McCain's bus crashes in Miami

Source: miami herald

Politics is tough. So is driving in Miami. Just ask Sen. John McCain's tour bus driver.

The presumed Republican nominee's tour bus got tangled in a traffic accident at about 3 p.m. Wednesday on 55th and Biscayne Blvd. No one was injured.

Sen. McCain was not traveling on the bus when the accident occurred. The bus driver, Sen. Joe Leiberman and an aide were traveling southbound on Biscayne Boulevard when an accident occurred with a blue van, according to Miami Police. The driver of that vehicle was the sole occupant.

''This was an unfortunate incident, but we're thankful that everyone is okay,'' said Mario Diaz, campaign manager for Sen. McCain for the SE Region.

Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/459/story/631832.html

Strikes again! LOL

McCain doesn't believe in keeping them inflated.

down in Florida, without McDouchebag? Is he using it like a chaffeured RV for a little Florida vacation?

at the R convention. There would be mayhem.

That's the difference between Democratics and Republicratics.

They will say and do ANYTHING to get elected. By now, that's obvious.

is running now as a REPUBLICAN VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE.

Ralph Nader was right all along.

And you'll never her him say that, but that's where he gets his paychecks from.

It took only a few seconds of Googling to get these, but I didn't need to Google as I was here during the last three election cycles and Republicans have always been Nader's chief financial backers.


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http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0702-10.htm

Republican support for Nader, or at least for his appearing on the ballot, is exploding all over. The Wisconsin chapter of the Citizens for a Sound Economy plans to work to get him onto that state's ballot. According to an Arizona Democratic attorney quoted in The New York Times, 46 percent of the signatures filed by the Nader campaign in that state belong to registered Republicans. Arizona Naderites are being represented by Lisa Hauser, an active Republican attorney and counsel to former GOP Gov. Fife Symington.

Wednesday, the chairman of the Florida Republican Party loosed a passionate call for Nader's appearance on the Florida ballot, calling the Democrats' legal challenge "beyond the bounds of hypocrisy."

This week, Business Week Online reported that of the $1 million raised by Nader so far, $41,000 comes from major Bush contributors. That included $2,000 from Richard Egan, who raised $200,000 for Bush -- which qualifies him, in the GOP fund-raising hierarchy, as a Ranger -- and served as Bush's ambassador to Ireland. A spokesman told Business Week it must be "a different Dick Egan," but then the Boston Globe reported Thursday that not only was it the same Dick Egan, but his son and daughter-in-law had given another $4,000 to Nader.

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http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200409/littlefield2

Nader Republicans

What do you do if you're a loyal Republican who, like three fifths of George W. Bush's donors, has given $2,000 to the President's re-election campaign—the maximum that the law allows? If you're among a growing number of clever conservatives, determined to bleed votes from John Kerry at any price, you write a check to Ralph Nader. Who better to throw a close election to your man than the guy who did so last time around? If Machiavelli had had to contend with campaign-finance laws, this is a tactic he might have devised.

Nader himself claims that his candidacy will attract angry conservatives. That description, however, doesn't fit the small but distinguished group of Republicans who have given him money; most had already voted for Bush with their checkbooks, donating thousands of dollars to the President and the Republican Party. "Nader would probably deny it," says Larry Noble, the director of the Center for Responsive Politics, a group that tracks money in politics, "but these people are obviously supporting him to undermine Kerry." According to data collected by the center, Nader's most prominent Republican backer is the billionaire Richard J. Egan, a Bush "Ranger" and recently the ambassador to Ireland, who has so far bundled more than $200,000 for the President's re-election campaign. Over the past year Egan and his wife have given $35,000 to the Republican National Committee and thousands more to the party's congressional candidates—so Egan's primary goal in donating $2,000 to Nader was probably not a return to Dublin as Nader's ambassador.

Another prominent Nader Republican is the conservative comedian and game-show host Ben Stein. His purposes, too, seem clear. In February the Bush campaign was forced to issue Stein a refund check after his donations exceeded the legal limit. Spotting an alternative, Stein sent Nader $1,000.

comes from Republicans?

Four percent, huh? And that is supposed to support your little statement above about -- what was it --



Four fucking percent, huh? I still can't believe I am reading this here.

Four fucking percent. I mean, that statement quoted above is essentially a lie and a smear appearing on these boards.

And that was fast.

as a civil human being.

:bounce:

The bus also had an Obama sticker on the back!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/06/straight-talk-express-inv_n_117384.html

:rofl:

either that or the much heralded intern bus program is not all it is cracked up to be :eyes:

Oh wait a minute. The Democratic majority in the Senate is campaigning for John McCain.

Might be wise to remember that next time you kids want to bash the Democratic Congress for failing to stand up to George Bush.

and since Brett Favre is so much in the news, a story

Favre was known as "Country Time" when he was on the Atlanta Falcons roster (yes he was not always a Packer) this in the time of Deon Sanders who was known as "Prime Time"

Favre should have been called "Miller Time" because he racked up more bar bills than snaps from center

Favre missed the team photo one year. YES he MISSED THE TEAM PHOTO

When he finally got to practice he told then Coach Jerry Glanville, "Sorry Coach, there was a car wreck"

Glanville snapped back "You ARE a car wreck!!!"

Apply that to McCain

I thought McCain would be riding motorcycles by now...

these accidents are unavoidable

rear ended at that point.

By the 6:00 news, this will be the story: A black obama supporter attempted to run the McCain campaign off the road, literally.

(I know it's not meant that way, but :spray: )

... or "The bus driver, an aide, and Sen. Joe Lieberman..."

This is what often happens when you're writing under time constraints. The deskers should have caught it, though.

:rofl:

Politics ARE tough. According to the punctuation Leiberman and an aide were driving the bus. They're missing a coma to make that a list.

Actually, the punctuation without the second comma is acceptable (though I was taught differently and would have put a comma after Lieberman) but leaves the meaning ambiguous as numerous people have pointed out. A good writer would have been taught long ago how to WRITE to avoid ambiguities of this sort. There's not really any easy way to punctuate one's way out of this mess; the sentence should have been rewritten for clarity because even with a second comma, it could be read as if there were only two people aboard: the driver, Lieberman, (the driver -- Lieberman --) and the aide. Space considerations may have been a factor, but a good editor with sufficient time to edit could have reconstructed it as "The driver and two passengers, Sen. Joe Lieberman and an aide, were unhurt" or something like that.

However, "They're missing a coma to make that a list" contains an inadvertent pun, since there are many of us who think McCain has been in a coma for a long time. . . . . :evilgrin:


Tansy Gold

It's Nazis, not Nazi's.

Politics is tough is perfectly grammatical. "Politics" is a singular noun, like "congeries" and "kudos". There is no such thing as a "politic" (or a "congerie" or a "kudo" either, for that matter).

I do tend to put a comma before "and" in a list, but according to many sources, it's not essential.

"Missing a coma"?

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/politic">Politic

There actually is a singular form. But because most Americans find it to be linguistically untenable. They tend to misuse politics as a singular. But I tend to agree that politics is more fluid than politic and rolls off the tongue easier.

nouns do -- not in English, anyway. You can't pluralize them. Politics, in this case especially, is a singular noun. Check out the definition of "politics" in the same source you linked.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/politics

Or was he giving another radio interview from the bathroom?

everybody sing "The wheels on the bus are falling off, falling off, falling off....."

usually, a news report would say who was charged w/ the accident or that noone had been charged yet. this report just says there was an accident.

That would explain it.