Comments on: McCain jokes about bombing Iran

By: merben

merben — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 19:40:00 +0000

It is clear that many people were offended with Sen. McCain’s song. His insensitive comments will probably help him slide further down on the recent election 2008 polls. He offended a lot of people with the McCain bomb Iran song. the media and his opponents will use his joke against him.

By: Roger

Roger — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 05:57:00 +0000

Oops, my bad, I only scanned your name quickly and thought it had something to do with Texas.

When the current President Bush was first running for the White House, he mocked the pleas of Carla Faye Tucker, a death row inmate who was appealing for clemency. According to Tucker Carleson, Bush got down on his knees and mimicked her saying “Please, please don’t let them kill me” (or something like that), then laughed about it.

Oh, the Kerry example was dead on. I just think that this one is worse because what Kerry said was a bungled joke (something he didn’t mean to say), but McCain meant to say this.

By: texanesone

texanesone — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 17:33:00 +0000

Roger

No problem. Given the context (fighter jock, VFW audience) I think it’s a bit different. I didn’t recall the current Pres doing the same - I read Reagan made a wisecrack on an open microphone - but in today’s context I thought the Kerry example was good as it illustrates just how quickly people on both sides of the aisle will fire back.

No nicknames, please - as I explained to a guy from France I communicate with, the Samoan source just doesn’t translate to an American nickname.

By: Roger

Roger — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 16:08:00 +0000

Sorry Tex, I know it’s just a joke, but I don’t approve of someone running for office joking about killing people. The current Prez did that, and I was the one telling people to “lighten up,” but look how he’s turned out. Hundreds of thousands dead in Iraq for nothing and he doesn’t seem to give a damn.

I’ve come to think someone’s sense of humor reveals a lot about that person. So I’m not taking this stuff lightly anymore.

By: texanesone

texanesone — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 15:59:00 +0000

Let’s see. They guy’s a fighter jock. He’s speaking at a “Veterans of Foreign Wars.” He cracks a joke to a serious question, people laugh, he then gets serious, talks about Iran and addresses Iran’s leadership’s vow to wipe out Israel (you’d've thought Ahmadinejad would have learned from Saddam: threaten to use nonconventional weapons - even if you don’t have’em - and the target of your threats just might take you seriously).

You’da thunk he’d learned from Sen Kerry. No jokes. Ever. No humor during the campaign. Everything in foreign affairs is waaaay too serious. Plus, the political opposition’ll jump all over you. At least I liked how he answered the “controversy” - “Lighten up and get a life.”

That was a nice tie-in to “Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.” I think that movie was satire? I probably shouldn’t watch it any more. Life is just waaay too serious.