Matt Yglesias

30 Responses to “McCain: I’m Divorced From The Day-to-Day Challenges People Have”

1. El Cid Says:
   September 12th, 2008 at 1:26 pm

   Once again, if this had been a Democrat, then etc. etc. But since we don’t play those sorts of nasty politics, etc. etc.

2. Micah Says:
   September 12th, 2008 at 1:35 pm

   I heard that when it happened and thought that needs to show up in a TV AD.

3. Andrew Fly Says:
   September 12th, 2008 at 1:47 pm

   It seems as if, anytime McCain says something honest, it shows him as being a less than good candidate. That’s probably why his campaign has taken the “lie, lie, lie” approach

4. Steve LaBonne Says:
   September 12th, 2008 at 1:48 pm

   I heard that when it happened and thought that needs to show up in a TV AD.

   Yes. And in the same ad, a bit of the $50 per hour clip. Then the narrator saying “Wow, he wasn’t kidding- he really is divorced from reality.”

   Come on Plouffe, this isn’t rocket science.

5. kafka Says:
   September 12th, 2008 at 1:51 pm

   “…been in the Senate so long and had more recent experience doing stuff like working in state government, teaching part time, doing some community organizing, etc., then he wouldn’t have this problem…”

   The same could just as well be said of Biden, another D.C. fossil.

   Matt’s continual petty sniping is indistinguishable in tone and tenor from the kind of bullshyt you can just as well read over at the Weekly Standard.

   Republicratic crap is crap, no matter whose mouth it comes out of.

6. E. O'Neal Says:
   September 12th, 2008 at 1:57 pm

   I knew when he said it that the Dems would jump on i like Rosie on a donut. Self-deprecation just doesn’t work in a presidential campaign. Nor do tongue-in-cheek remarks like the one about $5 million as the cut-off for being rich. It’s a shame candidates need to be so guarded about innocent remarks that can be twisted into “damning revelations”.

7. DAS Says:
   September 12th, 2008 at 2:22 pm

   Republicratic crap is crap, no matter whose mouth it comes out of. – kafka

   Yeah, yeah, yeah. They are all equally bad, so let’s all vote for Nader (lefty version). They are all equally bad so let’s vote for the GOP because the Democrats are in favor of letting icky people do icky things (Reagan Democrat version).

   How come you never hear GOoPers talking quite like this? Or more precisely, they talk like this all the time in order to demonstrate their argument about how politics is corrupting, liberal reform is futile and why gummint is teh bad. But then when it comes to the brass tacks they suck it up and vote for their guy … why can’t liberals do the same?

8. DAS Says:
   September 12th, 2008 at 2:25 pm

   BTW — some have argued that Obama cannot afford to go on the attack lest he be seen as yet another mud-slinging politician considering Brand Obama is that he’s all positive and stuff (btw … can’t McCain’s admission here be spun as “oh that McCain, he’s all mavericky and stuff”?). I see that this is a valid concern and not just concern trolling. But it’s possible to go on the attack and still be positive — look at how St. Ronnie did it. Obama could very well do the same sort of thing: “oh that John McCain is just going on again”, etc.

9. Ephus Says:
   September 12th, 2008 at 2:25 pm

   Text:

   John McCain cannot help American’s out of this lousy economy because John McCain does not understand our problems. Take John McCain’s words for it “It’s easy for me to go to Washington and, frankly, be somewhat divorced from the day-to-day challenges people have.” [take his voice].

   We cannot afford four more years of another President who is “somewhat divorced” from our problems.

   When we are struggling to pay our mortgages, John McCain has lost track of how many houses he owns.

   When we are struggling to afford health insurance, John McCain wants to raise taxes on your health benefits.

   When we are struggling to makes ends meet on Social Security, John McCain wants to put your Social Security funds into the hands of the Wall Street wizards who got us into this mess.

   It’s time for a change. Barack Obama for President.

   I’m Barack Obama and I approve this message, because you deserve a President who understands your problems and has solutions to help solve them.

10. MosBen Says:
    September 12th, 2008 at 2:28 pm

    E. O’Neil, I agree. I wish we had campaigns about the substantive proposals of both candidates viewed through the lense of the current political landscape. Were that the case Obama would be up by 20 points.

11. E. O'Neal Says:
    September 12th, 2008 at 2:32 pm

    If people understood how radical Obama is, he’d be down by twenty points instead of just three or four. But there are seven weeks left.

