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John McCain: WANKER!

By SusanUnPC on April 1, 2007 at 9:53 PM in Current Affairs

Okay, so I tore myself away from reading Dave Barry’s episode guide blog for “24″ (“Wow. One terrorist with a laptop can disable the whole US satellite network. He must have Vista.”) — god, my tummy hurts from laughing — and spotted this:

McCain Strolls Through Baghdad Market, Accompanied By 100 Soldiers, 3 Blackhawks, 2 Apache Gunships

Sen. John McCain strolled briefly through an open-air market in Baghdad today in an effort to prove that Americans are “not getting the full picture” of what’s going on in Iraq.

NBC’s Nightly News provided further details about McCain’s one-hour guided tour. He was accompanied by “100 American soldiers, with three Blackhawk helicopters, and two Apache gunships overhead.” Still photographs provided by the military to NBC News seemed to show McCain wearing a bulletproof vest during his visit. Watch it.


Thanks to my friend Norma for sending the John McCain bit to me. You may not know this, but her cat Barkley eats rats and gophers. We got to talking about what Barkley eats because we’re all so worried about what to feed our cats. I’m not worried now about Barkley.

P.S. In a more serious mode today, I wrote this: “FDA’s Weak Food Inspections Are Bush’s Fault.” It’s got all the latest on the pet food recalls + one of my more major rants against the Bush administration.

  • Mr.Murder

    I was strolling through the park one day… it’s like the commercial for a credit card.

    On his master charge tour through Iraq, St.John spent:
    How many soldiers to walk through Bagdhad in body armor: 100.
    How many choppers needed to provide cover: 5 total.
    3 transport, two attack.
    Making yourself an example of the multi trillion quagmire at taxpayer expense on Chinese loans:
    priceless.

  • pangloss

    Dosen’t this now mean John’s delusions are public and the US military have assisted him in making a complete horse’s ass of himself.

    This is better than Monty Phython.

  • http://www.bluegirlredmissouri.blogspot.com Blue Girl, Red State

    The real apostasy is that around the same time, about a mile away, six Americans were killed.

    How many of those six perished because they were undermanned because of Insane’s security detail?

    (By the way – even stateside, we fucking hate dignitaries and dignitary visits, and just want them to go back to effing D.C. and let us get on with our jobs.)

  • a programmer

    Larry, Vista can’t even hold its own. What kind of satellites are these people making, hahahahahaha

  • nick

    Great post.
    The title says it all.
    Watch NBC tonight and I think they finally tell the whole story.
    Think Progress has a good story as well.
    http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/01/mccain-iraq-stroll/

  • mudkitty

    Remember when republicans were trying to smear McCain with the crazy brush? Saying he’s touched due to his years in captivity…?

  • oldtree

    it is nice when folks like this idiot prove themselves to be a liar for all to see.

    the coward can’t do what he says. so it is his goal to force the soldiers to walk the streets of baghdad with no protection.

    don’t you use some kind of petroleum product on lice? since he is there, couldn’t he take the cure?

  • max

    What the hell happened to McCain?? I would have voted for this guy in 2000.I’d never consider it now.

  • David

    Apparently, the evildoers have morphed Baghdad Bob into a John McCain clone.

  • mudkitty

    The theme from Mr. Rogers neighborhood should play in the background of McCain’s “stroll.” That would make a good campaign ad.

  • http://www.firedoglake.com Mrs. K8

    Larry — I caught your post at dKos and TPM Cafe, and had to hot-foot it over here to tell you, yet again, that I am very very grateful that you are the “loud mouth” that you are.

    Which is to say, anyone who is NOT a “loud mouth” in these days of decadent neocolonial empire, is signifying assent by their silence.

    I doff my cap to you again, sir, for mouthing off in defense of our beloved country and Constitution.

  • Fred C. Dobbs

    McCain forfeited any claim of posessing ascrotum when he didn’t kick Rove and/or Shrubbie’s asses physically after the smear job they did on him in South Carolina in 2000.

    In fact, if you consider any of the neocon geniuses who are running the country off a cliff, I’d bet a twenty dollar gold piece that not a one of them has ever tasted knuckles…Mommy and Daddy would have prevented any unpleasantness like that.

    You can be moved to say and do unspeakably crappy things if you know you’re immune to the wrath of the offended.