[UPDATE: Follow the link for video of the moment in question... and really, "verbal thicket" doesn't begin to describe it. I am embrassed just watching this.]
Last week, Pennsylvania Representative John Murtha, a Democrat, said of his own constituents that "there is no question that Western Pennsylvania is a racist area."
John McCain decided to use that to help sway voters:
“I think you may have noticed that Senator Obama’s supporters have been saying some pretty nasty things about Western Pennsylvania lately.” As the crowd booed, Mr. McCain became tangled up in the rest of his remarks. “And you know, I couldn’t agree with them more,” he said, to silence, and then wandered around in a verbal thicket before finally managing to say, “I could not disagree with those critics more; this is a great part of America.”
A "verbal thicket?" We can't let this man be the next president.
Can we?
(as reported in the New York Times by Elisabeth Bumiller and Jeff Zeleny)
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