Lieberman feeds McCain correction for factual error during ME tour news conference.

[BurtWorm]

Proving that a) McCain *is* an idiot and b) Lieberman *is* an asshole. As if more proof was needed of either.

This is from Matthew Yglesias:


http://matthewyglesias.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/03/doesnt_understand_economics_ei.php

Doesn't Understand Economics, Either

18 Mar 2008 11:01 am

John McCain speaking in Jordan reveals that he has no idea what's happening in Iraq:

Speaking to reporters in Amman, the Jordanian capital, McCain said he and two Senate colleagues traveling with him continue to be concerned about Iranian operatives “taking al-Qaeda into Iran, training them and sending them back.”

Pressed to elaborate, McCain said it was “common knowledge and has been reported in the media that al-Qaeda is going back into Iran and receiving training and are coming back into Iraq from Iran, that’s well known. And it’s unfortunate.” A few moments later, Sen. Joseph Lieberman, standing just behind McCain, stepped forward and whispered in the presidential candidate’s ear. McCain then said: “I’m sorry, the Iranians are training extremists, not al-Qaeda.”

The mistake threatened to undermine McCain's argument that his decades of foreign policy experience make him the natural choice to lead a country at war with terrorists. In recent days, McCain has repeatedly said his intimate knowledge of foreign policy make him the best equipped to answer a phone ringing in the White House late at night.

Of course this isn't just an issue of McCain blowing some trivia answer, it seems to call into question whether he's really been paying attention to the Iraq issue over the past couple of years. He's very sure that the surge is working, but doesn't understand the basic contours of the ongoing conflicts in Iraq? Seems strange.

[elehhhhna]

1. Is Joementum angling for the R. VP slot? LOSER!

[Virginia Dare]

5. I'd say this pretty much seals it..

he's obviously got a high level position in a (gulp) McCain Administration....:scared:

[NNN0LHI]

2. McCain has less sense than Reagan did when he left office with Alzheimer's

Gods help us.

Don

[chat_noir]

3. Is John McCain Secretly Dumb?

3/18/08, 1:05 pm EST

How is is possible that after eight trips to Iraq and decades of foreign policy experience that John McCain still can’t tell a Sunni from a Shia, or understand that Al Qaeda and Iran are on separate sides of a schism that has existed in Islam for the last 13 centuries or so?

From the washingtonpost.com

(McCain) said several times that Iran, a predominately Shiite country, was supplying the mostly Sunni militant group, al-Qaeda. In fact, officials have said they believe Iran is helping Shiite extremists in Iraq.

Speaking to reporters in Amman, the Jordanian capital, McCain said he and two Senate colleagues traveling with him continue to be concerned about Iranian operatives “taking al-Qaeda into Iran, training them and sending them back.”

Pressed to elaborate, McCain said it was “common knowledge and has been reported in the media that al-Qaeda is going back into Iran and receiving training and are coming back into Iraq from Iran, that’s well known. And it’s unfortunate.” A few moments later, Sen. Joseph Lieberman, standing just behind McCain, stepped forward and whispered in the presidential candidate’s ear. McCain then said: “I’m sorry, the Iranians are training extremists, not al-Qaeda.”

This reminds me of how terrible McCain was debating George W. Bush in the 2000 campaign. Here was a guy who should have made Bush look like a chucklehead on national security issues, and yet repeatedly proved incapable of spiking the ball.

http://www.rollingstone.com/nationalaffairs/index.php/2008/03/18/is-john-mccain-secretly-dumb/

[democrat_patriot]

4. Is there video of this? It needs to be a campaign commercial.

McCain - knows his foreign policy

Play video clip

Or does he?

[Supersedeas]

6. it would seem that McBush and Iran have a common enemy--al-Caca

[Earth Bound Misfit]

7. Joe Lieberman Has to Remind McCain He’s Not in Vietnam

“REMEMBER, JOHN, WE’LL BE STAYING AT THE BAGHDAD GREEN ZONE MARRIOTT, NOT THE HANOI HILTON.”

http://satiricalpolitical.com/?p=1627