Adviser: McCain has Latin American experience due to his fling 50 years ago w Brazilian beauty

[NYCGirl]

As the old saying goes..."With friends like this, who needs enemies?"

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/03/mccain-latin-america-fling/

At an Americas Conference panel discussion today, McCain adviser Richard Fontaine argued that Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) affair 50 years ago with former Brazilian beauty queen Maria Gracinda Teixeira de Jesus illustrated “the long experience he has had in the region — in the most positive terms”:

”Talking a little about his personal experience, he was famously born in Panama and has traveled all over the hemisphere for many years.” Fontaine said. “In fact, I saw, I guess it was last week, that his old girlfriend in Brazil has been found from his early days when he was in the Navy and was interviewed She’s a somewhat older woman now than she was then, but it sorta speaks to the long experience he has had in the region — in the most positive terms.”

Asked afterwards if he was suggesting that the fling “counted as Latin America foreign policy experience,” Fontaine responded, “‘The only thing I was trying to convey was that his experience goes back a long way.” (HT: Ben Smith)

[Starbucks Anarchist]

1. By that logic, Ron Jeremy should be president for life.

[heliarc]

2. Most. ridiculous. spin. EVER nt

[grantcart]

3. well if Palin is a foreign expert because she can see Russia from her house then

McCain had 2 ways to go: Latin American Expert or Gynecologist.

[heliarc]

4. I wonder if he ever figured out what...

"eres muy pequeño" means...

[Chloroplast]

10. McCain strikes me as the type to go Ike Turner on a partner if he were to learn what that means.

[ej510]

5. He has experience because he got some ass?

:wtf: :rofl:

[Withywindle]

6. Well, shit, then my dad's way more qualified to be President than McCain.

He hooked up with a Brazilian beauty too - and was smart enough not to let her get away! (40th anniversary coming up in a couple weeks!)

[Chloroplast]

7. Girlfriend? Weren't they just fuck buddies for the few days he was in Rio?

Please, he can't tell the truth about where he was born and he doesn't know the difference between Zapatero and Zapatistas.

[SurfingAtWork]

8. He might have been better served by saying that he has latin experience

Because he serves in a state that is right next door to Mexico, and you know when they rear thier ugly heads, where do you think they go... doncha know?

[janx]

9. ANOTHER Beauty Queen?

His first wife, his second wife, Palin, and now this?

[Cosmic Charlie]

11. Holy Shit! I can't believe this isn't Onion...

[msallied]

12. Well then, I must have GLBT experience because I once experimented in college...

Just sayin...

[eshfemme]

13. Seriously, what a smart move!

Because mentioning McCain's Panama birth will raise questions of whether his citizenship was innate or retroactively granted! Since y'know... the President of the United States of America is supposed to be BORN an American and not be naturalized as one.

Also, it really helps that chauvinistic image he's going for, to brag about how many hookers, strippers and "dancers" he's fucked. And it gives the impression that despite his expressed contrition of his philandering ways, he's still an fuckwad who's a two-timing liar who's proud of his affairs. Really great criteria for the female voters who are already turned off by Palin's bimbosity.

And if sleeping with multiple women from around the world is the basis for McCain's foreign policy experience, then he must be the sluttiest man alive and I'd be urging that his medical records be pulled for review-- McCain was definitely raised in days when the medical technology to prevent and treat several VDs wasn't common. I don't want someone who not only might drop dead out of sheer age/rage, suffer a cancer relapse or is nursing a hidden STD like syphilis (fun fact: syphilis in its later stages can attack various organs in the body so it's entirely possible for someone to die of something natural looking like a heart attack or aneurysm because the syphilis attacks that part of the body).

So yeah... what fun this particular spin can generate.

[Catshrink]

14. And he knows how to win wars...

because he was a POW. (Isn't that what Miss Sarah said last night?)