McCain at Sturgis Motorcycle Rally

Doug -- it's worse than you think. Watch the video. He can't even talk. It looks like he has been partying with the other bikers.

" ... Sports Illustrated is not going to offer her a spot in the swimsuit issue and Hugh Hefner is not on the phone offering the centerfold in Playboy."

I betcha Larry Flynt has already called.

Another McCain screw up: He chose the nuclear plant in Detroit (the name escapes me at the moment) that suffered a near meltdown in 1966 to proclaim the need for and the safety of nuclear power. There are two reactors there now, one in operation and the damaged one in mothballs. Of course the mainstream will never mention this, just as they will not ever mention the Keating Five.

-- Kent Shaw, Harley XL1200R

Never been to Sturgis. Too wild for me. Glad McCain enjoyed it and pimpin' out his woman. He's worse than Bush at hiding his real thoughts and intentions.

-Woody, Harley Custom XL883

> You gotta wonder how suggesting your wife should be
> in a beauty contest where the winner struts around
> stage with her hooters hanging out is going to sit
> with the rabid religious right that McCain needs if
> he has any shot at winning the Presidential election
> in November.

Doug,

You are assuming the religious right actually cares about the dignity of women. It does not. It only cares about keeping them where they "belong" as prescribed in their holy book. Opposition to birth control, abortion, etc. is a ruse to disguise what they really want - fewer freedoms and choices for women.

In any case, what do McCain's brain-dead comments say about his campaign's view of biker intelligence? I mean, I can understand the GOP appeal to redneck racists and creationists, who have proven they are easily duped election after election with red meat issues. But, do McCain and his advisors feel the same way about the intellect of bikers? And who exactly would be elitist if that were the case?

On Countdown last night they showed the actual contest where the gals were having a banana eating contest (the buautiful? contestants giving head to a banana). The guy is a bozo. Someone should ask him about his trick on the Forrestal when he wet started his A4 Skyhawk.

These bikers chased me out of Lake Havasu City after living there for only 2 years. They trashed our freeways, our beaches and our lake. They used language unacceptable to many of us. I made certain I had all the food and gas I would need when we were aware of their coming from Las Vegas, Laughlin and then into Lake Havasu City.

My son rode a Harley but knew better than to gun it in our neighborhood. Our old Encino neighborhood was just an old road with no sidewalks, curbs or street lights. All we had was the "Duke" living on the corner.

The man is just plain dumb! If he cannot even select the proper setting for HIS WIFE, how the hell is he gonna do that for this great Nation? He is four more years of Bush, maybe worse, in the making. Wake up America...you will deserve what you elect! And that is: a grumpy, old man, hung up on the past, and four more more years of disaster. OR, a refreshing, young man, willing to make the needed changes to jump start this Nation. The choice is yours...CHOOSE WISELY!

Stupid is as stupid does. Paints a real picture of the potential first lady does it not.

Hey Doug, remember "Change Starts Here"? It was only 16 days ago....

I'd like to remind you of your comments in that piece:

"Change cannot come from stringing together dirty words, cute nicknames for our elected leaders and emotional, but meaningless tirades against the "system."

"I believe I can bury my anger and change my approach to work towards healing the deep divisions in this nation. I believe I can change this web site to be an agent of positive change."

And I'd also like to remind you of my comments on this subject:

"Can you really do it? Can you break the pattern that has been highly consistent the entire time I've been reading this site?

I'm wondering how long it will be before W or Pelosi piss you off again and how you'll react.

I'm wondering if this "change" will last longer than your most recent "retirement".

I would gladly welcome the change you describe, but honestly? I'll believe when I see it."

Since then you've written three columns . One called the candidates "stupid", and the other two talk about how John McCain is a "racist, bigot and homophobe", and how he "pimped out his wife".

Just curious here, is THAT what you meant when you said this?

"The tone has to change. The rhetoric has to cool. We have to heal ourselves if we are to heal the problems that threaten our nation."

Couldn't you have written ONE positively toned column before jumping back into the name calling?

Submitted by ChescoRes on August 6, 2008 - 2:03pm.
"Since then you've written three columns . One called the candidates "stupid", and the other two talk about how John McCain is a "racist, bigot and homophobe", and how he "pimped out his wife"."

With apologies to Forrest Gump, "Facts is as facts does".

-- Kent Shaw

From what I saw in the clip-and I admit I could be wrong-but it looks to me like the "joke" was something from a script. To me it looks like he looked pretty hard at the -music stand?-that had his remarks on it, and just read the joke. What say you? He was extremely incoherent otherwise, but then he had wandered quite a ways from where what he was supposed to say was printed.

Doug, our lucky day? It turns out that pimpcindy.com and buffalochipcindy.com weren't taken. wicked grin

Now who wants to put up a web petition site for McCain?

I'm no prude about nudity, but this is pretty weird. McCain makes me feel nervous. And Obama makes me feel nervous. Neither of them really seem worth much of anything.

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Don't tread on me.

With apologies to Forrest Gump, "Facts is as facts does".

Kent, I believe you may have missed my point.

"Facts", or the lack thereof, is not the issue here.

Doug was the one who said he wanted to change the tone, to cool the rhetoric, to be an agent of positive change.

And all we've gotten is the same ol' name calling.

True or not, we were promised something more.

I'm disappointed, but not surprised.

