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Is “loosing his bearings” a reference to somebody’s age? Maybe, by a very very long stretch. The McCain campaign is taking offense to a remark Barrack Obama made during a CNN interview today, calling the remark an “underhanded reference to the fact that McCain is 71 years old.”

During the interview Obama accused McCain of trying to smear him by saying that the Palestinian militant group Hamas favored his candidacy.

“And so for him to toss out comments like that I think is an example of him losing his bearings as he pursues this nomination.”

McCain advisor Mark Salter replied to the comment by saying:

“Obama’s attack today: He used the words ‘losing his bearings’ intentionally, a not particularly clever way of raising John McCain’s age as an issue. This is typical of the Obama style of campaigning.”

I think the McCain camp should relax just a wee bit about this so-called “attack”, which really isn’t an attack on McCain’s age at all. Loosing one’s bearings is more of a reference to one’s particular place and direction in a particular situation, not so much about one’s age. Now if Obama would have replaced “bearings” with “marbles,” then that’s a different situation all together!

Just by McCain’s advisors coming to his defense about Obama’s innocent remark slightly proves that his campaign is more worried about McCain’s age that Obama is. Kind of makes you wonder if the McCain camp is gearing up for some sort of “reverse psychology” spin on the age angle? You know, every time Obama says something innocent like “applesauce,” the McCain camp will fly into a rage citing attacks on McCain’s age.

Fact is John McCain is 71 years old, which would make him the oldest person to ever be president of the United States, if of course he gets there, so he’d better get used to the references to his age. Because everybody, not only Obama will be keeping that fact in the back of their minds.

Applesauce!

Tags: 2008 Presidential Candidates //