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New MoveOn ad: Don’t take my baby, John McCain!

posted at 10:06 am on June 17, 2008 by Allahpundit
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In which a 90-year-old Maverick, serving his fifth term as president after declaring martial law and suspending the Constitution, conscripts young Alex to walk the beat in Baghdad. Either that or mom here hasn’t yet grasped that (a) President McCain won’t be setting Iraq policy for the next 18 years, let alone the next hundred, (b) MoveOn’s candidate of choice has himself been dropping some dark hints lately about “tactical readjustments,” and (c) whether McCain and the military can have her son is, um, up to her son, not her. The left (or at least the segment that MoveOn represents) still hasn’t quite accepted the idea of a volunteer military. If you enlist, it can only be because you were somehow forced — through a draft or, per Charlie Rangel and Waffles, through economic hardship. No one serves because they want to. Which makes this ad the flip side of liberals wondering why Bush hasn’t “sent” his daughters to war. Mom’s not sending Alex and you can’t “take” him, either, even if he wants to go.

He sure does make a cute human shield for MoveOn, though, doesn’t he? Chuck Todd thinks the ad will backfire. I don’t think anyone will care enough either way.

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What Baby? They probably aborted him.

JayHaw Phrenzie on June 17, 2008 at 10:08 AM

An ad produced by idiots for idiots.

flipflop on June 17, 2008 at 10:09 AM

I don’t think anyone will care enough either way.

Copy that. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

ronsfi on June 17, 2008 at 10:09 AM

President McCain won’t be setting Iraq policy for the next 18 years, let alone the next hundred

No, but his mom will.

Valiant on June 17, 2008 at 10:10 AM

Silly. Code Pinko hyperbole. Keep ‘em coming. They expose the nutroots in a way they should have anticipated. Partial birth abortion comes to mind.

a capella on June 17, 2008 at 10:12 AM

Obama is okeydokey with killing the baby if it survived an abortion.

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=18647

Brat on June 17, 2008 at 10:13 AM

Shouldn’t that baby be brown?

From a transgendered sperm donor?

That her lesbian “wife” found?

In for a wooden nickel, in for a three dollar bill.

profitsbeard on June 17, 2008 at 10:13 AM

Idiotic.

WisCon on June 17, 2008 at 10:14 AM

Our future under John McCain: 100 years of war!
Our future under Obama Barack: 100 years of peace, love, hope and change.

carbon_footprint on June 17, 2008 at 10:16 AM

conscripts young Alex to walk the beat in Baghdad

Hell, by then we’ll have “taken over” Euroville and be sailing towards McCain’s ultimate goal, revenge in South East Asia.

McCain’s Mutiny:

This is the captain speaking. Some misguided sailors on this ship still think they can pull a fast one on me. Well, they’re very much mistaken. Since you’ve taken this course, the innocent will be punished with the guilty. There will be no liberty for any member of this crew for three months. I will not be made a fool of! Do you hear me?

Bwahahahahahaha, and just kidding, of course.

Shivas Irons on June 17, 2008 at 10:16 AM

Dear Young Lady in the moveon video:

Don’t worry; I wouldn’t dream of harming your baby. We diaper wearers have to look out for each other!

Sincerely,

John McCain

radjah shelduck on June 17, 2008 at 10:17 AM

“My baby will have to join the McCain Youth.”

Akzed on June 17, 2008 at 10:19 AM

Remember, it’s the conservatives that use fear, right?

trubble on June 17, 2008 at 10:20 AM

Better John McCain than the dingos.

SouthernDem on June 17, 2008 at 10:20 AM

trubble on June 17, 2008 at 10:20 AM

That was my first thought.

SouthernDem on June 17, 2008 at 10:20 AM

How badly it backfires depends on how widely it’s aired.

Here’s hoping it’s aired a lot.

It’s just so wrong on so many levels. It’s right up there with General Betray Us.

Run it, Losers. Run it hard!

Typhoon on June 17, 2008 at 10:21 AM

No way that cute baby came out of that ugly chick.

No way.

Kasper Hauser on June 17, 2008 at 10:21 AM

More proof that libs are stupid and will regurgitate any propaganda that their masters feed them.

thekingtut on June 17, 2008 at 10:22 AM

Maybe she should pay attention to the government education little will receive in school.

