What about McCain's character?

[babylonsister]

What about McCain's character?
By MARK GREEN

Wednesday, July 30th 2008, 11:23 PM


Pundits on the the talk shows say that the '08 election is all about Barack Obama: Can he pass the commander in chief test and avoid gaffes and reassure white voters? But another question is whether John McCain can pass the character test.

So far, he's failing.

What? A bona fide war hero and POW survivor is being questioned about character?

Well, yes. It's time that McCain and his acolytes stopped assuming that his extraordinary military service nearly 40 years ago gives him immunity to questions about being President today in a different century.

First, there is the unpleasant fact that in the past week McCain has sounded more like Joseph McCarthy in his patriotism-baiting of Obama. When he repeatedly says that Obama "would rather lose a war in order to win a political campaign," he's imputing a political motive that he can't know and that is contradicted by the available evidence.

Agree with Obama's Iraq policies or not, surely he's been consistently opposed to our invasion and occupation of a country that didn't attack us, dating from the speech he gave in 2002 - of course before he was a U.S. senator or presumptive Democratic nominee.

Bluntly, what McCain is doing is a familiar trope - from McCarthy to Richard Nixon's "positive polarization" to Bush 41's campaigning in flag factories against a guy with a foreign-sounding last name to Bush 43's "with us or with the terrorists" rhetoric after 9/11.

That is, the Democrat who dares disagree with Republican policy on matters of war and peace is disloyal.

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http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2008/07/30/2008-07-30_what_about_mccains_character.html

Mark Green is president of Air America Media and the former public advocate of New York City.

[AndyTiedye]

1. Very Much Kicked and Recommended!

:kick:

[damntexdem]

2. But it's so hard to target McSame's character:

I mean, it's so hard to find any, much less target it.

;-)

[Toucano]

3. Not to mention his judgment.

Seriously.

He supported Bush in 2004. Supported and campaigned for him.

And Bush is a disaster.

McCain should be made to answer for that.

[Gabi Hayes]

4. extraordinary military service?

what.....killing a bunch of innocent civilians?

admitting that he was a war criminal?

not that stuff like that is going to ever be said about him, even though true.