John McCain Is Your Grandfather
Posted on June 10, 2008 by andrew
I think I’m supposed to be making fun of John McCain for his latest campaign trail blunders in which he declared, “Basically, it’s a Google,” and, “I will veto every single beer.”
Unfortunately, I don’t really have anything funny to say about the remarks. I do think they speak to something I discussed at length this weekend with a certain Dr. Maloney and a certain SelloutBoy: John McCain isn’t very good at campaigning.
McCain says a lot of silly things even when the national spotlight is focused clearly upon him. Sometimes he comes across as a doddering old man, and sometimes he is so anxious to prove his reputation for saying whatever he thinks that he says things which might blatantly contradict one another or otherwise come out all wrong. And sometimes the result is an amusing failure to understand today’s technology or an equally amusing malapropism.
In any case, John McCain isn’t very good at the day-to-day of a national campaign. Over the next six months, we’re going to see a lot more goofiness along the lines of vetoing beer. Some of it will be legitimately worrisome, and all of it might add up to a growing fear that McCain doesn’t have quite the right temperament to control the world’s strongest military in moments of crisis or to meet with hostile foreign leaders for high-stakes negotiations. Y’know, the same way Bush’s various gaffes should have been treated as a concern rather than as cute.
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