First Big Gaffe of Obama Trip! And It's McCain's

For weeks the McCain team has been harrassing journalists about all the attention Senator Obama would get going to Iraq, as if  John McCain didn't get extra column inches when he went to Iraq (just this last March ).

Still it's the Republican way to go behind the scenes and bully the news media with whines about the supposed left wing bias that makes the low information voters think that mainstream is in fact liberally tilted when it actually tends to serve the wishes of their big business owners, and advertisers.  This hidden manipulation of the news by the right helps to push the little news Mr. and Ms. Low Information get ever more rightward.

In fact, this is the first time I remember mainstream revealing that pressure.

Maybe that's what made the McCain camp demand that the New York Times print one of the candidates meandering rants on how he is always right on Iraq and Barack Obama is always wrong, without one bit of new information on how McCain would actually finish up the Iraq war and then aid the war in Afghanistan as the New York Times would like.

Well, as ABC News reports in "The Note: Welcoming Gifts " McCain did get that extra attention he wanted, but he might not be happy about it.

Excerpt: 

Asked by ABC's Diane Sawyer Monday morning whether the "the situation in Afghanistan in precarious and urgent," McCain responded:

"I think it's serious. . . . It's a serious situation, but there's a lot of things we need to do. We have a lot of work to do and I'm afraid it's a very hard struggle, particularly given the situation on the Iraq/Pakistan border," said McCain, R-Ariz., said on "Good Morning America."

Iraq and Pakistan do not share a border. Afghanistan and Pakistan do.

Link immediately above is provided by ABC News and goes to a map showing the border between the two countries.

Well, Johnnie boy, maybe if you weren't so tired out from jumping up and down like Rumpelstiltskin about the imagined slights to your campaign you wouldn't make such a mess of speaking.

How about we buy you an extra shoe?  Then you could play Khrushchev and bang it around when you get upset.

Personally, I don't think a good president gets all bent out of shape over imagined slights.  The US and the now defunct Soviet Union didn't last 45 nuclear years by having leaders being as thin skinned as you are. 

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