Is There a Special Place for McCain?
5 Comments Published July 29th, 2008 in National and International Issues.He better hope now that there isn’t.
In No More Mr. Nice Guy I wrote, “expect to see a slicker, more focused McCain image from now on.”
I have to give the McCain campaign credit. They’re turning on a dime. A few weeks ago, McCain seemed to actually think about things and then say what he thought. But now, like a good sailor, McCain is proving that he can take orders. And the orders have one word on them: “Attack!”
Obama on McCain: “a man who has served this country heroically. I honor that service, and I respect his many accomplishments.”
McCain on Obama: “Senator Obama would rather lose a war in order to win a campaign.”
Think about that for a second. McCain is saying that Obama is a traitor to his country. And he’s telling us why Obama is doing things, not just what Obama is doing. He’s telling us that he can read Obama’s mind.
I believe that when McCain reorganized his campaign and brought in the Rove people, he also decided that he had to surrender himself to the dark side to have a chance at winning. (I know … I’m doing the same thing McCain is doing. But I’m not asking you to elect me as President.)
McCain’s new Karl Rove inspired handlers have coached him to ’stay on message’ whatever else happens. Consider the the interview with Larry King recently. King asked McCain directly about his negative campaigning. McCain initially followed Obama’s lead and said, “I admire and respect Senator Obama.” But the only thing he mentioned that he admires is that, “He has done a great job securing the nomination to his party.” And then he goes directly on attack and fails to answer the question.
This has the “Karl Rove attack dog method” written all over it.
When Rove did this to McCain in 2000, McCain was quoted later as saying, “I believe that there is a special place in hell for people like those.” For his own sake, he better hope he’s wrong now.
(To see and hear this idea set to music, check out this version by “Max and the Marginalized”.)
Sadly, I have to agree with you about the McCain campaign. See http://www.factcheck.org – a very credible source in my opinion – for some eyebrow-raising analysis of McCain campaign fulminations.
No one should pay any attention to what one campaign says about the opposition — It is going to be distorted.
I’m an admirer of factcheck.org too. They don’t take sides, they just report the facts. (Obama’s campaign skirts the edge a little too closely sometimes too!)
Unfortunately, some people do pay attention to what one campaign says about the opposition. That’s why McCain lost in South Carolina in 2000 — a loss that cost the nation dearly since it may have put Bush in the White House instead. And that’s why I think it’s worth while pointing out that the same injustice is happening again.
So we are to endorse some guy that WON’T acknowledge his daddy was well, not a father, but merely a sperm doner and a bigamist as well. Has thrown his white mother and grand parents, who raised him and funded his education, under any passing buss!
Claiming to be black when he is only about 1/8 black, and is indeed an educated Muslim.
If that be thrown down, he only has the EXTREMELY racist Rev. Wright as a backup. Anybody note how silent Jesse and Al seem to be on the candidate Hussein?
I’m no fan of McCaine, but I would never cast a positive vote for another No REAL change fucked up attorney for any position that did not require a BAR passage for the office.
In this country we talk allot about honor and pasts of those we desire to place over us. So when did the event of being a half breed born to a bigot rise to the top of the list? In reality, Oboama is but a bastard child, very lucky to have grand parents capable of providing him a great education, too bad they could not keep him out of the ghetto as he grew up.
08 the year of the geriatric landslide!
I considered simply deleting your post, but then I decided that it would be better to leave as an exhibit of one sort of person who opposes Obama. Just for the record, virtually all of your statements are false, but I won’t take the time to refute them because they’re such obvious and transparent lies.
However, I would like to point out that before this, there has never been a mention of Obama’s race on this site. I personally consider it to be a non-issue.
This just in …
As a further demonstration of Obama’s reaction to negative campaigning, from the Associated Press:
“Barack Obama’s presidential campaign says a new rhyme by supporter and rapper Ludacris is “outrageously offensive” to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, Republican Sen. John McCain and President Bush.”
This is a great example of how Obama is trying to keep this campaign from slipping into the mud. But like our previous poster, McCain isn’t helping. Using a comment from Obama that never mentioned race, McCain then injected it into the campaign in a big way by pretending to be offended. Again from the Associated Press:
“McCain took on the role of aggrieved victim, his campaign waiting almost a day after Obama’s remarks to charge that he had injected race into the presidential campaign. “Barack Obama has played the race card.”
It looks to me like McCain simply jumped at any chance to talk about race himself.