Overnight his fans go from being “My Friends” to “My Fellow Prisoners”? I listened to McCain/Palin speaking in Bethlehem, PA and could have sworn I heard him say My Fellow Prisoners but quickly got distracted by the negative backround chants.  So I didn’t think about it again until I saw some twitter activity regarding it tonight. Here’s the footage. Hear for yourself.

“You and I together will confront the $10 trillion debt the federal government has run up and balance the federal budget by the end of my term in office,” he said. “Across this country, this is the agenda I have set before my fellow prisoners and the same standards of clarity and candor must now be applied to my opponent.” -McCain in Bethlehem, PA

So my guess is that he was having a partial flashback. Seriously folks does he know where he is at any given time. During the debate last night he kept saying “Peacemaker” when he should have said “Peacekeeper”.  Was he suddenly transported to a post-Hanoi Hilton POW group therapy session?  His mind is elsewhere. Furthermore it is an imprisoned mind, and that is to be expected what with all the man has been through. So, 21 months on the campaign trail is stressfull and enough to screw with anyones head a little, but John’s a 72 year old, cancer surviving, former POW. Nevertheless, for all he and Palin’s talk of the future, and how Obama keeps bringing up the past, he really is quite stuck in it, with his subconscious finger on the rewind button of a looping VHS tape. What was there before VHS, oh maybe an old 16mm film loop.

Found this article after finishing this post: http://rawstory.com/news/2008/McCain_flub_My_fellow_prisoners_1008.html

*modified song lyric in title of this post credited to the always youthful Michael McDonald.