Senile?

By Cernig

John McCain thinks Putin is president of Germany!

(h/t Oliver Willis)

Comments

[Ron Beasley]

John McCain's age will be an issue but it will be the result of John McCain not anything his opponents say.

[Dan]

Are we going to go over every verbal gaffe now?

[Steve Hynd]

Of course we are, Dan. It's politics. But I'd like to point out a crucial difference between Obama's and Mccain's gaffes. The formers have come during the closing weeks of a gruuelling primary battle, and can be written off to exhaustion. The latter, on the other hand, has been well rested and under no primary pressure for months. Moreover, all his major gaffes have been in the field of foreign affairs, supposedly his strong suit. The folk complaining loudest about going over every gaffe are the McCain folks who have a candidate making unforced errors. If the show was on the other foot, the loudest complaints would come from the other camp and McCain's supporters would, likewise, pile on regardless.

Regards, C

[C Stanley]

Cernig- given the point you are making about timing, it is relevant to note that this video is from February 2007 (the statement was made during a town hall meeting in Iowa.) And since he mentions that he'd been at the conference in Germany over the weekend prior to the day he's speaking, jet lag is certainly plausible as an explanation for fatigue that leads to verbal gaffes.

[Jack Tanner]

If all of McCain's misstatements are because of age then all of Obama's must be because of affirmative action.