That is what happens to OLD PEOPLE!

Um, not necessarily so. I'm 75 and have neen hanging around with some folks since the Kennedy administration who are my seniors. If any of us had made this gaff, we would have been corrected by another "OLD" friend, we would have taken note accordingly.

McCain's failure to stand and go forward corrected on this matter, which should be politically crucial to his image as the "experienced" candidate on foreign policy, is not because he is old. More likely it's because his campaign is in chaos. Possibly, there was a staff skirmish both times he goofed, and someone wrote a memo and someone else put up the correction on his Web and spokepersons sent out memos to the MSM, but no one informed and corrected him. He is either blissfully unaware or too focused, running as he is on his [poor]-Johnny-one-note debatable trump card as the the only experienced terrorist-security-commander-in-chief candidate.

Today I heard him assert, "I know how to end wars." That's a mind set/campaign strategy that need not concern itself with such arcane distinctions of Eastern Europe in the aftermath of the Cold War, anothe Republican boogie man.

His age is not the reason he is an inadequate - nay, a truly dangerous - candidate. There are ample and warrented issues.

cab, I've appreciated many of your posts; this one disappointed me. Nothing personal, but how old are you?

We need single payer, government-provided - yes socialized, if you will - universal healthcare. No one - absolutely no one should be in the business of providing healthcare services for a profit. No one. The privatized, for-profit practice, now extended to hospitals for Christ's sake, is obscene and shameful.

It was your posts that sent me to my copy of Nineteen Eighty-Four, which I have not re-read in over 20 years. If ever there was a time to revisit Orwell, it is now.

I was unable to recover the passage I sought, wherein Winston wonders why no one else in the canteen seems to notice or even care that the PA propaganda being broadcast that day completely reverses an earlier good-news announcement.

Yes,we are always at war with Oceania, but there is a discontinuity of how this "war" is fed to us via cable reporting, an incoherent, discontinuity of video clips, sound bites, and pundit stars.

My 1984 seach was not a complete loss, however; I easily recovered the motto of the Ministry of Truth:

War Is Peace

Freedom Is Slavery

Ignorance Is Strength

Huh? The NYT gives weekly space on its prestigious sought-after Op Ed page to Brooks, Freidman, and Kristol. The editors's argument of journalistic standards is unwarrented.

That being the case, hy didn't NYT run McCain's column and let it speak for itself? Given the strategy disaster his campaign has been so far, it would be a win-win for the NYT: Having given equal time/space to both Obama and McCain, NYT would be insulated from those bloggers who are now now running the liberal bias meme. Instead McCain's supporters would be presenly struggling to vainly spin gold from a fact-challenged, incoherent print manifestation of McCain.

Editors', not Editors's.

Hitler was elected in 1933, making the youngest of his constituents in the crowd in the Tiergarten 96, given voters were franchised at 21. No one in that exhuberant crowd is likely to have any personal memory of the Third Reich regime.

As an American, I lived in Berlin in the mid-Fifies at the peak of the Cold War. This was 10 years after the fall of Berlin to the Russian army, and the successful Air Lift; but before the erection of the wall. Of Berlin's four sectors, the Russian one was still mostly rubble; in the American sector our government was investing heavily in rebuilding the infrastructure and kickstarting the economy.

Berlin's history is about much more than WWII years. It's also about America's humane role in the city's recovery. Berliner's suffered horribly in the last years of the war and argueably moreso during the Russian invasion. The best estimates are that over 100,000 woman were raped by Russian troops before other allied forces arrived in the city.

It's this historical memory that the welcoming crowd of Berliners brought to Tiergarten yesterday. That's what Obama tapped into in his speech.

"However, political spouses actually do tend to hold grudges longer than the actual candidates and take the losses more to heart."

Abigail Adams never forgave Jefferson, who vainly attempted to return to the friendship they once had. He told their mutual friend, Benjamin Rush, all his letters went unanswered.

It's highly improbable that Edwards would aspire to the presidency were there a love child stashed away somewhere.

That apochryphal baby would have been outed five minutes after he announced his primary candidacy.