So, I never really post on this thing, mostly use it for making comments... but I figured I might as well put this up, since it irritated me at first, then made me mildly miserable when I remembered hearing about how the race was so close at least twice Friday on MSNBC. And misery loves company.
The Week That Should Have Ended McCain's Presidential Hopes.For those too lazy to click, here's a summary one of the posters on the PA forums wrote (since I am lazy):
The running list for this week:
1) Called Social Security a disgrace and displayed an apparent confusion on how the system works since the substance for his complaint was simply a word for word description of social security.
2) McCain's top economic adviser called the American people whiners, followed by the poor attempt at disowning the adviser with McCain's claim that he didn't speak for McCain, despite the fact at the time he'd explicitly been sent to an interview as McCain's economic surrogate.
3) The Iraqi government's call for a time table and McCain's convoluted attempt to square this fact with his refusal to honor a pledge to withdraw no matter what, if the Iraqi government asked the US to do so.
4) McCain's economic plan being almost completely substance-free and near universally derided by experts, which included:
5) The idea that McCain will bring troops home and win the Iraq war within 4 years (which no one can explain the specific reasoning or plan behind) and that reducing the amount of spending on the Iraq war (which has been funded entirely with deficit spending) will create money that can be used to pay down the deficit.
6) A misleading statement (or outright lie) about the nature of economist support for McCain's budget (they signed a letter saying they agreed with his generally conservative economic principles which made no mention of his budget plan and was sent well before it was even formed).
7) ANOTHER joke about killing Iranians.
8) McCain flatly denying ever saying he was not an expert on economics, despite having said it twice on two different occasions (for which video is available).
9) McCain distorting his support of GI benefits and lying about his awards/rating from veterans groups, which he was promptly called on by veterans and again is on video.
10) A somewhat odd and baseless statement on Afghanistan/Pakistan that again speaks to an underlying lack of knowledge about the situation.
11) A damaging blow to the McCain's campaign effort to court women voters when he refused to answer a question on inequalities in medical access (coverage for viagra vs birth control), combined with a repeat of the claim by Sen. McCain that he can't say what his current position or thoughts on the issue were because he didn't know how he voted (which refers back to an embarrassing past incident where Sen McCain refused to say whether he thought condoms stopped the transmission of AIDS because he didn't know his voting record on the issue).
Sigh.
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