Perchance...what can I give you for your "thoughts"?...;-)

nomoresameo

Up here we teach our younguns to count backwards before forwards ... makes us bilingual.

dangerfield

Perchance...what can I give you for your "thoughts"?...;-)

Our thoughts are not only inflammatory, they are also inflationary.

One of my favorite things about this site is that I feel like I have friends all over the country--and Canada---so I thought of you, BCWC, when I read about this. Let us know what the popular response is.

I heard that BCWC.

Actually, I like the penny; don't care much for the idea of rounding up or down to get to the even number because odds are, it'll always be UP. What's next, the nickel becomes the new disposable coin? I know, I know, it costs more money to keep the penny than it's worth but maybe if people didn't throw them in jars, it wouldn't cost as much.

moving on folks ... as Monty Python would put it ...

Try and be nice to people, avoid eating fat, read a good book every now and then, get some walking in, and try and live together in peace and harmony with people of all creeds and nations.
—Monty Python's Meaning of Life

Jody, Iowa

That penny in the jar thing is going to be a bitch ... there goes my retirement fund.

Now I'm curious.....I wonder what the conservative's reaction would have been if Obama tweeted or said the same thing instead of McCain?

If I was a monkey I would be angry.

Perchance...what can I give you for your "thoughts"?...;-)

Feisty, I am under no illusion that this comment was directed to you, but only to myself ... further thoughts can be acquired with a nickel and not the wooden ones.

Justin Amish called him out, wow, thats my tea bag.

Punish the monkey!

Any reason to hate McCain, even stupid reasons that have nothing to do with racism will be decried as racism.

So for those of you who don't actually read news for information. Iran claims to have sent a monkey into space. It seems though, based on observations of those interested, that they sent one monkey into space and yet a different monkey came back. I think it is funny that they are doing now what we did over 50 years ago. Or not because when the US and even Russia sent monkey's into space we got the same simians back.

So let's all hear it for Ahmadinejad being the first Iranian in space....perhaps they will get a new and improved leader back.

Just for fun...reference a picture of Ahmadinejad

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.biography.com/imported/images/Biography/Images/Profiles/A/Mahmoud-Ahmadinejad-38656-1-402.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.biography.com/people/mahmoud-ahmadinejad-38656&h=162&w=162&sz=1&tbnid=9UYYVI7a1-21JM:&tbnh=159&tbnw=159&prev=/search%3Fq%3DAhmadinejad%26tbm%3Disch%26tbo%3Du&zoom=1&q=Ahmadinejad&usg=__2314Jb7z-pAKFjvxdN-EbOs1lvQ=&docid=dwEXgSP8TIkO9M&itg=1&hl=en&sa=X&ei=zP0PUbG2N4KNqQHD1YHoAw&ved=0CIgBEPwdMAw

Then a picture of the monkey (or plural because they are both pictured)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/9846573/Iran-insists-it-did-send-monkey-into-space.html

There is an odd similarity...if you are working from a evolutionary point of view.

We should all ask ourselves what money would we be?

Newsflash:The average person with a non-Mayflower family tree does NOT automatically think of themselves and their relatives when hearing of a monkey.

Isn't it somewhat racist to jump to the conclusion that all non-Caucasians instantly think of themselves at such times?

Derek-381097

I do believe at times that the cries of the mysterious tongues of "no, not us" from the scallops are getting through to you.

Condoning inappropriate slams by a sitting senator is hardly defending the Iranian president, Derek.

McCain, if you're making jokes like that, I think the lesson you should take away is: Make better jokes and work on your delivery. You are not funny, and simply look like a doddering old fool.

You bet that is racist! All monkeys should be deeply insulted...

I personally don't care if anyone calls foreign leaders names, or if they're racist, or if they are not funny. I don't care if comedians do it. I DO care if a friggen senator does it though.

We would have been at war with Iran 3 years ago if McCain were elected. At least with Obama we were able to delay our war with Iran a few years.

Thanks for your service McCain but maybe don't make jokes about the leader of a country we really don't want to go to war with.

Haven't we all heard and seen enough from the Arizona Troll and his buddy Gomer Pile of SC?

Oh dear. Correction to 1.53: it should read Condeming, not condoning. Oopsy, time for more coffee.

“When veterans are together, veterans joke,” McCain said at the time.

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Is that what last week's meeting with Hagel was? Wow...with friends like you.....

In the past, McCain was often known as having a "sense" of restraint.

His "monkey" comment, makes one believe that he is seething about the deserved GOP election losses. If McCain keeps making such uncontrolled remarks - he will ensure another Democratic presidential victory - 2016!

I'm no lover of Iran, however, the GOP continues to expose its ugliness.

We simply MUST find a new war and reduce the logistics cost right out of the gate by warring locally in a sustainable fashion. This will allow those that grow the crops of war to keep production at profitable levels and allow "Sinetors" to represent their 'Merkin constitchencies while remaining on the crest of the military industrial complex wave they've been "hanging 10" on for 10 years....

Can't allow the heat to come down by accepting that people halfway around the world have any right to think what they want... Besides, what would the tattered, out of date, racist remnants of the rag-tag miscreant repugnican party do without a boogey-man to scare their minority of scaredy-voters with? All the while acting tough and blustery as if they're here to save them from the great danger they've made up?...

The repugnicans protect you from their Boogey-men the same way the NRA protects your second amendment rights... By pretending there's danger afoot to separate you from your money. Both individually and as a group.

If I was a monkey, I'd be mad enough to spit barbed wire. Imagine, being compared to a barbarian! Wait, is that PC. OH $hit now I'm a racist too. I guess we conservatives will labled racist no matter what we say. Liberals on the other hand are overtly racist, I mean how can we expect any minority to be able to compete with us on a level field? Liberals are the biggestracists there are, too stupid to even realize it, blinded by their own self righteousness.

HChris - I felt the same way actually. Coming from a LWer who normally feels no desire to defend Mr. McCain. I didn't necessarily see it as a racist quip.... I saw it as an old-codger comparing Ahma's antics to that of a monkey.... as in "quit monkeying around and stop blocking the television you little sh!t!" (My grandfather) In his age group, such an addage was a pretty common way to poke fun at someone who acts goofy or silly... unfortunately racist people adopted it as well and applied it to minorities for not only the behavioural connotations - but the physical ones as well.

I do think his being a tad out of touch and a bit senile likely has something to do with the oversight, though. As a Senator, he should be more aware that comparing people of color to 'monkeys' has become a very dangerous prospect and could easily get you slapped with a charge of racism - even if it truly is not meant that way whatsoever.

I made the same joke when they shot the monkey to space, and I'm far from racist. I don't see the remark as racist, but a personal remark against Amehihjanna (whatver).

I don't like, and didn't vote for, McCain as a politician. But in this case I don't see the big deal.

Get a life.

Come on now anyone could have seen this coming. Someone needs to get this man some help. To think he could be president saying that. Its time for that old "Maverick" out to pasture.

Some people. Don't they know that the only time it's not racist to call someone a monkey is when they're white.... like Bush... oh, wait....

Feisty, I'm just curious. Did you ever laugh about all the jokes that compared Bush to a monkey?

In 2000, I supported John McCain -- sent him money and knocked on doors for him. But since then he has evolved into a nasty, bitter, vile and hate filled old man who simply cannot get over the fact that he lost in 2008. I would like to think he's getting senile but whatever the reason, the sooner he retires from the Senate, the better off the nation will be.

John's right when he said: “Re: Iran space tweet - lighten up folks, can't everyone take a joke?”

Arizona voted the joke into the Senate and unfortunately everyone has to put up with the joke as the Senate Arms lead ranking member.

We know McCain can dole out a good joke, his best one was giving the world Sarah Palin!

@ Black Cat White Cat -

But, but - I like to put pennies in my penny loafers! Ooh, new pennies, shiny!!

And - guilty as charged. I have three coffee cans full of pennies...just think, I can eat Fancy Feast when I retire, none of that store brand for me! (Hey, it's great if you spread it on crackers!) Okay, bad joke...

Well said, wire10221! And, you're right, nobody cares. Even the lib lemmings on this site don't really care what McCain said....some probably agree with him. But you see, libs are under orders from the DNC to insult, attack, discredit, or smear any conservative.

Feisty: As usual, I take huge offense with your attack on Christian and family values. Your hugely condescending tone does not all to understanding, narrowing the gap, but feeds divisiveness and anger - widening the gap. You do the same thing the Senator you are attacking. As psychologist would have a simple question for you now: Did you have a normal, healthy relationship and respect with your father?

Well, I guess it really is "So...it's defend-the-Jew-hater-from-the-war-hero day." You may not have to like him, but by all means he should still be respected for what he did for his country. But, I'm sure most of you americans believe the goverment owes you something, all self entitled in all.

I'm mean really, giving McCain @!$%# for this. That anti-sematic monkey running Iran has treatened the US and allies, and still self entitled Americains would reather defend him then a real American war hero because he doesn't support Obama. You guys are sick (If you took offense, its likely you I'm talking about), there was no rasist remarks it was a joke about their space program and leader. You self entitled monkeys need to get with the program rest of America to support and defend our way of life. I mean really, you can call McCain an old rasist that needs putting out to pasture, but what have you accomplisished or given back to your fellow americains? I'm sure your accomplishments don't hold a candle to what McCain has given his country.

Can I mention that your dear friend Ahmedinejad had to mount a media campaign to counter the notion that he had BODY ODOR issues?

Just remember and repeat after me, "Marxist speech is protected under the First Amendment, but anything other than Marxist speech is HATE SPEECH and therefore banned..."

In other words, if you want to SILENCE an opponent, call them "racist"--a term that has pretty much LOST ITS MEANING from such overuse. That Senator McCain, who spent YEARS as a POW before most of you were even BORN, had the temerity to oppose the Dear Leader in a free election means HE MUST BE DESTROYED by the President's hand-puppets in the media. And when the Dear Leader wishes to be President-for-Life by either running in or cancelling the 2016 elections, the media will call it good. Constitution--WHAT CONSTITUTION???

