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McCain: Obama Will Take Away Your Weird Trendy Plastic "Crocs"

July 07, 2008 2:27 PM

4th20of20july20crocs_midsize_4 In his Denver, Colo., town hall meeting just now, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., said that the trade policies of Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, will hurt the ability of Americans to sell to foreign markets those weird trendy plastic "Crocs."

"Five years ago, the outdoor footwear company, Crocs, was started by a couple of entrepreneurs with a great idea, ingenuity and drive," McCain said. "This former small business now employs 600 people in Colorado alone, and sells over 50 percent of its products in 90 countries around the world. Building barriers to Crocs or any American company's access to foreign markets will have a devastating effect on our economy and jobs, and the prosperity of American families."

Watch the VIDEO HERE.

McCain: Pro-Crocs.

Who says he isn't up with the latest styles, the rock and the roll and such?

- jpt

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Man, don't you people get it?? We need more nuke plants so we can turn the depleted uranium into weapons so we can start more wars and contaminate more countries with our depleted uranium. Iraq and Iran will be the new Yucca mountain!

It is also a VERY smart idea to put these little nuke terror targets all over the country because nothing says "don't bomb me and cause mass contamination" like a operational nuke plant.

Posted by: Richard | Jul 9, 2008 8:01:32 AM

God forbid, if we don't have any dangerous plastic shoes to wear (read about accidents involving people's feet getting chewed up by escalators when wearing Crocs and flip-flops). They're cute on kids, but I don't understand why adults wear them. I don't care how comfortable they are, they're as good looking as Birkenstocks, and I definitely would not date a guy who wears them.

Posted by: mary tom | Jul 8, 2008 5:09:58 PM

IF YOU LIKE THIS ECONOMY;

IF YOU LIKE THIS NEVER-ENDING WAR;

IF YOU LIKED HIS VOTE AGAINST A GI BILL FOR IRAQ VETS;

IF LIKE PAYING HIGH GAS PRICES;

IF LIKE THE TAX BREAKS FOR THE RICH;

IF YOU CAN'T WAIT TO INVADE IRAN;

IF YOU LIKE HIGH UNEMPLOYMENT;

IF YOU LIKE A PRESIDENT WHO VOTED AGAINST EQUAL PAY FOR WOMEN;

IF YOU LIKE A PRESIDENT WHO VOTED AGAINST MATERNITY LEAVE FOR WOMEN;

IF YOU LOOK FORWARD TO THE END OF ROE V. WADE;

IF YOU LIKE THE UNFAIR TRADE POLICIES THAT SEND JOBS AND TECHNOLOGY OVERSEAS;

IF YOU LIKE A GOVERNMENT THAT PRACTICES TORTURE;

IF YOU LIKE A GOVERNMENT THAT SPIES ON ITS OWN CITIZEN;

IF YOU LIKE THE FACT THAT THE US IS ONE OF THE MOST REVILED NATIONS ON THE PLANET, THEN YOU'LL JUST LOVE McCAIN.

Posted by: rhbate | Jul 8, 2008 1:11:22 PM

SENATOR McCAIN SAID TODAY: “I AM GOING TO CAMPAIGN IN ALL THIRTEEN COLONIES. MY CAMPAIGN WILL EMPLOY ALL THE LATEST TECHNOLOGIES: THE TELEGRAPH, THE CARRIER PIGEON AS WELL AS THE PONY EXPRESS.

Posted by: rhbate | Jul 8, 2008 1:07:32 PM

Another reason for this former Hillary supporter to vote McCain...besides the trust factor.

Posted by: cindy in nc | Jul 8, 2008 11:43:52 AM

Jesus, are you all ever gonna stop fighting? It IS obvious, McCain is goin to win, finish the fight in Iraq, give this country decent nuclear power, and revive the nations economy.

Posted by: Wonder Boy | Jul 8, 2008 8:57:46 AM

I think McCain's image handlers are trying to update him by bringing in the crocs. I'm sure he thought beforehand that crocs were reptiles of the river, or could refer to the crocodile tears his surrogates cried when anyone questioned how his POW experience related to executive decision making.

Posted by: kat | Jul 7, 2008 8:49:13 PM

McCain is the source of a great deal of serious concerns. His mental stability is questionable. He can't remember squat. His physical health is very questionable. His shoulders, skin and joints are shot. His moral values are nonexistent. He lies until a video is put in his face. He has a very foul mouth and and uncontrollable temper. He cheats on wives then up grades to the latest model.

Posted by: Pipes | Jul 7, 2008 5:02:26 PM

I wonder if McCain has flag pin charm on his "crocs" since it isn't on his lapel.

