Senior Moment: McCain forgets which Secretary of State endorsed him
When Tom Brokaw asks McCain whether he agrees with Rush Limbaugh when he says Colin Powell's endorsement of Barack Obama was based purely on race, McCain reverts to his standard talking point that he's honored to have received the endorsement of five other Secretaries of State. Unfortunately for McCain, he completely bungles it when he cant seem to remember the name of that last guy whose endorsement he's so honored to have...
MR. RUSH LIMBAUGH: It was totally about race. The Powell nomination, or endorsement, total, totally about race.
MR. BROKAW: Do you agree with Rush Limbaugh?
SEN. McCAIN: *No...I'm disappointed in General Powell, but I'm very, very happy to know that five former secretaries of state who I admire enormously -- Henry Kissinger, Jim Baker, Larry Eagleburger, Al Haig, ummm.. [Laughs] Ummm...Jim Baker, Henry Kissinger, Al Haig, Larry Eagleburger [sigh] and one other.... and over 200 retired flag general --generals and admirals are supporting my campaign. I'm very proud of their support...
MR. BROKAW: Senator, we opened today with a--how you're doing in Iowa. The Des Moines Register has endorsed...
SEN. McCAIN: George Shultz! George Shultz is the other one.
MR. BROKAW: George Shultz, right.
I guess McCain doesn't realize that winning the endorsement of five Republican Secretaries of State isn't exactly that impressive. Especially when he can't even name them all. Chalk it up to another one of those "senior moments."
* Corrected transcript
Senor Juan.
Once again, everyone here(and SilentPatriot) thinks a person is not human and they should know everything they are asked and never forget anything....Do you think he can name the hundreds of generals who support him also?
Hundreds of Generals?
Do we even have hundreds of Generals?
http://schotlinepress.wordpress.com/2007/12/1...
Here are a list of some.
Funny, i don't see any who left because Bush did not follow their advice on Iraq.
by 'SURGING' to the exit?
john won't acknowledge that.
he's a drive-by concern troll.
Some stuff you can't make up!
I think John is the troll formerly known as Dennis.
The people on this site realize everyone is human. However, this example of memory lapse is yet one in a series of examples that demonstrate McCain might be too old for the stress of the Presidency. They think McCain is not clever or composed enough to think ahead to whether he can remember all the endorsers and then cover by using the word "several" instead of a specific number below 10. If a person can't name five people, there's something wrong, as a President is required to remember hundreds of details in the course of a day. Bill Clinton can remember dozens of facts and figures without using a note and McCain should be able to do the same. Of course, W is a whole other story. Look where he got us.
And Obama never had any memory lapse? He did indeed. Is he to old for the stress also? I don't think this is a good comparison.
"I know you are, but so am I."
Your excuses are really becoming hilarious John. The old guy claimed that Shultz was one of the Nation's "greatest Secretaries of State" yet didn't even know his name.
See, I am not making excuses, I am just making a point that yes he did forget but so does Obama. The whole entire point is that this story is really no story at all because both candidates forget things. Understand that better?
What I understand is you are obtuse and obstreperous. Understand that?
Why not go to the Middle East and try to sell America as the saviour: you'd have better luck.
far left loon >.<
that says enough for me.
where's john the oxyMORON?
how does he stand on this issue?
is it Barack's fault?
here's here again trolling.
I should have known.
I'm
CoIntelPro.PronktasticlyAgainst.SCLM.E-Voting.Incumbents
and I approve this message
Some stuff you can't make up!
In fairness to McCain, George "Nyquil" Shultz always did that to me, too! I'm sure his own wife forgets who he is when he comes through the front door, and calls the police. Either that, or assumes he must be the Maytag Repair Man.
God help us and the world if this man is
electedgiven the presidency!!!I too am concerned he may be given the presidency. I just have a hard time believing that after all the Republican corruption in the 2000 and 2004 electios, that Republicans would be willing to quitly fade away in the night if Obama were elected.
Why is age not an issue with the msm but race is? Add age plus McCain's health issue and you have a REAL issue.
I saw it and I don't think not being able to rattle off 5 names constitutes a senior moment. A bit of a stretch in my opinion on this one. Though at 72, a cancer survivor, god knows what damage from being a POW and god knows what meds he may be taking and not releasing his medical records in any meaningful way, his age should be a major issue especially considering the Fox News Morning & Friends host he chose for his vp.
He didn't answer the question and Brokaw didn't press it, as any journalist worth his/her salt should have.
Note to Sitemonitor:
The transcript is wrong. I saw this, and the first thing McCain says after Brokaw asks the question is 'No'. He said it quick and quickly moved on but he did say 'No' to "Do you agree with Rush Limbaugh?"
i thought i better check the video. i also heard him say, somewhat under his breath "no, but..."
Barack Obama is a socialist?
