Arizona or Iraq - where am I? asks John

[Binky Bainbridge]

It's so easy to forget where you are - especially when you're John McCain!:)

McCain Mistakes Arizona for Iraq -- Says Phoenix Is 99% Pacified

Posted July 28, 2008 | 07:33 PM (EST)

Sen. John McCain, who will be 72 on 29th August, and has locked up the GOP nomination, was chased down in the parking lot of a Phoenix shopping mall today and persuaded to remove his Kevlar helmet and body armor. He had been driving his SUV around this sprawling desert city all afternoon on a fact-finding tour in the belief that he was in Baghdad.

"The hot sun, the flat desert terrain, those Latinos the spitting image of Sunnis and Shiites -- I naturally thought I was in Iraq," the Arizona senator explained. "Besides, Lieberman [campaign adviser Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.)] wasn't around today. Lieberman always knows where I am."

The war-hero-turned-lawmaker told reporters that his inspection tour was nonetheless highly useful. "I found Phoenix has many of the same problems as Baghdad," McCain said, "the terrorist hideouts are so well hidden you couldn't find a single one, for example. And the Al Qaeda operatives in our midst are as invisible here as they are over there. And the gas shortage is so acute that a gallon costs four dollars.

"But, all in all, I was greatly encouraged by the progress. I'd estimate Phoenix to be 99 percent pacified today. The city is so safe I could have shot a few baskets with the troops, if I'd found any. Must have all been shipped home. The car washes are up and running, I saw long lines at the Cineplex, and when I put my finger in a socket there was lots of electricity."

"I'd asked my wife Cindy to join me on the tour this morning," the jubilant senator added. "But she said she had a golf date. Maybe that should have tipped me off."

[KONQ RADIO]

Well Binky, there you go again...

In the interest of fairness, I must reprint this 'story' in the appropriate color.

McCain Mistakes Arizona for Iraq -- Says Phoenix Is 99% Pacified

Posted July 28, 2008 | 07:33 PM (EST)

Sen. John McCain, who will be 72 on 29th August, and has locked up the GOP nomination, was chased down in the parking lot of a Phoenix shopping mall today and persuaded to remove his Kevlar helmet and body armor. He had been driving his SUV around this sprawling desert city all afternoon on a fact-finding tour in the belief that he was in Baghdad.

"The hot sun, the flat desert terrain, those Latinos the spitting image of Sunnis and Shiites -- I naturally thought I was in Iraq," the Arizona senator explained. "Besides, Lieberman [campaign adviser Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.)] wasn't around today. Lieberman always knows where I am."

The war-hero-turned-lawmaker told reporters that his inspection tour was nonetheless highly useful. "I found Phoenix has many of the same problems as Baghdad," McCain said, "the terrorist hideouts are so well hidden you couldn't find a single one, for example. And the Al Qaeda operatives in our midst are as invisible here as they are over there. And the gas shortage is so acute that a gallon costs four dollars.

"But, all in all, I was greatly encouraged by the progress. I'd estimate Phoenix to be 99 percent pacified today. The city is so safe I could have shot a few baskets with the troops, if I'd found any. Must have all been shipped home. The car washes are up and running, I saw long lines at the Cineplex, and when I put my finger in a socket there was lots of electricity."

"I'd asked my wife Cindy to join me on the tour this morning," the jubilant senator added. "But she said she had a golf date. Maybe that should have tipped me off."

[Binky Bainbridge]

Hey, we mustn't forget that it's old John's 72nd birthday on August 29!

What shall we get him?

[SGT T.]

Huffington Post? Is that where you get your news? Well, enjoy the view from the left.

[Binky Bainbridge]

Huffington Post? Is that where you get your news? Well, enjoy the view from the left.

Rest assured I do SGT T, but have you picked up HWM's anti-liberal bashing habit, I hope not, you seem a sound fellow.

[Army_of_One]

Huffington Post? Is that where you get your news? Well, enjoy the view from the left.

The HP isn't just "left"...it's veeeeerrrrrrrrrrry far LEFT. Sheeeeeesh Winkysmythe. YOu can do better than that.

[Army_of_One]

Rest assured I do SGT T, but have you picked up HWM's anti-liberal bashing habit, I hope not, you seem a sound fellow.

Why do you have to bring HWY into this...geeeeeez. Liberal bashing is not a habit...it's a way of life. Besides...why is it bashing when you just point out the obvious. Regurgitating that fact that Obama will raise your taxes is not bashing...it's a fact.

[SGT T.]

Who's liberal bashing? I am just telling you that the huffington post is out on the fringe of the left. I'd tell you not to get your news from the KKK either. But really, believe what you want to...

[Binky Bainbridge]

The HP isn't just "left"...it's veeeeerrrrrrrrrrry far LEFT. Sheeeeeesh Winkysmythe. YOu can do better than that.

It depends on where you consider "Left" starts - I actually believe the labels "left" and "right" are too simplistic, i.e., you can be so-called "left" in social policy but "right" in financial policy.
I would class myself as a left-of-centre Conservative. :)

[wordsmythe]

Left Right or Center, the simple fact is that McCain is a doddering old idiot that will be well puppeted by the Neocon agenda and likely will think he's in charge somehow.

And you guys want hime just like you wanted Bush.