Eh, not so much.

So, the Left-wing blogosphere has picked up a McCain quote which purportedly has him saying that 'social security is a disgrace' and ran with it. The quote (which I got from this post on DailyKos, here-) is as follows:

Americans have got to understand that we are paying present-day retirees with the taxes paid by young workers in America today. And that's a disgrace. It's an absolute disgrace, and it's got to be fixed.

So, says the diarist, the way that Social Security has worked since the thirties is a disgrace. Call me a kill-joy, but I don't really think that's what McCain was saying. Don't get me wrong, I'm not a supporter of McCain in any way, shape or form, but let's all take a deep breath here. Anyone that takes a minute to think about the quote would see that McCain's point wasn't that social security is a disgrace, but rather that in its current broken-ass state it is a disgrace. Sure back in the day, this was how it worked. The young workers paid taxes to cover the retirement of older workers. But there's a bit of a demographic gap now: too many old workers, not enough young ones.

People my age are going to get hosed because there just won't be Social Security for us young folks. No, before you all start flinging data at me, I don't want to get into a numbers game. Whether you agree with the extent of the problem or not (Republicans say it's a disaster waiting to happen, Democrats make noises about social security reform and do nothing about it) I think we can all get together on the idea that some reform is necessary in order to keep it working well. After all, we're not in the thirties, we're not the society, country or economy that we were in the thirties and we're living longer to boot.

So did McCain say social security was a disgrace? Eh, not so much. Do I agree with... well, golly gee, apparently Social Security isn't that important to John McCain at all. It doesn't even make his issues list on his website. Let's see, we have the following menu:
The Economy
Energy
National Security
Health Care
Iraq
Climate Change
Veterans
Immigration
The Sanctity of Life
2nd Amendment
Judicial Philosophy
Ethics Reform
Natural Heritage
Space Program
Agricultural Policies
Education
Hmmmmmm... education comes last and call me crazy, but where does social security fit into the above list?

Perhaps that should be the bigger story instead of a quote that can be interpreted many different ways.

**UPDATE: So, in the interest of going the extra mile, I found a search option (finally) and plugged in 'Social Security' and got some search results. Of the 25 top search results, 2 were about social security. You know, for someone willing to trash talk social security, he sure doesn't have a lot of info on what his stance on social security is.