McCain slips: 'Get those offshore reserves exploited'

[babsbunny]

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/McCain_gaffe_Wants_offshore_resources_exploited_0711.html

David Edwards and Nick Juliano
Published: Friday July 11, 2008



Republican presidential candidate John McCain let his tongue get the best of him at a town hall meeting Friday, revealing what critics would say is the true effect of opening US coastlines to drilling he now supports after years of opposing.

"I'll do everything in my power to get those offshore reserves exploited ... um, er, explored, discovered and um..." McCain said, drawing some knowing chuckles from the largely Republican audience.

He had to stop and collect his thoughts. Already he had been answering a woman's question about lowering gas prices for nearly two minutes -- squeezing in a joke about France in the process -- and he seemed flustered.

[CanonRay]

1. Obama is going to eat him alive in a debate.

This guy will need earpieces in both ears. He is stupid, stupid, stupid.

[woodsprite]

2. Yeah, but he's mean and arrogant enough

that I don't think he'd listen to what the voices in his ears told him if he didn't want to.

[bahrbearian]

3. They will have his medication adjusted for the Debates

And with his new radio receiver, "attached nearly flush to the contours of his hunched back" he with give better answers.

[azmouse]

4. McBush just proves why he's unfit for the Presidency.

[delightfulone]

5. McCain on offshore drilling, May 29, 2008: ""It's a Band-Aid, basically. It's just pretty idiotic."

Shortly before flip-flopping amid pressure from his wingnut base.

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-offshore24-2008jun24,0,1535032.story