Comments on: Obama Claims Credit for the Wrong Thing; Meanwhile, McCain Demonstrates Once More that Experience Doesn’t Always Matter

By: CitizenKang

CitizenKang — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:59:55 +0000

Wow, though I'm an Obama supporter, I used to kinda like McCain and it's very weird watching him morph into Grandpa Simpson.

Be that as it may, another McCain misstatement that really bothers me is the claim that Bush's willingness to drill offshore was responsible for the recent downtick in oil prices, a claim even Dana Perino had to walk back.

Is it me, or is it a little scary that McCain is more divorced from reality than the Bush admin?

By: runasim

runasim — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:56:33 +0000

“What it shows me is that (1) McCain will say anything to score a point; (2) He doesn't have a good grasp of the details; and (3) Is so behind the times about the interwebs thing that he doesn't realize that getting facts wrong is going to get him every time”

Exactly.
But when are the media going to start to notice?
Or are they deliberately ignoring?

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Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:24:30 +0000

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By: DAMOZEL

DAMOZEL — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:30:17 +0000

I am not sure it is deliberate—I think he is hazy about details in foreign policy and doesn't care. His superior judgment about the surge was what was in question. The distortion of the timeline was supposed to show that Obama was wrong in his judgment about the surge (maybe so; we can't know that yet).

What it shows me is that (1) McCain will say anything to score a point; (2) He doesn't have a good grasp of the details; and (3) Is so behind the times about the interwebs thing that he doesn't realize that getting facts wrong is going to get him every time.

By: Neocon

Neocon — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:30:07 +0000

Im still waiting for a statement from Obama telling us he knows how to fight a war.

This is all silly. It does not matter if Obama says something silly like this or McCain does not remember the surge time line.

Whats important is policies and the party going to carry them out. Whose going to balance the budget and pay down the debt. ALL our economic woes stem from that. Everything else is trivial and Im certainly not losing sleep over the fact that the man in the German street hates America.

In fact if I was president I would pull everyone out of Germany, Japan and South Korea as well as Afghanistan and Iraq and make the rest of the damn world defend their own freakin borders.

By: elrod

elrod — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:38:04 +0000

I maintain that the surge timeline issue is far more important than the various verbal miscues from either candidate. The surge thing is deliberate and it shows McCain wants to take credit for everything.

By: ChrisWWW

ChrisWWW — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:26:13 +0000

That's some nitpicking of Obama there

I'm still waiting to hear from McCain an explanation for his claim that he “knows how to win wars.”