# McCain in Jordan: The Straight Talk Express Takes A Wrong Turn **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [March 18, 2008, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mccain-in-jordan-the-straight-talk-express-takes-a-wrong-turn/441817 "2008-03-18T19:28:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mccain-in-jordan-the-straight-talk-express-takes-a-wrong-turn/441817/21 "2008-03-19T11:34:54Z")
What luck for McCain that he pulled off this goof on a newsday devoted nearly entirely to Obama’s speech. Lucky for him that Liebermann took his lips off McCain’s butt long enough to correct him. My friends, what we have here is a man well past his prime and starting to spoil. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Lance\_Murdoch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/47e85d/32.png) [@Captain\_Lance\_Murdoch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Lance_Murdoch)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mccain-in-jordan-the-straight-talk-express-takes-a-wrong-turn/441817/22 "2008-03-19T14:21:43Z")
He should have broken into his “Bomb Iran” song at that moment to make it a perfect day. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mccain-in-jordan-the-straight-talk-express-takes-a-wrong-turn/441817/23 "2008-03-19T14:33:58Z")
[QUOTE=Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor] It sounds like he’s old & confused. Not a good sign. [/QUOTE] Unless you’re his running mate . . . ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mccain-in-jordan-the-straight-talk-express-takes-a-wrong-turn/441817/24 "2008-03-19T14:35:44Z")
[QUOTE=BrainGlutton] Unless you’re his running mate . . . [/QUOTE] What odds on him picking Joe Lieberman as a “unity ticket”? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Lance\_Murdoch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/47e85d/32.png) [@Captain\_Lance\_Murdoch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Lance_Murdoch)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mccain-in-jordan-the-straight-talk-express-takes-a-wrong-turn/441817/25 "2008-03-19T14:40:26Z")
[QUOTE=EddyTeddyFreddy] What odds on him picking Joe Lieberman as a “unity ticket”? :eek: [/QUOTE] Unlikely methinks as it would cheese-off the Republican base that already distrusts him. Furthermore, I think Democrats have largely soured on Joe to the point of disgust. He wouldn’t deliver CT for McCain and he would hold little appeal, I think to blue collar swing voters. What’s more, he looks old and McCain doesn’t need that. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mccain-in-jordan-the-straight-talk-express-takes-a-wrong-turn/441817/26 "2008-03-19T14:44:38Z")
[QUOTE=Quartz] Kudos to Lieberman for correcting McCain privately, and kudos to McCain for admitting his error immediately. [/QUOTE] As **NurseCarmen** pointed out, this wasn’t the first time he’d made that mistake - apparently he made it multiple times that day before Joe corrected him. But how can anyone whose claimed _strong point_ is his supposed foreign policy _bona fides_ be at all confused about that, at this point in the Iraq war? Talk about being open to a Rovian “attack his strength” approach. You’d hardly have to use Rovian _tactics_ - the truth would suffice. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mccain-in-jordan-the-straight-talk-express-takes-a-wrong-turn/441817/27 "2008-03-19T16:26:06Z")
[QUOTE=EddyTeddyFreddy] What odds on him picking Joe Lieberman as a “unity ticket”? :eek: [/QUOTE] All things be open to change, Lieberman has said in certain terms (in regards to rumors of a McCain offer) that he’s not interested in being a presidental running mate ever again. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mccain-in-jordan-the-straight-talk-express-takes-a-wrong-turn/441817/28 "2008-03-19T19:08:43Z")
Well, that’s a relief. Not that I seriously thought it possible, but just the idea, well – let’s just say it makes a helluva diet aid. ---
**Author:** ![Maeglin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Maeglin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maeglin)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mccain-in-jordan-the-straight-talk-express-takes-a-wrong-turn/441817/29 "2008-03-19T19:34:36Z")
I am still holding out hope that we will have some alternative views here. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mccain-in-jordan-the-straight-talk-express-takes-a-wrong-turn/441817.md?page=1)