Comments on: Everyone Knows This Is Nowhere

By: Kilo

Kilo — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 07:54:40 +0000

I saw only one blogger making this observation at the time of the debates and it wasn’t him….
remmet.com/2008/09/26/mccain-gets-pakistan-frighteningly-wrong-with-failed-state-comment/

By: jimportlandor

jimportlandor — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 03:46:24 +0000

Grandpa McCain requires the strained peaches, not the todler variety. In his mind maybe Pakistan was/is a failed state because they haven’t nuked Iran (their next-door neighbor, right?) or India or both. Or something.

His degraded mental processes are no longer a subject of speculation, they are out front in his everyday persona and rote repeats of lines he’s been saying for decades. Poor John, dementia is now thy name.

By: Teddy Partridge

Teddy Partridge — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 00:56:09 +0000

He also misspoke the names of the leaders of both Pakistan and Iran.

Disqualifying gaffes, all, if your name is Barack Obama. But since McCain’s “wheelhouse” (starting to hate that term!) is foreign policy, TradMed forgives him these charming idiocies.

By: jwhitehouse

jwhitehouse — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 00:14:51 +0000

I’ve dug up some comments of McCain’s on Lexis from 1999 that seem to agree with Obama’s take on Pakistan back then.

http://2008central.net/2008/09.....democracy/

Even discounting those, it’s almost impossible to find views outside of the Indian far right in 1999 of anyone that says Pakistan was a failed state.