http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080515/ap_on_el_pr/mccain_governing_style
Reposting the full piece here from my blog (link to yahoo! news story at the bottom)
John McCain is once again establishing his maverick reputation, this time, by making the bold move to secure the presidency by talking like a complete fucking lunatic.
Today, John McCain claimed that by the year 2013 (said in the same way the "year 2000" was said on Conan O'Brien) we will have won the Iraq War, Osama Bin Laden will have been killed or captured, and U.S. citizens will have the gleeful choice of paying taxes via the traditional income forms or by a simple flat tax.
No word on moon boots, jet packs, or that evergreen fashion classic, the silver jumpsuit.
Now, ignoring the obvious head scratcher of how a Ron Paul can predict economic crisis based on hard evidence and be called a lunatic, yet Mr. McCain can create a American "to-do" list of things that will be done by 2013 with NO evidence or reasoning on that claim whatsoever, and still be considered an electable candidate is beyond me.
But, the kicker was that Democrats took the obvious short sighted jab that this 2013 claim was the equivalent of a withdrawl timetable, which McCain has called a timetable for surrender.
McCain was quick to point out that this wasnt a definitive timeline, simply a prediction, claiming that "It's not a timetable; it's victory. It's victory, which I have always predicted. I didn't know when we were going to win World War II; I just knew we were going to win".
Now, I realize that economics isnt McCains strong suit, and that economics is a matter of numbers. But for those of you who perhaps didnt notice, John McCain is currently 71 years old.
That means he was born in 1936.
Now World War II started globally in 1939. John McCain was 3 years old.
By the time the war ended, John McCain was 9 years old.
So apparently, he was a valid war authority before he was out of the single digit birthdays.
John McCain really said this shit folks.
That guy is off his goddamned rocker.
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