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Politics

Just Wow

Matt Welch | 5.10.2010 2:58 PM

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And yes, McCain has registered CompleteTheDangedFence.com as a fundraising page.

Link via the Twitter feed of Allah Pundit, who has appropriate commentary. Wonkette also has an impressive collection of what McCain used to say on the issue. Reason on McCain here.

UPDATE: As alert commenter Nick M. points out, Pinal County isn't on the Mexican border. Sheriff Paul Babeu had to drive at least 85 miles for that campaign commercial.

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  1. Jo Dean   15 years ago

    I just cannot imagine anyone with a single lick of common sense taking anything McSame says seriously.

    Jess
    http://www.anonymous-posting.us.tc

    1. prolefeed   15 years ago

      Anon-bot is more sensible than about half of the citizens of this country.

      1. TrickyVic   15 years ago

        Maybe a little more than half.

    2. ev   15 years ago

      UGH! You sexy bitch!

  2. MikeP   15 years ago

    First human!

    1. sage   15 years ago

      lolz

  3. capitol l   15 years ago

    Just when we need barfman the most, he is nowhere to be found. Oh well, I know it's a poor substitute but,

    *barf*

    1. The Gobbler   15 years ago

      If you want Barfman to show up, then you need to turn on the Barf Signal.

  4. Dangedfence + 1' Ladders, Inc.   15 years ago

    Business is BOOMING!

  5. J sub D   15 years ago

    10' border fence - $49 Billion.
    12' ladder - ~$300.

    1. NAL   15 years ago

      Of course, the use of a ladder requires that the border crosser be on foot (or possibly bike, I suppose). Given the AZ deserts, that alone is a deterrent.

      1. coarsetad   15 years ago

        or a couple of stair cars a la arrested development

        1. Episiarch   15 years ago

          "Climb that wall, homo!"

  6. Sen. McCain   15 years ago

    Release the danged hounds!

  7. Timon19   15 years ago

    Jo Dean-Jess is nearly sentient!

  8. Tman   15 years ago

    Raise the danged immigration quotas first, stupid.

    Less illegals means less problems.

    1. R Limbaugh   15 years ago

      That's amnesty! We won't accept it! You can't make us!

    2. David   15 years ago

      Unfortunately, fewer "illegals" won't help your poor grammar.

    3. cynical   15 years ago

      Why not do a reverse amnesty deal? Pass a raise to the quotas which takes effect within a year or two, but disqualify anyone caught in that time frame (or thereafter) from legally getting a work visa for a decade.

  9. Kat   15 years ago

    Is anyone surprised, really?

  10. kinnath   15 years ago

    It's unfortunate that the Keating scandal didn't torch his career before he could have done any damage.

  11. Jeffersonian   15 years ago

    McCain is the guy that Mencken was thinking about when he said that if a pol discovered he had a significant contingent of cannibals as consituents, he'd be promising them fattened missionaries for dinner.

  12. Episiarch   15 years ago

    I can't WTFV at work. Summary please? I already know what you're going to say, but I'd like to make sure.

    1. kinnath   15 years ago

      We can lick illegal immigration if we just finish the danged fence and impose a police state on our side of it.

    2. Warty   15 years ago

      McCain: HULULU LGULAUGA UGAR
      Border Patrol Agent: HUG HUGUE HGHULUGAUR
      McCain: GURGHU SRHUGRU GHUGARUA
      Border Patrol Agent: Senator, you're one of us.

      1. Episiarch   15 years ago

        You know what, Warty, just go GURR HROIURUOI ARRGGHJ DUUUUUUUHHHHH yourself.

        Also, thank you for the summary.

        1. Warty   15 years ago

          GHGAHLGALHAGLHGA

      2. capitol l   15 years ago

        I thought there was something creepy about the "your one of us'" thing. Us who? Is it some secret xenophobic masonic tribal thing, where old dudes have a circle jerk around totems and shit?

        1. capitol l   15 years ago

          you are /=/ your

          you're

          1. The Art-P.O.G.   15 years ago

            Ha ha, I kind of thought the same thing.

