McCain Misses the Mark

McCain Misses the Mark

by Jean Carnahan

When you graduate 894^th out of 899 in your Naval Academy class, you undoubtedly missed something.  For John McCain, it must have been Target Practice 101.  This guy can’t hit the broad side of a barn when he fires off his political missiles.  The old sailor shot his political blunderbuss in the air this week, hoping that—by chance—he’d bag something.  It was a sad spectacle. 

“Straight shooting” John had earlier labeled Obama “naïve” when the Illinois senator called for more troops in Afghanistan.  But this week McCain turned his political artillery on Afghanistan, saying he would send three additional brigades, though he took three shots at just who should go: our troops, NATO troops, or a combo.

McCain misfired two days in a row, in a reference to Czechoslovakia—a country that was reconfigured as the Czech Republic and Slovakia fifteen years ago.  Then, he reloaded and shot himself in the foot on the gay adoption issue, first, saying he emphatically opposed gay adoption and the next day agreeing to go along with it.

We’ve got a posse of “aim challenged” Republicans in this country who can’t shoot straight.  McCain is one of them.

 It’s been nearly two years since Fired Up presented its Gen. Jubilation T. Cornpone award for “epic incompetence” in a political endeavor, but John McCain has earned it in this campaign.  Congratulation, John.   Heckava  job.