Stunning! I was just listening to the POTUS channel on XM Radio, when I heard John McCain at today's Town Hall meeting in Las Cruces, N.M. He actually told the crowd that the United States of America could stay competitive with China by buying and selling a bunch of old crap on eBay! I could not believe he said it, so I listened again to the audio and transcribed his speech ...
Take it away, John McCain...
I was asked this morning by someone who said ‘Well, China is going to be a bigger and more powerful country than America’. I said, ‘I don’t accept that. I don’t accept that.’ I think that the most productive and best and most innovative part of the United States of America is the United States of America. By the way, there’s another person here that I’d like for you to say hello to. And I think she is ... I don’t see. Meg Whitman is here. Where are you? That’s Meg Whitman! Meg Whitman as you know is the CEO of eBay. These numbers are roughly correct. Twelve years ago there were five people who worked at eBay — and today one and half million people make their living off eBay. Now, you tell Meg Whitman that America’s best days are behind us. I think she can make a case that that’s not true.
Now, we all know McCain knows nothing about the Internet, and his aides have to help him log on so he can "watch" the Drudge Report. And also McCain claims not to know much about economics. But, come on! Are we seriously capable of electing a guy who thinks we could top China’s growth – which has surpassed 10 percent for the past five years — by selling our old sno-globes and pewter figurines to each other?
I think Obama should use this obvious gaffe.