McCain, Putin Trade Barbs

[freeplessinseattle]

Yet another reason to be grateful President Obama won the election!

"After 10 years as President of Russia, Vladimir Putin stepped aside and became prime minister. But now, he's running again for his old job, and political barbs are coming his way - some from across the Atlantic.

Sen. John McCain (R, Ariz.) has been needling the Russian leader via Twitter. And Thursday, Putin struck back.
....

McCain admits he picked a fight with the embattled prime minister.

He tweeted last week, "Dear Vlad, #The ArabSpring is coming to a neighborhood near you."

McCain admits he giggled when he sent the tweet. "You know," he says, "you've gotta have a sense of humor!"

The former GOP presidential nominee says he expected a reaction, but not the bizarre personal attacks Putin delivered Thursday on Russian TV.

"Mr. McCain was imprisoned in Vietnam," Putin said. "They put him in a hole for several years. Anyone would go insane."

Back on Twitter, McCain played it coy, saying, "Dear Vlad, is it something I said?"

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-500202_162-57344125/mccain-putin-trade-barbs/

[polly7]

1. Geez .......

How mature.

[Renew Deal]

2. That message from McCain isn't cool.

And really neither is Vlads. McCain is a loose cannon.

[Javaman]

3. Dear John...

the American Spring is coming to a state near you.

[saras]

4. How come it's okay for DU to call McCain crazy but not okay for Putin to point out a real reason?

[DesertFlower]

5. if McCain had won the election

we'd probably be at war with iran. it's time for McNasty to retire.

[SemperEadem]

27. omg--this past week he looked like he was going

to break out in a temper tantrum because we were finally pulling out of Iraq. He is a war monger even in the face
of the mood of the country saying that they wanted the war to be over.

[AsahinaKimi]

6. McCain is on twitter now?

So i can tweet him, now and say;

"Hey Republican! GET OFF MY LAWN!!"




Kimiko ~Yori

[DFW]

7. Please tell me this isn't for real

McCain is called Putin "Vlad?" If so, Putin is right, McCain has gone bonkers. NOBODY addresses a sitting Russian Prime Minister as "Vlad." To get informal, one first uses the patronymic, in this case, Vladimir Vladimirovich, and even to get to that level, you have to have had quite a few evenings of vodka and piroshki together. Too many characters for Twitter? Too bad. The Russians didn't take "Twitter" into account when setting up their society. I wonder if McCain even knows how to pronounce "Vladimir?" In Russian, the accent is on the second syllable, and McCain probably stresses the first syllable, like Bush Lite did.

Oh, and "Johnny" should know that it was everything he said. He hasn't said much worthy of being taken seriously in the last five years.

[ashling]

22. Great post

Thanks

[DallasNE]

8. The Problem Is, Nobody's Laughing McCain

You are not being funny. Rather, you are being bitter and angry. Little did we realize in 2008 that the one on the McCain-Palin ticket that we needed to most worry about was McCain. And it is not just this childish tweet about Putin. To listen to McCain piously blast President Obama for ending the war in Iraq one would think that it was the second coming of Dunkirk. McCain has gone beyond pathetic.

[formercia]

9. St. John McCain is like a little boy who just found his Dick.

He doesn't know how to use it yet, but it feels good to wiggle it around.

[DeSwiss]

16. ....

[47of74]

10. Dear McNasty, please #retire

[OneMadVoter]

11. Past time for McCain's Retirement

If McCain was in power, we would already be in war with Iran. . . and about his rant with the Iraq Withdrawal, obviously he has a memory lapse because it was negotiated (during Bush administration) that the U.S. would be out by 2011. Even during the election, I noticed that he had a "man-diva" attitude -- but now his dementia seems to be kicking into high gear.

[Ellipsis]

12. Mud wrestling.

[tawadi]

13. I think it was better for all of us when McCain didn't even own a cell phone. eom

[La Lioness Priyanka]

14. i was sure this was an onion article

[DeSwiss]

15. K&R

- They're both right.

''I’m for truth, no matter who tells it.'' ~Malcolm X

[tatfreak79]

17. why not?

It would seem to me Russia could use plenty of reform. They are as corrupt a government as you'll find in the world.

[Crowman1979]

18. Take your medicine John!

[Spazito]

19. Geez, they both come off looking immature...

I honestly thought this was a joke until I read the article. One thing is clear and that is their global-sized egos are a match as is their maturity level.

[NewJeffCT]

20. So much for using diplomatic words

These sorts of things probably cause strokes and/or heart attacks with career diplomats around the world.

[bloomington-lib]

21. McCain for SoS!

F'd up sense of humor he has.

[Serve The Servants]

23. So this is what it has come to?

Politicians belonging to the most powerful countries of the world going at it like teenagers?

We are so screwed...

[benld74]

24. McCain isn't insane - He's senile

[eyewall]

25. it's a cartoon world

Elmer Fudd disses Daffy Duck, and Daffy starts the inevitable exchange.

Forget statesmanship or diplomacy. We'll probably never see it again.

[treestar]

26. McDope did not need to start this.

Why did he? Oh, I guess because he's just an idiot.

[LiberalLovinLug]

28. Right up there with "Bomb Bomb Bomb, Bomb Bomb Iran"

Seeing as its the civilian population that pays the price for invasion (see Iraq), what a lovely message to send to them.

He thought he was being funny then too.