McCain infers that it's tough to be proud of one's country

[LTR]

(Sorry if this one's been posted. I didn't see it on DU)

The questioner noted that he had been educated at Princeton and Harvard and made more than $300,000 a year.

"How can I be proud of my country?" he asked.

Get it — he was mocking Michelle Obama and her statement earlier this year that her husband had for the first time in her life made her proud of her country.

Well, McCain either missed the joke or decided to ignore it and answer the question literally. I think it was the former because the individual asking the question had a thick accent that sounded to be either Indian or Pakistani, perhaps suggesting to McCain a recent immigrant grappling with America's image abroad.

"I’ll admit to you that it’s tough, it’s tough in some respects," McCain said, seeming to lend credence to Michelle Obama's observation.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/0608/McCain_doesnt_pick_up_on_Michelle_Obama_joke.html

Well, that right there kills that Michelle Obama meme.

[flpoljunkie]

1. John McCain, not only "old as dirt," as he once described himself. but manifestly clueless.

As they sometimes say on Anderson 360, "What was he thinking!"

[niyad]

2. sighhhh, mclame IMPLIED. the reader, or hearer, INFERRED.

[BlooInBloo]

3. What's up with people not knowing the difference between those words? Sheesh,..

Maybe English really should be the offical language.

:rofl:

[ellacott]

4. It happens

I still get confused with affect and effect sometimes. :)

[niyad]

5. I don't know, but such things drive me crazy. how can it be the official language, though,

when so many of its native speakers haven't a clue?

[BlooInBloo]

6. Yup. My main peeve is those who bastardize "begs the question"...

to mean "suggests the question". It's priceless to hear them argue that they're *right* though!