<p>Over the past several months, I’ve noticed something curious about McCain. Whenever he’s asked for a response regarding some issue, he invariably says it’s “disturbing.”</p>
<p>Has anyone noticed anything similar with regards to Obama?</p>
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<p>Interesting that McCain’s foreign policy advisor Randy Scheunemann feels the same way as McCain:</p>
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<p>Apparently Sen. MCCain is very easily disturbed.</p>
<p>^^^lol!!!</p>
<p>^^^lol!!!</p>
<p>(Cross-posted with menloparkmom!)</p>
<p>McCain is to disturbed as [Obama</a> is to regretful](<a href=“http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/opinion/stories/2008/07/10/boggsed.html]Obama”>http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/opinion/stories/2008/07/10/boggsed.html):</p>
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<p>^^^I regret to say that I find this quite disturbing.</p>
<p>I watched McCain try to answer the question from the vet in his audience about his consistent votes against veterans benefits, and then the question from the reporter on why he voted against birth control for women. My sense was not that he was evasive, or playing coy, or deceitful, but rather that he simply isn’t all there. He truly didn’t know, couldn’t remember all his votes, or the rationales behind them. Rather similar to being corrected twice on Sunni and Shia and aid to Al-Qaeda by Joe Lieberman, only to make the same mistakes again. More than anything else, it was sad to watch.</p>
<p>I voted for McCain in 2000. Independent of his flipflopping, he just isn’t the same man - or candidate - that he was 8 years ago.</p>
<p>It’s too bad that McCain wasn’t able to answer the question from the vet in the audience to your satisfaction. It’s actually a pretty easy answer - every time there is a bill having anything to do with veterans benefits the Dems do a great job of loading it up with lard.</p>
<p>Those who don’t have an agenda should be able to recognize that he’s not voting against vets, he’s voting against the other **** that has been loaded on to the bill.</p>
<p>I would have been happy to HEAR HIM SAY THAT! It would have shown that he was on the ball - that his mind was clear, that his ideology was well rooted, that his ability to remember his votes were clear, and that he could speak to veterans’ concerns. I think his audience would have liked that as well. “Sir, I thank you and honor you for your service to our country. We all do. Now let me tell you why I voted against those bills. While ostensibly they were there for the benefit of veterans, in fact they were so full of unwise spending that those bills would have put and your family at risk. I have a commitment to veterans, as you know, and when I am President, we will develop a program to make sure veterans get the care and benefits they deserve, without spending that puts our nation at risk.”</p>
<p>It wouldn’t have been very hard to say. But he didn’t say it.</p>
<p>None of that came through (and his audience seemed to notice that as well.) I found that disturbing (sorry). I am quite aware that, regardless of my own predilections, he may be the next President. And he has come across consistently lately as not being up to it. </p>
<p>Do it once, and it is just having a bad day. There are have been too many bad days of late. And maybe my memory is poor as well, but I just don’t remember this many McCain “bad days” in 2000.</p>
<p>McCain on a bad day is still miles ahead of Obama - or any other candidate on the political spectrum these days.</p>
<p>haha- McCain has probably forgotten more than Obama will ever know! (And he STILL has more knowledge than that young whatshisname!).</p>
<p>BTW - the family did some hiking this week - nothing too strenuous - but it occurred to us that JSM HIKED THE FREAKIN" GRAND CANYON last summer with his son!! That is amazing! Gotta give the ol’ guy some props for that fer sure! ;)</p>
<p>he certainly is in reasonably good health…for a man his age.</p>
<p>I’ve noticed that the Obama’s use the word “distraction” repeatedly. When things come up that they want to deflect, they get around it by calling it a “distraction”.</p>
<p>I hope that doesn’t mean that Obama is easily distracted.</p>
<p>Choices, choices… Do we want a president who is easily disturbed, or easily distracted?</p>
<p>So was it the Green Bay Packers offense, the Pittsburgh Steelers defense, or maybe it never happened? :rolleyes:</p>
<p>(Whether it actually happened, I have no idea. Do I think he was pandering in Pennsylvania? Honestly, no I don’t think he was. I think he just can’t get his facts straight, even those about his own personal life, even stories about his life that he has told on multiple occasions. He is not who he was in 2000. And it’s not his fault: it happens to all of us when the years get up there. Others may disagree, and decide that he really was pandering - lying for political benefit.)</p>
