John McCain Taunts Vladimir Putin via Twitter
EmailSen. John McCain has been having a little fun over Twitter with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, goading the Russian into responding to his mocking tweets.
Earlier this month, McCain, R-Ariz., an avid Twitter user, tweeted: “Dear Vlad, The #ArabSpring is coming to a neighborhood near you,” linking to a news article about the allegations of fraud after Russia’s parliamentary elections.
Last Saturday, McCain tweeted, “#ArabSpring comes Moscow ‘Russians rally vs Putin, election fraud,’” linking to a report on anti-government protests in Moscow.
Today, Putin responded, calling McCain, “nuts.”
“He has a lot of blood of peaceful civilians on his hands. He must relish and can’t live without the disgusting, repulsive scenes of the killing of Gadhafi,” Putin said, referring to McCain’s role as a pilot and prisoner of war in Vietnam, according to the Associated Press.
“Mr. McCain was captured in Vietnam and they kept him not just in prison, but in a pit for several years,” Putin added. “Anyone [in his place] would go nuts.”
McCain mocked Putin back, tweeting this morning, “Dear Vlad, is it something I said,” and taking to the Senate floor to read, for the record, Putin’s comments.
“Apparently, Mr. Putin was not amused,” McCain said on the Senate floor, “I believe that he has been shaken, as he should have been, by the massive demonstrations that have taken place in Moscow and other cities in Russia.”
Shortly after, Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., who serves on the Senate Armed Services Committee with McCain, came to his defense.
“I just wish we had a chance to straighten out Mr. Putin about Sen. McCain,” Levin said on the Senate floor, “I don’t think we’ll have that opportunity, but maybe his own people will do that in a free election someday.”
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Posted by: Fezzy Bear | December 15, 2011, 3:58 pm 3:58 pm
I’ve never done this before but I agree with Putin. McCain has gone bonkers!!
Hey John, it’s time to hang it up and go home (whichever house you can remember best) and live out your golden years with whatever might be left of your dignity.
Posted by: demNme5 | December 15, 2011, 4:08 pm 4:08 pm
Putin pwned McCain.
Posted by: Missy | December 15, 2011, 4:56 pm 4:56 pm
And as bad as Obama is to think McCain could have had his finger on the button.
Whatever is going on in Russia it is certainly no worse than what is taking place in America with the media’s attempts to sideline Ron Paul, put down the “Occupiers” and now to introduce thedetention without trial of anybody the administration doesn’t like.
As an Englishman who would once laugh at Radio Moscow during the Soviet era and generally believe the BBC and western media at the time I find myself seeking out Russia Today and ignoring the communists of the BBC and the Murdoch pawns of Sky. How times have changed.
Posted by: Will Mossop | December 15, 2011, 5:11 pm 5:11 pm
These are our “leaders”? They seem more like buffoons. Should McCain, if he has any credibility as a serious person left, be taunting the leader of another nation? If a football player behaved like that we would lose respect for them. While our political economy is a disgrace shouldn’t we be finding common ground with other nations and there leaders? And don’t these people work for us? Sorry, can’t see the humor in this exchange between world “leaders”, or preferrably representatives of people. It’s pathetic. Fire them. In the US and Russia!!
Posted by: savo wise | December 16, 2011, 7:31 am 7:31 am