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McCain defends his choice of ABBA as his favourite music.
Speaking to Walter Isaacson at the Aspen Institute in Colorado on Thursday, McCain found himself explaining a recent interview with Blender Magazine in which he selected ABBA's 1976 track "Dancing Queen" as his favorite song.

"What were you thinking?," Isaacson asked him, looking incredulous.

"If there is anything I am lacking in, I've got to tell you, it is taste in music and art and other great things in life," McCain joked. "I've got to say that a lot of my taste in music stopped about the time I impacted a surface-to-air missile with my own airplane and never caught up again."

I assume the rest of you realize that ABBA was not around in 1967, when McCain was shot down.

Should we have a moratorium on stories like this, and post instead on those rare occasions when he says something right?

by gk (g k quattro due due sette "at" gmail.com) on Mon Aug 25th, 2008 at 06:57:31 PM EST
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I'd prefer to hear about the war crimes he committed before impacting his plane into a missile, but I would accept a moderate ration of his gaffs.

Until he is elected president of course, when I'll have to re-make the decision of never returning to the states again. Between the 2 x 45 minutes of hate on drive-time radio and the daily adulation of Comrade McNapoleon that will hit the airwaves, I don't think that I will be able to take it.

I am lacking in taste in music and art and other great things in life John "why did they think he was joking" McCain

Never underestimate their intelligence, always underestimate their knowledge.

Frank Delaney ~ Ireland

by siegestate (siegestate or beyondwarispeace.com) on Tue Aug 26th, 2008 at 01:37:14 AM EST
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But...but..you can't say that !! He was a POW, although he never mentions this himself. And is thus beyond criticism or correction.

keep to the Fen Causeway
by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Tue Aug 26th, 2008 at 05:56:10 AM EST
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