George Orwell, and Karl Marx, could not have forseen better than what you've been indoctrinated, er, uh, I mean, "educated" into believing...

spider-737231

Well said, wire10221! And, you're right, nobody cares. Even the lib lemmings on this site don't really care what McCain said....some probably agree with him. But you see, libs are under orders from the DNC to insult, attack, discredit, or smear any conservative.

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I must say your last sentence is a bit rich. One can talk about the 'liberal media' all they want, but to act as though the tactic in your comment is the furthest thing from anything Right does is again, a bit rich.

Thank God Moose and Squirrel didn't win the WH in 2008.

Almost ALL jokes are intended to be off in one way or another.

I wonder what the progressive PC pukes would be saying if it was one of their spawn that has said something like this. Actually, we probably would not know because it would be swept under the carpet by the media that is OWNED by the progressive pukes.

These idiots really showed their TRUE colors by CHEERING the death of a hero and veteran the last couple of days. What a BUNCH OF HYPOCRITES. This, after the progressive media and politiciansused the deaths of others to further their communistic agenda. CREEPS.

Why liberals cry aloud, don't you believe in evolution?

Ajmadenijhad is stilll an ape.

There is a photo on BBC of a "scientist" wearing a surgical mask whilst holding the monkey with Amadinejad standing beside them without one. Curious?? Then again Amadinejad "volunteering" to be the first "persian-in-space" demonstrates just how nutty this clown is. Take him up on his offer!! I'll bet more than one of the ruling mullah's is having a good laugh over that one and perhaps even contemplating taking him up on his wishes. Are there virgins in space? Maybe on the space station but he would not be welcome there. Perhaps the Israeli's can ensure the vehicle does not leave the stratosphere intact.

PS...I'm betting the pubicity monkey wasn't the one sent up. That one is crispy.

The Article re: John McCain comparing Ahdinemajad/Iran as a Monkey and taking it as a racist comment is just plain STUPID.

There are Monkeys you know--you can either see them at the zoo, jumping up and down, or going from tree to tree to entertain, or go to Africa where there are plenty.

Ahdinemajad is just that---"monkeying around"---has anyone ever heard of this quote? He keeps the World laughing.

Political Correctness; anything to slam a GOP/Democrat; that is also STUPID. An excuse to "jump" on him---Get real.

Speaking as a Democrat, uh, what exactly was wrong with McCain's joke?

Granted, he probably should have thought before he tweeted. But there was nothing actually racist about his joke. It's the equivalent of "you look like a monkey and you act like one too". The ONLY reason we are talking about it is because it's McCain.

I mean, if you're gonna call him racist, then more than half the Internet is racist, because every other comment on that Iranian space monkey article was this EXACT SAME JOKE.

Damn, people need to lighten up.

LMFAO!!

Liberals defending the most dangerous man in the world. LOL!

I bet you libbies also loved that other wild and crazy socialist, Adolph Hitler.

Liberals. God love em! LOL!

Idaho-Steven . . .

These idiots really showed their TRUE colors by CHEERING the death of a hero and veteran the last couple of days

Nobody has been cheering the death of Navy Seal Chris Kyle. Unless, of course someone on FOX is stating so (consider the source). Given your comments above, guessing you live near Sandpoint or Coeur d'Alene.

I rarely find myself agreeing with McCain, but I am on his side with this one, The guy does look like a monkey....and that's NO joke!

“When veterans are together, veterans joke,” McCain said at the time. “And I was with veterans and we were joking. And if somebody can’t understand that, my answer is, ‘Please, get a life.’”

He's correct. Iranians have too much time on their hands. Standing around all day and chant their beliefs rather than do something about it......

Get together on a holy day, someone gets a little freaked out and next thing you know, there's a stampede and 300 die from being crushed to death.

On a Holy Day.....

wire10221 - Crusty Redhead probably has one of those cushy government jobs where no real work is required.

I guess for liberal is an offense call Amandenijhad a monkey. He was the Guest of Honor in Columbia University where he said , "there is no gays in Iran". but any way you all love him.

Feisty and the rest rush to the defense of a tyrant

Yes, because saying that a US Senator should act with a little more grace and decorum in regard to foreign leaders is "rushing to the defense of a tyrant" lol - Seriously, get real.

I don't think it was a racist remark, but if it was - the target of the racism doesn't make a damn bit of difference either redvirginia. Calling the potus the n-word or calling Kony the n-word... both would be racist and despicable, regardless at whom it's directed.

RW hyperbole from you is as bad (and predictable) as LWers trying to call this a racist remark.

oops, Laniukai. Your bigotry is showing ("scumbag Islamist). Agreed that he is a scumbag....but putting Islamist in there opens a wider eye. This is probably a good time for me to ask a question I have harbored for years: Because McCain was captured and imprisoned.....is that the definition of a hero? I'm not exactly sure how being in prison necessarily or automatically makes him a hero. I know he may have been released if he had made anti-American statements (and he didn't).....but I'm not sure that makes him a hero because 1. you are trained and ordered not to do that, and 2. you would be a traitor if you did. I know he was tortured, but so were Islamic terrorists....are they all heroes, then? I always thought heroism was an unusual act above and beyond the call of duty - not just surviving terrible years in a jail cell. Is everyone killed in combat a hero? Maybe. And certainly more than one who sat in a jail cell. But how about those in the military that are run over by a jeep on the base and killed? Heroes? It seems we throw that term around pretty loosely (and some, like McCain make a whole career of it).

Racist? Are you kidding me? I agree, get a life!

When I was a kid, there were three recognized races. Now every ethnic group is counted, principally by the liberal establishment, as its own race. The terms race and special interest group are not synonymous.

@ Red Dev

So now the VP can shut his mouth too, huh. Everytime old Joe opens his mouth you know there is nothing but comedy that comes out. lol

Re the elimination or rather the Canadian government mint's decision to stop making penny. Make a lot of "cents" but the dictate to round out the cost of items to the closest nickel will mean another government "watchdog committee" to ensure the public are not cheated by establishments charging 1.05 for an item which costs 1.01 qnd 1.02 :-)

Sam627556: I don't believe you at all. If it is true, get better friends...and stop slandering the GOP. I don't slander the Dems...they are a collection of individuals who make up a party...all genders, colors, ages, and sexual persuasions...as we can see today from the Oval Office.

Liberals show their love for our country, siding with the enemy and insultin an American Vietnam Hero. Bunch of haters, get a life.

I suppose McCain was talking to those Veterans trying to explain his votes to cut their benefits as a means of cutting spending. I'm wondering if he'll discontinue receiving Veterans benefits when he retires from Senate and only take his more expensive Senate retirement instead.

Did someone say McCain reminds them of one of those sun-bleached, old white, dog turds that one finds out in the yard when they aregetting ready to mow the lawn?

There, y' old bastich- how y' like it??

Bobster- it's not so much that 'libbies' are defending Ahmadienijad- it's that they are trying to shame one of our own, highly visible, former presidential candidates into not embarrasing us by becoming...say....Amhmadienjad.

Any comment. joke or error in judgement made by the left = no big deal to the left

Same comment, joke or error in judgement made the the right = a travesty, racist, bigoted, no apology could ever undo the wrong that has been brought upon the world by this person

So now Feisty and the liberals are in bed with Iran??? I would think when it comes to Ahmadinejad any and all jokes from any political party would be just fine. Do liberals actual side with Ahmadinejad? I really didn't think liberals were that far off base before, I guess they're more messed up than I thought.

McCain's remarks seem to me to be a personal insult directed at Ahmadinejad, not a generally derogatory statement about Iranians or Persians or Middle Easterners or Muslims, so I would not necessarily throw the accusation of racism out there. I've heard lots of people call George W. Bush a monkey without it being racist against Caucasians or Americans or Texans, and if the label fits one inept, war-mongering, fundamentalist head of state, I don't see why it couldn't be applied to another.

and this man almost became president geez

Now every ethnic group is counted, principally by the liberal establishment, as its own race. The terms race and special interest group are not synonymous.

Ask a racist who they hate, and that's where you get how many 'races' there are. It's not because libs 'create' them - that's just silly.

Race isn't even a biological construct.... it's a social-ethnic differentiation based on a variety of factors; but most notable of such is whether or not the society they are in differentiates them from others, as well as how they self-identify. Physical features are a prominent characteristic of how someone identifies - but there are also cultural, language, and other factors that play greater or lesser roles in such identification.

For example, asian people will often pare themselves down into smaller groups - Koreans, Japanese, Chinese, etc. The US "establishment" (white people mostly) just call them all 'asians' and make no significant differentiation when it comes to their 'race' in this country. But in Asia (and among asian communities stateside), those varieties take on as much significance as black/white/hispanic/asian etc does here.

yet another reason elected officials should have to retire at 72 or earlier (65 would be my preferance)and let the younger generations run the country.

What the Democrats should refer to as indignant, is the race on race violence in Chicago. Not race against another race, race on same race. There are two sides to most issues. In the case of youth violence in Chicago, the Democrats have all favored being the aft end of the mule. Why can this be said, because there hasn't been any leadership in Chicago but the Democratic Party. I favor McCain's comments. I'm not as old as he, but am quite familiar with calling, " A spade a spade, and if that isn't good enough call it a @%*!$ shovel ". I'm an independent. Calling someone a monkey in a position of political leadership is hardly disparaging. I'm sure if McCain had all the bad names leveled against him over his political career tattooed on his arm, his arm would be long enough to dunk a basketball from mid court. As your father probably told you, but you weren't paying attention, " You're not going to be able to get through life not being called a SOB. You just don't want to be known as a Stupid SOB ". In the case of the Progressives wanting to cure the world's problems, with the City of Chicago as an example of their political "cure", I think they are deserving of the adjective prior to SOB.

Why do you hangout with racists Sam?

McCain is like so many of the elderly patients I see....give him a happy pill or shot and let them speak long enough, their true racist views oooze from their mouths, and often. They just can't stop themselves, it is too ingrained in their subconscious. They need to live a in a place with like minded old racist bigots ,where they can freely spew their views that serve no purpose in a MODERN and CIVILIZED society. Their bittnerness eventually kills them in the end.It also keeps away family memebers who will not tolerate such outdated and hateful views.

