Oatmeal or Cream of Wheat?? Grits or scrapple?

There's a reason they call His Senescence the senior Senator from Arizona.

Oatmeal or Cream of Wheat?? Grits or scrapple?

There's a reason they call His Senescence the senior Senator from Arizona.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032619/#24016356

It was refreshing to see McCain's obvious stumble getting some MSM attention.

Not a fan of McCain, but I think he was making a comparison. It's too garbled to really tell, I suppose.

There have been little Shi'a and Sunni splinter militias, so he's saying "Is al-quaeda actually a threat, or no more a threat than one of those little shi'a outfits."

Doesn't that make more sense?

I'm a little concerned that people will fall into the Bush trap, and see the guy as dumber (or more senile) than he really is. Assume that McCain knows the difference between Muslim sects, or at least catch him in a more telling example than this one.

Always has been.

Barack Obama will defeat him smoothly.

"poor control of temper, shallow analysis, and moments of cognitive dissonance."

Isn't that how we got into Iraq?

The bottom line is that McCain really doesn't care. It's Bush disease. Food on your family, misunderestimated, whatever -- It doesn't really matter what I say, because I'll always be wealthy and powerful. The details are for the "reality-based community".

He knows the difference, he just doesn't care or doesn't want to care about the difference. He sees anyone that commits "terrorism" as the enemy. So it won't matter to him whether it's Shia or Sunni.

Iran is a terrorist nation to him - thus, they are the enemy. It doesn't matter if they are Shia or not. Sunni's? They are Al-Qeda, they are the enemy too.

He just doesn't give a shit. He'll keep saying this because the distinction doesn't matter one bit to him even though he full well knows there is a difference. He's just boiled down the facts to "us" and "them". What side of the religious fence you are on is irrelevant.

I really hope we don't lose the old War Room. The reason I stopped reading Carprtbagger Report and other blogs are entries like this. Long-winded, multi-clause scentences piled on top of each other just to make a simple point. I don't need a thesis paper, just point out the intersting item and provide some concise insight. Instead, I have to slog through a position paper just to find out that Senator McCain is an idiot.

Sunni - Shi'ia. the reason this isn't a story is because, as previous posters stated, most americans are confused about the subject and really don't give a shit about the differences.

I'm a democrat who hopes Bush and co are put in jail for the rest of their lives as war criminals and I don't give a shit about the differences either. I just want this bullshit occupation to stop.

Those who blindly and stupidly support McCain don't care about the differences, but they believe Sunnis and Shi'ites are all towel heads and thus probably Muslim and therefore evil so we have to kill them.

What the democrats have to realize is that people think it's weak to compromise, to not fight, - to PULL OUT troops ("pull out" think about it, it's flaccid, weak) it's easier to hate that love. It's STRONG and MANLY to kill. the Dems have to solve this problem or McCain will win.

Add up his errors, and we see a Republican candidate whose problem is not with words but with facts.

Like Saitzak and others, I really have to wonder about McCain's apparent inability to retain facts.

Assuming the problem is real and not just his ignoring inconvenient facts, is it the opening sign of a deeper physical problem? It could be Alzheimer's, a circulation problem, or symptoms of damage caused by a hard knock on the head as he unassed an aircraft 40 years ago.

Sadly, John McCain is showing the effects of 6 years of torture and imprisonment. He has been skillful at hiding it for years, but it is now much more evident. I've known one other who was at the Hanoi Hilton who exhibited the same signs. He covers it somewhat, but we can't afford another damaged President. That charming hesitancy is hiding a befuddled mind. So sad.

How can anyone feel comfortable having this man as Commander in Chief? This war is killing our country economically. Does anyone with an IQ above room temperature really think we can sustain our Armed Forces numbers with this kind of leadership?

I smell DRAFT if McCain gets elected, and he can then complete his unfinished Viet Nam legacy. (Honor amidst an unjust war)

...thanks for including a summary for those of us who can't watch the video clips -- which have been appearing more and more frequently in War Room. This is one of my favorite parts of Salon, and I was getting worried as more and more of it was youtubing away from me...

McCain has pledged to keep the political discourse of this election civil in tone and substance. If he does so, and the 527s fail to swiftboat the dem. candidate, then I believe during the debates we will see several McCain moments of the various types: poor control of temper, shallow analysis, and moments of cognitive dissonance.

McCain is just surfing a wave of neo-con momentum into whatever donkey fuck is going to be unleashed upon the public in November. Maybe there will be an election, maybe not. A significant terrorist attack could hurl us into martial law. A small nuclear explosion anywhere in the mideast can put us in full war footing. We could invade Iran.

If the election "happens" the results can go either way, and the announced results can vary in any number of ways.

The fact that the Republicans have let this jibbering lunatic rise to the position of Presidential Candidate bodes strangely for the times ahead. I like the observation that his VP may be the "real" president in light of McCain's questionable health.

The simple fact is that for the motives of the Republicans and their Neo-Con overlords, McCain does not need to understand the difference between Shia and Sunni. He does not need to understand the origins and history of the debacle in the middle east.

History is irrelevant, nonsense to be sorted out by those poor bastards in the reality based community. McCain and co need only worry about creating the moment, leaping blindly from cliff just to feel the wind in their hair, and dragging the American Dream down with them.