Hey, bees are scary, you cracker! However, in My mercy I let it live.

I bet that baby-killing warmonger McCain would have murdered that bee and just kept talking about enslaving black people, or whatever you Republicans go on about.

[Jaw Drops]

McCain fixed Bud Day's arm? Bud freaking Day?

[jaw still on floor]

That's like a C-130 full of awesome.

Wow! A bee? I don't think I could have continued under those circumstances; good for Obama!

Barack Obama once bit the head off a rabbit. It was a chocolate rabbit -- a solid one, not one of those wimpy hollow ones.

Barack Obama once wore mismatched socks to show his wife she wasn't the boss of him.

Seriously, one was even 99% cotton with 1% Lycra, and the other was a 60/40 cotton/Rayon blend. And he would have told her about it if she asked.

Once, when Reverend Wright was preaching, Barack Obama became so outraged that he barely even shouted "Amen! Say it!" more than two or three times. Four, max.

That's the McCain I want, not the pandering, simpering tool of the moderates we have now.

Barack wonders how he can artfully compare the time he was sent to his room for not eating his butter beans to McCain's stint at the Hanoi Hilton.

Hey! #1 was mine! Where do you crackers get off stealing credit for my posts?!?!?!?

"Hey! #1 was mine! Where do you crackers get off stealing credit for my posts?!?!?!?
#6 - Posted by: Barack Obama on April 30, 2008 05:37 PM"

Just another example of being kept down by the man....

But the bee was black & yellow. Doh'bama felt a certain kinship.

I don't think it's his courage or service record that conservatives are worried about.

If Senator McCain could do the same for our national spirit, I would surely vote for him. Alas, he has already compromised it away many times. Someone needs to seriously take him aside and convey the lesson that the President of the United States' chief job is to enforce the law of the land. No amnesty, sir. Enforce the existing law. NOW.

Even a McCain hater doesn't doubt his courage. The problem is that he thinks that giving wedgies to his own base is courage.

Great post. I hadn't seen that story about McCain.

As for conservatives, well, we had 6 years of Republicans with the presidency and the congress and managed to end up with a monstrous budget deficit while that RINO pigdog McCain opposed our glorious Republican policies. You know, the ones like the prescription drug bill and the pork-bloated highway bill.

No wonder intellectual giants like Hannity and Rush keep criticizing him. Why wasn't he supportuing the party as they spent us all into bankruptcy?

Ugh. I know McCain's a war hero. I have tremendous respect for his service. But what has he done since then? This is still my country and I'm not giving it up to the forces of socialism and totalitarianism yet. On November 4th I am going to go to the ballot box and vote for an actual conservative for the first time since 1984. End of story.

#12 - Posted by: K T Cat on April 30, 2008 09:57 PM

McCain-Feingold, McCain-Kennedy, McCain-Lieberman, Gang of 14, Keating 5, opposing Bush tax cuts, close Gitmo, etc, etc. Good night.

KT Monkey: prove that Rush supported the highway bill or the Medicare expansion.

Frank-

Thanks for covering this. I've noticed a huge uptick in the Left-Wing attacks on McCain's service record. This is exactly the sort of ammunition we need in order to push back. I'll link it up over at the Conservative Intelligencer.

- J.

This story is why I will vote in Nov. (holding my nose the whole time) for McCain. As liberal as he is, he is NOTHING compared to the other two Nimrods.

One is the little engine who couldn't and the other is the gender non specific person who cried wolf. Neither would know courage if it introduced itself.

How truly sad is that..

One is the little engine who couldn't and the other is the gender non specific person who cried wolf.

seanmahair -

That is the best 1 sentence description of the Dem candidates I have seen. I am so gonna steal it to annoy my liberal cow-orkers. Thank you.

I think this is a wonderful story of courage and self sacrifice under terrible conditions. McCain could have taken advantage of the fact that his father was a high ranking Admiral but didn't. This all doesn't change the fact that he is not a conservative, will not work on behalf of conservatives and will propose legislation that we conservatives find anathema! While I respect his service to our country, I will not vote for him, send him any money or do anything to help him get elected to the office of POTUS!

#19 Well, ussjimmy, someone is going to be elected. I'm reasonablely sure that as bad as McCain is Osama and Hitlery will be much, much worse. After all McCain at least has a history of actually serving someone other than himself. The other two have a history of self-serving. (I want you to realize I could have made that funnier, more obscene, filthier, nastier but funnier- but I have standards, really, I do)

#18 Brian, please use with my blessing. There's very little in life that gives more pleasure than annoying liberals.

reasonably - yeah, even the Atilla the Nun couldn't beat bad spelling out of me, and they tried, oh how they tried.

#21: In five years of being taught by Nuns (is that capitalized?), I got rapped on the hands with a ruler one time. I don't recall what it was for but when I offered my hands up to be hit, I did it palms down. The Nun laughed and said, "Oh, no. Turn your hands over. I don't want to break your bones." It didn't hurt at all since I was as big as she was (4th grade) and she knew I could kick her ass.

Ditto #17. Agree completely.

Ya know, I think I saw part of a vertebra sticking out of Obama's neck. Perhaps Dr. McCain could remedy the matter using a similar method....

It's not possible to see vertebrae where there is no spine...

Yep,

My experience taught the value of such courage, and its limitations. What works on an individual level may not work on country-wide level. So, while I do not find McCain very reassuring, I respect the guy. I've been through tough scraps, and I do not "shake" easily, but I am not sure I would have had the same courage and clarity of mind.

That said, a presidential election is as much as character than issues. And on that front, McCain has it in droves. At this juncture, just the kind of temperament the US needs at the helm.

C.S. Lewis wrote, "Courage is the quality of every virtue at the point of testing". Senator McCain passed the test. There are other virtues and other tests. The final results aren't in yet but this is encouraging.

Courage is the quality of every virtue at the point of testing.