Quote of the Day


"Across this country, this is the agenda I have set before my fellow prisoners. And the same standards of clarity and candor must now be applied to my opponent."John McCain, who evidently believes he's running for president of the POW camp and pegs the irony-o-meter talking about "standards of clarity" right after addressing the nation as his "fellow prisoners."

(In all seriousness, I've genuinely never had doubts about his mental acuity until now. But that's Reaganesque in a way he doesn't intend—the kind of mistake that's not easily attributable to exhaustion or the usual word aphasia that comes quite naturally with aging, where one might be tempted to stick in a sorta-not-quite-right word at a public event just because the right one is out of reach. It's…alarming.)

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