‘Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran.’
By on Apr 19th, 2007 at 10:48 am
‘Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran.’
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) in South Carolina: “Another man — wondering if an attack on Iran is in the works — wanted to know when America is going to ’send an air mail message to Tehran.’ McCain began his answer by changing the words to a popular Beach Boys song. ‘Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran,’ he sang to the tune of Barbara Ann. … He stopped short of answering the actual question.”
UPDATE: Here’s video:
UPDATE II: “McCain campaign spokesman Kevin McLaughlin points out that the Senator’s song was not serious and the people in the room were laughing. ‘He was just trying to add a little humor to the event.’”
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Wow, McCain is getting pretty scary these days.
April 19th, 2007 at 11:05 amDISGUSTING!!!!!!
April 19th, 2007 at 11:06 amThis must have been taken from The Onion, right?
April 19th, 2007 at 11:07 amAre all Senator McCain’s oars in the water today?
April 19th, 2007 at 11:07 amGet out of the race and get professional help.
April 19th, 2007 at 11:07 amOUTRAGEOUS
April 19th, 2007 at 11:07 amAre all Senator McCain’s oars in the water?
April 19th, 2007 at 11:08 amThat’s pretty darn funny, don’t you think? I’m sure there are Iranian families who would really get a kick out of McCain’s sense of humor. As their loved ones are killed by the American bombs, they’ll likely be thinking of McCain’s little song and how cute it was.
April 19th, 2007 at 11:11 amMcJowls is the latest American Idol to go down the toilet…
April 19th, 2007 at 11:11 amLittle Johnny boy is one tree short of a hammock, one toy short of a Happy Meal, one sandwich short of a picnic, one brick short of a load.
April 19th, 2007 at 11:12 amOkay, listen, the Capitol Steps did this years ago. They thought they were being funny. Unfortunately, it’s impossible to satirize wingnuts anymore.
April 19th, 2007 at 11:12 amI think he went off the deep end in ‘00 after Bush swiftboated him.
April 19th, 2007 at 11:12 amAnd I thought GW was scary…
McCain is not mentally fit to be President. (Of course the standard has been dramatically lowered since 2000.)
April 19th, 2007 at 11:12 amsick freak
April 19th, 2007 at 11:13 amit’s a Weird Al song
April 19th, 2007 at 11:13 amIs this for real? Seriously? In the immotal words of Yosemite Sam (or was it Foghorn Leghorn) “He’s gone plumb loco!!”
April 19th, 2007 at 11:14 amReally bad joke.
Its one thing to joke about another country, its another thing if it is comming from someone running for president about attacking another country.
what if Amadenajad(sp?) joking about bomb bomb bomb..Israel
April 19th, 2007 at 11:15 amcontext.
That’s exactly the same song I heard on my elementary school playground in 1979. Viva diplomacy!
April 19th, 2007 at 11:17 am/me hits buzzer
What is the sound of one man going completely bat-shit insane, Alex?
April 19th, 2007 at 11:17 amI had to click over to see it because it’s just beyond belief. All I’m left with is, “wow.”
April 19th, 2007 at 11:18 amI really think McJowls is mentally ill.
April 19th, 2007 at 11:18 amHe must have seen this video:
April 19th, 2007 at 11:19 amhttp://tinyurl.com/kpuqm
And Howard Dean was kicked to the curb for yelling?
April 19th, 2007 at 11:20 amThe Capitol Steps,Weird Al – I don’t beleive they are Presidental candidates.
April 19th, 2007 at 11:20 amBoy Johhny, I haven’t laughed that hard since the VT shootings.
April 19th, 2007 at 11:21 amAnd Ahmadinejad is the bat-shit crazy, war monger?
Do you wonder what this is going to look like on Iranian TV?
April 19th, 2007 at 11:23 amImagine an Iraqi saying: Paw, paw, paw… 32 times.
April 19th, 2007 at 11:26 amWhat a class act of this guy.
