More like the original Goose
Read the whole thing, the prospect of a McCain presidency is terrifying.
With the exception of McCain’s imprisonment in Vietnam, every aspect of this profile in courage is inaccurate or defunct.
McCain never called for Donald Rumsfeld to be fired and didn’t start criticizing the war plan until late August 2003, nearly four months after “Mission Accomplished.†By then the growing insurgency was undeniable. On the day Hurricane Katrina hit, McCain laughed it up with the oblivious president at a birthday photo-op in Arizona. McCain didn’t get to New Orleans for another six months and didn’t sharply express public criticism of the Bush response to the calamity until this April, when he traveled to the Gulf Coast in desperate search of election-year pageantry surrounding him with black extras.
McCain long ago embraced the right’s agents of intolerance, even spending months courting the Rev. John Hagee, whose fringe views about Roman Catholics and the Holocaust were known to anyone who can use the Internet. (Once the McCain campaign discovered YouTube, it ditched Hagee.) On Monday McCain is scheduled to appear at an Atlanta fund-raiser being promoted by Ralph Reed, who is not only the former aide de camp to one of the agents of intolerance McCain once vilified (Pat Robertson) but is also the former Abramoff acolyte showcased in McCain’s own Senate investigation of Indian casino lobbying.
August 17th, 2008 at 6:21 pm
Now who is trying to scare who? What a priceless, witless, fear-mongering screed. A sign of desperation? How changey and hopey of them.
I love how Republicans are responsible for Katrina, while dems took the money to fix the dikes and levies, and put it in their pockets for decades. The disaster of New Orleans sits squarely on the shoulders of all those corrupt democrats who were running that corrupt shithole for the past century. Evidently the voters of Louisiana post Katrina have come to this judgment, since they’ve been electing Republicans ever since the looters of New Orleans decamped to Texas.
August 17th, 2008 at 7:25 pm
Don’t forget the Republicans’ “political haberdashery”
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August 17th, 2008 at 8:23 pm
Actually, upon further reflection, I believe that the author of the quoted piece makes some fair points. Obviously, the federal government’s response to Katrina could have been quicker and better-managed, and McCain’s “maverick” image may be less deserved now than in former days. Nevertheless, to paint the media–and the Republican party–with such a broad brush is at best lazy and in my view irresponsible. Don’t we all benefit from objective news coverage and reasoned discourse?
August 17th, 2008 at 10:26 pm
LOL, just not my style babe.
August 17th, 2008 at 10:47 pm
Casca is right. Democrats are completely to blame for Katrina.
Bush called Governor Blanco on Friday and offered to completely take over rescue efforts in Louisiana. (The storm hit Sunday.) Blanco told the Bush to keep the Feds out of Louisiana as it was a state responsibility. So the storm hit and both Mayor Nagin and Governor Blanco were frozen with fear and indecision.
It was not until Wednesday the Banco allowed the Feds in. By then it was too late. Frank Rich is correct to interject Katrina into this campaign. It shows what can happen when politicians who are indecisive and afraid to act are put into a position of power.
Obama shows the same indecisiveness and fear that almost all Democrats do. He belongs isolated on a college campus and not in a position of leadership.
August 18th, 2008 at 12:45 am
Oh yes, terrifying. Mommy!
August 18th, 2008 at 1:04 am
I KNOW. This can be our sixth thing: 5. Hate bananas. 6. Terrified of a McCain presidency.
August 18th, 2008 at 7:01 am
Anyone who hates bananas can not be trusted.
August 18th, 2008 at 9:55 am
“McCain long ago embraced the right’s agents of intolerance, even spending months courting the Rev. John Hagee,…”
WHAT?!? Good grief! I suspect the author had to put this down on paper, because there’s no way anyone could SAY something that rediculous with a straight face.
McCain embracing intolerance? Good God, but the 20 years Obama sat listening to Jeremiah Wright’s hate-filled sermons, race-baiting and bizzare conspiracies is absolutely nothing, huh?
Terrifying indeed.
August 18th, 2008 at 10:21 am
Careful Snoop, they’ll be putting you on their list. Clarity of thought is not permitted.
August 18th, 2008 at 10:36 am
I think the issue here (at least for some people) is the direction of the flip-flop. Obama was (tacitly) for Wright’s intolerance before he was against it.
McCain was explicitly and vocally against Hagee/Robertson/et al’s intolerance before he was trying to give them a reach-around.
August 18th, 2008 at 5:09 pm
I love bananas.
And is rick’s head all bruised up from the walking into walls? The direction of the flip-flop matters. That’s…stupid.
August 19th, 2008 at 6:48 pm
And is rick’s head all bruised up from the walking into walls?The direction of the flip-flop matters. That’s…stupid.
An excellent rebuttal, as usual.