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File this under: If Only Barack Obama Said It. After being asked a question on the "Suck Up Express" yesterday about his position on insurance companies covering Viagra but not birth control, McCain became visibly uncomfortable and was unable to reconcile his past vote against requiring the coverage of birth control with a statement one of his top advisers made just earlier this week.

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When McCain was asked for his position on the issue, he said—with a nervous laugh–“I certainly do not want to discuss that issue.”

The reporter pressed. “But apparently you’ve voted against—“

“I don’t know what I voted,” McCain said.

The reporter explained that McCain voted against a bill in 2003 that would have required health insurance companies to cover prescription birth control. “Is that still your position?” she persisted.

During the awkward exchange, with several lengthy pauses, McCain said he had no immediate knowledge of the vote. “I’ve cast thousands of votes in the Senate,” McCain said, then continued: “I will respond to—it’s a, it’s a…”

It's pretty sickening to watch the cast of "Morning Joe" laugh it up and fail to acknowledge that this is a pretty big stumble by McCain. Not only is his campaign sending mixed messages about a rather important issue to millions of Americans, the Senator is so clearly confused and caught in the headlights as he's called out on a blatant flip-flop.

Imagine if Barack Obama had been stumped like this. It would have been the story of the day, with the blaring headline: Obama Stumbles On Key Women's Issue; Will He Lose Their Support? Then talking head after talking head would be paraded on television to lecture seriously about Obama's "women problem" and whether or not this will doom his chances at winning them over.

But instead, McCain said it, and everyone has a laugh and moves on.

UPDATE: (Nicole) McCain hasn't spent a lot of time on these issues at all. In fact, as The Political Base recounts, last year he couldn't tell reporters if condoms stop STDs or if he supported Bush's abstinence-only education.

"I'm sure I've taken a position on it in the past," he stammered as he looked to his communications director. "I'm sure I'm opposed to government funding."

Sensing a vulnerable moment, reporters kept the questions coming. What about sex education in the schools? Should it mention contraceptives? Or only abstinence, like President Bush wants?

"I think I support the president's present policy," he said, tentatively.

More questions: Do condoms stop sexually transmitted disease?

A long pause.

A stern look.

"I've never gotten into these issues or thought much about them," he said.

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Liberal AND Proud's picture

He doesn't have any problem with women. They're all just c**t* in his view.

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Litabell's picture

They don't call him teflon John for nothin!

Trittydi's picture

The Corporate media intends that McSame will be president. It doesn't matter what he does or what he says. He's their guy and they're sticking with him.
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Liberal AND Proud @ 1:

He doesn't have any problem with women. They're all just c**t* in his view.

Repuglics -- the party of white doughy bigots, perverts, pedophiles, murderers, war criminals, homophobes and misogynists. And Liars.
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The Dude's picture

You know what, during McCain's inauguration... if there is a god. I simply want to be the emcee who gets to yell: "Come on Johnny put your hands in the air like you just don't care!"

The one-way trip to Guantanamo will be totally worth it.

rebel's picture

Do you suppose he called Bob Dole for an answer?

ThunderMonkey's picture

Trittydi @ 3:

The Corporate media intends that McSame will be president. It doesn't matter what he does or what he says. He's their guy and they're sticking with him.
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or rather they know that Obama has this election as his to lose, so.... in order to keep those campaign dollars rolling into the network's coffers they'll do what they can to keep McCain in the race. If that means glossing over his gaffes and screw-ups so be it.

The media is like Mary Schiavo's parents trying to keep McCain's prospects alive. (Remember Frist making a medical call about Schiavo's condition from watching a few minutes of tape? And tell me that the puppet heads aren't doing basically the same thing.) Mary's husband (Obama) is ready to move on with his life and new wife (the majority of Americans that realize how screwed up things are in the Middle East and domestically).

Come Election Night when the first few states come in and the it looks as if to be a landslide the media will say this (especially Morning Joe): We all knew that McCain wasn't going to win this one.

At that point us Liberals and Progressives will bang their heads collectively on our keyboards, get drunk, get laid and get ready to change this country and the world.

exposethetruth's picture

Um...um......um, yeah that's just about says it all.
Truth hurts, huh Johnny!

Give that reporter the Rethuglican nomination!!!

Scenic's picture

a) Instead of just giving an honest opinion of his position, his aging mind is struggling to remember what position he had on it before.

b) His handlers have told him to shut up.

c) All of the above.

