Two new items up at Straight Talk McCain. The first is about another gaffe John made yesterday, this time in Israel. He compared the Jewish holiday Purim, a time to celebrate the Jewish people being saved from mass execution while living in Persia, to “their version of Halloween“.

Secondly – it appears that this weeks Iran/al Qaeda link McCain has been trying to invent wasn’t unique. He also did the same things last month speaking in Houston. We are at the point that this can no longer be considered a mistake, but rather an attempt to muddle the two together, much like the attempts by Bush to link Saddam and 9/11.