Posted on 01/24/2007 11:02:37 PM PST by Spiff
John McCain has an amazing knack for deflecting critisism with a great line. During his intitial Congressional run, McCain was new to Arizona and was accused of being a carpet bagger. His response was that the placed he's lived the longest is Hanoi. End of debate.
When recently asked if his age was an issue, McCain said that he was "older than dirt and had more scars than Frankenstein." But one picture is worth a thousand sound bites, and falling asleep during the State of the Union Speech is, shall we say, rather un-presidential.
Imagine that you’re John McCain. You’re running for president for the second time, and this time you’re widely considered the frontrunner for the Republican nomination. Knowing that, you’ve got to expect that whomever is directing the television coverage of tonight’s speech is going to point the camera your way. You’re going to be on primetime TV, no doubt. With that in mind, you’re going to want to stay awake. If you’re McCain, who will be over 70 by 2008, you’ll want to make doubly sure to demonstrate your alertness and vigor. You definitely won’t want to slump in your seat, out cold, when Bush starts talking about Iraq. And yet that’s exactly what McCain did tonight, napping on camera for ten agonizing seconds. Lack of self-control? An expression of contempt? Embarrassing in any case.
MSM making excuses for all the old dogs caught napping. Said they were ALL reading along from the copy of the speech they received.
I'm no McCain fan, but it appeared to us that he was reading/sending text messages or something else. At one point when they showed him and it could have appeared he was sleeping he looked up, then quickly looked right back down.
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