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McCain to roar into motorcycle haven in South Dakota
Aug 4, 2008, 1:22 GMT
Washington - Senator John McCain, 71, heads to the unlikely town of Sturgis, South Dakota, on Monday to rub elbows with the rowdy tattooed rebels of the American roads at a campground rock concert.
With a population of 780,000, South Dakota on the Great Plains is hardly an election-day prize for either McCain's Republican Party or rival Democrats.
But the state doubles in population during the annual August motorcycle rally in Sturgis, at the foot of the Black Hills, that draws an estimated 500,000 to 600,000 out-of-state 'wild hogs' who roar cross country to celebrate their bike culture.
McCain plans to maximize on the crowds by providing the opening act at an annual concert that honours American military veterans at the Buffalo Chip campground, his campaign said Sunday.
McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, will warm up the crowd for performances by American Idol country music singer Kelly Pickler and the mercurial Kid Rock, according to the Sioux Falls Argus Leader newspaper online.
The annual motorcycle rally - from August 4-10 this year - is one of the country's largest, with a reputation for notorious and outrageous behaviour.
A novelty draw to the Buffalo Chip campground this year will be a firing range for cyclists to try out automatic rifles, including vintage World War I machine guns, camp owner Rod Woodruff told the Argus Leader.
It was not known if McCain would take a turn at the firing range - or if he would draw a crowd as large as the 200,000 who flocked to hear Democratic presumptive nominee Barack Obama in Berlin recently.
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Jeffrey T. Kuhner is a columnist for The Washington Times. This is abridged:
As the mainstream media continue to fawn over Sen. Barack Obama, they overlook the major story of the 2008 campaign: He is an internationalist socialist, who is further to the left than any liberal Democratic presidential nominee in recent history. George McGovern, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Al Gore, even John Kerry - not one of them ever so explicitly defined himself on the stump as a deracinated globalist detached from his American identity.[...]
During his visit to Europe, Mr. Obama demonstrated the radical anti-Americanism at the heart of his candidacy. He proclaimed himself 'a citizen of the world' - not simply a citizen of the United States. Also, he vowed that, as president, he would consider the 'needs, interests and perspectives' of all nations, and not just America´s 'narrow, strategic' objectives.
In other words, Mr. Obama pledged to subordinate our national interest to international concerns. This is unprecedented for a would-be president. The primary role of commander in chief is not to be the spokesman for the international community; rather, it is to defend and advance U.S. national interest.
This flies in the face of the attempt by Europe´s ruling elite to create a socialist super-state. The European Union aims to eradicate national identity and state sovereignty in favor of a Continental federation. The EU seeks to forge a new world order based on multilateralism, the dominance of international institutions such as the United Nations and the International Criminal Court, and the projection of soft power. This leftist globalist worldview underlines European hostility to President Bush. He is everything they despise: a unilateralist, a cowboy and a patriot. In the eyes of most Europeans, Mr. Bush is a dangerous right-winger because he puts America´s national interest first and foremost.
The liberal media are trying to portray Mr. Obama´s warm reception abroad as a powerful sign he is capable of being a world leader. As usual, they are wrong. Europe´s socialists love Mr. Obama because he is one of them.
Mr. Obama would transform the United States into a North American France. He champions a redistributionist, soak-the-rich economic philosophy. He would raise income and Social Security taxes on those making more than $250,000 per annum. He wants to increase tax rates on capital gains and dividends.
Mr. Obama seeks to nationalize health care, expand government with nearly a trillion dollars in new spending, and impose burdensome regulations on corporations and businesses. He is also a protectionist, who vows to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement and has opposed free-trade deals with Colombia, South Korea and Central America. Mr. Obama´s class-warfare policies would result in economic sclerosis, lower productivity and higher unemployment - exactly what the French (and the Germans) have today.
He is a European-style leftist on social issues as well. He supports abortion (even partial-birth abortion), court-imposed same-sex marriage, affirmative action, and massive legal and illegal immigration. Mr. Obama´s America would be poorer and more permissive.
On foreign affairs, he advocates Brussels´ line: U.S. withdrawal from Iraq; greater focus on Afghanistan; multilateral diplomacy to contain Iran; closer dialogue and engagement with China and Russia; and a U.N.-led, law-enforcement approach toward fighting Islamic terrorism. In other words, the United States is to be emasculated, and its military strength and geopolitical interests tied down by a nexus of transnational institutions and intricate alliances.
Europe´s political class rightly senses that Mr. Obama represents a new breed of American statesmen - someone, like them, who believes the era of nation-states and American dominance on the world stage is over. They understand that his brand of post-modern internationalism signifies transformation of America into a paper tiger.
Mr. Obama repeatedly says on the campaign trail that he embodies a 'new kind of politics.' Instead of being post-racial and post-partisan, however, he is really post-national. His cosmopolitan liberalism plays well with effete, multicultural elites on college campuses and in Manhattan and Hollywood. But it won´t resonate in the heartland, where patriotism and American exceptionalism are still not dirty words....
