John McCain made two cameo appearances on “Saturday Night Live” on May 17, 2008.
“Good evening, my fellow Americans,’’ Mr. McCain said in a political ad parody on this Saturday’s show. “I ask you: what should we be looking for in our next president? Certainly, someone who is very, very, very old.”
Mr. McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee, then segued into a riff on earmarks, the pork barrel spending projects that he denounces almost daily on the campaign trail. Mr. McCain proudly said he had sought not a single earmark for his home state of Arizona, including highways. “When I entered the Senate in 1987, Arizona had 47,000 miles of paved roadway,’’ Mr. McCain said. “Today it’s less than 900.’’
He said he had opposed federal water projects — “that’s why thanks to me, 15 per cent of Arizona citizens must get their drinking water from cactus’’ – and post offices, too.
“I’m proud of the fact that because of my work, when residents of Flagstaff want to mail a letter, or to pick up a package, they have to drive to New Mexico,’’ Mr. McCain said.
The senator then said that controlling government spending was not about politics, but about being able to look your children in the eye, “or in my case my children, grandchildren, great grandchildren, great-great grandchildren and great-great-great grandchildren – the youngest of whom are nearing retirement.’’
Source: Live From New York, It’s John McCain
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It is by no means John McCain’s first SNL appearance. Here is John McCain’s 2002 appearance on “Saturday Night Live” in which he sang Barbara Streisand’s songs to make the point that if she was going to do his job of governing the country, he was going try doing do hers.
Here’s a John McCain Sings Streisand on American Idol mashup.
