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Bomb jokes bomb: When Comedy Central's Jon Stewart ribbed Repugnican Arizona Sen. John McCain about McCain's recent political gaffes, McCain immediately made yet another one. Um, isn't the campaign the tryout for the office?
McCain: Unfuckingfunny
What the fuck is the matter with John McCain? Besides the fact that he’s a Repugnican, I mean?
I was appalled when yesterday I heard the audioclip of his appearance on "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" on Tuesday night.
Immediately after Stewart ribbed McCain for McCain’s incredibly poor judgment in recently asserting that Baghdad is safe enough to stroll around in (as long as you have a full military escort) and in recently telling a "joke" on the campaign trail in which he changed the lyrics of the Beach Boys’ song "Barbara Ann" to "Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran," McCain made yet another "funny": He said that while shopping in Baghdad (with a full military escort) he picked out for Stewart a gift: "a little IED [improvised explosive device] to put on your desk."
All I can say is: Oh. My. God.
We already have one fucking warmongering nutjob in the White House who in 2004 joked about looking for weapons of mass destruction in the Oval Office. (Ha ha ha!)
I consider myself fairly difficult to offend. You can tell a race-related or a gender-related or even a gay-related joke and, as long as I sense that you’re actually joking and aren’t really a racist or a misogynist or a homophobe, if the joke is clever, I’ll laugh. (I loved Sarah Silverman’s "Jesus Is Magic" and Sacha Baron Cohen’s "Borat," for instance; although their humor is quite un-P.C., I don’t sense at all that they actually believe the bigoted things that come out of their mouths.)
But to joke about having lied about Iraq’s possession of weapons of mass destruction, a lie that has resulted in the wholly unnecessary deaths of tens of thousands of innocent Iraqi civilians and more than 3,333 U.S. troops -- and counting? And that has cost the American taxpayers hundreds of billions of their tax dollars, which instead of going to the things that we Americans need, such as education, health care and environmental protection, have been going to the war profiteers in Vietraq, including Dick Cheney's Halliburton, via the bogus Vietraq War?
The unnecessary violent deaths of thousands of people that were wholly preventable and the looting of the U.S. treasury by the traitors of the Bush regime, Cheney’s Halliburton and the other war-profiteering subsidiaries of BushCheneyCorp -- these things are funny?
The Vietraq War profiteers are laughing – all the way to the bank – but I’m not fucking laughing.
And then here comes McCain, yet another stupid white man who would be president, "joking" about bombing Iran when we have already lost the Vietraq War (because the incredibly misguided Vietraq War was unwinnable, was lost before it even began) -- a war in which thousands upon thousands of people have utterly unnecessarily died and continue to die -- and joking about improvised explosive devices, which maim and kill people in Iraq pretty much every fucking day.
I’m guessing that not one Iraqi or one American military personnel who has been maimed by an IED is laughing. I’m guessing that not one survivor of someone who was killed by an IED guffawed at McCain’s latest "funny."
That McCain would even think about making a joke about IEDs demonstrates that he’s just like George W. Fucking Bush: Light years removed from reality.
As if after six-plus years of the damage that the Bush regime has done to the United States and to the world, we need another incredibly-far-removed-from-reality stupid white man in the White House who can so blithely joke about the death and destruction and the pain and suffering that the Repugnicans in power have caused for just about everyone except themselves at least since March 2003.
What other characteristic does John McCain share with George W. Bush? The apparent congenital inability to apologize.
McCain advises those of us who take offense at his IED joke to "lighten up and get a life."
Because being a Repugnican means never having to say you’re sorry. No matter fucking what you’ve done.
Yes, what the United States of America really needs right about now is yet another stupid white man who refuses to acknowledge a mistake, no matter how obvious his mistake is to the majority of Americans, in the White House. Who likes to joke about the death and destruction and the pain and suffering that he has caused and that he knows will never personally touch him.
Who’s the Repugnican Party’s biggest alternative to John McCain? Rudy Fucking Giuliani, who still is shamelessly milking the almost 3,000 deaths of 9/11 for personal political gain more than five fucking years later and who publicly states, a la Tricky Dick Cheney, that if a Democrat wins the White House in 2008 there will be another 9/11-style terrorist attack on the United States.
It’s interesting, because in August 2001, just the month before the 9/11 attacks, George W. Fucking Bush received a presidential daily briefing titled "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S."
Yes, not only was a Repugnican at the helm of the U.S.S. United States on Sept. 11, 2001, but the Repugnican captain of the ship was given warning of the impending iceberg the month before. Captain Repugnican ignored the warning and drove us into the iceberg anyway.
And gee, who happened to have been the mayor of New York City when the World Trade Center was attacked and emergency response communication snafus led to the unnecessary deaths of God knows how many people? Oh, yeah – that was Rudy Fucking Giuliani, who insanely claims to be an expert on preventing terrorist attacks. Because look how expertly he prevented the tragedy at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001!
Despite the clear historical record, Cheney and Giuliani and their ilk claim, with straight faces and with venom dripping from their fangs, that we Americans can trust only Repugnicans to protect us from terrorist attacks.
But who’s crazier? Those who were asleep at the wheel on 9/11 but who claim that their party is the party most able to protect Americans from terrorist attacks or those Americans who actually believe them – despite the clear historical record?
Oh, and then there’s flip-flopping Repugnican Mitt Romney, who as president would move the capital of the nation from Washington, D.C., to Salt Lake City, Utah.
I once lived in a Mormon town in Arizona. Mormons' religious beliefs pervade their entire lives. There’s no way in hell that Romney would separate his church’s dogma and his church's demands of him from his performance in the Oval Office. There’s no way in hell that I’d vote for a Mormon for president. Mormonism is a cult -- a large cult, but a cult nonetheless -- and I would fight tooth and nail against a cult member becoming president of the United States.
And note that every single fucking contender for the 2008 Repugnican presidential nomination is a white male. Because the Repugnican Party, you know, is all about diversity! It’s a big tent – full of white guys! Wearing pointy white hoods!
Not a single one of the Repugnican presidential wannabes is presidential material. They all make Hillary Clinton seem presidential by comparison – and that’s saying a lot.
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