Sunday, September 14, 2008

McCain Is Out of Touch and Old

That's not ageism. Those are just the facts. It wouldn't be much of an issue if McCain hadn't hired someone with Zero foreign policy experience, someone who's clearly a tool to win an election. Of course it's Carly Fiorina who's whining about ageism. She's the Ism person, who comes out when there is an Ism charge to be made.

Swamp: John McCain, the way Barack Obama's campaign tells it, is "out of touch,'' the Republican nominee for president couldn't even remember how many he homes he owns when asked by a reporter, and he doesn't know how to use a computer or email.

Obama, the way McCain's allies see it, is guilty of "ageism.''

It's not only McCain's advanced years which the Democrat has disrespected, his rivals says, but also that unseasoned running mate - at 72, McCain is potentially the oldest man to win election to a first term as president , and at 44, running mate Sarah Palin is less than two years into her first term as governor.

"The Democratic Party is in full-throated panic over Sarah Palin," McCain ally and former business executive Carly Fiorina said on ABC News' This Week, today.

"I frankly find this disrespectful in the extreme,'' Fiorina said. "This is ageism.