Bang-Bang-Bang, Pound-Pound
Charles Krauthammer (with that name, he should have been an action hero, not a political pundit) goes for another round of "I'm Voting for John McCain Regardless." This time, he's focusing on domestic issues (wait, I thought McCain the POW was a winner just on foreign policy alone?) and he almost made a compelling argument...until I noticed three things.
Thing Numba 1:
Sorry; it's not that the media wants to see the Cool Black Guy be President. The media was behind John McCain until his Rovian aides told him to abandon this relationship. He's been a virtual chameleon on many issues. And let's be honest: early on McCain couldn't decide what type of conservative he wanted to call himself.
Thing Numba 2:
*ahem* (1st 1:30 of clip)
Sounds pretty bipartisan to me (and the rest of the clip isn't that bad either). Now Chuck either didn't see this, he's ignoring it, or he doesn't care.
Thing Numba 3:
John McCain, 12/2005: "He's very impressive, he's thoughtful, he's centrist." Um, what happened in the last three years to change McCain's mind?
It was after Thing Numba Three that I stopped reading. Honestly, I don't think I could finish without spending half of the day Googling cites to prove how wrong this article is.
As for you, Chuck: while I applaud your thin attempt to praise John McCain (something your wacko base seems incapable of doing) please do us all a favor and do some reading before your next article.
Thing Numba 1:
On other domestic issues, McCain is just the kind of moderate conservative that the Washington/media establishment once loved -- the champion of myriad conservative heresies that made him a burr in the side of congressional Republicans and George W. Bush. But now that he is standing in the way of an audacity-of-hope Democratic restoration, erstwhile friends recoil from McCain on the pretense that he has suddenly become right wing.
Sorry; it's not that the media wants to see the Cool Black Guy be President. The media was behind John McCain until his Rovian aides told him to abandon this relationship. He's been a virtual chameleon on many issues. And let's be honest: early on McCain couldn't decide what type of conservative he wanted to call himself.
Thing Numba 2:
Obama, on the other hand, talks less and less about bipartisanship, his calling card during his earlier messianic stage.
*ahem* (1st 1:30 of clip)
Sounds pretty bipartisan to me (and the rest of the clip isn't that bad either). Now Chuck either didn't see this, he's ignoring it, or he doesn't care.
Thing Numba 3:
He (Obama) does not need to. If he wins, he will have large Democratic majorities in both houses. And unlike Clinton in 1992, Obama is no centrist.
John McCain, 12/2005: "He's very impressive, he's thoughtful, he's centrist." Um, what happened in the last three years to change McCain's mind?
It was after Thing Numba Three that I stopped reading. Honestly, I don't think I could finish without spending half of the day Googling cites to prove how wrong this article is.
As for you, Chuck: while I applaud your thin attempt to praise John McCain (something your wacko base seems incapable of doing) please do us all a favor and do some reading before your next article.
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