12. VoR Says:
    September 12th, 2008 at 3:07 pm

    O’Neal,

    I hope you die in painful agony you piece of dog shit.

    And if McCain/Palin win, I hope that this nation is bathed in a wave of political violence unprecedented in the history of the world, leaving a burned over wasteland more devastated and lifeless that the face of the moon.

13. TH Says:
    September 12th, 2008 at 3:10 pm

    E. O’Neal,

    Is this why Obama can’t even use a common expression like “putting lipstick on a pig” without being accused of a sexist comparing a governor to a farm animal?

    If McCain wins I hope the swing states that voted for him (like Ohio, probably) suffer such an economic implosion that mass starvation becomes a daily reality. It would serve them right.

14. El Cid Says:
    September 12th, 2008 at 3:47 pm

    If people knew that John McCain & the Republican Party were so fiercely attacking Barack Obama for trying to make our youngest children safer from pedophiles and child molesters, then obviously Barack Obama would be up by 8,000 points.

15. Brad L Says:
    September 12th, 2008 at 4:48 pm

    I knew when he said it that the Dems would jump on i like Rosie on a donut. Self-deprecation just doesn’t work in a presidential campaign.

    Bad taste and poor insight!

    I remember Reagan offering not to hold his opponents youth and inexperience against him. I remember GWB joking about how he might mangle a few syl-LA-bles. Didn’t seem to hurt either of them much.

    For all the mocking of Obama-as-Messiah, I suspect the greater danger might be sounding too grandiose.

    If people understood how radical Obama is…

    There you go again.

16. Kate Says:
    September 12th, 2008 at 7:47 pm

    It’s not necessarily being in the Senate that puts him out of touch with the rest of America. I’m willing to bet that Obama, Biden — and yes, Sarah Palin — can tell you what their monthly mortgage payments are. And probably their average electric and gas bills. They can probably even talk about the highway robbery that is Comcast.

    The thing that no one seems to talk about is that John McCain isn’t just uninformed about our nation’s economy, he has nothing to do with his own family’s economy. Cindy’s in charge of the money (and rightly so, since it was her family’s money in the first place). The whole “my aides will get back to you” about how many houses they own is just one symptom.

17. Saint Michael Traveler Says:
    September 13th, 2008 at 11:50 am

    Palin and National-International Issues
    Sarah Palin, the 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate, is a beautiful lady. What else can you tell me about her? Is she qualified to be the President of the United States?

    In contrast to many very highly qualified Republican ladies, such as Dr. Condoleezza Rice
    http://www.whitehouse.gov/nsc/ricebio.html,

    Sara Plain has equivalent high school knowledge in some fields, and not at all in the others. In 1984, Palin won the Miss Wasilla Pageant, then finished third (second runner-up) in the Miss Alaska pageant, at which she won a college scholarship and the “Miss Congeniality” award. Palin admits to trying cannabis as a youth, during the time Alaska had decriminalized possession though she says she did not enjoy it.
    Palin spent her first college semester at Hawaii Pacific College, transferring in 1983 to North Idaho College and then to the University of Idaho. She attended Matanuska-Susitna College in Alaska for one term, returning to the University of Idaho to complete her Bachelor of Science degree in communications-journalism, graduating in 1987.
    Did Senator McCain think choosing a family advocating separation of Alaska from the United States would buy my vote?

    I am disappointed with Sen. John McCain’s selection; he chose such a feather weight person to represent the Republican Party. Did he think that American women would vote for him because he selected a female rather than a male for the ticket? Senator McCain, please stop insulting the American women?

    As you have stated yourself, you had voted 95% of the times in the Senate along the President Bush’s policies. Senator McCain, the issues during this election are: job, economy, medical insurance, infrastructure, education, and failed policy of the President Bush. As President Regan once stated: Are we better now than 4 years ago? No, my family is worse than 8 years ago. Should I vote for Bush-McCain policies once more? No more Bush’s policies.

18. mike Says:
    September 13th, 2008 at 3:32 pm

    O’Neal,

    I hope you die in painful agony you piece of dog shit.

    And if McCain/Palin win, I hope that this nation is bathed in a wave of political violence unprecedented in the history of the world, leaving a burned over wasteland more devastated and lifeless that the face of the moon.

    I’m Barack Obama, and I approve this message.

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