Last month John McCain pledged to run a "respectful campaign" against
the Democratic nominee, whether it be Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2008-04-01-mccain-va_N.htm
Last week he turned around and called Sen. Obama the candidate of
Hamas.
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5i5FAJTf7_jHU0BoRo04wKobXQW9w
Wow, that's respectful.
Obama hit back at McCain in an interview with Wolf Blitzer.
http://blogs.usatoday.com/onpolitics/2008/05/obama-says-mcca.html
"John McCain always says 'I am not going to run that kind of
politics,' and to engage in that kind of smear is unfortunate,
particularly because my policy toward Hamas has been no different than
his," Obama tells Wolf Blitzer.
Obama says of Hamas that "I've said it's a terrorist organization and
we should not negotiate with them unless they recognize Israel,
renounce violence, and unless they are willing to abide by previous
accords between the Palestinians and the Israelis. So for him to toss
out comments like that I think is an example of him losing his
bearings as he pursues this nomination. We don't need name calling in
this debate."
Wait a minute... bearings?
That sounds like "ball bearings," which is somewhat reminiscent of
"marbles"... why, Barack Obama just said John McCain is senile old
fart!
No, actually he said exactly what he meant:
McCain is losing his bearings.
His sense of direction.
His poise.
His awareness of his position or situation relative to his
surroundings.
Pick your own definition.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/bearing
But this was red meat for the McCain campaign, who for some reason
decided that it would be a good idea to encourage the public to focus
on their candidate's advanced age.
Mark Salter (he of the "flake and a poser and an attention-seeking
diva" comments) immediately whipped out an outraged email:
http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/campaign-2008/2008/05/09/a-dust-up-over-the-mccain-age-issue.html
"First," Salter said in an E-mail to re****ters and McCain sup****ters,
"let us be clear about the nature of Senator Obama's attack today. He
used the words 'losing his bearings' intentionally, a not particularly
clever way of raising John McCain's age as an issue. This is typical
of Obama's style of campaigning."
Waaaah.
But this is all a moot point.
Clearly John McCain is not losing his bearings, as you can see from
this video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dIQCoDnzrc&eurl=http://www.jedre****t.com/2008/05/john-mccains-up.html
Third Bush term anyone?
By EarlG
Democratic Underground
http://www.democraticunderground.com/
Harry
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