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

Posted on 05/25/2007 11:47:23 AM PDT by 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."

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bong; funny; mccian; obama
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To: Sgt_Schultze

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.


41 posted on 05/25/2007 12:03:50 PM PDT by Wiseghy ("You want to break this army? Then break your word to it.")
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To: cdnerds

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

AND, from the comments at the Politico website:

“Both get you bombed.”


42 posted on 05/25/2007 12:05:20 PM PDT by HKMk23 (Nine out of ten orcs attacking Rohan were Saruman's Uruk-hai, not Sauron's! So, why invade Mordor?)
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To: furquhart
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.
43 posted on 05/25/2007 12:05:28 PM PDT by Vision ("Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in him." Jeremiah 17:7)
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To: okie01

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.


44 posted on 05/25/2007 12:06:04 PM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: Badeye
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)

45 posted on 05/25/2007 12:08:02 PM PDT by Lijahsbubbe (Ah don't feeeeel no ways taihrd.)
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To: trumandogz
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.

46 posted on 05/25/2007 12:08:09 PM PDT by Mr. Silverback (A pacifist sees no distinction between the arsonist and the fireman--Freeper ccmay)
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To: Always Right

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


47 posted on 05/25/2007 12:09:48 PM PDT by 353FMG (Liberalism is a satanic cult.)
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To: cdnerds
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.

48 posted on 05/25/2007 12:09:51 PM PDT by NeoCaveman (Fence first! We can discuss the rest later.)
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To: cdnerds
Obama wouldn't know the difference between an RPG and a bong."

Good stuff.

49 posted on 05/25/2007 12:11:02 PM PDT by Diago (What was Urban Moving Systems?)
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To: cdnerds

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


50 posted on 05/25/2007 12:11:29 PM PDT by Republican Red (The word "courage" is not in the liberal vocabulary)
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To: 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.

Ha! Flak comes from the German word "fliegerabwehrkanone" a type of German anti-aircraft gun.

"Flack" is an American singer, who sang Obama's theme song, "Where is the love?"

51 posted on 05/25/2007 12:11:40 PM PDT by hunter112 (Change will happen when very good men are forced to do very bad things.)
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To: cdnerds; martin_fierro; dighton; jdm
Some blunt words from McCain.


52 posted on 05/25/2007 12:12:10 PM PDT by Petronski (Fred!)
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To: cdnerds

He doesn’t mince words, I’ll give him that.


53 posted on 05/25/2007 12:12:32 PM PDT by Armedanddangerous (Master of Sinanju (emeritus))
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To: cdnerds
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54 posted on 05/25/2007 12:12:58 PM PDT by 007girl
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To: Bigh4u2

‘This is not presidential’

...very Vice-Presidential though.


55 posted on 05/25/2007 12:13:24 PM PDT by Natchez Hawk (RIP Kilgore Trout)
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To: leadpenny
“flack” is an alternate spelling, according to the on-air person on MSNBC just now.

B.S. but no surprise, MSNBC has his back, LOL.

56 posted on 05/25/2007 12:13:35 PM PDT by Lurking in Kansas (Nothing witty here... move on.)
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To: cdnerds

RPG and a bong - either one you get blown away


57 posted on 05/25/2007 12:13:51 PM PDT by SF Republican
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To: cdnerds

LOL - That’s awesome!


58 posted on 05/25/2007 12:16:00 PM PDT by Red6 (Come and take it.)
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To: cdnerds

Good line, rational thoughts. Maybe Fred will should make McCain Sec. of Dse.


59 posted on 05/25/2007 12:18:26 PM PDT by mikeus_maximus (The Left knows most Mexican immigrants are socialists. That's why they want them here.)
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To: 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.’

Hmmm. Then they’ve recently changed the policy, that had a ‘large waiting list’ which many have come to understand is a means of keeping out those that don’t march to madame L’s tune.

Perhaps I’m mistaken...


60 posted on 05/25/2007 12:18:29 PM PDT by Badeye (You know its a kook site when they ban the word 'kook')
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