McCain laughs off ‘bomb bomb Iran’ moment.
In April, a questioner asked Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) if an attack on Iran was in the works. “Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran,” McCain responded, to the tune of the Beach Boys’ Barbara Ann. (Watch it.) NBC’s First Read reports that, at an event in South Carolina on Saturday, a man reminded McCain of that moment and asked what he will do now in the wake of the NIE that says Iran has shut down its nuclear program:
McCain’s response: “No thanks for reminding me, you jerk. [Laughter]. I don’t know where the intelligence came from. But, if you are enriching the material then it doesn’t take long to make a nuclear weapon. Second, I don’t detect a change in Iranians behavior…they still pose a threat to our country.”
UPDATE: Back in September, when a high school student asked McCain whether he was too old and too conservative to be president, McCain responded, “Thanks for the question, you little jerk. You’re drafted.”
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# 4. The supremacy of the military/avid militarism. Ruling elites always identified closely with the military and the industrial infrastructure that supported it. A disproportionate share of national resources was allocated to the military, even when domestic needs were acute. The military was seen as an expression of nationalism, and was used whenever possible to assert national goals, intimidate other nations, and increase the power and prestige of the ruling elite.
December 16th, 2007 at 2:18 pmhahaha…. I guess its reallly hard for Mccain to understand the terrible loss of life destruction suffered by people in countries that are bombed — because he has no experience in that kind of thing..
December 16th, 2007 at 2:37 pmMcCain gets a free pass for everything since he was a POW, dontcha know? That, and his creeping dementia.
December 16th, 2007 at 2:37 pm…it doesn’t take long to make a nuclear weapon.
Yes, it does. It could take up to a decade.
December 16th, 2007 at 2:40 pmThe guy surived the Hanoi Hilton but buckles under Bush on outlawing torture, buckles under the fundie right and accepts their extremism and has literally buckled so much he almost makes Romney look principled.
December 16th, 2007 at 2:48 pmSome sense of “tongue in cheek” these Republicans have. First Thompson with his “trophy wife” comment and now McCain with his “jerk” comment. I am laughing my ass off at them, not with them.
I guess the Republicans are playing the game of seeing who can be more mean than the others. I often see a bumper sticker that sums it up well. “Mean people suck”.
December 16th, 2007 at 2:52 pmHey, as long as we’re discussing the “also-rans” let’s have a Sam Brownback thread. /snark.
December 16th, 2007 at 2:52 pmAmazing how time and political aspiration can crush a soul, hollow it out, and leave it flapping in the breeze. Snarling at children. What a winner.
December 16th, 2007 at 2:52 pmMfCain “jokes” : so funny, I forgot to laugh…
Endorsed by the same Des Moines newspaper that endorsed Mrs. Bill Clinton and excluded Rep. Dennis Kucinich from the last Democratic candidate debate…
Corporatism all around…
December 16th, 2007 at 3:01 pm“Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran
I FIND NOTHING FUNNY ABOUT THE DEATHS OF ANOTHER MILLION INNOCENT PEOPLE
In Europe he would be thrown out of office
Is that really acceptable behaviour for a Senator ???????
December 16th, 2007 at 3:14 pmMcCain’s experience of bombing is from the air not on the ground.
December 16th, 2007 at 3:15 pm“Thanks for the question, you little jerk. You’re drafted.â€
using the same tactics as KBR
December 16th, 2007 at 3:17 pmhes the biggest jerk , 5 years in a row in Vietnam
December 16th, 2007 at 3:18 pmOT - There’s been a significant positive development in the Impeachment effort of Dick Cheney.
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December 16th, 2007 at 3:19 pmhahaha…. I guess its reallly hard for Mccain to understand the terrible loss of life destruction suffered by people in countries that are bombed — because he has no experience in that kind of thing..
Comment by overlap — December 16, 2007 @ 2:37 pm
you’re wrong about that.
December 16th, 2007 at 3:20 pmThree words you will NEVER hear from a politician: “I was wrong.”
December 16th, 2007 at 3:22 pmJust out of curiosity, what “tune” does “bomb, bomb, bomb … bomb, bomb Iran” have?
I was under the impression that these six notes in “Barbara Ann” were monotonic.
Cheers,
December 16th, 2007 at 3:22 pmFist Fight in South Korean parliament
December 16th, 2007 at 3:23 pm#17: Three words you will NEVER hear from a politician: “I was wrong.â€
- - Nope, Edwards has said just that repeatedly about his Senate vote to give Bush authorization for the Iraq War.
December 16th, 2007 at 3:29 pmI was under the impression that these six notes in “Barbara Ann†were monotonic.
Cheers,
Comment by zuch — December 16, 2007 @ 3:22 pm
monotonic=one tune
December 16th, 2007 at 3:44 pm- - Nope, Edwards has said just that repeatedly about his Senate vote to give Bush authorization for the Iraq War.
Comment by Badmoodman — December 16, 2007 @ 3:29 pm
Whereas Dennis Kucinich doesn’t have to say “I was wrong”, because he voted against it in the first place. =)
Don’t get me wrong, I like Edwards, but Kucinich is getting my primary vote.
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Comment by 2MillionLightYearsToAndromeda — December 16, 2007 @ 3:19 pm
Proud to be # 55285
December 16th, 2007 at 3:52 pmDon’t get me wrong, I like Edwards, but Kucinich is getting my primary vote.
Comment by Wayne — December 16, 2007 @ 3:49 pm
and mine.
December 16th, 2007 at 3:52 pmDoes McCain think he endears the voters by calling them “jerk” when they ask him a question?
Kind of strange……
December 16th, 2007 at 3:53 pmMcCraneFly is done, over, washed up, finished.
December 16th, 2007 at 3:53 pmJust no one told him so his candidational corpse just keeps flopping around embarrasing itself.
