Matthew Yglesias » Worst Answer Ever

Oct 26th, 2008 at 10:58 am

Worst Answer Ever

I don’t have video yet, but suffice it to say that John McCain’s answer to Tom Brokaw’s question about whether Colin Powell’s endorsement was all about race was . . . unimpressive. McCain couldn’t even remember which former Secretaries of State support him and didn’t even attempt to answer the question.

UPDATE: Here’s the video:

That’s courtesy of Ali Frick who also reminds us that McCain hasn’t snagged the Condoleezza Rice endorsement.

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Don Williams Says:
October 26th, 2008 at 11:12 am
I wish Brokaw had asked McCain about Sarah Palin “going Rogue” and whether McCain was going to shoot Palin with a tranquilizer gun or with a 460 Wetherby.
Don Williams Says:
October 26th, 2008 at 11:17 am
McCain’s staff complaining about Sarah going rogue — and Sarah responding that McCain’s staff are stupid dumbshits trying to cover up their incompetence:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/25/palin.tension/index.html?section=cnn_latest

hee hee hee. Anybody got popcorn?
Don Williams Says:
October 26th, 2008 at 11:23 am
Correction to Post 1: should have read “a 460 WeAtherby”

I may play fast and loose with some things, but I always deeply respect gun knowledge and political philosophy.
El Cid Says:
October 26th, 2008 at 11:29 am
Thankfully, Evan Bayh had the brains to point out John Kyl’s idiotic praising of how the Grate Republikan Tax Kutz had saved our economy as a clear example of how Republicans want to keep doing what they’ve been doing (This Week With Snagglepuss), ’cause I certainly got fed up waiting for Rahm Amanuens to take advantage of all the free hanging Lindsay Graham nonsense.
rapier Says:
October 26th, 2008 at 11:35 am
I believe Henry Stimson supports McCain. I’m unsure of Cordell Hull but if McCain can’t remember why should I?

I just wish he’d be asked if he has any CPO’s in mind for promotion to Admiral.
dutch163 Says:
October 26th, 2008 at 11:57 am
A very disappointing answer from mccain…of course it all had to do with HIM and how disappointed HE was in Powell, not that he was getting an endorsement from a flaming racist
rupert Says:
October 26th, 2008 at 12:07 pm
Did he actually answer the question?? I’m not sure he answered any of the questions. He’s learning from Sarah.
lampwick Says:
October 26th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
Sarah Palin’s Campaign Secrets:

1. Go Rogue
2. Apply Rouge
bab23 Says:
October 26th, 2008 at 12:22 pm
Unfair. He did remember . . . and he interrupted Brokaw during the next question just to make sure no one would think that he couldn’t. No flies on him.
JohnH Says:
October 26th, 2008 at 12:22 pm
I imagine he’s fine with her going rogue, just as he’s been fine with the campaign’s generally taking the low road. The whole strategy is to have all these stand-ins peddle the sleaze to the right. The original strategy was that meanwhile he’d appeal to the center, with experience and the brief period of past moderate or reform stances, but they abandoned that half of the story ages ago and just went for the right. Maybe he couldn’t do it all personally himself, since it’d be giving up on the center and thus the presidency for sure and since he doesn’t always have the credibility on the right. So that means all he can do is basically shut his mouth.
McGeorge Bundy Says:
October 26th, 2008 at 12:28 pm
Henry Stimson was one of my mentors, and I can personally assure you that were he alive today he would not be supporting Sen. McCain.
55 Says:
October 26th, 2008 at 12:53 pm
He looks and sounds like he’s about to fall over.
S.P. Gass Says:
October 26th, 2008 at 1:00 pm
He answered the question, “Do you agree with Rush?”

McCain replied, “No” in the very first word.
duBois Says:
October 26th, 2008 at 1:09 pm
“Rogue” is just the feminine form of “maverick”.
CParis Says:
October 26th, 2008 at 1:10 pm
Condi Rice is a current Sect of State, she’s not going to endorse anyone publically. Current Cabinet officers don’t usually endorse or campaign, unless it for a current president seeking re-election.
lin.us Says:
October 26th, 2008 at 1:27 pm
Sure, CParis, that might be the official reason that Rice isn’t giving her endorsement to McCain, but as any God-fearing American will tell you, the coloreds stick together, so there is no way she could do anything but to follow the same blind path as her predecessor, Powell.
scrod Says:
October 26th, 2008 at 1:38 pm
McCain appearing on location in a town called “Waterloo”? I’m gonna spend the rest of the day chewing on that.
reader Says:
October 26th, 2008 at 2:15 pm
nah. it’s ok. look, i don’t support McCain, but we all make mistakes like this. I mean even Einstein has surely on occasion said,

Einstein: Wwhich is precisely what uh, you know…what’s his name…you know, the light guy…

Q: Maxwell.

Einstein: Maxwell! Yeah. Sorry, I’m a little exhausted today.
Tom Says:
October 26th, 2008 at 2:19 pm
He’s probably better off forgetting to mention George Shultz, the guy chiefly responsible getting the GOP establishment behind George Bush in 2000 and also for pushing his Stanford pal Condi Rice into the upper realms of Peter-Principle-hood.
Mudge Says:
October 26th, 2008 at 2:26 pm
I’d argue with George Schultz being one of teh best Secretaries of State of all time, but he did have the best tiger tattoo on his ass of any cabinet member of all time. Credit where credit is due.
Karl Weber Says:
October 26th, 2008 at 2:47 pm
In any case, this whole “four secretaries of state versus Colin Powell” argument isn’t as persuasive as McCain seems to think, since Madeleine Albright and Warren Christopher are also in the Obama camp. So if we’re keeping score, it’s 4 to 3, not 4 to one. And Obama has the three most recent secretaries of state, leaving McCain with four older ones.
Matt Weiner Says:
October 26th, 2008 at 3:00 pm
And Obama isn’t missing any secretaries of state from his own party.
SFAW Says:
October 26th, 2008 at 3:24 pm
“one of the greatest Secretaries of State in history”
“I think she’s the most qualified of any that who has run recently for vice president, to tell you the truth”

I guess it all depends on your frame of reference. For example, I thought “history” encompassed more than 1982-1989, and “recently” meant a longer period than “in the last 2 months”.

I can’t wait for Fox to refer to Hanoi Johnny as “the greatest senior Senator from Arizona in the last 10 years” and Sarah Palin as “teh hottest Governor of Alaska in the last five years”.
karen marie Says:
October 26th, 2008 at 5:30 pm
the first time i heard mccain recite his “five former secretaries of state,” i wondered why he thought being endorsed by former members of the nixon administration would be at all persuasive.

my impression of mccain on this morning’s meet the press: even HE is bored with his canned responses.
duBois Says:
October 26th, 2008 at 6:55 pm
That is one tired, confused old man. I wouldn’t be surprised if McCain were to follow William Jennings Bryan’s exit after the Scopes Trial: a tarnishing last act and goodbye goodbye goodbye.
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