"Big Mac attack!" roars fired-up, confused candidate

[Lautremont]

On a brisk fall day in Pennsylvania, before a crowd of several hundred supporters, Republican Presidential candidate John McCain made a bold prediction. "My friends, on November 4th, Senator Obama will face a Big Mac attack the likes of which he's never known - and I am that attack! My friends, the Big Mac is back, for a limited time only!"

The feisty underdog's passion spread to his mostly elderly fans, who cheered weakly and waved their arms at nearly every applause line or attack gambit. The Big Mac catchphrase, obviously held in reserve for just such a point in the campaign, found the greatest response, and so the elderly candidate ran with it.

"My friends, a Big Mac is a funny thing. A lot of layers there - a lot of surprises. It contains ingredients you never suspected were there, maybe didn't want to know were there. That's me all over, and my friends, let me say once again that the Big Mac has returned. I'm back!"

(more at link: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/11/03/2408290.htm)

[LynnTheDem]

1. He's in his "child-like" years.

Obviously.

How embarrassing his behaviour is for him.

[bdamomma]

2. what a stupid thing to say.

the mac is back,geez, give me a break.

[malaise]

18. Tears are rolling down my cheeks

Tears of laughter because I saw this crap. Rachel is all but laughing at Gramps come back.

[SammyWinstonJack]

3. His Happy Meal will not contain a toy.

x(

[Ghost in the Machine]

13. He's a few fries short of a happy meal... n/t

[Veritas_et_Aequitas]

15. Great minds...

[Ghost in the Machine]

21. Yep, I saw that right after I posted...

:hi:

[SammyWinstonJack]

16. ...

:spray:

[Ghost in the Machine]

23. ....

:hi:

[grannylib]

4. Sounds as though he's been hitting the "special" sauce...

[SmokingJacket]

45. hahaha! nt

[amerikat]

5. Where's the beef?

sounds like he's been hittin' the special sauce.

[Redstone]

6. Truly pathetic, and perfectly indicative of his desperation.

Redstone

[CitizenPatriot]

7. not real meat?

why would he tell everyone that?

[C_U_L8R]

8. I think we've deserved a break today

So McCain please go away.

[noamnety]

9. A few lessons here.

1. You never look cool when you try to introduce your own new "cool" nickname.

2. Don't chose a metaphor for yourself that gives people digestive problems.

3. If you are running for office, don't pick a nickname that represents empty calories, no nutritional value.

[Veritas_et_Aequitas]

10. He's a few fries short of a value meal.

I wonder if he has to pay McDonalds for use of their trademark.

[Indenturedebtor]

30. My first thought was that McDonalds paid him for it. Kinda like in Idiocracy

Wasn't the President's name "Something MountDew Costco Target Gonzalez"? :rofl:

Mac Attack hahahahahahahahhaa.

[Lautremont]

31. Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Camacho

[TahitiNut]

11. Two all-bullshit patties, specially sauced, let us sheesh!, pick hell, unyuns, on a plumbers buns???

:dunce:

[silverweb]

12. There are only two possibilities:

(1) Senile dementia/insane bravado.

(2) He knows that the fix is already in with a major reTHUG dirty trick.

I'll never forget how the bottom dropped out of my stomach in 2000, when a camera caught _george as he walked away, tossing back over his shoulder, "I'm gonna be prezdint" with a big smirking grin.

McCain's braggadocio gives me a similar sick feeling.

[mascarax]

14. Who's writing this stuff?

I mean, I think it was yesterday - or the day before- that he laid it on thick about Joe the Tax Evading Alleged Plumber - including that Dear Joe is "an American hero" and "my role model".

And now he's comparing himself to a Big Mac?!

And he makes no sense! "ingredients...maybe didn't want to know were there"? Well, actually, that may be true since it has about 40 grams of fat and 1,200 calories.

(Good line about the "special sauce" too!)

Anyway, I'm sure Obama is huddled somewhere with his advisors, trying to figure out how to face this Big Mac attack, "the likes of which he's never known".

While I'm thrilled with the "limited time" admission. It can't be over soon enough.

