@#$!!%$!

Overall, I don't have that big of a problem with John McCain. There are of course some issues that were we disagree and I liked him a whole lot more when he was metaphorically giving Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell the finger. I also find it really unfair that while Obama was nearly derailed by the whole Rev. Wright thing, McCain sucking up to John Hagee (a nutball the-world-is-ending pastor who claims that the Catholic church is the literal anti-Christ) received relatively little attention.

But now, I'm pissed.

It was reported this week that despite on/off sanctions on Iran, we are still selling them a bunch of stuff-including cigarettes, which I oppose. I do not believe it is in any way right to subsidize tobacco farmers because fewer Americans are smoking (yay!) and dump cigarettes overseas because they aren't American so who cares, right?

So, when asked about this report, John McCain replied that it may be "a way of killing 'em".

Needless to say, I find the remark cruel and tasteless and in the spirit of my Dad (Bob from Glendale!), I wrote him to tell him so.