Now I think this is unfair and at worst it was just a bad joke. Reality of this was not the joke but the timing could not have been worse for McCain.
McCain has been working to get women voters and this joke at least in Nevada was very bad timing.

Maybe it’s the governor’s approval rating and you are running from him like you are from the president? Asked Ralston in a question McCain clearly found loaded.

Said McCain, chuckling, “And I stopped beating my wife just a couple of weeks ago.”

Some have found the subject of McCain’s joke—wife-beating—inappropriate.

To be clear, McCain was alluding to the fictitious leading question “When did you stop beating your wife, senator?” It’s a bit of distasteful DC yuckery so commonly quoted it’s hackneyed.

But considering the subject McCain was discussing at the time, to allude to that joke was, well, .....awkward!

Gov. Gibbons last month filed for divorce from his wife Dawn citing incompatiblity.

It’s pretty scandalous. The Reno Gazette-Journal recently reported
that one month Gibbons sent 860 text messages to a woman with whome Mrs. Gibbons suspects her husband of stepping out.

Gibbons you may recall started his governorship amidst accusations that he assaulted a cocktail waitress named Chrissy Mazzeo three weeks before Election Day. Mazzeo said Gibbons grabbed her in a parking garage and threatened to sexually assault her. Charges were never filed.

Might want to scratch that joke from the schtick, senator, especially in Nevada.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/06/mccain-gambles.html

In answer to that question, it does come off pretty badly.

DM1 - 27 June 2008 10:48 AM

Now I think this is unfair and at worst it was just a bad joke. Reality of this was not the joke but the timing could not have been worse for McCain.
McCain has been working to get women voters and this joke at least in Nevada was very bad timing.


Maybe it’s the governor’s approval rating and you are running from him like you are from the president? Asked Ralston in a question McCain clearly found loaded.

Said McCain, chuckling, “And I stopped beating my wife just a couple of weeks ago.”

Some have found the subject of McCain’s joke—wife-beating—inappropriate.

To be clear, McCain was alluding to the fictitious leading question “When did you stop beating your wife, senator?” It’s a bit of distasteful DC yuckery so commonly quoted it’s hackneyed.

But considering the subject McCain was discussing at the time, to allude to that joke was, well, .....awkward!

Gov. Gibbons last month filed for divorce from his wife Dawn citing incompatiblity.

It’s pretty scandalous. The Reno Gazette-Journal recently reported
that one month Gibbons sent 860 text messages to a woman with whome Mrs. Gibbons suspects her husband of stepping out.

Gibbons you may recall started his governorship amidst accusations that he assaulted a cocktail waitress named Chrissy Mazzeo three weeks before Election Day. Mazzeo said Gibbons grabbed her in a parking garage and threatened to sexually assault her. Charges were never filed.

Might want to scratch that joke from the schtick, senator, especially in Nevada.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/06/mccain-gambles.html

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I don’t see a thing wrong with it. Every one in the good old USA has heard that joke and you can not pick every little thing everybody says to pieces. Maybe McCain was not up on the latest gossip and didn’t know the man had run around on his wife and she was pulling the plug. Again, I don’t see a thing wrong with it no matter who said it, be it Obama or McCain.