Sigh... not funny.

The media won't even pick this story up. According to Chuck Todd at MSNBC, all news coverage is a referendum on Barack Obama, not John McCain.

Haw haw haw. That's even funnier than the classic

"If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator."

It's just McCain's way of telling Iran to Butt Out of Iraq.

Cindy spanked him. That's kinda cool in an Anne Rice sorta way.

Hate to say this, but I bet that many Americans are muttering, "Right on, McCain," under their breaths.

For reasons beyond my comprehension, cowboy diplomacy has its supporters.

McFuddle is a disgrace for "American Values". I envision the world leaders are just shaking their heads at this joke of a candidate. KILL, KILL, AND KILL from a guy who has been tortured and says he hates war! What a complete and total asshole!

Wait, guys, hold on. He was a POW in Vietnam, remember? It's ok for him to say this because he was a POW. It's that experience that shows how much he loves America, how great of a President he'd be, and how safe we'll be when he becomes President.
Didn't you guys know he was a POW? Maybe he hasn't said it enough, hmmm. Maybe Idioti and Pickler from AP should break that story bc I don't think enough people have heard that he was a POW. Then you all would understand that it's ok to makes multiple jokes about obliterating men, women, and children from a country we have no business going to war with if only to provide long-term security to the oil industry and military contractors.

What a horses a$$...

Chuck Todd mentions it on First Read, but adds:
Still, if McCain can't be McCain, then he'll lose some of his appeal.
I think he should go for it and make plenty of idiotic remarks and jokes that fall flat . . .

I don't think this is what Obama meant by urging diplomacy.

By pointing out the health risks of smoking, McCain only makes it that more difficult for American businesses to sell their products.

Why does John McCain hate America?

McCain is a crass old gasbag who would be dangerous in office.

Veteranshz joke about theshze thingshz. They have their own way of talkin'. If you don't get the joke, get a life. End of story.
WTF?
A small group of non-veterans got us into the sandbox and it's no joke. There's one more joke they want to play before they leave and it doesn't involve cigarettes.

Or,or, we could send 'em our SUVs and then THEY will get the global warmin' . . .

I'm sure the joke about cigarettes being a good way to kill will play well in Virginia and North Carolina.

It is astonishing, even if he was making a joke, that his mind went immediately to killing Iranians. This is the same guy who is supposed to be appalled at I'm a Dinner Jacket saying similar things about the people of Israel.

McCain is very dangerous. This remark shows that attacking Iran is never out of his mind. He is a War Monger. People need to be reminded of that.

Not a smart comment.

But, remember that Iranians have chanted "Death to America" for 29 years -- and they weren't joking.

As a comment, it's nothing but a bad joke- insensitive but no big deal. But it does remind McCain is itching to go to war with Iran and that's troublsome.

I will kill 'em fuckin shites, sunnis or whateva, when I become president, I fuckin love wa..(wink & smile)...heee

Yesterday Josh noted McCain said this:

"Americans have got to understand that we are paying present-day retirees with the taxes paid by young workers in America today. And that's a disgrace. It's an absolute disgrace and it's got to be fixed."

How about once we polish off them "Eye-rain-ians"
we send everyone over 65 some smokes. That's a fix John can understand. And even the press might cover.

We all have to acknowledge that where "presidentiality" is concerned the bar has been lowered unimaginably by the unelected puerile cretin currently squatting in the White House, arguably even lower than the level represented by McC's remark...prompting the question, is this "very presidential" behavior for someone we'd want in there as a LEGITIMATELY ELECTED president? Bush's behavior/record on just about anything has to be asterisked like a Barry Bonds statistic. I'm sorry, we do not have a president. We have not had one since 2000.

Vile indeed.

What I find most frustrating about this "joke" -- like the Barbara Ann/Bomb Iran "joke" that preceded it -- is that it shows that McCain shares a fundmental misapprehension with the rest of the Republican Party. That is this: the Iranian people are among the most pro-American anywhere in the world. A remark like this is not an effective criticism of the repugnant and theocratic Iranian regime, but rather a direct insult to the Iranian people. It worries me that our nation's leaders can't make a distinction this basic. Not only do we as a nation risk sowing needless hostility and discord with the citizens of one of the world's most ancient nations, but we totally miss a chance to effectively exploit a natural division between the Iranian government, which is hostile to the U.S. and brutally oppresses its own people, and the Iranian people at large. If the U.S. aspires to be effective as a diplomatic force, our leaders will need to grasp at least this level of nuance.

If elected, McPain will airdrop a carton of unfiltered Camels over each Iranian dwelling, along with bottled hot water for each dehydrated baby!

Seriously, the man is demented. This is another example of how he would carry on the Bush tradition - of being a belligerent macho asshole.

I was going to say exactly the same thing.... A few Primanti's pastrami and cheese should clog some Iranain arteries.

I wonder why McCain is in pittsburgh. He has NO chance in Allegheny county. He should stick to the "alabama in the middle" of PA where is deluded, racist, vote-against-their-own-interest base lives.