Boy, THAT Sucked!

Well, okay, maybe I’m misquoting it:

Sen. John McCain, who officially announced his bid for the 2008 White House Wednesday, stopped by “Good Morning America” to talk about his campaign and ended up defending himself about a joke.

The Arizona Republican said that people upset by his comments about IEDs to Jon Stewart on Tuesday night’s “Daily Show” should “lighten up.” After being grilled by Stewart , McCain jokingly told him that he had a present for him — an IED that he could place under his desk. Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., was furious and publicly assailed McCain on the House floor. “Imagine a presidential candidate making a joke about IEDs when our kids are getting blown up,” he said. Responding to Murtha’s reaction, McCain said that he was going to use comedy during his campaign, just as he did during his military duty. “I don’t know how to react to that kind of hysteria to a comedy show,” he told Diane Sawyer on “GMA.” “All I’m going to say to Murtha and others. … Lighten up and get a life.”

They wouldn’t let me go to the war because I told ‘em about my love of man meat. Interpret as you like. That said, I’m pretty certain that you’re allowed to make any jokes you want when Charlie broke your shoulders and made you lie in your own poop for, oh, five and a half years. Murtha kept his mouth shut when John Kerry said our troops were “going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of the night, terrorizing kids and children, you know women” or when Dick Durbin from Illinois compared Guantanamo interrogators to “Nazis…Pol Pot.” McCain’s frankness just won him my vote for El Presidente, provided Dennis Kucinich doesn’t run:

I’m voting for McCain because his frank style and resolve is essential to beating the terrorists.  He told Murtha to sit on it and spin and it was rad. I’d vote for Kucinich because I’m fairly certain that his elven magik could make them all go away. If only somebody loved him.

McMan