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NPR is running this terrible phone interview with John McCain this morning. As the nutty old man says a lot of obnoxious nonsense punctuated by his hideous “heh heh” chuckles, you may be tempted to just turn off the radio and crash the car, for the sake of dignity. But go ahead and listen as he says this: “We’re in the most serious financial crisis of our, uh, ergh, lifetime.” Heh heh, McCain was born in 1936 — the middle of the Great Depression.
(Remember, this is the same old Walnuts who didn’t know anything was wrong with the U.S. economy just two weeks ago.)
Baby John McCain arrived on our planet on August 29, 1936 — just two years after the Securities and Exchange Commission was created by New Deal legislation, and shortly before the infant McCain demanded SEC chairman Joe Kennedy Sr. be fired and replaced with four-year-old Mario Cuomo. The Great Depression was in full swing, with some of the worst of times still ahead. 1938’s “recession in a depression” was still to come, and the wrecked nation would only start pulling out of the terrible pit of despair in 1939 as yet another federal corporate welfare program — the War Economy — began providing enough jobs and money to end the decade-long Great Depression.
McCain Transcript should be here, later [Morning Edition]
Little Johnny experienced the later Depression in all its horror when his Irish nanny joined the WAVES.
Didn’t John McCain personally witness a herd of woolly mammoths falling into the La Brea tar pits?
In fairness, he arrived in the US of A somewhat later than that.
WALNUTS! has the right strategy to avoid or recover from a depression, which is to declare war on everybody. It’s always worked in the past.
But wasn’t Baby McCain livin it up in Panama-not-the-US? Even Baby McCain don’t know what teh depression iz.
In fairness, nearly everyone who will ever hear that interview is much younger than McCain, so for McCain to recognize that the Depression happened well before “our” lifetimes is technically correct.
Reporter: Senator McCain, do you believe in evolution?
McCain: Believe in it? I’ve seen it!
Okay okay okay, this is purdy funny: http://blondesense.blogspot.com/
Kill Bill Vol. 1.
My fav is when Jon goes off on the congress taking the Jewish Holiday when the shizzle is going down. He almost seems pissed off.
Joe Kennedy wasn’t the SEC chairman at the time. It was James Landis. It says so on Wikipedia so it must be true.
Serolf Divad: …no, that was Bob Dole. WALNUTS! was a deck hand on Noah’s Ark.
Hey, isn’t it hard enough for a guy to remember which of his seven houses he’s in, how many whores he has, when his wife had her last short term memory lapse and when the Iraq war began? Give him a break, will ya, if he can’t remember a little old time zone!
John McCain was born in 1936?!!? Shit, I’m middle-aged and he’s 11 years older than my father.
WALNUTS! looks even more batshit and ridiculous in that baby sun hat…
Formerly Preferred: No, actually.
Watchreader: Shhh! Don’t fuck up the Cuomo-Kennedy joke!
…isn’t it against some law of nature or science for something to live this long and not feed on souls or suck blood?!
Ken Layne: Could you have worked a Gary Hart gag in there as well? He’s of that Cuomo-McCain generation, but with better boners.
First thought upon opening, G’Day Friends
Formerly Preferred:
Substitute “in fairness” for “snark” and you’ve got the Wonkette commenting style down pat. Fairness has nothing to do with it, my friend.
Why did five-year-old John McCain refuse to fight in World War II? He must love Hitler.
Oh Walnuts! Just stop opening that mouth of yours for awhile. It’s losing you votes.
The fundamentals of our economy are strong… smelling.
Ken Layne: Ken, why do you hate the Merchant Marines?
http://www.palinbingo.com/
who’s playin tomorrow night??!!
Strappo: Is that why McCain’s economic theme song is “Walking on Sunshine”?
loquaciousmusic: Oh. By KATRINA & the Waves. Two for one, eh?
Jump You Fuckers
loquaciousmusic: gods — i’m gonna have that hideous annoying song in my head all fucking day long!!! thanks a whole helluva lot!!! grrrr!!!
McCain was born nearly exactly 1 year after the passage of the Social Security Act of 1935.
There’s another possibility: John McCain remembers the Great Depression, and has deduced using his keen financial skills that the current financial disaster is indeed worse. That, or he’s totally senile. Which might explain why he forgot the financial calamities brought on by the Black Death and the Dark Ages, both in his lifetime.
whatever_dc: I’m gonna have the song plus the visual of Jack Black in High Fidelity dancing to it as his whitebelly pokes out from under his overly tight t-shirt.
John McCain remembers the Permo-Triassic Extinction Event, and he knows what it’s like to lose 70% of all land life and 95% of all marine life. This is not that bad.
McCain refers to the Second Punic War as world war two. BTW, spread the word, he was in some Aztec madrassa in Panama.
Q2: Sweet! Particularly the way it took at least two tries to spell “fuckers.”
Q2: Me love it long time!
Anybody else see that vid of him being asked by the Des Moines Register’s editorial board if he’d been on government-paid medical care his whole life, so how could he understand the plight of people who have to pay for their own insurance and/or medical care? WALNUTS! says, “Well, I’ve never been an astronaut but I understand the space program.” Hoo-boy, don’t these over-privileged elitist ex-fighter-pilots make great leaders? They have no idea how easy they’ve had it.
New Quinnipaic polls show Obama way ahead in Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania. When asked to comment, McCain said, “These polls are laughable. Heh, heh.” And then he stuck his tongue out.
worst. phone. interview. evar.
You say regulation, I say deregulation.
I say regulation, you say deregulation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4egXbhSOhk
that phone interview was his attempt to make palin seem lucid in comparison. amazing.
V572625694: That interview was McStain at his prickiest. He also tells us on the second clip that he’s always aspired to be a dictator.
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080930/NEWS09/80930049
I was coming out of a delirium when that interview came on the clock radio and thought it some fever-dream brought on by too much masturbation when I heard McCrabby suggest that questions about Sarah Palin’s qualifications were the sort of thing only asked at ‘Georgetown cocktail parties’.
Fuck you you little gnome! I ain’t never been to a Georgetown cocktail party, and everybody I know is asking that question! I almost drew the .357 from under my pillow and shot the radio, but ammo is expensive and my 401K is in the shitter, so fuck it.
He sounded AWFUL. Cranky, crabby, and condescending. He sounds angry. He sounds old. He sounds weak.
Ken, you outdid yourself in this memorable passage in your comments: 1938’s “recession in a depression” was still to come, and the wrecked nation would only start pulling out of the terrible pit of despair in 1939 as yet another federal corporate welfare program — the War Economy — began providing enough jobs and money to end the decade-long Great Depression.
Yes, in ‘38, when FDR took his foot off the Keynesian gas pedal, the nation went into recession. Only the wartime production of WWII was able to get us out of the hole we were stuck in.
And as Marx said, history repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce. Is WWIII in our future?
Will Hopey or John spend us out of recession by attacking the evil ‘Stans? Tune in tomorrow for another episode of As the Whirrled Turns.
WadISay: “Aztec madrassa in Panama” sounds like a Clash/Van Halen supergroup.
Of course he remembers it. A kid drove up to his house in a car and yelled to McCain’s dad “Admiral McCain, there’s a Depression going on…and it’s Great!”
Or was that about Pearl Harbor? Fort Sumter?
http://thesebastards.blogspot.com/
Serolf Divad: Today we are all mastodons.
loquaciousmusic: Darn, the remix YouTube of Allison from the Intervention show set to that song is no longer available. There are others, but they are sadder.