Academic?

MCCAIN: We can look back at the past and argue about whether we should have gone to war or not, whether we should have invaded or not, and that's a good academic argument.

Academic.

As Jason Linkins, who discusses this and other words of McCain at Huffington Post, says:

I can think of about four thousand people that will have no opportunity to attend that lecture.

Much ado has been made in the past few days about the perception of being "out of touch."

John McCain is so out of touch it is difficult to believe we are living on the same planet.

h/t to tristero
--the BB