McCain Again Jokes About Killing Iranians

Look, I don't like Iran's leadership either, but isn't it unseemly for a would-be president to constantly be joking about killing people in a foreign country, even a country we don't like?

First we had this:



And now this:

Presidential candidate John McCain, who once sang in jest about bombing Iran, on Tuesday reacted to a report of rising U.S. cigarette exports to the country by saying it may be "a way of killing 'em."

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.

Sorry, you don't joke about killing the citizens of a foreign country and then expect us to make you the Commander in Chief of the most powerful military in the world.

Either McCain has a deranged sense of humor, or he really does think it would be cool to kill Iranians. Whatever the case, it's not presidential.