The Week That Should Have Ended McCain's Presidential Hopes

Check out Max Bergmann's article, "The Week That Should Have Ended McCain's Presidential Hopes" on the Huffington Post, where he lays out the 10 biggest gaffes/screw ups/lies/flip-flops of the last week from McCain, screw ups that should have been plastered all over the news, but weren't, at all, because the media is in love with McCain. You can be sure if some reverend that has ever met Obama (be it Wright, Jesse Jackson or someone else) did any of these things, the media would have looped that crap 24/7 while blasting Obama. When McCain does them himself, nada. It is ridiculous. But definitely check it out, some I've written about on my blog, some I haven't.

Ah yes, here is another gaffe that, while not warranting any real coverage, is pretty funny. You may recall that the media loves to spread a myth that McCain doesn't like to exploit his time as a POW for political gain, which like pretty much everything the media says about McCain, is romanticized garbage. In reality McCain never misses an opportunity to bring it up. He puts it into his ads (his most recent ad might as well just said "vote for me because I was a POW"). He is basically the Rudy Giuliani of "I was a POW". Giuliani was ridiculed for pretty much making every sentence out of a noun, a verb and "9/11". The fact that Giuliani was mayor of New York City when 9/11 happened was the entire basis for his candidacy. Well, McCain is essentially doing the exact same with "POW". McCain can't beat Obama on the issues (because he supports Bush's failed policies that around 4 out of 5 Americans recognize as ruinous), he certainly can't beat McCain on character or ability to inspire and lead. So, he has to bring up the POW thing at every possible opportunity.

Anyway, the funny story, this is what happened today, during one of McCain's attempts to work in the fact he was a POW into a sentence:

Asked what first comes to his mind when he thinks of Pittsburgh, McCain chuckled, "the Steelers. I was a mediocre high school athlete but I loved and adored the sports but the Steelers really made a huge impression on me particularly in my early years."

And then McCain told a rather moving story about his time as a P.O.W. "When I was first interrogated and really had to give some information because of the pressures, physical pressures on me, I named the starting lineup, defensive line of the Pittsburgh Steelers as my squadron mates."

"Did you really?" asked the reporter.

"Yes," McCain said.

"In your POW camp?" asked the reporter.

"Yes," McCain said.

"Could you do it today?" asked the reporter.

"No, unfortunately," McCain said.

Awww, isn't that nice? Too bad it is a big fat lie. Not only did he lie about it once, he managed to lie about it three times, first when he said it, another time when asked if that was really true, and a third time when asked where it all went down. Do you know why we know it is a lie? Because he talks about his POW experience at every possible opportunity, including this very story, only every other time he told it and wasn't in Pittsburgh, the football team he used was the Green Bay Packers. So McCain either flat out lied to an audience and reporters three times, just to make them like him (and so he could remind everyone he was a POW), or he seriously had no idea which team her used, even though he has repeated the same story over and over again, and even wrote the story in his book. I'm gonna say he is a big fat liar, because that isn't something you mess up after you tell it a hundred times.

And another thing is funny, which I don't think anyone else has mentioned, but McCain is basically acknowledging that information gained through torture is not reliable, because people will tell you complete bullshit to make you stop hurting them. Maybe he should consider that next time he votes with Bush to make torture legal.

NBC's David Gregory is apparently taking the media's love affair with McCain to a whole new level. Despite all of McCain's recent gaffes/screw ups/lies/flip-flops, and despite the fact that Obama is kicking his ass in every poll, David Gregory poses this question: "Is the sheen off the Barack Obama candidacy?" Are you serious???!!! We don't question what is wrong with McCain's campaign, we question Obama's?? AAHHHHH!!!! What a hack...a total embarrassment...