Earlier today, while defending “vitriolic” remarks which I made a few weeks ago on a blog called Reflections From a Murky Pond, I noticed the site-owner had posted on the following:
INEZ, Kentucky (Reuters) – Republican presidential candidate John McCain on Wednesday demanded the North Carolina Republican Party withdraw an advertisement critical of Democrat Barack Obama over his controversial pastor.
“We asked them not to run it,” McCain told reporters on his campaign bus as he rode to an anti-poverty event in the coalfields of eastern Kentucky.
“I’m sending them an e-mail as we speak asking them to take it down. I don’t know why they do it. Obviously, I don’t control them. But I’m making it very clear that there’s no place for that” in his campaign.
H/T – jonolin
This is a wise move on McCain’s part, if you ask me, for slinging mud does nothing but get everyone dirty.
Note: This is not an endorsement of McCain.
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Frank J. on McCain’s genius… or crankiness.
Frank J. did nothing to show how McCain’s actions or words could be construed as cranky.
I think Frank J. wants McCain to be cranky so that Frank J. can call McCain cranky.
Of course. A cranky McCain is more fun for a political humor site.
I’m glad it’s not an endorsement for McCain… the man’s a fascist, just like Bush. If it were up to him and Bush, we’d have martial law tomorrow. I’ll take socialism (Clinton or Obama) over fascism (McCain) any day of the week.
ilncc,
McCain fascist? I don’t know about that. It seems to me that all of those who call Bush “fascist” or “Bushitler” and the like, are engaging in some the most outlandish hyperbole. It is true that the terror attacks on 9/11 affected everyone differently, while Bush was taking measures to keep our country safe, others thought that the US Gov’t committed the terror attacks as a sort of false flag operation. This led those folks to see every move of the President as just another step in to military dictatorship and eventually global conquest.
But as for McCain, he’s much more liberal than Bush.
“while Bush was taking measures to keep our country safe, others thought that the US Gov’t committed the terror attacks as a sort of false flag operation.”
There is a middle ground.
A middle ground at what? Interpreting the events and the psychological phenomena after 9/11? Or a middle ground which could (or should) have been taken regarding inter/national security?
I don’t disagree if you are referring to either, my response to ilncc was simplistic, but then, ilncc thinks that McCain is just like Bush, that is, a fascist, so I figured it’d be best to keep things simple.