McCain On Obama, Nuclear Power Safeguards: "Blah, Blah, Blah"

During a rally in Northern Iowa University this morning, John McCain made a strange remark that only serves to cement the notion that he does not respect Barack Obama:

When I'm elected president We're going to stop spending $700 billion to buy oil from countries that don't like us very much," John McCain said at Northern Iowa University this morning.

"You know, the other night in the debate with Senator Obama, I said his eloquence is admirable, but pay attention to his words. We talk about offshore drilling and he said he would quote, consider, offshore drilling. We talked about nuclear power, well it has to be safe, environment, blah, blah, blah."

While McCain is targeting Obama's eloquence as empty words with his "blah, blah, blah" comment, it's curious why he would use safeguards for nuclear power as the vehicle for this attack. The line makes McCain seem not only callous but also dismissive of a very real concern regarding nuclear power. It recalls the moment during the third presidential debate when McCain used air quotes while discussing a woman's health as a factor in her having an abortion.

Comments

[jiml1956]

Well, when you are debating an opponent more eloquent than you, just go "blah, blah, blah". It speaks very much to your own intelligence and eloquence.

[dutchgirl55]

Or, I suppose, any situation.

Yes, Officer, I was speeding. Blah, blah, blah!

Yeah, that works.

[GoNitro]

What's next? Putting his hands over his ears and singing "la-la-la, I can't hear you"?

[Archivist1000]

Nuclear .. you mean like in FRANCE ????????????? Isn't that SOCIALIST ?????

[kathy001]

I've got another 3 words for McCain, "Chernoble, Chernoble, Chernoble.­"

[GoNitro]

Another three: "Three. Mile. Island."

[kathy001]

LOL! Perfect!! I was suffering from brain-freeze and couldn't figure out how to fit that one in.

[Salz08]

One cannot imagine he would be making more idiotic comments than he already is, even if he were deliberately trying to lose the election.

[Jacob77030]

Get off my lawn!

[Lotus19]

LOL

[Palmz]

LOL

[WmC]

To me it recalls the "bomb, bomb, bomb,...bo­mb, bomb Iran" moment.

[citizentm]

Blah Blah Blah is all that has been coming from this camp for months now... or as what else should one describe DRILL, BABY, DRILL and BOMB, BOMB, BOMB IRAN - just the kind of impulsive and reckless decision making that has gotten this world to the brink of collapse..­.

If we can get rid of this Kabal, that has tortured this land for 40 years now than that is truly a revolution in this land...