Note to McCain...Retire now, you old racist war hawk...and leave with what little grace and dignity you have left!

I wouldn't consider it as racist but definitely in poor taste.

Try a joke about the Jews - you will be chastized as an anti semite or incarcerated

You joke with and about people who are on the same side as you. Wonder what would have happened if we had joked about the vietnamese who had taken the senator as a POW ? You think they may have squeezed something?

Diplomat he aint. Senility is setting in methinks. Time to retire... get some sensible people in congress ! We need scholars / statesmen ....

Speaking from the left, I see no racism in this remark. Ahmadinejad is a holocaust-denier. He also fudged the results of Iran's election in his favor--therefore, he is a despot. Then you have the nuclear bomb program he has running and I ask you: If he doesn't qualify as a naked as* baboon, then who does?

If he called him a 'raghead', that WOULD be racism, however.

I have a lot of respect for McCain. Sometimes he appears to be the only voice of reason in amongst the babble of geese that characterize his party. Looks like some of them realized they were in danger of having a smart person on their side.

Feisty Redhead Roselle, IL
Hate to inform you, the Klan was a democrat organization, and Christians were the big anti slavery group. But don't let reality stop you from your bigoted rant, while accusing others of bigotry...

I get that he is a senator and should not be name calling like a child but I don't get the racist thing??? How is it racist to compare a horrible man to a goofy animal with less brain than a human? I don't get the random racist comments!!! I actually think it was funny and I don't care who said it! Its not like he is going to be our next president, he is just acting immature is all! He is embarassing but I could hardly call that racist!

Michael, great point. The comment "Get a life" was directed at the redhead.

Interesting that this story gets headline treatment from MSN, yet similar comments made by Joe Biden during the election were never even mentioned.

Bias in the media?

For all the drilling of Hillary and McCain saying he would have never......If these people riot, get out of hand, or refuse to talk with the world about halting their nuclear program, we can thank McCain...We won't need a net film made by some nobody...We have a US Senator on tape.

I see what McCain did as undermining the new SOS Kerry....No talks will take place with BS like this.

My best guess is he and his party of war mongers really really need to have us in another war. They want to be calling for a first strike

Feisty................you referring anyone to being a racist is like the kettle calling the pot black.

Idiot. If Amadinnerjacket said anything like that about any other world leader, let alone the POTUS, McCain would have wanted to wage war against Iran, oh wait, McCain DOES want to wage war against Iran!

So much for having me on ignore... eh...

Feisty: As usual I am a day late and a dollar short. But, how could anyone have you ignore, you are the best. so glad to be progressive so you and SeekingSanity do not rip into me.

Twitter and Facebook and other vehicles of social media are BAD NEWS for politicians and public figures.

A smart individual who is interested in maintaining a credible, dignified and influential presence would dispense with social media altogether, dispose of his/her tendency to spin poorly thought-through one-liners, and always 'carefully present' his/her image to the public. The constituents of elected Members of Congress EXPECT digniied individuals to representing them.

Sen. McCain, the US Senate is not a private boy's club where adolescent, sophmoric and undignified behavior is acceptable. And when you are a US Senator, your private behavior outside of the Senate chamber is equally important.

The US Senate should be a place revered for its 224-year history. As a US Senator, when your personal behavior demeans you it also demeans the US Senate and demeans our nation.

It's time for you to retire, sir. The dozens of examples of poor judgement you have demonstrated over the past 4-5 years - and now seem to be demonstrating on a weekly basis - are completely destroying your once admirable reputation, and place in history.

Redeem yourself, retire with your remaining dignity intact, and preserve a place in history consistent with your decades of public service.

jerryb, If being a bigot is defined by calling anybody and Islamist, then calling anyone a christian or Buddhist must also be a sign of bigotry. You leftist lemmings have been so bent on making others look bad, you've lost touch with reality. There are good Islamists and there are bad Islamists, just like with Christians and Buddhists. Now back to your adult education night classes jerryb.

As for McCain being a hero, you have every right to sit on your okole at home and watch the heroes of our citizenry be sent off to war in defense of the rights you enjoy while putting those down who you could not hold a candle to. Don't worry jerryb, there are still plenty of our citizens willing to risk their lives to protect you. Even if you have no appreciation for it.

So.. setting aside the question of whether it is ever desirable for a senior statesman to call a sitting president of a country, a monkey, no matter how odious that sitting president may be, let's analyze this. McCain, Ahmadinejad and the complaining GOPers are all white men. One white man calls another white man a monkey and a third white man calls the first white man a racist for doing so. Huh?

Now, if McCain had called Ahmadinejad a creature reference offensive to Ahmadinejad's religion (which would be an expression of religious intolerance, not racism, to be fair), then maybe there would be something to discuss here, but I'm not aware that the Islamic Prophet takes any particular offense to having one of his followers referred to as a primate.

So it comes down to GOPer logic. I mean, it's fair for us Dems to complain that McCain is being undiplomatic and unprofessional, but, frankly, it's more fun watching the GOPers continuing to self-destruct. So.. Have at it, folks. This one is all you. The rest of us will stay quiet.. and amused.

I shudder to think how quickly the right would have jumped on a similar comment had it been made by a prominent person on the left. As usual, there is always a double standard with the Republicans. McCain is becoming increasingly goofy and needs to retire to Arizona and watch the cactus grow.

I think it is insulting, to monkeys, to compare them to Achbenneedsajob.

Feisty - I have no leg to stand on with this one, but I call BS. You and your liberal friends had to have a field-day with Bush. Did you insult him with all types of insults, which may have blurred the bigotry lines, or did you only insult him with the normal decent insults? If you spoke about him in any manner of which to converse here (which I am sure is toned down plenty) then you absolutely crossed that line you are so eager to defend. You can say you didn't, but I have been around plenty. You're the pot calling the kettle... well, dare I go further for fear of a liberal race attack, but you get my drift. Practice what you preach little mind.

This is probably the least abrasive thing I have heard McCain say since 2008. He's improving.

Title:

draws GOP charge of racism

The GOP? The GOP? Aren't the GOP the ones who do stupid racism stuff?

McCain's joke followed the information released about the size of the monkey which was 18 inches, and was in reference to Ahmadinejad's diminutive stature and nothing else.

However this in no way deters the left wing progressive jerks from emerging from under their rocks with the usual shrill cries of racism. They should be chastised for the morons they are and told to go f*ck themselves.

There is nothing racist about referring to the piece-of-shi*-scum Ahmadinejad as a monkey. Actually its a slam against monkeys! That scum is one of the lowest forms of life breathing oxygen. And if Rep. Amash doesn't like it, too fu**ing bad! I'm sure dad's homeland, Palestine, would be glad to take back this piece-of-shi*-scum's sympathizer!!

Steve,

For all the drilling of Hillary and McCain saying he would have never......If these people riot, get out of hand, or refuse to talk with the world about halting their nuclear program, we can thank McCain...We won't need a net film made by some nobody...We have a US Senator on tape.

So where have you been? The failed state of Iran has refused honest inquiry over their nuclear ambitions for years. The failed state of Iran has committed funds and their own military to initiate riots and murder beyond their borders in an attempt to attack Americans. Think back to Libya, well before this remark by McCain. Are you seriously afraid of Iran or their retribution for a remark made by McCain likening AJ to the monkey they sent into space or the monkey they claim to have retrieved from space flight. I suppose you aren't bothered by AJ's threat to wipe Israel off the map.

I see what McCain did as undermining the new SOS Kerry....No talks will take place with BS like this.

I don't think that McCain had any thought of the changing of the guard from an abject failure as Secretary of State to John Kerry taking the post. As for talks...if you look back in time through state business with Iran since their revolution they have proved to be unreliable when it comes to the truth. Why do we need to keep trying to talk to them it is a fools errand. I still hope the real Persian presence in Iran will take their country back.

My best guess is he and his party of war mongers really really need to have us in another war. They want to be calling for a first strike

I think your best guess is really the stuff of a progressives wet dream. We don't want to go to war with Iran. We want the heirs to the Persian empire to stand up and take their country back. We want the young people who have such a tremendous rich and infamous heritage to stand up to their potential and bring Iran into this century. After what Obama has done to destabilize the ME and Africa with Egypt, Libya, Syria etc. The strong voices of the real Persians could truly make a difference in contemporary times to bring peace to the ME.

I do hope that Kerry can make a difference but until the zealots are all swinging from a rope at the hands of their own people it is unlikely. After all the Obama administration was the architect and financier of the Arab spring and look what a mess that has become.

Perhaps you should spend some time familarizing yourself with current events.

There are certain posters who are very quick to respond to articles and who make points to disseminate hate, anger, resentment, greed and ego. I never see any comments that promote peace, kindness, love, empathy and hope.

It's a shame to waste the talents they have in writing to create such negative messages.

Since it is impossible for anyone to say anything which isn't racist any more, we should all have our lips sown together to prevent anyone from saying anything that might offend someone else. Then, to prevent people from writing anything offensive, we can all have our fingers and thumbs lopped off. I know some people are also offended by looks, so all of our eyes should be put out with hot irons to prevent that as well. Then we can all live in a perfect, if silent and dark world where no one is offended by another persons words or looks.

Deb P.

There's a difference between McCain and Jon Stewart - one is a comedian and the other is a US Senator.

Maybe that should read... There's a difference between McCain and Jon Stewart - one is an idiot, and the other is a comedian.

What a bunch of IDIOTS complaining about McCain's comment, it was genius. Is this what PC is coming to, per big John..GET A LIFE.
Besides Roselle IL is a crummy town anyway.

TheKhanKubla: that's what happens in Iran.

and Christians were the big anti slavery group.

Where do you folks make this stuff up - the Christian Myth Factory? Christians were both pro-slavery and anti-slavery. The KKK was Christian.

John McCain is nothing but a nasty old fart with dementia who needs to be removed from office and moved to the nearest nuring home.

Though I usually agree with Feisty on this I don't. Comparing that creep to a monkey is demeaning to the monkey.