What the heck is a Sturgis???? Besides being a gathering of fat, lazy, over-the-hill yuppie prigs who are nothing more than weekend wanna-be bikers. So, what have we got? We got a plastic man electioneering in front of a pack of plastic people. Just because you can buy a Harley and can afford to trick it out with a roostercock pink paint job, it doesn't make you a man.
'We got a plastic man electioneering in front of a pack of plastic people. '
This is a man who graduates from the Naval Academy, does a dozen posts, flys over 25 missions, gets the DNC, and three other medals, spends five years in a POW camp, is tortured over and over, then goes on to serve the public for the next 30 years.
Go focus that razor sharp insight on yourself and see if you measure up. Personally, I doubt you'd make it against all the others there, either.
Sturgis? - maybe that's the right venue for McCain afterall. Is he even remotely aware of what goes on there? What a crock!
'SP4: Mea Culpa asshole'
Education time for EssPee drug addict.
Mea culpa means 'my fault'. As you are using the first person singular, you are admitting it is your fault. What is your fault, one may ask? How about being a brain damaged drug addict.
Further, are you saying your asshole is faulty? That is stating the obvious. It is faulty and the contents of your gastro-intestinal tract have backed up into your head.
Then there is that world famous line you came up with (cleaned up for the younger set):'Intercourse me in the anal orifice and call it dinner.'
Yes, EssPee, I'd say you have a faulty a-hole. And you grew up around it.
Maybe McCain is hoping for some 'flashing' in Sturgis, and he darn well will probably get it. Hope he wears a do rag so he'll fit right in.
Hope he has a good time. McCain used to ride a motorcycle in Arizona but I believe he gave it up because it hurt his arms that were broken in the POW camp.
Yeah, right. If McCain ever road a motorcycle, it was a Honda 50 with training wheels.
'If McCain ever road a motorcycle, it was a Honda 50 with training wheels.'
The only thing you get to ride is the couch.
The only thing Obama ever rode is the huge rear end of his nasty wife that looks like a Klingon and sounds like a America hating snot.
...it's a classic example of the fact that McCain, with all his lifetime of experience and achievements, will be treated exactly as GW Bush has by the libnazi media elite and the dildo above.
As McCain is nothing more than a self invented piece of plastic crap, of course he will be treated no differently than Bush who has dildoed the country. Speaking of dildos, how's your backside, EssPee? It should be pretty well bored out by now. In spite of that, you are STILL anal retentive. So, I'm a dildo,Huh? Well, sweet cheeks, you won't find me in the usual place, I'll be RIGHT IN YOUR FACE.
...would have been better off buying a pet monkey.
Here is a guy who has, by ANY standard of measure, walked the walk, yet libnazi scum like you treat him EXACTLY like he is GW Bush. You are, simply, a bigot.
Go Inform yourself.
It is utterly bewildering how people can say the things they do about someone like Senator McCain.
'ANY standard of measure'????????????????????????????
C'mon, EssPee, put down the bong and the rose colored glasses. Take that dildo out of your pleasure center and get a grip on yourself. Get real. Get a byte, if not a megabyte, of reality. Stop in-forming yourself.
Education time for EssPee: 'BIGOT: a person obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices; especially : one who regards or treats the members of a group (as a racial or ethnic group) with hatred and intolerance.'
Note the word especially and it's following example. That definitely descibes you. As I treat McCain, who is not a group or members(plural)of a group but an illusion, with the distrust and disdain he has earned, I am not a bigot. Study semantics, boy. Educate yourself.
If all of a sudden Obama would turn Repub, SP4 would be tripping all over himself to get on the bandwagon! Partisan politics at it's best or worst, however you look at it!
Because if Obama were to demonstrate he was a true republican why would I not??????
Obama is a smart, lovable figure. He has grabbed power swiftly and played this game well. If he was a conservative, he would not hang with terrorists, feed the culture of grievence, live the libnazi lies, and he'd be OK by me.
But, as we all know, he is not.
As for Professor Bong above, none of that makes me wrong, either. Go buy your mommy a pet monkey and you'll have a new brother.
Have another hit, idiot.
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Guzzi riderAug 4th, 2008 - 02:07:03
' It was not known if McCain would take a turn at the firing range - or if he would draw a crowd as large as the 200,000 who flocked to hear Democratic presumptive nominee Barack Obama in Berlin recently.'
1) Obamas crowd numbers were inflated, just like his ego and resume.
2) Europeans love Obama because he will weaken the USA and make us more likely to turn over American sovereignty to international organizations. I don''rt want anyone having a say over American freedoms that I didn't vote for.
3) I hope Mac has a good time with the bikers while Obama eats his arugula in San Fransisco.
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