McCain: 'I will veto every single beer'- CNN Video

[Ichingcarpenter]

(CNN) – John McCain issued a promise Tuesday that may cause a bit of unrest with a broad swath of voters:

He'll veto every single beer?

In a slip of the tongue while railing against excessive earmarks at the National Small Business Summit in Washington, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee inadvertently pledged to veto the popular alcoholic beverage.

I will use the veto as needed. I will veto every single beer — bill with earmarks," he said, as rumblings from the crowd could be heard. "And every single bill that we have come across my desk I will make them famous. I will veto them, you will know their names."

Video and link : http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/06/10/mccain-i-will-veto-every-single-beer/

[oldtime dfl_er]

1. Keep talking, gramps

It's our best weapon.

[Ichingcarpenter]

5. He's a Beerist! This gaff is gonna be played over and over again

On late night comedy.

[VolcanoJen]

31. Watch the Beer Gaffe here on YouTube

No CNN ads! :-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrvLsnV7No8

[Mabus]

2. Them is fighting words.

I've already gathered my trusted comrades and they've issued their rebuttal.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATBl4qH9I54

P.S. pay no attention to the chicken.

[Tempest]

3. McSame's earmark hypocrisy

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2007/12/31/an_old_earmark_of_mccains_surf.html

http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2008-05-15-mccainland_N.htm

[smoogatz]

4. Next he'll want to take away guns and NASCAR!

He IS the Manchurian candidate.

[bluestateguy]

6. Nobody gives a shit about earmarks

They make up such a small percentage of the budget, and it has nothing to do with the economy, which is what people care about.

[DrDan]

12. well -not sure about that

a couple of years ago, the total value of earmarks was about 3% of the budget. Not chump-change when talking in the hundreds of billions of dollars.

[Bucky]

7. Maybe's he's going for the anti-Australian vote

Although, in a certain sense, I've "vetoed" quite a few beers in my time, as well...

[blondeatlast]

14. Did you "roos" to the occasion when you did? Were you with any "Demeroos?"

Maybe he IS going for the anti-Oz vote. He said "Demeroos." :rofl:

[Bucky]

27. Hilarious. Demeroos... reminds me of Underoos.

Maybe that could be a great party fundraiser. Sell undergarments with the names and faces of super Democrats on them! I'm buying me a pair of Ruth Ginsberg tighty-whiteys right now!

[Thrill]

8. THis guy is a joke

[blondeatlast]

9. I posted the same thing in GD. That speech was awful; just awful. nt

[blondeatlast]

10. Did they not mention "Demeroos?" I fell off my chair at "Demeroos." nt

[northernsoul]

15. Are Demeroos just Underoos for lefties?

I'm seriously confused now.

[suffragette]

17. Or expat Democrats in Australia?

[truthisfreedom]

11. Imagine the grumblings had he been speaking to the Brewmeisters of America...

if there is such an organization...

[northernsoul]

13. You can take my beer when you pry it from my sweaty, drunken hands!

Them's fightin' words, McCain!

[TexasObserver]

16. he is so TERRIBLE a speaker!!

I heard that tidbit earlier in the five minutes I tried to listen to him.

His audiences don't know when to clap, and he doesn't know when to pause.

[Blue-Jay]

18. In all honesty, that's an easy slip to make.

His brain ran "bill" and "earmark" together. Stuff like that happens. No biggie.

BUT!!! The actual premise is incredibly stupid. "Earmarks" has become a Bad Word in Washington (coincidently only since the Democrats gained a majority in 2006), but every earmark isn't inherently bad. Some of them are quite good and relevant to the bill that's being discussed.

It's one thing to slip in a relevant addendum to a bill, but it's quite another to add an earmark hoping for An Impossibly-Sized Big Screen TV To Be Shot Into Geosynchronous Orbit Above New Mexico To Broadcast Murder She Wrote To The Indigenous People Who Have No Cable TV.

Some earmarks are good and some are shit. You can't just say that you're going to veto every damned bill that comes across your desk. Only the Rondroids think that's a good idea, and they're idiots.

[Chiyo-chichi]

19. Is he thinking of his wife's family beer fortune?

[MidwestTransplant]

23. Good point, he is going after his wife! Bite the hand that feeds him.

[MidwestTransplant]

20. That won't go over well with the bitter rural voters....or Hillary!

[TexasObserver]

21. SHOTS only get a signing statement

[doublethink]

22. McCain policy's coming to light .....

Bottled hot water for dehydrated babies and now the beer veto. Wonder if he'll continue the campaign of putting food on your family that bush started? :shrug:

[SteveM]

24. The bill that made Milwaukee famous? (nt)

[DuaneBidoux]

25. Spending stops right here!!! (before it can actually improve anybody's life).

Now that we have made our defense and finance and big corporate cronies rich beyond belief with wreckless spending policies and huge tax cuts for people who can't export jobs fast enough, and now that everything has been fucked up royally for regular folks and just about the time they need real help, we will grow a spine against "wasteful" spending that might actually help them.

[blondeatlast]

26. If it isn't Anheiser-Busch, don't put it on his desk:

http://www.abwholesaler.com/hensley/AboutUs/AboutUs

[4themind]

28. Tha won't make him popular with "Joe Sixpack"

But seriously, maybe he has has his wife's beer distribution business on the brain...

[VolcanoJen]

30. He just lost the "Who would you rather have a beer with" constituency.

:rofl:

[VolcanoJen]

29. Beer Drinkers Of The World: Unite Against McCain!

Oh, that is an instant classic! :rofl: :rofl:

[Barack_America]

32. Swamprat, quick! We need a beer with earmarks!

:rofl:

[Doityourself]

33. Ha Ha...what a frickin' senile tool...and that shit eatin' grin of his is creepy!

[Cha]

34. He just made sure a huge bloc

would not be voting for him! :toast:

[anigbrowl]

35. Elitist!!!!! LOL /nt

[newmajority]

36. Well that fucking does it. McCain just lost my fucking vote!!

Not like he ever had it in the first place, but his anti-beerism is un-fucking-acceptable! :grr: :beer:

[Max_powers94]

37. His wife might not like that comment

[Barack_America]

40. That just makes it more rich!

Pun intended.

:rofl:

[Max_powers94]

41. HA

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

38. He just lost the Joe-six-pack crowd.

[Downtown Hound]

39. Hey McCain, you can have my beer when you pry it from my

cold, passed out hands!

[sudopod]

42. When Jonny first ran for Senate

he was on the Prohibitionist bandwagon.

[Thrill]

43. Forget the Beer Part. Who the hell vetos with a Sharpie??

LOL

[Marrah_G]

44. It's not as funny as the hot water video though

I am still scratching my head as to how in the world he came up with that screw up. I'd love to know what he intended to say.

I ave zero proof of this, but I have thought that for a while now McCain has looked ill and has behaved like his mand is starting to erode.

[elvisbear]

45. McCain has no FLAG PIN!!!

Terrorist, Infidel, America Hater!!! Alert the media. :evilgrin:

[Thrill]

46. LOL. This slip is getting serious play on local and national news.

[Zynx]

47. He just lost Wisconsin.