Rick Massimo's picture

They (and the people who will vote for him) give him a pass because he is for permanent war in Iraq and Iran. None of his media base (for that matter, damn few of the people who are going to vote for McCain) think for one second that he knows anything about anything else, so the news that he doesn't know anything about anything else has no impact.

bobbie's picture

How in the world did this ignoramus get voted in once let alone several times? Haven't the good people of Arizona figured out what a dummy he is? Has he really been able to skate through life on the basis of being a professional ex-POW?

Chris Rich's picture

Did you ever wonder if this is some wedge triangulation playbook gone wildly awry? Lets see, one of gramps only solid constituencies is the 'Old' vote. So we'll try to suck up to the young by slagging social security and watch the AARP flee the addled old bastard in droves.

Everyone outside of the Looting Class is pretty worried about the economy so let's trot Phill Gramm out to tell em to suck it up. That'll work.

Wait, wait, we haven't sent gramps out to display his health care incoherence. with a lopsided preference for erectile dysfunction subsidy but none for the prevention of ensuing pregnancy from all these mighty geeze rutting bulls when they knock up the kitchen help.

Gas prices, ...hah! Do we have some fairy tales there and since our viagra meathead core is too dim to look up oil problems we should be able to milk this for at least a month. And to make it worse we'll saber rattle Iran's cage so the jittery spot market can bid the futures past 150 a barrel.

This has to be the most tone deaf, witless tilt at the preziduncial windmill ever seen. And the media trivializes itself to death running stupid pet tricks the pooch public got bored with back when gas hit 3 dollars a gallon

Samson-'s picture

It’s pretty sickening to watch the cast of “Morning Joe” laugh it up and fail to acknowledge that this is a pretty big stumble by McCain

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that show is a slow trainwreck, with ole squinty-eye scarborough holding court over pointless drivel, packaged as if it was of any concern to the public.

scabby is the face of today's newsertainment. he is a media whore, whose knowledge of issues is as lacking as his shrillness is strong. like hardball, like lou 'i hate mexicans' dobbs, like most of the "news" coverage on the cable "news" channels we are fed a steady diet of pure political strategy discussion and constant partisan back and forth, the most annoying he said/she said one could ever imagine.

now, if the msm were to decide that actually covering the issues and in-depth reporting were actually important i think that the political landscape would look a lot different. and, of course, they don't want that, so we get what we have.

Left&Left's picture

I'm beginning to believe that McGeezer is actually dumber than Dubya....and more dangerous.

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The Dude @ 5:

You know what, during McCain's inauguration... if there is a god. I simply want to be the emcee who gets to yell: "Come on Johnny put your hands in the air like you just don't care!"

The one-way trip to Guantanamo will be totally worth it.

If there is a god, McCain will start drooling and wet himself in the middle of his inaugural address.

Minstrel's picture

Perhaps we need not get too worked up each time McCain stumbles and it appears to be ignored.
Each of these stumbles is like a single puff of wind on a dandelion. Nobody pays much attention. But after a while, somebody's garden is overrun with weeds.
McCain's cluelessness will become apparent even to the clueless, and by November the Maverick will be lost forever.
May it be so.

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bobbie @ 11:

How in the world did this ignoramus get voted in once let alone several times? Haven't the good people of Arizona figured out what a dummy he is? Has he really been able to skate through life on the basis of being a professional ex-POW?

Why not? Bush went AWOL, drove at least two companies into the ground, destroyed three countries, broken domestic and international law...and he's still skating free.

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ThunderMonkey @ 7:

Trittydi @ 3:

The Corporate media intends that McSame will be president. It doesn't matter what he does or what he says. He's their guy and they're sticking with him.
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or rather they know that Obama has this election as his to lose, so.... in order to keep those campaign dollars rolling into the network's coffers they'll do what they can to keep McCain in the race. If that means glossing over his gaffes and screw-ups so be it.

Yep.

No race = no ratings.

Paul's picture

Damn librul media!!!

ThunderMonkey's picture

Liberal AND Proud @ 18:

bobbie @ 11:

How in the world did this ignoramus get voted in once let alone several times? Haven't the good people of Arizona figured out what a dummy he is? Has he really been able to skate through life on the basis of being a professional ex-POW?

Why not? Bush went AWOL, drove at least two companies into the ground, destroyed three countries, broken domestic and international law...and he's still skating free.

More importantly he traded away Sammy Sosa from the Rangers to the White Sox. I knew that when he was running the first time and I was convienced that the guy (Dubya) didn't have a good judge of talent. I'm glad I haven't been corrected in the last seven years.

Taonzen's picture

After this millionth "i don't know" from McCain, shouldn't we be asking if he is even qualified to be senator?

