I would hope the person would be mature enough to see a joke for a joke. Though, with the example you and others are setting, I guess maturity is sorely lacking in this country.

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Courage, Truth, Honor, Fidelity, Discipline, Hospitality, Industriousness, Self-Reliance, Perseverance

You're kidding right ? You are talking about Maturity regarding a 70+ year old man who calls a young high school boy
": an annoyingly stupid or foolish person : an unlikable person; especially : one who is cruel, rude, or small-minded"
in a public forum and castigating those who believe it was wrong to have done this?

Me thinks your Partisan blinders are on too tight.

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In a Democracy, Silence is Permission

Oh for fuck sake. I am not a McCain supporter, nor do I support any of the Republican candidates. So spare me the "partisan blinders" bullshit.

He called the high school kid that in JEST. Which means he didn't fucking mean it.

Just to help you out.

joke:
1. Something said or done to evoke laughter or amusement, especially an amusing story with a punch line.
2. A mischievous trick; a prank.
3. An amusing or ludicrous incident or situation.
4. Informal
a. Something not to be taken seriously; a triviality
b. An object of amusement or laughter; a laughingstock

Lighten up.

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I am a liberal, a classical liberal. Classical liberalism is liberalism, but the current collectivists have captured that designation in the United States. In Europe they are glad enough to call themselves socialists. But no one in America wants to be called socialist and admit what they are.

Courage, Truth, Honor, Fidelity, Discipline, Hospitality, Industriousness, Self-Reliance, Perseverance

Call it the "Kerry principle".

If you're a stiff public speaker, don't make jokes.

Matt

I guess you're right.

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Courage, Truth, Honor, Fidelity, Discipline, Hospitality, Industriousness, Self-Reliance, Perseverance

I don't recall anyone cutting Kerry or Senator Allen any slack for their botched jokes.

McCain's campaign is toast.

You mean it isn't already?

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I am a liberal, a classical liberal. Classical liberalism is liberalism, but the current collectivists have captured that designation in the United States. In Europe they are glad enough to call themselves socialists. But no one in America wants to be called socialist and admit what they are.

Courage, Truth, Honor, Fidelity, Discipline, Hospitality, Industriousness, Self-Reliance, Perseverance

They're busy cleaning Hillary's ass with their tongues.

Also an age of where people question a woman's ability to drive a car too, should we apply that same standard to say the campaign of a candidate for President like say Hillary? If you count her as a woman that is.

you telling me i dont know what i am talking about is quite funny

you know there are some joke threads in the OFF TOPIC section

maybe you should post there you have a knack at humor

BTW kerry was a protestor

and liberals are against war

liberals trying to do anything other than protest and bitch about war(like try and run one) is fucking pretty funny

Excepting FDR of course.

Do you read what you post before you post it? This one makes you look rather more foolish than usual.

MODERN era .............

Reminds me of the Republican primary of 2000.

But, I personally see this as a non-issue. It makes for a horrible sound-byte, but, who cares, really?

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Damn good point. That was when I first realised that Bush was a slimeball when he attacked McCain like that. Absolutely disgusting - and after that, nothing from GWBush is very surprising at all.

AZ Sen. john mccain, in a (supposed) effort to boost his poll ratings--proudly demonstrated his mental midgetry and temper-tantrum problems before a crowd of high school students in New Hampshire. . .

In an opening remark, the Senator lost his cool, calling a student a jerk. . .

Later, mccain responded to a question about gays in the military, never really addressing the issue, claiming instead that he would enforce his own personal beliefs, then attempted a weak comeback when a student had the audacity to concisely rephrase what he meant. . .

Of course, the senile (sorry, senior) senator is certainly well-versed in the sociopolitical terminology of the day. . .

To be true, there are young people that (fortunately) just take it to him. . .

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