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http://roguecolumnist.typepad.com/rogue_columnist/2008/08/why-the-mccain.htmlPresident-elect McCain's inability to recall how many houses.(1) he owns fits into a larger and more troubling pattern. The problem is not just that he is an out-of-touch rich guy.
This is the candidate who repeatedly confused Shiite and Sunni (2)-- all the while trumpeting his expertise on the Middle East. At one point, his sock puppet Joe Lieberman had to whisper the facts in his ear.(3) He couldn't tell Sudan from Somalia.(4) He kept talking about a nation that hasn't existed for years.(5) Iraq and Pakistan share a border, the senator wrongly said, and the Sunni awakening happened 'after' the surge (6) (edited out by CBS (7)). He said he didn't know much about economics,(8) then denied saying such a thing. He spoke of a withdrawal timetable one day, then denied saying it later. He volunteered Cindy for a topless contest.(9) Then there was the stupendous dead space and mumbling when he was questioned about claiming Obama was playing the race card.(10) He claimed he walked through Baghdad without body armor or protection, etc., etc.(11) Most of this has been captured on tape.
What's going on? Neither obvious answer is comforting. He's either going senile as he nears 72, or he's lying and unprepared on critical issues without realizing how easily this can be caught in a YouTube era. (Whether the duhs and ignos -- those 'undecided voters' and angry Clintonites -- will care, is another, depressing matter). Either one of these answers should disqualify him for the White House, particularly because so many of his misstatements, confusions and subsequent lies come about issues where he claims superior experience and judgment.
But next consider all his flip flops, over torture, warrantless wiretapping, tax cuts, Social Security, abortion rights, engaging with Hamas, nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain, offshore drilling, etc. Once the presumptive nominee, he said Social Security was "an absolute disgrace.'(12) His chief economic adviser and likely Treasury secretary called Americans a 'nation of whiners' and said the recession was in our heads.(13) This from a rich man who helped deregulate banking, profited from it, then profited again from the current deregulated banking crisis. Soon after McCain reversed course to support drilling, oil industry contributions poured in.(14)
The above is not a disjointed laundry list. When we combine it with McCain's obvious mental fatigue, the really disturbing picture comes clear.
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