You know, education, if you make the most of it, if you study hard and you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, uh, you, you can do well. If you don’t, you get stuck in Iraq. …

Don’t be stuck on stupid, ~~Progressives~~Regressives.

Dr.Cwac.Cwac on June 17, 2008 at 10:22 AM

When that baby is 18, he is joining the Marines, just to get away from that manipulative mom.

right2bright on June 17, 2008 at 10:22 AM

Their patriotism and willingness to serve or contribute anything to this country is on display here too, isn’t it. Leeches!!!

Jeff on June 17, 2008 at 10:24 AM

Quick! Somebody give that baby a tie-died T-shirt, a welfare check, and a bong! It’s the only way to protect him from the future John McCain wants for him.

aero on June 17, 2008 at 10:24 AM

Comments on YouTube have been disabled for the video. Heh.

JustTruth101 on June 17, 2008 at 10:25 AM

That is absolutely stupid . . . the brains of those idiots at MoveOn.Org have got to be in the last stages of syphilis . . . or worse.

rplat on June 17, 2008 at 10:25 AM

trubble on June 17, 2008 at 10:20 AM

SouthernDem on June 17, 2008 at 10:20 AM

Ditto.

loganthompson on June 17, 2008 at 10:25 AM

“You can’t have him.”

“…but Barack Obama can! And just to make sure of it, I’m going to sacrifice my baby to Obama with a silver dagger on an altar made of human skulls.”

James on June 17, 2008 at 10:25 AM

Smother mother.
The kid’s gonna turn out ghey.

Rhinoboy on June 17, 2008 at 10:26 AM

I’m just glad to see with all these video’s of late, that the Dems are keeping it clean and honest./snark

abinitioadinfinitum on June 17, 2008 at 10:28 AM

Shouldn’t that baby be brown?

From a transgendered sperm donor?

That her lesbian “wife” found?

In for a wooden nickel, in for a three dollar bill.

profitsbeard on June 17, 2008 at 10:13 AM

All implied. There’s no husband. What guy would let his wife make that video, and let her speak for his son?

It’s pretty clear that she’s one of the ladies who live a life without men.

Or maybe her husband is one of the black dudes Obama was talking about on father’s day.

Or maybe subliminaly, it’s supposed to represent Obama’s mother and Obama himself.

JiangxiDad on June 17, 2008 at 10:29 AM

I think I’m going to make a video with my kid saying, Obama please don’t tax his college fund out of existence. I guess any message is better if you can figure out a way to wave a baby in the camera while talking.

Squid Vicious on June 17, 2008 at 10:33 AM

I don’t know if that kid should join the military even if he wants to. He used up all his luck just being born.

VikingGoneWild on June 17, 2008 at 10:34 AM

No, but his mom will.

Valiant on June 17, 2008 at 10:10 AM

She looks like she’d get the job done!!!

Bfunky292 on June 17, 2008 at 10:35 AM

Quick! Somebody give that baby a tie-died T-shirt, a welfare check, and a bong! It’s the only way to protect him from the future John McCain wants for him.

aero on June 17, 2008 at 10:24 AM

Don’t forget to include a free ride to the indoctrination of higher learning at taxpayers expense.

Rovin on June 17, 2008 at 10:35 AM

Gee, what would have happened if this was 1945 or 1952?

President Truman, are we going to stay in Germany or Japan for a hundred years? This is little Bob. You can’t have him.

Friggin’ commies!

P.S. Ladies and gentleman, you have just witnessed two taxtakers instead of taxpayers.

Dr.Cwac.Cwac on June 17, 2008 at 10:37 AM

Wow. Ignorant beyond belief. I say anybody take the child now to save it from this moronic mother. She is going to raise this child with reasoning like that? She’s going to stunt it’s intelligence growth.

geckomon on June 17, 2008 at 10:39 AM

Why are they making ads like this?

They already have the idgit vote locked up.

EJDolbow on June 17, 2008 at 10:39 AM

“…but Barack Obama can! And just to make sure of it, I’m going to sacrifice my baby to Obama with a silver dagger on an altar made of human skulls.”