McCain is an insane warmongering freak. Shame on him and he must resign from the Senate, and all politics, in complete utter disgrace.
April 19th, 2007 at 11:29 amSadly, this probably went over big in SC.
April 19th, 2007 at 11:30 amDoes anyone think that maybe we could get bombed? After all we have made a case for pre-emptive war, and this guy shows that it’s so much in their plans that they can joke about it. I wouldn’t blame anyone for wanting to take out the scary thing that the US has become. Very very sad.
April 19th, 2007 at 11:30 amhis wife needs to get him help.
April 19th, 2007 at 11:35 am#26: I’m with you on that one.
April 19th, 2007 at 11:38 amYeah, but did you hear the idiot asking the question? OMFG! Seriously, they can only let morons like this guy ask a question because they are pandering to the lowest common denomonator. And the crowd cheered after the questions was asked. OMG. What is the saying? Oh yeah, “Never underestimated the power of stupid people in large groups!”
April 19th, 2007 at 11:39 amBeach boys? Those guys are as old as McCain!
April 19th, 2007 at 11:42 amMAybe the wingnuts have been right all along, McCain has lost his marbles.
April 19th, 2007 at 11:46 amMcCain is frozen in a time warp. When he got captured by the North Vietnamese they used brain-washing tactics on him and the damage it caused has now shown up again. He must retire from the Senate, before he goes nuts like the Korean shooter Cho at Virginia Tech.
April 19th, 2007 at 11:50 amJust goes to show what low life maggots repukes have become, they LAUGHED about attacking and killing people…..HAHAHA, you repukes make me sick.
Hating the 21st century repuke MAFIA and their following daily
April 19th, 2007 at 11:52 amVile, just vile…
April 19th, 2007 at 11:53 amI agree with the Libs. We need to back away and allow Iran to build a bunch of nukes. Isreal doesn’t deserve life. We need to back away and let Iran destroy Isreal so there will be peace throughout the world. I finally see the light. Allowing the terrorist to arm themselves with WMD will create PEACE!!!!
April 19th, 2007 at 11:54 amIn light of the Cho situation at VT, McCain should be forced to get medical help at a mental health facility.
April 19th, 2007 at 11:55 amIs he deliberately trying to tank his own campaign?
April 19th, 2007 at 11:55 amNotice there was cheering by the crowd to [ ..Send them air mail message...]..amazing.
these chikenhawks have an endless appetite for wars.
Bombing Iran can bring big trouble to our soldiers in the area..and can destabilize the whole region…and oil will be hard to find…
Of course McCain ‘bomb bomb…’ assured the crowd where he stands.
He is smiling because that’s the state where his dreams were derailed by Bush in 2000.
April 19th, 2007 at 12:00 pmVery horribly ironic the Iraqi Market, in Baghdad, that Sen. McCain and Sen. Graham purchased rugs at was completely blown to bits yesterday. Most of the merchants were killed and the rest severely maimed, but do you hear McCain apologizing for making them a target for death.
April 19th, 2007 at 12:03 pmI’d like to know where in South Carolina this meeting was held. Can anybody help me with that.
April 19th, 2007 at 12:03 pmThanks,
sweet > probably held at the KKK lodge in SC > joking lol.
April 19th, 2007 at 12:07 pmThe arrogance, audacity, and ignorance is the undoing of the United States of America. Lesons unlearned will continue to rear its uly head. Who has Iran invaded in the past 50 years? Exporting democracy at the barrel of a gun is insanity.
America’s inability to learn from its failed foreign policies is a self fullfilling prophecy. Espionage, overthrow, assasinate, and pre-emptively attack soverign nations and you have your enemy inperpetuaty.
