Thursday, June 19, 2008

Does he know the diff between Iraq and Iran?

Is it a Freudian slip or campaign strategy?

Illinois Republican Mark Kirk is in the blogosphere's doghouse today for a quote posted at Daily Kos, from a radio broadcast in which he said he supports a polict "where if we see Obama there's a shoot-on-sight order."

Now, officially he was talking about Osama bin Laden and just got mixed up. OK. I'll take at his word it's not part of the GOP smear campaign to paint Obama as a closet Muslim raised in a madrassa and sympathetic to terrorists. Or trying to encourage some gun nut.

But riddle me this, Illinois voters. If the man confuses a presidential candidate from his own state with the mastermind of 9/11, should we let him hold public office? Lord no.

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