Chris Matthews Show: Campaigning on McSame's Image
By: Nicole Belle
The Village is having a tough time with John McCain's presidential run.
It
involves pu****ng several narratives that for people outside their bubble
would appear to be mutually exclusive. Is he a maverick or is he Bush's
3rd
term? Is he the reform candidate or does he have issues? The answer is
apparently yes to all of those. And he's inconsistent, as is obvious from
Andrea Mitchell's characterization of his first (but trust me, not his
last)
attack on Barack Obama.
MATTHEW: I've never heard John McCain.well, we all hear about him being
mad, I haven't seen him mad. But he looked like he sounded mad this week
when he said Obama is a basically the term "chickenhawk". He's talking
about the soldiers like he cares for them, he never served himself.
That's
the first time I heard John McCain make that shot at somebody for not
having
served.
MITCHELL: That's right. In fact, he never made that shot at Bush and
Cheney, who were, you know, boomers who could have gone to Vietnam. So he
let them have a pass and here you have a young man whose only war could
have
been perhaps Grenada at his age? [LAUGHTER] The volunteer army? And yet
he
said that he had ****rked his responsibility of going into the Armed
Services. I think that is really the tack he is going to take. It was
the
harshest attack on Barack Obama by John McCain yet. And it's all about
not
being able to meet the "Commander-in-Chief" test.
But my favorite is David "Bobo" Brooks, who is clearly invested in the
"McCain is not the same as Bush and is just a really swell guy" meme":
(Read the rest of this story.)
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/05/25/chris-matthews-show-campaigning-on-mcsames-image/#more-29540
McCrazy can make all the attackes he wants. It's only going to highlight
his
unfittness for the office. Whose finger would I want on the button, a
bat**** nutty hothead with zero integrity, or a thoughtful and reasonable
person of high native intelligence and clear thinking?
Gee, let me and the rest of America think about that for 6 months.
I think the peed off 90% would enjoy putting the Repug 10% down and it's
something thats long overdue.
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