he wouldn’t be able to swat it down. OMG that would be priceless!
Better yet, His Hopefullness should just high-five him at the first debate. This’d all be over in a matter of minutes.

Darehead June 4, 2008 at 11:12 am

Transcript of dual:

Barry: I change!
Johnny: You change!
Barry and Johnny: We all change for…
Barry: Reds, change!
Johnny: Blues, change!
Barry and Johnny: We all change for…
Barry: Change we can believe in!
Johnny: Change we can bereave in!
Barry and Johnny: We all change for…
Barry: Change we can Flip!
Johnny: Change we can Flop!
Barry and Johnny: We all change for…
Barry: Yo mama change!
Johnny: Osama change!
Barry: Hyper- change!
Hillary [aside]: Sniper, change!
Barry and Johnny: Hillary?
Hillary [aside]: I’ll never change!
[long pause]
Johnny: Diaper change!
Barry: Ooooooooooh, what’s that smell?????

AngryBlakGuy June 4, 2008 at 11:13 am

[re=6428]Paultardville[/re]: …in a pit of baby oil!

jimh June 4, 2008 at 11:14 am

“that’s not change you can believe in.”
What you can actually believe in is not changing.
More of the same, but worser, and older.
2008! Walnuts!

sweetladyirony June 4, 2008 at 11:15 am

I think that Barack should literally, physically run circles around WALNUTS as he delivers his replies during the debate, just to drive this whole thing home.

Anita Cocktail June 4, 2008 at 11:16 am

[re=6409]mookworthjwilson[/re]: “Don’t stand around squawkin’, turn left at Weehauken…”

queeraselvis v 2.0 June 4, 2008 at 11:17 am

The only reason I can figure why McCain still haunting the South like some sort of reincarnated Jeff Davis is because he wants to remind us good Southerners that Barry O is a big ole BLACK YANKEE. Not that we care anyway, since most of us dearly wish Walnuts would take his geriatric, potty-mouthed, desert-state-living, beer-and-Xanax-swilling-2nd-wife-marrying ass back to Sedona and stay the fuck there.

Kingbee June 4, 2008 at 11:18 am

This will give the Militia clowns nightmares: The Black Helicopters that they’ve all feared for so long!

Godless Liberal * June 4, 2008 at 11:18 am

McCain: You’re stupid!
Obama: You’re old!
McCain: You’re inexperienced!
Obama: You heart Bush!
McCain: Zzzzzzzzz

TGY June 4, 2008 at 11:19 am

Bad move. WALNUTS! has a bit of problem with inconsistency already without someone helpfully pointing it out on national TV. If he loses his shit on the air, it will go hard for him.

AngryBlakGuy June 4, 2008 at 11:19 am

[re=6434]sweetladyirony[/re]: …or talk really really low to see if he can get him to say “WHAAAAT!”

jagorev June 4, 2008 at 11:19 am

Seriously, the best thing that the Obama campaign can do is give John McCain all the time on-stage and on-camera that he wants. The more that people see of him, the less likable he seems. Going on last night’s performance, he will creep everyone out by August, and Obama will win in a 49-1 landslide (Utah will vote for Romney, obvs.)

Vanity Smurf June 4, 2008 at 11:21 am

I can’t believe with all that beer money and the Senate dental plan that nobody thought to get McSame a new set of dentures — or if those are his own hideously yellow teeth you’d think they’d get him booked for a bleaching. Surely his campaign isn’t so broke (yet) that it couldn’t get some Crest White Strips at the very least. That underbite was nasty lookin’.

metropolitan June 4, 2008 at 11:23 am

he’s challenging obama? i thought hillary was going to be the democratic nominee.

AngryBlakGuy June 4, 2008 at 11:24 am

[re=6443]jagorev[/re]: …take a look at my earlier comment and tell me that Best-Buy isn’t having their worst day ever today[re=6406]AngryBlakGuy[/re]:

Darehead June 4, 2008 at 11:24 am

[re=6443]jagorev[/re]: sweetie, I’d love to believe you, but me fearest you misoverestimate “everyone.”

Darehead June 4, 2008 at 11:25 am

[re=6445]Vanity Smurf[/re]: I noticed that too. The classic jawstretch of the denturati.

sweetladyirony June 4, 2008 at 11:26 am

[re=6442]AngryBlakGuy[/re]: Yes! Now I have an image of WALNUTS sitting with a blanket over his lap, clutching his ear horn.

jagorev June 4, 2008 at 11:27 am

My favorite comment on last night, from Nat’l Review:

Would you rather:

a) watch last night’s McCain speech? Or

b) be waterboarded?

This needs to be a poll on the Wonkette front page.

Botswana Meat Commission FC June 4, 2008 at 11:28 am

McCain is the candidate your party gets when it just doesn’t give a shit any more.

How the fuck did Republicans not go for Mitt? He’s so over-the-top insane… in other words, the perfect Republican candidate.

