McCain calls tension between Palin and his aides "no big deal"

We're wondering just how out of it John McCain was when it came to the running of his campaign for president in 2008. Judging from some of the things that he's said, it appears he was not very involved in the campaign at all and chose to delegate most everything to his campaign subordinates.

Take, for example what he told the Associated Press in a Saturday interview:

"U.S. Sen. John McCain says he enjoyed reading Sarah Palin's new memoir and says the tension between his campaign aides and hers is no big deal."

Perhaps it was "no big deal" to the Senator, but it certainly made political life for Sarah Palin -- whom McCain referred to as a "dear friend" -- more difficult, to say the very least.

It's astouding to see how out of it the man from Arizona was (and continues to be) about one of the significant events in recent American history.

- JP