I read about this and saw the video on KO last night. It is absolutely appalling that any man would show this type of obscene disrespect for his wife in ANY forum whatsoever. Let's fact it -- McCain is a closeted misogynist -- remember his comments about Chelsea Clinton looking like a dog, Chelsea being the love child of Hillary Clinton and Janet Reno, beating his wife, calling her a "trollop" and a "c*nt" and now this. His change in position on the issue a woman's right to make decisions regarding abortion and birth control, and his refusal to even discuss why viagra is covered by insurance but not birth control. I've seen this kind of sleazy man before.

In fact, years ago I was employed by a former county judge who was the stereotypical "family values" Christian republican politician. He continually trumpeted about how he was such a Christian, he was a "law and order" kind of guy and would proceed to say disrespectful things about not only his wife, but his daughter and his son's girlfriends. One day he even regaled me with an anecdote about one day when he was a judge and on the elevator at the City-County Building in his judge robe. He said there was a woman on the elevator and she grabbed him underneath his robe and fondled him. To make matters worse, he said he enjoyed it because that had never happened to him before.

Man, was this guy oily and sleazy and McCain reminds me of him. This is certainly a red flag signal that McCain is not mature enough intellectually or mentally to be a player on the world stage.

Doug, this is a great way to start the day. I love the comments (anti- and pro-). Controversy is what sells newspapers, ideas, and objections. Waytago!

Timr said

From what I saw in the clip-and I admit I could be wrong-but it looks to me like the "joke" was something from a script. To me it looks like he looked pretty hard at the -music stand?-that had his remarks on it, and just read the joke. What say you? He was extremely incoherent otherwise, but then he had wandered quite a ways from where what he was supposed to say was printed.

I noticed that as well, and wondered who could possibly have written that stuff. I also wondered why, the day before when Cindy was wearing that red suit, nobody suggested she remove her triple-tier diamond pin from the lapel. Maybe she thought the people who can't afford to make payments on their pick-up trucks might enjoy seeing how the other half lives.

The new owner of "buffalochipcindy.com is
Bob Drogin.
Bob has generously given us his email address:
bob.drogin@latimes.com

So I wrote him a nice short letter.

Dear Bob

Congratulations on getting buffalochipcindy.com online.

Now please let us publicize the site and tell us where to send the Photoshop cartoons that depict McCain's true "Christian Family Values".

Dear Hell's Angels:

There's something you guys dont seem to understand.

America looks to you guys for the image of the wild untamed dude who lives by his wits and roams the countryside free as the wind.
America looks to you as the image of the romantic outlaw.

But one thing we dont look to you for is who to choose as the leader of the country.
In fact if someone looks like a good leader to a gang of outlaw bikers it is a pretty safe bet they aren't a good leader for the rest of us, seeing as how for the last eight years only outlaws in three piece suits have been getting any play.

So McCain went to your little party and stuck his foot in his mouth. Good, that means we know he is just like you guys.
PS we don't ask the Marlboro man for advice on cardio training either so don't feel bad.

Jeff H in Occupied TX

Drill my wife, please.

There’s a “beauty contest” of sorts held each summer at the Sturgis rally. And it’s just the kind of honor you’d want to see your wife achieve, if you’re the kind of repulsive old misogynist who calls your wife “trollop” and “c--t.”From Wonkette

This is the only picture the MSM published that even comes close to showing what the rally and contest is all about. Note the blurred picture on the t-shirt (here)

From Fire Dog Lake:

“I was looking at the Sturgis schedule and noticed that you have a beauty pageant and so I encouraged Cindy to compete,” McCain said to cheers from the (mostly male) crowd. “With a little luck, she could be on the only woman ever to serve as both the first lady and Miss Buffalo Chip.”

Which raises the question: does he know about the Miss Buffalo Chip pageant -- or not?

The “Miss Buffalo Chip Beauty Pageant - Bikinis on the Beach” was described by Jim Caple of EPSN as "essentially a topless beauty pageant. And occasionally bottomless, too."

I guess nine-houses-a-job-for-his-son-and-a-jet-plane buy you absolutely no respect at all.

The simulated sex is in the last half of this video.

The are some good quotes on this Salon article (link) including this from Lynn Harris:

I am most skeeved out by that awkward snickery, mouth-breathy, Beavis-y two-step he does during the applause. Not to mention that he is clearly reading from notes, which, come on, seriously? Never mind the heh-heh public objectification of his own goddamn wife, how come he, Flyboy McPrepSchool, gets to get away -- which he will -- with this embarrassing motorcycle enthusiast fist jab I'm So Down With You Biker People farce? There's also the matter of his party platform; I was not aware that marriage between a man and a Miss Buffalo Chip was a family value.

From a post on TPM Cafe about McCain evoking sexual imagery:

Wanting to "drill" is an expression of male power, and McCain says Obama doesn't want that power, "doesn't want to drill." Instead, Obama wants to "inflate your tires." That mockery intends to evoke an image of a servile, effeminate Obama giving you a blow job.

Think I sound offensive? This is just the coded language of the old white man who wants to be your president... and can cavalierly joke about his wife baring her breasts at the Buffalo Chip. I'm sick of presidential campaigns based on macho BS. It's time to elect a President who respects women, and John McCain's performance at Sturgis yesterday proves he ain't it.

This whole thing gives me a good idea into what Cindy Mcbush is really about, No self respecting woman would stand there grinning like an idiot while her husband offered her body up to a gang of bikers to ogle. And had ANY man called me the C word ,he would be ancient history in my world. Can you imagine the parties in the White House if those two lived there? Bill Clinton insulting HIS wife as he did with Monica starts to look tame.