Bush "Furious-believes he is being treated disrespectfully."

[kpete]

Sidney Blumenthal

The Battle Between McCain and Bush: The Cancelled First Night, The "Furious" President and the Palin Gambit


Posted September 2, 2008 | 09:48 AM (EST)


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Almost certainly, Bush had to cancel his planned speech while Gustav loomed. But the sources say he didn't like the idea and felt pushed. Bush is described by sources as "furious" at McCain for being deprived of his last appearance before his party, which nominated him twice, as a sitting president. He believes he is being treated disrespectfully.

Shuttering the convention for a night was probably inevitable given the hurricane, but to provide a cover-up for scratching Bush and Cheney it became absolutely necessary. But once the hurricane passed, Bush asserted his primacy as president and forced his way back on the schedule to deliver a satellite speech to the convention.

McCain is desperately seeking ways to pivot from Bush, whose in-person appearance on the first night of the convention threatened to obliterate his message as a "maverick" and "reformer." Even though McCain himself would not be onstage, Bush and Cheney would have dominated the opening and underlined continuity between their administration and McCain. The cancellation of the first night of the convention is a small price to pay for their absence.

McCain's campaign is perfectly aware of the mortal danger of Bush's embrace. He has needed the president to rally the Republican base. But once he has the nomination his imperative is to project himself as an antidote to what has gone wrong with Republicanism.

more at:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sidney-blumenthal/the-battle-between-mccain_b_123147.html

[Lost4words]

1. Give it a few years.....

8643

[glitch]

32. He can speak in front of the whole world when they televise his trial.nt

[CherokeeDem]

40. I'll Be There For THAT Speech....

With a bottle of champagne in hand!!!!

:applause:

[glitch]

43. I don't know -- it would break my record of never having seen a single one of their speeches

I can read them, but seeing and hearing them creeps me out too much.

[Cha]

54. I wouldn't be there, either...and besides they'll shuffle bush

off the Paraguay.

[glitch]

65. What, they can't telecast from Paraguay? Things change, there may be no safety there

or anywhere! :hi:

[Cha]

67. That's too true..things change.

:hi: gristy:)

[WeDidIt]

2. Wow, pretty soon all McCain will have left are the Religious Whackjobs

It's just too surreal for words.

And people had the gall to say Hillary's campaign imploded. HA! We're seeing a REAL implosion now.

[redqueen]

3. I like where this is going...

a battle of overinflated egos.

[lumberjack_jeff]

15. Me too. "Fine. Screw you, John, Just for that I WON'T bomb Iran."

[Schema Thing]

4. Bush is thinking "c'mon McCain, we all know you're not going to win anyway"

[Bad Thoughts]

5. Bush's right: no one respects him. eom.

[Ichingcarpenter]

6. Bush is now in the keynote speaker spot, replaces Rudy who was scrubbed

Thank you dumb asses for bringing junior to the forefront of your convention.

[jmowreader]

25. As far as damage goes, is there really a difference?

Rudy was as bad as Bush, except his scope ended at the city limits.

[Ichingcarpenter]

30. Reports from Delegates said off the record they were glad Bush didn't show up

They now have tied Bush to McCain with this move which is more important to us
than 911 Rudy.

[progressivebydesign]

38. But they're making him do it from SATELLITE!!!!

They refuse to even have the guy on stage!!!! The party is in shambles!!!!!

[butterfly77]

58. He will talk about the Hurricanes ..

thinking that he has rehabilitated his image.:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[saltpoint]

46. Exactly. And what a tragic loss that we won't get to hear Rudy

speak to the faithful.

How uplifting and enlightening that would have been...

[Erin Elizabeth]

62. Seriously??? YAY!!!!!

I can see Republicans being happier with seeing Rudy than Bush. And now we all have to see Bush in all his glory, ROFL!!!

This is gonna be good.

[lumberjack_jeff]

66. Damn, it must suck to be a Republican. n/t

[hexola]

7. In a sense...he IS!!! Just like Gore was too Clinton...(sort of)

But just like them to eat their own in the name of victory!

Ya know - Bush was a winner...He won (arguably yes) twice. Why distance yourself from that. Like him or not, he was a winner for the GOP.

Isnt this the same sort of mistake Gore made in distancing himself from Bill Clinton...???

