"Takes one to know one"?
Posted on 12/15/2011 8:11:15 AM PST by izzatzo
Vladimir Putin has launched an extraordinary attack on US Senator John McCain in which he also implicated Washington in the killing of Libyan dictator Col Muammar Gaddafi.
The Russian prime minister called the former presidential candidate “nuts” in response to Twitter comment about Russia’s parliamentary elections that drew allegations of fraud and triggered large protests.
Mr McCain’s tweet read: "Dear Vlad, The Arab Spring is coming to a neighbourhood near you."
Mr Putin turned stony faced when asked about the tweet on his annual televised phone-in.
"Mr McCain fought in Vietnam. I think that he has enough blood of peaceful citizens on his hands. It must be impossible for him to live without these disgusting scenes anymore.
"Mr McCain was captured and they kept him not just in prison, but in a pit for several years," he said. "Anyone [in his place] would go nuts."
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Putin only objects when McCain is NOT acting nuts.
“So this is where we are? A high-ranking senator conducting foreign relations via Twitter?”
Yes, we really are.
“Maybe we really are better off that McCain lost the election.”
Actually, he won his last election. But, let’s not overreact now - perhaps the good citizens of Arizona will decide to elect new representation five years from now.
This is hilarious, political apparatchiks engaged in Tweet wars, nanny nanny boo boo.
McCain is the sponsor of the detention bill which includes US citizens on US soil.
He also vocally sided with Obama by-passing congress on Libyan war. He recently called citizens Hobbits and isolationists for not going along with big government agenda.
His McCain Feingold bill helped Soros fund his anti-American propaganda groups and parts ruled unconstitutional...
McCain - and many other establishment types in Congress - need to lose the next election.
McCain is long past needing to retire, for decades he has horse-traded away America.
America needs mature, responsible men who will serve as good stewards in Congress, not men bent on staying in office. Desperately.
Mr. McCain, thank you for your service.
No, just your average U.S. senator insulting the leader of a foreign country which possesses nuclear weapons. Ironically, I'm more inclined to support Putin's approach to dealing with the so called Arab Spring, which might more correctly be called militant Islam against the Christian world.
"Takes one to know one"?
“So this is where we are? A high-ranking senator conducting foreign relations via Twitter?”
And issuing threats. Yes. If a private person did that to another, it would be a crime, and the offender would be designated a cyberstalker.
Lieutenant Commander McCain died in Vietnam. That man perished under torture, in the service of his nation. What was sent back to us is a broken husk which has been methodically broken down, hollowed out, deformed and conditioned to the satisfaction of masters. While ‘nuts’ is too discourteous a description, ‘unstable’ is too kind.
There it is.
For once, I agree with Putin.
In fact, I’ll start a collection for Putin to take McKennedy and put him in the nastiest Russian prison in existance.
And then throw away the key.
McKennedy is an ass.
Putin as former KGB officer probably had access to his record from the NorthVietComs.
As senator from AZ he has not spoken out against Fast and Furious or border agents death, Mexican deaths.
He is focused on being senator of the world and Arab spring.
"Say What ?"
McCain should have been put out to pasture long ago.
McCain should have been put out to pasture long ago.
So what if McCain is a RINO and disliked on this forum??? He is an American from a distinguished family who has spent his life in service to his country. And you would choose a closet communist dictator over him? God help the USA.
I understand that Putin has a better than even shot at getting the GOP nomination this time around.
Get in line, Vlad!
I suspect it’s less a matter of “taking sides” with Putin than disgust at the sheer stupidity, arrogance and wrongheadedness of McCain’s message, plus the fact that it’s typical of the man.
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