the Iraq-Pakistan border?

Is anyone else creeped out?

And the reich-wing MSM will continue to pimp for McGrampa for his strong foreign policy "credentials". What a fraud.

Poor bastard. Can't they just let him go home now?

This will make more sense to you after we've invaded Iran and combined iwth Iraq.

We have a lot of work to do. It’s a very hard struggle, particularly given the situation on the Iraq-Pakistan border.

It's all a matter of semantics.

McCain calls it "the Iraq-Pakistan border" ..

Other people call it "Iran" ..

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.

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...

What McSame meant to say is his presidency promises to bring more bloodshed from Iraq to the Pakistan border.

mccain wants the title of president, but he really doesn't want the job.

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...

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

The following is an example of an idiot defending an idiot:

dennis @ 11:

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.

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?

I have the distinct feeling that the border between John McCain's frontal and occipital lobes is failing.

redcat @ 17:

mccain wants the title of president, but he really doesn't want the job.

More like his wife wants to be first lady.

Saint Augustine @ 31:

The following is an example of an idiot defending an idiot:

princess @ 11:

He has to be the first politician to say Iraq when he meant Iran.

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.

dennis @ 11:

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.

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).

'New York Times' turns down an op-ed from McCain

John McCain's presidential campaign confirms for us some news that the Drudge Report broke earlier -- The New York Times has declined to publish an op-ed piece by the Republican presidential contender.

A copy of what McCain wrote is posted here. It is mostly, as you'll see, a response to Democratic contender Barack Obama's views on what to do in Iraq -- and a response to the opinion piece written by Obama that the Times published on July 14. Obama's column was called "My Plan for Iraq."

Drudge says that Times op-ed editor David Shipley told the McCain campaign that the Republican senator's submission did not have enough in it about what McCain's plan for Iraq would be. Shipley invited the campaign to submit another draft.

McCain campaign spokesman Tucker Bounds sent us this comment about all this: "John McCain believes that victory in Iraq must be based on conditions on the ground, not arbitrary timetables. Unlike Barack Obama, that position will not change based on politics or the demands of The New York Times."

We'll decide what victory looks like when it happens ..

Saint Augustine @ 31:

The following is an example of an idiot defending an idiot:

dennis @ 11:

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.

Hey! Easy there St. Augustine!!! Dennis is no mere idiot. He's a moron of the highest magnitude.

Ruthless People @ 43:

Grampa McCain goes on.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wW5Eqycf4d4&NR=1

LOL. Well done.

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.....

We've had a bad situation here on the Texas/Kansas border lately too.

McGrampa's immigration policy includes securing the Florida-Mexico border.

This guy gets his geographical factoids from a big globe spray-painted over with an "us and them" motif. Somebody in his camp
should wrestle that 1948 Rand-McNally Atlas out of his claws while he's napping.

I just looked at a satellite image of that area and I couldn't see any borders or lines at all. I think humans just make all this shit up so they can kill each other.

Had he not consistently made the Czechoslovakia comment last week I would think he was making a witty reference to Iran. Sadly, I think he just has dementia.

redcat @ 17:

mccain wants the title of president, but he really doesn't want the job.

Oops, my comment was in regard to this one, not number 35. I guess I got lost on the border between comment #17 and comment #35

Tell McCain I think I located his estranged grand daughter! http://youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww

I'm just waiting for him to go completely off kilter, yelling, "HEY! You terrorists, get off of the grass!" from the front porch of the retirement home. Given his geography lesson in today's clip, that day isn't too far off. . .

pissed off patricia @ 51:

ronnyg @ 35:

I have the distinct feeling that the border between John McCain's frontal and occipital lobes is failing.

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.

the only thing mcfuckhead is entitled to is
a resounding STFU.

Isn't it a little premature to be pronouncing the surge a success? How many troops have exited Iraq? Are they all on leave there, enjoying the local sites before coming home to a failing economy?

Yes, McCain misspoke so that makes him a blithering idiot. You know, like when Obama said he'd visited 57 states or when he said, as president, he'd be dealing with problems in the Middle East for 8 to 10 years. This is the verbal equivalent of a typo. Big deal.

That was a Freudian slip, because he's got going to war with Iran so much on his mind.

Here's McCain's play book. Say any damned thing about the wars and sound serious as hell and a little sad. Then throw in something inane about Obama and chuckle. Now look around to see if anyone is laughing along with you. If they aren't, make a strange face and start from step one again.

Johnny @ 70:

Yes, McCain misspoke so that makes him a blithering idiot. You know, like when Obama said he'd visited 57 states or when he said, as president, he'd be dealing with problems in the Middle East for 8 to 10 years. This is the verbal equivalent of a typo. Big deal.

Is that why McCain has other people use the internet for him? He can't type?

Literally and figuratively?

didn't read all the previous posts so don't know if someone mentioned this but considering this demented hawks desire to wage war I just assume he was referring to the border region between iraq and pakistan he would like to go to war with, i.e. iran.

