I have always been an admirer of John McCain. He stayed in a POW camp when he could have gone home because the other guys couldn't leave. Nothing more needs be said about his character as far as I am concerned. I could not vote for him when he picked Sarah Palin and did not vote for Obama. Having said that it is a hard to believe that every time a conservative says something really stupid they just load up their pistols and blow off another toe. Before long they will have offended everyone but themselves and they don't even trust each other that much. It is hard to believe that they have gone from their past leadership to the people they have in place now. When a movement goes from having an intellectual head like Buckley to Ryan they are going off a cliff.

We're really worried about offending a guy who wants to wipe Israel off the map? If we're so worried about that I guess I am with the other posts and we better also label as racist all parents who have referred to their kids goofing around on playground equipment as monkeys.

And let's not forget to be sure to boycott Comedy Central due to the following post comparing ALL astronauts to being dumber than monkeys:

Just Google "Funny Jokes Space Monkeys Joke Comedy Central"

This sort of thing surely must be stopped before we offend genocidal dictators AND cream-of-the-crop astronauts the world over.

Hmmm...I wonder if McCain wrote that bit for Comedy Central? Shame on all of them!

John................as I am often reminded............THANK YOU for your service..........AND now please get some mental health consulting to see what has gone wrong in your head after all that abuse you took from the war...........and from picking Sarah....................You are not well and I am a professional who can only recommend you seek help on a regular basis............Please for the good of the country and the American people..

I wonder if Fisty Redhead was upset when Obama made a joke about kids in the Special Olympics?

McCain just showed his obvious lack of statesmanship.

And Iran wanting to lead its own cart, doesn't make it a Jew Hater, or the enemy. Just because its national interests are counter to those of Israel, doesn't make them Jew Haters. OR anyone else who doesn't "kowtow" to Israel. Israel plays the racist card at every turn. And old McCain here has been "kowtow'ed" for years. Or is it bought? Its hard to tell... They are just afraid they wont be able to bully the middle east anymore, if the Middle East get their act together.

How many years has Pakistan had Nukes? No war yet, no one has nuked Israel. The difference is, Pakistan doesn't have to take anyones sh!t. I hope they all get nukes. Then the warmongers will be out of business.

Oh McCain, you have over stayed you welcome. You asked: "Lighten up folks, can't everyone take a joke?” We have been taking you on for far too long. You are a bitter and misguided old man. Time to put your ice pics and daggers away for good, no one wants to fight you on every stupid thing you bring up. Try working for the good of the people instead of your senile agenda!

"War hero" doesn't cut it anymore...We've got a Viet-Nam vet holding a 5-year-old child in a bunker for 6 days now. We've got another one that just killed "America's best sniper."

This senile, racist, hateful, angry, insensitive twit doesn't deserve to be in the Senate, much less on the Sunday morning talk-shows on a rotating basis.

John, go home... Your "15 minutes of fame" was over a long time ago.

This is speciesism; not racism. And PETA should get involved as this was an unwarranted defamation of monkeys.

Face it, McCain is a bitter old man who wanted to be President, failed and now has nothing to do but try to elevate himself by belittling everyone else. Yes, Ahmadinajan is ruthless and untrustworthy but stupid he is not. McCain should take a good look at himself and face the fact that he is a has-been and he's done it to himself by his pettiness, his egomania and his propensity for calling other people not very smart (e.g. Rhoades scholar Susan Rice). Time for him to pack up his Depends and go home.

Personally, I think McCain's comment was in insult to monkeys.

Racist? Of course not, how silly. Insulting? Probably, and deservedly so. Ahmadinejad is a total slime ball.

And why would anybody waste their time about what the senator from Arizona says?

When is this crotchety old man going to retire. What an embarrassment to the the State of Arizona and America he has become. Pitiful.

Always the race card, this politically correct nonsense is getting old and tiring. I thought that is who they sent into space too. Iran has not been a friend of the U.S. for quite some time so who even cares if they are monkeys, or compared to them.

Just who is calling who a monkey? Methinks John hasn't looked in the mirror recently. Can you say baboons ass?

This is akin to McCain's "Bomb, bomb, bomb, Iran". His shelf life is expired and he needs to be washed down the kitchen drain.

"So...it's defend-the-Jew-hater-from-the-war-hero day."

-John Podhoretz

To the Republican Party: Want to really clean up your image? Don't want to be the 'stupid party'? Disavow this type of rhetoric for starts. Reject the racist, angry, bitter and hateful ideology that the American people are starting to recognize as the Republican brand. Start acting like citizens of this country instead of 'haters' who only want to derail any progress made because you hate our black President.