These cheering authoritatian brownshirts have a day of reckoning and it is sadly the death of this great nation. You cannot live in a community of nations and continiously change the rules with complete contempt and disregard for the safety of others. As the Rape-Public-Can brownshirts zealotly cheer war and death and the rest of the (passive Majority) of Americans acquiesce you seal your own death. America is not exempt to Karma and you cannot ever say you were not warned.
April 19th, 2007 at 12:10 pmThat was as funny as Reagan joking that he’d signed leigslation “outlawing Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes”
Har de har har. Those wing nuts sure can crack wise, can’t they?
April 19th, 2007 at 12:11 pmRoger Rabbit shows again his inability to learn anything…
1. Israel – 300 nukes
2. Iran – 0 nukes maybe a few in 5 years…
Hmm Iran is going to attack Israel immediately? Why shouldn’t what kept the Cold War nuclear detonation-free keep the ME free?
Has Iran invaded any of its neighbors, ignored UN resolutions and oppressed a significant part of its population? Nope.
Roger you are the reason why whack jobs like McCain and sociopaths like Bush get into power – your ignorance is making us all less safe in the world..
BTW- how much are you paying for gas this week? $1.15 a gallon? ROTFLMAO.
April 19th, 2007 at 12:16 pm“DISGUSTING!!!!!!
Comment by SKdeA — April 19, 2007″
Of course it’s disgusting to you cowards on the left!
April 19th, 2007 at 12:21 pmThis would make great campaign fodder. YouTube will be the death of shithead politicians in the long run.
April 19th, 2007 at 12:33 pmre: #15 it’s a Weird Al song
Comment by Me
No, the Weird Al song is “Bomb Iraq”
(piano sound)
O when the kurd kurd kurd
kurd is the word(laughter)
O when the kurd kurd kurd
kurd is the word
O when the kurd…
(cut in)
Bomb bomb bomb
bomb bomb Iraq(laughter)
Bomb bomb bomb
bomb bomb Iraq
(continue in background)
Lets bomb Iraq
Yeah, lets attack!
That maniac
So now my missiles are a-cruising
Giving me a bruising in Iraq
Bomb bomb bomb
bomb bomb Iraq
Send home your plane
I’m feeling your pain
The next to do election
You had to be insane
Bomb Iraq!
Bomb bomb
bomb bomb Iraq
Yeah Lets bomb Iraq
Im gonna to do this like my poll says
Do it rather dough says(?)
In Iraq
Bomb bomb
bomb bomb Iraq
What will u do
The day that Im through
I’ll bomb another country thats nastier than you
Bomb Iraq
April 19th, 2007 at 12:34 pmLets bomb Iraq
Cause Im Saddam if i do
Saddam if u don’t
Bomb iraq
bomb bomb
bomb bomb
Ka-boom
McCain is working really hard to get the 30% that still support bush.
April 19th, 2007 at 12:38 pmThese right wing fruitcakes are nothing but Nazis. Vote for McCain! Sieg Heil!!! Hmm, who will “we” exterminate…. Jews? Blacks? Fags for sure… All in the name of Jesus. Absolutely sick.
April 19th, 2007 at 12:44 pmHow much military duty did you spend Michael, none? So don’t call us who did our time (Vietnam) cowards, you would crap your pants if you where being shot at from the jungle constantly.
Hating repukes daily
April 19th, 2007 at 12:54 pmYay more Republican humor! If it’s about death or killing, it’s funny! Come on guys, don’t you get the joke? Jeez… Killing is funny!
April 19th, 2007 at 12:55 pmOf course it’s disgusting to you cowards on the left!
Comment by michael — April 19, 2007 @ 12:21 pm
And another PhD candidate from the right checks in. Thanks for that input.
April 19th, 2007 at 12:56 pmWhat the hell is wrong with this man, who wants to be president?
I dispense Risperdal consta injections. Maybe McCain needs a dose.
April 19th, 2007 at 12:58 pm(michael… just google Risperdal and pharmacology, that may help)
That man is COMPLETELY round the bend.