He doesn't believe the polls are accurate BUT he's going to come from behind to win. Well, which is it?
McCain's MTP interview did more harm to him than good. He looked like an arrogant, delusional man whose memory had waved good-bye to him long ago.
He became contemptuous of polls as Brokaw used them to logically discuss the topics (of course, if they were in his favor we know he'd be gloating over the polls - hypocrite!).
His "non-defense" of Palin became a repetitive litany of total defense repeating things over and over in an attempt to fill her side of the pathetically empty ledger.
And then, just like an old geyser who's losing his memory and mind, lurches around enumerating and counting on his fingers in some rote order he's memorized things in, cannot recall the 5th Secretary of State who endorsed him. Since it's not really "in his head in a normal fashion" and, instead, memorized he must return to the top of the list in a futile attempt to click in some synaptic, rover-like response and still fails.
What was far worse, however, was that when he did recall it after Brokaw changed the question, like a 5 year old who's memorizing his ABC's, he had to interject it inappropriately as though he might be rewarded by a few extra cookies or something. This was totally pathetic and indicative of the sad state of this man's mind.
He also had an opportunity to deflect criticism about how sleazy he's become and how the moniker of "race baiter" will now be permanently affixed to his reputation (replacing war hero) when Brokaw mentioned the Limbaugh racial smear against Powell. His answer was barely audible and he took no time to explain it. THIS RESPONSE WILL COST HIM THIS ELECTION.
After 8 long years of having a mentally-challenged president whose arrogance is only superseded by his incredible ignorance, the people will not again elect someone who has no integrity, no honor, or scruples left to his name. He has conducted the DIRTIEST, FILTHIEST CAMPAIGN IN MODERN HISTORY. He has engaged in tactics which have reduced his reputation to that of a street-corner thug and he will depart the political scene as a totally self-disgraced old hack.
John McCain: Race-Baiter Fraud will be his legacy.
Very, very well said.
I think he lost this election long before that response.
When he said "The fundamentals of the economy are strong".
Game. Set. Match.
But I think in general when they decided to go overtly racist it was a lost cause. Funny thing about America is that despite being an insanely racist country, the vast majority don't like to think of themselves as racist. Going overt and ugly was only going to drive away the closet racists.
Good post. It's like a good donut to this coffee I'm sipping right now.
I think you meant "geezer" instead of "geyser". At least geysers let go regularly, whereas geezers like McCain usually need prunes.
Democratic Party progressive, Vietnam veteran and proud Union member for 41 years
Grandpa is angry, tired, lost, and I'm sure even he can't wait to be taken out back and shot....and I hope McCorpse takes that annoying bitch with him.
A Confused McCain Claims the Endorsement of Former SecState: Charles Schulz!
But , " Whatcha gonna do if the GOP steal this one from you ? " Mc Cant and the Smirking Asshole don't appear to be that worried. Maybe they know something we don't ?
What am i going to do?
I am going to stay away from government buildings.
His whole campaign is just one big senior moment. Anyone with an ounce of brains would stay away from McCain/Palin but the rabid Repuke base would vote for a radish as long as they called it a Repuke radish. However, I am still afraid they will somehow steal the election.
... and I AGREE with everything you said.
So will Palin be the guest on Meet the Press next week? She's the only one on either ticket who has not appeared on that show this campaign season.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
especially since she is not listening to her minders -- methinks she will go on the style network to continue to talk about her $150,000 wardrobe -- the story that just keeps on giving.
Only if she can bring a spokesperson.
Piper seems to be going everywhere with her mom lately, maybe she could go along to support mom. I saw a clip of Piper this morning and it looked like she is now wearing the same glasses as her mother wears. I don't remember ever seeing glasses on Piper before.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Doesn't she have school? I know that they Obama girls are hardly ever paraded out to rallys -- they are still attending their school and events and trying to have a normal life correct?
like gramps.
Didn't watch MTP, but this sound-bite segment is a bit of a reach. All it shows is McCain's fatigue. He and Obama have been at this for well over a year now, so forgetting a name or two isn't a big deal.
the 72 year-old man with a history of cancer- and all the physical stress related to the incident in which he was shot down and captured- will fatigue much more easily than the physically fit man in his 40s.
Which one of the two do want to see answering that 3am phonecall?
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
Like a person who is trying to convince everyone he's having a good time even though he's not, he keeps grinning non-contextually all the time.
I think he'd be doing a lot better overall if he comported himself as a serious sober man who is focused on the problems of the country instead of an out-of-touch crackpot who is both ashamed of his campaign yet too spineless to do anything about it at the same time.
He is not in charge of his own campaign and would not be in charge of his own Presidency were he to have one. He is a racist puppet on a NeoCon string.
Since he gave up being in charge and could reclaim being in charge anytime he wanted to it still all falls in his lap.
McCain says he and Bush are the same and he shares the same leadership beliefs as Bush.
