Beltway Snark

Just what we needed, something to replace the “bomb Iran” song.

McCain, known for acerbic comments and for sometimes firing verbally from the hip, was responding to a report that U.S. exports to Iran rose tenfold during President George W. Bush’s term in office despite hostility between the two states.

A rise in cigarette sales was a big part of that, according to an Associated Press analysis of seven years of U.S. trade figures.

“Maybe that’s a way of killing ‘em,” McCain said to reporters during a campaign stop in Pittsburgh. “I meant that as a joke, as a person who hasn’t had a cigarette in 28 years, 29 years,” he added, laughing.

I cannot wait to hear the Obama comeback on this one. And Olby’s. And the rest of the MSM’s. Methinks there will be plenty of manufactured outrage.