April 19th, 2007 at 1:07 pmMcCain’s contributions just went up from the notoriously bloodthirsty AIPAC crowd. They just love it when the US military drops bombs in the middle east. Dead Iraqi children are called “incidentals” and the parents are usually given $500.00 per child.
April 19th, 2007 at 1:13 pm’sick puppy’
April 19th, 2007 at 1:19 pm$500? Hooray! We’re buying their hearts and minds!
April 19th, 2007 at 1:19 pmIn spite of the fact that he’s dead and buried, Noonan still hasn’t removed her head from Reagan’s ass.
I think it has obscured her view.
April 19th, 2007 at 1:45 pm“How much military duty did you spend Michael, none? So don’t call us who did our time (Vietnam) cowards, you would crap your pants if you where being shot at from the jungle constantly.
Hating repukes daily
Comment by Buck Fush — April 19, 2007″
I served in the U.S. Navy from 1965 – 1971….IDIOT!
April 19th, 2007 at 2:39 pm““How much military duty did you spend Michael, none? So don’t call us who did our time (Vietnam) cowards, you would crap your pants if you where being shot at from the jungle constantly.
Hating repukes daily
Comment by Buck Fush — April 19, 2007″
Vietnam is nothing compared to the dangers we face today although I compliment you on not running off to Canada with the rest of the cowards on the left. Why were you able to answer the call then but now turn your back on your country?
April 19th, 2007 at 3:02 pmReminds me of that other attempt at humor: VT shooter’s videos.
April 19th, 2007 at 3:09 pmI am just about to see thru the BS that Bush and his criminals are spewing…I know propaganda when I see or hear it. You are simply an ARMCHAIR warrior with no sense of what WAR is really like. All you coward repukes are the same, yell for war as long as someone else fights and dies in it.
Hating repukes daily
April 19th, 2007 at 3:09 pmA potential president just cannot make jokes about war. McCain keeps showing us over and over that he isn’t fit to be president.
April 19th, 2007 at 3:56 pmThis is insane. Soon, we will see his poll numbers take a huge nose dive…. bye bye McCain…..
April 19th, 2007 at 4:18 pmwhat a low life MC Cain is
April 19th, 2007 at 4:21 pm“Hating repukes daily
Comment by Buck Fush — April 19, 2007″
You say you were in Nam and took fire? What single event in your life turned you into a coward?
April 19th, 2007 at 4:24 pmWhat single event in your life turned you into a coward?
Comment by michael — April 19, 2007 @ 4:24 pm
I dunno, but what single event in your life turned you into a psychopath stalker on a political blog?
April 19th, 2007 at 4:29 pmYour profile eerily matches that of Cho
I was fascinated by watching him trying to blow, what was most likely, some nasty cocaine boogers, out of his nose, during the start of the video.
What a low class piece of dog excrement.
April 19th, 2007 at 5:07 pmIn 1980, Vince Vance and the Valiants, a New Orleans rock band that specialized in covers of ’50s and ’60s hits, recorded a parody, Bomb Iran (sung to the tune of Barbara Ann) in response to the hostage situation. The song was not confined to N.O. radio; I heard it in Dallas. If plagirism could derail the presidential aspiritions of Joe Biden, why doesn’t the same apply to John McCain.
April 19th, 2007 at 5:14 pmWhen I was in boot camp, we were shown films of the burning of the USS Forrestal as part of our safety training. A fighter jet crashed upon landing and what followed was a series of deadly mistakes that ended up with over 100 dead.
It is used as an example of what not to do on aircraft carriers.
Who was the pilot of the jet that started it all? John McCain.
If that were the only instance of deadly bad judgement in McCain’s history, it could be written off as bad luck. But it isn’t.
McCain will never be president. If he survived the primaries, his history of bad and deadly decisions would come back to bite him in the ass, as it should.
http://www.rense.com/general69/whwysu.htm
April 19th, 2007 at 5:48 pmThe whole room was eerily frightening. Why do people like them relish war and killing? Peace is not attractive to them.