            1. TrickyVic   15 years ago

              There's us, and then there's everyone else. It should play well with the Fox News crowd. 😉

        2. sideshow freak   15 years ago

          We accept him! One of us! We accept him! One of us! Gooble gobble, gooble gobble! We accept him! We accept him!"

    3. BakedPenguin   15 years ago

      It's actually a brilliantly satirical ad where McCain makes fun of immigration hawks for blaming economic ills on immigrants.

      ...Just kidding. It's pandering, insulting, retarded bullshit that amounts to "put a fence and the drugs and crime will stop AND NO MOR TAKE UR JERBS!" I imagine Lonewacko's jerking off as we speak.

    4. capitol l   15 years ago

      Another politician in a carhart type jacket acting like he's been out there on his ranch fighting the good fight forever, his eyes in a permanent squint from days out in the beating sun, hands like rocks callused by hard work and determination.

      Basically the border guard wants to put troops on the border, because of home invasions, murder, and drugs. We know this because McCain tells us so, he also tells us in his most folksy hard worker Clint Eastwood voice to "finish the dang fence", whatever the fuck good that will do.

  13. Tim   15 years ago

    Foolish Americans! Your puny fence is no match for our mighty uneducated and poorly fed mobs!

  14. Fist of Etiquette   15 years ago

    I've decided instead of the fence it should be a moat filled with gulf oil.

    1. wingnutx   15 years ago

      Make it a trench full of live chupacabras and it'll be foolproof.

  15. MikeP   15 years ago

    Problem: half the illegal immigrants go through Arizona.

    Solution: complete the danged fense tear down the fence in California.

    1. kinnath   15 years ago

      Or California could build a high-speed rail system to a border town on the Mexico side and then bring in immigrants in an organized fashion.

    2. TrickyVic   15 years ago

      LOL.

  16. Nick M.   15 years ago

    Interesting that they use the Pinal County Sheriff, when Pinal County is not on the border.

    1. ^   15 years ago

      Damn Mex don't respect borders!

      1. TrickyVic   15 years ago

        Hey, if people were dying because of a drug war you would want to get across the border too. 😉

    2. TeamBarstool   15 years ago

      A lot of the smuggling , both drugs & humans, runs right through Pinal county west of I-10.
      I've been involved in cleanups in the Ironwood Forest National Monument.
      Some areas of the monument are off limits to BLM rangers without an official armed escort. They said we could go in and clean up trash in those areas without them. Civilian vehicles don't get shot at.

      All that being said, Babeu would be better off
      patrolling the desert in his county , not hanging on the border with McCain.

      I'd also love to see that camera pull back so everyone could see the security arrangements needed to make that commercial

  17. The Art-P.O.G.   15 years ago

    A little part of me died when I watched that ad.

  18. P Brooks   15 years ago

    FUCK YOU, QUEEG!

  19. William Grigg   15 years ago

    "It will work this time"?

    Don't you mean -- "This time FER SURE"?

    Ladies and gentlemen -- behold Sheriff Bullwinkle!

  20. prolefeed   15 years ago

    THIS time it won't be a complete clusterfuck and waste of money.

    THIS time I promise I won't cum in your mouth.

    THIS time I ...

    1. TrickyVic   15 years ago

      """THIS time I promise I won't cum in your mouth.""

      Oh Punky!

  21. Bob Dole   15 years ago

    McCain makes me miss Bob Dole.

  22. Michael   15 years ago

    If anything has solidified my pro-immigration stance as of late, it wasn't The Mummified Jaw of John McCain. It was a street festival just outside of my girlfriend's apartment this past weekend. In addition to delicious food and great music, it featured a wrestling ring complete with an announcer screaming, "Are you ready for some LUCHA LIIIIBREEEEEEE???" over a portable PA system followed by about an hour of face smashing, folding chair swinging mayhem. Anyone who wishes to deprive me of this in the future is no friend of mine and certainly no real, red blooded American.

    1. Jeffersonian   15 years ago

      Them Mexicans is the best damn Americans we got.