James on June 17, 2008 at 10:25 AM

She’ll probably do it anyway under President Barry’s Preventive Global ~~Warming~~ ~~Cooling~~ Change Plan.

Dr.Cwac.Cwac on June 17, 2008 at 10:39 AM

Someone should run up another ad with Mom and cute baby… whose father is serving is Iraq right now. Show Daddy helping with civic projects, training Iraqis, and then return to the mother say she would be very proud of her son if he decides- of his own free will- to volunteer and become a Marine just like Daddy.

michaelo on June 17, 2008 at 10:39 AM

I think they stole that from Cindy Sheehan from about 25 years ago speaking to Ronald Reagan. Who knew that cute little babies grow up to develop minds of their own and make their own decisions. Despite the efforts of the libtards to stifle their thought unless it conforms with the libtard view of the world.

Mallard T. Drake on June 17, 2008 at 10:41 AM

She’ll probably do it anyway under President Barry’s Preventive Global Warming Cooling Change Plan.

Dr.Cwac.Cwac on June 17, 2008 at 10:39 AM

“It’s all for you, ~~Damian~~Barack!”

James on June 17, 2008 at 10:41 AM

“John McCain please Don’t take my baby, I feel like aborting him when he turns 2, because as a woman thats my choice to go around murde….aborting”

Rbastid on June 17, 2008 at 10:41 AM

Gee, I wonder if she considered what her son would suffer under some other government should he not defend this one…

Someone give Moveon a dictionary and underline “forethought”, “common sense”, and “unintended consequences”.

Woody

woodcdi on June 17, 2008 at 10:44 AM

Another exercise in futility. I watched about 3 minutes of OwlBore, the fraud/extortionist give his “blessing” to the “Marxist Messiah”. They are beginning to unravel already. Socialism has been on the march for awhile, unfortunately it will be undone by the price at the pump. Fauxbama will lose in a landslide, you heard it from AdamSmith here first, and don’t forget it…………..

adamsmith on June 17, 2008 at 10:44 AM

Sorry sister, but when your kid turns 18 he can do whatever the hell he wants, regardless of your wishes.

You might want to be more concerned that little Skippy will get stuck in Kosovo, we have been there for ten years and unlike the Iraqis, they haven’t yet managed to form a government.

Bishop on June 17, 2008 at 10:45 AM

“I don’t want my son serving in a war zone. I would rather have him live in the basement until he is 43, working on song lyrics such as ‘Put down the bong and vote for Obama!’”

Bishop on June 17, 2008 at 10:48 AM

Military? We don’t need no stinkin’ military? Don’t you know that the US is the cause of the world’s problems? Don’t you know many “innocent” people have been ruthlessly murdered by the military? Don’t you know how many nations don’t like us? We have to increase our standing on the planet! And if you say otherwise, you will be labeled a hate-monger.

(DNC platform for the convention)

Dr.Cwac.Cwac on June 17, 2008 at 10:49 AM

Stupid girl. Why do let women vote?

Enrique on June 17, 2008 at 10:51 AM

Interesting how liberals are afraid of conservatives abolishing the constitution and introducing fascism.

Whereas in reality, liberal tendencies are the ones who fit the description. Obamamaniacs would jump at the opportunity to burn the constitution if he told them to.

Afterall, it was written by a bunch of stuffy white Christians, and we certainly can’t have their antiquated thoughts poisoning our progressive brilliance, right?

Grafted on June 17, 2008 at 10:54 AM

You might want to be more concerned that little Skippy will get stuck in Kosovo, we have been there for ten years and unlike the Iraqis, they haven’t yet managed to form a government.

Bishop on June 17, 2008 at 10:45 AM

No kidding. Here’s a little something to chew on. A blast from the past

Madam Speaker, it is time to stop the bombing. NATO’s war against Serbia left the Congress and the American people in a quandary, and no wonder. The official excuse for NATO’s bombing war is that Milosevic would not sign a treaty drawn up by NATO, which would have taken Kosovo away from the Serbs after the KLA demanded independence from Serbia.

