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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Tue Mar 4, 2014, 08:31 PM Mar 2014

McCain: Obama smartest man in the room (but....)

By Kyle Balluck

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said President Obama impressed Republican senators by being the smartest man in the room during a series of intimate dinners last year intended to repair relations with Capitol Hill.

But the Arizona lawmaker and Obama’s opponent for the White House in 2008 said the president’s outreach efforts are now flagging.

“There are some things that he could find that we could do on a bipartisan basis, and that may not be his top agenda items, but he’s got to do more outreach,” McCain said in an interview published this weekend with Time magazine.

“I thought when he had a couple of dinners with Republican senators, we really had a good environment there. Because he is a very very articulate and attractive guy in a setting with eight or nine senators and him. Because he was smarter than the rest of us,” he continued. “But I don’t see that now. I don’t see any of that.”



Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/199703-mccain-obama-smarter-than-the-rest-of-us#ixzz2v2ly1O3V

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McCain: Obama smartest man in the room (but....) (Original Post) DonViejo Mar 2014 OP
"he’s got to do more outreach".....you have to be fucking kidding. yourout Mar 2014 #1
They won't be happy until they have his hands... Historic NY Mar 2014 #2
He tried reaching out to you assholes when he first became president and you had none of it. BlueStater Mar 2014 #3
I admire... 3catwoman3 Mar 2014 #12
Hey you old limp asshole.. pangaia Mar 2014 #4
Faint praise for Obama -- the bar in that room was set quite low . . . Journeyman Mar 2014 #5
You had your chance, Senator... surrealAmerican Mar 2014 #6
Republicans are fucking crazy mindwalker_i Mar 2014 #7
I remember back during Watergate . . . Brigid Mar 2014 #8
Then he turns around and calls him feckless liberal N proud Mar 2014 #9
An assessment of someone's intellect ... lpbk2713 Mar 2014 #10
Sometimes... 3catwoman3 Mar 2014 #14
Outreach AKA "A$$ kissing" and I hope our LibGranny Mar 2014 #11
shut up and go away. please. spanone Mar 2014 #13

yourout

(7,531 posts)
1. "he’s got to do more outreach".....you have to be fucking kidding.
Tue Mar 4, 2014, 08:35 PM
Mar 2014

Every time he has reached across the isle the Pukes have lopped off a finger.

Historic NY

(37,451 posts)
2. They won't be happy until they have his hands...
Tue Mar 4, 2014, 08:37 PM
Mar 2014

but I glad to see he is slapping back at them now and again.

BlueStater

(7,596 posts)
3. He tried reaching out to you assholes when he first became president and you had none of it.
Tue Mar 4, 2014, 08:37 PM
Mar 2014

Piss off, McCain.

pangaia

(24,324 posts)
4. Hey you old limp asshole..
Tue Mar 4, 2014, 08:38 PM
Mar 2014

Every time he 'reaches out' to some gasbag like you, he gets criticized, ignored, insulted, called names, pissed on, shit on...
Who needs any more of that.




Whew! That felt good.
Back to my Ezra B.



surrealAmerican

(11,362 posts)
6. You had your chance, Senator...
Tue Mar 4, 2014, 08:42 PM
Mar 2014

... and you blew it. The President spent most of his first term trying to find "common ground" with you and your fellow republicans. He gave up because you would "commit" to a position when you spoke with him, only to reverse it when it came time to vote.


As an aside, almost anyone could look smarter than John McCain.

mindwalker_i

(4,407 posts)
7. Republicans are fucking crazy
Tue Mar 4, 2014, 08:42 PM
Mar 2014

I don't want Obama to reach out to them - it's too much like reaching out to a serial killer. Rather than improve Republicans, it just brings Obama down. It's better to say, "Look guys, you're fucking insane. Every time I try to do something that actually helps the country rather than screwing it up worse, you block it, with another filibuster or some other bullshit move. And what do you want to get done? More tax breaks for the rich, less regulation for coal miners? Fuck that! Go back and pout until you decide to do your fucking job!"

With apologies to the rude pundit. I'm not muscling in on your territory.

Brigid

(17,621 posts)
8. I remember back during Watergate . . .
Tue Mar 4, 2014, 08:43 PM
Mar 2014

A woman (don't know why I remember it was a woman, but whatever) wrote in to TIME magazine saying that Senator Sam Ervin was the perfect example of why there should be an age at which senators should be forced to retire. McCain is another one.

liberal N proud

(60,336 posts)
9. Then he turns around and calls him feckless
Tue Mar 4, 2014, 08:44 PM
Mar 2014

Gee, I wonder why Obama quit having meetings with the assholes?

lpbk2713

(42,759 posts)
10. An assessment of someone's intellect ...
Tue Mar 4, 2014, 08:47 PM
Mar 2014



from the dumbass who chose The Quitter as his running mate.

Anyone would be MENSA material next to you birdbrain.

3catwoman3

(24,007 posts)
14. Sometimes...
Tue Mar 4, 2014, 10:58 PM
Mar 2014

...I kinda hope the is a Hell, because there should be a special place reserved there for John McCain (and everyone who helped him do it) for putting the likes of Sarah Palin on the nationl stage. Unforgivable.


Spellcheck doesn't recognize Palin -

LibGranny

(711 posts)
11. Outreach AKA "A$$ kissing" and I hope our
Tue Mar 4, 2014, 08:53 PM
Mar 2014

President doesn't succumb. I'm sure the President was smarter than the entire group combined!

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