Hopeful you can defend MCcain all you like but his wrods were racists and desparately out of line.

YO McCain are YOU trying to start a war over here or what. What kind of an inbecile would voice such knowing that the reaction Overseas could be tremendously negative.

YOu were once a great soldier but since entering the political world you have grown severely ignorant and this is an example.

OMG Are you purposedly placing the USA at risk? Sure seems that way!

Please I shall beg for you to step down from your self made throne now before you cause more harm!YOU HAVE OVERSTEPPED YOUR GROUNDS HERE AND ARE ILLUSTRATING THAT YOUR MOUTH IS OUT OF CONTROL! THUS YOU ARE UNFIT TO REPRESENT AND PROTECT THE PEOPLE OF THE USA!

What kind of an idiot would refer to an overseas Leader as a Monkey? What a stupid at best comment especially from someone who knows the affects of war and what sets them off!

Sam said: "At least I know where the KKK is coming from but Repulicans they are like under cover racist and watch bet most will deny this."

Sorry, Sam but you're wrong. We're not undercover. And remember, it can't be racist if it's true, even if it offends your tender little sensibilities.

DancingSpiderman said: "Aren't the GOP the ones who do stupid racism stuff?"

Well apparently we don't have the market cornered any longer do we?

C'mon, liberals, you're hateful, you're intolerant, you're bigoted, you're racist . . . own it! Just own it...!

ahhhh we've all had to listen to Jizzy Joe Biden for five years now - tell wheel chair bound veterans to "stand up and take a bow" etc etc etc Iran and all their BS for the last five years and we have to play nice so they don't get mad - sorry - should they get their nuke and shoot it off they will finally be gone off the face of the earth - good riddence to the ayotollahs and ahmedhandjig and the rest of the sorry lot - meanwhile back here at the homestead the PCSA - Politically Correct States of America - we are concerned over a "tweet" of all things about a monkey in space joke comparing the poor monkey to looking like the evil empire mouthpiece ..... i would be much more concerned over the next killing at a US Embassy under the current administrations watchful eye.

Since Iran was litterally talking about putting a monkey into space, how can mccains comment be considered racist? Did he say monkeys are like blacks? No! I agree with Larry above, dont demean the monkey by comparing this creep to monkeys.

It's definitely an insult....to the monkey !!!

And this idiot is whom some of you wanted to be President, with his ignorant side-kick Palin.

Looking at the idiot McCain in the hearings for Chuck Hagel just makes me think it won't be long before this man becomes completely un-glued.

The GOP should really pay attention to what Stupid Bobby Jindal say's, and quite being the STUPID PARTY!!!

Carryingconcealed

Sorry, Sam but you're wrong. We're not undercover. And remember, it can't be racist if it's true, even if it offends your tender little sensibilities.

Some of you people are outright comedians. The GOP is the racist it has ever been, but, I do grant you, for some reason some of you are coming out your closets. But believe me, in America racism is alive and well. As a black man, I know many white people who FEAR the browing of America. Now that's a fact.

Damn, these threads never cease to cause laughter, complete bewilderment, many WTF moments, and dabs of intelligence here n there. Most the time, there is nothing that can be said in response to most posts, other than the over used " I know you are, but what am I?" mentality. Quite sad.

Yup, McCain's old, and he's a dangerous joke, but please, don't use him as the poster child for the elderly. Many of us are actually pretty cool once ya get to know us. >:o):

NO ONE IS DEFENDING tyrants and lunatics on this post. All who want to throw that out at others you dis-agree with, are doing nothing but showing pure ignorance, or deliberate malice to inflame. Time for a bit of self reflection for those with such ill intent.

The time of war mongers and chicken hawks is over. Time for McCain and his like to go home.

Much Love n Peace to All,

(Try it, Ya might like it.)

Da Pup

>:o): (Waves n PurRrrRrRrRrrrrrs for Feisty n Friends )

i think Mc cain was being real nice, to that tin hat loudmouth POS. im a nut job is not the real leader of Iran the Imans are he is just a mouthpiece . the libs will not be happy until these religious fanatics use a nuclear bomb on the US or Israel, and then whine on and on and on about why was something not done? for all you libs, making disrespectful, comments about a man who spent 7 years in a POW camp in Hanoi enduring torture almost every day. you should read about what he went through before you make your pu$$y comments, because not single one of you i bet ever went through that or ever spent a single moment in the military. just a bunch of losers with no respect.

Slander is if I made it up, the truth does offend but you know what I said was true, how do you refer to Blacks and Mexicans, I think everyone has a racist hidden in them that includes me I just hate every race equally including my own.

moshuluu

Your post is full of anger and pointless insults. You epitomize most of the fact-less liberal posts on these boards.

To quote Eleanor Roosevelt "Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.

Think about it.

Speaking as a Democrat, uh, what exactly was wrong with McCain's joke?

I'm with you. I don't see anything wrong. This was nothing.

Biden has said things that are very bad and he gets a huge pass. Another example of double standards.

SPC 4, US Army, 1971-72...combat vet....... I've earned my RIGHT to comment, thank you very much.

Da Pup

And Dr King is rolling in his grave.

Whereas if we weren't talking the Christian right, then a suggestion about monkeys (or primates in general) and human beings wouldn't be seen as all that offensive, demeaning, or deragatory anyhow. It would be hard to subscribe to the idea of Darwanism as it is currently understood, and not see some relation between Homo Sapiens, and Chimpanzees :D

Oh well, but it wouldn't just be humor to suggest someone is a monkey's uncle, where current theories in biology would place things... So exactly how offensive should this joke be taken and by whom? This seems a lot to do, about nothing here...

As both a Voter and vet from Michigan I plan to call the office of Mr Amash and tell him he should worry more about the problems in Washington which need fixing and not about useless comments made that mean absolutely nothing and he should not be trying to make points off fellow party members trying to impress the supporters of a Persian Madman who wants to kill Americans.

Pack old John up, don't for get the Moth-balls, than we "Independents" can rejoice !!!

McCain's behavior is not acceptable, hes like a old dog on his last legs - personally I feel sorry for John, hes coming to the end of his road, sad to see him go "Next" !!!

One of the most hilarious and saddest things I have seen on TV was when Ahmadinejad was in the USA one time defending the stoning of women in his country and he quoted Jesus, "He who is without sin may cast the first stone..." implying that the men in his country were without sin so that gave them the right to kill a woman who committed adultery or the sin of fornication by stoning her. Of course, a lot of these women are under the age of 12 and were raped. Many of the sinless men are the rapers doing the stone casting. I agree, comparing this guy to a monkey is insulting to monkeys, he and men like him are dumber than the rocks they throw at their women and children.

McCain is well past his 'best before' date.

Ahmadinejad looks like a monkey. McCain looks like an ape. So what? We look like our ancestors.

Republicans have to watch every word they say, while the Dems can say horrible things & our unbiased media calls it "good". Then again, if you know you're a failure & the other side right, you have to attack every thing they say.

Fortunately for him racism is screamed so much now for everything it has no meaning behind it anymore. Look at the coke ad during the Super Bowl...it was racist because the camel was not in the race. The word no longer has any meaning so he should not even worry about it.

John Mack said: Actually, McCain is not guilty of racist or bigoted speech. Rather, he was just ripping off another comedian that had done the same joke last week. I think it was Jon Stewart.

Jon Stewart is not a politician. We expect the host of a Comedy Central show to say crazy things but not a politician especially one who ran for president twice.

As an official tree hugging liberal, i have to say that this is the first time I have ever agreed with John. calling a person a monkey is not an automatic racial comment. In our generation the expression "he made a monkey out of me" was a very common way to say i got fooled. We used to play a game called "monkey int he middle". It was an insult made at a really bad man. let it go.

As an official tree hugging liberal, i have to say that this is the first time I have ever agreed with John. calling a person a monkey is not an automatic racial comment. In our generation the expression "he made a monkey out of me" was a very common way to say i got fooled. We used to play a game called "monkey int he middle". It was an insult made at a really bad man. let it go.

the only people that care what McCain says are all right wing base ..he has to say things like this to show them that he is a good old boy .. or maybe he is just dumb

Liberals are just pathetic. If this was a democrat or like Hillary Clinton or Joe Biden speaking a "Black Dialect" then you would be up in arms. Oh wait, you weren't

My gf calls her kids monkeys. Is she racist?

Shame on all of you! This man is a war hero. He was a POW in Vietnam. He deserves more respect than you will probably ever garner. Please go collect your welfare check, your free phone, your free healthcare, your free foodstamps, and your free housing, your free utilities, etc etc. I'm sure you all are waiting for the free car! I'll continue to work for you, since I have more self respect! See what else you can get out of the working people. "Do not ask what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country!" Lost words of a dead party!

He called him a monkey because this dictator in Iran is maroon.

PS. To the ignorant one who said McCain would have went to war with Iran is being a speculative jackass. Oh I called you a jackass, is that racist? I apologize to all the donkeys out there! You do show your true colors when women and gays and Christians are being persecuted and all you want to do is claim how the racist the war hero is.

That's right you guys are the dumb party. Take away our guns so criminals and police will only have guns, that way when someone breaks into my house they can rape and torture you, your wife and children, then kill them. BUT WHAT THE HELL THE COPS WILL BE THERE AFTER THE FACT TO INVESTIGATE YOUR FAMILY TRAGEDY! MOOOOOOREEEONS!!

PSS... Bush did many Great things for the people in Africa, but you like to sweep that under the rug with Benghazi, Solyndra, and all the other failed policies.

I shouldn't be angry with you, I just pity you!

I see there are still dumbasses that think the Benghazi incident happened due to a tape. "Low information voters" a way of saying "unintelligent, all eggs in one basket, but no brain cells left voters"

Calling Amadinnerjacket a monkey is an insult to all monkeys around the world.

Monkeys everywhere are in an uproar about it.

1. I have lost a lot of respect for McCain since he picked Palin as his running mate. And yes, he strikes me as a bitter old man ever since he lost the election.

2. The Iranian leader is not a monkey. That isn't nice. It's an insult to monkeys everywhere, including the one supposedly launched into space.

