My roommate says he can't believe that an American Presidential Candidate would call another world leader a monkey. I can.
McCain refers to Iran’s president as a ‘monkey’; GOP rep calls jab ‘racist’
By Olivier Knox, Yahoo! News | The Ticket – 3 hrs ago
Oh, dear. Republican Sen. John McCain on Monday called Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a "monkey." The blunt-speaking Arizona lawmaker leveled the jab—swiftly condemned as "racist" by a Republican representative—via Twitter: In response, Republican Rep. Justin Amash of Michigan tweeted: It's not the first time McCain's comments about a foreign leader on Twitter have raised eyebrows. In August 2009, he tweeted about an "interesting meeting" with Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi, calling him "an interesting man."
McCain, long a fixture on the Senate Armed Services Committee, recently joined the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which vets nominees to senior diplomatic posts.
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