Are YOU Concerned About the Iraq-Pakistan Border?

Come on, you know that was a simple matter of misspeaking. McCain has made way too many of these gaffes to chalk it up to that, he's apparently not as sharp as he could be, certainly not the one I'd like to have his finger on the red button.
Annie

Like his comments about Rev. Wright I have known this man for 20 years. He married me, babtized my children and now this is not the man I knew.

don't forget I am a new politician and am out to change the system. I paid the Hospital $1,000,000.00 for my wifes promotion, I gave thousands of dollars to a radical who helped me get elected. I did not use his money but ours. A new Politician.

He will say and do anything to get elected.

The people who cling to their bibles and guns.

If one is a mistake the both can make similar mistakes.

So he got a million dollar earmark for the hospital where his wife works so that means he "bought" her a raise? Hospitals get earmarks everyday, some are even for worthwhile purposes. As an Illinois Senator what was so unusual about that? If we looked into the personal lives of every lawmaker from both parties we'd probably find plenty of similar examples, don't you think? I'm not defending wasteful spending and I agree these earmarks have to be reduced but I don't think it's a fair statement to say Obama paid a million dollars for Michelle's promotion.

I'm trying to find what you were referring to when you wrote, "I gave thousands of dollars to a radical who helped me get elected. I did not use his money but ours." Anyway, this post isn't about Obama and I must respectfully say this response is an example of what I was referring to in a post I started a month or so ago about "apples and oranges".

Everyone misspeaks and I'll go so far as saying these candidates and all their staff members that travel with them have to be totally exhausted much of the time but there are cases of simply mixing your words up or thinking one thing and having something slightly different come out of your mouth but I think there have been enough examples of serious gaffes by McCain to make me more than a little concerned even if I did agree with any of his politics. It blows my mind that not only is nobody worried about it but the media doesn't even report it other than a very brief mention if that.
Annie

To your last paragraph I would agree. I think that sometimes the news media heckles them too much by repeating the same question over and over again so that they can show their listers and viewers that they have asked an important question. I remember one News conference that President Bush had and he was asked at least 5 times about a withdrawal from Iraq. That news conference generated a comment from a former White House Reporter that in the past reporters had a list of questions and would check them off as they were asked. To the former reporter todays reporters have only one or two questions and once they were asked they don't have any back up and he felt this is sloppy reporting by the new reporters.

I'm lousy at geography myself but I'm not running for President either and if I was I'd sure try to bone up a bit! The question is, is he that uneducated like our current President or is he "confused", which if we say that Fox News says we're using age discrimination. So what should we call it? He mixed up Sunni and Shiite three or four times is fewer days not long ago, he made a reference to Czechoslovakia, a country which hasn't exist for over a decade the other day and now this border gaffe and nobody cares! He even either forgot which NFL team's lineup he recited while a POW or maybe the whole story was made up? I know I'll take some heat for saying that ad I know most here don't think it's at all relevant because I posted a discussion on it with very little response, but how can someone tell a story about naming the Green Bay Packers lineup for years, put it in his memoir which was made into a movie but then suddenly, when in Pittsburgh, change his story to make it the Steelers whose players he named? I guess in this instance we can take our pick - total pandering to Pittsburgh and Pennsylvania voters, simple forgetfulness or out and out lying.
Annie

Well I don't think that FOX would EVER say something bad about a Republican. One could go out and commit cold blooded murder and they would be like oh, well the man murder didn't work and was a waste to society so he did a great job for us all.

Thank you!! That's my feeling exactly! He mixed up Sunni and Shiite, he thinks Czechoslovakia still exists, he thinks Iraq and Pakistan are neighbors and he doesn't know or remember which football team he named while being interrogated as a POW. Since very little is ever said by the media of the gaffes we have heard about, can we assume there have been others which haven't been reported at all?
Annie

I do wonder if he has concentration or memory problems.

I agree, but you realize we're now guilty of "agism" according the Fox Noise!
Annie

My folks are 87 and 89 and don't make those kinds of mistakes, lol. They sure didn't at that age. I have a very good friend who got four college degrees after she retired! So I don't think of early 70s as old like some folks do.

Now, now, girls, you know he is the candidate who's supposed to be the foreign policies expert. His war experience alone should tell us he is just worldly enough to be president. Just because he seems a little memory challenged is no reason to worry. LOL

I agree that age doesn't necessarily mean you lose your memory and the like, my own mom is 91 and she's as sharp as a tack and my brother is 70 and I find it very hard to imagine he's almost the same age as McCain. However, I do think 72 is a bit too old for a demanding job such as being the President, and I really don't mean that in a nasty way. It requires being "on call" 24/7/365 and non-stop travel, at least it has for Bush who probably hasn't spent two straight nights in the White House since he took office.
Annie

It definitely depends on the individual. There are many people with senility, or Alzheimer's at young ages, and then there are people in there 90s who are, as you said, sharp as a tack. But with McCain, sharp as a tack is not an accurate description. Whether or not his age is to blame, I think his memory is going to be a problem.

"I personally don't think anyone on here could go through the pressures of a campaign and not make mistakes. It just can't happen."

I couldn't agree more on that. I know I couldn't do it and I wouldn't even try.
Annie