Adviser: McCain has Latin American experience because of his fling 50 years ago with Brazilian beauty queen.
Adviser: McCain has Latin American experience because of his fling 50 years ago with Brazilian beauty queen.
At an Americas Conference panel discussion today, McCain adviser Richard Fontaine argued that Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) affair 50 years ago with former Brazilian beauty queen Maria Gracinda Teixeira de Jesus illustrated “the long experience he has had in the region — in the most positive terms”:
”Talking a little about his personal experience, he was famously born in Panama and has traveled all over the hemisphere for many years.” Fontaine said. “In fact, I saw, I guess it was last week, that his old girlfriend in Brazil has been found from his early days when he was in the Navy and was interviewed. She’s a somewhat older woman now than she was then, but it sorta speaks to the long experience he has had in the region — in the most positive terms.”
Asked afterwards if he was suggesting that the fling “counted as Latin America foreign policy experience,” Fontaine responded, “‘The only thing I was trying to convey was that his experience goes back a long way.” (HT: Ben Smith)
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He’s been fu(king up that continent for forty some odd years, eh?
October 3rd, 2008 at 3:18 pm…he was famously born in Panama…
How’s that exactly?
October 3rd, 2008 at 3:18 pmOh, gag me.
Blech.
October 3rd, 2008 at 3:19 pmBy those standards I could be Secretary of the U.N.
October 3rd, 2008 at 3:19 pmYou can’t make this stuff up.
October 3rd, 2008 at 3:19 pmMcCain is another those immigrants from south of the border who came here for a lifetime of government provided healthcare!
October 3rd, 2008 at 3:21 pmMcCain adviser Richard Fontaine argued that:
She’s a somewhat older woman now than she was then
NO SH*T!
October 3rd, 2008 at 3:21 pmPicture it: Oh, nasty!
October 3rd, 2008 at 3:21 pmOh, jeepers creepers! Is this what the McSame campaign is reduced to for resume-padding these days?
I’d expect something like this of Sarah Flailin’, but I’d have though the headliner had a bit more mileage that he could draw on.
But an old girlfriend “sorta speaks to the long experience he has had in the region — in the most positive terms”???
Jiminy christmas.
October 3rd, 2008 at 3:22 pmHow old is this guy? Who wants to picture Granpa in the sack?
Who buys McCain’s virility?
October 3rd, 2008 at 3:22 pmspeaks to the long experience he has had in the region — in the most positive terms.
Hold on — are they… are they trying to position Grampy to attack Obama on the “size of private parts” issue???
That is sick, Grampy. Just sick.
October 3rd, 2008 at 3:24 pmI dated a stripper who was from Canada for a while, and I dated a German exchange student my first year in College.
I guess that makes me a foreign expert on Canada and Germany.
Excuse me, my desk needs for my head to bang on it some more.
October 3rd, 2008 at 3:29 pmAnd every morning when I lived on the St. Clair River in Port Huron, I could see Canada from my kitchen window. That makes me an expert in foreign affairs by this logic.
Sheeeeesshhhh.
These people are phucking crazy.
October 3rd, 2008 at 3:30 pmDoes a Brazilian cup of coffee also add to foreign experience of Brazil and Latin America?
October 3rd, 2008 at 3:32 pmMcCain’s red shoe diaries do not make him qualify for president. That was 50 years ago? So we’re looking at the year 1950? No condoms back then lotsa VD’s all over Brazil! eeeeewww!
October 3rd, 2008 at 3:33 pmIt speaks to his long experience screwing people. Just the sort of recommendation he needs.
October 3rd, 2008 at 3:35 pmRepublicans are becoming funnier every day…
October 3rd, 2008 at 3:36 pmDid he parachute into her arms?
Fer X sake, would someone talk about something, anything THAT MATTERS!!!!
October 3rd, 2008 at 3:38 pmgummitch! precious. Excuse me while I go get paper towels.
October 3rd, 2008 at 3:39 pmThanks for the education. I would have thought that Latin American countries had forms of government and government leaders.
Now I see that beauty pageant winners are their govt leaders.
