From Crooks and Liars:
The Village is having a tough time with John McCain’s presidential run. It involves pushing several narratives that for people outside their bubble would appear to be mutually exclusive. Is he a maverick or is he Bush’s 3rd term? Is he the reform candidate or does he have issues? The answer is apparently yes to all of those. And he’s inconsistent, as is obvious from Andrea Mitchell’s characterization of his first (but trust me, not his last) attack on Barack Obama.
MATTHEWS: I’ve never heard John McCain…well, we all hear about him being mad, I haven’t seen him mad. But he looked like he sounded mad this week when he said Obama is a basically the term “chickenhawk”. He’s talking about the soldiers like he cares for them, he never served himself. That’s the first time I heard John McCain make that shot at somebody for not having served.
The Village is having a tough time with John McCain’s presidential run. It involves pushing several narratives that for people outside their bubble would appear to be mutually exclusive. Is he a maverick or is he Bush’s 3rd term? Is he the reform candidate or does he have issues? The answer is apparently yes to all of those. And he’s inconsistent, as is obvious from Andrea Mitchell’s characterization of his first (but trust me, not his last) attack on Barack Obama.
MATTHEWS: I’ve never heard John McCain…well, we all hear about him being mad, I haven’t seen him mad. But he looked like he sounded mad this week when he said Obama is a basically the term “chickenhawk”. He’s talking about the soldiers like he cares for them, he never served himself. That’s the first time I heard John McCain make that shot at somebody for not having served.
MITCHELL: That’s right. In fact, he never made that shot at Bush and Cheney, who were, you know, boomers who could have gone to Vietnam. So he let them have a pass and here you have a young man whose only war could have been perhaps Grenada at his age? [LAUGHTER] The volunteer army? And yet he said that he had shirked his responsibility of going into the Armed Services. I think that is really the tack he is going to take. It was the harshest attack on Barack Obama by John McCain yet. And it’s all about not being able to meet the “Commander–in-Chief” test.
But my favorite is David “Bobo” Brooks, who is clearly invested in the “McCain is not the same as Bush and is just a really swell guy” meme”:(Read the rest of this story…)
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