It's been a rough week for John McCain
Friday, July 11, 2008 at 07:37PM John McCain will be happy to see this week come to an end.
Yesterday, his top economic adviser, former Senator Phil Gramm, posited that we're only in a "mental recession" (whatever that means), and sniffed that America is "sort of becoming a nation of whiners."
Ugh. Maybe Phil Gramm has been out of the country for the past year or so, but the economy is teetering on collapse under the weight of $4 gas, a housing bust, a credit crisis, and a weak dollar. I'm not sure why Phil Gramm thinks this is a psychosomatic recession, but his foot-in-the-mouth timing couldn't have been worse for John McCain.
McCain is already struggling to convince his own base, let alone moderates and independents, that he has a winning formula on the economy. In fact, it's his Achilles heal -- has been for years -- and with the economy growing weaker by the day, it certainly doesn't play into his hands. Gramm's remarks give the impression that McCain is out of touch with everyday people, which is about the worst sin a candidate can be accused of.
McCain followed up Gramm's major gaffe with a minor one of his own when he (conveniently) misremembered a simple tale about his time in Vietnam. Seems as though McCain made it a habit of giving up the names of Green Bay Packers stars instead of his own squadron while being interrogated by the North Vietnamese -- Bart Starr, Paul Horning, Herb Adderley, Ray Nitschke and so on. He wrote as much in his 1999 memoir, but this week while doing an interview with a Pittsburgh radio station, the Packers strangely morphed into the Pittsburgh Steelers, even though the Steelers of the late 60's had no memorable stars.
It was a minor goof, no doubt, but I'm still struggling to understand why politicians feel compelled to embellish little details that they know are fact-checkable. Hillary did this with her sniper fire tale; Mike Huckabee practically made a career of it; and now McCain puts a hometown spin on a well-known story. It might not cost him any votes, but it looks downright cheesy.
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