October 3rd, 2008 at 3:41 pmFirst we hear that proximity to Russia equates to foreign policy experience Now having sex 40 years ago with a Brazilian whore gives him Latin America expertise It all goes to prove that this group hasn’t a clue what experience really is . It’s a sad commentary that a bunch of the LIVs will buy into this
October 3rd, 2008 at 3:43 pmSo, again, are you equating foreign policy experience with sexual experience?
I can [blank] Russia from here!
October 3rd, 2008 at 3:44 pmNow you just got to wonder the immense foreign political experience of male and women prostitutes…
October 3rd, 2008 at 3:46 pmHe sure does have some idiots for advisors. She’s older now than she was 50 years ago? An affair with a Brazilian gives you foreign affairs experience? This campaign is a joke, but for some reason, it’s not funny.
October 3rd, 2008 at 3:46 pmYeah, and my favorite primo coffee is Sumatra — but that don’t make me an expert on Indonesia.
Oh, and I eat take-out Chinese food at least once a week — but that don’t mean I could negotiate a trade agreement with Hu Jintao.
I also own a Labrador Retriever — but that don’t mean that I know anything about Canadian maritime law.
Hey — this game is fun!!!
October 3rd, 2008 at 3:48 pmAdviser: McCain has Latin American experience because of his fling 50 years ago with Brazilian beauty queen.
That makes me king of the entire planet ………….
October 3rd, 2008 at 3:49 pmIf by “experience” he means screwing people then I guess he has a point.
http://progressiveworldreview.com
October 3rd, 2008 at 3:50 pm“Adviser: McCain has Latin American experience because of his fling 50 years ago with Brazilian beauty queen.”
lol McCain just handed Obama the Presidency. That is all I have to say.
October 3rd, 2008 at 3:52 pmShe’s a somewhat older woman now than she was then,
yea… I’M somewhat older now than i was 40 years ago too…
“SOME WHAT ???”
October 3rd, 2008 at 3:53 pmIt’s pretty safe to say that the horn dog had intimate relationships with many Vietnamese when he was there. That expertise didn’t seem to help him much.
October 3rd, 2008 at 3:53 pmWe need to keep a sense of humor. This was not a Palin living near Russia is foreign relations experience. We use it to support Obama. Say like this:
“We are glad that Senator McCain understands the value of experiencing foreign cultures through his experiences just as Senator Obama. However, we are not sure that the foreign relations with the Brazilian beauty queen would help a lot unless he plans to kiss Mr. Chavez.”
October 3rd, 2008 at 3:54 pmSo banging a person from a foreign country is now a qualifier for foreign policy experience with that country? Well, my experience, thus is even more recent. I had “flings” with a student from France and another from Spain about 40 years ago. And another 4 years ago with a Frenchman…in France! JC on a cracker!!
October 3rd, 2008 at 3:55 pmWell if all it takes is sleeping with other nationalities there’s lots of hookers who could qualify as Commander in Chief. I’d say that’s more valuable that sharing a small maritime border with Russia. Too bad the DC Madam got “suicided” or she could probably give us the heads up on possible leaders.
October 3rd, 2008 at 3:56 pmIronically I’m somewhat older than I was 40 years ago too.
October 3rd, 2008 at 3:58 pmWell then by screwing lobbyist Vicky Iseman he has experience as a lobbyist doesn’t he?
October 3rd, 2008 at 3:59 pmNot only did McCain lower the bar for his choice of VP but apparently he lowered it for his entire staff too.
October 3rd, 2008 at 3:59 pmI smoked Thai stick once, can I be Ambassador to Thailand please?
October 3rd, 2008 at 4:02 pm“What we have here is a Bimbo eruption”
courtesy of snarktastic productions
October 3rd, 2008 at 4:02 pmOh yeah?
Well I just got an email from the former King of Nigeria. He called me DEAR FREIND and asked me to help him transfer a large sum of money for him.
I am now an expert on Africa, and fully expect to be nominated as Deputy Undersecretary of State for African Affairs in the McCain administration.
October 3rd, 2008 at 4:02 pm.
O.K.
So America impeached a sitting president because he lied about an affair…
… And now America is deliberating about electing a man who’s had multiple affairs and wives to become the next president.
I just don’t get it!
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October 3rd, 2008 at 4:06 pmChuck Feney Says:
…he was famously born in Panama…
How’s that exactly?
