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So, Iraq? Kinda bad. If you’re a presidential candidate, I don’t really think it should be used as a punchline, even if you are on The Daily Show.
I’m a little behind because of my stupid download limit. So I don’t get to download see TDS as often as is obviously necessary. I’m just watching the John McCain interview from the 25th on Crooks and Liars, and John McCain must be off his face. So far we have:
Talking about his trip to the Baghdad markets:
I had something really picked out for you, too. It’s a nice little IED to put on your desk.
And…
What Mike and all of us were saying [about the markets being like Indiana] is that they take all plastic, and so that’s good.
Seriously, what is going on inside his head? Aside from continuing with the ‘Bomb Iran’ song, McCain thinks the horribleness in Iraq, including roadside bombs, are ‘a funny’. Jon Stewart is a satirist, so gallows humor is appropriate, but John McCain is, and at this point I hate to say it, a political opinion leader in the US. His job is serious - not mirthful. Not to mention that it’s absolutely horrific for someone who wants to take over this disaster in a year and a half to be poking fun at the misery that Iraqis experience on a daily basis. McCain talks like he was a hero because he was the first to tour that market after the big bombing, and then turns around and makes fun of their suffering.
He toured that market with soldiers and helicopters and thinks IEDs are funny. He’s completely lost the plot.
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