"My Fellow Prisoners," McCain Calls Americans

After referring to the various proposals that comprise his domestic policy agenda, John McCain offered an absolute head-scratcher of a line during a campaign speech on Wednesday.

"Across this country this is the agenda I have set before my fellow prisoners," he declared. In the prepared remarks he was supposed to say "fellow citizens."

McCain didn't skip a beat, lambasting Obama for, of all things, being "less clear" about his vision for the country. "The same standards of clarity and candor must now be applied to my opponent," he declared.

The remark came during the Senator's campaign stop in Pennsylvania in what was already a controversial appearance. An hour before McCain took the stage, an introductory speaker revved up the crowd by referring to Barack "Hussein" Obama twice. McCain's campaign has distanced themselves from the remark.

Comments

[redeyesmarteye]

01:49 AM on 11/03/2008

I don't want to be disrespect­ful to everyone else's opinion, uhmm, I think that was(mccain­'s) just a simple misstateme­nt that is well, frankly, a minor demeanor compared to that of Joe Biden who threw a slew of amazingly ignored "misstatem­ents". Don't get me wrong, I already voted for Obama last week, but I do not think it is right to take offense or be offensive to what a presidenti­al candidate wrongfully said. Come on guys? Were better than that...let us not go beneath the bush lovers level. hehehe...p­eace!

[SteveDenver]

02:50 AM on 11/02/2008

I think grandpa is having a war flashback.

[BoulderSue]

03:10 PM on 10/12/2008

That line really shook me up a little. Combine that with what others have said about his body language and you sort of have to wonder where or when exactly he is living.

[RoaringMoose]

02:59 PM on 10/11/2008

When you become a prisoner of war you give only your Name Rank, Serial Number and Date of Birth.. Not: Name, Rank, Serial Number, and now lets go make some propaganda films.

The worse thing that a POW heard in North Viet Nam, was, first thing in the Morning: "My fellow prisoners trust me the Vietnamese are not our enemy it is the American Government that is the criminal. If you cooperate you will get fare treatment.

If any of you Vets out there heard John McCain address to his audience "My Fellow prisoners" know what John experience­d, it is called a Flash Back. We do not need a President that experience­s Flash Backs. Especially when he his near the Nuclear Button.

[MsYellowDog]

02:58 PM on 10/11/2008

This mis-statem­ent,on top of the "McCain Wander" in the debate Tues,shoul­d be proof positive that the man is incompeten­t,for whatever reasons. I wondered if he was looking for the bathroom? Or did he think he was in a prison cell,not on a stage? Maybe that's why he called his rally audience "My Fellow Prisoners.­"

[charon]

02:25 PM on 10/11/2008

It seems to me that there are far fewer trolls on Huffpo these days. What happened to them? I don't really care, just glad they found other hobbies, anyway.

[KarlaElisa]

02:14 PM on 10/11/2008

This really ought to be used in an ad.

[gop4obama]

11:06 AM on 10/11/2008

Take a quick look:

http://www­.palinbyco­mparison.n­et

http://www­.gop4obama­.org

Thanks

[sebastiana]

10:54 AM on 10/11/2008

Maybe he just feels he is the prisoner of all his lies, of all those people who actually believe his lies, and of all those who instigate and perpetuate his lies. He may indeed still be a prisoner but this time one of his own making.

[dillsnick]

10:03 AM on 10/10/2008

So old he ejaculates Mummy Dust.

[260Parkway]

09:24 AM on 10/10/2008

That is not a slip of the tongue people, that's exactly what we will be if you elect this man because they're just like us and their both mavericky.­......

[dimplesmile7]

03:27 AM on 10/10/2008

This is why we are voting on election day, we don't want to be republican­t prisoners anymore. The country will be paroled on Nov 4, 2008. We can send Warden McCain packing for Arizona.

[Audrey704]

11:12 AM on 10/11/2008

This....fo­llowing his video taped comment to the Des Moines (Register)­? sorry I cannot remember name of the paper....b­ut he said he a dictator, that I aspire to be....Yike­s...McCain­/Palin is becoming scarier by the minute...

[Lupin77]

02:04 AM on 10/10/2008

I suppose you could say that he had another senior moment. I'm losing count of them by now.

[SeekerOne]

10:20 PM on 10/09/2008

It sure sounded like McCain said it on purpose. Could it be kind of like one of those dog whistle calls to the base? (Imprisone­d Christian soldiers??­) Or just another reminder that he was a POW?

[Barbara2423]

09:31 PM on 10/09/2008

This is an hones statement from McCain. He is trying to make Americans prisoner of his and Palin's hate.