# McCain wants to test foreign enemies **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 25, 2008, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mccain-wants-to-test-foreign-enemies/469555 "2008-10-25T20:50:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2008, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mccain-wants-to-test-foreign-enemies/469555/1 "2008-10-25T20:50:17Z")
[One of many sources](http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=ahkhAHvy7LA4&refer=home) Standing like Mussolini on a balcony, soaking up the admiration of the remaining idiots who surround him, John McCain declared today that he would test foreign enemies. They may want to test Obama, but I have been tested. I am going to test them. They are not going to test me.What. The. Fuck. Who the hell wants an angry old man, verging on dimentia, going on a fucking worldwide rampage seeing how far he can push dictators? It’s a fucking surprise-a-minute now from McCain’s last-ditch shit-fan tactical orgy. He’s fucking crazy. Seriously. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2008, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mccain-wants-to-test-foreign-enemies/469555/2 "2008-10-25T20:57:35Z")
I’ll be curious to see what Ahmawhackjobijhad’s SAT scores are. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2008, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mccain-wants-to-test-foreign-enemies/469555/3 "2008-10-25T21:03:00Z")
I was told there wouldn’t be a test. Testing. Testing 1…2…3… Testing Don’t be testy. Test not, lest you be tested. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2008, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mccain-wants-to-test-foreign-enemies/469555/4 "2008-10-25T21:10:24Z")
Well, I’ve always said … the man is a test. ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2008, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mccain-wants-to-test-foreign-enemies/469555/5 "2008-10-25T21:31:27Z")
Will this be on the test? ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2008, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mccain-wants-to-test-foreign-enemies/469555/6 "2008-10-25T21:33:12Z")
This man is testing my patience. ---
**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:** [October 25, 2008, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mccain-wants-to-test-foreign-enemies/469555/7 "2008-10-25T22:01:43Z")
“I am going to test them.” He tests ME every fucking day. He tests my patience, and honestly, I am failing. He tests my English comprehension. But he’s cheating because he’s speaking gibberish and nonsense and complaining that I don’t understand. He’s also testing my understanding of basic logic. Either I’m failing or he is, and I’d bet that I’m better at it. ---
**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:** [October 25, 2008, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mccain-wants-to-test-foreign-enemies/469555/8 "2008-10-25T22:05:53Z")
I love this quote from the OP link: > [@](#): > > The Illinois senator… said McCain ``has been throwing everything he’s got at us, hoping something will stick.‘’ Next McCain is going to claim tha Obama is a tired old man who’s lost touch with the American people. ---
**Author:** ![rayh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@rayh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rayh)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2008, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mccain-wants-to-test-foreign-enemies/469555/9 "2008-10-25T22:29:34Z")
If this is a test…[McCain fails](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnE-YJ---GI). (YouTube.) ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2008, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mccain-wants-to-test-foreign-enemies/469555/10 "2008-10-25T22:30:40Z")
> [@Liberal](#): > > Who the hell wants an angry old man, verging on dimentia, going on a fucking worldwide rampage seeing how far he can push dictators? It’s a fucking surprise-a-minute now from McCain’s last-ditch shit-fan tactical orgy. He’s fucking crazy. Seriously. Anyone else immediately think of Bush and “Bring it on” ? He really is _Bush II : Electric Boogaloo_. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2008, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mccain-wants-to-test-foreign-enemies/469555/11 "2008-10-25T22:45:05Z")
[Terry Gilliam as John McCain] _What is your favorite color?_ [/TGaJM] ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2008, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mccain-wants-to-test-foreign-enemies/469555/12 "2008-10-25T22:53:47Z")
Will it be a Voigt-Kamff test? “My mother - I’ll tell you about my mother…” ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2008, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mccain-wants-to-test-foreign-enemies/469555/13 "2008-10-25T22:59:53Z")
> [@Liberal](#): > > Who the hell wants an angry old man, verging on dimentia, going on a fucking worldwide rampage seeing how far he can push dictators? It’s a fucking surprise-a-minute now from McCain’s last-ditch shit-fan tactical orgy. He’s fucking crazy. Seriously. **Liberal** , that’s the thing for me. Even back in 2000 I was seeing far too much of McCain’s temper for me to ever consider trusting him in the Presidency. He seems to like anger, and lets it get away with him. As long as he can keep functioning, even, while doing that I can’t even say that he needs to stop doing it. But putting him into a position where impulse could lead to the sort of consequences that the Commander-in-Chief could generate, just doesn’t seem prudent. It’s not an emotional flaw that would prevent me from voting for someone for any legislative position. The idea of him in the C-in-C’s spot makes me very nervous. Just for an example - consider the anger that followed from 9/11. People were seriously talking about nuking the capitol city of whatever nation has launched that attack. I’m not sure that I trust John McCain to wait to see that he even had a definitive smoking gun, before he’d authorize a nuke if something similar happened during his watch. ---
**Author:** ![Lok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e8c25b/32.png) [@Lok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lok)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2008, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mccain-wants-to-test-foreign-enemies/469555/14 "2008-10-26T00:20:47Z")
So, he is saying he has testes? 😕 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Frostillicus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Frostillicus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frostillicus)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2008, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mccain-wants-to-test-foreign-enemies/469555/15 "2008-10-26T02:34:14Z")
Test them for what? HIV? Tuberculosis? Whooping cough? ---
**Author:** ![Death\_of\_Rats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@Death\_of\_Rats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Death_of_Rats)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2008, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mccain-wants-to-test-foreign-enemies/469555/16 "2008-10-26T02:43:27Z")
Mathmatics and English comprehension … Or is that the SATs? ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2008, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mccain-wants-to-test-foreign-enemies/469555/17 "2008-10-26T02:48:58Z")
You have to be _THIS_ tall to attack the United States or its allies or interests. ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2008, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mccain-wants-to-test-foreign-enemies/469555/18 "2008-10-26T02:58:03Z")
> [@MEBuckner](#): > > You have to be _THIS_ tall to attack the United States or its allies or interests. Well, that’s a bit of a problem isn’t it? McCain being a short fellow that can’t rise his arms and all, him signaling _THIS_ tall would exclude noone but Mini-Me. ---
**Author:** ![Rand\_Rover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/db5fbb/32.png) [@Rand\_Rover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rand_Rover)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2008, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mccain-wants-to-test-foreign-enemies/469555/19 "2008-10-26T03:10:37Z")
:rolleyes: I remember when you were an interesting poster Liberal (except for that whole “believing the ontological argument for god’s existence” thing). Here lately though it seems you’ve thrown in with Diogenes and the gang as just another member of the lefty douchebag peanut gallery. So sad. ---
**Author:** ![Rand\_Rover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/db5fbb/32.png) [@Rand\_Rover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rand_Rover)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2008, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mccain-wants-to-test-foreign-enemies/469555/20 "2008-10-26T03:11:51Z")
> [@Ale](#): > > Well, that’s a bit of a problem isn’t it? > > McCain being a short fellow that can’t rise his arms and all, him signaling _THIS_ tall would exclude noone but Mini-Me. BO has sticky-outy ears. Feel the BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUURRRRRRRNNNN!! In other words: :rolleyes: [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mccain-wants-to-test-foreign-enemies/469555.md?page=2)