McCain's Brother: VA Suburbs "Communist Country"

WASHINGTON — Republican presidential candidate John McCain's brother made an apparent joke at a campaign rally this weekend that might not play well in parts of newly competitive Virginia.

Joe McCain, speaking at an event in support of his brother, called two Democratic-leaning areas in Northern Virginia "communist country," according to a report on The Washington Post's Web site.

"I've lived here for at least 10 years and before that about every third duty I was in either Arlington or Alexandria, up in communist country," Joe McCain, a Navy veteran, said at an event in Loudoun County, Va.

Joe McCain then apologized, but the remark drew laughter at the event, according to the report.

Virginia has long been a Republican stronghold in presidential elections, but Democrat Barack Obama is running even or ahead of McCain in recent state polls. Obama is being helped by fast-growing communities in the Washington, D.C., suburbs of Northern Virginia, which tend to vote more Democratic than other parts of the state.

One of those areas is Arlington, Va., where John McCain owns a condominium.

"This was Joe McCain's unsuccessful attempt at humor," said McCain campaign spokeswoman Gail Gitcho. "John McCain and Sarah Palin are committed to winning the support of voters in Northern Virginia and understand the region's importance to victory statewide."

Comments

[gr8shoes]

So bad jokes run in the family as well as the inability to censor ones self in public when you know people are watching. Their mother must be so proud to have raised such ignorant, intolerate men.

[SwingVoter]

What is he hiding http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afawZWEtCKc

[sophistwatch]

There is nothing - I repeat - nothing more communist than the bail out that Keating 5 McCain is linked to.

Upon reflection, that should be revised. The recent bail out pretty much confirms the Proletariat's role on Wall Street. Communism is no longer a legitimate talking point of the Republicans.

[Rog49Thomas]

Au contraire

Giving some guy a bailout to some guy whose already got tens or hundreds of millions of dollars in his bank account ain't communism and it isn't even socialism.

Unless of course you're thinking of national socialism.

[sophistwatch]

You have a point.

I should have distinguished between what happens in practice verses what is stated as theory.

As I am sure you are aware, in practice, democracy, national socialism and communism all tend to benefit very few while burdening very many regardless of stated differences in their respective ideologies.

[mpalm 1]

Say it ain't so Joe! You called a bunch of patriotic Americans communists???! Are you trying to channel your inner Joe McCarthy?

[MadeinAmericaProud]

what does he call the big business also known as Corp America who left Americans without quality jobs for themselves and the generations to come after, and received tax credits to move their manufacture jobs to other countries, to include the ;largest one where the people are still c o m m un i st people of china, the worst part the products a k i l l i n g a m e r i c a n s. There is no oversight for safe products. The second worst American keep buying the products. We get sick from cheaply made with poison.

[sadbutrue]

I think he's channeling his inner Adolf

[Deluded]

Talking of Adolf did U know that he once said 'the basis of the ownership of the economy did not matter it was the preformance that counted" or something like that. Just because U are a nasty murderous creep don't mean you can never be right about somethings. (This in no way means that I am an admirer of AH.)

[sociocanuck]

America totally needs a new Walt Kelly to stick it to the McCain brand of negative campaigning. Letterman comes close, but McCain lampooned in cartoon form regularly by an internatio­nally-resp­ected cartoonist would do wonders.

[Voting Must Happen]

Oct 5 Polling Update.
http://voteforamerica.net/editorials/Comments.aspx?ArticleId=90&ArticleName=Poll+Update

Checkout my piece on Youth Voter Registration. For every 100 registered voters aged 18-24, the democrats accrue a 9 vote advantage.
http://voteforamerica.net/editorials/Comments.aspx?ArticleId=85&ArticleName=Youth+Vote%3a+The+Power+of+Registration

Obama 355, McCain 183
http://voteforamerica.net/electoral.aspx

[Kindheart]

I guess stupidity runs in the family. What an insult to the residents of these communities.

[MadeinAmericaProud]

when the mccains MAKE political messages with condesending, rude and nasty slimy slanderous lies, they label those comments a jokes. If the American voters go with that as acceptable, and the mccain win this election, we will have more of the same. you betcha

[hilary916]

Oh, yes, that's helpful.

[lornejl]

Anyone that gets in the way of repubs ra ping, pillaging and plundering is a commie, krist that na zi retort is so freaking boring.

[MadeinAmericaProud]

the sad part, our borrowed money, and all these unsafe products are coming from communist china.
If they call in what we own, than what? More poisonous food to eat from them?

[Opt1musPr1me]

YUP! LET THESE DUM-DUMS KEEP IT UP. THEY CONTINUE SLAP THEMSELVES IN THE FACE.

[BrickSykes]

Isn't this amazing? All these career military people, getting compensated rather well from TAX PAYER MONEY don't mind calling some of the taxpayers nasty names! They live their entire lives off the PUBLIC TEAT, but have the audacity to spit into the hand that feeds them! What a f'kin' shame we even Need them!

And also notice that the most rabid of the brass hawks is their obsessive fixation on "COMMUNISM IN AMERICA" which was, and is, a Right Wing LIE! I guess they have to have some kind of villain, real or imagined, to justify their 24/7 hatred of Anyone or Anything that doesn't measure up to their warped image of humanity.

Brick

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[tottie2001]

Obama drops hints of McSame's Keating 5 connection on new youtube video

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsI_0bV2CZo

[Knowitall]

We've got very good Obama campaign operations in No. Virginia, especially in Falls Church, Fairfax and Arlington. This statement can be used to bring even more people into the fold. We were violet, now we're true blue and won't quit until we're navy blue. Thanks Joe.

[Ave-Gabrielle]

If Barack had a brother who said anything even remotely close to what McCain's brother said--election and campaign OVER. Calling any part of America communist is not even slightly funny. Any city, any state, it's offensive and people should be up in arms--wait--whoops! It was only McCain's brother, not a Barack family member. Repubs got away with another one!

[MadeinAmericaProud]

does any American know corp America (aka: big business) has over 14+ million manufacturing jobs in communist china. Their flag is still the red communist party flag. We voted for the republicans who trasferred our middle class jobs to china. we still buy at walmart who is the largest buyer of this junk.

[dentuso]

Take another look at this guy's picture. He honestly looks like the child of McCain and Cheney.

Weird.

[HeIsTheOne]

I was looking at that photo closely also out of curiosity having never heard of Joe the communist assessor.

In this photo, he looks like an old Clark Kent.

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3070/2296849423_fcf0d78446.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeffcarter/2296849423/&h=375&w=500&sz=91&tbnid=aFnRDrgGDLkJ::&tbnh=98&tbnw=130&prev=/images%3Fq%3DPicture%2Bof%2BJoe%2BMcCain&hl=en&usg=__nMQLm7LSGdLjje68iL3QuA_DAPU=&sa=X&oi=image_result&resnum=3&ct=image&cd=1

[HeIsTheOne]

I'm sorry, I cut and pasted badly.

Here's the photo:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeffcarter/2296849423/