Gossip Corner: Letterman Mccain

NEW YORK — Republican presidential nominee-to-be John McCain on Tuesday sparred with David Letterman during a taping of his “Late Show.”

Somehow, YouTube already has a copy of David Letterman tonight lacerating John McCain for skipping the Late Show and suspending his campaign in the midst of the Wall Street meltdown.

John McCain took a lesson from that lost opportunity and had some fun at his own expense last night with David Letterman.

Presidential hopeful Barack Obama appeared on the “Late Show with David Letterman” in New York on Wednesday after a day of heated debate by media and political pundits over comments some took as a slam against Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin.

When Republican presidential hopeful John McCain convened a high-profile roundtable to discuss the financial crisis with 12 economic advisers in New York yesterday, one absence was notable: Carly Fiorina.

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz speaks with host David Letterman on the set of “The Late Show with David Letterman” in New York on Wednesday.

He has become President Bush’s most outspoken supporter of sending 21,500 additional U.S. troops to Iraq, a position that could endear him to GOP primary voters but anger much of the rest of the electorate.

Among Democratic presidential candidates, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York appeared on “Late Show with David Letterman” in February, and Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois was a guest in January.

In discussing the war in Iraq with Letterman, McCain repeated his assertion that U.S. troops must remain in Iraq rather than withdrawing early even though the war has been mismanaged.

Calling it “the latest made-up controversy by the John McCain campaign,” Obama responded to the Republicans’ charge that he was referring to Palin when he used the phrase “lipstick on a pig” at a campaign stop Tuesday.

Obama spent much of his visit talking about Palin and clarifying his earlier comments.

As the President has said, this is a financial crisis, but the fundamentals of the U.S. economy are strong.

NEW YORK Republican Sen. John McCain will officially enter the presidential race — his second run after a bitter loss to George W. Bush in 2000 — with a formal announcement in early April after a trip to Iraq.

Regarding rumors of former president Bill Clinton’s future as part of an Obama administration cabinet, the senator downplayed that possibility.

Kund, you and pennst talk like the people who got this country in the mess were in.

Obama told Letterman the expression “lipstick on a pig” in this case applies to having a bad idea and trying to pass it off as change.

America is respected BECAUSE OF Iraq and the fact that we are willing to use our power.

Odd that the 62 yo David Letterman would be making age jokes about someone only nine years older than himself.

Anyone childish enough to support Bush and his criminal henchman McCrazy at this stage of the take down are fools or mental midgets.

But I love this country too much to let them take over another election with lies and phony outrage and Swift-boat politics.

To use the barbarous acts of that same enemy that created 9/11, and try to pin the lives lost by their actions on this President, Rumsfeld, or the current administration is a lie.

After he added that McCain looked like “the guy who points out the spots they missed at the car wash,” the senator appeared on stage.

Earlier in the day, Obama accused Republican McCain’s campaign of using “lies and phony outrage and Swift-boat politics” in claiming he used a sexist comment against Palin.

The 2006 midterm campaign had just ended when McCain took the first formal step toward a presidential run in November.

Condensed for easy viewing, here are Letterman’s funniest McCain jokes from those monologues.

Letterman invited lefty MSNBC anchor Keith Olbermann to fill for McCain and spent huge stretches of his broadcast laying into the candidate, saying he was acting “fishy” by not letting his running mate Sarah Palin take over the campaign.

The numbers that Clownie so glibly banters about of American lives lost is partially based on fighting a war as carefully as possible and as humanely as possible.

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In February, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama described the lives of troops in Iraq as having been “wasted” but then apologized a day later for making what he called “a slip of the tongue” that he said was not meant to diminish their sacrifice.

The Democratic party should save that tape for use in the campaign in the fall.