[wyldwolf]

8. It was a mistake for Gore. It isn't for McCain

The difference is a 68% approval rating vs. a 28% approval rating.

[denem]

51. It was THE mistake for Gore

Option A 'Eight record years of prosperity and progress. Don't risk it. Don't go back to Bush

Option B: I'm distancing myself from all that. Let me tell you about myself. I'm Al Gore. I'm an Alpha Male.

[Cha]

57. It was a mistake and to put joe traitor lieberman

on the ticket was an abomination but Gore came into his own and after 8 years of bush it's the Perfect Storm for Obama and us.

[blogslut]

9. An asshole to the very end

Such a self-centered bastard.

[CoffeeCat]

10. Doesn't this show that McCain is a pansy?

McCain doesn't even have the clout in the Republican party to craft
the convention in ways that will help him win the Presidency?

This article makes McCain sound like some hand-wringing pansy, who is
a victim of the big boys in his party--who will ultimately wreck his
Presidential chances.

McCain obviously doesn't want Bush or Cheney to speak at the convention.
So, he just stands in the corner, muttering, "Ohhhhhh noooooes!" as
Bush muscles his way back onto the convention speech roster?

If McCain is this ineffectual while he's running for President, imagine
how ineffectual he'll be as a President?

Does McCain think that Bush and the neocon brigade will disappear after
McCain is elected? They'll be beating down his door and forcing their
agenda down his throat. They'll be pressuring McCain and hammering him
24/7.

I guess we're seeing how McCain will handle that pressure. Not very well.

[galaxy21]

14. He's the worst thing that ever happened to the republican party

And the repubs know it.

[CoffeeCat]

19. You have to wonder...

...why they allowed him to be at the top of the ticket, in the first place?

Is this just payola for hugging Bush so many times?

Ughhh.

[LonelyLRLiberal]

20. Except he didn't "happen to" the Repukes - they CHOSE him - those idiots! eom

[Virginia Dare]

36. Somebody posted that he's not even sure where he will deliver his speech..

now he is talking about Florida. The whole damn thing is in disarray. After the extremely coordinated and unified effort the Democrats just displayed, this is just a train wreck. Nobody is in charge.

[wvbygod]

50. It would if we had a reliable source indicating that it is true.

Unnamed sub-sources from a non-mainstream source is not much to go on.

[Cha]

55. More cowardice from mccain..

Pirate Smile (1000+ posts) Tue Sep-02-08 02:23 PM
Original message Because Campbell Brown was mean to Tucker Bounds, a

McCain interview on Larry King Live was canceled


Brown v. Bounds on Election Center

Things got heated on Campbell Brown: Election Center last night, as Brown continually pressed Sen. John McCain spokesperson Tucker Bounds on Veep nominee Gov. Sarah Palin's foreign policy experience.

When asked to provide, "one decision she made as commander-in-chief of the Alaskan National Guard," Bounds continually sidestepped the question.

Eventually, he turned the tables. "Certainly you don't mean to belittle every experience, every judgment she makes," he said. "I'm belittling nothing! I just want to know one judgment or one decision," she responded.

What ensued was a discussion of whether a governor has control over the his/her state's National Guard (only on domestic issues — overseas handled by Pentagon).

Insiders tell us that, because of the rough line of questioning from Brown, a scheduled McCain interview on Larry King Live has been canceled.

Brown is headed out to St. Paul later this week, and TVNewser will be talking to the CNN anchor.

Click continued to see the showdown (it gets good at about 4:00)...

http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/politics/brown_v_bo...


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x6882780

[lumberjack_jeff]

11. That's the price for behaving disreputably. n/t

[alcibiades_mystery]

12. It's completely humiliating that the sitting GOP President would be persona non grata

at the GOP convention. It is a humiliation unparalleled in modern US history.

[AuntPatsy]

29. I agree, if the republican party feels they are such perfection, why are they

distancing themselves from the very person they once proudly ensured got the nomination?

[Chloroplast]

34. It IS an insult. Imagine if Bill had been barred from the Convention.

I don't like Bush but the Republicans are acting as if George is the SOLE reason the country's in the shape it's in. Show me a Republican politician/pundit that didn't support his schemes and I'll acknowledge their dissent. At this point, they've made their money off of the misery of others and are now biting the hand that fed them.