<p>Or perhaps he is simply in a “mental recession”.</p>
<p>Comforting to know that once a guy is an Idiot, that he will always be and Idiot. Our, W is be true to our vision (along with the POTUS advisors).</p>
<p>The Pittsburgh/Green Bay thing makes no sense to me. How do you forget something like that and how could you think someone wouldn’t remember that he had already told the Pittsburgh story over and over and over again. He used it as an argument against torture and he could watch the character who played him in the movie say it. You’d think his wife would have leaned in and said - “wrong team honey.”</p>
<p>Green Bay is just having a bad weekend… first McCain can’t refer to them in the correct context, now Favre is ‘flip-flopping’!</p>
<p>Instead of dealing with Phil Gramm, McCain threw Green Bay under the bus.</p>
<p>"The Pittsburgh/Green Bay thing makes no sense to me. How do you forget something like that and how could you think someone wouldn’t remember that he had already told the Pittsburgh story over and over and over again. He used it as an argument against torture and he could watch the character who played him in the movie say it. You’d think his wife would have leaned in and said - “wrong team honey.”</p>
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– The story of him giving the name of the teams is totally untrue.
– He was never tortured.
– He really meant to lie, and pander to the folks of Western Pennsylvania.
– He honestly couldn’t remember what story (true or false) he had told on multiple occasions previously.</p>
<p>I think the answer is most likely the last, as it fits with his other memory lapses of late. But I could be convinced of any of the first three.</p>
<p><a href=“%5Burl=http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/1060689908-post17.html]#17[/url]”>quote</a>…I think the answer is most likely the last, as it fits with his other memory lapses of late.
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<p>Campaigning day-in and day-out is tough. Next thing you know McCain will
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[li] [be</a> claiming that there are 57 states](<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpGH02DtIws]be”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpGH02DtIws), [/li][li][will</a> start forgetting who’s interviewing him](<a href=“http://showhype.com/video/obama_forgets_who_he_is_talking_to_on_the_today_show/]will”>http://showhype.com/video/obama_forgets_who_he_is_talking_to_on_the_today_show/), [][just</a> plain stumbling over his words when trying to explain how much something will cost at a town hall event](<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxBX8sz3tO8]just”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxBX8sz3tO8) and[/li][][Claim</a> that his uncle liberated Auschwitz](<a href=“http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/05/27/obamas_uncle_and_the_liberatio.html]Claim”>http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/05/27/obamas_uncle_and_the_liberatio.html) when he really didn’t[/ul]…Oh, wait that was Obama who did those things…never mind.</p>
<h1>18 - the difference is that when McCain makes those mistakes, it’s hard to know if it’s due to campaign fatigue or some sort of mild dementia due to his age. With Obama being so much younger, you can pretty much rule out dementia, and attribute it to campaign fatigue. The reality is, McCain is much more likely to develop true dementia symptoms (even mild) in the next eight years than Obama is.</h1>
<p>I don’t subscribe to the belief that anyone over age 60 should be stereotyped with poor memory, but it sure makes it more likely. Yesterday at work, I met a 93-year old woman whose memory was better than mine - she was able to recall detailed specifics of her husband being in a concentration camp in Austria, as well as history of all her children/grandchildren, where they lived and what they do. My own grandmother who died at 101 had excellent recall. But I think these two examples are more the exception than the norm, and many people I meet of McCain’s age group struggle with minor to major memory lapses due to many physical causes.</p>
<p>“Campaigning day-in and day-out is tough. Next thing you know McCain will…”</p>
<p>I will give you the benefit of the doubt, and assume that you can see the difference between those and the fact that this is a story about what is closest to McCain’s identity - his much-repeated story of his torture.</p>
<p>Take away his identity, and his memory, as the tortured pilot and there really isn’t a lot of there, there. </p>
<p>So, was it really the Packers or the Steelers?</p>