GET A F*CKIN" LIFE!
Posted on 04/26/2007 5:41:44 AM PDT by veronica
April 26, 2007 — Sen. John McCain, who officially announced his bid for the 2008 White House Wednesday, stopped by "Good Morning America" to talk about his campaign and ended up defending himself about a joke.
The Arizona Republican said that people upset by his comments about IEDs to Jon Stewart on Tuesday night's "Daily Show" should "lighten up." After being grilled by Stewart , McCain jokingly told him that he had a present for him — an IED that he could place under his desk.
Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., was furious and publicly assailed McCain on the House floor.
"Imagine a presidential candidate making a joke about IEDs when our kids are getting blown up," he said.
Responding to Murtha's reaction, McCain said that he was going to use comedy during his campaign, just as he did during his military duty.
"I don't know how to react to that kind of hysteria to a comedy show," he told Diane Sawyer on "GMA." "All I'm going to say to Murtha and others. … Lighten up and get a life."
On Wednesday, the same day that McCain announced his presidential run, 218 members of the House voted for a bill that contained a troop withdrawal timetable. McCain said that he would rather lose the election than abandon the conviction that a troop withdrawal from Iraq was a bad idea.
"Everything that I know. … That I've learned about my life … dictates that would be a disaster," he said today. "That opinion is shared by most national security experts."
When asked what he would do differently than the Bush administration, McCain said, "I would certainly go to the American people and explain to them what's at stake. … I do know that I don't need on-the-job training.
Mr. Murtha is an effing idiot. But, he’s good at it!
Saying Hillary "lacks" humor and spontaniety is like saying that the pope is "fairly" religious.
The woman is a liquid nitrogen cooled calculator.
His skit where he sang Barbra Streisand songs on Saturday Night Live a few years ago still cracks me up. That was brilliant.
I have the YouTube version of that saved in my Favorites file.
What in the hell are you talking about? Are you comparing Amwericans to Nazi and Soviet butchers?
When you get Murtha that upset, you must be making some positive progress.
I still not a big fan of Mr. McCain but, that was the only appropriate response to Murtha. Good for him!
What in the hell are you talking about? Are you comparing Amwericans to Nazi and Soviet butchers?"
That was a comment made by Dick Durbin (Dimwit-Ill) on the Senate floor
Imagine a congressman convicting “our kids” of war crimes before a trial.
McCain’s work in the Senate help put him in power.
I am not doing the comparing. Dick Durbin did. Those are his words.
Yes, he is but it may not be his fault entirely. I honestly believe he suffers from dementia, he's getting senile. I don't say this to make excuses for him because he's been a despicable and corrupt man for many years.
This is coming from a monster who wants to do a slow bleed in Iraq, Therefore, putting our service men & women in even more danger? Sen.McCain should tell him where to go and do it fast.
Thanks for clarifying that. I remember Durbin's comments..who could forget but I mistakenly thought you were making the same case. A terrible thing to think about a fellow Freeper so I apologize...that comparision makes me furious and I lash out. Sorry.
Imagine a CONgresscritter saying.....
“... they [Marines] killed innocent civilians in cold blood.”
(Murtha, May 17, 2006 at news conference)
“There was no firefight. There was no IED that killed these innocent people. Our troops overreacted because of the pressure on them, and they killed innocent civilians in cold blood”
(Murtha, May 19, 2006)
“They actually went into the houses and killed women and children. And there was about twice as many as originally reported by Times.”
(Murtha, Reuters, May 19, 2006)
“Our troops over-reacted because of the pressure on them, and they killed innocent civilians in cold blood.”
(Murtha, ARAB WORLD NEWS, May 19, 2006)
“It’s [Haditha, Marines] much worse than reported in Time magazine.”
(Murtha, News.comAU, May 18, 2006)
BLITZER: The marines say they’re still investigating. They don’t know what happened yet. The pentagon says the same thing. How do you know what happened?
MURTHA: Wolf, you read the “Time” magazine articles. There are pictures, there are photos. You don’t have to talk to the military about the proof.
(Murtha, on CNN/Wolf Blitzer, May 19, 2006... transcript)
‘’We can go to Okinawa. . . . We can redeploy there almost instantly.’’
(Murtha, June 11, 2006, Meet The Press)
“We can’t win this.”
(Rep. John Murtha, Congressional Record, June 15, 2006, p. H4028)
“We are causing the problem.”
Rep.John Murtha, Congressional Record, June 15, 2006, p. H4028)
“American presence in Iraq is more dangerous to world peace than nuclear threats from North Korea or Iran.”
(Murtha, June 24, 2006 South Florida Sun-Sentinel)
I swear, everytime I see that picture, a word that would get me in trouble leaps unbidden to my lips. Is starts with a and ends with e. And boy howdy does it fit.
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