Would you sleep well with John McCain answering the red phone?

[helderheid]

Harold Meyerson
Special to The Washington Post
Article Last Updated: 03/26/2008 06:30:04 PM MDT

It is 3 a.m., and the stillness of the White House night is shattered by the ringing of the red phone. President John McCain, rousing himself from a deep sleep, turns on the light and picks up the receiver. A U.S. embassy in a Middle Eastern country, he is told, has been blown up, and al-Qaida is taking credit.

McCain takes a deep breath. ''Character counts, my friend,'' he says. ''Bomb Iran. Bomb, bomb Iran.''

There is a rustling of blankets, and, brushing aside Cindy McCain, a concerned Joe Lieberman rises from the bed. ''Not Iran, Mr. President,'' he says. ''They hate al-Qaida.''

''That's right,'' the president says. ''I remember now.'' He sighs with relief. ''Good thing you're here every night, Joe.''
But suppose, dear reader, that John McCain becomes president and Joe Lieberman doesn't bunk with the McCains on a nightly basis. How easily should the rest of us sleep? It's anything but an academic question after McCain's bizarre performance in Jordan last week.

There, he told reporters that he was ''concerned about Iranian taking al-Qaida into Iran, training them and sending them back'' to Iraq. ''That's well known,'' he continued - at which point Lieberman whispered a correction in his ear. ''I'm sorry,'' McCain then said. ''The Iranians are training extremists, not al-Qaida.''

What are we to make of this moment? Was it a senior moment? A jet-lagged moment? Or, worse, was it really a moment at all? After all, the evening before, McCain had told listeners of Hugh Hewitt's radio talk show that ''there are al-Qaida operatives that are taken back into Iran, given training as leaders, and they're moving back into Iraq.''

MORE >>>>

http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/ci_8707271

[helderheid]

1. what do you bet this post drops like a rock?

[helderheid]

22. pllllop

[rosesaylavee]

2. McCain and Lieberman sharing the same bed with Cindy.

Will I ever be able to wash my brain of that image? Yech.

:hi:

[Occam Bandage]

3. I laughed aloud at this part:

"There is a rustling of blankets, and, brushing aside Cindy McCain, a concerned Joe Lieberman rises from the bed."

[helderheid]

14. LOL! Me too!

[AnarchoFreeThinker]

4. they'll never be able to rouse him at 3AM

[walldude]

5. They won't have to

he'll be awake.. trying to take a pee... :rofl:

[Maat]

19. O.K., now THAT's funny ...

as in I've heard my mother-in-law complain about this rather frequently.

[helderheid]

20. oh... dear...

[Vinca]

6. First he's got to hear the phone. Then, when he presses

the speaker button, you've got to hope Lieberbush is around to make sure it's not the nuke button.

[Xithras]

7. I'm more worried about John McCain and the Red Button.

Don't forget that McCain was the one advocating that we NUKE Afghanistan after 9/11.

[baldguy]

10. Bingo

Insane McCain will nuke anyone that looks at him sideways.

[flpoljunkie]

12. You nailed it!

[WVRevy]

8. I have a question about McCain and the 3:00AM call

...when he's sleep deprived, does he think he's under sniper fire?

[azmouse]

9. "Hell, I don't want him answering the red phone at 3pm."

I read this article in the paper this morning. Imagine my surprise that the Phoenix newspaper printed it!

[helderheid]

15. Salt Lake Tribune!

[flpoljunkie]

11. Thank you for posting this. It was in yesterday's Washington Post, I see, as well. It's about time

someone wrote about this, as the media incredibly, yet predictably, give McCain a pass last week.

[DerekJ]

13. I thought the title said:” Would you sleep with John McCain?”

:rofl:

[leftstreet]

16. I did too for a second.

:rofl:

Someone will probably start a poll...

[helderheid]

17. LMAO! On it!

[helderheid]

18. voila!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x5285984

[helderheid]

21. kick!

[helderheid]

23. .

[Johnny__Motown]

24. after 8 years of Bush/Cheney? Let's just say I would sleep better than I do now

Unfortunately that isn't saying much

[helderheid]

25. He's pretty twitchy...

[mcctatas]

26. whew...

I thought it said "would you sleep with John McCain?" and that I had somehow wandered into a necrophiliac forum:yoiks:

[helderheid]

27. I posted that one too! :)

[helderheid]

28. SR