Yesterday on "Meet the Press," McCain made a major admission: Of course, he and George W. Bush "share a common philosophy." Of course, Obama responded forcefully, because that "common philosophy" has been one of the main themes of the campaign.
McCain = Bush
http://www.americablog.com/2008/10/mccain-on-...
[Deleted. Off topic. Please take it to an open thread. Thank you. Site Monitor]
[Deleted. Off topic. Please take it to an open thread. Thank you. Site Monitor]
This is sad. I used to have alot of respect for Mr. McCain.
Now, I just feel sorry for him.
Feel bad for McCain? Watch some clips of his supporters to remind yourself of the kind of hatred he's stirring up.
When he hit the national scene over a decade ago i took the time to listen to a long interview he conducted when he became the topic of conversation. After that i never had any respect for him. I can't think of a thing he ever said that i agreed with and his devious way of presenting himself and his ideas pisses me off.
I'm an expat living in Costa Rica. The on-line english newspaper here has come out with a vacuous endorsement for McCain with all the leftist name calling and repug hyperbolic rhetoric. It would be great if anyone could go to their website and send some responses. It's amcostarica.com
As in Bush's lawyer? As in the guy who stopped Iraq vets from the Persian Gulf I that were held captive from filing suit? Jim Baker who works for the Carlisle Group with Daddy Bush? One of the persons who was pushing for the Dubai firm in buying 23 of our ports? As in the lawyer who set up the 2000 Election debacle?
Yea right....McSame as the first.
I've had them. Most of us have. That's not really the point. McSame has an opportunity to smack down the race-baiting, and he chooses not to, once again. That is the tragedy here. He is washed up.
[Deleted. Off topic. Please take it to an open thread. Thank you. Site Monitor]
[Deleted. Off topic. Please take it to an open thread. Thank you. Site Monitor]
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
[Deleted. Off topic. Please take it to an open thread. Thank you. Site Monitor]
[Deleted. Off topic. Please take it to an open thread. Thank you. Site Monitor]
The Huffington Post had a very interesting post on what may be an elephant in the room, and that is John McCain's age: McCain, Obama, and Some Painful Truths About Aging.
McCain's low-level intellectual acuity has always stood out for me, even more than his lying -- much of which I attribute to his mental slippage.
Maybe it's kinder to just attribute most of McCain's slippage to "gaffes" or "senior moments" or "selling out" than to a rapidly-decreasing mental acuity. And in the end, maybe it doesn't matter. He simply doesn't have what it takes to campaign for the presidency, much less function in that capacity.
FWIW, in civil rights law, it is not unlawful to "discriminate" against older individuals (refusal to hire, promote, or to terminate employment) if they are verifiably unable to do the job. I do think McCain has proved that time and time again since he's begun campaigning.
Vote Obama-Biden. We already did.
So did we.
Vote early!
And often. ;^)
Same here. Happily did it last Thursday.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Me too.
Has anyone seriously considered McCain is in the beginning stages of Alzheimer's? He's been showing all the signs. I mean, yeah, we all thought Reagan's "senior moments" were just so cute, or he needed a nap, and look what happened. I think some unbiased medical professionals need to at least test the man. If he loops out, then look who gets to pick up the ball. A woman that's not medically unbalanced, but unbalanced nevertheless.
If he were seriously losing it, he'd look far more confident. To me its obvious his forced congeniality is proof he knows he's doing terribly.
Brokaw was on Morning Joe this morning and he said he thought McCain would have rather been anywhere else on earth yesterday morning than on MTP. He said he seemed tired.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Interesting to note that after two years on the campaign trail Barack Obama always appears rested and relaxed. He obviously knows how to work hard without exhausting himself.
.
Combined with past 'gaffes,' and the fact that McCain is running for the highest office in the land, I'm not inclined to view this as generously as you (Filthy Harry) are.
With Limbaugh, and going off to talk about something else, he is subconsciously saying he agrees with Limbaugh. That just Psychology 101.
The transcript is wrong. He said 'No' quickly and quietly then moved on.
Of course he was not going to say he agreed with Limpdick. The interview in it's integrity is the most important thing. In the end McShame is just an old man who maybe use to have some integrity but now is only a dog on a Republican leash. Go take a nap McGrandpa.
Grandpa got his free media time from his buddies at NBC so now he can't whine about Obama's purchased time.
The fact that McMemoryloss made no good use of the time to help his position, is his problem.
8 more days. Then we find out if the middle class has finally wisened up, or if they are so afraid of a black man in the White House that they will cut their financial throats again.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
The gun tragedy was horrific. I live in a country with strict gun control. The chances of an 8 year old handling an UZI! is negligible.
