This is about John McCain's incessant use of the joke about the $3,000,000 earmark about the research concerning Bear DNA. It's a good joke for the crowd, and it provokes people to think about earmark spending, but wait 'til you hear what John McCain did when it was put up for vote! You won't believe it!
I was just watching Countdown with Keith Olbermann, one of my favorite political shows, and Keith was on a roll again. He usually is; but I never expected the seemingly endless stream of information about John McCain's connections to right-wing terrorists, anti-semites, neo-nazis/racists, and the Muhajideen. Now, I could make this article about that, but I heard all that before, and it's old news to me. What grabbed my attention (by the throat, mind you), was when Keith Olbermann introduced John McCain as today's worst persons of the world. Olbermann brought to my attention John McCain's favorite joke about the $3,000,000 earmark that studied bear DNA from a hair snagged in a barbed wire to estimate the Grizzly Bear population in Montana. The joke goes as follows:
"There was a three million dollar earmark that went to the study of bear DNA in Montana. Now I don't know if it was a criminal issue, or a paternal issue, but it's a good example of wasteful spending in Washington."
Great joke right? I mean, I never really hear any jokes combining politics and beastiality(sp?), and it brings to your attention the idiocy of wasteful spending, otherwise known as "pork", that's always occuring in our Congress. But, funny thing, when this earmark came up for vote...
he voted for it. I'll wait for that to register in your brain, or for you to stop laughing.
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He had every opportunity to try and change the bill, and in fact, and lowered spending on other earmarks he considered wasteful, but for some reason, he considered this earmark a necessary addition to the bill that was to be voted on. So he voted for the bill with the earmark, and now he's ridiculing the earmark HE VOTED FOR.
Now, it's either pure hypocrisy or a continued repetition of senior moments, and I'm pretty sure it's the former, and not the latter. It's not even his joke! The first person I heard say this joke was Mike Huckabee at the Republican Convention! And Huckabee seemed to also forget that John McCain voted for it. Maybe it's amnesia, and maybe there's an amnesia epidemic in the GOP, but I doubt it. More likely, it's mass stupidity, but this huge political gaffe is nothing more than hilarious.
I have nothing more to say except something to John McCain:
"Do as ye say, not as ye do,
for hypocrisy, thy name is you."