3. Most true part of the article:

"How dare McCain say something demeaning & disparaging apt the foremost anti-Semite on the planet." And this: "So...it's defend-the-Jew-hater-from-the-war-hero day."

Shame on you Senator McCain! That is a gross libel of monkeys!

O.0 Allen, you stole my thunder... I know it was my thunder to begin with because my post is longer and took a bit longer to type. Like a few seconds...

Edit:

Lol, you too Fishinfool555? Guess it is kinda obvious...

You liberals are nauseating. I guess if Obama said the exact same thing it would be funny, because afterall we're talking about someone who trains terrorists that hate and kill Americans when possible. We're talking about someone that wants to eradicate the entire Jewish population. I'm glad McCain basically said to go F yourselves if you don't like it. But if a liberal said it, and a GOP complained you'd be screaming. You're nothing but a bunch of hypocritical garbage.

@ jack

1. What McCain said was harmless. Generally it is not wise or good foreign policy for politicians to insult "leaders" in other countries, whatever those insults may be. However, it's Iran. Iran is hopeless anyway.

2. If you honestly believe that radical dribble about our President, you are a fool. I'm not happy with his Presidency either. But my word, you have no grasp of reality. Or just zero sense in general. You are an example that some people will believe anything, no matter how absurd it may be.

Who cares what he thinks, does anybody care that I think Michelle Obama almost makes me think we did come from gorillas .

Joe you said it right with jackass,which fits obama and most dems(symbol fits the democratic party)anything that they don't like is racist,spiteful,hurtful,demeaning,misspoken,taken out of context,or the person that said it is senile,unlike genius(gagging)leaders who don't have a clue except to run our country down,attack the constitution(liberal senile judge ginsburg)sell guns to drug cartels(FAST AND FURIOUS) eric holder who got one of our border agents killed along with over 300 Mexican men,women,and children murdered.Putting a tax evader in as treasurer secretary(geitner). It was guns that gave this country its start and kept it free,but now the dip in charge wants all guns so he can take over the country and turn into a third world like the his ancestors are from.If he likes it so much,maybe if he asks nice they will take him back.

There are Democrats and Republicans, both are Americans. But when one of those is blinded by his party's stupidity (and neither party has a monopoly on stupidity) they jump on anything they can desperately grab to insult the other party. Beyonce's lip sinc, Romney's dog on the car, Obama's birth certificate and now McCain joking about a crazed antisemitic theocratic despot. Note to radical Republicans and Democrats: Screw you head around and stop looking at your arse!

Racism is stupid and is destroying the country, perhaps the world.

Me, I blame the people who invented race and racism in the first place. What color were they?

All hail Feisty, The Offical White House Blogger and part time Ball Washer. She has spoken.

onermailliw

I find Feisty amusing. It is interesting how he/she is ususally the first one on. I don't have that much free time, living a life and all. It is refreshing to see someone so utterly blinded with all that spare time.

McCain is only half right, the man's a friggin ANTEATER ! Look at his BEAK !

Joe 1.184

Good post. McCain is a hero, and to dis him for calling Ahmadinijad a monkey is ridiculous. McCain has his faults, but this incident is not indicative of them. he was always a jokster, almost got kicked out of Annapolis because he was a class clown. He graduated near the bottom of his class because of his antics. But in service he was a hero, nearly lost his life. Even though he could have gotten better treatment as a POW because his father and grandfather were admirals, he chose not to.

I am no fan of John McCain and I live in Arizona. But like it or not, libs, he is a War Hero. For people to get offended because he makes a joke about a man who will use nuclear weapons against Israel and anyone he perceives as an enemy within the range of his missiles given the opportunity, is baffling, to say the least.

"Get a life" is right.

You people who label this as a racist remark, including and especially Rep Justin Amash are graceless, humourless, ideologues

Don't you just love it when the left bully and berate you for not having the same tolerant views as they?

McCain was mocking a short, hairy, opportunistic, attention grabbing, ill mannered, aggressive, easily angered, easily bored, sometimes unpredictable, knuckle walking, dangerous creature. Not a race of people.

So I guess it's okay that President Morsi was recently quoted as saying, "Dear brothers, we must not forget to nurse our children and grandchildren on hatred towards those Zionists and Jews, and all those who support them. They must be nursed on hatred. The hatred must continue."

Morsi has referred to our Israeli allies as “blood-suckers … warmongers, the descendants of apes and pigs …"

Yep, McCain was spot on with his joke.

Insane McCain has finally fallen off the edge of the world. He has been bitter and cranky since losing to President Obama with his rocket scientist Palin sidekick. It is time for Blame McCain to retire and go to assisted living so he can get his meds on schedule. The man is a crispy critter mentally.

Blackbird, is that a Hawker Hunter photo? The Brits produced a CLASSIC Second Gen fighter, very nice lines.

The Persian people are not "monkeys" but their leader is. Many Iranians, including the educated and business class, want out from under the iron fist of the mullahs and Prez Ah-my-dinner-job...

Feisty is a crack-up! The epitome of the pot calling the kettle black. All she does is spew hate, antagonism, narcissistic and racist remarks!

You may be a ginger, but the intolerance and racism is just as prevalent in you as those you continually blah, blah, blah about.

If I was a monkey, I think I would probably sue McCain for defamation of character.

A White guy made a racist remark? Shirleeee not! Old White men get racist remarks and hatred thrown at them all day long, but they're not allowed to even respond, let alone make a racist remark themselves.

FEISTY, If you like Amawhackjob so much, go have sex with him.

Does anyone really care if they are called a racist anymore? Everyone on the right is now a racist - so who cares? The left have made it just another word that means nothing because they use it to describe everyone and everything those on right do, say, imply, mean, laugh at, cry for, stand up for, stand down for, stand against, etc., etc., etc. So who cares??? I'm on the right so I'm racist - whatever!!

I'm just proud I'm on the right.

Hasn't anyone awakened out of their fantasy, that there is no fairy godmother with a magic wand who can wave it around and, "poof", everyone is a middle aged white male living in the United States, or "poof" everyone is a black kid growing up in Chicago. Gandhi said, " A man is not known by his friends, but buy his enemies. " So who are the friends of McCain's comments, and who are opposed to them, as well as the friends or enemies of the President of Iran. Well young progressives don't like McCain, so that makes young progressives the supporters of the President of Iran? No, young progressives want enough world left to screw up when they get old, and therefore an old progressive is just as bad as an old conservative to them. Progressives, like young seagulls, only know to eat, poop, and squawk. Is there any magic wand to change a progressive from their lacking's in analytical skills? No. No more than a fairy godmother can erase other differences in the world. And that's the point. If a progressive could change things, they would have changed a long time ago.

I'm an old white guy who's been harped on for generations, not because I started the problems, nor were the problems mine to personally resolve, but because I'm a white guy. I'm a non religious white guy. I'm a non religious white guy living in the US. I'm a non religious white guy living in the US with a very good education, and talents, and health, and not in poverty. How did I get that way? I was born in the US as a male to caucasian parents... the rest was up to me. I think poorly of Progressives because of the conditions of youth in Chicago brought about by Democrat politics there. I think poorly of the President of Iran because of the conditions of the people in Iran, brought about by religious politics there. So as you can see, from my point of view, the Progressives and the President of Iran have lots in common and that is the inability to function outside of a small group of similar fanatics, and that function is merely blathering about their personal complaints, not actually doing something.

I like to see Feisty's posts. It's not that I agree with them. Nope, just to see if there is any change in the level or volume of the whine factor, sort of like listening to the sound of an untuned gas engine. As long as there are young people whining and complaining, you know there's at least a few of them who might survive to become old, and fewer yet to become old and wise. I personally would have enjoyed it more if McCain had called Ahmadinijad a "punk", given their respective ages.

There's a difference between McCain and Jon Stewart - one is a comedian and the other is a US Senator. Comedians don't have to be diplomatic, but US Senators do.

And then there's Al Franken...

Yesterday everybody wants this guy dead, but then McCain cracks a joke and now save the A$$HOLE from the jews or Save the A$$HOLE from the U.S. you fricking people amaze me. It wasn't racist it was a joke about an A$$HOLE whom everyone wanted dead until an opportunity arose to noe save him from humanity and himself. Whiney bitch progressives hopping on this like it actually means a damn thing. GET A LIFE oh wait you folks want to abort and kill babies...my bad...this mega killer might have his feewings hurted.

Feisty is correct. Not a democrat, not a true liberal, buy McCain should keep his monkey jokes to himself. What he should have said is wasn't an Iranian missile successfully launched and we have the Russians to thank the pilot.

blah blah blah the left wing wack jobs are most certainly out in force tonight. I dont see your outrage whne obama told us conservatives to get to the back of the bus. I dont agree with senator mccain nor do i agree with his comments. but as a Combat arms vet, you pukes could not hold his shoes let alone walk in them. Go xxxx up a rope. I would prefer the company of heroes than the comapny of you pukes. Of course you idea of a hero is amnesty international rather a man that served with honour duty and country. Up yours pukes.

Frank-512516

What do you know about service to the country. What have you ever done other than suck off the country.

mccain probably said the same thing about his running mate.

''she's a joke, get a life!''

except the joke would have been on us!!

mr mccain-----YOU GET A LIFE!!!

Unf***ing believable. There are some who are trying to defend the president of Iran?? Do you defend Hitler from jokes about him??? How freakin' stupid can some people be??? This is just some B.S. left against right asinine stupidity. Can't you morons find something WORTHWHILE to get in a tizzy about? The liberals are just as desperate as the conservatives to sling stupidity at the other side for ANYTHING....moron soup.

I'm getting really tired of the double standard we have for politicians. It's okay for me to cheat on my wife, but if a politician does it, they are "moral figures" and should be cast out of office. Or gambling, or making racial jokes. Political figures are elected by us, they are not any better or worse than anyone else. This is not office by virtue, it's office by vote. A normal guy, with strengths and flaws like all of us, who just happened to win a few popularity contests to hold his position.

