8 attack ads in two weeks, each spot steeped in tomfoolery, boldfaced lies and approved by him, yet John McCain stoically denies he can be tied to the network behind the ads; his campaign’s life support since February when Mitt Romney announced the end of his presidential bid at the Conservative Political Action Conference where the crowd booed McCain’s lackluster ascendancy.
Barack Obama has been mugged by the press and stunned by a GOP nerve center hard wired into the motherboard of American politicking. He is waking up to find he’s been tied to the tracks and John McCain’s double speak express is lumbering towards him with whistle blowing.
In the past, McCain refused to endorse measures that would have ended affirmative action in Arizona. In 1998, he described such an effort as “divisive.”
On Sunday, when asked on ABC’s “This Week” about a current Arizona referendum to end the practice, McCain said: “I support it. I do not believe in quotas. But I have not seen the details of some of the proposals.”
Ana Marie Cox on why the press coddles McCain in the July/August issue of Radar Magazine:
Covering McCain is a blast. He genuinely likes reporters: He’ll joke with us about our drinking habits, playfully request our cell phones in the middle of a call and tell some unsuspecting editor or parent that the phone’s owner has just been hauled off to rehab, and engage in gleefully sarcastic banter about both our colleagues and his.
The venerable press can be bought with a beer and a joke? Not everyone’s so easily seduced.
Rachel Maddow questions the motives of those who paint Obama “presumptuous” for acting presidential yet ignore McCain actions that more readily fit the descriptive.
It is the uppity negro syndrome writ large yet those who dare to notice are playing the race card.
Update:
McCain Literally Puts Obama on $100 Bill – LITERALLY
Limbaugh marks 20 years on the air with call from the Bush family.