Is McCain’s Age Showing?

Last Wednesday, when I was riding the metro home, I found a copy of The Washington Post on the seat next to me and began reading it. I came across an article written about McCain and his continuous verbal slips also known as “gaffes.” The article mentioned how McCain referred to the “Iraq-Pakistani border” instead of the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. We had talked about this earlier in the day in class and I remember that Dr. Larsen was wondering what the press had to say about it.

The article also discusses how Obama is given more media coverage then McCain. Additionally, whatever Obama says is scrutinized; whereas, McCain gets away with confusing Sunni and Shittes, referring to incorrect borders, and identifying Vladimir Putin as Germany’s president simply because he’s an expert at foreign policy.

Here’s a link to the article:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/22/AR2008072203201.html