What Gaffe?

McCain gave a foreign policy address yesterday, and CNN is reporting some sort of gaffe.

McCain also made a gaffe Tuesday when he said several times that Iran, which is mostly a Shiite country, was training the predominantly Sunni militant group al Qaeda.

Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Connecticut, whispered in his ear. Moments later, McCain responded, "I'm sorry, the Iranians are training extremists, not al Qaeda."

I understand how this is considered a gaffe, but to me it seems more like a Freudian slip. Something else stood out to me in the story.

McCain, who is known for having a tough stance on foreign policy, came under enormous scrutiny last year at a campaign event in South Carolina when he joked about bombing Iran.

Singing a rendition of the Beach Boys song "Barbara Ann," McCain changed the lyrics to "Bomb Iran," singing, "bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran."

I guess that means every time Obama makes some sort of reference to a racial problem CNN will include a blurb that he's faced scrutiny for having a bigoted, anti-American minister. Hardly. Speaking of Obama, McCain's "gaffe" offered a chance of political opportunity. I'm going to try and avoid references to the grotesque mental image of Obama "needling" McCain. Funny word choice though.

"Just yesterday, we heard Sen. McCain confuse Sunni and Shiite, Iran and Al Qaeda," Obama said during a speech on Iraq Wednesday morning. "Maybe that is why he voted to go to war with a country that had no Al Qaeda ties. Maybe that is why he completely fails to understand that the war in Iraq has done more to embolden America’s enemies than any strategic choice that we have made in decades."

I'm just going to guess that Senator Obama saw Fahrenheit 911 recently.