# "I'm John McCain, and I Approved this Bullshit in spite of what I'd earlier said"

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**Created:** [August 25, 2008, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-john-mccain-and-i-approved-this-bullshit-in-spite-of-what-id-earlier-said/461215 "2008-08-25T17:25:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2008, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-john-mccain-and-i-approved-this-bullshit-in-spite-of-what-id-earlier-said/461215/61 "2008-08-26T20:42:06Z")

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Secretary: Senator McCain, you’re going to be late for your fundraising dinner—

\<stops and stares at a baby buffalo standing in a rubber raft, twin ballerinas slowly twirling on point, an 8-track player blaring “Macarthur Park,” a disco ball, and seventeen pints of Ben & Jerry’s Chunky Monkey, with a fully-oiled John McCain in a neon-pink Speedo sitting astride the buffalo and combing Wite-Out into his hair while enraged squirrels gnaw at his nipples\>

\<moment of silence\>

McCain: “Listen, when I was a prisoner for five and a half years, we didn’t have CraigsList, all right? Now get out!”

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**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2008, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-john-mccain-and-i-approved-this-bullshit-in-spite-of-what-id-earlier-said/461215/62 "2008-08-26T21:15:35Z")

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McCain: I was a prisoner of war for 5 years. I will not abide the US torturing prisoners.

George Bush: It’s not torture. We don’t torture.

McCain: Ok, then.

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**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2008, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-john-mccain-and-i-approved-this-bullshit-in-spite-of-what-id-earlier-said/461215/63 "2008-08-26T21:28:33Z")

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[QUOTE=Cervaise]  
\<…a fully-oiled John McCain in a neon-pink Speedo sitting astride the buffalo and combing Wite-Out into his hair while enraged squirrels gnaw at his nipples\>  
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You may enjoy [this](http://rathergood.com/president/) from the lair of the crab of ineffable wisdom.

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**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2008, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-john-mccain-and-i-approved-this-bullshit-in-spite-of-what-id-earlier-said/461215/64 "2008-08-27T01:07:37Z")

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Well, McCain’s ongoing habit of attacking Obama’s patriotism while denying he’s doing it every step of the way [continues](http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/08/26/mccain-challenges-obama-s-patriotism-again.aspx):

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> John McCain alleged today that Barack Obama declined to defend his country when speaking in Germany last month:
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> > Referring to Obama’s speech in Berlin, McCain said that he had a “chance to express such confidence in America” – but passed it up. “He was the picture of confidence, but in some ways the confidence in one’s self and confidence in one’s country are not the same,” McCain said.
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> As NBC’s Mark Murray points out, this charge is utterly false:
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> > In fact, in that Berlin speech, Obama expressed plenty of confidence in America. “I also know how much I love America,” the Illinois senator said that day. “I know that for more than two centuries, we have strived – at great cost and great sacrifice – to form a more perfect union; to seek, with other nations, a more hopeful world… What has always united us – what has always driven our people; what drew my father to America’s shores – is a set of ideals that speak to aspirations shared by all people: that we can live free from fear and free from want; that we can speak our minds and assemble with whomever we choose and worship as we please.”
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> This is just a shameless lie by McCain. News reports usually just repeat politicians’ claims without making much of an effort to gauge their accuracy. So Mark Murray deserves some credit for placing McCain’s smear into a factual context.

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**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2008, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-john-mccain-and-i-approved-this-bullshit-in-spite-of-what-id-earlier-said/461215/65 "2008-08-27T01:58:39Z")

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[QUOTE=ArchiveGuy]  
Well, McCain’s ongoing habit of attacking Obama’s patriotism while denying he’s doing it every step of the way [continues](http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/08/26/mccain-challenges-obama-s-patriotism-again.aspx):  
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Well, he spent 5 years with the Vietnamese questioning HIS patriotism, ya know. :rolleyes:

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