And I'm like all, aw, c'mon.

How meaningful is this?

Posted by: Crid [cridcridatgmail] at September 6, 2008 5:27 PM

With the new cold war, Crid, I think it's very significant.

I am not too hopeful McCain's team won't bomb Moscow, Idaho.

But it's also a big deal since McCain was hoping to make a point about supporting the troops at Walter Reed Hospital. In fact, he opposed the last GI bill, and if you believe in Freudian slips (I don't), this indicates he can't even find Walter Reed on a map.

Now, I don't think he's responsible for this fuck up, but it does say something about the sophistication and care to details of his organization.

Posted by: jerry at September 6, 2008 9:53 PM

(I am assuming Moscow, Idaho doesn't need to be nuked, but I really don't know....)

Posted by: jerry at September 6, 2008 9:54 PM

Yes; if that had a been an actual fuckup by a government employee, schoolchildren would have been put through unnecessary surgeries. Or medical patients would have been educated.

Either way, we shouldn't risk it. This is the most important election in a generation... These times are too dire to for a self-proclaimed "leader" who'd let a mistake like that happen during a week like he had.

Posted by: Crid [cridcridatgmail] at September 6, 2008 10:26 PM

Who do you think becomes his White House staff? It often goes to the folks who were with the candidate on the campaign trail. So the dweeb who googled wrong could easily become the dweeb who designed the email backup and retention system and then claims it was a forgivable mistake to lose all backup copies of the emails.

The jerk who mistakes Walter Reed Middle School for the hospital could become the top adviser who knows, just knows, the CIA is mistaken and so accepts clear forgeries as proof of yellow cake sales and then stovepipes that throughout the government.

Hey, according to the wikipedia, the following places are named Moscow:
* Moscow, Idaho
* Moscow, Indiana
* Moscow, Iowa
* Moscow, Kansas
* Moscow, Maine
* Moscow, Mississippi
* Moscow, Ohio
* Moscow, Pennsylvania
* Moscow, Rhode Island
* Moscow, Tennessee
* Moscow, Texas
* Moscow, Vermont
* Moscow, West Virginia
* Moscow, Wisconsin
* Moscow Mills, Missouri
* Moscow Township, Michigan
* Moscow Township, Minnesota
* Moscow, Ontario
* Moscow, India
* Moscow, East Ayrshire, Scotland

It's going to be pretty important to have an administration with good googling skills, and McCain has already admitted he doesn't use personal computers!!!

Posted by: jerry at September 6, 2008 11:25 PM

Quiver, Jerrbear. Quiver with fear.

Posted by: Crid [cridcridatgmail] at September 7, 2008 12:06 AM

Jerry -

Given that Obama can't stop his own fucking campaign staffers from attacking Sarah Palin's daughter, how well do you think HE'S going to lead? I mean, how will he stop his defense department from invading Pakistan or North Korea?

Tit, meet tat.

Posted by: brian at September 7, 2008 6:35 AM

Hey Dad, as long as you don't use the banana name song, call me anything you want.

Posted by: jerry at September 7, 2008 10:14 AM

I don't think the slip-up was "meaningful," but it does make you wonder about their proofreading process. I mean, if I could tell during the speech that it was wrong, did no one else even look at the slide show? I can't imagine that one slide will change anyone's mind about voting for McCain, but considering it was his big moment, you gotta wonder why they weren't a little more careful with something so obvious.

Posted by: Kristyle at September 7, 2008 12:20 PM

Jerrbear -

With the new cold war, Crid, I think it's very significant.

Ok, I'm just as paranoid as the next lefty conspiracy nut, but this is some serious bullshit. While I accept that our politicos would love to use a new red scare, as America's new number one enemy, we are hardly in another cold war. Yes, Russia is getting kind of scary again, having swept 'cross the spectrum into fascism (no, Godwin's law does not apply, pay attention, that's exactly what they've done). Yes, they are getting all imperialistic again.

A new cold war that doth not make.

We're way too overextended to be a real threat and NATO is in the same boat. We aren't going to push another nuclear race and the reception that has met "tactical" nuke and conventional bomb tests lately is not indicative of much support for this by the American people. And if anything will push the Russian people to actually drive out the authoritarian elements of their own government, it would be the threat of a neo-coldwar arms race.

I'm all for "the sky is falling" alarmism. I am all about slamming republicans (more fun that beating up on the dems even). I am all about needling moronic mistakes like this one - mainly because the money involved in this should have easily prevented it. But lets not be ridiculous about our exaggerations.

There has (and continues to be) a significant shift in the international balance of power recently. This are going to be important implications in a number of places, over the next several years. But one, this has been happening for several years already (it just recently became more apparent and open) and two, it still hasn't become a new cold war, nor is it likely to escalate to that point anytime soon, if it happens at all.

Posted by: DuWayne at September 9, 2008 5:01 PM