The Sadness of Being John McCain

[Plaid Adder]

You remember that after Huckabee finally conceded (please God keep him out of the VP spot), Bush invited McCain to the White House for a "private lunch." I thought, well, that's going to be an interesting meeting. "Hey, George, remember back in 2000 when your goons were smearing shit all over me and my family and you won the primary cause of that and then you got to be president for 8 years and I was stuck going around to right-wing universities sucking up as best I could and biding my time? Good times, Georgie, good times. And now, here I am eight years later, your anointed successor, running on your crappy 'Stay the Course' policy! Jeez, I'm so happy I want to puke. But hey, at least I got a 'private lunch' out of it with your White House chef. Tear me off another leg of that pheasant a la reine, would you?"

Well, in my mind anyway, that's how it played out. Then, on NPR this morning, it was reported that the lunch had taken place, in more or less these words: "Bush treated McCain to a lunch of hot dogs."

Hot dogs?

You know, Esau sold his birthright for a mess of pottage, but I don't think you could find too many people other than Homer Simpson who would sell their soul for a hot dog. Most politicians would hold out for a brat, at least.

My partner was the one who relayed this to me. I said, "Do you think Bush just genuinely felt like hot dogs, or was that an expression of his contempt for McCain?" She said, "Probably both."

We should print the T-shirts now: "I Won The 2008 Republican Primary And All I Got Was This Lousy Hot Dog."

That poor White House chef,

The Plaid Adder

[NC_Nurse]

1. Ha! Just a small token of Bush's esteem.

:D

[Myrina]

2. Hot dogs? How freakin' Freudian.

Bush isn't even trying to veil his sociopathy anymore, is he? :eyes:

I heard that McCain was late to the meeting/endorsement. Subtle message there too, eh?

[Plaid Adder]

3. I know!

"Here, as long as you've been pwned, why don't you eat this symbolic phallus? And make sure you smile while you're doing it!"

Republicans, man. What can you do.

C ya,

The Plaid Adder

[renate]

6. love the title of this thread, and love this post!

:rofl:

:applause:

[Staph]

4. I'm fascinated by the one-up-manship.

McCain shows up late, leaving Bush standing on the north portico, literally dancing like a fool. Then after lunch, when the press begin asking questions, Bush keeps interrupting and talking over McCain. Poor old man couldn't get a word in edgewise! He finally clamped his jaw, bulged out the walnuts, and let the fool drone on.

I'm convinced that, sometime during a debate this fall, our Democratic candidate can push McCain just far enough to send him into a spectacular explosion. And won't it be fun!

[texasleo]

5. hot dogs are patriotic and modest, just like Bush and McCain claim to be

[Demeter]

7. If You Are Looking for Class in American Politics

Keep on looking. I'll bring a flashlight.

[bumblebee1]

11. Flashlight?

You could use a spotlight and never find class in American politics.

[Matariki]

8. Perhaps it's Bush's way of saying "I've bankrupted the nation"

[Plaid Adder]

9. Too late to edit the OP, but here's a link to the story in Reuters:

Bush, McCain Dine On Hot Dogs

McCain's comment: "He said he was having a hot dog, so I had a hot dog."

Uh huh...so if George W. Bush started an unnecessary and apocalyptically destructive war in Iraq, would YOU start...oh, wait, don't answer that.

:argh:

The Plaid Adder

[BrotherBuzz]

10. Uh-oh hotdog

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


Sorry, My thirteen-year-old son introduced me to this stuff. ;)

[leftofthedial]

12. so king george slipped him the weiner, huh?

I hope he used lots of mustard

[Dukkha]

13. an appropriate meal of lips and assholes

the discarded entrails and rotten flesh that filters through the grates on the killing floor

"The meat in your mouth as you savor the flavor of murder"