I just posted this over at Dailykos. Hope this goes viral to show what a dumbass McCain is.

I'm stunned at what a horrible candidate McCain is. Aside from his draconian policy perscriptions, he sounds awful. He looks awful. He confuses easily. His campaign comebacks are lame and dated.

I think the Republicans might be giving us a head fake to lull us into a false sense of security and then . . . POW! This great, well-spoken charismatic candidate will emerge after Labor Day and run away with the election. I know it sounds crazy but I simply can't imagine that the nominee of a major party could be this bad!

It's raining McCain youtube moments.

McCain has been a disaster for the republicans. Everyone thought he would be the most formidable, most electable guy but he's really turned in a bad performance. I actually feel kind of sorry for the guy.

The republicans should have gone with Mittens.

"Clarification" of McCain's comments arriving in reporters inboxes in 3, 2, 1...

John McCain is connecting with younger voters!

"I want to stay in Iraq for - a millie - a millie - a millie - a millie..."

...I simply can't imagine that the nominee of a major party could be this bad!

Really? Did you forget Gore and Kerry already? Or Mondale, Dukakis, and Dole? Bad candidates really aren't that rare.

If you consider that George H. W. Bush and George W Bush beat three (or two depending on your perspective) of those candidates you might come to the conclusion that bad candidates are the norm.

His clumsiness speaks for itself.

In substance, though, it should be pointed out that we are WELCOME in Korea, Japan, and Germany. (Maybe not so much in Japan).

At the very least, we're not occupiers of those countries.

This is a tremendous gaffe, but even put fully in context, and viewed in the most favorable light possible, it is still indicative of how McCain just does not understand the Muslim world. This guy doesn't see the difference between a permanent American presence in a Germany, or South Korea, and a permanent American presence in the heart of the Muslim world??!! That is simply amazing to me. This moron actually believes American troops, tanks, aircraft, guns, etc., can live happily alongside some of the holiest sites in Islam, and not be a target, and not be the greatest recruiting tool our enemies ever could have hoped for?

Even people who support the War think we should eventually leave. Right?

I think McCain is just stupid enough to try and make this election about Iraq. Thank God.

Wow, imagine a family member over there and hearing this. Compassion is just overflowing. Who IS this guy, he has lost it.

On top of all this, he is implying that they will stay forever, just like Japan, Germany, etc. How many?? Again, "The Dementia Candidate". That is not said to be disrespectful, that is just the blatant truth.

Put the shovel down, Senator...

...we have a shiny new Backhoe that we think will fit down there with you!

We believe in your dream of plunging the Straight Talk Express into the earth's molten core.

Don't be fooled. He's not really this bad. He's just trying to fill us with a false sense of confidence.

Make no mistake, McCain has us right where he wants us.

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McCain cant read well off of a prompter, but when he does he ISNT gaffe prone, its when he is talking off the cuff that he puts his foot in his mouth. thats why i dont think town hall style debates are to his advantage.

Even worse, he promises to veto beer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrvLsnV7No8

100 MORE YEARS! 100 MORE YEARS!

I'm not sure there is much difference between this one and the hundred years comment. McCain seems to be comfortable with the idea that American voters won't care whether we stay in Iraq and project power in the Middle East as long as the number of casualties we take is tolerable. He's going to keep making that point and we're going to keep objecting to it, and, finally, the voters are going to decide. The charge he's going to level at Obama is that the surge worked and Obama would have pulled out of Iraq when we didn't have to. McCain will say that pulling out of Iraq will be the first step in our getting run out of the Middle East. "Surrendering" the Middle East. It may not work, but it's consistent.

Brilliant - It's not the war that's the problem, it's all the damn killing! If we can get that under control then we'll all be able to see just how well this war is really going. And THEN we'll finally realize the deep seated genius that put us there and kept us there for the last five plus years.

McCain is sniffing for vindication like a pig sniffs for truffles.

Well considering that the US is going to build 58 perminent bases in Iraq, I guess McCain is just toeing the company line.

This will just be a misspeak and shouldn't be attacked, of course bitter/clinging is already being used by the GOP.

I wonder why Obama isn't really attacking any of these McCain gaffes. Maybe he's saving them all up for one whopper of an ad closer to the election. I mean McCain has his "I hate war" ad that hasn't been rebutted yet as far as I know. You could take many of his previous statements, along with this newest one and juxtapose it with that ad very effectively, but there is nothing. Is there some smart youtube attacks that I am missing?

What a train wreck of a candidate this clown is.

I want to say something about this,...I really do! But what can you say about this old coot?

Obviously it's not too important. We haven't even been there 100 years yet. I don't see why everyone's getting so testy.

I've been saying the exact same thing for weeks now. McAnus will suddenly get sick. Too sick to continue. The RNC will intervene. And unless they have a say in his choice for VP, it probably will be some younger, (of course, that won't be too difficult), "electrifying" candidate that hasn't been fully vetted yet by the public.

Anyone one who "knows the facts" or anyone who "ignores the facts"? Casualties are down ONLY because it coincided with Sadre's cease fire. As for the original mission of the surge, there is ZERO progress along that front.

I wonder why the media no longer points out what the original goals of the surge were. Kind of like how the media forgot the original reasons for the war.

That WHOLE interview is a ticking time bomb.

Kevin Drum said that Obama would ONLY ever be 5 points ahead of McCain though-out the entire election. Really! If McCain keeps giving answers to interviews like this one, he is going to be toast before he even out of the gate at first town meeting.

And this interveiw was stack because the Reporter says the "surge is working" (since when?) - and McCain's horribly cheap comment about "the facts on the ground," because most of us know the facts in Iraq are they are leaning heavily toward Iran for help these days. Straight talking McCain is beginning to show a severe and fateful penchant for lying, embroidering, exaggeration, whatever we called when Bush told these lies too. If only Republicans could do more that just lie all the time, Jeebus.

Oh and the casualties comment, wow - oh my gosh! "If Americans weren't dying - we could simply stay and pump the oil in Iraq fa EVER, ha ha, so funny - and Iraqi death tolls are what? Irrelevant I guess! I mean, WTF? If we aren't fighting how does McCain hope to attain Victory? What are we doing over there in Iraq?

Humpty Dumpty is seriously cracked and the GOP will NOT be able to fix this bad egg, if he keeps falling off the wall like he did with this interview. Are Republicans scared - well, they should be.

I wonder if it doesn't really matter who the GOP nominates. Daniel Pipes says that if Obama wins the election, Bush will attack Iran in November. And all the current administration needs is some counter-attack -- either by surprise or "look the other way" with a wink to the 9-11 truthers -- and Bush will declare Martial Law. You know he's got enough signing statements and executive orders to make such a move by mere whim.

McCain is definitely a complete train wreck of a candidate, but make no mistake, the republicans are well aware of this as well.
Their strategy now is actually not to talk about what McCain WOULD do. It's to talk about what McCain WON'T do! It's not an attempt to make McCain look good, but rather to make Obama look bad. What's their economic plan? No one is really sure, but they just branded Obama as someone who will raise taxes. Romney was on CNN this morning repeating this several times, painting McCain as someone who will not raise taxes.
What is their strategy for Iraq? They don't have one, but big bad Obama will put the troops out and surrender, while McCain won't.
Even my mother, brainwashed by republican radio supports McCain... why? She doesn't actually have a clue about where he stands on anything... but she's been told that Obama is bad.

They are counting on the fact that they can scare enough people not to vote for Obama. I have a feeling that we have enough people who know the truth to sink this strategy, but just in case Obama has to reach out to these people and quick.