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    I live in “communist country”


    Well, we are a red state:

    Joe McCain, speaking at an event in support of his brother, called two Democratic-leaning areas in Northern Virginia “communist country,” according to a report on The Washington Post’s Web site.

    “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.

    Yeah, Arlington is totally communist. I mean, the Pentagon City Fashion Centre, that gigantic mall that I live across from, totally makes me think of Soviet-era GUM whenever I walk through it. The Pentagon? Yeah, that’s full of a bunch of communists, too. Our airport? Named after that great communist, Ronald Reagan. That high-rise Crystal City condominium that John McCain lives in? Surely it’s state owned, right?

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