We all cringed during the St. Paul GOPfest when speaker after speaker recalled John McCain's career as a fighter pilot, which was patently false. We KNOW he was a bomber, with a 10,000 feet in the air mentality, sneak by the radar, release the payload and fly back home. 1,2,3....over and out.
The latest stinker of an idea is forming a commission to study what is wrong on Wall Street, the biggest dud is the hurried & harried selection of Sarah Palin.
My fave? From last May, BBC: McCain wants US version of PMQs
John McCain says he admires the British political system.
John McCain has said he would introduce an American version of prime minister's questions if elected US president.
The Republican candidate will pledge later to submit himself to regular grillings by both houses of Congress.
Have you a favorite "McBomb"? If so, please help catalog his "archive of stoopid."
It is becoming increasingly clear that John McCain is unable to accept criticism, his 1 month and 4 day NON-talking express is evidence of "political cowerness". His handlers have deemed him incapable of making off the cuff remarks, we all hope this temerity will make him rusty by next weeks debate.
Looking back on the BBC article, can we detect a reporter's admiration or skepticism?
He said exchanges such as those in the British House of Commons were a way of holding leaders accountable.
The weekly half hour PMQ sessions in the Commons are often rowdy affairs with party leaders trading insults spurred on by baying MPs.
But they allow the main opposition party leaders to put the prime minister on the spot on a subject of their choice and backbench MPs to raise issues on behalf of constituents.
There is no equivalent in the US - formal speeches such as the State of the Union address do not include question and answer sessions.
Mr McCain - who likes to portray himself as plain speaking and open to scrutiny - says he will change that if he makes it to the White House in November.
Barbara Walters and the ladies of "The View" proved McCain's mettle last week, and from the Morning Joe diaries yesterday, his flinching and his temper is becoming more exposed.
'Punch and Judy'
In a speech in Columbus Ohio, he will say: "I will ask Congress to grant me the privilege of coming before both houses to take questions, and address criticism, much the same as the prime minister of Great Britain appears regularly before the House of Commons."
He will add: "When we make errors, I will confess them readily, and explain what we intend to do to correct them."
He also reiterated a pledge to hold weekly news conferences, a change from President George W Bush's practice of holding them roughly once a month.
George W Bush has spent more time on the White House lawn watching T-Ball games than he has in Cabinet meetings, so the reporter has been swallowing swill with that comparison.
Two economic bombs McCain dropped were Phil Gramm and Carly Fiorina, the Enron loopholer and the Hewlett-Packard downsizer. And we ALL know how he "corrected them", his campaign uses a magic wand and the smoke and dust disappears.
Prime minister's questions has often been criticised for showing Parliament in a bad light - with pictures of rowdy MPs invariably leading that day's TV news bulletins.
But attempts over the years to make the sessions less confrontational have largely ended in failure.
Conservative leader David Cameron recently admitted he had failed to live up to his pledge to end the "Punch and Judy" aspect of the sessions.
Asked during Wednesday's PMQs whether the "weekly knockabout" was a good way to discuss policy, Prime Minister Gordon Brown replied: "Yes."
Yesterday there was a "mini-revolution" meme, a few reporters on the McPlane chanting "bring back Mac" for about a minute.
The problem I'm having now is remembering exactly WHAT the bomb was 1 month and 4 days ago that forced John McCain behind the curtains on his own plane. Within a week there was backlog of pent-up questions, now it would take a 6 hour press conference to clear up all the misunderstandings and get the clarifications.
Help me recall, what sent Bomber John into hiding 35 days ago?
(changing the title in light of the recent news from Yemen)