Umm regarding McCain not knowing what car he drives

[Perky]

I really am not sure he drives at all.

He has pretty substantial mobility issues with his arms.

He apparently has a Cadillac STS but who know where it is garaged.

Now if he does not drive I don't know why he would have bought an STS unless his staff uses it to ferry him arround when he is on the Hill. But If he is too infirmed to drive or he bought it as a status symbol then the Emerican people need to know it,

[Igel]

1. Not really enough information to form a sound or reasoned opinion.

Not that this stops people, by and large.

Personally, it seems silly. I was asked what car I drive a while back when I was going to be dropping it off for a state inspection. I had helped pick it out, but my wife's the one that it was intended for and she made the final decision. She picked out the color. I wrote out the check for it, did the paperwork, and it's in my name. I drive it most of the time because she decided I should when the older car was judged less reliable (and she didn't want our small offspring stranded with a broken-down car). Still, I had to pause before saying what the newer car was.

After a couple of minutes, I got it down to "GM", then "Chevy"--I had to rule out "Ford" ("buy American!"), and a few minutes later "Cavalier" came to mind. I finally said "2004". I was wrong. If not for the insurance card on my desk, I'd probably still say "2004", but it's a "2005." But it took a while to get to the not entirely right answer.

Must mean I'm out of touch with America. Or, perhaps, I really don't really care about cars. My 4-year-old is better at IDing cars than I am.

Now, ask me about Russian science fiction, anaphor resolution in Slavic languages, or lexical borrowing and innovation in Common Slavic, and I'm your man.