Seriously, he hasn't voted for months but seems to take credit for things that pass or fail. His best - BEST - answer for most subjects has been "i don't know". What the hell is wrong with him? And I don't think this is the usual 'tricky dick' garbage the repugs usually pull.

How do we get the main stream PUBLIC to notice that this guy is truly not qualified for the job he has, much less for the job he wants?

Rollo's picture

So...you think this WSJ story makes McCain look good? Or credible? Or presidential? And if you read the comments by anti-Obama readers, they think the reporter was sticking it to McShame. I guess if everybody's against you, you must be doing something right...

Susie's picture

I bet that reporter is not invited back on the bus.

bmw H. 528's picture

Where's that 24/7 loop of indignation by the flying monkeys of the media? What, they're just laughing at 'ol senile Grandpa? Oh the MSM aren't biased---BULLSHIT! Why don't these corporate syncophants and hacks just admit that they are paid advisors to Mc Cain's team?

abiodun's picture

I never thought "morning joe" was anything to spend my morning on, anyway. But the press is his base!

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bobbie @ 11:

How in the world did this ignoramus get voted in once let alone several times? Haven't the good people of Arizona figured out what a dummy he is? Has he really been able to skate through life on the basis of being a professional ex-POW?

Yes.

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Trittydi @ 4:

Liberal AND Proud @ 1:

He doesn't have any problem with women. They're all just c**t* in his view.

Repuglics -- the party of white doughy bigots, perverts, pedophiles, murderers, war criminals, homophobes and misogynists. And Liars.
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And they smell bad too. Like old cheese and farts.

BigTallMatt's picture

BTW, here's the email I just sent to CNN:

"I have been reading the stories you have been putting on your "Political Ticker" today, and I must say I was fairly appalled to see how poor the reporting on these stories coming out of the McCain campaign was.

The first piece, entitled "McCain avoids Viagra question" intentionally misleads readers into thinking that he was asked a question about, well, Viagra. The real question, which your reporter refused to even mention, was a very serious one about equality in health care coverage for women regarding perscription medication. I think a lot of women voters might like to know that John McCain wants to hide his policies and past voting record on women's health and reproductive issues, but this story seems to intentionally divert the reader away from that story.

The second story that showed very poor reporting was the following "Political Ticker" item entitled "Gramm: 'What we need is more leadership and less whining." It seems that, rather than give the original quotes that got Phil Gramm in such hot water in the first place, Dana Bash decided only to quote ex-post-facto revisionist quotes put out by Gramm to try and quell public outrage about his comments. Nowhere in the story does his original quote: "We have sort of become a nation of whiners", appear in the story. I find this to be very poor journalism, as it essentially refutes Gramm's claim that he was misinterpreted. It is hard to see how "a nation" can somehow be magically turned in to "our leaders" without deceptive and misleading coverage from journalists, such as Dana Bash in this story.

I would like to kindly remind you at CNN that your responsibility to the American people is to report the news, and not misleading spin and ex-post-facto revisions of facts. If we are to be an informed and free-thinking society, you as journalists owe it to us, the citizens of the world, to practice good journalism. Unfortunately, after these stories, I don't feel that I can trust CNN to give me accurate and quality journalism any more."

I don't know, but I'd like to think the media is giving McCain a pretty big "spot" before the debates. They know once he and Obama stand side-by-side it will be all over for McCain.

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Left&Left @ 14:

I'm beginning to believe that McGeezer is actually dumber than Dubya....and more dangerous.

Definitely more dangerous because he's still fighting the Vietnam War...something Chimpy wouldn't know anything about.

McSame is not very smart...and quick tempered. That's a bad combination.

For some reason, McSame is being portrayed as a kindly ol' grandfather. What a joke.

Dr. Acula's picture

Of course McWarpig doesn't remember how he voted. He can't even remember what he ate for breakfast!

constituent's picture

on a serious note this is the free pass mcBush is going to get up to the election....cuddly grandpa war hero ..chuckle..chuckle...i'm sick of it
i am curious to how phil grahams comments plays out
that the recession is "mental"
obama is challenged on his every move...like his oldest daughter is too mature...this is what he is up against the chips are stacked against him

Mickxotic's picture

OT from Common Dreams - Pelosi says that they MAY hold hearings on Kucinich's articles of impeachment. I'm not holding my breath - just desparate for positive news.

Jan's picture

The McCainstream media is out of control.

Grampa is going to win (and subsequently destroy the world) if they have their way.

Joe O.'s picture

I think McCain was shying away from the Viagra portion more than anything else. In fact, he looked like he was thinking about when he paused.

