This is a clip from a speech John McCain made today in Pennsylvania. And it’s not as though the word “Americans” could accidentally be mixed up with the word “prisoners” because they sound so much alike. And he was not in the middle of talking about his time as a POW.
Now, I don’t like McCain’s politics or ideology very much. But until today, he seemed like a more or less typical conservative politician. Maybe his campaign was a bit more vicious and prone to lies than some, but he seemed like a credible candidate.
But this! This weird, inexplicable word substitution to me is the most bizarre and downright worrisome thing about John McCain that I’ve seen so far. Either he’s mentally still in that prison camp, and suffers from some ongoing subliminal PTSD, and/or he’s just losing his marbles. Surely even the reddest of Republicans can’t want a candidate who is prone to such disturbing and unexplainable mis-statements!
Please, oh please, I hope the mainstream media picks this up for the evening news tonight!
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You know, they talk so much and I think they get very tired and slip up..Kind of like Obama saying we have 57 states..I honestly feel sorry for all of them, every slip of the lip is recorded.
I agree that campaigning must be a grueling regimen. Everyone gets tired and makes mistakes, and I think the voters’ job is to figure out which mistakes matter.
I figure that McCain’s mention of “President Putin of Germany” in a speech last spring is about equivalent to Obama’s saying he’d been to 57 states. Just throwaway errors, not worth fussing over.
But I don’t understand what species of tiredness could possibly lead to the word “prisoners” in this context. That is such a haunting and inexplicable word to substitute for “citizens” (which apparently is what his script said) that it suggests a very odd state of mind. It’s not a simple slip-up.
As a resident of Pennsylvania, I found that slip to be particularly hilarious.
Well, it does help to dig through and find the nuggets of humor buried in the mound of pre-election anxiety…