McCain's Unbelievable Mistake..
Today, while at a town hall meeting, McCain made one of the stupidest mistakes he could have made. He agreed with a women who brought up the draft.
AUDIENCE MEMBER: Senator McCain I truly hope you get the opportunity to chase Bin Laden right to the gates of hell and push him in as you stated on your forum. I do have a question though. Disabled veterans, especially in this state, have horrible conditions [...] My son is an officer in the Air Force, and I am a vet and I was raised in a military family. I think it is a sad state of affairs when we have illegal aliens having a Medicaid card that can access specialist top physicians, the best of medical and our vets can't even get to a doctor. These are the people that we tied yellow ribbons for and Bush patted on the back. If we don't reenact the draft I don't think we will have anyone to chase Bin Laden to the gates of hell.
JOHN MCCAIN: Ma'am let me say that I don't disagree with anything you said and thank you and I am grateful for your support of all of our veterans.
Now with Obama holding a steady lead among young voters this was probably the worst thing that McCain could say.
With president Bush's disapproval ratings, and most Americans wanting the United States to pull out of Iraq, this is not a good time for McCain to bring up the draft.
With young voters, one of the biggest issues in decided how to vote, is the Iraq war. If the youth catch on about what McCain said then this could be the issue that could send them to the polls. And that could be a McCain election disaster.
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Agreed
Rock the Vote was able to make a lot of hay about the draft back in 2004. It infuriated the Republicans. They should do something similar with this McCain clip.
BTW - welcome to the site and sorry I scooped you with the video link. I didn't see your post until after it went up.