talkingpointsmemo.com — Just when you thought Republicans couldn't get any more incompetent, John McCain gave a speech in front of a photo of Walter Reed MIDDLE SCHOOL in North Hollywood, California. We can only assume that they meant to use a stock photo Walter Reed MEDICAL CENTER
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faeriegyrl7Sep 6, 2008
Gee, I just figured it was one of his houses. I think it is so funny to know that big of a screw up occurred. I would like to hear the explanation on that one. Maybe McCain thought it was the medical center too.
pinklotus1Sep 6, 2008
I thought about that too, but I have a feeling they would have picked a more typical looking school image if that was the case. The North Hollywood middle school looks pretty well off, whether that is true or not, and doesn't look like its in need of help, you know what I mean? In fact, its a little difficult to tell its a school at all and not some mansion or some fancy government building.
talentedmoronSep 6, 2008
comedy central just picked it up<a class="user" href="http://digg.com/politics/John_McCain_Proud_to_Stand_Before_Random_Middle_School">http://digg.com/politics/John_McCain_Proud_to_Stan ...</a>
jimmytheheelSep 6, 2008
You, sir or madam, are a Great American.
obliviousfoolSep 6, 2008
We need more vets running for office, just not in the John McCain sort-of-way!
runnernerdSep 6, 2008
the president should?know what is and what isn't a civil rights issue.?treat the cause instead of symptoms of the education problems in this country. Firing bad teachers will do nothing if there aren't well trained replacements with adequate resources.?get facts influencing foreign policy correct (though the US media did a really s**tty job covering South Ossetia).The last thing was just me wanting to poke my eyes out.
yojimbo911Sep 6, 2008
Think about it, cattywampus: if the republicans (with their millions in OUR tax dollars to organize and put on this circus of a convention) cannot avoid this sort of screw-up, it means definitively that their party is as out of touch as Obama claims. The US troops overseas gave Ron Paul more money than Obama, McCain, and Clinton combined. It seems Ron Paul's campaign is the only one truly concerned with the welfare of our brave warriors. I do agree that a backdrop is somewhat trivial but the principal involved here, and the irony considering war-veteran McCain's cult-of-personality, and the ridiculous cost of these dumb conventions, this context makes a boo-boo like this all the more damaging.