“I challenge Mr. Woods to debate me, anytime, anywhere,” Sen. John McCain told a hastily assembled Augusta, Georgia news conference. “He’s obviously taken a sabbatical from golf in order to campaign for the Presidency. I say, come out of your clubhouse and let’s debate like grown men.”
Horrified staffers later told reporters that Sen. McCain had slept poorly the night before and must have confused Woods with his actual opponent, Illinois Senator Barack Obama.
“I admit he’s a better golfer than I am,” Sen. McCain said, in an apparent reference to Tiger Woods. “But I’ll be a better President.”
McCain criticized “Woods” for taking an international trip “just to gain headlines. Doesn’t Tiger realize people in those other nations can’t vote? Unless they’re American citizens living abroad or military,” the Senator pointed out.
McCain noted that many athletes had translated their success in sports into success in the political arena, naming Rep. Jack Kemp, former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura, and Sens. Jim Bunning and Bill Bradley.
“The House and Senate are one thing,” Sen. McCain told reporters. “Politics, unlike golf, is a team sport. Mr. Woods can go it alone, or technically with just a caddy. But in Washington, you have to know how to play on a team, which is what my military background gives me.”
When asked by reporters whether he was perhaps confusing Woods with Sen. Obama, McCain paused, stared into space for approximately three minutes, and then called for the next question.
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