McCain's "Knowledge Gap": It's An Issue


	McCain's "Knowledge Gap": It's An Issue

RayWatkins

7-14-2008 7:33 PM

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June 11, 2008, AlterNet

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/602f722f-e5f5-49b5-ad46-d6dc6a0e9bf9/250C2131-0F46-4145-8727-244BA97C0ED6/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.cepr.net/index.php/op-eds-&-columns/op-eds-&-columns/mccain-s-knowledge-gap-:-it-s-an-issue/" href="http://www.cepr.net/index.php/op-eds-&-columns/op-eds-&-columns/mccain-s-knowledge-gap-:-it-s-an-issue/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.cepr.net</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cepr.net/index.php/op-eds-&-columns/op-eds-&-columns/mccain-s-knowledge-gap-:-it-s-an-issue/"><SPAN class="pageIntro">Senator John McCain's <A target="_blank" href="http://www.prospect.org/csnc/blogs/beat_the_press_archive?month=07&year=2008&base_name=senator_mccain_calls_social_se">latest gaffe on Social Security</A>  is somewhat breathtaking, and ought to be a campaign issue. It indicates that he is not any better informed on major domestic policy issues than he is on foreign policy (which is supposedly his "strength").
</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cepr.net/index.php/op-eds-&-columns/op-eds-&-columns/mccain-s-knowledge-gap-:-it-s-an-issue/"><SPAN class="pageIntro">Readers whose memory extends beyond the 48-hour news cycle may recall that on March 18, at a press conference in Amman, Jordan, McCain stated that "al-Qaeda is going back into Iran and receiving training and are coming back into Iraq from Iran, that's well known. And it's unfortunate."
</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cepr.net/index.php/op-eds-&-columns/op-eds-&-columns/mccain-s-knowledge-gap-:-it-s-an-issue/"><SPAN class="pageIntro">Senator Joe Lieberman, who was standing next to him, whispered in his ear, causing McCain to immediately issue a correction. The McCain campaign stated that it was just a slip of the tongue, and the Sunday talk shows gave the candidate a pass. But <A target="_blank" href="http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/03/19/mccain/">McCain had said the same thing twice before during the same week</A>. It was no slip of the tongue.
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