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Is This The End of John McCain?
By Steve Levine | November 13, 2008
John McCain…that self-desribed paragon of integrity and honor…the straight-talker who always puts country first… is in Georgia campaigning for Senator Saxby Chambliss.
This is the same Saxby Chambliss who ran for the Senate in 2002, defeating the Democratic incumbent, Max Cleland…the same Chambliss whose campaign against Cleland focused on the issue of national defense and homeland security, but drew criticism for an attack ad featuring Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein that questioned Cleland’s record on the issue. Cleland was one of the senators who was blocking the passage of the homeland security bill, voting against the bill.
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Republican Senator John McCain of Arizona said of one Chambliss ad, “It’s worse than disgraceful, it’s reprehensible.
And yet, today, John McCain has gone to Georgia to extol the virtues of that same Saxby Chambliss.
The John McCain of 2002 got it right when he spoke out against Chambliss.
But by supporting Chambliss now, the John McCain of 2008, who sold his honor and integrity in a desperate attempt to win the presidency, has now lost whatever was left of his once honorable name.
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November 14th, 2008 at 2:16 am
Hear, hear.
John McCain has revealed his true colors.
I believe that he was damaged mentally and spiritually by his imprisonment in Vietnam– culminating finally in his abandonment of all principle– the ’straight talk express’ became ‘the double-talk express’ quite a while ago in this campaign cycle.
Saxby Chambliss is the lowlife whose campaign for state Senator from Georgia in 2002 impugned the patriotism of the incumbent Sen. Max Cleland, a triple-amputee Vietnam vet, by running that ad with the faces of Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein preceeding the wheelchair-bound Cleland’s face.
As you say, John McCain himself said, “I’d never seen anything like that ad, it’s worse than disgraceful. It’s reprehensible.â€
Chambliss received five student deferments during the Vietnam War.
This is the same racist bigot who recently said: “There was a high percentage of minority vote, but we weren’t able to get enough of our folks out on election day.â€
“Our folks.â€
Chambliss also advised his followers: “the other folks are votingâ€, and the “rush to the polls by African-Americans…got our side energized early, they see what is happening.â€
Sad to say, these vile, barely disguised code words show that the dirty politics of Karl Rove and Lee Atwater still resonate with some of Sarah Palin’s “real Americans†in the “real Americaâ€.
November 14th, 2008 at 10:34 am
Yet, people still consider him a maverick - what a joke.
November 14th, 2008 at 10:34 am
No doubt McCain carries emotional as well as physical scars from his imprisonment, but I detect something else that may have resulted from his military experience: An arrogance, a feeling that he’s special because of that experience, leading to a sense of entitlement.
(”Look what I did for my country; I deserve to be President.”)
McCain was “cheated” out of the presidency eight years ago by a vicious campaign run by Rove and Bush. This year, when he saw that an upstart Obama, who never served in the military, was leading him in the polls, he reacted like a spoiled child of privilege (which he’s been all his life) and ran a desperate, dishonorable campaign.
Sadly, what we’re seeing is the REAL McCain.
November 14th, 2008 at 10:44 am
That is an interesting contrast to President Bush, who possesses a sense of entitlement despite real military experience.
November 14th, 2008 at 1:15 pm
Not sure what your last statement means, Josh.
I think McCain and W are very much alike: two spoiled children of privilege who were born on third base, but who think they’ve hit a triple.
Two men who are incapable of introspection, who consider themselves infallible and whose pronouncements are so often bathed in the blinding glare of their own certainty.
They are frighteningly alike, and we’re fortunate that McCain won’t be following Bush into the White House.
November 14th, 2008 at 2:39 pm
I just find it interesting that with completely different military backgrounds, they have both developed the same sense of entitlement.
They are so certain of themselves that they completely flip flop their positions on many issues in a matter of days. An utter lack of fundamental principles is what they both possess, which is why I could never support either one of them.
November 14th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
I think that sense of entitlement has less to do with their different military backgrounds (Bush has none!) than with their similar family histories:
Both were born into privilege, both advanced through life with the help of powerful fathers whose influence smoothed their way and bailed them out of trouble. When you’ve had everything handed to you, it’s easy to understand why you would think it should always be that way…that you’re entitled to whatever you want.
Bush never developed a sense of personal responsibility; McCain acquired his only after the POW experience. Prior to that, by all accounts he was a spoiled, self-indulgent brat.
Bush is totally devoid of character.
The old McCain had it, but his arrogance and sense of entitlement changed him when he was denied the presidency in 2000 and again this year.
Like a spoiled, immature child, neither man is used to being told “No.” And they respond by throwing a temper tantrum — which McCain is famous for, and which Bush can barely control when confronted with aggressive questioning of his decisions.
Neither has the temperament or maturity to be president.
November 14th, 2008 at 10:43 pm
When the future becomes the past, we will have had the truth of it. Not now…not until then.
November 15th, 2008 at 9:36 am
Nonsense.
At 72 and 62, McCain and Bush have already written their life stories.
The verdict is in and there’s no need to wait
November 15th, 2008 at 9:59 am
So it would seem…in your frame of reference. That is precisely the message. We have yet but to turn another page. Obviously you have an historical perspective. Give that serious scrutiny as you anticipate future events. After better than 60 years of looking over my shoulder I am not so confident as to ANY administration sufficently learning from past mistakes.
November 15th, 2008 at 4:46 pm
My perspective is as always…this is a loaf of bread yet unmade. The new chef has a recipe in its formative stages, whose ingredients have yet to be selected, blended, allowed to rise, placed in the oven, allowed to bake, be cooled, sliced and served. Four years from now we will see what had been set on the table for us and whether or not we will be interested more of the same. You have confidence in his abilities. So be it. The glass is half full.
For me, the glass is still empty. The proof will be in the pudding, yet years away.