A news piece written by Mike Allen and James Vandehei of Poltico raises questions about McCain's gaffes that he has had during his Campaign for President. The media is starting to attack McCain for continually mixing up his word choices. McCain yesterday referred to the Iraq/Pakistan border when he meant to say Afghanistan/Pakistan because Iraq doesn't even boarder Pakistan during an interview with ABC's Diane Sawyer. In the past three weeks he has apparently mistaken Somalia for Sudan during a conversation that he had with a reporter regarding the situation in Darfur. Also during the campaign he has consistantly refered to the Czech Republic as Czechoslovakia which has held its current name since being split in 1993. During a trip to Germany last year he referred to Vladamir Putin President of Russia as Vladamir Putin President of Germany. And also he has said that while he was in Vietnam he tried to confuse his captors by giving them the names of Pittsburgh Steelers players instead of his platoon members names, but he recently said that he gave them the names of Packers players. McCain has also on a number of occasions mixed up Sunnis and Shiites during campaign stops.
These mistakes come in McCain's main area expertise which is Foreign Policy. And Senator McCain turns 72 the day following The Democratic National Convention and many raise the question of whether McCain is too old to be Commander in Chief. This is a sensitive question but one that many voters feel must be raised, because the next President will have no room for error. Some people will watch the debates this fall they will defiantly be comparing McCain to there relatives and watching to see if he slips up.
Ronald Reagan was the oldest to assume the Office of President during the 1980's and there were some who questioned whether Reagan experienced early affects of altiezmers during his second term in office. Voters have every right to question whether McCain's age will be a henderance while he is in office just as they have the right to question whether Obama is experienced enough to be President, and it will be up to the McCain campaign to reassure the voters as to whether it will or will not have a affect. McCain's gaffes will continue to play out in the media especially with the late night talk show host and the McCain campaign will have to respond and make sure that the criticism and unwanted attention doesn't hurt his campaign, especially as they try to sure up the undecided voters. I think that the McCain campaign will definatley want to make use of his 95 year old mother so voters can see that he has a great pool of genes to work from.
~Cam Patt~
1 comment:
great article cam, it really brings his age and what he says off the camera into the light
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