I don’t watch the late night shows, but are Letterman and Leno making fun of him for this? The jokes just write themselves.
You seem to be missing the fact that it is McCain’s utter idiocy in this matter that is keeping the issue current. Too, he just visited Iraq in the last few days. Clearly he wanted to prove Ware wrong. And looked like even more a fool in the attempt.
Could you post that again? In English this time if you don’t mind.
What’s your glitch? You don’t like stream-of-consciousness? 
The thread is not at the top because people are still discussing Ware’s remark; it’s at the top both because McCain, having made the stupid remark, then visited Iraq - seemingly in an attempt to prove Ware wrong. However all McCain did is succeed in making himself look as stupid as Ware implied and people are talking about McCain’s idiocy, not Ware’s remark.
Yup. There’s not a word about Ware in today’s E&P piece: Has ‘Straight Talk’ By Media Derailed McCain?
It’s all about how the press ripped apart McCain’s Bullshit. The story will die once the candidate stops pushing fairytales, or stops being a candidate.
I saw an interview with the head of an Iraq and Afghanistan Wars veterans group and be pretty much blasted McCain for turning Baghdad into “another campaign stop.” So, I’d say that if McCain’s target demographic ain’t buying it, then he’s pretty much forked.
Interesting distinction he makes twixt himself and his ‘message’.
That’s not the way I parse that at all, and I think what he’s actually said is even more bizarre.
Diagram the sentence. Somehow, he maintains that attention was diverted from his message, to something he said.
I don’t know, maybe he was just trying to lend weight to his previous statement: “Of course I am going to misspeak and I’ve done it on numerous occasions and I probably will do it in the future.”
I suppose his providing an immediate example does make for good pedagogy. 
Yep, he’s backtracking his ass off on 60 minutes.
Its agonizing to watch McCain’s political leprosy. There’s a good bit to admire about Sen McCain. For years he would not blot his escutcheon, wouldn’t sell out under torture, but fell apart tumbling when rotted by ambition. And he’s so painfully bad at it! He lies like an inherently honest man, he doesn’t have a clue about how to pretend to tell the truth. Its almost Greek. Good man, one flaw, and the next thing you know he’s screwing his Mom and gouging his eyes out.
Almost exactly what I told my wife while we watched him perform on 60 Minutes last night. I only hope that he comes to his senses, bows out of the race and calls for the indictment of President Bush for crimes against humanity.
Political leprosy–I like it! good phrase. IMO, McCain sold his soul in the last presidential campaign when he didn’t defend his family. I respect his courage as a POW; I do not want him in charge of the nation.
Was Ware out of line? Yes, a bit. But his reasoning was sound, and his experience in Bagdad cannot be discounted. I trust the non-VIP’s version of events, since bringing in any VIP changes any environment.
Oh, wow, it just gets worse:
:rolleyes: So he either is lying, which makes him look like an idiot, or he’s telling the truth, which makes him an actual idiot. Yikes.
Doesn’t he have people to help him calibrate his image better than this? For crying out loud, not only does this make him look tone-deaf, it almost comes off as bragging that he knows more about the specifics of the military situation than Petraeus. Those who have followed McCain know he surely doesn’t actually intend to claim he’s more knowledgeable or braver than Gen. Petraeus, but this comment by itself looks just as dumb as the original stunt did.
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I don’t think it comes across that way at all; more that he’s extraordinarily reckless. Not exactly a leadership quality.
If he digs that hole any deeper, he’ll be well on his way to campaigning on innovative energy policy – geo-thermal.