In the Debate:
"My friends, we spent $3 million of your money to study the DNA of bears in Montana. Now, I don't know if that was a paternity issue or a criminal issue, but the point is... but the point is it was three million dollars of your money."
In Clawson, Mich. (obtained from an article published February 8th), here.
"Outrageous... $3 million to study the DNA of bears in Montana... I don't know if it was a paternity issue or criminal, but it was a waste of money."
Never mind that the DNA research was done as part of the Endangered Species Act.
But wait! There's more!
From the July 30 broadcast of KDVR Fox 31's News at Nine O'Clock:
"I have not been elected Miss Congeniality in the Senate."
In the debate today...
"By a strange coincidence I was not elected Miss Congeniality in the United States Senate this year. I don't know why... I don't know why... I don't know why..."
Now, this was of course to play up his 'maverick' image. Never mind that he voted along party lines something like 98 percent of the time this year...
This one is from an ABC news story published August 4th.
ABC News Ron Claiborne and Bret Hovell Report: After touring the National Label Company in eastern Pennsylvania, Republican presidential hopeful John McCain spoke on energy policy, attacking Obama for his opposition to nuclear power and offshore oil drilling, and three times giving a forceful version of the line "we need to drill here and we need to drill now."
From the debate...
"We've got to drill here and we've got to drill now."
That particular line was pretty ridiculous, by the way. I mean, after all, he's changed his mind on every value that made him a Maverick in the first place... why not showcase his change on THOSE stances?
And who can forget his tough lined, greeted-by-overwhelming cheers,
"If I’m President of the United States, my friends, if I have to follow him to the gates of Hell, I will get Osama bin Laden and bring him to justice."
Kinda reminds me of what he said in Portsmouth.
"If I have to follow him to the gates of hell, I will get Osama bin Laden and bring him to justice—and I want to assure you, justice will be swift."
Or Richardson, Texas:
"If I have to follow him to the gates of hell, I will get Osama bin Laden and bring him to justice,"
Or Lubbock:
"My friends, if I have to follow him to the gates of hell, I will get Osama Bin Laden and bring him to justice."
Or Milwaukee:
“If I have to follow him to the gates of Hell, I will get Osama bin Laden, and I will bring him to justice.”
Let's not forget the dozens of Vietnam stories that he's told a hundred hundred times. I can just see the wooden wheels turning in that last-of-class head of his: "Oh... a question concerning my faith... I can tell that one story with the guy with the cross!"
The discussion today was a joke. John McCain nearly flawlessly repeated things that he has been saying for months and months, and was raucously cheered for it. Barack Obama, by contrast, gave thoughtful, insightful answers to the same questions, and wasn't applauded anywhere near as loudly.
WTB: Real debates. Let's bring Lincoln Douglas into this. PST.
--Keille