April 19th, 2007 at 5:50 pmI bet McCain has been waiting years to use that joke…and what a lame joke it is. Both Republicans and Democrats need to do a 180 on foreign policy and try to repair the damage that Bush & Co. have done in the last seven years.
I may not be a fan of McCain, but technically his actions didn’t start the fire, nor do I see how they could have contributed to them. His plane was on the deck of the aircraft carrier and was waiting to take off when it was hit by a missle that was accidentally launched from an F-4 due to an electrical malfunction.
April 19th, 2007 at 5:58 pmHey #49…Are you calling me a coward…I am a liberal and would like to meet you in a dark alley so I can sing bomb bomb bomb bomb to you…seems to me you are the coward in all of this…what a wingnut!!
April 19th, 2007 at 6:07 pmThat was scary. Everyone laughing. Laughing about killing thousands of people and destroying a beautiful city. It’s really spooky.
April 19th, 2007 at 6:38 pmSorry, I have not had time to read all the post’s on this thread, been gone all day….I heard bush sing these word’s to the tune of Barbra Ann from the beach boy’s this morning while he was being asked about Iraq and Iran…Sick SOB, more of the same and now it appear’s he and Mcnutty are using the same tunes..Geeeees when will this terrible madness end..Blessings
April 19th, 2007 at 7:24 pm“I may not be a fan of McCain, but technically his actions didn’t start the fire, nor do I see how they could have contributed to them. ”
You didn’t check out the link, did you?
April 19th, 2007 at 8:50 pmY’know, when I was 10 years old, my dad put on the Limbaugh TV show, and I had to watch footage of American bombs going off in Iraq to the tune of that very same Beach Boys song while Limbaugh was practically busting a nut in the background, shouting stuff like, “Yeah! Get ‘em!” *shudder*
I hope McCain doesn’t just sit at home watching Limbaugh TV show re-runs. Man, I can’t believe I used to have respect for him in 2000. WTF? If he was nominated, I would’ve voted for him that year, but instead I voted third-party… good thing, I guess. Eww.
April 19th, 2007 at 9:03 pm7. “Are all Senator McCain’s oars in the water?”
Comment by Joan Lada — April 19, 2007 @ 11:08 am
I don’t even think there is a boat Joan!
April 19th, 2007 at 9:15 pmWow, McCain is getting pretty scary these days.
Comment by VerbalKint — April 19, 2007 @ 11:05 am
It was a JOKE, at a VFW hall. It seems an appropriate place for it. It wasn’t a sign that an attack on Iran is imminent. Just a joke. An ex-soldier to other ex-soldiers. I find it difficult to believe that there is so much opposition to irreverent humor on a liberal site. That has pretty much been a liberal hallmark for years.
“Has Iran invaded any of its neighbors, ignored UN resolutions and oppressed a significant part of its population?…”
Comment by TerrytheTurtle — April 19, 2007 @ 12:16
Excuse me? Iran supports the terrorists that attack Israel and says Israel doesn’t have the right to exist and abducts people and threatens them if they don’t read lies on television, but no they haven’t invaded anyone lately. UN resolutions: they’ve promised to ignore them regarding nuclear development, and that’s just recently Oppression: only if you consider the female population to be significant. Too bad we can’t ask the women who were stoned and hanged last year. We probably couldn’t get access to those still awaiting it either. Very thin ice when you start singing the praises of Iran.
“Little Johnny boy is one tree short of a hammock, one toy short of a Happy Meal, one sandwich short of a picnic, one brick short of a load.”
Comment by Tom — April 19, 2007 @ 11:12 am
I’ve seen repeated posts suggesting that McCain seems to be suffering some sort of mental illness or condition that is impairing his mental ability (dementia, alzheimers). Yet most of the posts seem not to be concerned but joking and hateful like the one above. Is this the way people on this site treat those who are impaired? War jokes are out, but the mentally impaired are fair game? Please refrain from talking about the hateful Republicans if you can’t muster up any kindness for the ill.
