McCain: 'I will veto every single beer'
Watch McCain's comments Tuesday.
(CNN) - John McCain issued a promise Tuesday that may cause a bit of unrest with a broad swath of voters:
He'll veto every single beer?
In a slip of the tongue while railing against excessive earmarks at the National Small Business Summit in Washington, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee inadvertently pledged to veto the popular alcoholic beverage.
Watch McCain's slip of the tongue
"I will use the veto as needed. I will veto every single beer - bill with earmarks," he said, as rumblings from the crowd could be heard. "And every single bill that we have come across my desk I will make them famous. I will veto them, you will know their names."
It's not entirely surprising McCain has beer on the brain: his wife, Cindy, is heiress to her father's Arizona beer distribution company, Hensley and Company, one of the largest distributors in the U.S., for which she now serves as chairman.
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Veto every beer.......too funny
Canadian beer is better!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OLD MAN YELLS AT CLOUDS
Well, he just lost the blue collar vote. 😀 that was cute.
TOO FUNNY FOR A REAL COMMENT...shows where his mind was...
No Hillary
Then McCain 08
I really hope that the sentence structure issues are a CNN mistake as opposed to what McCain actually said. Don't we already have a pres-er-dint that don't talk so good?
Sigh, and this is who angry Clinton supporters want to vote for out of spite..lord..
Obama/Sebelius or Webb
Why does he mark his beer with his ear? Very strange!
Come on folks. Get over it. News broadcasters have done worse and McCain fixed it immediately.
Who cares about flubs in speech? Obama does it too, ask him about the 57 states. Of course we'll have the rabid Obots in here shouting "He's old" and "His wife makes money from beer!". Who cares???
Honestly though, I am waiting for the day when the news media decides to cover real issues that affect the citizens of this country. The economy, the war, the failure of leadership in Washington D.C. all trump a gafe in a speech. It won't happen anytime soon, I can still dream though.
This guy is a joke!!! I tought Bush was bad....
That's because Cindy just wrote him a check!
I'll deal with the high gas prices, but please don't veto the beer! Beer happens to be the only thing that makes me forget about the high gas prices!!!
Good god there after my beer .It sad that i have to pay 4$ for gas put as a young vet after a hard day i like to have a cold one . i have to go a stash my beer some place safe .
Hasn't McCain had enough "slips"of the tongue to make you wonder?
too little cindy mccain i see 🙂
have to bring some thing related to her into the campaign.
The man is an idiot. That is all we need, a second idiot in the
White House.
Oh no...back to Prohibition!
Mcbushed is too old, he's loosing his memory already.
Which is worse? This slip of the tongue or Obama's belief that there are 57 states? I didn't see CNN make THAT a story.
IDIOT
Dumb. Who cares about that. The real issues are McCain's horrible policies. Obama will crush him in debates.
Slip of the tongue, or slip of the brain?
Maybe you should not veto every bill. Some ear marks are actually good. That is where you get the funding for schools and road work and other important things. So maybe he should actually read the bill first.
Okay, nothing to worry about; just another senior moment. The older we become the more frequent they occur. Maybe he needs to use a tele-prompter to prevent these slip ups, as they are becoming sad.