Daily dose of stupidity

I'm really thinking of starting a set of posts related to John McCain when it comes to this, because the candidate himself - not even surrogates, but the man who wants to be president - says so many idiotic things that it makes one wonder why someone who finished 5th from the bottom of his graduating class at the Naval Academy could be considered a competent president.

Anyways, here goes: first, John McCain jokes about killing an entire country:



How exactly is talk like this supposed to help burnish our image in a region where it has suffered the most? That's aside from the fact that it's completely inappropriate for anyone to say, much less a presidential candidate.

Then there's this gem, which shows McCain talking about Social Security:



The money quote from this:

Americans have got to understand that we are paying present-day retirees with the taxes paid by young workers in America today. And that’s a disgrace. It’s an absolute disgrace, and it’s got to be fixed.

Except, you know...that's the way Social Security has been run since its inception in the 1930s. That's what a 'pay-as-you-go' system is all about. Are there some problems with the program? Sure. But any modifications to Social Security, even steps that go towards privatization (which will never happen, at least in the current political and economic climate), don't eliminate the fact that current workers fund retirees.

Duh.