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Joe Klein: McCain’s Cheap Shot Smacks of Desperation |
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I am no Joe Klein fan, but he is right – John McCain has made the most scurrilous attack by a major presidential candidate in memory. McCain claims that Obama “would rather lose a war in order to win a political campaign.” This is no different than calling Obama a traitor. Klein rightly calls this “a McCain meltdown” and says it “renews questions about whether McCain has the right temperament for the presidency.”
Klein is exactly right. Obama is doing well, McCain is floundering, and McCain’s response is to bitterly blame the media and to baselessly claim his opponent would sell out the country.Â
Obama needs no defending here. As usual, his response was pitch perfect as Obama exposed the utter nonsense embedded in McCain’s slur by pointing out that his own wife and young kids live in the U.S. and the idea that Obama would intentionally expose the country, and his family, to danger in order to gain some personal advantage is simply ludicrous and smacks of slander.
Apart from everything else, McCain’s comment makes no sense. How do candidates win elections by losing wars?Â
A Daily Kos diarist has more on McCain’s nauseating attack in a diary that really highlights how well Obama is doing recently and how badly McCain is floundering. Klein is right–McCain knows he is losing, he is desperate, and he is obviously willing to throw vile slime his opponent in an attempt to right his floundering campaign. McCain thinks he is exposing Obama’s supposed craven expediency but he has, in fact, exposed his own.
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