McCain's gaffes: Fatigue or old age?

Toronto Star by Tim Harper | Oct. 29, 2008 (News Analysis)

When John McCain last week inadvertently labelled voters in western Pennsylvania a bunch of redneck racists, it could have been dismissed as one of those missteps that fatigued candidates make late in campaigns.

Except he is 72.

It was one in a series of recent McCain flubs and references to bygone eras that have highlighted a paradox of the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign.

While Democrat Barack Obama's race and potentially ... Full Story »

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Roland F. Hirsch
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 by Roland F. Hirsch - Oct. 29, 2008

This opinion piece is a typical democratic Party attack and his minimal journalistic merit. An honest reporter would have noted that Obama and Biden have made far more gaffes and much more serious ones. Indeed it should have been pointed out that Biden has been totally isolated from the Press since he couldn't remember Article I of the U.S. Constitution in the VP debate. Obama has not had a press conference since the beginning of September. Etc.

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