John Sidney McGaffe

By GottaLaff

Another day, another Freudian slip. Boy howdy, would J Sid make a well-spoken president! I can see him now, at Very Important Summits and Meetings and Press Conferences, eloquently um-m-ing and gumming his way through them, vying for second banana in the Georgie W School of Inept. Except, oops. he'll lose the election and we'll have a real president with impressive speaking skills and a functioning brain:

Republican presidential candidate John McCain let his tongue get the best of him at a town hall meeting Friday, revealing what critics would say is the true effect of opening US coastlines to drilling he now supports after years of opposing.

"I'll do everything in my power to get those offshore reserves exploited ... um, er, explored, discovered and um..." McCain said, drawing some knowing chuckles from the largely Republican audience.

He had to stop and collect his thoughts. Already he had been answering a woman's question about lowering gas prices for nearly two minutes -- squeezing in a joke about France in the process -- and he seemed flustered.

Thoughts gathered, he continued. The oil reserves around coastal states like Florida would be "explored and exploited and we will send the message ... all over the world that the United States is on the road to becoming independent from foreign oil." (emphasis his)

I'd provide the video, but I can't upload it since I still don't have my own program-rich computer back from Mr. Fix-It yet. However, I plan on putting together a bran new snarky video of my own of J Sid as soon as I can. Stay tuned....