October 3rd, 2008 at 3:18 pm
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True! The man is, for all intents and purposes, Panamanian.
We should be calling him John McCaiñ .
October 3rd, 2008 at 4:07 pmBy extension, Pres. Bush is therefore at least 50% Colombian?
October 3rd, 2008 at 4:07 pmApparently satirev, Vicky Iseman has been “renditioned” like GHW Bush’s girlfriend Jennifer Fitzgerald. Where did you hear she’d been threatened.
October 3rd, 2008 at 4:09 pmMcCain’s been around for a long time.
I ran across some photos of the Brazilian woman. She still looks good for her age.
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://bp1.blogger.com/_jHFsYHRLBSM/Rh4Gz7NOVAI/AAAAAAAAAq4/Z_W07vCjSLI/s400/old-woman-beach.jpg&imgrefurl=http://necromanc.blogspot.com/2007/04/old-woman-on-beach.html&h=400&w=306&sz=26&tbnid=Qbsz7-gIO14J::&tbnh=124&tbnw=95&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dpicture%2Bold%2Bwoman&usg=__3wJb0VzWFjj6HZIsiVF1UGPvNm8=&sa=X&oi=image_result&resnum=2&ct=image&cd=1
October 3rd, 2008 at 4:09 pmDoes this mean McDepends is angling for the Drug Czar position , as his involvement with Cindy the pill popper obviously makes him over-qualified ?
October 3rd, 2008 at 4:10 pmbackup Says:
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McCain’s been around for a long time.
I ran across some photos of the Brazilian woman. She still looks good for her age.
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://bp1.blogger.com/_jHFsYHRLBSM/Rh4Gz7NOVAI/AAAAAAAAAq4/Z_W07vCjSLI/s400/old-woman-beach.jpg&imgrefurl=http://necromanc.blogspot.com/ 2007/ 04/ old-woman-on-beach.html&h=400&w=306&sz=26&tbnid=Qbsz7-gIO14J::&tbnh=124&tbnw=95&prev=/ images%3Fq%3Dpicture%2Bold%2Bwoman&usg=__3wJb0VzWFjj6HZIsiVF1UGPvNm8=&sa=X&oi=image_result&resnum=2&ct=image&cd=1
October 3rd, 2008 at 4:09 pm
What she possesses in looks , she more than makes up for in lack of judgement by getting involved with McDepends …….
October 3rd, 2008 at 4:13 pmbackup buddy, you owe me a new trashcan. Someone barfed in mine.
October 3rd, 2008 at 4:13 pmbackup; I have NO doubt that you’d get turned on by a 101-year toothless fat old broad with boobs sagging down to her knees.
There’s no accounting for taste.
with apologies to the elderly.
October 3rd, 2008 at 4:13 pm“She’s a somewhat older woman now than she was then, but it sorta speaks to the long experience he has had in the region — in the most positive terms.”
Yes, indeed. McSame has the requisite experience to f**k people from other countries over, and that’s a requirement for a Republican administration.
Cheers,
October 3rd, 2008 at 4:15 pm.
I ate grapes grown in Columbia… does that count?
I ate Spanish rice last night… does that count?
My 6th grade teacher was from Ireland… does that count?
I can find Russia on a map… does that count?
My farts are natural gas… does that count?
My job requires me to call 4-1-1 to India for directory assistance…
… Does that count?
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October 3rd, 2008 at 4:17 pmHey! I have a bottle of Ranch dressing in my fridge – can I run the Bureau of Land Management?
Pretty please?
Either that or be the ambassador to Italy…?
October 3rd, 2008 at 4:17 pmShayne Says:
Ironically I’m somewhat older than I was 40 years ago too.
you too?
hey! does that make us brazilian beauty queens too?!
woo hoo!
October 3rd, 2008 at 4:17 pmPerhaps anyone who’s ever had Rice-a-Roni (the San Francisco Treat!) is now at least a weensie bit gay?
October 3rd, 2008 at 4:19 pmbarracks9 Says:
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Perhaps anyone who’s ever had Rice-a-Roni (the San Francisco Treat!) is now at least a weensie bit gay?
October 3rd, 2008 at 4:19 pm
Or related to Condiliesalot………..
