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ORIGINAL: bipolarber

He still thinks he's a prisoner in Korea?

WTF? Is he the Manchurian Candidate or something?

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ORIGINAL: TNstepsout

Ok I found the transcript. I don't know why I felt compelled to look for it. I just found the whole thing to be so strange I have to share.

McCain: I think you can work on all three at once, Tom. I think it's very important that reform our entitlement programs. My friends, we are not going to be able to provide the same benefit for present-day workers that we are going -- that present-day retirees have today. We're going to have to sit down across the table, Republican and Democrat, as we did in 1983 between Ronald Reagan and Tip O'Neill. I know how to do that. I have a clear record of reaching across the aisle, whether it be Joe Lieberman or Russ Feingold or Ted Kennedy or others. That's my clear record. We can work on nuclear power plants. Build a whole bunch of them, create millions of new jobs. We have to have all of the above, alternative fuels, wind, tide, solar, natural gas, clean coal technology. All of these things we can do as Americans and we can take on this mission and we can overcome it. My friends, some of this $700 billion ends up in the hands of terrorist organizations. As far as health care is concerned, obviously, everyone is struggling to make sure that they can afford their premiums and that they can have affordable and available health care. That's the next issue. But we can do them all at once. There's no -- and we have to do them all at once. All three you mentioned are compelling national security requirements.

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ORIGINAL: tsatske

If this country deterorates into a third world nation, it will be Clinton's fault. Every president since he got a blowjob has had a group trying to fucking impeach them.

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ORIGINAL: BitaTruble

To be fair to McCain, it's not the same $700 billion. He's not talking about the bailout money ending up in the hands of terrorists, but the annual $700 billion that we spend. It's just a coincidence that the two numbers are the same. I have no doubt that some of that annual expenditure has the possibility of ending up in terrorists hands but I'd rather see evidence of such rather than hear talk about it.

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ORIGINAL: BitaTruble

To be fair to McCain, it's not the same $700 billion. He's not talking about the bailout money ending up in the hands of terrorists, but the annual $700 billion that we spend. It's just a coincidence that the two numbers are the same. I have no doubt that some of that annual expenditure has the possibility of ending up in terrorists hands but I'd rather see evidence of such rather than hear talk about it.

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ORIGINAL: thornhappy

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I think you could make a good drinking game for his speeches.  Take a drink every time he says "my friends".