Obama has forgotten to balance his budget (which btw, he's massively overspent). This btw, not words, is an actual issue, because it refers to the running of the country, and specifically your tax money. But let's find a distraction quick! Hmmm, McCain, a doddering old fool made a comment some comedian made first. Racism! Let's crucify him or something. Get a life!

Best way to "lighten up" is to smoke a doobie - I went to Divorce Court today, and after half a joint - I was back to loving everybody...lol.

This is an example of a split in the GOP - but you never hear about how us real liberals feel about Democrats being called liberals. Democrat policy is a butt hair more liberal than Conservatives, and an insult to truly liberated minds.

He cracked a joke............good lord people get a life not everything is discriminatory or racist. I was running throuugh the headlines this morning and saw a story about Black history month. Of course there were no comments that that is racist nor were there any comment about discrimination. BUT if someone were to propose a "White" history month there would be so much crying going on it would be pathetic. I grow so tired of minorities crying they arte being discriminated against or that the majority are being hatefull. The truth be told the majority are being discriminated against in today's politically correct world. By the way all politically correct means today is saying anything to get votes even if you don't feel the statement is a true reflection of your own beliefs.

The answer to the question John is no. Nobody can take a joke anymore. That's whats wrong with this country now. A bunch of uptight self-rightous fruits. However he did make one mistake. He should have called him what he really is which is not a monkey but a Baboon's ass. @RedDevps when you told the monkey story what kind of gay was it? See what has been done to that word by the political correct ignorance of this country? Somebody calls a murdering thug a monkey and you clowns go all to hell over it. In a way i feel sorrow for you sheep but not really.

I dislike McCain as much as the next guy, but to be honest, I really don't think his comments had anything to do with Ahmandinejad's ethnicity. It is a huge stretch to think otherwise. Granted, most everyone else on the planet looks dark next to him.

This was a attack on the man, I believe, not his ethnicity. Having said that, I think it to be unprofessional for a statesman to make such adolescent remarks about world leaders in a public forum.

John Q Public-6353273

I know alot about service to country, last year I paid almost 20k in taxes after I get my 2k return. McGimpy is a leach and a coward. Anyone who is a true warrior knows you kill yourself before being taken captive. You do not allow yourself to become a bargaining chip, that in itself is dishonorable and not worthy to be called a warrior. What he did by surrendering to the Vietnamese was a cowards act plain and simple. My family has served in every war since the revolution and NOT ONE was so gutless as to be captured alive!

Allen, I'm from AZ never voted from the little war monger idiot never will! The Fiesty one just can't admit when the Great Obama is WRONG! She won't get off her knees long enough to look him in both eyes!

Of course, like clockwork the libbie leghumpers pour out to be the first to post on stories like this. Their obtuse way of thinking would make a democrat appear as a 'hero' for enlikening the Iranian leader to a monkey; but if a repub says it, ohhh look out for the excrement to start flying.

Of course when you're being paid to post propoganda we should expect to read such left-leaning drivel.

I am not a fan of McCain. He is the 5w bulb in the clothes closet, not real bright. However, what he said was an insult (?) not based on race.

Truth be known , just about everyone on this planet is a racist of some degree. Oddly enough, white and black are not races. White people are not white , and black people are not black. Sheep are black and white.

McCain is not a redneck, his father was an admiral and he married into money. He is ego driven, so he has to appease his redneck constituants. This is why most of what he says is devoid of intellectual content. With such a limited brain capacity he has to be classified as an over achiever.

I’m having a lot of difficulty finding news coverage, especially on msnbc, about the ongoing FBI investigation of Democrat Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey. He allegedly flew to the Dominican Republic on a crony’s private jet and had sex with underage prostitutes. In addition, the jet owner allegedly had some shady dealings (MAYBE bribing Menendez and/or influencing him on pending legislation).

Yet I can easily find daily stories about Republican Senator John McCain, who supposedly made a “racist joke” about some Iranian government official.

Isn’t the story about Menendez much more significant and news-worthy? I think I already know the answer to that question. The dominant news media in this country is amazingly biased and corrupt.

Sen. McCain has gotten far too much milage from his "war hero" status. While I appreciate McCain's sacrifice in the Vietnam war, it doesn't entitle him to a lifelong career as a U.S. Senator. McCain has digressed from the "maverick", capable of making somewhat intelligent, independent decisions, to a petty, mean-spirited hack. No doubt mistakes were made leading up to the Bengazi incident, but for McCain to browbeat Hillary Clinton to extract some kind of "confession" over the admittedly sad deaths of 4 people, when he never even asked Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, etc., for an explanation why the WRONG country was invaded following 9/11, which resulted in the deaths of thousands of Americans and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, is outrageous and incomprehensible. It doesn't surprise me that he referred to the Iranian leader as a monkey, considering how he and his righty cohorts treat President Obama, questioning his nationality and patriotism, and obstructing virtually all of Obama's initiatives with countless filibusters. To me, this overriding objective by McCain and co. to prevent Obama from accomplishing anything during his tenure is blatant racism. How else do you explain this kind of relentless campaign against a President that far exceeds the hostility towards any other President in history?
Why the people of Arizona continue to reelect such a nasty, ineffective, and racist character is beyond my comprehension. But then again, they embrace racists like Jan Brewer and Joe Arpaio, so I guess it shouldn't be too surprising.

I don't think he's a racist....I think he's an A**hole.

Well, Amash wrecked his credibility with a solecism. Besides, what's the BFD? The GOP is the official, self announced party of racism. Of all their endless nastiness, this could be the most minor. Compared, for example, to Saint Ronnie (patron saint of the decomposing and already rotten, lying in a mulch of money and sh(*&t) who kicked off his presidential campaign at a place where three civil rights workers had been murdered. Now that's a message! -- to assorted Birchers, Kluxers, and Knights of the White Camellia, aka the Republickkkan Base.

Oh, yeah, and Ron Paul (patron saint of early onset genetic defects) didn't know what was in his newsletter. Right.

I find many of the comments here by Fiesty and other libtards both amusing and disconcerting. Over 2/3 of the people polled said "get a life" and disagreed with your liberal poppycock! Eventually, this leftist thought will bring about the ruin of this great nation!

You're absolutely right Amy.

Perhaps it would be better if ALL the politicians in the country left the "jokes" for paid comedians.

Amy, well said.

If memory serves me, McCain said his "bomb, bomb, bomb...." song was a joke, too. I doubt Iran thought so. These so-called leaders need to think about what they say. Odds are that McCain doesn't even realize it was a republican who called him out for it.

Joe Biden can't compare another world leader to a monkey, it's all relative at that point!

Grandstanding old fool, no more, no less.

This is a slow news day.

Amy B Portland ME....Do you seriously consider Ahmadinejad of Iran as a world leader? He is the tight fisted, antisemitic, puppet overseer for the religious zealots in Iran. They over took the country in a bloody coup roughly 30 years ago. Holding Americans hostage in the American Embassy. They murdered Iranians indiscriminately because they could and so began their reign of terror. The only place they lead in is Iran...no one else in the world would consider them anything more than a failed state that sufferer's upon their own people in order to finance terror and anti-US/Jewish sentiment in the ME.

TXMOM , ditto , finally some memory & reason among the msnbc posters!!!

An insult to monkees everywhere.

Ahmadinejad calls for the death to America, and all you Fa&&ots are protecting this fu(k up of a leader? WOW, You go McCain, take no BS and do what you think is right, at least he had served his country... What have you PUKES DONE?

^^ Liberals defending Adolph Junior Aqua-velvajad rather than an American Senator and hero. ^^

They're a disgrace.

You are so right......ever notice with McCain and others who get called out because they said or did something stupid, its always: it was a joke, or lighten up, or the other irritant used, 'if I offended anyone I apologize' weasel words all of them.

As Bobby Jindal said, they are the STUPID PARTY.

Arthur, Chris, txmom, you got it absolutely right! It's incredible, almost unbelievable that the leftist loons on this site are actually defending a fkng terrorist sympathizer and anti-Semite. If this is the future of American public opinion we are truly screwed!

It's even funnier when we consider the progressives are defending the man that claims there are no homosexuals in Iran and that Homosexuality is an ugly deed. They must really be afraid of the likes of McCain to support a man who is so anti-gay.

^^ Conservatives who's thought processes are so base and shallow that this incident can only be pictured in their pea-picking heads as a "choice of who to defend", and further, that criticism of one is somehow an expression of support of the other... Seriously stupid people.^^

McCain is acting like an A$$ on the world stage. Did that statement make Mahmoud any better? Worse?... See how that works simps? Mahmound is a tyrannical anti-semitic goat-chaser. Did that statement improve McCain any? See how that works simps?

One person denigrates another by publicly launching stone out the existing holes in their glass house and maybe they can BOTH be wrong!!!

Mahmouds jobs is to be an A$$ in that structure that Iran refers to as a government. McCains job is to NOT be an A$$ in the structure we refer to as government here. To be more concerned about the foreign A$$ is clearly un-American.^^

As to the question of what us "pukes" have done... Well, we've maintained our composure so that nature and world history can strike a balnce against such an onslaught of ass-wittedness supplied by the old out-dated factory seconds doing the thinking for/with the GOP.

I don't think it was meant to be racist. But, he should have ran the joke by his handlers first - because they would have known it could be taken the wrong way.

It's also rather unprofessional. But hey, the dude is old - he has earned the right not to give a damn.



almost unbelievable that the leftist loons on this site are actually defending a fkng terrorist sympathizer and anti-Semite

What gets me is the rwnj's that think someone calling for a little decorum and maturity in our government is 'defending' the likes of Ahmadinnerjacket. Nobody is defending the guy. They are just mature enough to know that such antics are not condusive to taking the high-road.

Txmom - no one is defending Iran's President. But, as a persn who is a leader in the Senate, you are expected to have the sense not to poke a stick at the snake. It is only one of the many disasterous things McCain has done over the past 4 years. It isn't humorous - unless you have the intellect of a first grader - and it can prove harmful to the US. What part of that don't you understand? Oh wait, apparently you don't understand much!

Chick binder....good back peddle there....trying to explain that double standard...it is the argument of the worst evil? Perhaps you might just consider reading recent news events where Iran claimed to have sent a monkey into space. In context it is actually a funny and current joke.

