McCain Fails at Presidential-level Diplomatic Response… Again.
This morning’s news of Iran testing missiles weighs a bit heavy on the mind as I write this. This story over on the Washington Post doesn’t help. When asked how he felt about increasing exports to Iran under the Bush Administration, McCain smirked as the reporter pointed out that the largest export was cigarettes. “Maybe it’s a way of killing them?”, he chuckled. Then, forgetting how many years it’d been since he done something for the umpteenth time, turned to his chief Internet officer for fact checking… (youTube videos below the fold)
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Wow. You know, we really ought to thank McCain, since he’s doing a lot of our work for us. Every time he opens his mouth, something alarming comes out (and I’m not talking about the little lizard tongue that flicks out of his mouth constantly). Unfortunately, the press is running interference for him, so most of these things don’t make it into print, and they almost never get discussed by the talking heads. Still, our job is easier: instead of having to make the case for why McCain is an insane dinosaur, all we have to do is point out things he himself says.
Also, I like how he’s undoubtedly pissed off his base here by admitting that tobacco kills. He’s really an equal-opportunity offender: he jokes about genocide, and for those who aren’t that turned off by genocide, he throws in a dig at tobacco. That guy is slick.
Of course, do we really expect any less from the guy who still doesn’t mindthrowing around racial slurs like confetti?