Does John McCain have more experience of being wrong? ?

Question

Does John McCain have more experience of being wrong? ?

Answer 1

Yes.  He also has a longer history of admitting his mistakes.

Answer 2

Yes; all wise men learn from their mistakes.

Answer 3

Based on?  Can you provide a link?  But at least McCain has taken a stand, unlike your no voting savior...

Answer 4

Yes.

Here's McCain, in his own words, getting Iraq wrong from Day One:

"Saddam Hussein [is] developing weapons of mass destruction as quickly as he can," he informed Fox News in November 2001. By February 2003, McCain had upgraded Hussein's capabilities and was warning Americans that "Hussein has the ability to ... [turn] Iraq into a weapons assembly line for Al Qaeda's network."

Well, no. But never mind that. We won't hold McCain responsible for the Bush administration's cooking of the intelligence books.

So how'd McCain do on his other Iraq-related predictions?

On the Cheney/Rumsfeld Delusional Thinking Index, McCain scores a perfect 10 out of 10. "I believe that the success will be fairly easy," he assured CNN's Larry King in September 2002.

Quagmire? Insurgency? Naah. "We're not going to get into house-to-house fighting," he scoffed to Wolf Blitzer in 2002. "We're not going to have a bloodletting." In fact, by March 2003, McCain was positively giddy with Rumsfeldian enthusiasm: "There's no doubt in my mind ... we will be welcomed as liberators."

When it came to predicting the sectarian conflicts that have wracked Iraq since we "liberated" it, McCain was equally off target. "There's not a history of clashes that are violent between Sunnis and Shias," he explained confidently on MSNBC in April 2003, "so I think they can probably get along."

McCain's had five long years since then to reflect on just how well Sunni and Shiite groups are getting along, but he's still having a tough time keeping the whole thing straight. In Jordan this past March, he pronounced it "common knowledge ... that Al Qaeda" -- a Sunni-dominated group -- "is going back into Iran" -- a country led by hard-line Shiites -- "and receiving training ... from Iran." Oops ... no! Joe Lieberman, McCain's new Mini-Me, whispered a correction in his ear, presumably explaining that the Iranian Shiites hate Sunni-dominated Al Qaeda and wouldn't help the group if their lives depended on it.

A slip of the tongue on McCain's part? That would be easier to buy if McCain hadn't repeated variants of the claim on multiple occasions, insisting to a Texas audience in February that Iran was aiding Al Qaeda and wondering during Senate hearings if Al Qaeda in Iraq was "an obscure sect of the Shiites overall? ... Or Sunnis or anybody else."

McCain seems more than a little confused about who's who in the Middle East, which is maybe why he's so dead-set against the idea of talks with anyone not already a U.S. ally. It's always embarrassing, from a diplomatic perspective, to have no idea who you're talking to.

Answer 5

Well, judging on how we are all humans and err, the only way not to make mistakes is to do nothing. I guess that has been Obama's master plan.

Answer 6

Yes;-)

Answer 7

the answer to this question is above my pay scale  

Answer 8

You have been in the game this long you are bound to make mistakes , however from what I see Obama wants to catch up on all that as quickly as possable not to be outdone of course.

Answer 9

Yes, his flip flopping on issues, betrayal of enhance Veteran Benefits, policy regarding bomb bombb bom, his physical acting out his temper, and the way he left his sick wife.

Answer 10

Dude has ever Obama ever made a Life and Death decision in his whole Life??

Has Obama ever made a Combat or Military Decision in his whole life??

Has Obama ever ran a Billion dollar company or ever ran a business???

I know Obama was a community organizer

Answer 11

Hmmmm.

35 years of experience for McCain v. 135 days of experience for Obama.

McCain had a little more time to make a few more mistake I suppose.

He also had more time to admit to his mistake and learn from them.

Obama on the other hand????

Gimme a break.

Is this a serious question??