Once upon a time I caught a political discussion between , if I remember correctly, Alec Baldwin and Bill Maher. Maher was stressing over John Kerry's managling the joke about Bush, education, and Iraq. Maher was asserting that it was all nonsense and Kerry misspoke and it shouldn't be held against him. While Baldwin agreed in principle, he made a darn good point by observing that long, stressful campaigns should separate the wheat from the chaff and the "gaffe gauge" will be indicative of a President who misspeaks and otherwise does stupid and inappropriate things.
John McCain has had quite few gaffes lately and apparently can't keep it straight who is who in Iraq, Iran, and the rest of the Moslem world. Barack Obama's luck hasn't been much better with every other utterance pouring metaphorical hot coffee in the laps of and mashing the knuckles of blue collar America.
We could use a gaffe-free week or so to examine the issues, couldn't we? Between McCain's "Senior Moments" and Obama's "Junior Moments" I don't know that we're going to ever going to see that blessed lull, though.
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