All you PC #@$$*#$ should get a clue...

...and F%@K Ahmadinejad!

All you PC #@$$*#$ should get a clue...

...and F%@K Ahmadinejad!

McCain?

Seeking Sanity will not miss a chance to bad mouth a Republican. Even if it means throwing his or her support behind a scumbag like Ahmadinejad. Tell us SS, what makes you label McCain's comment "disastrous" in your mind? Are you that afraid of this Islamist nitwit?

wire10221 - your post shows you're a great Republican - vulgar, crude and totally classless. Yep a perfect fit!

Lanikai - as usual you post nothing but nonsense. This has less to do with Ahmadinejad than it does with a dottering old fool who has become a bitter, useless, shell of the man he used to be. So, of course you'd come to his defense. He's just like you!

feisty redhead....give it a rest

Seeking Sanity...you may not think it is funny but many did, not because it was a racist statement but because Iran still thinks the world so dim as to believe they sent one monkey into space and brought back a different monkey. Ahmadinejad let himself open for the joke because he stated he would like Iran to make him their first Astronaut. Ya know Iran can't even prove that their space ambitions would be viable to a living re-entry, so I say let them send AJ from Iran. How can making a joke at a minor leaders expense a joke. Really, he is the poster child for state sponsored terrorism. By all means let us not expose the butt of the joke.

Ah Exactly, what else had McCain done that has been disastrous beyond the fact that he couldn't beat Obama in an election? On second thought that was disastrous for the entire country.

So now we should add Persians to the list of races to never make fun of?

A gaffe is a gaffe and they play out on both sides. However, this was not a gaffe...it is a strong clue it is time for him to retire. That said, it does not serve the Dems well to smear the GOP as a result of what one person said. I will not smear the Dems for the actions of a Senator from NJ, which are far more appaling than the stupid display of foolery by Senator McCain. I wokred with his office refore his run in 2008 and knew there was no way I could ever support him.

Hey kiddos!

Just a friendly reminder that Feisty, Beverly, Pigotry and David Walker are all the same poster. It's been proven.

Yep, very sad indeed! LOL!

but no one is calling jimmy kimmel a racist when he had a fake newscast saying the same thing before McCain said it?? McCain only repeated what he saw on Jimmy Kimmel live. I thought it was a funny skit/fake news cast.

McCain, he's "not very bright". To borrow his own words.

Bobster-1557895 . . .

Just a friendly reminder that Feisty, Beverly, Pigotry and David Walker are all the same poster. It's been proven.

As I'm personal friends with most of them I can definitely tell you that is untrue. But if you'd rather post moronic BS rather than stay on topic, that is of course your first amendment right. I'm sure you've got a french supermodel as well that you've met on the internet . . .

Seeking Sanity, I'm 65-years old. Your schoolyard name calling just rolls off my back. I served this country in the same war that McCain the hero did. We both defend your right to spew your liberal poison freely.

Bobster-1557895: You know that for certain "...that Feisty, Beverly, Pigotry and David Walker are all the same poster", my friend? I hope so because I am so appalled by the unbalanced posts.

It's rude to insult anyone, and Racist too.

Unless it's a liberal doing the insulting of course.

See the posts above.

Layton-3733410: Personal friends with all four personalities?

The left considers foreign DICTATORS to be leaders...... the right calls it like it is, a DICTATOR can never be considered a leader..... kind of like Barry claiming to be the Commander-in-Chief..... and then IGNORING the responsibility that comes with that title.........

Seeking Sanity

wire10221 - your post shows you're a great Republican - vulgar, crude and totally classless. Yep a perfect fit!

Are you attempting to introduce yourself as the pot or the kettle?

unless you have the intellect of a first grader - and it can prove harmful to the US. What part of that don't you understand? Oh wait, apparently you don't understand much!

How can it prove to be harmful to the US? Iran already sponsors terrorists against the West and Israel. Iran already starves their own people to further their interests in the ME. Iran has no problem touting their scientific accomplishments even though they are 50 years behind most of the rest of the world. I'm still waiting for the good Persian people to take their country, heritage and history back for their captors.

Speaking of dottering old fools...Ol Uncle Joe thinks he can be the next President. Now that is funny. We can all remember "spread your legs", "articulate, bright and clean", "can't go to a Duncan Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent", (keep in mind India is already a nuclear power, we really shouldn't piss them off by not identifying their contributions to Science and Medicine).

You libtard traitors will grovel and kiss enemy ass any chance you get.

Ah, truly a shining example of brilliant rwnuttery. If this is the sort of intellectual argument I can expect from you guys, I'm afraid I have nothing to be concerned about. Unless of course we have a competition to see who can hit themselves in the head with a hammer the hardest.... I think you'd win that one.



The left considers foreign DICTATORS to be leaders...... the right calls it like it is, a DICTATOR can never be considered a leader.

This makes no sense.

Dictators are leaders. Not good leaders - but leaders none the less. You can't just switch around the the english vocabulary and then feign righteous indignation over it, lol.

Janine-1645002

It's rude to insult anyone, and Racist too.

Unless it's a liberal doing the insulting of course.

Suck it up janine and put your "bigger" girl pants on! I can turn on the radio and hear endless racist and "rude" remarks from the conservative entertainment media.

Example; The Comic that portraits President Obama to a monkey. Again Suck IT UP.

Maran8th8 . . .

Personal friends with all four personalities?

Personal friends with them as people. Man but all of you spend WAY too much time insulting posters rather than defending your idiotic party. Wonder why?????? (Guessing there is about as much substance in the GOP as there is in your posts.)

I find it funny that when a Republican insults someone he is a racist but when a Democrate does nothing is said. It was reported on (very little) back before the last election that ex-president Bill Clinton made the same joke/comment twice, just a different version, in reference to Obama back when Obama was running against Hilerary for the Democratic nomination. Clinton made a comment to one of his main supporters that "10 years ago he would be carrying out luggage" and then "10 years ago he would be bringing us coffee", the he being Obama. When it was reported during this last election they were asking the person that Clinton made the statements to if this wasn't racists (like they should have to ask). That person said no because Clinton was just joking and he couldn't be racist because he had done so much for the black people. Nothing more was made of it but let a Republican refer to someone as a monkey (who isn't black) and BINGO he is a racist. Gotta love them Democrates.

Am I right? Course I am...

I don't debate with people who apparently just graduated high school .... at most.

But in case you were wondering, I think theocrats (like Ahmadinnerjacket) are dangerous fools who deserve no respect.

What someone deserves though, and what you do for the sake of representing your country - are two different things.

Adults understand this, though, apparently not kids who insult others with anal-s3x references.



Clinton made a comment to one of his main supporters that "10 years ago he would be carrying out luggage" and then "10 years ago he would be bringing us coffee",

If he did make those comments - it's clear he's musing over how far we have come as a country. Obviously not far enough, but he's right... a decade ago at that time things were different.

Chris@SLC, but when I call the community Leader OBOZO, I'm told that not only am I being racist but that I won't get any consideration for my views if I can't keep from the insults.

Shouldn't that work both ways?

That's all I'm saying.

Amy B. Portland, ME sez:

Joe Biden has never compared a world leader to a monkey - and Republicans claim he is the the gaffe machine?

Funny it's "lighten up folks" when McCain spits out something nasty, but when Biden makes a clever play on the phrase "unchaining the economy," in front of an African American audience, the same Republicans call him a rascist

Amy - I believe you are trying to rewrite history to make a point. Biden said "They're gonna put y'all back in chains." He also said that you have to be from India to get a job at the Seven Eleven. Are you intentionally lying?

Hey Feisty you fat redheaded pig, get over it.

You have to wonder ,does anyone actually think before they speak anymore? Liberals, Monkeys,Terrorists!

How about when you are addressing the public ,try to act accordingly and stick to your role. If McCain

wants to be comedian then he should have chosen that field,but we all know thats not his occupation. Like I

said, think before you speak and act accordingly!

#2.49, Sir., that's not the way you talk to a Lady, is your real name no class ???

Perhaps the definition of "lady" is at question - at least as it applies here. The ladies I know don't use the langauge she uses. Woman, perhaps. Lady? no.

he ran an add the said " build the danged fence". Last week he wanted anmesty for illegals.

Bush people ran hateful adds about him 9 years ago in SC, but when he lost he endorsed Bush.

HE picked that idiot woman as a Vice Pres candidate.

He wanted military in Libya now Syria and elsewhere in Africa. IF he were Pres, we'd be in three more wars by now.

He ripped into the senator at last weeks hearing, and now as a Senator he calls another head of state a monkey. He is a disgrace. Unless and until the voter idiots in AZ un-elect him, we are stuck with him.

Another head of state? (Iranian) This 7th century inbreed, and you call him a head of state? You need help.

If YOU PEOPLE, would read the story, know whom you are talking about it would be a plus.

I believe not long ago one of these same kinds of people,(MB) said Israelis came from monkeys and pigs.

Get a grip people, who are you rooting for, the enemy? Ignorance is no excuse.

I think Feisty is a troll, planted on this site just to stir up hate and division by MSN. Unfortunately there are some pretty weak minded folks who's brains are so empty they think F.... is all knowing and will follow her lead like sheep. Was gonna say like monkeys...but they're pretty freedom loving creatures so that wouldn't fit...sheep will follow you off a cliff without thought...yep better analogy.

Liberals are just pathetic. If this was a democrat or like Hillary Clinton or Joe Biden speaking a "Black Dialect" then you would be up in arms. Oh wait, you weren't

My gf calls her kids monkeys. Is she racist?

Shame on all of you! This man is a war hero. He was a POW in Vietnam. He deserves more respect than you will probably ever garner. Please go collect your welfare check, your free phone, your free healthcare, your free foodstamps, and your free housing, your free utilities, etc etc. I'm sure you all are waiting for the free car! I'll continue to work for you, since I have more self respect! See what else you can get out of the working people. "Do not ask what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country!" Lost words of a dead party!

He called him a monkey because this dictator in Iran is maroon.