This war is immoral because Serbia did not commit aggression against us. We were not attacked and there has been no threat to our national security. This war is illegal. It is undeclared. There has been no congressional authorization and no money has been appropriated for it. The war is pursued by the U.S. under NATO’s terms, yet it is illegal even according to NATO’s treaty as well as the U.N. charter. The internationalists do not even follow their own laws and do not care about the U.S. Constitution.

The humanitarian excuse for the war is suspect. Economic interests are involved, as they so often are in most armed conflicts. NATO’s vaguely stated goals have not been achieved. For the most part, the opposite has. Let me give my colleagues a few examples.

Number one. Milosevic is now more powerful than ever; the Serb’s more unified.

Number two. Russia is now alienated from the west. Their hold on a nuclear arsenal is ignored. Along with Russia’s economic desperation and political instability, NATO is pushing Russia into a new alliance against the west.

Number three. Innocent Serbs and Albanian citizens are routinely being killed by our bombs.

Number four. Civilian targets are deliberately hit, including water, power and sewer plants, fuel storage and TV stations.

Number five. An economic embargo is now being instituted to starve children and prevent medications from reaching the sick, just as we have been doing for a decade against Iraq.

Number six. This war institutionalizes foreign control over our troops. Tony Blair now tells Bill Clinton how to fight a NATO war, while the U.S. taxpayers pay for it.

Number seven. Greater instability in the region has resulted.

Number eight. We are once again supporting Osama bin Laden and his friends in the KLA.

Number nine. We have bombed Bulgaria. By mistake, of course. Sorry.

Number ten. Our weapons are being depleted, our troops spread too thin, resulting in further undermining of our national defense.

Number eleven. Billions of dollars are thrown down a rat hole and Congress is about to vote for more.

Number twelve. The massive refugee problem, which is essentially a result of NATO’s bombing, continues.

Up until now, general defense funds have been spent to wage this war without permission. The President wants to catch up and is asking for $6 billion, but Congress, in its infinite wisdom, wants to give him $13 billion for a war Congress rejects. Once we directly fund the war we will be partners in this misadventure. The votes last week were symbolic. They had no effect of law, but appropriations do.

Saying the new appropriations will be used to beef up a neglected defense does not make it so. Defense funds are fungible. The President has proven this by waging a war for a month without any authorization or appropriation. Congress will no more control the next $13 billion than the money the President has already spent on the war.

Appropriating funds to fight a war, even without a declaration, provides a much more powerful legal and political endorsement of the war than the public statements made against it by nonbinding resolutions passed by the House last week. Declaring war and funding war are two powerful tools of the Congress to restrain a president from waging an unwise and illegal war. If the President pursues an undeclared war and we fund it, we become partners, no matter what justification is given for the spending.

Only chaos can come from ignoring the strict prohibition by the Constitution of a president unilaterally waging war. If a president ignores the absence of a declaration, and we are serious, the only option left to Congress is the power of the purse, which is clearly the responsibility of the Congress. We should not fund this illegal and immoral NATO war.

Paultard, 5 May 1999

Dr.Cwac.Cwac on June 17, 2008 at 10:55 AM

Stupid girl. Why do let women vote?

Enrique on June 17, 2008 at 10:51 AM

Yeah. Snoop Dogg asked for comment.

B!tches ain’t sh!t but hos and tricks.

Wise man.

/sarc

Dr.Cwac.Cwac on June 17, 2008 at 10:56 AM

Ridiculous.

Even “betray us” showed more imagination than this. It’s going to be a long campaign; where can they go from this?

PattyJ on June 17, 2008 at 10:57 AM

When that baby is 18, he is joining the Marines, just to get away from that manipulative mom.
right2bright on June 17, 2008 at 10:22 AM

You could say that.

wise_man on June 17, 2008 at 10:58 AM

Unfit mother.

RhymesWithRight on June 17, 2008 at 11:00 AM

A perfect illustration of how the libs think of the men and women who protect us as children who we have to protect and mother.

Someone, I don’t know who, once explained that there were three types of people; the sheep (vast majority of us minding our own business), the wolves (those who would take our freedom or kill us), and the sheep dogs (those who willingly protect us from the wolves, and love doing it) - This woman wants us all to be sheep.