Doug B.'s picture

They were talking about Obama and women's issues this afternoon on MSNBC but I just ate so I didn't catch much of it but they did say he does have a woman problem.......

constituent's picture

he wasn't told what to say about that issue. he gets stuffed like a holiday turkey everyday with what to say
.......if you think he comes up with half of what he say's your dreaming...
we must continue the mccain=bush third term that seems to get him the most defensive

RW's picture

I know this nation of ours has some really sharp people within... therefore my extreme embarrassment with regard to this nation actually considering this guy as a candidate (regardless of party). It simply DOES NOT make any sense at all... but then again, look at the DOOFUS we currently have ni office. I have lost faith in this nation. I used to believe that we were wonderful, but in the last 2 decades I have come to realise that we are a collective bunch of IDIOTS who are no better off (and in many instances) WORSE OFF than those in other so-called LESS FORTUNATE nations in this world.

jeff's picture

Alzhiemers, seriously the man can't recall a vote on something this big or on his voting for vet bills, it makes me wonder. Reagan suffered with it in his second term and they hid it from us then, why not now.

BTW: Did they throw the reporter off the plane with or without a parachute?

Brady's picture

I think it is interesting to note that in the video shown on Morning Joe, they cut the part that showed McCain stammering to explain why he voted against the 2003 bill that would have required health insurance companies to cover prescription birth control. If anyone has seen the portion they cut, it is pretty embarrassing for even the viewer. McCain was caught in a toug place with zero ways to get out. But why would a news network want to show the presumptive nominee of the Republican party being completely clueless about an important issue pertaining to women? It is much more beneficial for the American people to turn it into a Viagra joke.

Vinny Corpuscle's picture

He looks like he's about to fuckin die

LibertyLover's picture

He can't talk about contraception, he's trying to woo the religious right ... and they are not for women's access to contraception (or sex for that matter).

constituent's picture

calendar age 71-72
biological age 76-78
the presidency is a very stressful position..accelerated aging...may need the viagra

BigTallMatt's picture

Vinny Corpuscle @ 42:

He looks like he's about to fuckin die

I know it's bad, but I just couldn't help but see this and get an image of a new campaign slogan for Obama....

"Obama 2008: Because the other guy looks like he's about to f*ckin' die."

casper46's picture

BigTallMatt @ 45:

Vinny Corpuscle @ 42:

He looks like he's about to fuckin die

I know it's bad, but I just couldn't help but see this and get an image of a new campaign slogan for Obama....

"Obama 2008: Because the other guy looks like he's about to f*ckin' die."

Been looking for a bumper sticker. Thanks. lol

Joe O.'s picture

RW @ 39:

I know this nation of ours has some really sharp people within... therefore my extreme embarrassment with regard to this nation actually considering this guy as a candidate (regardless of party). It simply DOES NOT make any sense at all... but then again, look at the DOOFUS we currently have ni office. I have lost faith in this nation. I used to believe that we were wonderful, but in the last 2 decades I have come to realise that we are a collective bunch of IDIOTS who are no better off (and in many instances) WORSE OFF than those in other so-called LESS FORTUNATE nations in this world.

I was just thinking the same thing. What does the average American voter find so appealing about people like Bush and McCain? They are for the most part, below average to average at best in just about everything. They have no real leadership abilities that I can see nor are they highly intelligent. Nor do they have the bearing, charisma, or appearance to make up for any other qualities they are lacking in. Its as if the average American voter chooses the Republican candidate that most fits the likes of Homer Simpson or something. I just don't get it.

Robin's picture

Dumb question but....
McCain always responds to difficult questions with "I have cast thousands of votes"
Considering how often he misses votes has anyone actually tallied up his votes?

Disagree's picture

I disagree with those that think the Media are supporting McCain primarily for ratings.

1) The media gave McCain good coverage long before he got the Republican nomination. This isn't a new trend.
2) The media gave little coverage to the underdogs in the Republican and Democratic primaries. If they gave serious coverage to Ron Paul, Kucinich, and others, they could have made a bigger race of it because they would have picked up additional support. The media did the opposite and discounted the viability of these candidates.
3) The media could be covering Barr as a presidential candidate right now and adding more spice to the race because he could be a spoiler. However, he receives scant coverage.

This is all about the Corporate America (media) picking a candidate that they favor.

doggiebobo's picture

BigTallMatt@17: The three boo-boo's by McShame have each, I think, occurred
during a Town Hall Meeting, where tho covered to some extent by the MSM, are
not given nearly the coverage/publicity deserved, so most of us have to rely upon
C&L or do a "search" of the Internet to find any mention of his screw-ups. That is
a shame.

