McCain Camp Manager: He Could Make One-Term Pledge (VIDEO)

[DogPoundPup]

Rick Davis, John McCain's campaign manager, says the candidate isn't "ruling out" making a pledge to only serve one term. Watch: Faux News Sunday Video Clip
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/10/mccain-camp-manager-he-co_n_118011.html

[liberal N proud]

1. 4 more years of the same fucking bu$h doctrine

It would be enough to finish the assassination of democracy in America.

Not only that he lies about everything else, what would be a little about one term should he survive that long?

[scarletwoman]

2. Now there's a winning message: "Okay, I get that you don't want me to be president,

but what about if I promise to make it short?"

He's begging for a PITY vote, for cripesakes!

"C'mon, babe. Just close your eyes and pretend I'm someone else. I promise it'll be over really quick. I just really NEED this!"

:rofl:

sw

[TwilightGardener]

3. Why? Is he...TOO OLD???

edit to say: also, just a weird message, overall--it's like they're saying, "Please, people, just let the old fucker be President, we promise we'll keep it short!"

[scarletwoman]

6. Begging for a pity vote -- see my post above yours, I said the exact same thing:

"we promise we'll keep it short!"

[TwilightGardener]

8. LOL! Great minds, yada yada.

[Cosmocat]

18. And ...

you can count on one hand the number of policians at the federal level who made a term limit promise and didn't stick to it ...

it fits with McCain's "kitchen sink" mode of saying ANYTHING to get elected ...

[nc4bo]

4. how bizarre is this? eek. nt

[KittyWampus]

5. how do you say "what the fuck" in Mediawhorese?

[KittyWampus]

12. kick

[whistle]

7. Just four years to complete the fascist takeover of the U.S. the plan has been disclosed

...McCain would be the U.S. version of Paul Von Hindenburg opening the gates for something like the Enabling Act of 1933 Wiemar German Republic:

<snip>
The Enabling Act - March 23, 1933

On January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler was elected Chancellor of the Weimar Republic. He swore the oath: "I will employ my strength for the welfare of the German people, protect the Constitution and laws of the German people, conscientiously discharge the duties imposed on me and conduct my affairs of office impartially and with justice to everyone. (Dawidowicz 48). By this time, his mind was already set on the destruction of the Weimar Constitution. He was preparing himself to unleash a relentless war on his enemies: democracy, freedom, pluralism, and, above anything else, the Jews.

Under the Article 48 of the Weimar Constitution, the Chancellor had the authority to impose dictatorial power to protect the democratic order from being overthrown. This measure was intended to put a stop to a possible Communist revolution. In February 4, 1933, Hitler convinced Paul von Hindenburg, the president of the Weimar Republic, to sign a decree that authorized the Minister of the Interior and the police to prohibit public meetings and publications that could endanger public security.

To Hitler's advantage, the Reichstag building was set on fire on February 27, 1933. A deranged Communist pyromaniac, Marinus van der Lubbe was blamed for the crime. However, the Nazi party more than likely staged the fire and used Lubbe as an scapegoat in order to blame the Communists. Consequently, the incident yielded political unrest in Germany and provided Hitler the opportunity to issue a series of emergency decrees over Hindenburg's signature that undermined the Constitution and destroyed basic liberties. "Described as measures to ward off 'Communist acts of violence endangering the state,' these decrees suspended all fundamental freedoms of speech, assembly, freedom from invasion of privacy (mail, telephone, telegram) and from house search without warrant" (50).

<snip>
With the Enabling Act passed, Hitler legally acquired dictatorial powers in Germany. The government now had the power to make any legislation necessary, which would be primary to the Constitution, for four years. With this authority, he would reset the conditions of the act in order to stay in power.
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http://cghs.dade.k12.fl.us/holocaust/enabling.htm

GET THE PICTURE FOLKS!

[Skidmore]

9. Just in time to roll out Jebbie!!! The BFEE's annointed.

[H2O Man]

10. We'll make it less:

No term for McCain!

[rufus dog]

11. Extremely STRANGE!!!!!!

They have the propaganda arm of the party floats the balloon for them! McCain's inability to coherently answer questions is obviously a concern so they are going for "hey let's give you a reason not to vote for the black guy, it will only be four years."

So they are betting that the American electorate thinks, let not take a risk on this guy, hell it is only four more years!!!! Good friggin luck with that strategy.

[Motown_Johnny]

13. Desperation, First off it makes him a Lame Duck from the start, It does appeal to the Hillary '12

crowd though

[bunnies]

19. bingo. nt

[Skwmom]

14. A LAME DUCK President right out of the gate. Yeah, that's a great idea.

[TheDonkey]

15. pathetic.

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[opihimoimoi]

17. What??? only 4 years? people demand to be abused for fucking 8 YEARS...Not 4

this is not gonna work....When we fuck up,,,let go all the way for 8 years...not this 4 year panty wimp shit...

[WinkyDink]

20. Riiiiiight.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

21. So.......if he's elected President and only serves 4 years....

Does this mean that HE won't be the one getting us out of Iraq. HE, like Bush, will leave it to the next President to get us out of Iraq (since he said that he'd get most of our troops out of Iraq either in 2013-the start of the NEXT President's term in office-though he also said that he was o.k. with us staying in Iraq for the next 100 years so either way he'd be passing it along to the next President anyway, so......?)

:shrug:

Not to say that if McSame SOMEHOW wins I wouldn't be happy seeing him voluntarily resign at the end of his first and only term but I have a bridge to sell anybody who truly believes that he would follow through on such a pledge and, frankly, a 4-year extension of Bush's failed policies is still WAY TOO MUCH for our country to handle and there's no telling what kind of ADDITIONAL damage he and his appointees, cronies, etc. could do to us during that time.

:scared:

Heck, I don't even think we can last the last remaining months of Bush's Presidency but since impeachment's "off the table" there's nothing the rest of us can do about.

:argh: