Sen. McCain: Americans Could Forgive Kerry

[Rose Siding]

Senator John McCain of Arizona says that Americans will likely forgive Senator John Kerry's remarks about troops in Iraq.

At a Republican rally in Duluth, Minn., McCain was asked if Kerry's comments would be wielded as a campaign tactic through Election Day.

McCain replied that he has made numerous mistakes in his career and sometimes has even told a bad joke.

McCain said, "I just apologized. Americans are very forgiving...."

http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/11/2/124740.shtml?s=lh

Um, bumbling a joke is like the ones he's told? Not *quite* the same, John. And the press wouldn't even REPEAT yours. It was "too vicious to print" said the Washington Post...

Earlier this month, at a Republican Senate fund-raiser, McCain told a downright nasty joke making fun of Janet Reno, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Chelsea Clinton....

"Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly?
Because her father is Janet Reno."

http://www.salon.com/news/1998/06/25newsb.html

No parity. NONE, you dishonest showboating jackel.

[Mass]

1. But can they forgive McCain for aiding Bush?

[rosesaylavee]

31. Simply. No.

I personally will never forget that lame hug he gave him in 2004. Disgusting.

[ShortnFiery]

2. By applying the DISTORTIONS that Dear Leader's people played on

him, McCain has burned a lot of potential Independent bridges.

He does NOT have a snowball's chance in hell of getting elected as President.

I used to respect the man but I've lost that after he began lying and courting the nut case religious right.

Shame on you John McCain! You sold out. :(

[zulchzulu]

3. Yunno...Rove was correct in 2002 when he thought McCain was nuts

Good call, Karl.

[blm]

4. McCain's role in all this BACKFIRED on him - even Andrew Sullivan turned against

him for his craven attack on Kerry, and Sullivan was a HUGE McCain supporter at one time.

[AlCzervik]

5. i have 2 words for McCain and they ain't Happy motoring.

[underpants]

6. Wow John there was a time when I actually thought you were relevant

I actually liked how you started your answers with Yes or No and you did seem like a straight shooter but now ...now you are just a sad shell of a man. You have sold off every bit of dignity that you held together in that hellhole for years and for what for the praise and support who accused you of being mental and gay and your wife a drunk or a pill popper and hinting that you had a baby with a black women. You even went to Liberty University and publicly sucked Falwell's balls.

Sorry you are on the list now. You should really be ashamed of what you have become.

[BushOut06]

9. Just another Repug showing his true colors - why is this surprising?

Same thing happened with George Allen, who many were touting as a GOP presidential candidate for '08. It's always nice to remind the American people what these people are really made of.

[sqarebis]

7. John McCain crawls out from his rock to try to appear human again

Not gonna work - you've sold your soul for rock-n-roll.

[soleft]

8. I hope Jon Stewart will finally drop his crush on this guy

[FreeStateDemocrat]

10. McCain has turned into a bad joke and just another sanctimonious hypocrite

[Algorem]

11. you already blew '08,Bush hugger.

fatcheeked fraud

[Bucky]

18. you already blew Bush, '08 hugger.

[blm]

23. hehehe......good one

.

[Cass]

12. Oh wow!! I did not know he said that disgusting comment about Chelsea, Hillary and Reno.

I wrote him off after he was cool with the Bush campaign viciously smearing him and his wife in 2000. But this is an outrage, really. Holy cow.

:grr:

[Rose Siding]

13. It's shocking, isn't it?

I'm tempted to post it every few weeks. There's always someone who hasn't heard it- I sure didn't at the time. The press covered for him. It cost him nothing. Hillary says she drinks with him. I can't relate.

[Cameron27]

28. Me.... I never heard it!

Thanks for posting.

What a sick bastard.

[sandnsea]

30. Isn't that really awful!!

Liberal media my left tit. My god that's one of the worst things I've ever heard a politician say.

[Monty_]

14. McCain

Too bad I won't forgive McCain

[Parche]

15. They dont need to

They dont need to forgive buttwipe Mccain, because there is nothing to forgive,
it was completely distorted by the Republicans and the right wing constipated
conservatives..................

[maxrandb]

16. The Worst Thing About McMain is

that he supposedly knows John Kerry. He supposedly is friendly with John Kerry. Fuck you McCain for the following reasons:

- John McCain knows damn well that John Kerry did not insult the troops.

- John McCain knows damn well that John Kerry did not call our troops "stupid"

- John McCain knows damn well that John Kerry saw the worst of the worst of war.

- John McCain knows damn well that Chimpy's dad got him into the National Guard so he wouldn't have to go to war.

- John McCain knows damn well that while he was getting the bamboo manicure, Chimpy was boozing it up in Floribama like a frat packer.

- John McCain knows damn well that Chimpy used racism and bigotry to beat him in South Carolina.

- John McCain knows damn well that when the country needed him, Dick Cheney managed 5 separate deferments.

- John McCain know damn well, that if his life depended on it, and he only could call on either John Kerry or George W Bush for help...HE'D CALL JOHN KERRY WITHOUT A SECOND OF HESITATION.