[Erin Elizabeth]

63. That's what I was thinking, too.

As the president, he's the de facto leader of the party. And not even allowed to appear on stage. ROFL. I love it.

[DangerousRhythm]

13. Aww, poor Bushie-Poo...

:cry:

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

16. Faux news hinted bush still might show up tonight as a surprise.

[JBoy]

27. LOL. I'm guessing he won't get the same reception as when Obama

showed up on Biden night!

[Straight Shooter]

17. The GOP to bush, with a wave of their hand, in their very best Barbara Bush tone of superiority:

"I'm through with you!"

Ask Al Franken, he'll tell you. :)

[mnhtnbb]

18. Oh, the wittle Bushie boy--has his feelings hurt.

:nopity:

[Forrest Greene]

21. May G.W. Bush Be

...dipped in a bucket of shit.

Warm shit, too.

[Arugula Latte]

22. Bush is like the guest who is ushered away from a party...

only to come back to the gathering, shit-faced and belligerent after doing whiskey shots at the local dive, and start swinging madly at anybody in his path.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

23. Damn. I must be a Republican.

'cause I don't respect GWB either.

:cry:

[tanyev]

24. Blowback's a bitch, sir.

[Egnever]

26. good to see he is catching on

I disrespect him every day.

[Alter Ego]

28. I knew this would happen eventually.

McCain's between a rock and a hard place--he has to walk a fine line of both distancing himself from Bush and embracing him at the same time. It's the only way to keep the tenuous alliances within the Republican Party together.

[spanone]

31. even his own party hates him....poor widdle junior

[WinkyDink]

33. He's lucky he isn't in the dock at the World Court.

Perfect NPD.

[Virginia Dare]

35. Welcome to the club, shrub..

we're furious that you trashed this country and our Constitution. BTW you reap what you sow, you get the respect you deserve.

[crim son]

37. Fuck him.

Imagine how he'd feel if he had a clear idea what most of us, including a fair number of 'pukes, really think about him. Idiot.

[MadrasT]

39. Oh, boo fucking hoo.

:nopity:

[Vinca]

41. I can't imagine why Shrub would believe he deserves an iota of respect.

If he had a normal ego, he'd put his tail between his legs and go cut brush at the pig farm until inauguration day.

[Bobbie Jo]

42. Careful, McWacko...you're gonna piss off that 24% who still like da shrub

Looks like you might need them after all...:shrug:

but then again....Who Cares! :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Imagevision]

44. neither the VP. nor the president will appear at teir own convention, that is too much

[grantcart]

45. Bush is walking away from responsibility if McCain loses

turns out that Palin helps Bush out lol

[Orsino]

47. Slow learner, isn't he? n/t

[wvbygod]

48. Bush is described by sources as "furious" at McCain. What "sources"???

I don't suppose we could get the names of these "sources" could we?

Jumping on sharks like this without some sort of credibility is getting old and tired.
Will this source release their "sources" of such juicy information? If not, then it's just
one more big disappointment in the ongoing efforts to hit them with their own BS.

[Yavin4]

49. Well, Bush Has Treated America "disrespectfully" Over These Past 8 Years

So, a little turnabout is fair play.

[FatDave]

52. Aw, did poor widdle boots get his feewings hurt?

FUCK OFF ALREADY, YOU FUCKING PSYCHOPATH!

[Cha]

53. That's funny..I thought the caption was about

"bush thought we Progressives were treating him desrepectfully":silly:

His own Party!! Get a clue, asshole..rove can't save ya now. But, oh, yeah, rove says "Biden is overrated". Wonder what he thinks of his work on you, bushboy?

[mitchum]

56. Dog turd complains "None of the kids want to play with me!"

[vanderBeth]

59. .........

:nopity:

[Enrique]

60. this is like Hillary vs. Obama, but better

because it's TRUE. :rofl:

[nc4bo]

61. Chimpsters just needs to Bogart his ass right onto that convention floor and

speak his mind. yes siree bob.

This actually looks great for Mccain that he's pissy about it. Shows McMaverick is independent of Chimpy and makes it harder to do the Bush=Mccain punch.

Go ahead Bushie, they really DO want you there to show your support. Do it for the sake of the party.

LOL.

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

64. Chimpo's throwing crap again

and it will hit Grampy right in the face.