McSame Arrogance, McSame Delusion, McSame Lies

If you liked the years of delusion, lies and arrogance under President Bush, you'll love more of the Same from John McCain!  4 More Years!  4 More Years!  4 More Years!

The operative question at this point is this:  As McCain spirals into irrelevance, how is it that he continues to be one of the most astonishing gaffe-producers in American political history?

Here's a quick list of some of McCain's greatest gaffes (below the fold):
* Sunni=Shia
* Iran is training Al Qaeda
* Purim = Jewish Halloween
* Putin = President of Germany
* "I blame the press", "I didn't say I blame the press", "oh, I did say I blame the press"
* General Petraeus travels Iraq markets in an unarmored humvee! guffaw

That's just a quick list of highlights, there's much more.  When you couple this with a listing of pandering flip-flops that put "Flipp" Romney to shame, you have to be left with the sense that this politician is either too deluded or too slippery to pass the Commander-in-Chief test.

Johathan Alter has this explanation:

I don't think he's senile, I think that he is caught in an old politics where politicians routinely just said you know, black is white, white is black and blue is grey and they got away with it for many, many years [Alter tells a couple of anecdotes about a time McCain is more familiar with...before radio and the FDR era] So McCain just can't get away with this kind of thing anymore in the new era, in the YouTube era.  And it's a learning curve for him to get up to speed, to recognize he's living with new rules.

I guess McCain is just not honest enough to survive politics in the 21st century, which is one more reason that I see this as Obama's election to lose.

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