So, FUCK YOU JOHN MCCAIN!!

It takes a very special kind of scum to fill up a bag like McCain.

[karynnj]

17. This is brilliant

and even after all that has happened in th elast 6 years, I think you are right about the last one. It would also be the right decision.

"John McCain know damn well, that if his life depended on it, and he only could call on either John Kerry or George W Bush for help...HE'D CALL JOHN KERRY WITHOUT A SECOND OF HESITATION."

In fact, for people who really know both of them, who wouldn't.

[wisteria]

19. Bravo!!! n/t

[blm]

20. BEST SMACKDOWN OF McCAIN - EVER! Brilliant.

It belongs on the front page.

[MH1]

21. You nailed it. McCain = lowest form of slime. n/t

[Democrafty]

26. Oh man, you said it:

"- John McCain know damn well, that if his life depended on it, and he only could call on either John Kerry or George W Bush for help...HE'D CALL JOHN KERRY WITHOUT A SECOND OF HESITATION."

Thanks, that could be my favorite talking point for a while now.

[cadmium]

27. Others get sucked into believing this guy is their friend

I hope Obama and Feingold wise up. They always call McCain their friend. If he backstabs Kerry he will backstab you. Please: he is nobody's "friend" but his own.

[sandnsea]

29. That needs to be its own post

So we can all link to it -

and so everybody can ask that question of John McCain every time they see him.

What a dirtbag.

[_dynamicdems]

35. Great post!

And very true, especially the part about McCain being able to call on Kerry. I don't know if you ever read this article about Kerry and McCain, but there are some interesting quotes from each of them. Pretty revealing in light of McCains complicity of late.

Quote from Senator Kerry about Senator John McCain from a New Yorker article: http://www.newyorker.com/archive/content/articles/020204fr_archive03
(A Friendship That Ended the War by James Carroll - Issue of 1996-10-21 -Posted 2002-01-28.)

"I defended him in those hearings when some stupid-ass right-wing idiot accused him of being the Manchurian Candidate, that somehow the Vietnamese had brainwashed him. This is the most unbelievably callous, degrading, nonsensical piece of crap I've ever heard in my life, coming from some chicken hawk out there, to hurl at somebody who spent as long as he did being tortured and standing up for his country, and caring about it as much as he did. It's incredible that people would behave like that, absolutely stunning." - John Kerry


More from the same article:


Sometimes McCain was attacked by his fellow-senators and sometimes by witnesses. He was the lightning rod. I was told by a member of the committee staff that when Kerry and McCain were sitting near each other on the senators' dais, Kerry would, at such moments, unobtrusively move his hand over to McCain and place it on his arm and leave it there, a quiet gesture of what was becoming absolute mutual support. I asked McCain if he had been aware of Kerry's touch. "Yes," he replied. "He did that several times, and I'm glad he did. I'm grateful to him."

McCain can rot in Hell.

[zbdent]

22. Except that, when I heard the voice on the answering machine identifying

itself as John McCain ... I deleted the message ... I am positive that it wasn't saying "John Kerry has apologized, so let's just get over it and go on to the really important stuff ..."

This was last night, at home.

[AtomicKitten]

24. Americans will NOT forgive McCain for being a 2-faced wingnut.

eom

[Dr Fate]

25. Americans dont feel the need to forgive him-they dont even care about his joke.

What is there to be forgiven for?

See you on the 7th you "Maverick" you.

[rosesaylavee]

32. Kick and Request for one more REC

to send it to the Greatest Page. EVERYONE needs to read about this joke. Thanks for posting it - I hadn't heard it before.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

33. Bush's finger puppet speaks!

Go back into your cesspool, McCain.

[WestSeattle2]

34. Phuck off McCain, exit stage right.

[leesa]

36. Kerry never MADE remarks about troops in Iraq, you weasel

God, this guy is despicable

[opihimoimoi]

37. McLame blew it......he is now irrelevant..he can forget 08

[rocktivity]

38. Physician, heal thyself.

You have too many credibility problems of your own to be worrying about somebody else's, John-boy.

:headbang:
rocknation

[HCE SuiGeneris]

39. McCain is a Roveney petri dish experiment nt

[Hand]

40. McCain... sometimes has even told a bad joke"

Senator, you ARE a bad joke.

[BlueIris]

41. I really don't even want to know what kind of jokes a crazy racist

has been telling.

Senator McCain? Your failure to work with Republican leadership in order to kick off a formal Bush removal effort totally lost you the last of my respect for what little you've truly done for this country in the past. It's gone. You are a weak, pitiful waste of space. Shut the fuck up, go home and DIE like the insane, worthless asshole you are.

[KitSileya]

42. So the repuke equivalent would be....

"Why are Jenna and Barbara Bush so ugly?
Because their father is Condoleeza Rice/Ann Coulter/Katherine Harris."

Someone should post that and then say they're trying to figure what jokes are acceptable, and show to McCain's joke.

I dislike McCain, and have since the hug. Tak about seeling out one's integrity for a chance at the polls.