From The Hill, 5/16/08:
http://pundits.thehill.com/2008/05/16/is-john-mccain-bushs-poodle/
May 16, 2008
Is John McCain Bush's Poodle?
By Brent Budowsky
John McCain is a much better man than the low-road campaign he pursues
when the worst president in history, George W. Bush, launches a
low-road attack on Barack Obama from abroad and John McCain is reduced
to saying: Me too.
If Tony Blair was called Bush's poodle, John McCain now aspires to
that mantle by giving total sup****t when George Bush does what no
other president has ever done, attack a domestic opponent while
abroad.
McCain cannot have it both ways, giving a speech claiming he will work
with Democrats, then within minutes parroting Bush's low-road attack.
McCain apparently forgot his own position about talking to Hamas,
which Obama does not sup****t, putting Obama to the right of McCain on
Hamas, while Bush and McCain slander Obama with the latest cheap shot.
Want an indefinite commitment in Iraq?
Bush and McCain are your men.
Oppose stronger assistance to veterans?
Bush and McCain are your team.
Want tax cuts to the wealthy while not giving strong sup****t to vets?
The Bush-McCain pair is for you.
Do you believe in government by laissez-faire that does little when
Americans are being foreclosed upon?
Then Bush and McCain point the way together.
Should America engage in torture?
McCain used to disagree, but now joins the Bush team with one of the
worst flip-flops of his career in a shameful and outrageous vote.
But above all, what has earned McCain the right to the mantle of
Bush's poodle is this:
Bush twists, distorts and misrepresents history and is the only
president in our history to make low-road attacks on a political
opponent while abroad.
Reagan didn't do it;
Ford didn't do it;
George H.W. Bush didn't do it;
Roosevelt and Truman didn't do it.
Jack Kennedy didn't do it and even Richard Milhous Nixon never did
this in his darkest days.
Bush did it, and John McCain was reduced to joining Bush on the low
road to demeaning our politics, our democracy and the presidency.
John McCain should have known better, but when George Bush initiated
one of the lowest moments of a low road presidency, John McCain could
only say, "Me too," which makes him a serious contender for the title
of Bush's poodle.
Barack Obama stands tall and presidential leading an army of Democrats
firing back, while John McCain looks like another small Bush
Republican in an age when America wants nothing more than Bush
Republicanism to fade into the dustbin of history.
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Harry
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