The Republican party will never be in power until guys like this move on and get off the stage. It is sad for the younger Repubs, but happy for the Democrats. Until guys like this (and George Allen, Sarah Palin, John Koster, Akin, Mourdock, Rivard, ... the list goes on ad infinitum) pass from the scene and die off, they will remain the 'also-rans.'

The country has moved on. Casual racism, sexism, and the lie of nostalgia no longer appeal to the voters of this country. Thank God.

When the level of fury is dramatically higher than the degree of offense a joke may have made, it speaks volumes about those who are outraged.

songbird mccain is a disgrace to the USA...don't give me the POW crap and service to his country...look into his military service--how many jets he trashed and of course the Forrestal incident, which some would like to coverup...the films tell an interesting story...

songbird mccain really should resign...his questionable behavior is not only in bad taste, it seems to indicate that he is going senile...go home , johnny boy. after all, you do have a nice selection since you own 7 homes (or is it your wife that owns them--you little gigolo)

McCain SHUT the F"N UP, and PLEASE for the sake of this NATION get your LOPPY OLD ASS OUT OF GOVERNMENT PLEASE, FOR GODS SAKE !!!!!!.

Your an OLD FOOL like the rest of your EASY LIVING CROONIES in the HOUSE of GERIATRICS. You OLD FARTS have ruined this COUNTRY with your RIGHT WING DING REGIMES of DEVIL IDEOLOGIES and ripping the AMERICANS OFF over all these years. And to show us what? A MASSIVE RIGHT WING CATASTROPHE. Middle AMERICA GOES POOR, and it went straight INTO YOURS AND THE MAFIA OLD FOLKS in the HOUSE Pockets.

You are not fooling me that is for sure. YOU DOWN RIGHT SUCK McCAIN !!!!

Sounds like John needs a vacation... may I recommend the Hanoi Hilton, I think he'd love it there

go for it McCain if they want me to call him a monkey well . i think he's a monkey . but that's right its not nice to be racist against monkeys.

I agree McCain and the GOP are fond of monkeys as they in fact want a monkey that rubber stamps everything that comes across the desk of the US secretary of defense desk in spending as "approved". I do not believe Hagel will be the "rubber stamp monkey" for (out of control) military spending and that's why they don't want Hagel.

We expanded our reach and purpose when we commited to hunting down the party responsible for the 9/11 terrorist attack that killed thousands of innocent US citizens in New York twelve years ago in 2001, and dispensing justice. However without a doubt that goal has been accomplished with the confirmed kill of Osama Bin Laden. Now is the time to let this war against the US cool down, consider that terrorists are not made on an assembly line that is run by evil leaders, an assembly line that we can locate and destroy. A terrorist is born any time the US makes a personal enemy of someone, and that someone is prepared to attack the US in return. There is no stopping new terrorists from emerging in any situation where people are being killed or sanctions enforced by the US in foreign countries. We need to stop believing that going into unstable foreign lands and attempting to put in place what the US considers the "secure" form of government is anti-terrorism, it's moving toward world domination. This is no longer about US defense but offense, and eliminating all anti-US parties in the world, no matter where they may be. Terrorism is the worst form of warfare in that it typically intends innocent deaths rather than strategic goals, and is primarily a force of fear and public opinion influence. Terrorists can believe that if they kill enough children the parents will then surrender, to protect more children from being murdered. However it is also true that typically terrorists hit your home, they do not fight in a defined war zone, but where the target innocents are. With the US going to foreign countries to fight and kill the US has in effect become the terrorist. Now it is foreign people that die in thier own land and in thier own homes, and consequently can see the US as foreign invaders.

Our "defense" spending needs a great deal of redistribution as the role of the US military needs to return to being a matter of defense and not conquest. Arguing that a country's having weapons of mass destruction and that the country has to be invaded (and start a war with said coutry) due to the risk of instability and/or a new cold war or even world wide nuclear war will need to have real evidence this time, unlike the lies from "experts" that the Bush administration used to start the war with Iraq (which in my opinion, the resulting military was the primary reason the Bush economy was about to bankrupt America. Also, more than 4000 US service men and women lost thier lives due to the war).

If we really want to solve terrorism we should win more hearts and allow fewer family, brothers, sisters, and children to die in US and "terrorist" confrontations in foreign lands. Provide humanitarian support and education, education that includes counter propoganda and defuses the potential for another wave of new born terrorists.