The following exchange took place on Wednesday's 'Today Show':NBC’S MATT LAUER: “If it’s working Senator, do you now have a better estimate of when American forces can come home from Iraq?”
SEN. MCCAIN: “No --
but that’s not too important. What’s important is the casualties in Iraq."
Thus inspired, I humbly present more intellectual commentary from your esteemed "straight talking" Republican candidate for President...
Please enjoy John McCain, in his own words:
"I will veto every single beer, um, bill with earmarks." --speaking at the National Small Business Summit, Washington, D.C., June 10, 2008 "We should be able to deliver bottled hot water to dehydrated babies." --Kenner, Louisiana, June 3, 2008
"I'm glad to have his endorsement. And thanks for asking." -- after seeking and receiving the endorsement of Evangelical pastor Rev. John Hagee; whom he would later denounce.
"Make it a hundred...That would be fine with me." - to a questioner who asked if he supported President Bush's vision for keeping U.S. troops in Iraq for 50 years."I'm going to be honest: I know a lot less about economics than I do about military and foreign policy issues. I still need to be educated."
"Well, it's common knowledge and has been reported in the media that Al Qaeda is going back into Iran and receiving training and are coming back into Iraq from Iran. That's well known. And it's unfortunate." - before correcting himself by saying Iran was training "extremists," not Al Qaeda.
"I will conduct a respectful debate. Now, it will be dispirited -- it will be spirited -- because there are stark differences. I am a proud conservative, liberal Republica-- conservative Republican...Hello? Easy there."
"I am a illiterate that has to rely on my wife for all of the assistance I can get." -after being asked whether us uses a Mac or a PC."It's not social issues I care about."
"F*** you! I know more about this than anyone else in the room." -- to Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), during a testy exchange about immigration legislation.
"There are neighborhoods in Baghdad where you and I could walk through those neighborhoods today." -- prior to visiting a Baghdad market while being flanked by 22 soldiers, 10 armored Humvees, and two Apache attack helicopters.
"The issue of economics is not something I've understood as well as I should. I've got Greenspan's book."
"You know that old Beach Boys song, Bomb Iran? Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran."
"I had something picked out for you, too - a little IED (improvised explosive device) to put on your desk." --to Jon Stewart
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"Do you know why Chelsea Clinton is so ugly? Because Janet Reno is her father." -- at a 1998 Republican fundraiser."Americans are very frustrated, and they have every right to be. We've wasted a lot of our most precious treasure, which is American lives." --on the Iraq war
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"I think I'd just commit suicide." --in October 2006, on the prospects of the Democrats taking back the Senate in the November election.
"No, I'm calling you a f****ng jerk." --to fellow Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley, when Grassley asked "Are you calling me stupid?"
"Only an a**hole would put together a budget like this ... I wouldn't call you an a**hole unless you really were an a**hole." -- to Budget Committee Chairman and fellow Repulican Sen. Pete Domenici, during a Senate budget hearing.
"There's no doubt in my mind that we will prevail and there's no doubt in my mind, once these people are gone, that we will be welcomed as liberators." --on the Iraq war, "Hardball" interview, March 24, 2003.
"We're going to prevail and we will win and it'll be one of the best things that's happened to America and the world in a long time 'cause it'll reverberate throughout the Middle East." --on the Iraq war, "Meet the Press" interview, March 3, 2003.
"I said, 'The nice thing about Alzheimer's is you get to hide your own Easter eggs'.""
"At least I don't plaster on the makeup like a trollop, you c*nt." - to his wife, Cindy, after she playfully twirled his hair and said "You're getting a little thin up there." -- as reported by numerous witnesses in the book 'The Real McCain' by Cliff Schecter.
This just in:
Asked Wednesday whether he’d be interested in Dick Cheney had the vice president
not already have served under Bush for two terms, McCain proclaimed:
“I don’t
know if I would want him as vice president. He and I have the same
strengths. But to serve in other capacities? HELL YEAH!"