Seems as if there is always the term "liberal media" thrown around, but it is more
than evident that the MSM is anything but...they are trying to make a horse race
of the Prez. election and by design(at their BIG Corporate "masters" direction) are
neglecting the real news....being; McShame is a senile, incoherant, out of step
piece of shit and would hardly qualify as a dog catcher were it not for his Viet
Nam experiences.

The MSM is the most disgraceful, deceitful and awful bags of
shit anywhere on this planet. But, thanks to C&J and other blogs, we can to some
extent have some of the true news some of the time.

BigTallMatt's picture

Samson- @ 13:

now, if the msm were to decide that actually covering the issues and in-depth reporting were actually important i think that the political landscape would look a lot different.

I think I've heard of that before. Something that started with a j....

Oh well, can't worry about that now, Wolfie just came on to tell me what to think for today!

Underground Pirate's picture

Well, at least the media knows that McCain is a big joke. I think come election time, most of America will see him that way as well.

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Joe O. @ 36:

I think McCain was shying away from the Viagra portion more than anything else. In fact, he looked like he was thinking about when he paused.

It looked to me as if he realized that he had soiled his diapers.

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Trittydi @ 4:

Liberal AND Proud @ 1:

He doesn't have any problem with women. They're all just c**t* in his view.

Repuglics -- the party of white doughy bigots, perverts, pedophiles, murderers, war criminals, homophobes and misogynists. And Liars.
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Oh, come on, now. The "O" in GOP could stand for open-minded. Where else are ya gonna find a crew of pervs who go for anything from DIAPERS to Meth??? Yeah, baby, come to Jesus, or not.

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Joe O. @ 36:

I think McCain was shying away from the Viagra portion more than anything else. In fact, he looked like he was thinking about when he paused.

He was uncomfortable with the first part. But, NO, from my take, he looked like he was thinking..........."Damn, why didn't they tell me about Viagra being covered, but BC Pills not."

I really don't think he knew, and it's obvious he could care less about women's health.

liberalNmoderation's picture

casper46 @ 46:

BigTallMatt @ 45:

Vinny Corpuscle @ 42:

He looks like he's about to fuckin die

I know it's bad, but I just couldn't help but see this and get an image of a new campaign slogan for Obama....

"Obama 2008: Because the other guy looks like he's about to f*ckin' die."

Been looking for a bumper sticker. Thanks. lol

HA! Awesome!

Old Billy Hussein's picture

What a freaking circus.

The question wasn't about viagra, it was about birth control. And it wasn't funny, no matter what the d-bag on Morning Joe thinks.

If someone asked McCain, "What do you think about Viagra?" and McCain paused and chuckled and scratched his chin, that would be funny. This was not funny.

I swear someone needs to bust out a rolled up newspaper or a two by four or something and give a new lesson to the train primates on the teevee box.

(That's right, Mukasey, I called him a primate. The pope's a primate too. You got a problem with that?)

unemployed's picture

See your doctor if you have an uncomfortable pause lasting more than four hours.

Mr. Anon's picture

The reason insurance companies cover viagra and not birth control is pretty simple when you think about it. Birth control is to stop a natural biological process. Viagra is to fix something wrong with you.

Now that doesn't mean insurance companies aren't being shortsighted by not covering birth control (babies are expensive) but from a very reasonable perspective it makes sense. Insurance covers the fixing of a lot of elective things. Just because the body part that doesn't work is a penis doesn't mean it doesn't fall under the insurance umbrella.

Insurance doesn't cover condoms either.

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Mr. Anon @ 58:

The reason insurance companies cover viagra and not birth control is pretty simple when you think about it. Birth control is to stop a natural biological process. Viagra is to fix something wrong with you.

Now that doesn't mean insurance companies aren't being shortsighted by not covering birth control (babies are expensive) but from a very reasonable perspective it makes sense. Insurance covers the fixing of a lot of elective things. Just because the body part that doesn't work is a penis doesn't mean it doesn't fall under the insurance umbrella.

Insurance doesn't cover condoms either.

That's because more people = more that'll need prescription drugs.

Norwood Woman's picture

I thought reporters who've earned access to McCain knew not to ask him such difficult questions. Women's health? His own voting record? Are you kidding me? They better stick with what he knows best - bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb Iran.

Left&Left's picture

The Truth Hurts @ 30:

Left&Left @ 14:

I'm beginning to believe that McGeezer is actually dumber than Dubya....and more dangerous.

Definitely more dangerous because he's still fighting the Vietnam War...something Chimpy wouldn't know anything about.

McSame is not very smart...and quick tempered. That's a bad combination.

