If He Only Had A Brain

Another day, another gaffe. Yawn. This time McSame was speaking to George Stephanopoulos in his interview on Sunday:

MCCAIN: I believe that, when he said that we had to leave Iraq, and we had to be out by last March, and we had to have a date certain, that was in contravention to -- and still is -- the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General David Petraeus.

Oops, Gen. Petraeus is not the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. That would be Admiral Mike Mullen. Again, (yawn) you'd think McSame would know this since Iraq is his self proclaimed area of expertise and he only mentions Petraeus about every other minute of every day.

But yet again, here we are with yet one more example of either "talking out one's ass" or senility or perhaps some combination of the two. We've had 8 years of dumb, we certainly don't need to replace dumb with dumber.

I don't know about you but I expect more from a leader. Has our society become so used to having a "decider" who can't complete one concrete thought without stumbling all over himself that we now accept incompetence and senility as the norm? We can't afford to fall for the "lowered expectations" trick again.

Writing about gaffe after gaffe after gaffe is more than a little bit tedious. But if that's what it takes to get the word out that this guy is not mentally fit for office, then gaffe reporting it will be. It's my patriotic duty to make sure that we don't get fooled again.

"There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again." —President George W. Bush, Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 17, 2002 (Listen to audio or watch video)