While discussing ABBA, McCain manages to bring up his military service

ASPEN, Colorado (CNN) – ABBA might be one of the world’s most-ridiculed pop acts, but at long last, John McCain is rising to their defense.

Speaking to Walter Isaacson at the Aspen Institute in Colorado on Thursday, McCain found himself explaining a recent interview with Blender Magazine in which he selected ABBA’s 1976 track “Dancing Queen” as his favorite song.

“What were you thinking?,” Isaacson asked him, looking incredulous.

“If there is anything I am lacking in, I’ve got to tell you, it is taste in music and art and other great things in life,” McCain joked. “I’ve got to say that a lot of my taste in music stopped about the time I impacted a surface-to-air missile with my own airplane and never caught up again.”

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/08/15/mccain-rises-to-abbas-defense/

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Is there any subject McCain can discuss without bringing up his military service?

"One of the world’s most-ridiculed pop acts"? How absurd. They are well respected by anyone who knows anything about music. Plus, you know, the MILLIONS of people who have seen Mamma Mia on stage and screen. I don't get why people harp on the ABBA thing. Apart from the irony that a Republican likes such gay friendly music.

And rightfully so.
Their music royally sucks!
But the truth is, we love 'em anyway!

Speaking of sublimely sucky, are you familiar with Dschinghis Khan?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dschinghis_Khan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQAKRw6mToA

Wow! And I do mean Wow!!

...that we could end up with a President who has no "taste in music and art and other great things in life"? Just what the country needs, another philistine who'll suck money out of the arts and give it to Blackwater and KBR.

So shouldn't his "musical taste" be frozen in time as of 1969? He should be stuck on the Stones' "Let It Bleed," not f&cking ABBA.

Jesus. Even when he's pretending to be self-deprecating, he's an asshole.

Just like he's stealing Jackson Browne's music. When is McCain going to pay these people?
Just a footnote. I don't like ABBA all that much either.

Can you imagine watching him make what he thinks are sly references to his military service over and over again during the debates, in lieu of answering questions? And putting a button on each one with that creepy little chuckle he uses to distract from the fact that he's grinding his teeth in fury at the slightest suggestion that he isn't entitled to do whatever he wants? It's going to be a train wreck.

One of my grown sons was the first person I know who made that comparison. He told me last year "you know who McCain really reminds me of? Cotton Hill."

It is a great comparison. Short, short fuse, crazy.

ABBA was a secret guilty pleasure, sorta like watching Melrose Place.

So he hit the missile and the missile didn't hit him?
Think about it, that's what he said plus "I never caught up again'
Caught up with up? Reality?

sadly, the clip of McCain talking about his love for Abba was probably the most animated and passionate that I have ever seen him.