For some reason, McSame is being portrayed as a kindly ol' grandfather. What a joke.

Truth, McFossil is an ol' grandfather...the kind of grandfather who shotguns his elderly wife to death because the soup she made was too hot.

votingvet's picture

If Obama made a slip like that, he would rightfully be attacked in the media. How in heck can a man claim he's qualified to be President if he can't remember key votes and, worse, can't even recall what his positon is on key issues -- like birth control?

Odd, isn't it, how the Liberal media only gets righteous and indignant when Obama or one of his supporters gives them an opening?

IgnoranceIsNotBliss's picture

Maybe its just me (I know full well how the media has been treating McCain), but without listening to a longer sound bite, it sounded to me more like they were laughing at the fact that he seemed so clueless.

doggiebobo's picture

Norwood Woman @ 60:

I thought reporters who've earned access to McCain knew not to ask him such difficult questions. Women's health? His own voting record? Are you kidding me? They better stick with what he knows best - bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb Iran.

And on top of that, be absolutely certain that (l) he has a telepromter for his speeches
and (2) put him only in front of a friendly, pre-scanned, audience. Get him out of that
"comfort zone" and he shows us presicely what a dooch bag he is.

General_Rennenkampf's picture

How'd this guy become a serious candidate again?

Old Billy Hussein's picture

Mr. Anon @ 59:

The reason insurance companies cover viagra and not birth control is pretty simple when you think about it. Birth control is to stop a natural biological process. Viagra is to fix something wrong with you.

Now that doesn't mean insurance companies aren't being shortsighted by not covering birth control (babies are expensive) but from a very reasonable perspective it makes sense. Insurance covers the fixing of a lot of elective things. Just because the body part that doesn't work is a penis doesn't mean it doesn't fall under the insurance umbrella.

Insurance doesn't cover condoms either.

Dying is a "natural biological process."

doggiebobo's picture

General_Rennenkampf @ 66:

How'd this guy become a serious candidate again?

Great question...and the correct answer: "Ya got me?"

kdanteater's picture

John McCain -- Erectile Dysfunction - Comedy Time
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujPHdiuTZa8

Dr. Hussein Matt's picture

Hillary Supporters should be reading and listening to this very closely.

prunes's picture

doggiebobo @ 68:

General_Rennenkampf @ 66:

How'd this guy become a serious candidate again?

Great question...and the correct answer: "Ya got me?"

well, it's imaginable if you remember how totally crappy the other GOP candidates for nomination were.

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BigD145's picture

Reporter in 2009 "When did you decide to bomb Iran?"

McBush "Wait. Hold on. I did what to who? ...I can't be expected to remember every decision I've made in the past 2 days."

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prunes @ 71:

doggiebobo @ 68:

General_Rennenkampf @ 66:

How'd this guy become a serious candidate again?

Great question...and the correct answer: "Ya got me?"

well, it's imaginable if you remember how totally crappy the other GOP candidates for nomination were.

Crappy is right. The repuke line-up was like looking at different piles of poop and choosing one with the weirdest shape as favorite.

Bud "Terrorist Fist Jab" Hussein's picture

Hey Grandpa, did you wipe your ass this morning?

I... I ... I... don't know... it's a... um... it's ahhhh... I... I... errr....

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pol pot-o-cheesesauce @ 73:

prunes @ 71:

doggiebobo @ 68:

General_Rennenkampf @ 66:
Great question...and the correct answer: "Ya got me?"

well, it's imaginable if you remember how totally crappy the other GOP candidates for nomination were.

Crappy is right. The repuke line-up was like looking at different piles of poop and choosing one with the weirdest shape as favorite.

Quite right. A theocrat, a pair of plutocrats, a lazy old fart, and a neo-Nazi, and the "sane" McPapen. If I were a wingnut, I'd be upset at the choices they had. And they actually were.

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Joe O. @ 36:

I think McCain was shying away from the Viagra portion more than anything else. In fact, he looked like he was thinking about when he paused.

Oh Lord! Can you just imagine that doddering old guy taking Viagra and chasing Cindy?

RickMack's picture

To summarize John McCain's new position:

Certainly we can all understand that it is much more important to help insure (or should it be ENsure!) that a man can get a hard on, that to help a woman avoid getting pregnant. Geez, what's wrong with you people? IT'S IN THE FREAKIN' BIBLE afterall ! Procreate!

( In case some don't realize, that's very thick in sarcasm!)

Frybread's picture

“I think I support the president’s present policy,” he said, tentatively.