The GOP are experienced in hiding their weirdos and their senile, although they can't stop the bleed. Palin is claiming she will go back to wearing her ordinary clothes after the election. We'll see. I think she's grown attached to her Michael Jackson jacket. Can't you see her becoming an evangelist.I predict McCain will go rapidly downhill after November 4th. He is living on adrenalin and meds at the moment.
The Australian dollar was worth 61 US cents this morning. I have to stay away from Ebay, it's killing me. The Media over here, believe it's a done deal for Obama, but Palin keeps grabbing headlines. She and the robocalls are great fodder for TV comics.
Jim Baker (Reagan, Poppie Bush's last year), Henry Kissinger (Nixon and Ford), Al Haig (Reagan), Larry Eagleburger (briefly with George H.W. Bush), George Shultz (Reagan) were all former Republican secretaries of state, and since most of them were with Reagan, it goes to show how little they really are "outside the box" thinkers.
An endorsement like this means almost next to nothing to have a guy that was a Secretary of State for a Republican administration, was once being groomed to run for president and bucked his own party (that's a real maverick, Mr. McCain.)
It'll be like getting five stoners to say that "Half Baked" is the best movie ever made.
"When are we going to stop trying to tell elected officials what to do. Our job is to spend the taxpayers' money the best way we can." -- Tommy Watkins, Justice of the Peace, Crawford County, Arkansas
If he hadn't become such a low down dirty dog I might feel sorry for the poor old guy.
Everybody, please, please vote!!!
Unless you support McCain. :)
Gingko Biloba won't even help John.
I meant be sure and vote for "That One".
Granted the five nominations being Repubs is not impressive but just because he forgets one of five names does not make for a news item either.
This is where sites like Crooks and Liars lose credibility when they throw out stuff like this.
If anything the story should be why does Rush Limbaugh get any play at all on a network like NBC. He should be ignored by all.
What he can and cannot remember is very important and if you look at how proud he was when he actually did remember and how embarrassing that was you can see how much of a disaster he would be as President.
Old man not only shouts at clouds, but can't remember which clouds he already shouted at. Very sad.
I was also disturbed at Brokaw's obvious stroking of McCain's POW credentials once again, making sure he reminded all of us this was the anniversary of the day McCain lost the US Navy a perfectly good airplane. It's bad enough when McCain brings up his POW crap, Brokaw did not have to show his already demonstrated bias by sucking up to McCain.
I didn't hear Brokaw doing the same for Purple Heart veteran John Kerry in 2004.
Democratic Party progressive, Vietnam veteran and proud Union member for 41 years
McCAIN: "No... I'm disappointed in General Powell, but I'm very, very happy to know that five former secretaries of state..."
Is this McCains idea of repudiating hateful racist statements?
Watching MTP Sunday Morning with the wife and could not BELIEVE when he forgot Schultz's name...it was a real "deer in the headlights" moment.
I'm only 55 and that happens to me too...forget something that I KNOW I know....but hey....I'm not running for President, and the name I forget is NOT a former Sec. of State!!
and I though Brokaw was a little bit less of a suck-up with Mccain this time....still a suck-up tho'. And it was funny at the end when Mccain let him know that Brokaw was NOT one of those anti-American elite media types....LOL
all it takes is all of us
that says enough for me.
where's john to oxyMORON?
how does he stand on this issue?
its it Barack's fault?
Some stuff you can't make up!
To be fair, McCain....sorry, forgot what I was going to say.
.
Senator McBlahBlahBlah strikes again!
.
Starve the WAR Beast...
... Save the World.
It should be noted that Eagleburger was Secretary of State for only 42 days at the end of Bush the Elder's term of office. After losing the election, Bush basically threw him a bone with which to pad his resumee later in life.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diBoH-7N8vI
Seriously? ...Seriously??? THIS is the kind of crap we're picking on him about now? WTF? There is so much more to use than this. He had a friggin' brain-fart. Whoopty-doo. How about his health and education policies? How about how much that sucks? His stance on the war? His inability to make compromises, even as a "maverick"? His role with insurance companies that helped cause our current financial crisis? No, he forgot a name for 15 SECONDS. I guess that's really evil-bad though, huh? ...oy. Grow up and really give a shit.
Hi John. How's it hangin'? Nice to see you again.
far left loon >.<
"President" McCain: Now which of thes buttons do I push to get my secretary to bring me some coffee, and which one blows half of Russia off the map. The gambler in the Oval Office.
far left loon >.<
Bush made a lot of gambles with his political capital for future glory in the history books. It worked for a while (from a GOP perspective), but it has caught up to him and left him bankrupt. Do we really want another gambler for glory: one who wants to go down on top, to leave a legacy forever. He's near death and wants history to remember him. If he were already president how do you think he would have handled the Georgia incident??
(Hint: not like Sarkozy did.)
far left loon >.<
Poor old guy. Can't he just GO HOME now? (He's got SNAUSAGES there.)
Comments are closed on this entry