Yes, we can.

[Motorboat Cruiser]

Originally Posted by Alex

When you speak in public for several hours a day all kinds of stupid things are going to fall out of your mouth.

Point well taken. Although it does raise a question in my mind as to whether McCain's frequent slips are a result of the normal stress of the campaign trail, or if age is also a factor. I'm not trying to accuse him of anything but it seems a valid concern.

I'm a little more put out by McCain's misstatement of timelines around the surge simply because he was using the correctness of the misstatement (if that is what it was) as a building block of a case.

I'm also finding it interesting that on three occasions this week, McCain's staff has had to jump in and make a statement saying that something McCain just said somewhere doesn't reflect his actual views. I often wonder if he has any idea what his actual positions are, for he often seems very confused. When asked about contraception, for example, he literally had no idea where he stood.

[Gn2Dlnd]

Thanks, Tenigma, for the Snopes link.

[innerSpaceman]

Hahaha, love the Modified-for-Obama flag lapel pin.

[Tenigma]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

Hahaha, love the Modified-for-Obama flag lapel pin.

Wooo YES WE CAN IN ALL 57 STATES!!

[scaeagles]

Why is Obama making race an issue? From this article-

"Nobody thinks that Bush and McCain have a real answer to the challenges we face. So what they're going to try to do is make you scared of me," Obama said. "You know, he's not patriotic enough, he's got a funny name, you know, he doesn't look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills."

Neither the republicans nor McCain are making race an issue. You are, Senator Obama.

[Moonliner]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

Why is Obama making race an issue? From this article-



Neither the republicans nor McCain are making race an issue. You are, Senator Obama.

I like the way he links McCain and Bush together in his opening sentence.

[Alex]

But the real controversy is that he apparently thinks there is more than one president on the dollar bill!

[scaeagles]

I credit that to the normal gaffes of candidacy that were discussed earlier. I really don't think that he believes there are 57 states, either.

[Strangler Lewis]

I read it the same way Snopes did: that he was trying to talk about travels to the lower 48 and got tangled up because one normally talks about the 50 states.

[Strangler Lewis]

It's just a sly response to his having been compared to Paris Hilton and Britney Spears. McCain is also a slang term for pubic hair, though a more obscure one than Bush.