Posted by Jed Lewison on Fri May 30, 2008 at 11:35 AM Pacific

John McCain Hates the English Language

Wow, here's a spectacularly amusing response to John McCain's gaffe about troop levels in Iraq (he said yesterday that they had been "drawn down to pre-surge levels" when in fact no such thing thing has ocurred). Ben Smith captures the massive hilarity:

McCain campaign: Don't nitpick his verb tenses

On a McCain campaign conference call,  Senator Jon Kyl did not concede that McCain had made an error in saying "We have drawn down to pre-surge levels," instead accusing the Obama campaign and reporters of "trying to nitpick the tense of the verb about the surge troops being home."

..."To get into a debate about a verb tense rather than the real fundamental national security issues at stake is really a distraction," [McCain advisor Randy Scheunemann] said.

This verb tense thing is a novel excuse, with potentially wide future use on both sides. Hillary, for instance, could have been referring to the risk of future sniper fire. Obama, perhaps, meant that the U.S. will, at some future date, add seven states.

John McCain: an angry, stupid old man who hates America and the English language?

John McCain Hates the English Language

Wow, here's a spectacularly amusing response to John McCain's gaffe about troop levels in Iraq (he said yesterday that they had been "drawn down to pre-surge levels" when in fact no such thing thing has ocurred). Ben Smith captures the massive hilarity:

McCain campaign: Don't nitpick his verb tenses

On a McCain campaign conference call,  Senator Jon Kyl did not concede that McCain had made an error in saying "We have drawn down to pre-surge levels," instead accusing the Obama campaign and reporters of "trying to nitpick the tense of the verb about the surge troops being home."

..."To get into a debate about a verb tense rather than the real fundamental national security issues at stake is really a distraction," [McCain advisor Randy Scheunemann] said.

This verb tense thing is a novel excuse, with potentially wide future use on both sides. Hillary, for instance, could have been referring to the risk of future sniper fire. Obama, perhaps, meant that the U.S. will, at some future date, add seven states.

John McCain: an angry, stupid old man who hates America and the English language?

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