Thank God for the sheep dogs.

pappy on June 17, 2008 at 11:00 AM

That poor woman. She was punished with a baby. Too bad Barack wasn’t president 2 years ago so she wouldn’t hve suffered so.

rockmom on June 17, 2008 at 11:01 AM

She’ll give her baby to Obama to go off and protect Soros’ mineral interests by making war on small Christian nations like Serbia.

Buddahpundit on June 17, 2008 at 11:05 AM

Why are they making ads like this?

They already have the idgit vote locked up.

EJDolbow on June 17, 2008 at 10:39 AM

They’re like the washed up beauty pageant queen, placing mirrors all around the house so they can look at themselves.
It makes them feel good, but they are still ugly.

right2bright on June 17, 2008 at 11:06 AM

God help us. And now the unbelieving gays in Calif. are getting married. Oh how gloriously we are evolving.

kirkill on June 17, 2008 at 11:06 AM

After President Obama invades Pakistan, her son will be sent on a counter-insurgency mission in Waziristan during the second term of President Jindal, while Senate Minority Leader Chelsea Clinton asks us to suspend disbelief.

Steve Z on June 17, 2008 at 11:08 AM

Does this woman want to keep him in diapers for the next 100 years? The kid’s gonna be hoping for a change.

chriscoolc on June 17, 2008 at 11:11 AM

Newer MoveOn ad: Don’t ~~take~~ eat my baby, John McCain!

Rhinoboy on June 17, 2008 at 11:13 AM

“My baby will have to join the McCain Youth.”

Well considering which nominee is treated like the second coming just like Hitler was, I should think that the kids will be joining the Obama Youth.

FYI - I’m not comparing Obama to Hitler. I’m not that childish or historically ignorant. But the hero-worshipping, lack of intellectual analysis followers for Obama-Messiah reminds me of all the stuff about Hitler’s little followers.

mjk on June 17, 2008 at 11:14 AM

That’s right, John McCain! You cannot have her baby!

She has already pledged him into lifetime servitude to her Lord, Darth Soros!

pilamaye on June 17, 2008 at 11:14 AM

I discern considerable anger and animosity being expressed here. That’s a good thing considering the consequences of the alternative response might be rewarding sweetness and life.

Expressing one’s dark side, can at times; be a very beneficial as a means of relieving unhealthy internal stress.

Heaven only knows; we all want to keep you curmudgeons’ healthy? :)

J_Gocht on June 17, 2008 at 11:18 AM

Way to use your baby.

Reminds me of the fanatic terrorists who use the children for photo ops. Or was that reuters? I get confused.

bridgetown on June 17, 2008 at 11:19 AM

I bet the guy that originally bagged that chic isn’t bragging about it now.

Syd B. on June 17, 2008 at 11:22 AM

i feel sorry for that kid.

trailortrash on June 17, 2008 at 11:26 AM

Steve Z at 11:08 AM-

Obama will only reach the Oval Office in the revisionist ABC movie of the week… when they show how BHO was cheated out of the Presidency in “Recount Redux- the Second Coming of the Swindle!”

Barry has no chance at the White House, because he’ll trip over his own …forks by the Fall.

Everything he says, divides.

He’s the fractal candidate:

Each answer splits in two and becomes a concealing chaos.

But, in time, he’ll implode of his own overweaning, obstreperous b.s.

BELIEVE.

profitsbeard on June 17, 2008 at 11:26 AM

PATHETIC

Alex will go if he wants to he would not be FORCED! I spent 2 yrs in Berlin in the early eightys, forty years after the end of the war. I joined I went where they sent me, key to this is I JOINED.

TroubledMonkey on June 17, 2008 at 11:26 AM

Send both of them now.

Viper1 on June 17, 2008 at 11:44 AM

I discern considerable anger and animosity being expressed here.

Surprise! Some of us disapprove of exploitative, inaccurate and bad-faith political ads.

DrSteve on June 17, 2008 at 11:47 AM

Gee, which party has put draft legislation before the house recently? Democrats.

Why? A cynical attempt to smear Republicans with it.

What is this ad? Ditto.

