More McCain vs. McCain - not a repeat

These videos keep getting better and better, and it doesn't get old posting them. Last night on Countdown, Rachel Maddow (one of my favorite liberal radio talk show hosts) was filling in for Keith Olbermann, but the McCain mendacities don't take vacation. Again and again and again, McCain denies having ever admitted that he's not a whiz on the economy, when plenty of video exists out there that he had done just that, multiple times.

As Rosa Brooks of the LA Times points out, it's not an egregious sin to admit that you aren't an economics wonk, but to deny having ever having said that suggests three things (and perhaps a combination of all three): 1. He's flat-out lying, 2. He doesn't believe that people like Maddow and Olbermann (or common folk) will take the time to find out his statements to the contrary, or 3. He just doesn't remember (just what we need, another Ronald Reagan, i.e. ("I don't recall...")).

What's worse is the people who McCain is surrounding himself with for economic advice: former Senator Phil Gramm, who has more than a few ties to the mortgage crisis, as well as our energy crisis; Alan Greenspan, a brilliant man but also one who must share at least partial blame for the mortgage crisis that is crippling Middle America; and Carly Fiorina, a woman I have a lot of respect and admiration for, but also a woman who didn't exactly turn Hewlett Packard into the next Microsoft, to be kind.

To sum it all up, McCain is downright clueless on economic matters, admits it, then denies it, and who surrounds himself with people almost as clueless as he is. If McCain is a cure for the deep recession that the economy is in, then attaching leeches to an HIV patient will cure AIDS.