How many more of these will it take before we finally dispense with the idea that John McCain is some sort of foreign policy genius who is uniquely qualified to be commander-in-chief? Today on “Good Morning America,” John McCain was asked whether he agreed with Barack Obama when he says the situation in Afghanistan is “precarious and urgent.” In predictable fashion, McCain downplays the significance of the deteriorating security situation there. In perhaps less predictable fashion, he magically redraws the borders of two Middle Eastern countries.
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We have a lot of work to do. It’s a very hard struggle, particularly given the situation on the Iraq-Pakistan border.
I doubt anyone here really needs me to do this, but here we go:
As you can clearly see, there is no common border between Iraq and Pakistan. Just another gaffe to add to the pile.
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the Iraq-Pakistan border?
Is anyone else creeped out?
Well….
And the reich-wing MSM will continue to pimp for McGrampa for his strong foreign policy “credentials”. What a fraud.
CAlI @ 1:
Yeah…maybe he’s more in the know than the rest of us….PFFFFFFFT!!! Aaahahahahahahaaaaa!
Poor bastard. Can’t they just let him go home now?
Not he meant the Iraq / Pakistan border — it just happens to be a very deep border — which happens to be Iran. Under the McCain plan there will be a thinner boarder between Iraq and Pakistan. All hail neo-con geography: Where you see borders — we see opportunities…
This will make more sense to you after we’ve invaded Iran and combined iwth Iraq.
Maybe he just sees Iran as the big border between Iraq and Pakistan.
Oh god, don’t let this man win in November. Just the thought of it scares me so much. He’s like a guy playing a candidate in some sort of freaky satirical movie.
Anyone who states there is no difference between the two candidates either isn’t paying attention or they are tuning out reality.
It’s all a matter of semantics.
McCain calls it “the Iraq-Pakistan border” ..
Other people call it “Iran” ..
stevek - you beat me to it!!! Well played.
He has to be the first politician to say Iraq when he meant Iran.
Now if he said he’d be President for the next eight to ten years, then you should be creeped out, and rightly so.
yes you needed to do that!
Some of us really need help with geography at times.
Usually you can tell what the hell he’s talking about/means even when he screws things up, but I don’t get this one. Seriously, what the hell was he talking about…?
Oh grandpa, you’re overdue for your meds…
Well, it does make sense. The “Iraq-Pakistan Border” IS extremely dangerous. And what he wants to do about it is bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran ….
What McSame meant to say is his presidency promises to bring more bloodshed from Iraq to the Pakistan border.
McSame is really a shame.
mccain wants the title of president, but he really doesn’t want the job.
Lest we forget GW couldn’t tell the difference between the middle-east and the middle-west when he ran in 2000.
I guess if you think on it he has brought the border of Iraq up against the Ohio border, maybe there, now, isn’t a difference between the mid west and the mid east.
What’s next??? Austria, Australia, it’s all the McSame to the doddering old twat. 300 million Americans and THIS is what’s offered as Presidential material??? We’re soooooo fucked…
Its actually a pretty common mistake of McCain to confuse Afghanistan and Iraq, see when he says “Iraq is the central front on the war on terror” what he REALLY means to say is “Afghanistan is the central front on the war on terror”
I saw the whole interview this morning and it was riduculous. He avoided answering questions he didn’t like and generally was weak and worthless.
If Obama said something like Iraq/Pakistan and avoided answering questions the the flying monkeys from the MSM would already be doing their 24/7 continuous loop outrage. Instead, they give this senile dufus a pass. A little biased, perhaps?
McSame is there to continue the endless war for the military industrial complex and oil companies…and to cover for the thugs in the crime family. They know they need him to give them pardons. Look at what Ronnie Reagan and Daddy Bush did as well as Ford who pardoned Richard M. Nixon. Crime families stick together.
I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to locate the Iraq-Pakistan border because some people out there in our nation don’t have maps and I believe that our education like such as in South Africa and in the Iraq everywhere like such as and I believe that they should….. our education over HERE in the U.S. should help the U.S. errmm… should help South Africa and should help the Iraq and the Asian countries so we will be able to build up our future.
Amazingly this will be forgotten by tomorrow morning.
McCain the media darling.
The poor senile shell-of-bastard McGrampa is making this too easy for Obama and the Dems. The dementia of McGrampa continues to grow and he now claims he knows best and rejects Maliki’s/Obama’s timetable But Says ‘I Know What Iraqis Want’ and he claims “I Know How To Win Wars“…coming from a shell-of-a-man who surrendered to the enemy.
