McCain gets off another funny line

Say what you will about John McCain.

At least he has a sense of humor, an all-too-rare quality on the presidential campaign trail.

His latest nugget came in South Carolina today when he was answering questions about taxes.

The Republican hopeful said that as president he would appoint Alan Greenspan to lead a review of the nation's tax code -- even if the former Federal Reserve chairman, now 81, was dead, the Associated Press reported.

"If he's alive or dead it doesn't matter. If he's dead, just prop him up and put some dark glasses on him like, like 'Weekend at Bernie's,' " McCain joked, referring to the 1989 cult comedy in which two young executives played by Andrew McCarthy and Jonathan Silverman keep the illusion alive that their boss isn't dead. "Let's get the best minds in America together and fix this tax code."