{"id":1023,"date":"2008-08-21T20:21:33","date_gmt":"2008-08-22T03:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1023"},"modified":"2008-08-22T10:45:11","modified_gmt":"2008-08-22T17:45:11","slug":"mccains-spokesman-doth-protest-too-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1023","title":{"rendered":"McCain’s Spokesman Doth Protest Too Much"},"content":{"rendered":"

After months of assailing Barack Obama as an elitist, the truth started to leak out today when John McCain was asked how many homes he owns. McCain, inexplicably, couldn’t answer the question and told the reporter that someone on his staff would get back to him. [The answer is seven, but McCain’s staff lied about that too, saying that it was four]<\/em><\/p>\n

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Finally, the reality that it is not the son of a single mother who worked his way through college who is the elitist, is beginning to come through. It is McCain, the 3rd generation Naval officer, career politician, and multimillionaire, who is not only elitist, but thoroughly out of the mainstream of American culture.<\/p>\n

When the Obama campaign leapt at McCain’s ignorance of his own real estate holdings, they must have touched a nerve on the notoriously short-fused McCain. In response McCain dispatched his spokes<\/s> hatchetman<\/a>, Brian Rogers, to deliver some of the most over-the-top retorts of the campaign to date. For example:<\/p>\n

On Obama’s only home:<\/strong> “It’s a frickin’ mansion. He doesn’t tell people that. You have a mansion you bought in a shady deal with a convicted felon.”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Rogers apparently thinks he is making debating points by conceding that Obama has only one residence – one that may be quite lovely, but which he earned through hard work. The shady deal reference is nothing but innuendo that has never held water. But Rogers considers it fair game now:<\/p>\n

On Tony Rezko:<\/strong> “You are going to see more of that now that this issue has been joined. You’ll see more of the Rezko matter from us.”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Thanks for the warning. But we already knew that you would be spewing lies with abandon. It’s all your candidate has to campaign on. Well, that and a little affair that happened forty years ago.<\/p>\n

On McCain as POW:<\/strong> “This is a guy who lived in one house for five and a half years — in prison.”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

McCain seems determined to turn his Southeast Asian ordeal into a joke. Trapper John<\/a> at Daily Kos extended this argument to several other scandalous events that McCain might endure, like being caught with young intern. In which case Rogers would excuse the affair because “This is a guy who didn’t get laid at all for five and a half years — in prison.”<\/em><\/p>\n

On Obama’s diet:<\/strong> “I think people have made a judgment that John McCain is not an arugula-eating, pointy headed professor-type.”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This slam on Obama continues the idiotic notion<\/a> that education and intelligence disqualifies one from public service. Does the fact that McCain eats strained prunes and graduated fifth from the bottom of his class make him a better candidate for president?<\/p>\n

Rogers went on to declare that Obama was guilty of making “by far the most personal attack,”<\/em> of the campaign merely by revealing the fact that McCain is a wealthy owner of multiple properties, and correctly suggesting that most Americans know how many houses they own. But I hardly think that that is more personally offensive than McCain saying that Obama would prefer that American lose a war in order to boost his candidacy.<\/p>\n

The reaction from the McCain camp is the best indication that Obama’s people have hit the right tone. They should keep it up and watch McCain’s blood pressure rise as he runs out of stupid insults to throw around. He will be reduced to stammering and slander and running from real issues. And everyone will know it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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