There’s A Reason McCain Graduated 6th From The Bottom At The Naval Academy

by tristero

And that’s because he’s dumb as a post:

‘ SEN. MCCAIN: There are numerous threats to security in Iraq and the future of Iraq. Do you still view al Qaeda in Iraq as a major threat?

GEN. PETRAEUS: It is still a major threat, though it is certainly not as major a threat as it was, say, 15 months ago.

SEN. MCCAIN: Certainly not an obscure sect of the Shi’ites, all overall, or Sunnis or anybody else. ‘

And, in a way that would bring tears to dear old Ralph Waldo, McCain’s foolishly consistent:

At least five times as a candidate, three times in March 2008 alone, McCain said publicly that Iran (a Shiite nation) was supporting Al-Qaeda (a Sunni group) in Iraq. Despite being corrected by the press and his colleagues, McCain continued to repeat the assertion.

As we have all learned these past few (but far too long) years, you can have the intellectual capacity of an over-boiled carrot and still become president of the United States. I’m sure that knowing this boosts the self-esteem of many sensitive American dullards. But given what happens to the country and the world when the US does have a president that hasn’t the slightest idea how to think clearly about anything except his own will to power, it just seems like, you know, a Really Bad Idea.

Is that so hard to understand?

Now that’s a stupid question.

{Update: Headline corrected: dumb mistake. Dumb attracts dumb, I suppose…}