October 3rd, 2008 at 4:23 pmI smoked Thai stick once, can I be Ambassador to Thailand please?
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October 3rd, 2008 at 4:32 pmNot if it was only just once.
Another day, another gaffe from a McCaiñ campaign operative. It seems like these spokespeople can’t go more than a few hours without saying something idiotic, insulting, or blatantly contradictory to something McCaiñ has said.
Seriously – if this is the way McCaiñ runs his campaign, can you imagine how he’ll run his cabinet?
October 3rd, 2008 at 4:37 pmThese people couldn’t be more ridiculous if their material were written by a comedy team. It’s like “Airplane” meets a terrifying film: hilarious material, but terrifying because there are people who actually believe this garbage! I guess next we’ll get lists of all of McCain’s & Palin’s sexual conquests & their countries of origin(or in Palin’s case, the countries her conquests can see or have flown over)so they can add those countries to their list of expertise. Incredible.
October 3rd, 2008 at 4:43 pmFontaine responded, “‘The only thing I was trying to convey was that his experience goes back a long way.”
October 3rd, 2008 at 4:45 pmFontaine is apparently talking about McCain’s fornicating experience, since that’s what it was.
Yeah, our dear maverick,,was married when he attended the National War College–thanks to pull and not merit, and took his travel experience to Rio to “get laid.“
October 3rd, 2008 at 4:45 pmIt just gets better and better for this campaign, doesn’t it.
By that logic,
I’m an expert on Catholicism, because I dated a semi-practicing Catholic after college.
I’m an expert on airplanes, because I dated a flight attendant (also known as a stewardess back then)
I’m an expert on education in Texas, because I once dated an elementary school teacher from Houston.
I’m an expert on publishing because I had dated an employee for a bridal magazine.
And, right before I met my wife, I must be an expert on failed policies and how f’ed up the right truly is, because I dated an ultra conservative. (Okay, this one could be true)
Maybe the only reason they’re bringing this up is to brag about John’s infidelities.
Not that there is anything wrong with that, but as my examples above, MEANS NOTHING WITH REGARDS TO EXPERIENCE!!!
Wait a minute. It just dawned on me. Maybe doodling some local beauty queen does count as experience, if you’re talking about foreign AFFAIRS!
Peace all!
October 3rd, 2008 at 4:46 pmHave a safe and productive weekend!
Check this out. Very complete history of McCain!!
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/23316912/makebelieve_maverick/print
October 3rd, 2008 at 4:46 pmIf John McCain is really a “Maverick”, and really opposes so much of the Bush program, then why isn’t he running as and Independent? Isn’t independent what mavericks are???
(I apologize in advance for spamming threads with this meme until someone in the conventional media world starts asking the question)
October 3rd, 2008 at 4:48 pmThis information is invaluable because if Johnnie gets elected we’re all f cked.
October 3rd, 2008 at 4:48 pmsamsuncle Says:
Not only did McCain lower the bar for his choice of VP but apparently he lowered it for his entire staff too.
Ba-dum bump!
Unintentional or not, that’s some funny chit, right there!
October 3rd, 2008 at 4:52 pmthe GOP in less than 20 seconds:
sex in brazil = foreign policy experience
alaska = russia
vice president = not a member of the executive branch
October 3rd, 2008 at 4:59 pm“…it sorta speaks to the long experience he has had in the region…”
He’s been having an affair with this Brazilian woman for 50 years?
October 3rd, 2008 at 5:10 pmShayne at #37 said “Well then by screwing lobbyist Vicky Iseman he has experience as a lobbyist doesn’t he?”
Correct syntax: He has experienced a lobbyist. Are you experienced? Well, I am. (apologies to Jimi)
October 3rd, 2008 at 5:14 pmJust another entitled white guy whose interest in learning about foreign cultures is primarily expressed sexually.
October 3rd, 2008 at 6:20 pmOooh – Cheech and Chong have used products from all over the world. Will they be our secretary of state ?
October 3rd, 2008 at 9:46 pmOoo, I’m on too late and no one is playing now. Just when I wanted to brag that I’m a Rhodes Scholar because I slept with one once. Dang
October 4th, 2008 at 1:54 am.
Experience by association…?
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October 4th, 2008 at 6:51 am