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Wednesday July 23, 2008 · 12:26 PM PDT

2008/07/23 · 12:26

"FIRST GAFFE OF OBAMA TRIP......GOES TO MCCAIN," was the big Monday afternoon banner headline on Huffington Post, accompanied by a photo of McCain appearing to slap his forehead.

That headline referred to an ABCNews.com posting asserting that McCain appeared to "confuse Iraq and Afghanistan, in a "Good Morning America" interview with ABC’s Diane Sawyer, who asked whether the "the situation in Afghanistan is precarious and urgent."

Now the newest gaffe, McCain doesn't know the timeline of the "surge"...the subject of which wound up on the cutting room floor of CBS's Katie Couric interview.

McCain will turn 72 the day after Sen. Barack Obama accepts his party’s nomination for president, calling new attention to the sensitive issue of McCain’s advanced age, three days before the start of his own convention.

Unfortunately for McCain, those two gaffe's weren’t an isolated slip. Among the other lapses:

—"Somalia" for "Sudan" — As recounted in a reporter’s pool report from McCain’s Straight Talk Express bus on June 30, the senator said while discussing Darfur, a region of Sudan: "How can we bring pressure on the government of Somalia?"

Senior adviser Mark Salter corrected him: "Sudan."

— "Germany" for "Russia" — A YouTube clip from last year memorializes McCain referring to Vladimir Putin of Russia – following a trip to Germany — as "President Putin of Germany."

—This spring, McCain said troops in Iraq were "down to pre-surge levels" when in fact there were 20,000 more troops than when the surge policy began.

—Also this spring, McCain twice appeared to mistake Sunnis and Shiites, two branches of Islam that split violently. Had to be corrected on the spot by ass kisser Joe Lieberman.

—In Phoenix earlier this month, McCain referred to "Czechoslovakia," which has been divided since Jan. 1, 1993, into the Czech Republic and Slovakia. He also referred to Czechoslovakia during a debate in November and a radio show in April.

—In perhaps the most curious incident, McCain said earlier this month that as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, he had tried to confuse his captors by giving the names of Pittsburgh Steelers starting players when asked to identify his squadron mates. McCain has told the story many times over the years – but had always referred correctly to the names he gave as members of the Green Bay Packers.

So what's going on here? Why is the press letting the McCain surrogates get away with defending the lies as negligent, not important or not newsworthy? Why is it that Obama can't get away with the same kind mistakes? Send your cards and letters of protest to all the networks.

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