I called for a gas tax holiday but have no idea how much gas costs

Among the most revealing examples of how McCain doesn't understand his own policies, the septuagenarian couldn't comment on the price of gas.

We lost you at the very beginning

An old relative used to call my mom and talk for hours to the phone my mom had laid down to otherwise go about her business.

We know that McCain can't figure out computers, now it seems phones can be problematic for him. Fairing a bit better than my great aunt, McCain had enough wits around him to figure out in under twenty minutes that no one was on the other end of a conference call.

So tired

McCain has to spend his weekends recovering.

If he could do otherwise, he would.

"In trying to answer skeptics who ask whether a 72-year-old has the vigor to hold the presidency, McCain points to his indisputably packed calendar - on weekdays, that is.

"'Watch me campaign,' he said in April, when asked about the matter at a conference of media executives in Washington. 'Come on the bus again, my friends, all of you.'"

Weekends excepted.

Visuals via I CAN HAS WAR.

Senility could be misdiagnosed as attempts to "pander to everyone simultaneously"

Great attempt to round up the incoherent ramblings of a candidate on energy policy.

Writing the Editor

To NewsBlaze,

I don't know if Democrats are talking in code when they refer to McCain as confused, doddering and out of touch, but they have every right to highlight McCain's advanced age. Democrats shouldn't be subtle; they should flat out say that McCain is too old to sit in the Oval Office.

If the emperor isn't wearing any clothes, it's not politically incorrect to say that he is as naked as a jaybird. And if a presidential candidate appears confused and befuddled, it's not improper to question his mental condition.

McCain doesn't know a Sunni from a Shiite, and I'd be surprised if he know's an MP3 player from a hearing aid. McCain should have sat out this presidential campaign, and let a much younger person have his turn.

To The Madison Capitol Times,

The problem with McCain isn't his age, it's his poor judgment. It's not that McCain is to old, it's that McCain, like Bush, is just plain wrong and he hasn't learned anything from Bush's mistakes.

Playing Devil's Advocate, one could add to the latter view that Bush also learned about Sunnis and Shiites during on the job training.

Are Dems talking about McCain’s age in "code"?

There are those Democrats who categorically deny McCain's age has anything to do with their attacks on his contradictory statements and policy flip-flops, then there are others:

Senile old coot losing "maverick" rep

I think he's confused because of the aged state of his brain

Steve Benen gives us a hefty list of items pertaining to Iraq on which McCain has been confused, in the normal sense of the word. I believe the best explanation is senility ... Steve argues the greater point that McCain's confusion is a fact that his old age or youngness doesn't change. Point taken, but senility would explain a lot.

Confused?

How many times can you call an old man "confused" before you say the "s" word?

Nap time

McCain forgot what he said in a nationally broadcast speech last week

Just a week after stating, "The media often overlooked how compassionately [Clinton] spoke to the concerns and dreams of millions of Americans," McCain took issue with the suggestion he said what he indeed said.

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I'm sorry, the Iranians are training extremists, not al Qaeda

Video compilation

Here's a video compilation from, uh, Twat Waffle, of several McCain misstatements and contradictions that may be explained better by senility than an intention to mislead his audience.

Putin as President of Germany

On January 23, 2008 McCain referred to Vladimir Putin as the President of Germany.

Forgot Reagan ran a deficit

On April 10, 2008 McCain apparently forgot Reagan tripled the deficit, despite having served in the House for the last six years of the Reagan presidency.

The Man Who Would Be the Oldest President

Boston Globe 3/28/2008,

It was probably not wise for the 64-year-old Brit Hume to describe the 71-year-old John McCain as having a "senior moment." A blip would have been better. Or a gaffe. Or even a dent in the candidate's "experience" armor. But when the traveling senator confused Shi'ites and Sunnis, when he conflated Al Qaeda with all extremists, the "senior moment" phrase uttered by the Fox newsman got velcroed to the story of The Man Who Would Be the Oldest President in American History. Age? Ageism? Or realism? We've been holding a heated debate about race and gender all season. But age has been relegated to a late-night laugh line by the likes of David Letterman, 60, who described McCain as "the kind of guy who picks up his TV remote when the phone rings."