I don’t know… All of those Letterman quotes sound to me like a home-town, down-to-earth kind of feel. That’s probably actually pretty beneficial to a politician, to have that sort of impression.
McCain looks like the type of guy that would fuck a person in the ass and not even have the goddamn common courtesy to give him a reacharound.
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He looks like the kind of guy who pretends he doesn’t understand why the senior discount doesn’t apply for him today.
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I kinda lost navigation of which message board this was posted on. Please continue.
(Although given Mr. McCain’s resume, he definitely deserves some respect.)
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McCain did deserve respect for being a valiant soldier back in the day. I’d even go so far as to say he still had a modicum of respect left after he became the lapdog of Bush and Rove - it’s standard practice politics. But to publicly endorse America for using torture? I simply can’t respect anyone who wants America to be associated with torture, but what makes it even worse is his history. He should know better. He should know it’s a horrible, horrible thing. And he might, privately, still condemn torture, but that’s no reason to publicly endorse it. If he kept his mouth shut, I might, might buy the whole respect angle, after 40 years, even though there’s 50 other things to not like about who he has become. But not torture.
McCain looks like the kinda guy who always stops by to chat in the barbership . . . but his wife gives him his haircuts.
McCain looks like the kinda guy who carries a coin purse . . . and always checks to see if he has correct change.
McCain looks like the kinda guy who always checks to make sure he doesn’t have an extra item in the express line.
McCain looks like the kinda guy who would make a darned handsome float in the Macy’s parade.
Kind of guy who digs out gunk from inside his ears. And then examines it closely.
It’s funny. The thread title/thread starter says: McCain looks like the kinda guy who runs with scissors.
Actually, he looks like the kinda guy to hollers at people who run with scissors. Especially if they’re running across his lawn.
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It’s funny. The thread title/thread starter says: McCain looks like the kinda guy who runs with scissors.
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Read that post again, very carefully. Make sure to notice the name of the person who posted that OP. 
-FrL-
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McCain did deserve respect for being a valiant soldier back in the day. I’d even go so far as to say he still had a modicum of respect left after he became the lapdog of Bush and Rove - it’s standard practice politics. But to publicly endorse America for using torture? I simply can’t respect anyone who wants America to be associated with torture, but what makes it even worse is his history. He should know better. He should know it’s a horrible, horrible thing. And he might, privately, still condemn torture, but that’s no reason to publicly endorse it. If he kept his mouth shut, I might, might buy the whole respect angle, after 40 years, even though there’s 50 other things to not like about who he has become. But not torture.
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Wait what? I feel misinformed. I could have sworn part of McCain’s claim to noteriety is the fact that he has broken with most other Republicans on the torture issues, being one of the few who vocally and clearly argues against its use.
Am I misinformed, then?
-FrL-
Uhh, exactlly.
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Uhh, exactlly.
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I think you saw the thread title on the CS forum page, and saw “runs with scissors” right under the title, and thought the OP is saying McCain looks like the kind of guy who runs with scissors. But in fact, the OP wasn’t saying that. It’s just that the OP’s name is “runs with scissors” and on the CS forum page, the placement of his name right under the thread title coincidentally happens to form what could look like a sentence if misread in the right way.
-FrL-
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McCain looks like the type of guy that would fuck a person in the ass and not even have the goddamn common courtesy to give him a reacharound.
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This is the first thing I thought of when I read the title of the thread!
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The bit is Letterman monologuing about the kinda guy McCain looks like.
“You know who I like is that John McCain. … He looks like the guy at the hardware store who makes the keys. He looks like the guy who can’t stop talking about how well his tomatoes are doing. He looks like the guy who goes into town for turpentine. He looks like the guy who always has wiry hair growing out of new places. He looks like the guy who points out the spots they missed at the car wash.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/01/david-lettermans-oldman_n_89237.html
My local paper printed some that aren’t on this clip, and there are some on the clip that weren’t in the local paper. None of the ones I quoted above are in either.
The interesting thing is this is the type of thing that can lose an election far more than some boring ol’ scandal. Remember the video of Bob Dole slowly falling off the raised platform when he was running against Clinton in '92?
Anyway…what kinda guy do you think John McCain looks like?
I think he looks like the kinda guy who yells at people on a golf course.
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This kind of thing won’t hurt McCain’s chances one bit. He appeared on Letterman and got in a few last words. This shows McCain can take this kind of humor in good nature.
It might do for him what Nixon’s appearance on “Laugh-In” did for him in 1968.
He looks like a young Grandpa Munster.
He looks like the kind of guy who uses “the” in front of scary diseases. As in, “He has the AIDS”.
He also looks like the fire marshal that comes to your school and scares the bejaysus out of you, ala Fire Marshall Bill.
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He looks like the drunken XO on a spaceship that fights robots.
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Oh, my God! You’re right! Is it bad that this makes me like him better?
He looks like my next President, but who also would probably get a kick out of most/all these jokes.
Someone like McCain is actually quite hard to make fun of. So when you hit something that works, you go with it. Note that McCain came on during one of Letterman’s monologues and turned the tables on him.
Letterman also makes fun of Clinton with jokes about pantsuits, sniper fire and Bill’s women issue. OTOH, he hasn’t yet found a running gag that works on Obama. But give it time.
McCain lost all of my respect for toadying to Bush, and not just on torture, as well as sucking up to Fallwell. (And we all know how well that worked out. Nice to see Karma in action.) Someone with principles would have stood his ground.
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It’s funny. The thread title/thread starter says: McCain looks like the kinda guy who runs with scissors.
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Funniest line in the whole thread. Hands down.
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He looks like a fine gentleman who has served his country well, and who is really undeserving of these cheap shots by a bunch of message board hypocrites and idiots.
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Insults don’t belong in any forum outside the Pit, Leaffan. Please do not do this again.