Obama Doesn't Watch The News: Updated With Video Of McCain Smacking Obama

I have wondered how Barack could seem so ignorant of current events particularly in the Middle East but now it comes out in a profile of his "body man" Reggie Love in the NYT. Dean Barnett and Abe Greenwald picked up on this little nugget that sheds alot of light on the subject. I hear he doesn't read blogs either so where does he get his news?

Along the way, some unofficial rules have emerged between the candidate and his aide. From Mr. Obama: “One cardinal rule of the road is, we don’t watch CNN, the news or MSNBC. We don’t watch any talking heads or any politics. We watch ‘SportsCenter’ and argue about that.”

John McCain recently challenged/invited Obama to go to Iraq with him to meet with PM Maliki and Gen Petraeus to see the very real progress that has been made there in the last year or so but the Obama camp declined with talking points that sound more like talking points gleaned from a MoveOn memo.

John McCain’s proposal is nothing more than a political stunt, and we don’t need any more ‘Mission Accomplished’ banners or walks through Baghdad markets to know that Iraq’s leaders have not made the political progress that was the stated purpose of the surge. The American people don’t want any more false promises of progress, they deserve a real debate about a war that has overstretched our military, and cost us thousands of lives and hundreds of billions of dollars without making us safer.

So how does Barack explain why we haven't been attacked on American soil again or that terrorist attacks are down 40% worldwide? What is he afraid of, is he afraid he will see the progress and it won't fit his narrative anymore? Is he afraid to alienate his moonbat base? The Iraqis have come lightyears in a very short time and accomplished more politically than our own inept Democrat controlled Congress and with the central government now extending its security control to areas that had been controlled by various militias like Basra, Mosul and Sadr City the people now have real hope for the first time in decades. Even the hopelessly biased NYT has had to admit to the growing success over there when Al Qaeda has even admitted they are defeated and unable to win.
This man want to be POTUS and he can't even remember what city he is in, what month it is, or when events in history happened or the results of history and now we know he does not even stay abreast of current events. He is barely qualified to be dog-catcher in my little country town let alone POTUS.
Update: Via Hotair is McCain at a townhall meeting today with the gloves off and landing devestating body blows.