I just gained a whole new respect for Senator McCain.
Jun 28th, 2008 by Kristi
From this site, and many others:
In an interview with the Las Vegas Sun, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., was asked by columnist Jon Ralston why he didn’t choose Gov. Jim Gibbons to chair his Nevada campaign.
“I appreciate his support,” McCain said. “As you know, the lieutenant governor is our chairman.”
Why snub the governor? Ralston asked.
“I didn’t mean to snub him,. I’ve known the lieutenant governor for 15 years and we’ve been good friends,” McCain said. “I didn’t intend to snub him. There are other states where the governor is not the chairman.”
Maybe it’s the governor’s approval rating and you are running from him like you are from the president? Asked Ralston in a question McCain clearly found loaded.
Said McCain, chuckling, “And I stopped beating my wife just a couple of weeks ago.”
Apparently this highlarious barb was met with awkward silence and/or the gasps of thousands of indignant slash mortified white women.
For realz? For realz. I can’t count the number of times my husband has joked about beating me or starving me to death or drowning me in a pool of lime jello or breaking my legs and then tying me down to a bed of red Texas fire ants. ALL THE TIME, Y’ALL. You don’t see me getting all uppity about it, do you? I can hold my own with my own jokes of killing him with a dull chainsaw or hiring a bereted French assassin who is still very stealthy in spite of his flamboyant beret.
A sense of humor is a sign of a healthy marriage, is it not? And joking about spousal abuse is a sign of a guy who thinks it’s funny to joke about spousal abuse, I guess. It wouldn’t have been funny coming from the late Mr. Ike Turner. It would have been creepy and probably not true. I guess it’s not funny coming from your presumptive Republican nominee for the office of the president of the United States, either. But there’s no need for hushed gasps or indignant pointing of fingers. Here, for Mr. McCain’s future reference, are a couple of issues I suggest that he avoid joking about:
spousal abuse, oh wait…my bad
date rape
rape
rape in prison
AIDS, county jail rape, and other places where rapes occur
child pornography
murdering your wife because she pissed you off
murdering your wife for her money
murdering your wife
murder
torture that is secretly condoned by the United States government
war
taxes
Black people
issues
politics
lime jello
I hope I helped, Senator McCain. Let’s just see if you can keep your silly noggin out of trouble next time.
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Oh, that’s funny. I hadn’t heard about that one yet. I can see it being meant as humour - I think it’s funny too, but oi vey, man! That is NOT the way to endear yourself to the uppity-ups!
Or even the downity-downs, which is, by the way, my new favorite way to refer to all the people of the world.
What else could he have said after a loaded question like that? That’s the most I’ve ever liked him.
He could’ve added something about smoking the crack rock, which would’ve only made him cooler. And more like Bobby Brown.
You left out Eskimos and refrigerator sales. Other than that, pretty good.
As well as legislation regarding VCR repairs and anything regarding endangered snails. The endangered snails of the world are very touchy.
Oooh, I can’t *wait* to see what kinds of people wind up on your blog with these word searches.
It’s already freak city according to my google word search links. You don’t EVEN wanna know.
McCain doesn’t have my respect. Not when he starts whining that anyone who tells him that he spends X years in a POW camp doesn’t mean he is automatically qualified to be president. His “jokes” put him in the same loser league. Also on CNN, those who think McCain is “more patriotic” than Obama, obviously hasn’t been looking at his voting record vis a vis veterans. Especially Iraqi war veterans. Nice of CNN to briefly mention that those who “think” McCain is “more patriotic” are generally Republican. And why should that be a concern to the Obama campaign. The GOP bigotry is only showing.
McCain has my respect, but only in the respect category called ‘good at making inappropriate jokes.’ Because I also respect myself a great deal in that category, so I see a kinship with McCain. I have a kinship with Obama in the ‘married to a black woman category,’ but that has nothing to do with who I’m actually married to. It’s a spiritual kinship. I have a kinship with Ron Paul in the ‘issues’ category, but Ron Paul didn’t make any wife-beating jokes this week, so he doesn’t get my respect, or my spiritual kinship, because he is not married to a black woman. I judge him harshly for that fact.
Excellent list there - well done
I guess this is all right. McCain DOES need some help.
I find his comment funny - my husband and I speak like that to each other all the time. And while McCain’s not my favorite person on the planet, this comment underscores what I like about him: he’s real. Yes, he’s a politician and so “changes his mind,” but he’s still real.