The left are proving themselves, every day, to be nothing but disgusting, manipulative, hypocritical liars.

Here’s for the Democrats having to hop on board the Green Party train in hopes of getting any seats. And here’s also hoping that sane liberals (if any) leave the leftist poltroons behind and form an actual “loyal” opposition party.

I really think that the constant barrage of leftist lies has the potential, if unchecked, to wreck the American political system, such as it is - if only because of MSM complicity.

Merovign on June 17, 2008 at 11:47 AM

My guess is a *coastal* mom. East coast or west coast liberal.

Just think about the future. As all the glaciers and icecaps melt due to global/warming/climate/change, and the oceans rise accordingly, these *coastal* mental cretins will be forced into the center of the country to live amongst the armed, bible-clinging conservatives.

Are they ready for that? Are WE ready for them?

Yoop on June 17, 2008 at 11:57 AM

Actually AP, the left does think there are some who enlist on their own volition. They are the ones who “just want to go and kill some hajis” according to the left.

davenp35 on June 17, 2008 at 12:03 PM

Audie Murphy’s mom: “You can’t have him.”
Douglas McArthur’s mom: “You can’t have him.”
Pappy Boyington’s mom; “You can’t have him.”

whitetop on June 17, 2008 at 12:04 PM

Our future under John McCain: 100 years of war!
Our future under Obama Barack: 100 years of peace, love, hope and change.

carbon_footprint on June 17, 2008 at 10:16 AM

Wow. Like, Dude! Obama is like so freaking cool.

davidk on June 17, 2008 at 12:06 PM

As apposed to the other McCain c*nt video, this video is true “bottom feeding” grit.

Kini on June 17, 2008 at 12:07 PM

This post just hit the main page at Fark. I hope the server is up to it.

Vic on June 17, 2008 at 12:21 PM

What Baby? They probably aborted him.

You know, I bet a lot of people who oppose the Iraq (or potential Iran) War yet have pro-life leanings will think that. (If you look at the percentages, there must be some overlap.) Combine that with the various points that Allah makes (and, of course, the fatuousness of repeating the purposeful misinterpretation of the “100 years” comment), and a lot of people will be left with a sour taste by those who oppose McCain.

calbear on June 17, 2008 at 12:27 PM

I didn’t know those people had babies. I bet the turkey baster is so embarrassed.

bloggless on June 17, 2008 at 12:35 PM

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PatriotPete on June 17, 2008 at 12:37 PM

What if the kid wants to join the military when he’s older?

dave_lantos on June 17, 2008 at 12:37 PM

But I guess it’s OK if Obama makes him pay for today’s social security recipients.

Kafir on June 17, 2008 at 12:40 PM

Bwahahaha.

You can’t have him? I guess she plans on raising another metrosexual, momma’s boy, liberal slacker who lives at home until he’s in his 30s. Guess what lady, we don’t want him.

You and the liberals can keep your little sissy-boy offspring. If, by some miracle this kid grows a pair, reaches adulthood and wants to join up, you can’t stop him, moonbat.

I guess this a sign of how secure we are now, when dingbats have to invent stuff to be worried about, like their son/daughter going to Iraq in 17 freaking years.

reaganaut on June 17, 2008 at 12:41 PM

pappy on June 17, 2008 at 11:00 AM

I believe that the idea was expressed by Bill Whittle in his blog EjectEjectEject.

onlineanalyst on June 17, 2008 at 12:49 PM

Hey look, more ignorance from the left, and it reproduced…yay! One can only hope the kid grows up to break mommies heart and becomes ‘gasp’ a conservative!

PatriotPete on June 17, 2008 at 12:50 PM

Hysterical advert. I am more worried about Alex because mom looks like a crack addict.

RobCon on June 17, 2008 at 12:58 PM

Gawd I’m so tired of the “stay in Iraq 100 years” taken completely out of context and rewashed and used over and over. It’s so lame, and again, is this all they have?

4shoes on June 17, 2008 at 12:59 PM

FDR, don’t send my son to Germany!

aero on June 17, 2008 at 1:01 PM

Good thing for Alex that MoveOn.Org got to her before Planned Parenthood.

RobCon on June 17, 2008 at 1:07 PM