He's Embarassing We Old Folks

I'm almost as old as John McCain. I know many people who are a lot older than McCain. Very, very few of these older citizens would have been so obtuse as McCain in his comments yesterday about our economy.

In Jacksonville, he said, "You know that there's been tremendous turmoil in our financial markets and Wall Street. And it is, it's - people are frightened by these events. Our economy, I think, still, the fundamentals of our economy are strong but these are very, very difficult times. And I promise you, we will never put America in this position again. We will clean up Wall Street. We will reform government."

Something must have happened with the economy by the time McCain got to Orlando for 'very, very difficult times' had turned into a 'crisis' and a crisis that was not the fault of the American people who have elected the leaders who let this country get into this mess.

Here's what he said in Orlando. Oops, here's what he read as I guess it was too much to remember, "Today we are seeing tremendous upheaval on Wall Street. The American economy is in crisis. Unemployment is on the rise and our financial markets are in turmoil. People are concerned about our economic future. But let me say something: this economic crisis is not the fault of the American people. Our workers are the most innovative, the hardest working, the best skilled, most productive, most competitive in the world," And then went on to say, "My opponents may disagree, but those fundamentals of America are strong. No one can match an American worker. Our workers sell more goods to more markets than any other on earth. Our workers have always been the strength of our economy, and they remain the strength of our economy today."

What really got me about the second statement was that he read it from a cue card. How bad is his memory?