John McCain Had A Brazilian Girlfriend, So He’s An Expert On Latin America

2:43 pm EST October 3rd, 2008 | Uncategorized | 12 Comments

That’s the brilliance from Richard Fontaine, a senior foreign policy advisor for the McCain campaign.

Sen. John McCain’s senior foreign policy adviser cites a steamy romance 50 years ago with a Brazilian babe among the things that illustrate the candidate’s decades-long interest in Latin America

Speaking at an Americas Conference panel discussion Friday on the next U.S. president’s Latin American policy, McCain advisor Richard Fontaine started out by mentioning an old Brazilian flame of McCain’s, who recently emerged in the press.

”Talking a little about his personal experience, he was famously born in Panama and has traveled all over the hemisphere for many years.” Fontaine said. “In fact, I saw, I guess it was last week, that his old girlfriend in Brazil has been found from his early days when he was in the Navy and was interviewed. She’s a somewhat older woman now than she was then, but it sorta speaks to the long experience he has had in the region — in the most positive terms.”

I love these guys. Seriously.

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12 Responses to “John McCain Had A Brazilian Girlfriend, So He’s An Expert On Latin America”

  1. Crusty Dem says:
    October 3, 2008 at 2:52 pm

    Interestingly, Sarah Palin has never been South of the border, but is also an expert in Latin America because she once got a Brazilian bikini wax.

    Sadly, this news would probably only increase the excitement on the right side of the blogosphere, just look at Rich Lowry at the corner. He’s suffering from quite a priapism today, if it lasts 4 hours or more, he should really go see his doctor.

  2. Duros Hussein 62 says:
    October 3, 2008 at 2:55 pm

    but it sorta speaks to the long experience he has had in the region — in the most positive terms.”

    What, by fucking it? I don’t get it.

  3. Patrick K says:
    October 3, 2008 at 3:32 pm

    Pretty polynesian baby, over the sea…
    I still remember the night…

    –

    Ooh, I’m a travelin’ Maverick…

    I mean, what the hell, he already mangled the Beach Boys.

  4. Parthenon says:
    October 3, 2008 at 3:42 pm

    OW, what was that you said about conservatives bringing teh funny?

    I know I’m laughing.

  5. mawado says:
    October 3, 2008 at 7:00 pm

    Given that he’s a republican, has anyone checked her for an adam’s apple, large hands, and a wide stance?

  6. Susan Kitchens says:
    October 3, 2008 at 7:30 pm

    Not girlfriend. Mistress.

    MISTRESS.

    If the opening anecdote of the Rolling Stone account of McCain’s trip from the National War College is the context for McCain’s Mr. Coconut love fest in Brazil, she’s not a girlfriend, she’s a mistress, because he was married at the time.

    (there was an earlier trip to South America when he was a midshipman studying at the naval academy.)

    But he chose Rio for his foreign travel leg of the National War College because he stood “a better chance of getting laid.” While married. With three kids.

    Link to Rolling Stone article:
    http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/make_believe_maverick_the_real_john_mccain

  7. Bruce says:
    October 3, 2008 at 8:29 pm

    Brazilian ass has a repute for quality. But if your experience is in getting Brazilian ass, the doctorate on your wall is for “getting ass”, not in “Brazilian affairs.”

  8. lover of jazz says:
    October 3, 2008 at 9:25 pm

    and a couple of weeks ago one of his spokesturds tried to claim mccain damn near invented the blackberry.
    i swear, these guys KNOW the media is scared shitless of laying into them and are just daring anyone to try.
    after palin pretty much announced she’d say whatever the hell she wanted regardless of the question and nobody screamed “WTF?”, they have had it affirmed once and for all: they can say and do any stupid shit they like with NO CHANCE that it’ll come back to haunt them.

  9. anne says:
    October 3, 2008 at 10:19 pm

    …in his PANTS.

  10. Duros Hussein62 says:
    October 3, 2008 at 11:25 pm

    Well said, Bruce.

  11. billbb says:
    October 7, 2008 at 12:51 am

    Lends a whole new slant to McCain’s claim to have experience in “foreign affairs.”

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