how low can McCain sink?

[realthog]

Pretty goddam low, it seems, and the election hasn't even started yet. Here's from today's New York Times:

On McCain, Obama and a Hamas Link

By LARRY ROHTER

In the clearest indication yet of how he intends to confront Senator Barack Obama on foreign policy issues in the general election, Senator John McCain on Friday again portrayed the Democratic contender as being the favorite of Hamas, the militant Palestinian group, and implied that he would also be friendly with Iran, a Hamas ally.

For story in full see http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/10/us/politics/10mccain.html?th=&adxnnl=1&emc=th&adxnnlx=1210460457-j0aGrZqPZjsN+sR4PzPW5g.

I've gotta say, any tiny temptation I might have experienced ever to say anything in defense of McCain has promptly evaporated. With this bit of smear he's shown himself to be the same sort foul, dishonest, anti-democratic, anti-American liar as Karl Rove and others of Rove's ilk. Shame on him.

Of course, as became painfully obvious in 2004, George W. Bush was the favorite candidate of Osama bin Laden, who did give everything in his power to get the sociopathic buffoon re-elected -- and there's a good case to be made that, without bin Laden's last-minute intervention, Il Buce might not have got enough votes for the election to be credibly rigged. And why should bin Laden switch parties now? His ideal is to have a warmonger in the White House. Well, step forward proudly, John McCain.

And if you don't like these remarks, Mr. McCain, stop making similar ones -- only not so similar, because unlike these they're without justification -- about other candidates.

Comments

[louismaistros.livejournal.com]

Strap on your trusty vomit bag because this will only get worse. Much, much worse.

Remember when McCain seemed mostly sane, almost likable? Those days are gone, gone, gone. Dude has been crossing over some serious lines lately. The kind you don't come back from.

In the last year or so you've been watching the rapid deterioriation of a man's soul. But I believe he will lose in the general election. I believe this because I have to believe it in order to keep a shred of sanity.

I've become quite fond of my shred of sanity. I've even given it a name. I call it Burt.

[realthog.livejournal.com]

"Strap on your trusty vomit bag because this will only get worse."

Don't worry, it's been strapped on okay . . . and I've made sure I have plenty of spares for when this one's full.

The one thing that, above all else, has impressed me about Obama is that he's largely kept clear of this kind of shit. There are other things I like about him too (although I do wish some of his policies could be a bit more courageous), but he seems the only one of the three who understands dignity. The other two are debasing the office of President without having even got there -- which hopefully neither of them will.