Dance With Who Brung Ya! (but remember her name)

It would seem to me that if there were a ‘Prom for Dummies’ book that somewhere in chapter one would be the advice to never under and circumstances forget or confuse the name of your date.

John McCain, heeding the advice of the southern proverb that says, “dance with who brung ya!” has apparently forgotten crucial details about who he brung. Perhaps he used the issue that he’s used at every dance over the last several weeks in an effort to slip on by American voters who usually sleep through many of the more complicated issues of the campaign.

Clearly CBS News was sleeping through the details of a taped interview between Senator McCain and Katie Couric. In the interview McCain referred to an amazingly inaccurate timeline on the surge in Iraq and the Sunni Awakening as a “matter of history.”

This is a sizeable mistake given the fact that McCain has been pounding the Obama campaign of his naiveté on issues on the ground in Iraq. He has routinely and regularly accused Senator Obama of preferring to win a campaign over winning a war. McCain's insistance that Obama's failure to truly appreciate the success of the surge is comically legendary.

McCain and the Bush administration have been visibly agitated by how warmly Obama has been received both by troops in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as the Iraqi government. The timing of McCain’s gaffe could not have been worse as Americans are starting to connect Obama with a sensible and widely accepted plan for staged withdrawals.

To hammer Obama as an amateur is fine; especially given McCain’s experience and time served. However, if there is just one requirement of this approach, it would be knowing what you’re talking about – or for the sake of this reference; remembering your date’s name.
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