Arizona Senator John McCain has been upset with President Obama since Obama kicked his butt in the 2008 presidential elections. So every chance he gets, McCain tries to chastised the president even when it’s clearly not warranted.
In his last appearance on CNN, McCain blamed Obama for everything that has gone wrong in the world, claiming the world is in “greater turmoil than at any time in my lifetime” and it is a “direct result of an absence of American leadership.”
CNN’S Fareed Zakaria rightfully disagreed, and took a moment to gently slam McCain in this Washington Post op-ed, by giving the senator a history lesson on all of the arguably much worse wars and struggles that occurred after McCain was born by before Barack Obama became president.
Last night, Zakaria sat down for an interview with his “future boss” Jon Stewart to elaborate on what he meant. Citing the Cold War, the war in Vietnam and the 1973 war between Israel and Egypt, Zakaria tried to give McCain some perspective.
When Stewart brought up the Civil War as yet another example, Zakaria replied, “You might have forgotten, that wasn’t in McCain’s lifetime… Though I can understand the mistake.”
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