“If plagirism could derail the presidential aspiritions of Joe Biden, why doesn’t the same apply to John McCain.”
Comment by dam — April 19, 2007 @ 5:14 pm
I don’t think McCain claimed to have written those words. By this standard, everyone who has ever sung a song, without attributing it afterwards, is in trouble.
“The whole room was eerily frightening. Why do people like them relish war and killing? Peace is not attractive to them.”
Comment by Steve — April 19, 2007 @ 5:50 pm
Is this comment based only upon seeing the video, or were you there? And, “by people like them,” are you referring to our ex-soldiers?
“That was scary. Everyone laughing. Laughing about killing thousands of people and destroying a beautiful city. It’s really spooky.”
Comment by Alejandro — April 19, 2007 @ 6:38 pm
They were laughing because it was a joke. There was no bombing, nor do they believe there will be any bombing. The beautiful city is in no danger. I just wonder if any of the posters here have listened to and laughed at any of the war jokes the liberal comedians tell on their shows everyday. And, I know, they aren’t candidates, but do you refuse to watch their shows because of the jokes?
April 19th, 2007 at 9:47 pmThis man must be President!
I wonder how long it will be until some leftarded drooler asks the antirhetorical question, “what has Iran ever done to us?”
Dangerous idiots. If Bush is so bad, why ain’t y’all in jail?
April 20th, 2007 at 1:32 amA presidential candidate JOKING about BOMBING another country?!?! Yea that’s an excellent joke Johnny, death, killing, and destruction are good premises!
They were laughing because it was a joke. There was no bombing, nor do they believe there will be any bombing. The beautiful city is in no danger.
Comment by cc — April 19, 2007 @ 9:47 pm
CC, are you oblivious to the years of anti-Iran propoganda?
April 20th, 2007 at 5:43 amMcBush is just another fascist corporate re-puke-licon puppet. It’s all about MONEY.
April 20th, 2007 at 6:56 amThe oil companies and contractors who are raping the US taxpayer for the Iraqi occupation will push for another war, so that #1 A$$HOLE CHENEY and his billionaire buddies can enrich themselves even more, and brainwash our american soldiers to fight yet another war, using their lies to fool us all into thinking it’s patriotic, or part of the “war on terror”.
What a joke. NO wonder so many in the world are anti-american. We are reaping what we are sowing.
CC, are you oblivious to the years of anti-Iran propoganda?
Comment by Adammm — April 20, 2007 @ 5:43 am
I’m well aware of it and how often have we bombed them? I’m also well aware of all the Anti-American propaganda coming from Iran and how often have they bombed us? They specialize in abductions, remember? As long as they don’t have nukes and we stay out of their country and their waters, we only have to worry about the terrorists that they pay.
April 20th, 2007 at 8:04 amThe silence of the past 24 hours means the leftarded traitors have cracked their coloring books and learned how much the Islamic Republic of Iran *sucks* and needs to be got rid of.
Since we do not have magic weapons which only kill the bad guys, the only option is to use real weapons.
Real weapons which are GPS-guided so we only drop one or two bombs, where in earlier wars the only option was to drop a planeload of bombs.
Real weapons released by real pilots, who plan their runs such that if a bomb does “go dumb” the collateral damage will be minimized, at greater risk to themselves.
Real pilots who risk their lives to protect the innocents behind whom the terrorist heroes of the left hide.
But the real is not the ideal, and leftards will demonstrate against the obvious and inevitable.
If Bush is so bad, why ain’t y’all in jail? Really. Answer that.
Such brave little traitors who know they won’t be touched by President Bush, so brave to support their country’s enemies, any enemies, any time.
When the Communists shot off Kennedy’s head (the one on his neck), they took over the Democrat Party.
