Is McCain's Age Showing? Tongues Wag Over Flubs »
Posted By ybdogsct 1 year, 4 months ago in News
He has been making a series of verbal slips -- invariably described as "gaffes" -- that are starting to ricochet from liberal blogs to the mainstream media. And fairly or not, some critics are suggesting the 71-year-old Republican candidate is showing his age.
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ybdogsct1 year, 4 months ago
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1) McCain referred to the "Iraq-Pakistan border."
2) He has twice referred to Czechoslovakia, a country that ceased to exist in 1993.
3) He mixed up Sunnis and Shiites.
4) He claimed Shiite Iran was training Sunni al-Qaida.
5) He even identified Vladimir Putin as president of Germany.'If Obama had said the things McCain has said, the media would be all over that as an example of his inexperience: "He doesn't even know that Iraq and Pakistan don't share a border. He doesn't even know that Czechoslavakia hasn't been a country for 15 years." When John McCain says it, it's "Oh, that's just John McCain." The media have decided that McCain is a knowledgeable foreign policy expert, and anything that doesn't fit into that paradigm is just ignored."
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BB641 year, 4 months ago
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Oh, come on. Just because Barack he's been to all 57 states or that he's spent the last few days in the Middle East is an expert on everything..... Especially race relations and his church.
This is your typical anti-Republican attack piece. Get used to it. Last night I was think about Barack and his lack of experience. A few years ago the press attacked a candidate who served in the army reserve and made Master Sgt. Went to school, became a lawyer. Served in the House and the Senate. All on his own. Family money really didn't help. The press attacked him because he was too young and inexperienced. That was Dan Quayle. Barack hasn't done 25% of Mr. Quayle yet the media is selling their souls for him. Talk about double standards. It's an inexperienced and even more liberal Jimmy Carter all over again. Paul Ryan 2012!!!
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Charlson1 year, 4 months ago
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I have little concern about the gaffes of McBush but I do have reservations about his continuation of Bush's policies. And McBush's campaigning seems to focus on complaining about Obama getting more press or attention when it was his challenge for Obama to visit Iraq and the Middle East that prompted the press' interest in the first place.
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nikkibabe1 year, 4 months ago
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John McCain, the self proclaimed "expert" on Iraq said that "Iraq shares its border with Pakistan". Surprisingly, the PIG from CT who usually stands behind McCain stinking A44 all the time was also present. That makes it two idiots.
This in itself is enough to disqualify this old age "wonder" from being a candidate for the President.
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bruhaha1 year, 4 months ago
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He also claimed in an interview on CBS that the Sunni Rising (I think that's what they call it) took place after the surge, which it didn't. CBS then edited it out of the interview. Obama may get all the attention from the media, as the con whiners here like to say, but McCain can make an assertion that at best, he is confused about the timing, at worst, he's lying through his teeth and the media will cover it up for him. Maybe it's better for McCain that he not get the media coverage that Obama gets. They can't cover everything up and then people might realize that McCain isn't the foreign policy expert that so many seem to think he is.
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spkguy1 year, 4 months ago
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"He also claimed in an interview on CBS that the Sunni Rising (I think that's what they call it) took place after the surge, which it didn't. CBS then edited it out of the interview."
Correct, they edited the question/answers in such away, that it raises many questions! They took question #14 to McCain and used his #15 answer, whats up with that? When CBS was called on it they said: "They were very disappointed but mistakes do happen." How lame is that! Oh that evil liberal media!
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RickyDawkins1 year, 4 months ago
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"During a CBS interview on Tuesday, John McCain made a stone cold error on a subject about which he claims expert knowledge: the "surge" strategy in Iraq. In an interview with anchor Katie Couric, the Arizona Republican said, inaccurately, that the surge strategy was responsible for the much-touted "Anbar Awakening," in which Sunni sheiks turned against Al Qaeda, helping in turn to reduce violence in the country.
The fact remains, however, that the military official cited by McCain, then-Colonel Sean MacFarland, described the Anbar Awakening in September 2006 -- four months before the "surge" was even announced -- noting that tribal leaders were "stepping forward and cooperating with the Iraqi security forces against Al Qaeda." Moreover, a military review written by MacFarland notes that his unit actually left Anbar before most of the surge troops arrived; his success in the region came between June 2006 and February 2007."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/22/mccain-gets-history-of-th_n_114419.html
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Dionys1 year, 4 months ago
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Nope. McCain's "gaffes" indicate that he's the one suffering from early symptoms of Alzheimers. That you're blind to it only furthers everyones' understanding that you'd do anything to push your own political doctrine down the throats of anyone you can using whatever means (often lacking morals) possible.
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nikkibabe1 year, 4 months ago
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Obama brings change that is badly needed after 8 years of scandals, denials, invasions, occupations, tortures, kidnappings, corruption, lawless administration.
We don't need another white neo conservative Republican, no matter what his qualifications. Fortunately, the old hypocrite rat , the other alternative has early signs of ALZEIHMERS.
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doppich1 year, 4 months ago
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His "age" is showing? I've seen younger people say silly things as well. The other candidate, for instance.
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Odd and disturbing campaign year. Racism is properly "off the table," but sexism and ageism are not merely tolerated but are quite pervasive. -
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cushi1 year, 4 months ago
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I see: If you an old, white, trigger-happy, shell-shocked vet with loose screws and memory loss, and if you graduated third from the bottom a class of nearly 900, your gaffes are perfectly understandable and excusable! BUT, if you are a young, skinny, bi-racial man who graduated magna *** laude from Harvard and whose every word is put under a microscope 24/7 since you became a presidential candidate, your gaffes are unacceptable, inexcusable, and make you stupid and inexperienced!
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willottica1 year, 4 months ago
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I guess I should comment on the story. McCain makes mistakes. Obama makes mistakes too. It's probably fairly even. Both are under a huge amount of pressure, have been for the better part of a year, and that pressure won't ease up at all until one of them wins the election. (Or the Supreme Court chooses one :( )
Will McCain's flubs become more and more? It seems likely given his advanced age. Or maybe, like my grandfather before his passing, bouts of narcolepsy will become more frequent. I can picture it now..."People of America! I come before you today to...zzzzzzzzz"
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"Mr. President, wake up!"
"What?"
"Mr. President, you fell asleep"
"No, I didn't."
"Of course not sir"
"Where was I?"
"I come before you today to..."
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willottica1 year, 4 months ago
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Right. Heaven forbid the President of the Harvard Law Review, a Magna *** laude graduate who studied constitutional law, should get into a position of power.
You're afraid of him. Why? Has he actually done ANYTHING to make you afraid, apart from having family ties to Africa and Islam (not to mention brown skin)?
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not2needy1 year, 4 months ago
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Just what America needs at this critical time in our history, a president who can't keep yesterday, today and 10 years ago separate in his mind. Haven't we been there and done that? Do republicans never learn? Do they want the beer goddess running the country, like we had Nancy Reagan doing, making the China Pattern for the White House the most important thing in the nation????
Simply Amazing that intelligent conservatives would resort to this rather than admit that they have chosen the worst possible person to represent them.
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