backup Says:

This falls under the heading of slip of the tongue. You can try to exploit it if you, want, but reasonable people will understand that she’s not a politician or professional pundit.

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Okay. She’s a young adult (25?) and she thinks that no one outside her family has any experience with war. It’s possible she’s spent her whole life without the knowledge that other families have members involved in various wars (millions in WWII, hundreds of thousands in Vietnam, the Gulf War and the war in Iraq, etc).

Are you saying Meghan was McPimped out?

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Well, well. Not much room for discussion, sounds just like her father, Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld… almost forgot – the world is 3,000 years old, even though I love fossil fuel Palin.

and Meagan, the families of soldiers who died in this war and the vets who served- they know – PERIOD. Are you really that selfish. WHAT KIND OF FAMILY VALUES DID YOUR PARENTS TEACH YOU!

BTW, I don’t know Obama either.

You don’t know jack.

Members of my family have occasional quarrels too, but it sounds like the McCains have some serious issues.

You don’t know Megan McCain from Eve. Don’t pretend to know what she was thinking.

Okay. She’s a young adult (25?) and she thinks that no one outside her family has any experience with war. It’s possible she’s spent her whole life without the knowledge that other families have members involved in various wars (millions in WWII, hundreds of thousands in Vietnam, the Gulf War and the war in Iraq, etc).

Or it’s possible, like Obama saying that he’s been to 57 states, that she also made a slip of the tongue.

BTW, I don’t know Obama either.

This statement will warrant either an increase or a reduction in her allowance. All depends on whether the MSM takes it up.

I think you misspeak when you claim to speak for someone you have never spoken to.

You don’t know Megan McCain from Eve. Don’t pretend to know what she was thinking.

Obama misspoke and said there were 57 states. I chalked it up to him being tired.

He knows that there are 50 states, but he misspoke.

McCain’s daughter knows that other families have experience with war, she also misspoke.
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I agree that Meghan was probably going for some kind of emphasis about how much her father cares about the perils of war. I can’t speak for Meghan, but I know many people her age, and they do tend to go for the dramatic and talk in absolutes. So chances are pretty good that she didn’t literally mean what she said.

However, when Obama had his brain fart about the 57 states (which really WAS a misspeak, not an attempt to exaggerate or be dramatic), he didn’t insult or belittle anybody.

Meghan owes every veteran and every veteran’s family an apology over this one, whether she meant to say what she did or not.

This falls under the heading of slip of the tongue. You can try to exploit it if you, want, but reasonable people will understand that she’s not a politician or professional pundit. She probably understand that other families understand war. It’s probably more likely that she believes her father and family have had more experience than anyone else in the campaign. That’s hard to refute. Both his grandfather and father served in WWII and McCain himself served in Vietnam.
September 9th, 2008 at 2:46 pm

If she can’t handle herself in a lightweight TV interview, maybe she just ought to head on home.

Got any more excuses for the McCain campaign?

September 9th, 2008 at 3:38 pm

He meant that he had traveled to a cumulative total of 57 states ; the way he said it was a bit incorrect , but the typical GOP backing MSM tried to make it come across as trying to mock Obama’s lack of knowledge as how many states make up the US.

What McDepends’ spoiled , empty-headed bim daughter said is not a “slip of the tongue” or some sort of ‘misstatement’ , and is nowhere near the same level .

Especially in terms of the arrogance it revealed and the way that shitty family view themselves……..

He knows that there are 50 states, but he misspoke.

McCain’s daughter knows that other families have experience with war, she also misspoke.