Confuses Somalia and Sudan (a slip)
Putin is the President of Germany (another slip)
Doesn't know Czechoslovakia ceased to exist 15 years ago (three slips)
Confuses Sunni and Shia (we've used slip too much. MISSPOKE)
Doesn't know how to use the internet
Admits he knows nothing about the economy (misspoke #2)
Does not know why he changed his position on waterboarding and Guantanamo
No longer sure when the surge started - Anbar Awekening (memory slip)
Voted with George Bush 95% of the time last year, and 100% of the time this year
Stated that alternative energy starts from switching from regular to premium
Stated that Afghanistan shared a border with Iraq (misspoke #3)
Doesn't know whether he is against gay adoption and stem cell research (mem #2)
Has no idea why birth control pills are not covered by health insurance although he voted against it (mem #3)
Lies about his and Bush's positions on the GI bill he opposed and Bush threatened to veto
Jokes about killing people from other countries
His idea for health care is "Take more vitamins"
There is a case for malpractice here. The guy either makes far too many "mistakes", "misstatements", and/or has too many memory voids. You pick which one it is. This many mistakes in this little time is inexcusable.
Last time we had a presidential candidate making this many gaffes in this little time and we did not pay attention or forgave him: George Bush. If only we took his ignorance seriously.
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you've got to list them for people to see the many he's made over less than 3 months. One mistake here and there, who cares? Over 15 since we started paying attention (sort of).
We've got to be concerned.
Noun, Verb, Surge.
Anything else and the guy is a gaffe machine.
John McCain: Incompetent for the office he holds, unqualified for the office he seeks.
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/07/23/by_howard_kurtz_when_cbss.html
Let he (or she) who is perfect cast the first stone.
Well McCain could have said that. Why did not he? Because it's false. Congress can force them to cover certain things and McCain did vote against it when it was on the table.
McCain, by contrast, is clueless about economics and his alter-ego on that, Gramm, who just quit but would be back as Treasury Secretary, said we're in a "mental recession" and that we're just "whining" about the economy. It's not just his words but his whole understanding that is wrong. Johnny Mac, whose wife provides him unlimited personal financial security, doesn't get it.
McCain, son and grandson of Admirals, is used to the idea of giving orders.
Obama, with nothing so special in his family tree, has spent his time understanding our situation and developing ways to improve it.
Why are we giving McCain two seconds of our attention?
Obama, with nothing so special in his family tree, has spent his time understanding our situation and developing ways to improve it."
That about sums it up for me. And for what it's worth, I don't think McCain really wants the "job" of President. He wants the position and the power that goes with it.
Let Obama go ahead and call the government ideological idiots and let him cling to his church (now there's a scary thought). His pastor has been his pastor long before his statements were made public and it was only at this point where Obama turned his back.
Until this man not only talks to commanders and soldiers on the ground, but actually listens, to me he is still at the bottom of the heap. His naive notion of setting an artificial date to end the war, claiming the surge only could have worked as part of a number of simultaneous circumstances, and trying to make Americans believe it was him that worked with Maliki on wanting Coalition forces out as soon as possible shows his desperation. And it discredits our Armed Forces. Listen to what he is saying. He wants a date for complete redeloyment (but leave a small force to continue training Iraqi military, protect US interests, and follow up on remaining Al-Qaeda (& friends) threats is the same as what is already in place. His "idea" of sending more forces to the progressing threat in Afghanistan is already in place and already happening.
I'll grant you that McCain is not an all-star speaker. He's no Obama in this area. And Obama is no Reagan as far as speaking prowess. But until the media wakes up and gives McCain a fair shot, I cannot place my trust in this man. But I'll stop short of calling this man a lier if you'll agree not to call our current US government ideological idiots. Name calling really doesn't help with the debate.
at the moron who's not getting my vote
Mcmoron I mean McCain
and then got Alzhiemers
what's McCain's excuse?
How does McCain believe Obama can lose a war that should have never been waged?
We were led into Iraq under false pretenses.Bush called it misinformation from his intelligence. Bush never had any intelligence, he's an idiot and should be tried for treason.
As Harry Truman said, " The buck stop here!" Bush will get off Scott free!
The war should never have been waged? It was agreed to by the UN and OUR Congress. Bush didn't somehow sneak us into a war. A ruthless dictator overran an allied country, committed genocide through cluster bombs and chemical weapons. Maybe we should start keeping out of other countries' business and hope we don't need their help some day.