Re: Quote #1 — An excellent reminder. I would like to add the following…
Think that the United States joining the Allies in December, 1941 was a clearcut black and white proposition?
We would do well to recall that Prescott Bush, George W. Bush’s grandfather, was a Nazi sympathizer. Please consider the following quote from a 2004 article in The Guardian,
“…The Guardian has obtained confirmation from newly discovered files in the US National Archives that a firm of which Prescott Bush was a director was involved with the financial architects of Nazism.
His business dealings, which continued until his company’s assets were seized in 1942 under the Trading with the Enemy Act, has led more than 60 years later to a civil action for damages being brought in Germany against the Bush family by two former slave labourers at Auschwitz and to a hum of pre-election controversy…”
The article can be accessed at http://www.guardian.co.uk/ usa/ story/ 0,12271,1312540,00.html
Despite suffering greater losses than any other country (23,600,000 dead) during World War II, the Soviet Union’s official position with regard to religion was that of mandating atheism. Yet, the United States fought on their side.
Nazi Germany, by comparison, claimed to be a Christian nation, yet the United States fought against them. As Adolf Hitler stated in a radio address on January 30, 1945, “…God the Almighty has made our nation. By defending its existence we are defending His work…”
Whose side would today’s neocons have taken if this had occurred in the present day?
December 16th, 2007 at 3:59 pmRumor has it that Joe Lieberpudwipe will endorse John “Bomb Iran” McCain tomorrow.
Lieberman will stand in the door of a Muslim mosque and cheer ‘War today, war tomorrow, war fovever!’
-G
December 16th, 2007 at 3:59 pmThis is the Republican jerk that the Des Moines Register endorsed!?
December 16th, 2007 at 4:00 pmDon’t get me wrong, I like Edwards, but Kucinich is getting my primary vote.
Comment by Wayne — December 16, 2007 @ 3:49 pm
and mine.
Comment by RUCerious
And mine.
I am wondering. When they do the polls for who are you going to vote for, do they include Kucinich in the choice of contenders? Or do they just include Hillary, Obama and Edwards. Everyone I know is a big Kucinich fan. And I am now a fan of Elizabeth Kucinich. The would make a wonderful first lady.
December 16th, 2007 at 4:03 pmLike 10 to 15 years with appropiate technology, Fermi.
December 16th, 2007 at 4:21 pmIt may well be that the recent emergence of Huckabee is due, not so much to any specific qualities of his own, but to the appalling nature of McCain and the other “candidates.”
McCain seems to be growing more and more senile, and has contradicted himself and/or equivocated so many times that he has lost all credibility. He sounds and looks more and more like Jonathan Winters’ “Maude Frickert” character, back in the day. A parody of his old self.
Giuliani’s sleaze factor has become more and more pronounced. Talking to his third-time-around mate on a cell phone in the middle of a speech may have been intended to make him seem more uxorious, but made him appear ridiculous instead. Giuliani is morphing into an Ageing Sinatra, with the same dubious family life and Rat Pack associates, but without any of the talent.
Romney has waffled or gone back on just about every political stance he has ever taken. His stances are as questionable as Larry Craig’s, and he has about the same sincerity level. As an ultrarich guy, Romney seems so used to sycophancy and yes-people around him that he doesn’t even bother to make much of an effort to explain his many inconsistencies. Every time I hear him, I think of the Dog On The Roof, his undocumented gardeners, and his dubious hair.
Thompson just seems like a mummified Don Knotts.
Huckabee has started to emerge as the most “rational” choice, but it seems as if he also has a sinister side, as an irrational pardoner of a patently criminally insane person. This seems to contradict his “Rev. Image,” and suggests that more weird things about Huckabee may come out.
Ron Paul has about as much chance of becoming President as Keyes, who has reappeared, mumbling about Smelly Toads.
It’s almost as if the GOP has decided 2008 is hopeless anyway, and has nothing competitive to offer, except this Sideshow.
December 16th, 2007 at 5:05 pm#21 Lefty Patriot:
monotonic=one tune
Rather, “one tone”; one pitch.
Cheers,
December 16th, 2007 at 5:28 pmThe bomb, bomb Iran song was shocking. I should expect it from any Repub, but still I was shocked and dismayed.
Being over fifty, I kinda liked the remark to the little jerk.
December 16th, 2007 at 5:49 pmI understand that at this point in the presidential campaign, it is currently a dozen or so dems against themselves and a dozen or so repubs against themselves.
But when are the dems gonna start pulling out some of these classic sounds clips to bolster their position ?
December 16th, 2007 at 6:23 pmWhat else is to be expected from a man that has his right testicle on his left chin?!
December 16th, 2007 at 8:22 pmMaybe that’s what happens when it gets jerked too much…
December 16th, 2007 at 8:24 pm“But, if you are enriching the material then it doesn’t take long to make a nuclear weapon”
i didn’t know mccain was an expert in nuclear science
December 16th, 2007 at 9:50 pmAfter the Swiftboat-style tactics used by Bushie operatives in South Carolina in the 2000 Repuke primary against McCain, his subsequent embrace of the Bubble Boy defies comprehension.
Stockholm syndrome, anyone?
December 17th, 2007 at 12:27 amI saw that Lieberman endorses McCain for president. Seems that Lieberman knows a serious player when he sees one.
HILARIOUS. You lefties sure screwed the pooch on that Ted Lamont deal. What a bunch of traitors and backstabbers you moveon people were to your former VP pick. Nice job thinking that one through. Talk about the gift that keeps on giving.
December 17th, 2007 at 11:00 amOnce again, “Barbara Ann” was recorded by Jan and Dean, not the Beach Boys.
December 17th, 2007 at 4:59 pm