Saint McCain

Speaking to reporters on August 13, 2008 and condemning Russia for invading Georgia, John McCain contended "but in the twenty-first century, nations don't invade other nations." Considering the small matter of the U.S.A. invading Iraq and toppling Saddam Hussein in 2003, this might strike you as an odd statement, especially coming from the candidate deemed by the mainstream media as the experienced hand in foreign policy. But then, John McCain recently (7/14/08, in town hall meeting in New Mexico, for the third time) recreated Czechoslovakia, apparently unaware it was split into two separate countries in 1993; and prior to that, claimed (3/18/08, to reporters in Amman, Jordan) that Al Qaeda in Iraq, a Sunni organization, was being trained by Iran, an aggressively Shiite nation.

If this were any other candidate, given also the Repub's apparent confusion about Social Security (7/9/08, at a town hall meeting in Denver) and birth control (7/9/08, to reporters in Portsmouth, Ohio), the media might start asking whether the fellow is qualified to be President of the United States. But this is John McCain.