Incredible! Nay, beyond incredible!
July 9th, 2008 at 12:32pm Pat Cunningham
One of our presidential candidates (guess which one) seems to have just now DISCOVERED how the Social Security System was designed to work, and he says it’s “an absolute disgrace.”
I don’t think even George W. Bush is this obtuse.
POSTSCRIPT: Here’s MORE on this matter.
UPDATE: Still MORE. This story seems to be sprouting legs. And rightly so. This was no slip of the tongue. It was a display of astonishing ignorance. He said it was “straight talk” to tell the American public something that most of us sentient folks have known all along.
UPDATE III: Josh Marshall has a good wrap-up here in which Mr. Straight Talk’s own words are used to block his potential escape routes:
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