But whatever you do, don’t say he’s “confused” - the definition of that word has been changed to mean “a derogatory term for a senile elderly person” in the FoxNews/McRight-Wing Dictionary. If you switch to “ignorant” that word will be changed to mean an insult to those in their golden years as well…
Johnny boy is showing us he is qualified to be the host at the Miss Teenage America pagent.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww
And this young lady comes from South Carolina, Lindsey Graham’s state. Between these two that doesn’t say much for South Carolina’s education system.
pissed off patricia @ 8:
right on the money. as a Pakistani, I can further assure everyone, we do not share a border with Iraq. Just in case the map wasnt enough. :)
but does it really matter if you look at the entire arab world as being one big blob of ‘islamists’? matter of perception.
The border error was horrible enough for someone who claims to know what’s going on in that neck of the woods. What sealed it for me was the very end of the clip where claimed “It did work, and we have succeeded…thank God!” followed by a chuckle…extremely creepy.
right wing: “oh forgive him he is old and forgets things but he really meant x”
if he forgets things or screws up like that, it is a sign that he is TOO DAMN FEEBLE.
also: #23 is my personal hero today. THANK YOU SIR
The following is an example of an idiot defending an idiot:
dennis @ 11:
Grandpa Abe McCain http://youtube.com/watch?v=PvpUqjXiTqA
Arrogant, feeble and mean are not the characteristics we need in our next president.
Aren’t we fed up with leaders who are sure they are right all of the time?
dennis @ 11:
Dennis, I agree. If he wanted to establish a diplomatic relationship with them for the next eight to ten years I’d be less ‘creeped out’ than I would be if he didn’t own a globe.
I have the distinct feeling that the border between John McCain’s frontal and occipital lobes is failing.
at least he didn’t say czechoslovakia(stan)
redcat @ 17:
More like his wife wants to be first lady.
You know, the Iraq/Pakistan, it’s just near the “country of Africa” :-)
Saint Augustine @ 31:
The only problem, McGrampa’s long history of senility and dementia is making it quite clear that he didn’t mean Iran.
This shell-of-a-man is convinced that Czechoslovakia still exists….talk about creepy.
I’ll probably be accused of trolling, but I’m willing to cut him some slack on the misspeak (until he repeats it tomorrow). I haven’t seen the whole interview but what offends me in this clip is that his manner is so smug when belittling Obama and his repeating “the surge has worked” talking point, even going so far as to thank God. I thought that Bush was the only one taking military advice from the almighty.
dennis @ 11:
Um, yeah Dennis, and the correction Joe Lieberman had to whisper in his ear? How many mistakes does John MisCue get to make before we should get concerned?
Can the right not produce any better trolls than this? This town needs a better class of troll (couldn’t resist).
constituent @ 36:
Or lament the suffering of the Fartknockistanis
‘New York Times’ turns down an op-ed from McCain
We’ll decide what victory looks like when it happens ..
Grampa McCain goes on…. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....4&NR=1
Saint Augustine @ 31:
Hey! Easy there St. Augustine!!! Dennis is no mere idiot. He’s a moron of the highest magnitude.
Crunch @ 23:
LOL and such as….
Ruthless People @ 43:
LOL. Well done.
Normally, I don’t think anything in particular about these gaffes (perhaps he meant to say Iran-Pakistan but oopsed), but didn’t he make this mistake at least once before? I can’t remember exactly, but I could swear he said this a month ago too.
I dunno, I’m worried about the Siam/Persian border… Apparently a lot of Ceylonese gathering there, along with a lot of Goths ready to take on the Romans and the Spartans…..
I just saw AB Stoddard on MSNBC apologizing for McCain once again. He is a maverick don’t you know. She was towing the party line that McCain has a so-called wealth of experience, knowledge and expertise in foreign policy matters and because of this we should give him a break. REALLY. I think the opposite holds true. A candidate with this much experience should be held to the highest standards. He should to know better. The MSM needs to quit patting Johnny on the head when he fucks ups. Which seems to be all the time lately
We’ve had a bad situation here on the Texas/Kansas border lately too.
ronnyg @ 35:
I think you are exactly right. He likes all the fanfare but he’s not crazy about the effort it takes and the need for having to make sense all the time. He enjoys playing the poor old army hero who just wants to help his country by sitting in the oval office that he feels he’s entitled to now.