John McCain Doesn't Make Any Sense

From the "John McCain Will Say Anything" Department, ABC News reports on the nonsensical television ad released by the McCain campaign:

McCain Thinks We're Better Off Than We Were 8 Years Ago - But Worse Off Than We Were 4 Years Ago (Huh?)

Sen. John McCain's new TV ad asserts that "Washington's broken. John McCain knows it. We're worse off than we were four years ago."

But the Obama camp notes that this is a somewhat different note than the one Sen. McCain sang during the primaries. The CNN debate January 30 featured the following exchange:

"Are Americans better off than they were eight years ago?" asked CNN's Anderson Cooper.

"I think you could argue that Americans overall are better off, because we have had a pretty good prosperous time, with low unemployment and low inflation and a lot of good things have happened," McCain said. "A lot of jobs have been created."

Jake Tapper concludes:

Can one think that we're currently better off than we were eight years ago, during the Bill Clinton presidency, but worse off than we were four years ago, during the Bush presidency?

Does that make any sense?

McCain is basically arguing that things were best in 2004, are worse than that now in 2008, but were the absolute worst in 2000.

Are you better off now than in 2000? Housing crisis, credit crunch, the dropping value of the dollar, two wars overseas extending the military to a breaking point -- all better than where we were before Bush came into office. Right.

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