St. McCain supports his boy-king's policy on sex education and birth control (as well as Bush's policy on Iraq, eavesdropping, etc.), yet he is NOT running for Bush's third term.

Alice X (Chomsky Nader)'s picture

The Reptile Sex Education Syndrome.

That is to say, no education about human sexuality. Just don't engage in it and all is well.

The Reptiles live on a different planet.

innocent bystander's picture

time and again, this mean-spirited twit demonstrates why he placed 790th out of a graduating class of 795 . . . this man is dumb, dumb, dumb

Lou Fah's picture

Susie @ 24:

I bet that reporter is not invited back on the bus.

NEWS FLASH:

Reporter Kicked of Straight (and flacid) Talk Express @65MPH

Yellow Cake is for Twinkies's picture

More questions: Do condoms stop sexually transmitted disease?

Don't they show that video the first day of basic training?

Xrepublican's picture

He may have voted for thousands of bills but he hasn't voted in the Senate since April 2, 2008!!!!!!! (When he does vote he ALWAYS votes with the bush crime family)

John, when are you going to vote again in the Senate or have you retired to run for president? ? ? ? ? ?

odanny's picture

Trittydi @ 4:

Liberal AND Proud @ 1:

He doesn't have any problem with women. They're all just c**t* in his view.

Repuglics -- the party of white doughy bigots, perverts, pedophiles, murderers, war criminals, homophobes and misogynists. And Liars.
*

Aint that the truth. Send them all packing

odanny's picture

Taonzen @ 22:

After this millionth "i don't know" from McCain, shouldn't we be asking if he is even qualified to be senator?

Seriously, he hasn't voted for months but seems to take credit for things that pass or fail. His best - BEST - answer for most subjects has been "i don't know". What the hell is wrong with him? And I don't think this is the usual 'tricky dick' garbage the repugs usually pull.

How do we get the main stream PUBLIC to notice that this guy is truly not qualified for the job he has, much less for the job he wants?

He cannot think on his feet, could you imagine four more years of listening to clueless stammering by a grinning idiot?

Only I dont think old John will be grinning if he gets the job, he'll be snarling instead.

After Bush has so tainted this office anything approaching his behavior is a scary thought

bobbie @ 11:

How in the world did this ignoramus get voted in once let alone several times? Haven't the good people of Arizona figured out what a dummy he is? Has he really been able to skate through life on the basis of being a professional ex-POW?

diebold, ess, sequoia or a corrupt political machine? Some combination thereof?

Pericles's picture

"I don't know enough about it to give you an informed answer. Let me as Rush Limbaugh about it, and I'll get back to you, probably tomorrow."

The Oracle's picture

If Obama keeps using right-wing buzz-words like "partial-birth abortion" in describing a rarely called for medical procedure, then he will probably lose women's votes from all across the political spectrum.

Obama should be asking himself what he would want for himself if he were an American woman, not what any of the crazed, authoritarian religious fundamentalists want for women, whether those in al Qaeda or our own hardcore, evangelical ?Christians?.

A free woman is a free woman, no matter where she is in this world...and a free woman, capable of making up her own mind over matters concerning her own well-being, both mental and physical, always seems to be a sticking points with all the world's domineering, control-freak conservatives.

Pericles's picture

Scenic @ 9:

a) Instead of just giving an honest opinion of his position, his aging mind is struggling to remember what position he had on it before.

b) His handlers have told him to shut up.

c) All of the above.

I'm thinking that this question to McCain was the equivalent of that reporter's question to Bush about the Iraq war being a sign of the apocalypse.

The reporter asks Bush "Do you think the events in Iraq are a sign of the apocalypse, and if not, why not?"

Any normal person would have said "What, are you f#ckin' NUTS or WHAT?" But Bush, of course, suddenly found himself between a rock and a hard place that he couldn't get out of using dog whistle politics. If he answers yes, he loses his moderate supportes. If he answers no, he loses his wingnut base. So he just flops around like a dogfish that's just been thrown into a bucket by a fisherman (the reporter in this case) until he can think of a way to duck the question.

McCain knows that, while he's lost the traditional wingnut Republican base, he's still got a lock on upper middle class white men over 60, and he's trying to make inroads with women. So, if he disses the free Viagra policy, he loses the men, but if he doesn't diss the obvious double standard he loses the women. Yikes! When he couldn't think of a way out, he just pleaded ignorance.

President PNACcio's picture

When I saw this clip I had a thought that scared me and should scare the living crap out of anyone who is thinking of voting for John McCain. If McCain is this thrown off by a question about insurance companies covering women's contraceptives, imagine how he will react, say, when someone comes into the Oval Office at 7:30 in the morning and says, "Hostlities have broken out between India and Pakistan. There are unconfirmed reports that a nuclear weapon has detonated over Sahiwal." It almost makes you wish George Bush WERE running for a third term.

onceler's picture

John McCain is just another D-student, class-clown type. Seriously, he is not very smart.

