McCain: "Obama wouldn't know the difference between an RPG and a bong."

politico.com ^

[cdnerds]

McCain responds to Obama in tough enough, if predictable, language:

"While Senator Obama's two years in the U.S. Senate certainly entitle him to vote against funding our troops, my service and experience combined with conversations with military leaders on the ground in Iraq lead me to believe that we must give this new strategy a chance to succeed because the consequences of failure would be catastrophic to our nation's security."

But, McCain being McCain, he can't help himself and goes the next step in the statement's kicker:

"By the way, Senator Obama, it's a 'flak' jacket, not a 'flack' jacket."

Which is to say, "there is only one of us in this argument who has ever worn the uniform." (my words)

And if you still don't get it, a McCain aide blows away the anthill with, well, a rocket.

"Obama wouldn't know the difference between an RPG and a bong."

[cdnerds]

McCain is not my favorite but he sure has great quotes LOL

[teddyballgame]

Update: Aid meant to say crackpipe...not bong.

[Always Right]

It’s hard to believe that the Democrats might actually nominate someone whose background consists of only two years in the Senate.

[trumandogz]

McCain, working to destroy Obama to help Hillary.

[jveritas]

LOL... a great slam by McCain at traitor obama :)

[RockinRight]

That’s true. I’m not a McCain fan, but he can say some funny stuff once in a while.

[cdnerds]

Drudge is saying Aid, Politico makes it clear its Mccain.

[Frwy]

But that in no way qualifiies him to become President. We’ve had a left moving Republican for almost 8 years. I sure don’t want another.

[furquhart]

It’s things like that which make we want to support the guy.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Problem is...McCain often acts as if he’s just smoked a bong.

[griswold3]

Yes, very useful.

[Badeye]

“Obama wouldn’t know the difference between an RPG and a bong.”

While this is in fact true, McCain should be careful.

As we all know, his wife knows what bong is, and she knows quite a bit about popping pills.

[Sgt_Schultze]

I’m wagering 4 hours before McCain is called a racist for associating the black guy with pot use.

[unkus]

I wonder what male body part McCain would refer to when saying a similar thing about Hitlery.

[Lijahsbubbe]

"Obama wouldn't know the difference between an RPG and a bong."

I think this was a stupid move on his part. Don't like either McCain or Obama, but this is a childish remark. Makes McLame look even more unstable and unprofessional.

[Dinsdale]

When I was a kid I knew someone who made a bong out of a used LAW rocket tube. OK, OK it was me, I'll cop to it.

It can be confusing.

[jpsb]

LOL way to go McCain!

[Froufrou]

Probably not at all off target, that remark!

Scary.

[muawiyah]

And keeping a variety of dealers she might know OUT OF PRISON is probably behind more than one of the special pieces of text McCain had inserted in the immigration bill.

Guy can't be trusted.

[Vigilanteman]

Well, Osama Obama could always reply that McCain doesn't know the difference between a bong and a crackpipe.

Which is really more important to a Lieberal.

[Non-Sequitur]

And the difference between Obama and McCain is that Obama has a chance to be his party’s nominee and McCain doesn’t.

[ClearCase_guy]

I like a witty put-down as well as the next guy, but ...

This is not presidential.

[Kuksool]

Next week, we shall hear McCain’s “history of racism”.

[AlaskaErik]

An RPG launcher is just a super-sized bong!

[roaddog727]

Bingo

Bango

Bong go

Bump

[leadpenny]

“flack” is an alternate spelling, according to the on-air person on MSNBC just now.

[Vigilanteman]

Actually, Obama brags about his drug use history in one of his books. He wears it like a badge of honor. It is hardly racist to quote his own words.

[Badeye]

‘Guy can’t be trusted.’

Yep. I wonder how many posters here remember Lucy Goldbergs initial support for McCain back in 1999. She went to great lengths back then to get her ‘gang’ to overlook McCain’s obvious flaws, and the fact his wife was wearing what was called the ‘hillary pin’ everywhere she went...remember Hillary Clinton was wearing those God awful things during her first run for the Senate.

McCain’s wife took to wearing an exact duplicate as I recall, and Lucy tried to splain it all away for months on end.

Then the purge came, and nobody has been allowed to sign up for that forum since.

[zendari]

Slammed!

[mnehrling]

“flack” is an alternate spelling, according to the on-air person on MSNBC just now.

If they are on MSNBC, they wouldn't know a dictionary from a joint wrapper.

[Badeye]

‘I like a witty put-down as well as the next guy, but ...
This is not presidential.’

Thus McCain.

[okie01]

It’s hard to believe that the Democrats might actually nominate someone whose background consists of only two years in the Senate.

And he wasn't even in Viet Nam...

[Bigh4u2]

“This is not presidential.”

That’s ok, because he isn’t going to be President anyway.

And he probably knows it.

[gondramB]

Yep.

I want to like McCain.

God knows he served and suffered for his country and he has some good policies...

Too bad he’s unstable and doesn’t respect free speech.

[shadeaud]

Obama is dying to respond that he knows the difference the RPG gets you high all by itself but a bong needs to be Monicaized.

[muawiyah]

Not true. You can sign up for Lucianne.com ~ just no one is there to send out the email with your special password the next day.

Thing's been on auto so long I can't really remember when a meaningful post was entered.

[w1andsodidwe]

It’s hard to believe that the Democrats might actually nominate someone whose background consists of only two years in the Senate.

Well last time they put up a 1 term (unable to be reelected) senator as VP.

[GVnana]

You’re right. It’s a good one!

[Joe 6-pack]

"It’s hard to believe that the Democrats might actually nominate someone whose background consists of only two years in the Senate."

I'm by no means an Obama fan, but the Republicans once nominated a guy who's only Federal experience was one term in the house...

[muawiyah]

Most of them probably know what a Phillies Blunt cigar is, but not that it can be smoked “as is”.

[Wiseghy]

4 hours!?

I would cue all of the professionally offended right now.

There is now a class of media types who live simply to act offended at virtually any remark, implication or omission of any kind.

[HKMk23]

LOL! SCORE, McCain! I bet he’d be great at a roast.

AND, from the comments at the Politico website:

“Both get you bombed.”

[Vision]

It’s things like that which make we want to support the guy.

Well before you get crazy remember even a hallucinating senator is right twice a day.

[massgopguy]

Or in the National Guard, like Dan Quayle. Or was in the Congress, like Dan Quayle. Or who served a full term as a Senator, like Dan Quayle.

[Lijahsbubbe]

McCain’s wife took to wearing an exact duplicate as I recall, and Lucy tried to splain it all away for months on end.

Pwah! (I never hear of Lucy anywhere, seems to have disappeared)

[Mr. Silverback]

McCain, working to destroy Obama to help Hillary.

I don't like McCain, but that's a load of crap. Anyone seriously seeking the nomination would look like an idiot if they spent the next 12 months attacking only Hillary. In fact, in the specific case of Obama, imagine he was the nominee, and McCain was our nominee. What would the press and the Dems say about him simply ignoring Obama for months? They'd say he obbviously has racial prejudices, and claim that he really thought Obama could never be nominated because he's black.

[353FMG]

What difference does it make to a democrat? Time in the senate is less important than party affiliation.

[NeoCaveman]

And if you still don't get it, a McCain aide blows away the anthill with, well, a rocket.
"Obama wouldn't know the difference between an RPG and a bong."

Sounds like an aide, not McCain himself.

[Diago]

Obama wouldn't know the difference between an RPG and a bong."

Good stuff.

[Republican Red]

Not a McCain fan by any means but it is a great quote.