McCain’s ‘gaffe’ on South Philly

[marmar]

from ThinkProgress:



McCain’s ‘gaffe’ on South Philly.»

In a recent radio interview with Tavis Smiley, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) said that he was going to talk to African-American voters by going “all over this country. I’m going to go to South Philadelphia, I’m going to go to the Black Belt in Alabama.” An op-ed in the Philadelphia Daily News, however, fact-checks McCain:

If McCain wants to win over black voters, first he’d better know where to find them.

South Philly has changed from a mostly Italian-heritage enclave to one that includes growing numbers of Asians and Hispanics. According to the latest census, while Philadelphia is a majority-minority city, African-Americans are less than a third of the population in South Philadelphia.

The press had a field day with John Kerry’s swiss cheese moment - front-page news in our town.

But McCain’s gaffes, and his serious policy differences with most Americans, attract much less press and public attention. They don’t seem to make a dent in McCain’s self-portrait as the most seasoned and experienced candidate for the presidency.

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/09/mccains-gaffe-on-south-philly/

[hisownpetard]

1. How can you make fun of someone who's senile? Wouldn't be prudent.

[lonestarnot]

2. And apparently truth doesn't matter as I watched Kerry debate bushitler 4 various

times and he had more sense in his shit than bushitler ever thought of having in his entire life but look who cheated his way into office.

[hisownpetard]

5. Bush's stealing the election - twice - is a shame that will take a long time for this country

to live down.
I still can't believe it, and it's been 7 years.

[Kolesar]

4. I wonder if he is going to wear his silver drool cup for the televised presidential debate(s).

[baldguy]

3. He doesn't know where to go because he doesn't care.

[DCKit]

6. Sure he does: Iran.

It's all about Iran. He can't stop talking about it.