JeffS's picture

The biggest reason why the race is still close is because this story will be forgotten in a day or two. Regardless of what this mean does, the media treats him like God.

Just imagine if Obama did this.

motorfingaz's picture

The elite McBush is clueless and the elites chuckle at such a serious question.

Ive lost all hope for this fucked up nation!

McCain the Liar's picture

What a clueless idiot who cannot answer a simple question. "Duh, I need to go ask what to say about this".

uk visa's picture

America needs a president who can think on his feet better than McCain can - he's too old and too slow.

Carolyn Kay's picture

We tried to tell you that the tables would turn.

But did most of you listen? No, you even participated in the vilification of Hillary Clinton and her supporters.

Now it's time to take your medicine.

Carolyn Kay
MakeThemAccountable.com

t's picture

Is this part of McCain outreach to women voters?

bajaboy's picture

Liberal AND Proud @ 15:

The Dude @ 5:

You know what, during McCain's inauguration... if there is a god. I simply want to be the emcee who gets to yell: "Come on Johnny put your hands in the air like you just don't care!"

The one-way trip to Guantanamo will be totally worth it.

If there is a god, McCain will start drooling and wet himself in the middle of his inaugural address.

Even better, he'll do all this in the middle of his acceptance speech at the GOP convention.

JudyLou's picture

Old Billy Hussein @ 67:

Mr. Anon @ 59:

The reason insurance companies cover viagra and not birth control is pretty simple when you think about it. Birth control is to stop a natural biological process. Viagra is to fix something wrong with you.

Now that doesn't mean insurance companies aren't being shortsighted by not covering birth control (babies are expensive) but from a very reasonable perspective it makes sense. Insurance covers the fixing of a lot of elective things. Just because the body part that doesn't work is a penis doesn't mean it doesn't fall under the insurance umbrella.

Insurance doesn't cover condoms either.

Dying is a "natural biological process."

So are diabetes and heart attacks. The reason birth control is not covered and Viagra is is because men are making the rules.

Mr. Anon's picture

JudyLou @ 99:

Old Billy Hussein @ 67:

Mr. Anon @ 59:

The reason insurance companies cover viagra and not birth control is pretty simple when you think about it. Birth control is to stop a natural biological process. Viagra is to fix something wrong with you.

Now that doesn't mean insurance companies aren't being shortsighted by not covering birth control (babies are expensive) but from a very reasonable perspective it makes sense. Insurance covers the fixing of a lot of elective things. Just because the body part that doesn't work is a penis doesn't mean it doesn't fall under the insurance umbrella.

Insurance doesn't cover condoms either.

Dying is a "natural biological process."

So are diabetes and heart attacks. The reason birth control is not covered and Viagra is is because men are making the rules.

As I pointed out, there is a real logical difference between Viagra and birth control pills. Continue to blame that evil sex though. They don't benefit in any conceivable way from birth control pills so obviously the only reason they aren't covered is because they want to bilk money out of women.

no meato burrito's picture

if you blur your vision just a bit, the still image at the top of the page looks like mclame is flipping the bird.

GREG's picture

Has anyone seen this on FOX?

Of course, McCain fumbled the answer. The eight second pause was probably somebody whispering in his ear bud what Viagra is FOR. It’s been so long since Grampa had a boner, the last sexual aid he probably used was Spanish Fly.

Of course, with his ugly beer-heiress wife, I’m not sure he WANTS to get a woodie anytime soon….

missmarple's picture

I hope the women who say they are going to vote for McCain because Hillary lost don't have daughters of child bearing age or granddaugters who will get there in a few years. McCain obviously doesn't give a thought to women and their ability to limit the size of their families and these ladies are simply cutting off their noses to spite their children's chances of holding on to what right to reproductive freedom that they have now. McCain has said he will try to overturn Roe v Wade. What's next - Griswald?

cubiclegrrl's picture

t @ 97:

Is this part of McCain outreach to women voters?

Just take the straight-up Schwartzenegger approach--a friendly little @$$-grab to let 'er know what a cute little cupcake you think she is... [eyeroll] Feh. I canNOT grok why any self-respecting woman would vote Republican.

ADNK's picture

He's thinking.... "Hmmm... Am I farther up the butt of Big Pharma or Falwell?"
He really CAN'T answer that question until he looks at the spread sheet.

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