Know what? John McCain isn't funny. Seriously. He's the guy who thinks he's funny, but isn't. The one who tells the uncomfortable joke at the party about someone's child, then laughs as the room turns silent.
His latest shtick is about Iran, and how hysterical it would be to kill people there. And not just the 'axis of evil' kind, but regular old go-to-work, feed-the-family, just-trying-to-get-by people.
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Yeah, he's a real laugh riot. He also didn't answer the question, which is pretty typical for McCain. And damn if he didn't do it in Pittsburgh. And at Primanti's, too, one of my favorite places. I hope he got indigestion. (He did choke on a couple things this week, including getting caught telling a big 'ol fib about the Steelers, calling social security a disgrace, getting stumped on a health care question, lying about a vote, and having his chief economic advisor refer to Americans a bunch of whiners whose economic woes are a figment of our imagination.)
I don't know why people like Bush and McCain think it's OK to tell jokes about killing people or about destroying the planet like Bush did at the G8 the other day. These are not just some idiots in a bar (technically, I think Primanti's is a restaurant/bar), these are idiots who are the President and the wanna-be President, telling tasteless jokes to people we should be talking to about things like nuclear nonproliferation, the economy and climate change. Not about how we suck on the environment and want to kill folks.
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You know, every time McCain or Bush comes out with one of these embarrassingly unfunny 'jokes' at the expense of the American people, it reminds me of a line from one of my favorite movies, The American President.
"We have serious problems to solve, and we need serious people to solve them."
There are, thank goodness, people who know when to be funny and when to be serious. And they know that the threat from Iran and what we need to do to control it is no laughing matter.
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee held a hearing on Wednesday on "Meeting the Iranian Challenge". In this clip, Sen. Kerry questions Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs William Burns on the need for diplomacy and sanctions.
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Comments (2)
Posted by mbk | July 11, 2008 5:20 PM
Kerry's testimony is beautiful. "The world has lost outrage". . oh, YES.
Posted by Connie | July 12, 2008 7:33 PM
Senator Kerry is simply one of our country's best and deepest thinkers. It would be so comforting to know that he was at the very least our Secretary of State, or VP, but then it would be frightening to think of the senate without his wisdom! We need to clone him!