Harry Truman also said "If you can't convince them, confuse them." This is one I think Obama heeds.
and he also said,
"Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don't ever apologize for anything." A good reason not to abandon Iraq before they are ready. Bush, I'm sure, heeded this one. Iraq is not ready.
Huh!??
Talking about Koweit. That was Desert Storm. Which country did Saddam "overran" in 2003???
You still believe Bush took down Saddam because of what he was doing to his own people? Come on!
Darfur - Why didn't we send troops there?
Why aren't we taking down Mugabe?
Congo?
You talking genocide as a reason to send American troops to war? If so, we really cherry pick genocides.
Or maybe we don't care about genocides in places without oil? Places where the people affected by the genocide are black?
Jim, McCain took the "Hypocriteic Oath"
And let me tell you about that "old guy" problem. As Eisenhower stated: "What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog." I think this old dog has a lot more fight in him than your appeasing prophet.
Man, where do you get your news?
17 U.N. Resolutions, Jared. My God, man...and, Mugabe? Darfur? You'd whine like a school-boy if we did anything about THAT. Those issue's are the perview of the United Nations; the most corrupt and useless entity known to man. When will you understand a completely useless entity when you see one?
My friend Rocco said it best when he asked if Obama visited his birthplace in Bethlehem while visiting the Mideast.
Obamatons love to point out inconsequential mistakes in others, their man of course, is so dreamy and perfect, sigh.
You forgot to mention his temper! Who wants someone with a short fuse in a position where he could start a nuclear war. I sure don't.
As for his gaffes, all politician make gaffes, but he has made too many for someone who wants to be President of the United States. If it weren't for that, the Czechoslovakia one would be forgivable. There was a time when I could look a map of the world that showed nothing but boundaries and I could name everyone and its capital, but that was long ago and many of them have either changed their name, been split up, etc.. and I still tend to think of them by the name I learned when I was going to school in the forties and fifties.
My compliments on not attributing his gaffes to his age. He could have been make gaffes for decades but if they were noticed then, they were probably atrributed to the plain old human error of which we are all capable. like Obama's 57 states remark.
Face it. McCain is a gaffe machine.
The latest: Iraq is the first major combat since 9/11.
Errr. Afghanistan? The guy is lost. Can't tell where he was yesterday. His AARP card membership has expired 10 times already.
UN does not order the US to do anything.
Saddam did not comply with the peace treaty
Peace Treaty? LOL. You mean sanctions I suppose.
Bringing racism to the argument doesn not fly? Really? Well now racism is out the window. Whoever talks about it plays victim. Well, I am no victim of racism. When I see us ran and help white people in Bosnia, Israel, and not left the finger on genocides, I begin to wonder.
Then the government, and yourself invoke genocide (committed genocide through cluster bombs and chemical weapons.) in going after Saddam. What's more of a genocide than Darfur and Congo.
Why don't you bigots just burst out of your closets and start spouting the small minded rhetoric of the kkk?
You will believe any lie from fixed news to give you an excuse to NEVER vote for a black man.
A sad testament to your so called christian values.
He obviously is more intelligent and even tempered than mcsame.
A very needed commodity in dealing with close minded repugnicons and much more sane world leaders.
I can just see mcsame dragging putin across a table and trying to kick his butt.
I was responding to specific inconsistencies (i.e. we attacked Saddam because he "overran" a country). Completely false. When we attacked him in 2003 he was not occupying a country nor was he at war with one.
The second one was genocide as a reason of engaging the US military. Obviously if that was a reason good enough to engage us we would have a base in Africa.
Of course that is supposedly under (do nothing) UN. I don't dispute that. However advancing that genocide is a reason good enough to send our boys in a foreign country is utter nonsense.
Carol,
I am compiling McCain's temper tantrum. The list is amazing so far. It includes bad jokes, lashing out at people, and using vulgar/demeaning words directed at women. You will be shocked.
Stay tuned!
You can accuse Mitt with flip flopping. Who has not? However Mitt knows the economy, he has no senior moment and is against illegal immigration. Mitt is the guy.
Jared's list here is accurate though the context of some is missing. You can look it up and if you really love the republican party you should be concerned over our candidate's state of mind.
There is cause for concerns IF these continue.
What are you on?