How much money we wanna bet the Lame Stream Media will be virtually silent on this?

If only Grandpa could use a computer. He could use the Google or the Mapquest.

YEess Iran is a border, a DMZ of sorts. ROFLMAO!

I can't even tell anyone I know about this. They won't get it, then they'll end up identifying with MCain.

Maybe al qaeda is being shipped from Iraq to Iran to be trained then sent to Pakistan? What would Lieberman say to that?

This should set those who worry about Obama's experience at ease. Not only was McCains geography wrong but the surge only helped because we paid off the insurgents.
"Thank God it worked". It's been working well for all the congressmen (bribes), why should this be any different?
The only reason someone would vote for McCain over Obama is if they were racist or dumb enough to believe all the neocon lies.

RichStraightWhiteAmericanMale @ 65:

And of course nobody called him on it, just like Dan Rather saying Osama bin Laden when he meant Barack Obama, and nobody said a thing. We have the most uneducated, dangerous press in the world.

You said it dead on, this bullshit is highly unstable.

WR @ 90:

This should set those who worry about Obama's experience at ease. Not only was McCains geography wrong but the surge only helped because we paid off the insurgents.

We only had to pay off the insurgents because Americans won't pick lettuce in the hot sun no matter how much you pay them.

Jay Severin Has A Small Pen1s @ 93:

It's the new Neo-Con name for Iran. Sort of like the DMZ between North and South Korea...just wider and with people in it. Brown people.

Iraqistan

Shiasunnislovakia

Please don't vote for this man. He is a big embarrassment.

VietVet67 @ 81:

Awwww, that's just John being John. Hey John, al-Qaeda is in Israel, should we bomb them?

Did I miss an ape joke? Rape joke? Is Janet Reno is Pakisslovakia? Marvelous!

casper46 @ 97:

Did Diane Sawyer even notice?

Did she notice who she was working for in the Nixon administration?

casper46 @ 97:

Did Diane Sawyer even notice?

well, for that she need to know the fact !!!

She is typical, Teeth smiling dum host with hardly any know-how about rest of the world

Don't worry John.....most of the lock-stepping Repubs will commence with the Obama-hates-white-people-and-is-also-loves-al-Qaeda quips really soon to help quell the mistake(s). Besides, EVERYONE KNOWS you meant the Saudi Arabia-Pakistan border.

Or was it the Iran-Germany border.....or, ugh, was it Turkey-Egypt? Uhmmmmm, Canadian-Sweden? Shit.

Well, there's also Obama's "problem" of not wearing a flag pin all the time.

Maybe he meant the Iraq-Czechoslovakia border.

Beer Veto !!

"I got lost on the road somewhere.
Was it Texas or was it Canada?"
-- Alice

It reminds me of the TV show about 5 or 6 years ago--after
September 11--wherein a "terrorist snuck in to the US crossing
over from Ontario into Vermont.

That's an awfully long stretch--geographically and physically.

But, hey,some Americans don't know geography unless
there's a war on.

Torontonian @ 114:

It reminds me of the TV show about 5 or 6 years ago--after
September 11--wherein a "terrorist snuck in to the US crossing
over from Ontario into Vermont.

That's an awfully long stretch--geographically and physically.

But, hey,some Americans don't know geography unless
there's a war on.

Or an election?

Well, you know no end of Missing in Action films had Chuck Norris escaping Vietnam across the border into Thailand so ...

(sarcasm) "Oh dear, details, details....Are you expecting the Republican nominee for President to know, like geography and politics too?" McDumbass should just hang it up soon. We've had enough of C and D students as "leaders". Let's get a smart one again....

won't someone PULEEZE show him how to use the mapquest.com or the yahoomaps or something on the internets??!!??

I'm betting none of the MSM network newscasts carry anything about the gaffe. However, Obama's major faux paus of meeting with foreign leaders, coalition and U.S. troops and commanding generals ONLY for photo ops, will be story # 1.

My 8 year old and 9 year old nephews both know he's wrong thanks to actually going though a decent education system ........ and they keep asking me "what is wrong with with the american people" ........ from the mouths of babes they say.

Maybe it borers with places like "such as" and "the Iraq" ...........

Maybe he needs the US maps.

Fucking idiot.

Sachem @ 33:

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?

Indeed, though it's what you're going to get, 51% / 49% with CNN spinning the shit storm all the way .......... sad, hopefully the economy will of collapsed by then and the rest of the world can just ignore america and get on dealing with each other properly, opposed to the US way.

One can hope.

Is it possible he is obliquely referring to that rather broad light green patch in between? Nah he was just being old.

Hey McC*nt, it's simple.

Before you trash someone....make sure you have your facts straight.

Can you handle that, shithead?

