McCain Senility Watch

What's his name

2008-10-27T04:17:00.000-05:00

Doddering old idiot, for your pleasure

2008-10-23T23:51:00.001-05:00

My fellow prisoners

2008-10-08T21:06:00.001-05:00

"Across this country, this is the agenda I have set before my fellow prisoners and the same standards of clarity and candor must now be applied to my opponent."

In deference to the assumption McCain's brain was in its prime at least moderately intellingent

2008-09-17T21:53:00.002-05:00

His brain now can't remember what continent to place Spain.

McCain loses thought betwen commas

2008-09-16T23:38:00.002-05:00

Today, the old coot addressed the meltdown of Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and AIG. Said ol' John, "We're going to need a '9/11 Commission' to find out what happened and what needs to be fixed ... And I know how to fix it, and I know how to get things done."

Did I ever tell you about when the gooks had me prisoner?

Video proof

2008-09-11T14:47:00.002-05:00

Here.

Rich old man McCain forgets how many homes he lives in

2008-08-21T21:39:00.004-05:00

Where do I live? What kind of question is that? I don't know.

Maybe seven, maybe more. Here is a complicated attempt to answer.

McCain: Georgia conflict is the "first serious crisis internationally since the end of the Cold War."

2008-08-15T22:32:00.003-05:00

He forgot,

2 August 1990: Iraq invades Kuwait
1 October 1990: Rwanda civil war/genocide
1991: Croats declare independence from Yugoslavia
5 January 1991: Georgia invades South Ossetia, Russia intervenes. Not too different from the war of which McCain speaks
27 June 1991: Slovenians declare independence from Yugoslavia
27 June 1991: Bosnian War - resulting from the dissolution of Yugoslavia
11 December 1994: First Chechen War: Russia invades Chechnya
...
7 October 2001: US and NATO invade Afghanistan
20 March 2003: US and ad-hoc coalition invade Iraq
14 August 2006: 2006 Lebanon War: Mainly between Hezbollah and Israel

For someone who loves war, the only explanation for forgetting these dozens of wars that sparked international crises is senility.

UPDATE: Atrios comments, "I suppose this is a pretty good strategy for pretending the last 8 years didn't happen."

Addled old coot

2008-08-07T20:27:00.000-05:00

From Veracifier.

Old man finds himself caught up as Republican candidate for president

2008-07-31T22:21:00.002-05:00

"Maverick" McCain decided to run a positive campaign.

But he approved the, uh, Paris/Britney ad. Read the link, you'll get it.

His advisers told him to say Obama was the one playing the race card, which he does unconvincingly well.

Poor old guy. Why can't his advisers leave him alone?

McCain's senility is contageous among his campaign staffers; sometimes senility makes for issuing lame attacks

2008-07-26T00:57:00.002-05:00

McCain forgets his campaign was subject six months ago to the same rules as Obama's.

McCain forgets we invaded Afghanistan

2008-07-24T22:06:00.001-05:00

Nurse, nurse!

McCain is mixed up about the surge he takes credit for

2008-07-23T19:58:00.002-05:00

Poor old man.

Side note

2008-07-18T01:11:00.001-05:00

John Ashcroft openly relies on his own senility.

McCain forgets he said a thousand times he'd vote against the DREAM Act

2008-07-16T01:24:00.003-05:00

Senility would describe such behavior.

He also forgot he wasn't going to send more troops to Afghanistan.

Maybe it doesn't matter that McCain is senile

2008-07-11T00:47:00.002-05:00

McCain's campaign blows with the wind by the hour.

Doesn't remember what his vote was, cannot remember what his current position may be

2008-07-10T21:00:00.001-05:00

Is the old maverick ready for the glue factory?

I called for a gas tax holiday but have no idea how much gas costs

2008-06-29T03:10:00.003-05:00

Among the most revealing examples of how McCain doesn't understand his own policies, the septuagenarian couldn't comment on the price of gas.

We lost you at the very beginning

2008-06-29T00:03:00.002-05:00

An old relative used to call my mom and talk for hours to the phone my mom had laid down to otherwise go about her business.

We know that McCain can't figure out computers, now it seems phones can be problematic for him. Fairing a bit better than my great aunt, McCain had enough wits around him to figure out in under twenty minutes that no one was on the other end of a conference call.

So tired

2008-06-27T02:56:00.003-05:00

McCain has to spend his weekends recovering.

If he could do otherwise, he would.

"In trying to answer skeptics who ask whether a 72-year-old has the vigor to hold the presidency, McCain points to his indisputably packed calendar - on weekdays, that is.

"'Watch me campaign,' he said in April, when asked about the matter at a conference of media executives in Washington. 'Come on the bus again, my friends, all of you.'"

Weekends excepted.

Visuals via I CAN HAS WAR.

Senility could be misdiagnosed as attempts to "pander to everyone simultaneously"

2008-06-25T23:36:00.001-05:00

Great attempt to round up the incoherent ramblings of a candidate on energy policy.

Writing the Editor

2008-06-19T23:59:00.000-05:00

To NewsBlaze,

I don't know if Democrats are talking in code when they refer to McCain as confused, doddering and out of touch, but they have every right to highlight McCain's advanced age. Democrats shouldn't be subtle; they should flat out say that McCain is too old to sit in the Oval Office.

If the emperor isn't wearing any clothes, it's not politically incorrect to say that he is as naked as a jaybird. And if a presidential candidate appears confused and befuddled, it's not improper to question his mental condition.

McCain doesn't know a Sunni from a Shiite, and I'd be surprised if he know's an MP3 player from a hearing aid. McCain should have sat out this presidential campaign, and let a much younger person have his turn.

To The Madison Capitol Times,

The problem with McCain isn't his age, it's his poor judgment. It's not that McCain is to old, it's that McCain, like Bush, is just plain wrong and he hasn't learned anything from Bush's mistakes.

Playing Devil's Advocate, one could add to the latter view that Bush also learned about Sunnis and Shiites during on the job training.

Are Dems talking about McCain’s age in "code"?

2008-06-16T23:51:00.001-05:00

There are those Democrats who categorically deny McCain's age has anything to do with their attacks on his contradictory statements and policy flip-flops, then there are others:

Senile old coot losing "maverick" rep

I think he's confused because of the aged state of his brain

2008-06-14T02:06:00.000-05:00

Steve Benen gives us a hefty list of items pertaining to Iraq on which McCain has been confused, in the normal sense of the word. I believe the best explanation is senility ... Steve argues the greater point that McCain's confusion is a fact that his old age or youngness doesn't change. Point taken, but senility would explain a lot.

Confused?

2008-06-11T20:28:00.000-05:00

How many times can you call an old man "confused" before you say the "s" word?