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McCain Brother Calls Northern Virginia 'Communist Country'
A/P via Fox News ^ | October, 2008

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at elections.foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: bluezone; communistcountry; elections; joemccain; mccain; mccainfamily; va2008; virginia
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Sounds about right to me!
1 posted on 10/05/2008 4:43:11 PM PDT by mmanager
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To: mmanager

all the bedroom DC counties are Communist held territory.


2 posted on 10/05/2008 4:44:13 PM PDT by lmc12
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To: mmanager

I live here in Northern Virginia and at one of the grocery stores, I saw a couple of CHILDREN wearing Obama t-shirts!


3 posted on 10/05/2008 4:45:39 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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The Straight Talk Express had better muzzle that straight talk.


4 posted on 10/05/2008 4:46:08 PM PDT by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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To: lmc12

He gets it right. Finally the C word comes out. These Obamans are communists. Make no mistake about it.


5 posted on 10/05/2008 4:46:34 PM PDT by screaminsunshine
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To: mmanager

Yeah, but when are they going to report on Obama’s poverty-stricken half-brother in Kenya?


6 posted on 10/05/2008 4:46:49 PM PDT by mrsmel
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To: screaminsunshine

But, calling something or somebody Communist is a racist comment!


7 posted on 10/05/2008 4:47:49 PM PDT by no_go_lie
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To: mmanager

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!


8 posted on 10/05/2008 4:48:19 PM PDT by M203M4 (True Universal Suffrage: Pets of dead illegal-immigrant felons voting Democrat (twice))
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To: no_go_lie

To F’n Bad!


9 posted on 10/05/2008 4:49:59 PM PDT by screaminsunshine
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To: M203M4

The Virginia state line is actually the Rapahannock.

The Rest is Occupied territory.


10 posted on 10/05/2008 4:51:01 PM PDT by Credo
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To: screaminsunshine

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.


11 posted on 10/05/2008 4:52:41 PM PDT by anniegetyourgun
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To: no_go_lie
"But, calling something or somebody Communist is a racist comment!"

"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?"

12 posted on 10/05/2008 4:55:06 PM PDT by KriegerGeist (I'm now considered a "Bitter Clinger" to my guns and religion.)
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To: mmanager
So let me get this straight. McCain's brother states an opinion about the political tilt of the professional politicians (call them Big Politics) and that is somehow a disqualification for McCain, yet Obama can attend a racist church for 20 years, have a racist pastor baptize his children, launch his political career at the home of a known and unrepentant terrorist, and it is a racist attack to mention this.

As Shakespeare said: First kill all the lawyers, then the journalists, or something like that.

13 posted on 10/05/2008 4:59:10 PM PDT by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (If Hillary is elected, her legacy will be telling the American people: Better put some ice on that.)
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To: mmanager

If they vote for the commie, then I guess they are.


14 posted on 10/05/2008 5:00:28 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (McCAIN/PALIN...THE CHANGE AMERICANS REALLY WANT—OBAMA..THE CHANGE THE WORLD'S TERRORISTS WANT)
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To: mmanager

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/


15 posted on 10/05/2008 5:00:32 PM PDT by youshouldknowthetruth (http://mccainpalinvictory08.blogspot.com/)
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To: Maelstorm; Norman Bates; fieldmarshaldj; AuH2ORepublican; ExTexasRedhead

Oh, S**T!!!!!!!!!!

It might be true, but it won’t help McCain win the state’s electoral votes.


16 posted on 10/05/2008 5:07:36 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued (If Islam conquers the world, the Earth will be at peace because the human race will be killed off.)
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To: Clintonfatigued

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.


17 posted on 10/05/2008 5:11:17 PM PDT by Norman Bates (Freepmail me to be part of the McCain List!)
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To: mmanager

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!


18 posted on 10/05/2008 5:12:20 PM PDT by Hardin Steele
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OH SH**T, he f’ed up!!!

Maybe this will blow over quickly and be forgotten, but it’s not helpful at all.


19 posted on 10/05/2008 5:13:25 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued (If Islam conquers the world, the Earth will be at peace because the human race will be killed off.)
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To: mmanager

The rest of VA calls it “Yankee Occupied Virginia.”


20 posted on 10/05/2008 5:13:38 PM PDT by Travis McGee (--- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com ---)
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