    2. -   15 years ago

      delicious food...great music...a wrestling ring

      Can't stand the music or the idiotic wrestling culture, but the food, or rather the Americanized version of it, is excellent. Can't they leave that here and ship the rest of it back to Mexico? Especially the music?

  23. Pro Libertate   15 years ago

    I liked McCain better when he had the eye patch.

    1. Attorney   15 years ago

      It was all downhill after Die Hard.

  24. R C Dean   15 years ago

    Can't stand the music or the idiotic wrestling culture, but the food, or rather the Americanized version of it, is excellent.

    Americanized Mexican food (Tex-Mex, as its known) is to real Mexican food like Americanized Chinese food is to the real thing.

    My preference is New Mexico-style. But a close second is Mexico City-style.

    1. TeamBarstool   15 years ago

      Try some Sonoran. After growing up on Tex-Mex , It's one of the best things about living in Tucson

    2. -   15 years ago

      By "Americanized" I meant what you get here in America. It's palatable. I'm no food snob, and I'm sure as hell not going to Mexico to get the "real" thing.

      1. blueGrass   15 years ago

        But...

        You can go to an immigrant community, preferably in a rural farming area, and get real Mexican food without the questionable ingredients. Some of the vest shit you'll eat.

  25. TeamBarstool   15 years ago

    Complete the danged fence. heh. thats funny.
    Outside of the border towns , This IS the new fence. They did more to facilitate smuggling by putting in the roads to build it. When it was 3 strand barbed wire it was miles from any drivable road. Now all you need is one of these

  26. David   15 years ago

    That's scary. However, there's one good quote: "This time it will work."

    Yeah, right.

  27. Captain Kanuck   15 years ago

    Don't forget the Canadian border. Save us Canadian taxpayers from building it when all you American's try getting in when the empire collapses.

  28. Captain Kanuck   15 years ago

    Seriously, are there still Mexicans trying to get INTO the United States? Why?

  29. barfman   15 years ago

    John McCain

    *barf*

    1. capitol l   15 years ago

      WOOO!

  30. Canada   15 years ago

    PLEASE JOHN STOP THE MEXICANS FROM REACHING ME!!

  31. Darryl   15 years ago

    As is typical, a bunch of morons criticizing a STEP towards the solution of ILLEGAL immigration, but none of your idiots has any useful suggestions. Way to go, Liberals!

    You see...the fence is PART of the plan, in addition to a greatly increased border presence. And if any of you knew ANYTHING about the situation, you would know that once they cross the border, they move IN-LAND, so a cop from a 85 miles away DOES HAVE AN ISSUE. Hell, here in Michigan we have illegal immigrants all over the place - can't imagine what it's like there.

    How pathetic that all you idiots can't look past the candidate you didn't like and see that they are trying to secure our borders. Or don't laws matter to you fools?

    1. MikeP   15 years ago

      You know who else laws mattered to?

  32. K   15 years ago

    Sheriffs in Arizona are uniformed politicians. McCain has been relying so heavily on Paul Babeu, the Pinal Co. Sheriff, as a character witness only because Joe Arpaio wasn't available. Babeu was elected (in 2008) as a young, skinhead version of Arpaio, & is widely assumed to have statewide political ambitions.

    Before coming to Arizona, he was the Headmaster at the DeSisto at Stockbridge School in Massachusetts, a dodgy, cultish boarding academy for troubled kids. A few years after he left, it was closed by state authorities for creating an unsafe environment for the inmates. Several of his subordinates were indicted for assault.

    So the guy in the ad with McCain is creepier than he looks & McCain's need to seek his approval is even more pathetic than it seems.

  33. Peter Barberi   15 years ago

    McCain needs to retire gracefully, BUT...the fence, along with increased employer enforcement, should be basic elements in keeping illegals out. President Barry will never secure the border, because he eyes too many prospective votes from the status quo.I'm tired of my friends returning to their countries of origin, because the believe in obeying the rule of law, while illegals from the South, will soon be rewarded by Barry, Dems, and other Sheople.

  34. Jim   15 years ago

    Mr McCain

    Tear down this wall!!

    -snort-

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