McCain Jokes about Killing Iranians ... AGAIN

[stevenleser]

http://www.opednews.com/articles/McCain-Jokes-about-Killing-by-Steven-Leser-080709-481.html


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July 9, 2008

McCain Jokes about Killing Iranians ... AGAIN

By Steven Leser


I will never understand this fascination some Republican politicians have with joking about killing people. It must be something that appeals to the Republican electorate because both of the past two Republican Presidential nominees have done this. Then Governor and Presidential candidate George W. Bush joked about the execution of Karla Faye Tucker and mocked her pleading for her life as discussed in this Slate article http://www.slate.com/id/2131451/ saying "Please," Bush whimpers, his lips pursed in mock desperation, "don't kill me."

In April 2007, Senator John McCain, the Republican Presidential Nominee answered questions about possible military action against Iran by joking about bombing them. As stated in this MSNBC report, http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18202742/ "In response to an audience question about military action against Iran, the Arizona senator briefly sang the chorus of the surf-rocker classic “Barbara Ann.”

“That old, eh, that old Beach Boys song, Bomb Iran,” he said in jest Wednesday, chuckling with the crowd. Then, he softly sang to the melody: “Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, anyway, ah ...” The audience responded with more laughter.
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Now, McCain has joked about killing Iranians with Cigarettes. The Arizona Senator was captured on video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h41GAqFbjxI reacting to a report of a rise in U.S. cigarette exports to Iran by saying it may be "a way of killing 'em."
McCain is so dumb, it took a quick jab to the small of his back by his wife, Cindy McCain, to alert Senator McCain to the fact that what he said might be offensive and he then tried to back off by saying "I meant that as a joke, as a person who hasn't had a cigarette in 28 years, 29 years"

It is ominous that McCain, who aims to be the person to have his finger on the nuclear button, thinks that death, particularly mass death, is something funny, something to be made the object of jokes. Even more ominous and sad is to consider who would be those who would die in McCain's joke scenarios. In a mass bombing campaign or from exports of cigarettes, it isn't the government of Iran or its armed forces that would suffer the brunt of the casualties; it is the everyday citizens of Iran, many of whom have nothing to do with their government. That doesn't seem funny to me.

McCain reminds me of a cross between Yosemite Sam http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNFsnZdn1Ho and Peppermint Patty http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGQ2WvjvTHA . Yosemite Sam being the gunslinger on the Bugs Bunny cartoon with a bad temper and Peppermint Patty the dim-witted, D-minus grade-getting talkative character on the Charlie Brown show who was always putting her foot in her mouth. I think those two cartoon characters had a kid and named him John McCain.

McCain has to be, along with ‘W’, one of the two dumbest people ever to win the US Presidential nomination from either party. McCain is a Presidential candidate who is on record as saying he doesn’t know anything about the economy. He is also in trouble with his Iraq policy because he has said he wants to stay in Iraq for a long time and now the Iraqis have said they want us to leave and soon. Then you have all of these jokes about death and all of the policies and proposals McCain has in common with the current President. I just don’t see how McCain could be a worse candidate if he tried.

[Pavlovs DiOgie]

1. There is clearly a pattern here

and it ain't a pretty one.

[HowHasItComeToThis]

2. HE IS UNFIT TO LEAD

LOOSE CANNON
:nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke:

[silverojo]

3. And people thought Howard Dean was a hothead?

That one scream has nothing on McCain's warmongering insanity and ungodly temper. :scared:

[NattPang]

5. It wasn't even a scream.

but yes,
Dean has nothing on McCain
in the temper department.

[Muttocracy]

7. yeah, did anyone talk about being genuinely afraid of Dean's temper? nt

[NattPang]

8. No. They laughed about it.

Which is confusing.
The GOP played us
when it came to
Howard Dean.

We were too amazed
to react at the time
if I remember.

The media really
went to town
and wouldn't let up.

