When you graduate 894th out of a class of 899, eventually it will show up.

And John McCain's mediocre performance at the Naval Academy is showing up big time this week in his total lack of understanding of the nation's financial crisis.

He told us he didn't know much about the economy… now he's proving it.

When you observe his poor executive decission making power as shown in his Vice Presidantal Candidate you must ask:  "Is it basic intelligence, or illness and thought disorder for long incarceration, or just poor decision making ability?"  Witness the breadth of this inability:

He chose the wrong scapegoat," said James Cox, a professor of corporate and securities law at Duke University who is not related to the SEC chairman.

"It shows a profound ignorance of something (McCain) ought to know about being in Washington, and that is the limited regulatory authority of the SEC."

 ABC Panel Tears Into McCain: Not Presidential, Age Should Be An Issue again from Sam Stein of the Huffington Post.  There is a very good video with this article.  And, George F. Wills in a Washington Post article McCain Loses His Head. says

"Under the pressure of the financial crisis, one presidential candidate is behaving like a flustered rookie playing in a league too high. It is not Barack Obama."

Yes - enough to worry about.  BUT we are told in the Washington Post  that John Harris, the Republican speaker of the Alaska House, said he had never been called by the spouse of a governor before the two calls he got from Todd Palin. One was to argue for moving the state capital to Anchorage. The other was to ask Harris to "keep an eye" on a key aide who had an affair with the wife of one of Todd's best friends. In the same article this testament to the arrogant small minded tactics of these individuals is reported: 

Last week, the McCain campaign said Todd Palin would refuse to comply with a subpoena to testify in the investigation.

He did step in when KTUU-TV, the dominant broadcast station in Alaska, aired a segment describing the many personnel complaints the Palins had brought against Wooten. Todd Palin called to complain. The segment's producer, John Herbst, later resigned after he was reprimanded for failing to treat elected officials with "respect."

The Huffington Post adds more to the story.  

Networks Revolt Against Reporter-Blocking Palin UN Meeting  The Huffington Post,  "The McCain campaign gave in and agreed to let a CNN producer into the UN meetings.

ABC News reports that all of the networks are objecting to the John McCain campaign's attempt to get photographs of Sarah Palin at the U.N., but no news coverage..."  WELL THAT MAKES SENSE - THEY ARE ASHAMED OF HER.

AND NOW - Freddie Mac paid firm of McCain aide (did he know?).