Another letter from Moore
Wow… he just doesn’t know when to keep his trap shut, does he? First McCain was doing the decent thing by trying to postpone the RNC due to Hurricane Gustav… now he was just using it for “political advantage”. Moore says he thinks the children of the candidates should be off limits… and then backhandedly insults Bristol Palin and Sarah Palin by extension. He makes completely false statements about her stances on issues and even implies she won’t be on the ticket in two weeks. And of course the McCain insults never stop.
Classy. Once again, the above is all of the commentary I will make. I present to you the letter in full below - you make the call.
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
Well, I guess God got my email and answered my prayer. Man, the power of the Internet! He even emailed me back! I’ll share that with you in the next few days. Proof there is a God in heaven? Never explain comedy or satire or the ironic comment. Those who get it, get it. Those who don’t, never will…
John McCain said “it’s time to take our Republican hats off and put our American hats on.” Really? It would have been nice if Sen. McCain had put on his American hat in the three years since Katrina. Just so no one is fooled by all his fake concern for the people on the Gulf Coast, let’s look at his record post-Katrina, compliments of Chris Hayes of The Nation:
If (McCain) cared about New Orleans and the Gulf Coast he could have done something these past three years. He could have made Gulf Reconstruction his issue, he could have excoriated his party for pushing federal dollars into the hands of cronies, for providing inadequate resources, for allowing the further destruction of the wetlands that serve as the only natural barrier to storm surges. He could have taken on the insurance companies that have been serially screwing the residents of the gulf. But he was too busy pushing for more troops, and more war and running for president.
Instead this is his record [via Mother Jones]:
Though McCain issued a statement the next week (after Katrina) calling on Congress to make sacrifices in order to fund recovery efforts, he was quoted in The New Leader on September 1 [2005] cautioning against over-spending in support of Katrina’s victims. “We also have to be concerned about future generations of Americans,” he said. “We’re going to end up with the highest deficit, probably, in the history of this country.”
That attitude was borne out in McCain’s actions and votes. Forty Senators and 100 members of Congress visited New Orleans before he did; he finally got there in March 2006. He voted against establishing a Congressional commission to examine the Federal, State, and local responses to Katrina in med-September 2005. He repeated that vote in 2006. He voted against allowing up to 52 weeks of unemployment benefits to people affected by the hurricane, and in 2006 voted against appropriating $109 billion in supplemental emergency funding, including $28 billion for hurricane relief.
So honestly, it’s an insult to watch him make a show of concern now. ...
The possibility of a storm (a storm that never hit New Orleans, and was no longer a hurricane by last night) was enough for McCain to essentially cancel most of the first day of the convention. Cut and run? The AP reported yesterday that conventions have always been held when the nation was facing perilous moments. Right smack in the middle of World War II, the Republicans and the Democrats both held full conventions. Thousands of Americans were being killed every week. The Republicans held their convention in Chicago less than two weeks after D-Day. No one faulted them for that. In fact, it made Americans feel good that, no matter what happens, NOTHING stops Democracy. No retreat, no surrender…
So McCain and company used the hurricane for political advantage, to have an excuse to not have Bush and Cheney live and in person in St. Paul (Bush will appear Tuesday night via satellite). And he used the hurricane as a chance to release a potentially controversial story in the hopes that the hurricane would dominate the news and not many would notice. One hour after Gustav hit land, the McCain campaign announced that Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s teenage daughter is pregnant. I don’t want to say much more beyond this, as I agree with Barack Obama that “people’s families are off limits, and people’s children are especially off limits.”
I do feel very sorry that this minor, this child, now has to have her privacy sacrificed because her mother accepted an offer to run for VP. Obama’s right—the children are off limits. I remember when John McCain cruelly trashed Chelsea Clinton when she was a child in the White House. He told reporters that she was “ugly” “because Janet Reno is her father.” Of course, McCain would like us now to accord Palin’s daughter the respect he wouldn’t give Chelsea.
This does not mean that a discussion about the stupidity of “abstinence-only” sex ed classes is off the table; nor should we not talk about the right of a teenager to terminate a pregnancy (a right that has been essentially eliminated as the Supreme Court believes forcing a child to have a child against its will is not a form a child abuse), or Gov. Palin’s desire to make abortion illegal for anyone who is raped, a victim of incest or who may die if they bring the fetus to term. She’s “proud” of her daughter’s “decision to have her baby.” Uh-huh. Ok…
Word comes tonight that McCain’s people lied about Palin being vetted—the FBI has admitted they did NOT vet her. So McCain has dispatched ten operatives and investigators to Alaska to find out if there’s anything else that’s about to hit the fan regarding his veep pick, a woman he had run into only once in his life and then called her on her cell phone two weeks ago at the Alaska State Fair. That was it before she made the short list and was selected. McCain’s radar—honed perhaps during his own self-admitted indiscretionary phase of his life—is telling him there’s more to the Palin story. You mean things like her support of the Alaska Secessionist Party or being one of the directors of recently-arrested Sen. Ted Stevens’ political action groups? Heck, I dunno. We shall see…
But before everyone gets all smug and self-righteous about the Palin selection, remember where you live. You live in a nation of gun owners and hunters. You live in a country where one out of three girls get pregnant before they are 20. You live in a nation of C students. Knocking Bush for being a C student only endeared him to the nation of C students. Knock Palin for having kids, for having a kid who’s having a baby, for anything that is part of her normalness—a normalness that looks very familiar to so many millions of Americans—well, you do this at your own peril. Assuming she’s still on the ticket two weeks from now, she will be a much tougher opponent than anyone expects. You live in a country that voted for Dan Quayle.