Romney is another GOP clown, but he would undoubtedly be leagues above McCain as a candidate. It's clear that Johnny doesn't want the job at all...he appears disinterested, dissheveled, and discombobilated. I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if a sudden "health concern" forced him to step aside in the next few weeks.
Then again, if he could somehow bribe/coerice/threaten/blackmail Bloomberg into joining him as VP candidate, he'd suddenly become an entirely viable candidate, in spite of himself.
that's his only chance. It has consequences however. The Romney groupies won't be happy.
I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if a sudden "health concern" forced him to step aside in the next few weeks. Hope it's nothing worse than this.
So the argument of older, lived longer, therefore more mistakes is invalid.
If you want to "refine" and go with older than dirt, therefore more gaffe prone, we might accept that.
Tax Cuts: McCain twice voted against making permanent Bush’s tax cuts but now supports them.
Social Security: McCain calls for privatizing social security, then denies it -- “I’m not for, quote, privatizing Social Security. I never have been. I never will be.”
Offshore drilling: In May, when asked about offshore drilling McCain says "... those resources, which would take years to develop, you would only postpone or temporarily relieve our dependency on fossil fuels," On July 24 he stated that offshore drilling would "be very helpful in the short term resolving our energy crisis."
There's nothing elite about being informed, but you're apparently too ignorant to grasp that.
I did not many more. It would take days to compile this guy.
What color are your eyes?
"Obama wants you to have red eyes."
Why did you stand in front of the Dole juice for that photo op?
"Obama hates Bob Dole."
What is your middle name?
"Obama's middle name is Hussein."
Sandy, if McCain brings up Obama a lot, it's because the only way he can get media attention is if he mentions their quasi-messiah.
Remaining in an anti-American racist church for 20 years, claimed he never knew.
Associated with a known American terrorist and murderer, claimed he never knew.
Threatened to invade a sovereign country with nuclear bombs (Pakistan), claimed he never said that.
Wants to negotiate with every thug dictator without precondition, claims we misunderstood him.
Refused to visit wounded soldiers while on his vacation to the Mideast and Europe, claims it was the pentagon's fault.
I'll take McCain's "gaffes" any day.
That Olmert and his band of eunichs even allowed them INTO the Country reveals volumes...
By the way; Jared included that McCain had "changed his position" on "waterboarding and Guantanamo."...I've not heard this, can anyone substantiate this for me? I'd like to know.
Gee, this is fun!
I'm starting to get tired.
With that type of "strategerie," HE CAN'T LOSE!!!
Peter, do you know if McCain has changed his position on "Waterboarding and Guantanamo?"
And name calling is always rude.
As far as my comments, I am simply responding with facts along with Mark-John and Mike V. My own article isn't necessary.
I believe that we are ON-POINT, here. Did not Jared start the article with a list of "gaffe's" on one of the candidates? Several of us here simply happened to be adding to the "list."
There are always extremists but you are painting with too broad a brush. Name calling always does that.
Obama claimed while campaigning in Ohio, to be against NAFTA. He later dispatched aides to the Canadians re-assuring them he was just pandering for votes.
Kay K, I have read you compaining about name calling for McCain but you do name calling for Obama. That's why I brought it up to you.
Great point Mark-John. The title of the article is "political malpractice"
oh my.
Here he is on water boarding.
http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/F6C1BC55-10E4-4798-A12B-5CDF11285BE8/
This is why I am not voting for either candidate this fall.
Sorry, I just couldn't resist this line. ROFLAO
WTF are you talking about, fool? I've NEVER had a problem answering pinheaded questions. I am STRONGLY opposed to having an astoundingly misinformed public having the right to vote. There should be both a civics test and a recent history test before a person is allowed to vote. Let's not forget that it was astounding ignorance that brought both the 2000 and 2004 elections close enough for republicans to steal. Ignorance amongst the voting public is extremely dangerous to a pseudo-democracy, as has been clearly proven.
You should be concerning yourself with how your fatigues are going to fit and feel in 130 degree Iraqi heat, rather than chirping your rightwing nonsense on political message boards, anyway.
"I'm voting for McCain,"
Excellent choice, ann. We NEED another four years of bush, this time run by a very old, very confused, very dishonest man who doesn't know the difference between our friends and enemies, doesn't understand geopolitics at all, flip flops more than even Romney, and is admittedly clueless about economics. Sounds like a great choice.