Tactful Negotiation

I happened on an interesting little tidbit of shoot-from-the-hip jocularity from the madcap world of Mr. McCain. It's a little dated (May 28, 2006), but oh-so-illustrative nonetheless:

For all the national attention surrounding John McCain’s two highly anticipated, protest-ridden commencement speeches in New York last week, the Senator actually saved some of his best material for the crowd that gathered on Friday behind closed doors in the back of the Regency Hotel.

In a small, mirror-paneled room guarded by a Secret Service agent and packed with some of the city’s wealthiest and most influential political donors, Mr. McCain got right to the point.

“One of the things I would do if I were President would be to sit the Shiites and the Sunnis down and say, ‘Stop the bullshit,’” said Mr. McCain, according to Shirley Cloyes DioGuardi, an invitee, and two other guests.
--source: The New York Observer, http://www.observer.com/node/38920

Does anyone else choke on their force-fed McCain propaganda when they read this, or is it just me?

So let me get this straight. Somewhere there is a group of people (of like mind with Mr. Bush, by the way, a leader who has never steered us wrong in the past) that think we are honestly supposed to vote for a guy whose bright idea on Mid East peace is to tell everybody down there to just knock it off…? Well gosh. I wish somebody had thought of that before! There isn’t already enough swagger in our foreign policy; we need to go in there cursing and show those third-worlders who’s boss!

Surreal.