[liberalmuse]

17. What the fuck?

McCain is two all beef patties, special sauce, cheese, lettuce, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun short of a Big Mac.

[rocktivity]

19. How very Alzheimer's of him

:headbang:
rocknation

[Tutonic]

20. More like Fishy Fiend.

[NutmegYankee]

22. And as healthy for you as well...

A big Mac? ARE YOU F'CKING KIDDING ME!

[RetroLounge]

24. for a limited time only

like 2 more days...

RL

[Blond4O]

25. I honestly thought this was a story from the Onion or something

He's comparing himself to a fast food sandwich?! :rofl:

[Swamp Rat]

26. McSenile

:eyes:

[Contrary1]

27. Yep. And most experts will agree...

Big Macs aren't good for you.

[ogneopasno]

28. Has the link changed? That excerpt you have in your OP isn't at the link you've offered. Where

did it come from?

[ACTION BASTARD]

29. Oh Grandpa this is an Epic Fail!

[Swamp Rat]

32. Here ya geaux:

:D

[Lautremont]

33. Wow! That's astonishing!

Palin in the Mickey D clownsuit is an especially nice touch! And I'm not sure if McCain is about to tuck into those burgers, or if he just barfed them up as some sort of attempt at dialogue with his good buddies, the working class.

Good work!

[Swamp Rat]

34. Thanks

:hi: Glad you got to see it... from your backyard. :D

[lame54]

35. Isn't a Big-Mac Attack cardiac arrest?

[Solly Mack]

36. The man's gone from telling Whoppers to comparing himself to a Big Mac

Guess that makes Palin the fries.

They put the junk in junk food

[mwooldri]

37. "My friends, the Big Mac is back, for a limited time only!" - How limited?

Can we please limit this Big Mac to erm... 7pm on November 4th?

[InternalDialogue]

38. Kennedy is an urban-rumor joke for calling himself a donut.

McCain isn't even speaking a foreign language and he's calling himself a fucking hamburger?!?

Lord, let Tuesday come quickly and let it be without question an undeniable landslide...

[Hubert Flottz]

39. The man who would be king?

Burger King?

[BR_Parkway]

40. Where's the beef?

[Hubert Flottz]

41. Between John's teef...

[Warren DeMontague]

42. "It contains ingredients you never suspected were there, maybe didn't want to know were there."

That's sort of disgusting, John.

On a lot of levels.

[Warren DeMontague]

43. Remember when Poppy started calling Clinton & Gore "Bozos"?

Or when he was calling Al Gore "Ozone Man"?

It was clear to me then that the wheels were coming off the Bush bus.

Same thing here. McCain's campaign jumped the shark a while ago, but this is just pathetic.

[Barackattack]

44. Big Mac's are covered in that disgusting sauce.

I don't think he thought that one through very well. Lol

[Mike 03]

46. I don't know if this comedy or tragedy anymore. NT

[donco6]

47. Full of cheese and special sauce.

Mmmmm.

[dkofos]

48. OK, I'm ready for mclame to drop dead tonight.

Big mac my ass

[hootinholler]

49. That quote is not on that page!

Do you have a screen shot? What speech is this from?

That quote is money, I'd like to be able to pass it along.

-Hoot

[ogneopasno]

50. I think it's a little irresponsible to keep this up -- clearly people think it could be legitimate.

I don't think it is. OP, could you help out a little here?

[Cha]

51. mccain is comparing himself to a

mcdonald's junkfood.

[AngryAmish]

52. Now I have to go get a Big Mac. thanks.

From every month to every three months I get a hankering for a Big mac. They really are not very good and are terrible for one's health but it is a deep itch and I have to scratch it.

First I get sick thinking about him, now I am going to be sick after eating the damn thing...

[Buns_of_Fire]

53. "Big Mac/Mayor McCheese '08?" Sorry, it won't fit on the campaign buttons. n/t

[4lbs]

54. When's the last time McCain actually had a McDonald's Big Mac?

n/t

[renate]

55. I can't tell whether this is real

The lines aren't anywhere in the linked article, but I can kind of imagine him wigging out like this... it really does sound like him.

So I'm :rofl: either at your joke or at him--it's funny either way.