Just Hilarious

By Joe Klein | @JoeKleinTIME | April 19, 2007 | +

Another man — wondering if an attack on Iran is in the works — wanted to know when America is going to “send an air mail message to Tehran.”
McCain began his answer by changing the words to a popular Beach Boys song.
“Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran,” he sang to the tune of Barbara Ann.

This is about as funny as the video President Bush searching under his desk for the missing weapons of mass destruction. I guess, with Imus gone, McCain needed an outlet for his boys room sense of humor.

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