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Originally Posted by jon1856
A McCain Moment: Do You Want Four More Years
of This?
Arianna Huffington  3/26/2008
If our polarized country can agree on one thing, it’s that the greatest danger facing America over the next decade will not be Islamic extremism and instability in the Middle East, but rather Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago. That’s just “common knowledge,” right?
So it only makes sense that the media have focused nonstop on this looming threat while paying scant attention to the fact that the presumptive Republican nominee for president apparently doesn’t have a clue about what’s going on in the Middle East.
And with the U.S. death toll hitting 4,000 (with 25 American soldiers killed over the last two weeks, the deadliest fortnight for our troops since September 2007), and with another 57 people killed in Iraq on Sunday, John McCain’s tenuous grasp on what is happening in the region becomes all the more worthy of attention.
For those who were too busy watching Rev. Jeremiah Wright damn America for the 10,000th time to hear about McCain, let’s review: at a stop in Jordan last week, McCain made the ludicrous claim that al-Qaida insurgents were being trained in Iran. Asked again about it, he dug in deeper, claiming it was “common knowledge and has been reported in the media that al-Qaida is going back into Iran and receiving training and are coming back into Iraq from Iran, that’s well known.”
http://www.caglepost.com/column/Aria...s+of+This.html |
This would seem to be a much bigger gaffe on McCain's part to me if I felt like most people have any idea what it's actually plausible for al-Qaida to be doing. Had he not immediately corrected himself based on what Joe L. whispered to him, would Arianna Huffington even have known that it wasn't what he meant to say or that it wasn't accurate?
I also think it's funny that people are trying to claim that the story isn't being reported. Who hasn't heard about this happening? Just people some people don't think McCain misspeaking and making an immediate correction is proof he's clueless means that no one knows it happened? Really?