I’ll close with this report on ABC tonight by investigative reporter Brian Ross. It shows Republicans in St. Paul taking off their Republican hats and putting on their American hats. In the meantime they should keep those hats ready as a new hurricane was announced today. No, not Hannah. She’s already on her way to Florida for Friday. The new one is called Ike, scheduled to hit the Gulf early next week. Ike. He’s the one who warned us about the “military-industrial complex.”
More to come…
Michael Moore
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I hate to point this out to the idiot, but the DEMOCRATS have been in charge of Congress for the last two years. Why didn’t they “do anything” about Katrina.
There’s also been ample reporting in the mainstream media that the relief funds for Katrina have been a massive porkfest.
Funny that he should try to knock Bush for being a C student when JFK and Gore were also low grade point average as well...I think in the C range.
Furthermore, Mr Moore likes to throw numbers around about young mothers...I wonder if has delved deeper into the demographics of these young mothers. He might want to be more carefull swinging his numbers if they hapen to represent a good number of minorities…
By the way, what a couple of blathering self-important diatribes.
Need a couple cups of coffee to get through the meandering lack of substance or any serious understanding of the country he lives in.
The only person who is using the hurricane for political advantage is Michael Moore. I wonder why Moore isn’t taking Joe Biden to task for his Katrina-succoring efforts. Wasn’t Biden in Congress when all of that was going on? Sheesh, hasn’t he been in Congress since the 89 Loma Prieta earthquake in San Francisco?
(I was there for that earthquake, and I don’t remember ever seeing a single FEMA trailer anywhere.Strangely enough, San Francisco recovered just fine.)
I wonder what sort of “Change” Joe Biden is bringing to Obama’s future administration.
If I could ask that disgusting tub of lard (Moore, not Biden) one question, it would be something like this: If Big Government couldn’t help New Orleans, why make the government even bigger?
I wish someone would break into his penthouse and sew his mouth shut with 100 pound test fishing line.
Michael Moore wants it both ways. He blames the governments response to Katrina because President Bush went to San Diego to cut John McCain’s birthday cake. He, of course, makes no mention of Mayor Nagin or Governor Kathleen Blanco. He makes no mention of the fact that President Bush, John McCain and FEMA are NOT the first responders in any crisis.
Now, according to Michael Moore, the Republicans are playing politics with Gustav. FEMA was prepositioned for this storm. The levees for the most part held. New Orleans was evacuated. Governor Jindal, an adult, was in charge.
Tell me something, will Michael Moore ever apologize for his terrible comments on Friday’s Countdown?
Well, I guess God got my email and answered my prayer. Man, the power of the Internet! He even emailed me back! I’ll share that with you in the next few days. Proof there is a God in heaven? Never explain comedy or satire or the ironic comment. Those who get it, get it. Those who don’t, never will…
He got your prayer, thousands still in shelters, chased out of their homes and still not able to go back. Oh the irony. It was so fun the first time around, and now it happens again right at convention time! It’s funny though because its convention time, and Falwell remember! Get it, it’s Hilarious! So some people have to live in uncomfortable conditions in shelters for a few days while you sit at home munching on a burger and sending out pathetic emails. No big deal though, “Everything’s Cool.”
In reality it’s no irony that Moore would try to reduce himself below the lowest common denominator, in fact it is who he is. No need to explain the joke Moore. Only people of similar thinking to you would enjoy it. You know serial killers, pedophiles, your everyday garbage that puts a smudge on human dignity. You know, men like you. A genuine Sicko. Get it? Oh the irony!
I do feel very sorry that this minor, this child, now has to have her privacy sacrificed because her mother accepted an offer to run for VP. Obama’s right—the children are off limits. I remember when John McCain cruelly trashed Chelsea Clinton when she was a child in the White House. He told reporters that she was “ugly” “because Janet Reno is her father.” Of course, McCain would like us now to accord Palin’s daughter the respect he wouldn’t give Chelsea.
Now see, too bad you have 10 other paragraphs of garbage surrounding a valid point. We’ll leave it to better men to argue this one. Your credibility is done anyhow.
That attitude was borne out in McCain’s actions and votes. Forty Senators and 100 members of Congress visited New Orleans before he did; he finally got there in March 2006.
Obama on Gustav
“After The Hill reported in 2006 that a handful of presidential hopefuls had not traveled to the Gulf Coast but had spent time in key primary states such as New Hampshire, McCain visited the area. At the time, McCain said he wanted to wait until he knew he would not get in the way.
That is the reason Obama says he is not traveling to the regions that are in Gustav’s path.
Yet, Obama did not visit the Gulf Coast until nearly a year after Katrina hit, becoming the 55th senator to go there, according to a tally kept at the time by Sen. Mary Landrieu’s (D-La.) office.
Obama said then, “There was no magic reason why now instead of earlier. We didn’t want to come down here unless there was something concrete and productive to do.”
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You know what the thing that pisses me off the most about Moore’s letter? This part right here:
Want to know why it angers me so much? Because if the Republicans HAD decided to go about their convention in normal format, Moore and his ilk instead would have attacked them for being insensitive to the plight of people on the Gulf Coast, worried more about photo ops and raising money for their campaigns then in the lives of their constituents.
Moore’s just mad because he WANTED the GOP to be in St. Paul. He WANTED to be able to make the case that they didn’t care, and now he can’t so he’s grasping at straws.