McCain: "We've already won in Iraq"

The media honeymoon for McCain may be coming to an end.
Kel at The Osterley Times has video of an MSNBC segment in which a rather contorted defence of McCain's recent statements are met with ridicule and chuckling.

The first part concerns McCain's recent imaginary scenario of victory in Iraq by 2013. While the wingnuts have nearly wet themselves in ecstasy over a fictional future, the press has remained puzzled if this constitutes some kind of "timetable" for Iraq. Not so, says McCain in the video, who then goes on to say that we have already won in Iraq, right now in 2008. McCain's media defender dismisses the entire thing as "aspirational", but fails to take up the issue of our recent "win" beyond making a broad claim that "the surge is working".

I am at a loss to see how John McCain's ability to simply imagine a world in which all Republican talking points turn out to be true actually helps his Party in any way. It completely baffles me how we can spend $12 billion a week on a war (really an occupation) that apparently we have already won. Has anyone informed our military that it's "over"?
McCain seems to be living in his own little world, and the media is finally pointing it out.
For more chuckles, check out Oliver Willis' use of McCain's magical ability to change the future.

2013. Wow, we’re finally here. It feels like just yesterday it was 2008 and the world was so different from how it is now, in 2013. My, how things have changed! And strangely, everything changed for the better, especially for me. It’s as if I wrote a fictional account of how things would change and just wrote it from a positive point of view or something stupid like that.

It seems we could have saved ourselves a lot of lives and money if McCain had just imagined Iraq over in 2004.

The second part of the video is about McCain's flip-flop on Hamas, in which we learn that McCain was simply "giving Hamas the benefit of a doubt" back in 2006. More laughs all around.
McCain is a mother lode of comedic value given the dramatic contortions his "Straight Talk" has taken, but the far greater comedic gold will be found in the statements of those who try to explain and defend him. The media smells blood. Not the "lapel pin" type of blood, but rather the "WTF is this guy talking about?" kind of blood.