John McCain Can’t Get His Surrogates On Message

Whether it’s Phil Gramm saying we’re “a nation of “whiners” suffering a “mental recession” or George Will calling Americans “the crybabies of the western world“, the McCain campaign continues to be embarrassed.  And now, Bud Day, a member of the Swift Boat Veterans For Bush who was most recently used to blast Wesley Clark,

In a phone call with reporters arranged by the Republican Party of Florida, Day had these kind words for those of another faith:

“The Muslims have said either we kneel or they’re going to kill us.  I don’t intend to kneel and I don’t advocate to anybody that we kneel, and John doesn’t advocate to anybody that we kneel.”

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Does McCain know how to fire somebody?