Words of Wisdom (Empty Words)

McCain is a sage. Take a look at his words on Social Security and Medicare:

"Look -- look, it's not that hard to fix Social Security, Tom. It's just tough decisions. Social Security is not that tough. We know what the problems are, my friends, and we know what the fixes are. We've got to sit down together across the table. It's been done before.

I saw it done with our -- our wonderful Ronald Reagan, a conservative from California, and the liberal Democrat Tip O'Neill from Massachusetts. That's what we need more of, and that's what I've done in Washington.

Sen. Obama has never taken on his party leaders on a single major issue. I've taken them on. I'm not too popular sometimes with my own party, much less his.

So Medicare, it's going to be a little tougher. It's going to be a little tougher because we're talking about very complex and difficult issues.

My friends, what we have to do with Medicare is have a commission, have the smartest people in America come together, come up with recommendations, and then, like the base-closing commission idea we had, then we should have Congress vote up or down.

Let's not let them fool with it anymore. There's too much special interests and too many lobbyists working there. So let's have -- and let's have the American people say, "Fix it for us.""

Substance? When McCain says that he knows what the fixes are for Social Security, surely a hundred million pairs of ears prick up in anticipation only to be disappointed. What does that last sentence even mean? "Fix it for us." Sounds like a huge deflection of responsibility from all parties involved.