Not a single Democrat since can be called “American.”
April 20th, 2007 at 11:26 amPersonally, I think McCain bombed.
April 20th, 2007 at 1:06 pmSex is funny. War is not.
April 20th, 2007 at 1:48 pmMost of the popular liberal comedians make jokes relating to the war almost daily. Anyone who complains about McCain, yet laughs at their jokes is a hypocrit.
April 20th, 2007 at 1:58 pmThe big difference between McCain and comedians it the comedians are supposed to be funny, and a candidate is supposed to tell us how he’ll end or prevent wars, not joke about starting a third one that won’t be finished.
No McCain would be the hypocrite in this scenario.
By the way UTube has yanked the video
April 20th, 2007 at 2:30 pmSomeone did that exact parody to that song during the Iran hostages crisis in the 70’s and it actually played on the radio. Anyone remember who????
April 20th, 2007 at 2:55 pmThe big difference between McCain and comedians it the comedians are supposed to be funny, and a candidate is supposed to tell us how he’ll end or prevent wars, not joke about starting a third one that won’t be finished.
No McCain would be the hypocrite in this scenario.
By the way UTube has yanked the video
Comment by pg — April 20, 2007 @ 2:30 pm
My response was to the comment that war isn’t funny. That implies that all war jokes are out, even those told by comedians. That’s gonna happen. It was a response to a question about when America is going to send an “airmail message to Iran.” It was a joking response to a joke of a quetion, again, told at a VFW hall. Everyone knew it was a joke and if you were a teen or young adult during the hostage crisis, you probably heard that song a lot. I still think those words instead of “Barbara Ann” when I hear that song.
April 20th, 2007 at 7:09 pmThis is what passes for news these days? And believing that the Illuminati controls the media dubs me a conspiracy nut….. right…… What a pathetic excuse for a human being McCain is.
April 20th, 2007 at 7:49 pmThis “bomb, bomb, Iran” joke makes the one by Imus seem just plain silly. Joking about nappy hair and hos doesn’t in any way measure up to joking about the mass killing of people (regardless of their nationality). I think we need to talk this joker off the air!
April 20th, 2007 at 10:40 pmSorry, but for us Americans living abroad, this was scary and stupid. How dare he. This one comment, whether or not played out before, will be heard by someone in Iran and a bullet will be waiting for an unsuspecting American. You wait.
April 21st, 2007 at 1:50 amThe Bomb Bomb Bomb Iran song first came out in the 80’s when the US Hostages were held captive in Iran. This song was played over and over on the radio stations in Richmond, VA. Who cares if some nut case in Iran doesn’t like the song.
April 21st, 2007 at 7:26 amI found the lyrics to that song!
April 21st, 2007 at 8:02 amhttp://shoulung.wordpress.com/2007/04/20/mccain-sings-the-beach-boys-classic/
I am entirely against the war in Iraq, and I understand that Iran is hostile to a foreign power marching around at their border. I don’t think this comment in itself merits any real concern.
What I care about is McCain’s insistence that the Iraq war is winnable.
April 21st, 2007 at 10:56 amConsider Reagan’s quip, uttered into a microphone and now famous: “My fellow Americans, I’m pleased to tell you today that I’ve signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes.â€
Reagan went on to become the single most popular president in the history of the United States.
April 21st, 2007 at 4:12 pmMcCain is Insane.
April 21st, 2007 at 11:32 pmSo, Hillary can say that the guy working at the Quickie Mart near her is Ghandi, and it is a joke, but McCain can’t make a joke without everyone questioning his sanity?
Can you say BIAS? I knew you couldn’t!
April 22nd, 2007 at 9:52 amUhm, so..if everyone is disgusted by these so called leaders of this country, why don’t we all unite and toss out the system of government and start fresh? If anyone thinks these old, greedy war mongers are actually going to make things better for you, think about it: who benefits from their decisions? You, or them? Think REAL hard!
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