Carpetbagger Smackdown
I won't be voting for Senator McCain this Tuesday following the first Monday of November, but McCain is still a colorful guy who's been through a lot (and like most other Americans would have been a much better President that "W"). I checked out the John McCain Wikipedia entry and found this fun quote from his 1982 run for congress. The quote is in response to a charge that he, having recently moved to Arizona, was a carpetbagger.

"Listen, pal. I spent 22 years in the Navy. My father was in the Navy. My grandfather was in the Navy. We in the military service tend to move a lot. We have to live in all parts of the country, all parts of the world. I wish I could have had the luxury, like you, of growing up and living and spending my entire life in a nice place like the First District of Arizona, but I was doing other things. As a matter of fact, when I think about it now, the place I lived longest in my life was Hanoi."

Nice.
- posted Thursday, October 09, 2008 10:49 PM by Steve