You might have heard about Barack Obama saying this during an interview with Wolf Blitzer, when asked about McCain's statement saying that Hamas had "endorsed" Obama:
I've said it's a terrorist organization and we should not negotiate with them unless they recognize Israel, renounce violence, and unless they are willing to abide by previous accords between the Palestinians and the Israelis. So for him to toss out comments like that I think is an example of him losing his bearings as he pursues this nomination. We don't need name calling in this debate.
Oh, the horror.
Major pant-wetting quickly ensued over at the McCain Assisted Living Center campaign headquarters. Spokesman Mark Salter:
First, let us be clear about the nature of Senator Obama's attack today: He used the words "losing his bearings" intentionally, a not particularly clever way of raising John McCain's age as an issue. This is typical of the Obama style of campaigning.
Masterly snark returned by Obama spokesman Bill Burton:
Clearly losing one's bearings has no relation to age, given this bizarre rant that Mark Salter just sent out.
See the HuffPo for the full statements and supporting links.
In all seriousness, McCain's age is a legitimate point to raise in the campaign. If he were to be elected, he'd be older than Reagan when Reagan took office, and I think we remember how that worked out. And don't forget that we're still waiting on those long-promised medical records.
And really, when the wingnuts have spent weeks replaying the same few seconds of a couple of Jeremiah Wright clips and months asking about the Mysterious Missing Lapel Pin, they've got no place to stand.
Okay, I'm reasonable. I'll give you a choice. What would you rather hear, every day for the next six months, 100 Years of War or Losing His Bearings?
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