| | 'Shit on' McCain, Stewart mockingly urges Dem leaders
 Jon Stewart began Thursday's Daily Show by gently mocking the Democratic Party's obsession with racial and gender inclusiveness.
"But don't get nervous America," Stewart said reassuringly. "They know what they're doing. There were plenty of white dudes to go around last night as well. It's not like the Democrats are just a bunch of lesbians sitting around singing 'Give Peace a Chance.'"
He then played a clip of Melissa Etheridge at the convention singing "Give Peace a Chance."
"Every convention's got one," stammered Stewart.
"There was still room in the Democratic Party for older, verbose white men," Stewart continued. "And together the alabaster musketeers showed that they were ready for the fight."
"You know," Joe Biden began, "John McCain is my friend."
"The Republicans, in a few days,' stated Bill Clinton, "will nominate a good man who has served our country heroically."
"I have known and been friends with John McCain for almost 22 years," claimed John Kerry.
"Shit on him!" demanded a visibly frustrated Stewart as the audience cheered loudly. "Without reservation! Without qualification! What are you doing?"
"May I offer you a sentence you will not hear at the Republican convention?" Stewart suggested. "'Barack Obama is heroic and American.'"
Stewart then showed John Kerry tearing into McCain more strongly, crisply enumerating all the ways in which candidate McCain has rejected Senator McCain's own earlier positions.
"Yes! That's the stuff!" exclaimed Stewart. But he also wondered "how Senator Kerry would fare against 2004 candidate Kerry" and played a clip of Kerry looking weak and over-intellectualizing at one of the 2004 debates.
Stewart finally showed Joe Biden whipping up the audience with his repeated anti-McCain refrain of "That's not change, that's more of the same" -- and couldn't resist coming up with increasingly ridiculous situations to which to apply the slogan.
"When you go for a sex-change and they sew on a second penis ..." Stewart offered.
"That's not change, that's more of the same," concluded the clip of Biden.
This video is from Comedy Central's The Daily Show, broadcast August 28, 2008.
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