McCain's brother apologizes for calling 911

By GILLIAN GAYNAIR, Associated Press Writer Gillian Gaynair, Associated Press Writer – 26 mins ago

WASHINGTON – The brother of GOP presidential candidate Sen. John McCain said Friday he'll withdraw from campaign activities after calling 911 to complain about traffic. He also apologized for making the call.

Joe McCain, who lives in Alexandria, Va., told Washington radio station WTOP he was returning from a campaign event in Philadelphia around 2 a.m. on Oct. 18 when he got stuck in traffic on Interstate 495 at the Wilson Bridge. His account of the timing differed from the police, who said the call was made at 1:30 a.m. on Oct. 21.

Frustrated because of the traffic, he called 911 to find out what was going on. The operator asked him to "state your emergency."

"Well, it's not an emergency, but do you know why on one side at the damn drawbridge of 95 traffic is stopped for 15 minutes and yet traffic's coming the other way?" Joe McCain said.

The operator asked him if he was calling 911 to complain about traffic. McCain then uttered an expletive and hung up the phone.

McCain told WTOP that he thought his cell phone was on mute.

"I did not mean to swear at the officers themselves," McCain said. If he were in their situation, "it would have really frosted me, too, and I absolutely understand their reaction."

After hanging up with 911, McCain said he called Alexandria police to ask them about the traffic on the bridge and got a similar reaction.

"I feel terrible about having hurt the campaign over this incident," he said. "I won't be doing any more campaigning because of that."

McCain said he's going to write a note of apology to the 911 operator and to the Alexandria police.

Joe McCain said he hasn't spoken to his brother about the incident.

"He's not going to be happy about it, I'm sure," he said.

McCain campaign spokesman Tucker Bounds said: "Joe McCain recognizes his mistake and has apologized. We are moving on."

McCain's brother has been in the news on other occasions recently. Speaking at an event in early October in support of his brother, he called two Democratic-leaning areas in Northern Virginia "communist country."

"I've lived here for at least 10 years and before that about every third duty I was in either Arlington or Alexandria, up in communist country," Joe McCain, a Navy veteran, said at an event in Loudoun County, Va. Joe McCain then apologized, but the remark reportedly drew laughter at the event.

About a week later, the candidate's brother sent an e-mail blasting the campaign's "counter-productive" strategy.

"Let John McCain be John McCain," Joe McCain wrote in the e-mail. "Make ads that show John not as crank and curmudgeon but as a great leader for his time."

McCain's brother was sharply critical of unidentified top campaign officials who "so tightly 'control the message'" that they are preventing reporters from speaking with those, like himself, who know the candidate best.

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Can we see a link to this?? Thanks, BB

Obviously, his brother John got all the brains and good sense in the family, huh?

Shame we can't get to any / much of Obama's family. Oh, there is that half-brother in K in a hut.


Bur there is alot we don't know about O. Mrs.O. speaks ----copy--

From NBC/NJ’s Carrie Dann


KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A day after the revelation of Jesse Jackson’s crude criticism of Barack Obama’s speeches on fatherhood and faith-based initiatives, this morning Michelle Obama was talking about fatherhood, responsibility and accountability.
--snip--
Obama used the roundtable audience, as she did yesterday, to describe her husband's understanding of women's issues through the prism of the strong -- but sometimes struggling -- women in his life.

His own mother, she said at the beginning of her remarks, was "very young and very single when she had him." And, Obama added, he has observed his wife's attempts to reconcile motherhood with her career aspirations.

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Obama??; Wasn't your mother MARRIED when she had you?

And , no, whether his mother was married or not has bearing on NOTHING... as does McCain's brother. BB

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/07/10/1193601.aspx

2 Funny, its kinda like the lady that called 911 about Burger King not getting her Burger Right!

Almost like the police officer who ate weed brownies then called the police to tell them he was dying. Not quite the same but funny none the less.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnZb5wi_jsU

You have access to Google, if this is more than a rhetorical trick, you'd have already used it.



First you say,




...but then you say,



So which is it? Or do you want it both ways? If the latter, why should we NOT think of your 'reporting' here as biased propaganda?

-Kerry O.

Volatile tempers run in the family.

Yes, I can and do google often. It just isn't right, err correct to leave info w/out a link to see where it is coming from, period.

I could have left

their bombshell news, that Obama


was born out of wedlock,

not left a link, and no one would have questioned it?? It comes from Mrs. O's own mouth!!

And U see how much the media has picked (NOT) up on it!

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conservative talk radio attacks by flooding the station with hostile phone calls,
attempting to intimidate donors to McCain's campaign,
protesting to the Attorney General's office about anti-Obama ads,
quasi-terrorist tactics for obstructing the Republican convention,
using ACORN to clone existing voters, resurrect dead ones, and invent fictitious ones,
paying out street money to "get out the vote" on election day,
charges of racism when anyone (even William Safire) dares to criticize Obama,
using 527 satellite groups to spread preposterous rumors, such as the ones about Palin's baby,
Fabricating racial slurs supposedly uttered by Palin,
setting up phony websites to smear McCain and Palin, and
planting phony exchanges in question-answering websites.
Moreover, I fear that worse is yet to come.---cut--
the above's all true too, and it comes from


copy--- http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/09/will_chotiners_law_work_in_200_2.html
Burying the Opposition
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Kerry, I'd like it both ways. I'd like to see 'copy' when one does, I'd like to see trash that is reduced to a personal level not ever happen - I'd like to see a fair fight. None of that is happening either (IMO).
Maybe what the family does or does not do, matters some, - TO SOME. But giving out info should be done right - TRUE (not made up like O's camp has been shown to have done. BTW U can be biased and still do it right. IMO
Peace, BB

I just watched a bio of Carter the other day.

His brother was, to put it mildly, a piece of work. His sister was too actually but it was Billy who put his foot in it a couple times.

Anyone remember Billy Beer?

That old saw is true...you can chose your friends but you cannot chose your relatives.

You might as well link to Pravda as far as I'm concerned when you're posting obvious propaganda which has no merit. I don't read Pravda, either, and for the same reason.



So what? Did Mr. Obama have a choice in the circumstances of his birth? Oh what relevance is it to his ability to do his job as a Senator, Father or citizen?

To me, it just looks like more of the Republican whispering campaign to discredit anyone who stands in it's way, NOT with germane information or solid reasoning, but with innuendo, gossip, rumor and just plain untruths. Haven't you had your fill of people like Richard Nixon by now?



Because the Republican candidate is so far behind in the polls?

Here in Pennsylvania you can't swing a dead cat without hitting a tee vee playing one of the McCain campaign's film noir negative ads. Rich Santorum tried that in '06 and he got booted out of his seat in the Senate in a landslide. His negative campaigning got so stupid it was using people who were dead to tar Senator Casey with falsehoods that are easy to prove groundless.

It's wasn't The Liberal Media then, and it won't be again when McCain doesn't carry the state this time, either.


-Kerry O.

Link: http://washingtontimes.com/news/2008/oct/24/mccains-brother-apologizes-for-calling-911/

I remember Billy Beer.

McCain's brother was working on his campaign.

His brother called Arlington and Alexandria Communist country.

Yikes!!

yeah but billy and joe were adopted


the above line is a scandalous undocumented rumor

you and Madisonman neither seem to be able to think or express yourselves without relying on parotting other peoples words

Billy beer was terrible. worse than Budweiser

luckily Billy didn't start his antics till after Carter was President so it didn't affect the election

Ohhh..that's not true. I rarely post a political thread.