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Another McCain bamboozlement
http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=771909
Yet it was the McCain campaign threw out a 61 year old librarian who showed up at a town hall meeting.
The McCain town halls are as scripted as the Bush town halls but they are not always as good as tossing out the
few dissidents who manage to sneak in or occasionally a "helpful" surrogate like Carly Fiorina or Phil Gramm gets McCain in hot water.
His real bamboozlement is the Bush third term criticism. He mentions that he opposed the Bush tax cuts because he did not see a restraint on spending (without mentioning he now supports them which is noted by the Journal Sentinel). Does any one remember Bush or McCain supporting new restraints on spending that makes up for the cost of extending the tax cuts.? Earmarks are a tiny fraction of the cost of extending the Bush tax cuts.
He lists the immigration reform bill as an example of his political courage of takng on his party without mentioning that he would have voted against his own bill. Of course he was trying to appeal to that same base he wanted to take on and show his "independence."
The article from the JS online is typical of the fawning treatment that McCain gets from the media. The most negative part of the article occurs in a side bar how McCain changed his POW story from naming his men after Packer players in his memoirs to Steeler players while campaigning in Pennsylvania. It was kind of bad luck for McCain to be in Wisconsin and Green Bay Packer country immediately after his Pittsburgh gaffe.
If it was not for that side bar, this article could have been written by a McCain campaign staffer.
Comments (2)
McCain's straight embarassing. Luckily, the only people that believe his shit are pundits, who make up something like 0.0000000004% of the voting population.
July 14, 2008 1:23 AM | Reply | Permalink
It is kind of interesting that in 2000 Al Gore was attacked as a serial exaggerator but McCain with his whoppers barely draws a blip in the national media.
Why lie about the Pittsburgh Steelers as the NFL team he chose as the names he gave the NVA under torture? It not only contradicted his book that it was the Packers but an interview he gave in 2005 when the book was made into a movie. It is an obvious pander to the Pennsylvania media.
If Al Gore made such a terrible lie, the story would have beaten to death by the media 24-7 for the entire campaign.
July 14, 2008 6:35 AM | Reply | Permalink
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