Posted on 10/05/2008 4:43:11 PM PDT by mmanager
Republican presidential candidate John McCain's brother made an apparent joke at a campaign rally this weekend that might not play well in parts of newly competitive Virginia.
Joe McCain, speaking at an event in support of his brother, called two Democratic-leaning areas in Northern Virginia "communist country," according to a report on The Washington Post's Web site.
"I've lived here for at least 10 years and before that, about every third duty I was in either Arlington or Alexandria, up in communist country," Joe McCain, a Navy veteran, said about his military postings. He spoke at an event in Loudon County, Va.
Joe McCain then apologized, but the remark drew laughter at the event, according to the report.
Virginia has long been a Republican stronghold in presidential elections, but Democrat Barack Obama is running even or ahead of McCain in recent state polls. Obama is being helped by fast-growing communities in the Washington, D.C., suburbs of Northern Virginia, which tend to vote more Democratic than other parts of the state.
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all the bedroom DC counties are Communist held territory.
I live here in Northern Virginia and at one of the grocery stores, I saw a couple of CHILDREN wearing Obama t-shirts!
The Straight Talk Express had better muzzle that straight talk.
He gets it right. Finally the C word comes out. These Obamans are communists. Make no mistake about it.
Yeah, but when are they going to report on Obama’s poverty-stricken half-brother in Kenya?
But, calling something or somebody Communist is a racist comment!
I’m loath to even refer to them as being part of Virginia. More like cancer spreading from DC, killing off the healthy host. Most are beneficiaries of the enormously wasteful Washington make-work programs...fedgov useless eaters.
I wonder what the locals think!
To F’n Bad!
The Virginia state line is actually the Rapahannock.
The Rest is Occupied territory.
Gosh, I thought I was the only one who saw it that way. Everyone seems to be tiptoeing around it. At worst, people only use the “s” word to describe him.
"Communism" It's the new race!" Neocommie or NeoMarx or Comm-American... "Be-in a Comm-Amerikan, yu no, ah take uffense to dat, no wum sain?"
As Shakespeare said: First kill all the lawyers, then the journalists, or something like that.
If they vote for the commie, then I guess they are.
As a Northern Virginian for the past 14 years (and a life-long New Yorker, before that), I must agree 110%, that this entrie region is not only becoming VERY BLUE, but becoming VERY MARXIST, indeed!
It’s scary, but I ain’t backing down, and proudly display a crapload of ANTI-OBAMA and ANTI-LIBERAL stickers on my car, and they ain’t draggin’ me down, without a FIGHT!!!
BRING IT ON, LEFTIES!!!
http://mccainpalinvictory08.blogspot.com/
Oh, S**T!!!!!!!!!!
It might be true, but it won’t help McCain win the state’s electoral votes.
No kidding. BTW is that an OH SH**T that’s funny or an OH SH**T he f’ed up?
I just want to know how dire I should feel about this, LOL.
I have the misfortune to be stationed here for the military, and I have never been subjected to such a load of liberal, left-leaning, Obama-supporting Socialists in my entire life. I come from the heart of Republican country and it’s driving me insane. I hope the polls are wrong, because I can’t imagine enough Americans being so utterly stupid as to vote for such a sham of an American as Obama.
McCain/Palin 2008!
OH SH**T, he fed up!!!
Maybe this will blow over quickly and be forgotten, but it’s not helpful at all.
The rest of VA calls it “Yankee Occupied Virginia.”
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