No, really. McGrandpa knew exactly what he was saying. He was talking Iran without actually naming it. Now everyone is doing that job for him, saying it over and over and over.. Everyone now knows he was saying that we should be worrying more about Iran, and yet he doesn't have to be held accountable for actually saying that, because you and everyone else who thought he is just being stupid are putting the meaning into it without him putting those words in his mouth. Rich people don't work, they know how to influence people to do their work for them... money is only one means of achieving that.

Score one for McCain, people. sorry. but that's the truth. PLAYED!

But hell, I don't know how to get around it at this point. He's good at making people choose between bad and worse.

Progressive Libertarian @ 121:

This really is not terribly difficult stuff for someone who's job as a Senator and presidential candidate is to know this kind of thing. I'm curious what exactly McCain spends his time doing if he hasn't quite made a point of solidifying this knowledge. This is really basic stuff. And to reiterate - it's his job as a Senator to stay on top of this kind of thing. It is one of the things he is ostensibly being paid by taxpayers to do. And yet he knows absolutely nothing and doesn't much seem to care. I suppose that's the attitude that lands you fifth from the bottom at the Naval Academy.

In other professions, failure to possess such basic essential knowledge is known as malpractice. Doctors are required to learn the entire freaking musculoskeletal system, which is a hell of a lot more complicated than basic geography. And they are required to work to maintain their knowledge and to stay abreast of medical developments. Same for lawyers and accountants - you've got continuing learning requirements and if you waltz around demonstrating this sort of comic incompetence, you'll have your license pulled. Every profession operates on the same principles. A mechanic needs to study the changes that are made to automotive models from year to year. A electician needs to stay on top of building and zoning requirements. The list goes on and on.

Look, it's not easy to be a doctor, an accountant, a lawyer, a mechanic, or an electrician. It takes a lot of work. And it's necessary that people put in that work so we don't have doctors mistaking appendicitis for indigestion or electricians installing faulty wiring and causing houses to burn down. So you want to be a doctor but you don't want to deal with med. school? Too bad for you. You have to work for it. McCain, to put the point bluntly, does not seem to think he is required to do any real work or to actually study and understand things himself. He's simply not interested in doing the work that goes with the position. And the Office of the President is, after all, a JOB - not a prize, not a title, but a full time around-the-clock job.

Well said. But then again, like Georgie, he'll end up surrounding himself with neocons who will do the thinking for him.

They'll roll John out for the occasional awkward press conference or speech by grandpa while the fascist cabal worries about the policy.

Kind of like Reagan, but dramatically and frighteningly worse.

Amitola @ 131:

I think the saddest thing about this, and maybe the biggest problem, is that most Americans won't even know that "Mr. Foreign Relations - Comander-in-Chief at the Ready" made such a stupid gaffe, as they have no clue what countries border each other in the ME (presnet company excluded).

And what % can't even point out the US on a world map .............

Wise_Fool @ 132:

No, really. McGrandpa knew exactly what he was saying. He was talking Iran without actually naming it. Now everyone is doing that job for him, saying it over and over and over.. Everyone now knows he was saying that we should be worrying more about Iran, and yet he doesn't have to be held accountable for actually saying that, because you and everyone else who thought he is just being stupid are putting the meaning into it without him putting those words in his mouth. Rich people don't work, they know how to influence people to do their work for them... money is only one means of achieving that.

Score one for McCain, people. sorry. but that's the truth. PLAYED!

But hell, I don't know how to get around it at this point. He's good at making people choose between bad and worse.

Well most likely he was actually talking about the Pakistan/Afghanistan border. But apparently his senility got in the way.

Or maybe... It's a VERY subtle way of his way to repeat his desire to invade Iran.

JimboSlice @ 20:

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"

It's only a common mistake among people who don't know what the hell they're talking about. Face it the guy is incompetent.

And this is what the repthugs offer the nation for president, a senile, doddering old fool whose demented ravings are presented as "experienced statesmanship". Anybody who claims to love this country, republican or whoever, and yet could even consider VOTING for this accomplished thief & liar who is obviously non compos mentis, is as insane as he is.

Another stupid Republican douchebag. Seriously-- do you *have* to be an idiot to be a Republican?

And for the record, anyone who claims it's reasonable to not know that Iraq has no border with Pakistan is only admitting that they're a fucking idiot, too. Let's have some standards here, for crying out loud. If you don't know basically how the major countries in the middle east are laid out, you're an ignorant putz. If you're in the GOVERNMENT and don't have this basic knowledge, you're a shameful example of profound stupidity, and should just go the hell away.

Dr. Hussein Matt @ 3:

And the reich-wing MSM will continue to pimp for McGrampa for his strong foreign policy "credentials". What a fraud.

No, they'll just spin that he's The Second Reagan. If they could spin George Bush into the second Lincoln on the grounds of his divisiveness, they'll have no problem spinning McCain as the second Reagan based on his age and cluelessness.