Comments on: Debate Lesson: Be Careful How You Refer to Your Opponent

By: David Drucker

David Drucker — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 20:51:39 +0000

Ah, you mean this one:

I was thinking of doing a separate entry on this, but it’s been covered pretty well already by the Blogosphere.

Still it does reminds me sooo much of an old Jewish joke about a Bar Mitzvah boy: The kid reading from the Torah finishes, and instead of saying the proper cliché that he’s supposed to parrot: “Today I am a Man”, instead, he’s thinking of all the gifts he’s going to get at the party afterwards, including a really nice writing instrument – the traditional gift (this is obviously a really old joke), so the kid says “Today I am a Fountain Pen”.

With trying to remember and use his POW experiences so close to the top of his mind, this was John McCain’s ‘Today I am a Fountain Pen’ gaffe. I don’t think it was senility; (Remember, that joke is about a 13-year old!) It was about John McCain wanting to get his prisoner experiences so vivid and powerful for his audience. And it really is a classic case of a Freudian Slip.

By: Jan Karlsbjerg

Jan Karlsbjerg — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 20:05:46 +0000

There was the “My fellow prisoners” about either Americans in general or his republican colleagues, and then this one. Both times, when I first heard that he’d made a gaffe, I was hoping he’d said “President Obama”.

By: David Drucker

David Drucker — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:16:51 +0000

Yeah, I want one too. Isn’t it interesting how The T-Shirt = The Campaign Button? I wonder when that became a given.

By: West End Bob

West End Bob — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 23:59:13 +0000

I want one of those T-shirts.

Very cool . . . .

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 23:52:15 +0000

I think we were always “you little devils,” or later, just “you devils.”

By the way, Sarah Palin told me Obama hangs out with terrorists and stuff. Is that, like, [gasp] true?!?