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To: Geoff who wrote (1892)	6/30/1998 8:33:00 AM
From: Cosmo Daisey	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6439

Geoff, The self appointed leader of the anti-tobacco group in the Senate is a insensitive crud. Coz The Arizona Republic June 16, 1998 What could Sen. John McCain have been thinking? We know he's been hard at work fighting the tobacco industry in the halls of Congress, and even for a decorated war hero, this is the kind of guerrilla warfare that can take its toll. We know McCain's been running around the country to gauge whether support for a presidential bid is more than an inch deep, and that can be a very humbling - sometimes humiliating - experience. But to succumb to gutter humor, if anybody could even remotely call it that? Delivered to a Senate Republican fund-raiser, McCain's crude comment went something like this: Do you know why Chelsea Clinton is so ugly? Because Janet Reno is her father. McCain's mouth has gotten him into hot water on previous occasions, but this shameful blast at the Clintons and the U.S. attorney general ranks as the worst of the worst. If Sen. McCain truly believed that there were a gram of humor in so offensive a jab, we would like him to point it out. McCain has apologized for his tart tongue, and according to his aides, he truly feels sorry that he said what he did. OK. Humor - real humor - is part and parcel of American politics. Let us suggest that McCain stick with a self-deprecating line from Mark Twain that he's used for years: "Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself."