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J.D. Hayworth – An Embarrassing Blunder

I guess it will be a first for Harry’s Place to publish two posts about what has been occurring in Arizona in such a short space of time, but I could not resist sharing this news story.

The Huffington Post has brought to my attention the campaign video issued by the friends of John McCain  in McCain’s race to win Arizona’s GOP nomination against his primary challenger, former Congressman/radio talker J.D. Hayworth. The background to this particular video is that in a question-and-answer session with Phoenix Arizona voters, Hayworth made the following amazing claim: “We [the United States] never formally declared war on Hitler’s Germany.” The McCain team is clearly making the most of this astonishing blunder in their amusing campaign video: