Avast Matey!John McCain has gone crazy. He is now trying to pretend that he hasn’t been in Washington, DC for the last 20 years and that the economic problems we having are all Barack Obama’s fault. Think I’m kidding? This is what Senator McCain had to say on Wednesday:

We’ve heard a lot of words from Senator Obama over the course of this campaign. But maybe just this once he could spare us the lectures, and admit to his own poor judgment in contributing to these problems. The crisis on Wall Street started in the Washington culture of lobbying and influence peddling, and he was square in the middle of it.

Except that Senator Obama has refused to take money from lobbyists (unlike Senator McCain who has major lobbyists in position of power in his campaign) and has been in the Senate for less that three years (and not 22 years like Senator McCain). If anyone needs to admit his poor judgement it is Senator McCain.

And here’s Senator McCain talking about regulating the market during the last week:

- Deregulation: McCain issued a statement Monday morning saying that “we cannot tolerate a system that handicaps our markets and our banks.”

- Regulation: McCain’s campaign then put out an ad calling for “tougher rules on Wall Street.”

- Deregulation: This morning, on NBC’s Today Show, McCain said, “Of course, I don’t like excessive and unnecessary government regulation.”

- Regulation: Then, on CBS’s The Early Show, McCain said, “Do I believe in excess government regulation? Yes.”

- Both: On CNBC’s Squawk Box, McCain said, “We don’t want to burden average citizens with over-regulation and government bureaucracy…And I’m proud to be a Teddy Roosevelt Republican, who said, ‘unfettered capitalism leads to corruption,’ and we’ve got to fix this.”

The good thing is that the more John McCain speaks, the more the American people are seeing that he is clueless. Maybe it’s time to elect someone who actually worked hard and graduated from college as magna cum laude (Barack Obama) instead of a C student (George W. Bush) or third from the bottom of his class (John McCain).