[opihimoimoi]

4. The "Gears" in his brain are missing a few "teeth"...he needs more oil and a brain transplant

[Muttocracy]

6. hmm, I bet this is the kind of thing that will get media attention:

Google brings up a ton of hits already, bet YouTube does too.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/07/mccain-iran.html

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080709/pl_nm/usa_politics_mccain_iran_dc

http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSN0832180920080709?feedType=RSS&feedName=politicsNews&rpc=22&sp=true

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=5335565

etc.

OK with me if McCain is his own downfall.

[ccharles000]

9. Shitface.

[Marrah_G]

10. McCain scares me more then Bush

I truly believe the man is mentally unstable.

[tekisui]

11. He should scare the shit out of all of us.

As bad a chimpy is, mcdubya is worse. He has to be surrounded by babysitters to keep his true self hidden, and they still fail.

[blondeatlast]

20. You've nailed it right there. nt

[flpoljunkie]

12. His director of foreign policy is neocon Randy Scheunemann, of the Committee to Liberate Iraq

Randy Scheunemann: McCain Adviser Campaigned for War


Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) speaks with his director of foriegn policy and national security Randy Scheunemann (L), as they board McCain's chartered plane at Washington's Ronald Reagan Airport, May 16, 2008. (Associated Press)

By Peter Slevin

CHICAGO -- Randy Scheunemann, the foreign policy adviser to Sen. John McCain who today accused Sen. Barack Obama of a "policy of delusion" toward terrorism, was a prominent advocate of the U.S. invasion of Iraq in the lead-up to the war.

In late 2002, Scheunemann helped create The Committee for the Liberation of Iraq and became the group's executive director. Its mission, pursued with the Bush administration's blessing, was to build public support for the overthrow of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.

McCain (R-Ariz.) was on the committee, along with Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.), former Secretary of State George Shultz, retired Army Gen. Wayne A. Downing and former Nebraska Sen. Bob Kerrey (D-Neb.), who described the project at the time as "a group of people who will talk to Americans about why the liberation of Iraq is something the United States ought to do."

Scheunemann is a longtime GOP foreign policy specialist who has also worked on the staffs of former Senate Republican leaders Bob Dole (Kan.) and Trent Lott (Miss.) He was a board member of the neoconservative think tank, the Project for the New American Century, which often reflected the views of Bush administration hardliners.

In recent years, Scheunemann has registered as a lobbyist for several foreign governments, including Georgia, Macedonia and Taiwan, according to published reports. His firm has also lobbied for the National Rife Association and defense contractor Lockheed Martin.

A Washington Post article in November 2002 reported that The Committee for the Liberation of Iraq was being created as the Bush administration was preparing the nation for a likely war that was ultimately launched in March 2003.

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/06/17/randy_scheunemann_mccain_advis.html

[chemenger]

22. I agree!

Everything that I have read or have heard about McInsane leads me to believe that he is absolutely nuckin' futs. And, in addition, he is also a major-league, first-class, A#1 asshole.

[Hope And Change]

13. This is outrageous.

:grr:

[Skwmom]

14. But Chuck Todd says this is what Americans like about McCain.

Joking about killing people. Now who does this remind you of?

[OwnedByFerrets]

15. A dispicable human being.....

I am gonna wear out this phrase before the election, but FUCK YOU JOHN MCCAIN!!!

www.wearableartnow.com

[Bill219]

16. They were talking about this on Morning Joe...

and Chuck Todd said that these type of jokes are what make people like McCain.

I almost fell out of bed when I heard him say that.

Supposedly, according to Todd, there are campaign advisers that are telling McCain that he should not tell jokes like this, but Todd thinks this is a positive for McCain

[NatBurner]

17. a dangerous, crazy idiot

great

then again, he's running for bush III

[krkaufman]

18. One doesn't need to consider the nuclear scenario

It's just another in a long line of stories that show the man is not a diplomat, which we desperately need to help recover from the Bush years.

[invictus]

19. McCain is a very sick man who is unfit for any position of power. n/t

[thewiseguy]

21. That piece of garbage.

[IA_Seth]

23. "I meant that as a joke"

Sure you did!

I would bet he is more worried about the tobacco companies being upset with him over commenting about cigarettes killing people than he is worried that normal Americans may be offended by the joke about mass killings. He would hate to lose their money.