John McCain Doesn't Know the Price of Gas/Can't Remember the Last Time He Bought Any

[Joanne98]

John McCain kind of stepped in it the other day, here in California, but luckily no one noticed. He was being driven from John Wayne airport to a fundraiser, and he took a quick call from Martin Wisckol of the Orange County Register. Wisckol asked him a series of softball questions so tedious McCain's driver had to crack the window so the breeze would keep him from passing out, but then this:

WISCKOL: I'd like to ask you a couple questions suggested by voters here. They're not reporter-type questions.

McCAIN: Sure. It'd be a pleasure.

WISCKOL: When was the last time you pumped your own gas and how much did it cost? 


McCAIN: Oh, I don't remember. Now there's Secret Service protection. But I've done it for many, many years. I don't recall and frankly, I don't see how it matters. I've had hundreds and hundreds of town hall meetings, many as short a time ago as yesterday. I communicate with the people and they communicate with me very effectively.


... I'm going through a tunnel... ... bzzzzzzzztttttt bzzzzzztttttt...I'm gonna lose you... bzzzztttttt... bye!

No, I added that last part.

Okay. A few things here.

1) John McCain doesn't know what gas costs, because the Secret Service protects him from finding out, possibly because they're afraid the knowledge will kill him. Not a healthy man.

2) John McCain isn't an elitist or a big government bureaucrat. He's a maverick who has certainly pumped his own gas at some point in his life, perhaps during the single 18-month period when he wasn't in the navy or in congress, but was living off his wife.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-kelly/john-mccain-doesnt-know-t_b_109601.html

I bet he knows the price of Pampers!

[whistle]

1. He also does not know how much people pay in property taxes

[babylonsister]

2. No! He forgets to pay his own! You beat me to it. nt

[TheCowsCameHome]

5. Only little people pay taxes.

Leona McCain.

[MidwestTransplant]

7. I bet he know how much they pay on credit card interest.

[rurallib]

11. Look if you had eight houses you might lose track also

especially when you're trying to remember what your positions were yesterday too.

[Frustratedlady]

3. That doesn't compute. He rides in cars...the cars pass gas stations...

he can read, I assume...how can he NOT know the price of gas?

It's an issue.

It's right in front of him everytime he goes anywhere.

He's not plugged in.

[Kierkegaard]

10. Even if he hasn't passed a gas station in 20 years, he can read...

a newspaper or watch a newscast! It isn't exactly a secret that gas has topped $4 a gallon. I wonder if he could be any more out of touch??

[TheCowsCameHome]

4. Totally out of touch with the real world - and he wants to run the US?

Would be funny if it wasn't so sickening.

[Botany]

6. Holy God he is batshit crazy

WISCKOL: When was the last time you pumped your own gas and how much did it cost? ?

McCAIN: Oh, I don't remember. Now there's Secret Service protection. But I've done it for many, many years.
I don't recall and frankly, I don't see how it matters. I've had hundreds and hundreds of town hall meetings,
many as short a time ago as yesterday. I communicate with the people and they communicate with me very
effectively.

I communicate with the people and they communicate with me ...

:crazy:

[NYC_SKP]

8. Same was true for two others I can think of.

Not to piss on your parade, nor to defend McCain, but Bush and Hillary both demonstrated their lack of knowledge of the price of gas earlier this year.

Bush's statement regarding $4.00 gas just a few months ago is pretty well known.

And for Hillary, I remember her stumbling during an appearance, reaching mentally for the per gallon figure mid-sentence and coming up empty (forgive the pun).

It went something like this, "It's hard to make your house payment when you're paying, um, uh, paying a LOT for gas..."

It surprised me, she's usually very prepared.

Neither do I hold ignorance of fuel prices against her or other millionaires with secret service units who never touch a fuel cap, or have to personally worry about the cost of a fill-up.


:donut:

[Upton]

9. I think you mean Depends