McCain regarding gaffes: "The American People Know Me"

[sabra]

http://www.newsweek.com/id/148960

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You've taken heat lately for a string of misstatements about foreign-policy issues. Some news reports have suggested your age could be slowing you down. How do you explain those gaffes?

I spend most of my days with town-hall meetings and with people—people like you. And occasionally there will be a misstatement. But you know, at a town-hall meeting I've never had a person stand up and say, "Hey, Senator McCain, you've made a gaffe." They stand up and they say, "How do I stay in my home? How do I keep my job? How do I afford to drive to work?" Et cetera. And, by the way, some of those "gaffes" have not been {misstatements}, but they've been portrayed as such. But I'm not complaining. It's fine with me. The American people know me.

:crazy:

[madaboutharry]

1. They have no clue.

The American people have no clue what an asshole he is and that is the doing of the corporate media.

[Skidmore]

2. No, they don't.

He's not be vetted nationally. People in AZ may know him. We out here only know the packaged image. Someone needs to tell McCain that he is one of many legislators, a lot of whom are corrupt, who have managed to glide below the radar for a long time. It is time to vet him properly.

[Gabi Hayes]

3. how bout when the guy asked you if you called your wife a c***?

you didn't answer that one. was that a gaffe, or was it the revelation of your true self?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBALqvp08Vk

[Gabi Hayes]

8. or has anyone asked you about whether you LIED under OATH during the

Keathing Five Scandal....you remember, don't you...leaking about Riegle, Cranston and the other dem senator involved, in order to take the focus off your own depredations, then lying about it under oath afterwards?

here, Senator, let me refresh your memory:

http://graphics.boston.com/news/politics/campaign2000/news/Pluck_leaks_helped_senator_to_overcome_S_L_scandal+.shtml




and what about your intercession on behalf of Paxson Communications? was that a gaffe, too?

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08054/859894-176.stm


and what about your role in covering up the Abramoff scandal, which you supposedly 'investigated,' including only 7000 pages released of over 750 THOUSAND? why not release those 95 percent? what are you hiding?

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/6/8/32530/31654/843/532075

[ErinBerin84]

4. sigh...

"you know, at a town-hall meeting I've never had a person stand up and say, "Hey, Senator McCain, you've made a gaffe."

No, but there have been plenty of people who you blow off and try to humiliate when they confront you with your voting record.

[jenmito]

5. If the American people knew the new McCain, his numbers would be as low as Bush's. But the

media keeps portraying him as the "maverick" of 2000 regardless of his new positions and flip-flops and gaffes and confusion.

When asked if he would withdraw troops if al Maliki said he wanted them out (which he DID), McCain said, "He WON'T. He won't. I KNOW him. He won't." And he's allowed to get away with these things over and over again.

[AndyA]

6. McCain: "The American People Know Me"

Yes, we do John.

And you're just as unfit for the presidency as the idiot currently occupying that office.

Which is why the only way in hell you'll ever get the White House is if you steal it, just like * did. (Twice.)

[Alter Ego]

7. I guess referring to Czechoslovakia outside the confines

of a joke isn't a gaffe.

Neither is knocking over applesauce in a contrived attempt to appear "authentic".

Or all his policy changes he's made while the media's busy savaging Obama for taking a shit the wrong way.

[zulchzulu]

9. Well shucks, Senator. It's all in good fun, yunno... if Obama makes a gaffe, you just yuck it off

People know you as a gaffe-wobbled dumb ass... sure they do...