McCAIN SELECTIVE MEMORY LOSS SYNDROME

McCain has always had a very convenient way of playing with his memory. Many people have noted that he seems to be in the early stages of dementia although a close look at his record should suffice to say that a lifetime of serial dishonesty is probably more to blame for the way "straight talk" has turned into double talk. Wednesday the disingenuous old man was in New Orleans claiming-- like Denny Hastert did-- that for all he cares they could just abandon the 9th Ward and not rebuild it.

He also told reporters he was not sure if he would rebuild the lower 9th ward as president.

"That is why we need to go back is to have a conversation about what to do-- rebuild it, tear it down, you know, whatever it is,” he said.

Whatever... But confronted about his destructive statement yesterday, he claimed he didn't remember having ever even said it!

Today, still visiting places other Republicans have been afraid to tread, he was talking with African-Americans in Arkansas. He either had a pronounced senior moment or slipped into defensive... fibbing mode again. Fibbing is a nice way of putting it, but his selective memory seemed to turn years into minutes. The video below shows him explaining that his decade of opposing a Martin Luther King National Holiday was "a very short time." McCain voted against MLK Day in 1983, opposed a state holiday in 1987 (four years later), opposed a new federal holiday in 1989 (six years later) and voted against funding for the commission established to encourage all states to recognize the King holiday in 1994—11 years after his original anti-MLK Day vote. Watch how slick he is. Or is he really just senile?