Posted by: Lunvangel Hussein 330 | Jul 7, 2008 4:57:44 PM

Oh brother! Another example of McCain doing the Bush/Rove tango and making lame stupid comments that are supposed to upset people. When are these yahoos going to learn that THIS ELECTION is about more than that same old swill they've been peddling since Gingrich? This election needs to be about REAL issues. The American people are going to be stupid again and vote for someone based upon who they want to have a beer with. The stakes are too high and the people of this country realize that. Wake up McSame! And Wake-up MSM and realize that you're boring the crap out of your news viewers with this same old rehashed tripe. Give us news we can REALLY USE!

Posted by: Suz in KS | Jul 7, 2008 4:45:00 PM

linda n carolina -

McCain is no concern of me. He has had enough record to show what he could do and is capable of. He is more likely than not to collaborate with the dems congress to do a few good things.

As to Obama, he is a known unknown. He scares the hell out of me, to be manipulated. It is almost certain that anything he wants to do will be fillabustered in the Senate - nothing get accomplished as his record shows.

Posted by: skinny dog | Jul 7, 2008 4:33:52 PM

if we suddenly say that we have to switch such a large section of our power resource to nuclear...

how much harder is it for us to tell rogue nations they can not.

Nuclear is in the mix...but McCain is going for simple campaign statements that could backfire enormously on so many levels...

that is not what we need in the President.

Posted by: dl | Jul 7, 2008 4:33:01 PM

He's bitter because no one here is voting for him.

Posted by: Horace Manure | Jul 7, 2008 4:32:56 PM

skinny dog

competing mewans we compete on level ground... they need us to buy

(we needed them to buy and we needed them to want us to buy over the past 8 years that we have already screwed up)

we need to be in that market but we need to have more power in influencing how their markets will evolve...

both for Americans and all the peoples'(children) of those countries who have not yet been able to hold their governments to the standards that we believe as a nation should be inalienable rights.

Posted by: dl | Jul 7, 2008 4:30:30 PM

Crocs = plastic
Plastic = oil

Ugly shoes made from oil.... great

Posted by: Kenny | Jul 7, 2008 4:27:24 PM

SKINNY DOG
what smartness does mccain have he graduated last in his class you still have not answered my question what kind of president do you think mccain will be or do you really have to think long and hard about that

Posted by: ANGIE | Jul 7, 2008 4:26:54 PM

skinny dog

we need nuclear power but

Mccain oy...

McCain's plans call for 45 nuclear power plants and their waste removal to be built in the next 20 years.

45 NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS!

When we haven't built or successfully figured out how to get high marks on security with many that we already have...and their is no simple solution to it's waste... and McCain has not offered any plan as to how all those power plants waste is going to be stored.

Is it ALL going to Yucca mountain? How is that ALL going to be transported across from these regional plants? or is he planning on having ALL these plants built and approved in the desert to charge the whole country?

45 nuclear power plants...

and why don't you look at all the ones that have closed because the upkeep was too expensive...and all the waste that is sitting in those abandoned plants.

we have 100 plants in this country in the past 60 years...

the average for an accident right now is about 1 in a 1000. You like those odds near you?

45 PLANTS IN 20 YEARS...

McCain is once again pandering to people who don't know enough to know he blowing smoke or just incredibly dumb and dangerous.

Posted by: dl | Jul 7, 2008 4:26:22 PM


China's products and manufacturing are cheaper because you have overwhelming lapses in labor standards.

and Obama has lots of energy plans...

Posted by: dl | Jul 7, 2008 4:01:57 PM
----

What labor standards you decry? Be a man, stand up, and fight and compete. Why would one act like BhO - it's all other people's fault? Finding your way of competing is a better thing to do than whining.

Obama only has lots of energy plans to air his unsubstantial feeling-good speeches. Name a single accomplishment he has made as a US senator, or as an adult?

Posted by: skinny dog | Jul 7, 2008 4:24:01 PM

Skinny Dog: Come on; I want to see you dish on McCain for not doing anything the last 4 years.Tell us all the great things McCain has done the last 8 years except vote with Bush 90%.

Posted by: linda n carolina | Jul 7, 2008 4:23:26 PM

dl -

Unfortunately, if he had used even 50% his smartness in the US Senate in the past 3.5 years, he might have had helped to create some jobs for the people like rodney and linda n carolina and ANGIE.

Yet, he used his smartness in the wrong place.

Posted by: skinny dog | Jul 7, 2008 4:16:16 PM

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