When the going gets tough, McCain gets disgraceful

[babylonsister]

When the going gets tough, McCain gets disgraceful
Posted July 27th, 2008


It’s nothing short of breathtaking to watch a once honorable man want the presidency so desperately, he’s willing to flush his credibility and reputation down the toilet. John McCain’s new TV ad marks a turning point, not only in this presidential campaign, but as a measurement of McCain’s increasingly absent character.

“Barack Obama never held a single Senate hearing on Afghanistan,” the ad’s announcer says. “He hadn’t been to Iraq in years. He voted against funding our troops. And now, he made time to go to the gym, but cancelled a visit with wounded troops. Seems the Pentagon wouldn’t allow him to bring cameras. John McCain is always there for our troops. McCain: Country first.” It concludes with the candidate’s voice: “I’m John McCain and I approve this message.”

There are eight sentences in this campaign commercial, and the only honest one was McCain approving of this message.

There are three angles to this ad worth considering: what it says, what it tells us about McCain, and what it tells us about the state of the race.

First, in terms of the substance, the ad is demonstrably ridiculous and the most fundamentally dishonest campaign commercial of the cycle thus far. The claim about Senate hearings is wildly misleading. The attack about voting against funding the troops is ridiculous. The argument about Obama not spending time in Iraq is disingenuous. The notion that Obama would rather go to the gym than visit wounded troops is insane. The claim that Obama would only visit troops if he could bring cameras is an inflammatory, transparent lie. The notion that McCain is “always there for our troops” is demonstrably false.

The media is using predictable words to describe this new ad. We’re hearing words like “tough,” “hard-hitting,” and “aggressive.”

But let’s cut through the nonsense. The ad is a work of fiction. It’s a sucker punch thrown by a pugilist willing to cheat to win. John McCain is lying, and he knows it.

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[speedoo]

1. K&R. Thanks for posting this. nt

[polichick]

2. Typical narcissistic bully - they always get ugly when threatened.

[Democrats_win]

3. Looks like the devil spoke to McCain, "Go toward the lie! Go toward the lie!"

[liberalmuse]

4. McCain is completely dishonorable.

And not the type of person this country needs right now, or ever. This ad will be one of the many things that continue to sink him.

[Cha]

12. Makes me wonder if he were ever "honorable" or

was it all just for show? And, now it's impossible to keep the real john mccain exposed to the world.

[Ichingcarpenter]

5. John McCain is a hypocrite:

"How can we possibly find honor in using the fate of our servicemen
to score political advantage in Washington? There is no pride to be
had in such efforts. We are at war, a hard and challenging war,
and we do no service for the best of us-those who fight and risk all
on our behalf-by playing politics with their service.".


-John McCain.Congressional Record, 5/24/07

[dkf]

6. Obama is so good he forces his opponents to go all weird on us.

Its fascinating to watch.

[BlooInBloo]

10. You learn a lot about people when they're under stress.

[still_one]

7. I question the assertion that he was "once an honorable man"

on what basis? because he was a prisoner of war?

because of his voting record?

because of his position on voting against a day honoring Martin Luther King, or his association with the Keating 5?

mccain may have been through adversity during Viet Nam, but that does not make him honorable

In fact his true character is being observed right now, it is just that the media has been covering it up for him

[badgerpup]

15. McCain...and Brutus...were indeed honorable men.

:evilgrin:

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/MovieSpeeches/moviespeechjuliuscaesarantony.html

"Brutus is an honorable man..."

Marc Antony: Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears. I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them. The good is oft interred with their bones. So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus hath told you Caesar was ambitious. If it were so, it was a grievous fault, and grievously hath Caesar answered it.

Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest -- for Brutus is an honourable man; so are they all, all honourable men -- come I to speak in Caesar's funeral. He was my friend, faithful and just to me.

But Brutus says he was ambitious, and Brutus is an honourable man.

He hath brought many captives home to Rome whose ransoms did the general coffers fill. Did this in Caesar seem ambitious? When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept. Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

Yet, Brutus says he was ambitious, and Brutus is an honourable man.

You all did see that on the Lupercal I thrice presented him a kingly crown -- which he did thrice refuse. Was this ambition?

Yet, Brutus says he was ambitious, and sure he is an honourable man.
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More at link...it's a rather long speech. But it boils down to that Marc Antony never impugns Brutus's honor...but you still get a pretty clear picture of just what kind of person Brutus actually is...

(HINT: Brutus was one of the guys with the knives who accosted Julius Caesar and made "Ides of March" a very bad day for him)

[still_one]

17. but in the play, Brutus was actually honorable, though I get your point /nt

[BlooInBloo]

8. Just like the primary....

[dkf]

9. haha. That's perfect.

[Cha]

11. And heinous bullshit starts surging from his yap.

As Chris Weigant writes in his blog and on DU..

"Obama Shines, McCain Whines"

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x372974

[dkf]

13. lol...you guys are killing me this morning. love it.

[MasonJar]

14. Obama should run an ad discounting each of these charges and

including the facts about McCain on each accusation.

[samsingh]

16. mccain is a joke - though dangerous and insane

[grantcart]

18. not true sometimes when the going gets tought they resign in the middle of the night

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