PS. To the ignorant one who said McCain would have went to war with Iran is being a speculative jackass. Oh I called you a jackass, is that racist? I apologize to all the donkeys out there! You do show your true colors when women and gays and Christians are being persecuted and all you want to do is claim how the racist the war hero is.

That's right you guys are the dumb party. Take away our guns so criminals and police will only have guns, that way when someone breaks into my house they can rape and torture you, your wife and children, then kill them. BUT WHAT THE HELL THE COPS WILL BE THERE AFTER THE FACT TO INVESTIGATE YOUR FAMILY TRAGEDY! MOOOOOOREEEONS!!

PSS... Bush did many Great things for the people in Africa, but you like to sweep that under the rug with Benghazi, Solyndra, and all the other failed policies.

I shouldn't be angry with you, I just pity you!

It is time for McCain to watch his mouth.He is always cutting some one down.I use to have a lot of respect for him i served in Vietnam when he was there and also his dad was in charge of the Pacific Fleet and i seen him when he made a trip to Vietnam.He was a fine admiral.John McCain and Graham are buddies and always having bad things to say about other people If they are Democrat's stand by for a cut down by both of them.Iam originality From Seneca S.C. where Graham lived and i can not stand him at all.

Big deal. Since when is comparing someone to the monkey they attempted to launch racist? You all get your panties in a bunch every time someone opens their mouth. No one screams racist when you call someone a jackass. How about chicken? Quiet as a mouse? Horses a@#? It is time that we stop babying these thugs and apologizing for every little thing to these terrorists. Have at 'em John. They do not deserve any respect from us and it looks like alot of the commentors here fall into the same category.

Obama started it with ''lipstick on a pig'' comment . Wheres the outrage there? Oh thats right, its ok for dems!

"Bomb Iran" was played incessantly on the radio. McCain was definitely NOT the one who covered it.

Wrong Amy.

The complaint was not that Joe Biden is racist. What Joe Biden did, in his best jive, black deacon voice, Mitt Romney "gonna put you all back in chains" is so despicable because of its pathetic, pandering, disrespectful, assumption that Liberals "share the pain" with blacks. Libs are the only ones who could possibly not be racist because they are so good and like Hillary "don't feel no ways tired cause she dun come to faahhhr..........

I thought McCain's comment was pretty funny.

Since when is it we can't make fun of anyone (especially Iran) unless the Progressives come up with the joke (if that's even possible). I then guess we're all required to laugh at the Progressives joke or you're considered an obstructionist.

It sounds like a new amendment to the Constitution needs to be written by the Harry Reid Senate to read as follows; "Only Progressives can tell a joke making fun of the opposition, all must laugh or you'll be flogged and jailed immediately and all your earthly possessions will be sold to pay for the liberal entitlement initiatives."

you all, BS artists spewing Mc Cain, a republican is racist are the true racist. go look in you own closets to find all your schemes of racism. go, find me a left winger politicians, aka statesmen, black or white, who have adopted babies opposite of their own race. then, I rest my case as a non white person. all of your BS talk of McCain as racist are without merit. Mc Cain and his wife have adopted a dark baby girl from india as their own daughter, now all grown, educated woman. racist people stick with their own kind, cannot stand taking care of anybody opposite of their own race, this apply to black, white and all races you can think of. BTW, why is this a hot news. the heated news should be Menendez, the democrat new jersey senator solicitation of a minor prostitute in the dominican republic. the main stream liberal lefties ABC, CBS, NBC and the rest left winger cables did not report this sicko Menendez, now under FBI investigations. ABC put up democrat Harry Reid on TV strongly defending, denying Menendez can do such a sicko thing, with such a simplistic BS explanations of Harry Reid, the huge numbers of viewers were sent to the cleaners.

No, McCain is not a racist, but he is definitely the scariest person ever to come that close to the US Presidency. Any careful examination of this man's history exposes everything but a war hero. But that's another story.

As for the monkey joke (that is now being reported throughout the globe), what people need to understand is that it is coming from a so called "statesman", who was once a heart beat away from the president of the United States, and this is what makes his "joke" an affront to American dignity and US leadership.

John McCain thinks he is a real tough guy. But real tough guys think before they speak and recognize that words (from official representatives of the United States of America) have consequences. Real tough guys engage in the highest level of professional diplomacy and recognize that there is absolutely no advantage in publically demeaning our enemies. Real tough guys publically work toward the most peaceful outcome to achieving their goals but quietly plan every detail in the eventuality of the worst.

When the Rebublican Party finally purges their crazies, and there are many, priority should be given to McCain.

On a different subject, Menedez is pure scum. We have enough evidence for that. No reasonable person could conclude otherwise. Not only does he need to relieved of duty, he should be publically handcuffed and indicted. Make an example of him. Democrats need to step up and and throw this guy under the rug where he belongs.

used to be texas was the laughing stock of the country. but arizona seems hell bent on taking 1st place these days.

so glad i am not from there or a republican!! i hold my head high on both counts!!

i ususally go to the plane lav and flush twice when i fly over either state.

the blue ice is a little gift from the rest of the country!

joe, mccain WAS a war hero (i guess)!

perhaps it is time for him to retire like goldwater did.

McCain scariest? right now i am so scared of the non stop ticking debt billboard, going too fast to 17 trillion as if, its like a ticking time bomb. so McCain said something too benign, blown out of proportion makes you scared? don't tell me about the globe knowing this McCain monkey comment, bringing shames to americans. I have 3 international channels, in the global news, they are finding McCain, a man with humor, and finding americans like you with exaggerated pointless rationales crazies, ignorant and stupid. you must not line the people of the globe to think the way you all lefties think. american cultures are not the cultures of the globe.

People going on fever pitched rants defending the quip; lighten up. Something is askew here.

troller clown.

Yes that's right East to West, McCain is the scariest almost-President in history and he does bring shame to Americans...except for those who who are shameless of course (you know, the Americans who locals love to despise when when they travel outside of the US). Remember, wasn't it McCain e who nearly brought us Palin as VP? The 4 star admiral's boy, born into privelage but turned into an undisciplined spoiled brat who was the most wreckless pilot the Air Force has ever known (and the reason he became a POW in the first place)? The "songbird" of Hanoi whose career has been riddled with lobbyists and special interests (e.g. Keating Five Scandal)? The man with a notoriously volatile temper (named "McNasty" by his classmates) and once publically called his wife a trollop and c...t? The man who openly advocates bombing Syria and Iran? The man who has consistently put his own advancement above all else (after returning from Vietnam he left his first wife - who was disfigured in a car accident - to elope with a rich woman from Arizona from a powerful family who could start his political career), the man willing to say and do anything to achieve his ultimate ambition: to become commander in chief, ascending to the one position that would finally enable him to outrank his four-star father and grandfather? Yes, this is a very scarey man indeed!

But you're losing sleep over the deficit? Why? Because you and those who think like you (mostly older white tough-guy wannabes) have literally been brainwashed by the conservative media bubble, that's why. Obama is not a socialist. He was not born in Kenya. He is not coming after you in black helicopters to take away your guns. Get over it already. He has already cut spending and will continue to cut spending - as it is progressively responsible to do so (as to avoid a double dip recession like we're seeing in the UK as a result of harsh austerity measures). He will continue to advocate that the rich to pay their fair share. He will not get us into unneccesary wars that waste our precious blood and treasure. He will leave America much better off when he leaves than when he took over. Not like GWB. But you never had a problem with him did you? Think about that.

Of course the left leaning lemmings bash a republican for a minor gaffe. But if their leaders would have said the same thing about the murdering Iranian leader who has threatened the US on multiple occasions they would hail them as heroes.

We can all sit here and say the Prick from Persia is a monkey. The Idiot from Iran. The Turd from Tehran. We can do that. But a U.S. Senator should be above that. A U.S. Senator is representing the United States when he/she makes those comments, and that is not acceptible.

Kaleb-omg,

Better check your history books. Politicians have been making put-downs about other politicians from other countries for hundreds of years. Sometimes politicians more then deserve the characterization and derision. Ahmadinejad is no saint and shouldn't be treated like one. He would prefer to kill you and destroy the freedoms of our western culture without a second thought. So why protect Ahmadinejad in the media. Are you afraid of Iran and have no guts to protect your own position? Are you afraid of winning or just afraid to fight? Many are, and it sure does look that way for you. Get some backbone, have a little fun in life, but do it wearing big-boy pants.

"Better check your history books. Politicians have been making put-downs about other politicians from other countries for hundreds of years."

I don't need to check my history books. Politicians do put down other politicans from other countries. How does that work out for them? How does that help their position? Does it win allies? Does it change the discourse in any positive way? Does it advance the just cause? Or does it bring the insulting country down towards the level of the object of the insult?

Ahmadinejad does not need to be protected in the media. He should be exposed as the horrible person he is. In the media - by the media. Our leaders can call him out for his evil - and they should. He should be called out for his hatred of Israel, for his stealing of his election, for his denial of the Holocaust. These are valid ways to approaching the issues concerning Iran and its illegitimate leader.

But "get some back bone?" "Do it wearing big-boy pants?" Does cracking a juvenile joke about your enemy constitute wearing big-boy pants? Does having backbone really require our statesmen to lower themselves to the level of tweeting a monkey joke? God, I hope that's not the standard.

People have their heads too far up their ass these days. Achmadinanotgonnabothertryingtospellhisname wants to destroy Israel and probably wage nuclear war against the West, and people are butthurt that McCain called him a monkey? If anything, the monkey should be insulted. I remember when people used to be able to take a joke. I don't like McCain, but kudos for the joke

Could of sworn Iran was an Enemy? So now we have to be careful of being insensitive to an Enemy? What a load of Bull crap, he does remind me of a Monkey whats his name Id-derrob or something like that.. So friggin what, Racist, Hell no, no the DNC and Obama, now there is Racism

@ East to West (look at me, I'm a traveler); the shoe fit...lol.

this post is a troll post, my first post made you think - trolls don't require thought. I haven't read your other posts (except where you trolled me) - would I find any thought in them, or just the same old rants? Auto pilot rants are just troll posts IMO.