McCain refers to Americans as 'my fellow prisoners'
Nick Juliano and David Edwards
Published: Wednesday October 8, 2008


The last two years John McCain has spent on the presidential campaign trail seem to finally have transported the Republican candidate back to the Hanoi Hilton he called home for five and a half years. At a campaign stop in Pennsylvania Wednesday, McCain referred to his supporters as "fellow prisoners" in a botched attack on his Democratic opponent Barack Obama.

"You and I together will confront the $10 trillion debt the federal government has run up and balance the federal budget by the end of my term in office," he said. "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."

Judging by McCain's pause, he expected that to be an applause line. Silence greeted him from the perplexed crowd.

Standing behind her father, Meghan McCain briefly furrows her brow, apparently recognizing the 72-year-old seantor's gaffe. Vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin also is flanking McCain on stage, but it is less clear whether she recognizes the mistake.

McCain makes no effort to correct his mistake, but he seemed flustered when the crowd didn't erupt at the line. Glancing down at his prepared text, McCain charged on through to the next line in his speech.

"We've all heard what he said," McCain said of Obama. "But it's less clear what he has done, or what he will do."

McCain and Palin were introduced at the Bethlehem, Pa., stop by a local official who invoked Obama's middle name, Hussein. It's the second time in three days that's happened at an official McCain event, despite the campaign's insistence it doesn't condone such behavior.

This video is from CNN.com, broadcast October 8, 2008.


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This is a close race (at least according to the polls). One slip up by either side could destroy a campaign. Time to walk carefully and speak even more carefully.

Fellow prisoners? Is that supposed to be funny?

It sure shows poor judgment, IMO.

Palin is showing poor judgment too. When she said that Obama was hanging out with terrorists and someone said, "Kill him", she didn't try to stop it.

I heard on the radio that the crowd was getting so wound up that people were saying racial comments to a news camera person. And Palin did not even ask the crowd to calm down.

These behaviors do not show me Chief Executive behavior at all.

soon we will see nobama's feet brought to the carpet to publicly defend his ties to
Wright, which displays his lack of judgement.

Rezko, which does likewise.

Ayers, which does likewise and his previous answer is a boldfaced lie. He and Michelle Obama have been tangled with Ayers in too many ways to excuse him as a bomber when nobama was 8 years old.

and Acorn, which is under a lwasuit brought by Nevada for registering illegal voters and using convicts and felons to register voters, which they did falsify, as well as others.

Other lawsuits are pending in other states.

Not to mention the ties to freddie and fannie and the moneytrail and advisers in his campo from these corrupt mortgage abusers.

I won't go on and on.

None of these associations are defensible and none of these associations give him any moral high ground to exhibit anything but h8is utter lack of judgement in foreign affaairs, let alone domestic affairs.

He is a non etity. An enigma.

an American anomoly.
An American embarrassment, if he is elected.

He will preside over the greatest deficit in history, doubole the trouble of Bush's legacy when the deficit is 25 trillion in 2012 when the rupublicans are called back to fix yet another democrat tax ans spend mess.