Darehead June 4, 2008 at 11:29 am

[re=6455]sweetladyirony[/re]: …howling “Cunt, bring me more BUD! Me wants BUD! NOW!”

jagorev June 4, 2008 at 11:29 am

[re=6452]Darehead[/re]: Seriously, isn’t he the least likable Presidential candidate ever? (I wasn’t born yet when Nixon was running)

Darehead June 4, 2008 at 11:33 am

[re=6461]jagorev[/re]: Well, he ain’t near the top. It probably makes me a minority here to say so, but I’d still give “W” the prize for bein’ the scariest, least likeable candidate ever.

wallythepug June 4, 2008 at 11:34 am

I, for one, cannot wait until the debates start. I suggest McCain get his teeth whitened before then; they looked very yellow and gross in front of that green screen.

sweetladyirony June 4, 2008 at 11:35 am

[re=6461]jagorev[/re]: He’s like Father Jack Hackett, except not endearing or funny at all.

Godless Liberal * June 4, 2008 at 11:35 am

In the debate, will McCain get two minutes to speak followed by two minutes for his cheek? Because while McCain seriously unnerves me, I actually like some of his cheek’s positions on the issues.

AngryBlakGuy June 4, 2008 at 11:38 am

[re=6468]wallythepug[/re]: …I suggest he do it from behind a curtain holding a hand puppet.

AngryBlakGuy June 4, 2008 at 11:39 am

[re=6470]Godless Liberal *[/re]: …does that 2 minutes include the time that the moderators will need to remind McCain what the question was?

ReelectTilden June 4, 2008 at 11:41 am

[re=6468]wallythepug[/re]: Only elite bottled water-drinkers have white teeth. McCain’s diet of grubs and puddle water leaves his teeth a bitter, All-American yellow.

Godless Liberal * June 4, 2008 at 11:43 am

[re=6468]wallythepug[/re]: He accidentally wore his Senate dentures to the speech, instead of his pearly-white campaign set. I’d say he won’t make that mistake again, but honestly, his greatest responsibility these days is not soiling himself on stage.

Carrie_Okie June 4, 2008 at 11:46 am
Drop-out June 4, 2008 at 12:06 pm

oh me oh my, the comments section is sweet:

“Sorry to you sipporters of The Messiah. Your party had the elction handed to you last summer but last night you deliver a Communist supported, Marxist supported, Racist supported candidate for the general election…We are simply the Watchers on the Wall…the fiery oratory…socialist zealot…changed history forever…bitter, anti-semite…hate business…put a mask on…Stand for him all you want…biggest landslide since McGovern…just speaking rationally.”

signed “NH Dad”

sweet.

tunamelt June 4, 2008 at 12:11 pm

[re=6510]Drop-out[/re]: Is that in some different dialect of English and I’m just not getting it…?

Darehead June 4, 2008 at 12:13 pm

[re=6510]Drop-out[/re]: Yah, if we nominate Him, they will come. Those NH (no humor) Dads. They’re here. In our midst. Now.

Drop-out June 4, 2008 at 12:21 pm

[re=6521]tunamelt[/re]: sorry i edited it just a bit for brevity’s sake, but I’m afraid you won’t get much more from the entire comment…

“Sorry to you sipporters of The Messiah. Your party had the elction handed to you last summer but last night you deliver a Communist supported, Marxist supported, Racist supported candidate for the general election. The fact that you can be proud of this speaks loudly just how low the Democrat party has sunk. None of us fear what may happen. We are simply the Watchers on the Wall warning the people. People once fell for the fiery oratory of another socialist zealot in the past too. He changed history forever as well. His arrogance much like your candidate. He was bitter, anti-semite who played on the emotions of people to hate business. The only difference this time around is your candidate put a mask on and turned his anti-semite stances off to get elected. But he remained at an anti-semite church for 20 years. Stand for him all you want. He will lose in the biggest landslide since McGovern. …just speaking rationally.”

or his follow up:

“Oh…and one more thing. Your candidates preacher-mentor-father figure is a black liberation theologian who hates America and whitey. Yeah. Good luck with your candidate in the genral election as you’ll need it. After 54 hard-fought contests, the democrats just nominated the weakest candidate who carry’s hours and hours of video footgae of the people he associates with hating the white guy and America. Congratulations Democrats!”

I suppose we congratulate him on not using ALL CAPS!!!!!!!!!

DirkLeisure June 4, 2008 at 12:24 pm

Why didn’t McCain invite Hillary? That’s just sexist, and Barack Obama is to blame.

jimh June 4, 2008 at 12:29 pm

[re=6532]Drop-out[/re]: YAY, rationally!

Drop-out June 4, 2008 at 12:35 pm

[re=6523]Darehead[/re]: I think that’s what he means by “We are simply the Watchers on the Wall warning the people.” and it gives me the creeps.

tunamelt June 4, 2008 at 12:38 pm

[re=6532]Drop-out[/re]: Huffing paint from a paper bag does, in fact, have consequences, apparently.

Cicada June 4, 2008 at 12:39 pm

[re=6532]Drop-out[/re]: “Sipporter” refers to our love of sipping elitist Chardonnay, of course.

shortsshortsshorts June 4, 2008 at 1:04 pm

WALNUTS! guns are no match for Luo Spears.

PJ June 4, 2008 at 2:31 pm

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