Apr 24 2008
Sen. John McCain: “I really don’t know” What To Do About New Orleans
Another “McCain moment”:
Yet on the issue of New Orleans, it’s still unclear how different McCain and Bush actually are. Speaking about Katrina, McCain, like many other Republicans, has trashed the administration’s handling of the storm and has vowed to prevent similar catastrophes. “We can never let anything like that happen again,” McCain told reporters on board his Straight Talk Express earlier this week.
The senator won’t present his own plans for recovery, at least not today. Asked earlier this week if he thought the Lower Ninth Ward should be rebuilt, McCain shrugged, considering the question for several seconds. “I really don’t know,” he finally said. “That’s why I am going … We need to go back to have a conversation about what to do: rebuild it, tear it down, you know, whatever it is.” - Newsweek
Just another example of Sen. McCain “misspeaking” I guess. Or does was his answer really, “I don’t know”? Whatever it is!
More importantly, can the cable news networks spend the next four days examining how “I don’t know” is just another elitist euphemism - because elitists love euphemisms! - for “I don’t care”?
And then maybe we can engage in a week long national conversation to question his “electability” and how maybe, just maybe, Mitt Romney doesn’t seem that crazy anymore in retrospect…
